Re: problems with IBM Thinkpad

2001-07-11 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Rainer Hahnekamp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello everybody, > > I want to install the Debian distribution on my IBM ThinkPad 486/75 MHz. At > first I wanted to create a dual boot system with MS-DOS & Linux, but got > some problems during the installation. Now I deleted all my partitions a

Re: Swap fscked in 2.4.5?

2001-07-11 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Geoffrey Romer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'm told that this is a bug in the 2.4 series- does anyone know if > > > upgrading > > > to 2.4.6 will help this problem at all? If not, are there any other > > > workarounds? > > > > > > > > One work around is to make sure that you have a swap

Re: Modules gone after Kernel update to 2.4.7

2001-07-31 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Herbert Pirke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I recently upgraded my Kernel from 2.2.19 to 2.4.7. > Everything worked fine at the first glance. But when I > try using functins that are available vie kernel > modules, I get a message saying "xxx not supported by > kernel" (or something similar). A m

Re: BIIIG apt-get problem!

2001-08-01 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Martin Puaschitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hey boys and girls! > > I am running a Debian 2.2 with update+unstable here. I wanted to run a > cyrus-imap server but I had lots of troubles with it. So I tried to remove it > from > the system, to re-install it later on. > > But now I have some se

Re: Very odd programming trouble

2001-08-07 Thread Gary Hennigan
"J.A.Serralheiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > /*Hi folks. Heres a very odd trouble ( for me at least) > I was reading a book where it was stated that > " char *ptr = "text"; " is an allowed declaration and that > the compiler automatically allocates space for the string text and for th

Re: Xcdroast in Testing error - LIBTIX4 version not found workaround ?

2001-08-13 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Wayne Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Has anyone else encountered this problem. I am running testing and find > Xcdroast will not run. The error is 'LIBTIX4.8.0.1.so.1 not found' (Version > No. is from memory). > Has anyone else encountered this and have a work around for it. Yep. It's in

Re: Playing Quicktime movies on woody

2001-08-16 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Dominique Deleris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello there, > > I'd like to play QuickTime movies on my woody box, so I've > installed the following packages: > > gxanim 0.50-6 > xanim 2.80.1-13 > xanim-modules 2.80.1.12 > > However, when I try to play a movie ("Planet of Th

Re: strangeness when i do a df...

2001-08-16 Thread Gary Hennigan
"allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hello: > > i have a strange situation here. i had a user complain because /usr/sbin > appeared to be full. so when i do a df on the system, i get: > (actually, hdb6, hdb11, and hdb12 where at 100% when the user brought this to

Re: dual displays

2001-08-22 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Jeremiah Mahler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 06:55:12AM -1000, Andrew Austin wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm thinking about getting the ATI RADEON VE Dual Display video > > card but haven't been able to find much info on running it in > > linux. I have heard that the RADEON serie

Re: allowing root to display to a user's X session

2001-11-19 Thread Gary Hennigan
DvB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > When troubleshooting on RedHat, I often log in to a X session as a user, > > then su to root in an xterm and run ethereal (a packet-sniffer with GUI) > > to watch the network traffic that results from my actions as a

Re: allowing root to display to a user's X session

2001-11-20 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Karsten M. Self" writes: > on Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 03:11:03PM -0700, Gary Hennigan > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > My preferred solution is to su to root and do: > > > > export XAUTHORITY=~myusername/.Xauthority ;export DISPLAY=:0.0 > > > > I thi

Re: [OT] text floating around pictures using LaTeX

2001-12-06 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Stig Brautaset" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a way to make text flow around (not just above and below) > included (eps-)graphics in LaTex? > > The problem is that I have a fairly tall but thin figure I need to > include; it takes up much of the height but little of the width. > (Changing

Re: procmail recipe not working

2001-12-06 Thread Gary Hennigan
dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 05:32:48PM -0600, shock wrote: > | On 2001.12.06 20:23 dman wrote: > | > > | > I've been getting a bunch of spam on a certain list. The latest > | > message has the following From: line : > | > | i had the same problem with a different s

Re: anonymous pserver and r/w permissions

2001-12-07 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Jeronimo Pellegrini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have set up an anonymous pserver here, and there's just one thing that I > don't know how to solve. > > The user that logs in to do anonymous reading is the Linux user "anonymous". > Now, this user has read-only permissions on the repository.

Re: Amount of RAM L1 cache on a processor will support

2001-12-11 Thread Gary Hennigan
dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 01:17:30PM -0500, David Teague wrote: > | > | > | If you put more RAM in a computer system than the caching system > | will suppport, the system will run more slowly than it would with > | less RAM. IF I understand correctly, the amount o

Re: is testing broken?

2002-01-31 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd like to upgrade a box to testing, but I'm wondering if testing > is > broken. > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=base-passwd > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=130735&repeatmerged=yes > > Sho

Best way to encrypt data

2002-02-01 Thread Gary Hennigan
What's the best way to encrypt data on your hard drive such that if it is stolen you have some assurance that they can't get at the data? My understanding of how cryptography works is limited, but it seems that public/private key stuff, like GnuPG, wouldn't be sufficient for this because your secre

Re: Freeware Email Scanner..

2002-02-01 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Petre Daniel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i have looked in the list archives but couldn't find an adecvate virus > scanner for me. > > i need a virus scanner for my main mail server.that is a scanner for > windows viruses... > > if anyone knows any free software powerful enough to detect and

Re: ReiserFS, ext3 (was: 'praise to the debian gods')

2002-02-05 Thread Gary Hennigan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Craig> But quite stable at this point. I've been running ext3 on > Craig> all my fs's for several months, and have never seen a > Craig> problem that resulted from ext3 itself. > > > *My* experience > > Ext3 nearly toasted my ide-hd and "tidied up" abou

Re: freeware purify like memory checker ?

2002-02-06 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Johann Spies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 04:02:55PM +0100, Leif Thuresson wrote: > > Does anybody know a of freeware memory checker > > they can recommend ? > > apt-get install memtest86 No. memtest86 tests viability of the RAM in your system. It's purpose is to try an

Re: freeware purify like memory checker ?

2002-02-06 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No. memtest86 tests viability of the RAM in your system. It's purpose > is to try and detect hardware problems with your systems memory. > > What Johan wants is a package to do things like bounds checking of &

Dual LCD monitors

2002-02-11 Thread Gary Hennigan
x1024 on dual DVI. Xinerama, by the way, treats your two displays as a single large display, so you can move displayed programs from one monitor to the other easily. Thanks, Gary Hennigan

Re: Dual LCD monitors

2002-02-11 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Blake Barnett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You also have to live with the lower bandwidth of PCI, as it forces you > to have either 1 AGP & 1 PCI or 2 PCI for it to work. Moving > applications and such between the two screens can be painful. Though > definately not a show-stopper. Especially

Re: Printing problems

2002-02-13 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Ernesto Gonzalez Gomez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >After any job, I have a blank page. I tried printing to a file, and >then coping this file to /dev/lp0, it works, but when I use lpr with >the same file, I have again the blank page at the end. My printcap >is: [snip] Afterward, "Liam Black"

Re: AntiVirus 4 Linux

2002-02-14 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Game Wizard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a question for all of you. I need to setup a service that > uses antivirus on linux to scan incoming mail (ie POP3). I already > tried TrendMicro viruswall, and now d/l sophos. Are there any other > good (and relatively cheap, NOT 1$ mcaffee) p

Re: cups drivers

2002-02-15 Thread Gary Hennigan
dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 11:08:04AM -0200, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > | Hello, > | > | I've just installed CUPS and the default printer with the deskjet.pdd > driver > | in woody. My printer is a HP DeskJet 930C. Does exist a better CUPS' driver > | for it, o

Re: cups drivers

2002-02-15 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Cam Ellison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just downloaded and installed it. It depends on foomatic-bin, and > so this (along with a number of other packages got dowloaded and > installed, too. > > I didn't see that message. > > * Gary Hennigan ([EMA

Re: A question about LCD flat panel displays

2002-02-18 Thread Gary Hennigan
stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm contemplating purchasing an LCD flat panel disply for use on the new > Debain woody workstation I am building for my wife. > > Having never used one of these before, and since they are failry expensive, > I thought I would ask some advice of this list. > > W

Gnome panel on dual-h

2002-02-18 Thread Gary Hennigan
I've got a dual-head setup using Xinerama. A while ago I noticed that the gnome stuff was upgraded and this morning when I logged in for the first time since that upgrade my gnome panel no longer stretches across both monitors. Does anyone know how to get it back to it's previous behavior? I'm runn

Re: A question about LCD flat panel displays

2002-02-18 Thread Gary Hennigan
stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 09:29:29AM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote: [snip] > > I have a 20" flat-panel display at work. Although I just received it > > about a week ago I think I can give you some insight. I'm no expert, > > so t

Re: erasing CDRW media?

2002-02-19 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Dave Price" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can CDRW media be reused with cdrecord (burning ISO images)? If so, > how does one go about 'erasing the media first? RTFM. Specifically "man cdrecord". An excerpt: [snip] blank=type Blank a CD-RW and exit or blank a CD-RW befor

Re: VMware not compiling under woody...

2002-02-25 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Darryl L. Pierce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I recently decided to re-install VMware 2.x on my debian machine at > work. When I try to install, I get the complaints about linux/malloc.h > being deprecated and to use linux/slab.h instead. But, I don't want to > much around with VMware's headers.

Re: Multisession CD

2002-02-27 Thread Gary Hennigan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I backup my data on a CD. Therefore i create a multisession CD with cdrecord > ( -multi option). > I write some sessions. every session has exactly one file with a unique name > over all sessions. > If i now try to read the CD i see only the file writed in the first sess

Re: Installing kernel-image-2.4.17-k7

2002-02-27 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Bill Moseley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 12:04 PM 02/27/02 -0800, Stan Kaufman wrote: > >I just installed 2.4.17 on a new woody box, which involved an > >upgrade from the 2.2.14 potato system my floppy install disks > >created. The kernel-image package provided clear notice during > >install

100dpi vs 75dpi sizes

2002-03-01 Thread Gary Hennigan
I noticed the other day that I hadn't installed the 100dpi X fonts and so I went ahead and installed them. When I restarted X some time after that all my fonts were completely different sizes. I managed to modify the applications I use most frequently, like XEmacs and my Gnome terminals, but some t

Re: Avoid booting direct to X.. I want my starx back

2002-03-01 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > In my redhat dealings it was possible to set default to runlevel 5 > > which force boot to bring up X. setting runlevel 3 gave you a console > > login. > > > > Where is this choice made on debian? > > > > runlevels do not affect Debian

Re: 100dpi vs 75dpi sizes

2002-03-04 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Chris Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Gary Hennigan wrote: > > > could make the window wider, but is there a way to decrease the size > > of these? Looking at the Navigator.ad file is like reading a word > > jumble. > > The font sizes are

Re: home directory permissions

2002-03-05 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Charlie Grosvenor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have just used the command adduser to add some users to my system. I > have noticed that each user added has read rights to other users home > directory. Why is this? how can i stop adduser from creating home > directories with these permissio

XEmacs and packages

2002-03-05 Thread Gary Hennigan
What's the "Debian Way (TM)" for handling XEmacs packages? I noticed a lot of them are out of date in testing, but I don't want to chance confusing the package manager by downloading these myself unless that's accepted practice for the xemacs21-basesupport Debian package. Thanks, Gary

OT: Aliens in the heavans (was Re: seti@home)

2002-03-05 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Ron Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 14:13, Gary Turner wrote: > > I've been running setiathome on my winboxes and am considering adding my > > linbox to the mix. So, the question is what is the appropriate > > directory to unpack and run this little bippy? How does t

Re: Printer reccommendation

2001-03-27 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Roberto Diaz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I've never had problems configuring an HP on Linux, and they're > > pretty reliable my Epson Stylus 740 prints like crap, and started > > doing so, right after the warranty ran out, so I'd recommend > > against Epson (but then that's only one printer,

Re: Mime Type of Debian package

2001-03-28 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Delavigne, Ken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When I download a Debian package I get a huge amount of weird text > on my Netscape Navigator window. I assume this is because I don't have NN > tuned to handle "deb" packages properly. I went into > PREFERENCES/NAVIGATOR/APPLICATIONS and tried t

Re: UML tools

2001-03-29 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Daniel de los Reyes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > El Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 09:25:35AM -0500, Gopal Narayanan dijo: > -| On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 03:52:50PM +0200, Pawe³ Krupa wrote: > -| > Where can I find UML tools for Debian? > -| > -| dia - the diagram editor has UML support. > -| Try apt-get

XFree86 4.1.0-7 and G450 problems?

2001-10-15 Thread Gary Hennigan
Anyone else have a problem running X 4.1.0-7 with a G450? I just upgraded this morning and wdm comes up fine, but when I try to log in, as root or myself, X dies back to the wdm screen and I get an entry in my log like: Oct 15 11:49:53 hostname kernel: mtrr: no MTRR for f980,80 found Ever

XFree86 4.1.0-7 and G450 problems (SOLVED)

2001-10-15 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anyone else have a problem running X 4.1.0-7 with a G450? I just > upgraded this morning and wdm comes up fine, but when I try to log in, > as root or myself, X dies back to the wdm screen and I get an entry in > my lo

Movie makers for Linux?

2001-10-16 Thread Gary Hennigan
I've got a series of still captures of some scientific data that I'd like to string together to form an animation, picture-book style. They're in PNG format, but I can get a couple of other formats out of the program that generates the stills. Anyone got any suggestions? A quick look via apt-cache

Re: Movie makers for Linux?

2001-10-16 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Alexander Wallace" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't have my machine here but I think I use gtksee for what you are > talking about... > > do apt-get isntall gtksee > > That should do it... > > On 16 Oct 2001, Gary Hennigan wrote: >

Re: Movie makers for Linux?

2001-10-16 Thread Gary Hennigan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >>>>> "Gary" == Gary Hennigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I've got a series of still captures of some scientific data > > that I'd like to string together to form an animation, > >

Re: Movie makers for Linux?

2001-10-17 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > >>>>> "Gary" == Gary Hennigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > I've got a series of still captures of some scientific data > >

Re: Linux RAM drive support/performance

2001-10-17 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Paul McHale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does Linux support any RAM drive(s)? How much faster are these drives over > an attached drive? Is there a CPU performance penalty? > > We would like to replace our mechanical drive with a small (<4GB) RAM drive. > The mechanical drive is getting pound

Re: Linux RAM drive support/performance

2001-10-17 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Paul McHale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > Is it true the x86 architecture is limited to 32 bit addressing and will > never support more than 4GB of address space? Trying to see what the > limitation will be. Here's the real lowdown, from the kernel-configuration help for item "Processor

New ssh v2 and authentication

2001-10-30 Thread Gary Hennigan
I'm a bit confused by the fact that OpenSSH now defaults to using version 2. How do I use ssh-agent as I have in the past to do password-less logins? In the past I'd do this once with my pass phrase: % ssh-keygen and copy the contents ~/.ssh/identity.pub to the remote machine ~/.ssh/authorized

Re: New ssh v2 and authentication

2001-10-31 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Bill Wohler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm a bit confused by the fact that OpenSSH now defaults to using > > version 2. How do I use ssh-agent as I have in the past to do > > password-le

Re: New ssh v2 and authentication

2001-10-31 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Tom Gilbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > That did the trick! The worst part about it is there's no mention of > > this in the man page. It talks about using identity.pub as default but > > nothing about specifying a different file. > > > SYNOPSIS > ssh-add [-lLdD] [file ...] > > DESCRI

Re: Weird File Permissions

2001-11-07 Thread Gary Hennigan
Aniartia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wednesday 07 November 2001 22:33, Sunny Dubey wrote: > > hey, > > > > what does it mean to have an S or an s when doing ls -l ?? > > > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED])(/)$ ls -l | grep home > > drwxrwsr-x8 root staff1024 Oct 15 12:02 home > > I thoug

Re: Purify for Linux

2001-11-07 Thread Gary Hennigan
"T.Phan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there any purify clone for linux? > TIA! There are various free bounds checkers for Linux. The only one I ever used was Electric Fence and that was a LONG time ago. I think there are others. If you want a commercial product you can look at Parasofts I

Re: intrusion detection / logfile reporter

2001-11-09 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Timo Boewing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: > > > http://www.psionic.com/ has some good stuff - logcheck, portsentry > > and > > > hostsentry. > > > > > Hello Stephen, > > Hey, that was *exactly* what i was looking for. When i have time, i > will try these packages

Re: libxml2

2001-09-05 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Jaldhar H. Vyas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Hereward Cooper wrote: > > > But once I installed the -dev via apt-get, "dpkg -l *xml2*" > > _did_ list the file. > > > > Sorry I didn't make that clear did I? dpkg -l only accepts *installed* > package names. Yep. You can't u

[OT] Re: LAPTOPS AND TWO DIFFERENT WORKPLACES (OT)

2001-10-04 Thread Gary Hennigan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > The system administrator at work is a subcontract > employee. He is also the administrator at his > company. The company that I work for also has > employe's from his company working here and they > travel back and forth between companies and use their > M$ laptops a

JDK on ftp.informatik.hu-berlin.de?

2001-10-04 Thread Gary Hennigan
I was getting the 1.3 JDK with the following line in my /etc/apt/sources.list: deb ftp://ftp.informatik.hu-berlin.de/pub/Java/Linux/debian woody non-free but it seems that that directory has disappeared. Any idea what happened to it? There's a version for potato, but the woody one is gone. Thank

Re: How can I use dselect from behind a firewall?

2001-10-04 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Stan Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a Debian stable machine located atw ork behind a very restrictive > firewall. I don have a machine runing squid that can be used as a HTTP only > proxy to get through it. > > How do I set this up? Easy. Just set the environment variable "http_prox

Gnome menu item and prompting

2001-10-08 Thread Gary Hennigan
I'm trying Gnome+Sawfish and so far I like the combo. I've found one thing I miss from just plain Windowmaker, adding a menu item that prompts you for information. In WindowMaker I just added the %a(Prompt) to a menu item and WindowMaker would prompt me for text and put that into the command before

Gnome file manager?

2001-10-08 Thread Gary Hennigan
Where is the Gnome file manager? I just installed and started using Gnome and the panel is nice but I'd like to drop things on my desktop and that's not working right now. According to the Gnome user's guide: The GNOME Desktop is actually provided by a backend process in the GNOME File Manag

Re: NIST time

2002-01-03 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Craig Dickson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Paul E Condon wrote: > > > I want to automate the time/date setting on my computer( Potato ). > > I suppose there is a program that accesses NIST time server and > > allows me to update. > > > > What is the name of the debian package to do this? > >

Re: What is option "-P" to smbclient?

2002-01-03 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In trying to print to a printer hanging off a Windows box, I find that > the smbprint script has this line: > > > echo "print -" > cat > ) | smbclient "$server\\$service" -U $password -N -P >> $logfile > > I have been unable to find

Re: NIST time

2002-01-03 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Paul E Condon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Craig Dickson wrote: > > > Sam Varghese wrote: > > > > > i used ntpdate initially but have now swicthed to chrony. the same > > > guy who wrote pppconfig has written this utility and like pppconfig > > > it is simple and works well. > > > > Is ntpdate

Re: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 10

2002-01-08 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Brooks R. Robinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Greetings, > > I am having some annoying woody problems. I've got several packages that > won't configure, and they are all giving me the same error: > > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 10 > > the packages are: >

Re: eth0

2002-01-18 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Joe Wise" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ok, I am still trying to get the ethernet card installed.  When I try to > install the driver, I get a message that says;  device busy could be an IO or > IRQ conflict.  Any help available?  IT is a 3COM card and I think that the > driver is tulip I don't t

Re: fetchmail

2002-01-21 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Ken Weingold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is anyone here using fetchmail? I ran it to get my mail from a POP > server to use with mutt, and I did see them all come in when it was > running, but I don't see them with mutt. Anyone know where they could > be? As others on the thread have noted,

Re: ipv6_config not available in kernel config

2002-01-22 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Llewellyn Ted" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When I go to enable IPv6 I don't get access to the > option. In xconfig I can see the options but they are > greyed out. In "make config" it simply doesn't come > up. I'm using the 2.4.16 deb package. There doesn't > seem to be any info in the sou

Re: List help --

2002-01-22 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Timothy C. Fanelli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ok, so I signed up for this list because I figured i'd stick with debian > for a while -- I was wrong, I'm back to slackware. > > I've been trying and trying to unsubscribe... I've sent three or four > emails to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe

Re: bash woes

2002-01-22 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Jonathan Matthews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ok - can someone explain the following: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ ls > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ rm abc > rm: cannot remove `abc': No such file or directory > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ rm abc 2>err > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ cat err > rm: cannot remov

Re: pcmcia support in r3.0

2002-01-30 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Pieter De Troyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm installing debian woody (r3.0) on a laptop. I want to do a > network-install. The bootfloppies I 've got don't seem to get my network > working right. I loaded (manually, because mdprobe didn't do it) the > following modules: > > pcmcia_core > i8

Re: Woody SSH and spurious DNS calls

2001-05-24 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Carel Fellinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Recently I upgraded a box to woody and ever since it takes a lot of time > to start ssh from that box. Only starting from that box, connecting to > it is normal, and (quit telling) only when my internet connection is down. > > With tcpdump it's clear

Re: Woody SSH and spurious DNS calls

2001-05-24 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm not sure if it's the same in woody, but on potato I'd take a look > at the /etc/nsswitch.conf file. In there make sure that you have a > line like: > > hosts:files dns > > Sou

Re: LM-sensors discontinued.

2001-05-29 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Christoph Simon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just tried to visit the homepage of lm-sensors, but found out that > it is being discontinued. Anybody knows about the future of this > package? Somebody will take it over or is there an alternative? I'm missing something. Looking at what I have fo

Dual-head G450 anyone?

2001-06-08 Thread Gary Hennigan
Has anyone got a setup with a dual-head G450 card with two monitors and, obviously, running Debian (potato or testing?). I'm planning on getting a new system and now that I've had dual-head on my SGI for a couple of years, don't think I could live without it! TIA, Gary

Re: rescue cd

2001-06-08 Thread Gary Hennigan
"John Patton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anyone know how one would go about creating a debian > rescue cd? Something bootable, with enough utilities on it > to really be able to fix a system. A custom made ramdisk > would be perfect. I've been trying to figure out how to do > this, with no

Re: Power button doesn't work

2001-06-12 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Derek Hans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is it normal that my power button doesn't work? > After running shutdown -h now, the system shuts down and issues a > message saying > "Power down." > However, when I hit the power button, the computer just beeps but > still stays on. The only thing I can

[OT]: Linux poll at Novell

2003-06-27 Thread Gary Hennigan
I don't normally pay attention to things like online linux distribution polls. They're hardly scientific and so mean little. But I've seen some folks crowing about how Gentoo is smashing the competition because of the results of this poll and so I thought I'd bring the existence of the poll to the

Re: OT? www.donotcall.gov problem

2003-07-02 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Paul E Condon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yesterday, I attempted to use the new federal (USA) web site for > registering my telephone numbers in the 'do not call' database. I did > not succeed, and I am wondering what is wrong. Let me describe my > experience: > > The web site displays a form o

Re: keystroke ctrl+s freezes terminal/console

2003-07-15 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Joerg Johannes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tuesday 15 July 2003 13:51, Rogier Wolff wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 07:33:47AM -0400, Shawn Lamson wrote: >> > Hey all - >> > >> > I have noticed that pressing ctrl+s in console or xterm suspends >> > input... I have not figured out how to su

Re: keystroke ctrl+s freezes terminal/console

2003-07-15 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Joerg Johannes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tuesday 15 July 2003 17:08, Gary Hennigan wrote: >> > As Roger already asked: Is there a way to disable this Ctrl-S >> > shortcut? >> >> Ctrl+S/Ctrl+Q is actually the XON/XOFF protocol. If you'

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-17 Thread Gary Hennigan
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > top - 19:32:46 up 104 days, 4:57, 1 user, load average: 0.01, 0.02, > 0.05 > Tasks: 299 total, 1 running, 295 sleeping, 3 stopped, 0 zombie > Cpu(s): 0.2% user, 2.7% system, 0.0% nice, 97.1% idle > Mem: 2068748k total, 2043068

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-17 Thread Gary Hennigan
Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 12:26:36PM -0600, Gary Hennigan wrote: [snip] >> Man, I *REALLY* wanted to avoid this thread! ;) But a legitimate >> question deserves an answer... >> >> Hit "1" while in top and it

Re: Linux firewall vs Windows and Hardware based firewalls

2003-07-31 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Andre Volmensky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have to put forward an argument to management regarding setting up a > firewall on some of our clients networks. > > What are the advantages of a linux firewall over something like Windows > with WinRoute on it, or even a hardware based firewall. Wh

Re: mail gathering

2003-08-04 Thread Gary Hennigan
Kirk Strauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 2003-08-04T22:54:34Z, "vinz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> fetchmail only allows me to download mail to root but i want to put > the >> mail into my pop3 account how do i go about doing this and what > program >> can i use ? > > Run fetchmail as you

Re: OT: Aliens in the heavans (was Re: seti@home)

2002-03-07 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Gary Turner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 07 Mar 2002 15:26:29 +1030, Tom Cook wrote: > >Is that right? I thought that an ideal dipole would radiate only in a > >plane. Obviously we don't have ideal dipoles, but that's what I thought > >the theory said. I am more than happy to take cor

Re: Galeon PSM

2002-03-20 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Michael Montagne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What is PSM for Galeon (mozilla?)? > When trying to reach a secure sight I'm informed that this must be > installed. The download is a whole bunch of files tarred together. I'm > unsure how to proceed. Should I just copy the whole tree I downloade

Re: Still can't subscribe and listmaster saying nothing!

2002-03-25 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Anthony Campbell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The subject heading really says it all. For the past 2 days I've sent > repeated requests to subscribe; the confirmation request comes back but > then nothing. Two emails to listmaster have produced nothing either. > > Lucky I'm a dedicated Debian

Re: NTFS user readable

2002-03-25 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Wim Uyttebroek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How can I set my mounted NTFS partition readable for normal users ? > A normal user can mount the partition, but can 't read this partition...!! Back when I needed such a capability I created a Unix group called "windoze" and mounted the NTFS/FAT part

Re: make-dpkg: flavors and external modules

2002-03-26 Thread Gary Hennigan
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > also sprach Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.03.26.2015 +0100]: [snip] > /etc/modules is simply a file listing one module a line to be loaded > at startup. /etc/init.d/modutils will do the actual work of loading > the modules according to this fil

Re: vmware pooched by latest dist upgrade.

2002-03-26 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Sheldon Lee-Wen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >I just filed a bug report against this, but the latest upgrade against > unstable causes the thread in vmware that is responsible for handling > disk io to fail, thus vmware fails. The solution is to downgrade your > libc6, libc6-dev and locales ve

Re: xemacs menu has LARGE fonts

2002-04-01 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Tim Dijkstra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I use xemacs for general purpose editing, but since my last apt-get > upgrade (which upgraded a lot of packages) the menu bar has a really > big font. I can't find a way to change the font it's using, can > anybody help me with this? I bet you installed

Re: dpkg -l long-package-names

2002-04-04 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Hanspeter Roth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > the command `dpkg -l ...' prints a name colunm which length is > limited. As a result long package names are cut and may be displayed > ambigiously. > Is there an option to habe the name colunm wider? Run it like: COLUMNS=100 dpkg -l Gary

Re: xfree86 4.1.0-15 broke my display

2002-04-04 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Craig Duncan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jeffrey W. Baker writes: > > Well, I use apt-get clean on occasion. The -14 release of XFree86 was > > several months ago. Would be nice if there was apt-get > > clean-except-last-version i supposed. > > apt-get autoclean I don't think so, at least

Re: Damn Outlook HTML

2002-04-04 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Costa, Todd (DMH)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >     I am stuck on how I can manually start-stop-restart a daemon from the > command line. I have a daemon that gets flaky and the only way I can get it > back running again is to restart the entire system. I really don't want to do > this so I t

Re: make install nvidia drivers

2002-04-08 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Ben Farrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > p.s. I be very intrested to know where you got debian nvidia's deb's > from .. >From any Debian mirror. At least in testing and unstable. They're in the contrib/x11 section. Do: % apt-cache search nvidia [snip] nvidia-glx-src - NVIDIA binary XFre

[OT] Re: The latest round of antivirus bouncebacks

2002-04-10 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Karsten M. Self" writes: > on Wed, Apr 10, 2002, Shawn McMahon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Perhaps it's time to start refusing list posts from Outlook Express. > > > > That'd eliminate 99% of the "unsubscribe" stupidity, as well. > > I respond to the address, [EMAIL PROTECTED], and > [EMAIL

Re: How do I get off the list??

2002-04-16 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Wayne Topa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Eileen([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > Hi, > > > > I have tried for 2 weeks to ge off this list. As you can see, from > > I continue to see people having this problem. Why? > > I just changed ISP's and was subscribed to a half dozen D

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