Re: Building a KDE1 application

On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 10:26:33PM +0100, Patrick Schnorbus wrote: > But it seems to me that there isn´t any package for kde1. Can you help me? Well, there used to be some available with the following sources.list line: deb http://kde.tdyc.com/ potato kde contrib For reasons I won't get into now

Re: New woody upgrade problems

On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 11:42:25PM -0500, Casey Henderson wrote: > Anybody got any ideas on how to sort this out? I've run into that several times myself doing daily dist-upgrades on my work laptop. (Yes, unstable is bad on a production machine, but I need X4 for the LCD screen, and the potato X4

Re: xdm takes so long to start [was Re: New X Server crashes]

on Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 09:38:05AM -0800, Erik Steffl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Joey Hess wrote: > > > > Shao Zhang wrote: > > > xdm on my machine(laptop) takes about 50 seconds to start. > > > > > If no one knows why, then I am going to fire up a bug report against it. > > > > I've already t

Re: Unidentified subject!

on Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 01:07:36PM +0100, Andre Berger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > "Arthur Denisov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The author of this letter the student, citizen of Russia. I am > > addressed(paid) to you as to the kind, sympathetic man and I hope, that you > > can help the

Re: exim configuration

On Saturday 16 December 2000 17:57, Phil Brutsche wrote: > Sample config: http://tux.creighton.edu/~pbrutsch/exim.conf > I noticed my exim.conf is different than yours. Specifically, after the received_header_text part you have: sender_verify = true receiver_verify = true local_interfaces = 12

can't start X

Hopefully this is a simple problem. As root I can start and run X without any problem, however as a user I get the message when using startx: X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting. If I just run X I get the same message. If I run XFree86 I get Fatal server error: xf86OpenConsole: s

Re: can't start X

On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 02:39:40AM -0500, James Carscadden wrote: > croped up in the last couple of days. Any ideas how to fix this. What Search the recent archives. ;) Hint: Look at /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config -- Bill Jonas| "If you haven't gotten where you're going, [EMAIL PROTE

Re: modprobe module problem (char-major-10-135)

> How do I fix the following? > > modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-10-135 > > This appears when booting my potato box. Why does this come up? > I mean, what is missing / wrong? What special privileges does the Real Time Clock enjoy? For the longest time after I had compiled

dpkg can't handle a few pkgs due to nscd problem

I get the following error with a few packages, namely netsaint and some other that need a user added in /etc/passwd Unpacking netsaint (from .../netsaint_0.0.6stable-3_i386.deb) ... adduser: `/usr/sbin/nscd -i passwd' returned error code 1. Aborting. What is that? nscd exists, I tried to stop

Re: modprobe module problem (char-major-10-135)

for what it's worth, that device is your "RTC", or, real time clock. the kernel is looking for rtc.o and isn't finding it... in the future, you can find the device for a particular major/minor number from /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt. pete On Sun 17 Dec 00, 2:27 AM, Sven Burgener s

Re: modprobe module problem (char-major-10-135)

i thought we weren't supposed to modify that file by hand? is that the "proper" way of doing it, or is there an official debian method that doesn't involve editing that file by hand? pete On Sat 16 Dec 00, 8:02 PM, Jason Holland said... > Sven, > To get rid of that, put this line in your /etc

Re: exim (probably broken thread)

On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 04:02:04PM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: > > okee, this probably means that your /etc/inetd.conf got hoosed, > unless you are running exim in daemon mode. > Somewhere you need to find lines like: > Hi, I didn't know taht one could run exim in naything but daemon mode? How

Re: Which IMAP server to use

Juergen Fiedler wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 12:03:41PM -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > I installed it on my test machine, and it couldn't have been easier. > Netscape is still bitching because I didn't create a site certificate > yet, but it's working. i would block connections from the wo

Re: POP server recomendations?

JD Kitch wrote: > > I running a Debain Potato system, and only serving mail for a > handfull of users. I see a few different POP server packages > available, and was wondering which one is most recomended/easiest to > configure/most secure...etc, etc... i use qpopper, although i have yet to try

Re: interesting xmcd conundrum

good enough. /dev/cdrom points to /dev/scd0, which is owned by root.audio. and all my real users are members of audio. pete On Sat 16 Dec 00, 12:48 PM, Eric G . Miller said... > On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 12:32:26PM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote: > > Are you a member of the group "audio"? > > Actu

depmod madness

dear all, i'm trying to resolve a "conf.modules is newer than /lib/modules/foo/foo.dep" problem. i thought that depmod -a would rewrite /lib/modules/foo/foo.dep. in fact, that's what i thought the whole point of depmod -a was. apparently, depmod isn't writing this file, and the error message is

gdm Local script

Is there a script in the home directory that gdm reads as it loads the session? I wrote and Xsession file and it didn't parse that. All I want is my Xdefaults to be read when I login. Can I edit the gdm session files ad add 'xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults' to it, or would that break it? ___

Re: New woody upgrade problems

On Sat, 16 Dec 2000 23:42:25 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Casey Henderson) wrote: > Here's a problem related to your problem. I got the same error when > trying to install xlibs. Earlier, I had received a warning about the > app-defaults thing. I moved the files in > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults

Why doesn't enlightenment feature "zoom window" function under debian?

The "Zoom current window" feature of enlightenment doesn't work with the deb-package of enlightenment. But my X-server does support it, because as I installed and compiled enlightenment from the source-package, that I downloaded from enlightenment org, it works with that version. Is that feature n

Error in dist-upgrade

I just did an 'apt-get dist-upgrade' on a clean potato installed system. At some point I was confronted with this question: Configuration file `/etc/init.d/kerneld' ==> File on system created by you or by a script. ==> File also in package provided by package maintainer. What would you like to

potato mount and 2.2.18

After installing the latest 2.2.18 kernel on a potato box the following keeps appearing in /var/log/kern.log: Dec 17 09:52:49 xxx kernel: nfs warning: mount version older than kernel Does anybody know, is this of any consequence? Potato mount: ii mount 2.10f-5.1 Tools for mounting

Help with bug-reporting

Hi. If I file bug with the wrong severity, is it possible for me to change it, or should I wait for the mantainer to do that? Is this documented somewhere? J. -- Jeronimo Pellegrini Institute of Computing - Unicamp - Brazil http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~jeronimo mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto

IRQ: how to find out which is to be used?

I have internal modem (real one, it works, the question is not about it and I know I should get external one:-) which acts as a serial port. It is ISA PnP card, can use different IRQs. My main question is: how do I find out which IRQ it uses using linux tools? the only way I can do it now i

upgrade to 2.2.r2 how?

Hi! How to upgrade debian potato 2.2r1 to 2.2.r2 ? will apt-get dist-upgrade do the trick or will that upgrade it to woody? THX in advance! Bostjan -- Boštjan Müller [NEONATUS], [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://neonatus.net/~neonatus For my PGP key finger: [EMAIL PROTECTED], RSA id: 0x90178DBD, ICQ #:

World-readable home-dirs

Hi, during the installation i was asked if i want world-readable home directories. Where can I change that behaviour? So when I add a new user (adduser), it's home-dir should get automagically world-readable instead of non-readable. Thanx (it's not in /etc/adduser.conf)

Exim on a dialup

I have just installed and configured exim on my box. Both incoming (via fetchmail) and outgoing mail work, but at the moment exim initiates a connection to my ISP as soon as it gets outgoing mail. I know there is a way to stop this but I couldn't see the details in the man page. Could someone p

Mutt/exim - multiple email addresses

What's the best way of rewriting addresses when you have multiple email accounts all pointed at the same local login? I've got exim setup to rewrite the 'From' on outgoing mail so that [EMAIL PROTECTED] becomes one of my real email addresses, which is fine as far as it goes. The problem is that

Re: upgrade to 2.2.r2 how?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bostjan Muller) writes: > How to upgrade debian potato 2.2r1 to 2.2.r2 ? will apt-get > dist-upgrade do the trick or will that upgrade it to woody? If your sources.list contains the correct entries for Potato, 'apt-get update' (to get the new package list) and 'apt-get dist-upg

Re: Mutt/exim - multiple email addresses

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 12:52:11PM +0100, Gary Jones wrote: > What's the best way of rewriting addresses when you have multiple > email accounts all pointed at the same local login? I've got exim > setup to rewrite the 'From' on outgoing mail so tha

Re: World-readable home-dirs

Hi, On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 12:45:34PM +0100, Tibor D. wrote: > during the installation i was asked if i want world-readable home > directories. Where can I change that behaviour? So when I add a new user > (adduser), it's home-dir should get automagically world-readable instead > of non-readab

Can you play sounds over the net in Potato?

Various sites offer you the option to play sound over the net but all require you to have some software to enable this. I followed some links for this in Linux Debian but they were all for Woody, which I don't want to upgrade to yet. Is there anything available for Potato? Anthony -- Anthony C

Re: exim (probably broken thread)

On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 10:26:41AM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote: ... > Hi, > I didn't know taht one could run exim in naything but daemon mode? How > can I set it upotherwise and have it work with fetchmail? There are some long winding threads going on on setting up exim and fetchmail, but normally

Acer Travel Mate 507t (Solved)

The problem was anXious because this command doesn't work properly. I've fixed the problem when I've discovered the XF86Setup command which is a wonderful tool. Now the problem is that some programs don't work, like the database managers and the screensavers, they even don't give me

fetchmail's aka not working?

Hi, I'm trying to help others with fetchmail to discover that fetchmail doesn't work like the docs tell it should:( running the latest of potato, fetchmail 5.3.3+NTLM+SDPS+NLS. According to the docs: The aka option now matches hostname suffixes, so (for example) saying `aka netaxs.com' will

Re: IRQ: how to find out which is to be used?

On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 03:25:56AM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > I have internal modem (real one, it works, the question is not about > it and I know I should get external one:-) which acts as a serial port. > It is ISA PnP card, can use different IRQs. > > My main question is: how do I find out

Re: IRQ: how to find out which is to be used?

Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked: > how do I find out which IRQ [my internal PnP modem] uses > using linux tools? I think by typing: cat /proc/interrupts Paul Huygen

The lazy-"E"-character affair

I'm running a pure potato flavour of debian2.2 updated with the 'official' package r2 in debian sites, under "stable" version. The problem is that when I type the "E" letter in "vi" insert mode, I have a two or three second delay between typing and appairing of lazy "E" on my monitor. The "vi" co

Re: Java2

On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 04:38:35PM -0800, Dale Morris wrote: > I downloaded the j2sdk1.3 package from Blackdown, it installed fine, but > doesn't work when I try to setup staroffice. Any suggestions? I'm using > debian 2.2 (libranet 1.8.2 that's been apt-get upgraded). I suppose > there's some perm

wine + 3dfx

Hi, Anybody managed to run, say sol.exe with wine, X4, and tdfx on a pure woody box? I get a complete X crash complaining about dri (kernel is 2.4.0-test12). -- Christoph Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- ^X^C q quit :q ^C end x exit ZZ ^D ? help shit .

Where is task-kde?

Hi, I'm trying to install KDE2 on my Debian potato. This is the KDE line I got in sources-list: # KDE deb http://kde.tdyc.com potato main crypto optional qt1apps Nevertheless, when I try to apt-get install task-kde I'm told it's nowhere to be found: debian:/home/gpa# apt-get update <> d

RE: modprobe module problem (char-major-10-135)

Pete, I'm not sure about that. I always edit it by hand, just because I've become comfortable doing that. if there is another way, or official way of making changes to this file, I'd like to hear about it. Anyone?? Jason > > i thought we weren't supposed to modify that file by hand? > > is t

Re: modprobe module problem (char-major-10-135)

Quoting Jason Holland ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > To get rid of that, put this line in your /etc/modules.conf file > I'm not sure about that. I always edit it by hand, just because I've > become comfortable doing that. if there is another way, or official way of > making changes to this file

eth between two computers

I'm trying to make a ethernet-connection between two computers in order to replace the up to now used plip. I put in the laptop a linksys PCMPC100 an it got recognized immediately. I put in the desktop-machine a linksys LNE100TX, compiled the supplied drivers and put the results pci-scan.o and

Re: Why doesn't enlightenment feature "zoom window" function under debian?

On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 11:50:27AM +0100, Marco Herrn wrote: > How can I activate it, without compiling it on my own (that's not so good, > because I don't have the debian menu available then)? Well, this isn't exactly an answer to your question, but compiling it on your own isn't so bad. Make su

Re: potato mount and 2.2.18

On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 12:12:21PM +0100, Igor Mozetic wrote: > After installing the latest 2.2.18 kernel on a potato box > the following keeps appearing in /var/log/kern.log: > > Dec 17 09:52:49 xxx kernel: nfs warning: mount version older than kernel > > Does anybody know, is this of any conseq

Re: potato mount and 2.2.18

On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 12:12:21PM +0100, Igor Mozetic wrote: > Woody mount (2.10q-1) unfortunately requires major libc upgrade: > Pre-Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.97) For woody packages I want to install on my potato system, I usually put the deb-src lines for woody in my /etc/apt/sources.list. Then (

modules.dep problems

I have just installed the 2.2.18pre21 kernel image and have problems loading the modules. When i boot in to linux this message is shown depmod *** cant open dependencies files in /lib/modules/2.2.17/modules.dep I have played with depmod, update-modules and modules config and got very similar

Re: how to tell what functions in a library

On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 22:14:35 -0200, Christoph Simon wrote: > Take the static version of it, then you can use nm(1) nm(1) works for dynamic libaries as well, e.g. nm --defined-only --dynamic /usr/lib/libz.so.1.1.3 HTH, Ray -- RUMOUR Believe all you hear. Your world may not be a bet

Re: eth between two computers

On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 10:45:52AM -0600, Matthias Schulz wrote: > Anyone else a tip for me? You don't need to run the route commands for this. The output of your route display: > ROOT> route > Kernel IP routing table > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface

Re: exim configuration

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I noticed my exim.conf is different than yours. Specifically, after the > received_header_text part you have: > > sender_verify = true > receiver_verify = true I find that a lot of spam co

recent archives?

> > Search the recent archives. ;) > does anyone have the address of the archives? __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/

I can't type any ü, ä or ö in a shell

Hi, can anyone give me a hint wy I can't use ä,ö,ü in a shell. "less" is also not able to show these letters. Where's the problem? What do I have to look at to fix it? Thans Manuel

Re: exim (probably broken thread)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 04:02:04PM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: > > > > okee, this probably means that your /etc/inetd.conf got hoosed, > > unless you are running exim in daemon mode. > > S

Re: gdm Local script

Richard Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I wrote and Xsession file and it didn't parse that. You mean ~/.Xsession here, right? .Xsession must also be +x, and you should select the session type "Xsession" from the menu if you're using GDM-Helix. -- -=|JP|=- Jon Pennington| Atipa Linux

RE: modprobe module problem (char-major-10-135)

Jason Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Pete, > I'm not sure about that. I always edit it by hand, just because I've > become comfortable doing that. if there is another way, or official way of > making changes to this file, I'd like to hear about it. Anyone?? If you're still confused afte

installing pine

Hi all... curious.. I'm trying to install pine via apt-get but it tells me package found but can't be installed.. I don't have the exact error message (it was late. ;-). has anyone else been able to install pine? thanks xucaen __ Do You Yahoo!?

debian 2.2 + kernel 2.2.18 + USB

I have debian 2.2 installed on my host. I have downloaded the kernel.2.2.18.tar.gz and I have compiled it with USB support so as to use my USB modem on Linux. But the '/sbin/hotplug' does not appear. Maybe, is there a .deb file which I could download and install directly which keeps all the script

Re: installing pine

On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 09:55:42AM -0800, Xucaen wrote: > Hi all... curious.. I'm trying to install pine > via apt-get but it tells me package found but > can't be installed.. I don't have the exact > error message (it was late. ;-). > has anyone else been able to install pine? > You ca

Re: IRQ: how to find out which is to be used?

ktb wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 03:25:56AM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > > I have internal modem (real one, it works, the question is not about > > it and I know I should get external one:-) which acts as a serial port. > > It is ISA PnP card, can use different IRQs. > > > > My main quest

exim--forward-filtering

I'm using IMAP for my mail and had a few questions about exim. I noticed in /usr/share/doc/exim/README.Debian has a short little example of .forward files. Do .forward files have to be used on a per user basis or can I put the files somewhere where it is globally used? What are .forwared files

Re: I can't type any ü, ä or ö in a shell

On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 06:47:34PM +0100, Manuel Hendel wrote: > Hi, > > can anyone give me a hint wy I can't use ä,ö,ü in a shell. "less" is > also not able to show these letters. Where's the problem? What do I > have to look at to fix it? tried task-german? BTW, there is a german debian-list, t

Conflicting reports re: kernel version

root ! # grep RELEASE /usr/linux/include/version.h #define UTS_RELEASE="2.2.15" root ! # `uname --release` 2.2.17 Any ideas?

Re: Conflicting reports re: kernel version

On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 02:16:14PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > root ! # grep RELEASE /usr/linux/include/version.h now who put that /usr/linux there? it's not on my machine. > #define UTS_RELEASE="2.2.15" > > root ! # `uname --release` > 2.2.17 > > Any ideas? I guess that you once inst

Re: IRQ: how to find out which is to be used?

Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ES> I have internal modem (real one, it works, the question is not about ES> it and I know I should get external one:-) which acts as a serial port. ES> It is ISA PnP card, can use different IRQs. ES> ES> My main question is: how do I find out which IRQ it u

RE: I'm Confused with SBLive!

-Mensaje original- De: Martin Albert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Para: Javier Sieben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: Debian User Fecha: Sábado, 16 de Diciembre de 2000 10:35 a.m. Asunto: Re: I'm Confused with SBLive! >Hi, Javier! > >In my /etc/modules.conf i have two lines (for i'm using 2 soundcards):

Re: recent archives?

Xucaen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Search the recent archives. ;) X> X> does anyone have the address of the archives? Have you tried the prominent "Mailing List Archives" link from the left side of http://www.debian.org/? -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mit.

Compiling of system components on K6-2

Hello, I have a problem with compiling. My compiler (gcc version 2.95.2 2220 (Debian GNU/Linux)), potato makes funny things when I try to compile some programs. For example I want to set up a Linux-from-scratch system (www.linuxfromscratch.org). When I try to compile glibc he makes me a sy

Re: installing pine

Xucaen wrote: > > Hi all... curious.. I'm trying to install pine > via apt-get but it tells me package found but > can't be installed.. I don't have the exact > error message (it was late. ;-). > has anyone else been able to install pine? yes i downloaded the 3rd party pine packages a while bac

Re: Unidentified subject!

On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 10:25:44PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > on Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 01:07:36PM +0100, Andre Berger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > "Arthur Denisov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > The author of this letter the student, citizen of Russia. I am > > > addressed(

PS/2 Mouse

I've built a third box to experiment and learn - it's time I really understand the basics! The idea was to have Potato, Storm and three rpm based installations and compare the different ways things are arranged. I've tried to install Storm before but given up as it continually defaulted to PS/2

Re: PS/2 Mouse

On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 08:31:24PM +, john gennard wrote: > I've built a third box to experiment and learn - it's time I really > Now whilst the mouse works with each of the three non-Debian distros, > it does not with either Storm or Potato (I mean within X). I think > I've traced the proble

Re: IRQ: how to find out which is to be used?

To find which IRQ a ISA PnP card is using, you need to use the ISA PnP tools. I think it might even be installed with a default debian setup. run "pnpdump" and it will scan for cards and tell you everything you need to know about the device to get it running. Of course refer to the manfiles

Re: installing pine

On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, ktb wrote: > You might want to try mutt. I like it a lot better. It > took some configuring but it isn't as clunky as pine. I have recently been trying mutt and, quite honestly, I have find mutt a lot clunkier than Pine. One example: when you call up Pine for the f

Re: Help with bug-reporting

Jeronimo Pellegrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >If I file bug with the wrong severity, is it possible for me to >change it, or should I wait for the mantainer to do that? Yes, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with something like 'severity 9 wishlist', or whatever the bug number and new sev

Re: installing pine

Dwight Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > So I am very surprised to hear you say that you think Pine is clunkier than > mutt. I would welcome learning in what ways. I cut my teeth on Pine and Pico. About a year ago, I started playing with mutt, and was quickly frustrated by the appearant comple

Re: debian 2.2 + kernel 2.2.18 + USB

On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, Davi Leal wrote: > I have debian 2.2 installed on my host. I have downloaded the > kernel.2.2.18.tar.gz and I have compiled it with USB support so as to use my > USB modem on Linux. But the '/sbin/hotplug' does not appear. Maybe, is there > a .deb file which I could download

Re: Conflicting reports re: kernel version

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >root ! # grep RELEASE /usr/linux/include/version.h >#define UTS_RELEASE="2.2.15" If you mean /usr/include/linux/version.h, then that's simply the version of the kernel headers against which your copy of libc6 was compiled. It's nothing to do with what kernel you're actual

Re: eth between two computers

Hi, > I put in the laptop a linksys PCMPC100 an it got recognized immediately. > I put in the desktop-machine a linksys LNE100TX, compiled the supplied > drivers and put the results pci-scan.o and tulip.o into > /lib/modules/2.2.17/net. > > >ifconfig 192.168.0.3 eth0 up at one side and > >ifco

PSM for mozilla as .deb?

Hi, I just installed the mozilla (M18) pkg on a fresh Debian 2.2r2 box. One has to install PSM (Personal Security Manager, see Mozilla homepage) in order to access https://... URLs. PSM is suppused to be installed from within mozilla by clicking on a button "Install..." at the PSM web page and

Re: umlaut accents

Manuel Hendel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> can anyone give me a hint wy I can't use ä,ö,ü in a shell. "less" |> is also not able to show these letters. Where's the problem? What |> do I have to look at to fix it? I believe you can enable this by editing the file /etc/inputrc, which controls the

Re: Packages sorted by group

Rudi Borth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Debian packages are listed alphabetically in >indices/Packages-Master-i386.gz available from >. About two dozen >groups of packages are defined in >. > >Question: Is there

Re: eth between two computers

Am Sonntag, 17. Dezember 2000 11:29 schrieb Bill Jonas: > On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 10:45:52AM -0600, Matthias Schulz wrote: > > Anyone else a tip for me? > > You don't need to run the route commands for this. > > The output of your route display: > > ROOT> route > > Kernel IP routing table > > Desti

Re: installing pine

On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 01:12:27PM -0800, Dwight Johnson wrote: > On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, ktb wrote: > > > You might want to try mutt. I like it a lot better. It > > took some configuring but it isn't as clunky as pine. > > I have recently been trying mutt and, quite honestly, I have find mu

Re: IRQ: how to find out which is to be used?

on Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 03:25:56AM -0800, Erik Steffl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have internal modem (real one, it works, the question is not about > it and I know I should get external one:-) which acts as a serial port. > It is ISA PnP card, can use different IRQs. Try: http://linuxmafia.

Re: Can you play sounds over the net in Potato?

on Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 01:19:18PM +, Anthony Campbell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Various sites offer you the option to play sound over the net but all > require you to have some software to enable this. I followed some links > for this in Linux Debian but they were all for Woody, which I d

Re: exim configuration--maildir-NFS

On Sunday 17 December 2000 14:08, Phil Brutsche wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > I have the same issues. I plan on using NFS and exporting my home > > directory. Will this be a problem just using the defau

new signals?

Hi All, I am working my way through some tutorial materials on the Unix/Linux environment, and happened to type kill -l in bash. I got a list of SIGs that was -- I believe -- significantly different from and longer than the list I saw the *last* time I did this. Specifically, there are a whole

Previous versions of woody .debs

I had a bit of a disaster lately, and when restoring the system using my local woody mirror, I found that I didnt have pan_0.8.0 which I had previously. If I install from the main mirror I find pan_0.9.1 which has dependencies on gnome & X which my hardware wont support. I have the relevant gnome

Re: PSM for mozilla as .deb?

Andreas Reuleaux wrote: Hi, I just installed the mozilla (M18) pkg on a fresh Debian 2.2r2 box. One has to install PSM (Personal Security Manager, see Mozilla homepage) I would expect such a package in the non-free area of debian, can any of the netscape packages there be used as a replacem

Sound only as root ?

Hi all, on my recent woody I only get sound when running as root (either running completely as root or su ing into root from a normal user under x will give me sound output). So I guess this is a standard feature of debian. How to change that ? TIA Michael Meding

Re: Sound only as root ?

>on my recent woody I only get sound when running as root (either running >completely as root or su ing into root from a normal user under x will give >me sound output). #adduser michael audio should fix it WARNING - This email is confidential and may contain copyright material. If you are n

Re: recent archives?

On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 09:44:52AM -0800, Xucaen wrote: > > Search the recent archives. ;) > > does anyone have the address of the archives? there are several places online that archive e-lists such as debian-user -- my favorite is http://www.geocrawler.com/ as of a moment ago, debian-

Re: exim configuration--maildir-NFS

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Great explanation. I asked the same question on my local LUG mailing list > and got a dissertation on the benefits/problems of NFS. Thank you very much. You're welcome :) > Does using IM

Re: Sound only as root ?

Hi, thanks for the fast response. > >on my recent woody I only get sound when running as root (either running > >completely as root or su ing into root from a normal user under x will > > give me sound output). > > #adduser michael audio > > should fix it That did the trick. Greetings Michael

Re: The lazy-"E"-character affair

On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 08:23:48PM +0100, paolo massei wrote: > I'm running a pure potato flavour of debian2.2 updated with the > 'official' package r2 in debian sites, under "stable" version. > > The problem is that when I type the "E" letter in "vi" insert mode, > I have a two or three second de

Re: everything except for ping in IPmasq

On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 10:17:02PM -0800, Nate Amsden wrote: > David Purton wrote: > > > > Hi I've sort of got ip masqerading working now, in that I can browse the > > web, ssh and ftp, etc from masqed machines, but ping does not work :( > > > > this was a hassle beacause I was using ping to test

Re: new signals?

On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 06:26:12PM -0500, Glenn Becker wrote: > > Hi All, > > I am working my way through some tutorial materials on the Unix/Linux > environment, and happened to type > > kill -l > > in bash. I got a list of SIGs that was -- I believe -- significantly > different from and long

Re: Sound only as root ?

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Re: Sound only as root ?

> >ahem. although i personally don't care either way im sure some people >would. >i'd suggest removing such notices from your mail or subscribe using >another >account. > >i think i can speak for the mailing list archive software that it will >not >attempt to get permission to post your emails on

Re: installing pine

On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, Xucaen wrote: > Hi all... curious.. I'm trying to install pine > via apt-get but it tells me package found but > can't be installed.. I don't have the exact > error message (it was late. ;-). > has anyone else been able to install pine? Yes. Install pine4-diffs and everythi

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