Re: PIII & 2.4.0

2001-02-02 Thread Rich Puhek
http://www.hobby.nl/~clifton/bogomips-2.html#ss2.5 Explains what's going on... Oki DZ wrote: > Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: > > > I still find it interesting, that his bogomips count has increased by > > factor 2. > > Yes, me too. And in fact, I was pretty happy (at least for a while)... > wow, I u

unwanted log-message from icmplogd

2001-02-02 Thread Ralf Müller
Hello, in our very large network there is a misconfigured computer which is not whithin my reach. Every computer in our institute gets : Jan 31 06:35:10 krispc9 icmplogd: destination unreachable from achpc2.chemie.uni-karlsruhe.de [129.13.108.161] and 129.13.108.161 sent an invalid ICMP error t

Re: converting *.hqx into ttf how?

2001-02-02 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 06:07:36AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I have downloaded a font packaged in hqx (cmps-macintosh.hqx-computer modern > fonts, actually) and would like to know how can I (unzip?)/convert it into > true type font format so that I can use it with my xfs font serv

Re: Why am I logged out?

2001-02-02 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 12:19:29PM +0100, Joerg Johannes wrote: > 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

Re: --rpath, egcs/gcc ??

2001-02-02 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 04:55:50PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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 See "man ld", al

Re: mutt + seperate folder for lists

2001-02-02 Thread Thomas Guettler
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 07:36:50PM -0800, Charlie Yao wrote: > Hi, i was wondering how to make all debian-user msgs appear in a seperate > folder > when i open mutt. Thanks in advance. You can use procmail. The relevant section in .procmail looks like this: :0: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] |formail -i "R

xosview

2001-02-02 Thread Tibor D.
Hi folks, does anyone know where the xosview-package did go? It's gone with the latest apt-get upgrade! Or is there a similar, maybe even better tool? TIA

Re:Russian porn: offtopic

2001-02-02 Thread DSC Lithuania
You know, I'm sitting here using Microsoft Windows and Explorer.  (I do use linux, but not for this system.)   And one of the things that makes me just a little bit paranoid about those things is the question of whether there might be a new virus attached.  After all, there is a huge list

modem under debian

2001-02-02 Thread Renai
Hi Debian users! I have a quick question. I have a action-tec call waiting modem (diamond voice). I am wondering if someone could point me to a how-to or something that is relevant for getting the modem to work under Debian. The modem is external and 56k. And yes, I know about kppp, but I need to

Re: Does anybody have any unofficial debs for Vim 6.0 ?

2001-02-02 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 01 Feb 2001, Preben Randhol wrote: > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/02/2001 (17:32) : > > Yes, the Debian vim maintainer has: > > > > http://people.debian.org/~wakkerma/ > > Ah nice :-) > > -- > Preben Randhol http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/ -- > iMy favorite ed

RE: No libforms0.89 -> no Lyx

2001-02-02 Thread Carlo U. Segre
I ran into the same problem and I ended up installing the package (and other required ones) from unstable. Cheers, Carlo > I also noticed that Lyx was removed during a recent upgrade in > "testing". I tried to reinstall it but found that it requires > libforms0.89 Since Lyx is (in my opinion)

FW: rsync and proxy

2001-02-02 Thread Ohrt, Anders
Hmmm... debian-cd seems kind of empty, so I'll try here... -Original Message- From: Ohrt, Anders Sent: den 1 februari 2001 15:27 To: 'debian-cd@lists.debian.org' Subject: rsync and proxy Hi! I followed the make-pseudo-image instructions, but what do I do when I reach the rsync point?

Stupid Question...keymappings?

2001-02-02 Thread John Travis
I recently helped a friend resurrect an old machine with Debian :-). There is one little thing that annoyed me, and will annoy him, the more he learns. The keymappings that I am used to don't always seem to work. For instance with a 'man man,' I couldn't use the vi(m) like keybindings for mo

Re: Re: make problems

2001-02-02 Thread romain lerallut
try rather a symlink ln -s /lib/libdb1.so /lib/libdb.so it will be easier than trying to modify an autoconf-generated makefile. Cheer up, you'll get it done :-) Romain Begin Original Message From: "jdls" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I had a similar problem with compiling mod_dav f

dhcp

2001-02-02 Thread Cristian Fatu
What is dhcp ?

Re: Faxes are not delivered by mgetty

2001-02-02 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Hallo Brian! Am Don, 01 Feb 2001, schrieb Brian Potkin: > In /etc/mgetty/new_fax I have the line > > USER="postmaster" I have no USER in new_fax. Maybe I am using another new_fax-script. I have an ADMIN set to POSTMASTER. Postmasters mail is sent to root, and roots mail is sent to me. > In the

Re: dhcp

2001-02-02 Thread John Galt
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol. look at http://isc.org/products/DHCP/ After Vixie's letter under the ISC AEgis, I'm less than thrilled about referring you to them, but they did write the reference software. Basically DHCP is a way to get an IP/gateway/nameserver/_et al_ upon bringing up th

Psy

2001-02-02 Thread Cristian Fatu
what is psy? Where i cant find the radius documentation

kernel

2001-02-02 Thread Cristian Fatu
I whant to compile the kernel, please help

dhcp-client checking all network interfaces

2001-02-02 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
At boot time, dhcp-client checks all avaliable network interfaces. I only want it to work on one (/dev/eth1). How can I change this behaviour? -- __ Daniel de los Reyes S2-Selling Soluciones Valencia Spain e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Debian GNU-Linux 2.2r2 ___

Re: Stupid Question...keymappings?

2001-02-02 Thread David Purton
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, John Travis wrote: > I recently helped a friend resurrect an old machine with Debian :-). > There is one little thing that annoyed me, and will annoy him, the more > he learns. The keymappings that I am used to don't always seem to > work. For instance with a 'man man,' I

getting rid of attachments in sent mail using mutt

2001-02-02 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
I keep a lot of sent mail with big attachments in them. I am interested in keeping the message but not the attachments. Is there a way to get rid of the attachments ( I am using mutt) I know I can manually edit the message's code but I really don't feel like it ;-) -- __

Re: unwanted log-message from icmplogd

2001-02-02 Thread Marc A. Donges
On Friday, February 02, 2001 at 08:11:48 (+0100), Ralf Müller wrote: > in our very large network It certainly isn't as large as you think! ;-) > there is a misconfigured computer which is not > whithin my reach. Every computer in our institute gets: > Jan 31 06:35:10 krispc9 icmplogd: destinati

Re: mutt + seperate folder for lists

2001-02-02 Thread Preben Randhol
Thomas Guettler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 02/02/2001 (12:28) : > On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 07:36:50PM -0800, Charlie Yao wrote: > > Hi, i was wondering how to make all debian-user msgs appear in a seperate > > folder > > when i open mutt. Thanks in advance. > > You can use procmail. The relevant

Potato with USB support

2001-02-02 Thread Vittorio De Martino
I have a USB Epson scanner (supported under Red Hat 7.0) and I've just got the CDs of Debian 2.2r2 that I want to install. My question is as simple as that: needing the scanner, what "flavor" of kernel (as I read in the installation instruction) should I install in order to have USB devices supp

Re: Does anybody have any unofficial debs for Vim 6.0 ?

2001-02-02 Thread Preben Randhol
Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 02/02/2001 (12:29) : > > However, Vim compiles from the original source file without any problems. No it doesn't. The compiler complains that it cannot find -ldb -- Preben Randhol -- http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/ -- +---+ "There wa

Re: Stupid Question...keymappings?

2001-02-02 Thread John Travis
On Friday 02 February 2001 12:11, David Purton wrote: > just a thought, but do you have 'less' installed? > > I think man uses 'more' if 'less' isn't available and hence you can't > scroll up, etc. LOL. THWACKKK! (sound of hand hitting forhead). I just assumed that it got pulled in somewher

Installing the right kernel

2001-02-02 Thread Vittorio De Martino
I have a USB Epson scanner (supported under Red Hat 7.0) and I've just got the CDs of Debian 2.2r2 that I want to install. My question is as simple as that: needing the scanner, what "flavor" of kernel (as I read in the installation instruction) should I install in order to have USB devices supp

POP versus IMAP

2001-02-02 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
Could someone explain me what are the benefits/cons in using an IMAP server instead of a POP server? -- __ Daniel de los Reyes S2-Selling Soluciones Valencia Spain e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Debian GNU-Linux 2.2r2 __

Re: Does anybody have any unofficial debs for Vim 6.0 ?

2001-02-02 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 02 Feb 2001, Preben Randhol wrote: > Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 02/02/2001 (12:29) : > > > > However, Vim compiles from the original source file without any problems. > > No it doesn't. The compiler complains that it cannot find -ldb > -- You must be missing some library.

Re: email headers from 'russian porn'

2001-02-02 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 09:55:30AM +0400, Rino Mardo wrote: > On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 06:46:05PM -0800 or thereabouts, brian moore wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 08:02:19PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > > > i didn't get any address spoofing. hmm... > > > here's the headers i see -- ('h' in mutt

Re: modem under debian

2001-02-02 Thread ktb
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 07:30:20PM +1100, Renai wrote: > Hi Debian users! > > I have a quick question. I have a action-tec call waiting modem (diamond > voice). I am wondering if someone could point me to a how-to or something > that is relevant for getting the modem to work under Debian. The mode

Re: Does anybody have any unofficial debs for Vim 6.0 ?

2001-02-02 Thread Preben Randhol
Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 02/02/2001 (14:17) : > You must be missing some library. It compiles perfectly here; I've just > done it again to make sure. This is on an up-to-date version of Woody. But isn't db from libc6 ? /lib/libdb* ? -- Preben Randhol -- h

Re: xosview

2001-02-02 Thread ktb
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 09:31:59AM +0100, Tibor D. wrote: > Hi folks, > does anyone know where the xosview-package did go? It's gone with the > latest apt-get upgrade! Or is there a similar, maybe even better tool? > TIA > It's listed as "xosview" under stable, testing and unstable. http://www.d

Re: kernel

2001-02-02 Thread ktb
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 12:50:54PM +0200, Cristian Fatu wrote: > I whant to compile the kernel, please help > > Read http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-kernel.html Install the kernel-package and read - /usr/doc/kernel-package/README.gz kent -- I'd really love ta wana help ya Flanders but... Home

Re: email headers from 'russian porn'

2001-02-02 Thread sena
On 02/02/2001 at 13:21 +, Rob VanFleet wrote: > As I understand it, I think the 'exim oddity' only works if exim is the > first to see your mail (ie you have your own domain). In your case, gmx > would have been the first to see your mail, and was most likely what > changed it. > I am using S

Re: modem under debian

2001-02-02 Thread John Hasler
Renai writes: > I am wondering if someone could point me to a how-to or something that is > relevant for getting the modem to work under Debian. The modem is > external and 56k. Run pppconfig as root and then use pon to start a connection, poff to end it, and plog to monitor it. You should have b

Re: Netscape 6 for Linux?

2001-02-02 Thread francisco m. neto
» D-Man said this and I say that: > On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 01:46:29AM -0200, hzi wrote: > | Hi- > | > | I read somewhere (actually, a Brazilian Linux magazine) that > Netscape 6 demands 32.5Mb with just *one* page open! > | Pure bloatware. To be avoided. > | > > I don't know about this

Re: POP versus IMAP

2001-02-02 Thread ktb
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 02:07:40PM +0100, Daniel de los Reyes wrote: > Could someone explain me what are the benefits/cons in using an IMAP server > instead of a POP server? I put your exact subject heading into - http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/Debian-Linux/199/0/ and came up with something.

Re: email headers from 'russian porn'

2001-02-02 Thread Marc A. Donges
On Friday, February 02, 2001 at 09:55:30 (+0400), Rino Mardo wrote: > On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 06:46:05PM -0800 or thereabouts, brian moore wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 08:02:19PM -0600, will trillich wrote: >>> i didn't get any address spoofing. hmm... >>> here's the headers i see -- ('h' in m

Re: getting rid of attachments in sent mail using mutt

2001-02-02 Thread David Wright
Quoting Daniel de los Reyes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I keep a lot of sent mail with big attachments in them. I am interested in > keeping the message but not the attachments. Is there a way to get rid of the > attachments ( I am using mutt) > I know I can manually edit the message's code but I real

Re: free and contrib

2001-02-02 Thread Manuel Reiter
Hi Dominique, > is it possible to build a fourth CD, containing non free debian > packages in addition to the 3 official potato CDs in a format suitable to > dselect, of course. There are unofficial CD-images of various non-free stuff for potato available from ftp://ftp.fsn.hu/pub/CDR

Re: Potato with USB support

2001-02-02 Thread ktb
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 02:31:48PM +, Vittorio De Martino wrote: > I have a USB Epson scanner (supported under Red Hat 7.0) and I've just got > the CDs of Debian 2.2r2 that I want to install. > My question is as simple as that: > needing the scanner, what "flavor" of kernel (as I read in the

Re: Security Related Questions

2001-02-02 Thread David Wright
Quoting Benjamin Pharr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > At 07:26 AM 2/1/01 , you wrote: > >Quoting Benjamin Pharr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > I have a couple of security related questions for you. I have no need for > > > sunrpc/portmap, however, I have found it impossible to discern which > > > package thes

Re: Does anybody have any unofficial debs for Vim 6.0 ?

2001-02-02 Thread Colin Watson
Preben Randhol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 02/02/2001 (14:17) : >> You must be missing some library. It compiles perfectly here; I've just >> done it again to make sure. This is on an up-to-date version of Woody. > >But isn't db from libc6 ? /lib/libdb*

setting language

2001-02-02 Thread Radu Muschevici
A few days ago I upgraded from potato to testing(woody). In the uprgrade process I was asked to set the language, but then, unfortunately, I have chosen not to do so. Since then, many programs (bash, mutt, all GTK Apps) cannot display special characters properly, like german Umlauts etc. How can

Re:Order

2001-02-02 Thread DARAIMPEX LOLA
Daraimpex Trading Co Import,Export & General Merchandise Q49,Pondeu,Cotonou. Rep of Benin.West Africa. Dear Sirs, We have your particulars through our trading with your Country Promotional Center, when one of our Director's visit USA. We are Computer Broker in West Africa with 12 branches/Locat

Kernel hangs during instalation on Jensen

2001-02-02 Thread Jakub
When I boot from Potato cdrom kernel hangs after displaying paraport0 detection. I tried to 'reserve=' adresses of paraport, ether card and serial ports but kernel still hangs just after 'Starting kswapd' message Help please Cyryl _ G

RE: Order

2001-02-02 Thread Joris Lambrecht
i wonder who give these guys this mailinglists address -Original Message- From: DARAIMPEX LOLA [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 3:35 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re:Order Daraimpex Trading Co Import,Export & General Merchandise Q49,Pondeu,Cotonou.

Re: Does anybody have any unofficial debs for Vim 6.0 ?

2001-02-02 Thread Preben Randhol
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 02/02/2001 (15:24) : > Preben Randhol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >But isn't db from libc6 ? /lib/libdb* ? > > This is a perennial misunderstanding - to compile things, you need the > development libraries. Try libdb2-dev. Yes, but I thought it was in th

PAM_putenv?

2001-02-02 Thread MaD dUCK
i am getting a whole bunch of log messages like: Feb 2 07:04:59 diamond sshd[2269]: PAM pam_putenv: delete non-existent entry; MAIL how can i fix this? there isn't any MAIL entry in /etc/security/pam_env.conf... thanks, martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[

Re: Installing the right kernel

2001-02-02 Thread Stephen Robertson
Vittorio De Martino wrote: > I have a USB Epson scanner (supported under Red Hat 7.0) and I've just got > the CDs of Debian 2.2r2 that I want to install. > My question is as simple as that: > needing the scanner, what "flavor" of kernel (as I read in the installation > instruction) should I instal

vfat file name gotcha

2001-02-02 Thread Lewis, James M.
I just got caught by a vfat property that I wasn't aware of. I know about not supporting certain file properties. I was not aware that you can't have 2 files of the same name except for upper/lower case differences. An example... cp MYFILE.txt myfile.txt /zip/ will result in only myfi

Re: Psy

2001-02-02 Thread Erik Steffl
Cristian Fatu wrote: > > what is psy? 'psy' is slovak for 'dogs' ;-) > Where i cant find the radius documentation sorry, don't know, have you tried google? /usr/share/docs? erik

multiple smarthosts with exim

2001-02-02 Thread Michel Dänzer
Has anyone managed to have exim try to forward messages to more than one smarthost? I've tried several things like multiple smarthost: entries, giving several hostnames seperated by colons in one entry, etc. No luck so far. It just tries the first one and freezes the message if it fails. PS: I'

Printer Problem

2001-02-02 Thread Thomas H. George,,,610-444-2626
My printer was working perfectly. I rebuilt the kernel allowing autoprobe. Printer no longer responds even to cat lptest > /dev/lp0 where lptest is a small text file and lp lptest responds normally but nothing is printed and nothing is in the print que. cat /

Netscape 6 Encryption Problem

2001-02-02 Thread Thomas H. George,,,610-444-2626
I downloaded and installed Netscape 6. It works normally except when a transmission is to be encrypted. Then it locks uo not only the Netscape window but all of Xwindows. I can recover only by returning to the console and executing a Ctrl C to abort Xwindows. I tried sending an email to Net

RE: does anyone here use update-menus?

2001-02-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
run update-menus with the -v and maybe -d options. See the man page for more info.

Re: mutt + seperate folder for lists

2001-02-02 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 01:07:47PM +0100, Preben Randhol wrote: >:0 >* ^X-Loop: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Debian-User > > You can then add rules if you want to seperate other lists as well. Of course, there's more than one way to do it. If you're subscribed to several debian list

RE: updating packages

2001-02-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 31-Jan-2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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 avail

Re: Printer Problem

2001-02-02 Thread ktb
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 11:01:26AM -0500, Thomas H. George,,,610-444-2626 wrote: > My printer was working perfectly. I rebuilt the kernel allowing > autoprobe. Printer no longer responds even to > >cat lptest > /dev/lp0 where lptest is a small text file > > and > >lp

question.

2001-02-02 Thread Dale Kosan
I have searched some of the archives and cant seem to find an answer.I have also looked at the hardware compatibility list. I tried to install 2.2 and at the very end it tells me "video card not supported" I am trying to install on a Toshiba Sattelite 1715 with a ATI rage mobility chipset.Also it d

Truetype fonts

2001-02-02 Thread Rob VanFleet
Since XFree86 4 has been moved into testing, I figured that I can do away with xfstt since the new xfs supposedly supports truetype fonts. The problem is that I can't seem to find out what package contains the ttmkfdir command that allows one to make a fonts.dir for truetype fonts. Does anyone have

Re: mutt + seperate folder for lists

2001-02-02 Thread Vinod Kurup
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 07:36:50PM -0800, Charlie Yao wrote: > Hi, i was wondering how to make all debian-user msgs appear in a seperate > folder > when i open mutt. Thanks in advance. > Like others have mentioned, procmail is the way to go. Here's a nice intro to that tool.

which MLM?

2001-02-02 Thread MaD dUCK
running postfix, which is my best bet on a mailing list manager? ezmlm seems out of reach (qmail dependend), so i am left with a choice between majordomo, listproc, and smartlist... any others? can you guys give me some hints, advantages and disadvantages regarding the above packages? which ones a

Re: Installing the right kernel

2001-02-02 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
On Fri, 02 Feb 2001 10:17:18 -0500, Stephen Robertson wrote: >2.2r2 includes kernel version 2.2.18pre21, which supports USB. However, as USB >support is not compiled into the stock kernel, you'll have to recompile the >kernel to include it. I recently upgraded my system from 2.2 (kernel 2.2.17)

Re: Truetype fonts

2001-02-02 Thread Erik Steffl
Rob VanFleet wrote: > > Since XFree86 4 has been moved into testing, I figured that I can do > away with xfstt since the new xfs supposedly supports truetype fonts. > The problem is that I can't seem to find out what package contains the > ttmkfdir command that allows one to make a fonts.dir for t

font package nightmare

2001-02-02 Thread Glenn Becker
All, I suppose I should've known better, but I attempted to fully upgrade to woody last night. One of the problems I had had before the birth of 'testing' has recurred: there are four Chinese font packages xfonts-arphic-bkai00mp 2.11.3 xfonts-arphic-gkai00mp 2.11.3 xfonts-arphic-bsmi00lp 2.11.3

postgresql 7.0.3 -- but NO plperl ?

2001-02-02 Thread will trillich
i haven't figured out how to turn on 'plperl' yet on potato: % grep tfheen /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://www.samfundet.no/~tfheen/debian potato main % dpkg -l '*p*g*sql*' | egrep 'pg|postgre' | grep -v php un libpgsql(no description available) ii libpgsql2 7.0.3-0potato1

Re: dhcp-client checking all network interfaces

2001-02-02 Thread Vinod Kurup
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 11:57:29AM +0100, Daniel de los Reyes wrote: > At boot time, dhcp-client checks all avaliable network interfaces. I only > want it to work on one (/dev/eth1). > How can I change this behaviour? Take a look at /etc/dhclient.conf There should be one 'interface' section for

Re: console-tools installation error

2001-02-02 Thread Martin Albert
On Fri, 02 Feb 2001, Michael Abraham Shulman wrote: > Trying to switch from kbd to console-tools (testing distribution), I > get this error when configuring console-tools: > > /var/lib/debconf/config.53881: null: command not found > console-tools failed to configure, with exit code 127 > > Any id

Re:Russian porn: offtopic

2001-02-02 Thread Martin Albert
On Fri, 02 Feb 2001, DSC Lithuania wrote: > > You know, I'm sitting here using Microsoft Windows and Explorer. (I do use > linux, > but not for this system.) > > And one of the things that makes me just a little bit paranoid about those > things > is the question of whether there might be a ne

Toshiba Satellite Pro XCDT490

2001-02-02 Thread Jim Nutt
Well, after a couple of weeks of fiddling and experimenting on the trains going to and from work, I now have my laptop working with a 2.4.0 kernel (with reiserfs patches), reiserfs root, devfs, usb and Debian/Unstable. I've finally gotten the kernel sound drivers to work and now I'm ready for my ne

Re: setting language

2001-02-02 Thread Mario Vukelic
On 02 Feb 2001 15:28:55 +0100, Radu Muschevici wrote: > A few days ago I upgraded from potato to testing(woody). In the uprgrade > process I was asked to set the language, but then, unfortunately, I have > chosen not to do so. > > Since then, many programs (bash, mutt, all GTK Apps) cannot displa

X madness/Voodoo or Rage 128?

2001-02-02 Thread Glenn Becker
All, Since upgrading to woody last night, I've had confusing X problems. I run xf86config, choosing all the options I did for my potato box. When I run startx, Enlightenment pops up (it used to default to AfterStep ...?) ... the cursor seems ok at first, but soon shudders, wacks out of control, t

Re: Truetype fonts

2001-02-02 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 09:15:21AM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > Rob VanFleet wrote: > > > > Since XFree86 4 has been moved into testing, I figured that I can do > > away with xfstt since the new xfs supposedly supports truetype fonts. > > The problem is that I can't seem to find out what package co

.procmailrc multiple actions

2001-02-02 Thread Sven Burgener
Is it possible to specify multiple "action" lines for any given procmail rule? Like, say I want to achieve the following requirements: o rewrite the To: header field such that it will appear as what I rewrite it at the recepient. o do the same (or insert) a CC: header field. o then send

Re: mutt + seperate folder for lists

2001-02-02 Thread Marc A. Donges
On Friday, February 02, 2001 at 10:07:41 (-0600), Nathan E Norman wrote: > Of course, there's more than one way to do it. If you're subscribed > to several debian lists, the following recipe is a winner: > > # Debian lists ... > :0 > * ^X-Mailing-List: .*[<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] > * ^X-Mailing-List

Re: Installing the right kernel

2001-02-02 Thread ktb
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 03:11:30PM -0500, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > On Fri, 02 Feb 2001 10:17:18 -0500, Stephen Robertson wrote: > > >2.2r2 includes kernel version 2.2.18pre21, which supports USB. However, as > >USB > >support is not compiled into the stock kernel, you'll have to recompile th

Re: lots of PAM/cron messages on console

2001-02-02 Thread David Wright
Quoting Casper ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > 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

Re: Truetype fonts

2001-02-02 Thread mike polniak
Rob VanFleet wrote: > Since XFree86 4 has been moved into testing, I figured that I can do > away with xfstt since the new xfs supposedly supports truetype fonts. > The problem is that I can't seem to find out what package contains the > ttmkfdir command that allows one to make a fonts.dir for true

Re: .procmailrc multiple actions

2001-02-02 Thread Marc A. Donges
On Friday, February 02, 2001 at 18:41:16 (+0100), Sven Burgener wrote: > --8<-- > :0 > * ^From: Mail Delivery Subsystem > | (formail -I "To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]") |\ > (formail -I "CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]") | $SENDMAIL -t > > :0 > ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --8<-- The first recipy is

Re: mutt + seperate folder for lists

2001-02-02 Thread David Wright
Quoting Marc A. Donges ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > But tell me, what happens if I send you mail with > "X-Mailing-List: ../@lists.debian.org" > in its headers? I honestly don't know what will happen... Exactly what you would expect. There's no rocket science here. If you add that header, and put in a

Re: X madness/Voodoo or Rage 128?

2001-02-02 Thread Erik Steffl
Glenn Becker wrote: > > All, > > Since upgrading to woody last night, I've had confusing X problems. I run > xf86config, choosing all the options I did for my potato box. When I run > startx, Enlightenment pops up (it used to default to AfterStep > ...?) ... the cursor seems ok at first, but soon

Re: Truetype fonts

2001-02-02 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Rob VanFleet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # Since XFree86 4 has been moved into testing, I figured that I can do # away with xfstt since the new xfs supposedly supports truetype fonts. # The problem is that I can't seem to find out what package contains the # ttmkfdir command that allows one to ma

Re: .procmailrc multiple actions

2001-02-02 Thread Sven Burgener
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 07:02:01PM +0100, Marc A. Donges wrote: > On Friday, February 02, 2001 at 18:41:16 (+0100), Sven Burgener wrote: > > --8<-- > > :0 > > * ^From: Mail Delivery Subsystem > > | (formail -I "To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]") |\ > > (formail -I "CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]")

problem with print server

2001-02-02 Thread Philipp Bliedung
Hi, I have a problem - I don't know how to get two printers to work with the print server. The print server is a Sercomm Fast PrintMate and the two printers are a brother HL-10V and a HP Business Inkjet 2250 PS. I got the print server working so far - I can ping, telnet and ftp to it, and it als

Re: Truetype fonts

2001-02-02 Thread Erik Steffl
Rob VanFleet wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 09:15:21AM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > > Rob VanFleet wrote: > > > > > > Since XFree86 4 has been moved into testing, I figured that I can do > > > away with xfstt since the new xfs supposedly supports truetype fonts. > > > The problem is that I can'

Now Stormix is no more . . .

2001-02-02 Thread Phillip Deackes
With the recently reported demise of Stormix Technologies, creators of the *excellent* Storm Linux, is anyone at Debian looking to taking over any of the apps they developed? I am thinking particularly of the superb installation routine; SAS, the GUI administration modules and Storm Package Manager

Voodoo Banshee ANYBODY?

2001-02-02 Thread Lazar Fleysher
Could someone please help me to install and configure Voodoo Banshee video card and XWindows I have XFree86-3.3.6 and kernel 2.2.16 installed It absolutely does not work on my machine and does Xwin does something strange to the video card, X even screws-up character generator (I do not know exac

Re: Printer Problem

2001-02-02 Thread Thomas H. George,,,610-444-2626
Thanks for the suggestion.  I had not learned about dmesg.  Unfortunately it reported everything in order - i.e. parport0 using 0378 and irq 7.  I must look elsewhere for the problem. Tom George ktb wrote: On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 11:01:26AM -0500, Thomas H. George,,,610-444-2626 wrote: My print

RE: Now Stormix is no more . . .

2001-02-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 02-Feb-2001 Phillip Deackes wrote: > With the recently reported demise of Stormix Technologies, creators of the > *excellent* Storm Linux, is anyone at Debian looking to taking over any of > the > apps they developed? I am thinking particularly of the superb installation > routine; SAS, the GUI

Re: Truetype fonts

2001-02-02 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 10:33:59AM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > search for mktt turned out: > > Debian package contents search results [snippage] Well... that would be great if I was looking for mkttfdir, but if you would kindly reread my post you would notice that I was looking for *ttmkfdir*

Managing many Debian machines

2001-02-02 Thread Daniel Whelan
Greetings - I am currently looking for a solution to managing and maintaining a large number of Debian machines. While I absolutely love apt-get, manually apt-getting a hundred machines to upgrade one piece of software is suboptimal. Is there any way to automate this process? One solution that h

Modem noise

2001-02-02 Thread Henrik Enberg
Hi, I've just switched to Debian 2.2r2 from Redhat and things are going smoothly. One thing bothers me though, my modem has a real noisy speaker buildt in and I don't know how to shut it up. The Redhat wvdial setup had a little checkbox to turn off sound, and I never did look at the scripts to

Re: mutt + seperate folder for lists

2001-02-02 Thread Gary Jones
On 2 Feb 2001, Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The following works well for spam (thanks craig sanders)(season to > taste): > > ## Spam filters > :0 > * ^TO([EMAIL PROTECTED])|(free4u2.com) > Mail/SPAM/ I don't use procmail[1], so I don't know, but if it does rule processing in or

Re: Managing many Debian machines

2001-02-02 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 01:40:42PM -0500, Daniel Whelan wrote: > Greetings - I am currently looking for a solution to managing > and maintaining a large number of Debian machines. While I > absolutely love apt-get, manually apt-getting a hundred > machines to upgrade one piece of software is subopt

Re: Now Stormix is no more . . .

2001-02-02 Thread Colin Cashman
> Storm is not quite dead yet. It's, uh, resting. ;)

Re: Printer Problem

2001-02-02 Thread Thomas H. George,,,610-444-2626
Thanks for the suggestion; I had not yet learned about dmesg. Unfortunately, dmesg reported all in order with parport - i.e. using 0378 and irq 7. I must look elsewhere for my problem. Tom George ktb wrote: On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 11:01:26AM -0500, Thomas H. George,,,610-444-2626 wrote: M

Re: Voodoo Banshee ANYBODY?

2001-02-02 Thread Rob VanFleet
What are you using to configure X? Does the console flicker only after you have started X, or straight from bootup? -Rob On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 10:44:02AM -0800, Lazar Fleysher wrote: > > Could someone please help me to install and configure Voodoo Banshee video > card and XWindows > > I have

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