Re: USB not working, Need Help

2003-10-06 Thread Marshal Wong
On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 14:57, Ralph F. De Witt wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello: > I am new to debian and still very much unfamilliar with Debian. Yesterday I > had my USB subsystem working. Today after an update and a reboot I find no > USB devices listed in the

Mutt & Sylpheed

2003-10-06 Thread Naitik Shah
Its a repeated question, I know, but after considerable digging on google, I still haven't been able to figure out the best way to be able to use sylpheed (claws) and mutt together. There's just way too much information out there!! If anyone knows of a good document that can help me set this up, pl

Re: simple text formatting

2003-10-06 Thread Ashish Ariga
On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 12:07, Mike Egglestone wrote: > Hi, > > I have a file in this format of words: > > joe jill bill bob frank tom harry > > and want to convert the file to this format: > > joe > jill > bill > bob > frank > tom > harry > > Is there an easy way to this? The file I have has hu

Apache goes haywire, NSCD fixes it. Odd (solved) problem.

2003-10-06 Thread Tyler Morgan
Hi, I have recently surmounted an odd problem involving Apache 1.3.27.0-2 on Debian testing/unstable (with a 2.4.22 kernel) and thought it may be worthwhile to explain what happened to a group of people who might care, in hopes that others find the information useful. A few days ago my machine, w

Re: Release statusus

2003-10-06 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 11:57:37AM +0200, Neo wrote: > is sid frozen? I hardly got any updates last week. Nope, but sarge should be, soon, if sarge is going to go stable by December. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :

Re: USB not working, Need Help

2003-10-06 Thread Ralph F. De Witt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 06 October 2003 12:12 am, Marshal Wong wrote: > First off, did you recompile the kernel or are you using a stock > kernel?  Did you load the usb modules? > > I don't know how well you know linux, so if you've already done all > that, please f

Re: USB not working, Need Help

2003-10-06 Thread Marshal Wong
On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 01:01, Ralph F. De Witt wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Monday 06 October 2003 12:12 am, Marshal Wong wrote: > > First off, did you recompile the kernel or are you using a stock > > kernel? Did you load the usb modules? > > > > I don't know ho

Re: Ticker

2003-10-06 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 12:53:05AM +0100, Rus Foster wrote: > Does anyone know of any program that could scroll a messages across the > root window or some sort of news ticker? Ideally works with sawfish Well, it's not for sawfish, but knewsticker doe

Re: USB not working, Need Help

2003-10-06 Thread kmark
On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Ralph F. De Witt wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Monday 06 October 2003 12:12 am, Marshal Wong wrote: > > First off, did you recompile the kernel or are you using a stock > > kernel?  Did you load the usb modules? > > > > I don't know how well

MPC decoder

2003-10-06 Thread Jose Luis Ayala
Hi guys! I've just found a new sound format for me :) MPC (what seems to come from "Mousetrack"). I'd like to convert this to something more useful for me, like mp3 or so. I've tried with lame, xmms, madplay... but I wasn't able. Does anybody have any idea of what I can use for decoding this sou

Re: KDE+Kmail

2003-10-06 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 09:58:21PM -0300, Frederico Rodrigues Abraham wrote: > I tried to uninstall exim, which led me to a question... why does > KDE depend on KMail? Isnt KDE a Desktop Environment and KMail a mail > client/service? It doesn't,

Re: Microsoft-Fonts

2003-10-06 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 12:05:38PM +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote: > There are those collections of Microsoft-Fonts around. Do we have a > package in Debian ? I tried apt-cache, but no success.$ msttcorefonts? - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: USB not working, Need Help

2003-10-06 Thread Ralph F. De Witt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 06 October 2003 01:16 am, Marshal Wong wrote: > Check if /proc/bus/usb is mounted.  That maybe where KDE info center > gets its information.  (I don't use KDE, so I can't really help you > there).  If not, it can be mounted by "mount -t usbde

Re: USB not working, Need Help

2003-10-06 Thread kmark
On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Ralph F. De Witt wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Monday 06 October 2003 01:16 am, Marshal Wong wrote: > > Check if /proc/bus/usb is mounted.  That maybe where KDE info center > > gets its information.  (I don't use KDE, so I can't really help y

Re: KDE+Kmail

2003-10-06 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Frederico Rodrigues Abraham (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I tried to uninstall exim, which led me to a question... why does > KDE depend on KMail? Isnt KDE a Desktop Environment and KMail a mail > client/service? KMail is the KDE email client. The KDE desktop itself does not depend o

Re: Apache goes haywire, NSCD fixes it. Odd (solved) problem.

2003-10-06 Thread kmark
On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Tyler Morgan wrote: > Hi, > > I have recently surmounted an odd problem involving Apache 1.3.27.0-2 > on Debian testing/unstable (with a 2.4.22 kernel) and thought it may be > worthwhile to explain what happened to a group of people who might care, > in hopes that others find

Re: exim/fetchmail config

2003-10-06 Thread Clive Menzies
On (05/10/03 22:55), Jeff Elkins wrote: > > I've recently switched to a system where fetchmail picks up all my pop3 email > and routes it to a local address, wherespamassassin analyzes it. Thus far, > it's been working great, except for one caveat... > > Certain family members are Windows/Outlo

Re: MPC decoder

2003-10-06 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Jose Luis Ayala wrote: > Hi guys! > > I've just found a new sound format for me :) MPC (what seems to come > from "Mousetrack"). > > I'd like to convert this to something more useful for me, like mp3 or > so. I've tried with lame, xmms, madplay... but I wasn't able. > > Does anybody have any id

Diffing arbitrary deb-source packages

2003-10-06 Thread Tom
I've installed apt-listchanges and started reading the associated bug reports in changelogs when I upgrade unstable, so I'm doing a lot better understanding what's going on with my packages. However, sometimes I find reading the source code helps me understand the developer's comments better.

Xv video driver expires after xfree86 upgrade

2003-10-06 Thread Alphonse Ogulla
Hi all, Up to very recently, I could watch vcd movies on my box using xine video player with Xv as the video driver. However, I came to discover yesterday that Xv video driver had become inoperative after either upgrading xfree86 from version 4.1.0 to 4.2.1 using the deb package or installation

Installing a kernel off CD-ROM

2003-10-06 Thread cr
Is there any way to install a kernel on the hard drive off the install CD-ROMs (without going through the whole Install process)? Currently, I have the 2.4.18-k6 kernel installed on my hard drive, but it doesn't seem to have ppp enabled (dmesg brings up no mention of ppp). I'm a little s

Re: Games for 1-2 year old child. Recommendations wanted.

2003-10-06 Thread Carlos Sousa
On Mon, 6 Oct 2003 01:10:41 +0100 Pigeon wrote: > ... > The television regulating authorities ought to legislate that the PDC > code information should contain a flag to indicate whether the current > material being transmitted is programme content, advertising or > trailers. This could then be dec

sarge-i386-netinst.iso

2003-10-06 Thread François Chenais
Hello, I just have burnt the sarge-i386-netinst.iso disk. I try to install it on a laptop using pcmcia xircom card. It seems the CD doesn't support pcmcia. How can I resolv it ? TIA François -- Debian SID Linux tanna 2.6.0-test2 #10 Tue Aug 5 13:36:17 CEST 200

Re: Microsoft-Fonts

2003-10-06 Thread Uwe Dippel
Mario, thanks, done ! (Could anyone point me to a comprehensible handbook or so about Debian ?? It is so nice and so undocumented. And, if documented, uses too much insider language. And I don't feel like repeatedly asking for all those small things ... !) Uwe -- Which is worse, ignorance or a

Re: Diffing arbitrary deb-source packages

2003-10-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 02:37:16AM -0700, Tom wrote: > I've installed apt-listchanges and started reading the associated bug > reports in changelogs when I upgrade unstable, so I'm doing a lot better > understanding what's going on with my packages. > > However, sometimes I find reading the sour

Re: Xv video driver expires after xfree86 upgrade

2003-10-06 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Monday 06 October 2003 11:21, Alphonse Ogulla wrote: > Up to very recently, I could watch vcd movies on my box using xine video > player with Xv as the video driver. However, I came to discover yesterday > that Xv video driver had become inoperative after either upgrading xfree86 > from version

Disable / override meta-refresh?

2003-10-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
I'm looking for information on blocking or disabling the meta refresh tag: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83265 I'm currently doing research on sites in which it's convenient to load many pages and browse them at leisure offline. However they reset at 30 minutes... Gah! Appro

Re: can't open yahoo mail in konqueror

2003-10-06 Thread Alphonse Ogulla
On Thursday 02 October 2003 20:10, Dan Anderson wrote: > FWIW I just checked my mail @ mail.yahoo.com using konqueror. > > -Dan > > On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 10:35, Alphonse Ogulla wrote: > > Unable to open mail.yahoo.com in konqueror as non root for the simple > > fact that yahoo wants to dump some co

Re: Diffing arbitrary deb-source packages

2003-10-06 Thread Tom
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 10:54:30AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 02:37:16AM -0700, Tom wrote: > > I've installed apt-listchanges and started reading the associated bug > > reports in changelogs when I upgrade unstable, so I'm doing a lot better > > understanding what's goin

Re: Installing a kernel off CD-ROM

2003-10-06 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello cr (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Is there any way to install a kernel on the hard drive off the install > CD-ROMs (without going through the whole Install process)? > > Currently, I have the 2.4.18-k6 kernel installed on my hard drive, > but it doesn't seem to have ppp enabled (dmesg

Re: Microsoft-Fonts

2003-10-06 Thread Uwe Dippel
Sorry, not even. Everything installed (it said so), but the fonts are not (yet ?) available in any application (Galeon, term, Theme Selector). What is necessary to add them to the available fonts ? Thanks, Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: can't open yahoo mail in konqueror [solved]

2003-10-06 Thread Alphonse Ogulla
On Monday 06 October 2003 13:06, Alphonse Ogulla wrote: > On Thursday 02 October 2003 20:10, Dan Anderson wrote: > > FWIW I just checked my mail @ mail.yahoo.com using konqueror. > > > > -Dan > > > > On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 10:35, Alphonse Ogulla wrote: > > > Unable to open mail.yahoo.com in konquero

Re: exim/fetchmail config

2003-10-06 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Monday 06 October 2003 5:20 am, Clive Menzies wrote: >I had the same problem and struggled for days to find a way around it ;) > >I then found this from Rob Lister: >http://www.exim.org/pipermail/exim-users/Week-of-Mon-20010903/029627.html > >It worked for me ;) Thanks a buch Clive. I'll give t

Re: Looking for backup solutions

2003-10-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 12:48:16PM -0400, Dan Anderson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have a 40 GB hard disk I want to back up to CD. I figure I could > run dd but the man page was unintelligible. How do you plan to dd 40 GiB of disk to 650 MiB of CD? > Can anyone offer any suggestions? Tape

Re: apt-proxy

2003-10-06 Thread wjl
Roberto Sanchez wrote: > BACKEND_FREQ=240 > > Check to make sure you do not have this set too high. I.e., mine is set > at 4 hours, to after an update by any client, the server won't refresh > the archive for 4 hours. If your is set really high, that may be the > cause of the problem. > > -Rob

Re: mailing list

2003-10-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 11:52:15PM -0500, John Carline ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > It's ironic isn't it, we have people turning ugly because they can't > figure out how to unsubscribe and all that's required is to let your > mailbox get full or have some mail bounce. Not true in all cases. If

Re: Microsoft-Fonts

2003-10-06 Thread Johann Spies
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 05:55:04PM +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote: > > (Could anyone point me to a comprehensible handbook or so about Debian > ?? It is so nice and so undocumented. apt-get install the following packages: newbiedoc linuxcookbook rutebook as well as your choice of output of the follow

Re: Diffing arbitrary deb-source packages

2003-10-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 03:27:47AM -0700, Tom wrote: > On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 10:54:30AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 02:37:16AM -0700, Tom wrote: > > > However, sometimes I find reading the source code helps me > > > understand the developer's comments better. Is there

Re: simple text formatting

2003-10-06 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 11:37:57PM -0700, Mike Egglestone wrote: } Hi, } } I have a file in this format of words: } } joe jill bill bob frank tom harry } } and want to convert the file to this format: } } joe } jill } bill } bob } frank } tom } harry } } Is there an easy way to this? The file

OT: Makefile & sed-Problem

2003-10-06 Thread Lukas Ruf
Dear all, although I know it isn't anything that directly refers to Debian, I dare to post since I have seen many similar questions. Please excuse! The Problem: from a friend, I receive text-files that have a lot of whitespace before the end of a line or even lines consisting of only whitespace.

Re: Microsoft-Fonts

2003-10-06 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 05:55:04PM +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote: > (Could anyone point me to a comprehensible handbook or so about Debian > ?? It is so nice and so undocumented. /usr/share/doc isn't enough? - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Problems installing libc6 2.3.2-8

2003-10-06 Thread Ben Darlow
Hi, I've just started setting up a new Debian box, and after installing from the 3.0r1 woody CD, I switched to using unstable package sources from ftp.uk.debian.org. One of the packages updated as a result of installing Apache was libc6 (2.3.2-8) which failed to install correctly. The output from

Re: Games for 1-2 year old child. Recommendations wanted.

2003-10-06 Thread Edward Murrell
On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 10:52, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > But I'd rather my daughter played with computers than watched TV. She is > not even 2 but already has memorised many advertising jingles. I know we > live in a consumer society but this is disgusting. Solution. Ditch the TV (or remove it's ab

Re: Keyman

2003-10-06 Thread Edward Murrell
On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 14:35, Oki DZ wrote: > What is the equivalent of Keyman (http://www.tavultesoft.com/) on Linux? To my understanding, there is no direct equivalent, because Linux supports all keyboards (and if it doesn't, it's fairly easy to add support). For other Languages/char sets, the id

Re: OT: Makefile & sed-Problem

2003-10-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 12:31, Lukas Ruf wrote: > Dear all, > > although I know it isn't anything that directly refers to Debian, I > dare to post since I have seen many similar questions. Please excuse! It's not off topic for debian-user. > The Problem: from a friend, I receive text-files that h

Re: OT: Makefile & sed-Problem

2003-10-06 Thread Lukas Ruf
> Oliver Elphick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-10-06 14:09]: > > On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 12:31, Lukas Ruf wrote: > > You are trying to use a Perl regular expression with sed; that doesn't > work. Although the sed manpage refers to perlre, sed does not seem to > support Perl regular expressions. You sh

Re: huge amount of unsed kernel modules.

2003-10-06 Thread Rob Weir
begin Paul William quote from Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 01:02:04PM +1200 > Hi, > > I installed the 2.4.22-1-k7 kernel image. I had the 2.4bf kernel and now > I find that a huge amount of kernel modules are bing loaded. I > understand that the new kernel probably has more things compiled as > modules th

Re: Anti-Spam ideas for usenet/list harvested email addresses

2003-10-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 01:29:06AM -0700, Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 04:43:00PM -0300, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > > Make the list server PGP-sign the messages, maybe? You install the > > list server key once, and never worry about it again? > > That's self

Compaq Storage Agents on Debian Woody

2003-10-06 Thread Kianusch Sayah Karadji
Hi! Check http://www.sk-tech.net/support/cmastor.html for installing Compaq Storage Agents on Debian Woody. Those tools will notify you when Hard-Discs fails on your Compaq Hardware... Please let me know if the tools work for you. Regards Kianusch --- http://www.sk-tech.net/ -- To UNSUB

Re: apt-proxy

2003-10-06 Thread Roberto Sanchez
wjl wrote: Roberto Sanchez wrote: BACKEND_FREQ=240 Check to make sure you do not have this set too high. I.e., mine is set at 4 hours, to after an update by any client, the server won't refresh the archive for 4 hours. If your is set really high, that may be the cause of the problem. -Roberto

Re: Holy Spam!

2003-10-06 Thread Frank Copeland
Jon Earle wrote: > I sent _one_ post to the debian-users list yesterday. One. I neglected > to use an alias I'd created for posting to that list, and, due to their > open posting policy and their email-usenet gateway and the availability of > addresses in the clear within the list archives, with

How to rotate specific log files daily

2003-10-06 Thread Guillermo Hechem
Hi, I just upgraded my system from potato to woody, and I noticed that now some of my logs rotate weekly, when they used to rotate daily (eg. auth.log, sendmail logs, etc.) I´m trying to get sendmail logs to rotate daily, since the files are too big now. My Sendmail logs in its own files, as indic

make-kpkg .deb seems to have problems

2003-10-06 Thread stan
I need to get one of my Debian machines to allow NFS V3. I downloaded the kernel 2.4.22 tarball, unpacked it. Copide the config file from my installed kernel, ran make menu-cinfig, made the changes. Them ran make-kpkg clean ; make-kpkg kernel-imge, and now when I try ti dpkg -i the resiltant ,deb,

Gnu pgp

2003-10-06 Thread andun
Hi! I've been wondering how GNU PGP(encrypted mail) is, and also if it works good with a fetchmail, procmail, spamassassin, mutt based e-mail system... Can anyone tell me? -- Kjetil Ørbekk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> HTML messages won't be read. Outlook Users: Please remove my entry in you adressbook.

Abiword Font Qqestion

2003-10-06 Thread Thomas H. George,,,
I have been using Abiword for some time on a Debian testing system. Each time it loads it advises me that it can't load the Abiword fonts and refers me to the FAQ in Abiword Help. Although the latest version is installed there is no Abiword Help. The X fonts are sufficient for my requirement

Re: Help, OSX vs Linux

2003-10-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 02:26:37PM -0400, Roberto Sanchez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > For example, a couple of months ago I transitioned my Lab's > email/webserver from RedHat 9 to Debian. The previous admin had > tons-o-crap installed, including a full desktop environment, GNOME, > KDE, and all

Re: Help, OSX vs Linux

2003-10-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 03:11:50PM -0400, Dan Anderson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Total size with the install of Woody. the MySQL database, and the > > webconent for the two domains we host: 890 MB > > FWIW I've installed sub 150MB debian installs. 113 MiB ;-) The Potato base2_2.tar.gz, u

Re: Gnu pgp

2003-10-06 Thread Tom Badran
On Monday 06 October 2003 14:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi! > I've been wondering how GNU PGP(encrypted mail) is, and also if it works > good with a fetchmail, procmail, spamassassin, mutt based e-mail > system... It works great with mutt, see the aegypten project at http://www.gnupg.org/aegy

spamarchive.org (was Re: I want spam!)

2003-10-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 02:41:22PM -0400, Info ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Please send me lots and lots of spam, viruses, hoaxes, etc! > > I'm testing filters and want real-world spam to hit me. > > Send it all here! You're an adult. Go get it: http://www.spamarchive.org/ Peace. -- Karste

Re: Gnu pgp

2003-10-06 Thread Aaron
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said, > Hi! > I've been wondering how GNU PGP(encrypted mail) is, and also if it works > good with a fetchmail, procmail, spamassassin, mutt based e-mail > system... Yeah, I use that combination, although I don't actually have GPG set up at the moment (just sw

Re: How to kill X?

2003-10-06 Thread Kent West
cr wrote: I've only had one sieze in recent times, what I've had several of recently is sudden complete power cut - possibly a power supply fault. Either way, it has the same effect of discombobulating my hard drive so I have to do a lot of fscking on startup again.Occasionally this compl

Re: reiserfs vs ext3fs

2003-10-06 Thread Johan Van den Neste
On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 14:06, PF wrote: > I found no faq or thread about comparing ReiserFS and Ext3FS for use on > laptops. > > Can someone tell me her/his impressions? I'd like to install a Debian 3.1 on > a HP Omnibook and I wish using journaled fs principally to avoid fschk's... I've been

Re: Network attached storage and backup

2003-10-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 21:03, Aaron wrote: > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said, > > On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 13:55, Aaron wrote: > > > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said, > > > > > [snip] > > > > > > > > Specifics. We need much more. > > > > > > > > How much performance do you need? I.e., how

Re: Help, OSX vs Linux

2003-10-06 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 09:21 AM 10/6/2003, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 03:11:50PM -0400, Dan Anderson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Total size with the install of Woody. the MySQL database, and the > > webconent for the two domains we host: 890 MB > > FWIW I've installed sub 150MB debian installs.

Re: mailing list

2003-10-06 Thread Pascal Hakim
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 11:58:40AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > Not true in all cases. If your list mail is being relayed to you from > somewhere, your own mailbox bouncing messages *won't* unsubscribe you > from the Debian listslargely because you weren't subscribed in the > first place. >

Debian-based distros ??

2003-10-06 Thread Hall Stevenson
I've recently built a new box for myself and would like to put Linux back on it. I started with RH back between their 5.0 and 5.1 release, switched to Mandrake for a while, and have been running Debian (unstable) for a couple years or more. I'm tempted to take the easy way out and just add the

Re: reiserfs vs ext3fs

2003-10-06 Thread Johan Van den Neste
On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 15:40, Johan Van den Neste wrote: > On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 14:06, PF wrote: > > I found no faq or thread about comparing ReiserFS and Ext3FS for use on > > laptops. > > > > Can someone tell me her/his impressions? I'd like to install a Debian 3.1 on > > a HP Omnibook and I

Re: Xv video driver expires after xfree86 upgrade

2003-10-06 Thread Alphonse Ogulla
> On Monday 06 October 2003 11:21, Alphonse Ogulla wrote: > > Up to very recently, I could watch vcd movies on my box using xine video > > player with Xv as the video driver. However, I came to discover yesterday > > that Xv video driver had become inoperative after either upgrading > > xfree86 fro

Re: How to kill X?

2003-10-06 Thread Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl
Just an important addition in my opinion: > Then edit /etc/fstab and change the "ext2" to "ext3" for each partition > on which you enabled a journal and reboot or remount those partitions. > The conversion only takes a few tens of seconds for each partition, and > you can always "back out" by simp

Re: simple text formatting

2003-10-06 Thread Paul Talacko
On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 11:37:57PM -0700, Mike Egglestone wrote: > Hi, > > I have a file in this format of words: > > joe jill bill bob frank tom harry > > and want to convert the file to this format: > > joe > jill > bill > bob > frank > tom > harry > Here's another way: perl -p040 -e 's/\s

Re: reiserfs vs ext3fs

2003-10-06 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Johan Van den Neste wrote: On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 14:06, PF wrote: I found no faq or thread about comparing ReiserFS and Ext3FS for use on laptops. Can someone tell me her/his impressions? I'd like to install a Debian 3.1 on a HP Omnibook and I wish using journaled fs principally to avoid fschk'

Re: Atapi Zip detection woes!

2003-10-06 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
Hi, AFAIK, there are 2 versions of ZIP drives, either connected to the parallel port or to an SCSI controller. Which one do you have? You need the following modules (you may have to recompile your kernel): scsi_mod, sd_mod; parallel port version only: imm, ide-scsi; SCSI version: the correct driv

Re: simple text formatting

2003-10-06 Thread Michael D Schleif
Gregory Seidman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003:10:06:07:21:02-0400] scribed: > On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 11:37:57PM -0700, Mike Egglestone wrote: > } Hi, > } > } I have a file in this format of words: > } > } joe jill bill bob frank tom harry > } > } and want to convert the file to this format: > } >

Re: RH to Debian conversion help

2003-10-06 Thread Scott
Excellent. Thanks again VERY much to all of you for the very good info and time to help. Sincerely appreciated. Cheers, Scott -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: raid1 and lilo second disk doesn't boot - testing

2003-10-06 Thread Rudy Gevaert
Hi Alvin, On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 01:50:08PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > i assume that you have.. > - software raid1 > - "FD" as your partition type > - lilo.conf or grub or other pointing to the /dev/mdxx devices > for booting > - raid is built into the kernel .. not

Still BIG problems with XFree on Dell C400

2003-10-06 Thread Jon Haugsand
The Dell C400 is troublesome, in particular with Debian since its policy of conservative upgrades. Anyway, I have downloaded the following packages: XFree86 Version 4.3.0 (Debian 4.3.0-0ds2.0.0woody1 20030307145421 marcelo@) kernel-source-2.4.22 The kernel recompiled with settings as recommende

Re: Mutt & Sylpheed

2003-10-06 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 03:16:39AM -0400, Naitik Shah wrote: > Its a repeated question, I know, but after considerable digging on > google, I still haven't been able to figure out the best way to be able > to use sylpheed (claws) and mutt together. There's just way too much > information out there!

Re: simple text formatting

2003-10-06 Thread Dave Carrigan
On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 11:37:57PM -0700, Mike Egglestone wrote: > Hi, > > I have a file in this format of words: > > joe jill bill bob frank tom harry > > and want to convert the file to this format: > > joe > jill > bill > bob > frank > tom > harry fmt -w 1 filename > newfile -- Dave Carri

Re: Xv video driver expires after xfree86 upgrade

2003-10-06 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Alphonse Ogulla wrote: What graphics driver are you using (what video card)? Ist the XVideo extension listed in xdpyinfo? onboard Intel 810e graphics adaptor. xdpyinfo lists XVideo amongst 27 other extensions Is it a laptop? I had a problem with my laptop where if the X server was started whil

java executable for konqueror

2003-10-06 Thread Alphonse Ogulla
What package provides the java executable for konqueror or KDE3 in general? I enabled java globally in konqueror's settings but when trying to access a web site that requires java (eg yahoo chat), I get the Java executable not found error. Regards, -- Alphonse Ogulla Nairobi, Kenya -- To UN

Re: java executable for konqueror

2003-10-06 Thread Tom Badran
On Monday 06 October 2003 16:03, Alphonse Ogulla wrote: > What package provides the java executable for konqueror or KDE3 in general? > I enabled java globally in konqueror's settings but when trying to access a > web site that requires java (eg yahoo chat), I get the Java executable not > found er

Re: mailing list

2003-10-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 11:44:03PM +1000, Pascal Hakim ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 11:58:40AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > Not true in all cases. If your list mail is being relayed to you from > > somewhere, your own mailbox bouncing messages *won't* unsubscribe you >

Bounced mail etc.

2003-10-06 Thread Ben Darlow
Apologies to all those receiving bounced mail error messages from the mailer daemon at my company - I'm unsubbing now to stop this until the sysadmin can change the filtering rules. ~B ---Disclaimer--- Unless obviously public, this email is confide

Dyslexic demime autoresponses

2003-10-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
I've noticed a number of autoresponses from dyslexic.com's demimer tool which is apparently rabidly afraid of my GPG signatures. These have been in response to all list posts I've made in the past few hours. I've had a most charming conversation with dyslexic.com's system administrator, and would

Re: Debian-based distros ??

2003-10-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 09:51:59AM -0400, Hall Stevenson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I've recently built a new box for myself and would like to put Linux back > on it. I started with RH back between their 5.0 and 5.1 release, switched > to Mandrake for a while, and have been running Debian (u

Re: FW: Xv video driver expires after xfree86 upgrade

2003-10-06 Thread Alphonse Ogulla
On Monday 06 October 2003 18:18, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Is it a laptop? I had a problem with my laptop where if the X server > was started while I had video output going to an external monitor Xv > playback would bluescreen. If I started the X server with video to the > builtin LCD it worked fi

NFS V3, how do I get it working?

2003-10-06 Thread stan
I;ve recompiled my kernel enabling NFS V3, and rebooted. Yet rpcionfo still reports: 132 udp 2049 nfs What else do I need to configure to allow this machine to be an NFS V3 server? -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety

pam_mkhomedir

2003-10-06 Thread martin f krafft
When I configure pam_mkhomedir in /etc/pam.d/ssh like so: session required pam_mkhomedir umask=0066 skel=/etc/skel then it fails to do it's job. The log reports "unable to create directory" and "Permission denied". I think this is because SSH uses privilege separation, so the PAM stack is calle

Re: Debian-based distros ??

2003-10-06 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 11:49 AM 10/6/2003, Karsten M. Self wrote: > So, would people suggest sticking with "pure" Debian or possibly going with > a Debian-based distro ?? If an off-shoot, which one ?? I'm looking at > Knoppix's site right now... Knoppix aims to produce a bootable, runnable, fairly complete desktop s

ssh-add : where's the reaper.

2003-10-06 Thread Bill Moseley
How do programs get reaped from .xsession? I'm using this (subsection) in .xsession: $HOME/bin/root_window.pl & ssh-add $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa_pine < /dev/null & exec icewm-session But I'm left behind with the ssh-add zombie. Also, if I kill "root_window.pl" that's left as a zombi

Re: GTK question

2003-10-06 Thread Mark Roach
On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 22:14, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Just out of curiousity ... is it possible to force GTK2 to render > GTK/GTK+ apps? I hask because I have a few apps (Audacity and a > wxWindows based app that I am developing) that use GTK+, but would look > lots better if rendered with GTK2

Re: mailing list

2003-10-06 Thread Pascal Hakim
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 04:38:38PM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > I should know better than to tangle with the list manager, but... I'm not *that* scary ;-) > In this case, it's not the person complaining wh gets unsubscribed, but > the relay address. > > E.g.: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] subscri

Weird console output from eth0

2003-10-06 Thread Sudeep Mukherjee
Hi Could someone help me with this. I keep getting this output on the console and am unable to work on the console. Output: IN=eth0 OUT= MAC= SRC=10.62.0.15 DST=10.62.0.255 LEN=270 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=138 DPT=138 LEN=250 IN=eth0 OUT= MAC= SRC=10.62.0.15 DST=10.62.0.255

Forcing a device to use specific IRQ (pcmcia troubles)?

2003-10-06 Thread Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hallo! A friend's got a Compaq nx9005 laptop. All works fine except pcmcia. When I plug a card in (Benq 802.11b) the following lines are added to dmesg's output: - - cs: memory probe 0x0c-0x0f: excluding 0xc-0xc 0xdc000-0xdfff

Re: Weird console output from eth0

2003-10-06 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Monday 06 October 2003 18:31, Sudeep Mukherjee wrote: > Hi > Could someone help me with this. I keep getting this output on the > console and am unable to work on the console. > > Output: > > IN=eth0 OUT= MAC= SRC=10.62.0.15 DST=10.62.0.255 LEN=270 TOS=0x00 > PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP S

Re: pam_mkhomedir

2003-10-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 05:49:37PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > When I configure pam_mkhomedir in /etc/pam.d/ssh like so: > > session required pam_mkhomedir umask=0066 skel=/etc/skel > > then it fails to do it's job. The log reports "unable to create > directory" and "Permission denied". I t

Illegal Instructions

2003-10-06 Thread Doug MacFarlane
Team: I'm at a loss about what is causing these, or how to fix it . . It's a Debian Sparc Stable system, Sparc 20 with 256 mb of RAM. ranum:/home/madmac# ps Signal 4 caught by ps (procps version 2.0.7). Please send bug reports to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ranum:/home/madmac# ps -elf Illegal instru

Re: Weird console output from eth0

2003-10-06 Thread Sudeep Mukherjee
Nicos Gollan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is from iptables and indicates access to the ports used for Windows/Samba > filesharing. Do > > iptables -L > > and check if there are entries with a LOG target. If you remove those entries, > the output should cease. If you want to get rid of it p

Re: Weird console output from eth0

2003-10-06 Thread ZekeVarg
I got this problem after installing firestarter, the solution is to edit /etc/init.d/klogd and change the line KLOGD="" to KLOGD="c 4" On Mon, 06 Oct 2003 22:01:27 +0530 Sudeep Mukherjee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > Could someone help me with this. I keep getting this output on the > cons

pam_pgsql problems

2003-10-06 Thread martin f krafft
I am trying to integrate a passwd/shadow table from an SQL database into a cluster of Debian systems. There are a number of users defined in the SQL database, way too many to allow for the standard flatfile /etc/passwd. So I'd like to combine the two authorization mechanisms and use the best of bot

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