i can not get any mailing list items

2001-01-31 Thread Matthias Wieser
I am not getting any mailing list items anymore. Should i file a bug report or whatelse should I do. where do i have to file a bug against? I guess, it is not listarchives. (or does something else not work for me) Thank you in advance, Matthias Wieser -- __ _ __ **

Re: Still No Cursor in X

2001-01-31 Thread Martin Albert
On Mit, 31 Jan 2001, you wrote: > Albert, I tried the configuration you suggested. I got a cursor in the Please let me introduce myself as a man of wealth & taste and the name is martin 8-) > text mode but not in X. I was able to lite up menus. In X? Did you already try to find out about your

Re: Problem with spanish characters in terminal

2001-01-31 Thread Dr. Aldo Medina
Martin Würtele wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 10:26:41PM -0600, Dr. Aldo Medina wrote: > > I just installed Debian 2.2, using a spanish keyboard (selected in the > > installation. > > > > If I type some spanish character, like ñ or á, in Netscape or vi, it > > displays just fine. However, i

Re: Linux - DNS/WWW/POP

2001-01-31 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
ktb wrote: > > [snipped] > > > > My question is, whether I really need two machines for this scenario, or > > whether one machine will do it, by blocking any and all > > outside-initiated traffic on the interface that is connected to the > > outside (except for SSH) and not bothering what's going

Re: LILO+IDE+SCSI Problems

2001-01-31 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Andrew n marshall wrote: > My set up is one primary master IDE hard drive with WinNT on a FAT16 > partition and the NT boot loader in the MBR. Then I have a IDE CD-ROM in > the secondary master and two SCSI hard drives, IDs 0 and 1. The first > SCSI hard drive has LILO on the MBR, a 20G /boot

After Monday's little X issue....

2001-01-31 Thread Ray Percival
I'm going to start waiting till the evening to do apt-get dist-upgrade on my testing boxen. So did anything break today? Thanks very much for any info.

Re: Still No Cursor in X

2001-01-31 Thread Blair M. Cummings
I use the XF86Setup program. I found that when I told it I had a PS2, my mouse would stop working in the setup program. Use the default "Microsoft" mouse and you should be good to go. (But answer the rest of the questions or nothing else will work for you ) Good Luck

dazed and confused

2001-01-31 Thread John T
I am trying to install Debian on my pc without any success. When I am prompted to install after following prevoius instructions I am to select the install source. when I select CDROM as that is what came with the book, the response say cdrom mount failed. In the bookit says to usedselect alt+f2 key

xdm delays

2001-01-31 Thread MaD dUCK
hey, when i log in through xdm, i am presented with a precisely 60 second long delay before the first line of my .xsession is executed. in fact, using root privileges to modify the xdm files, i found out that /etc/X11/xdm/Xstartup_0 (which calls /etc/X11/xdm/Xstartup) is executed and finishes, but

Re: dazed and confused

2001-01-31 Thread jdls
Hi John, first open up another virutal console by pressing cntrl+alt+f2, log in as root mount the cdrom via the command mount /cdrom go back to your original console cntrl+alt+f1 and try the installation again. hth - Original Message - From: John T <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday

Re: xdm delays

2001-01-31 Thread Erik Steffl
MaD dUCK wrote: > > hey, > > when i log in through xdm, i am presented with a precisely 60 second > long delay before the first line of my .xsession is executed. in fact, > using root privileges to modify the xdm files, i found out that > /etc/X11/xdm/Xstartup_0 (which calls /etc/X11/xdm/Xstartup

Re: [PLUG] xdm delays

2001-01-31 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach gabriel rosenkoetter (on Wed, 31 Jan 2001 04:41:32PM -0500): > Checking out XDMCP is probably a good idea (and I don't know where > to look exactly), but you might *also* want to see if your xdm is > trying to do kerberos verification after standard login (that is, > check out a ticket

uh, how to create a mailbox in mutt?

2001-01-31 Thread alephtnull
uh, I keep getting this error "/var/spool/mail/han: no such file or directory (errno 2) plus all my mails from an imap server (via fetchmail) disappeared...are they unrecoverable now? TIA -- Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net

testing

2001-01-31 Thread Dean
Went from 200+ down to 20. Just checking. Dean

Why am I logged out?

2001-01-31 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi all Hmm, when I am idle for, say, more than half an hour, I am automatically logged out of gnome. Why could that be? Is there a daemon running, looking for idle users and kick them out of the system? Or is it a problem with Xscreensaver? Gnome? Anything else? Thanks for helping me joerg -- D

Re: Still No Cursor in X

2001-01-31 Thread Andrei Ivanov
I'm not sure whether this has been tried yet When I upgraded to X4.0.2, I did lose the cursor (it was moving but invisible). Turned out the xserver was not upgraded, so it was still using the xserver-svga 3.3.6, instead of using xserver-xfree86. Once that was installed, cursor came back. Andre

Re: Compiling a kernel for another machine

2001-01-31 Thread Gary Jones
On 30 Jan 2001, "Hall Stevenson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have this worry about all those bits I marked as Modules, > > though. I guess I have to copy those too, hmm? From where > > to where? Is there anything else I should worry about? > > I think most people will suggest you use the "ma

Re: LILO+IDE+SCSI Problems

2001-01-31 Thread Ekkehard Kraemer
Andrew n marshall wrote: > > I have not found these bugs on any of the bug pages. Can you give me a > specific URL? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=53061&repeatmerged=yes http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=67115&repeatmerged=yes Ekkehard

test

2001-01-31 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
is list alive?

Kapps not threading properly?

2001-01-31 Thread John Travis
I have this strange problem with Knode and Kmail. Neither one threads properly. The threads are broken and scattered. But this only happens with my ISP (Road Runner). If I use a different news/mail server everything works correctly. Unfortunately I *need* the services from my provider, and

Re: Still No Cursor in X

2001-01-31 Thread Andrea Vettorello
hammack wrote: > Andrea, Thanks for the response. I think I tried your suggestins. Below is > my setup for the mouse in gpm.config and XF86Config: > gpm.config: > device=/dev/psaux > responsiveness= > repeat_type=raw > type=psw > append="" > [...] As someone else suggested, try stopping gpm be

Re: XMMS + Gnome + Sawfish

2001-01-31 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 06:19:39PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > > I've been having problems for ages with XMMS, and I just thought I'd put a > > little flag up to see if anyone else has has similar experiences. In > > particular, XMMS seems to have a really hard time playing nicely with > > respect

Re: IRC and Firewall

2001-01-31 Thread Matus \"fantomas\" Uhlar
-> I'm sitting behind a firewall and want to use IRC. The firewall does -> masquerading and is also limiting incoming and outgoing traffic. I thought -> the problem may be identd which can not access my machine behind the firewall. -> But iptraf shows also that my connection is not answered (the S

Re: Apache manual

2001-01-31 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 10:03:40AM -0500, Holp, John Mr. wrote: > Will, > > Thanks a lot, I have done both as you recommended below. I am > researching the basics on configuration and operation of apache - things > like configuration files, parameters, stopping and restarting. > > John we

How to convert graphics formats

2001-01-31 Thread Anthony Campbell
I used to have a program called convert which changed, e.g. pcx to xpm or whatever. It seems to have disappeared and I can't find it on the debian site. Anyone know where it's gone? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian (Windows-free zone) Over 100 book reviews: http://www.cix.co.

getting aliases in mutt

2001-01-31 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
This (from mutt's manual) doesn't work for me: In addition, at the various address prompts, you can use the tab character to expand a partial alias to the full alias. If there are multiple matches, mutt will bring up a menu with the matching aliases. In order to be presented with the full list o

Re: mod_auth_pam

2001-01-31 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 06:15:27PM +0100, Ingo Luetkebohle wrote: > On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 09:41:35AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > > And then, any one silly enough not to have shadow enabled, deserves > > to not even have a machine capable of being networked to the > > internet :) > > shadow sucks

Re: Firewall

2001-01-31 Thread William T Wilson
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have some questions about building a firewall. I currently have a > cable modem connection which of course gives me a static IP address. > If I was to build a firewall using a old 486 could I still assign my > Debian box the static IP address as

Re: LILO+IDE+SCSI Problems

2001-01-31 Thread Andrew n marshall
Never mind. I found the pages. Anm

Re: LILO+IDE+SCSI Problems

2001-01-31 Thread Andrew n marshall
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Ekkehard Kraemer wrote: > Without going into the details of my setup (if you want to, you can read > up the bug reports 53061 and 67115 in the Debian bug tracking system, > the latter one contains some more hints on the bios=... setting), my > "LI" problem was going away when

KDM crash

2001-01-31 Thread techlists
I was working in KDE 2.0 fine. I had installed licq via dselect. I run Debian 2.2 r2. I tried to bring up the menu editor to make a link on it to licq. But everytime I clicked on the menu editor, it would not come up. Stupidly I hit ctrl+alt+backspace to get out of kde so I could restart the

keyboard bell on console

2001-01-31 Thread Brian Stults
How do you disable the keyboard bell at the console (not in X)? I have debian on my laptop and I have a fetish for tab-completion. It can get a little embarassing on airplanes with the bell ringing constantly. Thanks, Brian -- Brian J. Stults Doctoral Candidate Department of Sociology Universi

Re: mod_auth_pam

2001-01-31 Thread Ingo Luetkebohle
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 09:41:35AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > And then, any one silly enough not to have shadow enabled, deserves > to not even have a machine capable of being networked to the > internet :) shadow sucks. I use Kerberos or LDAP whenever I can. Both protocols lend themselves much b

Re: --rpath, egcs/gcc ??

2001-01-31 Thread ium
Chaps, Could someone out there please enlighten me on what the "rpath" does, and how to it is used? I can't seem to find anything on it in the man or info pages kindest regards, --ibs

Re: are apt/sources.list http: and ftp: same?

2001-01-31 Thread Gregory Guthrie
At 03:05 PM 01/30/2001 -0600, will trillich wrote: On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 11:03:02AM -0600, Gregory Guthrie wrote: > At 10:52 PM 01/29/2001 -0600, will trillich wrote: > >On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 11:32:41AM -0600, Gregory Guthrie wrote: > > > I found that with http: lines in my /etc/apt/sources.l

woody upgrade fails (debconf error)

2001-01-31 Thread Pollywog
I got this error when updating Woody this morning: Preconfiguring packages .. Can't locate Debconf/Client/ConfModule.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.005 /usr/local/lib/site_perl/i386-linux /usr/local/lib/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5 .) at /var/lib/debconf/co

test! PLEASE IGNORE!!!

2001-01-31 Thread Kim De Smaele
Met vriendelijke groeten, Kim De Smaele E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == System Engineer TIBCO / UNIX Support KBC Bank Brussels Tri-ennium BV Rivium Quadrant 81 2909LC Capelle a/d IJssel The Netherlands Tel: +31 (0) 10 288 48 00 Fax: +31 (0) 10 288 48 18 =

Re: Still No Cursor in X About to give up!!

2001-01-31 Thread Manuel Reiter
Hi! Sorry, I did not follow this thread from the beginning, and maybe this has already been proposed or ruled out, but could it be a problem with your graphics card? I had the "square white box cursor" problem once on an ELSA Winner 1000 T3D and got rid of it by disabling the hardware cursor. Appr

keeping a process running?

2001-01-31 Thread Michael A. Miller
Can anyone suggest a way to monitor a process and restart it if it stops? I seem to remember some discussion about this on debian-user, but I haven't been able to track it down in the archives. Mike

Cannot get iptables to work in 2.4.1 and compiling question.

2001-01-31 Thread seg
Hi,    I get the error "command not found" when I type "iptables". I know I compiled every "net" option in the kernel (choosed y).  What am I doing wrong? Not much to go on, I know    Also what does "make modules" do, does it create an image like "make bzImage"? I have 2 comps running lin

Default apache configs in testing

2001-01-31 Thread hogan
Umm.. someone else notice something mighty fishy with the default conf's in testing's apache? Missing directory names in some sections - modules used in default config commented out..

Re: Bash Scripting

2001-01-31 Thread D-Man
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 10:55:53PM +0100, William Leese wrote: [snip] | > BTW, I don't use bash scripting for anything other than running | > programs with some default options. I would prefer to use python for | > this sort of thing, but it's up to you what you want to use. | | ..let the newbi

mysql-server problems

2001-01-31 Thread Marcin Kurc
I have mysql-server 3.23.31-1 installed and it is not accepting any tcp connections. The config is alright, set to accept tcp on 3306. It worked with earlier versions, but now it shows that mysqld is running on port 0. basedir: /usr/ datadir: /var/lib/mysql/ tmpdir: /tmp/

xmcd as non-root user

2001-01-31 Thread judd
After a dist-upgrade, xmcd will no longer run unless I am logged in as root (I am running testing). I used to be able to run it as a user. When I start it from a shell, I get the following message: xmcd Fatal Error: Xmcd binary permissions error: It should be setuid root. Please have

Re: mod_auth_pam

2001-01-31 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 01:55:39PM +0100, Ingo Luetkebohle wrote: > On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 01:41:09PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > > Not sure about your error message, but pam_unix.so cannot be used under > > mod_auth_pam. > > Uh, it cannot be used to authenticate from /etc/shadow -- > authenticat

Re: LILO+IDE+SCSI Problems

2001-01-31 Thread Ekkehard Kraemer
Andrew n marshall wrote: > > Hi, > I just installed debian for the first time and have run into a problem > getting LILO to boot properly. I think it is the standard 'LI' problem > with SCSI and IDE disks, but I have tried several things I found on the > web, none of which have been successful.

NFS problem

2001-01-31 Thread Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil
hello We have a bunch of old diskless machines which are remotebooted using ltsp and etherboot . The setup is working fine Sometimes some of the workstations hang with the following error message nfs: RPC call returned error 111 RPC : task of released request still queued RPC : (task on x

potato XF86_FBDev + iBook anyone ?

2001-01-31 Thread Felipe Alvarez Harnecker
Please send me some directions ( XF86Config would be great ) if you succedded in this odisea Thanx. -- __ Felipe Alvarez Harnecker. QlSoftware. Tels. 665.99.41 - 09.874.60.17 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://qlsoft.cl/ htt

Re: No Cursor In X in Two Months - Maybe I quit

2001-01-31 Thread Kent West
hammack wrote: Can anyone help My cursor is not working. Sometimes I have a one square inch white cursor and some times I don't. Note the confi files below for gpm.conf and XF86Config. At the recommendation of someone I commetted out the lines in XF86Config and got the big cursor. B

Faxes are not delivered by mgetty

2001-01-31 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Hi! On 10.01.2001 I upgraded mgetty with apt-get. Some days later I changed my provider and had to change exim.conf. Now I discovered that incoming faxes are not delivered to me as before. What are the apropriate variables in exim.conf and/or mgetty relating fax-delivery? Was there a change in the

lots of PAM/cron messages on console

2001-01-31 Thread Casper
Every few minutes one of the following messages gets dumped to my console: PAM_unix[14026]: (cron) session opened for user root by (uid=0) PAM_unix[14027]: (cron) session opened for user casper by (uid=0) PAM_unix[14057]: (cron) session opened for user mail by (uid=0) This is highly annoying as th

Re: Still No Cursor in X

2001-01-31 Thread hammack
Mr Albert , sorry about the mistake. I do appreciate you help. I looked at the gpm info last night. I didn't see much. Anyway thanks for you help. I'll keep trying and get this yes. John - Original Message - From: "Martin Albert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "hammack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> C

net message

2001-01-31 Thread Angus Edison
Hi, I find that all the network connecting will log to the /var/log/message file. Are there any ways to chooese which type of connection need to log? Best Regards, Angus Chan Software Engineer E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __

Re: Lilo and Win98 Q's

2001-01-31 Thread Kent West
KC6SBJ wrote: Has anyone found Lilo not to be written over while installing Win98 on c: (hda1). Try "fdisk /mbr" from a DOS/Win9x boot floppy (it'll have to have fdisk on it, of course). This will wipe the master boot record (leaving the rest of the disk/partitions intact). Then, if you've

Re: Compiling PCMCIA support (2.2.18/Potato)

2001-01-31 Thread David Wright
Quoting kmself@ix.netcom.com (kmself@ix.netcom.com): > Ok, so I built and installed: > > pcmcia-cs_3.1.22-0.1potato_i386.deb > pcmcia-modules-2.2.18pre21_3.1.22-0.1potato+custom.1.0_i386.deb > > ...but when I try to run cardmgr I get in /var/log/syslog: > > Jan 30 15:15:45 ego cardm

Re: mod_auth_pam

2001-01-31 Thread Ingo Luetkebohle
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 01:41:09PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > Not sure about your error message, but pam_unix.so cannot be used under > mod_auth_pam. Uh, it cannot be used to authenticate from /etc/shadow -- authenticating from /etc/passwd works fine! > So you see, it cannot authenticate for say

Newbie vs Printer Setup

2001-01-31 Thread Ahmad-Tijjani Sambo
I am a newbie with two Linux boxes. One has RedHat on which I could setup the printer with printtool.   The second box has Debian (Storm Linux) that I got off a magazine CD. Unfortunately I cannot find anything along the lines of printtool for easy set-up of printers.   I shall appreciate any

Re: [OT] Broken CD-ROM drive

2001-01-31 Thread David Wright
Quoting Viktor Rosenfeld ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Anyway, considering that > - I can't boot from CDs anymore using that drive (it works with the same > BIOS settings and CD, but with another drive) > - it worked before I used this machine to bootstrap another one > (exchanging boards, hard disks, an

Re: Wishlistitem: Place to look up Softwareproject <-> Debs packages that contain it

2001-01-31 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Tuesday 30 January 2001, at 22 h 25, the keyboard of Matthias Wieser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (you may say:) But that already exists somewhat, but there is no place > where to post the apt-get resources, where I can find a special package. > EG, Yes, there is: http://www.internatif.org/

RE: Compiling a kernel for another machine

2001-01-31 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, has anyone an idea how to cross compile a kernel, so to compile a kernel for a ppc on an i386? Just curius. Greetz, Sebastiaan On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > On 30-Jan-2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I know this is possible (I even vaguely remember seeing it menti

Re: mutt -- slow on send

2001-01-31 Thread Gregory T. Norris
I recently found that exim was taking a long time to accept messages, and traced it back to a bogus `search' entry in /etc/resolv.conf. After commenting out the entry, all is well again. The entry had been in place for two years... no idea why it suddenly became a problem. On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 a

Re: Need to Fill in Missing ML Postings

2001-01-31 Thread John Bacalle
* John Bacalle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20010130 05:27]: > I have a gap in the list from 8 January to 15 January. I would > appreciate it if someone (who also uses mbox format for their mailboxes) > would help me fill in those missing days. > > Note: I need mbox format. If you are using mutt it's eas

Re: apt downgrade?

2001-01-31 Thread Andreas Rath
Am Mittwoch, 31. Januar 2001 01:39 schrieb J. Davis: > I recently switched to unstable to get xfree-4 but now I'm paranoid > about apt-getting broken packages. Can I simply switch my sources list > to testing without loosing xfree-4 etc. or are there other > considerations? i have the same proble

libc6 died on undefined symbol: __aurbrk

2001-01-31 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello Debianers, Yesterday I encountered a very strange problem: I compiled a kernel and unfortunately specified the wrong target for make-kpkg: I used make-kpkg binary, which resulted in error messages because of filling up my /usr partition completely. I found out about the error, deleted direct

Re: XFree86 4.02 eating CPU

2001-01-31 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 30 Jan 2001, Reine Johansson wrote: > Hi! > > Just upgraded to XFree86 4.02 (with a little trouble) on my woody-box (Linux > 2.4.1). > > After using it a while I noticed that while playing a mp3 and scrolling the > Netscape-window the sound from the mp3 got distorted. I thought this was very >

Re: Firewall/Networking Problem

2001-01-31 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, I read in a howto (can not remember which), that you also need a script. I do not know if this is needed for Debian systems, or if it is primarily needed for firewall setups. Anyway, here are the important lines. I put it in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/masq_on #!/bin/sh depmod -a modprobe ip_masq_ftp

bad package

2001-01-31 Thread Simeon Simes
hi there I'm trying to remove a package that I installed by mistake if I try and remove it I get The following packages will be REMOVED: hbf-kanji48 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 19 not upgraded. 44 packag

Re: update-menus not working?

2001-01-31 Thread Joost Witteveen
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 10:12:25AM -0800, Xucaen wrote: > is /etc/menu/jed: > > ?package(jed):needs="text" \ > section="Apps/Editors" \ > title="jed" \ > command="/usr/bin/jed" Looks fine to me. Do you hava a `jed' package installed (does `dpkg -l j

Re: OT: new Nvidia drivers released

2001-01-31 Thread Philippe Marzouk
Le lun, 29 jan 2001 17:59:04, Romain Lerallut a écrit : > > Hi all ! > > I saw a post questioning about Nvidia drivers,and debs.I have not seen > any > .debs of Nvidia's drivers, but the new tgz ones from www.nvidia.com > work > like a charm. (new = January 18th 2001) > > INCLUDING WITH KERNEL 2

Re: perl / cgi

2001-01-31 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
put print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; on top of your script, and you should be able to start working. hope this helps. pietro.

Re: Debian installation screens (cont)

2001-01-31 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There is also a make mirror command. But I'm not a developer. It doens't matter, configure it to use the anonymous rsync ('config' file). > I have a mirror here but I need to know what dirs are necessary to > compile t

Canon USB

2001-01-31 Thread Joris Lambrecht
Hi,   I've recently aquired a Canon D660U USB Scanner wich works great, BUT not with Linux. I did not bother to check this because at the time i worked with Windows 2000 Professional. Does anyone know of an effort to support this or other _Canon_ USB Scanners in Linux ? Canon itself seems ve

Log Files

2001-01-31 Thread Michael Abraham Shulman
How do I get rid of huge files in /var/log like `xdm.log' and `nmb', and/or prevent them from accumulating in the first place? Can/must I just delete or clear them every so often? Please smack me if this is a FAQ, but I couldn't find it anywhere. \\// | R | T R | L B | //\\ ~ Michael Abraham Shu

Re: mutt -- slow on send

2001-01-31 Thread kmself
on Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 10:20:59PM -0500, Vinod Kurup ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 06:51:14PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > I'm noticing in the past 24-48 hours that Mutt seems to have turned into > > a dog on 'send'. There's a noticeable delay -- call it 2-3 seco

Re: apt-get segfaulting

2001-01-31 Thread kmself
on Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 06:41:52PM +, Tiarnan O Corrain ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Now a new difficult rears its ugly head. Apt-get is segfaulting under > > > the new kernel. When I try (for example) > > > apt-get install mpg123, the > > > program segfaults immediately. Ditto with

fvwm-common in testing

2001-01-31 Thread Andy Fraser
I am trying to upgrade to testing. The only problem I know about yet is that the fvwm-common package doesn't install. It complains about "trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/include/X11/pixmaps/keyboard.xpm'". I use dselect. Here is the complaint in full: 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 t

radius

2001-01-31 Thread Cristian Fatu
i whant to install the radius on my computer but i dont know. Cant somebody help me?

Re: New locale environment variables in woody

2001-01-31 Thread Mario Vukelic
On 30 Jan 2001 17:17:07 -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > Slaved off of 'LANG', AFAIK Thanks -- I did not vote for the Austrian government

how to stop gdm?

2001-01-31 Thread jdls
Hello, I recently installed helix-gnome and would rather not have gdm load auto- matically. With xdm I could just remove xbase, then xdm so prevent it from starting but with gdm, dpkg would not allow it not unless I remove task-helix-gnome :( what can I do? Hoping for some kind of advice. Than

Microsoft Scroll Mouse

2001-01-31 Thread Zac Epkes
Sorry, I have a microsoft intellimouse and cant get the scroll button to work... any ideas? thnX - Zac

tar - explicit spanning

2001-01-31 Thread Adam Blomberg
Good evening, I'm trying to figure out how to use tar (preferrably with gzip) to create a tarball which creates a new file when each .tar (or better yet, each tar.gz) reaches a size of 2.2 Gbytes. Essentially, I want to archive a large directory into 2.2 Gbyte tarballs which are "spanning" in

Re: No Cursor In X in Two Months - Maybe I quit

2001-01-31 Thread Nate Amsden
> hammack wrote: > > Can anyone help > My cursor is not working. Sometimes I have a one square inch white > cursor and some times I don't. Note the confi files below for > gpm.conf and XF86Config. At the recommendation of someone I commetted > out the lines in XF86Config and got the big cur

Re: [PLUG] xdm delays

2001-01-31 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach gabriel rosenkoetter (on Wed, 31 Jan 2001 05:08:09PM -0500): > Is your xdm built with debugging flags? If not, rebuild it, and run > it under gdb. No, wait, screw that, strace it (you'll want to spit > that to a file... use the -o option) and see what the hell its doing > in all that ti

NIS - shadow configuration on potato not working.

2001-01-31 Thread Paul Schulz
Greetings, Does anyone have shadow passwords working under NIS? on a default potato install? I have two freshly squeezed potato boxes, on which I am trying to set up NIS (server, client). I have followed the setup documentation (which is good) '/usr/doc/nis/nis.debian.howto.gz' except that sh

updating packages

2001-01-31 Thread mgriffa
Hi! I've got a notebook presario 1245, and a pcmcia net adapter. I need to update the pcmcia modules (I guess, as i had the same problem with suse 7) in order to make work the net adapter. I guess that if the updates of pcmcia stuff was available on suse will be on debian... My ques

Fonts

2001-01-31 Thread mgriffa
Hi I've just installed potato r2 in a notbook and my proxy. I really don't like the default fonts (or those I managed to install). How could I get more pretty fonts, like in standard RH or SUSE installations? NOTE: maybe I messed up, as I had some trouble getting things done with dselect.

Why am I logged out??

2001-01-31 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi all Hmm, when I am idle for, say, more than half an hour, I am automatically logged out of gnome. Why could that be? Is there a daemon running, looking for idle users and kick them out of the system? Or is it a problem with Xscreensaver? Gnome? Anything else? Thanks for helping me joerg -- D

Re: Problem with spanish characters in terminal

2001-01-31 Thread MH
> "AM" == Aldo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AM> Thanks. It worked. However, even when less doesn't complain, AM> it also doesn't show the spanish characters, just something AM> like and invered or , etc. Put PAGER=/usr/bin/less LESSCHARSET=latin1 export PAGER LESSCHARS

Re: After Monday's little X issue....

2001-01-31 Thread David Z. Maze
Ray Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: RP> I'm going to start waiting till the evening to do apt-get RP> dist-upgrade on my testing boxen. So did anything break today? If you want a distribution that you know will work, you should run stable. While testing contains things that are believed to

Re: [PLUG] xdm delays

2001-01-31 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach gabriel rosenkoetter (on Wed, 31 Jan 2001 05:53:47PM -0500): > Um, well, NIS/YP *always* uses portmap. That's how RPC services work. thought so... > ... but you don't want to be a YP client, and you should be able to > tell xdm this somehow. > > What starts xdm? Something in rc? Ther

Re: xdm delays

2001-01-31 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Erik Steffl (on Wed, 31 Jan 2001 01:55:08PM -0800): > I had the same problem (the same symptoms) and IIRC it was fixed by > commenting out the font server line (I do not run font server): > > # FontPath "unix/:7100"# local font i am not using any of

Re: uh, how to create a mailbox in mutt?

2001-01-31 Thread ktb
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 10:30:07AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > uh, I keep getting this error "/var/spool/mail/han: no such file or > directory (errno 2) > > plus all my mails from an imap server (via fetchmail) disappeared...are they > unrecoverable now? > /var/spool/mail is actually a lin

Re: i can not get any mailing list items

2001-01-31 Thread ktb
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 09:42:35PM +0100, Matthias Wieser wrote: > I am not getting any mailing list items anymore. > Should i file a bug report or whatelse should I do. > where do i have to file a bug against? > I guess, it is not listarchives. > (or does something else not work for me) > Like

Re: [PLUG] xdm delays

2001-01-31 Thread MaD dUCK
found the problem and am now questioning the sanity of the world. so i started portmap to see if it fixed it. no, it did not. but the requests were for port 111, so portmap had to be involved. then i noticed this font server thing again, and restarted xfs once portmap was running... and wham - pro

does anyone here use update-menus?

2001-01-31 Thread Xucaen
Hi all.. I've added new menu files to /etc/menu but update-menus doesn't see them. I got this to work with one menu file I added, but I've added three more since and they don't show up. here's one that I am trying to get to work, this is /etc/menu/jed: ?package(jed):needs="text" \

Re: Apache manual

2001-01-31 Thread hogan
> right now, and some of it's beginning to sink in! boy, there's > not much you CAN'T do with apache and perl... ! Death to IIS/ASP! ;-)

RE: How to convert graphics formats

2001-01-31 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 31-Jan-2001 Anthony Campbell wrote: > I used to have a program called convert which changed, e.g. pcx to xpm > or whatever. It seems to have disappeared and I can't find it on the > debian site. > the imagemagick collection has great tools for many image manipulations, including format change

Re: getting aliases in mutt

2001-01-31 Thread ktb
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 08:07:11PM +0100, Daniel de los Reyes wrote: > This (from mutt's manual) doesn't work for me: > > In addition, at the various address prompts, you can use the tab character to > expand a partial alias to the full alias. If there are multiple matches, mutt > will bring up a

RE: How to convert graphics formats

2001-01-31 Thread Alex Swavely
Not sure where it's gone, but take a look at the ImageMagick utilities. Many little utilities to do the same thing. Info can be found at: http://www.simplesystems.org/ImageMagick/ and it's included by all distributions which include Enlightenment, as it requires IM. > -Original Message---

Re: [PLUG] xdm delays

2001-01-31 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach gabriel rosenkoetter (on Wed, 31 Jan 2001 06:51:31PM -0500): > xfs is the X Font Server, and you most definitely need it, though > you shouldn't have to use RPC to get it from localhost... you > should get it via standard IPC channels... have a look at your > xf86config and related stuf

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