Re: best way to storing old mail (mhonarch, archivemail,...,?)

2004-01-07 Thread Dave Thayer
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 08:30:36AM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > I'm looking for opinions to archive old mail, and yet leaving it in a > readable way. I have used mhonarc only so far, but it seems to me that > there could be a better way, even by just gzipping mbox and creating a > script to pi

Re: Hylafax help

2004-01-07 Thread Dean Takemori
On Jan 7, 2004, at 6:36 PM, Jonathan Pietkiewicz wrote: On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 04:40:53PM -1000, Dean Takemori wrote: Hello, I'm still a little greenish around the gills with respect to the way debian does things ... What am I doing wrong? first off - don't send to the digest - send to the debia

Re: How xcdroast a multi-session CD R/RW? - solved.

2004-01-07 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
I am following up my own post as I have solved the problem myself. 1) You need to create session/image with write as a session enabled. if you do so it will ask you if you want first or next session - answer appropriately. if you want later sessions then you need the cd to which

Re: installing new kernel packages

2004-01-07 Thread Paul E Condon
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 05:24:07PM -0800, Paul Yeatman wrote: > I'm curious what are other peoples' practices when installing a new > kernel package for a kernel version already installed (and the one you > are likely already booted to). The new package may be for the same > kernel version but for

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Re: /etc/mail/aliases.db out of date

2004-01-07 Thread Frederic Lavoie
I did an updagrade of sendmail and the problem has been fixed that way don't ask me how.. Maybe I was some kind of bug. Thanks for you help. --- Frédéric Lavoie Gatineau (Hull), Quebec [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clubphotopolarise.org - Original Message - From: "Derrick 'dman' Hudson" <

Re: switching user in X without logging out previous user

2004-01-07 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 07:40:13PM -0800, Steven Yap wrote: > If you're using Gnome 2.4, there's a "New Login" item in System Tools > under the Application menu item. This will create a new X11 session on a > different virtual terminal, complete with (x|k|g)dm. I uses gdm as my > graphical login

Re: renew SSL key used in apache-ssl

2004-01-07 Thread Jacob S.
On Wed, 07 Jan 2004 22:06:57 -0500 Kevin Coyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm running a server with apache-ssl 1.3. The server has a > self-signed certificate that recently expired. I'd like to renew it > as a self-signed certficate, and in reading through the docs here and > there, have come

Re: Kernel options?

2004-01-07 Thread Paul E Condon
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 08:15:27PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I'm installing Debian on a Sun Fire V65x, which is basically an intel whitebox > server. It uses the SE7501WV2 board > (http://www.intel.com/design/servers/se7501wv2/index.htm?iid=ipp_srvr+mthrbds_se7501wv2_srvr&;). >

Re: sources.list conversion

2004-01-07 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Mike Mueller: > I installed Knoppix 3.3 to disk on my laptop. When I try "apt-cache search > blah" I get lots of messages like "W: Couldn't stat source package list or http URL here>". > > I examined /etc/apt/sources.list and found lots of .de sites. I am located > in .us. Is t

Re: Kernel options?

2004-01-07 Thread Nano Nano
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 08:15:27PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The server has all sorts of fancy bells and whistles like e1000 cards and aic79xx > scsi. Since I'm installing woody, I'd like to stick with a Debian kernel, but sadly > no stable kernels have aic79xx in them already. Lots of

sources.list conversion

2004-01-07 Thread Mike Mueller
I installed Knoppix 3.3 to disk on my laptop. When I try "apt-cache search blah" I get lots of messages like "W: Couldn't stat source package list ". I examined /etc/apt/sources.list and found lots of .de sites. I am located in .us. Is this the source of the problem? Are there lots of mirror

Re: Zope

2004-01-07 Thread Stephen
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 06:38:27PM -0500 or thereabouts, Stephen wrote: > When upgrading from Stable to Sarge, Zope changed, and now doesn't > startup. The following is offered when attempting to start zope: > > zopectl start > Starting Zope instance default... >failed: missing

Kernel options?

2004-01-07 Thread adam-debian-user
Hi, I'm installing Debian on a Sun Fire V65x, which is basically an intel whitebox server. It uses the SE7501WV2 board (http://www.intel.com/design/servers/se7501wv2/index.htm?iid=ipp_srvr+mthrbds_se7501wv2_srvr&;). The server has all sorts of fancy bells and whistles like e1000 cards and aic7

Re: Hylafax help

2004-01-07 Thread Jonathan Pietkiewicz
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 04:40:53PM -1000, Dean Takemori wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm still a little greenish around the gills with respect to the way > debian does things ... > > What am I doing wrong? Dean, first off - don't send to the digest - send to the debian-users list. Second - I'm not

Re: switching user in X without logging out previous user

2004-01-07 Thread Steven Yap
On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 08:20, Micha Feigin wrote: > Is it possible to switch the active user in X without actually logging > out using the graphical interface( (x|g|k)dm ) like with the change > users option of m$ XP ? Not quite, but there something similar. If you're using Gnome 2.4, there's a "N

iptables & syslog help

2004-01-07 Thread Keith Stephen Dunwoody
Hi, I'm having problems with logging from iptables, and I can't figure out for the life of me what the problem is... I'm trying to log some packets from iptables, but they're showing up on the currently active console as well as in the syslog (although not on xterms). No other kernel messages se

Re: nForce 2 and Woody: How can I achieve a network install and what functionality is available without the nVidia drivers?

2004-01-07 Thread Jerome R. Acks
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 11:48:17AM +, Joseph Jones wrote: > I am very much a newbie, I'm at about the level where I'm starting to > mess with backports and can compile my own kernel as per the > instructions in the newbiedoc (just). > > I've had an nForce 2 mobo for a couple of months new an

Re: Finding All Locations/URIs of a Package

2004-01-07 Thread Hubert Chan
apt-cache policy ... ? -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: p2p program

2004-01-07 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 07:56:25PM +0100, konf wrote: > hello, > what p2p program under debina would you use [sugest to use]? mldonkey is nice, it runs as a daemon and you can use your choice of front ends with it. Log out or have a session crash? I

Re: RH Veteran is now a Debian Newbie

2004-01-07 Thread Michael B Allen
> On Tuesday 06 January 2004 11:05 pm, Michael B Allen wrote: > Testing might be the release level you are looking for... > (I found Stable to be just a tad too old for my tastes as a desktop) Good thing I'm running a headless Internet server :) Mike -- A program should be written to model th

renew SSL key used in apache-ssl

2004-01-07 Thread Kevin Coyner
I'm running a server with apache-ssl 1.3. The server has a self-signed certificate that recently expired. I'd like to renew it as a self-signed certficate, and in reading through the docs here and there, have come up with the following: 1. Instead of renewing, create a new self-signed certific

Hylafax help

2004-01-07 Thread Dean Takemori
Hello, I'm still a little greenish around the gills with respect to the way debian does things ... ~ > dpkg -c hylafax-server_4.1.8-1_i386.deb | grep pcf -rw-r--r-- root/root 14072 1998-10-12 10:47:48 ./etc/hylafax/lutRS18.pcf ~ > sudo dpkg -i hylafax-server_4.1.8-1_i386.deb Selecting prev

Re: en_CA? [was Re: www.gnu.org, glibcbug, bug@gnu.org, dpkg-reconfigure locales]

2004-01-07 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 02:24:01PM -0700, s. keeling wrote: > I don't know, no, no, and yes. US does mo/day/yr, we do day/mo/yr > (when we're not doing -mm-dd (iso). Are spelling dictionaries > affected by locale? Dunno. I think en_ca and en_uk

Re: Problem Printing from Mozilla

2004-01-07 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 11:02:59AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > I ran a dist-upgrade for testing and now have Mozilla -1.5.3. I used to > be able to print messages to my usb Epson Stylus C82 printer by > selecting postscript in the print window (I am using CUPS). Now it > prints but every

Re: exit usage

2004-01-07 Thread Jan Minar
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 02:44:38AM +0100, Florian Ernst wrote: > On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 07:13:44PM -0600, Rick Weinbender wrote: > >I have a situation where I login as the root user, > >then 'su ' to a user with limited rights, > >and run a short script as this user. > >* > >My question is: > >In

Re: RH Veteran is now a Debian Newbie

2004-01-07 Thread Brad Sims
On Tuesday 06 January 2004 11:05 pm, Michael B Allen wrote: > Personally I never used their services anyway so I could care less. I still > use RH 7.3 on all my Linux machines (quite a few). The problem I'm faced > with now is not a feeling of abandonment but finding a boring, stable, > consistent

Re: C compiler logs and history

2004-01-07 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Vincent! On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 03:40:30PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: Does anyone know if there exists a C compiler (gcc) wrapper (or a similar tool) that would provide logs and history on warnings? For instance, I would like to know information such as when a warning appeared for the fi

Re: adding an attatchment using the mail command?

2004-01-07 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 04:01:27PM +, Mark C wrote: > Hi, > > I run a nightly cronjob to back up certain system files, for the life of > me I cannot add them as an attatchment, when I mail to files to myself, > they always got put into the message body. Reading the man pages gives > no indica

Finding All Locations/URIs of a Package

2004-01-07 Thread Joe Schmoe
Hi there, I tried to install openoffice-help-en package using apt-get. As normal, it chose the first server in my /etc/apt/sources.list file. Unfortunately, it could not connect to this server. Therefore, I wondered if there was a way to obtain a list of all the servers from my source.list

Finding All Locations/URIs of a Package

2004-01-07 Thread Joe Schmoe
Hi there, I tried to install openoffice-help-en package using apt-get. As normal, it chose the first server in my /etc/apt/sources.list file. Unfortunately, it could not connect to this server. Therefore, I wondered if there was a way to obtain a list of all the servers from my source.list

Re: Can't get out of dependency resolution in dselect

2004-01-07 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Michael! On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 12:42:58PM -0500, Michael D. Crawford wrote: I just updated today, and now whenever I try to install any software, dselect keeps wanting me to resolve dependencies. Eventually I get down to where it lists two packages, mozilla-browser and mozilla-xmlterm.

Re: Applying the forcedeth patch to the 2.4.24 source from kernel.org?

2004-01-07 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Joseph! On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 10:58:08PM +, Joseph Jones wrote: Could anyone tell me how to achieve this lofty goal? I've never applied a patch before in my life, so if somebody could tell me how this is done, I'd be very grateful :) I could do with being pointed at the correct patc

Re: exit usage

2004-01-07 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Rick! On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 07:13:44PM -0600, Rick Weinbender wrote: I have a situation where I login as the root user, then 'su ' to a user with limited rights, and run a short script as this user. * My question is: In the last line of my script, can I invoke some form of the exit command

Re: best way to storing old mail (mhonarch, archivemail,...,?)

2004-01-07 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 11:05:44AM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: > I save all of my mailboxes at the end of the month. I wrote a python > script that gzips, renames adding the month & year to the MB name, and > moves them to my OLD-MAIL dir. It then recreates the empty mailbox. > This is done by a cr

Re: apt-check-sigs problem (plz cc adambarton@mac.com)

2004-01-07 Thread Adam Barton
Adam Barton wrote: Adam Barton wrote: People, Perhaps you could give me a hand with an issue I am having with the apt-check-sigs script. Also would you mind CCing me on your responses as I am off list right now. I have been updating with 'apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade' which has bee

installing new kernel packages

2004-01-07 Thread Paul Yeatman
I'm curious what are other peoples' practices when installing a new kernel package for a kernel version already installed (and the one you are likely already booted to). The new package may be for the same kernel version but for a different release(?) of that version as with the newly released pac

Re: Sony Micro Vault Success

2004-01-07 Thread Fred Ringwald
Ed, You wrote: Upon upgrading to the 2.4.23-1 kernel image in SID my Sony Microvault immediately started to work using the same fstab entries that had not worked before. I can only assume from this that the prior kernel modules did not work well with the Microvault and it had nothing

exit usage

2004-01-07 Thread Rick Weinbender
I have a situation where I login as the root user, then 'su ' to a user with limited rights, and run a short script as this user. * My question is: In the last line of my script, can I invoke some form of the exit command to leave me back at the #prompt or root user prompt? TIA, -Rick -- To UN

Re: apt wants to remove packages installed with dpkg -i

2004-01-07 Thread Laurence J. Lane
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 11:43:48AM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > When I install a package with dpkg -i (say one I made myself with > dh_make, or one from make-kpkg), the next time I run aptitude, it > is selected for automatic removal. Put the package on hold with dpkg or dselect. Alternatively, put

Re: apt-check-sigs problem (plz cc adambarton@mac.com)

2004-01-07 Thread Adam Barton
Adam Barton wrote: People, Perhaps you could give me a hand with an issue I am having with the apt-check-sigs script. Also would you mind CCing me on your responses as I am off list right now. I have been updating with 'apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade' which has been working fine but I

apt-check-sigs problem (plz cc adambarton@mac.com)

2004-01-07 Thread Adam Barton
People, Perhaps you could give me a hand with an issue I am having with the apt-check-sigs script. Also would you mind CCing me on your responses as I am off list right now. I have been updating with 'apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade' which has been working fine but I now want to use the

Re: Help with AGP and 3D acceleration for Radeon 7000

2004-01-07 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Gerardo Ballabio wrote: Hi all, may I request your help? I've recently bought a Radeon 7000 graphics card for my home PC running Debian testing. (XFree86 version is 4.2.1.1.) Despite having tried several suggestions (I've specified the "radeon" driver in place of "ati" in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, loa

postgres do.maintenance question

2004-01-07 Thread Monique Y. Herman
How important is it to run the default-install do.maintenance cron job if you're running autovacuum? Should I just get rid of it? Since my last upgrade of postgres on unstable, I've received the following email several times a day: Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /usr/bin/test -x /usr/lib/post

Re: emergency: Openoffice, Fonts, what a mess

2004-01-07 Thread duck
On Wed, 07 Jan 2004 05:10:07 +0100, Christian Schnobrich wrote: > On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 03:36, Kevin Mark wrote: ... > Not that simple. Some physics paper with lots of greek letters and > embedded graphis and functions and whatnot. Admittedly, I didn't belive > that Openoffice was a good means to

re:snd-card-es18xx.o

2004-01-07 Thread Kádár Zsolt
Hi! I had the same problem with snd-es18xx module. The solution: modprobe snd-es18xx isapnp=0 Bye You wrote > Hi, I have a Debian Woody (2.4.18-bf2.4) over a Compaq Presario 1267. I'm fighting to install my soundcard with no success :( I know that the correct module is snd-card-es18xx.o whi

Re: run command as root within script

2004-01-07 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Wed, 07 Jan 2004 at 22:20 GMT, Rick Weinbender penned: > Is there a way within a bash script to temporarily su to the root > user, then run some commands, then go back to the original user? * Or > can you temporarily (within a script), assign the current user to have > more rights, then take aw

Re: en_CA? [was Re: www.gnu.org, glibcbug, bug@gnu.org, dpkg-reconfigure locales]

2004-01-07 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 02:08:22PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 02:24:01PM -0700, s. keeling wrote: > > > > I don't know, no, no, and yes. US does mo/day/yr, we do day/mo/yr > > (when we're not doing -mm-dd (iso). Are spelling dictionaries > > affected by locale? Dunno.

aumix in woody 3.0r1

2004-01-07 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, In woody 3.0r1 from CD's: apt-get install aumix and aumix fails with unresolved gpm symbol. Downloading the aumix-2.8 tarball and installing it works providing you configure with: ./configure --without-gpm --without-gtk and enables me to use aumix in an vc. Hugo. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Help with AGP and 3D acceleration for Radeon 7000

2004-01-07 Thread Lucas Bergman
> may I request your help? Yes! > I've recently bought a Radeon 7000 graphics card for my home PC > running Debian testing. (XFree86 version is 4.2.1.1.) Despite > having tried several suggestions (I've specified the "radeon" driver > in place of "ati" in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, loaded the "radeo

Re: Changing the name of my computer

2004-01-07 Thread Tendril
Thanks Emma I have edited these files and my hostname has changed :) T I did this recently... I changed the following files: /etc/hosts /etc/hostname /etc/postfix/main.cf # obviously only if you're using postfix emma -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Zope

2004-01-07 Thread Stephen
When upgrading from Stable to Sarge, Zope changed, and now doesn't startup. The following is offered when attempting to start zope: zopectl start Starting Zope instance default... failed: missing required path(/var/lib/zope/instance/default/access) Waiti

Re: how can I tell what packages depend on group memebership?

2004-01-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 03:33:28PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 11:08:01PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 12:22:12PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > > > So is there a way to tell what behavior depends on being a member of > > > what groups, by querying the pa

Re: how can I tell what packages depend on group memebership?

2004-01-07 Thread Nano Nano
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 11:08:01PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 12:22:12PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > > So is there a way to tell what behavior depends on being a member of > > what groups, by querying the package database or something? > > It's not really a package databas

Re: Debian / UFS File System

2004-01-07 Thread Shaun ONeil
On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 14:00 -0700, Devin Atencio wrote: > Debian Users, > > I currently have a FreeBSD machine at home with all my filesystems being > UFS. I was thinking of maybe converting over to Debian Linux but didn't know > If Debian supports reading/writing to UFS filesystems. Would this be

Re: Knoppix HD Install Question - Partitioning and Whatnot

2004-01-07 Thread Kevin Boergens
Hello! * Boot with your Knoppix * Format /dev/hda2 with mkfs.ext2 or mkfs.ext3 or mkfs.reiserfs (You got it? *g*) * Mount /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda2 * Move everything from firstmountpoint/home /secondmountpoint * Add /dev/hda2 /home auto defaults 0 0 to /etc/fstab * Boot your system > I know that t

Re: switching user in X without logging out previous user

2004-01-07 Thread lloyd
Micha Feigin wrote: Is it possible to switch the active user in X without actually logging out using the graphical interface( (x|g|k)dm ) like with the change users option of m$ XP ? i did this with gdm - maybe it will work for you: in /etc/gdm.conf, find the [servers] section. there should be a

Re: Flush file contents

2004-01-07 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 03:02:30PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: | On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 01:55:29PM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: | > On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 12:42:33PM -0600, Rick Weinbender wrote: | > > Is there a command to flush or empty the contents | > > of a file? | > > I would like the empty file

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Re: /var/lib/dpkg/status

2004-01-07 Thread Gavin Henry
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 07 Jan 2004 10:17 pm, Florian Ernst wrote: > Hello Gavin! > > On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 09:00:22PM +, Gavin Henry wrote: > >Today this file became corrupt, which I suspect was a hard drive problem, > > as the previous Debian testing had

Re: Could not load OpenGL library

2004-01-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 09:04:20PM +, Luke Diamand wrote: [not sure who wrote the below] > | (please CC me as I'm not on the list) > | > | Hi, > | > | I have exactly the same problem as you (Nathan, Kevin). > | > |> Unreal Tournament (and UT 2003) is: > |>... > |> binding libGL.so.1 > |> appErr

Permissions with Postgresql

2004-01-07 Thread Bill Moseley
I'm very new to Postgres so I'm not sure if this is a Debian issue or not. Now that I look I think it's more of a postgres question. Anyway: Postgresql 7.4.1: Silly me, I thought I could simply do: grand ALL on database foo to foouser; But that doesn't seem to do anything. Seems like I need

Re: how can I tell what packages depend on group memebership?

2004-01-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 12:22:12PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > So is there a way to tell what behavior depends on being a member of > what groups, by querying the package database or something? It's not really a package database thing. /usr/share/doc/base-passwd/users-and-groups.html (testing/unsta

Re: www.gnu.org, glibcbug, bug@gnu.org, dpkg-reconfigure locales

2004-01-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 02:31:44PM -0700, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from Leandro Guimarïes Faria Corcete Dutra: > > Actually, since this is an *old* version, you'd be better upgrading to > > at least testing if you *really* want to check if that's a bug first. > > Then shouldn't glibcbug an

Re: Moving /usr problem

2004-01-07 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 02:59:22PM +, Fred Richards wrote: > I've installed a new hard disk and decided to shift /usr. > > I've tried using tar but I get lots of error messages - > symbolic links or something. > > When I unpack the file, amend fstab and reboot, the new > /usr isn't picked

Re: Semi-new to linux, couple questions...

2004-01-07 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 01:08:22AM -0500, Shaun ONeil wrote: > On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 15:48, Victor Varsanyi wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > After tying a few distroes i've settled on debian. I have a couple > > questions: firstly can anyone recommend a good webcam that has drivers > > available f

Re: Configuring a non-root-user profile

2004-01-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 01:20:28PM -0700, s. keeling wrote: > Re-reading it now, this chapter appears very confusing. According to > it, the automagically bit refers to .bashrc being run for sub-shells. > Then it tells you to put as little as possible in .bash_profile and > source .bashrc from the

Re: run command as root within script

2004-01-07 Thread Andrew Pritchard
> Is there a way within a bash script to temporarily > su to the root user, then run some commands, > then go back to the original user? Yes - learn to use sudo >From the man page: DESCRIPTION sudo allows a permitted user to execute a command as the superuser or another user, as sp

Applying the forcedeth patch to the 2.4.24 source from kernel.org?

2004-01-07 Thread Joseph Jones
Could anyone tell me how to achieve this lofty goal? I've never applied a patch before in my life, so if somebody could tell me how this is done, I'd be very grateful :) I could do with being pointed at the correct patch (amongst other instructions), since I don't have a clue what I'm supposed

Re: Could not load OpenGL library

2004-01-07 Thread Luke Diamand
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 | (please CC me as I'm not on the list) | | Hi, | | I have exactly the same problem as you (Nathan, Kevin). | |> Unreal Tournament (and UT 2003) is: |>... |> binding libGL.so.1 |> appError called: |> Could not load OpenGL library I found a solution to

Problem Printing from Mozilla

2004-01-07 Thread Thomas H. George
I ran a dist-upgrade for testing and now have Mozilla -1.5.3. I used to be able to print messages to my usb Epson Stylus C82 printer by selecting postscript in the print window (I am using CUPS). Now it prints but every character is printed as a zero. Apparently a font connection is missing.

Debian / UFS File System

2004-01-07 Thread Devin Atencio
Debian Users, I currently have a FreeBSD machine at home with all my filesystems being UFS. I was thinking of maybe converting over to Debian Linux but didn't know If Debian supports reading/writing to UFS filesystems. Would this be an easy Thing to do or is UFS very experimental with Debian and

Re: Changing the name of my computer

2004-01-07 Thread Claudio Bley
On 2004-01-07, Tendril <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The distro I have was installed for me but I would like to change it's name. > > ie. my computer is called achilles and I would like to change it to > something else. I would look in the help files, but I don't know what > this process is called

Re: Changing the name of my computer

2004-01-07 Thread Ken Gilmour
On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 18:53, Tendril wrote: > The distro I have was installed for me but I would like to change it's name. > > ie. my computer is called achilles and I would like to change it to > something else. I would look in the help files, but I don't know what > this process is called. >

Re: Changing the name of my computer

2004-01-07 Thread Ken Gilmour
On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 18:53, Tendril wrote: > The distro I have was installed for me but I would like to change it's name. > > ie. my computer is called achilles and I would like to change it to > something else. I would look in the help files, but I don't know what > this process is called. >

Installing a different windows manager in KDE on Woody? (QVWM if possible)

2004-01-07 Thread Joseph Jones
I'm not quite digging what KDE's window manager looks like with the Redmond theme, I think I'd just prefer to install QVWM and use that if possible. Anyone here know anything about carrying this out? Many thanks Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: Knoppix HD Install Question - Partitioning and Whatnot

2004-01-07 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello 'Scarletdown'! On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 01:25:53PM -0800, Scarletdown wrote: [...] After the install is done, what would be the best way to get /home formatted and mounted properly? I simply want it mounted as /home, but I am guessing that there will be some conflicts as /home would alread

Re: Alsa sound lost on kernel upgrade

2004-01-07 Thread Henning Moll
On Friday 02 January 2004 18:32, Alan Chandler wrote: > At the moment, the packages site is down, which was my route through > to finding out whether they were going to appear anytime soon. I don't think so. You have to compile the modules by yourself... Henning -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Re: web subscribe form appears to be broken

2004-01-07 Thread Jan Minar
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 02:31:57PM -0500, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > I'm not sure if this is already known, but I was unable to subscribe using > the web form. I tried twice with no success. Ultimately I pulled the Hi, Emma. It worked for me, i.e. I entered the very address you can see above in th

run command as root within script

2004-01-07 Thread Rick Weinbender
Is there a way within a bash script to temporarily su to the root user, then run some commands, then go back to the original user? * Or can you temporarily (within a script), assign the current user to have more rights, then take away those rights? bash scripting is fairly new to me. Thanks, -Rick

Re: /var/lib/dpkg/status

2004-01-07 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Gavin! On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 09:00:22PM +, Gavin Henry wrote: Today this file became corrupt, which I suspect was a hard drive problem, as the previous Debian testing had problems and I was rebuilding this this morning. I deleted this and status.old thinking it was rebuilt by apt-ge

unable to connect adsl

2004-01-07 Thread efiliot
hello, I cannot connect adsl (with Tele2). Some details : - a Bewan ADSL Ethernet st modem - Debian unstable with kernel 2.6.0 - I have installed ppp, pppoe, et pppoeconf - I have configured connection with pppoeconf - I type pon dsl-provider and I don't be connected (ping of an IP adress is imp

Re: en_CA? [was Re: www.gnu.org, glibcbug, bug@gnu.org, dpkg-reconfigure locales]

2004-01-07 Thread Nano Nano
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 02:24:01PM -0700, s. keeling wrote: > > I don't know, no, no, and yes. US does mo/day/yr, we do day/mo/yr > (when we're not doing -mm-dd (iso). Are spelling dictionaries > affected by locale? Dunno. Oi, the date format is endlessly confusing if you're American and y

Re: Configuring a non-root-user profile

2004-01-07 Thread gmorais
Ruby Deepdelver wrote: From: gmorais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Ruby Deepdelver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Configuring a non-root-user profile Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 08:55:21 + This is something like newbie to newbie: I had the same problem while ago and the solution

network configuration problem

2004-01-07 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
hi all, i'm a newbie to Debian. I just shifted from RedHat. I've got two lan cards on my debian system. one connected to the internet and the other to my local lan. i'm not able to ping my ISP DNS server from my debian machine. Details: eth0 (Ethernet connected to ISP) IP 192.168.1.43 DNS 19

Re: Flush file contents

2004-01-07 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 01:55:29PM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: > On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 12:42:33PM -0600, Rick Weinbender wrote: > > Is there a command to flush or empty the contents > > of a file? > > I would like the empty file to retain it's attributes and rights. > > cat /dev/null > file > Hi

Re: killthread script

2004-01-07 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello there! On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 02:39:10PM -0700, s. keeling wrote: You could add a sub-clause to your Debian lists recipe which greps a file containing a list of subjects you don't want to see. I think Karsten mentioned "| formail ... >> bad_subject" or some such to seed such a file. It'll

Re: switching user in X without logging out previous user

2004-01-07 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra
Em Qua, 2004-01-07 Ãs 14:20, Micha Feigin escreveu: > Is it possible to switch the active user in X without actually logging > out using the graphical interface( (x|g|k)dm ) like with the change > users option of m$ XP ? Not yet. Looks like gdmflexiserver is going that way, but not quite

Re: Moving /usr problem

2004-01-07 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra
Em Qua, 2004-01-07 Ãs 12:59, Fred Richards escreveu: > I've installed a new hard disk and decided to shift /usr. The best is to boot from CD, mount both partitions, and mv them I think. -- Leandro GuimarÃes Faria Corcete Dutra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Prefeitura do MunicÃpio de SÃo Paulo Go

Re: Segmentation fault - meaning

2004-01-07 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra
Em Qua, 2004-01-07 Ãs 12:55, Fred Richards escreveu: > I've installed a package on a PC, and then the same on a laptop. When > I try to run it on the laptop I get a segmentation fault. What does > that mean, and what sorts of things might cause it? This is a but, plain and simple. It me

Re: Doing a dist-upgrade to unstable

2004-01-07 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Joseph! On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 07:06:21AM -0600, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote: Does anyone know if the gimp1.3 packages include GIF support now that the patent on GIF has expired? I guess they don't, but you could install gimp1.3-nonfree - GIF support for the GNU Image Manipulation Program. B

/var/lib/dpkg/status

2004-01-07 Thread Gavin Henry
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear all, Today this file became corrupt, which I suspect was a hard drive problem, as the previous Debian testing had problems and I was rebuilding this this morning. I deleted this and status.old thinking it was rebuilt by apt-get or dselect. Bu

Re: killthread script

2004-01-07 Thread R. Wood
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 05:24:33PM -0500, Matt Price imagined: > On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 02:03:04PM -0700, s. keeling wrote: > > Incoming from Matt Price: > > > I have pretty good spamfilters up now, but I still find > > > there's a bit too much info for me. How does one > > > implement a "killthr

Re: en_CA? [was Re: www.gnu.org, glibcbug, bug@gnu.org, dpkg-reconfigure locales]

2004-01-07 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra
Em Qua, 2004-01-07 Ãs 19:24, s. keeling escreveu: > Incoming from Nano Nano: > > > > What features of en_CA distinguish it from en_US? > > Are spelling dictionaries > affected by locale? Dunno. Should be, as well as user interface text. Do you use more of British or US vocabulary and g

Re: www.gnu.org, glibcbug, bug@gnu.org, dpkg-reconfigure locales

2004-01-07 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra
Em Qua, 2004-01-07 Ãs 19:32, s. keeling escreveu: > This message uses a character set that is not supported by the Internet > Service. To view the original message content, open the attached > message. If the text doesn't display correctly, save the attachment to > disk, and then open it using a

Re: killthread script

2004-01-07 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Matt Price: > On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 02:03:04PM -0700, s. keeling wrote: > > Incoming from Matt Price: > > > On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 02:49:18AM -0600, Jesse Meyer wrote: > > > > > > > > First of all, a good email client, aliases, and a killthread script is > > > > > > I have pretty

Re: Flush file contents

2004-01-07 Thread Paul Morgan
On Wed, 07 Jan 2004 12:42:33 -0600, Rick Weinbender wrote: > Is there a command to flush or empty the contents > of a file? > I would like the empty file to retain it's attributes and rights. > > Thanks, > -Rick Simple: >file where "file" is your filename. man bash /^REDIRECTION for more inf

Re: www.gnu.org, glibcbug, bug@gnu.org, dpkg-reconfigure locales

2004-01-07 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra: > Em Qua, 2004-01-07 às 05:25, s. keeling escreveu: > > What a strange loop I've landed in. I started out trying to make > > en_CA locale work. "dpkg-reconfigure locales" everybody said, but > > that didn't do it. Once I edited /etc/locale.ge

Re: Configuring a non-root-user profile

2004-01-07 Thread Paul Morgan
On Wed, 07 Jan 2004 18:06:34 +, Ruby Deepdelver wrote: > > Thak you very much for your concern but i did this and the term doesn't > start anymore. > Are you sure that the line that i have to insert in .bashrc is "source > .bash_profile"? > Anyway, i've just find out that when i login in a

Re: Mozilla news reader help

2004-01-07 Thread Erik Steffl
Tendril wrote: Thank you Erik. When I want to reply to a thread using outlook express on my WinX box, it only replies to that thread (I use 'reply group') but on this version of mozilla (1.0) when I choose reply all (the closest option to Outlook Express) it fills in the return address for the

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