Re: /dev/dsp not found: KDE/ALSA

2001-12-21 Thread Ross Boylan
Thanks for the suggestions. Unfortunately, I already had the aliases in my modules.conf (except I use sbawe). I tried setting the sound system to OSS, but still no signs of life. I'm reluctant to remove the aliases, since the alsa documenation calls for them. Argh! lsmode shows lots of the rig

Re: how to use gcc to compile programs for Pentium

2001-12-21 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Fri, 2001-12-21 at 03:15, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 10:10:54AM +0800, a wrote (1.00): > > i read manual of gcc, but can't find answer. > > gcc -march=i586 Look at "apt-cache show pentium-builder" > > > BTW what's memory requirement of gnome? > > It depends, but you will

Re: How to Install Woody on ReserFS root ???

2001-12-21 Thread Johann Spies
On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 04:15:32PM +0200, Andrei Verovski wrote: > Thank you very much for quick reply. BTW, how I can mount CD before > booting from it? I have empty partitoned HD right now and nothing else. You will need some operating system that can read the CD. You can even use Windows or

Re: looking for password managing program

2001-12-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 05:30:30PM +, Pollywog wrote: > Are there any password management programs for Linux? > I usually record passwords for e-mail accounts, ICQ, etc in a book, but I > want to keep them on a floppy instead. > I know such programs exist for Windows but I need one for Linux.

Re: fetchmail questions

2001-12-21 Thread Paul Mackinney
Seth Delackner muttered: > Not to get too picky, but in mutt you have to specify in your .muttrc > which files are considered inboxes that could receive new messages. > e.g. mailboxes ! =filtered_box =another_box My setup is a little different. I have set folder=$HOME/Mail set spoolfile=~/Mai

Re: apt-get source?

2001-12-21 Thread Johann Spies
On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 07:18:14PM -0700, Robert L. Harris wrote: > > I did the apt-get source and it dropped the source in my current directory. > When I go to configure it doesn't build, missing "/root/qt/debian/objprelink" > and it doesn't get auto-configured to match the paths etc of my pre-pa

chmod quiestion

2001-12-21 Thread pahud
Hello list, Providing I have a directory /grpdir and chmod it to 775. If a user of that group creates a subdirectory under it, say /grpdir/subdir, the subdir will have 755 as it's default mode. How to force the files and subdirectories under /grpdir to have the same chmod value and user.group val

Re: Converting between maildir and mbox

2001-12-21 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Thu, 2001-12-20 at 20:05, Craig Dickson wrote: > Or, if you already have procmail set up, just adjust it for the new > format, then pipe your old mail into it. Actually, I'm not sure that > will work with an mbox file as input, because procmail might prefer to > be invoked once per message (?).

Implications of using g++-3.0

2001-12-21 Thread Ross Boylan
If I use g++-3.0, do I need to build most of my own libraries? For example, I wanted to use libstrutilsxx, but it didn't work. I think I read (though I can't find it) that object files from different versions of the compiler can't be mixed. True? Since 2.95 is the default (i386 woody), all the d

Re: Converting between maildir and mbox

2001-12-21 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On 20 Dec 2001, Brian Nelson wrote: > First, run 'maildirmake Maildir' to create a maildir folder. Probably > the easiest way to move your messages around is to use a MUA that is > both mbox and maildir aware, like mutt. Just save your messages from > the mbox file to the maildir, or vice versa.

Re: Problems booting from hard drive.

2001-12-21 Thread Guy Geens
> "Alberto" == Alberto Cabello Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alberto> I just installed potato r3 on P75, 16 MB RAM and all worked Alberto> fine. But booting from hard drive seems impossible to me. I suspect a hardware problem. Try running `badblocks /dev/hda' -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - IC

Re: Converting between maildir and mbox

2001-12-21 Thread Craig Dickson
Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > OK, now the other question is does this affect procmail at all? man procmailrc Observe in particular the rule for specifying the format of a destination folder. If you give a name without a trailing / then it is assumed to be an mbox file. Put a trailing / on the na

Re: What's a debian kid look like?

2001-12-21 Thread Craig Holyoak
Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Who are we here? I'm curious about what the Debian demographic is. FWIW, I'm a 22yo male, single, Christian. BSc (Comp. Sci), studying Grad Diploma in Info Tech. I live in Brisbane, Australia. I installed my first Linux System in 1997 (Debian) on a 486 with no Ne

Re: What's a debian kid look like?

2001-12-21 Thread Phillip Deackes
On Thu, 20 Dec 2001 19:48:59 -0800 Cam Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Matt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > them but using them all the same. I grabbed OS/2 when Warp came out -- > always had an aversion to M$ -- and hung onto that until a little after > slink came out; then I made the switc

Where is sparc64-linux-ld ?

2001-12-21 Thread Johann Spies
I am trying to compile a kernel on a Sparc with Debian Woody. The compiling ended with - sparc64-linux-ld -r -o kernel.o context.o signal.o ksyms.o sched.o dma.o fork.o exec_domain.o panic.o printk.o sys.o module.o exit.o itimer.o info.o time.o softirq.o resource.

-->PPP daemon has died! (exit code = 242) Newbie #61

2001-12-21 Thread Ian Balchin
Hi, posting this under new Subject. Any ideas? What does exit code 242 say? All the best for the festive season Ian Ian Balchin Grahamstown, South Africa.

ppp daemon dies Newbie #61

2001-12-21 Thread Ian Balchin
Ben, As user I made myself member of groups dialout and dip some time back and this is therefore not the problem. Anita, I have the password in the file /etc/ppp/chap-secrets but in fact wvdial connects with my username and password as in wvdial.conf The file is user - rw for sure and I am tr

Re: tape drive: Error with sense data

2001-12-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 12:16:22PM -0800, brian r ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > I am having problems getting my tape drive working. Any suggestions? > Sorry, if I gave to much output. > > The command I give: > 'mt -f /dev/nst0 status' > > Error: > 'st0: Error with sense data: [valid=0] Inf

Re: Where is sparc64-linux-ld ?

2001-12-21 Thread Johann Spies
I have found the answer on google: ln -s ld /usr/bin/sparc64-linux-ld ln -s as /usr/bin/sparc64-linux-as Johann -- Johann Spies Telefoon: 021-808 4036 Informasietegnologie, Universiteit van Stellenbosch "For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us; And the gove

kernel compilation fails on sparc

2001-12-21 Thread Johann Spies
I could not compile a 2.4 kernel with success so I tried 2.2.20 patched to use ext3. The linking failed with the following message on a lot of *.o files: sparc64-linux-ld: warning: sparc:v9 architecture of input file `kmod.o' is incompatible with sparc output This is my first experience of Debia

Re: KDE 3.0beta in sid ?

2001-12-21 Thread Ax
Dne čt 20. prosinec 2001 16:28 Meir Kriheli napsal(a): > Is KDE 3.0beta going to be packaged for sid ? > > Or should we build them ourself ? there is debian-kde@lists.debian.org mailng list, look in archives and see ;) Ax -- Vaclav Hula [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Party with porn stars

2001-12-21 Thread k l u r t
On Friday 21 December 2001 02:16 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hey everyone, > > Ever wanted to party with your favorite porn stars?? relay for spam geez.. what a waste of a good FreeBSD box.. @debian:~$ whois 64.38.226.213 CWIE LLC (NETBLK-CWIE-BLK-1) 1125 E Glendale AVE Phoenix, A

Re: chmod quiestion

2001-12-21 Thread k l u r t
On Friday 21 December 2001 01:39 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello list, > > Providing I have a directory /grpdir and chmod it to 775. If a user of > that group creates a subdirectory under it, say /grpdir/subdir, the subdir > will have 755 as it's default mode. > > How to force the files and su

Re: chmod quiestion

2001-12-21 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Fri, 21 Dec 2001 14:39:23 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello list, > > Providing I have a directory /grpdir and chmod it to 775. If a user of > that group creates a subdirectory under it, say /grpdir/subdir, the subdir > will have 755 as it's default mode. > > How to force the files and

Re: slattach woes

2001-12-21 Thread Shaul Karl
> A friend of mine tries to connect two pc's over the serial line > with slattach, but failes. He comes to me, I try and fail:( > So I turn to you guys. Please don't fail me:) > > According to Net-* a simple > > # slattach /dev/ttyS0 & > # ifconfig sl0 A pointopoint B up > # route add B sl0

installing Woody on new box - best way to go about it?

2001-12-21 Thread Rachel Andrew
Hi I'm looking forward to being able to play with the new box I am getting for Christmas. Its for a dedicated Debian installation and I'll be also running KDE on it. At the moment I have a P133 with is running Debian (Woody) upgraded from Potato with KDE pulled from Sid. Questions: I have a

Re: Party with porn stars

2001-12-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 03:39:48AM -0500, k l u r t ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Friday 21 December 2001 02:16 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hey everyone, > > > > Ever wanted to party with your favorite porn stars?? > > relay for spam > geez.. what a waste of a good FreeBSD box.. I've

Re: What's a debian kid look like?

2001-12-21 Thread Meir Kriheli
On Wednesday 19 December 2001 09:24, Matt wrote: 31 years old male, married + 2 dogs, living in Israel. Programmer for both windows and Linux(PHP,Oracle,PostgreSql,MySql, Delphi/Kylix,C,C++). System administrator (Novell, Windows, Linux). Own a development, consulting and support company. Play

Re: Converting between maildir and mbox

2001-12-21 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.12.21.0505 +0100]: >mkdir Mail/folder >mkdir Mail/folder/cur >mkdir Mail/folder/new >mkdir Mail/folder/tmp mkdir -p Mail/folder/{cur,new,tmp} :) > Seems to work well enough. Mutt is perfectly happy with such folders. and they a

Re: init.d: writing custom init-scripts

2001-12-21 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> "Colin" == Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >Colin> In Debian, runlevels 2-5 are identical by default, and >Colin> configuring any differences is left up to the system >Colin> administrator. > >What d

sensord metric/English question

2001-12-21 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
Is it possible to get sensord to log in English measurements instead of Metrics? -- Baloo

ttyS1

2001-12-21 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hi to all! I am in a bit trouble. I deleted the /dev/ttyS1 file. Now I can't use the modem. The file exist in another machine (both of them run potato 2.2r4). How can I recover the file? Is a matter of copy the file to a floppy and copy back in the first machine? Thanks in advance for the hel

Re: ttyS1

2001-12-21 Thread Sebastiaan
High, On Fri, 21 Dec 2001, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hi to all! > > I am in a bit trouble. I deleted the /dev/ttyS1 file. Now I can't use the > modem. The file exist in another machine (both of them run potato 2.2r4). How > can I recover the file? Is a matter of copy the file to a floppy an

Re: fetchmail questions

2001-12-21 Thread Cam Ellison
* Paul Mackinney ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Seth Delackner muttered: > > Not to get too picky, but in mutt you have to specify in your .muttrc > > which files are considered inboxes that could receive new messages. > > e.g. mailboxes ! =filtered_box =another_box > > My setup is a little differen

Re: Implications of using g++-3.0

2001-12-21 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 23:09:34 -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > If I use g++-3.0, do I need to build most of my own libraries? In my limited experience, it works fine with 2.95-compiled C libraries, but not C++ ones. Those you need to rebuild. Ray -- "But if you look carefully at their [Microsoft's

Re: ttyS1

2001-12-21 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: >Hi to all! > >I am in a bit trouble. I deleted the /dev/ttyS1 file. Now I can't use the >modem. The file exist in another machine (both of them run potato 2.2r4). How >can I recover the file? Is a matter of copy the file to a floppy and copy back >in the first machi

Re: slattach woes

2001-12-21 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 10:43:51AM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: > > A friend of mine tries to connect two pc's over the serial line > > with slattach, but failes. He comes to me, I try and fail:( > > So I turn to you guys. Please don't fail me:) ... > Perhaps the serial ports are not configured properl

mutt saving maillists automatically

2001-12-21 Thread David Flatz
I want mutt to save my mailinglists automatically into a specific mailbox. I managed to get the maillists name with the subscribe command and i changed the format of the index to see it. But i don't know anything in .muttrc to get mutt saving the mails to the right mailbox. thanks David Flatz p

Re: What's a debian kid look like?

2001-12-21 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 19 December 2001 7:24 am, Matt wrote: > Forget support and distro discussion for a second.. > > Who are we here? I'm curious about what the Debian demographic is. UK, age 50 - been in the business for 30 years - now do non technical wor

how to let cgis run by virtual users' permissions?

2001-12-21 Thread Vegh Karoly
'morning I got pure-ftpd run with virtual users, the ftpd gets the datas (username, passwd, uid, gid, homedir) of the virtual users from mysql. The users will want to run their cgis of course, but I'd like to explain it to apache, that these cgis should be ran with the permissions of the virtual

debian 2.1 -> 2.2 upgrade woes

2001-12-21 Thread Pete Templin
I did a live upgrade (production server, company doesn't have funds for a development or transition server) on a box from Debian 2.1 to Debian 2.2, and reminded myself why I don't like to upgrade boxes. I've got most of the stuff fixed (finally), but I get these errors in dselect: When trying to

Re: warning message from portsentry

2001-12-21 Thread rick
On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 07:44:51PM +, Pollywog wrote: > On 2001.12.20 19:33 Pollywog wrote: > >On 2001.12.20 19:04 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>What does this warning mean and what is causing it? > >> > >>> Dec 20 12:02:10 tc portsentry[540]: attackalert: Possible stealth > >>> scan from unknow

Re: Implications of using g++-3.0

2001-12-21 Thread yugami
C has a defined interface standard, c++ does not (the biggest weakness of c++ as admitted by Stroustrup himself) - Original Message - From: "J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Cc: "Ross Boylan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 7:24 AM Subject: Re: Implications

Re: XMMS bug

2001-12-21 Thread Steven Kurylo
Peter Jay Salzman wrote: jesus. speak of the devil. i just spent about an hour on this today, in fact. you guys are mind readers. i'm using OSS drivers (not alsa). xmms kept segfaulting. using the process of elimination, i determined it was was the alsa plugin. perhaps we should file a bu

Re: "C" Manual

2001-12-21 Thread Henrik Enberg
Phil Beder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Where can I find a good, complete manual for C and C++ programming > languages for the gcc compiler. Other resouces for learning C also > accepted. I played with C when I was a mainframe programmer and wanted to > get back in touch with it again. "info

Re: /dev/dsp not found: KDE/ALSA

2001-12-21 Thread Stephan Hachinger
Hi! Is the soundcore.o module also loaded? That's a module directly from the linux kernel (if you compile the kernel yourself: You have to switch general sound card support to "M" (modularized), but leave all other options off on the sound card support configuration page; if you don't compile it y

Debian on Compaq ProLiant DL380

2001-12-21 Thread Loren Jordan
I have a Compaq DL380 with a Smart Array 5i controller. This machine doesn't seem to be happy with the "compact" boot disks. The thing boots up but doesn't "see" the disks. I have installed Debian on other Compaq machines before and have had to use the compact root and rescue boot disks. I

xmms hang - gtk related?

2001-12-21 Thread Stephen Gran
Hello all, I have been having a problem with xmms for the past two weeks or so, ever since an upgrade of it (tracking testing). If I minimize xmms, then maximize it later, the playlist has disappeared, and it shortly thereafter segfaults. Attached is an strace output - only the last 100 or so lin

Re: scanner recommendations?

2001-12-21 Thread pirmin
1. 3200dpi, totalling a whopping 171.6MB took 682 seconds (ca. 260kB/s) 2. 300dpi, totalling 1.5MB took 73 seconds (ca. 21kB/s) Thank you! And how long does a b/w lineart page A4 with 150dpi take? -- Andreas von Heydwolff

Woody on CD

2001-12-21 Thread Andrew Pritchard
Is it possible to get (or build using the pseudo image kit) a snapshot of woody on CD(s)? Cheers, Andrew "I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire (1694-1778)

stable gcc for sid

2001-12-21 Thread Shri Shrikumar
Hi All, Im keen on getting a stable version of a c++ compiler for sid. the version I have says that it is a debian prerelease version and tends to show internal error when compiling an application. I've tried getting gcc from testing but that too seems to be a pre-release and the one froms stable

Re: Converting between maildir and mbox

2001-12-21 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 11:32:58PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > > > OK, now the other question is does this affect procmail at all? > > man procmailrc > > Observe in particular the rule for specifying the format of a destination > folder. If you give a name without

Re: mutt saving maillists automatically

2001-12-21 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 01:47:01PM +0100, David Flatz wrote: > I want mutt to save my mailinglists automatically into a specific > mailbox. > I managed to get the maillists name with the subscribe command and i > changed the format of the index to see it. But i don't know anything in > .muttrc to g

Re: EXT2 trouble?

2001-12-21 Thread Guy Geens
> "Davi" == Davi Leal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Davi> Is it dangerous? Either your filesystem is corrupt, or your hard disk has errors on it. Try running badblocks (use -n for a non-destructive write test). If that doesn't find anything, run e2fsck on the partition. Make sure the partitio

Re: stable gcc for sid

2001-12-21 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 14:56:06 +, Shri Shrikumar wrote: > Im keen on getting a stable version of a c++ compiler for sid. the version > I have says that it is a debian prerelease version That's because, technically speaking, it is. It is a stable release of gcc, updated with CVS changes from

Re: Party with porn stars

2001-12-21 Thread Justin R. Miller
Thus spake Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com): > I've got a few systems for trapping spam. I've been quite happy with spamassassin. Feel free to check out my writeup: http://codesorcery.net/docs/spamtricks.html -- Justin R. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> View my website at http://c

Re: chmod quiestion

2001-12-21 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 02:39:23PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Providing I have a directory /grpdir and chmod it to 775. If a user of > that group creates a subdirectory under it, say /grpdir/subdir, the subdir > will have 755 as it's default mode. > > How to force the files and subdirectori

please send me how to use sms-client

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Re: mutt saving maillists automatically

2001-12-21 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 08:56:53AM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > Let procmail do it. I use the following recipe for debian lists: > > # Debian lists ... > :0 > * ^X-Mailing-List: .*[<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] > * ^X-Mailing-List: .*[<] *\/[^ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Mail/$MATCH/ Or, if you're runni

Re: installing Woody on new box - best way to go about it?

2001-12-21 Thread Aaron Traas
Rachel Andrew wrote: > I have a CD with Potato on it, given that I am on a single band ISDN > dial-up here am I best to install Potato and upgrade or is there > somewhere I can download a CD image of Woody? (If so I could get my > other half to download that at work on their DSL) Most of the Woo

Re: q: noflushd won't do -- what else?

2001-12-21 Thread Joey Hess
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > More details and further ideas: It is a more-or-less classical > dial-in box. It has a harddisk that from time to time is actually > needed, but most of the time (approx 22hrs a day) its sole job > is IP maquerading and running a nameserver (BIND9 as out of > the box,

Re: Woody on CD

2001-12-21 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
ftp://ftp.fsn.hu/pub/CDROM-Images/debian-unofficial/woody Andrew Pritchard wrote: Is it possible to get (or build using the pseudo image kit) a snapshot of woody on CD(s)? Cheers, Andrew "I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." Francois Marie

Re: stable gcc for sid

2001-12-21 Thread Shri Shrikumar
On Fri, 2001-12-21 at 15:10, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 14:56:06 +, Shri Shrikumar wrote: > > Im keen on getting a stable version of a c++ compiler for sid. the version > > I have says that it is a debian prerelease version > > That's because, technically speaking, it

Re: ppp daemon dies Newbie #61

2001-12-21 Thread dman
On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 09:53:18AM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote: | All, | | I have decided to do a complete reinstall in the light of the following | considerations. Sometimes it is good to do a reinstall when you are learning how the system works. Sometimes you can tweak (break) a config somewhere

Re: mutt saving maillists automatically

2001-12-21 Thread dman
On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 08:56:53AM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: | Let procmail do it. I use the following recipe for debian lists: | | # Debian lists ... | :0 | * ^X-Mailing-List: .*[<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] | * ^X-Mailing-List: .*[<] *\/[^ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Mail/$MATCH/ Oooh, neat! This

Re: stable gcc for sid

2001-12-21 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 16:41:27 +, Shri Shrikumar wrote: > except if I run make again(without doing anything else), it goes through > fine so I _cant_ reproduce the problem. Its seems to be almost random. That's a typical sign of bad or badly configured hardware. Time to read http://www.bitw

Multiple workspaces with Sawfish and Gnome, session management and navigation

2001-12-21 Thread Neilen Marais
Hi. I'm running woody, with its attendand Gnome packages. I use the Sawfish window manager, with 9 workspaces, with columns and rows both set to 1, as per the workspaces configuration tab under sawfish in the gnome control center. This works fairly niceley, but there are two things I can't

Quake2 with hardware accel

2001-12-21 Thread Neilen Marais
Hi all Does anyone know what is needed to get quake2 working with hardware accell in X4.1? It seems to need Mesa 2.6, while now adays we are around 3.x. Is it even possible to get this working? Or are newer binaries, etc. avail? I only tried a really old archive of quake 2 that has been l

xmame-gl slow, even with direct rendering working

2001-12-21 Thread Neilen Marais
Hi All! I recently (yesterday, in fact) got (finally) a vid card with some accellerated 3D support, nameley an ATI Rage 128GL, with 32MB RAM. I Managed to get DRI working without too much effort (mainly compiling the r128 and agpgart kernel modules). I know it is accelerated, since when I r

Sending faxes with efax as a normal user

2001-12-21 Thread Neilen Marais
Hi all. I noticed that I can not send faxes as a user. The fax command complains of the following: efax: 16:13 Error: can't open pre-lock file /var/lock/TMP..01473: Permission denied The permissions on /var/lock are: drwxr-xr-t3 root root 1024 Dec 21 17:18 /var/lock/ so,

Re: stable gcc for sid

2001-12-21 Thread Shri Shrikumar
On Fri, 2001-12-21 at 16:38, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 16:41:27 +, Shri Shrikumar wrote: > > except if I run make again(without doing anything else), it goes through > > fine so I _cant_ reproduce the problem. Its seems to be almost random. > > That's a typical sign

tester

2001-12-21 Thread Américo Rocha
...there is no place like ~ --- Américo Rocha [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: stable gcc for sid

2001-12-21 Thread John Hasler
Shri writes: > It doesn't segfault - it merely says internal compiler error. This is a typical symptom of hardware problems. Gcc works the cpu pretty hard, heating it up. If your cooling or timing is maginal this can cause memory errors. When these hit the compiler's data structures it interpre

Configuring dhcpd problem

2001-12-21 Thread Daniel Toffetti
Hi all ! I have a proxy and I want it to serve IP addresses to the internal network using dhcpd. /etc/dhcpd.conf describes the internal subnet only, which corresponds to the interface eth1. Looking in /var/log/daemon.log, dhcpd is complaining that there is no declaration for the subnet correspo

tester2

2001-12-21 Thread Américo Rocha
...there is no place like ~ --- Américo Rocha [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Gdk Warning

2001-12-21 Thread colemw
I am trying to dpkg-reconfigure some applications ie gimp, abiword but I keep getting a Gdk Warning about a FontSet creation error involving ISO5589-1.   I am using Debian/linux 2.2 with gimp1.0.4 and abiword 0.9.5.1 on a Pentium cpu. I don't know where to go to find anything out about this

Re: Secure 2.4.x kernel

2001-12-21 Thread Alson van der Meulen
devil([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.12.21 18:11:38 +: > does somebody knows where I can get Pine? Try apt-get -b source pine, this should build pine from source. Read man apt-get, and possibly some other debian newbie docs for more info (http://www.debian.org/doc/ might contain some useful links).

Re: Party with porn stars

2001-12-21 Thread Peter Hicks
On Friday 21 December 2001 07:15, Justin R. Miller wrote: > Thus spake Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com): > > I've got a few systems for trapping spam. > > I've been quite happy with spamassassin. Feel free to check out my > writeup: > > http://codesorcery.net/docs/spamtricks.html I ju

Re: v2.4.14 kernel compile problem

2001-12-21 Thread pacmac
There is a binutils problem, I download binutils, binutils-dev and modutils Potato version and it's compile :D There are my version's: ii binutils 2.9.5.0.37-1 The GNU assembler, linker and binary utiliti ii binutils-dev 2.9.5.0.37-1 The GNU binary utilities (BFD development fi ii m

Converting policy.sgml to texinfo

2001-12-21 Thread Richard Kreuter
Hello, (Apologies if I'm sending to the wrong list.) I'm trying to convert the policy.sgml.gz file in package debian-policy version 3.5.6.0 to texinfo and info formats with debiandoc2texinfo and makeinfo, from packages debiandoc-sgml version 1.1.49 and texinfo version 4.0b-2, respectively. debi

Anyone using plip?

2001-12-21 Thread Anthony Campbell
I've tried to get plip running, both in a monolithic kernel and as a module. No luck: dmesg reports "parport0 has no irq". In fact, parport0 is there and is detected and used by lp0. Not sure what to try next. The information in the PLIP howto seems to be somewhat out of date; is there anything mo

Re: Party with porn stars

2001-12-21 Thread Cam Ellison
* Peter Hicks ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Friday 21 December 2001 07:15, Justin R. Miller wrote: > > Thus spake Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com): > > > I've got a few systems for trapping spam. > > > > I've been quite happy with spamassassin. Feel free to check out my > > writeup: > > >

Re: Implications of using g++-3.0

2001-12-21 Thread Brian Nelson
Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If I use g++-3.0, do I need to build most of my own libraries? > For example, I wanted to use libstrutilsxx, but it didn't work. I > think I read (though I can't find it) that object files from different > versions of the compiler can't be mixed. True?

Re: Maildrop recipe

2001-12-21 Thread Jeff
Am?rico Rocha, 2001-Dec-21 00:55 +: > > Hi there, > I'm trying to make a maildrop recipe, in order to get my email > organized.. I want all email comming from debian-user@lists.debian.org, > moved immediately to ~/Maildir/debian-user. > > I wrote a simple .mailfilter file, in order to accompl

Re: Maildrop recipe

2001-12-21 Thread Jake Di Toro
At 10:39 AM 12/21/2001 -0800, Jeff wrote: Am?rico Rocha, 2001-Dec-21 00:55 +: > > Hi there, > I'm trying to make a maildrop recipe, in order to get my email > organized.. I want all email comming from debian-user@lists.debian.org, > moved immediately to ~/Maildir/debian-user. > > I wrote a si

Re: nfs root mount problem

2001-12-21 Thread David Wright
How did you make a boot floppy that initiates the process? I am just starting to try to make diskless systems (not to make thin clients, but to centralize software installation on a computational cluster) and am stuck. The etherboot tutorial says to cat floppyload.bin 3c905.lzrom > /dev/fd0

Re: What's a debian kid look like?

2001-12-21 Thread Daniel Toffetti
On Wednesday 19 December 2001 04:24, Matt wrote: > Who are we here? I'm curious about what the Debian demographic is. I > know this is sort of an impossible thing to answer, but it'd be > interesting to explore in vague terms who uses Debian, at least > compared to those who don't. 31 years old s

Re: USB Mouse, GPM and Kernel 2.4

2001-12-21 Thread Didier Malenfant
I was the one with the ES1371 problems, I tried to start from scratch by compiling 2.4.16 myself and now my soundcard works fine. Only difference seems to be that I now have an audio codec module loaded, didn't have that under 2.2.18. I don't have a /dev/input directory, am I missing a package? (d

Pleez help with courier-POP !!!

2001-12-21 Thread Martin Puaschitz
Hey! I run an imapd but know I would love to run a popd too. So I did a apt-get install courier-pop ps -ax | grep pop3 now says: /usr/sbin/couriertcpd -pid=/var/run/courier/pop3d.pid -stderrlogger=/usr/sbi n/courierlogger -maxprocs=40 -maxperip=4 -nodnslookup -noidentlookup -addres s=0 110 /usr

Re: USB Mouse, GPM and Kernel 2.4

2001-12-21 Thread dman
On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 12:14:33PM -0800, Didier Malenfant wrote: | I don't have a /dev/input directory, am I missing a package? (devfs?) devfs isn't a package. It is a feature of the 2.4 kernels, but you don't have to use it. If you want to learn more about it, read the kernel docs and http:/

Re: Converting between maildir and mbox

2001-12-21 Thread Brian Nelson
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > also sprach Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.12.21.0505 +0100]: > >mkdir Mail/folder > >mkdir Mail/folder/cur > >mkdir Mail/folder/new > >mkdir Mail/folder/tmp > > mkdir -p Mail/folder/{cur,new,tmp} > > :) > > > Seems to work

OT: BOFH sig gen

2001-12-21 Thread Matthew Sackman
I'm assuming that most people have come across/read the BOFH stories... ...well I was bored and so put together a little script that pulls an excuse off the board and puts it in the back of your .signature file. I realise this is off topic, just figured some people might enjoy it! (obviously edit

Re: Pleez help with courier-POP !!!

2001-12-21 Thread master
On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 09:28:49PM +0100, Martin Puaschitz wrote: > I do some rechere on the net, so I set a "." instead of the "Maildir" - then > a connection is possible, but now mails are transfered. I did a makemail dir > /raid/users/martin (my home) but he denies and says that it already > ex

Re: sensord metric/English question

2001-12-21 Thread David Z Maze
Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: PJ> Is it possible to get sensord to log in English measurements PJ> instead of Metrics? Hmm. Doesn't look it. For a momentary check, you can run 'sensors --fahrenheit', but to make sensord also use English units you'd need to change prog/sensord/chips.c

Re: Converting between maildir and mbox

2001-12-21 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.12.21.2131 +0100]: > Another good reason is that maildirmake handles permission settings > correctly, depending on whether you make private or shared maildirs. If > you just use mkdir, you'll get world-readable dirs, which you probably > don't wan

Keeping dpkg info up to date

2001-12-21 Thread Timm Gleason
I know there used to be a package for keeping the dpkg information updated when you installed a particular piece of software from source instead of a deb package. Does anyone know if there is such a thing in the current distribution? Thanks Sunday, December 16 2001 --

Re: What's a debian kid look like?

2001-12-21 Thread Erik Steffl
Phillip Deackes wrote: ... > comformity within X and how silly things like copying and pasting works > between most apps but not others, or how I can't get the Euro symbol did you try xcutsel? erik

Re: scanner recommendations?

2001-12-21 Thread pirmin
philip baratta wrote: Anthony Campbell wrote: On 18 Dec 2001, Vineet Kumar wrote: I recently bought an Epson Perfection 1650 which is working perfectly I am impressed by an Epson 1640 Perfections's speed at work in a Win2k environment I have an Epson 640U; although it is on the list

Re: Pleez help with courier-POP !!!

2001-12-21 Thread Martin Puaschitz
> > The final question: > > - How do I know where the maildir is? > > - How do I tell pop3d to access it? > > > > I think the Maildir is directly in my home-directory > > (/raid/users/username/). > > makemaildir /raid/users/username/Maildir file exists! this does not work either. my maildir is

Re: Pleez help with courier-POP !!!

2001-12-21 Thread Martin Puaschitz
> > The final question: > > - How do I know where the maildir is? > > - How do I tell pop3d to access it? > > > > I think the Maildir is directly in my home-directory > > (/raid/users/username/). > > makemaildir /raid/users/username/Maildir file exists! this does not work either. my maildir is

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