Re: Re^2: installation of 3c509 module from Woody diskette.

2004-08-24 Thread John Summerfield
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ref. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Readers of debian-user, At 2004-08-14 20:12:56 -0300 Stephen Cormier wrote, "I would say get the bf2.4 floppy images. I have an older machine here with the same network card in it and the install went fine, besides you end up with a 2.4 kernel inst

Re: dpkg / apt equivalent to 'rpm -qf'?

2004-08-24 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Thomas Adam wrote: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 10:28:09PM +1000, Paul Gear wrote: > > Is it fairly common, then, that packages only create their config files, > > and don't include them in the package originally. I can see times when > > Of course it is. There are *hundreds* of

Re: dpkg / apt equivalent to 'rpm -qf'?

2004-08-24 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Thomas Adam wrote: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 08:23:16AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > > Just off the top of my head I see no reason why these files could not be > > included in the package empty and filled in by the scripts. This would > > identify the files as belonging to the

Re: dpkg / apt equivalent to 'rpm -qf'?

2004-08-24 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
John Hasler writes: > Just off the top of my head I see no reason why these files could not be > included in the package empty and filled in by the scripts. This would > identify the files as belonging to the package and also allow dpkg to > remove them, eliminating the need for the postrm to do

Re: dpkg / apt equivalent to 'rpm -qf'?

2004-08-24 Thread Thomas Adam
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 11:33:09AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Thomas Adam wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 10:28:09PM +1000, Paul Gear wrote: > > > Is it fairly common, then, that packages only create their config files, > > > and don't include them in the pa

How to remove pakages and then install new...!

2004-08-24 Thread Nayyar Ahmed
Hello All, I am receiving error when i un-install the apache2 pakage , as i have given the following command i.e debian:/home/neenix# apt-get remove apache2 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Package apache2 is not installed, so not removed 0 upgraded, 0 n

Wrong Xserver IP?

2004-08-24 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
When I try to run kdialog I get the error: :/# kdialog --msgbox 'Howdy!' kdialog: cannot connect to X server 111.111.111.1:0 The IP should be: 111.111.111.3:0 What do I need to reconfigure? Everything else appears to be running fine. Lance -- Lance Hoffmey

Re: dpkg / apt equivalent to 'rpm -qf'?

2004-08-24 Thread Rthoreau
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 01:54:41PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 08:49:57AM -0400, Jason Rennie wrote: > >> dpkg -S | --search filename-search-pattern ... > >> Search for a filename from installed packages. >> >> How is this unclear, exactl

Re: Motherboard recommendation?

2004-08-24 Thread Jacob S.
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 20:19:49 +1000 Paul Gear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Rumpf wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm about to buy a new motherboard. Can anyone recommend a board > > that is known to work well with free software drivers. I just don't > > want to buy another board and find myself dis

Re: X Server Crash

2004-08-24 Thread Kent West
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Kent West wrote: As Kevin suggested, you should be able to run "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86", and select "vesa" as your driver rather than "s3". You'll be limited perhaps in color depth or resolution, etc, but at least you'll have a working X (hopefully). Thanks a l

Re: dpkg / apt equivalent to 'rpm -qf'?

2004-08-24 Thread Carl Fink
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 09:22:16AM -0500, Rthoreau wrote: > Why just use our trusty old friend find? Because the question is "Which package was responsible for creating this conffile?" How can find answer that? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreadin

How to install apache2 over an old apache2.

2004-08-24 Thread Nayyar Ahmed
Hello All, I want to install apache2 over an existing apache2 installation as it is faulty , not working properly . -- Nayyar Ahmad Lecturer Faculty Of Computer Science, Institute Of Management Sciences, Hayat Abad Peshawar , Pakistan. Office : 92-091-9217404 , 9217452 Cell : 92-0333-913

Re: How to remove pakages and then install new...!

2004-08-24 Thread Thomas Adam
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 08:15:28PM +0530, Nayyar Ahmed wrote: /var/lib/dpkg/info/apache.postinst: line 12: > /usr/share/apache/postinst.common: No such file or directory > dpkg: error processing apache (--configure): I'd start to take a look at that. > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building De

Mount Netware crazyness

2004-08-24 Thread Michael
Hello, I would like to mount a netware file system on my woody box. I have the ncpfs package installed. Here's the catch: I actually want to pull the drive out of the netware box, and slap into my woody box. Then just mount it directly somewhere on the system. Something like this: # mount -t nc

Re: dpkg / apt equivalent to 'rpm -qf'?

2004-08-24 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > Just off the top of my head I see no reason why these files [created by > maintainer scripts] could not be included in the package empty and filled > in by the scripts. This would identify the files as belonging to the > package and also allow dpkg to remove them, eliminating the need f

Re: ppp problems

2004-08-24 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Thomas Hood: > On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 19:52, Haldor Riddering wrote: > > cannot do dns lookups, surf, ping anything else. > > what am I doing wrong? how can I fix it? > > Red Faction wrote: > > Sounds like resolve.conf issue. Look into /etc/resolve.conf and add name > > servers there

Re: System & Hardware clocks

2004-08-24 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Johann Spies: > On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 08:50:28PM +0200, Lourens Steenkamp wrote: > > Lourens replying to P V Mathew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Try chrony. > > > > "It consists of a pair of programs : > > `chronyd'. This is a daemon which runs in background on the system. >

Re: dpkg / apt equivalent to 'rpm -qf'?

2004-08-24 Thread John Hasler
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh writes: > Actually, we have been requesting this functionality to the dpkg crew for > a while. It will arrive someday. > The idea is that we will "register" dynamically-created stuff with a > package in the maintainer script. That's a good solution. It deals with the

Re: Mouse works with X but breaks as a left-handed... [SOLVED]

2004-08-24 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Paul Gear: > > Thanks for the suggestions, Kent. I've solved the problem, although i'm > not sure which step did it. I did 3 things: > > - Reinstalled sarge (and finally got RAID 1 on root/boot working! Yay!) > > - Changed the gpm configuration to left-handed (by setting append="

Re: Kernel compilation question

2004-08-24 Thread Magnus Therning
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 12:23:57PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: >On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 09:21:59AM +0200, Magnus Therning wrote: >> Howcome? (Is it related to '.config support' being compiled into the >> standard Debian kernels?) >> How do prevent it from happening? (I unmounted /boot, but that that'

The problem with apache

2004-08-24 Thread Nayyar Ahmed
hello all, i am getting errors when i give following command! debian:/home/neenix# apt-get --reinstall install apache Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 65 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/381kB of archives

Re: dpkg / apt equivalent to 'rpm -qf'?

2004-08-24 Thread John Hasler
Rthoreau writes: > Why just use our trusty old friend find? also you have locate, whereis, > and a bunch of others, I must say find can do about anything. How do you propose to get find to tell you which files were created by a particular package, or which package created a particular file? File

UML and Sid, anyone?

2004-08-24 Thread Magnus Therning
I have successfully compiled UML (user mode linux) kernel and I want to use it with a Sid root file system. I have explored the following to paths: 1. debootstrap sid image My kernel won't boot it. This problem might be related to devfs, but I am not sure. I've tried configuring the kerne

Re: building or obtaining debian non-free CDs ?

2004-08-24 Thread Greg Madden
On Tuesday 24 August 2004 03:19 am, B Thomas wrote: > Hi, > I was trying to find a US vendor for debian non-free CDs . Looks like > there were only 2, cheapbytes.com and linux-cd.com. However neither > have non-free woody CDs listed on their web page. > > I am unable to get debian-cd to work or fin

HylaFax receives rubbish

2004-08-24 Thread Clement
Just tried Hylafax. After spending hours to play around, I finally got Hyafax to receive fax. However, the pages received are just rubbish. When I setup Hylafax to email received fax as a PDF to me, that PDF is a totally white page. Do you know where can I start to find and fix the problem? De

2.6.7 kernel build using make-kpkg no initrd.img produced

2004-08-24 Thread robin
Using make menuconfig, initrd set to built-in under device drivers / block devices After configuring run make-kpkg buildpackage following debs produced: kernel-doc-2.6.7_10.00.Custom_all.deb kernel-image-2.6.7_10.00.Custom_i386.deb kernel-headers-2.6.7_10.00.Custom_i386.deb kernel-source-2

Re: dpkg / apt equivalent to 'rpm -qf'?

2004-08-24 Thread Martin Dickopp
Thomas Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 09:24:45AM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 01:54:41PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: >> > On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 08:49:57AM -0400, Jason Rennie wrote: >> >> > > dpkg -S | --search filename-search-patter

Re: 2.6.7 kernel build using make-kpkg no initrd.img produced

2004-08-24 Thread Thomas Adam
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 05:21:30PM +0100, robin wrote: > Using make menuconfig, initrd set to built-in under device drivers / > block devices You don't need an initrd for kernels you compile yourself. Remove it, and ensure you compile in (statically) support for block IDE, and your filesystem(s)

Re: Kernel compilation question

2004-08-24 Thread CW Harris
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 05:45:02PM +0200, Magnus Therning wrote: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 12:23:57PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: > >On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 09:21:59AM +0200, Magnus Therning wrote: > >> Howcome? (Is it related to '.config support' being compiled into the > >> standard Debian kernels?

Re: Motherboard recommendation?

2004-08-24 Thread Stephen Tait
At 09:49 24/08/2004 -0500, you wrote: On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 20:19:49 +1000 Paul Gear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Rumpf wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm about to buy a new motherboard. Can anyone recommend a board > > that is known to work well with free software drivers. I just don't > > want to b

install java plugins in firefox

2004-08-24 Thread Lucas Albers
Has anyone had any luck installing Java sun JAI and JMF java plugins in firefox on linux? I'm having a heck of a time trying to get those plugins to work on firefox on linux. Please cc me on any replies to this particular question, thanks. -- --Luke CS Sysadmin, Montana State University-Bozeman

Re: System & Hardware clocks

2004-08-24 Thread Ryan Emerle
If you just want to stop debian from touching the HW clock, you can add HWCLOCKACCESS=no to /etc/default/rcS. Though, i think your best bet is to just sync your time with an NTP server. On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 21:06:01 +0530, P V Mathew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello All, > >Why does my

Re: How to suspend x86 via apm as non-root user?

2004-08-24 Thread Loki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Ivo Marino wrote: > Hello folks, > > Each time I try to suspend my x86 `sid` workstation as a non-root user > via the command apm -s I receive this error message: > > apm: Operation not permitted > Any suggestions on how to

Re: IP accounting software

2004-08-24 Thread Micah Anderson
Have a look at ipac-ng - IP Accounting for iptables( kernel >=2.4) Micah On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > It just seems to be a reporting tool. > What I was wanting was to control connectivity to a user on the basis of > bandwi

Re: How do I mount /dev/sdax at boot?

2004-08-24 Thread Loki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Nicolaus Kedegren wrote: > /dev/sda6/home ext2 defaults02 Perhaps add 'auto' to options? Maybe defaults has changed. Also, when is pass 2? Perhaps pass 1...? Obviously you've got the right device number & fs t

Re: System & Hardware clocks

2004-08-24 Thread John Hasler
s. keeling writes: > ...the NTP server defined in /etc/chrony/chrony.conf doesn't appear to be > accessible anymore. I assume you use Woody? /etc/chrony/chrony.conf contains pool.ntp.org as the default server in Sid and Sarge. > googling for ntp servers produces a couple of lists of stratum-1 an

Re: How to remove pakages and then install new...!

2004-08-24 Thread Tim Kelley
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 08:15:28PM +0530, Nayyar Ahmed wrote: > Hello All, > > I am receiving error when i un-install the apache2 pakage , > as i have given the following command i.e > > > > debian:/home/neenix# apt-get remove apache2 > > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Depe

Re: install java plugins in firefox

2004-08-24 Thread Thomas Adam
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 11:04:28AM -0600, Lucas Albers wrote: > Has anyone had any luck installing Java sun JAI and JMF java plugins in > firefox on linux? > > I'm having a heck of a time trying to get those plugins to work on firefox > on linux. > Please cc me on any replies to this particular qu

Re: dpkg / apt equivalent to 'rpm -qf'?

2004-08-24 Thread John Hasler
Martin writes: > One possibility would be that the maintainer script which creates the > file stores the filename in something like > "/var/lib/dpkg/info/PACKAGE.createdfiles". Gaak! No! The archive must _only_ be accessed via the packaging system tools. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John H

Re: dpkg / apt equivalent to 'rpm -qf'?

2004-08-24 Thread Frank Küster
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> ...and having a lot of empty files in /etc is just pointless. > > Where would any empty files come from? How should a package tell dpkg to install an empty file, if it needs that? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel Abt. Biophysi

Re: building or obtaining debian non-free CDs ?

2004-08-24 Thread B Thomas
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 07:52:34AM -0800, Greg Madden wrote: > You might mean non-us ?, not non-free as non-free is a part of woody. > Using jigdo you can get non-us, disk one : > http://us.cdimage.debian.org/jigdo-area/3.0_r2/jigdo/i386/ > -- > Greg C. Madden non-free part of woody ?? I don't s

Re: building or obtaining debian non-free CDs ?

2004-08-24 Thread B Thomas
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 06:10:48AM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > if i understand it correctly, jigdo is nice if it allows one to d/l > only the new changed files on the cdrom (i have yet to play and test it ) > but you could download full cds with jigdo too. > > why not just d/l the entire cdro

Re: building or obtaining debian non-free CDs ?

2004-08-24 Thread B Thomas
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 06:10:48AM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > why not just d/l the entire cdrom collection onto the new debian.osu.edu > connection and burn your own cd's ? debian.osu.edu is either not up or access restricted even from within osu.edu. bt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: Webcam and Linux

2004-08-24 Thread Piers Kittel
Am using an USB webcam not a firewire one Cheers - Piers Antonio Rodriguez wrote: On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 01:54:22AM +0100, Piers Kittel wrote: Hello all, Have finally got my Quickcam webcam to work under Linux, and want to capture video from it - not images, but video. The only software that I

Re: Mount Netware crazyness

2004-08-24 Thread Tim Kelley
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 08:32:07AM -0700, Michael wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to mount a netware file system on my woody box. > I have the ncpfs package installed. > > Here's the catch: > I actually want to pull the drive out of the netware box, and > slap into my woody box. Then just mount

Re: Debian Install

2004-08-24 Thread Paul E Condon
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 09:09:57AM -0500, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tuesday 24 August 2004 08:27, Stef VK5HSX wrote: > > On Tuesday 24 August 2004 21:51, Michael Satterwhite shared with us the > > > > following: > > > On Monday 23 August 20

Re: dpkg / apt equivalent to 'rpm -qf'?

2004-08-24 Thread Tim Kelley
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 10:18:08PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > Seems to me the idea of creating configuration files on the fly is > broken. I much prefer this: Yes, so how exactly, for example, is phpmyadmin supposed to touch files, such as httpd.conf, so that it works and is properly config

Can't open default sound device during boot... works fine after boot

2004-08-24 Thread Pottinger, Hardy J.
Hi, this is my first post, apologies for the length. OK, so I'm upgrading my old AMD 500MHz box with an old dual PIII 800MHz box. Did a new base install of Debian, grabbed the package list from the old box, used apt to get the packages, rsynced a bunch of stuff, fiddled, and the new box is pretty

Re: Well documented [was Re: nvidia drivers]

2004-08-24 Thread tallison
> On Tuesday 24 Aug 2004 00:17, Tom Allison wrote: > >> I was able to install by doing: >> apt-get kernel-headers... >> and then running the NVIDIA package they provide on their website. >> >> I don't know, but the kernel-source may be necessary, but I doubt it. I >> have it installed, that's why

Webcam hardware recomendations

2004-08-24 Thread Miguel Griffa
Does anyone know how of a list of compatible webcam hardware for debian/linux? I'd like to buy a cheap one, not a lot to choose from (I'm in argentina) and this makes such info more important... Thanks in advance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

New address

2004-08-24 Thread dougpol1
Well here we are again. My last e-mail sever was trying my patience. Every time I tried to down load a file of any size it timed out. So I decided to bite the bullet and go the cable route. So here is the new address. Doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: Where to store iptables script

2004-08-24 Thread Jorge Santos
Jacob Friis Larsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > By the help of http://iptables-script.dk/ I have created the script below. > Where should I store it? You can put it, for example in /usr/local/bin/foobar.sh and then add: pre-up /usr/local/bin/foobar.sh > And does it look ok? I don't know that

Re: New address

2004-08-24 Thread Tal Amir
and the reason debian-user needs to know this is.?? watch who you writing to dude... you just managed to annoy about 10,000 people, who probably have better things to do then update their address books with your new email. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well here we are again. My last e-mail sever

Re: Problem with apache installation..!

2004-08-24 Thread B-Fly
Based on the version number of apache2 I expect you are using testing? I had the same problem a few days ago when installing apache2. I did get it installed in the end. I do not know exactly anymore what I did to get it to install. I believe that I manually unpacked apache2-common with dpkg to g

Oops, no more /usr.

2004-08-24 Thread PaulNM
I have a Sarge system where I tried to move /usr to a separate partition. To make a long story short, I accidently copied the Knoppix cd's /usr, not the deb system's /usr. I actually saved /usr as /usrold on the original partition, but deleted it once everything seemed to be working. End res

Re: Is Openoffice's Spell checking broken in SID?

2004-08-24 Thread Douglas Johannessen
On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 10:08:00 -0400 Ralph Crongeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi all, > Spell checking isn't working for me in Openoffice on SID. > Is anyone else having problems with MySpell and Openoffice? > > Thanks > Ralph > > - -- Hell

Re: Debian and KDE33

2004-08-24 Thread Brian Nelson
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 05:06:57PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > > > >I suppose: > > > >deb http://security.debian.org/ sarge/updates main contrib non-free > > > >but it's not really in use right now. Packages that are currently > >frozen would probably get security updates either through the

Re: Oops, no more /usr.

2004-08-24 Thread Thomas Adam
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 02:48:34PM -0400, PaulNM wrote: > 1: Should I tar /etc before this and overwrite it again afterwards? If > so, are there any other directories I should do the same to? Unless you have made a lot of modifications, no. Of course, if you had made modifications, you'd have don

Re: ppp problems

2004-08-24 Thread geekboy
Thomas Hood wrote: On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 19:52, Haldor Riddering wrote: cannot do dns lookups, surf, ping anything else. what am I doing wrong? how can I fix it? Red Faction wrote: Sounds like resolve.conf issue. Look into /etc/resolve.conf and add name servers there if not listed or not

Re: Oops, no more /usr.

2004-08-24 Thread Brian Nelson
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 02:48:34PM -0400, PaulNM wrote: > I have a Sarge system where I tried to move /usr to a separate > partition. To make a long story short, I accidently copied the Knoppix > cd's /usr, not the deb system's /usr. > > I actually saved /usr as /usrold on the original partitio

Debian ACPID Pegs CPU at 95%

2004-08-24 Thread Michael G. Morey
All, I'm running Debian 3.0r1 (Woody) on a Dell Latitude D800 laptop. I've just recently noticed that acpid is comsuming approximately 95% of CPU time (as reported by GKrellM and top). I've running a custom kernel built from backported sources (backports.org) for 2.4.26, and have loaded kernel m

Re: building or obtaining debian non-free CDs ?

2004-08-24 Thread Travis Crump
B Thomas wrote: On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 07:52:34AM -0800, Greg Madden wrote: You might mean non-us ?, not non-free as non-free is a part of woody. Using jigdo you can get non-us, disk one : http://us.cdimage.debian.org/jigdo-area/3.0_r2/jigdo/i386/ -- Greg C. Madden non-free part of woody ?? I do

Re: Webcam hardware recomendations

2004-08-24 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 03:14:47PM -0300, Miguel Griffa wrote: > Does anyone know how of a list of compatible webcam hardware for debian/linux? > I'd like to buy a cheap one, not a lot to choose from (I'm in > argentina) and this makes such info more important... http://www.smcc.demon.nl/webcam/ Th

Re: dpkg / apt equivalent to 'rpm -qf'?

2004-08-24 Thread Martin Dickopp
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Martin writes: >> One possibility would be that the maintainer script which creates the >> file stores the filename in something like >> "/var/lib/dpkg/info/PACKAGE.createdfiles". > > Gaak! No! The archive must _only_ be accessed via the packaging > syst

Debian Install over T-DSL

2004-08-24 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi list, please forgive what may be a basic question from a newbie to Debian. In order to avoid downloading and burning lots of CDs with jigdo, I have tried to install the Debian testing version using a sarge netinstall CD (Aug 20). I was hoping to use my T-DSL connection to complete the instal

Re: apt-get and distro aliases

2004-08-24 Thread Jules Dubois
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 06:37:12 -0500, John Fleming wrote: > I am now running unstable. I just tried an update using "unstable" and > there was nothing new available. Then I changed sources.list to "sid" > and it retrieved 3217 kB. I hope you'll allow me to interrupt your thread for a related ques

Java problems in browsers with Sid

2004-08-24 Thread Charlie Zender
Hi, The Mozilla and Konqueror browsers on my Debian Sid computer are unable to view a page that supposedly requires Java to view: http://www.nacs.uci.edu/ssh The browser window just shows up as a blank screen. In both browsers I have set "enable Java globally". However, I'm not sure I have Java on

Re: How do I mount /dev/sdax at boot?

2004-08-24 Thread Nicolaus Kedegren
* Loki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-08-24 18:00] wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Nicolaus Kedegren wrote: > > > /dev/sda6/home ext2 defaults02 > > Perhaps add 'auto' to options? Maybe defaults has changed. > > Also, when is pass 2

Re: /dev/pts/0: Operation not permitted

2004-08-24 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >When I do a su - sysadm on one server with Woody I get the error >message in the subject line. That happens only when su to sysadm is >being used. > >Apart from the error message everything seems work normally: > >14:40:38 [E

Re: Oops, no more /usr.

2004-08-24 Thread PaulNM
Thomas Adam wrote: On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 02:48:34PM -0400, PaulNM wrote: 1: Should I tar /etc before this and overwrite it again afterwards? If so, are there any other directories I should do the same to? Unless you have made a lot of modifications, no. Of course, if you had made modifications,

Re: Is Openoffice's Spell checking broken in SID?

2004-08-24 Thread Johnny
Spell checking isn't working for me in Openoffice on SID. Is anyone else having problems with MySpell and Openoffice? I upgraded Sid about 6 weeks ago and noticed that the spelling was not working. It turns out that the language for the spelling had been unselected by the upgrade. I simply

Re: Debian and KDE33

2004-08-24 Thread Josef Oswald
John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Josef Oswald wrote: > >>John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> >> >>>Kevin Mark wrote: >>> >>> >>> 'Woody' aka the current stable, is the official supported version of debian -- it is the only one with security updates. >

Re: Oops, no more /usr.

2004-08-24 Thread Tim Kelley
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 08:05:28PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 02:48:34PM -0400, PaulNM wrote: > > 2: Is there a way to only reinstall packages with files in /usr? For > > example, kernel-sources* has files placed in /usr, but kernel-image* do not. > > COLUMNS=200 dpkg -

Re: Oops, no more /usr.

2004-08-24 Thread Thomas Adam
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 04:09:15PM -0400, PaulNM wrote: > 3: Maybe using net-installer cd to reinstall debs (at least base debs). > > Number 3 looks most appealing, I'm checking to see if it's possible. Any > other suggestions would appreciated. Sorry about that, I mis-understood your initial p

Re: Oops, no more /usr.

2004-08-24 Thread Stefan O'Rear
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 02:39:00PM -0500, Tim Kelley wrote: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 08:05:28PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 02:48:34PM -0400, PaulNM wrote: > > > > 2: Is there a way to only reinstall packages with files in /usr? For > > > example, kernel-sources* has f

Re: strange error in mozilla-firefox under Debian/Sid

2004-08-24 Thread Yusuf
It's probably a problem with some rogue extension. No matter if you try to disable/uninstall it, it already fsck'd up your chrome config! If you are not afraid of the code, you can try to search for 'class="t' in your $PROFILE/chrome/*, and try to identify to which extension the line belongs.

Re: New address

2004-08-24 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 14:25:05 + Tal Amir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > and the reason debian-user needs to know this is.?? Hey, maybe he wanted us all to send him confirmation? ;-) -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgpmKkk5WDLeU.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: New address

2004-08-24 Thread Tal Amir
$ make confirmation make: *** No rule to make target `confirmation'. Stop. Nicos Gollan wrote: On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 14:25:05 + Tal Amir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: and the reason debian-user needs to know this is.?? Hey, maybe he wanted us all to send him confirmation? ;-) -- To UNSUBSCR

Computers doesn't power off

2004-08-24 Thread Piers Kittel
Upgraded to the 2.4.27 kernels on both my work and home computers but now I find that they both don't power the computer off automatically, I have to push the power button manually when the computers has shut down - how to make it turn itself off now? Thanks very much for your help in advance C

Re: Computers doesn't power off

2004-08-24 Thread Thomas Adam
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 10:09:02PM +0100, Piers Kittel wrote: > Upgraded to the 2.4.27 kernels on both my work and home computers but > now I find that they both don't power the computer off automatically, I > have to push the power button manually when the computers has shut down > - how to mak

Re: Computers doesn't power off

2004-08-24 Thread Stefan O'Rear
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 10:09:02PM +0100, Piers Kittel wrote: > Upgraded to the 2.4.27 kernels on both my work and home computers but > now I find that they both don't power the computer off automatically, I > have to push the power button manually when the computers has shut down > - how to mak

Wvdial cant surf the web

2004-08-24 Thread Johnny
Hi I have just installed Debian 3.0r2 i386. The wvdial connects and but wont let me surf the internet. What do i need do to fix the problem Johnny -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian equivalent of /etc/profile.d

2004-08-24 Thread Jeremy Brown
Cameron Hutchison wrote: A program must not depend on environment variables to get reasonable defaults. (That's because these environment variables would have to be set in a system-wide configuration file like `/etc/profile', which is not supported by all shells.) Sorry for the

Re: Where to store iptables script

2004-08-24 Thread Marco van Putten
Hey Jorge, Jacob Friis Larsen schreef: By the help of http://iptables-script.dk/ I have created the script below. Where should I store it? You can put it in /etc/network/if-up.d That way it starts as soon as the interface comes up. And does it look ok? Looks OK for basic firewalling. You could a

Re: Java problems in browsers with Sid

2004-08-24 Thread Miguel Griffa
seems you have a java runtime, it does not mean you have the browser plugin installed. in the sun jdk theres a jre/plugin/i386/ directory where you can find the plugins that must go in .netscape/plugins (not sure about this, maybe .mozilla/plugins or similar) NOTE: I could not get the sun plugin

Re: Wvdial cant surf the web

2004-08-24 Thread Thomas Adam
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 04:17:54PM -0500, Johnny wrote: > Hi > I have just installed Debian 3.0r2 i386. The wvdial connects and but > wont let me surf the internet. What do i need do to fix the problem Check /etc/ppp/resolv.conf is created with adequate nameserver IPs in them. -- Thomas Adam --

Re: building or obtaining debian non-free CDs ?

2004-08-24 Thread Greg Madden
On Tuesday 24 August 2004 08:50 am, B Thomas wrote: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 07:52:34AM -0800, Greg Madden wrote: > > You might mean non-us ?, not non-free as non-free is a part of > > woody. Using jigdo you can get non-us, disk one : > > http://us.cdimage.debian.org/jigdo-area/3.0_r2/jigdo/i386/

Re: Wvdial cant surf the web

2004-08-24 Thread Johnny
Thomas Adam wrote: On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 04:17:54PM -0500, Johnny wrote: Hi I have just installed Debian 3.0r2 i386. The wvdial connects and but wont let me surf the internet. What do i need do to fix the problem Check /etc/ppp/resolv.conf is created with adequate nam

Re: Wvdial cant surf the web

2004-08-24 Thread Thomas Adam
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 04:37:01PM -0500, Johnny wrote: > Resend whatever you sent in plain text, please. HTML e-mails are evil. -- Thomas Adam -- "Frankly, Mr. Shankly, since you ask. You are a flatulent pain in the arse." -- Morrissey. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: dpkg / apt equivalent to 'rpm -qf'?

2004-08-24 Thread Paul E Condon
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 11:35:28AM -0500, Tim Kelley wrote: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 10:18:08PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > > Seems to me the idea of creating configuration files on the fly is > > broken. I much prefer this: > > Yes, so how exactly, for example, is phpmyadmin supposed to to

make modules

2004-08-24 Thread messmate
Hi, while doing a 'make modules' after compiling the kernel an error accured about 'ambassador.' ??? so stopped. Kernel 2.4.20 on my sarge. Compiler : gcc.3.3 Note: the reason of a 2.4.20 kernel is that i can't burn a cd with a 2.4.26. Maybe anything wrong with the compiler version ? mess-mat

Re: make modules

2004-08-24 Thread Thomas Adam
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 12:02:30AM +0200, messmate wrote: > Hi, > while doing a 'make modules' after compiling the kernel > an error accured about 'ambassador.' ??? so stopped. You should include this error with your e-mail. My telepathy2originalPoster protocol is broken. > Kernel 2.4.20 on

Bluetooth mobile phones supported by GNOME and Debian GNU/Linux?

2004-08-24 Thread Ivo Marino
Hello folks, I am currently thinking about buying a new `third generation` mobile phone which offers bluetooth connectivity compatible to my Debian GNU/Linux based Apple iBook (2001). As Debian GNU/Linux and GNOME user I would like to know which mobile phones are actually supported by the GNOME b

Re: Wvdial cant surf the web

2004-08-24 Thread Johnny
Thomas Adam wrote: On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 04:17:54PM -0500, Johnny wrote: Hi I have just installed Debian 3.0r2 i386. The wvdial connects and but wont let me surf the internet. What do i need do to fix the problem Check /etc/ppp/resolv.conf is created with adequate nameserver IPs in them.

Bluetooth mobile phones supported by GNOME and Debian GNU/Linux? (Added note)

2004-08-24 Thread Ivo Marino
--- See Post Scriptum note, thanks --- Hello folks, I am currently thinking about buying a new `third generation` mobile phone which offers bluetooth connectivity compatible to my Debian GNU/Linux based Apple iBook (2001). As Debian GNU/Linux and GNOME user I would like to know which mobile phon

Exim4 return-path header

2004-08-24 Thread Eddy
Hi, I use Exim4 with Sarge and have a little configuration problem regarding mail headers. What should I do in order to have "Return-path" and "Sender" headers added by Exim to be exactly the same as the "From" header created by my mail client ? If my question isn't clear enough, please read

nail email references

2004-08-24 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
Anyone know of any place where one can find examples of using nail email client? Just discovered nail and looks pretty cool if one is into such things! I am trying to use nail with imap server and search folders and subfolders for messages with subjects containing FOOBAR but haven't found any do

Status of KDE in unstable?

2004-08-24 Thread stan
I built a test system this weekend (unstable). I've been unable to apt-get install kde ever since. Can someone enlighten me as to the status of this? -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

Re: make modules

2004-08-24 Thread Chris Metzler
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 00:02:30 +0200 messmate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > while doing a 'make modules' after compiling the kernel > an error accured about 'ambassador.' ??? so stopped. Is this the part where we guess what the error was? > Kernel 2.4.20 on my sarge. > Compiler : gcc.3

Re: Wvdial cant surf the web

2004-08-24 Thread Thomas Adam
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 05:11:09PM -0500, Johnny wrote: > Thomas > I did look at /etc/ppp/resolv.conf there is know resolv.conf in that > folder what do i need to do to make it. In that case, create (if it doesn't aleady exist), the file "/etc/resolv.conf" and add to it: nameserver As to the I

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