Re: Linux-native ROM?

2002-09-30 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 09:06:48AM +0200, DSC Siltec wrote: > Here's a quick question, perhaps someone would know the answer. > > Suppose I wanted to make a computer that was completely and > automatically native to Linux, such that it automatically booted > into Linux, nice and quickly. What w

authentication problem (PAM?)

2002-09-30 Thread Alex Malinovich
I'm not sure if this is really the culprit, but all fingers seem to point this way. I just did an update (using experimental, yes I know this is to be expected :) and now my GDM logins are broken. I keep getting a Authentication Error when I try to log in with any user. /etc/pam.d/login and /etc/p

Re: ext2 ext3 ?

2002-09-30 Thread Gerard Robin
On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 12:48:49AM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Gerard Robin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020929 00:44]: > > but how can I change from ext2 to ext3 without breaking my actual > > installation and how to do this ? > > tune2fs -j /dev/hda1 (for example.) tune2fs -j /dev/hdb3 worked f

Re: Defeting Crappy Bios

2002-09-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Sep 30, 2002, TooMany Mirrors ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > There is nothing more that can be done in the bios as far as adding > the cdrom etc. It is how it is and my only options right now are to > figure out how to install linux after booting to a win98 floppy. :( I > also fdisked the wh

Re: Apache Child Segfaults

2002-09-30 Thread Vinai Kopp
On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 11:32:10AM -0400, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > I have been getting a LOT of these lately: [snip] > [Sat Sep 28 23:12:41 2002] [notice] child pid 22562 exit signal Segmentation fault >(11) > > Any ideas what they mean? At several occasions I had Apache childs segfault due

Re: booting off of reluctant cd

2002-09-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Sep 29, 2002, will trillich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > i've got an old box that's just begging to become a firewall > but i can't get it to boot from cd -- it says it finds the cd > rom, says it's trying to boot from it, and then checks for a > diskette, then falls back to the hard drive

Conv. from STATIC to DHCP

2002-09-30 Thread Emil Hägerlund
Hi, during install I shose not to go for DHCP. What changes do I need to do now that I want to switch back to DHCP instead? How should folowing look like: /etc/network/interfaces /etc/resolv.conf ... Can I activate that particular set of install questions again? I have read the howtos I could

Re: LDAP address book - where to start?

2002-09-30 Thread Elizabeth Barham
Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >I'd appreaciate an advice on where to start when I want to have LDAP > based address book that can be accessed from various mail clients, at > least mozilla mail client (mutt, evolution a plus). a web interface > would be nice. any hints on where to

A (little) bit OT: The Gimp & LaTeX (Or putting it all together)

2002-09-30 Thread vdemart
I manipulate my high quality jpg photos (camera 4.1 megapixel i.e. images 2272x1704 pixels) with Linux & the Gimp and print them with the Gimp itself after having put two pictures on an A4 glossy high quality paper. Now this procedure is time-consuming and I'm would like to use the LaTeX for t

GTK AA fonts in WindowMaker

2002-09-30 Thread Pat Colbeck
Hi I am running Woody and have got AA fonts working fine in Gnome with Sawfish using the gdkfxt GTK theme. The weird thing is that when I run WindowMaker instead and change to using the Nexstaep like GTK theme most of my GTK apps (including control center and gedit) still run as AA. Galeon howeve

CD R/W

2002-09-30 Thread Olivier Esser
Hello! I've a CD burner which is identified by the kernel at boot time as something like "ATAPI CD R/W". I have no idea how to use it to burn CD. Do I need a driver? a software? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: CD R/W

2002-09-30 Thread Christoph Claus
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 10:58:27AM +0200, Olivier Esser wrote: > Hello! > > I've a CD burner which is identified by the kernel at boot time as something like >"ATAPI CD R/W". I have no idea how to use it to burn CD. Do I need a driver? a >software? /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/CD-Writing-HOWTO

Re: Tex to PDF conversion trouble (pdflatex)

2002-09-30 Thread Tom Cook
David P James wrote: > > Alan Shutko was roused into action on 09/27/02 23:12 and wrote: > > David P James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > >>In case this matters, tetex-bin and tetex-base are installed. > > > > > > Install tetex-extra, I think. > > > > Yep, that seems to have done the tric

Re: Symlink clarification needed (vi -> vim)

2002-09-30 Thread Tom Cook
Robert Ian Smit wrote: > > I know that some programs react differently depending on how they > are called. When you create a symlink to a program, does the program > know that it was started by using a symlink? It's dependant on your C library (although that should be fairly standard across OS)

Re: latex2e.fmt not found by xemacs

2002-09-30 Thread Tom Cook
Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: > > Hi: > > I an using sarge and I upgraded yesterday. In xemacs latex2e > Interactive works, but latex2e does not. So I linked, in /usr/bin/ > latex2e to tex, and copied /usr/share/texmf/web2c/latex.fmt to > latex2e.fmt, ran texconfig > but when I click on

Re: A (little) bit OT: The Gimp & LaTeX (Or putting it all together)

2002-09-30 Thread Tom Cook
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I manipulate my high quality jpg photos (camera 4.1 megapixel i.e. images 2272x1704 >pixels) with Linux & the Gimp and print them with the Gimp itself after having put >two pictures on an A4 glossy high quality paper. Now this procedure is time-consuming >and I'm w

Re: cramfs: wrong magic, kernel panic

2002-09-30 Thread Herbert Xu
Neal Pollock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was experimenting with different video modes and I can no longer boot my > system. I was passing different modes at the prompt, and used 'scan' from > the video mode menu. I chose a mode and couldn't see anything so I gave the > machine a clt-alt-del.

Detecting Net Apps

2002-09-30 Thread Aurelio Turco
Is there some easy way to detect whether a particular binary contains code to access the network (as client or server)? Maybe there is a list of the net apps (under Debian)? Cheers. Aurelio. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAI

Re: GTK AA fonts in WindowMaker

2002-09-30 Thread Pat Colbeck
Weird I just did some playing and Galeon will still do AA using the MS-Core fonts its just stuff like Nimbus that no longer display in AA. Pat On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 09:40:48AM +0100, Pat Colbeck wrote: > Hi > > I am running Woody and have got AA fonts working fine in Gnome with > Sawfish usin

Re: ext2 ext3 ?

2002-09-30 Thread Isaac To
> "Gerard" == Gerard Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Gerard> tune2fs -j /dev/hdb3 worked fine for me (I use Gerard> kernel-2.4.18...deb) but after that, I stopped badly my machine Gerard> and when I rebooted, the time to clean /dev/hdb3 is about the Gerard> same as before.

Imap/Samba

2002-09-30 Thread sdownes
Got (cyrus) imap working on my linux box & can connect into it from other linux boxes. Can't get into it from eudora on my windows box. Are there any Samba issues ( or any similar things I have missed) samba is working between the two hosts for printing & home directories only. -- To UNSUBSC

Re: CD R/W

2002-09-30 Thread Peter Whysall
on Mon, Sep 30, 2002, Olivier Esser ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello! > > I've a CD burner which is identified by the kernel at boot time as something like >"ATAPI CD R/W". I have no idea how to use it to burn CD. Do I need a driver? a >software? In summary, here are the steps you need to ta

Re: Symlink clarification needed (vi -> vim)

2002-09-30 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Robert Ian Smit ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020928 06:58]: > I know that some programs react differently depending on how they > are called. When you create a symlink to a program, does the program > know that it was started by using a symlink? > > For instance when I create a vi symlink to vim, will

Re: Conv. from STATIC to DHCP ... proxy!

2002-09-30 Thread Emil Hägerlund
Thanks, dhcp now seems to be up and running. How can I add a system proxy specification to work with normal shells? I manually added my proxy and port in mozilla and that now workes well but not console shells. Thanks again Emil -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outb

Re: apache-perl vs HTML::Mason

2002-09-30 Thread Vineet Kumar
* will trillich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020929 21:30]: > okay, apt-get is wonderful and all that -- but when sticking > with a tried-and-true potato setup, it's hard to get feature > updates without some extra-apt activity... > > such as > > perl -MCPAN -e shell > > install Bundle::HTML

network booting with debian 2.2.20

2002-09-30 Thread Reinartz, Denis
Hi Debian-Community, is one of you familar with root-over-nfs and debian kern2.2.20. I have plenty of problems and looking for people who have exercised netbooting in practice. my big problem is, that nfs mount / is only ro. i don´t get it rw and remount is impossible!? there must be an option wh

Re: Tex to PDF conversion trouble (pdflatex)

2002-09-30 Thread Alan Shutko
Tom Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just as a note, I recommend tex2pdf instead of pdflatex. I don't > think there is a .deb for it, but it handles graphic files much > better, converting encapsulated postscript to encapsulated PDF, and > also generates nice bookmarks and links and stuff. Al

Re: A (little) bit OT: The Gimp & LaTeX (Or putting it all together)

2002-09-30 Thread Alan Shutko
Tom Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I find that conversion to PS/EPS often degrades bitmap pictures (in > particular the over-the-top anti-aliasing makes text and hard lines > fairly fuzzy). That should only be for display (since AA only happens on display). JPEG images can be put into PS fil

Re: How "stable" is "testing"?

2002-09-30 Thread Charles Baker
--- Neal Lippman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am wondering how stable people are finding testing > for use on their > workstations. I am running woody, and very happy > with it. However, I > would like to be a bit more up to date with some of > my software - for > instance, I'd like to be using

Re: ext2 ext3 ?

2002-09-30 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Gerard" == Gerard Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Gerard> tune2fs -j /dev/hdb3 worked fine for me (I use Gerard> kernel-2.4.18...deb) but after that, I stopped badly my Gerard> machine and when I rebooted, the time to clean /dev/hdb3 Gerard> is about the same as before. T

Re: LDAP address book - where to start?

2002-09-30 Thread D. Joe Anderson
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 03:16:04AM -0500, Elizabeth Barham wrote: > Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >I'd appreaciate an advice on where to start when I want to have LDAP > > based address book that can be accessed from various mail clients, at > > least mozilla mail client (mutt

Re: Detecting Net Apps

2002-09-30 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 10:13:25AM +, Aurelio Turco wrote: > Maybe there is a list of the net apps (under Debian)? http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages Pick your version, then click net. -- Baloo msg04409/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

glibc using the GS segment register

2002-09-30 Thread Richard Jones
I need a version of glibc that uses the GS segment register to access pthread-local storage*. I've neither been able to find one for debian nor is it obvious to me from looking through the sources how to compile it to use %gs. Any suggestions welcomed. I currently have kernel 2.4.18, libc6 ve

Re: apt-get vs perl -MCPAN -e shell

2002-09-30 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 29/09/02 will trillich did speaketh: > i ran into a versioning speedbump when setting up an apache > server (on potato) with HTML::Mason -- the latter was from > > apt-get install libhtml-mason-perl > > and was only version 0.72; i then tried > > perl -MCPAN -e shell > > and --

quake/RTCW firewall rules

2002-09-30 Thread John F Davis
Hello I was trying to run a RTCW(quake 3) server behind my firewall last night. I setup the firewall iptable rules to forware udp packets of 27690(from memory) to my server. My friend and I were able to play but he said his connection was very poor. I have a 768/128K dsl line and I realize my u

Re: IMAP folder listing

2002-09-30 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Justin Ryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Sunday, 29 September 2002, 04:03 PM -0500): > Anyone know of a way to set IMAP's root to ~/Mail/ as opposed to ~/ ? > When I go to subscribe to IMAP folders I see my entire home dir which is > a bit messy - especially for users/customers who are not fa

Re: latex2e.fmt not found by xemacs

2002-09-30 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
Thanks for the suggestion. It turns out that tetex-extra is installed. In any case, the thing is working now, I don't know why: perhaps because the machine was rebooted. I wouldn't have thought that after texconfig one would have to reboot the machine. It it troubling to find that xemacs does no

Re: XFree86 Problems [continues Woody Installation Problems II]

2002-09-30 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 30 September 2002 12:06 am, Daniel Fabian wrote: > > I replaced that with the xserver-svga driver. Yes it is 3.3.6 not 4.x, > > but with this driver, I find the video to be quite satisfactory > > (although I haven't tried anything really de

Re: quake/RTCW firewall rules

2002-09-30 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 09:58:25 -0400 "John F Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > I was trying to run a RTCW(quake 3) server behind my firewall last > night. I setup the firewall iptable rules to forware udp packets of > 27690(from memory) to my server. My friend and I were able to play

Re: Conv. from STATIC to DHCP

2002-09-30 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 30 September 2002 01:02 am, Emil Hägerlund wrote: > Hi, > > during install I shose not to go for DHCP. > What changes do I need to do now that I want to > switch back to DHCP instead? > > How should folowing look like: > /etc/network/interfa

Re: Detecting Net Apps

2002-09-30 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 10:13:25AM +, Aurelio Turco wrote: > Is there some easy way to detect whether a particular binary > contains code to access the network (as client or server)? $ nm | grep socket Course, having sockets code doesn't necessarily mean network (could be just local UNIX so

resize partitions using parted

2002-09-30 Thread John F Davis
Hello Anybody ever try to resize partitions using parted? Did it work ok? I have a box which was setup with one large root partition and no /boot partition. It was just supposed to be a test install, but it has grown into a working box and I would rather "fix" it to use multiple partitions than

compose in X11?

2002-09-30 Thread Johann Spies
I don't get the compose key to work using XFree 4 On woody, with a S3 card, I use Xfree 3 and do not use xkb. There I could define my compose key using xkeycaps and modmap. But that is not working with version 4 that seems to use xkb by default. Johann -- Johann Spies Telefoon: 021-8

Re: resize partitions using parted

2002-09-30 Thread Matthias Szupryczynski
On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 00:53, John F Davis wrote: > Anybody ever try to resize partitions using parted? Did it work ok? I used it a couple of times now, and I never had problems with it, but I would strongly advise you to backup all relevant data before doing it .. playing with the partition tabl

Re: alsa help needed desperately!

2002-09-30 Thread Martin A. Hansen
hi i know about the mute issue. and it is not the problem. i run amixer set 'Master Digital' 90% unmute and alsamixer, which both unmute. this is repated further back in this long thread martin On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 07:43:38AM +0200, Stephan Hachinger wrote: > Hi! > > Hmm, I think the p

Re: LDAP address book - where to start?

2002-09-30 Thread nate
Erik Steffl said: > I'd appreaciate an advice on where to start when I want to have LDAP > based address book that can be accessed from various mail clients, at > least mozilla mail client (mutt, evolution a plus). a web interface > would be nice. any hints on where to look, which one to use etc

Re: dist-upgrade problem with conflicting packages coreutils and shellutils

2002-09-30 Thread Gerhard Gaussling
Am Montag, 30. September 2002 05:35 schrieb Faheem Mitha: > though. What does apt-get -u upgrade > currently say? Hello Faheem, Thank you for your response. Unfortunately I'd already overwritten the 'coreutils-packages' of sarge (shellutils and textutils) with their newest versions. That means

apt-get and /tmp

2002-09-30 Thread Robert James Kaes
Hello, My /tmp directory is located on it's own partition and mounted as rw,noexec,nosuid. This is a problem for apt-get, which tries to run the preconfigure scripts for a deb from /tmp/config.*. Is there any way to tell apt-get to place the configure scripts in a different location? --

Re: apache-perl vs HTML::Mason

2002-09-30 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Bob Proulx wrote: > will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-29 23:30:31 -0500]: > >>okay, apt-get is wonderful and all that -- but when sticking >>with a tried-and-true potato setup, it's hard to get feature >>updates without some extra-apt activity... > > > Wait, wait, wait. Did you say "s

Re: Imap/Samba

2002-09-30 Thread nate
sdownes said: > Got (cyrus) imap working on my linux box & can connect into it from other > linux boxes. Can't get into it from eudora on my windows box. test it using telnet: telnet host 143 (when you see the IMAP banner:) A001 LOGIN username password A002 LOGOUT where username/password..are.

Re: apt-get and /tmp

2002-09-30 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Monday 30 September 2002 08:54, Robert James Kaes wrote: > Hello, > My /tmp directory is located on it's own partition and mounted as > rw,noexec,nosuid. This is a problem for apt-get, which tries to run the > preconfigure scripts for a deb from /tmp/config.*. Is there any way to > tell apt-g

Re: Defeting Crappy Bios

2002-09-30 Thread Donald R. Spoon
TooMany Mirrors wrote: > There is nothing more that can be done in the bios as far as adding the > cdrom etc. It is how it is and my only options right now are to figure > out how to install linux after booting to a win98 floppy. :( > I also fdisked the whole disk, so most of the "bios" features

Re: authentication problem (PAM?)

2002-09-30 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Alex Malinovich said: > I'm not sure if this is really the culprit, but all fingers seem to > point this way. I just did an update (using experimental, yes I know > this is to be expected :) and now my GDM logins are broken. I keep > getting a Authentication Error when

Re: apt-get and /tmp

2002-09-30 Thread Joey Hess
Robert James Kaes wrote: > My /tmp directory is located on it's own partition and mounted as > rw,noexec,nosuid. This is a problem for apt-get, which tries to run the > preconfigure scripts for a deb from /tmp/config.*. Is there any way to > tell apt-get to place the configure scripts in a diffe

Re: Conv. from STATIC to DHCP ... proxy!

2002-09-30 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, =?iso-8859-15?B?RW1pbCBI5Gdlcmx1bmQ= ?= said: > Thanks, dhcp now seems to be up and running. > > How can I add a system proxy specification to > work with normal shells? > > I manually added my proxy and port in mozilla > and that now workes well but not console shel

Re: Promise Ultra133tx2 Cotroller Card Problem.

2002-09-30 Thread Andrew Pritchard
>I use the Prose Tech. Ultra133tx2 IDE Controller Card to interface > with my Hard Drive. I have been unable to get Debian to install and I cant > find any information on how to resolve this issue. Can you offer any > suggestions? I've been using this card for over a month now, no probl

Re: Linux-native ROM?

2002-09-30 Thread Jeff Cours
At 09:06 9/30/2002 +0200, DSC Siltec wrote: >Here's a quick question, perhaps someone would know the answer. > >Suppose I wanted to make a computer that was completely and automatically >native to Linux, such that it automatically booted >into Linux, nice and quickly. What would the best way of

RE: sshd reverse resolving - takes too long to login

2002-09-30 Thread Ian . Campbell
I think it sshd -u0 -Original Message- From: Mike Tone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2002 10:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: sshd reverse resolving - takes too long to login is there a way to stop sshd from attempting to reverse resolve the connecting cli

Re: Linux-native ROM?

2002-09-30 Thread Brad Cramer
maybe this will help http://www.acl.lanl.gov/linuxbios/ - Original Message - From: "Jeff Cours" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 11:22 AM Subject: Re: Linux-native ROM? > At 09:06 9/30/2002 +0200, DSC Siltec wrote: > >Here's a quick question, p

pine binaries

2002-09-30 Thread irvine
Hello All At http://www.braincells.com/open/ I notice that there are binaries for sid and potato but not for woody. Does anyone know where I could get binaries for woody or does one have to compile pine. t.irvine -- Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, no

Re: Woody IPv6 problem finally, really, solved

2002-09-30 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 09:21:37AM +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > However, opinons are divided, and Wichert Akkerman, at least, > now thinks it is a bug. The question is where the bug really is: > in all the applications that are now in the process of being > "upgraded" to ipv6 (as telnetd and

Re: pine binaries

2002-09-30 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello All > > At http://www.braincells.com/open/ I notice that there > are binaries for sid and potato but not for woody. Does > anyone know where I could get binaries for woody or does > one have to compile pine. > I've heard that someone was maint

Re: alsa help needed desperately!

2002-09-30 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 the mental interface of Angles Puglisi told: > Try gamix, excellent GUI alsa mixer app: > http://www1.tcnet.ne.jp/fmurata/linux/down/ > > I made an RPM maybe use alien to check it out if needed. > http://www.dudex.net/rpms/gamix.spec Not needed: apt-cache search gamix BTW

Re: ext2 ext3 ?

2002-09-30 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 the mental interface of Shyamal Prasad told: > "Gerard" == Gerard Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Gerard> tune2fs -j /dev/hdb3 worked fine for me (I use > Gerard> kernel-2.4.18...deb) but after that, I stopped badly my > Gerard> machine and when I rebo

Re: Symlink clarification needed (vi -> vim)

2002-09-30 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Sat, 28 Sep 2002 the mental interface of Robert Ian Smit told: > I know that some programs react differently depending on how they > are called. When you create a symlink to a program, does the program > know that it was started by using a symlink? > > For instance when I create a vi symlink

Mozilla 1.0.1 builds for Woody?

2002-09-30 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
Hi folks, I was just wondering if anybody has built a .deb of mozilla-browser 1.0.1 for Woody, i.e. that doesn't depend on anything from sid or sarge? It has the new feature that you can open an URL in a new tab remotely, which is Very Important[tm] when using it with other apps. That's why

building (deb) everybuddy-0.4.2 source on woody [was: help compilingeverybuddy-0.4.3 on Woody]

2002-09-30 Thread Mike Pfleger
* Vineet Kumar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > It should work fine. The only reason I didn't suggest it straightaway > is that Debian only yet has 0.4.2, not 0.4.3 . If you don't mind being > one minor number behind, using the debian package should be fine. Yeah; the yahoo support seems fixed in

Re: building (deb) everybuddy-0.4.2 source on woody [was: help compiling everybuddy-0.4.3 on Woody]

2002-09-30 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 11:57:14AM -0700, Mike Pfleger wrote: | I'm trying this, but it still barfs at me, now complaining it can't | find the libtool bits it wants. | | In file included from main.c:55: | plugin.h:25: ltdl.h: No such file or directory | make[1]: *** [main.o] Er

RE: pine binaries

2002-09-30 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
| Hello All | | At http://www.braincells.com/open/ I notice that there | are binaries for sid and potato but not for woody. Does | anyone know where I could get binaries for woody or does | one have to compile pine. | Have a look at pine-tracker (non-free). HTH, Brooks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: Symlink clarification needed (vi -> vim)

2002-09-30 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Elimar Riesebieter said: > On Sat, 28 Sep 2002 the mental interface of > Robert Ian Smit told: > > > I know that some programs react differently depending on how they > > are called. When you create a symlink to a program, does the program > > know that it was starte

Re: building (deb) everybuddy-0.4.2 source on woody [was: help compiling everybuddy-0.4.3 on Woody]

2002-09-30 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Mike Pfleger said: > * Vineet Kumar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > It should work fine. The only reason I didn't suggest it straightaway > > is that Debian only yet has 0.4.2, not 0.4.3 . If you don't mind being > > one minor number behind, using the debian packa

Apt errors: Warning: could not lock the cache file.

2002-09-30 Thread Sven Hartrumpf
I have installed packages using aptitude when my / partition filled up by some /etc ... files (from CUPS packages). Installation failed therefore. Now, everytime I call aptitude I get: "Apt errors: Warning: could not lock the cache file. Opening in read-only mode" and therefore can not de/select a

Re: dist-upgrade problem with conflicting packages coreutils and shellutils

2002-09-30 Thread Gerhard Gaussling
Hello Faheem, Am Montag, 30. September 2002 17:52 schrieb Gerhard Gaussling: > I don't knoww if it's possible > to remove it. If it's possible I think I have to reinstall > shellutils, textutils, and fileutils. debian:/usr/src# apt-get remove coreutils Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dep

woody bf2.4 install on hp vt6200

2002-09-30 Thread Pekka Sarnila
The kernel starts ok from rescue floppy. root disk is read in ok, but then appears screen with language selction. At that point the keyboard has stopped to function i.e. it hangs with that screen on. Any ideas? Pekka Sarnila -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

Little automount problem

2002-09-30 Thread D. J. Bolderman
Ok, I've setup nis/nfs with autofs on my server, and everything is working great. However :), there's one message in my client log file which I can't seem to track down: automount[264]: attempting to mount entry /home/.directory automount[6774]: lookup(yp): looking up .directory automount[6774]

Re: Symlink clarification needed (vi -> vim)

2002-09-30 Thread Christoph Claus
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 03:13:32PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote: > Ordinarily, no. Generally it's not symlinks that affect the behavior of > a program. Programs actually *can* be written to honor the name with which they are called, e.g. joe does. lux:~> file /usr/bin/joe /usr/bin/jmacs /usr/bin

Problems with mkinitrd-cd / mkbootimg

2002-09-30 Thread Juergen Fiedler
Hello, I am trying to create a bootable CD with mkinitrd-cd 0.22, but this far, I've had no luck. The procedure looks like this: mkinitrd-cd /lib/modules/2.4.18-bf2.4/ initrd.img full mkbootimg 2880 /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-bf2.4 initrd.img boot.img mkisofs -b boot.img -c boot.cat -o ../test.iso .

Re: apt-get and /tmp

2002-09-30 Thread Robert James Kaes
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Joey Hess wrote: > Set APT::ExtractTemplates::TempDir in apt.conf > > Note that noexec filesystems provide little or no protextion against an > attacker who knows how to execute non-executable binaries with > ld.so. Thanks for the information. I didn't know about the ld.so

Problems in gnome 1.4 with statusbar

2002-09-30 Thread Pontus Ullgren
Hello, The statusbar in my Gnome installation doesn't get cleard before "adding" new text. (Kind of hard to describe since I don't know the proper english words.) See this link for a picture: http://pontus.ullgren.com/support/nautilus-problem/ (Note the location bar is supposed to be smudged)

Re: Apt errors: Warning: could not lock the cache file.

2002-09-30 Thread DvB
Sven Hartrumpf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have installed packages using aptitude when my / partition filled up > by some /etc ... files (from CUPS packages). > Installation failed therefore. > Now, everytime I call aptitude I get: > "Apt errors: Warning: could not lock the cache file. Openin

Wav files for answer machine (Diamond Supraexpress 56e) vgetty

2002-09-30 Thread Frank Brodbeck
Hi, does anyone has any experience with a vgetty answering machine using the SupraExpress 56e? Well here's the current state: I can record incoming messages but can't play them using vm play file. I need to pipe rmdtopvf file | pvftowav > /dev/audio hear anything. I can't hear a greeting message.

wheel mouse

2002-09-30 Thread Mirek Dobsicek
Hi, I've new optical mouse Genius NetScroll+ eye. My XF86Config-4 has this section: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Elf optical mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "CorePointer" Option "Device""/dev/psaux" O

OT? Change skeleton in emacs html-helper-mode

2002-09-30 Thread Matt Price
Hi everyone, can anyone tell me how to customize the default "skeleton" (what I think of as a template) for emacs html-helper-mode? I have three or four web projects with different looks& feels; I'd like to arrange to have a different template come up for each of them (or in any case, I'd like t

Re: authentication problem (PAM?)

2002-09-30 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 12:04, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Alex Malinovich said: > > I'm not sure if this is really the culprit, but all fingers seem to > > point this way. I just did an update (using experimental, yes I know > > this is to be expected :) and now my GDM logins

Re: dist-upgrade problem with conflicting packages coreutils and shellutils

2002-09-30 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 21:26:04 +0200, Gerhard Gaussling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > debian:/usr/src# apt-get remove coreutils > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > The following packages will be REMOVED: > coreutils > WARNING: The following essential packages will

Re: dist-upgrade problem with conflicting packages coreutils and shellutils

2002-09-30 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 17:52:06 +0200, Gerhard Gaussling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Montag, 30. September 2002 05:35 schrieb Faheem Mitha: >> though. What does apt-get -u upgrade >> currently say? > > Hello Faheem, > > Thank you for your response. Unfortunately I'd already overwritten > the '

Re: ext2 ext3 ?

2002-09-30 Thread Gerard Robin
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 08:03:16AM -0500, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > "Gerard" == Gerard Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Gerard> tune2fs -j /dev/hdb3 worked fine for me (I use > Gerard> kernel-2.4.18...deb) but after that, I stopped badly my > Gerard> machine and when I reboote

Re: wheel mouse

2002-09-30 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Mirek Dobsicek wrote: > Hi, > > I've new optical mouse Genius NetScroll+ eye. My XF86Config-4 has this > section: > > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Elf optical mouse" > Driver "mouse" > Option "CorePointer" > Opt

new install no mouse

2002-09-30 Thread Ben Miller
Hello, I new to Debian and this list. I have just installed Debian Woody 3.0 with the 2.4 kernel. My PS2 3-button Logitec Mouse does not work in console mode. The mouse doesn't work under X either. I have tried to find docs or FAQs but so far no luck. Q1- How can I get my mouse going please? Q2-

Re: ext2 ext3 ?

2002-09-30 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 23:24:49 + Gerard Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 08:03:16AM -0500, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > > > Besides the tune2fs command you need to update /etc/fstab and change > > ext2 to ext3 at the appropriate places. If you are using the stock > > 2.4.18

Re: ext2 ext3 ?

2002-09-30 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 the mental interface of Gerard Robin told: > On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 08:03:16AM -0500, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > > "Gerard" == Gerard Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Gerard> tune2fs -j /dev/hdb3 worked fine for me (I use > > Gerard> kernel-2.4.18...deb)

Re: wheel mouse

2002-09-30 Thread Mirek Dobsicek
yes, I did. elfie:/home/elf# imwheel INFO: imwheel started (pid=570) elfie:/home/elf# /root/.imwheelrc: No such file or directory elfie:/home/elf# It still does not scroll. > > Hi, > did you install the imwheel package? > > Oliver -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: wheel mouse

2002-09-30 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Mirek Dobsicek wrote: > yes, I did. > > > elfie:/home/elf# imwheel > INFO: imwheel started (pid=570) > elfie:/home/elf# /root/.imwheelrc: No such file or directory > > elfie:/home/elf# > > It still does not scroll. > > > > > > Hi, > > did you install the imwheel package

Re: wheel mouse

2002-09-30 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 23:02:41 +0200 Mirek Dobsicek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've new optical mouse Genius NetScroll+ eye. My XF86Config-4 has this > section: > > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Elf optical mouse" > Driver "mouse" > Option

Woody - Failure running chroot on Install

2002-09-30 Thread Kim Christiansen
Finally started Fresh Install of Woody continue to get (from Second Console window) (none) user.info dbootsrap[76]: Failure trying to run: chroot /target dpkg --force-depends --install /var/cache/apt/archives/debconf_1.0.32_all.deb Searched HOW-to's and FAQ and now have No idea. Hda = /hda1 10

Problems with simplest network !!!

2002-09-30 Thread Sergio Mendoza
Hi, Have two i386 computers running Debian. Computer A has two network cards: eth0 (XXX.XXX.X.X) and eth1 (192.168.0.1). eth0 is connected to the internet and eth1 is supposed to connect to an internal network (192.168.0.0). The netmask for both is 255.255.255.0. eth0 works absolutely per

Re: Problems with simplest network !!!

2002-09-30 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 05:08:05PM -0500, Sergio Mendoza wrote: > Computer A is connected to computer B and ... nothing! I can't get the > connection! Basically, the internal network is not working! What's going on? How have you connected the two internal machines? A direct cable? A hub/s

Re: ext2 ext3 ?

2002-09-30 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Elimar" == Elimar Riesebieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Elimar> auto works too! So the partitions can be mounted by Elimar> booting from a rescue disk with a kernel which doesn't Elimar> support ext3. I remember having trouble with the 'auto' setting. I think it was that when

Re: getting started with cvs-conf?

2002-09-30 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Chris Cioffi wrote: > Are there any documents any where that describe how to get started with > cvs-conf? I'm starting to play a little with cvs for a few small > projects and would like to use cvs-conf to keep a better history of what > I changed and why. > > I've insta

Re: new install no mouse

2002-09-30 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Ben" == Ben Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ben> Hello, I new to Debian and this list. I have just installed Ben> Debian Woody 3.0 with the 2.4 kernel. My PS2 3-button Ben> Logitec Mouse does not work in console mode. The mouse Ben> doesn't work under X either. Ben

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