Re: custom packages

2001-05-06 Thread David Monarres
mad_duck, [package]/debian/rules is where you would usually add extra configure flags. then I think that you can do a dch -i to cahnge the package version David Monarres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Sat, 05 May 2001 08:09:26 MaD dUCK wrote: > so i would like to customize the fetchmail build i use - and

Re: bad bios (i think)

2001-05-06 Thread Propper family
Yeah, when I got it it worked OK for a win2k system, then oneday when I booted it up, poof it was pissed.  I was hoping that the problem was just that win2k sux and that putting linux on it would fix it.  Oh well,  I have a new door stop. --Greg   Hall Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I jus

Re: bad bios (i think)

2001-05-06 Thread Propper family
Yeah, when I got it it worked OK for a win2k system, then oneday when I booted it up, poof it was pissed.  I was hoping that the problem was just that win2k sux and that putting linux on it would fix it.  Oh well,  I have a new door stop. --Greg   Hall Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I jus

Re: a printer for Linux

2001-05-06 Thread Steve R. Hastings
Okay, here's my two cents on this topic. Some printer are easier to get working under Linux than others. PostScript printers should be very easy to get working, as the Linux/UNIX world pretty much has standardized on PostScript. If you get a non-PostScript printer, you need software on your

Re: a printer for Linux

2001-05-06 Thread Steve R. Hastings
In my previous email, I used the Optra E312L printer as an example. For Linux use, you probably want the Optra E312, not the E312L; the 'L' version is PCL-only but the E312 supports postscript. The E312 is $380 at buy.com: http://www.us.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=10251756 I personally

Re: a printer for Linux

2001-05-06 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 10:36:41PM -0700, Steve R. Hastings wrote: > In my previous email, I used the Optra E312L printer as an example. For > Linux use, you probably want the Optra E312, not the E312L; the 'L' > version is PCL-only but the E312 supports postscript. > > > The E312 is $380 at b

Can't Connect to ISP

2001-05-06 Thread hammack
I've RTFMs.  Running Debian 2.2.18.  Here are the applicable conf files.  I think??  It looks like it's not getting the "ppp" as an option after the password.   TIA  John   host.conf file order hosts,bind multi on resolv.conf search [EMAIL PROTECTED]nameserver 199.120.150.1 wvdial.conf fil

Re: can't install debian after freebsd?

2001-05-06 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 09:16:59PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > normal debian installing program > /dev/hda1 -->/dev/hda1 > /dev/hda2(freebsd)--?? > /dev/hda3 > /dev/hda5->/dev/hda8 > /dev

Re: Can't Connect to ISP

2001-05-06 Thread Joost van der Lugt
* hammack ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010505 23:12]: >I've RTFMs. Running Debian 2.2.18. Here are the applicable conf files. I >think?? It looks like it's not getting the "ppp" as an option after the >password. TIA John I've never seen this request, however pppconfig has a pre-login option, whe

Emacs sends mail, but doesn't show-up in exim.

2001-05-06 Thread Robert Cymbala
I COULD USE some advice on where to begin trouble-shooting the following problem. Sometimes email that I send from Emacs (using C-x m compose-mail) does _not_ appear in exim. Buffer *Messages* says "sending... done" but sometimes the email does not appear in /var/spool/exim/input (they accumulat

missing /lib/security/pam_condev.so?

2001-05-06 Thread shaulka
[10:04:32 tmp]$ tail -6 /var/log/syslog.0 May 6 06:40:40 rakefet: PAM unable to dlopen(/lib/security/pam_condev.so) May 6 06:40:40 rakefet: PAM [dlerror: /lib/security/pam_condev.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory] May 6 06:40:40 rakefet: PAM adding faulty

Re: Getting realplayer streams to disk files

2001-05-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, May 05, 2001 at 09:40:56PM -0700, Steve R. Hastings ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > Better to advocate open alternative streaming technologies. > > I agree completely. > > > MP3 is one such. > > Sorry, I do not agree. As long as there are patents controlling MP

Re: Stopping vim from auto-indenting

2001-05-06 Thread Andre Berger
* Karsten M. Self , 2001-05-06 01:57 +0200: > on Sat, May 05, 2001 at 08:27:19AM -0400, MaD dUCK ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > also sprach mdevin (on Sat, 05 May 2001 09:20:15PM +1000): > > > How do you stop this from happening? > > > > actually, set noautoindent won't cut it if you have smartind

A mess with startx, xdm and gnome

2001-05-06 Thread Victor
I had installed gnome and xdm under potato 2.2r3 and XFree86 3.3.6 on my workstation . Sometimes I used startx and some other time xdm to launch gnome and all had been working great. Yesterday, because I wanted to install the Gimp 1.2 resorting to the debian unstable site packages, I issued th

Re: Re[2]: can't install debian after freebsd?

2001-05-06 Thread Dehui Peng
Hi, I had the same problem before. cfdisk does have some problems. you might want to install debian without swap and then create/configure swap manually. I installed win2k/freebsd 4.2/debian-kernel-2.4 in my own machine successfully. Dehui --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello Carel, > >D

Re: A mess with startx, xdm and gnome

2001-05-06 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 10:54:49AM +, Victor wrote: > I had installed gnome and xdm under potato 2.2r3 and XFree86 3.3.6 on my > workstation . Sometimes I used startx and some other time xdm to launch gnome > and all had been working great. > Yesterday, because I wanted to install the Gimp 1

2 problems with pppconfig

2001-05-06 Thread a
i have Debian 2.1 and i run pppconfig. Strangely my CDROM is read. From the ps command: PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND 105 2 S0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty2 106 3 S0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty3 107 4 S0:00 -bash 108 5 S0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty5 109 6 S0:00 /sbin/getty 3

Re: Gnome Packages annoyances

2001-05-06 Thread Preben Randhol
"Karsten M. Self" wrote on 06/05/2001 (11:34) : > If it's a Debian package (e.g.: not Ximian), file a Debian bug. Yes, but why isn't this problem picked up by the package process before the package gets out there? And for bug report it would be great if there was a program out there that could

Re: LOGO (with the turtle)

2001-05-06 Thread Preben Randhol
"Karsten M. Self" wrote on 06/05/2001 (11:34) : > on Sat, May 05, 2001 at 08:11:44PM -0400, Andrew Hagen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > Does anyone know of a free Linux implementation of LOGO computer > > language? (The LOGO with the turtle.) Are there debs available? > > Note that it's prefe

Re: Gnome Packages annoyances

2001-05-06 Thread Brian May
> "Preben" == Preben Randhol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Preben> Why is there always problems with files being in two gnome Preben> packages. I only ask to get a rationale, not to blame the Preben> packagers. Gnome is a big complex system, but I'm just Preben> wondering why th

Re: LOGO (with the turtle)

2001-05-06 Thread Preben Randhol
Preben Randhol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 06/05/2001 (12:23) : > "Karsten M. Self" wrote on 06/05/2001 (11:34) : > > Note that it's preferable to compose a new message rather than replying > > to an existing thread when starting a new topic. Your post is threaded > > beneath a discussion on st

Re: Test existence of shell variable, bash, csh

2001-05-06 Thread Tommi Komulainen
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 07:25:35PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Sun, May 06, 2001 at 02:22:40AM +0300, Tommi Komulainen ([EMAIL > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > if test "${LANG+set}" = set; then LANG=C; export LANG; fi > > Close, but not quite. It's probably the nearest thing to a winner I've

Re: ipchains packets logs get displayed on active tty (SOLVED)

2001-05-06 Thread Michael Steiner
Lindsay Allen wrote: > Thank you, thank you. > > I just checked to see if you had filed a bug report and found that the bug > (and the fix) had been filed 11 days ago. > > One good thing about this bug is that all those console messages about my > ipchains REJECTs and DENYs resulted in a better

[OT] Mutt Threading (was Re: LOGO (with the turtle))

2001-05-06 Thread Sean Quinlan
* Preben Randhol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-05-06 11:19): > "Karsten M. Self" wrote on 06/05/2001 (11:34) : > > Note that it's preferable to compose a new message rather than replying > > to an existing thread when starting a new topic. Your post is threaded > > beneath a discussion on storage in

Using Samba 2.2 as PDC

2001-05-06 Thread Florian Petri
Hi! I tried to setup the domain "dom1" on my samba server "smb1". So I changed my smb.conf and put all the stuff I need for a domain in it and restarted samba 2.2 (final). Samba sarted and I could use "smb1" as fileserver. Now I tried to join the domain dom1 with a NT4 Ws. I added the machine acc

Re: Page-up/Page-down keys and shell history

2001-05-06 Thread Lindsay Allen
On Sat, 5 May 2001, Joost van der Lugt wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been looking into this for a litle bit and am unable to find an > answer. This is a feature AFAIK only implemented by SuSE: > > At a prompt type one or more characters then use Page Up/Page Down > to scroll through all commands tha

searching HTML editor

2001-05-06 Thread Timeboy
Hi! Is there any other cool gtk based IDE for HTML code like bluefish in potato 2.2r3? Timo

Re: Command-line arguments for CD drive

2001-05-06 Thread Sean Quinlan
* Barry Kirsten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-05-06 00:57): > > * Barry Kirsten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-05-05 22:40): > > >I'm having trouble getting Debian to recognise my CD-drive, even > > >though it will boot and install >from same. For the third time I have > > >trashed everything an

installing 3d support (glide,opengl) for my banshee card under xfree 3.3.6

2001-05-06 Thread Jan Torben Heuer
Hey folks, i want to use my banshee card with 3d support under xfree 3.3.6 (because i want to stay at my stable potato distribution, so i can't install xfree4, or?) OpenGL seems to work, the opengl screensaver under kde work. But there doesn't seem to be any glide support, because neither "test

samba 2.2.0-final + %U patch

2001-05-06 Thread Lindsay Allen
I managed to patch the sid samba 2.2.0-final debs to include Jerremy's %U patch, which means that I can actually use 2.2.0. If anyone else is interested in having my NMU debs, send me private email and I will send the package. I would put it on a web page but I am on the end of a slow modem conn

GNU Emacs / XEmacs tip #(incf emacsen-tip-number)

2001-05-06 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
I just did an "apt-get source" in the course of gathering mise en place to study OpenLDAP, and needed a quick way to review the man pages for all of the Build-Depends libraries, etc. Here's my five minute solution. First, I visited "debian/control", and used "C-space C-e M-w"[1] to grab a

Re: 2 problems with pppconfig

2001-05-06 Thread John Hasler
> i have Debian 2.1 and i run pppconfig. Strangely my CDROM is read. When you run pppconfig, or when you run pon? > From the ps command: > ... Which of these processes did you start? > 2nd problem: after pppconfig I type pon but can't connect. It appears that ppp is not starting up at the othe

AA with potato (strictly)

2001-05-06 Thread Viktor Lakics
Hi All, I know this was discussed in this list already, I did my homework, read the archives, but I am still confused. Here is my problem: I have stock potato 2.2.r3 with XFree 3.3.6. and Ivan's KDE for potato. I want to get antialised fonts work n KDE with as less unstable packages as it is poss

Re: Getting realplayer streams to disk files

2001-05-06 Thread Sean
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > > > > I'm just amazed that it is so important to block us from caching > > postage-stamp sized movie commercials, and 10-second snips of music. > > What I hate is that with RealPlayer, I have seen "net congestion" errors > > even the *second* time I

Re: Using Samba 2.2 as PDC

2001-05-06 Thread Sean
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 06 May 2001 08:14, Florian Petri wrote: > Hi! > > > I tried to setup the domain "dom1" on my samba server "smb1". So I changed > my smb.conf and put all the stuff I need for a domain in it and restarted > samba 2.2 (final). > Samba sarted and

Re: Can't Connect to ISP

2001-05-06 Thread John Hasler
Joost van der Lugt writes: > ...where does pre-login go? At first thought I would assume this would be > before the login name is given,... It is. He needs "Post-login", which shows in the "Advanced" menu when "Chat" authentication is selected. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Danc

Re: can't install debian after freebsd?

2001-05-06 Thread Carel Fellinger
[[ please put your remarks *below* the quoted text, preserves context and makes replying soo much more fun ]] On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 03:34:48AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System ..snipped normal looking output of fdisk > I mean debian

Re: LOGO (with the turtle)

2001-05-06 Thread Andrew Hagen
Sorry about replying as opposed to starting a new thread. Thanks for the help. Andrew Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Need Help with chroot systax, not covered in docs..

2001-05-06 Thread John Foster
Here is what I want to do; I have a dual boot system with partitions: /stable and partition /unstable. I want to mount /unstable to directory /stable/unstable after doing so I issue command; 'chroot /unstable apt-get update' 'chroot /unstable apt-get upgrade' What happens is that all of the pro

Linksys EtherFast NIC, full duplex?

2001-05-06 Thread Jack
Hi, I have two machine connected using crossover cable and LinkSys EtherFast 10/100 Cards. (same card on both machine). I only get 4-5Mbyte/sec when ftp or nfs between each other. Both machine are running Woody. I am sure it's not the best it can get with those NICs. I can get 9-10Mbytes/sec

Re: Slow Cable Modem Revisited

2001-05-06 Thread W. Paul Mills
The DFE-530TX+ works fine for me on cable modem. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jaldhar H. Vyas) writes: > Suddenly it occurred to me that the slowdown I'd started seeing with my > @home service began occurring right arounf the time I took my LinkSys > Etherlink II card (uses ne2k-pci driver) out and replac

Re: Test existence of shell variable, bash, csh

2001-05-06 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Saturday, May 5, Ethan Benson did write: > On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 02:34:47PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > This came up on another list. The problem involves testing existence of > > a Unix shell variable from another program with limited system > > interaction features. > > > > I us

Re: Does apsfilter work?

2001-05-06 Thread Dale Morris
I had *lots* of problems with this, what eventually worked best for me was to install lprng package and go the lprng webpage. There it gives instructions and commands to set the proper permissions. After that, everything works well. HTH [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi Nelson, > d

Re: Emacs sends mail, but doesn't show-up in exim.

2001-05-06 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 11:47:24PM -0700, Robert Cymbala wrote: > > Mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" gets into exim's queue, but mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" does _not_. Mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > does _not_ appear in exim. Glad I caught that fact, but I wonder how > many other messages disappear

SSH-2.4.0 ./configure error

2001-05-06 Thread J . Ramón Fdez
I'm trying install ssh in my firewall linux box, when system run ./confugre in ssh-2.4.0 directrory the next error message is displayed: checking whether the C compilier (gcc -g) works...no configure error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot create executalbles. Where

Re: a printer for Linux

2001-05-06 Thread Alan Shutko
"Steve R. Hastings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am a huge fan of the HP inkjet printers (and I'm eagerly waiting > for drivers as good as the ones for Windows). http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/ -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! "The Computer made me do it."

Re: Emacs sends mail, but doesn't show-up in exim.

2001-05-06 Thread Alan Shutko
Robert Cymbala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I COULD USE some advice on where to begin trouble-shooting the > following problem. Sometimes email that I send from Emacs (using C-x > m compose-mail) does _not_ appear in exim. Are you sure it isn't in exim's queue? Run mailq as root... mailq as a

Re: LS120 drive

2001-05-06 Thread Dale Morris
I have a LS-120 (Superdisc) on a compac that I've used with linux. don't like it.. If convenient, or you're buying, I would get a zip drive. Sebastiaan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, 4 May 2001, [iso-8859-2] Szatori Péter wrote: > > > Hi > > > > At home I use a LS-120 drive and yes if you bu

XFree 4.0.3 for woody

2001-05-06 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
Hi i saw that sid has allrady Xfree 4.0.3 included? When will woody be updated? cheers, Raffaele -- Raffaele Sandrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For encrypted Mail get my Public Key from "search.keyserver.net" ID is: 0xEC4950E9 Fingerprint: FFEA 3317 8624 4771 A05D 2AFA 46A2 A22B EC49 50E9

ATI Radeon compatibility

2001-05-06 Thread C+J Baker
I need to know if your product supports the new ATI Radeon chip. Please reply. Thank you. C. Baker _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

Re: Using Samba 2.2 as PDC

2001-05-06 Thread Bostjan Muller
* On 06-05-01 at 14:59 Sean ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: +Here quoted text begins+ > On Sunday 06 May 2001 08:14, Florian Petri wrote: > > Hi! > > [...] > > Any ideas? I have no idea what's wrong... > > > > cu Floh > > Unless I'm mistaken, SAMBA can only act as a BDC of an existing NT/2000

Re: Page-up/Page-down keys and shell history

2001-05-06 Thread Joost van der Lugt
* Lindsay Allen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010506 08:53]: >On Sat, 5 May 2001, Joost van der Lugt wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I've been looking into this for a litle bit and am unable to find an >> answer. This is a feature AFAIK only implemented by SuSE: >> >> At a prompt type one or more characters the

Re: SSH-2.4.0 ./configure error

2001-05-06 Thread Simon Law
On Sat, 5 May 2001, J. [iso-8859-1] Ram?n Fdez wrote: > I'm trying install ssh in my firewall linux box, when system run ./confugre > in ssh-2.4.0 directrory the next error message is displayed: > > checking whether the C compilier (gcc -g) works...no > configure error: installation or confi

Re: ATI Radeon compatibility

2001-05-06 Thread Simon Law
On Sun, 6 May 2001, C+J Baker wrote: > I need to know if your product supports the new ATI Radeon chip. > Please reply. Thank you. > > C. Baker I'm not sure if stable (potato) has much support for Radeon cards, but I definitely know that unstable (sid) does. IIRC, Radeon support is co

Re: Can't Connect to ISP

2001-05-06 Thread V.Suresh
How about having the Stupid Mode =1 option in wvdial.conf. I think that will send ppp first and then authenticate. May help. Once upon a time, Joost van der Lugt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> found a keyboard. And typed: >* hammack ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010505 23:12]: >>I've RTFMs. Running Debian 2.

Re: tcpdump broken by upgrade (Potato)

2001-05-06 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: tcpdump broken by upgrade (Potato) Date: Wed, May 02, 2001 at 10:22:31AM -0400 In reply to:Wayne Topa Quoting Wayne Topa([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Has anyone else (using the 2.4.4 kernel packages) lost tcpdump? Replying to my own message: Forget it! The problem turned out

Re: Can't Connect to ISP

2001-05-06 Thread Dana J . Laude
On Sun, 06 May 2001 01:00:09 hammack wrote: > I've RTFMs. Running Debian 2.2.18. Here are the applicable conf files. I think?? It looks like it's not getting the "ppp" as an option after the password. TIA John > It looks like you're not in the group "dip" for pppd. Su and then issue

vim tip-o-rama

2001-05-06 Thread will trillich
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 11:01:11AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Sat, May 05, 2001 at 08:27:19AM -0400, MaD dUCK ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > also sprach mdevin (on Sat, 05 May 2001 09:20:15PM +1000): > > > How do you stop this from happening? > > > > actually, set noautoindent won't cut it

Re: Example of "date" sytax to return a date in the past?

2001-05-06 Thread will trillich
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 09:25:03AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > P.S. if the gnu info browser gives you the heebie jeebies, try using pinfo -- > works like lynx. MANY THANKS for that one! yay pinfo! (and look which tip showed up by serendipity -- really!) -- DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #11 from Wil

noel@koethe.net: attempt to reply re postgresql

2001-05-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
My reply to Noel Koethe fell foul of an over-enthusiastic spam-blocking policy. I repost it here in case he may be able to see it and so that anyone at uni-bonn.de can tell their administrators that they're blocking the wrong stuff. =

Re: power off on shutdown doesn't work

2001-05-06 Thread mike polniak
Akop Pogosian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 3 May 2001, Nate Amsden wrote: > > > Akop Pogosian wrote: > > > > > > Linux kernel has a feature that enables a machine capable of turning > > > the power off on it's own to do so with "shutdown -h.." or "poweroff" > > > commands. I used to rely

Re: AA with potato (strictly)

2001-05-06 Thread Gordon Sadler
On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 04:15:24PM +0200, Jens Benecke wrote: > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org, debian-kde@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: AA with potato (strictly) > Mail-Followup-To: debian-user@lists.debian.org, debian-kde@lists.debian.org > From: Jens Benecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Sun,

Re: XFree 4.0.3 for woody

2001-05-06 Thread Timeboy
On Sun, 6 May 2001 17:56:27 +0200, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: *Hi * * i saw that sid has allrady Xfree 4.0.3 included? * When will woody be updated? Hi Raffaele! You could update your xfree86 to 4.0.3 by hand. Downloading the packages from www.debian.org and doing as root: dpkg -i More then 2

Re: a printer for Linux

2001-05-06 Thread mike polniak
Glenn Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I have lived w/o a printer both at home and at work for some time now. If > I need anything printed I've done so from a Mac or Windows PC. Probably > sheer laziness. > > Now, however, I want to do a bit of self-publishing (poetry), and I'm > los

webmin

2001-05-06 Thread Jim Darrough
Can I obtain and install Webmin using apt-get? Thanks, Jim Darrough Jim Darrough, ARS KI7AY [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ki7ay.com

Re: XFree 4.0.3 for woody

2001-05-06 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Timeboy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > I have a great running 4.0.3 on potato. Needet only to > update to libc6_2.2. Mh, I added this line to my sources.list deb http://people.debian.org/~branden/ woody/i386/ But there were too many hold packages. And a warning AFAIR about libc6. Is it safe to

Re: webmin

2001-05-06 Thread freedman
On Sun, May 06, 2001, Jim Darrough wrote: > Can I obtain and install Webmin using apt-get? > > Thanks, Jim Darrough > > Jim Darrough, ARS KI7AY > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.ki7ay.com Hi Jim, Searching at 'http://packages.debian.org', webmin is available in unstable, but not potato. See: '

Sendmail bug still biting

2001-05-06 Thread Michelle Murrain
Hi folks, I'm running debian woody, and got bit by what *I think* was bug 94103, where I get the error "Cannot open database /etc/mail/aliases.db: Invalid argument" when I try to run newaliases, and also my aliases aren't working, and my mail logs are full of errors like this. I read about bug

xserver-sis 0.990907-2.deb

2001-05-06 Thread peter.millard2
Hello Debian   I have tried many times to get my SiS6326 graphics card on debian 2.2r2 without success . I was going round the debian site and found that the driver is not free so is not include in the disks   xserver-sis 0.990907-2.deb is the correct driver which i saved on download on to a

Re: vim tip-o-rama

2001-05-06 Thread Glyn Millington
will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > -- > DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #15 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > : > Is there a good place to learn snarky PERL TECHNIQUES? One of > my favorites is http://webtechniques.com, where Randall Schwartz > contributes a monthly sample, explaining li

Re: Getting realplayer streams to disk files

2001-05-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, May 06, 2001 at 08:46:33AM -0400, Sean ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > > > I'm just amazed that it is so important to block us from caching > > > postage-stamp sized movie commercials, and 10-second snips of music. > > > What I hate

Re: Postfix or Exim?

2001-05-06 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 10:40:21AM +1000, mdevin wrote: > Look, I know this is a flame bait question. I was interested in trying > Postfix because I thought it may be more customisable and easier to set > up. However, I had trouble getting it to work because it complained > that port 25 was alrea

Re: Test existence of shell variable, bash, csh

2001-05-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, May 06, 2001 at 01:54:26PM +0300, Tommi Komulainen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 07:25:35PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Sun, May 06, 2001 at 02:22:40AM +0300, Tommi Komulainen ([EMAIL > > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > > > if test "${LANG+set}" = set; then LAN

Re: LOGO (with the turtle)

2001-05-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, May 06, 2001 at 12:19:56PM +0200, Preben Randhol ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > "Karsten M. Self" wrote on 06/05/2001 (11:34) : > > on Sat, May 05, 2001 at 08:11:44PM -0400, Andrew Hagen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > Does anyone know of a free Linux implementation of LOGO computer >

Re: wet blue

2001-05-06 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 04:28:58AM +, Frederico S. Mu?oz wrote: > On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 07:27:28PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Sun, May 06, 2001 at 04:09:46AM +0300, tmefnl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > DEAR SIR , > > > WE ARE INTERESTED TO BUY WET BLUE SPLIT CATTLE HIDES , WITH F

Re: SSH-2.4.0 ./configure error

2001-05-06 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 12:17:40 -0400, Simon Law wrote: > > checking whether the C compilier (gcc -g) works...no > > configure error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot > > create executalbles. > Do you happen to have gcc installed? It seems like make can't find it. > Perh

Re: XFree 4.0.3 for woody

2001-05-06 Thread Timeboy
On 06 May 2001 20:50:31 +0200, Jan Ulrich Hasecke wrote: **Timeboy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: ** ** > I have a great running 4.0.3 on potato. Needet only to ** > update to libc6_2.2. ** ** Mh, I added this line to my sources.list ** deb http://people.debian.org/~branden/ woody/i386/ ** ** Bu

Re: Shutdown/switching computer power off automatically ?

2001-05-06 Thread Akop Pogosian
On Fri, 4 May 2001, Oki DZ wrote: > Darren Wyn Rees wrote: > > What is Linux Mandrake doing differently, say compared with a recent > > Debian, which just hangs at "power down/off" ? > > The difference is on the setting of the kernel. > I use Debian and my system get powered off after "poweroff" c

KDE printing to cups

2001-05-06 Thread Matthew Sackman
Hay all. So how do you do it then? I really can't work out how to get kde to print to cups. Any ideas? I normally just print with a pipe to lp -d LaserJet. In all the kde apps there is just listed a generic dot-matrix printer, but printing to it does sod all. Thanks, Matthew -- Matthew S

Re: Shutdown/switching computer power off automatically ?

2001-05-06 Thread Akop Pogosian
On Thu, 3 May 2001, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 07:56:19AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > > Darren Wyn Rees wrote: > > > What is Linux Mandrake doing differently, say compared with a recent > > > Debian, which just hangs at "power down/off" ? > > > > The difference is on the setting o

ISA and PCI network cards

2001-05-06 Thread Matthew Sackman
Hay all (again), I've got to install a box with two network cards. I've got a nasty feeling that I'm going to end up with an ISA and a PCI both of which are compatible with the ns2000 driver module. So, onto my questions: both of them are PnP (oh really? - the ns2000 driver is not plug and play o

Re: AA with potato (strictly)

2001-05-06 Thread mike polniak
Viktor Lakics <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi All, > > I know this was discussed in this list already, I did my homework, > read the archives, but I am still confused. Here is my problem: > > I have stock potato 2.2.r3 with XFree 3.3.6. and Ivan's KDE for > potato. I want to get antialised font

A mess with startx, xdm and gnome

2001-05-06 Thread Victor
I had installed gnome and xdm under potato 2.2r3 and XFree86 3.3.6 on my workstation . Sometimes I used startx and some other time xdm to launch gnome and all had been working great. Yesterday, because I wanted to install the Gimp 1.2 resorting to the debian unstable site packages, I issued the

Re: Shutdown/switching computer power off automatically ?

2001-05-06 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 01:54:04PM -0700, Akop Pogosian wrote: > On Thu, 3 May 2001, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > Well, this distro _does_ include APM support compiled into the kernel. > > However, that support is turned off by default because it's insane to > > not support the least common denominat

Re: webmin

2001-05-06 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Sun, 6 May 2001, Jim Darrough wrote: > Can I obtain and install Webmin using apt-get? > You certainly can. install webmin or webmin-ssl (the latter is preferred for extra security) plus webmin-core then do: $ apt-cache search webmin to see the various other webmin modules available. -- Ja

Re: A mess with startx, xdm and gnome

2001-05-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, May 06, 2001 at 10:54:49AM +, Victor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I had installed gnome and xdm under potato 2.2r3 and XFree86 3.3.6 on my > workstation . Sometimes I used startx and some other time xdm to launch gnome > and all had been working great. > > Yesterday, because I wanted

mouse wheel scrolling

2001-05-06 Thread geekmitul
Hi all, I am trying to get my USB MS Intellimouse to scroll in Linux. I have downloaded and installed imwheel 0.9.9. My Pointer section in the XF86Config-4 is as follows. Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "IntelliMous

Re: Need Help with chroot systax, not covered in docs..

2001-05-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, May 06, 2001 at 08:31:09AM -0500, John Foster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Here is what I want to do; I have a dual boot system with partitions: > /stable and partition /unstable. I want to mount /unstable to directory > /stable/unstable after doing so I issue command; > 'chroot /unsta

mouse wheel scrolling

2001-05-06 Thread lin_newbie
Hi all, I am trying to get my USB MS Intellimouse to scroll in Linux. have downloaded and installed imwheel 0.9.9. My Pointer section in the XF86Config-4 is as follows. Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "Intel

Re: Where's lame

2001-05-06 Thread Preben Randhol
Viktor Rosenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 06/05/2001 (11:34) : > Hi, > > how come, lame is nowhere in Debian? Not even in sid? Or libmp3lame > for that matter. Forget MP3, Ogg Vorbis is better as it is free : http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/index.html And there are packages in sid (perh

microtech cameramate usb

2001-05-06 Thread Charles Lewis
Anyone successfully get cameramate working? If so do you just need to enable usb storage in the kernel to get it working? What is device is used, /dev/scdb? I'm wanting to use it to get pictures off of my camera (compactflash) and to load pictures onto a portable mp3 device (smartmedia). -- Char

Re: Test existence of shell variable, bash, csh

2001-05-06 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 02:34:47PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > This came up on another list. The problem involves testing existence of > a Unix shell variable from another program with limited system > interaction features. ... >$?MYVAR > > ...which allows testing of presence of a variabl

Mail-Followup-To (Re: Shutdown/switching computer power offautomatically ?)

2001-05-06 Thread Akop Pogosian
On Sun, 6 May 2001, Nathan E Norman wrote: > BTW, your mailer appears to be broken as it completely ignored my > Mail-Followup-To: header. I read the lists and I neither need nor > appreciate Cc:s > I use pine and it apparently ignores Mail-Followup-To. However, it does honor the Reply-To: head

Re: Sendmail bug still biting

2001-05-06 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
The quick fix to this problem until it's resolved is to not run the sendmailconfig script. Remove the aliases.db and run newaliases by hand. You may also need to chown root:root *.db while in the /etc/mail directory as I have to do that with the current version in unstable or else the serve

Re: Emacs sends mail, but doesn't show-up in exim.

2001-05-06 Thread Robert Cymbala
Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Robert Cymbala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I COULD USE some advice on where to begin trouble-shooting the >> following problem. Sometimes email that I send from Emacs (using C-x >> m compose-mail) does _not_ appear in exim. > >Are you sure it isn't in

[off topic] about terminology

2001-05-06 Thread raphael calvelli
Hello everyone, I hope this question is not too much off topic, but this looks a good place to ask it: - "free software" is confusing because "free" is "freedom" and "zero costing" together; - "open source" is also confusing because of the slight differences between GPL and just Open source

Re: [off topic] about terminology

2001-05-06 Thread Michael Wardle
raphael calvelli wrote: > - "free software" is confusing because "free" is "freedom" and "zero > costing" together; > > So, what about use of the term "libre software" ? It is already > working in italian "libero", french "libre" and spanish "libre". "gratis software" would be a good term, since

Re: [off topic] about terminology

2001-05-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, May 07, 2001 at 12:39:59AM +0100, raphael calvelli ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I hope this question is not too much off topic, but this looks a good > place to ask it: > > - "free software" is confusing because "free" is "freedom" and "zero >costing" together;

Re: [off topic] about terminology

2001-05-06 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 12:39:59AM +0100, raphael calvelli wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I hope this question is not too much off topic, but this looks a good > place to ask it: > > - "free software" is confusing because "free" is "freedom" and "zero > costing" together; only in the broken engl

Re: [off topic] about terminology

2001-05-06 Thread Michael Wardle
Michael Wardle wrote: > > raphael calvelli wrote: > > - "free software" is confusing because "free" is "freedom" and "zero > > costing" together; > > > > So, what about use of the term "libre software" ? It is already > > working in italian "libero", french "libre" and spanish "libre". > > "grati

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