Re: kernel recompile

2003-01-01 Thread Sam Varghese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 02:05:05AM -0500, Shawn Lamson spake thus: > On Wed, 1 Jan 2003 11:38:34 +0800 > Robert Storey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've just recompiled my kernel and it failed at the very last > > step (installing the kernel). My pro

Re: 20GB on an old P75

2003-01-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2002-12-29 at 15:32, Frank Gevaerts wrote: > On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 08:29:09PM +0100, Mat wrote: > > Hi. > > I would install Linux on a 20GB HD, which will be installed on an old P75 system. > > While the BIOS cannot recognize more than 8GB, under Linux I can see all the 7 > > partitions

Re: kernel recompile

2003-01-01 Thread Florian Struck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 01 January 2003 04:38, Robert Storey wrote: > I've just recompiled my kernel and it failed at the very last > step (installing the kernel). My procedure: > > 1) Use "make xconfig" to choose my settings > 2) make dep clean bzImage modules >

What about rscsi? webCDwriter?

2003-01-01 Thread Egor Tur
Hi. rscsi is programme from cdrecord. This lets use cdrw from remote computers. Who use this programe? Do rscsi use rsh? Can rscsi use ssh ? Who has or knowns where get debian package of wedCDwriter programme? This programme starngelly places his files into directories. If I use --prefix= /usr/loc

Re: forwarding gnutella ports with iptables

2003-01-01 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Tue, 2002-12-31 at 07:14, Nicos Gollan wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tuesday 31 December 2002 07:57, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > Here's the rule that I'm using (as spit out by iptables-save): > > > > -A PREROUTING -d 208.163.68.11 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 6346 -j D

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2003-01-01 Thread +Kenobi
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dependencies

2003-01-01 Thread Keith O'Connell
Hi, I like to use gtoaster. I tried to load it onto a new machine with dselect, only to find that one of the dependencies, cdrdao, is now listed as obsolete. What happens in this sort of case when there is a knock on effect? Keith -- ___ _ Keith O'Connell.

Changing font size in galeon menu

2003-01-01 Thread Sridhar M.A.
Hi, I would like to know how does one change the size of the menu font in galeon and other gnome apps like gaim, etc. They are too tiny for my taste. My current setup is `testing' running gnome2. Regards, -- Sridhar M.A. Tonight you will pay the wages of sin; Don't forget to leave a tip. -

Re: Forcing apt to oblige

2003-01-01 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 08:28:51PM -0600, Scott C. Linnenbringer wrote: > I installed a package forcibly with dpkg which was built against sid's version > of libc6. It works fine using woody's version, but now I get dependency > problems when I try and use apt to do anything. This should be very

Re: Unofficial Debian package management

2003-01-01 Thread Carlos Sousa
On Thu, 26 Dec 2002 10:00:22 -0500 David Z Maze wrote: > Regardless, though, the current infrastructure doesn't allow you to > put Debian-standards-compliant software in .deb packages into a > different part of the filesystem at all. Didn't think so, too. Just wanted to make sure. Thank you for y

Re: Nvidia compile error

2003-01-01 Thread Elijah
I've tried it: make SYSLINUX=/usr/src/nvidia-kernel-src.tar.gz also: make SYSLINUX=/usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel-1.0.2880/debian/ both didn't work :( , also making a symlink from /usr/src/kernel-source- to /usr/src/linux is not possible because I don't have a 'linux' directory there ...

Re: Getting a Higher Version w/out upgrading

2003-01-01 Thread Stig Are M. Botterli
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > When thinking about this, I wonder: Is there a way to easily specify and add > versions later than in stable for only specific packages? In other words, is > there some way I can do an apt-get and specify Perl 5.8 (assuming it's > already

Re: kernel recompile

2003-01-01 Thread Stig Are M. Botterli
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Florian Struck wrote: > > make menuconfig > make dep > make modules > make-kpkg kernel_image > and dpkg -i "resulting-kernel.deb" Step two and three are both taken care of in step four. I also wouldn't leave out 'make-kpkg clean' before your fourth step. I had some

Re: Eterm b0rkage in sid

2003-01-01 Thread Rob Weir
Erk, don't mind me. Turns out I was using an old verion of imlib; installing the version from sid fixed it. -rob msg21817/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: make: wish: Command not found [xconfig] Error 127

2003-01-01 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 02:25:21PM +0100, Frank Gevaerts wrote: > On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 12:53:15PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 02:09:13AM -0800, Kevin ( KD7HAH ) wrote: > > > wish -f scripts/kconfig.tk > > > make: wish: Command not found > > > > Install the tk8.3 packa

Re: cannot open dislpay: debian:0.0

2003-01-01 Thread Kent West
Kevin wrote: Please can you help with this error? Below is the log, env and .bashrc DISPLAY=debian:0.0;export DISPLAY root@debian:/root # env PWD=/root PAGER=more PS1=root@debian:$PWD # USER=root MAIL=/var/mail/root EDITOR=vi SSH_CLIENT=10.100.4.117 2842 22 DISPLAY=debian:0.0 LOGNAME=root Ar

Re: Samba setup question: security setting

2003-01-01 Thread Kent West
Quoting Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I suppose this has nothing to do with Debain, but what does it mean to be a Primary Domain Controler? And does that apply to Win98 and WinME machines or only W2K/XP/NT machines? In a networked environment using WinNT, 2K, XP Pro (and perhaps 9

Re: Nvidia compile error

2003-01-01 Thread Henry Hollenberg
Elijah wrote: I've tried it: make SYSLINUX=/usr/src/nvidia-kernel-src.tar.gz also: make SYSLINUX=/usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel-1.0.2880/debian/ both didn't work :( , also making a symlink from /usr/src/kernel-source- to /usr/src/linux is not possible because I don't have a 'linux' directory t

Thanks on vesa suggestions

2003-01-01 Thread Larry Hunsicker
Thanks to Greg Madden for his help on finding the vesa terminal. We are up and running X now on vesa. Larry Hunsicker -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Nvidia compile error

2003-01-01 Thread John Mitchell
On Wednesday 01 January 2003 07:13 am, Elijah wrote: > I've tried it: > make SYSLINUX=/usr/src/nvidia-kernel-src.tar.gz > > also: > make SYSLINUX=/usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel-1.0.2880/debian/ > > > both didn't work :( , also making a symlink from > /usr/src/kernel-source- to /usr/src/linux is not

ncurses status???

2003-01-01 Thread Larry Hunsicker
Hi again, folks, and Happy New Year to all. I am now recompiling my kernel. I tried to use make menuconfig, but this failed with a message to the effect that ncurses was missing. I tried an apt-get for ncurses, but the message tells me that it is no longer available -- presumably obsolete now, o

Understanding Font Paths

2003-01-01 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am running kde under debian unstable and something weird has suddenly happened to the fonts in konsole. Before starting, I should state that I "think" I am running the Xserver without an additional font server (ie neither xfs or xfs-xtt, not xfstt

Re: ncurses status???

2003-01-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 09:21:55AM -0600, Larry Hunsicker wrote: > Hi again, folks, and Happy New Year to all. Same to you! > I am now recompiling my kernel. I tried to use make menuconfig, but > this failed with a message to the effect that ncurses was missing. Install libncurses5-dev. -- Co

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Re: Nvidia compile error

2003-01-01 Thread Elijah
On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 00:09, John Mitchell wrote: > Untar nvidia-kernel-src.tar.gz > cd to your kernel source > and run make-kpkg modules > then install the resulting deb. ok, I untar the package (tar -xzpvf nvidia-kernel-src.tar.gz) and from it unpacked the directory 'modules>nvidia-kernel-versi

Re: Nvidia compile error

2003-01-01 Thread John Mitchell
On Wednesday 01 January 2003 10:21 am, Elijah wrote: > ok, I untar the package (tar -xzpvf nvidia-kernel-src.tar.gz) and from > it unpacked the directory 'modules>nvidia-kernel-version>debian>' > so I typed in make-kpkg from /usr/src/ - didn't work, I went to the > modules directory, the nvidia-ker

Re: ncurses status

2003-01-01 Thread Larry Hunsicker
Many thanks to Colin Watson. After apt-get install libncurses5-dev, make menuconfig now works fine. Larry Hunsicker Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 09:21:55AM -0600, Larry Hunsicker wrote: > > Hi again, folks, and Happy New Year to all. > > Same to you! > > > I am now recompiling m

/etc/rc?.d/S*

2003-01-01 Thread Rus Foster
Hi All, Under debian is there a nice console based app to do the equivalent of ln -s /etc/init.d/foo /etc/rc2.d/S99foo ala chkconfig or ntsysv Rgds Rus -- http://www.fsck.me.uk - My blog http://shells.fsck.me.uk - $120 for a lifetime shell account -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /etc/rc?.d/S*

2003-01-01 Thread Johan Ehnberg
Is this what you're looking for? "update-rc.d my_script start XX 2 3 4 5 . stop YY 0 1 6 ." Notice the dots. Place your script in /etc/init.d/ and the rest is obvious. 0..6 are runlevels, XX and YY simply the order (SXX and KYY). Hope this helps! /johan Rus Foster wrote: Hi All, Under debian

Re: forwarding gnutella ports with iptables

2003-01-01 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 01/01/03 Alex Malinovich did speaketh: > Nope, this doesn't work either. After spending the last 24+ hours > messing around with this, I've learned at least one important thing. It > seems that all ports over 1024 aren't being forwarded. I set up oftpd on > my desktop system (behind the firewal

Re: Lexmark z23 revisited

2003-01-01 Thread Wayne Topa
Alan Davis([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > sebastian: > > I am copying this message to the list. > > I am hoping you have succeeded with this printer on a Debian box. > Here's my experience: > > I bumbled through two or three different ways of installing it. I > don't understand

Re: Nvidia compile error

2003-01-01 Thread Elijah
> Let me ask a stupid question, when you installed your running kernel's > corrisponding kernel-source package did you untar/bz2 it? If not then you > need to do that, cd into kernel-source-2.x.xx and run make oldconfig && make > dep. > > After that you should be able, from that directory, do

Automatic timeout in enlightenment?

2003-01-01 Thread Larry Hunsicker
You guys are good! Quick answers to my questions. So, of course, I have another one. I find that after a period of inactivity in either root or a user account, I get logged off Enlightenment. (This is distinct from the screen blanker that activates after 10 minutes of inactivity, but which does

Video CD software

2003-01-01 Thread Richard Kimber
I'm looking for packages that I might use to create CDs containing a slideshow of photos that I could play on my DVD player. (I'm not referring to the CD burning aspects, but how to create what I would burn on the CD. I use xcdroast for the former). As a complete beginner with video stuff, I have

Re: Automatic timeout in enlightenment?

2003-01-01 Thread Thorsten Haude
Hi, * Larry Hunsicker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-01-01 18:16]: >I have looked through the enlightenment stuff and I can't find anything >about an automatic log-off for inactivity. Of course, I suppose that >this might come from the login manager rather than from the windowing >system. In any case

Re: Samba setup question: security setting

2003-01-01 Thread Clive Standbridge
On Tue 31 Dec 2002 07:33:26 +(-0800), Bill Moseley wrote: > > Also, when I followed the instructions for setting up CUPS for printing > trying to print from Windows to linux asked for a password. Password for > what user?? > > This is what I finally setup for my printer to allow access: > >

Re: Automatic timeout in enlightenment?

2003-01-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 11:16:01AM -0600, Larry Hunsicker wrote: > I find that after a period of inactivity in either root or a user > account, I get logged off Enlightenment. (This is distinct from the > screen blanker that activates after 10 minutes of inactivity, but which > doesn't change the

Re: Samba setup question: security setting

2003-01-01 Thread Lourens Steenkamp
Lourens replying to Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snipped] > > I suppose this has nothing to do with Debain, but what does it > mean to be a Primary Domain Controler? And does that apply to > Win98 and WinME machines or only W2K/XP/NT machines? Some may ar

Re: ntpd; local clock reference 127.127.1.0

2003-01-01 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Tue, 31 Dec 2002 18:43:19 -0500, Brenda J. Butler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 05:51:45PM -0500, Brenda J. Butler wrote: >> I have a dial-up system that is going to be a server for >> my home network. I want my inside machines to sync to seal >> (the ss20) and seal to sy

Re: IDE SCSI Emulation and USB problem

2003-01-01 Thread Martin McCormick
According to the documentation for USB, the drives that should show up on your system are /dev/sda or /dev/sdx if you already have a /dev/sda or /dev/sdb, etc. In other words, the USB devs should start at one above any pre existing SCSI disks. This means that your /dev/scd0 should

Re: kernel recompile

2003-01-01 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-01-01T03:38:34Z, Robert Storey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've just recompiled my kernel and it failed at the very last > step (installing the kernel). My procedure: > > 1) Use "make xconfig" to choose my settings > 2) make dep clean bzImage modules > 3) make install modules_install

Re: IDE SCSI Emulation and USB problem

2003-01-01 Thread Aryan Ameri
On Wednesday 01 January 2003 21:23, Martin McCormick wrote: > According to the documentation for USB, the drives that > should show up on your system are /dev/sda or /dev/sdx if you > already have a /dev/sda or /dev/sdb, etc. > In other words, the USB devs should start at one above any pre > existi

Does a Maxtor 5000 LE USB Drive Work under Linux?

2003-01-01 Thread Martin McCormick
I presently have 2 unknowns I am trying to resolve. I have installed USB support and the USB mass-storage driver on a Debian system using the 2.4.19 kernel. The USB stuff installs with no complaint at all. I power up the Maxtor and boot the system but no new drives show up in the

Re: Nvidia compile error

2003-01-01 Thread Elijah
Update: Ok, I've installed the kernel in /usr/src/ untarred them then do: make oldconfig && make dep && make-kpkg modules I then went back to my nvidia drivers and got another error, at least it's different this time: - depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/

Problem

2003-01-01 Thread Žiga Dolher
Hi   I have an problem with configuring IPv6. See this please:   woody:/home/zdolher# ifconfig eth0 inet6 add 2001:06b8::0400::::4e34  >> /var/log/tb.log    No support for INET6 on this system.   Why the system sends me this message "No support for INET6 on this system". I'l

Re: IDE SCSI Emulation and USB problem

2003-01-01 Thread Aryan Ameri
On Wednesday 01 January 2003 21:23, Martin McCormick wrote: > According to the documentation for USB, the drives that > should show up on your system are /dev/sda or /dev/sdx if you > already have a /dev/sda or /dev/sdb, etc. > In other words, the USB devs should start at one above any pre > existi

Re: IDE SCSI Emulation and USB problem

2003-01-01 Thread Martin McCormick
Aryan Ameri writes: >So where is the conflict from? I am not sure. I thought I had the same problem you reported when I was (still am) trying to install a USB-based external drive on my system. It turned out that my practice of building test kernels on floppy disk and running them by boo

Re: IDE SCSI Emulation and USB problem

2003-01-01 Thread Aryan Ameri
On Wednesday 01 January 2003 22:16, Martin McCormick wrote: > Aryan Ameri writes: > >So where is the conflict from? > > I am not sure. I thought I had the same problem you > reported when I was (still am) trying to install a USB-based > external drive on my system. It turned out that my pra

Re: Nvidia compile error

2003-01-01 Thread John Mitchell
On Wednesday 01 January 2003 12:45 pm, Elijah wrote: > Update: > Ok, I've installed the kernel in /usr/src/ untarred them then do: > make oldconfig && make dep && make-kpkg modules > I then went back to my nvidia drivers and got another error, at least > it's different this time: >

Re: Does a Maxtor 5000 LE USB Drive Work under Linux?

2003-01-01 Thread Nicos Gollan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 01 January 2003 19:26, Martin McCormick wrote: > I power up the Maxtor and boot the system but no new drives show up > in the empty usb file system that can now be found in /proc/bus. There's a nice passage in the kernel source docu

Re: Problem

2003-01-01 Thread Matthias Hentges
Am Mit, 2003-01-01 um 19.40 schrieb ´iga Dolher: > Hi > > I have an problem with configuring IPv6. See this please: > > woody:/home/zdolher# ifconfig eth0 inet6 add > 2001:06b8::0400::::4e34 >> /var/log/tb.log > No support for INET6 on this system. Looks like your kernel d

moving users

2003-01-01 Thread blraven
Hi, How I can move system A user to system B system A is RedHat and system B Debian Woody? t:BlackRaven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

The kernel (file system) in Debian supports replacing files even while they're being used.

2003-01-01 Thread Shaul Karl
Quoting http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-pkgtools.en.html#s-updaterunning: 7.2 Debian claims to be able to update a running program; how is this accomplished? The kernel (file system) in Debian GNU/Linux systems supports replacing files even while they're being used. We a

Re: The kernel (file system) in Debian supports replacing files even while they're being used.

2003-01-01 Thread khromy
On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 10:01:49PM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: > /tmp$ cp -v /bin/sleep mysleep > /tmp$ (./mysleep 100 &); cp -v /bin/sleep mysleep (./mysleep 100 &); rm mysleep; cp -v /bin/sleep mysleep ^-- works -- L1: khromy ;khromy(at)lnuxlab.ath.cx -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: kernel recompile

2003-01-01 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Wed, 2003-01-01 at 02:05, Shawn Lamson wrote: > On Wed, 1 Jan 2003 11:38:34 +0800 > Robert Storey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've just recompiled my kernel and it failed at the very last > > step (installing the kernel). My procedure: > > > > 1) Use "make xconfig" to choose my settings >

Re: The kernel (file system) in Debian supports replacing fileseven while they're being used.

2003-01-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-01-01 at 14:30, khromy wrote: > On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 10:01:49PM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: > > /tmp$ cp -v /bin/sleep mysleep > > /tmp$ (./mysleep 100 &); cp -v /bin/sleep mysleep > > (./mysleep 100 &); rm mysleep; cp -v /bin/sleep mysleep > > ^-- works Shaul knows that *

Re: USB Mouse Logitech Trackman

2003-01-01 Thread Richard van den Berg
Casey Scott wrote: I can not get my Logitech Trackman USB mouse to work at all! The kernel (2.4.20) does detect it during boot, and the usbdevfs is mounted. However, when I cat or tail -f /dev/input/mice, and move the mouse, nothing changes. The mouse obviously doesn't work in X. [snip] hub.c:

Re: Does a Maxtor 5000 LE USB Drive Work under Linux?

2003-01-01 Thread Andy Saxena
--- Begin Message --- On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 12:26:50PM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: > I presently have 2 unknowns I am trying to resolve. I have > installed USB support and the USB mass-storage driver on a Debian system > using the 2.4.19 kernel. The USB stuff installs with no complain

Re: USB Mouse Logitech Trackman

2003-01-01 Thread Casey Scott
Thanks a lot for the reply. I will try that out as soon as I can. I had not found anything regarding that option either. Casey On Wed, 1 Jan 2003, Richard van den Berg wrote: > Casey Scott wrote: > > I can not get my Logitech Trackman USB mouse to work at all! The > > kernel (2.4.20) does de

New kernel can't find map

2003-01-01 Thread Larry Hunsicker
Back to the trough again. We have just recompiled the kernel to 2.4.20, and we boot just fine. But the first message in the kern.log file says: "Cannot find map file." and then "No module symbols loaded." The file "map" is in /boot, and the time of its creation seems to correspond with when we

TwinView and workspaces

2003-01-01 Thread Alex Malinovich
I just got TwinView set up last night with two 19" monitors and I'm in love! :) However, I'm finding that having a 32" wide desktop can be a nuisance at times. Having one window list for two screens, for example, is a bit unwieldy. What I'd like to be able to do is set up each monitor as a seperat

mrtg and snmpd

2003-01-01 Thread James Vahn
What misfortune has befallen these previously fine packages? Snmpd has become so confusing and hogtied that it no longer performs any function at all.. Does anyone know why? I ran "snmpconf -g basic_setup" and was greeted with this: --- Do y

Re: TwinView and workspaces

2003-01-01 Thread Thorsten Haude
Hi, * Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-01-01 22:06]: >Also, I'd love to have a way to have a regular text console on one >screen with X on another, but I don't really know if that's possible nor >where I would possibly begin to look for info. Any info is greatly >appreciated. Well, what

Re: moving users

2003-01-01 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 09:42:38PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | How I can move system A user to system B | system A is RedHat and system B Debian Woody? First create the user on system B. Then move the user's home directory (how you do that depends on what hardware set up you have). Also mo

GConf2

2003-01-01 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
The last week or two, Gconfd has started taking noticeably large amounts of memory and swap, to the point that over 24 hours, my system is running quite tight on memory (I have 512 MiB RAM, 512 MiB swap.) Latest report is 134 MiB of memory, 23.4 MiB resident, which to me leaves a suspicion that it

Re: TwinView and workspaces

2003-01-01 Thread Joris
>>Also, I'd love to have a way to have a regular text console on one >>screen with X on another, but I don't really know if that's possible nor >>where I would possibly begin to look for info. Any info is greatly >>appreciated. > > Well, what happens if you use only one screen for X11? Is the othe

Re: The kernel (file system) in Debian supports replacing files even while they're being used.

2003-01-01 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 02:45:22PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2003-01-01 at 14:30, khromy wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 10:01:49PM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: > > > /tmp$ cp -v /bin/sleep mysleep > > > /tmp$ (./mysleep 100 &); cp -v /bin/sleep mysleep > > > > (./mysleep 100 &)

OT: Can't connect to Keyservers

2003-01-01 Thread Thorsten Haude
Hi, I just was reminded that I have still a problem to access the key servers. When I try to send my updated key to one of the servers, I get the following error: - - - Schnipp - - - yooden@eumel> gpg --send-key 4065A1DA

Re: Video CD software

2003-01-01 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
http://www.vcdhelp.com/ On Wed, 2003-01-01 at 19:19, Richard Kimber wrote: > I'm looking for packages that I might use to create CDs containing a > slideshow of photos that I could play on my DVD player. (I'm not > referring to the CD burning aspects, but how to create what I would burn > on the

sshd does not detach

2003-01-01 Thread dhofstee
Hi, I use the standard ssh package and sshd works, but only if I use the -D switch (-D==not become daemon). This -D problem is a recent "feature". Without the -D option, no process is created and connection is refused (logically). If I do the "/etc/init.d/ssh start" everything looks ok (the do

gqview and pgm

2003-01-01 Thread Michael Naumann
When I try to view a pgm-file with gqview, I always get a core-dump (Segmentation violation). This is reproducable on two machines here - but only for pgm. The picture shows up very shortly before the crash. Example: gqview /usr/share/gimp/1.2/gimpressionist/Brushes/shape02.pgm Is this reproduc

bash guru wanted

2003-01-01 Thread Michael Naumann
When I try to view a pgm-file with gqview, I always get a core-dump (Segmentation violation). This is reproducable on two machines here - but only for pgm. The picture shows up very shortly before the crash. Example: gqview /usr/share/gimp/1.2/gimpressionist/Brushes/shape02.pgm Is this reproduc

old /lib/modules still there after purging kernel

2003-01-01 Thread Dan Jacobson
I long ago stopped using the older kernel, 2.2. However in /lib/modules/ I see 2.2.20/ 2.2.20-idepci/ 2.4.18-k7/ . What is the recommended way of cleaning up the older ones? Is the user supposed to just rm -r? -- http://jidanni.org/ Taiwan(04)25854780 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: bash guru wanted

2003-01-01 Thread Thorsten Haude
Hi, * Michael Naumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-01-02 00:33]: >I want my bash to obey eof (^D) only if there are no jobs in the background. I can't help you with the Bash, but I recommend the Zsh. The Zsh warns you if you have running jobs, and only exits if you give the command a second time. Yo

Re: apt-get (status file) broken?

2003-01-01 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 10:25:00PM -0700, Adahma wrote: > I get the following error when trying to use apt-get or dselect: > > Hit http://non-us.debian.org unstable/non-US/non-free Release > Reading Package Lists... Error! > E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room > E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room > E: Er

Re: Changing font size in galeon menu

2003-01-01 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2003.01.01 07:28 Sridhar M.A. wrote: Hi, I would like to know how does one change the size of the menu font in galeon and other gnome apps like gaim, etc. They are too tiny for my taste. My current setup is `testing' running gnome2. Go to Desktop | Theme Selector in Gnome Control Center, s

Re: ntpd; local clock reference 127.127.1.0

2003-01-01 Thread N. Thomas
[ quotes are not in chronological order ] * Brenda J. Butler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-12-31 18:43:19 -0500]: > Another question: If I do get this to work, will the ntpd > on seal continue to correct the time even when the outside > link is down and the "local clock" is being used as > reference?

Failure to load modules at bootup

2003-01-01 Thread Larry Hunsicker
Hi, folks: I am still having problems getting my modules loaded properly at boot time, following a kernel rebuild. I have realized that for lilo to create the 'map' file correctly, it needs to find the file "System.map" created at the time of kernel recompile. Now, with this file in /boot, when

Terminus game and libstdc++.so.2.8

2003-01-01 Thread Gianfranco Berardi
I got the game Terminus and installed it on my Woody box. Every time I try to run it I get this error: terminus: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.2.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I tried to look up things on Google, and the best I found is this po

Re: Getting a Higher Version w/out upgrading

2003-01-01 Thread Lloyd Zusman
"Stig Are M. Botterli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Hal Vaughan wrote: >> >> When thinking about this, I wonder: Is there a way to easily specify and add >> versions later than in stable for only specific packages? In other words, is >> there some way I can do

Re: sendmail just queueing everything

2003-01-01 Thread Adam Majer
On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 02:12:57AM +0100, Robert Waldner wrote: > > Hi! > > On my (home) box, I seem to to have a problem with sendmail: it just > queues everything until I start a queue-run manually, then everything > goes out as expected. > > Eg I send a mail at 01:18, and at 01:52 it's st

Re: nVidia GeForce 4MX vidio card on Debian 3.0

2003-01-01 Thread Larry Hunsicker
Thanks to Marc Wilson and Deryk Barber. I downloaded the two files: NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-4191.tar.gz NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4191.tar.gz from the nVidia web-site: http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=linux_display_ia32_1.0-4191 then untarred them in my /usr/src directory and followed the instructions

Re: ide disk access problem

2003-01-01 Thread Adam Majer
On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 04:15:28PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > I unburied the router and determined that it's a hardware > incompatibility. The disk worked fine in the router. The router's > disk is a WDC2320H -- identical except for lower capacity. The > router's disk works in my work

Re: Survey: Should MySQL be chroot'ed?

2003-01-01 Thread Adam Majer
On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 03:35:22PM +0100, Christian Hammers wrote: > Hi > > I'm currently preparing the 4.x version of mysql (see /experimental/) > and thinking about chrooting the daemon in /var/lib/mysql. Chroot it but make it an option selectable from debconf or something. thanks, Adam --

Re: cannot open dislpay: debian:0.0

2003-01-01 Thread Kevin
- Original Message - From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 6:30 AM Subject: Re: cannot open dislpay: debian:0.0 > Kevin wrote: > > >Please can you help with this error? > >Below is the log, env and .bashrc > > > >DISPLAY=debian:0.

Re: Terminus game and libstdc++.so.2.8

2003-01-01 Thread Seneca
On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 06:12:54PM -0600, Gianfranco Berardi wrote: > I got the game Terminus and installed it on my Woody box. > Every time I try to run it I get this error: > > terminus: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.2.8: cannot > open shared object file: No such file or di

Re: howto for compiling of deb packages

2003-01-01 Thread Adam Majer
On Wed, Dec 25, 2002 at 10:52:32AM +0100, Roland Wegmann wrote: > Hello > > I have to know how you can build deb packages from source. Could somebody > tell me if there exists an apt-get(able) doc package that introduces me > in the topic of compiling your own deb packages from source? Just use

Re: gqview and pgm

2003-01-01 Thread Dave W
On Wed, 2003-01-01 at 18:27, Michael Naumann wrote: > Is this reproducable elsewhere or is this something special to me? Works fine on my box, for what it's worth. dave w -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The kernel (file system) in Debian supports replacing fileseven while they're being used.

2003-01-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-01-01 at 15:50, Frank Gevaerts wrote: > On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 02:45:22PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-01-01 at 14:30, khromy wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 10:01:49PM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: > > > > /tmp$ cp -v /bin/sleep mysleep > > > > /tmp$ (./mysleep

Re: Can only login as root

2003-01-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 12:27:18PM +1100, Rob Weir ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 02:28:26PM +1100, matt wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I have a Woody v3.0 with a 2.4.18 kernel. > > > > I can only login as root, if I try to login as anyone else it does not > > even ask for a pa

Re: keyboard problem

2003-01-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 05:35:33PM +0100, Mat ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Again I ask the same question: > When I connect to my linux box through ssh or telnet, home and end > keys don't work (they print a ~) and I cannot print characters like }, > { and accented characters (because I use an itali

Re: old /lib/modules still there after purging kernel

2003-01-01 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 06:27:24AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > I long ago stopped using the older kernel, 2.2. However in > /lib/modules/ I see 2.2.20/ 2.2.20-idepci/ 2.4.18-k7/ . > What is the recommended way of cleaning up the older ones? Is the > user supposed to just rm -r? > -- > http://j

Re: Creating a new user without a password

2003-01-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-12-30 12:36:37 +]: > On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 02:44:55AM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > > Curtis Spencer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-12-29 23:34:44 -0800]: > > > groupadd mysql > > > useradd -g mysql mysql > > > > adduser --disabled-login --gecos 'MYSQL User'

Re: ntpd; local clock reference 127.127.1.0

2003-01-01 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.12.31 17:51 Brenda J. Butler wrote: I get the following in my logs [manually wrapped for legibility in email] Dec 31 15:44:27 seal ntpd[17700]: attempt to configure \ invalid address 127.127.1.0 when I set the following in /etc/ntp.conf: server 127.127.1.0 fu

Re: Creating a new user without a password

2003-01-01 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 01 Jan 2003, Bob Proulx wrote: > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-12-30 12:36:37 +]: > > On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 02:44:55AM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > > > Curtis Spencer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-12-29 23:34:44 -0800]: > > > > groupadd mysql > > > > useradd -g mysql mysql > > > >

Re: Help needed to steal Knoppix settings, etc

2003-01-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 06:09:58PM -0800, A R ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi guys, I am trying to steal the network settings from what Knoppix > does to copy them in my woody machine, but I don't know where I should > look at. Which settings? For IP address, nameservers, and gateway, Knoppix u

Re: Creating a new user without a password

2003-01-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-01-02 00:30:49 -0200]: > > > > adduser --disabled-login --gecos 'MYSQL User' mysql > > > I suggest using the --system option there too. > > > > The only problem/difference with --system is that the adduser command > > will not create a unique

Re: The kernel (file system) in Debian supports replacing files evenwhile they're being used.

2003-01-01 Thread Steven Yap
On Wed, 2003-01-01 at 17:37, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2003-01-01 at 15:50, Frank Gevaerts wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 02:45:22PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > > > Shaul knows that *that* works. He wants to know how dpkg can > > > update active/open files, while he can't... > > >

GTK2 apps and kde

2003-01-01 Thread Tom Badran
I run kde (3.1rc) as my desktop environment, but also use 2 gtk apps (gimp 1.3 and synaptic) both of which use GTK 2. Gimp picks up the theme settings and uses the xft libraries to do antialiased fonts just fine. However synaptic neither picks up the theme settings or uses xft unless i run one o

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