Re: NFS hangs??

2003-03-16 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sat, 15 Mar 2003, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 06:02:29PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > (ro,soft,intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192) might be better > > > > - make sure portmap and rpc.* is running > > - make sure that the firewall is NOT blocking nfs traffic > > - make sure /etc/hosts

Re: NFS hangs??

2003-03-16 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sat, 15 Mar 2003, Bob Proulx wrote: > Alvin Oga wrote: > > > /usr/local/music192.168.0.0/24(ro,sync) > > (ro,soft,intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192) might be better > > I recommend against 'soft'. Running 'soft' allows errors to cause > data corruption. Been there, done that, won't do it

Re: NFS hangs??

2003-03-16 Thread sean finney
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 10:26:58PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > As to the original trouble, check out the errors that are undoubtedly > occurring in /var/log/syslog. Try running tcpdump at the same time > and see if there is a clue as to why you are hanging. Run 'showmount > -e servername' and see

Official Exim 4 package

2003-03-16 Thread Rus Foster
Hi All, I'm trying to find an exim 4 package for woody. Googling turned up http://marc.merlins.org/linux/exim/exim4-debian.html but the exim packages haven't been updated in 9 months. If there an offical exim4 pkg? I've tried pulling the source for sid but that still looks like 3.* Cheers Rus --

Re: Official Exim 4 package

2003-03-16 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 08:05:38 + (GMT), Rus Foster wrote: >I'm trying to find an exim 4 package for woody. Googling turned up Fetch yourself the source of one of the Exim 4.x packages from here: >http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl? keywords=exim&searchon=names&subword=1&vers

Mounting Samba, any size like NFS

2003-03-16 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 09:06:53PM -0800, nate wrote: > Osamu Aoki said: > > > What was the reason for 8192? Any reference? > > improves performance by setting read/write buffers, 8192 is > usually the limit you can set on most systems. > > see: > http://nfs.sourceforge.net/nfs-howto/performanc

Re: wma in linux

2003-03-16 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 04:34:53PM -0800, Jack Pistachio wrote: Hi, > Were you able to keep xmms from popping up a blank movie > window whenever a wma file is played? Or get xmms to read > the file info correctly? nope. :( I use it only to listen to some useless fun stuff from friends. If I real

Re: gnome2.2 backport mirror has changed

2003-03-16 Thread Simon Tod
--- "Harley D. Eades III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Simon Tod wrote: > > > --- James Strandboge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >wrote: > The mirrors listed at DebianPlanet.org and > > > > > >>gnomedesktop.org have now > >>changed for the gnome2.2 backport for woody. > >>Instead, please use: > >> > >

Re: libvorbis0a? in unstable

2003-03-16 Thread Ing. Vladimir M. Kerka
I've tried them and they work (so far) like a charm. Many thanks, Brian. I hope they will go to unstable soon. Vlada On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 01:39, Cameron Hutchison wrote: > Once upon a time Brian Nelson said... > > Cameron Hutchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > If this is true, could I c

Re: Mounting Samba, any size like NFS

2003-03-16 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Sun, 16 Mar 2003, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 09:06:53PM -0800, nate wrote: > > Osamu Aoki said: > > > > > What was the reason for 8192? Any reference? > > > > improves performance by setting read/write buffers, 8192 is > > usually the limit you can set on most system

Re: Laptop PCMCIA Ethernet Card and Wireless

2003-03-16 Thread Emilio Murcia
Metnetsky escribió: If anyone read my previous message, I just installed Debian, very bare boned. I'd like to begin updating my system as well as downloading all my backup files off of my server. So during the install I configured PCMCIA with all the Intel defaults. My system was then able to

Re: Problem with FireWire

2003-03-16 Thread Emilio Murcia
p escribió: On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 01:19:46PM +0100, Emilio Murcia wrote: Hi! I've got a little problem with the IEEE1394 support on my computer, a Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop... when I plug my shiny iPod (which works really good under f*cking windows) to the computer, the laptop suddenly

Auto apt-get upgrade

2003-03-16 Thread Rus Foster
Hi all, I'm just debating about scheduling a cron job to do apt-get update && apt-get update. Is this reasonable or am I going to be asking for trouble down the line? Rus -- http://www.65535.net | MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "More bits for your bite" Li

wireless lan broken after booting windows

2003-03-16 Thread Michael Zech
Hi everyone! Till today my wireless lan worked fine. Yesterday I had to boot windows (what happens about 3 times a year ;) and now the wireless interface won't come up anymore. cardctl ident 0 product info: "NETGEAR MA401RA Wireless PC", "Card", "ISL37300P", "Eval-RevA" manfid: 0x000b, 0x7

Re: Convincing someone to switch to Linux

2003-03-16 Thread cr
On Sunday 16 March 2003 16:39, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 10:44:51PM +, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > The "solution" that they decided on (not yet implemented) is to keep > > > the aging machines and purchase one new Dell machine with > > > WinXP/OfficeXP. > > > > Good argumen

Re: wireless lan broken after booting windows

2003-03-16 Thread ronin2
On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 11:28:12 +0100 Michael Zech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone! > > Till today my wireless lan worked fine. Yesterday I had to boot > windows (what happens about 3 times a year ;) and now the wireless > interface won't come up anymore. Have you tried turning the compute

Re: Convincing someone to switch to Linux

2003-03-16 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 10:29:42AM +1200, cr wrote: > Agreed, but unfortunately there's all this spurious 'compatible' crap. > Nobody was ever scared off buying a GM car because it wasn't > 'Ford-compatible'. Really? So that's why you see so m

Re: Auto apt-get upgrade

2003-03-16 Thread Thomas Krennwallner
Hi! On Sun Mar 16, 2003 at 10:24:33AM +, the boisterous Rus Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote to me: > I'm just debating about scheduling a cron job to do apt-get update && > apt-get update. Is this reasonable or am I going to be asking for trouble > down the line? This is so troubleless, that

Re: Auto apt-get upgrade

2003-03-16 Thread Rus Foster
On Sun, 16 Mar 2003, Thomas Krennwallner wrote: > Hi! > > On Sun Mar 16, 2003 at 10:24:33AM +, the boisterous > Rus Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote to me: > > I'm just debating about scheduling a cron job to do apt-get update && > > apt-get update. Is this reasonable or am I going to be ask

Re: apt-pinning gnucash 1.8.2-1 in testing errors

2003-03-16 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 10:24:58PM +, wayne wrote: > Hi, > I am running Testing and have managed to install the above package using > apt pinning: > apt-get -t unstable install gnucash > This worked with no errors. When I tried to run it from the menu, > nothing happened, so I tried from the

Re: foomatic-compiledb target direct it where? /boot/ppd

2003-03-16 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 12:30:06AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 23:07:54 -0600 > Hanasaki JiJi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Why does foomatic-compiledb put the compiled files in /boo/ppd ? > > > > It just doesnt seem right > > Do you mean /boot/ppd, as in the same /b

Re: ALSA conf

2003-03-16 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 12:41:27PM -0500, ScruLoose wrote: > On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 06:46:06PM +0200, Johan Ehnberg wrote: > > ALSA is horribly documented, if it's gonna be the next de facto standard > > they have to shape up... > > Absolutely right. After I *finally* got it to work, the sound

Re: XFree86 in 1152x864, problem!

2003-03-16 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 12:46:28PM +0100, Roman Joost wrote: > On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 08:46:45PM +0100, Janke Dávid wrote: > > Hi all! > > > > I want to configure XFree86 to run in 1152x864 mode. There's no problem with > > startup, but altough I do not enable virtual screen, it appears as one. (

Re: Unstable/Java/Mozilla

2003-03-16 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 05:19:28PM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote: > I just realized that due to the fact that Mozilla, and it's > descendents, in unstable, is now being built with the 3.2 compilers > I'm stuck without a useable Java plugin. Anyone have a solution to > this? I've been using the 1.4 *.d

Re: setting up iptables

2003-03-16 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 12:27:29AM +0200, Aryan Ameri wrote: > Hi there: > > Well, it seems "google is your friend" is used extensivly trough this mailing > list. I tried my best to make friends with him and to find a sample iptables > config file, with no success. tldp also gave me the same res

Re: mysql v4

2003-03-16 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 03:16:39PM +1100, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > I am keen to move to a later version of Mysql. > > I have a fairly unmessed-around Woody stable, can anyone guide me through > the upgrade from mysql v3.23 to 4 ? I'd just build mysql 4's source and install into /usr/local with the

Re: jde

2003-03-16 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 03:06:22PM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to install jde, on my Sid machine. I had the following: > ... > Wrote /usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/semantic/working.elc > Done > jde: Installing byte-compiled files for emacsen flavor emacs20 > emacs-package-install: /usr/l

Re: odd compiler behaviour?

2003-03-16 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 04:00:22PM +, Bruynooghe Floris wrote: > I can't see why the second program fails to compile, as far as I would expect these > programs are identical. > Does anyone knows what goes wrong? > > int main() An addition to what everyone else said, this really should be i

Re: Trouble compiling with wxwindows

2003-03-16 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 09:46:48AM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 12:34:04AM -0500, Federico Grau wrote: > | Hello, > | > | I am unable to compile programs against wxWindows. Does anybody have any > | advice on what the problem might be? > > | My c++ compiler is g

Re: Auto apt-get upgrade

2003-03-16 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 10:24:33AM +, Rus Foster wrote: > I'm just debating about scheduling a cron job to do apt-get update && > apt-get update. Is this reasonable or am I going to be asking for trouble > down the line? That's just begging for a

Woody Installation Puzzle

2003-03-16 Thread ,
Another newbie in a jam.   Woody (downloaded late February) gives the following messages while trying to install the Base System:   "Warning    file:/instmnt/pool/main/i/iptables/iptables_1.2.6a-5_i386.deb was corrupt" "Error Couldn't download iptables."   MD5SUM on my binary gave t

Re: wireless lan broken after booting windows

2003-03-16 Thread Craig Genner
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 06:01:03AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 11:28:12 +0100 > Michael Zech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi everyone! > > > > Till today my wireless lan worked fine. Yesterday I had to boot > > windows (what happens about 3 times a year ;) and now th

Re: wireless lan broken after booting windows

2003-03-16 Thread Michael Zech
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 11:28:12 +0100 Michael Zech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi everyone! Till today my wireless lan worked fine. Yesterday I had to boot windows (what happens about 3 times a year ;) and now the wireless interface won't come up anymore. Have you tried tur

Re: odd compiler behaviour?

2003-03-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 04:56:53PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 04:00:22PM +, Bruynooghe Floris wrote: > > I can't see why the second program fails to compile, as far as I would expect > > these programs are identical. > > Does anyone knows what goes wrong? > > > > int mai

[plex86] setup: "user whiptail doesn't exist"

2003-03-16 Thread Eike Lantzsch
Hi: I am trying to setup plex86 on a i386 Woody box. I compiled the modules and made a kernel package. When I try to install it with "dpkg -i" I get: Setting up plex86-kernel-2.4.20 (0.0.20011018-8) ... adduser: The user `whiptail:' doesn't exist. dpkg: error processing plex86-kernel-2.4.20 (--

Re: tftpd

2003-03-16 Thread Robert Rakowicz
Jianbo Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi, > Hi, > > I cannot start tftpd. I try tftpd and atftpd, but they fail. > For tftpd, in syslog it said: > tftpd[701]: recvfrom: Socket operation on non-socket > For aftpd, in syslog it said: > tftpd[777]: atftpd: can't bind port. My /etc/inetd.conf is

[plex86] setup: "user whiptail doesn't exist"

2003-03-16 Thread Eike Lantzsch
Hi: First of all: Please excuse me for messing up the "maildir vs. mbox vs. mh ???" thread. I am trying to setup plex86 on a i386 Woody box. I compiled the modules and made a kernel package. When I try to install it with "dpkg -i" I get: Setting up plex86-kernel-2.4.20 (0.0.20011018-8) ... ad

Re: wireless lan broken after booting windows

2003-03-16 Thread Paul Lewis
On 2003.03.16 10:28 Michael Zech wrote: Hi everyone! Till today my wireless lan worked fine. Yesterday I had to boot windows (what happens about 3 times a year ;) and now the wireless interface won't come up anymore. cardctl ident 0 product info: "NETGEAR MA401RA Wireless PC", "Card", "ISL373

Solved: wireless lan broken after booting windows

2003-03-16 Thread Michael Zech
Craig Genner wrote: On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 06:01:03AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 11:28:12 +0100 Michael Zech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi everyone! Till today my wireless lan worked fine. Yesterday I had to boot windows (what happens about 3 times a year ;) and now the

RE: Debian and LDAP

2003-03-16 Thread Aaron Isotton
On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 03:09, Jeremy Gaddis wrote: > I've attached two Perl scripts which may or may not > come through. One is the LDAP-aware version of > useradd, the other the LDAP-aware version of passwd. > If they don't come through, let me know and I'll > send them privately. > > You don't

Re: Auto apt-get upgrade

2003-03-16 Thread Richard Kimber
On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 03:24:53 -0800 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's just begging for a cosmic ass-whooping, from my experiance when > I tried it. Doing this is only for people who switched from Windows > and really, really miss things randomly breaking for seemingly no > reason.

Firewall/init scripts problem

2003-03-16 Thread Aaron Isotton
Hi, I use a shell script in /etc/init.d to configure my firewall (iptables). Currently, it works as follows: - if it is called with "start", it checks for the existence of $STORAGE_FILE; if it exists, it exists saying that the firewall is already running, otherwise it writes the current iptable

Re: [plex86] setup: "user whiptail doesn't exist"

2003-03-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 10:26:36AM -0300, Eike Lantzsch wrote: > When I try to install it with "dpkg -i" I get: > > Setting up plex86-kernel-2.4.20 (0.0.20011018-8) ... > adduser: The user `whiptail:' doesn't exist. > dpkg: error processing plex86-kernel-2.4.20 (--configure): > subprocess post-in

RH [Auto apt-get upgrade]

2003-03-16 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 01:52:46PM +, Richard Kimber wrote: > -- > Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ having fun with RH? hugh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

GIF driver for Gimp ?

2003-03-16 Thread dave selby
I am using gimp quite heavily, I need to save files in .GIF format but it appears not to be supported. I have been on the Gimp mailing list, they suggest I may need a .deb file to enable it because it is supported in standard Gimp. Having browsed through aptitude there are a lot of files relat

Re: Firewall/init scripts problem

2003-03-16 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 03:05:07PM +0100, Aaron Isotton wrote: > I use a shell script in /etc/init.d to configure my firewall > (iptables). Currently, it works as follows: > > - if it is called with "start", it checks for the existence of > $STORAGE_FILE; if it exists, it exists saying that the

Re: Auto apt-get upgrade

2003-03-16 Thread ronin2
On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 10:24:33 + (GMT) Rus Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > I'm just debating about scheduling a cron job to do apt-get update && > apt-get update. Is this reasonable or am I going to be asking for > trouble down the line? I suppose you really meant "apt-get update

Re: Firewall/init scripts problem

2003-03-16 Thread ronin2
On 16 Mar 2003 15:05:07 +0100 Aaron Isotton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My problem is: where should $STORAGE_FILE go? I vote for a directory called /etc/iptables. > > - I'd like to bring up the firewall before the network interfaces; > these are brought up in /etc/rcS.d/S39ifupdown; thus i

Error while trying to compile PPC-Kernel 2.4.21-pre5 on a Debian Apple PPC G4 dual-533

2003-03-16 Thread Beni Keller
Hiya, I tried to compile the ppc-kernel 2.4.21-pre5 which I got from ppckernel. org. I tried to compile it with the debian .config and with a custom one. It came up with the same error in both cases. I never compiled a kernel and I don't really know anythin about how a Kernel is written. So i al

Re: GIF driver for Gimp ?

2003-03-16 Thread Joseph A Nagy Jr
dave selby wrote: I am using gimp quite heavily, I need to save files in .GIF format but it appears not to be supported. I have been on the Gimp mailing list, they suggest I may need a .deb file to enable it because it is supported in standard Gimp. Having browsed through aptitude there are a

Re: GIF driver for Gimp ?

2003-03-16 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 02:46:35PM +, dave selby wrote: > I am using gimp quite heavily, I need to save files in .GIF format but > it appears not to be supported. > > I have been on the Gimp mailing list, they suggest I may need a .deb > file to enable it because it is supported in standard G

Re: Auto apt-get upgrade

2003-03-16 Thread sean finney
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 09:55:38AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 10:24:33 + (GMT) > Rus Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I suppose you really meant "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade"? > > There's nothing at all wrong with doing "update" in a cron job, since > that j

'apt-cache search' question

2003-03-16 Thread Rick Pasotto
There was recently a question about which .deb added GIF capability to the gimp. Using 'apt-cache search gimp gif' did not return the correct answer. The man page for apt-cache says: search search performs a full text search on all available package files for the regex pattern given

Re: GIF driver for Gimp ?

2003-03-16 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 02:46:35PM +, dave selby wrote: > I am using gimp quite heavily, I need to save files in .GIF format but it > appears not to be supported. gimp1.3-nonfree gimp1.2-nonfree - -- .''`. Baloo Ursidae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GIF driver for Gimp ?

2003-03-16 Thread Seneca
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 02:46:35PM +, dave selby wrote: > I am using gimp quite heavily, I need to save files in .GIF format but it > appears not to be supported. > > I have been on the Gimp mailing list, they suggest I may need a .deb file to > enable it because it is supported in standard

Re: Auto apt-get upgrade

2003-03-16 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 09:55:38AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 10:24:33 + (GMT) > Rus Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, > > I'm just debating about scheduling a cron job to do apt-get update && > > apt-get update. Is this reasonable or am I going to be asking for

Re: GIF driver for Gimp ?

2003-03-16 Thread Joseph A Nagy Jr
Rick Pasotto wrote: On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 02:46:35PM +, dave selby wrote: I am using gimp quite heavily, I need to save files in .GIF format but it appears not to be supported. I have been on the Gimp mailing list, they suggest I may need a .deb file to enable it because it is supported in

Re: CVS over ssh hanging on testing

2003-03-16 Thread Bill Wohler
One other clue, with the upgrade I've noticed these in /var/log/auth.log whenever I use ssh into my box: Mar 15 22:03:27 gbr pam_limits[15052]: setrlimit limit #6 to soft=-1, hard=-1 failed: Operation not permitted; uid=1007 euid=1007 Note that while the cvs process hangs, I am able

Segfault starting X (was: Matrox G550 and Dual Head)

2003-03-16 Thread Bill Moseley
I replaced a Nvidia-based board with a G550 in a machine and I think I have my XF86Config-4 file setup correctly, but I'm getting a segfault when trying to start X and my monitor reports: "Out of Range - 200.0KHz/274Hz" A more detailed message is at: http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2003/de

Re: GIF driver for Gimp ?

2003-03-16 Thread Joseph A Nagy Jr
Paul Johnson wrote: On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 02:46:35PM +, dave selby wrote: I am using gimp quite heavily, I need to save files in .GIF format but it appears not to be supported. gimp1.3-nonfree gimp1.2-nonfree Neither package was found apt-cache search gimp1.3-nonfree or apt-cache sea

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2003 #907

2003-03-16 Thread John Stevenson
Using dselect I searched for gimp and found this package that should meet your needs: gimp1.2-nonfree - GIF support for the GNU Image Manipulation Program Enjoy.. Johnny. Subject: GIF driver for Gimp ? From: dave selby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 14:46:35 + To: Debian List <[

Re: [plex86] setup: "user whiptail doesn't exist"

2003-03-16 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Sunday 16 March 2003 11:09, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 10:26:36AM -0300, Eike Lantzsch wrote: > > When I try to install it with "dpkg -i" I get: > > > > Setting up plex86-kernel-2.4.20 (0.0.20011018-8) ... > > adduser: The user `whiptail:' doesn't exist. > > dpkg: error proces

Gnucash errors in unstable

2003-03-16 Thread Jim
Hello, I am getting the following errors when trying to run gnucash: ERROR: In procedure dynamic-link: ERROR: file: "libgw-wct", message: "libgw-wct.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" Does anyone one know how to fix this? Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2003 #907

2003-03-16 Thread John Stevenson
You should look at the package: cron-apt This probably does everything you need, without doing any damage to you system by default I just use it to do an update and download (not install) any packages overnight). Once I read the changelogs in the morning, I then decide whether to let the

making nvidia drivers

2003-03-16 Thread John F.
I have a NVIDIA GeForce3, and the "nv" driver doesn't work very well. I want to compile the "nvidia" driver from the sources, but I don't know how to do it. I have installed nvidia-kernel-source and nvidia-glx-source, but I don't know how to make the .deb packages to install. What commands d

Re: GIF driver for Gimp ?

2003-03-16 Thread Shri Shrikumar
On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 16:27, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > > > On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 02:46:35PM +, dave selby wrote: > > > >>I am using gimp quite heavily, I need to save files in .GIF format but it > >>appears not to be supported. > > > > > > gimp1.3-nonfree > > gimp1

Re: Printers via SMB?

2003-03-16 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 01:01:42PM -0600, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: > Jamin W. Collins wrote: > >On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 10:21:14AM -0600, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: > > > > > >>I'd like to be able to use the Epson from my computer, but I haven't a > >>clue on how to mount a printer. > > > > > >Take a

Re: Convincing someone to switch to Linux

2003-03-16 Thread Shri Shrikumar
On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 20:20, Svenn Are Bjerkem wrote: > When you have succeded in setting up the LTSP, the server, samba, printing, > openoffice etc. /leave it like that/. Don't touch the system unless there are > bugs to fix or serious flaws appear. If the machines are unavailable because > you

Re: odd compiler behaviour?

2003-03-16 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 08:06:33PM +, Bruynooghe Floris wrote: > On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 06:12:28PM +, Pigeon wrote: > > #include // need this to use malloc() > > Well I thought so to, but it _did_ work without to my surprise (discovered after > I stupidly forgot it) The straight-C-compa

Re: Gnucash errors in unstable

2003-03-16 Thread Thomas Weinbrenner
Jim wrote: > I am getting the following errors when trying to run gnucash: > > ERROR: In procedure dynamic-link: > ERROR: file: "libgw-wct", message: "libgw-wct.so: cannot open shared > object file: No such file or directory" > > Does anyone one know how to fix this? I had the same problem. Inst

Re: making nvidia drivers

2003-03-16 Thread Gavrila
John F. wrote: I have a NVIDIA GeForce3, and the "nv" driver doesn't work very well. I want to compile the "nvidia" driver from the sources, but I don't know how to do it. I have installed nvidia-kernel-source and nvidia-glx-source, but I don't know how to make the .deb packages to install.

Re: file server recommendations?

2003-03-16 Thread Shri Shrikumar
On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 22:09, Jack Pistachio wrote: > I'd suggest ssh, sftp, and scp, which all come in the > debian ssh package. To use these with windows, I'd suggest > putty sftp client for windows. This seems th easiest way > to do it. This, of course, requires that your friends are > users o

Xserver fails after upgrading to testing/unstable

2003-03-16 Thread Willem-Jan Meijer
Hello, Last week I upgraded my debian system to testing/unstable. Then I turned off my computer and didn't use it for two days. Today I wanted to use it again, but now I only see a grey screen w/o the cross in the middle. The screen isn't equal grey, but with white spots on it. I'm using a geforce

Re: (OT) low-power home server

2003-03-16 Thread Shri Shrikumar
On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 11:20, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: [...] > I should have thought that there must be a market for such a > thing, with so many people running home networks, but so far I > haven't found any suppliers of things like this. Maybe I haven't > been looking in the right places. Any ide

Re: GIF driver for Gimp ?

2003-03-16 Thread Joseph A Nagy Jr
Shri Shrikumar wrote: Check your /etc/apt/sources.list to make sure that it says something like deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian main contrib non-free the non-free part has to be there for you to be able to download this package. HTH,

Re: GIF driver for Gimp ?

2003-03-16 Thread Shri Shrikumar
On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 17:31, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: > Shri Shrikumar wrote: > > > > > Check your /etc/apt/sources.list to make sure that it says something > > like > > > > deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian main contrib non-free > > > >

CUPS Update failed

2003-03-16 Thread debian_newbie
I am running Woody. I was trying to update CUPS by using Synaptic when I got this message: (Reading database ... 93315 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace cupsys 1.1.14-3 (using .../cupsys_1.1.14-4.4_i386.deb) ... Stopping CUPSys: cupsd. Unpacking replacement cupsys .

Re: making nvidia drivers

2003-03-16 Thread John F.
Gavrila wrote: John F. wrote: I have a NVIDIA GeForce3, and the "nv" driver doesn't work very well. I want to compile the "nvidia" driver from the sources, but I don't know how to do it. I have installed nvidia-kernel-source and nvidia-glx-source, but I don't know how to make the .deb packag

Re: cups installation: Unable to read configuration file'/etc/cups/cupsd.conf' - exiting

2003-03-16 Thread iks_kzm
On Sat, 15 Mar 2003, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: > On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 05:07:12PM +0100, iks_kzm wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: > > > You have not mentioned anything about installing drivers for your > > > printer. You probably need to install one of these package

Re: making nvidia drivers

2003-03-16 Thread Ed Cogburn
John F. wrote: Gavrila wrote: John F. wrote: I have a NVIDIA GeForce3, and the "nv" driver doesn't work very well. I want to compile the "nvidia" driver from the sources, but I don't know how to do it. I have installed nvidia-kernel-source and nvidia-glx-source, but I don't know how to make

Re: making nvidia drivers

2003-03-16 Thread sean finney
hi john, On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 09:39:59AM -0800, John F. wrote: > > I don't really think you need to have a .deb pkg to do that since > > you're 'patching' the kernel. > > However enter Nvidia_kernel dir and type 'make install', then go to > > Nvidia_glx and do the same. Then you have to edit

Re: making nvidia drivers

2003-03-16 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 16 Mar 2003 4:38 pm, John F. wrote: > I have a NVIDIA GeForce3, and the "nv" driver doesn't work very well. I > want to compile the "nvidia" driver from the sources, but I don't know > how to do it. I have installed nvidia-kernel-source and

Re: making nvidia drivers

2003-03-16 Thread Mpiktas
I went to the nvidia_kernel dir and typed 'make install', but it said "*** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop." The nvidia_kernel dir is under /usr/src/modules. I have made a .deb file from /usr/src/modules for some alsa-modules, but I can't remember how to do it. Any ideas?

Re: GIF driver for Gimp ?

2003-03-16 Thread dave selby
On Sunday 16 March 2003 15:29, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: > dave selby wrote: > > I am using gimp quite heavily, I need to save files in .GIF format but it > > appears not to be supported. > > > > I have been on the Gimp mailing list, they suggest I may need a .deb file > > to enable it because it is

Re: Unstable/Java/Mozilla

2003-03-16 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 00:11, Rob Weir wrote: > On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 05:19:28PM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote: > > I just realized that due to the fact that Mozilla, and it's > > descendents, in unstable, is now being built with the 3.2 compilers > > I'm stuck without a useable Java plugin. Anyone h

Re: making nvidia drivers

2003-03-16 Thread John F.
I looked at that, but the part with "make-kpkg modules_image" seems like it is starting to compile a new kernel. I don't know, but most of the questions I was being asked made no sense to me, I'm still kinda a newbie after a year and a half in Linux. I don't know what I'm supposed to do. Than

RE: Debian and LDAP

2003-03-16 Thread Jeremy Gaddis
> -Original Message- > From: nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2003 11:21 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Debian and LDAP > > It'd sure be nice if this were available as one big file suitable > > for printing though (e.g. plain text or PDF). *hint* :)

Re: (OT) low-power home server

2003-03-16 Thread Donald Spoon
Shri Shrikumar wrote: On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 11:20, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: [...] I should have thought that there must be a market for such a thing, with so many people running home networks, but so far I haven't found any suppliers of things like this. Maybe I haven't been looking in the right p

RE: Debian and LDAP

2003-03-16 Thread Jeremy Gaddis
If you have to create your users from scratch, as opposed to "migrating" them, the ldapuseradd script I posted may greatly assist you in that. The script is somewhat old, so it may require a few changes to work with the newer LDAP server version (I haven't used it for quite some time, so I'm not r

Re: making nvidia drivers

2003-03-16 Thread John F.
I did this up throught the "debian/rules binary_modules" command, where I got the following error: nv.c:22: linux/modversions.h: No such file or directory make[1]: *** [nv.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel-1.0.2880/NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-2880' make: *** [build-stam

Re: Unstable/Java/Mozilla

2003-03-16 Thread Florentin Ionescu
There is blackdown java compiled with gcc3.2 - but there is no debian package AFAIK and that should solve the problem. ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.blackdown.org/java-linux/ JDK-1.4.1/i386/01/j2re-1.4.1-01-linux-i586-gcc3.2.bin ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.blackdown.org/java-linux/ JDK-1.

Re: file server recommendations?

2003-03-16 Thread Kevin Coyner
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 05:12:09PM +, Shri Shrikumar wrote.. > On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 22:09, Jack Pistachio wrote: > > I'd suggest ssh, sftp, and scp, which all come in the > > debian ssh package. To use these with windows, I'd suggest > > putty sftp client for windows. This seems th ea

Re: making nvidia drivers

2003-03-16 Thread sean finney
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 11:13:35AM -0800, John F. wrote: > I looked at that, but the part with "make-kpkg modules_image" seems like > it is starting to compile a new kernel. I don't know, but most of the > questions I was being asked made no sense to me, I'm still kinda a > newbie after a year

Re: making nvidia drivers

2003-03-16 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Sunday 16 March 2003 14:39, John F. wrote: > Gavrila wrote: > > John F. wrote: > >> I have a NVIDIA GeForce3, and the "nv" driver doesn't work very > >> well. I want to compile the "nvidia" driver from the sources, but I > >> don't know how to do it. I have installed nvidia-kernel-source and >

tightvnc java security

2003-03-16 Thread Andy Saxena
Hi, I am trying to figure out a way to securely connect to the X server on my machine (the host machine) using a web browser. Tightvnc with java is very promising since I don't need any special software as the applet downloads from the host machine upon access through the browser. I don't know m

Installed iptraf ... lost XWindows

2003-03-16 Thread Stephen Handley
Hi there, I'm hoping someone out there can help me. I'm running a Debian (Potato) box as my home server. Recently I did an apt-get install iptraf so I could monitor my LAN traffic. It told me it was going to remove a bunch of packages (mostly gnome and xwindows stuff) but it also appeared to

Re: making nvidia drivers

2003-03-16 Thread Ed Cogburn
John F. wrote: I did this up throught the "debian/rules binary_modules" command, where I got the following error: nv.c:22: linux/modversions.h: No such file or directory make[1]: *** [nv.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel-1.0.2880/NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-2880' make:

Re: file server recommendations?

2003-03-16 Thread Hanasaki JiJi
Try the free cygwin download: http://www..cygwin.com/ Kevin Coyner wrote: On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 05:12:09PM +, Shri Shrikumar wrote.. On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 22:09, Jack Pistachio wrote: I'd suggest ssh, sftp, and scp, which all come in the debian ssh package. To use these with windows,

Re: Convincing someone to switch to Linux

2003-03-16 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 03:05:57AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 10:29:42AM +1200, cr wrote: > > Agreed, but unfortunately there's all this spurious 'compatible' crap. > > Nobody was ever scared off buying a GM car becau

Re: Phoenix with java ..

2003-03-16 Thread Kevin Coyner
On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 08:13:44AM -0500, Kevin Coyner wrote.. > On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 09:09:55PM -0800, nate wrote.. > > > I guess I deleted the mail from I think "Sandip" but I decided > > to try to get java working in phoenix 0.5 and it seems to work.. > > > > what I did: > > > >

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