Re: HT configure an IDE/ATAPI ZIP drive?

2000-12-13 Thread Pascal Hos
Eric G . Miller wrote: On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 10:28:08PM -0600, Dan Griswold wrote: Hi all, I have an internal IDE/ATAPI ZIP 100 in my box. I can mount, read/write, and umount it. But I cannot eject it. :-( Now, I know I've done it before. But that was under SuSE 6.1 (some time ago). And of

RE: UDMA66 boot problem/HPT370

2000-12-13 Thread Jon Branch
Hi Alexander Sorry no solution from me. I'm faced with a near identical problem using the HPT 370 on-board controller with a 2theMax BX7 +100 motherboard (actually with five of them). So I'll be interested to see the solution if/when you get one. Regards Jon Branch --Original Message-

Re: Office software - and printers

2000-12-13 Thread Nico De Ranter
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 02:45:50PM -0500, urbanyon wrote: > > 2) Are there any printers recommended for use with Debian? Checkout http://www.linuxprinting.org Nico - "It has been said that there are only two businesses that refer to cus

Re: exim

2000-12-13 Thread Pap Tibor
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, A R wrote: > Carel Fellinger wrote: > > > > But it also tells me that there is some failure while retrieving. > > > > Pleas tell us what error messages you get? > > Try "fetchmail -v -v" to get more info. (better do this before you tie > > fetchmail to ppp) > > > > Here I am

Re: SCREENSHOT - what software/method to use

2000-12-13 Thread kmself
on Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 11:25:17PM -0500, Glenn Becker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > At 11:06pm on Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Glenn Becker wrote: > > > > > I don't know if it is worth mentioning, but Window Maker allows you to > > very simply take a screen or window shot. I was all ready to use the scr

Re: Debian checks filesystems at every boot

2000-12-13 Thread Nico De Ranter
Anyway, when I run halt or shutdown I see all the messages relating to the processes being stopped. I even see the message I put in right before my "sync" addition. And still it seems to go wrong :-(. Might there be a problem with timing. Since my second partition is rather big (15GB) perhaps t

Re: Debian checks filesystems at every boot

2000-12-13 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 08:28:49AM +0100, Nico De Ranter wrote: > Anyway, when I run halt or shutdown I see all the messages relating to > the processes being stopped. I even see the message I put in right > before my "sync" addition. And still it seems to go wrong :-(. Might But do you see messa

Re: The truth about PSM and other XPI's

2000-12-13 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Sebastian Silva, > The thing is the default permissions for /usr/lib/mozilla are too > tight. Mi solution was simply to give it all the permissions it wants > (of course NOT setuid). Now the other thing is that Mozilla wont > download the X-install packages himself. You have to do it for h

Make menuconfig, 2.2.18 and Debian woody.

2000-12-13 Thread David Fisher
I downloaded the new 2.2.18 kernel, the first to be released since my conversion to Debian and proceeded to attempt my first kernel compile on my woody box. After untarring i get colossus:/usr/src/linux# make menuconfig rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) make -C scripts/lxdial

[OT] Recent increases in d-u posts?

2000-12-13 Thread Damon Muller
Hi folks, I was just wondering if anyone else has noticed a signigicant increase in posts in the last few weeks. It seems that, not that long ago, I'd be lucky to get over 100 in a single day. These days it seems to be regularly over 200. It's a bit weird, because it's not as if there are any rea

Re: Can't log in after apt-get upgrade

2000-12-13 Thread Ross Boylan
Definitely a similar problem here. Thanks to you and others for the ctl-atl-Fn trick. My .gnome-errors says /etc/gdm/Sessions//Gnome: checking /etc/login.defs for option UMASK /etc/gdm/Sessions//Gnome: /etc/login.defs: "UMASK" is "022" /etc/gdm/Sessions//Gnome: checking /etc/login.defs for optio

Re: [OT] Recent increases in d-u posts?

2000-12-13 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 07:13:26PM +1100, Damon Muller wrote: > Hi folks, > > I was just wondering if anyone else has noticed a signigicant increase > in posts in the last few weeks. It seems that, not that long ago, I'd be > lucky to get over 100 in a single day. These days it seems to be > regul

Re: Can't log in after apt-get upgrade

2000-12-13 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 12:19:25AM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > Definitely a similar problem here. Thanks to you and others for the > ctl-atl-Fn trick. > > My .gnome-errors says > /etc/gdm/Sessions//Gnome: checking /etc/login.defs for option UMASK > /etc/gdm/Sessions//Gnome: /etc/login.defs: "UMA

Missing ncurses in Pine compile?

2000-12-13 Thread Dwight Johnson
On my Debian 2.2r2 system I have: libncurses5 ncurses-base ncurses-bin all installed. Yet, when attempting to compile Pine 4.21 (from the .deb source package in nonfree), I get the following compile error: cc-g -DDEBUG -DLNX -DSYSTYPE=\"LNX\" -DMOUSE -o pine addrbook.o adrbkcmd.o adrbkli

Re: problem with charset in xterm

2000-12-13 Thread Martin Würtele
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 06:18:18PM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote: > On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 07:13:48PM +0100, Martin Würtele wrote: > > hi, > > > > i have the following problem with woody: > > i can't type äüö or ß in xterm (works here thanx to vim) but i'd like to > > use these chars in xterm as w

Re: [OT] Recent increases in d-u posts?

2000-12-13 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Damon, I think it's the redhat upgrade to 7.0! heeheehee. Also, it could be that so many books are hitting the shelves about linux and linux+pure=debian. Linux in school is also exposing this distro to the next generation. Microsoft STILL wants money for that thingy they sell. Gosh, this

Re: helix gnome vs. woody gnome

2000-12-13 Thread Kai Weber
+ [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > packages? Are they as stable? Is there any strange behavior? Do they > contain as many programs as are available in the Helix packages? What are > the pros and cons of each? I switched over to a clean woody only system some days ago. I have to do some co

Solved! Re: isdn4linux -> dialling uses (my) local area code

2000-12-13 Thread garyjones
At Tue, 12 Dec 2000 14:41:39 +0100 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] (robert_wilhelm_land) wrote: >Gary Jones wrote: > >>Here are the relevant parts of the config files: >>#isdn.conf >>[GLOBAL] >>COUNTRYPREFIX=+ >>AREAPREFIX=0 >>COUNTRYCODE=49 >>AREACODE=89 >> >>#device.ippp0 >>LOCALMSN=089*** >>REMOTEMSN=109

Re: Can't log in after apt-get upgrade

2000-12-13 Thread Ross Boylan
The dependency is present in gnome-session 1.2.4-helix2, but not helix1. Here's the before and after for the dist-upgrade I just did, which does seem to have fixed the problem. I filed a bug report with helix, since it's not clear to me that helix2 actually fixed the problem, or if I fixed it as

Re: Official support. - paid vs free

2000-12-13 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya free support is good if... - you know what you are looking for - time is NOT an issue and can wait and poke around to find the right answers - cummulative community collective of collectables ( information ) - can interpret and understand the vast

Re: Re: Re: es1371 (SOLVED hopefully )

2000-12-13 Thread romain lerallut
> >> This is a security risk, how can I protect my system against this ?? > >Access permissions should do it, since they come before anything is sent >out to /dev/dsp. However, I don't know why it locks up your system. > >Thorsten > IRQ, I guess. It seems that the video card and the sound card were

Re: Sound card interrupt problem (ESS ES1878)

2000-12-13 Thread Tiarnan O Corrain
All cool... we have sound and we are happy. What I ended up doing was compiling the sound directly into the kernel, using the Sb option on IRQ 5. Other than that, the defaults worked perfectly. Thanks to everyone who contributed. Cheers Tiarnan -- Tiarnán Ó Corráin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Part

Re: Using Postgres SQL with Staroffice?

2000-12-13 Thread Ramin Motakef
Manegold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi! > > How can I use Staroffice (the database stuff) as a front end to Postgres > (I can't get the supplied Adabas to work with me without major > investment of time, and I need to to relational database stuff [more > than one tabel], which does not work wi

Re: Make menuconfig, 2.2.18 and Debian woody.

2000-12-13 Thread Michael Sauer
> colossus:/usr/src/linux# make menuconfig > rm -f include/asm > ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) > make -C scripts/lxdialog all > make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.18/scripts/lxdialog' > gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -DLOCALE > -DCURSES_LOC="" -c -o lx

Re: Missing ncurses in Pine compile?

2000-12-13 Thread Michael Sauer
> cc-g -DDEBUG -DLNX -DSYSTYPE=\"LNX\" -DMOUSE -o pine addrbook.o > adrbkcmd.o adrbklib.o args.o bldaddr.o context.o filter.o folder.o help.o > helptext.o imap.o init.o mailcap.o mailcmd.o mailindx.o mailpart.o mailview.o > newmail.o other.o > pine.o reply.o screen.o send.o signals.o statu

Re: xfce

2000-12-13 Thread Stephan Balmer
> Has anyone used xfce? I'd like to try it but first wanted to get some > input > on how it is. I think it's just a Window-Manager with an easy configuration. I use it all the time because I'm too lazy to configure those big managers, it provides everything I need :) And damn, I don't waste thos

LaTeX and PDF-files

2000-12-13 Thread Joerg Johannes
To all pdflatex-users I tried to convert my .tex-files to pdf with the pdflatex-command. This works great for text-only documents. It seems that pdflatex cannot include pictures (they are ok., latex --> xdvi shows them...). Do I have to include them in a special format (I tried .bmp, .png, .ps as

Re: Alsa compiling

2000-12-13 Thread Juha Erkkila
> I get this error while compiling alsa from source > got past ./configure but now i get this erro with make > How can I fix this ? > I tried installing task-advanced-linux-sound-architecture but i get alot of > errors there. > > wavefront.c: In function `wavefront_wait': > wavefront.c:303: struc

IPMasq Probs

2000-12-13 Thread David Purton
Hello, I'm attempting to get IP Masquerading happening on my dial uppotato box, so far without luck I can't even ping a remote ip address Which log files will can contain errors? I haven't played with any rules or anything so everything is as default from the ipmasq install I *think* I have all

Re: LaTeX and PDF-files

2000-12-13 Thread Martin Würtele
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 11:12:33AM +0100, Joerg Johannes wrote: > To all pdflatex-users > > I tried to convert my .tex-files to pdf with the pdflatex-command. This > works great for text-only documents. It seems that pdflatex cannot > include pictures (they are ok., latex --> xdvi shows them...).

Re: [OT] Recent increases in d-u posts?

2000-12-13 Thread Bob Rowe
Well, don't laugh too hard. It was the Red Hat 7.0 upgrade, its decidedly unnecessary expense and the vocal presence in our company of several Debian advocates (Debian dweebs?) (sorry) that made me start taking a serious look at Debian. At 12:43 AM 12/13/2000 -0800, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote:

Re: Compiling stuff

2000-12-13 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 12 Dec 2000, Eric G . Miller wrote: > On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 01:34:41PM +0100, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: > > > > I've just put my brave hat on and compiled my kernel for the first > > time. Thanks to Robert Guthrie and his tip to use kernel-package, > > and KMDWAF, everything just worked fi

Re: Make menuconfig, 2.2.18 and Debian woody.

2000-12-13 Thread Moritz Schulte
David Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > dialog.h:29: curses.h: No such file or directory > What package have I left out? Install 'libncurses5-dev'. In Debian, the files needed for building with a library, are in the lib...-dev package. If you're searching for a package, containing a file, j

"top" for network?

2000-12-13 Thread Ekkehard Kraemer
Hello list, Is there some kind of "top"-like application in Debian that will display the network throughput per-process? Thanks, Ekkehard

Re: Debian is not for me

2000-12-13 Thread Clayton Stapleton
It is a Sound Blaster 16 PCI sound card. The system BIOS is set to recognize PnP cards and is used by Win 98 and Suse 6.4 distro's so I do not want to change it. The sound chip is a Ensoniq 1371, IRQ 11 and i/o=6800-683F. I have read the PnP Howto and Alsa mini-Howto with no clue on how to get the

mount version older than kernel?

2000-12-13 Thread M G Berberich
Hello, Every time a nfs-mounts occurs (automount) I get a error message saying: nfs warning: mount version older than kernel It does work nevertheless. Compiling a new mount did not help, updating 'mount' with the woody-version neither. What is the reason for this message and how can I solve

Re: scanning SCSI-bus on a running system

2000-12-13 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Joerg Johannes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would like to get my scanner recognized when turned on at a runing > system. I know I can do that on Win 98, so it should be possible to > rescan the SCSI-Bus without "disturbing" any of the other devices. The > only question is: How? There is a scsi

Re: [OT] Recent increases in d-u posts?

2000-12-13 Thread D-Man
You may be on to something here. I started looking at Debian parly because of all the good things Debian users had to say about it in the other mailing lists (ie gnome-list). Also I upgraded to RH7 =p. (What vendor would be so stupid as to use an incomplete compiler that is totally incompatibl

Re: Debian is not for me

2000-12-13 Thread D-Man
I think you should browse the archives now. I recall seeing a subject similar to "Re es1371 PROBLEM SOLVED" yesterday. -D On Tue, 12 Dec 2000 22:26:03 Clayton Stapleton wrote: | It is a Sound Blaster 16 PCI sound card. The system BIOS is set to recognize | PnP cards and is used by Win 98 and

Re: Debian checks filesystems at every boot

2000-12-13 Thread kmself
on Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 02:36:29AM +, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > >on Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 08:35:28PM +0100, Nico De Ranter > >([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >> I do ofcourse always make sure to turn off the machine by typing > >> "halt". > > > >This

Sorry, off-topic. READ THIS and send to your fellows

2000-12-13 Thread FloresRom
I'm really sorry about the off-topic contents, but I had to post this article to a high-level groups of people. Since I use to participate in this list... So, please, any comments, send it direct to me, so we won't pollute the list again (I really HAD to deliver this). --- Duri

Problem with xdvi!!!

2000-12-13 Thread Angel Parra
Hello! I am using debian 2.2 and sometimes I use programs as Lyx, xemax, ... and all works fine, but when I use the xdvi to see some file, it doesn't work. The erros code is the same if I try it from the X-window server in Win98 or from the Linux X-Window. Error code:

Re: [OT] Recent increases in d-u posts?

2000-12-13 Thread kmself
on Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 07:13:26PM +1100, Damon Muller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi folks, > > I was just wondering if anyone else has noticed a signigicant increase > in posts in the last few weeks. Yes: http://lists.debian.org/stats/debian-user.png -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.h

Re: Make menuconfig, 2.2.18 and Debian woody.

2000-12-13 Thread sena
On 13/12/2000 at 19:11 +1100, David Fisher wrote: > In file included from lxdialog.c:22: > dialog.h:29: curses.h: No such file or directory > make[1]: *** [lxdialog.o] Error 1 > > What package have I left out? > You have left out package "libncurses5-dev". Regards, sena... -- [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: PCMCIA Help

2000-12-13 Thread dude
Anyway after along night (i am now sick and coghing) i decided to re-install rehhat right and see what it was doing. so any way after re-installing i copied /etc to my windows partition so i would have access to it when i was running debian anyway the proble was that when cardmgr would proble it

Re: WinModem

2000-12-13 Thread Gary L. Dolan
12/12/00 2:48:28 PM, urbanyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >i've heard the same thing, and from several reliable sources. with my >system, i bought a new modem. > >On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, Stephan Kulka wrote: >> > Is there any possibility to configure Debian to work with "WinModem" (any >> > drivers?)

Re: mount version older than kernel?

2000-12-13 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 01:40:03PM +0100, M G Berberich wrote: > Hello, > > Every time a nfs-mounts occurs (automount) I get a error message > saying: > > nfs warning: mount version older than kernel > > It does work nevertheless. Compiling a new mount did not help, > updating 'mount' with th

ldconfig message

2000-12-13 Thread Manegold
Hi! ldconfig gives the following message: ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libgtkimreg.so (file or directory not found), skipping ls -l /usr/lib/libgtkimreg.so gets: lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 20 Sep 27 13:14 /usr/lib/libgtkimreg.so -> libgtkimreg.so.0.0.0 What is the prob

Re: LaTeX and PDF-files

2000-12-13 Thread Johann Spies
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 11:12:33AM +0100, Joerg Johannes wrote: > To all pdflatex-users > > I tried to convert my .tex-files to pdf with the pdflatex-command. This > works great for text-only documents. It seems that pdflatex cannot > include pictures (they are ok., latex --> xdvi shows them...).

Sawfish/GNOME right-mouse-click send-to-back

2000-12-13 Thread Gareth Bowker
I've recently installed a second machine at work for my use with GNOME (from HelixCode) installed, however, it's different to the version I run at home in that when I right-click the border on my home machine, the window goes to the back. However in the office right-clicking brings up the window me

mysql-server crashes

2000-12-13 Thread Ker Ruben Ramos
anyone can help me with this problem? # apt-get install mysql-server -y > Reading Package Lists... > Building Dependency Tree... > The following NEW packages will be installed: > mysql-server > 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > Need to get 0B/2261kB of ar

Installing PHP 4.0.3pl1 and Apache 1.3.14

2000-12-13 Thread Stephan Engelke
Hi everyone, currently I am trying to compile PHP 4.0.3pl1 as a DSO for Apache 1.3.14 on a pure Potato (2.2r2) system. So far without sucess. The software compiles just fine, but during the final linking process I get the following error message: /usr/bin/ld: .libs/libphp4.so: undefined versione

compiling and running mysql

2000-12-13 Thread Jan Heise
hi folks, i compiled mysql 3.23.28 with berkeley-extension for transactions on a scratch debian potato. when i try to run mysqld, i always get a segmentation fault as in /usr/local/bin/safe_mysqld: line 240: 22912 Segmentation fault $NOHUP_NICENESS $ledir/mysqld $defaults --basedir=$MY_BA

Re: cd-burning

2000-12-13 Thread paolo massei
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 01:54:17PM +0100, Peter Wollny wrote: > I had a look on the docs for cdrecord and found out that it is not possible > to burn in DAO, only TAO. How can I avoid the two seconds of silence between > the tracks? > Simply using the " -dao " option in your command line, you'

RE: [OT] Recent increases in d-u posts?

2000-12-13 Thread Anderson, Tim TL33E
>Also I upgraded to RH7 =p. (What vendor would be so stupid >as to use an incomplete compiler that is totally incompatible with everything?) The type of vendor sellling to people who don't compile stuff. Maybe they did it as an experiment, perhaps one day they will strip

Re: Installing PHP 4.0.3pl1 and Apache 1.3.14

2000-12-13 Thread Eirik Dentz
Yes, I have potato 2.2.18 installed. I used the apache 1.3.14 .deb and the php4.0.4RC3 .deb from woody. I just made sure to download and install all of the packages that these two are dependent on. You should definitely take a look at this page: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/web/apache-d

Re: mysql-server crashes

2000-12-13 Thread Eirik Dentz
Well, I'm very new to this and I was actually installing the woody Mysql server onto a potato system and I was actually getting a slightly different error message using the dpkg command (dpkg -i mysql-server3.23.28) I was able to complete the install and get it set up after I also installed all o

Re: The truth about PSM and other XPI's

2000-12-13 Thread David Zoll
Damon Muller wrote: > > Quoth Sebastian Silva, > > > The thing is the default permissions for /usr/lib/mozilla are too > > tight. Mi solution was simply to give it all the permissions it wants > > (of course NOT setuid). Now the other thing is that Mozilla wont > > download the X-install packag

Re: Solved! Re: isdn4linux -> dialling uses (my) local area code

2000-12-13 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
>>Are you sure your isdn.conf is read when using >>"isdnctrl dial ippp0"? >Positive. Remove whatever content you are assigning >to AREACODE (i.e. so that the isdn.conf line just reads >AREACODE= >and you should see an error message in the log >(proving that the file is being read - don't forge

Re: Signal 11 when using 'ps'

2000-12-13 Thread Ed Cogburn
Colin Watson wrote: > > Ed Cogburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ever seen this? Whenever I run 'ps' it says it caught 'signal 11'. > >The output from 'ps', aside from the signal 11 error message, is > >correct, the program is working right, and I'm not getting signal 11 > >from anywhere e

Re: user not authorized to run X, strange variant

2000-12-13 Thread David Zoll
Erik Steffl wrote: > > sena wrote: > > > > On 12/12/2000 at 11:35 -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > > > my point was that these options do not help in what I think is by far > > > most common situation. then again, I have no lies neither statistics to > > > support this:-) > > > > > > I mean the m

howto monitoring interface?

2000-12-13 Thread Matthieu Paindavoine
Hello, just a quickie... How can user lambda on my box tell if - eth0 is up - ppp0 is up I think ppp puts something in /var/lock, but is there an equivalent for ethernet interface? As a side question, someone told me that you don't have to be root to tell what IP I have (Note that I used D

Re: howto monitoring interface?

2000-12-13 Thread Robert Waldner
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000 10:47:28 +0100, Matthieu Paindavoine writes: >As a side question, someone told me that you don't have to be root to >tell what IP I have (Note that I used DHCP to get it, and it changes >everyday). Can anyone confirm? [waldner:~] ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 0

Re: How to verify TrueType fonts are working?

2000-12-13 Thread Rick Loga
I have read many howto's and they are conflicting. One says tt fonts are built-in, whatever that means, another says they come from the xfs server. One says use ttmkfdir, another says mkttfdir works fine. Currently there is a line referring to port 7100 before the list of font paths in my XF8

Re: Signal 11 when using 'ps'

2000-12-13 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Ed Cogburn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Colin Watson wrote: > > > > Ed Cogburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Ever seen this? Whenever I run 'ps' it says it caught 'signal 11'. > > >The output from 'ps', aside from the signal 11 error message, is > > >correct, the program is working ri

Re: cd-burning

2000-12-13 Thread M G Berberich
Hello, Am Mittwoch, den 13. Dezember 2000 01:41:58 schrieb paolo massei: > On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 01:54:17PM +0100, Peter Wollny wrote: > > I had a look on the docs for cdrecord and found out that it is not > > possible > > to burn in DAO, only TAO. How can I avoid the two seconds of silence

Re: ldconfig message

2000-12-13 Thread M G Berberich
Hello, Am Mittwoch, den 13. Dezember 2000 15:16:49 schrieb Manegold: > ldconfig gives the following message: > > ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libgtkimreg.so (file or directory > not found), skipping > > ls -l /usr/lib/libgtkimreg.so > > gets: > > lrwxrwxrwx1 root root

Re: howto monitoring interface?

2000-12-13 Thread Jorgensen, Jens
To both questions, any user can use the /sbin/ifconfig command to see what interfaces are up and what IP addresses are assigned to them. Matthieu Paindavoine wrote: > Hello, > > just a quickie... > > How can user lambda on my box tell if > - eth0 is up > - ppp0 is up > > I think ppp puts som

Re: Debian is not for me

2000-12-13 Thread Rino Mardo
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 08:29:17AM -0800 or thereabouts, Nate Amsden wrote: > Clayton Stapleton wrote: > > > my mouse to work in Gnome with Icewm but then I have to go to a console > > to kill gpm so that it moves around in Gnome. So no thanks I will stick > > with distro's that have better instru

Re: Problem with xdvi!!!

2000-12-13 Thread John Stevens
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 01:40:34PM +0100, Angel Parra wrote: > Hello! > > I am using debian 2.2 and sometimes I use programs as Lyx, xemax, ... > and all works fine, but when I use the xdvi to see some file, it doesn't > work. The erros code is the same if I try it from the X-window server i

Re: mount version older than kernel?

2000-12-13 Thread M G Berberich
Hello, Am Mittwoch, den 13. Dezember 2000 05:11:51 schrieb Ethan Benson: > On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 01:40:03PM +0100, M G Berberich wrote: > > Every time a nfs-mounts occurs (automount) I get a error message > > saying: > > > > nfs warning: mount version older than kernel > > > > It does work n

Re: MP3 players

2000-12-13 Thread Scott Patterson
>The little baby 64M players, I don't see the point of. I don't know what >song I want -next-, let alone for the next hour, or "you're stuck with >this hours worth of music all day". Icky. Wrong...64MB is plenty for when I go running. It's very lightweight and durable. Besides, I'd rather not

Re: Debian is not for me

2000-12-13 Thread Jon Pennington
Clayton Stapleton wrote: > > It is a Sound Blaster 16 PCI sound card. The system BIOS is set to recognize > PnP cards and is used by Win 98 and Suse 6.4 distro's so I do not want to > change it. The sound chip is a Ensoniq 1371, IRQ 11 and i/o=6800-683F. I > have read the PnP Howto and Alsa mini-H

Re: [OT] Recent increases in d-u posts?

2000-12-13 Thread Jon Pennington
Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > > Damon, > > I think it's the redhat upgrade to 7.0! heeheehee. > > Also, it could be that so many books are hitting the shelves about linux > and linux+pure=debian. Wouldn't it be more correct to say, "(linux + GNU tools) - impurities = debian"? I'm not a Stal

/var/cache/apt/archives/partial deleted

2000-12-13 Thread Adrian Nims
I deleted by mistake the file /var/cache/apt/archives/partial (rm -rf *). Does anybody know how this file should look like, in order to write another one in place of the delted one ? I cannot make any update, any install of new package using dselect without this file. Adrian Nims begin:vca

Re: How to verify TrueType fonts are working?

2000-12-13 Thread Jon Pennington
Rick Loga wrote: > > I have read many howto's and they are conflicting. One says tt fonts are > built-in, whatever that means, another says they come from the xfs server. > One says use ttmkfdir, another says mkttfdir works fine. Currently there is > a line referring to port 7100 before the

Re: Cardmngr (fwd)

2000-12-13 Thread FB
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 11:23:41AM -0600, dude wrote: > > > Hello all. > > i have a compaq Presario 1700. > I have a Presario 1610. It's a laptop. If yours it is a laptop, too, you could get a better answer on debian-laptop. > I have installed potato but have to access it using > > boot: linu

Re: How to verify TrueType fonts are working?

2000-12-13 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
i think here is the source of the confusion: X 4.0 does NOT need a truetype font server to display true type fonts. however, it will take fonts from wherever you tell it to, so if you tell it to look for fonts at ports A and B (which happen to be bound against xfs and xfstt) then so be it. for w

Re: MP3 players

2000-12-13 Thread brian moore
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 11:35:15AM -0500, Scott Patterson wrote: > > > > >The little baby 64M players, I don't see the point of. I don't know what > >song I want -next-, let alone for the next hour, or "you're stuck with > >this hours worth of music all day". Icky. > > Wrong...64MB is plenty

Re: Debian checks filesystems at every boot

2000-12-13 Thread David Wright
Quoting Nico De Ranter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Anyway, when I run halt or shutdown I see all the messages relating to the > processes > being stopped. I even see the message I put in right before my "sync" > addition. And > still it seems to go wrong I don't know what messages you are writing, bu

Re: /var/cache/apt/archives/partial deleted

2000-12-13 Thread Mark Janssen
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Adrian Nims wrote: >I deleted by mistake the file /var/cache/apt/archives/partial (rm -rf > *). Does anybody know how this file should look like, in order to write > another one in place of the delted one ? > I cannot make any update, any install of new package using

Re: Signal 11 when using 'ps'

2000-12-13 Thread Colin Watson
Ed Cogburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >This is what I get with an strace on ps: [snip] >open("/boot/System.map", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_NOCTTY) = 6 >fstat(6, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0664, st_size=141296, ...}) = 0 >old_mmap(NULL, 141297, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE, 6, 0) = >0x401df000 >close(6)

Netscape gets killed w/o intervention

2000-12-13 Thread A R
Does anybody have any idea what could be the reason of Netscape getting killed w/o any apparent reason? It is happening frecuently later, some times while I type some message, which is annoying. Using communicator 4.75

Re: /home owner and group changed

2000-12-13 Thread David Wright
Quoting ktb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I don't know how but all the directories and files in my /home > directory changed group and ownership. They were listed as - > 1000 1000 Can I assume that kent was the first user you installed on the system? In which case, kent would normally

Re: php4-postgresql problem

2000-12-13 Thread Rino Mardo
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 07:34:21PM +0100 or thereabouts, Knud S?rensen wrote: > Bruno Boettcher wrote: > > > > On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 06:27:49PM +0100, Knud Sørensen wrote: > > > dl("pgsql.so"); says > > > Warning: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib/php4/apache/pgsql.so' > > > shared obejct

Re: LaTeX and PDF-files

2000-12-13 Thread mcclosk
> I tried to convert my .tex-files to pdf with the pdflatex-command. This > works great for text-only documents. It seems that pdflatex cannot > include pictures (they are ok., latex --> xdvi shows them...). Do I have > to include them in a special format (I tried .bmp, .png, .ps as input; > latex

Re: HT configure an IDE/ATAPI ZIP drive?

2000-12-13 Thread C. Falconer
At 12:09 AM 12/13/00 -0600, you wrote: Eric G . Miller wrote: On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 10:28:08PM -0600, Dan Griswold wrote: Hi all, I have an internal IDE/ATAPI ZIP 100 in my box. I can mount, read/write, and umount it. But I cannot eject it. :-( I think you need a tool that can send the proper

Re: ssh as root

2000-12-13 Thread Michael Smith
You can't connect to another box with ssh using the root account. It's a security feature. The default is to use your current username, which would be root in this instance. A way to get around this is with the -l option and then su on the remote box. So, #ssh -l user_name_to_login_as remotehost

X or Window Maker?

2000-12-13 Thread Ken Weingold
The mouse in X is REALLY slow. The mouse properties in the Window Maker preferences don't seem to do anything. Is this a problem of X in general or Window Maker? Mouse focus changes do work. Thanks. -Ken -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]AIM: ScopusFest

RE: X or Window Maker?

2000-12-13 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 13-Dec-2000 Ken Weingold wrote: > The mouse in X is REALLY slow. The mouse properties in the Window > Maker preferences don't seem to do anything. Is this a problem of X > in general or Window Maker? Mouse focus changes do work. > this is a setting you can change in X, do some web searches

Re: X or Window Maker?

2000-12-13 Thread Ken Weingold
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > On 13-Dec-2000 Ken Weingold wrote: > > The mouse in X is REALLY slow. The mouse properties in the Window > > Maker preferences don't seem to do anything. Is this a problem of X > > in general or Window Maker? Mouse focus changes do work. > >

failed loading libs

2000-12-13 Thread Willi Dyck
Hi List, I have installed Knapster on my potato box and when I try to run it it says: knapster: error in loading shared libraries: libkdeui.so.2: cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory Are there any libraries missing and if, which? thx

Different types of filesystems (was: Re: small blocks or more inodes?)

2000-12-13 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Dec 13 2000, Colin Watson wrote: > Note, though, that ext2fs' linear directory searching makes it a > poor choice for anything involving large numbers of entries in a > single directory. If that's necessary, I understand ext3fs and/or > reiserfs are better at this. AFAIK, ext3 is just e

Re: how can I get back to console?

2000-12-13 Thread Rino Mardo
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 02:33:31AM + or thereabouts, Colin Watson wrote: > Eddie Torres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Tue, 12 Dec 2000 17:23:37 Ken Weingold wrote: > >> It is really irritating the state the keyboard is right now in X and I > >> want to get back to the console. The machine h

Missing crypt in Pine compile?

2000-12-13 Thread Dwight Johnson
My Pine compile attempt is showing: cc-g -DDEBUG -DLNX -DSYSTYPE=\"LNX\" -DMOUSE -o pine addrbook.o adrbkcmd.o adrbklib.o args.o bldaddr.o context.o filter.o folder.o help.o helptext.o imap.o init.o mailcap.o mailcmd.o mailindx.o mailpart.o mailview.o newmail.o other.o pine.o reply.o scre

Mutt & mailboxes / mail.log filter

2000-12-13 Thread Rob Hudson
Is there a way for Mutt to display how many messages are in certain mailboxes? Say if I choose 3-4 that I want to monitor as procmail filters mail into them? I have gkrellm set up to watch my inbox and I don't want to add the other boxes to gkrellm, but if Mutt could give me a listing somewhere o

Re: Relation(exim,fetchmail,mutt)=?

2000-12-13 Thread Joseph Dane
> "Timmy" == Timmy Douglas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Timmy> mutt reads /var/spool/mail/blah etc. Timmy> mutt pipes sent mail to /usr/lib/sendmail etc. Timmy> /usr/lib/sendmail etc. pipes to exim exim sends mail to Timmy> another host exim is more or less a replacement for sendmail. on

Re: exim

2000-12-13 Thread Joseph Dane
> "Pap" == Pap Tibor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Pap> Try telnet to localhost port 21 to see if exim is running. Since when does exim listen on port 21? sweden [~]>grep 21 /etc/services ftp 21/tcp fsp 21/udp fspd ... SMTP (and exim) are on port 25. --

strange mgetty+sendfax problem

2000-12-13 Thread Peter O. Fedichev
Hello, I am using mgetty+sendfax on top of potato linux box. It works pretty well (sends/recieves faxes) but sometimes (and always when I am sending a fax to the same target fax machine) the sendfax manages to send only a couple of pages and then fails to fetch the OK signal and hungs. sending f3

New documentation for Debian available

2000-12-13 Thread David A. Rogers
I am in the process of writing some documentation for Debian. It is oriented toward end-user desktop systems instead of servers. Eventually, it will give enough information to allow the end-user to set up a ocmplete home system including sound, printer, cd-burner etc. It is also oriented toward

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