Re: Debian Vs RedHat

2002-01-10 Thread David B Harris
On Wed, 09 Jan 2002 21:10:51 -0800 Calyth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps it's time to get to Woody? IMO rpm system sucks dependencies are never correct. Debs never have the same problem. Of course, that's a function of the maintainers and has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the

Re: TLS-enabled LDAP debs?

2002-01-10 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 09-Jan-2002 Drew Raines wrote: Has anyone created TLS/SSL-friendly debs for libpam-ldap, libnss-ldap, libldap2, et al? I'd like to not reinvent the wheel if someone's already done this. Have you looked on a non-US server?

Re: Playing WMA audio streams

2002-01-10 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 09-Jan-2002 Coen De Roover wrote: Hi, Is there a program that's capable of playing continuous WMA audio streams ? None I have seen, it is a proprietary microsoft api.

Re: Playing WMA audio streams

2002-01-10 Thread crispin
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 10:17:43PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: On 09-Jan-2002 Coen De Roover wrote: Hi, Is there a program that's capable of playing continuous WMA audio streams ? None I have seen, it is a proprietary microsoft api. Wine? dunno. Crispin

Re: Exim Adding Sender Header

2002-01-10 Thread Pete Ryland
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 11:25:57PM -0500, dman wrote: On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 07:13:13PM -0600, Benjamin Pharr wrote: | When I send e-mail from my Debian box, Exim is adding a Sender header on | the way out. You're not trusted, so exim reports who you really are and allows you to forge

Re: X too big; login double; fetchmail kaputt

2002-01-10 Thread Mark Lamers
Op wo 09-01-2002, om 02:39 schreef Nori Heikkinen: on Wed, 09 Jan 2002 01:51:49AM +0100, marTin insinuated: dpkg-reconfigure -plow xserver-xfree86 and again i run up against unset locales: (again typing -- my mouse is working, no gpm restart necessary, i just can't cut and paste in

Re: pkg hell with pidentd

2002-01-10 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 09 January 2002 11:42 am, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 10:57:04 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: Preparing to replace pidentd 3.0.7-3 (using .../pidentd_3.0.12-4_i386.deb) ... Can't locate DebianNet.pm in @INC (@INC

Re: Fwd: Debian Won't Install! (System Locks Up)

2002-01-10 Thread Mark Seven Smith
Heh. I've been offline all this time; I still *CRINGE* at the thought of what I did to my Red Hat installation, so I won't go into it (YIKES!) but I was stuck with having to get Debian up running--I tried everything! But nothing worked. So, I put in an old Cirrus Logic card, with a whole

hdparm and old system

2002-01-10 Thread Adam Majer
Hi all, I have a 486 with 1 byte serial FIFO. This means if I transfer stuff through my modem, I get a bunch of bits lost when HD trasnfer any data. To fix the problem I unmasked IRQs on the HD controller. This worked with 2.2.x series. It fails to unmask the interrupts in the 2.4.x series. in

Re: any good LaTeX books/docs recommended to beginners?

2002-01-10 Thread Joel Mayes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Nesbit [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: P.S. Joel, I noticed your sig. Have you got any helpful anti-spam tips? (I am having /terrible/ problems with spam at the moment). Not really, I use spamassassin and razor and have a gnus score file I've

why does a process gets killed?

2002-01-10 Thread Imre Vida
Hi, i am running some neuron simulations in Neuron a dialect of 'oc/hoc'. The problem i have is that on one of my machines the process gets killed after a certain number of cycles. (This number is not absolutely constant but has very small variation between 100-120.) On another machine,

Re: Debian Vs RedHat

2002-01-10 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Calyth [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002.01.10.0610 +0100]: Linux have another problem in itself... no decently good office suite. have a look at openoffice.org or star office. what do you dislike about them? i prefer openoffice btw, it seems faster... -- martin; (greetings from

Re: ProFTPd + mod_LDAP + OpenLDAP

2002-01-10 Thread Ramin Motakef
Jeremy L. Gaddis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Today I compiled ProFTPd with support for mod_ldap (authenticating against OpenLDAP). I set up proftpd.conf as per the documentation and authentication was still failing. After examining the log files for ProFTPd, I noticed that it was attempting

Re: why does a process gets killed?

2002-01-10 Thread Walter Hofmann
On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Imre Vida wrote: What could i do to figure out what is the problem? Watch the kernel log /var/log/syslog, or Check resource limits (umlilit -a, ulimit -Sa), or strace the process to see what happens. Walter

Re: Fwd: Debian Won't Install! (System Locks Up)

2002-01-10 Thread Brian Nelson
Mark Seven Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Heh. I've been offline all this time; I still *CRINGE* at the thought of what I did to my Red Hat installation, so I won't go into it (YIKES!) but I was stuck with having to get Debian up running--I tried everything! But nothing worked.

Re: xterm and the backspace key, the saga continues.

2002-01-10 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Adam Majer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): A few months ago I noticed that _something_ had changed on my Debian installation that caused xterms not to react on my backspace key as one would expect. No kidding.. To get backspace back, hit and hold CTRL and then clink on Button 1 your mouse.

Re: Total lockups - could it be my ISP? -revisited

2002-01-10 Thread Anthony Campbell
I thought I'd finally traced my lockups to my ISP, but it's just happened again with a different ISP :( Now I'm looking into some BIOS settings related to the hard disk. But it may be time to go back to kernel 2.2.20. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux GNU/Debian (Windows-free zone)

Re: Confusion about X in woody

2002-01-10 Thread Randy Orrison
On Thu, 2002-01-10 at 01:12, Adam Majer wrote: Get rid off the 3.3.6 stuff - install xserver-xfree86 package. It will provide all the necessary drivers. Thanks to everyone who replied! I've done apt-get install xserver-xfree86; configuration with debconf handled everything just fine. (Almost

Debian-Progeny

2002-01-10 Thread S.Ghosh
Hello, Could someone please explain how to set up an external modem under Debian-Progeny 1.0. Also how is the printer setup carried out under Progeny. The external modem worked well under RedHat 7.0 7.1. So I am hoping it will under Progeny. All help is sincerely appreciated. A lost user!

Re: xterm and the backspace key, the saga continues.

2002-01-10 Thread crispin
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 11:26:43AM +0100, Sander Smeenk wrote: Quoting Adam Majer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): A few months ago I noticed that _something_ had changed on my Debian installation that caused xterms not to react on my backspace key as one would expect. No kidding.. To get

Re: xterm and the backspace key, the saga continues.

2002-01-10 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hmm, this works, but it still does not fix my delete key behaviour. Sounds like your term info's screwy. echo $TERM [12:26] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~] % echo $TERM xterm-color [12:27] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~] % Then type infocmp [12:27] [EMAIL

Re: Confusion about X in woody

2002-01-10 Thread Randy Orrison
On Thu, 2002-01-10 at 11:07, Randy Orrison wrote: Thanks to everyone who replied! I've done apt-get install xserver-xfree86; configuration with debconf handled everything just fine. (Almost -- I'm going to have to tweak my keyboard: I'm using a Microsoft Natural keyboard with UK layout, and

视频会议

2002-01-10 Thread abc
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Re: hdparm and old system

2002-01-10 Thread Matt Chipman
Hi all, I have a 486 with 1 byte serial FIFO. This means if I transfer stuff through my modem, I get a bunch of bits lost when HD trasnfer any data. To fix the problem I unmasked IRQs on the HD controller. I could be way off the mark here but when your system boots, does it say 2 x

Re: xterm and the backspace key, the saga continues.

2002-01-10 Thread crispin
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 12:34:03PM +0100, Sander Smeenk wrote: Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hmm, this works, but it still does not fix my delete key behaviour. Sounds like your term info's screwy. echo $TERM [12:26] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~] % echo $TERM xterm-color

Testing to unstable

2002-01-10 Thread Roderick Cummings
Hi, I had a system running testing for a while, and I decided to try unstable. I did a dist-upgrade and everything seemed to go fine, however on reboot, the new 2.4 kernel won't boot correctly, it fails to mount root. I've tried a few things with mkinitrd, and fiddled with lilo. Modutils

Re: any good LaTeX books/docs recommended to beginners?

2002-01-10 Thread Brian Potkin
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 12:09:27PM +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote: Hello, I am very new to LaTex. Is there any good books or documents recommended for me? Any recommends highly appreciated. :-) Peter Flynn, a regular contributer to comp.text.tex, has recently made the following documents

Re: xterm and the backspace key, the saga continues.

2002-01-10 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): xterm-color mines 'xterm'. You could try export TERM=xterm Doesn't help :( Try showkey -s then press delete and see what is dumped out. Post that back. Hmm... When I trun showkey -s in my xterm I get: [13:09] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~] % showkey

Re: xterm and the backspace key, the saga continues.

2002-01-10 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Sander Smeenk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): xterm-color mines 'xterm'. You could try export TERM=xterm Doesn't help :( I managed to get my $TERM setting to say 'xterm' when I log in. Now my backspace works again, as does my delete key!! So once again we fixed the xterm bs problem. Stay

Re: hdparm and old system

2002-01-10 Thread Adam Majer
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 10:56:59PM +1100, Matt Chipman wrote: Hi all, I have a 486 with 1 byte serial FIFO. This means if I transfer stuff through my modem, I get a bunch of bits lost when HD trasnfer any data. To fix the problem I unmasked IRQs on the HD controller. I could

Re: Testing to unstable

2002-01-10 Thread Adam Majer
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 07:10:32AM -0500, Roderick Cummings wrote: Hi, I had a system running testing for a while, and I decided to try unstable. I did a dist-upgrade and everything seemed to go fine, however on reboot, the new 2.4 kernel won't boot correctly, it fails to mount root.

Re: why does a process gets killed?

2002-01-10 Thread Imre Vida
What could i do to figure out what is the problem? Watch the kernel log /var/log/syslog, or Check resource limits (umlilit -a, ulimit -Sa), or thanks, this is the problem cpu time is set to 3600 s and now, how on earth can i set this value? man ulimit does not tell me anything man bash at

exim reject_recipients

2002-01-10 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, I'm trying to block some well known domains here in Brazil regarded as used only by spammers, using the host_reject_recipients directive in exim. I've set it to a list of domains (host list form), but I got some problems: 1. I've to put my local net in the list with a !

/var/cache/apt/archives

2002-01-10 Thread David Wright
I'm relatively new to Debian, and I just discovered that I have accumulated over 1G of .deb's in /var/cache/apt/archives. Can the contents of this directory be regularly wiped? Why isn't their a cron job to do this by default -- does one loose something?

Re: /var/cache/apt/archives

2002-01-10 Thread CraigT
can use: apt-get autoclean to clean packages other than those installed or apt-get clean to clean all obviously do this after verifying the upgrade has worked satidfactorally c^ - Original Message - From: David Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent:

Re: /var/cache/apt/archives

2002-01-10 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting David Wright ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I'm relatively new to Debian, and I just discovered that I have accumulated over 1G of .deb's in /var/cache/apt/archives. Can the contents of this directory be regularly wiped? Why isn't their a cron job to do this by default -- does one loose

Re: why does a process gets killed?

2002-01-10 Thread Martin Wuertele
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 02:24:30PM +0100, Imre Vida wrote: Watch the kernel log /var/log/syslog, or Check resource limits (umlilit -a, ulimit -Sa), or thanks, this is the problem cpu time is set to 3600 s and now, how on earth can i set this value? root can change this in

Re: /var/cache/apt/archives

2002-01-10 Thread c
just to point out again automatic removal of old .deb's can lead to more hassle if you need to roll back to the previous version.testthen clean. ;) - Original Message - From: Sander Smeenk [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: David Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org

Re: hdparm and old system

2002-01-10 Thread J.A.Serralheiro
On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Adam Majer wrote: On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 10:56:59PM +1100, Matt Chipman wrote: Hi all, I have a 486 with 1 byte serial FIFO. This means if I transfer stuff through my modem, I get a bunch of bits lost when HD trasnfer any data. To fix the problem I

Re: /var/cache/apt/archives

2002-01-10 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting c ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): just to point out again automatic removal of old .deb's can lead to more hassle if you need to roll back to the previous version.testthen clean. Hmm :) I like living on the edge :) Regards, Sander. -- | When in danger or in doubt, run in circles,

Re: Exim Adding Sender Header

2002-01-10 Thread christophe barbé
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 07:13:13PM -0600, Benjamin Pharr wrote: When I send e-mail from my Debian box, Exim is adding a Sender header on the way out. I tried adding my username to trusted_users in /etc/exim/exim.conf, but Exim dies saying it can't find that user. Any ideas? Thanks in advance!

Re: TLS-enabled LDAP debs?

2002-01-10 Thread Drew Raines
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Have you looked on a non-US server? By that, do you mean looking at a machine physically outside the US, or just a ``non-US'' server. If it's the latter, I have deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US woody/non-US main contrib non-free in

xinetd /etc/host.deny ALL:PARANOID

2002-01-10 Thread Davi Leal
We are an ISP (Internet Service Provider) and we use Debian GNU/Linux 2.2r3 (potato) as mail and DNS server: sendmail8.9.3-23 qpopper2.53-5 bind8.2.3 Is It safe to delete the ALL:PARANOID line in /etc/hosts.deny to avoid the below messages in /var/log/syslog? Jan 22

Screensaver while gdm is runing?

2002-01-10 Thread Stan Brown
What's the trick to geting xscreensaver to run, whicle gdm is displaying alogin prompt? I added to /etc/X11/gdm/Postsession, the following /usr/X11R6/bin/screensaver -display $DISPLAY -no-splash -timeout 5 0nice 10 But I don't see the process runing. -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gatos drivers for rage mobility p (dell latitude)

2002-01-10 Thread Mike Phillips
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 09:06:21PM + or sometime in the same epoch, Stig Brautaset scribbled: Hi guys and gals, I have a Dell Latitude CPx H500GT with (reportedly) a ati rage mobility p in it. I was told I could get hardware scaling with the gatos driver, and wanted to know what people

Gateway Configuration

2002-01-10 Thread Bob Underwood
With the impending demise of @home and transferrance to cox.net, I need to reconfigure my gateway from a static ip to dhcp. I'm sure I'm missing something here, so help would be appreciated. the /etc/network/interfaces file reads as follows: iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 iface eth0 inet

Re: mutt weirdness: Move read messages to /home/astartoth/Mail/~/Maildir? ([n]/y):

2002-01-10 Thread dsr
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 11:23:47PM -0500, dman wrote: On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 05:26:10PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 03:16:39PM -0500, dman wrote: | | BTW, What's with this ~/Maildir thing I keep seeing mentioned? Where | did that come from? | | Maildir

FW: Re: Play VCD on computer

2002-01-10 Thread dman
Note to all : reply on-list when you intend for the original poster (and/or anyone else) to benefit from your comments. -D - Forwarded message from Kristiadi Himawan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Kristiadi Himawan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: dman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Play VCD on

Installing on PowerMac unsuccessful

2002-01-10 Thread Tobias Welti
Hi, I'm trying to install Debian 2.2 r3 on my Apple Powerbook 5300cs. I've got a free fast internet connection, so I'm trying to boot the powerbook with the rescue floppy provided on the net. But there's one big problem: The Powerbook refuses to boot from the rescue floppy. The floppy is not

Re: Screensaver while gdm is runing?

2002-01-10 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Stan Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I added to /etc/X11/gdm/Postsession, the following /usr/X11R6/bin/screensaver -display $DISPLAY -no-splash -timeout 5 0nice 10 But I don't see the process runing. Just a wild guess... I see no option to tell the screensaver not to LOCK the display. So

Re: why does a process gets killed?

2002-01-10 Thread Imre Vida
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 02:58:50PM +0100, Martin Wuertele wrote: On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 02:24:30PM +0100, Imre Vida wrote: Watch the kernel log /var/log/syslog, or Check resource limits (umlilit -a, ulimit -Sa), or thanks, this is the problem cpu time is set to 3600 s and now,

Re: /var/cache/apt/archives

2002-01-10 Thread Mike Kuhar
If you do 'apt-get autoclean', this removes package files that can no longer be downloaded, and are largely useless. -mk On Thu, 2002-01-10 at 08:59, c wrote: just to point out again automatic removal of old .deb's can lead to more hassle if you need to roll back to the previous

Re: why does a process gets killed?

2002-01-10 Thread David B Harris
On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 10:19:24 +0100 Imre Vida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem i have is that on one of my machines the process gets killed after a certain number of cycles. (This number is not absolutely constant but has very small variation between 100-120.) If the memory use of the

I get ^M in the mail headers.

2002-01-10 Thread Preben Randhol
Suddenly yesterday (I think it was) I get the mail headers with a trailing ^M. like this: Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 16:04:27 +0100^M From: Somebody [EMAIL PROTECTED]^M To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Something wrong with the list?^M This seems to mess up my procmail filter. Is it

md resync vs. swap (was Re: Swap not starting)

2002-01-10 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 07:42:28PM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 13:14:00 -0600, Dave Sherohman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any ideas on what might be preventing swap from getting started automatically at boot? Well, /etc/init.d/mountall.sh generally runs swapon at some

[slightly OT] new dbf library

2002-01-10 Thread DvB
I've recently completed a dbf library which, as its name suggests, parses dbf files (in the Xbase file format) and decided to release it under the LGPL. I also wrote a dbf2txt untility to go with it. The library, as far as I can tell, provides similar functionality to the 'dbf' package in

Re: Gateway Configuration

2002-01-10 Thread Eric C. Cooper
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 09:50:42AM -0500, Bob Underwood wrote: the /etc/network/interfaces file reads as follows: [...] iface eth1 inet dhcp hostname: what @ home gave me Try it without the hostname. When I attempt to configure this, the following routing table appears: [...] There

Re: md resync vs. swap (was Re: Swap not starting)

2002-01-10 Thread Mike Dresser
On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Dave Sherohman wrote: grep -qs resync /proc/mdstat || swapon -a 2 /dev/null So why would the system want to run swapless if a RAID is resyncing? Is this just to preserve disk controller bandwidth so the resync finishes faster or would Bad Things happen if swap were

Re: why does a process gets killed?

2002-01-10 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 04:09:08PM +0100, Imre Vida wrote: this is what i put in there (these are the default values on my laptop without any data in /etc/security/limits.conf !!) * hardcoreunlimited * softcore0 * harddataunlimited * hard

Re: /var/cache/apt/archives

2002-01-10 Thread Craig Dickson
Mike Kuhar wrote: If you do 'apt-get autoclean', this removes package files that can no longer be downloaded, and are largely useless. Actually, one or two back-versions of each package is a useful thing to have, as it simplifies the task of downgrading when you discover a serious problem

Re: md resync vs. swap (was Re: Swap not starting)

2002-01-10 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 11:13:11AM -0500, Mike Dresser wrote: Something in the back of my mind says it's to do with having a swap file/partition on the raid volume, that that is a bad thing while it is syncing it. I don't remember exactly though. I suppose that could lead to some nasty

RE: mail server

2002-01-10 Thread Paul McHale
Paul, I would like to put a REALLY small email server up at work using Debian ( I have a RH box I've put together but I like ... the feel of this list I'm probably going to be the lone voice here. I prefer sendmail for one reason. There is an incredible amount of information out there. Pick

Mozilla little problem

2002-01-10 Thread Guy Durand
The error I receive when I start Mozilla as myself is: could not initialize the browser's security component. The most likely cuase is problems with files in your browser's profile directory. Please check that this directory has no read/write restrictions and your hard disk is not full or close

Re: Gateway Configuration

2002-01-10 Thread Angus D Madden
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 09:50:42AM -0500, Bob Underwood wrote: auto eth1 iface eth1 inet dhcp hostname: what @ home gave me There is no gateway in the routing table. How do I get one? if you are using pump, try: pump -i eth1 --status g pgpI0mBEjbNo0.pgp Description: PGP

Re: Installing on PowerMac unsuccessful

2002-01-10 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 04:07:27PM +0100, Tobias Welti wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install Debian 2.2 r3 on my Apple Powerbook 5300cs. I've got a free fast internet connection, so I'm trying to boot the powerbook with the rescue floppy provided on the net. But there's one big problem: The

cdrecord blank causes system block

2002-01-10 Thread David Gardi
Hi people, I own a Philips CDRW 16x10x40. Things seem to be working normally (more or less) apart from one strange problem. When I do Ex. cdrecord blank=all The blanking process starts, and completes ok, but during the blanking process, the system freezes. I can't open an xterm, cannot

Re: I get ^M in the mail headers.

2002-01-10 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
I had this happen a little while ago. I don't recall exactly, but either exim was not running or exim had been upgraded. I quit fetchmail, restarted exim and then restarted fetchmail. That fixed it. If it does not, for some reason, there is an argument you can put in your .fetchmailrc that

Re: Package Repository

2002-01-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 11:41:45PM -0600, Adam Majer wrote: On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 12:49:53AM +, Nicholas Avenell wrote: Okay, A simple question, for which a simple answer would be appreciated: I am looking for a simple, step by set guide to turning a directory full of .deb files

Re: Gateway Configuration

2002-01-10 Thread Bob Underwood
On Thursday 10 January 2002 11:11, Eric C. Cooper wrote: On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 09:50:42AM -0500, Bob Underwood wrote: the /etc/network/interfaces file reads as follows: [...] iface eth1 inet dhcp hostname: what @ home gave me Try it without the hostname. When I attempt to

Re: Debian Vs RedHat

2002-01-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 01:16:04AM -0500, David B Harris wrote: On Wed, 09 Jan 2002 21:10:51 -0800 Calyth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps it's time to get to Woody? IMO rpm system sucks dependencies are never correct. Debs never have the same problem. Of course, that's a function

Mutt + Konqueror

2002-01-10 Thread Martin Atukunda
Hi just a quick question. how do I effectively integrate mutt as my handler for the mailto: links in konqueror? I added /usr/bin/mutt %s as my preferred email client in kcontrol - Network - Email. When I click on a mailto: link it stars mutt fine, but doesn't fill in the To: prompt

Re: Gateway Configuration

2002-01-10 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 10 January 2002 11:28 am, Bob Underwood wrote: Hi Ron, Thanks. Adding the hostname to /etc/dhclient.conf did the trick. Bob No prob. I needed the assistance of someone who made the switch to dhcp back in November. - --

Re: OT: performance problems.

2002-01-10 Thread csj
On Tue, 8 Jan 2002 23:11:46 +0100 Theo Wribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 02:00:27PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: It's all about scsi baby... /dev/sdb: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.78 seconds =164.10 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.62

Re: Debian-Progeny

2002-01-10 Thread Greg Madden
On Thu, 2002-01-10 at 02:15, S.Ghosh wrote: Hello, Could someone please explain how to set up an external modem under Debian-Progeny 1.0. Also how is the printer setup carried out under Progeny. The external modem worked well under RedHat 7.0 7.1. So I am hoping it will under Progeny.

Re: xterm and the backspace key, the saga continues.

2002-01-10 Thread Andy Spiegl
Hi Sander, thanks for this thread. I had the same problem! And had it before, too. It really seems to be a never ending story. :-( Only that I had my xterm set to xterm-debian as I thought it's supposed to be. When did debian change back to xterm? Thanks, Andy. -- Dr. Andy Spiegl, Radio

offline apt with a twist

2002-01-10 Thread John Tyner
I have two machines that have no network connection that I need to keep updated. I read the offline apt document on how to use apt on another, networked machine to keep my standalones up to do date, but I have one problem. Due to the nature of the use of the stand alone machines, they are

Re: md resync vs. swap (was Re: Swap not starting)

2002-01-10 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Dave Sherohman wrote: On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 11:13:11AM -0500, Mike Dresser wrote: Something in the back of my mind says it's to do with having a swap file/partition on the raid volume, that that is a bad thing while it is syncing it. I don't remember exactly

Re: Debian Vs RedHat

2002-01-10 Thread David B Harris
On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 11:34:33 -0600 Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course, that's a function of the maintainers and has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the packaging software involved. :) Does the RPM build process have an equivalent of dpkg-shlibdeps? Yeah. As of a

proxy for apt-get?

2002-01-10 Thread Andy Spiegl
I am trying to tune apt-get to use my proxy (squid) when downloading files via ftp, but it doesn't connect anymore when I write this file: /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20proxy with this content: -- Acquire { ftp { Proxy ftp://proxy:3128/;; }; }; --

Help please, getting lird working

2002-01-10 Thread Stan Brown
Can someone please tell me what it takes to get the IR remote working on my WinTV card. It plays TV fine, but even after installing the lird, and lird modules package, I can't get it to work in fbtv. -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston

Re: cdrecord blank causes system block

2002-01-10 Thread David Gardi
Ken Leung wrote: is it have same problem when blanking under console not X ? Yes the problem remains regardless of whether I blank in console or X. David.

Permissions of /var/spool/texmf/ls-R

2002-01-10 Thread Johann Spies
Shouldn't the permissions on /var/spool/texmf/ls-R be writable by all users of LaTeX? I get the following output when compiling a LaTeX document: mktextfm: /var/spool/texmf/tfm/jknappen/ec/ecsi1200.tfm: successfully generated. /usr/share/texmf/web2c/mktexupd: /var/spool/texmf/ls-R unwritable.

Shutdown process and Upgrade

2002-01-10 Thread Jeetu Golani
Hello, I'm quite a newbie to Linux and emerge mainly from a MS background. I love Linux and use it as my primary OS though. I have a question with regards shutting down Linux. When I shutdown Linux I go into tty1 and press Ctrl-Alt-Del. Now this shuts everything down including X and it's

exim in cron - why for dialup system?

2002-01-10 Thread Ian Balchin
Hi, Since I have a dial-up system to my isp for email collection and delivery why does cron have an entry for exim? It runs whenever I dial up and connect? Should I remove this entry? -- Ian Balchin http://www.imaginet.co.za/fables This machine is running Debian GNU/Linux ...

system clock

2002-01-10 Thread Ian Balchin
Hi, When I did last reinstall I mistakenly selected the GMT option because, not running windows on the same machine, i thought that it would coexist fine with dos. Wrong! Now the linux clock is two hours ahead of the RTC (bios) which is obviously set at local clock-time for use when i boot dos.

strange behavior, comments

2002-01-10 Thread darrell
I am certain you all have enough to do, and strangely I do not need any help, I have been able to resolve most of my problems with the debian woody, and am very happy, i have used slak for 5 years prior after a power bump gdm stopped working and all the permisions on its directory where

Re: Mutt + Konqueror

2002-01-10 Thread Chris Halls
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 08:37:25PM +0300, Martin Atukunda wrote: I added /usr/bin/mutt %s as my preferred email client in kcontrol - Network - Email. When I click on a mailto: link it stars mutt fine, but doesn't fill in the To: prompt automatically. Any one have ideas on how I can fix

Re: Testing to unstable

2002-01-10 Thread Jason M. Harvey
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 07:19:15AM -0600, Adam Majer wrote: | On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 07:10:32AM -0500, Roderick Cummings wrote: ---snip--- | Please append a correct root= boot option ---snip--- is there any change there's no root=/dev/device_name for your root partition in your lilo.conf? for

Re: why does a process gets killed?

2002-01-10 Thread Imre Vida
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 10:18:11AM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: In limits.conf, the 'soft' limits are the defaults and the 'hard' limits are the maximum that a (non-priviliged) user can increase them q2: what else do i have to do so that the values in /etc/security/limits.conf can take

Re: kernel compiling fails on sounddriver

2002-01-10 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
Hi Kurdt, I have no idea what is wrong. Anyway, I have a similar system and recently compiled a 2.4.10 kernel, using the debian kernel source package. I also included ac97_codec support and it works quite well. Regards, Joachim -- Joachim Fahnenmüller Lehrer für Mathematik und Physik

Re: /var/cache/apt/archives

2002-01-10 Thread Joey Hess
Sander Smeenk wrote: Also you can edit/create a file in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ called 99local It's fairly silly to use the apt.conf.d directory when /etc/apt/apt.conf is already there entirely for your local modifications. -- see shy jo

Re: system clock

2002-01-10 Thread Mark Ferlatte
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 08:14:06PM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote (1.00): I can see where to accurise the clock, but cannot find where the basic boot setting can be revised. Any suggestions? Edit /etc/default/rcS and set UTC=no. Then, set your clock to the correct time. M

Re: Shutdown process and Upgrade

2002-01-10 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ACK!! Please remember, Linux is *not* Windows, and one of the examples of this is that Ctrl-Alt-Del doesn't tell applications what it's doing. The *only* time that you should type Ctrl-Alt-Del is AFTER X is properly shutdown, and you have logged out

Re: system clock

2002-01-10 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 10 January 2002 12:14 pm, Ian Balchin wrote: [snip] I can see where to accurise the clock, but cannot find where the basic boot setting can be revised. Any suggestions? Look in /etc/default/rcS. Your UTC entry is probably yes. Try

Re: Shutdown process and Upgrade

2002-01-10 Thread Ian Monroe
Is it OK to type 'reboot' in a console in X (such as Konsole)? Ian Monroe http://mlug.missouri.edu/~eean/ On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ACK!! Please remember, Linux is *not* Windows, and one of the examples of this is that

Re: system clock

2002-01-10 Thread Tupshin Harper
Ian Balchin wrote: I can see where to accurise the clock, but cannot find where the basic boot setting can be revised. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance /etc/default/rcS -Tupshin

Re: Shutdown process and Upgrade

2002-01-10 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Maybe. Don't know. But it's not too hard to reboot using the standard KDE/Gnome logout method, or exit X and then do the 3FS. On Thursday 10 January 2002 01:22 pm, Ian Monroe wrote: Is it OK to type 'reboot' in a console in X (such as Konsole)?

RFC: Beginner's vim tutorial

2002-01-10 Thread Jesse Goerz
I just wrote a beginner's vim tutorial over at http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/text_editing/vim.html I would appreciate it if the vim guru's would take a look at it and let me know if I've made any errors or have any suggestions. What I really need is a co-author who can fill in the gaps.

Re: Debian Vs RedHat

2002-01-10 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* martin f krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: also sprach Dimitri Maziuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002.01.09.2344 +0100]: Pretty b0rken ATM: stable is way too old for many uses, c.f. debian ;) Bottom line: they both suck, although in different ways. www.microsoft.com might be able to

Re: pkg scripts/dependency issues

2002-01-10 Thread 'cduck' Chris Grierson
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: * 'cduck' Chris Grierson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: ... what my real concern is, is whether or not my entire system is mangled because of situations like this -- i generally have my systems installed via snagging a list of packages from one

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