Re: enable mouse in tty

2003-12-16 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 01:15:04PM +0530, saravanan wrote: hai, i) how to enable mouse in tty? gpm ii) List me the debian package sites? (not OS, other utilities)(sites like rpmfind.net) There is the main repository and its many mirrors (look in www.debian.org under the packages entry

Re: right kernal for AMD

2003-12-16 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Gruessle ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: How do I find out what the right image is for a AMD 700? apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-bf2.4 apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-1-686 386, 586, k6 and k7 systems Seems your system is an Athlon or Duron, so the following kernels will work:

Re: loopback interface down, sob ;-(

2003-12-16 Thread A . L . Meyers
Thanks, Andreas. Alas the problem is still alive but here are some details from doing networking restart in /etc/init.d/ : wassern:/etc/init.d# ./networking restart Reconfiguring network interfaces...ifconfig: can not resolve `down': Host name lookup failure cat: /var/run/dhclient.eth0.pid:

Port forwarding with ipmasq

2003-12-16 Thread Brendan Bache
Hi, I'm running debian woody on my gateway with the ipmasq package installed and I need to do some port forwarding. For instance, I need to forward some ports for BitTorrent running on a box on my LAN so I created a file /etc/ipmasq/rules/F10bt.rul ---F10bt.rul--- ipnm_cache ppp0 btPorts=6881

Re: dpkg-scanpackages [was Re: General debian questions]

2003-12-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 03:59:04AM -0800, Nunya wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 11:40:45AM +, Colin Watson wrote: Use dpkg-scanpackages to update the Packages file (and remember to gzip it, so you've got Packages.gz). When you say update the Packages, are you implying that you can do an

Re: fvwm 2.5.8 as Debian package

2003-12-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 02:03:26PM +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote: Dear all, until recently, I have been using http://people.debian.org/~sacha/debian for debianing the latest fvwm packages. However, since the Debian machines were compromised, I cannot access this directory anymore. For this

Re: xcdroast

2003-12-16 Thread Gavin Seddon
On Tuesday 16 December 2003 12:31, Andreas Janssen wrote: modprobe ide-scsi Yes the conf file is ok, but when I run modprobe Iget modprobe ide-scsi modprobe: Can't locate module ide-scsi Also, when I run cdrecord it complains of not being there. It must be installed though . Gavin -- To

Re: Install confusion

2003-12-16 Thread Paul Schwartz
Andreas Janssen wrote: Hello snip Maybe 2.4 is installed on your hard disk, but 2.2.20idepci was used for the boot floppy. What is the name of the kernel image in /boot? It should be vmlinuz-2.4.18-bf2.4. If it is, you can create a new boot floppy using that kernel. You can also choose only

Re: Installing Enigmail

2003-12-16 Thread HdV
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, ninaiz wrote: try as a normal user: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ xhost local: non-network local connections being added to access control list [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ su ( AND NOT SU - ) Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ mozilla Please don't do that. Better to learn the

Re: /var/cache/apt (was Re: don't have enough free space)

2003-12-16 Thread ben_foley
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 12:37:02PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: - You can also extend your archive space, in a pinch, by creating a symlink to a larger partition. Say you've only got 250 MiB on /var and a 5 GiB /home. Create, say, /home/admin, and under that:

XP-LINUX Dual Boot

2003-12-16 Thread Abhay Watwe
Hi: I have a Dell Dimension 8300 which came preloaded with XP on the first hard drive. I added a second hard drive and installed Debian Woody on it. I installed LILO with MBR on /dev/hdb1 which is my / partition. The machine does not have a floppy drive, so I rebooted and used the Debian CD to

Re: loopback interface down, sob ;-(

2003-12-16 Thread Lou Losee
* A.L.Meyers [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-12-16 09:38]: Thanks, Andreas. Alas the problem is still alive but here are some details from doing networking restart in /etc/init.d/ : wassern:/etc/init.d# ./networking restart Reconfiguring network interfaces...ifconfig: can not resolve `down':

Re: mc question

2003-12-16 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Florentin Ionescu wrote: Is it possible to change in mc M-tab with control-tab for completion? Thank you, I don't think so. But you would be better off asking this to the mailinglist for mc, Pavel Roskin surely knows the answer, but I asked something similar a while back: the key sequences

xtree for Linux

2003-12-16 Thread Gruessle
Somebody told me about a software like xtree gold (msdos software) I used it before but I don't recall it's name or how to install it. xTree Gold is a dos based program where you can have two folders side by side and work with them, like copy move etc. -- Gruessle -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Iptables can't locate its modules

2003-12-16 Thread Antony Gelberg
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 09:43:06AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: I'm trying to set up iptables using kernel 2.4.23. I've installed iptables and iptables-dev from testing and I've enabled CONFIG_NETFILTER but all attempts to execute the iptables commands produces: root:~:# iptables -F

Re: xtree for Linux

2003-12-16 Thread charlie derr
sid$ apt-cache search xtree ytree - A file manager that looks like Xtree Gold(tm) cool, i remember xtree ~c Gruessle wrote: Somebody told me about a software like xtree gold (msdos software) I used it before but I don't recall it's name or how to install it. xTree Gold is a dos based program

Re: My Debian box can't connect Internet (run out of tricks)

2003-12-16 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Robert, Thanks for your advice. On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 03:44, Robert Storey wrote: Dear Stephen, It's very odd that you can't change this file as root. The only thing I know of that would cause this is if the immutable flag is set. The way to find out is with the lsattr command:

Re: Knoppix saving data

2003-12-16 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Gruessle wrote: I am trying to use the XFree86 config data from knoppix for Debian. The only place I could find where I can save data while in knoppix was the desktop. After exiting knoppix and going back to Debian I can't find the desktop. I figure knoppix deleted that folder. Do you have any

Re: Web server Partitions

2003-12-16 Thread David Z Maze
Braxton Neate [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I know this is a question that gets asked a lot, but googling around I can't seem to find a good answer. I'm re-installing a web/sql server which currently has one large root partition and a swap partition. This is obviously not the best setup. I'm

Similar question was: Change password from shellscript

2003-12-16 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Peter wrote: Howdie, I want to make a shellscript with the ability to change a userspassword. I can't get it to work properly because when i say passwd user i will have to enter the password is there a way or a switch todo this in a style like passwd user password Thankz, Peter I want to make a

Re: loopback interface down, sob ;-(

2003-12-16 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello A.L.Meyers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Thanks, Andreas. Alas the problem is still alive but here are some details from doing networking restart in /etc/init.d/ : [...] How can I force apt-get to reinstall the original networking configuration files in /etc ? Which package

Re: right kernal for AMD

2003-12-16 Thread David Z Maze
Gruessle [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How do I find out what the right image is for a AMD 700? apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-bf2.4 apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-1-686 386, 586, k6 and k7 systems That's an Athlon chip, right? Probably 2.4.18-1-k7 is the best pick, since it also

Can't get this crontab entry to work

2003-12-16 Thread David
12 8 * * * tar -cf /lin2/backup_deb_`date +%m%d%y` /home /etc /var/www I keep getting the following error message in my mailbox from cron: /bin/sh: -c: line 1: unexpected EOF while looking for matching ``' /bin/sh: -c: line 2: syntax error: unexpected end of file What am I doing wrong? I

Re: xtree for Linux

2003-12-16 Thread benoit
Message de Gruessle, le mardi 16 décembre : Somebody told me about a software like xtree gold (msdos software) I used it before but I don't recall it's name or how to install it. xTree Gold is a dos based program where you can have two folders side by side and work with them, like copy

Re: Knoppix saving data

2003-12-16 Thread Paul E Condon
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 12:33:57AM -0800, Gruessle wrote: I am trying to use the XFree86 config data from knoppix for Debian. The only place I could find where I can save data while in knoppix was the desktop. After exiting knoppix and going back to Debian I can't find the desktop. I

Re: Web server Partitions

2003-12-16 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 17:12:08 +1300, Edward Murrell wrote: The first thing I'd look at doing is moving the default webpage to a [ Edward's advice on partitioning the web server} I also have a server with 6 SCSI drives and a hardware RAID controller. It will be a web server initially but

Groundhog day (was Galeon 1.3.10 on sid (ppc)

2003-12-16 Thread Clive Menzies
Hi Sorry to re-post but I'm really stuck (I've been reduced to reinstalling woody on another partition, just to be able to function). To recap, using aptitude, I installed Galeon 1.3.10 (which seems to run although there were some errors reported on installation). My problems started when I

Mouse moves FUNNY

2003-12-16 Thread Gruessle
My mouse is acting funny, jumping not doing what it supposed to do at all. Something with the install is wrong I guess, where should I start to look BTW I like to thank everybody 5th installation and I got it working I GOT IT WORKING the video card that is. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: XP-LINUX Dual Boot

2003-12-16 Thread Harshwardhan Nagaonkar
And thus we see that Abhay Watwe said, : Hi: Hi Abhay, I have a Dell Dimension 8300 which came preloaded with XP on the first hard drive. I added a second hard drive and installed Debian Woody on it. I installed LILO with MBR on /dev/hdb1 which is my / partition. The machine does not have a

Re: Mouse moves FUNNY

2003-12-16 Thread Antony Gelberg
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 08:42:06AM -0800, Gruessle wrote: My mouse is acting funny, jumping not doing what it supposed to do at all. Something with the install is wrong I guess, where should I start to look BTW I like to thank everybody 5th installation and I got it working I GOT IT

Re: Mouse moves FUNNY

2003-12-16 Thread Kent West
Gruessle wrote: My mouse is acting funny, jumping not doing what it supposed to do at all. Something with the install is wrong I guess, where should I start to look This is nearly always a protocol problem. The answer depends on if you're running gpm or not; I'll assume you're not. Run

Re: Can't get this crontab entry to work

2003-12-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 08:22:43AM -0800, David wrote: 12 8 * * * tar -cf /lin2/backup_deb_`date +%m%d%y` /home /etc /var/www I keep getting the following error message in my mailbox from cron: /bin/sh: -c: line 1: unexpected EOF while looking for matching ``' /bin/sh: -c: line 2:

Re: right kernal for AMD

2003-12-16 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 03:56:15AM -0800, Gruessle wrote: How do I find out what the right image is for a AMD 700? apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-bf2.4 apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-1-686 386, 586, k6 and k7 systems Don't know what cpu that is but for amd you would want

Re: fvwm 2.5.8 as Debian package

2003-12-16 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 02:03:26PM +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote: Dear all, until recently, I have been using http://people.debian.org/~sacha/debian for debianing the latest fvwm packages. However, since the Debian machines were compromised, I cannot access this directory anymore. For this

Re: Mouse moves FUNNY

2003-12-16 Thread John Hasler
Antony Gelberg writes: Am I the only one thinking troll? Sounds more like a problem with gpm to me. Try 'killall gpm' as root. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: Install confusion

2003-12-16 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Paul Schwartz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Right now I am booting from floppy because I don't want to screw up my legacy system [OS/2 4.52 which uses a Boot Manager and LVM. I think it can be sensitive to changes in boot stuff] until I have the Debian system working to some minimal

Re: xcdroast

2003-12-16 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Gavin Seddon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Tuesday 16 December 2003 12:31, Andreas Janssen wrote: modprobe ide-scsi Yes the conf file is ok, but when I run modprobe Iget modprobe ide-scsi modprobe: Can't locate module ide-scsi That is strange. What kernel do you use? What does

Re: Copy all desktop settings for a new user

2003-12-16 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: Mark Roach [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 17:20 Subject: Re: Copy all desktop settings for a new user On Sat, 2003-12-13 at 04:41, Philipp Schulte wrote: Hello, lets say I have a few users (not all of them with

How to shutdown GNOME without mouse

2003-12-16 Thread Gruessle
I need to shutdown GNOME without mouse but not the whole system just want to go back to text based linux window. BTW how do I stop the loading of GNOME at the start-up -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

hardware raid and 3ware

2003-12-16 Thread Debian User
I am interested in implementing hardware RAID on a new machine I am putting together. I have read a post _Hardware RAID setup_ and am glad that it can be done w/ modules in Debian. It looks liek 3ware is the way to go. I only _need_ two disks (I think). Does anyone have a suggestion as to

Re: hardware raid and 3ware

2003-12-16 Thread Debian User
also, I wish to use IDE drives. At Tuesday, 16 December 2003, Debian User [EMAIL PROTECTED] com wrote: I am interested in implementing hardware RAID on a new machine I am putting together. I have read a post _Hardware RAID setup_ and am glad that it can be done w/ modules in Debian. It looks

Re: How to shutdown GNOME without mouse

2003-12-16 Thread panda
Gruessle wrote: I need to shutdown GNOME without mouse but not the whole system just want to go back to text based linux window. BTW how do I stop the loading of GNOME at the start-up If I understand correctly u want to logout from gnome without mouse try Ctrl Alt Backspace to set the

Re: How to shutdown GNOME without mouse

2003-12-16 Thread panda
Gruessle wrote: I need to shutdown GNOME without mouse but not the whole system just want to go back to text based linux window. BTW how do I stop the loading of GNOME at the start-up Sorry the answer to the second part of the question should have been update-rc.d -f xdm remove panda -- To

Re: Iptables can't locate its modules

2003-12-16 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 16 Dec 2003, Antony Gelberg wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 09:43:06AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: I'm trying to set up iptables using kernel 2.4.23. I've installed iptables and iptables-dev from testing and I've enabled CONFIG_NETFILTER but all attempts to execute the iptables

Re: squid ? ??????????? ? ???????? ??????

2003-12-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 01:55:43PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: ??? ? ??? ??? ? ? squid ??? ??? ??? ? ?? win2k English to this list, please. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/

RE: How to shutdown GNOME without mouse

2003-12-16 Thread Gruessle
From: panda Gruessle wrote: I need to shutdown GNOME without mouse but not the whole system just want to go back to text based linux window. BTW how do I stop the loading of GNOME at the start-up If I understand correctly u want to logout from gnome without mouse try Ctrl Alt

Re: How to shutdown GNOME without mouse

2003-12-16 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 09:30:35AM -0800, Gruessle wrote: | From: panda | Gruessle wrote: | I need to shutdown GNOME without mouse | but not the whole system just want to go back | to text based linux window. | | BTW how do I stop the loading of GNOME at the start-up | | If I

Re: Can't get this crontab entry to work

2003-12-16 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 04:45:06PM +, Colin Watson wrote: | On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 08:22:43AM -0800, David wrote: | 12 8 * * * tar -cf /lin2/backup_deb_`date +%m%d%y` /home /etc /var/www | | I keep getting the following error message in my mailbox from cron: | | /bin/sh: -c: line 1:

Re: hard disk access on every keystroke in console mode!

2003-12-16 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 01:00:33AM -0500, michelle wrote: | Every time I perform a keypress at the console (command line, nano, etc.) I | can hear a tick from the hard disk. Lack of memory could result in symptons like this. The 8MB router at my parents' house nearly does this because it has to

Re: GPM for mouse

2003-12-16 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 06:07:00PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: [...] | gpm is a massive pain in the ass to deal with, Care to explain? (I disagree, gpm is a piece of cake) -- \begin{humor} Disclaimer: If I receive a message from you, you are agreeing that: 1. I am by definition, the intended

Re: Mouse moves FUNNY

2003-12-16 Thread Kent West
Sending to list, for the benefit (if any) of all. Gruessle wrote: From: Kent West Gruessle wrote: My mouse is acting funny, jumping not doing what it supposed to do at all. Something with the install is wrong I guess, where should I start to look This is nearly always a protocol

Re: Change password from shellscript

2003-12-16 Thread Ernest Johanson
chpasswd will do exactly what you want. Ernest Johanson Systems Administrator Fuller Theological Seminary On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, James Williamson wrote: Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 07:10:13 + From: James Williamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Change password from

Re: How to get pretty fonts?

2003-12-16 Thread James Hosken
Alf Werder wrote: On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 20:41, Joris Huizer wrote: Hello everybody, I did a downgrade to debian/stable - after a knoppix harddisc a few weeks ago (which is a mix of stable and testing) However, right now the fonts in mozilla are ugly - they used to be much better and I'd

RE: XP-LINUX Dual Boot

2003-12-16 Thread Abhay Watwe
Harshwardhan/All: I made a mistake in my original message. I used the following command to make linux.bin dd if=/dev/hdb1 of=/linux.bin bs=512 count=1 So I did use the right partition in the command. I still get the same error. Abhay -Original Message- From: Harshwardhan Nagaonkar

Re: loopback interface down - solved

2003-12-16 Thread A . L . Meyers
Thanks a million, Lou! You're a genius. Small cause, big effect. Whew! Did you post a bug report to the inetutils-tools packagers? Greetings, Lux -- If you receive this by error, please delete it and inform the sender. Key fingerprint: 8994 CFDD 9C60 C978 A488 689F 5DCC EFC4 4D36 580D To Big

Re: remote install

2003-12-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 03:54:17PM -0500, Emma Jane Hogbin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi everyone, I've just leased some (redhat) rack space. I'd like to do a remote install of debian. I'm currently reading http://trilldev.sourceforge.net/files/remotedeb.html and am wondering if

Re: debootstrap

2003-12-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 12:56:04AM -0500, Emma Jane Hogbin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi, I'm in the process of trying to convert a leased rack space from RedHat to Debian. I'm working my way through: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-preparing.en.html

Re: XFree86 with i810 onboard graphics (Newbie)

2003-12-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 11:45:08AM -0600, Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Allan Cairns wrote: Hi, Sorry if this is repeating a topic you've seen a dozen times before but I'm having real trouble starting X on my old celery 400 with the Intel i810 onboard graphics chip. I installed

Starting new threads (was: Re: email client (OT))

2003-12-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 08:33:23PM -0600, Damon L. Chesser ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Here I like to thank Andreas Janssen for letting me know that replacing the subject line on an email does not start a new thread Opps, I did not know this, what does start a new thread? Composing an email

Re: Installing Enigmail

2003-12-16 Thread James Hosken
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, ninaiz wrote: try as a normal user: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ xhost local: non-network local connections being added to access control list [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ su ( AND NOT SU - ) Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ mozilla Please don't do that.

xcdroast

2003-12-16 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, This is what I get. 1# uname -r 2.2.20-idepci Thanks Gavin. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Groundhog day (was Galeon 1.3.10 on sid (ppc)

2003-12-16 Thread ben_foley
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 04:32:03PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: Hi Sorry to re-post but I'm really stuck (I've been reduced to reinstalling woody on another partition, just to be able to function). To recap, using aptitude, I installed Galeon 1.3.10 (which seems to run although there were

mod_perl ???

2003-12-16 Thread Michael D Schleif
Is anybody else having problems with recent libapache-mod-perl? I have two (2) debian systems that segfault on apache startup, as soon as I insert the LoadModules line into /etc/apache/httpd.conf. I have opened Bug#224049, and I have posted to debian-user, debian-apache and [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Starting new threads (was: Re: email client (OT))

2003-12-16 Thread Nunya
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 10:18:43AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: Alternatively: deleting any In-Reply-To: and References: headers, if your MUA supports header editing. Question: sometimes I delete a message and empty my trash, and later decide to reply to a thread. The mailto: in my

Re: xtree for Linux

2003-12-16 Thread Haines Brown
Somebody told me about a software like xtree gold (msdos software) I used it before but I don't recall it's name or how to install it. xTree Gold is a dos based program where you can have two folders side by side and work with them, like copy move etc. I suppose most replies to your

Re: Install confusion

2003-12-16 Thread Paul Schwartz
Andreas Janssen wrote: Hello Paul Schwartz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Right now I am booting from floppy because I don't want to screw up my legacy system [OS/2 4.52 which uses a Boot Manager and LVM. I think it can be sensitive to changes in boot stuff] until I have the Debian system

Re: Similar question was: Change password from shellscript

2003-12-16 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Hugo Vanwoerkom said on Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 08:34:24AM -0600: I want to make a script (which I am at present unable to do) that does this: su give the password from the script export PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin/X11 xsane exit from script Note: su insists on running from a

Re: Web server Partitions

2003-12-16 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Alvin Oga: /var - 10GB if you want to save weblogs, you can move it to /home since users want that info system use very little space in /var ... exception being /var/cache/apt/archives. That can be a symlink to somewhere else though. -- Any technology distinguishable

Re: XF86Config for ATI Radeon 9000

2003-12-16 Thread Joseph A. Nagy, Jr.
snip Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote: Okay, so after some googling and help I've installed alien, discover, xserver-common and x-window-system-core, used apt pinning to get XFree86 4.3 and re-ran xf86config 'startx' still fails as does 'kdm' What can I do? snip As long as startx

Re: Web server Partitions

2003-12-16 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya andrew On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Andrew Malcolmson wrote: On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 17:12:08 +1300, Edward Murrell wrote: The first thing I'd look at doing is moving the default webpage to a [ Edward's advice on partitioning the web server} I also have a server with 6 SCSI drives and a

ssh X11 Authentication Issue - Advice Please

2003-12-16 Thread Trev
I am getting an error while trying to use ssh to bounce from one server to another. I do login after I enter my password but the error exists and I would like to resolve this. Help / Ideas are appreciated ! Thanks ! Situation... My Linux Box (I am a new MSCE convert to linux -- hold the applause

Re: XF86Config for ATI Radeon 9000

2003-12-16 Thread Joseph A. Nagy, Jr.
- Original Message - From: Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] snip Reporting back as promised. As you can see its saying it can't find any compatible drivers for my Radeon. Also, I removed xserver-common and xserver-xfree86 and installed them from the experimental tree and

Re: OT-Make more noise.

2003-12-16 Thread Scarletdown
On 16 Dec 2003 at 9:26, Geoff Bagley wrote: The problem I face with my local dealer (Evesham) is not compatibility. That is already there. The problem is that I don't want Windows, and don't want to pay for it since I won't sign the EALA, and don't want to support Big Bill's pension

Re: xcdroast

2003-12-16 Thread Mark Roach
On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 13:17, Gavin Seddon wrote: Hi, This is what I get. 1# uname -r 2.2.20-idepci Was this supposed to be meaningful to someone, or just for fun? ;-) -- Mark Roach -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Can't get this crontab entry to work

2003-12-16 Thread David
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 12:30:50PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 04:45:06PM +, Colin Watson wrote: | On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 08:22:43AM -0800, David wrote: | 12 8 * * * tar -cf /lin2/backup_deb_`date +%m%d%y` /home /etc /var/www | | I keep getting the

Re: Nautilus won't die

2003-12-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 11:57:34AM -0200, Leandro Guimar?es Faria Corcete Dutra ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have a Debian GNU/Linux i386 testing host with some ten terminals attached, running a Debian mini-distro derived originally from LTSP. They are running Gnome 2.4, but this problem

/usr/include/asm/mpspec.h

2003-12-16 Thread Rajkumar S
Hi, While investigating a compilation problem of samhain, I found that the /usr/include/asm/mpspec.h is totally different from what is provided by RH or the stock kernel. I am not knowledgeable enough to understand the differences, but debian version includes 3 files in it #include

Re: How to get a newer Mozilla (1.5) in Sarge

2003-12-16 Thread Mark Roach
On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 12:23, Rich B wrote: Howdy, I'm running Sarge (Testing) and want to update Mozilla to 1.5. I've looked at apt-get.org and only see backports to Woody, not Sarge. Where can I find Mozilla .deb's for Sarge? Have you tried the ones from unstable? -- Mark Roach -- To

Re: Web server Partitions

2003-12-16 Thread Nate Duehr
On Tuesday 16 December 2003 05:35 am, Edward Murrell wrote: the IMAP servers (something I wish I'd actually thought about). Most people have shell access, but few use it. Perhaps you should disable their shells (set 'em to /bin/false or whatever you like) but leave their user accounts? Just

Re: /usr/include/asm/mpspec.h

2003-12-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 01:04:15AM +0530, Rajkumar S wrote: While investigating a compilation problem of samhain, I found that the /usr/include/asm/mpspec.h is totally different from what is provided by RH or the stock kernel. It's from the 2.6 kernel, but that shouldn't matter because

Re: Mouse moves FUNNY

2003-12-16 Thread Nate Duehr
On Tuesday 16 December 2003 09:54 am, John Hasler wrote: Antony Gelberg writes: Am I the only one thinking troll? Sounds more like a problem with gpm to me. Try 'killall gpm' as root. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI I have one machine where

Re: xtree for Linux

2003-12-16 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
benoit wrote: Message de Gruessle, le mardi 16 décembre : Somebody told me about a software like xtree gold (msdos software) I used it before but I don't recall it's name or how to install it. xTree Gold is a dos based program where you can have two folders side by side and work with them, like

Re: What is going on here?

2003-12-16 Thread ScruLoose
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 05:31:35AM +0100, Oliver Fuchs wrote: On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, ScruLoose wrote: I sent him a brisk note and promptly killfiled him. ;-) You killfiled him ... how does it look like ... what weapons did you use ... was he bleeding ... he should burn in /dev/null. Hehe!

Re: web page - ps problems

2003-12-16 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ross Boylan wrote: On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 04:51:07PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Ross Boylan wrote: I saved a web page as html with Mozilla 1.5, and then printed it to a postscript file. Can you print anything to file with Mozilla 1.5 and look at it with gv? Hugo. Good question. I tried

Package search engine pb ?

2003-12-16 Thread FB
the search engine at http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages#search_packages seems not to be working from a long time. Is there any plan to make this search engine working back ? Do we have to use an other search engine ? I have tried rpmseek.com which is presented as the new search engine. All the

Re: XF86Config for ATI Radeon 9000

2003-12-16 Thread Kent West
Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote: snip Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote: 'startx' still fails as does 'kdm' snip Run startx 2errorlog.txt and then look in errorlog.txt for any lines that begin with (EE). As you can see its saying it can't find any compatible drivers for my Radeon.

Re: XF86Config for ATI Radeon 9000

2003-12-16 Thread Kent West
Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote: - Original Message - From: Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] snip Reporting back as promised. As you can see its saying it can't find any compatible drivers for my Radeon. Also, I removed xserver-common and xserver-xfree86 and installed them from the

Re: Sreelal Chandrasenan

2003-12-16 Thread ScruLoose
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 06:27:44AM -0500, Ricky Taylor wrote: I second this. Getting tired of seeing his inter-company mail. Just my .02. 1) Please don't top-post. It screws up the readability of threads. 2) I think you mean intra-company mail. 3) Unless my .forward logging is badly b0rken,

Re: Package search engine pb ?

2003-12-16 Thread Nunya
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 07:43:30PM +0100, FB wrote: the search engine at http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages#search_packages seems not to be working from a long time. Is there any plan to make this search engine working back ? Do we have to use an other search engine ? I have tried

Re: Package search engine pb ?

2003-12-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 07:43:30PM +0100, FB wrote: the search engine at http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages#search_packages seems not to be working from a long time. http://www.debian.org/News/2003/20031121 Some services, including packages.debian.org, have yet to be restored. Is there

Re: debootstrap

2003-12-16 Thread Paul E Condon
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 10:04:19AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 12:56:04AM -0500, Emma Jane Hogbin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi, I'm in the process of trying to convert a leased rack space from RedHat to Debian. I'm working my way through:

Re: Groundhog day (was Galeon 1.3.10 on sid (ppc)

2003-12-16 Thread Clive Menzies
On (16/12/03 19:20), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 04:32:03PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: Hi Sorry to re-post but I'm really stuck (I've been reduced to reinstalling woody on another partition, just to be able to function). To recap, using aptitude, I installed

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

2003-12-16 Thread Joerg Rossdeutscher
Am Mo, den 15.12.2003 schrieb Wesley J Landaker um 02:55: Local software is childish, dangerous and nonsense. Local software can destroy (your) local stuff. A mailserver can harm _others_. I said that yesterday, and today I find this mailinglist full of nonsense since one guy is not able to

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

2003-12-16 Thread Joerg Rossdeutscher
Hi, Am So, den 14.12.2003 schrieb Magnus von Koeller um 23:02: On Sunday 14 December 2003 22:46, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote: There's no alternative. You can't block open relays on dynamic IPs, since they are _dynamic_ IPs. Yes, what's happening to you is unfair. Any better ideas? I don't

Re: Starting new threads (was: Re: email client (OT))

2003-12-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 10:26:41AM -0800, Nunya ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 10:18:43AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: Alternatively: deleting any In-Reply-To: and References: headers, if your MUA supports header editing. Question: sometimes I delete a message and

Re: OT:Message to all computer vendors

2003-12-16 Thread ScruLoose
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 07:34:05PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 17:26:49 -0500, alex wrote: [snip] we tell which ones? My guess is that there just hasn't been any incentive for manufacturers to 'bother' with even trying them on Linux. Could it be that they don't

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

2003-12-16 Thread Joerg Rossdeutscher
Hi, Am Mo, den 15.12.2003 schrieb Adam um 09:06: On Sunday 14 December 2003 21:40, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote: everyone should be forced to use a providers machine as smarthost. But it is not right to punish the innocent as well as the guilty. It's not a question of morale. :-) With

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

2003-12-16 Thread Debian User
maybe i missed something in a previous post... isn't it the purpose to soecify hosts you are allowing to relay w/ the host_accept_relay setting in exim.conf? this will allow you not to be an open relay eventhough you have a dynamic IP address. At Tuesday, 16 December 2003, Joerg Rossdeutscher

fonts

2003-12-16 Thread H. S.
Is someone familiar with font setup in X here, or shall I try somewhere else? I am in the process of cleaning up my fonts installation (in Debian Sarge). Could someone suggest how do I actually check which fonts are *not* installed properly? I guess this may be sound like a vague question to

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

2003-12-16 Thread Wesley J Landaker
On Tuesday 16 December 2003 1:08 pm, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote: Am Mo, den 15.12.2003 schrieb Wesley J Landaker um 02:55: Local software is childish, dangerous and nonsense. Local software can destroy (your) local stuff. Exactly my point--a mail server is local software. Just another good

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