broken apt-get/dpkg

2003-11-26 Thread Dan Davison
Hi, I can't remove a package (powernowd) despite trying various forcing options and --purge etc with apt-get and dpkg. The error output is below. Could someone tell me what I should do in this situation please? The only other thing I've tried is to rename the file mentioned in the output (invoke-r

lost root password

2003-11-26 Thread tripolar
while installing sarge on my parents pc using new installer ( sweet!!) when it came to typing in root password I typed it twice in same line but didnt notice until it came for me to verify my typing again. I left the second line blank thinking when i rebooted there would be no password and could

Re: XDM can't shutdown

2003-11-26 Thread lee
On Tuesday 25 November 2003 12:31, Otto Wyss wrote: > I've installed XDM to get directly into X after starting but XDM doesn't > allow for a shutdown. Are there better alternatives to start X without > installing Gome or KDE (just use XFCE) or can XDM be configured to have > a shutdown feature? > >

Re: apt-get update not working properly 11/21/03

2003-11-26 Thread Ralph Alvy
red wrote: > All, Im getting this from many of my my deb boxen > > any ideas? > > > Err http://non-us.debian.org unstable/non-US/contrib Release > Could not connect to non-us.debian.org:80 (194.109.137.218). - connect The site is down. It should be up in a couple of days, I hear. Read about

Re: antivirus recomendation?

2003-11-26 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 at 18:27 GMT, Derrick 'dman' Hudson penned: > On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 14:10:16 +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: >> On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 17:14:41 -0700, "Monique Y. Herman" >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >>> On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 at 21:12 GMT, Arnt Karlsen

Frozen mouse and keyboard in new Woody installation

2003-11-26 Thread John
On bootup of newly installed 2.4 Woody, both mouse and keyboard are frozen on the first desktop manager screen. I have tried installing with KDE and again with Gnome, and the problem is the same either way. Installation goes fine. In console mode, after installation, I am able to apt-get install

Re: mutt and forwarded mail

2003-11-26 Thread Bill Goudie
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 12:25:09PM -0500, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > I have mail being bounced from my school account. However it is a dumb > system and not easily configured. It's a First Class system, for those > of you who know it. For those of you who don't--be grateful. > > My incoming mail fr

Re: finding what is using a mount point

2003-11-26 Thread Jakob Lell
On Friday 21 November 2003 14:43, Micha Feigin wrote: > I mounted an image through a loop interface and now when I try to unload > it I get a message: > umount: /home/micha/tmp: device is busy > I made sure no file is open from there but nothing helps. > How do I see what is using that mount point?

mlterm fails to start

2003-11-26 Thread Micha Feigin
I just installed mlterm and when I try to start it the window show for a second, disappears again and I get the error: Unable to start - open_screen_intern() failed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

can't do aptitude search as a regular user any more

2003-11-26 Thread Micha Feigin
I can't do aptitude search as a regular user any more. It seems like the read permitions on some file in my system were ruined. I get the folowing message: W: Can't open Aptitude extended state file apt-cache search works fine. Anyone knows which file permitions' I need to fix? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Anti-Virus Scanner recommendations please

2003-11-26 Thread Darik Horn
ClamAV is the best virus scanner that is free software. On a Debian/woody computer, you should use a backport of a recent version like this: http://www.backports.org/debian/dists/woody/clamav/ If you wish to purchase a commercial product, then I would recommend F-Secure Anti-Virus for Linux:

Re: Any tool for access NTFS partition of damaged hard drive

2003-11-26 Thread cls-du
"Iago Sineiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Hi. >> >> I have a hard drive that is damaged and the BIOS can't recognize it. Could I >> access using some tool of Linux? "Haioken" wrote: >Not if the bios can't recognize it. >There is very few pieces of software in e

Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-26 Thread ScruLoose
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 12:07:05AM -0800, Tom wrote: > > Paul Johnson wrote: > > >Non-issue if you don't use Windows. As things stand right now, this is essentially true. There is the occasional virus for Linux out there, but they are _exceedingly_ rare. This may change. If it does, then virus-sc

Re: Learning debian Linux

2003-11-26 Thread David Palmer.
On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 10:33:04 -0700 "Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 at 10:10 GMT, David Palmer. penned: > > On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 21:00:00 +0100 "John L. Fjellstad" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > >> > >> O

ALERTA EN LA AUTOPISTA REGIONAL DEL CENTRO 2003

2003-11-26 Thread casabp
ll bin0.bin Description: Binary data

Re: dpkg and file ownership

2003-11-26 Thread Marc Wilson
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 02:25:32PM +0100, Alf Werder wrote: > How does dpkg handle the upgrade of a package, if file ownership und > access permissions of an installed file was changed manually? Does it > keep the modified state, asks me or just reinstall the old ownership and > access permissions?

Re: Looking for 17" TFT X11 config (mine is flickering...)

2003-11-26 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 08:52, Christian Hammers wrote: > Hello > > My brand new LG "Flatron L1715S" TFT display with max resolution > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and recommended resolution "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" is flickering > like hell in the first and at least a bit in the second resolution. > > A collegue

Re: problem with python in Debian/unstable

2003-11-26 Thread Marc Wilson
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 01:17:37PM -0500, Kevin Coyner wrote: > I'm in the same boat as a couple other people regarding this subject: Ah, unstable users who can't resolve a simple dependency loop. > Just by way of background, could someone briefly explain why there is a > > python > python2.1 >

Re: kernel 2.6

2003-11-26 Thread David Palmer.
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 15:24:02 -0500 Paul Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tom Allison wrote: > > > Is there a test package of kernel-image-2.6 ?? > > > > I thought I read once there was, but the search engine is down right > > now on the debian site. > > > > > > apt-cache search kernel-image|

Re: OK, may be not a hoax... (was Re: Hoax: Re: What up with www.debian.org ?)

2003-11-26 Thread Brian Nelson
Arnt Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 02:00:35 -0800, > Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >> > There should be an official announcement one way or the other soon. >> >> Yes, within the next hour. > > ..www.debian.org and debian.org are both up, but still

Re: gv and filenames with spaces

2003-11-26 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 10:35:38AM +, Dave Howorth wrote: > (why do programs not let you copy messages from errors and instead force > you to type them again!) Perhaps a candidate for a wishlist-bug? -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: installed qmail, apt-get always trying to re-install MTA

2003-11-26 Thread Marc Wilson
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 02:28:40PM +1100, Ross Tsolakidis wrote: > I recently installed qmail, I removed Exim just to be sure. > Everything is now running fine. If everything is "running fine", then why the posting? > The problem I'm having is every time I try and install another package, > it al

Re: Information please!

2003-11-26 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have always wanted to know if UNIX/LINUX is for me, and eventually replace my windows OS. I want, very much, to install it on my old system to give it a real feel/try...I have been told that DEBIAN has releases for "older" UNIX/LINUX OS's [as well as the Pentium

Re: SA/mutt problem

2003-11-26 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 08:16:35PM +1300, Adam Bogacki wrote: > >razor2 report failed: Can't locate object method "new" via package > >"Razor2::Client::Agent" at > >/usr/share/perl5/Mail/SpamAssassin/Reporter.pm line 168. > >Press any key to continue... Your installation of razor is out-of-date

Re: XDM can't shutdown

2003-11-26 Thread Marc Wilson
On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 03:19:49AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > use "update-alternatives --config x-window-manager" to get to a menu that > will allow you to select between what you've got available. then use > startx to fire it up. No, no, NO. The alternatives system is not intended to faci

Re: mutt - saving message to disk (not mail folder)

2003-11-26 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 01:53:26PM -0600, Pete Harlan wrote: > On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 08:37:29PM +, p wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 09:22:01PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > > > How do I save a mail message to disk with mutt? I want to save it to > > > disk, not another mail folder (saving

Re: how do i get my clock icon back on my toolbar

2003-11-26 Thread Jazzforever
Hi, if you're using kdm just right-klick on the panel. Select 'Add' --> 'Applet' --> 'Clock' I don't know if this works on other gnome etc. Jazzy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: XDM can't shutdown

2003-11-26 Thread David Z Maze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Otto Wyss) writes: > I've installed XDM to get directly into X after starting but XDM > doesn't allow for a shutdown. How can this be changed or are there > better alternatives to start X without installing Gome or KDE? X is X; using a single application (or display manager) fr

Re: installing new latex document type - bst file not found by documents

2003-11-26 Thread David Z Maze
Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just installed the files for a new document type from cpan (latex8). > I put them into /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/latex8 and ran texhash. (/usr/local/share/texmf is probably a better pick; in this case, it's easier to distinguish "locally installed"

Re: dvd burning using sid

2003-11-26 Thread Paul E Condon
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 09:50:50PM -0500, Jameson C. Burt wrote: > > Consider >growisofs > in the package >dvd+rw-tools > > I haven't used growisofs, but it looks most promising. > Read their lengthy >/usr/share/doc/dvd+rw-tools/dvd-rw.html > which is better viewed at >http://fy

error about PCI and ide0

2003-11-26 Thread Jianan Huang
Hi folks, I'm now running debian from a machine with the following spec: P4 2.6Ghz HT, Intel 865GBF motherboard with 6 PCI slots, 256MB dram. The kern log (attached) is complaining about PCI and ide0. Can anyone please help to explain that ? Cheers

Sending mail with mutt+exim4 takes a long time when not connected

2003-11-26 Thread Micha Feigin
When my laptop isn't connected to the internet it takes about 10-15 seconds when trying to send mail with exim4 (through mutt) until the mail gets cued. Is it possible to do this in the background so that mutt wont hang? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: finding what is using a mount point

2003-11-26 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I mounted an image through a loop interface and now when I try to unload >it I get a message: >umount: /home/micha/tmp: device is busy >I made sure no file is open from there but nothing helps. >How do I see what is using tha

ide error reported in kern.log

2003-11-26 Thread Jianan Huang
Hi folks, I'm now running debian from a machine with the following spec: P4 2.6Ghz HT, Intel 865GBF motherboard with 6 PCI slots, 256MB dram. The kern log (attached) is complaining about PCI and ide0. Can anyone please help to explain that ? Cheers

Re: Help... I think I've shot myself in the foot...

2003-11-26 Thread Andreas Goesele
eric brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If Kent idea doesn't work... > > Maybe you could modyfy XFree86.conf from the windows > side using explore2fs? But I know the write to linux > partition feature is experimental and I haven't tried > this out. > This can be risky, but if nothing else come

Re: why not my box automatically power-off?

2003-11-26 Thread eric brown
--- Akira Kitada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 07:21:17PM -0500, Nelson E. > Castillo wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 11:19:36PM +0900, Akira > Kitada wrote: > > > > echo "apm power_off=1" >>/etc/modules > > > > Hi, This worked for me. > > > > What happens if you do a

Debian VPS hosting providers?

2003-11-26 Thread Lucas Bergman
I'm almost certain this is off-topic. Alas. That said, does anyone know of any good VPS (virtual private server) hosting providers that allow one's server to run Debian? It seems like every VPS provider I call has basically the service I want (a few GB of disk space and monthly traffic, root/SSH

Anti-Virus Scanner recommendations please

2003-11-26 Thread Steve Allen
What antivirus scanner available in Debian Woody, do you learned folks recommend? I'm running Exim to a smarthost, with local delivery with Fetchmail/Procmail etc. Thanks. Please cc, as I'm not subscribed to the list with this address. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

apt-get update

2003-11-26 Thread Kordula Martin
Hi, please CC me directly, since I'm currently not subscribed. Thanks! Can anybody tell me if the follow is coming from something I've done, or is there a problem with the Debian Servers/Network? lion:~# apt-get update Err http://non-us.debian.org stable/n

Re: evolution usability (somewhat OT)

2003-11-26 Thread Erik Steffl
On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 06:12, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 03:22, Erik Steffl wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 20:39, Greg Folkert wrote: > > > On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 17:58, Erik Steffl wrote: > > > >(unstable debian, evolution) > > > > > > > >I find evolution to be fairly nic

Re: No sound in web pages with flash animations

2003-11-26 Thread Danilo Raineri
Riccardo Gusso wrote: > I can listen mp3 and music in .avi files with xmms and mplayer for > example, without problems. Are you using arts? I have to terminate it, to hear sounds with the flash plugin. -- Danilo Raineri, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

GNOME hangs.

2003-11-26 Thread Titus Barik
Hi all, So having a real-time conversation would probably be best at this point, but IRC has thus far been entirely useless. Hopefully one of you can help me. I'm starting to load the Gnome Desktop Environment in combination with either Sawfish or Metacity, but it hangs on startup (via startx). T

Poll: who's apt-get upgraded sid this week?

2003-11-26 Thread Tom
How many people have apt-get their SID boxes since "the indicdent"? Everything seems to be back up... Is it sitnorm again? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help... I think I've shot myself in the foot...

2003-11-26 Thread eric brown
--- Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter S. Hayes wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I've had Debian dual-booted with Win XP on my > portable for about six > > months. I haven't worked all the bugs out yet, but > I've been getting > > better! And I try using it for more of my personal > wor

Re: XDM can't shutdown

2003-11-26 Thread Kent West
Otto Wyss wrote: I've installed XDM to get directly into X after starting but XDM doesn't allow for a shutdown. How can this be changed or are there better alternatives to start X without installing Gome or KDE? O. Wyss You should be able to install kdm or gdm without installing the full-blow

Re: spam microsoft

2003-11-26 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 11:20:04PM +, Robin Gerard wrote: > I can delete this spams on my server (free.fr), with telnet manualy but, is it > possible to write a script to automate this work ? Please search the archives. These are virus infected

Re: woody vs. raid array

2003-11-26 Thread John Cuson
you still have to create drive partitions as type "fd" (for linux raid autodetect), download the raidtools (raidtools2), and create the device before you can do anything with it. john cuson ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]) The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ev

XDM can't shutdown

2003-11-26 Thread Otto Wyss
I've installed XDM to get directly into X after starting but XDM doesn't allow for a shutdown. Are there better alternatives to start X without installing Gome or KDE (just use XFCE) or can XDM be configured to have a shutdown feature? O. Wyss -- See "http://wxguide.sourceforge.net/"; for ideas

Re: Learning debian Linux

2003-11-26 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 at 10:10 GMT, David Palmer. penned: > On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 21:00:00 +0100 "John L. Fjellstad" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >> >> On Thursday 20 November 2003 22:27, David Palmer. wrote: >> >> David Palmer? As in President Davi

Re: finding what is using a mount point

2003-11-26 Thread Nathan Poznick
Thus spake Andrew Schulman: > fuser -m /home/micha/tmp > > Sometimes this doesn't give you much useful information. But you can > still kill whatever process is using it with > > fuser -k /home/micha/tmp Since just an fuser -m /mountpoint just lists pids, I like using the -v option as well, sin

Re: dvd burning using sid

2003-11-26 Thread Jameson C. Burt
Consider growisofs in the package dvd+rw-tools I haven't used growisofs, but it looks most promising. Read their lengthy /usr/share/doc/dvd+rw-tools/dvd-rw.html which is better viewed at http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW Remember that you will need to treat your IDE DVD as

Re: how do I subscribe to debian-announce?

2003-11-26 Thread Pascal Hakim
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 06:33:44PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 12:51:06PM +1100, Pascal Hakim wrote: > > Please use -request, not -subscribe =-) > > Is Debian running something stupid like ezmlm? > Smartlist Cheers, Pasc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: dvd burning using sid

2003-11-26 Thread Tom
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 09:33:42PM -0500, Kevin Coyner wrote: > > What's the recommended package(s) for burning DVD's in a Sid setup? > > I've done the apt-cache search stuff, and come up with cdrecord. But > cdrecord from the debian mirrors does not support DVD writing out of the > box. > >

Re: Help... I think I've shot myself in the foot...

2003-11-26 Thread Kent West
Peter S. Hayes wrote: Hi all, I've had Debian dual-booted with Win XP on my portable for about six months. I haven't worked all the bugs out yet, but I've been getting better! And I try using it for more of my personal work (my job requires Windows at the moment). Yesterday while at work, I

libqt3 conflicts when installing KDE-3 in debian testing.

2003-11-26 Thread Kenter, Pepijn
Hi all. I'm trying to upgrade to KDE-3 in debian testing. When I select the kdebase package (4:3.1.4-0woody1), I get the following conflicts: libkonq4 depends on libarts1 (>= 1.1.4) libkonq4 depends on libqt3-mt (>= 3.1.2) libarts1 depends on libqt3c102-mt (>= 3.2.1) libqt3c102-mt conflicts wit

Re: dselect/apt-get failed -- 6 year Debian installation corrupted

2003-11-26 Thread Jameson C. Burt
I have upgraded this computer's installation since 1997, about 6 years, transferring the installed disk drives across 3 successively newer computers. Two years ago, after upgrading several computers from potato to woody, I found upgrading from potato to woody produced enough problems that I never u

Re: Fwd: DailySet1 AMANDA PROBLEM: FIX BEFORE RUN, IF POSSIBLE

2003-11-26 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Quoting Curtis Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hopefully there are some amanda users out there. I sent this to the > amanda users list, but haven't gotten any replies, so, here is the > result of an amcheck. What is the possible problem with the system? > Why is expecting a new tape? Is there

Re: Can't Re-Subscribe

2003-11-26 Thread Thomas H. George
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 06:44:41AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 08:40:44AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > > My subscription to this list must have been cancelled - but not by me! > > -as I have resceived no new postings in the last two days. > > Not really, no. Subscrib

Re: Need a user-friendly, low-requirement desktop

2003-11-26 Thread Wilko Fokken
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 09:22:42AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: Additionally, I like icewm's nice tiny display in the taskbar: a) load on localhost b) load on LAN c) load on ppd connection On my AMD 133 MHz/128 MB RAM, I extended icewm from 6 to 12 screens by editing /etc/

dvd burning using sid

2003-11-26 Thread Kevin Coyner
What's the recommended package(s) for burning DVD's in a Sid setup? I've done the apt-cache search stuff, and come up with cdrecord. But cdrecord from the debian mirrors does not support DVD writing out of the box. /usr/share/doc/cdrecord/README.DVD.Debian says to either: 1. get cdrecord-Pr

Re: how do I subscribe to debian-announce?

2003-11-26 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 12:51:06PM +1100, Pascal Hakim wrote: > Please use -request, not -subscribe =-) Is Debian running something stupid like ezmlm? - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and use

gcombust does not burns in multisession

2003-11-26 Thread A. Novruzi
Hi, I have a Linux Debian and I use gcombust to burn a multisession CD. Well, for single session everything is fine. Until now, I have not any success for burning any multisession CD. In gcombust options, I check ON the options "multisession, RockRidje, Joliet". Gcumbust, tries to write the secon

Re: No mouse in gpm

2003-11-26 Thread Mark Healey
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 18:01:59 -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: >Mark Healey wrote: > >>In an earlier attempt to get X running I was told to >> >>If so, run "gpmconfig" and specify: >>mouse location: /dev/psaux >>mouse type: ps/2 >>repeat type: raw >> >>For my generic ps2 type mouse. >> >>I've done that an

Re: No mouse in gpm

2003-11-26 Thread Kent West
Mark Healey wrote: In an earlier attempt to get X running I was told to If so, run "gpmconfig" and specify: mouse location: /dev/psaux mouse type: ps/2 repeat type: raw For my generic ps2 type mouse. I've done that and still no cursor. I booted knoppix and it detected the generic ps2 mouse at /

Re: XDM can't shutdown

2003-11-26 Thread ben_foley
On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 11:09:48PM +0100, Otto Wyss wrote: > I've installed XDM to get directly into X after starting but XDM doesn't > allow for a shutdown. How can this be changed or are there better > alternatives to start X without installing Gome or KDE? > > unless you're totally fixated on s

debian menu sorting does not work anymore?

2003-11-26 Thread Erik Steffl
I changed /etc/menu-methods/menu.h to change sorting to sorting by priority: sort=ifelse($priority, $priority, "99") I have a menu item in /etc/menu defined like this: jojda:/etc/menu-methods> cat /etc/menu/xterm ?package(xterm):\ needs=x11\ section="/"\ longtitle="Xterm: terminal emulato

Re: apt-get etiquette

2003-11-26 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello RichardA (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I'm a Mandrake user hoping to trade up. As such, I expect to break my > install beyond my capacity to fix it at least a few times. > Does it matter that I upgrade from stable to unstable, and pull many > packages from the server, each time? Is there a

Exim SMTP AUTH

2003-11-26 Thread KenAde
Greeting Exim tooks me 30-45sec just to send a mail out from SMTP AUTH. Something must be wrong somewhere but I just cant figure out and i need some help from Debian and Exim Eliet users. I setup SMTP AUTH using PLAINTEXT with /etc/exim/passwd (Im using Exim 3). I can send mail out but inside t

Re: apt-get update not working properly 11/21/03

2003-11-26 Thread duck
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 18:00:17 +0100, red wrote: > All, Im getting this from many of my my deb boxen > > any ideas? > > > Err http://non-us.debian.org unstable/non-US/contrib Release > Could not connect to non-us.debian.org:80 (194.109.137.218). - connect > (111 Connection refused) ... http://

Re: how do I subscribe to debian-announce?

2003-11-26 Thread Pascal Hakim
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 04:54:03PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > As with any other mailing list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] works. For > debian-announce, this would be [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTE

Fwd: DailySet1 AMANDA PROBLEM: FIX BEFORE RUN, IF POSSIBLE

2003-11-26 Thread Curtis Vaughan
Hopefully there are some amanda users out there. I sent this to the amanda users list, but haven't gotten any replies, so, here is the result of an amcheck. What is the possible problem with the system? Why is expecting a new tape? Is there a way to reset the device and make it think there

Re: why not my box automatically power-off?

2003-11-26 Thread Akira Kitada
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 02:04:12PM +0100, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > On Monday 24 November 2003 15:19, Akira Kitada wrote: > > ?CONFIG_APM_REAL_MODE_POWER_OFF=y > > I found that this didn't do me any good... Perhaps that could be it? > > Best, you mean culprit of this is "REAL_MODE"? I don't k

Re: why not my box automatically power-off?

2003-11-26 Thread Akira Kitada
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 07:21:17PM -0500, Nelson E. Castillo wrote: > On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 11:19:36PM +0900, Akira Kitada wrote: > > echo "apm power_off=1" >>/etc/modules > > Hi, This worked for me. > > What happens if you do a "modprobe apm power_off=1" > and then shut down? > root

unsubscribe

2003-11-26 Thread L.F.
It took me some time but it has worked. Debian has unsubscribed me. I think Debian is derious. Now I am not receiving any mail from Debian but I keep receiving a lot of e-mails from many other places: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],

Re: finding what is using a mount point

2003-11-26 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 at 16:06 GMT, Ken Gilmour penned: > Replying to the message sent by Micha Feigin on Fri, 21 Nov 2003 > 15:43:49 +0200, received at 16:06:15 on 21/11/2003. Micha Feigin > wrote: >>I mounted an image through a loop interface and now when I try to > unload >>it I get a message: u

Re: Mounting disks

2003-11-26 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 07:03:57PM +, James Hosken wrote: > mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb5 /mnt/old-disk/ > > and I get the error > > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb5, >or too many mounted file systems > I'm pritty sure that it is the right file systems, I was u

XDM can't shutdown

2003-11-26 Thread Otto Wyss
I've installed XDM to get directly into X after starting but XDM doesn't allow for a shutdown. How can this be changed or are there better alternatives to start X without installing Gome or KDE? O. Wyss -- See "http://wxguide.sourceforge.net/"; for ideas how to design your app. -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Can't Re-Subscribe

2003-11-26 Thread Brian Walker
On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 22:50:17 +0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 08:40:44AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: >> My subscription to this list must have been cancelled - but not by me! >> -as I have resceived no new postings in the

Re: wps -format?

2003-11-26 Thread Carl Fink
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 02:25:05PM +0200, Kristian Niemi wrote: > Sure, I *could* boot up Windows, install MS's Works -> Word converter, > but I don't want to. ;) I've been Windows-free for a while now, and > would like to continue that way. > Any ideas/suggestions? Install the Works->Word co

Re: A web interface for apt-get upgrade

2003-11-26 Thread Randy Orrison
Mark Roach wrote: On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 01:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have a few machines running woody, each running slightly different package sets. Now to upgrade them I have to ssh into each of them and do the update/upgrade cycle. I do not want to put this in cron. how about putti

remove of cyrus-sasl2 in 3.0r2

2003-11-26 Thread Norbert Sendetzky
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all I don't know if this is already known (the list archives are not available via link from the debian site, so I wasn't able to do a search first): cyrus-sasl2 was removed in 3.0r2 and now programs dependent on this lib fail to compile. My pr

Re: finding what is using a mount point

2003-11-26 Thread Andrew Schulman
> I mounted an image through a loop interface and now when I try to unload > it I get a message: > umount: /home/micha/tmp: device is busy > I made sure no file is open from there but nothing helps. > How do I see what is using that mount point? fuser -m /home/micha/tmp Sometimes this doesn't give

Re: aspell with mutt

2003-11-26 Thread Stephen
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 11:41:34PM -0600 or thereabouts, Jacob S. wrote: > On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 20:39:28 -0500 > Stephen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Well that's too bad, why now, has the license changed from before? > > > > I happen to like Aspell much better, so hopefully you can clarify > >

Re: ..cc'ing, was: www.debian.org

2003-11-26 Thread Steve Lamb
Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..another way is use procmail to drop the cc's home where they belong and weed out the duplicates. ..the third other way is chew out anyone who dares abuse _your_ damn bandwidth, _etc_. ;-) This conversation has been done to death several times in the past year. Peruse

..cc'ing, was: www.debian.org

2003-11-26 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 09:55:52 -0700, "Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > -- > monique > PLEASE don't CC me. Please. Pretty please with sugar on top. > Whatever it takes, just don't CC me! I'm already subscribed!! ..another way is use procmail to dr

Help... I think I've shot myself in the foot...

2003-11-26 Thread Peter S. Hayes
Title: Message Hi all,   I've had Debian dual-booted with Win XP on my portable for about six months. I haven't worked all the bugs out yet, but I've been getting better! And I try using it for more of my personal work (my job requires Windows at the moment).   Yesterday while at work, I wa

Re: Importing Corel Draw

2003-11-26 Thread Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschler
I've done it by saving as a wmf file from Corel Draw which I can then open with OpenOffice Draw. I then ungrouped the objects with the modify-break command in the context menu. Chris Am Dienstag, 25. November 2003 08:07 schrieb Thanasis Kinias: > scripsit Luis Fernando Llana Díaz: > > I have

Re: zsh completion for CVS

2003-11-26 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2003-11-18 09:31:42 +0100, Magnus Therning wrote: > The command line completion for CVS in zsh seems to be broken: the > completion for 'cvs add' doesn't provide completion for file names :-( It depends on the filenames. It won't try to complete on files that are already added or are normally i

Looking for 17" TFT X11 config (mine is flickering...)

2003-11-26 Thread Christian Hammers
Hello My brand new LG "Flatron L1715S" TFT display with max resolution [EMAIL PROTECTED] and recommended resolution "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" is flickering like hell in the first and at least a bit in the second resolution. A collegue of mine uses the same TFT with Windows and has, surprise, no problem

Re: CTRL+ALT+Backspace will kill the X-server

2003-11-26 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 11:57:19 -0500, David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > John Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Or, if you want to get X out of the way, edit /etc/inittab , look > > for the lines : > > # The default runlevel. > > id:2:initdefault: > > a

eject command for normal users and some other stuff

2003-11-26 Thread H S
Hi, First of all a little background: I have installed Debian in my 1.9GHz P4 and made it triple boot with Fedora (Redhat) and Win2K. Win2K is because I sometimes need it once or twice in 6 months for some docs and also my dsl provider simply refuses to help me if I am not in Windoze. Fedora is

installing new latex document type - bst file not found by documents

2003-11-26 Thread Micha Feigin
I just installed the files for a new document type from cpan (latex8). I put them into /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/latex8 and ran texhash. The document type is recognized properly (the sty file is found by latex), but when trying to use the bibliography style, (latex8.bst) without a full path it i

Re: Recognizing URL's in Mutt

2003-11-26 Thread ben_foley
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 07:00:34AM -0500, Michael W. Cole wrote: > I am using mutt with vim as the editor. I have seen in the past where > the url's on a line in xterm will be underlined when the mouse moves > over it. You could then double click the mouse and the web browser > would open that ur

Re: antivirus recomendation?

2003-11-26 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 13:27:08 -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 14:10:16 +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > ..thanks Monique, that I guess leaves "other wintendo > > compiler signatures, anyone?". ;-) > > > > ..does anyone

Re: why not my box automatically power-off?

2003-11-26 Thread Nelson E. Castillo
On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 11:19:36PM +0900, Akira Kitada wrote: echo "apm power_off=1" >>/etc/modules Hi, This worked for me. What happens if you do a "modprobe apm power_off=1" and then shut down? NC.- -- http://geocities.com/arhuaco The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and

Re: Anaconda, where's the beef?

2003-11-26 Thread Arnt Karlsen
http://www.google.com/search?as_q=&num=100&hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=Fully+Automated+Install&as_oq=&as_eq=&lr=&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_qdr=all&as_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=debian.org&safe=images -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-) ...with a numbe

Re: (unofficial) Debian project list status

2003-11-26 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Karsten M. Self wrote: I've been lurking on the #debian-devel IRC channel, some info on lists. This is an unofficial informational posting. If you weren't already aware, several Debian project servers were compromised by what appears to have been a password capture through one of the Debian Develop

wps -format?

2003-11-26 Thread Kristian Niemi
Hi, Got a file in WPS-format, which I'd of course like to open. I'm not quite sure if it's MS Works -format, or WordPerfect; I'm assuming it's MS Works. Anyway, I've tried digging through the net to find a converter/filter/progr. that could read the format. The 'answer' I've come up with is --

Swen, again (was Re: spam microsoft)

2003-11-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 11:20:04PM +, Robin Gerard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, > microsoft sends me five spam of 160 000 bytes in my box and when I run > host I receive the message: address not exists. > If the adress exists I put it in my file hosts.allow but without success. > I don't

Re: Execute shutdown as other user than root

2003-11-26 Thread Shri Shrikumar
On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 22:22, csj wrote: > On 26. November 2003 at 2:00AM +, > Shri Shrikumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 18:33, Andreas Janssen wrote: > > > Clive Menzies (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > > On (11/11/03 16:28), Iago Sineiro wrote: > > > >> I want to

  1   2   3   >