Re: Java SDK on unstable

2005-01-06 Thread David Baron
On Thursday 06 January 2005 23:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've installed Java the day before yesterday with just > java-package and sun-j2sdk1.5debian. I had installed in differently in the past, had to fix problems with some stuff on 1.4 but 1.5 went in fine, simply by untarring Sun's tarba

Re: kernel 2.6.9.2-k7 and ne2k-pci

2005-01-06 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 22:39:23 -0500, Harland Christofferson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > *snip* > >> > > > >I don't know how did you ended having three entries of the "natsemi" > >modules, maybe you have some program to help managing modules. Anyway, > >do you really have two NIC, the "natsemi" and

SOLVED: APM not waking up after prolonged sleep to RAM

2005-01-06 Thread Bob Alexander
As many of you might have read with both 2.6.9 and 2.6.10 kernels and APM, my Thinkpad T40 (2373-92G) did not resume after being left in suspend to RAM for a longish time (very approx. over 45 min). Shorter sleeps went just fine and the machine restarted just perfectly with it's brilliant GNOME

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Re: mozilla window position

2005-01-06 Thread Michael Waters
On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 03:40 -0500, Michael Waters wrote: > I upgraded mozilla in unstable from 1.7.3 to 1.7.5 and now it doesn't > remember its previous window position. Does anyone know an option to > force a position such as -geometry or --geometry= ? I've tried those as > well as searching throu

Re: APT_GET UPGRADE PREVENTS GUI FROM OPENING

2005-01-06 Thread Greg Madden
On Thursday 06 January 2005 12:26 pm, Leonard Chatagnier wrote: > Just finished doing an apt-get update, upgrade and dist-upgrade using > testing on a good functioning Woody > 2.4.18-bf2.4 system. Now as happened on a previous upgrade, my GUI > wont open(CRT-ALT-F7 doesn't > bring up the login scr

APT_GET UPGRADE PREVENTS GUI FROM OPENING

2005-01-06 Thread Leonard Chatagnier
Just finished doing an apt-get update, upgrade and dist-upgrade using testing on a good functioning Woody 2.4.18-bf2.4 system. Now as happened on a previous upgrade, my GUI wont open(CRT-ALT-F7 doesn't bring up the login screen). There is a bootup message that libc.so.6 version GLIBC_2.3 depends

Re: grep & tar segfault - broken system

2005-01-06 Thread Jason Rennie
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 06:45:38PM +0200, Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote: > This is all too strange and I'd like to know if there is anywhere I can > find known good md5sums of Debian package binaries (not of the packages > themselves - of the executables in'em). Otherwise, it's impossible to > k

Re: HELP! My printer won't stop!!

2005-01-06 Thread Jason Rennie
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 10:52:33PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: > You could try: > $ ps aux | grep lpr > which will list the process ID > the kill the process, as root or sudo, with: > # kill -9 ProcessID (the number) Or, even simpler: pkill lpr Jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: confused. sarge raid5 -should i use mdadm or raidtools2

2005-01-06 Thread Marc Wilson
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 11:27:50AM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > raidtools2 == deprecated, mdadm == supercedes raidtools According to whom are raidtools deprecated, and when was this decision made? The last thing you want to do is hand mdadm to the clueless... it's bad enough handing them raidtool

Re: kernel 2.6.9.2-k7 and ne2k-pci

2005-01-06 Thread Harland Christofferson
*snip* >> > >I don't know how did you ended having three entries of the "natsemi" >modules, maybe you have some program to help managing modules. Anyway, >do you really have two NIC, the "natsemi" and the "ne2k-pci"? I am not sure how I have all of these entries either. I deleted all of the nats

Re: Broken Konqueror?

2005-01-06 Thread Peter Nuttall
On Friday 07 Jan 2005 03:21, Carl Fink wrote: > On a newly-updated Sarge system I'm now finding a totally broken > Konqueror. Trying to load any web page gives me the frightening > message: > > Protocol not supported > > http > > So, a web browser that doesn't support http? Odd. > > BTW, the br

Re: sarge dist-upgrade today, no more keyboard

2005-01-06 Thread Mike Chandler
On Thursday 06 January 2005 09:06 am, Peter B. Schmidt wrote: > Hi there, > > I had the same problem, kdm took my keyboard from me. I fixed it by > copying the kdmrc.dpkg-dist over the exisiting kdmrc, which I have > chosen to keep during install (which wass the cause of the problem;). > > Thanks t

Broken Konqueror?

2005-01-06 Thread Carl Fink
On a newly-updated Sarge system I'm now finding a totally broken Konqueror. Trying to load any web page gives me the frightening message: Protocol not supported http So, a web browser that doesn't support http? Odd. BTW, the breaking-glass sound effect added to this makes it e

Re: A list administation query

2005-01-06 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thursday 06 January 2005 01:20 pm, Alan Chandler wrote: > I seems to me kinder on the internet not to clog up the system any > more than I really need to, and since, as the first link says, most of > the bounce messages don't go back to the originator There is a difference between an SMTP-

Re: upgrading spamassassin 2.55 to 3.0.2 on woody from sources

2005-01-06 Thread André Carezia
On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 14:38:12 + (GMT), sebastian wrote: > Hi all, > > anybody know if there is any problem in upgrading spamassassin from > 2.55 to 3.0.2 on woody from sources (so with make, make install) Have you already tried to install Spamassassin package from www.backports.org? -- A

grub-install failed during debian testing installation

2005-01-06 Thread Yu Yong
Hi, This is my first post to this list :) I'm installing debian testing distro on my notebook and PC . The notebook works properly with debian. But on the PC, installation failed to run grub-install on MBR. The progress bar stopped at about 50%. I waited for more than 20 mins and it had no any pr

[SOLVED] Fatal error in gallery: undefined canread()

2005-01-06 Thread Victor Munoz
> > Fatal error: Call to undefined function: canread() in > /usr/share/gallery/classes/User.php on line 90 > For the record, my self-reply to this post. The only solution I found was to upgrade to a newer version of gallery, 1.4.4, to replace the woody package. The problem is mentioned in gall

Re: Sound and print problems

2005-01-06 Thread Adam Aube
Michael Satterwhite wrote: > That said, after it finished the upgrade, I found myself with two > problems. First, KDE programs (KMail, KEdit, etc) no longer see my CUPS > printers. To KDE, it's as if no printers were attached to my computer. > Other applications (such as OpenOffice) have no proble

Re: sendmail problem, sending from console

2005-01-06 Thread James Vahn
Kim Onnel wrote: > I want to be able to send mail from the console, i tried this and > thats the result, > Cc: > slg:/home/zazu# Can't send mail: sendmail process failed with error code 67 It would be nice if there was a list of those codes, but they seem to be pretty elusive. Wishlist bug. You

Re: apt-file fails???

2005-01-06 Thread Adam Aube
David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > Adam Aube <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> David Dyer-Bennet wrote: >> >>> After installing apt-file, it doesn't work; erroring out, in fact. Is >>> there some missing dependency, perhaps? >> A quick check of the BTS ("querybts apt-file") turned up Bug #229540, >> which m

Re: Latest Samba roaming profiles broken?

2005-01-06 Thread Daniel BERMON
Dan Slatford a écrit : In the last couple of days or so, about the time I did an upgrade on my sarge box, samba has broken. Idem on my "almost production ready" server. It's an ldap coupled domain controller, the problem is roaming profiles no longer save. A few files or directories might be saved

Re: ext3 undelete/recovery

2005-01-06 Thread Alvin Oga
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Alban Browaeys wrote: > I just wanted this to be somewhere , seems it s not worst a place than any > other. > > With ext3 you cannot undelete a file . out of curiousity, which undelete tools did you use ?? underneath ext3 is an ext2 fs ... so i dumb/unexperienced commenta

ext3 undelete/recovery

2005-01-06 Thread Alban Browaeys
I just wanted this to be somewhere , seems it s not worst a place than any other. With ext3 you cannot undelete a file . That s right. But only if it was delete in a proper way, for example with rm . In case of a power failure, at reboot if the filesystem is badly broken and some file are lost du

Re: iptables firestarter bug

2005-01-06 Thread Ralph Katz
On 01/06/2005 03:00 PM, John Smith wrote: Hi All, running a sarge box with 2.4.27, updated firestarter today, reconfigured as mandated, got the following error message when starting: iptables v1.2.11: Couldn't load target `LS':/lib/iptables/libipt_LS.so: cannot open shared object file: No

Re: automated phone dialer

2005-01-06 Thread Rabin Vincent
On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 15:51:56 -0600, Matt Zagrabelny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i would like to have my voice modem dial a phone number, upon the other > side answering, play a message and hang up. > > has anyone done anything like this? > > i am currently wading through the mgetty / vgetty docu

Re: installing on a partition

2005-01-06 Thread messmate
On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 08:32:53 -0600 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Ivan Glushkov wrote: > >> messmate wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 09:39:27 +0100 >>> Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Just use the Windows installer for creating an NTFS or FAT >partition>>> and leave the

Re: Sound and print problems

2005-01-06 Thread Greg Madden
On Thursday 06 January 2005 02:05 pm, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > On Thursday 06 January 2005 03:56 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 15:43 -0600, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > > > On Thursday 06 January 2005 02:11 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > Maybe the equalizer volume is muted?

Re: free vs commercial

2005-01-06 Thread Alban Browaeys
David Jardine jardine.de> writes: > Hang on a sec. Hardware manufacturers are selling hardware, not > drivers. Using their software products "freely" without having > bought their hardware products in the first place doesn't sound > like the sort of thing many people would undertake. Corner

Re: installing on a partition

2005-01-06 Thread Kent West
messmate wrote: I don't understand :( Bought a new hd. Installed the first partition as VFAT32 with fdisk to win. Then installed win98. Bought a win2000 + 2000professionnal. Installed that over the first win98. Now I can run win2000 or win2000 professionnal wihout any problem and can read and writ

Re: free vs commercial

2005-01-06 Thread Alban Browaeys
> I forgot: I bought a CanoScan Lide30 which I plugged into my laptop. > That was the hard part. The easy part was starting up gimp and selecting > 'acquire' and clicking on my scanning device. It didn't even need the > install cd. Windows users were advised to first install the cd before > pluggi

Re: encountered new file extension (.dwg)

2005-01-06 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 00:46 +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > > "Jack" == Jack Varga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Jack> Now, a question. Does anyone know of efforts to develop a DWG > Jack> library that is compatible with GPL, LGPL or a similar license? > Jack> The Open Design Group's OpenDWG l

Re: installing on a partition

2005-01-06 Thread messmate
On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 11:36:31 +0100 Ivan Glushkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >messmate wrote: > >>On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 09:39:27 +0100 >>Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> >>>* Christian Evans: >>> >>> I will be completing a build in the next couple of days and have decide

encountered new file extension (.dwg)

2005-01-06 Thread Dan Jacobson
> "Jack" == Jack Varga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jack> Now, a question. Does anyone know of efforts to develop a DWG Jack> library that is compatible with GPL, LGPL or a similar license? Jack> The Open Design Group's OpenDWG library (a misnomer in its own Jack> right), is seriously problema

Re: Configuring exim4 (for use with mutt)

2005-01-06 Thread Gerard Robin
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 10:38:11PM +0100, Maurits van Rees wrote: > On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 07:44:39PM +, Felixk Karpfen wrote: > > Unfortunately this does not work on my setup because my login name on my > > computer and my login name on my ISP's computer are different. > > > > When "mutt" is

WP60 (was Re: Debian on an old PC)

2005-01-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 17:13 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005 Jan 06 17:04 -0600]: > > Nate Bargmann wrote: [snip] > > Another cool thing is that it's also cross-platform so I have it > available on a FreeDOS partition. Speaking of FreeDOS, does anyone have WordP

Re: Sound and print problems

2005-01-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 17:05 -0600, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > On Thursday 06 January 2005 03:56 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 15:43 -0600, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > > > On Thursday 06 January 2005 02:11 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > Maybe the equalizer volume is muted? Tha

Re: Debian on an old PC

2005-01-06 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005 Jan 06 17:04 -0600]: > Nate Bargmann wrote: > > >I may have not have jumped the MS ship seven years ago had I not found > >FTE. > > > > > Wow! I was not aware of this editor. I do like it (for familiarity > reasons - don't know about power yet). > > Thanks

Re: Sound and print problems

2005-01-06 Thread Michael Satterwhite
On Thursday 06 January 2005 03:56 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 15:43 -0600, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > > On Thursday 06 January 2005 02:11 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > Maybe the equalizer volume is muted? That's happened to me before. > > > > That's completely possible - but no

Re: Debian on an old PC

2005-01-06 Thread Kent West
Nate Bargmann wrote: I may have not have jumped the MS ship seven years ago had I not found FTE. Wow! I was not aware of this editor. I do like it (for familiarity reasons - don't know about power yet). Thanks for mentioning it. -- Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Debian on an old PC

2005-01-06 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005 Jan 06 16:21 -0600]: > If *text* editing is really the most important thing, then why not > stay in console mode? vim or joe should fit the bill. Ugggh! The surest way to send someone running back to Windows is dump vi(m) on them. Emacs isn't much better

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2005-01-06 Thread Alfonso Munoz
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port 32929 ???

2005-01-06 Thread neurologik
i get this hit on firestarter from 206.167.141.10 tcp 32929(which is the repository that i have set up in synaptic). multiple hits (without running synaptic) Should this be a concern? thanks, Todd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: sharing /var/cache between two installations of debian?

2005-01-06 Thread Aldebaran
On Thursday 06 January 2005 01:35 pm, Andrew Schulman wrote: > > I want to both to use the same /var/cache partition. /var/cache has its > > own partition. I already share /tmp and swap. Is there anything in > > /var/cache, or is there anything that could be in /var/cache that would > > cause pr

Re: Debian on an old PC

2005-01-06 Thread Vegard Lundby Rekaa
> Is it actually installed, or do you just have the DIMM? > Nothing installed yet! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian on an old PC

2005-01-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 14:44 -0700, John Schmidt wrote: > On Thursday 06 January 2005 02:37 pm, David Jardine wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 09:42:58PM +0100, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: [snip] > Old pcs often can't boot from a CD even if they have one. You might be able > to flash the BIOS to

Re: Debian on an old PC

2005-01-06 Thread Vegard Lundby Rekaa
> Can't you change the boot order in the BIOS setup to look for > cdrom first? Debian install CDs are bootable, surely? > > David > > -- > David Jardine > Tried that, Not Possible -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Sound and print problems

2005-01-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 15:43 -0600, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > On Thursday 06 January 2005 02:11 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > Maybe the equalizer volume is muted? That's happened to me before. > > That's completely possible - but now I'm moving from carelessness to > stupidity. I see the mixe

automated phone dialer

2005-01-06 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
hello, i would like to have my voice modem dial a phone number, upon the other side answering, play a message and hang up. has anyone done anything like this? i am currently wading through the mgetty / vgetty documentation, but am wondering if anyone on the list can give out any pointers or have

Re: dkpg --purge question..

2005-01-06 Thread Raquel Rice
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 16:42:09 -0500 (EST) Ishwar Rattan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I installed sylpheed-clasws using apt-get and want to remove it. > > # dpkg --purge sylpheed-claws > .. > complains that sylpheed-claws-i18n depends on sylpheed-claws > and won't be removed > .. > > #dpkg -pu

Re: Debian on an old PC

2005-01-06 Thread John Schmidt
On Thursday 06 January 2005 02:37 pm, David Jardine wrote: > On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 09:42:58PM +0100, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: > > > I would be surprised if that old machine could *boot a cdrom*. Have > > > > > > you tried *that*? > > > > > > ;-0 > > > > It can't boot from cdrom, it has one (4X)

Re: dkpg --purge question..

2005-01-06 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Ishwar Rattan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I installed sylpheed-clasws using apt-get and want to remove it. > > # dpkg --purge sylpheed-claws You want: apt-get --purge remove sylpheed-claws -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net "TAG Editor"

Re: Sound and print problems

2005-01-06 Thread Michael Satterwhite
On Thursday 06 January 2005 02:11 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Maybe the equalizer volume is muted? That's happened to me before. That's completely possible - but now I'm moving from carelessness to stupidity. I see the mixer at the bottom of my screen (and it's volumes look good). Where is the e

Re: dkpg --purge question..

2005-01-06 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Quoting Ishwar Rattan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I installed sylpheed-clasws using apt-get and want to remove it. > > # dpkg --purge sylpheed-claws > .. > complains that sylpheed-claws-i18n depends on sylpheed-claws > and won't be removed > .. > > #dpkg -purge sylpheed-claws-i18n > .. > compla

dkpg --purge question..

2005-01-06 Thread Ishwar Rattan
I installed sylpheed-clasws using apt-get and want to remove it. # dpkg --purge sylpheed-claws .. complains that sylpheed-claws-i18n depends on sylpheed-claws and won't be removed .. #dpkg -purge sylpheed-claws-i18n .. complains that sylpheed-claws depends on sylpheed-claws-i18n and won't be

Re: Configuring exim4 (for use with mutt)

2005-01-06 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 07:44:39PM +, Felixk Karpfen wrote: > Unfortunately this does not work on my setup because my login name on my > computer and my login name on my ISP's computer are different. > > When "mutt" is used in conjunction with "sendmail" this can be fixed > with the "set envel

Re: Debian on an old PC

2005-01-06 Thread David Jardine
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 09:42:58PM +0100, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: > > > I would be surprised if that old machine could *boot a cdrom*. Have > > > > you tried *that*? > > > > ;-0 > It can't boot from cdrom, it has one (4X) but the system doesn't know of > it untill an OS is loaded (i.e. win98se)

Re: Debian on an old PC

2005-01-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 19:31 +0100, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: [snip] > I got hold of 128MB RAM from a friend. Now there is a total of > 128+16=144MB RAM. Don't you think that is enough for OO.org and WM when > he's prepared for a slow machine? Is it actually installed, or do you just have the DIMM

Re: Conflicts found in /proc/interrupts

2005-01-06 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 22:17 +0100, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: > My soundcard is malfunctioning because of a conflict with my network-card. > I quote to a conversation with Greg Folkert: > " >I used to use 3com cards all the time. Then the 3c905a/b debacle with > Microsoft "demanding" 3com [...]

Re: A list administation query

2005-01-06 Thread Alan Chandler
On Wednesday 05 January 2005 00:23, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Tuesday 04 January 2005 11:37 am, Felixk Karpfen wrote: > > Having lost two mailboxes to the the "Swem-worm flood", I do > > not willingly post my true address to any public forum. > > Munging is considered harmful, get your mail admin to

Conflicts found in /proc/interrupts

2005-01-06 Thread Vegard Lundby Rekaa
My soundcard is malfunctioning because of a conflict with my network-card. I quote to a conversation with Greg Folkert: " I used to use 3com cards all the time. Then the 3c905a/b debacle with Microsoft "demanding" 3com change the PnP/PCI configuration process. Supposedly "fixed" in the 3c905c

Re: at was broken now is fixed

2005-01-06 Thread Aldebaran
addendum: for you on google: at was broken because it would accept jobs from a user with a username longer than 8 characters, but it would not execute those jobs at the following url is a bug report and a patch: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=115295 that patch is at the end of

Re: Kernel installation woes on Athlon 1100: "hda: lost interrupt".

2005-01-06 Thread Joe
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Adam Funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes On Tuesday 04 January 2005 20:40, Joe wrote: The motherboard is an ASRock K7S8X. (I don't know what chips are on it.) I didn't see the beginning of this. I have one of these and I've yet to see any Linux boot without noapic. In

Re: apt-file fails???

2005-01-06 Thread Thomas Adam
--- David Dyer-Bennet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > player ddb# apt-file update > Can't locate object method "host" via package "URI::_foreign" (perhaps > you forgot to load "URI::_foreign"?) at /usr/bin/apt-file line 189. It seems you don't know what the BTS is [1]. The Bug Tracking System is u

Re: Configuring exim4 (for use with mutt)

2005-01-06 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 19:44 +, Felixk Karpfen wrote: > One of the few inputs requested by exim4-config is "hostname". > > The screen, that contains this request, explains that the "hostname" is > the part of the email address that comes after the "@". As far as I can > judge exim4 uses this in

Re: Java SDK on unstable

2005-01-06 Thread Shot (Piotr Szotkowski)
Hello. Jorgen Rosink: > Install java-package -> > apt-get install java-package fakeroot sun-j2sdk1.5debian > > Now it's just as easy as building a kernel the-Debian-way -> > fakeroot make-jpkg /path/to/self-extracting_java_file Just to clarify the popular misconception - fakeroot is not need

Re: Debian on an old PC

2005-01-06 Thread John Schmidt
On Thursday 06 January 2005 01:42 pm, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: > > I would be surprised if that old machine could *boot a cdrom*. Have > > > > you tried *that*? > > > > ;-0 > > It can't boot from cdrom, it has one (4X) but the system doesn't know of > it untill an OS is loaded (i.e. win98se). I'm

Re: at is broken

2005-01-06 Thread Aldebaran
On Thursday 06 January 2005 10:26 am, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 09:32:35AM -0500, Aldebaran wrote: > > After thrashing back and forth in man pages and at.allow and at.deny I > > found that at has a bug. > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=115295 > > > > Now at th

Re: Debian on an old PC

2005-01-06 Thread William Ballard
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 09:42:58PM +0100, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: > It can't boot from cdrom, it has one (4X) but the system doesn't know of > it untill an OS is loaded (i.e. win98se). I'm forced to install linux with > floppy disks. Don't use this piece of crap as a desktop machine. Use it as

Re: apt-file fails???

2005-01-06 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
Adam Aube <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > >> After installing apt-file, it doesn't work; erroring out, in fact. Is >> there some missing dependency, perhaps? > >> player ddb# apt-file update >> Can't locate object method "host" via package "URI::_foreign" (perhaps >> you

Re: Debian on an old PC

2005-01-06 Thread Vegard Lundby Rekaa
> I would be surprised if that old machine could *boot a cdrom*. Have > > you tried *that*? > > ;-0 It can't boot from cdrom, it has one (4X) but the system doesn't know of it untill an OS is loaded (i.e. win98se). I'm forced to install linux with floppy disks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: Sound and print problems

2005-01-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 13:57 -0600, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > OK, I was in a hurry this morning and did something stupid. Debian Sid; I did > an apt-get upgrade to look at what was available for upgrade. I usually > answer "No" on continue, but wasn't paying attention and told it to do the > u

Portsentry Question

2005-01-06 Thread "Sergio Cuéllar"
Hi, I really not sure whats happening with portsentry, before I start the daemon I use nmap to see the open ports: And I get only: 22/tcp open ssh 25/tcp open smtp 80/tcp open http 111/tcp open rpcbind Then i use nestat too, and I get something like this: tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:111

Configuring exim4 (for use with mutt)

2005-01-06 Thread Felixk Karpfen
One of the few inputs requested by exim4-config is "hostname". The screen, that contains this request, explains that the "hostname" is the part of the email address that comes after the "@". As far as I can judge exim4 uses this input in conjunction with the user's login name to construct the "env

Sound and print problems

2005-01-06 Thread Michael Satterwhite
OK, I was in a hurry this morning and did something stupid. Debian Sid; I did an apt-get upgrade to look at what was available for upgrade. I usually answer "No" on continue, but wasn't paying attention and told it to do the upgrade. I'm admitting carelessness and falling on the mercy of the cou

iptables firestarter bug

2005-01-06 Thread John Smith
Hi All, running a sarge box with 2.4.27, updated firestarter today, reconfigured as mandated, got the following error message when starting: iptables v1.2.11: Couldn't load target `LS':/lib/iptables/libipt_LS.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory That fi

Re: debian-user and mail tools

2005-01-06 Thread Jason Rennie
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 04:42:33PM +0100, Bob Alexander wrote: > Thunderbird does a decent (but not wonderful) job of filtering spam. I use bogofilter (via procmail) to do spam filtering. "Out of the box," bogofilter works very well. Tuned, it's extremely effective. My FP (regular mail labeled

Re: Debian on an old PC

2005-01-06 Thread RRPotratz
Alvin Smith wrote: On Thursday 06 January 2005 01:31 pm, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: On your machine the primary holdup to a system such as this would be memory--the likes of which cost about a $1/stick at our local "re-compute" store. I got hold of 128MB RAM from a friend. Now there is a

Re: Debian on an old PC

2005-01-06 Thread Alvin Smith
On Thursday 06 January 2005 01:31 pm, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: > > On your machine the primary holdup to a system such as this would be > > memory--the likes of which cost about a $1/stick at our local > > "re-compute" store. > > I got hold of 128MB RAM from a friend. Now there is a total of > 12

Re: confused. sarge raid5 -should i use mdadm or raidtools2

2005-01-06 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 13:28 -0500, Mitchell Laks wrote: > On Thursday 06 January 2005 11:27 am, Greg Folkert wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 05:21 -0500, Mitchell Laks wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I would like to set up a Debian box running Sarge, to include a storage > > > array using raid5 with boot

Re: debian-user and mail tools

2005-01-06 Thread Sam Watkins
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 04:09:20PM +0100, Bob Alexander wrote: > So Sam, > could you be so kind to comment/complete the complete "toolchain" ? Glad to see you didn't have me killfiled yet ;) > 1) ISP IMAP Server I use FastMail.FM. They provide a good email service for free, and more space and s

Re: Java SDK on unstable

2005-01-06 Thread Jorgen Rosink
On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 12:21:32AM +0100, John Plate wrote: > Hi > > I tried to install Java SDK (j2sdk1.4), but dselect claims that there > is no j2se-common file available. > > How to get J2EE running on Debian unstable? Download a JRE or SDK from http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp,

Re: apt-file fails???

2005-01-06 Thread Adam Aube
David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > After installing apt-file, it doesn't work; erroring out, in fact. Is > there some missing dependency, perhaps? > player ddb# apt-file update > Can't locate object method "host" via package "URI::_foreign" (perhaps > you forgot to load "URI::_foreign"?) at /usr/bin/apt

Re: sharing /var/cache between two installations of debian?

2005-01-06 Thread Andrew Schulman
> I want to both to use the same /var/cache partition. /var/cache has its own > partition. I already share /tmp and swap. Is there anything in /var/cache, > or is there anything that could be in /var/cache that would cause problems if > it was shared in this way? I don't know, but there are

Re: OpenOffice on Debian Cut/Paste problems

2005-01-06 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 10:05:43AM -0800, Randall J. Parr wrote: > I am having a problem with OpenOffice 1.1.x calc. > > When copy, then paste a spreadsheet cell, calc inserts a cell in the > current column. That's not what happens to me. > It should paste the copied cell contents into the curr

[Request for Help] MBOX-Project seeks for Mboxes :-)

2005-01-06 Thread Martin Mewes
Hallo zusammen, hi all, English first - Deutsch folgt: ~~ After first problems my MBOX-Project [1] is running OK and now I search for content. First goal of the project is to install a central possibility to gather lost messages from mailing-lists which did not reac

Re: at is broken

2005-01-06 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 05:27:06AM +1100, Sam Watkins wrote: > On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 09:32:35AM -0500, Aldebaran wrote: > > So I think I managed to patch at properly, and in man dpkg I learned that > > all > > I need to do is dpkg -b at-3.1.8 and dpkg would kindly package all that > > stuff >

Re: Debian on an old PC

2005-01-06 Thread Vegard Lundby Rekaa
> Attaining your goal will be tied entirely to who your father is when it > comes to assessing the system. Is he interested in what you propose, > or is this a project of your own? If he is _interested_ then wm's > which deviate more from a Windows perspective will not be as much of an > issue, e

Re: confused. sarge raid5 -should i use mdadm or raidtools2

2005-01-06 Thread Mitchell Laks
On Thursday 06 January 2005 11:27 am, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 05:21 -0500, Mitchell Laks wrote: > > Hi, > > I would like to set up a Debian box running Sarge, to include a storage > > array using raid5 with boot off a separate system disk. > > [...] > > raidtools2 == deprecated

Re: at is broken

2005-01-06 Thread Sam Watkins
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 09:32:35AM -0500, Aldebaran wrote: > So I think I managed to patch at properly, and in man dpkg I learned that all > I need to do is dpkg -b at-3.1.8 and dpkg would kindly package all that stuff > up into a nice pretty .deb and within minutes I would be doing important >

Re: Debian on an old PC

2005-01-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 11:07 +0100, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: > > On Wednesday 05 January 2005 08:43 am, Alvin Smith wrote: [snip] > Luckely the man who are to be convinced care more about the text editing > tools than all other details. Hopefully only this slow PC with a decent > texteditor will c

apt-file fails???

2005-01-06 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
After installing apt-file, it doesn't work; erroring out, in fact. Is there some missing dependency, perhaps? Here's the install, the failure, and a check: player ddb# apt-get install apt-file libapt-pkg-perl Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following NEW pack

OpenOffice on Debian Cut/Paste problems

2005-01-06 Thread Randall J. Parr
I am new to Debian (but not Linux). I recently installed sarge testing on a workstation. I upgraded the KDE to 3.3.1 from unstable. By and large things work well. I am having a problem with OpenOffice 1.1.x calc. When copy, then paste a spreadsheet cell, calc inserts a cell in the current column.

Re: free vs commercial; open vs proprietary is better dichotomy

2005-01-06 Thread Paul E Condon
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 07:52:29PM -0800, ken keanon wrote: > Hi, > I'll reply in a one-to-many style. > snip... > > I'll continue to compare and contrast. > > Ken The details of a comparison between Debian/GNU/Linux and similarly produced software with Windows etc. is largely foolish. I call t

Re: Debian on an old PC

2005-01-06 Thread Vegard Lundby Rekaa
> If *text* editing is really the most important thing, then why not > stay in console mode? vim or joe should fit the bill. The texteditor he needs has to be able to replace every function of MS Office Word, wich means reading .doc-files, setting up tables, as well as having a spellcheck-option.

Re: Debian on an old PC

2005-01-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 11:07 +0100, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: > > On Wednesday 05 January 2005 08:43 am, Alvin Smith wrote: > > > >> No. You need a minimum of a Pentium 233 with 64 MB RAM to have much > >> success running any GUI + Openoffice, even xfce. > > > > And realistically on the user-side

Re: debian-user and mail tools

2005-01-06 Thread Rabin Vincent
On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 10:56:34 +0100, Bob Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nate Duehr wrote: > > Bob Alexander wrote: > > > >> A last item I do not like about TB is that using IMAP, my emails are > >> on the server, and in TB when I delete an item it gets into the > >> server's Trash folders an

Re: Debian on an old PC

2005-01-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 11:52 +, Simon Huggins wrote: > On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 06:47:55PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Wednesday 05 January 2005 08:43 am, Alvin Smith wrote: > > > No. You need a minimum of a Pentium 233 with 64 MB RAM to have much > > > success running any GUI + Openoffi

Re: sendmail problem, sending from console

2005-01-06 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 18:37:27 +0200, Kim Onnel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I want to be able to send mail from the console, i tried this and > thats the result, > > any one recognizing the problem ? > > slg:/home/zazu# mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: hi > testing > . > Cc: > slg:/home/z

Re: no ipchains with 2.2/no network with 2.4

2005-01-06 Thread Pierre A. Damas
Yes, ipchains is installed # apt-get install ipchains Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Sorry, ipchains is already the newest version. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. # ipchains -V ipchains 1.3.10, 1-Sep-2000 No, it doesn't work

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