Re: New Install

2001-03-14 Thread Nick
I think this guy spends too much time reading mail lists On Monday 12 March 2001 17:08, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > Response directed to list. Please *don't* direct list mail to me > privately for general correspondence. > > on Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 07:54:03PM -0500, - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wr

Re: visudo not vi?

2001-03-14 Thread John Galt
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Chris Lawrence wrote: >On Mar 13, Wichert Akkerman wrote: >> Previously Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote: >> > it should be probably replaced by elvis-tiny , even on distribution >> > disks... >> >> 1. not everyone knows how to use vi >> 2. ae is *small*. lots smaller then elvis-ti

Re: Seeking GUI for Postgresql

2001-03-14 Thread John Foster
Timothy Wilson wrote: > I'm not familiar with MySQLMan, but perhaps pgaccess has what you're looking > for. It's in unstable. apt-get install pgacess > > -Tim - I already have it but I want a web based interface. There was a package called phpg

Re: New Install

2001-03-14 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 02:08:19PM -0800, Nick wrote: > > I think this guy spends too much time reading mail lists No, he just gives a shit about netiquette and asks others to do the same. (Karsten is active on the list though; that's a good thing). -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good p

ldconfig

2001-03-14 Thread Jim Bowering
Hi, all. I'm unable to use dselect/apt because it says it can't find ldconfig. I don't blame it because I can't find it either. Where should ldconfig be and how can I get it back there? Thanks -- --- Jim Bowering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

RE: ldconfig

2001-03-14 Thread Carlos Laviola
On 14-Mar-2001 Jim Bowering wrote: > Hi, all. > > I'm unable to use dselect/apt because it says it can't find ldconfig. I > don't blame it because I can't find it either. Where should ldconfig be > and how can I get it back there? > You *definately* should have ifconfig, which, by the way, li

RE: ldconfig

2001-03-14 Thread Carlos Laviola
On 14-Mar-2001 Carlos Laviola wrote: > > On 14-Mar-2001 Jim Bowering wrote: >> Hi, all. >> >> I'm unable to use dselect/apt because it says it can't find ldconfig. I >> don't blame it because I can't find it either. Where should ldconfig be >> and how can I get it back there? >> > > You *def

Re: ldconfig

2001-03-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
As I see it, [EMAIL PROTECTED]:potato$ zgrep -e ldconfig Contents-i386.gz |less sbin/ldconfig.new base/ldso usr/man/man1/voldconfig.1.gzutils/vold usr/sbin/voldconfig utils/vold usr/sh

Something's missing? (konqueror is not loading .gif)

2001-03-14 Thread Martin Marconcini
Hi I run Sid/2.4.2 and KDE 2.1.1 (or whatever version corresponds to sid) The problem is that konkeror is not loading images (i believe that does not load .gif only, .jpg are loaded ok). I have been seeking dselect but were unable to find something relevant. Also it could be a q

Re: need pptp tunnel for win nethood ADVISE!

2001-03-14 Thread Nick
> On Tuesday 13 March 2001 13:37, Nick wrote: > hello list, > > I hope everyone is doing well. > > Here is my question for today, this applies to MCSE's and CCNA's > > It is possible to tunnel the Network Neighborhood on a single domain in > the following situation: > a main office is connected to

building a KERNEL?!

2001-03-14 Thread Mark Livingstone
Re, what's the best way to build a kernel in Debian? or should i unpack the sources and do it as i used to do it in slackware? thanks!

Re: building a KERNEL?!

2001-03-14 Thread ktb
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 02:30:03AM -0500, Mark Livingstone wrote: > Re, > > what's the best way to build a kernel in Debian? or should i unpack the > sources and do it as i used to do it in slackware? > You can do it how you like but I would encourage you to try it the debian way. This should

OT - ARP request ?

2001-03-14 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
I know this is absolutelly out of theme, but I am sure somebody may be able to help me. What is an ARP request? -- __ Daniel de los Reyes S2-Selling Soluciones Valencia Spain e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Debian GNU-Linux 2.2r2 __

Re: URGENT: permissions of /dev/ttyS? are constantly getting reset

2001-03-14 Thread Nico De Ranter
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 08:25:06AM -0800, Nate Amsden wrote: > Nico De Ranter wrote: > > > > Howdy, > > > > I'm installing a little ppp server for a special project. The ppp daemon > > needs to be started by a non-root user. I've added the user to the dialout > > group however the default permiss

Re: Mirror

2001-03-14 Thread Nick Croft
apt-moveis the app; trouble is I haven't figured out how to use it yet.

Re: need pptp tunnel for win nethood ADVISE!

2001-03-14 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > hello list, > > I hope everyone is doing well. > > Here is my qusetion for today, this applies to MCSE's and CCNA's Well, not necessarily... I know MCSEs and CCNAs that would be totally lo

Re: visudo not vi?

2001-03-14 Thread Alexander Hvostov
John Galt wrote: On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Chris Lawrence wrote: On Mar 13, Wichert Akkerman wrote: Previously Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote: it should be probably replaced by elvis-tiny , even on distribution disks... 1. not everyone knows how to use vi 2. ae is *small*. lots smaller then elvis

Re: About burning multisession CDs with gcombust/mkisofs [OT]

2001-03-14 Thread Santiago Fernandez
I think the problem is that when you are going to burn a second session you have to give mkisofs the parameters obtained with cdrecord -msinfo. Thus, the new image created with mkisofs is suitable for being burned as a second session. On mar, 13 mar 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'

Re: OT - ARP request ?

2001-03-14 Thread Jimmy Richards
On 14 Mar 2001 01:37:27 -0700, Jimmy Richards wrote: > Hello There, > > I don't know too much about it, other than what it stands for Address > Resolution Protocol. > I know it's considered to be a 'low-level' protocol. > The following is from my 'Desktop Computer Encylopedia 2nd Edition'. > Anyth

Re: visudo not vi?

2001-03-14 Thread Aaron Lehmann
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 12:57:07AM -0800, Alexander Hvostov wrote: > 1) nano-tiny is relatively easy to use. > 2) nano-tiny has fewer bugs. Using a non-vi-compatable editor on boot disks is a hanging offense that debian will pay for once sysadmins try to install Debian but realize they have better

Re: D-Link DFE-530-TX NIC install probs.

2001-03-14 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
try the drivers and the diagnostic stuff on www.scyld.com, it helped me a lot. it's the site of the official mantainer of most of the nic drivers. pietro.

Re: Use different cache dir for apt-get dist-upgrade

2001-03-14 Thread M G Berberich
Hello, Am Mittwoch, den 14. März 2001 21:57:58 schrieb Ian Patrick Thomas: > I am in the process of upgrading my distribution to 2.2 potato? or > whatever is the latest stable. I have already done an apt-get check and no > errors were found. The problem is that I get an error > > Sorry,

Re: email notification of new debian packages

2001-03-14 Thread Colin Watson
andrea gelmini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just another stupid service. Every Monday it will send you the > list of new Debian packages of the unstable branch, of course, > for desired architectures. Sorry - but isn't that called debian-devel-changes, only less frequent? There a

Re: About burning multisession CDs with gcombust/mkisofs [OT]

2001-03-14 Thread Julien.Soula
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I've this odd problem where when I make a second iso and cdrecord > it on to a multisession cd with the -multi option on, the burner > will burn it, but I'm unable to read it. How did you genrate the iso ? You must use options '-C' and '-M' of mkisofs. -- Julien

Re: visudo not vi?

2001-03-14 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 12:42:10AM -0800, Aaron Lehmann wrote: > would be excusable if it was emacs-compatable, but it's not. e3 > supports vi, emacs, wordstar, AND pico bindings. It just depends > whether you type vi, emacs, or pico to start it. .. but is not suitable as it's not portable. Hami

Re: Netscape/WindowMaker annoyance ("XmDisplay")

2001-03-14 Thread Morten Bo Johansen
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > on Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 02:55:05PM +0100, Morten Bo Johansen ([EMAIL > PROTECTED]) > > kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > on Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 10:11:56PM +0100, Morten Bo Johansen wrote: > > > > I am using Netscape 4.76 with WindowMaker 0.64.0 on a potato > >

Re: visudo not vi?

2001-03-14 Thread Peter Korsgaard
> "Hamish" == Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> would be excusable if it was emacs-compatable, but it's not. e3 >> supports vi, emacs, wordstar, AND pico bindings. It just depends >> whether you type vi, emacs, or pico to start it. Hamish> .. but is not suitable as it's not po

OT: Logitech cableless Wheelmouse distorts monitor

2001-03-14 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Hi! I am using a cableless Logitech wheelmouse at /dev/psaux with the imps/2 protocol. Sometimes the mice does not react, but this is seldom, so generally it works fine. But I discovered that in some applications, eg. mozilla, the cursor (arrow) distorts some lines on the monitor when I move it v

Re: No sound with CT5880 on board

2001-03-14 Thread f1k
Ok, thanks, I was confused about what belongs to OSS and what to Alsa. Removing the OSS kernel module (es1371) and installing alsa with its ens1371 and a bunch of others is the right way to do it. Not easy to find out if you haven't done it before. Should be written in a famous place. Besides, it

Re: Testing upgrade and consequences

2001-03-14 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 03:41:42PM -0600, Chad C. Walstrom wrote: > bash$ at /var/lib/dpkg/info/apache.md5sums | \ ^^ that would be "cat" (missing 'c') > > sed -e 's/usr/\/usr/g' | md5sum -v -c cu Torsten pgpCVF847yyIX.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: visudo not vi?

2001-03-14 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 11:03:39AM +0100, Peter Korsgaard wrote: > > "Hamish" == Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> would be excusable if it was emacs-compatable, but it's not. e3 > >> supports vi, emacs, wordstar, AND pico bindings. It just depends > >> whether you type vi,

Re: Something's missing? (konqueror is not loading .gif)

2001-03-14 Thread Brent P Buchholz
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 04:16:31AM -0300, Martin Marconcini wrote: > Hi > > The problem is that konkeror is not loading images (i believe that does > not > load .gif only, .jpg are loaded ok). I have been seeking dselect but were > Have you got a gif library installed? Try apt-get insta

Re: building a KERNEL?!

2001-03-14 Thread Carlos Laviola
On 14-Mar-2001 ktb wrote: > On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 02:30:03AM -0500, Mark Livingstone wrote: >> Re, >> >> what's the best way to build a kernel in Debian? or should i unpack the >> sources and do it as i used to do it in slackware? >> > > You can do it how you like but I would encourage you t

Re: Booting from SCSI when there is IDE

2001-03-14 Thread Harald Thingelstad
Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > More than 3 years ago someone filed a bug report that LILO doesn't support > booting from SCSI drives when there is an IDE drive in the system. > > I am not able to test this as I don't own any SCSI devices, and the person > who originally reported th

Re: Netscape/WindowMaker annoyance ("XmDisplay")

2001-03-14 Thread kmself
on Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 10:47:24AM +0100, Morten Bo Johansen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > > on Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 02:55:05PM +0100, Morten Bo Johansen ([EMAIL > > PROTECTED]) > > > > kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > > on Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 10:11:56PM +0

Re: isdn question

2001-03-14 Thread Harald Thingelstad
"Peter O. Fedichev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello > > for some time we have to use ISDN connection as a permanent Internet > connection for our server with a fixed IP address. Is there a simple way to > configure ISDN so that it authomatically goes back online if the connection > failed? >

Re: Locking propigation probelm samba to netatalk & netatalk to samba

2001-03-14 Thread Hauke Fath
At 22:17 Uhr +0100 13.03.2001, Frank Joerdens wrote: What I'm wondering is: Isn't the whole issue becoming somewhat moot with Mac OS X which has NFS support, and a flat filesystem to boot? Just about when the last "Classic" MacOS machine leaves the shop. I.e.: "Not yet." And, while NFS may

Fax software

2001-03-14 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
I need to set a fax server. I have seen there is hylafax and efax avaliable. Can somebody recomend? -- __ Daniel de los Reyes S2-Selling Soluciones Valencia Spain e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Debian GNU-Linux 2.2r2 __

Re: Fax software

2001-03-14 Thread M G Berberich
Hello, Am Mittwoch, den 14. März 2001 12:35:27 schrieb Daniel de los Reyes: > I need to set a fax server. I have seen there is hylafax and efax > avaliable. Can somebody recomend? IMHO: If you want to set up a fax-server (a machine that offers fax send/recieve as a service to other machines) tak

Re: No sound with CT5880 on board

2001-03-14 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Hallo f1k! I have a CT5880 on board and it definitely works with the es1371 driver. I first tried it with passive speakers where I could not hear anything. So I tried alsa, but could not really understand the documentation. So I tried it again with es1371 in a 2.2 kernel. And with aktive speakers

Re: No startx or xinit in sid?

2001-03-14 Thread b3
> I tried changing from woody to unstable and it seems to have > removed xfree86setup and there is no startx or xinit? How do I > proceed from here? Where does the documentation for this reside? Hmm...just a hunch... apt-get install xinit =) I remember having to do this was well, but in my

Re: question on Debian Official CD image

2001-03-14 Thread Susumu Takuwa
> On Mon, 12 Mar 2001 11:49:57 -0600 (CST) WONG YEUNG YAN writes: WYY> Pls see below: On some Linux, $ md5sum --version md5sum (GNU textutils) 2.0e $ cd /mnt/cdrom/ $ md5sum -c md5sum.txt | grep automake ./dists/potato/main/binary-i386/devel/automake_1.4-8.deb: OK ./dists/po

apt-cache search in srcpkgcache.bin..?

2001-03-14 Thread Morten Bo Johansen
Hi, Could someone help me with the syntax for searching the source cache.. I have tried something like apt-cache showpkg gimp -o Dir::Cache=/var/cache/apt/srcpkgcache.bin My source cache reflects the unstable archive But the command above still only gives me package information from my old

Packages to run kernel 2.4.x on potato (release 3)

2001-03-14 Thread Adrian Bunk
I have prepared the packages needed to run kernels up to 2.4.2 on a Debian 2.2r2 (potato) system. Please read [1] for more information. The most notably change since the last release is that I've added kernel images (these are the images that are currently in incoming). Changes since the last r

Re: New Install

2001-03-14 Thread mike polniak
Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 02:08:19PM -0800, Nick wrote: > > > > I think this guy spends too much time reading mail lists > > No, he just gives a shit about netiquette and asks others to do the > same. (Karsten is active on the list though; that's a good thing). No

Re: visudo not vi?

2001-03-14 Thread Peter Korsgaard
> "Hamish" == Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hamish> I thought somebody said they made a mistake and there is no C Hamish> version -- just the i386 assembler. No the package both contains an asm version for i386 machines and a version in C for other architectures. Someone said

Re: visudo not vi?

2001-03-14 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 01:47:06PM +0100, Peter Korsgaard wrote: > > "Hamish" == Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hamish> I thought somebody said they made a mistake and there is no C > Hamish> version -- just the i386 assembler. > > No the package both contains an asm version

ppp mystery

2001-03-14 Thread Gil Elad
Hi everyone. I'm completely new to both Linux and Debian so please forgive my stupidity. I've been trying for the past few weeks to connect to my ISP with no success using both pppconfig and wvdial. While both succeed in getting connected at a reasonable speed (49.3 kbps) neither can get passed

Xserver problems with unstable

2001-03-14 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
Hi: I recently changed from woody to unstable. Initially had some problems because some packages had been removed and others had not been installed. But by repeated use of apt-get -f now it seems OK. apt-get check gives no errors. However I have problems running Xwindows. I have an TVGA8900D

Re: URGENT: permissions of /dev/ttyS? are constantly getting reset

2001-03-14 Thread David Wright
Quoting Nico De Ranter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I'm installing a little ppp server for a special project. The ppp daemon > needs to be started by a non-root user. I've added the user to the dialout > group however the default permission are: > > crw-r-1 root dialout4, 64 Nov 30 16:

free software download

2001-03-14 Thread Jie Zou
Hi, all Where can I get the free debian software? Thanks in advance. --Jie Zou

Re: spontaneous partitions type changes (GRUB)

2001-03-14 Thread D-Man
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 12:50:31AM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: | On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 06:52:42PM -0500, D-Man wrote: | > I saw different symptons when I tried hiding the linux partitions from | > win2k, then not unhiding them from linux. The partition table wasn't | > messed up at all, I just

Re: Yamaha sound card (FW: pls help me)

2001-03-14 Thread Nick
On Monday 12 March 2001 15:59, D-Man wrote: > I got this message in private e-mail today. Melvin needs help > configuring a Yamaha sound card. Can anyone help? (cc replies to him > since his subscription was rejected (see below)) > > -D > > - Forwarded message from Melvin Sebastian <[EMAIL P

Re: ppp mystery

2001-03-14 Thread Gil Elad
I've just tried CHAP with no success. The result was exactly the same. I probably should have added in my original message that Windows connects using PAP. At 06:45 14/03/2001 -0700, you wrote: Hello There, Don't know if I can help much. But I was wondering if you have tried using both 'PAP

Re: Extra keys on keyboard

2001-03-14 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
I have written a keyboard definition for xkeycaps that lets you map those keys to useful keysyms. Let me know if you want it. noah On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 03:34:08AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 06:33:54PM -0800, Matheson Cameron wrote: > > > > I reconfigured X so t

RE: free software download

2001-03-14 Thread Carlos Laviola
On 14-Mar-2001 Jie Zou wrote: > > Hi, all > > Where can I get the free debian software? > > Thanks in advance. You must be kidding, but in case you really don't know, http://www.debian.org. > > --Jie Zou > > > > > -- Carlos Laviola - ICQ 55799523 pub 1024D/3516D372 2000-06-05 Carlos

RE: Xserver problems with unstable

2001-03-14 Thread Carlos Laviola
Did you try to link the X server like this: ln -s /usr/bin/X11/XFree86 /etc/X11/X It will probably work (works for me). On 14-Mar-2001 Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: > Hi: > > I recently changed from woody to unstable. Initially had some > problems because some packages had been removed and oth

Re: free software download

2001-03-14 Thread Moritz Schulte
Jie Zou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Where can I get the free debian software? Have you looked at http://www.debian.org/? moritz -- Moritz Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A1

RE: ppp mystery

2001-03-14 Thread Joris Lambrecht
just replying to the CHAP/PAP remark. To my knowledge that is not true. Windows 9x for sure uses CHAP and will, if i recall correctly, fall back to PAP. There is much to be said about the windows implementation of CHAP/PAP and so on. Running windowsupdates and checking the M$ knowledgebase might su

linux card

2001-03-14 Thread Matt Fair
Hello, I'm not sure if this had gone through last time I submitted this. I need to create a card that when scanned in a credit card scanner it connects to my server via the phone line. I would like to have the web server receive information like what someone purchased, who they purchased from and r

scp

2001-03-14 Thread Florian Steurer
hi! I try to write a backup (shell-)script and use the "scp"-command. It asks for a password, how can I automize the passwort prompt -> I mean that the password is direct read from the shell script, without prompting. I tried something with pipes and > < , but doesn't work. I also tried the -B opti

etherexpress card and modconf

2001-03-14 Thread Don Seiler
hullo. I'm having trouble getting my Intel EtherExpress card online. Using modconf, when I try at add the "eexpress" module, it first does an autoprobe and returns this: eexpress io = 0x300 irq = 0 (IRQ value read from EEPROM) So I assume I need to specify the irq. I _believe_ the ir

Re: scp

2001-03-14 Thread Andrew Perrin
The best option is to use RSA authentication instead of password. Use ssh-keygen to generate a public/private keyset, then copy the public key into ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on the remote host. Then it will authenticate without asking for a password. You must use a blank passphrase for this to work.

Re: linux card

2001-03-14 Thread D-Man
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 08:54:24AM -0600, Matt Fair wrote: | | I'm not sure if this had gone through last time I submitted this. | I need to create a card that when scanned in a credit card scanner it | connects to my server via the phone line. | | I would like to have the web server receive infor

Re: scp

2001-03-14 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 04:13:18PM +0100, Florian Steurer wrote: > I try to write a backup (shell-)script and use the "scp"-command. It > asks for a password, how can I automize the passwort prompt -> I mean > that the password is direct read from the shell script, without > prompting. I tried so

Re: scp

2001-03-14 Thread Christoph Simon
On Wed, 14 Mar 2001 16:13:18 +0100 Florian Steurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi! > I try to write a backup (shell-)script and use the "scp"-command. It > asks for a password, how can I automize the passwort prompt -> I mean > that the password is direct read from the shell script, without > pro

Re: wraping lines in mutt

2001-03-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
I do it slight differently, On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 01:22:43AM +, Janto Trappe wrote: > On Die, Mär 13, 2001 at 07:09:33 +0100, Daniel de los Reyes wrote: > > How do I wrap lines in mutt? .Currently I have smart_wrap in my > > .muttrc but it doesn't seem to be enough. > > If you use vim you c

Re: Extra keys on keyboard

2001-03-14 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 09:49:56AM -0500, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > I have written a keyboard definition for xkeycaps that lets you map > those keys to useful keysyms. Let me know if you want it. > OK, replying to my own mail... I've made the patch available for download. http://locust.lcs.mit

Re: ppp mystery

2001-03-14 Thread David Wright
Quoting Gil Elad ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I'm completely new to both Linux and Debian so please forgive my stupidity. > I've been trying for the past few weeks to connect to my ISP with no > success using both pppconfig and wvdial. > While both succeed in getting connected at a reasonable speed (49

IMAP & Netscape

2001-03-14 Thread Wilson Yau
Hi, I have installed IMAP 4.7 on a Debian Potato kernel 2.2.17 Linux server and Netscape 4.76-1 on a Debian Potato kernel 2.4.1 Linux workstation. How can I configured the IMAP SERVER so that the following can be enabled: Support for folder which contains both messages and sub-folders, i.e. fol

Re: email notification of new debian packages

2001-03-14 Thread andrea gelmini
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 09:26:37AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > Sorry - but isn't that called debian-devel-changes, only less frequent? well, no. what i need is a way to see new packages, only them. i've asked around, but everybody told me there were no way to have something like it. so i made a si

Re: dpkg bug?

2001-03-14 Thread David Wright
Quoting Timothy Bedding ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I think I have hit a bug in dpkg. I try to install an older > version of xlib6g but I get a failure because xlib6g depends > on libxaw6. However, I think only the new version of xlib6g (4.0.2) > depends on libxaw6. The old version (3.3.6 from potato) d

Re: linux card

2001-03-14 Thread Mike Dresser
D-Man wrote: > 3) figure out from the docs/driver how to receive input from the >scanner -- hopefully it has an interrupt to alert you that it has >input for you, > >the barcode scanners I use at one job connects through the keyboard >port. the terminal doesn't know whether it is

Re: sendmail: extra from line

2001-03-14 Thread Andy Spiegl
Brian May wrote: > The first one is used for mbox format to separate messages (as the > single file can contain any number of messages). Of course. But the second (quoted) one which probably was there before certainly isn't normal and shouldn't be there. I compared with other machines (running Su

Re: dpkg bug?

2001-03-14 Thread Tim Bedding
Dave Wright wrote > ..so you can't install lib6g_3.3.6-11potato15.deb. > So remove libxaw6 first. xlib6g depends on libxaw6. So I would have to force that remove too. See last email.

Re: scp

2001-03-14 Thread Carlos Laviola
On 14-Mar-2001 Christoph Simon wrote: > On Wed, 14 Mar 2001 16:13:18 +0100 > Florian Steurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> hi! >> I try to write a backup (shell-)script and use the "scp"-command. It >> asks for a password, how can I automize the passwort prompt -> I mean >> that the password is

Books

2001-03-14 Thread C Mead
Hi all, Just switched from RH but I'm not new to linux so i don't really need a install guide. Was hoping one of you could suggest some up to date Debian specific literature. One that would explain the nuances of Debian. I have checked the list of books on the recommended on the site but they seem

Re: Books

2001-03-14 Thread Mike Millner
Go to www.fatbrain.com and search on Debian. There is a book due to be published this month. I don't know if its good but I have high hopes that it will be good for just the exact things you talked about. Hope this helps, Mike - Original Message - From: "C Mead" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Se

Re: OT - ARP request ?

2001-03-14 Thread brian moore
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 01:39:52AM -0700, Jimmy Richards wrote: > On 14 Mar 2001 01:37:27 -0700, Jimmy Richards wrote: > > Hello There, > > > > I don't know too much about it, other than what it stands for Address > > Resolution Protocol. > > I know it's considered to be a 'low-level' protocol. >

Re: linux card

2001-03-14 Thread brian moore
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 11:07:40AM -0500, Mike Dresser wrote: > D-Man wrote: > > > 3) figure out from the docs/driver how to receive input from the > >scanner -- hopefully it has an interrupt to alert you that it has > >input for you, > > > >the barcode scanners I use at one job connec

Re: scp

2001-03-14 Thread Bill Wohler
Florian Steurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I try to write a backup (shell-)script and use the "scp"-command. It > asks for a password, how can I automize the passwort prompt -> I mean RTFM ;-). `man ssh' describes how you can copy your public key to your ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file on the r

A SSH question.

2001-03-14 Thread Ray Percival
I understand that this is not a Debian specific question but I'm hoping someone out there will be kind and explain this one in short easy to understand words. :) I'm trying to ssh into my Debian box on a DSL line setting behind a floppyfw based firewall. When I am at home I can SSH into that bo

Re: linux card

2001-03-14 Thread Mike Dresser
brian moore wrote: > > speaking of that, you might want to leave that option of keyboard/keypad > > entry > > open, in case the barcode is damaged, but the numbers are still readable. > > then > > you can still use the card until a new card is issued. > > And... then you may as well go to Radio

Re: xmh crashes

2001-03-14 Thread Robert Cymbala
--- Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Robert Cymbala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Last Sunday I handed a Toshiba T4700CT laptop back to a fellow LA > > Free-Net user, who will give it to a Vietnamese friend. There's > <80MB > > free space on HDD, so installing Emacs wasn't feasible. N

RE: A SSH question.

2001-03-14 Thread Jason P. Holland
Perhaps you should try using the -P option, which will use a non-privileged port for outgoing connections. Jason > > I understand that this is not a Debian specific question but I'm > hoping someone out there will be kind and explain this one in > short easy to understand words. :) I'm trying to

Re: Books

2001-03-14 Thread Jonathan Gift
C Mead wrote: > > Just switched from RH but I'm not new to linux so i don't really need a > install guide. Was hoping one of you could suggest some up to date Debian > specific literature. One that would explain the nuances of Debian. I have > checked the list of books on the recommended on the si

Re: ppp mystery

2001-03-14 Thread Ernest Johanson
Ernest Johanson Web Systems Administrator Fuller Theological Seminary On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Gil Elad wrote: > Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 15:28:31 +0200 > From: Gil Elad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: ppp mystery > > --=_1268914==_ > Content-Ty

Re: Use different cache dir for apt-get dist-upgrade

2001-03-14 Thread Gudmundur Erlingsson
You can solve this by making a directory in another more spacious partition (/home for example) and make /var/cache/apt/archives/ a symlink to that directory. hope this helps, Gudmundur On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 09:57:58PM -0500, Ian Patrick Thomas wrote: > I am in the process of upgrading m

Re: dpkg bug?

2001-03-14 Thread David Wright
Quoting Tim Bedding ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Dave Wright wrote > > ..so you can't install lib6g_3.3.6-11potato15.deb. > > So remove libxaw6 first. > > xlib6g depends on libxaw6. So I would have to force > that remove too. Yes, looking more carefully at the Packages files, your new xlib6g is really

Re: ppp mystery

2001-03-14 Thread Ernest Johanson
You might want to check your ppp options file and make sure you are using hardware handshaking. The relevant option is crtscts. Ernest Johanson Web Systems Administrator Fuller Theological Seminary On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Gil Elad wrote: > Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 16:47:58 +0200 > From: Gil Elad <[E

Re: Email client and conversion from Netscape Mail on win32

2001-03-14 Thread Justin B Rye
Mike Fedyk wrote: [...] > I'm going to keep my search to a text based email client, because I > don't like to have to use vnc to view my email from home... Mutt is > great in an Xterm, and picture viewing is good too. I wonder if mutt > can use links or netscape for html viewing... Anyone know?

Re: konqueror is not loading .gif

2001-03-14 Thread Scott_Patterson
>Hi >I run Sid/2.4.2 and KDE 2.1.1 (or whatever version corresponds to sid) > >The problem is that konkeror is not loading images (i believe that does not >load .gif only, .jpg are loaded ok). I have been seeking dselect but were >unable to find something relevant. Also it could be a qt

Re: Books

2001-03-14 Thread ^chewie
C Mead wrote: > Just switched from RH but I'm not new to linux so i don't really need a > install guide. Was hoping one of you could suggest some up to date Debian > specific literature. One that would explain the nuances of Debian. I have > checked the list of books on the recommended on the site

Re: A SSH question.

2001-03-14 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 10:05:40AM -0700, Ray Percival wrote: > I understand that this is not a Debian specific question but I'm > hoping someone out there will be kind and explain this one in > short easy to understand words. :) I'm trying to ssh into my > Debian box on a DSL line setting behin

Re: Use different cache dir for apt-get dist-upgrade

2001-03-14 Thread Rogelio E. Castillo Haro
Hi, I want to upgrade my potato to sid is that right? What should I do? Which are the source.lists lines or where may I found it? TIA -- Rogelio E. Castillo Haro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vive libre o muere!!! Linux 2001 :)

RE: Books

2001-03-14 Thread Holp, John Mr.
Not too many weeks ago I was looking for the same thing. I ended up with the book Debina GNU/Linux 2.1 Unleashed. It does have 1120 pages in it but as you indicate it is a little outdated. I run Debian 2.2.17 here in my office and it seems to serve okay in that capacity. The book seems to serve

question about using groff to format ASCII text

2001-03-14 Thread idalton
I need to convert an ASCII text document to dvi, and I need to make the finished document double spaced with 12-point font. I need to do so without embedding any formatting directives in the ASCII document. The man pages and documentation for troff and groff (which I would like to use) are not ve

Re: ppp mystery (fwd)

2001-03-14 Thread Ernest Johanson
Sorry for the earlier message with a null body. Here's what I intended to post. You might want to check your ppp options file and make sure you are using hardware handshaking. The relevant option is crtscts. Ernest Johanson Web Systems Administrator Fuller Theological Seminary On Wed, 14 Mar 2

some usefull tip for the installation of Debian 2.2v2

2001-03-14 Thread Sergio Andreozzi
I want to install on my PC Debian Linux. I need the Xfree86 4 because my video card is based on intel 82815. I also would like to install Ximian Gnome 1.2 I tried to do that in the following way: 1. base system installation from Debian Potato 2. packages installation from dselect using http conn

Re: KDE for woody

2001-03-14 Thread Gudmundur Erlingsson
I haven't been able to connect to the kde.tdyc.com server for the last two days (the connection always times out), so I was wondering if there was a mirror site available? Gudmundur On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 09:01:21PM +0800, #KUNDAN KUMAR# wrote: > kde2.1 debs can be have from > > deb http://kde.

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