killing dead cdrecord processes

I've been trying to burn a CD using gcombust. For some reason the burn got stuck halfway through (the output of cdrecord, which gcombust calls, said that all of a sudden one of the SCSI commands couldn't be understood. It's a HP USB CDWriter using the usb-storage module, which uses a series of

Re: kde2 is running 1600x1200

Salut, On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 01:46:48AM +0200, Markus Hansen wrote: > hi my debian gnu/linux 2.2 potato > uses kde2 only with 1600x1200 display. > everything is small and bad to read, > so i would like to change solution to 1024x768, but how can i do that? Not kde2 runs only with 1600x1200 resol

Re: running out of room on root system

> "Paul" == Paul Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [mv of directory across file systems] Paul> Sorry GuyMike's way worked fine first time Turns out it does work, and looking at the changelog, it has been working for a long time. Must be some other system I worked on where it was not s

ipchains for the firewall challenged

Hi all, I'm playing around with ipchains, but I'm just not getting the example given in the IPCHAINS-HOWTO. It's based on a system that's forwarding packets, but I'm not doing that. All I have is a single box connected to the world with a cable modem connected to eth0. It doesn't seem to be that

Re: "No such file or directory" - huh?!

> "Gary" == Gary Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Gary> What's going on? The script file is definitely there, I can Gary> 'more' it, 'jed' it, whatever I like except run it. I'm sure I'm Gary> missing something real simple here... Either /bin/sh doesn't exist, or your root filesystem is moun

Re: ipchains for the firewall challenged

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Hi all, > > I'm playing around with ipchains, but I'm just not getting the > example given in the IPCHAINS-HOWTO. It's based on a system that's > forwarding packets, but I'm not doing that.

Re: ipchains for the firewall challenged

On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 11:50:07PM -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote: > I'm playing around with ipchains, but I'm just not getting the > example given in the IPCHAINS-HOWTO. It's based on a system that's > forwarding packets, but I'm not doing that. All I have is a single box > connected to the world with a

Re: [OT] NFS question

> "Hall" == Hall Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hall> How are the permissions of an NFS mount determined ?? I've got Hall> two directories I'm mounting via NFS and they're "acting" the Hall> same. Hall> When they're not mounted, they're both owned by hall.users. When Hall> they're moun

Re: [OT] Perl: exec and $variables

On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 04:53:35PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: > What is the need for the seperate variable $BEGINREGEX? It > complicates things enormously when you want a variable $no to be > evaluated whenever $BEGINREGEX is evaluated. The only sane way out is > to completely reevaluate $BEGINREG

Re: [OT] Perl: exec and $variables

On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 10:36:55AM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote: > my $template = '^$'; > my $no = 99; > my $bla = $template; > $bla =~ s/%no%/$no/g; > > > $replace{no} = 99; > $bla =~ s/%(.+?)%/$replace{$1}/g; > > Disclaimer: these are trivial and not terribly robust solutions; take them > as a s

reinstall exim as daemon from inetd configuration

is there a command that will reconfigure exim to run as a daemon instead of from inetd? Thanks.

lilo problem

hello! i'm a fourth-yr comp. sci. student from the university of the phils. manila. i've just installed debian gnu/linux a month ago, and i'm very satisfied not to see another BSOD from windows again. After tinkering the pc, here are some of the stumbling blocks i encountered: 1.)i just upgraded

Re: Real Player for potato

On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 11:21:53AM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: > > This is what I hoped would not be the case. The new debconf in turn > depends on perl 5.6.1, you don't want to "dpkg -i" with all that. > > > What gives? > > A dead end, unless you can switch to four wheel mode and upgrade to > te

Re: reinstall exim as daemon from inetd configuration

On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 03:13:26AM -0500, hanasaki wrote: > is there a command that will reconfigure exim to run as a daemon instead > of from inetd? 1. Comment out the entry in /etc/inetd.conf for exim. 2. $ /etc/init.d/inetd reload 3. $ /etc/init.d/exim start The exim start-up script checks if

Re: reinstall exim as daemon from inetd configuration

Salut, On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 03:13:26AM -0500, hanasaki wrote: > is there a command that will reconfigure exim to run as a daemon instead > of from inetd? Take a look at /usr/share/doc/exim/README.Debian.gz: --> README.Debian.gz <-- exim for DEBIAN --- Exim will install by

ipchains: cannot open file `/proc/net/ip_fwnames' (was: Re: "No such file or directory" - huh?!)

Joost Kooij wrote: > On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 08:34:48PM +0200, Gary Jones wrote: > > ash-ock:/etc/init.d# ./firewall > > bash: ./firewall: No such file or directory [snip] > > What's going on? The script file is definitely there > In the script, you are using a command with a tpyo in it or that i

Compatibilità hardware

Spett. DEBIAN Sarei interessato all'acquisto del vostro pacchetto, solo che correi essere sicuro che sia pienamente compatibile con il mio sistema, inquanto altre distribuzioni provate sul mio sistema non funzionano correttamente, riconoscimento scheda grafica e monitor del mio sistema che o

Newbie Question

moin moin, a silly question:Are there some simple method, not "dselect", to uninstall sth. in a group,i.e. Gnome, i'd like use only Blackbox in my small Notebook.but i have already installed gnome with "tasksel", and use tasksel i cannotuninstall, or Problem is my test version "Woody"?Thank

Re: [OT] NFS question

On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 12:04:02AM -0500, Hall Stevenson uttered: > When they're not mounted, they're both owned by hall.users. When they're > mounted, they're owned by amy.hall. > > amy and hall are both users on the system. The group "users" exists also > and hall is a member of it. > What is h

Re: (FIXED) modem troubles

also sprach Martin F. Krafft (on Sat, 21 Jul 2001 10:52:41PM +0200): > so i know that the modem works, but i can't get it to work on this > specific machine... i recall: the machine is an old 486, and back when i upgrade the box in which this processor was doing its job to an AMD K6, i could not g

Re: killing dead cdrecord processes

On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 02:46:55PM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: > I've been trying to burn a CD using gcombust. > > For some reason the burn got stuck halfway through (the output of > cdrecord, which gcombust calls, said that all of a sudden one of the > SCSI commands couldn't be understood. It's

Optimizing fron source

I've installed debian potato 2.2r3 and compiled my own 2.2.19 kernel to take into account my real hardware. I see that deb packages are built for a generic i386 processor. If I want to optimize for my i686 processor can I compile debian sources packages or are they packaged to be i386 compatible

Re: Optimizing fron source

There was recently a thread on this aobut optimizing for newer chips but i thought i read that the speed increase was not worth the compile time. What do others think? G On Sun, 22 Jul 2001, Victor wrote: > Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 13:08:18 + > From: Victor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debi

Re: lilo problem

hi, > > 1.)i just upgraded (force-overwrite) libc6-2.1.3 and > libdb2 that comes with the debian 2.2r3 with the > testing packages of libc6-2.2.3 and libdb2-2.7. > after that i recompiled kernel 2.4.7pre3. when i ran > lilo, it flashed out a message "open /vmlinuz - no > such file or directory" w

Re: Newbie Question

What yopu can do is use debfoster ie it will see what o have removd and see what other packaged go along with it and ask you if you want them removed too. I find it cleans out packaged that i dont really need thus to remove gnome, apt-get remove one gnome pacakge run debfoster and select what

Re: lilo problem

On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 01:31:20AM -0700, Fallen Lord wrote: > 1.)i just upgraded (force-overwrite) libc6-2.1.3 and > libdb2 that comes with the debian 2.2r3 with the > testing packages of libc6-2.2.3 and libdb2-2.7. Be very careful with any of the --force options to dpkg, they're not supposed to

Re: killing dead cdrecord processes

Blech. What kernel version are you using? My USB CompactFlash reader (also usb-storage) would constantly stop responding and screw up the processes that were using it - forcing me to reboot my machine. I think it finally got fixed either around kernel version 2.4.6, or because I got a new motherboa

Good (Sun)day Members !

Good (Sun)day to all , Where (in which directory) do Linux users get their mail (So that if you place size restrictions upon him in this directory , he will have to clear all his mails regularly) : Is it /var/spool/mail/ ? Thanks ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Shyam "Quality can Never be Quantified . I

Re: Good (Sun)day Members !

As stated in the debian policy, it should be /var/mail, and /var/spool/mail should be a symlink to that directory. On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 05:44:27PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Good (Sun)day to all , > > Where (in which directory) do Linux users get their mail (So that if you > place size

efax/lpd permission troubles

hi, i am setting up a fax print server using efax/lpd, following the instructions at http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/\ mini/other-formats/html_single/Fax-Server.html however, i am having troubles with the permissions of the following files or directories: shou

Probelms resolving http.us.debian.org

I am trying to install STABLE on a machine this weekend, and I am having trouble resolving "http.us.debian.org", and non-us.debian.org" I have checked on 2 different ISP's networks in addation to my local one, so I don't think it's a problem on my end. Is Debian having FNS problems? -- Stan Br

Re: Motherboards

Infoltel is offering a Soyo motherboard with a Athlon 900 MHz processor and and a PCI sound card for $169. plus shipping. Wayne D-Man wrote: > 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 >

Immediate logouts in IMP

I've been trying to set up IMP on a Woody box, and everything appears to be almost working correctly. I can log in get and get a listing of my inbox. But as soon as I try to read a message, or do anything else, I get logged out and bumped back to the login screen. >From doing some google searche

Unable to upgrade libc6, cannot find why

Hi, I just tried to install Deb on a new PC, but I can't complete the install, somehow. Here's what happens. - I started the install with Deb 2.2r3's boot floppy (well actually the first cd) and then changed my /etc/apt/sources.list to point to an ftp server with unstable instead of stable. - It

Re: Exim & fetchmail & procmail ...

* Mark Wagnon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On 07/20/01 20:51:35 -0700, Cam Ellison wrote: > > I looked at what I sent, and half the message is missing. Sorry about that > > -- I'm still trying to get used to using emacs with mutt. > > > > Are you having problems filtering your mail? For me pro

Re: Helvetica disappeared from KDE!

On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 08:49:09PM -0700, Geoffrey Romer wrote: > Where does KDE get its' font listing from? How can I determine if Helvetica > is actually gone, or just missing from the list? Whether the former or the > latter, how do I get it back? What package is it part of? Did you enable an

Re: Can run testing with slow net connect?

On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 02:54:11PM -0500, David A. Rogers wrote: > I've got a 56k modem on my home machine. Is it feasible/reasonable for me > to run testing on this machine? I've got 2.2r2 CDs. Any guesstimates as to > how long it will take for the initial upgrade to testing? I would say it de

Re: it keeps crashing

On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 11:30:31AM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote: > 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 strict

Re: Optimizing fron source

On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 07:41:56AM -0400, dude wrote: > There was recently a thread on this aobut > optimizing for newer chips > but i thought i read that > the speed increase was not worth > the compile time. > > What do others think? The thing is, very very few packages are CPU bound enough for

ALSA compile problems

After upgrading to kernel 2.4.7 (in the hope that it will finally fix the memory insanity), I went to recompile all my kernel modules (using make-kpkg). The NVIDIA modules compiled fine, so did the i2c and sensor modules, but when it got to compiling the ALSA drivers, I got the following error: --

OT: Scanning Pictures

hey everyone, I'm not much of an graphical artist, or anything ... But I do need to create an online album of some sort. My question is, which are the best settings for me to upload my images in? Like what size should they be, at what dpi and depth, etc ? ( I just need to scan in a lot of no

Re: it keeps crashing

On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 10:12:15AM -0400, Brian Nelson wrote: > On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 11:30:31AM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote: > > 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 si

Re: Good (Sun)day Members !

also sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] (on Sun, 22 Jul 2001 05:44:27PM +0530): > Where (in which directory) do Linux users get their mail (So that if you > place size > restrictions > upon him in this directory , he will have to clear all his mails regularly) > : Is it > /var/spool/mail/ ? /var/mail act

Re: OT: Scanning Pictures

On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 10:28:58AM -0400, Sunny Dubey wrote: > But I do need to create an online album of some sort. My question is, which > are the best settings for me to upload my images in? Like what size should > they be, at what dpi and depth, etc ? ( I just need to scan in a lot of > no

Re: lilo problem

Fallen Lord wrote: 3.)Do i need to upgrade pppd if i use kernel 2.4.x? wvdial won't connect - something like "invalid argument" reflects in the /var/logs/message file. what do i need to do? is there a better way to connect via dial-up than wvdial? if so, how? Check out the Debian Website.

Re: it keeps crashing

cc'd: adrian, just so he doesn't miss it... also sprach Brian Nelson (on Sun, 22 Jul 2001 10:25:51AM -0400): > The response from the kernel hackers so far has been "make sure your > swap area is at least twice as large as the amount of RAM in the > system." mine is 16 times the size :) i'll try

Re: Helvetica disappeared from KDE!

On Sun, 22 Jul 2001, Thomas J. Hamman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 08:49:09PM -0700, Geoffrey Romer wrote: > >> Where does KDE get its' font listing from? How can I determine if Helvetica >> is actually gone, or just missing from the list? Whether the former or the >> latte

Re: Helvetica disappeared from KDE!

On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, Geoffrey Romer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I was in the process of trying out some new desktop environments. I had been >playing with KDE for a while with no ill effects, and then logged out to >try Gnome. Due to the awful performance of nautilus, which started by default, >

Re: ipchains: cannot open file `/proc/net/ip_fwnames' (was: Re: "No such file or directory" - huh?!)

On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 10:59:15AM +0200, Gary Jones wrote: > Joost Kooij wrote: > > > On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 08:34:48PM +0200, Gary Jones wrote: > > > ash-ock:/etc/init.d# ./firewall > > > bash: ./firewall: No such file or directory > [snip] > > > What's going on? The script file is definitely t

Re: Unable to upgrade libc6, cannot find why

On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 10:00:39AM -0400, J.F.Gratton wrote: > > Hi, I just tried to install Deb on a new PC, but I can't complete the > install, somehow. Here's what happens. > > - I started the install with Deb 2.2r3's boot floppy (well actually the > first cd) and then changed my /etc/apt/sour

Re: Newbie Question

On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 11:30:13AM +0200, Chuan Guo wrote: > a silly question: > Are there some simple method, not "dselect", to uninstall sth. in a group, > i.e. Gnome, i'd like use only Blackbox in my small Notebook. Package dependency sets are a complicated beast. Dselect in fact makes it easi

Re: [OT} Linux and reiserfs

MaX in the FaX wrote: Frank Zimmermann wrote: MaX in the FaX wrote: Or you can find them here, worked very smooth for me: yes, but the number of drivers is very poor (1 disk vs 4 disks). ciao, MaX Did I get it right? With your link you can do it with 1 driver disk? That's co

Oracle on Debian?

I'm building a new Debian machine to use as an Amanada backup machine for a failry large number of machines. I also need to be able to run certain Oracle _client_ side apps (export for instance, and conneting to DB instnaces using Perl DBI). A few months ago I had built a machine for this using th

Re: Unable to upgrade libc6, cannot find why

At 9:29 Uhr -0600 22.7.2001, Jimmy Richards wrote: On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 10:00:39AM -0400, J.F.Gratton wrote: > cp: invalid option -- L cp from potato doesn't have the -L option. Maybe you should upgrade fileutils manually first (maybe recompiling if it doesnt install: cd; apt-get source -

Re: Unable to upgrade libc6, cannot find why

Hi Jeff, I took a look at my /var/lib/dpkg/info/libc6.preinst file and it has 'cp -L /lib/libdb.so.3 /lib/libdb.so.3.old' on line #21. Not sure exactly what's happening with your's. It seems like you're system just doesn't like the '-L' option for cp. Look at the man page for c

Re: Unable to upgrade libc6, cannot find why

At 17:42 2001-07-22 +0100, you wrote: At 9:29 Uhr -0600 22.7.2001, Jimmy Richards wrote: On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 10:00:39AM -0400, J.F.Gratton wrote: > cp: invalid option -- L cp from potato doesn't have the -L option. Maybe you should upgrade fileutils manually first (maybe recompiling if i

Template Parse Error

I am tying to install Woody on a laptop so that I can install XFree 4.0.3 and then upgrade it to 4.1 with an extra fix as currently the SIS driver does not handle my laptop's LCD properly. I also need to be running a 2.4 kernel as otherwise the Ethernet NIC does not work. I installed 2.2r3 from C

Re: Oracle on Debian?

Stan, Awhile back (last november) I tried to install Oracle 8.1.6.2 on Debian 'potato' and it's true, it just won't work. Worst of it, you won't get any error messages. Oracle will link its binaries without a hitch, but whenever you'll try "startup nomount" it will just hang there. I don't know ab

Re: Debian books

On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, 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? > > > Where are the books about Debian? I found dozens of up to dat

instalar linux

Sres. por favor necesito contactarme con uds. pues quiero instalar linux, en este momento tengo windows millenium mi mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ahí pueden enviarme como instalarlo y de donde conseguirlo. gracias ivonne lepoivre soy de bahia blanca(8000) Pcia. Bs.As.

Re: Keeping kernel compilation options

On Sun, 22 Jul 2001 01:02:35 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joost Kooij) wrote: > There are so many compelling reasons to use kernel-package that > they are listed in a document in /usr/share/doc/kernel-package. > Installing kernel-package will also pull in the other packages > needed to build the kern

Re: Template Parse Error

I have had this same problem with a perfectly updated 2.2r3 that was just installed. At the time I shelved it as it was not something I had time for, but now I am back trying to upgrade from potato to woody again. Anyone have any info? Thanks, Bill On Sun, 22 Jul 2001, David Goodenough wrote:

Re: Keeping kernel compilation options

On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 05:14:22PM +0200, Mart van de Wege uttered: > Sorry to butt in in this thread, but my question seems to belong here as > well. I noticed yesterday that installing kernel-package on i386 does not > install bin86, which is necessary to build the boot code. Now I know Joost > i

Re: lprng for a home computer

Philipp Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I can't help you with your lprng question, but a firewall actually > makes sense even on a stand-alone workstation or laptop. You can > filter in the input chain just like you'd do on a dedicated firewall > host. I'm not an expert on firewalls, but

X freezing seconds after starting when mouse moves

I just installed XFree86 4.0.3-4 on my Debian woody box and am having some trouble with it. I can startx and everything seems fine. However, if I move the mouse at all, the entire screen freezes after a few (3?) seconds and I have to ctrl-alt-backspace to quit the x session. I used xf86confi

grave pppconfig bug

Can anyone out there reproduce this? Package: pppconfig Version: 2.0.8 Severity: grave If I add a new connection pppconfig will allways select "Number" of all menu items. Quit doesn't work either. Only thing which works is quit. In the main Menu the same effect happens. It doesn't m

Re: lprng for a home computer

> So I guess I'm asking what sort of advantages will I gain if I do run > a firewall on a personal machine. some sorta wrong. you have to know that linux or, sort of things like BSD, or if you are rich, cp firewall, or cisco ios, or sonicwall, or any appliance, have much better TCP stack, or IP st

Email line-length defaults to about 76; how to increase?

My email lines get split after about 76 characters. How could I change this to something longer, or should email lines be split at 76 characters? This limit causes problems whenever I email Linux syslog lines, which are seldom less than even 90 characters in length. I haven't been able to determin

Re: Motherboards

On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 09:08:06AM -0400, Wayne wrote: > Infoltel is offering a Soyo motherboard with a Athlon 900 MHz processor and > and a PCI sound card for $169. plus shipping. WTF is "Infoltel"? If you're going to quote prices a URL is handy so the rest of us can check it out ... -- Nathan

Is there something wrong with my CPU ?

My CPU is celeron433   when I type dmesg, I can see   ... CPU: Intel Celeron (Mendocino) stepping 05 Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting ...   Does that mean there is something wrong with my CPU?

Re: Keeping kernel compilation options

On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 05:14:22PM +0200, Mart van de Wege wrote: > Sorry to butt in in this thread, but my question seems to belong here as > well. I noticed yesterday that installing kernel-package on i386 does not > install bin86, which is necessary to build the boot code. Now I know Joost > is

Re: Unable to upgrade libc6, back to square 1

> > cp from potato doesn't have the -L option. > > Maybe you should upgrade fileutils manually first (maybe recompiling > if it doesnt install: cd; apt-get source -b fileutils; dpkg -i > fileutils-.deb). > > chris OK I tried that ... still stuck... here's what I got : It fetched fileutils 4.1

Re: Email line-length defaults to about 76; how to increase?

On Sunday 22 July 2001 12:48 pm, Jameson C . Burt wrote: > My email lines get split after about 76 characters. > How could I change this to something longer, > or should email lines be split at 76 characters? If you make your line length anything more than 80 characters you will annoy a lot of pe

high resolution fonts?

Is there a package that will give me some "high resolution" fonts, or at least allow my existing fonts to scale better? For example, I would like to design a simple logo for my website using the gimp. If I use my text tool to create *large* text, then the text comes out looking very pixelized (i

Re: Is there something wrong with my CPU ?

On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 01:53:18AM +0800, LiuTao wrote: > My CPU is celeron433 > > when I type dmesg, I can see > > ... > CPU: Intel Celeron (Mendocino) stepping 05 > Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting > ... > > Does that mean there is something wrong with my

Re: Is there something wrong with my CPU ?

Hi, No. Nothing wrong there. Says 'OK'. I'm not exactly certain what the remainder of the line means. It may mean the the kernel is using a compiled in bugfix for buggy chipset/fpu's. Or it may mean that it reports errors based on an exception with a value of 16. I'll bet someone c

Re: Is there something wrong with my CPU ?

Maybe the 16 is the cpu register being used to detect possible errors? Jim R. > > CPU: Intel Celeron (Mendocino) stepping 05 > > Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting

screen 1024x768 desktop 1600x1200

Thank you for your help, but one last question: the solution of my display is now 1024x768, but the desktop has still 1600x1200, so it scrolls while using it, how can i stop that? thank you for helping me! markus > On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 01:46:48AM +0200, Markus Hansen wrote: > > hi my debian gnu

Re: Email line-length defaults to about 76; how to increase?

also sprach Jameson C . Burt (on Sun, 22 Jul 2001 01:48:57PM -0400): > My email lines get split after about 76 characters. > How could I change this to something longer, > or should email lines be split at 76 characters? yes, that's sort of the standard. terminals are generally 80 characters wide,

Re: Email line-length defaults to about 76; how to increase?

also sprach Bud Rogers (on Sun, 22 Jul 2001 01:08:20PM -0500): > And how often do you email syslog entries as compared to other types of text? > Everyone understands that log entries are going to wrap. If it's important > to you, change your line lengths for that particular message, but change t

Re: screen 1024x768 desktop 1600x1200

Hi Markus, You could do it by editing your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file. I use 24 bit color depth and use a resolution of 1280x1024. So I have a section in my Screen Configuration as so... SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes

Re: ipchains: cannot open file `/proc/net/ip_fwnames' (was: Re: "No such file or directory" - huh?!)

On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 05:15:11PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: > On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 10:59:15AM +0200, Gary Jones wrote: > > Joost Kooij wrote: > > > > > On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 08:34:48PM +0200, Gary Jones wrote: > > > > ash-ock:/etc/init.d# ./firewall > > > > bash: ./firewall: No such file or

Re: X freezing seconds after starting when mouse moves

I had the same problem. You've probably got xfree86 set your mouse as /dev/psaux , but you also have GPM installed. They sometimes conflict. Remove gpm and you should be OK Wayne On Sunday 22 July 2001 12:36, Kurt Lieber wrote: > I just installed XFree86 4.0.3-4 on my Debian woody box and > am

RE: ipmasq ipchanis; newbie question

um, it works now. basically I don't really know what I did except just flush out ipchains and redid my network interfaces. I think I have some kinda weird startup script that messes everything up. or just maybe don't have any startup scripts and it defaults to somethin I don't want. in any case, I

Re: ipchains for the firewall challenged

On 07/22/01 02:27:26 -0500, Phil Brutsche wrote: > I'm not a big fan of it but pmfirewall is a popular starting point for > people new to setting up firewalls. It can be found at > http://freshmeat.net Thanks for the link. I used to to get set up and now I'm in the process of looking through the

Re: Email line-length defaults to about 76; how to increase?

On Sunday 22 July 2001 01:56 pm, Martin F. Krafft wrote: > also sprach Bud Rogers (on Sun, 22 Jul 2001 01:08:20PM -0500): > > It almost certainly set in your MUA. > > well, or the editor associated. i use vi, so there is no mutt setting > involved... Ah, yes. I didn't think of MUA's that call ex

Re: Email line-length defaults to about 76; how to increase?

Bud Rogers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Ah, yes. I didn't think of MUA's that call external editors. I've used > kmail for the last year or so, and gnus for years before that, so I tend to > think of the reader and the composer as one and the same. Are there not some > settings in .muttrc

Re: screen 1024x768 desktop 1600x1200

* Markus Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-07-22 19:30): > > On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 01:46:48AM +0200, Markus Hansen wrote: > > > hi my debian gnu/linux 2.2 potato uses kde2 only with 1600x1200 > > > display. everything is small and bad to read, so i would like > > > to change solution to 1024x768,

Re: X freezing seconds after starting when mouse moves

* Kurt Lieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-07-22 18:40): > I just installed XFree86 4.0.3-4 on my Debian woody box and > am having some trouble with it. I can startx and everything > seems fine. However, if I move the mouse at all, the entire > screen freezes after a few (3?) seconds and I have t

Re: lprng for a home computer

On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 02:06:21AM +0900, Marshal Wong wrote: > Philipp Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I can't help you with your lprng question, but a firewall actually > > makes sense even on a stand-alone workstation or laptop. You can > > filter in the input chain just like you'd do on

Re: screen 1024x768 desktop 1600x1200

On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 08:27:48PM +0200, Markus Hansen wrote: > Thank you for your help, but one last question: the solution of my > display is now 1024x768, but the desktop has still 1600x1200, so it > scrolls while using it, how can i stop that? In the "Display" subsection where you specify th

Re: screen 1024x768 desktop 1600x1200

hi Jimmy Richards the solution of the display is 1024x768, but the desktop is 1600x1200 large. you know the desktop is bigger than the screen, so you see only a part of it, if you get up with your mouse, the screen scrolls up, if you go left, down, right, the same procedure... i have your lines yo

Re: Helvetica disappeared from KDE!

> Did you enable anti-aliasing in KDE? Is helvetica not the only font > you're missing? Yeah, there's the problem. Turning off AA fixed it. > I haven't had time to solve that issue yet, so for now I'm just using > KDE without anti-aliasing. Try turning anti-aliasing off and restart > KDE, and

Re: configuring cups

On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 02:02:03PM -0600, Phil Reardon wrote: > I understood cups had a script or gui for configuring cups, but I can't find > one. Was I wrong? How can I configjure cups for my HP deskjet 840C? > TIA, PCR > ... Hi Phil, the command-line tool for configuring the printers with c

Re: Newbie question - XFree86 configuration - (not sure if this is the right list)

Alexandre Dornback wrote: Newbie alert. I'm new to linux and am having issues. _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 This particular error line is useless; you get it for almost any problem with X. What we need are the lines above this error line. In particular, look for a

Re: Email line-length defaults to about 76; how to increase?

Bud Rogers wrote: > > This limit causes problems whenever I email Linux syslog lines, > > which are seldom less than even 90 characters in length. > > And how often do you email syslog entries as compared to other types of text? > Everyone understands that log entries are going to wrap. If it's

Re: ipchains for the firewall challenged

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > If I may ask, why do you not like it? The rules it produces are long and complex - that makes it hard to figure out if you did something wrong while configuring the firewall. > Is there so

Re: instalar linux | to install linux

On Sun, 22 Jul 2001 13:23:06 okito wrote: > Sres. por favor necesito contactarme con uds. pues quiero instalar > linux, en este momento tengo windows millenium > mi mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ahí pueden enviarme como instalarlo y de donde conseguirlo. gracias > ivonne lepo

c++ conversion

I would like to migrate some large c/c++ programs from Windows to Linux. Right now I'm invoking gcc -- and even for the most trivial program I am getting the error message: "installation problem, cannot exec 'cc1plus': no such file or directory" I'm also surprised to see that g++ is not recognized

Re: Email line-length defaults to about 76; how to increase?

On Sun, 22 Jul 2001 10:48:57 Jameson C . Burt wrote: > My email lines get split after about 76 characters. > How could I change this to something longer, > or should email lines be split at 76 characters? > > This limit causes problems whenever I email Linux syslog lines, > which are seldom less t

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