gettext

2003-10-01 Thread Joyce, Matthew
Hi, I'm trying to a horde/imp system, the doc say I must have gettext support in php4. running Woody, appache-ssl, php4 I have run apt-get gettext, but the docS say it is php4 which needs gettext. Any ideas ? thanks Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: How Do You Know If It Works In Linux?

2003-10-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 09:27:38AM +0200, Michael Schulz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > No offense, but while I find that companies like HP, Dell, IBM, and > > other major vendors are more than happy to sell servers and > > workstations with Linux, the laptop support absolutely sucks. > > You hav

Re: gettext

2003-10-01 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Joyce, Matthew ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031001 00:21]: > > Hi, > > I'm trying to a horde/imp system, the doc say I must have gettext support in > php4. > > running Woody, appache-ssl, php4 > > I have run apt-get gettext, but the docS say it is php4 which needs gettext. > > Any ideas ? less +/ge

Re: upgrade a packge

2003-10-01 Thread Simon Tod
Could you post the contents of the file /etc/sources.list - did you try 'apt-get -t testing install perl' or 'apt-get -t unstable install perl'? Even perl in stable depends on libdb2 >= 2:2.7.7.0-7. Looks to me like you might have cd's in your /etc/sources.list --- Vivek Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTE

RE: gettext

2003-10-01 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> -Original Message- > From: Vineet Kumar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, 1 October 2003 5:48 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: gettext > > > * Joyce, Matthew ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031001 00:21]: > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm trying to a horde/imp system, the doc say I mu

Re: How stable is SiD ?

2003-10-01 Thread VEGH Karoly
On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 01:23:43PM -0400, Johan Kullstam wrote: > Perhaps his video card isn't supported with the woody shipped xfree86? > That's why I went straight for sid last August. (ATI Radeon 8500 > needs 4.2.1.) At work I just got some crap corporate box with i845g > graphics. I need xf

Boot Knoppix (was Re: How Do You Know If It Works In Linux?)

2003-10-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 06:23:47PM -0500, Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > alex wrote: > > >Suppose someone wants to put together or buy a computer ---something > >that is fully compatible with Linux.no makedo patches such as for > >winmodems or other components, etc---how can you mak

Re: Debian for Joe Average

2003-10-01 Thread sturla
Ron Johnson wrote: On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 22:29, sturla wrote: David Palmer. wrote: On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 11:49:13 +0200 Martin Jungowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 02:31, Tom wrote: On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 11:19:06AM +1200, Edward Murrell wrote:

Re: Debian Desktop for a Joe Average

2003-10-01 Thread sturla
Marc Wilson wrote: On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 08:07:53AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: Gak! And send him into Dependency Hell? That's nonsense. People like to throw that crap out, but users cause it for themselves when they install RPM's from random places, same as Debian users cause it for the

Re: pppd daemon dies

2003-10-01 Thread cr
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 04:11, cr wrote: > On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 20:52, Thomas Krennwallner wrote: > > Hi! > > > > On Sat Sep 27, 2003 at 01:03:30AM -0800, J Y wrote: > > > Sep 26 05:42:22 deblnx pppd[1178]: The remote system is required to > > > authenticate itself Sep 26 05:42:22 deblnx pppd[1178]: but

Re: pppd daemon dies is a permissions problem? help?

2003-10-01 Thread cr
On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 16:32, J Y wrote: > Hi, I did the following: > > Copy /etc/ppp/peers/provider as /etc/ppp/peers/orcon > and edit the file 'orcon' to suit (e.g. include 'noauth', and in my case > comment out the sample chat script > # connect "/usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/chatscripts/provider"

swen killed me!

2003-10-01 Thread kmark
Hello D-u, I stopped getting mail from you guys! I check the list and realized that I was a victim of swen! Is there a 'list command' to get the last 100 messages? -Kev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cd writer setup, k3b won't work, fstab right??

2003-10-01 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Ken (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: [Knoppix 3.2 HD install works, cdwriter does not] > I have k3b installed. When I try and run it, it says it can't find > cdrecord even though I have installed cdrecord. The text of the error > message is: "Unable to find cdrecord executable > K3b uses cdre

Re: swen killed me!

2003-10-01 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Wednesday 01 October 2003 11:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello D-u, > I stopped getting mail from you guys! > I check the list and realized that I was a victim of swen! > Is there a 'list command' to get the last 100 messages? > -Kev If you have a pop mail-provider, go ahead and apt-get inst

Apt preconfigures, but fails to install.

2003-10-01 Thread Haralambos
Hi yall, I am having issues with apt, as per the above subject. "apt-get -f install" does not clean up this wee mess. Um, a quick search via google was of no joy, except to point out that this does occur once in a bit. *BFN* H :-) /What's the definition of a heatsink for a hot journalist? A

dpkg slightly bent

2003-10-01 Thread cr
I had a crash while using Kpackage last night (nothing to do with software, it's a hardware fault). I'm up and running again after much fscking, but now Kpackage (or rather, dpkg which it calls) won't work.I get the message 'failed to open /var/lib/dpkg/available - no such file or direc

Re: swen killed me!

2003-10-01 Thread kmark
On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Joerg Johannes wrote: > On Wednesday 01 October 2003 11:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello D-u, > > I stopped getting mail from you guys! > > I check the list and realized that I was a victim of swen! > > Is there a 'list command' to get the last 100 messages? > > -Kev >

Re: Apt preconfigures, but fails to install.

2003-10-01 Thread kmark
On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Haralambos wrote: > > Hi yall, > > I am having issues with apt, as per the above subject. > > "apt-get -f install" does not clean up this wee mess. > > Um, a quick search via google was of no joy, except to point out that > this does occur once in a bit. Hi H, It is best if

amd 64 bit support

2003-10-01 Thread Tom Allison
does Debian have package development for the new AMD 64-bit processor? ETA? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Kernel Oops (was Re: Lots of scary segfaults)

2003-10-01 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On Tuesday 30 September 2003 00:37, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > It would mean taking your hardware offline, but I would try memtest. > Think of it this way: maybe the next bit flip is in the middle of > your data. Uhm, but I thought memtest from the sysutils package (as opposed to memtest86), was sui

Re: dpkg slightly bent

2003-10-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 09:26:14PM +1200, cr wrote: > I had a crash while using Kpackage last night (nothing to do with > software, it's a hardware fault). I'm up and running again after much > fscking, but now Kpackage (or rather, dpkg which it calls) won't > work.I get the message 'failed

update-modules problem

2003-10-01 Thread Richard Kimber
I'm using mostly testing and have encountered a problem. When I do: update-modules force, I get the error message:- Error: the current /etc/modules.conf is not automatically generated. Use "update-modules force" to force (re)generation. What should I do to get round this? The problem arises bec

Re: amd 64 bit support

2003-10-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 04:37, Tom Allison wrote: > does Debian have package development for the new AMD 64-bit processor? It's a work-in-progress, targeting sarge. There's a mailing list, if you're interested. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr.

Re: cdparanoia + ide-scsi = no usable drive? (SOLVED)

2003-10-01 Thread Antonio Rodr
On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 00:10:05 -0400 Derrick 'dman' Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 01:43:39PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > | On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 11:32:52PM +0200, Joachim Fahnenmueller > | wrote: > > | | But AFAIK, cdparanoia additionally needs sg (generic

Re: amd 64 bit support

2003-10-01 Thread kmark
On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 04:37, Tom Allison wrote: > > does Debian have package development for the new AMD 64-bit processor? > > It's a work-in-progress, targeting sarge. There's a mailing list, > if you're interested. Amd recently came to my LUG and expl

Re: amd 64 bit support

2003-10-01 Thread David Palmer
On Wednesday 01 October 2003 17:37, Tom Allison wrote: > does Debian have package development for the new AMD 64-bit processor? > > ETA? At this stage only for the opteron in the smp format, that I know of:- http://jukie.net/~bart/debian/amd64/ Doing a package search on the Debian site may turn

Re: Allowing any user to shutdown from gnome

2003-10-01 Thread Ben Edwards
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 11:00, Martin Jungowski wrote: > You can also set SUID on shutdown and add a Launcher to your Panel or > Desktop in GNome. Managed to SUID Root on shutdown (chmod a+s /sbin/shutdown) and can shutdown from a command line but how do I add to the launcher. I tried one with the

Re: amd 64 bit support

2003-10-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 05:40:37AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 04:37, Tom Allison wrote: > > does Debian have package development for the new AMD 64-bit processor? > > It's a work-in-progress, targeting sarge. sarge?! Seems a bit late for that. -- Colin Watson

Re: amd 64 bit support

2003-10-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 05:40, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 04:37, Tom Allison wrote: > > does Debian have package development for the new AMD 64-bit processor? > > It's a work-in-progress, targeting sarge. There's a mailing list, > if you're interested. I misspoke. They are targeti

Re: k3b cant copy cds

2003-10-01 Thread Rodrigo Agerri
That remarkable Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 15:18, Paul William wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to use k3b to copy cds but it will not work. I ave tried > running it as root but the same errors occur (yes I know doing stuff in > root is a risk). I can blank cdrws and write to cdrws but not copy cds. > I am

Re: amd 64 bit support

2003-10-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 06:17, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 05:40:37AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 04:37, Tom Allison wrote: > > > does Debian have package development for the new AMD 64-bit processor? > > > > It's a work-in-progress, targeting sarge. > > sa

apt question: exclude certain packages from upgrading?

2003-10-01 Thread Rohan Nicholls
Hi all, Happily back on debian again and with it more questions...:) Question: Is there a way to tell apt to never upgrade a certain package? while upgrading everything else? Details: I have to use pptp-client to connect to my adsl provider. This in itself is not a problem, but the only versi

Nat & startup

2003-10-01 Thread Adrian
Hi everyone. im trying to do a simple thing, but as i dont have experience with linux neither with debian is difficult for me: I configure NATing, but every time i restart debian i have to type de nat commands again. How can i configure it for running at startup? And if i want to configure another

Re: Executing a Script every hour

2003-10-01 Thread Christof Hurschler
I set the ppp option "demand" which like you said connects when I try to access the network. It terminates the connection after 60 seconds of no traffic. It takes maybe 20 seconds to connect (I haven't actually timed it), which isn't exactly instantaneous, but much faster than my old modem! I do

Re: Mutt + Vim tricks (replace Nano)

2003-10-01 Thread Jan Schulz
Hallo! * Monique Y. Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm afraid I don't know. I've been using vim long enough that I hit > 'escape' reflexively all the time ... including in web forms, which does > *not* have desirable results. Try opera. It has the possibility to change the keybindings (down

NTP wont work as box is at 1980.

2003-10-01 Thread Ben Edwards
I have a box which will not keep the time. Every time I shut it down it looses the time and goes back to 1980. I thought ntpd was the answer but as the difference between the system(pc) and the actual(ntp) time is so great it won't work. So how can I get ntpd to set time WHATEVER the system time

Re: swen killed me!

2003-10-01 Thread Christof Hurschler
Take a look at: http://www.hashref.com/prj/swendeleter/ I've installed it and it seems to work fine. Chris > > On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Joerg Johannes wrote: > > > On Wednesday 01 October 2003 11:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hello D-u, > > > I stopped getting mail from you guys! > > > I chec

Re: NTP wont work as box is at 1980.

2003-10-01 Thread Greg Bolshaw
Ben Edwards wrote: I have a box which will not keep the time. Every time I shut it down it looses the time and goes back to 1980. I thought ntpd was the answer but as the difference between the system(pc) and the actual(ntp) time is so great it won't work. So how can I get ntpd to set time WHATE

Re: Nat & startup

2003-10-01 Thread Greg Bolshaw
Adrian wrote: I configure NATing, but every time i restart debian i have to type de nat commands again. How can i configure it for running at startup? Assuming you're using iptables to do the NATing, just `/etc/init.d/iptables save active` and the rules will be automatically loaded each time ipt

Re: Allowing any user to shutdown from gnome

2003-10-01 Thread David Fokkema
On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 13:34, Ben Edwards wrote: > On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 11:00, Martin Jungowski wrote: > > > You can also set SUID on shutdown and add a Launcher to your Panel or > > Desktop in GNome. > > Managed to SUID Root on shutdown (chmod a+s /sbin/shutdown) and can > shutdown from a comman

Re: NTP wont work as box is at 1980.

2003-10-01 Thread John Spray
Ben Edwards wrote: So how can I get ntpd to set time WHATEVER the system time is, regardless if it is 1980. Try using ntpdate instead - it can brutally change your system time right away, rather than trying to neatly slew it. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: NTP wont work as box is at 1980.

2003-10-01 Thread John Hasler
Ben writes: > So how can I get ntpd to set time WHATEVER the system time is, regardless > if it is 1980. Ntp won't change the system clock if it is too far off. Use ntpdate to set the clock at bootup and then start ntp. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, W

Re: NTP wont work as box is at 1980.

2003-10-01 Thread Ben Edwards
Have already replaced the bios battery and it still douse not work. think there is something up with the motherboard. Greg Bolshaw wrote: Ben Edwards wrote: I have a box which will not keep the time. Every time I shut it down it looses the time and goes back to 1980. I thought ntpd was the a

Re: Access fat-partition as user?

2003-10-01 Thread Naitik Shah
Try, /dev/hda8 /mnt/fat vfat user,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0 and all files on the drive will be owned by uid 1000 and gid 1000 Naitik. > On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 10:06:48PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I have a windows-partition (/dev/sda1) I want to access from debian > > but can only d

Doubts about quota

2003-10-01 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
Hi, I am experimenting with the quota system in one of my Debian woody boxes. I have some doubts that I have not been able to clarify from the included docs, nor the Quota mini-HOWTO, so any feedback would be very useful for me. - Which is the exact difference between "hard limit" and "soft limit

Re: NTP wont work as box is at 1980.

2003-10-01 Thread David Z Maze
Ben Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a box which will not keep the time. Every time I shut it down it > looses the time and goes back to 1980. I thought ntpd was the answer > but as the difference between the system(pc) and the actual(ntp) time is > so great it won't work. > > So how

Re: pppd daemon dies is a permissions problem? help?

2003-10-01 Thread J Y
Thanks and where is group dip located? I did a whereis and locate for dip but got hundrends of files. Really thanks again. Quoting cr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 16:32, J Y wrote: > > Hi, I did the following: > > > > Copy /etc/ppp/peers/provider as /etc/ppp/peers/orcon > > and

RE: Nat & startup

2003-10-01 Thread Adrian
Greg! thanks a lot! it worked fine!!! Do you know how to add any other thing to the startup? (like any script?) I heard about init.d could it be possible? Thanks again, Adrian - Mensaje original - De: Greg Bolshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Para: Debian-User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Enviado: Miércol

Re: Nat & startup

2003-10-01 Thread Greg Bolshaw
Adrian wrote: Greg! thanks a lot! it worked fine!!! Do you know how to add any other thing to the startup? (like any script?) I heard about init.d could it be possible? Thanks again, Adrian Urrghh... please don't top-quote! You need to create a script in init.d, then run update-rc.d to add it to

nfs server problem

2003-10-01 Thread jacek lempicki
Hi, I try to configure a NFS server on debian 30r1 and have some problems: 1° At client connection it says in /var/log/messages "rpc.mountd:getfh failed: Function not implemented" 2° The same if I try "exportfs -a" 3° pmap_dump says : 102 tcp111 portmapper 102

Re: Anyone else notice that Swen is slowing down?

2003-10-01 Thread Michael D Schleif
"Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003:10:01:07:17:43+0100] scribed: > on Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 09:20:25PM -0500, Michael D Schleif ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003:10:01:00:53:46+0100] scribed: > > > on Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 12:11:16PM -0400, Mike Mu

Re: Laptop battery

2003-10-01 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 06:44:51PM -0700, Steven Schlansker wrote: > Cool, apm works fine. How can I get it to go in my prompt? Backticks. Example: PS1='`pwd`: ' is an alternative method of getting the working directory in your prompt. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http

Re: Appearance of xterm in xdosemu? - PARTIALLY SOLVED

2003-10-01 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 30 Sep 2003, Anthony Campbell wrote: > Where does xdosemu set the appearance of the xterm it uses? > > I want to make it larger and also make it a normal subshell to prevent > the appearance being messed up. But I can't see where the > characteristics of this xterm are set. > I finally disco

Re: How Do You Know If It Works In Linux?

2003-10-01 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 06:40:07AM +0800, csj wrote: > At Tue, 30 Sep 2003 14:53:43 +0100, Pigeon wrote: > > A point about USB and modems is that USB is fast enough to make it > > possible to implement an external winmodem. It may well be > > safer/cheaper to use an RS232 modem with an RS232-to-USB

samba-client lprng kernel? problems

2003-10-01 Thread Glen Snyder
I recently recompiled my kernel using kernel-source-2.4.22 in testing. I included samba file system support in the kernel. Previously, I had no problem printing on two printers on different WIN200 machines on our network but now I can't. The print jobs just stay in the /spool/lpd/printer directory

Novell networking

2003-10-01 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi everyone At my new workplace, we have a novell file server which holds every user's home directory. I am able to mount the volumes from this server (one private directory and one "world writeable" directory) with ncpmount after configuring the ipx network interface with ipx_interface. So fa

Re: Is the list working????

2003-10-01 Thread J Y
Hmm I guess I could be losing it, and I replied to this message by saying that I don't believe I was a vitim of swen since my inbox at x-mail has a large allowence, and I was not over capacity. That message which I sent about an hour ago never appeared but one I sent 15 minutes ago did. ??? Qu

RE: Paranoid Admin: Keystroke Logger for Debian

2003-10-01 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
> -Original Message- > From: ListDude1 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 6:21 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Paranoid Admin: Keystroke Logger for Debian > > > Hey all, I was just wondering if there is a keystroke logger > avaialble for > Debian. I'm th

Re: pppd daemon dies is a permissions problem? help?

2003-10-01 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello J Y (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Quoting cr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> I'm no expert at all, but for what it's worth, my file >> /etc/ppp/peers/orcon is as follows: >> >> -rw-r-1 root dip 580 Oct 1 10:28 orcon >> >> (I didn't set any of that specially, it was just wh

Re: Debian for Joe Average

2003-10-01 Thread ScruLoose
On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 10:37:26AM +0200, sturla wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > >On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 22:29, sturla wrote: > >> > >>If I should advice somebody new to Linux, I would say RedHat, that's > >>where I started. > >>RedHat 9 has a great installer and contains anything a normal user > >>wi

Re: Access fat-partition as user?

2003-10-01 Thread Kent West
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 10:06:48PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a windows-partition (/dev/sda1) I want to access from debian but can only do it as root (su). I tried to chmod it to "754" so user could access it but it doesn't change the permision on it. sudo mount /dev/sda1 /home/jo

Diff btw GeForce4 and RIVA TNT2?

2003-10-01 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi all! I have Backstreet Ruby installed so I have 2 monitors with kbds/mice that each have a user. The monitors are samsungs 17" but the cards are different: one is a RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 and the other a GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x. I notice no difference between the 2 other than that I paid

Re: Executing a Script every hour

2003-10-01 Thread David J. Weller-Fahy
* Christof Hurschler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-10-01 04:41]: > I set the ppp option "demand" which like you said connects when I try > to access the network. It terminates the connection after 60 seconds > of no traffic. It takes maybe 20 seconds to connect (I haven't > actually timed it), which

Re: upgrade a packge

2003-10-01 Thread Simon Tod
Can you post all replies to the list, not just to me. Thanks. How did you install Debian in the first place? If you've been running a straight stable system there should be no problems. BUT, you started this post talking about running an apt-get upgrade so are you migrating upwards from potato? T

Re: Debian for Joe Average

2003-10-01 Thread Ben Edwards
I would go for Debian and install it for them. Once installed debian is a breeze (stick to woody and let them loose on aot-get/apt-cache). The best bit of advice I have heard for newbees is use the distribution your mates use (then when you have got the hang of that make your own judgment). T

How do people remount /usr read-only after apt-get?

2003-10-01 Thread Malcolm Ferguson
On a couple of Woody systems I put together recently I followed advice I'd seen that recommended mounting /usr as read-only. I haven't seen a security patch yet that has left me able to remount /usr read-only, which is quite annoying. I've configured a Dpkg Post-Invoke step to remount /usr r

spell checking with emacs-wiki

2003-10-01 Thread Gavin W. Burris aka 86
When spell-checking a document authored in emacs wiki mode, I get the following error in emacs: ispell-process-line: Ispell misalignment: word `htt' point 438; probably incompatible versions I am unsure where to file this bug report. I am using the latest unstable. Cheers, -- Gavin W. Burris

Re: Doubts about quota

2003-10-01 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-10-01T14:03:24Z, Ismael Valladolid Torres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - Which is the exact difference between "hard limit" and "soft limit", can > I impose both limits to an account, simultaneously? A user isn't allowed to exceed the "soft limit" for longer than the "grace" time. They

Re: Diff btw GeForce4 and RIVA TNT2?

2003-10-01 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Wednesday 01 October 2003 17:00, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi all! > > I have Backstreet Ruby installed so I have 2 monitors > with kbds/mice that each have a user. > > The monitors are samsungs 17" but the cards are > different: one is a RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 and > the other a GeForce4 MX

Re: swen killed me!

2003-10-01 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Wed, 1 Oct 2003 05:14:41 -0400 (EDT), <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned: > Hello D-u, > I stopped getting mail from you guys! > I check the list and realized that I was a victim of swen! > Is there a 'list command' to get the last 100 messages? > -Kev > I don't know about that, b

Re: modconf under 2.6.0-testn

2003-10-01 Thread Bjoern Paetzel
Nick Hastings wrote: >>I have been unable to get modconf to work under 2.6.0-test2 or -test4. >>The program runs, but shows only the "exit" option, with no modules >>displayed for selecting. Has anyone else seen this sort of problem,and >>if, any suggestions? > > > Modconf doesn't work with kern

Re: NTP wont work as box is at 1980.

2003-10-01 Thread Malcolm Ferguson
Ben Edwards wrote: Greg Bolshaw wrote: Ben Edwards wrote: I have a box which will not keep the time. Every time I shut it down it looses the time and goes back to 1980 Why not just replace the BIOS battery? That way you won't lose the time when you shutdown. Have already replaced the bios

Re: Executing a Script every hour

2003-10-01 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 11:23:03PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: | On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 10:11:19PM +0200, Christof Hurschler wrote: | > I've scanned the cron man pages, but it seems that cron is only | > set up to do daily, weekly, and monthly jobs in Debian. | | Where did you get that impression?

Re: Mutt + Vim tricks (replace Nano)

2003-10-01 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Wed, 1 Oct 2003 13:45:27 +0200, Jan Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned: > Hallo! > > * Monique Y. Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm afraid I don't know. I've been using vim long enough that I hit >> 'escape' reflexively all the time ... including in web forms, which does >> *not* have de

Re: modconf under 2.6.0-testn

2003-10-01 Thread Luca Corti
On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 17:55, Bjoern Paetzel wrote: > > Modconf doesn't work with kernels > 2.5. Just use modprobe. > > There is a patch for modconf to work with Linux 2.6.0 available at: > > http://kolrabi.de/files/modconf-linux2.6.0-patch.gz > > HTH :) > Under unstable you also need to have m

Re: Mutt + Vim tricks (replace Nano)

2003-10-01 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 02:13:58PM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote: | On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 02:58:53PM +, Monique Y. Herman wrote: | > On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 22:51:35 -0700, Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned: | > | > I just created the following last night. ctrl-j aligns the paragraph to | > 7

Re: cdparanoia + ide-scsi = no usable drive? (SOLVED)

2003-10-01 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 06:57:21AM -0400, Antonio Rodr wrote: | On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 00:10:05 -0400 Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | > On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 11:32:52PM +0200, Joachim Fahnenmueller wrote: | > | But AFAIK, cdparanoia additionally needs sg (generic SCSI), so | > | > This was it! cdp

Re: Mutt + Vim tricks (replace Nano)

2003-10-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 03:51:42PM +, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Wed, 1 Oct 2003 13:45:27 +0200, Jan Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned: > > Hallo! > > * Monique Y. Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I'm afraid I don't know. I've been using vim long enough that I > >> hit 'escape' reflex

Unstable and mozilla bookmarks

2003-10-01 Thread Luca Corti
Hi! I'm wondering why every time the mozilla packages are updated I lose all of my bookmarks. I've also noticed that any add-on software I added to mozilla is lost too (e.g. googlebar). Is there a way to preserve them? -- Luca Corti luca.corti (at) infinito.it "Per seguire il percorso: osserva

Apt problem

2003-10-01 Thread adcarlson
After upgrading my Libranet (Sarge-based) system, I now end up with the following messages after doing anything apt-get based (including Synaptic): W: No priority (or zero) specified for pin W: No priority (or zero) specified for pin However the apt-get commands and apps work. How do I solve the

Re: swen killed me!

2003-10-01 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
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RE: Allowing any user to shutdown from gnome

2003-10-01 Thread Mike Kuhar
-Original Message- From: David Fokkema [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 9:09 AM To: debian list Subject: Re: Allowing any user to shutdown from gnome On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 13:34, Ben Edwards wrote: > On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 11:00, Martin Jungowski wrote: > > > Y

pppd death upon connection

2003-10-01 Thread andy dick
Hello list, This is my first time using a list like this so please bear with me. I am somewhat of a newbie so the answer to this question may be very simple. The problem that I am having is that I cannot connect to internet via ppp. Here is some relevant information: wvdial ouput -- after wvdial

Ximian Connector and Sid

2003-10-01 Thread Chad Waters
I just transferred divisions within my company and as a result, I'm being forced onto the corporate exchange server (as opposed to the former division's "rogue" sendmail). I'll only have access to MAPI and OWA. There's no IMAP, POP, etc. According to Ximian, they don't support Debian Unstable.

How do I run a program as it's owner?

2003-10-01 Thread Dan Anderson
I know there is some way to allow a program to run with permissions of it's owner (i.e. root) but I forget how to do this. What am I forgetting? Also, if I create a crontab file, will all programs run as nobody or with the permissions of the owner? And is it possible to see whether or not a cron

Re: fetching older packages?

2003-10-01 Thread Joey Hess
Monique Y. Herman wrote: > I've been using dselect for a few years now and never really had a > problem with it ... occasionally using apt command-line tools when > necessary ... > > Seems like a lot of people don't care for dselect. What do you find > wrong with dselect, and why do you like apti

RE: Allowing any user to shutdown from gnome

2003-10-01 Thread Dan Anderson
Here's a thought: why don't you create a group shutdown_privileges and allow anyone with access to the group to run a shell script like: #! /usr/bin/bash #wait 10 minutes before rebooting shutdown -r -t time 10 That would be more secure then allowing everyone access to shutdown, while at the sam

Re: Diff btw GeForce4 and RIVA TNT2?

2003-10-01 Thread David Z Maze
Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The monitors are samsungs 17" but the cards are > different: one is a RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 and > the other a GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x. > > I notice no difference between the 2 other than that I > paid $25 more for the MX440. The last time I boug

Re: kernel messages to virtual console instead of to log file/etc.

2003-10-01 Thread Larry Holish
On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 01:41:15AM -0400, Daniel B. wrote: > Although I have /etc/syslog.conf set up to send most messages elsewhere, > I still get messages like: > > EXT2-fs: Unrecognized mount option bs > > and > > EXT2-fs: blocksize too small for device. > > dumped directly to the curren

sudden vim problem in mutt

2003-10-01 Thread Ric Otte
Hi, I've been using mutt with vim for a couple of years with no problem. But recently I've noticed that when I reply and begin inserting text (on the same line as, and right before the original message), the line does not wrap when I get to 77 spaces (what I have set in .vimrc). What happens is t

Re: Ximian Connector and Sid

2003-10-01 Thread Pim Bliek
Hi If the sysadmins aren't complete morons, you could kindly ask them to switch on IMAP support on their Exchange Server. It is just a simple switch somehwere and shouldn't be much work. At my office they kindly did this for me, after some debate ;). Good luck! Pim P.S. some MCSE sysadmins are

Re: How do I run a program as it's owner?

2003-10-01 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Dan Anderson (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I know there is some way to allow a program to run with permissions of > it's owner (i.e. root) but I forget how to do this. What am I > forgetting? Use chmod u+s or chmod g+s to make programs run with permissions of their owner/group. But don't

Re: pppd daemon dies is a permissions problem? failure

2003-10-01 Thread J Y
I never dreamed that this would be such a difficult problem.I added myself to the dip group (perhaps I was already there because the number beside my user name (in /etc/group)was 1000. Anyway I added myself to pppusers and dialout too. And the very same message: "Can't open options file /etc/ppp/p

Re: sudden vim problem in mutt

2003-10-01 Thread Nathan Poznick
Thus spake Ric Otte: > Hi, > > I've been using mutt with vim for a couple of years with no problem. > But recently I've noticed that when I reply and begin inserting text (on > the same line as, and right before the original message), the line does > not wrap when I get to 77 spaces (what I have s

Re: fetching older packages?

2003-10-01 Thread Clive Menzies
On (30/09/03 20:56), Joey Hess wrote: > I used dselect for 6 years or so. I have even fixed some of its bugs and > added things like configurable colors to it. Eventually though, it just > comes time to move on to the next better thing. Aptitude has many > features dselect lacks. For me the killer

Re: sudden vim problem in mutt

2003-10-01 Thread Ric Otte
Nathan, I tried your suggestion, but that doesn't seem to change the behaviour. The lines still don't wrap (I had to hit a Return to get the above line to break). I am using Mutt 1.5.4-1 and vim 6.1-320+1. Thanks, Ric On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 01:03:30PM -0500, Nathan Poznick wrote: > Thus spake

Re: Apt preconfigures, but fails to install.

2003-10-01 Thread Haralambos
Hi Yall & Kev, who typed On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Haralambos wrote: Hi yall, I am having issues with apt, as per the above subject. "apt-get -f install" does not clean up this wee mess. Um, a quick search via google was of no joy, except to point out that this does occur once in a bit. Hi H, I

Base system

2003-10-01 Thread Henry S. Vieira
Hi all, I've installed Debian for the first time and after the installation of the base system and the first boot I had 86MB used. After that, the post-boot dselect installed more packages, e.g perl, python. I did not select any package, I just exited dselect. Are these default packages really nec

Re: Diff btw GeForce4 and RIVA TNT2?

2003-10-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 12:42, David Z Maze wrote: > Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The monitors are samsungs 17" but the cards are > > different: one is a RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 and > > the other a GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x. > > > > I notice no difference between the 2 other th

Re: pppd daemon dies is a permissions problem? failure

2003-10-01 Thread John Hasler
J Y writes: > Thanks for the help and if anyone has any ideas I still will give it a > shot. I'm out of ideas. Run pppconfig as root to configure ppp. Use pon to start the connection and poff to stop it. If you require a GUI install gpppon. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing

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