Revisiting "man files to text editor": info pages

2004-01-04 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
There was a thread a while ago about reformatting man pages for pretty viewing and printing. I wonder if there are any similar tricks or ideas for the info pages. I didn't want to awake that sleeping thread, so I started this with a similar name. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

OT: bash scripting question -- passing values to ls

2004-01-04 Thread Matt Price
hey folks, here's something that ocmes up a lot for me: I use locate to find a bunch of files: % locate charter | grep -i font /usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/bitstrea/charter /usr/share/texmf/fonts/tfm/bitstrea/charter /usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1/bitstrea/charter /usr/share/texmf/fonts/vf/bitstre

Re: OT: bash scripting question -- passing values to ls

2004-01-04 Thread Nano Nano
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 02:27:11AM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > so I have to do it by hand at the moment. But shouldn't I be able to > automate it with somthing like: > > ls < locate charter | grep -i font > ? > nothing I try works -- but I can't believe it's impossible! any > hints? I use back

Re: Revisiting "man files to text editor": info pages

2004-01-04 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 02:05:26AM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > There was a thread a while ago about reformatting man pages for pretty > viewing and printing. I wonder if there are any similar tricks or > ideas for the info pages. I didn't want to awake that sleeping > thread, so I started thi

Re: autoloading modules

2004-01-04 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 00:18:48 +0100, Rieker Flaik wrote: [snip] > When I boot up my new 2.6.0 Kernel-system, I configured it this way that > the lp module is automatically loaded by default. > > My modules.conf looks like this: [snip] The 2.6 kernel uses a new module management system under which

Re: Revisiting "man files to text editor": info pages

2004-01-04 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 02:40:49AM -0500, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 02:05:26AM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > There was a thread a while ago about reformatting man pages for pretty > > viewing and printing. I wonder if there are any similar tricks or > > ideas for the in

Re: Warning .. mounting EXT3 as EXT2

2004-01-04 Thread David Baron
On Friday 02 January 2004 11:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 16:32:31 +0100, David Baron wrote: > > > On Thursday 01 January 2004 14:52, > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Here is the message from dmesg | grep ext3: > > > > > EXT2-fs warning (device ide0(3,65)): ex

Re: locales and coding systems

2004-01-04 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
Em SÃÂb, 2004-01-03 Ãs 23:22, Haines Brown escreveu: > I > do have a few files that emacs has trouble with, probably 16-bit, but > they are exceptional, and I know how to handle utf-16 in emacs and > convert those files to useful form. I've just not had the time to play > with the one difficult fil

Re: Warning ... EXT3 mounted as EXT2

2004-01-04 Thread David Baron
On Friday 02 January 2004 17:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>> > EXT2-fs warning (device ide0(3,65)): ext2_read_super: mounting ext3 > >>> > filesystem as ext2 > >>> > This is before the read-only VFS mount for checking. > > This is possibly the lack of using the initrd. Or something else: are yo

Re: OT: bash scripting question -- passing values to ls

2004-01-04 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 02:27:11AM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > hey folks, > > here's something that ocmes up a lot for me: > > I use locate to find a bunch of files: > > % locate charter | grep -i font > /usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/bitstrea/charter > /usr/share/texmf/fonts/tfm/bitstrea/charter >

RE: ... switched to EXT3

2004-01-04 Thread David Baron
> Re: Synching disk on logout -- switched to EXT3  (Miquel van Smoorenburg, >  Fri Jan 2 16:20:09 2004) > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > David Baron  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Thanks to all the good advice here, I made the switch to ext3. It was > > quite painless, was neither doable nor

Re: OT: bash scripting question -- passing values to ls

2004-01-04 Thread Nano Nano
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 03:36:36AM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: [snip] > > locate charter| grep -i font | while read line; do > ls -l $line; > done Invoking 'ls' in a loop is semantically different from invoking it once, although you can compensate for it. I prefer backticks because you can

Re: OT: bash scripting question -- passing values to ls

2004-01-04 Thread Nano Nano
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 01:10:51AM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: [snip] > it looks messier) and you can't use the sort options of less, for i meant sort options of ls -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 56K Modems

2004-01-04 Thread Jesse Meyer
On Fri, 02 Jan 2004, Paul Morgan wrote: > On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 20:37:17 -0600, Jacob S. wrote: > > > Is it just me or is it hard to find a good external hardware modem > > (non-win/linmodem) these days? > > I'm using a US Robotics 56K Performance Pro, model number 5610B. It's > PCI, controller-b

Re: Hard drive checking.

2004-01-04 Thread Jesse Meyer
On Fri, 02 Jan 2004, Alex wrote: > Is there a tool on the debian installation disc for checking a hard > drive prior ot install? I'm not sure about the debian installation disc, but tomsrtbt is a 1 floppy distro with the `badblocks` command to check the surface of a disk. Works for me. ~ Jesse

Can't configure xserver-xfree86: no stored checksum available

2004-01-04 Thread Anthony Campbell
I'm trying to configure xserver-xfree86 (4.2.1-12.1 on my Toshiba Satellite. I keep getting the error message: Note: not updating /etc/X11/X; no stored checksum available. Note: not updating /etc/X11/XF86Config-4; no stored checksum available. I've purged and reinstalled

Re: ethernet routing

2004-01-04 Thread Jesse Meyer
On Fri, 02 Jan 2004, Kevin Mark wrote: > > i am trying to set up a network in my office at work. > > > > the 192.168.1.100 machine can ping the 192.168.1.1 and 10.20.1.158 > > interface but not the 10.20.4.48 interface. the 10.20.1.158 interface > > can ping the 10.20.4.48 interface. > > > >

Re: Starting dhclient at boot up

2004-01-04 Thread Axel Burwitz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: log in > as root and start dhclient. How can I do this automatically at boot up? > > Regards, > > Abhay > Hi, I did that by adding a line "dhclient eth0" as last command into the /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh script. Works fine and for all users Regards Axel -- To UNSU

Re: Dug myself into several deep holes

2004-01-04 Thread Jesse Meyer
On Fri, 02 Jan 2004, Sam Rosenfeld wrote: > Over several months I have tried to fix (or improve) sound, mail, X > windows, and much more. Now, each time I boot up it's an adventure. > For the most part I have tried to decipher whatever relevant docs I > could lay my hands on, but my fiddling has

Re: Can't configure xserver-xfree86: no stored checksum available

2004-01-04 Thread Joerg Rossdeutscher
Am So, den 04.01.2004 schrieb Anthony Campbell um 11:07: > I'm trying to configure xserver-xfree86 (4.2.1-12.1 on my Toshiba > Satellite. > > I keep getting the error message: > > Note: not updating /etc/X11/X; no stored checksum available. > Note: not updating /etc/X11/XF86Config-4;

Re: Dug myself into several deep holes

2004-01-04 Thread Nate Duehr
On Sunday, Jan 4, 2004, at 03:19 America/Denver, Jesse Meyer wrote: 6) Keep a notebook of what you do! Oooh... good one. I always forget to mention that one. When the power's out, the UPS has died, and there's "nothing to do" it's amazing how interesting it is to go back through the "logbook" a

prism54: eth1 won't com up during boot

2004-01-04 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
Hi list, I' ve succesfully set up a SMC2835W wireless card to work with the kernel driver from http://prism54.org. The bounded eth1 doesn't com up during boot. I have to start the interface by hand. Hotplug is needed to load firmware to the RAM of the wireless chip. In the hotplug package there i

Re: chroot for packaging

2004-01-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 06:47:25PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > I'm dumb and lazy: I want a chroot'd woody so I can identify > build-depends for my own debian package (basically a GTK 2 app). Use pbuilder. For build-depends I wouldn't bother with woody, though; as far as new packages are concerned s

Re: OT: bash scripting question -- passing values to ls

2004-01-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 03:36:36AM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > I use a little bash code over and over again. > Its a while loop. > > locate charter| grep -i font | while read line; do > ls -l $line; > done > > It has many uses and it doesnt have a limit like xargs. > I found out about xargs

Re: Can't configure xserver-xfree86: no stored checksum available

2004-01-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 10:07:49AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I'm trying to configure xserver-xfree86 (4.2.1-12.1 on my Toshiba > Satellite. > > I keep getting the error message: > > Note: not updating /etc/X11/X; no stored checksum available. > Note: not updating /etc/X11/XF86C

mouse ps/2 on console

2004-01-04 Thread Robson Roberto Souza Peixoto
Title: Mensagem I have a mouse ps/2 and doesn´t work inn mode console. What I do? --- Saiu e-mail com virus Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.558 / Virus Database: 350 - Release Date: 02/01/04

Re: locales and coding systems

2004-01-04 Thread Haines Brown
> Em Sáb, 2004-01-03 às 23:22, Haines Brown escreveu: > > I > > do have a few files that emacs has trouble with, probably 16-bit, but > > they are exceptional, and I know how to handle utf-16 in emacs and > > convert those files to useful form. I've just not had the time to play > > with the one d

Getting ext3 correctly in the kernel or boot

2004-01-04 Thread David Baron
I apparently do have ext3 around as a module. This is an endemic knoppix problem, apparently, since I am not the only one to have gotten that "mounting ext3 as ext2" warning after making the switch. I need some hand-holding to get it either in an initrd (putting ext3 in the mkinitrd/modules fil

Re: Uh-Oh - boot problem

2004-01-04 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 3 Jan 2004 21:44:46 -0500, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 05:35:56PM -0800, Chris Cothrun wrote: > > Hi, > > > > My sid system won't boot. Kernel panic after a > > bunch of attempts to load modules. > > > > Output is some

Re: mouse ps/2 on console

2004-01-04 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Robson Roberto Souza Peixoto (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I have a mouse ps/2 and doesn't work inn mode console. > What I do? Install gpm. Select /dev/psaux as device, ps/2 or imps/2 as type, and raw as repeat type. Reconfigure XFree to use /dev/gpmdata instead of /dev/psaux. best regar

Re: Warning ... EXT3 mounted as EXT2

2004-01-04 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 10:44:43 +0100, David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Friday 02 January 2004 17:00, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >>> > EXT2-fs warning (device ide0(3,65)): ext2_read_super: mounting > > >ext3>> > filesystem as ext2 > > >>> > This is befor

Re: mouse ps/2 on console

2004-01-04 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 08:49:58AM -0200, Robson Roberto Souza Peixoto wrote: > I have a mouse ps/2 and doesn?t work inn mode console. > What I do? > Did you try installing gpm? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

proper use of aptitude in stable/unstable mixed systems

2004-01-04 Thread martin f krafft
Dear all, I have been using aptitude for a while now and prefer it greatly to dselect when it comes to making custom changes to the installation base of my various systems. All these systems run a mixture of stable/testing/unstable, and I use pinning to set the default to either stable or testing.

Re: locales and coding systems

2004-01-04 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
> Just a little context here. I'm running emacs 21.2.1. C-h C tells me > my current default coding system is utf-8; my language environment is > en_US.UTF-8. I can insert here in this message or into a blank file an > extended character, such as c-cedilla: ç. > In my problematic file, the extended

.bashrc .bash_profile - created from?

2004-01-04 Thread Russ Schneider
I have changed the files /etc/bash.bashrc and /etc/profile to my liking. Problem is, when I create new users, the files .bashrc and .bash_profile are created in their home directory and they are created with elements that supercede those two previous files. What generates .bashrc and .bash_prof

Re: .bashrc .bash_profile - created from?

2004-01-04 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 08:17:26 -0500, Russ Schneider wrote: > What generates .bashrc and .bash_profile for each new user? adduser(1) by copying from /etc/skel/ . > Is it something I can alter so it writes them the way I want them? Edit the skeleton files in /etc/skel/ . (They're marked as conf

Re: OT: bash scripting question -- passing values to ls

2004-01-04 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 23:34:59 -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 02:27:11AM -0500, Matt Price wrote: >> so I have to do it by hand at the moment. But shouldn't I be able to >> automate it with somthing like: >> >> ls < locate charter | grep -i font >> ? >> nothing I try works -- b

Re: Openoffice.org font problem + strange dependency (?)

2004-01-04 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 10:25:28 +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote: > On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 14:18:55 -0500, Michael Bonert wrote: > >> The menu across the top says: >> "(F)", "(E)", "(V)", "(I)", "(O)", "(T)", "(W)", "(H)" >> >> Instead of: >> "File", "Edit", "View", "Insert", "Format", "Tools", "Window", "Help

Re: .bashrc .bash_profile - created from?

2004-01-04 Thread Russ Schneider
On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > Edit the skeleton files in /etc/skel/ . (They're marked as conffiles so the > package management system will not accidentally overwrite your changes). Great! But I noticed something. When the system copies those files for a new user, they're all

Re: OT: bash scripting question -- passing values to ls

2004-01-04 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 02:27:11AM -0500, Matt Price wrote: [...] } ls < locate charter | grep -i font } ? } nothing I try works -- but I can't believe it's impossible! any } hints? locate charter | grep -i font | tr '\012' '\000' | xargs -0 ls -ld xargs is your friend. So is tr. Learn them an

Re: chroot for packaging

2004-01-04 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 18:47:25 -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > I'm dumb and lazy: I want a chroot'd woody so I can identify > build-depends for my own debian package (basically a GTK 2 app). > > I don't want to create a separate partition: I just want to do it on > some spare space on an existing parti

Re: .bashrc .bash_profile - created from?

2004-01-04 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 08:36:41 -0500, Russ Schneider wrote: > When the system copies those files for a new user, they're all owned by > root:root. That's sounds like a bug. Please file a report using reportbug. Ray -- People don't respond to any events as real people facing events would. Othe

Re: devfs and Linux LVM

2004-01-04 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 13:30:06 -0800, ope wrote: I am running sarge (testing) and have been using devfs and lvm10 for nearly 2 years with no problems, either with stock or custom-compiled kernels. However, I don't mix distros, and your problem may be related to that, particularly as it once worked a

Re: What is best hard drive for Linux?

2004-01-04 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 11:50:40AM -0700, Nate Duehr wrote: > On Saturday, Jan 3, 2004, at 09:06 America/Denver, Thomas H. George > wrote: > > >I just replaced a hard drive. Thinking this a routine choice I > >bought the one with a big rebate, namely Western Digital. I wasn.t > >too upset t

Re: lost dhcp on boot up

2004-01-04 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 04:22:22 +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > > Definitively. That's why I quoted it, to expose Edward's advise as a > bullshit (see bellow). It wasn't apparently. I'll file a bug with the > Configure.help's maintainers, pointing them to this thread. Does > anybody wants to add anyth

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Re: having trouble with abcde

2004-01-04 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 10:09:56PM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 12:34:07PM -0700, Scott Berry wrote: > > Getting CD track info... cd-discid: /dev/cdrom: CDROMREADTOCHDR: > > Input/output error > > abcde error: CD could not be read. Perhaps there's no CD in the drive? > > Scott

Re: xfree 4.3 in sid anytime soon?

2004-01-04 Thread Ing. Vladimir M. Kerka
On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 19:19, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Ing. Vladimir M. Kerka wrote: > > On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 17:57, GCS wrote: > > > >>On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 12:05:56PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>wrote: > >> > >>>Since it was released about 10 months ago, shouldn't this alre

Re: Bookmarks: Konqueror *AND* Mozilla ???

2004-01-04 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 04:28:47PM -0500, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > > Methinks you have your own little open source project there as far as i > > know -- very badly needed. I wrote a PHP/Mysql web app to access links > > anywhere. It's a very simple concept and easily maintainable. I threw in >

Re: cfdisk vs fdisk & speaking of Western Digital drives...

2004-01-04 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 04:52:06PM -0500, Andy Firman wrote: > > Second, I have 2 Western Digital drives. > Both model WD400BB but they were manufactured about > 6 months apart. I just bought the second one as I want > to try out Lucas' new Debian software Root on Raid howto. Could you echo the

Env-locale problems

2004-01-04 Thread David Baron
Most everything I try to do, packages, compiles, etc., kick on the env locale. They say make sure your environment has (and the kernel supports): LANG=en_ENus LC not set LANGUAGE=en_us (Yes, the US rules the world!) I may have my arguments with the parenthetical alleged fact but it is a fact th

Re: Getting ext3 correctly in the kernel or boot

2004-01-04 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 14:41:20 +0100, David Baron wrote: > I apparently do have ext3 around as a module. This is an endemic knoppix > problem, apparently, since I am not the only one to have gotten that > "mounting ext3 as ext2" warning after making the switch. > Well, at least you finally got

Re: PPTP setup

2004-01-04 Thread Lorenzo Rossi
Hi Jamin, Thanks for your suggestions... I have patched my kernel, followed the instructions at the link you suggested, and now I'm near to have it working...:) I have stil a problem concerning the authentication on the win2k server. The server use: EAP, 128bit encryption and MSCHAPv2..I can not

Re: Can't configure xserver-xfree86: no stored checksum available

2004-01-04 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 04 Jan 2004, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 10:07:49AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > I'm trying to configure xserver-xfree86 (4.2.1-12.1 on my Toshiba > > Satellite. > > > > I keep getting the error message: > > > > Note: not updating /etc/X11/X; no stored checksum availa

Mozill-Mail: POP3 -> IMAP

2004-01-04 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, is there a simple way to convert the Mozilla-Mail POP3 Accounts to IMAP Accounts ? Thanks, Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Can't configure xserver-xfree86: no stored checksum available

2004-01-04 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 04 Jan 2004, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote: > Am So, den 04.01.2004 schrieb Anthony Campbell um 11:07: > > I'm trying to configure xserver-xfree86 (4.2.1-12.1 on my Toshiba > > Satellite. > > > > I keep getting the error message: > > > > Note: not updating /etc/X11/X; no stored checksum availa

want to use a certificate with kmail

2004-01-04 Thread LeVA
Hi! I need to use a certificate (issued by TrustCenter) and sign my messages with it (this is essential for my work). My question is, how to use this with kmail. I can export this certificate with mozilla, and it outputs a .p12 file. Is it possible to load this to kmail? And do I need some add

Re: cfdisk vs fdisk & speaking of Western Digital drives...

2004-01-04 Thread Andy Firman
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 01:48:48PM +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 04:52:06PM -0500, Andy Firman wrote: > > > > Second, I have 2 Western Digital drives. > > Both model WD400BB but they were manufactured about > > 6 months apart. I just bought the second one as I want > >

Re: your mail

2004-01-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Paul Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 09:53:34PM +0300, ??? ??? wrote: how i can learn fortran 1) Don't. Learn something actually useful instead. By just getting the Debian Qt packages you will have a very good teacher of c++ a

Re: problem with awstats

2004-01-04 Thread J.A. de Vries
On Sat, 3 Jan 2004, Andy Firman wrote: > On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 09:52:23AM +0800, Jiele wrote: > > Hi, guys, > > Installed Awstats (Version: 5.6-1), works fine. However, I just > > noticed that it only generates monthly report. So when a new month > > starts, all the past statistics are gone,

Re: .bashrc .bash_profile - created from?

2004-01-04 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 08:17:26 -0500, Russ Schneider wrote: > I have changed the files /etc/bash.bashrc and /etc/profile to my liking. > > Problem is, when I create new users, the files .bashrc and .bash_profile > are created in their home directory and they are created with elements > that super

Re: printer icon

2004-01-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Paul Morgan wrote: On Fri, 02 Jan 2004 21:57:16 +, Antony Gelberg wrote: On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 04:36:39PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: On Fri, 02 Jan 2004 20:38:29 +, Antony Gelberg wrote: Don't feed the trolls. That's the second one today! What, are you like the list police or someth

Re: want to use a certificate with kmail

2004-01-04 Thread Joseph A. Nagy, Jr.
LeVA wrote: Hi! I need to use a certificate (issued by TrustCenter) and sign my messages with it (this is essential for my work). My question is, how to use this with kmail. I can export this certificate with mozilla, and it outputs a .p12 file. Is it possible to load this to kmail? And do I n

Re: What is best hard drive for Linux?

2004-01-04 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 22:24:34 +, Pigeon wrote: > > I'm intrigued by the drive having an installation CD with it. What was on > it? You sometimes needed to load EZ-Drive or Disk Manager off a floppy in > the days when the half-gig limit was a problem, but I haven't come across > anything like t

xdmcp & Xwilling problems

2004-01-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm trying ** for my first time ** to set up a simple X server communications between a portable (PC1) and a desktop PC (PC2), connected thorugh eth0, BOTH using debian testing and kde 3.1.4. In a nutshell I want to work on the desktop PC monitor, keyboard & mouse watching the portable screen th

Re: want to use a certificate with kmail

2004-01-04 Thread LeVA
2004. január 04. 16:00 dátummal Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. ezt írta: > LeVA wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I need to use a certificate (issued by TrustCenter) and sign my messages > > with it (this is essential for my work). My question is, how to use this > > with kmail. I can export this certificate with mozill

Re: Revisiting "man files to text editor": info pages

2004-01-04 Thread Wayne Topa
Antonio Rodriguez([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 02:40:49AM -0500, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 02:05:26AM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > > There was a thread a while ago about reformatting man pages for pretty > > > viewing and pri

Re: problem with awstats

2004-01-04 Thread Joseph A. Nagy, Jr.
J.A. de Vries wrote: On Sat, 3 Jan 2004, Andy Firman wrote: On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 09:52:23AM +0800, Jiele wrote: Hi, guys, Installed Awstats (Version: 5.6-1), works fine. However, I just noticed that it only generates monthly report. So when a new month starts, all the past statistics are g

Re: want to use a certificate with kmail

2004-01-04 Thread Joseph A. Nagy, Jr.
LeVA wrote: And I you don't mind my asking, how can I import it, and where can I set it up as my default signing method? Do I have to install some additional security plugins into kmail, cause now in the KMail setup/Security/Security plugins page there is nothing. That list is empty. Thanks!

Kernel 2.6.0 nfs-server

2004-01-04 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
Hi list, I am running a 2.6.0 nfs-kernel-server tcp enabled. Clients are mounting with following options: rw,tcp,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=14,intr After a while a client has mounted the exports the kernel tells: kernel: RPC request 0 but used 112 This is done in linux/net/sunrpc/svcsock.c /* R

Re: your mail

2004-01-04 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Fri, 2 Jan 2004 18:51:07 -0800 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 09:53:34PM +0300, ??? ??? wrote: > > how i can learn fortran > > 1) Don't. Learn something actually useful instead. Fortran is still the language of choice for complex calculations

NFS fails on standard Woody

2004-01-04 Thread Kevin Boergens
Hello! I installed Debian Woody rc1 on a small server, just with the nfs, samba and a bit more (without XFree). I ran into a problem, googled for it and found an unresolved question posted two years ago, describing my problem in detail, so I will post it again. ### Hi everybody! I'm havin

Re: What is best hard drive for Linux?

2004-01-04 Thread Andy Firman
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 09:43:29AM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 22:24:34 +, Pigeon wrote: > > > > > I'm intrigued by the drive having an installation CD with it. What was on > > it? You sometimes needed to load EZ-Drive or Disk Manager off a floppy in > > the days when the

Re: Re: Using RAID chipsets in the motherboard.

2004-01-04 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 01:12:35AM +0100, Matthias Hentges wrote: > Am Fre, 2004-01-02 um 19.25 schrieb Ramasubramanian Ramesh: > >It is my understanding that a PATA IDE drive can be connected > >to SATA adapter with some cable mod or > >some thing like that. Am I correct? > > I don'

Re: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device`

2004-01-04 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Robert, - snip - > Do you have scsi emulation enabled? Something like this in your > lilo.conf or menu.lst: > >"hdc=scsi" or "hdc=ide-scsi" Yes, "hdc=ide-scsi" > You can test it with the eject command: > >eject /dev/hdc As ROOT it works, not as USER However CDWriter icon is on KDE

Re: want to use a certificate with kmail

2004-01-04 Thread Ingo Klöcker
On Sunday 04 January 2004 15:41, LeVA wrote: > I need to use a certificate (issued by TrustCenter) and sign my > messages with it (this is essential for my work). My question is, how > to use this with kmail. I can export this certificate with mozilla, > and it outputs a .p12 file. Is it possible t

Re: NFS fails on standard Woody

2004-01-04 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sunday 04 January 2004 15:20, Kevin Boergens wrote: > Hello! > > I installed Debian Woody rc1 on a small server, just with the nfs, > samba and a bit more (without XFree). > > I ran into a problem, googled for it and found an unresolved question > posted two years ago, describing my problem in d

pop3vscan iptables question

2004-01-04 Thread Glen Snyder
I'd like to use pop3vscan to run clamscan. I added the following iptables rule: # /sbin/iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 110 -j REDIRECT --to-port 8110 I then went through the procedures in /etc/default/iptables so that the rule would remain after rebooting, but that doesn't se

Re: OT: passing values to ls -- more questions!

2004-01-04 Thread Matt Price
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 07:46:28AM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > ls -ld $(locate charter | grep -i font) this is great, thanks! I do like this syntax a bit better, I think. While we're on the subject of ls, here's another problem... I often want to find out which version of a program I'm usin

sftp and my ftp account of my provider

2004-01-04 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, whereas I can FTP to my ftp account of my provider (wanadoo), I cannnot figure out how to connect to it through SFTP: is ther any documentation about this issue ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

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2004-01-04 Thread OPILL
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Re: 2.6.0 + where is /etc/modules?

2004-01-04 Thread Pascal Seiler
As a not for long time Linux (debian) user I'm totally confused about loading kernel modules in Kernel 2.6.0. I figured out that Kernel 2.6.0 uses module-init-tools. I dought that this will autodetect needed modules at boot time and then load them. False? Is it correct that modules I wish to load

Re: Getting ext3 correctly in the kernel or boot

2004-01-04 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 14:41:20 +0100, David Baron wrote: > I apparently do have ext3 around as a module. This is an endemic knoppix > problem, apparently, since I am not the only one to have gotten that > "mounting ext3 as ext2" warning after making the switch. > > I need some hand-holding to get

Re: Starting dhclient at boot up

2004-01-04 Thread Michael Graham
Grzesiek Sedek wrote: Hi, You can add iface eth0 inet dhcp to your /etc/network/interfaces Grzesiek You should also add the 'auto eth0' stanza to bring the device up automatically on boot. So your /etc/network/interfaces would look like: #Loopback device auto lo iface lo inet loopback #eth0 devi

Re: OT: passing values to ls -- more questions!

2004-01-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 11:41:48AM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > I can collapse these two steps now with: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ll $(which emacs) > > ... but is there a way to trace the whole chain of symbolic links all the way > to > -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 4254776 2002-04-09 18:46

Re: Env-locale problems

2004-01-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 03:54:29PM +0100, David Baron wrote: > Most everything I try to do, packages, compiles, etc., kick on the env locale. > > They say make sure your environment has (and the kernel supports): > LANG=en_ENus > LC not set > LANGUAGE=en_us en_US, not either en_ENus or en_us. Als

Re: sftp and my ftp account of my provider

2004-01-04 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 06:18:33PM +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: } whereas I can FTP to my ftp account of my provider } (wanadoo), } I cannnot figure out how to connect to it through SFTP: } is ther any documentation about this issue ? SFTP and FTP are completely unrelated protocols. They are named

Re: NFS fails on standard Woody

2004-01-04 Thread Kevin Boergens
You are describing exactly what I asked about in a thread "nfs setup on woody" yesterday. Oops! What a coincidence.. Or, if I think of it properly, it is really strange that there aren't guys asking that here every day. I mean I just made a really standard installation, so why aren't people run

tiger: howto manage flood of `deleted files' alerts ???

2004-01-04 Thread Michael D Schleif
I have been using tiger for nearly a year. Several months ago, a new test was added in: /usr/lib/tiger/scripts/check_finddeleted Since then, several of my servers are flooded with alerts like this: NEW: --FAIL-- [kis011f] Server [apache] (pid 31863) is using deleted files Yes, I know wha

from a learner

2004-01-04 Thread karthi keyan
can I assign to ip to same system which a single ethernet card? If possible how? pls specify the configuration in both platforms windows and linux. = R.K Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your partner online. Go to http://yah

from a learner

2004-01-04 Thread karthi keyan
can I assign two IP to same system which a single ethernet card? If possible how? pls specify the configuration in both platforms windows and linux. = R.K Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your partner online. Go to http://ya

Re: Mozill-Mail: POP3 -> IMAP

2004-01-04 Thread Dan Hunt
* Jerome BENOIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-04 08:44]: > Hello List, > > is there a simple way to convert the Mozilla-Mail POP3 Accounts > to IMAP Accounts ? Greetings! You want to convert from one type to another? In my experiance the best way I have found so far is to set up a second ac

Re: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device`

2004-01-04 Thread David Goodenough
On Sunday 04 January 2004 04:03, Stephen Liu wrote: > Hi Robert, > > - snip - > > > Do you have scsi emulation enabled? Something like this in your > > lilo.conf or menu.lst: > > > >"hdc=scsi" or "hdc=ide-scsi" > > Yes, "hdc=ide-scsi" > > > You can test it with the eject command: > > > >ej

Re: Revisiting "man files to text editor": info pages

2004-01-04 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 03:02:04AM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 02:40:49AM -0500, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 02:05:26AM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > > There was a thread a while ago about reformatting man pages for pretty > > > viewing and

Re: Env-locale problems

2004-01-04 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 03:54:29PM +0100, David Baron wrote: > Most everything I try to do, packages, compiles, etc., kick on the env locale. ... > the kernel does not support en_us. Like Colin said, it has nothing to do with Kernel. It is one of glibc thing. locales GNU C Library: National L

Re: 56K Modems

2004-01-04 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 02:31:12PM +, Pigeon wrote: > On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 07:08:38PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 02:13:12PM -0600, Jacob S. wrote: > > > That's an interesting thought. Any recommendations f

Re: X fonts problem

2004-01-04 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 03:46:11PM +0100, Olivier Sirven wrote: > > Rob Weir wrote an excellent font guide: > > http://egads.ertius.org/~rob/font_guide.txt > > strategies for business > Yes, I've already read it but itr didn't help me to find my problemI still Same here. > can't find fixed-jis

Re: Is a hot NIC normal?

2004-01-04 Thread Kent West
Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 12:27:07AM -0600, Kent West wrote: | I've been having lockups lately; definitely hardware (even Knoppix | locked up). [...] | When I laid my hand on the NIC, I was surprised that it was quite | hot. Not so hot you couldn't hold your palm to it,

Re: Kernel Upgrade from 2.4.18-xfs to 2.4.23

2004-01-04 Thread George App
I have no proxy server. I have no server to test the telnet connection to. I use mozilla for http access. apt-get is not even able to access http or ftp sites. Everything works fine using the 2.4.18 kernel. Thanks for your help. -- George On Sat, 3 Jan 2004 11:53:23 +0100 GCS <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: debconf frontend / perl error

2004-01-04 Thread Kenneth Dombrowski
On 04-01-04 18:16 +0100, Joel SAGNES wrote: > Hi Kenneth, > > I've got it !!! > > Well, I don't know if it will fit you, anyway, here it is : > > As my /usr partition was nearly full, some days ago, I did a massive > (/usr/share) move towards another one having more space, then a symlink. > BUT

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