Re: Help with creating installation CDs

2001-07-21 Thread Paul Mackinney
Giri X muttered: > hi > I am trying to install Debian GNU/Linux on my PC. I wanted to know > if i culd burn the images that are in formats like .bin, .exe, .bat and use > them for installation. I have access to CD writers only on Windows. The CD > writer software is DirectCD. > Thanx and Regards

Re: follow-up to my queries on folders in mutt

2001-07-21 Thread Paul Mackinney
Sam Varghese muttered: > thanks to those who responded to my query about > getting folders organised in mutt. i now actually > have folders - though i can only save manually. > ideally, i would like all read material to go > into a folder once i log out. > > i also found that some of the syntax wh

updating to woody with custom kernel

2001-07-21 Thread Kurt Lieber
On potato, I had to re-compile my kernel to get IP aliasing support. I used the newbiedocs over at sourceforge, and one of the instructions was to do the following: echo "kernel-image-2.2.19 hold" | dpkg --set-selections Which I assume tells dpkg not to ever upgrade kernel-image until I tell it

Re: NFS alternative

2001-07-21 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 07:26:21PM -0700, Francois Gouget wrote: >Well, of course you can bet that all these issues have been taken > into account in the design of the NFS protocol. >But actually this touches an important aspect of NFS servers: by > design/philosophy they are stateless. Thi

[OT] Free Scheduling/Reminder software for Win32

2001-07-21 Thread Mike Fedyk
Hi guys, Right now I have a few peope with Outlook on their systems for the reminder features, but not email. I know some of you guys have come across one and still use the Win32 environment... Any help would be appreciated. BTW, I'm running Woody on my workstation and Potato on the servers. M

Re: updating to woody with custom kernel

2001-07-21 Thread Sebastiaan
On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Kurt Lieber wrote: > On potato, I had to re-compile my kernel to get IP aliasing support. I > used the newbiedocs over at sourceforge, and one of the instructions was > to do the following: > > echo "kernel-image-2.2.19 hold" | dpkg --set-selections > > Which I assume tells

Re: system logs

2001-07-21 Thread Sebastiaan
On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, john gennard wrote: > I've decided to have a look at /var/log which over the months > has become quite large. The man page for syslog.conf and > /etc/syslog.conf I basically understand, but I can't find any > config file which relates to the savelog program, yet files.0 > and

Re: [OT] Free Scheduling/Reminder software for Win32

2001-07-21 Thread Sam Varghese
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 11:37:25PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: > Right now I have a few peope with Outlook on their systems for the > reminder features, but not email. > I know some of you guys have come across one and still use the Win32 > environment... I've heard of people who had success with Sta

Re: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-10-135 (daemon.log)

2001-07-21 Thread Guy Geens
> "listmgr" == listmgr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: listmgr> I have tracked this down to the point that I know it is an listmgr> alias for the real time clock, and that it only occurs soon listmgr> after switching to run-level 6 and run-level 0. I also know listmgr> that the alias exists in tw

Re: it keeps crashing

2001-07-21 Thread Guy Geens
> "Martin" == Martin F Krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Martin> instead, it keeps crashing on me... kernel panic in pid 0 Martin> "process swapper." however, memtest86 reports no errors for Martin> the RAM chip, and badblocks, run with the destructive write Martin> option, reports no bad blo

Re: running out of room on root system

2001-07-21 Thread Guy Geens
> "Mike" == Mike Fedyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Paul" == Paul Campbell wrote: Paul> hard drive partitions Paul> hda1 root 50meg Paul> hda2 swap 100meg Paul> hda3 usr 2 gig Paul> hda5 home 2 gig Paul> hda6 fat32 storage for transferred win docs etc Mike> Do this, but make sure you

Re: Remote file systems

2001-07-21 Thread Keith O'Connell
OK There are a couple of messages in this thread offering help, and I have had a few emails with advice in. I now have an understanding as to what goes on at boot time with daemons. Armed with this I trawled dselect for differences in the various machine concerning "nfs" I found that the desktops

Re: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-10-135 (daemon.log)

2001-07-21 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Gladimir ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010717 21:31]: > > I have tracked this down to the point that I know it is an alias for the > real time clock, and that it only occurs soon after switching to run-level 6 > and run-level 0. I also know that the alias exists in two files, that I > know of; /etc/modu

Re: it keeps crashing

2001-07-21 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 09:43:39AM +0200, Guy Geens wrote: > > "Martin" == Martin F Krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Martin> instead, it keeps crashing on me... kernel panic in pid 0 > Martin> "process swapper." however, memtest86 reports no errors for > Martin> the RAM chip, and badbloc

Re: delegating NS control of subdomain to another BIND

2001-07-21 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach Kevin Darcy (on Fri, 20 Jul 2001 08:31:04PM -0400): > By "doesn't work", you mean you're still getting NXDOMAIN answers from > the master of the madduck.net zone, when querying > ns1.subdomain.madduck.net or ns2.subdomain.madduck.net, correct? sorry, i should have been more clear. by

Re: it keeps crashing

2001-07-21 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach Joost Kooij (on Sat, 21 Jul 2001 11:00:52AM +0200): > As to why Martin is having crashes, I don't know. Try it with a > smaller kernel image size, as Guy suggests, by leaving out options > that you do not strictly need. Also be sure to use the latest > available 2.2.x or 2.4.x kernel

Re: installing kernel-debs

2001-07-21 Thread Joost Kooij
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 01:37:09PM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote: > I have, in the last few weeks, compiled a lot of kernels (with > make-kpkg) > Well, I have installed these kernel-image-blah.deb's, but without > removing the old ones. dpkg -l shows > > ii kernel-image-2. # <-- dpk -l does not show

Re: Frame buffer at boot

2001-07-21 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Jeld The Dark Elf ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010708 20:21]: > On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 09:15:33PM +0200, Fr?d?ric de Villamil wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP MESSAGE- > > Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) > > Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org > > > > hQIOA9mN6tpqz4aGEAf8C7cY4OqHHsi2XrJ2rmu5h78s

Re: NFS alternative

2001-07-21 Thread Joost Kooij
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 07:26:21PM -0700, Francois Gouget wrote: >I don't know of a reference book that would be specifically about NFS > but you can have a look at "The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD > Operating System" by McKusik, Bostic, Karels and Quarterman. Chapter 9 > (about 25

Re: MUA with html support

2001-07-21 Thread Alexander Steinert
> I do it with a combination of a line in my muttrc and a couple > of lines in my /etc/mailcap > > first put this line in /etc/mailcap: > > text/html; /usr/bin/links -dump '%s'; copiousoutput; description=HTML Text; > nametemplate=%s.html Which version of links supports -dump? > I've also got

Re: updating to woody with custom kernel

2001-07-21 Thread Joost Kooij
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 11:11:22PM -0700, Kurt Lieber wrote: > On potato, I had to re-compile my kernel to get IP aliasing support. I > used the newbiedocs over at sourceforge, and one of the instructions was > to do the following: > > echo "kernel-image-2.2.19 hold" | dpkg --set-selections The

Re: Frame buffer at boot

2001-07-21 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 02:45:36AM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > The real question is: To whom is the message encrypted? Anybody on the > Internet can access it, but probably only one person can read it. I > suppose that's one way of keeping the spooks in the dark about who > your covert contacts ar

Re: [users] Mail from OE to linux and more

2001-07-21 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Mark Wagnon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010709 15:31]: > Do you mean "with" or "without"? I'm a little confused. Mutt has some > option to change the from header for outbound mail. I don't use it, so (judicious use of hedgeclippers above) In order to set the from address that mutt wil use, try setting

Re: sharing /home and swap space between two Linux systems

2001-07-21 Thread Vineet Kumar
* D-Man ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010709 15:42]: > I don't know how to tell init where to find the swap. Perhaps > /etc/inittab tells? init doesn't swap anything; it's the kernel. You can activate a swap partition by doing something like # swapon /dev/hdb2 To make the change permanent, add a line t

Re: [OT] Port numbers

2001-07-21 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Mike McGuire ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010710 19:16]: > > > ...And also I'd > > like to know how to see which ports my computer has open. > > Others have suggested netstat, but nmap is another tool that can do > the same thing, and has the added bonus of seeing which ports other > people's compute

Re: [OT] Port numbers

2001-07-21 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Joost Kooij ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010712 05:22]: > On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 12:24:17AM -0500, will trillich wrote: > > How do you determine WHICH NETWORK SERVICES ARE OPEN (active)? > > Try "netstat -a | grep LISTEN". To see numeric values (instead > > of the common names for services using a parti

[OT] Perl: exec and $variables

2001-07-21 Thread Sven Burgener
Hello I have a problem with some perl code. I know this is off-topic, but there are numerous knowledgeable people on deb-usr, so forgive me for posting this. Now to my problem. Given the following variable, my $BEGINREGEX = "sprintf(\"^\$\")"; the following eval() call doesn't substitute $no

Re: no swap

2001-07-21 Thread Vineet Kumar
* D-Man ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010710 19:15]: > On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 01:22:34AM -0700, G.LeeJ wrote: > | Does debian use a swap file I assume so..if not well forget this but > > Not a "file" but a partition. It only uses one if you created one (a > good idea!) when you installed (or if you a

Re: Again NE2000 network device

2001-07-21 Thread Björn Fischer
Hi, thanx to anybody giving me support in this case, but I just found the error: The data windows told me (io=0x260 and irq=9) were wrong. The IO-Port and IRQ of the card (btw I recognized it is based on a Realtec 8019 Chipset) are being written into an EEPROM by special software, and in the EEPRO

I did it a mess with perl

2001-07-21 Thread Victor
Hi Friends, I'll be a long reading for you! As an absolute beginner with Perl I've been having a go at using Perl & DBI to connect to an Oracle server. therefore I neede to download and install from www.cpan.org the DBD::Oracle and the new DBI... *The Sad Story* Reading the poor documentati

Re: Again NE2000 network device

2001-07-21 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach Bj?rn Fischer (on Mon, 24 Jul 2000 01:28:01PM +0200): > Maybe as a Hint for other - still - Windows users: Don't rely on what Win > tells you. I mean you can not rely on Windows anyway, but do not think > hardwareinformation given by Win is correct. *never* use "windoze" and "rely" in

url-escaping a string in a shell script.

2001-07-21 Thread Martin F. Krafft
hi, assuming that i have a string of the form "123%%%blabla*($(" available in the shell script, how can i convert that into an escaped version for use with the HTTP protocol? i am not a perl wizard, or else i wouldn't ask. and maybe there is a better way. martin; (greetings from the h

Re: [OT] Perl: exec and $variables

2001-07-21 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 01:04:40PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > I have a problem with some perl code. I know this is off-topic, but > there are numerous knowledgeable people on deb-usr, so forgive me for > posting this. > > Now to my problem. > > Given the following variable, > > my $BEGINREGEX

Re: url-escaping a string in a shell script.

2001-07-21 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 01:37:26PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote: > hi, > assuming that i have a string of the form "123%%%blabla*($(" available > in the shell script, how can i convert that into an escaped version > for use with the HTTP protocol? i am not a perl wizard, or else i > wouldn't ask.

Re: I did it a mess with perl

2001-07-21 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 01:22:19PM +, Victor wrote: > perl -MCPAN -eshell > > *The bottom line* > So, now I have that strange, confusing mixture of a perl 5.005 coming > from a deb package and a perl 5.6.1 compiled from tarballs in CPAN > under the same /usr/bin and /usr/lib. Obviously t

What's happened to the task- packages?

2001-07-21 Thread Brian McGroarty
What's happened to the task- packages? Suddenly task-c-dev and the other programming-related task packages are listed as 'obsolete' on my system. Have these been replaced by something new?

Re: Again NE2000 network device

2001-07-21 Thread Joost Kooij
On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 01:28:01PM +0200, Bj?rn Fischer wrote: Please fix the clock in your windows settings. It is screwing up the mailbox sorting of many debian-user subscribers. > Maybe as a Hint for other - still - Windows users: Don't rely on what Win > tells you. I mean

Re: What's happened to the task- packages?

2001-07-21 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 07:10:23AM -0500, Brian McGroarty wrote: > What's happened to the task- packages? > > Suddenly task-c-dev and the other programming-related task packages > are listed as 'obsolete' on my system. Have these been replaced by > something new? The task-* packages in their curr

Re: [OT] Perl: exec and $variables

2001-07-21 Thread Sven Burgener
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 01:46:25PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: > On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 01:04:40PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > > my $BEGINREGEX = "sprintf(\"^\$\")"; > > Please tell us what you're trying to accomplish first. It is unclear > what assumptions you are making. What I want is the

Re: Repeat: Problem with Postgresql database

2001-07-21 Thread p
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 09:04:01PM -0400, Brian Schramm wrote: [snip] > > problem is that the postgresql database says that my username does not > > exist in the pg_shadow file any more. I thought that this was a problem > > that > > the users did not transfer so I created another user with th

Re: dselect trying to remove lots of stuff

2001-07-21 Thread Danie Roux
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 04:14:07PM -0400, Anthony Fox wrote: > > Hi, > > Seems I wasn't careful enough when using dselect. I have been trying > to remove the gnome libs and binaries that I don't use on my system. > Somehow, I must have selected the wrong package for purging. Dselect > now wants

Re: url-escaping a string in a shell script.

2001-07-21 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach Joost Kooij (on Sat, 21 Jul 2001 01:56:26PM +0200): > perl -MURI::Escape -ne 'chomp; print uri_escape($_), "\n"' > > A little scriptlet to do the same: > > #!/usr/bin/perl -w > use URI::Escape; > chomp, print uri_escape($_), "\n" while (<>); almost, except that an input of "$

Re: dselect trying to remove lots of stuff

2001-07-21 Thread dude
> > Hi, > > > > Seems I wasn't careful enough when using dselect. I have been trying > > to remove the gnome libs and binaries that I don't use on my system. > > Somehow, I must have selected the wrong package for purging. Dselect > > now wants to remove from my system, among other packages, XFr

Debian books

2001-07-21 Thread alex
Can someone tell me what they consider to be a good up to date Debian book for a beginner, one that doesn't assume that the reader has a background in Unix or DOS? Is there such a book? Where are the books about Debian? I found dozens of up to date books for RedHat and just one out of date book

video drives

2001-07-21 Thread Outa
I need drives to install the graphical mode but so hard to find this driver .. I don't know where? the video card is trident cyber blade i1  .. comes together compaq presario 1600 xl 258... I'll hope for one solution no more thanks for the attention...   send reply for this adress

solution

2001-07-21 Thread Markus Hansen
hi i have a display solution of 1600x1200 but i want 1024x768 but i dont know how to change it using debian gnu/linux potato 2.2 and kde2 markus hansen

Newly compiled kernel will not boot

2001-07-21 Thread Radar
I'm trying to boot a newly compiled 2.4.6 kernel in "potato" using the updated packages at people.debian.org/~bunk. After following steps outlined in a few kernel compile tutorials, I arrive at the same results, LILO says: uncompressing the image. Ok...booting the kernel - and nothing. It just han

Re: Newly compiled kernel will not boot

2001-07-21 Thread Steve Gran
On Sat, 21 Jul 2001 10:29:13 Radar wrote: > I'm trying to boot a newly compiled 2.4.6 kernel in "potato" using the > updated > packages at people.debian.org/~bunk. After following steps outlined in a > few > kernel compile tutorials, I arrive at the same results, LILO says: > uncompressing the ima

Re: url-escaping a string in a shell script.

2001-07-21 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach Joost Kooij (on Sat, 21 Jul 2001 01:56:26PM +0200): > perl -MURI::Escape -ne 'chomp; print uri_escape($_), "\n"' in fact, this doesn't seem to work at all: fishbowl:~> echo '$1$19496519$xnqy/01WTA6pfhLBqZT13.' | \ perl -MURI::Escape -ne 'chomp; print uri_escape($_), "\n"' $1$19496

Re: url-escaping a string in a shell script.

2001-07-21 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 03:11:06PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote: > also sprach Joost Kooij (on Sat, 21 Jul 2001 01:56:26PM +0200): > > perl -MURI::Escape -ne 'chomp; print uri_escape($_), "\n"' > > > > A little scriptlet to do the same: > > > > #!/usr/bin/perl -w > > use URI::Escape; > >

Re: url-escaping a string in a shell script.

2001-07-21 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 03:43:38PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote: > in fact, this doesn't seem to work at all: > > fishbowl:~> echo '$1$19496519$xnqy/01WTA6pfhLBqZT13.' | \ > perl -MURI::Escape -ne 'chomp; print uri_escape($_), "\n"' > $1$19496519$xnqy/01WTA6pfhLBqZT13. > > what am i doing wron

Re: video drives

2001-07-21 Thread Joost Kooij
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 10:22:41PM +0900, Outa wrote: > I need drives to install the graphical mode but so hard to find this driver > .. > I don't know where? the video card is trident cyber blade i1 > .. comes together compaq presario 1600 xl 258... > I'll hope for one solution Yo

DVDs

2001-07-21 Thread Bek Oberin
Through fortuitous means, I just acquired a DVD player! I've looked at the DVD HOWTO and it recommends a whole bunch of software from the LiVID project. Is any of this software packaged up for Debian/unstable anywhere? I don't mind building it by hand, but not if there's packages out there. I

obtaining the absolute path of a shell script within itself

2001-07-21 Thread Martin F. Krafft
hi, in a shell script, $0 contains the name of the script as it was called. i.e. ./myscript ../../myscript /home/madduck/bin/myscript. how can i obtain the absolute path of the script within itself, given this information. one possible solution is echo `pwd`/$0, which returns a POSIX-val

Re: video drives

2001-07-21 Thread Kyle Girard
Your video card is supported by Xfree86.  If your using Xfree86 3.3.x  use the XF86_SVGA sever with the tvga8900 driver  if you using the XFree 4  use the "trident" driver. I got this info from here http://www.xfree86.org/4.1.0/Status33.html#33 Kyle On 07 Aug 2001 22:22:41 +0900, Outa

Re: Debian books

2001-07-21 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 08:14:25AM -0400, alex wrote: > Can someone tell me what they consider to be a good up to date Debian > book for a beginner, one that doesn't assume that the reader has a > background in Unix or DOS? Is there such a book? Most of the interesting literature is available onl

Re: Debian books

2001-07-21 Thread Brian Nelson
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 08:14:25AM -0400, alex wrote: > Can someone tell me what they consider to be a good up to date Debian > book for a beginner, one that doesn't assume that the reader has a > background in Unix or DOS? Is there such a book? I wouldn't worry about getting a Debian-specific bo

Re: DVDs

2001-07-21 Thread Brian Nelson
On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 12:02:04AM +1000, Bek Oberin wrote: > Through fortuitous means, I just acquired a DVD player! > > I've looked at the DVD HOWTO and it recommends a whole bunch > of software from the LiVID project. > > Is any of this software packaged up for Debian/unstable anywhere? > > I

Re: ipmasq ipchanis; newbie question

2001-07-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 02:09:04PM -0700, Mike Egglestone wrote: > You can use any private ranges from 192.168.x.x > I think 10.0.0.x > is an another available range > Someone could correct me on this.:) Yes but more precisely, private network can use any of: Class A: 10.0.0.0 with ne

RE: Debian books

2001-07-21 Thread Kurt Lieber
> Can someone tell me what they consider to be a good up to > date Debian book for a beginner, one that doesn't assume that > the reader has a background in Unix or DOS? Is there such a book? As a couple of people have mentioned already, most of the good documentation is online. Some folks als

Re: [OT] Perl: exec and $variables

2001-07-21 Thread Andrew Perrin
eval() doesn't do what you want - it *executes* code, as opposed to substituting values for variables. Try something like: my $template = '^$'; my $no = 99; my $bla = $template; $bla =~ s/%no%/$no/g; You can get fancy too, if you want: $replace{no} = 99; $bla =~ s/%(.+?)%/$replace{$1}/g; now

Re: DVDs

2001-07-21 Thread Hereward Cooper
On Saturday 21 July 2001 14:20, Brian Nelson wrote: > On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 12:02:04AM +1000, Bek Oberin wrote: > > Through fortuitous means, I just acquired a DVD player! > > > > I've looked at the DVD HOWTO and it recommends a whole bunch > > of software from the LiVID project. > > > > Is any o

Re: dselect trying to remove lots of stuff

2001-07-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 04:14:07PM -0400, Anthony Fox wrote: > KDE. I don't want these packages to be removed. Is there some way > that I can make dselect forgot about previous selections? That is, is > there some way for dselect to just start over? Not that I know too much about dselect, if yo

Re: [OT] Perl: exec and $variables

2001-07-21 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 02:31:58PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 01:46:25PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 01:04:40PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > > > my $BEGINREGEX = "sprintf(\"^\$\")"; > > > > Please tell us what you're trying to accomplish firs

MTAs: rejecting senders with exim and delivering responses to rejected senders

2001-07-21 Thread Hans Wilmer
Hi, I'm having some trouble setting up my MTAs. The situation is as follows: Server: provides dial-up connection to ISP, runs qmail qmail sends any non-local mail using smtp.SoftHome.net as remote SMTP server The remote SMTP server accepts mail only when envelope-sender

Re: url-escaping a string in a shell script.

2001-07-21 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach Joost Kooij (on Sat, 21 Jul 2001 03:53:58PM +0200): > You read the wrong rfc, the above characters are all allowed in http. > Try it again, using spaces, '%', '#' and some control characters. > Those will be escaped. The restricted set of characters consists of dig­ its,

Re: pcsnd driver and Pentium

2001-07-21 Thread Matteo Semplice
An update: I tried pretty much all Debian packages that play RAW or WAV files and sinthetizers. The only good result is with "saytime", that says the current time throug /dev/audio (minor 4). Now, when I load the pcsnd module I get a message in kern.log saying Jul 21 16:20:23 d6r2 kernel: PCSP on

Re: url-escaping a string in a shell script.

2001-07-21 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 05:07:23PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote: > also sprach Joost Kooij (on Sat, 21 Jul 2001 03:53:58PM +0200): > > You read the wrong rfc, the above characters are all allowed in http. > > Try it again, using spaces, '%', '#' and some control characters. > > Those will be escap

Motherboards

2001-07-21 Thread Keith O'Connell
Hi, I want a new machine, and for fun and education I am going to build it from scratch. I have pretty much decided on an Athlon 1.2GHz. I will run a small partition with Windows Me on it, but it will predominantly be up in Debian. I thought I would consult here as to the motherboard that will gi

Re: Newly compiled kernel will not boot

2001-07-21 Thread John Foster
> > > > For my p166, I chose pentium pro / Pentium II. --- I think you need to select 586 not PII as your CPU.

Cannot load kde panel

2001-07-21 Thread Anthony Fox
Hello, This morning, I updated my kernel to 2.4.7. I rebooted and attempted to log into a kde session. The panel (kicker) attempted to start up and aborted. I cannot get a panel running. My .xsession-errors is as follows: _KDE_IceTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.ICE-unix should be set to root DCOP

Re: Motherboards

2001-07-21 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 04:34:23PM +0100, Keith O'Connell wrote: > I thought I would consult here as to the motherboard that will give the > least compatibility problems with the various chip sets available and > for on-board sound. I've yet to hear any bad stories about motherboards for athlon cp

Re: obtaining the absolute path of a shell script within itself

2001-07-21 Thread Leonard Stiles
"Martin F. Krafft" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > how can i obtain the absolute path of the script within itself, > > echo `pwd`/$0, > > returns a POSIX-valid path like > /home/madduck/edu/swat/../../bin/myscript > > but this method only works for relative paths. if i call myscript as > /home/m

Re: Motherboards

2001-07-21 Thread Michael Perry
Quoting Joost Kooij on Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 05:43:06PM +0200: > On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 04:34:23PM +0100, Keith O'Connell wrote: > > I thought I would consult here as to the motherboard that will give the > > least compatibility problems with the various chip sets available and > > for on-board sou

Re: Newly compiled kernel will not boot

2001-07-21 Thread Howard Baker
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 09:29:13AM -0500, Radar wrote: > I'm trying to boot a newly compiled 2.4.6 kernel in "potato" using the updated > packages at people.debian.org/~bunk. After following steps outlined in a few > kernel compile tutorials, I arrive at the same results, LILO says: > uncompressin

Re: Newly compiled kernel will not boot

2001-07-21 Thread Radar
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 09:44:22AM -0400, Steve Gran wrote: > > On Sat, 21 Jul 2001 10:29:13 Radar wrote: > > I'm trying to boot a newly compiled 2.4.6 kernel in "potato" using the > > updated > > packages at people.debian.org/~bunk. After following steps outlined in a > > few > > kernel compile t

Wherer is dselect putting the kernel-source_2.4.6.deb

2001-07-21 Thread John Foster
I have been having problems getting a new kernel compiled. I have already posted a query about whether dpkg or make-kpkg is broke in testing with no response. I downloaded a raw linux-2.4.6.tar.gz from kernel.org, put it in /usr/src/linux and tried to compile with make-kpkg buildpackage. I have nev

Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise 11.0.3.3 on Debian

2001-07-21 Thread Andy Chan
Anyone know how to install ASE 11.0.3.3 on Debian ? I wanna use ASE on Debian, not on the Redhat.   Best Regards, Andy

Re: Motherboards

2001-07-21 Thread Philipp Lehman
On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, Keith O'Connell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I want a new machine, and for fun and education I am going to build it >>from scratch. I have pretty much decided on an Athlon 1.2GHz. I will run >a small partition with Windows Me on it, but it will predominantly be up >in Debian. >

Re: NE2000-compatible network device

2001-07-21 Thread J.A.Serralheiro
its ne not ne2k. The modules ne will work on pci devices, but I think the ne2k-pci will not work on isa. Its very likelly that U have ne on your system as it is a very common and therefore comes withmost installations. under debian ne.o is in /lib/modules/2.4.5/kernel/drivers/net where 2.4.5 is you

Hardware Question

2001-07-21 Thread Adam Bell
So I'm interested in setting up a small LAN, basically. What I would like to do is have one box, running Debian, which has a constant routable IP (via cable or some other sort-of high speed protocol) and a normal domain name. This will act as a mail server, samba server, FTP server, and i

Building kernel in new dir.

2001-07-21 Thread R1nso13
I'm working on building a new kernel (just realized my newly 'bought' debian 2.2r3 has kernel 2.2 not 2.4 for some reason). Currently, the kernel is in /boot but i thought i'd install the new one in /usr/src/linux as i'm told its more of a "standard" directory for kernels. I know there's a symbo

Netscape wrapper

2001-07-21 Thread Jor-el
Hi, I have to use a (closed-source) proprietary solution call Aventail connect to VPN to work. On Linux, I have to prefix every command I run with the command "avconnect" - for example : avconnect telnet . This has the effect of socksifying (or whatever the right term is for VPN), the soc

agpgart, mga and Matrox G400 woes: resolution

2001-07-21 Thread Jim McCloskey
I'm following up on my own post of a day or two ago, because a Google search suggests that the problem I asked about is quite a common one. It was this: under X 4.0.3 (debian testing) I couldn't get hardware acceleration enabled for my Matrox G400. The problem was that the kernel module `agpgart'

dselect: improper dependancy resolution behavior?

2001-07-21 Thread Gladimir
I am hand selecting my packages, but I am having a problem with libncurses4 and libncurses5. Until I know more about this, I suppose it won't harm anything to just install both versions. However, if I try to remove libncurses4, the dependancy resolution also forces the removal of nvi. It is my

question

2001-07-21 Thread John Matters
i am having a problem. my mouse is not responding at all. When my brother left (he installed and configured everything) it was working, and then it just stopped suddenly. its not that the mouse is not plugged in or anything like that. I did get it to respond once, but the second that i moved

Re: Wherer is dselect putting the kernel-source_2.4.6.deb

2001-07-21 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 11:14:31AM -0500, John Foster wrote: > I have been having problems getting a new kernel compiled. I have > already posted a query about whether dpkg or make-kpkg is broke in > testing with no response. I downloaded a raw linux-2.4.6.tar.gz from > kernel.org, put it in /usr/s

Re: Building kernel in new dir.

2001-07-21 Thread Adam Bell
Er, I don't know if you want to do what you think you want to do. :) To answer your original question, no you found the only one, but what _really_ matters is where lilo thinks the kernel is. Wherever you put it and your system map (also generated when you compile the kernel) make sure to edit /e

Re: MTAs: rejecting senders with exim and delivering responses to rejected senders

2001-07-21 Thread Sam Varghese
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 04:57:23PM +0200, Hans Wilmer wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having some trouble setting up my MTAs. The situation is as > follows: > > > Server: provides dial-up connection to ISP, runs qmail > qmail sends any non-local mail using smtp.SoftHome.net > as remote SMTP s

Re: Hardware Question

2001-07-21 Thread Sam Varghese
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 01:17:14PM -0400, Adam Bell wrote: > What kind of hardware, and in what configuration, would be best to throw > at this problem? What I'm assuming is that I'll need an interface for the > modem, an interface going into a hub, and interfaces for all the clients. > Is the

Re: question

2001-07-21 Thread Ari Pollak
Since I assume you're talking about X, are you sure you're using the right mouse protocol (e.g. ExplorerPS/2..)? Is it a USB or PS/2 mouse? On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 10:36:20AM -0700, John Matters wrote: > i am having a problem. my mouse is not responding at all. When my brother > left (he instal

Re: Debian books

2001-07-21 Thread Sam Varghese
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 07:45:10AM -0700, Kurt Lieber wrote: > "Running Linux" for instance, tells you that to configure your TCP/IP > address, you should modify the /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 file. At least on my > Debian box, that's completely wrong - I don't even have an rc.d > directory, let alone an

Re: Hardware Question

2001-07-21 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 2001-07-21 13:17:14, Adam Bell wrote: > What I would like to do is have one box, running Debian, which has a > constant routable IP (via cable or some other sort-of high speed protocol) > and a normal domain name. You could have someone serve dns for your domain, ideally you would want som

Re: [users] Mail from OE to linux and more

2001-07-21 Thread D-Man
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 03:31:54AM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: | * Mark Wagnon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010709 15:31]: | > Do you mean "with" or "without"? I'm a little confused. Mutt has some | > option to change the from header for outbound mail. I don't use it, so | | (judicious use of hedgeclippers

Re: it keeps crashing

2001-07-21 Thread D-Man
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 11:00:52AM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: | On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 09:43:39AM +0200, Guy Geens wrote: | > > "Martin" == Martin F Krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > | > Martin> instead, it keeps crashing on me... kernel panic in pid 0 | > Martin> "process swapper." howev

Re: Motherboards

2001-07-21 Thread D-Man
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 04:34:23PM +0100, Keith O'Connell wrote: | Hi, | | I want a new machine, and for fun and education I am going to build it | from scratch. I have pretty much decided on an Athlon 1.2GHz. I will run | a small partition with Windows Me on it, but it will predominantly be up |

Re: Hardware Question

2001-07-21 Thread D-Man
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 02:06:29PM -0400, Allan M. Wind wrote: | On 2001-07-21 13:17:14, Adam Bell wrote: | | > What I would like to do is have one box, running Debian, which has a | > constant routable IP (via cable or some other sort-of high speed protocol) | > and a normal domain name. | |

Re: MUA with html support

2001-07-21 Thread D-Man
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 11:56:31AM +0200, Alexander Steinert wrote: | > I do it with a combination of a line in my muttrc and a couple | > of lines in my /etc/mailcap | > | > first put this line in /etc/mailcap: | > | > text/html; /usr/bin/links -dump '%s'; copiousoutput; description=HTML Text;

Re: MUA with html support

2001-07-21 Thread D-Man
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 03:16:55PM -0700, Duncan Watson wrote: | Hi all, | | I am a current mutt/fetchmail user and have been for two years or so. I | use Linux at home and at work and keep about 630MB of mail in various | maildirs. I use mail to keep all sorts of notes and crap as well. | | Ov

"No such file or directory" - huh?!

2001-07-21 Thread Gary Jones
Okay, now I'm /really/ confused! Who nicked my firewall script?! Have a read of this (some snipped for brevity): ash-ock:/etc/init.d# ls -la total 60 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Jul 21 19:26 . drwxr-xr-x 40 root root 3072 Jul 21 19:24 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root

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