Re: graphical lilo

2002-01-13 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi, while we are on the topic... does anyone know how to set a transparent background for the timer? For the menu it works as advertised in the lilo.conf man page (no entry implies transparent); eg. bmp-colors=13,,0,1,,0 If I do a similar thing for the timer: bmp-timer=30p,400p,13,,0 the

Re: Palm pilot problems

2002-01-13 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 10:28:43PM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: > On Sun, 2002-01-13 at 17:13, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 09:50:29PM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: > > > Im trying to get my palm m125 to sync with my computer. I am having > > > trouble. I have read the How-tos on

Re: Netconfig tool or do I have to edit file manually?

2002-01-13 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 13 January 2002 10:49 pm, Jeremy L. Gaddis wrote: > Just "man 5 interfaces" and edit it manually. > It's a really easy format to follow, shouldn't > take more than 60 seconds or so to change it. > > j. Here's my interfaces file, where eth0 i

RE: Netconfig tool or do I have to edit file manually?

2002-01-13 Thread Jeremy L. Gaddis
Just "man 5 interfaces" and edit it manually. It's a really easy format to follow, shouldn't take more than 60 seconds or so to change it. j. -- Jeremy L. Gaddis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -Original Message- From: Brian Lavender [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2002 11:41

Re: base files for woody?

2002-01-13 Thread Cheryl Homiak
On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, David B Harris wrote: > Wait until it's released. Well, that's ok, but it's kind of confusing when there's a directory with all of the other necessary files and even an installation manual; it gives one the impression that it is already possible to install woody rather than j

Netconfig tool or do I have to edit file manually?

2002-01-13 Thread Brian Lavender
I configured my Debian box so it uses dhcp, but now I want to change it to a static IP. Is there a netconfig utility for Debian, or do I just have to edit /etc/network/interfaces manually? brian -- Brian Lavender http://www.brie.com/brian/

Re: 2 distros coexisting?

2002-01-13 Thread Greg C. Madden
On Sun, 2002-01-13 at 14:47, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > Currently, my /dev/hda1 in unused, and I'd like to do a network > install of Woody on it without disturbing my existing Mandrake > installation. > > Is there any way to share /dev/hda6

Re: mailcap changes: a bug?

2002-01-13 Thread dman
On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 11:18:50PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: | Every time I do apt-get upgrade for Woody (it seems), I find that apt has | changed my preferred mailcap setting (display html using w3m) to | gnome-help-browser. It did it twice in the past three days. | | Is that a bug, or *should* a

Re: perl and md5 crypt

2002-01-13 Thread Christian Jaeger
At 2:04 Uhr +0100 14.01.2002, Dries Kimpe wrote: Wouldn't it be easier (and more portable) to just use the passwd program to set the password? As you script has to run as root anyway it won't ask for the old password, and you could just write the password that you want to a pipe (as stdin for pas

mailcap changes: a bug?

2002-01-13 Thread Carl Fink
Every time I do apt-get upgrade for Woody (it seems), I find that apt has changed my preferred mailcap setting (display html using w3m) to gnome-help-browser. It did it twice in the past three days. Is that a bug, or *should* a package change my set preference without asking? -- Carl Fink

Re: Pentium Freezes (Potato)

2002-01-13 Thread crispin
On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 08:53:54PM -0600, Elizabeth Barham wrote: > Hi, > > I recently purchased a pentium machine (HP Vectra VL Series 4 5/100, > 32M). I installed debian upon it but noticed that the machine would > freeze up on occasion even in initial installation (badblocks read > test [rw wor

Re: Upgrade potato -> woody

2002-01-13 Thread John Dalbec
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 11:41:04AM -0600, Colin Watson wrote: > (xbase-clients, rather - your reply just went to me, sorry I didn't get > round to responding.) Oops, hit the wrong key. > I *think* the problem is in apt, not xbase-clients. If you had startx > before the upgrade, you had xbase-

Re: Pentium Freezes (Potato)

2002-01-13 Thread crispin
On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 08:53:54PM -0600, Elizabeth Barham wrote: > Hi, > > I recently purchased a pentium machine (HP Vectra VL Series 4 5/100, > 32M). I installed debian upon it but noticed that the machine would > freeze up on occasion even in initial installation (badblocks read > test [rw wor

Re: base files for woody?

2002-01-13 Thread David B Harris
On Sun, 13 Jan 2002 18:57:26 -0800 Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to second this query. I would like to > > install Woody, not upgrade to Woody. I have downloaded Wait until it's released. -- .--=-=-=-=--=---=-=-=. /David Barc

Re: gtk-config

2002-01-13 Thread Craig Dickson
Michael Ward Cole wrote of gtk-config: > What package would contain this command? > I am trying to build abiword0.9.6.1 and I keep getting an error about > gtk-config command not found. libgtk1.2-dev, it seems. Craig pgp5noWNLFs1B.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Palm pilot problems

2002-01-13 Thread Scott Henson
On Sun, 2002-01-13 at 17:13, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: > On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 09:50:29PM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: > > Im trying to get my palm m125 to sync with my computer. I am having > > trouble. I have read the How-tos on this subject and followed them, but > > I can not get the infernal thi

potato->woody upgrade problems (mostly fixed)

2002-01-13 Thread John Dalbec
apt-get dist-upgrade died while configuring gcc-doc with the message perl: libc6: version GLIBC_2.2 not found - needed by libdb.so.3. attempting 'apt-get -f install' failed with the same message. I installed libc6 from /var/cache/apt using dpkg and 'apt-get -f install' worked again. I set up m

gtk-config

2002-01-13 Thread Michael Ward Cole
What package would contain this command? I am trying to build abiword0.9.6.1 and I keep getting an error about gtk-config command not found. Thanks, Michael -- Michael Ward Cole, DO 1216 Cedar Point Drive Virginia Beach, Virginia 23451 (757) 428-9322 Home (757) 475-3182 Pager

Re: Printing problems

2002-01-13 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Jeff: > Adam Majer, 2002-Jan-12 15:59 -0600: > > apt-get install groff > > > > Then you can format to ps... > > > > > > But first try something like > > > > echo "test" > /dev/dsp > > > > Do you still get error with printing? > > If yes, do you have printer compiled > > in the kerne

Re: perl and md5 crypt

2002-01-13 Thread john
Brian Clark wrote: > * john ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [Jan 13. 2002 21:51]: > > > > > Isnt that how the man page says to do it? > > > > Which man page? > > > man 3 crypt > > Ah, I took your statement to mean some perldoc stated "this is how > you generate md5 passwords with perl." > > Thedore might need

Re: Pentium Freezes (Potato)

2002-01-13 Thread Simon Law
On 13 Jan 2002, Elizabeth Barham wrote: > Hi, > > I recently purchased a pentium machine (HP Vectra VL Series 4 5/100, > 32M). I installed debian upon it but noticed that the machine would > freeze up on occasion even in initial installation (badblocks read > test [rw worked fine]). Eventually I

Re: kernel panic: vfs: unable to mount root fs install errror 01:00

2002-01-13 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Philip Blundell: > On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 05:56:37PM -0800, justin cunningham wrote: > > I'm trying to get a server built with 2.2r4 potato cd and keep getting > > the above error. I tried the boot options in f2-f8 and tried mounting > > various root.bins from specifying floppy0 at boo

Re: pseudo-image-kit-2.0

2002-01-13 Thread Paul E Condon
Paul E Condon wrote: I am trying to use and understand pseudo-image-kit. I have many questions. I will start with one specific question, but also I request pointer to in-depth information. My specific question is: What do the following lines from the README. mean? What should I type to effect the

Re: perl and md5 crypt

2002-01-13 Thread Brian Clark
* john ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [Jan 13. 2002 21:51]: > > > Isnt that how the man page says to do it? > > Which man page? > man 3 crypt Ah, I took your statement to mean some perldoc stated "this is how you generate md5 passwords with perl." Thedore might need to install manpages-dev in that case.

Re: base files for woody?

2002-01-13 Thread Paul E Condon
Cheryl Homiak wrote: Sorry if this has been discussed, but I haven't found it. I like to have all the files together for a system in case of an emergency. At ftp.debian.or/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/current, I can find root.bin and rescue.bin, drivers.tgz and, in the images-1.44 directory

Pentium Freezes (Potato)

2002-01-13 Thread Elizabeth Barham
Hi, I recently purchased a pentium machine (HP Vectra VL Series 4 5/100, 32M). I installed debian upon it but noticed that the machine would freeze up on occasion even in initial installation (badblocks read test [rw worked fine]). Eventually I installed the whole system, but when re-compiling the

Re: 2 distros coexisting?

2002-01-13 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 13 January 2002 05:52 pm, Sander Smeenk wrote: > Quoting Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): [snip] > In general I would advise against sharing anything :) > ( Why run Mandrake if you have Debian... *grins* ) You have to start somewhere... And

pseudo-image-kit-2.0

2002-01-13 Thread Paul E Condon
I am trying to use and understand pseudo-image-kit. I have many questions. I will start with one specific question, but also I request pointer to in-depth information. My specific question is: What do the following lines from the README. mean? What should I type to effect the query that is referr

Re: perl and md5 crypt

2002-01-13 Thread john
Brian Clark wrote: > * john ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [Jan 13. 2002 21:10]: > > > Brian Clark wrote: > > [...] > > > > ---[ perl ] > > > > for(0 .. 7) { > > > $salt .= join '', ('.', '/', 0..9,'A'..'Z', 'a'..'z')[rand 64]; > > > } > > > > $password = crypt($password,'$1$' . $salt . '$');

base files for woody?

2002-01-13 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Sorry if this has been discussed, but I haven't found it. I like to have all the files together for a system in case of an emergency. At ftp.debian.or/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/current, I can find root.bin and rescue.bin, drivers.tgz and, in the images-1.44 directory, drivers-1 through -4.

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V102 #99

2002-01-13 Thread M92119
remove unsubscribe - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2002 6:31 PM Subject: debian-user-digest Digest V102 #99

Re: perl and md5 crypt

2002-01-13 Thread Brian Clark
* john ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [Jan 13. 2002 21:10]: > Brian Clark wrote: [...] > > ---[ perl ] > > for(0 .. 7) { > > $salt .= join '', ('.', '/', 0..9,'A'..'Z', 'a'..'z')[rand 64]; > > } > > $password = crypt($password,'$1$' . $salt . '$'); > > > > I *thi

Re: list all packages that are installed

2002-01-13 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
> "Ron" == Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ron> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Ron> Hash: SHA1 Ron> On Friday 11 January 2002 05:58 pm, Stephen Rueger wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 05:41:18PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: Ron> [snip] >> > A problem with thi

kernel configuration: `Set version information on all symbols for modules'

2002-01-13 Thread Shaul Karl
I have a kernel that is compiled without this option and one that is complied with it. When installing and running update-modules for the kernel that does have this option I get for each of the modules that depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.20/theModule can I rest assured t

Re: perl and md5 crypt

2002-01-13 Thread john
Brian Clark wrote: > * Thedore Knab ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [Jan 13. 2002 19:57]: > > > How would I fix this to generate MD5 passwords ? > > [...] > > > It should look like this MD5 style: > > tester3:$1$sx6dzguz$IyKiUC3Ua2MCOFDZxppzk1:11701:0:9:7::: > > Try this: > > ---[ perl ] > >

Re: Strange problem with modem when computer is "off"

2002-01-13 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 2002-01-14 06:25:43, Terence Sheridan wrote: > I scrolled locked through the halt process and watched the kills. > The modem connection seems to happen when the power is actually cut, I > believe. Then it goes away when setserial takes over during the boot > process (or at least that is what a

Recovering reformatted ext2 partition

2002-01-13 Thread Joe Nahmias
Hello all, I seem to be in a bit of a bind... I was trying to install Debian [GNU/]Linux to replace my old Linux distro, and wanted to carry over the partition that housed /home... However, I messed up and ended up reformatting the partition I wanted to save during the install (instead of

Re: perl and md5 crypt

2002-01-13 Thread Brian Clark
* Thedore Knab ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [Jan 13. 2002 19:57]: > How would I fix this to generate MD5 passwords ? [...] > It should look like this MD5 style: > tester3:$1$sx6dzguz$IyKiUC3Ua2MCOFDZxppzk1:11701:0:9:7::: Try this: ---[ perl ] for(0 .. 7) { $salt .= join '', ('.', '/

Trobles with DocBook

2002-01-13 Thread Rodrigo Araujo
Hello everybody, I use DocBook for write some documentations and a few weeks I can't use db2ps to convert my SGML files to postscript files. I got this output: db2ps iniciante.sgml Using catalogs: /etc/sgml/catalog Using stylesheet: /usr/share/sgml/docbook/utils-0.6.9/docbook-util

Re: perl and md5 crypt

2002-01-13 Thread Dries Kimpe
On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Thedore Knab wrote: > How would I fix this to generate MD5 passwords ? > Wouldn't it be easier (and more portable) to just use the passwd program to set the password? As you script has to run as root anyway it won't ask for the old password, and you could just write the pas

FW: RE: Problem with Gnome

2002-01-13 Thread dman
Use "reply to all". .xsession-errors shouldn't say anything at all. That message looks like gnome is reporting the socket it is using for the CORBA calls between the components, but I don't know why it would output that. Is that all .xsession-errors says? -D - Forwarded message from Eile

perl and md5 crypt

2002-01-13 Thread Thedore Knab
How would I fix this to generate MD5 passwords ? I am writing a tiny script that creates student users and assigns the passwords, sets permissions to chmod 711, sets up user fetchmail, setups the muttrc, and setups a generic signiture, and a generic web-site. I am stumped on the, borrowed, cyrpt

Re: list all packages that are installed

2002-01-13 Thread Nick Hastings
* Sridhar M.A. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020114 11:19]: > On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 07:58:47PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> > >> > 'COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l > foo' >> >> radical. thanks. >> > Personally, I would just do dpkg --get-selections. More specifically; dpkg --get-selections |

Re: evolution / uw-imapd-ssl woes

2002-01-13 Thread ozymandias G desiderata
On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 10:41:22AM -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > Ok, this is good because it means the basic IMAP connection is working and > the maildirs are being read correctly. Indeed they are, albeit incorrectly! See below! > > However, when I click on a message, I get the error > > text,

Re: 2 distros coexisting?

2002-01-13 Thread dman
On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 05:47:12PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: | Currently, my /dev/hda1 in unused, and I'd like to do a network | install of Woody on it without disturbing my existing Mandrake | installation. | | Is there any way to share /dev/hda6 & /dev/hda7 between the 2 | distros, and put D

Re: 2 distros coexisting?

2002-01-13 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Is there any way to share /dev/hda6 & /dev/hda7 between the 2 > distros, and put Debian in /dev/hda1 (don't mind if it's > reformatted) without touching any of the other partitions? Of > course, both distros could share /dev/hda2 & /dev/hde1. I don't s

Re: is it possible to downgrade from woody

2002-01-13 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 05:45:04PM +0300, Nantenaina Tianarivo Ulrich wrote: > I was playing with mt test machin. and I've tried to upgrade my debian > on this machine from a potato to a woody. > > But after the upgrade,I found out that some of my application don't work > anymore. As, we are

2 distros coexisting?

2002-01-13 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Currently, my /dev/hda1 in unused, and I'd like to do a network install of Woody on it without disturbing my existing Mandrake installation. Is there any way to share /dev/hda6 & /dev/hda7 between the 2 distros, and put Debian in /dev/hda1 (don

Re: Problem with Gnome

2002-01-13 Thread dman
On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 05:58:26PM -0500, Eileen Orbell wrote: | Hi, | | I am having problems loading Gnome 1.4. I was using KDE prior to my | attemps to install gnome. After I execute the normal "startx" a | Gnome1.4 panel appears with a window that has a picture with GNOME 1.4 | and the messa

Re: Debian and Redhat on the same PC

2002-01-13 Thread dude
you can use grub doe debian also. You will need to use fstab to mount the proper partition On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, dx wrote: >Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 01:17:52 -0500 >From: dx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Debian and Redhat on the same PC > >Hi, > >I am newbie Lin

Re: RFC: Beginner's vim tutorial

2002-01-13 Thread Lonnie Mullenix
On Sun, 13 Jan 2002 17:57:04 -0500 dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 04:08:21PM -0600, Lonnie Mullenix wrote: > > | The combination of my NT box and winprinter are most likely the > | problem, and since I haven't gotten Samba working yet! I'vwe always > | had problems pri

Problem with Gnome

2002-01-13 Thread Eileen Orbell
Title: Message Hi,   I am having problems loading Gnome 1.4.  I was using KDE prior to my attemps to install gnome.  After I execute the normal "startx" a Gnome1.4 panel appears with a window that has a picture with GNOME 1.4 and the message Starting Gnome.  Behind it is just a screen full o

Re: RFC: Beginner's vim tutorial

2002-01-13 Thread dman
On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 04:08:21PM -0600, Lonnie Mullenix wrote: | The combination of my NT box and winprinter are most likely the | problem, and since I haven't gotten Samba working yet! I'vwe always | had problems printing out some of the HTML info, wnats to cut the | ends of the lines off and

Re: Strange problem with modem when computer is "off"

2002-01-13 Thread Terence Sheridan
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Allan M. Wind) Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 15:17:19 -0500 To: Terence Sheridan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Strange problem with modem when computer is "off" > pay especial > attention to setserial. IRQ conflicts (/proc/interrupts)? I removed

Re: RFC: Beginner's vim tutorial

2002-01-13 Thread Romain Lerallut
Thus spake Lonnie Mullenix on Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 04:08:21PM -0600: > On Sun, 13 Jan 2002 21:50:38 +0100 > Romain Lerallut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thus spake Lonnie Mullenix on Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 08:42:46PM -0600: > > > Only thing I would add is that it would be really nice to be able to

Re: list all packages that are installed

2002-01-13 Thread Aaron Hall
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, csj wrote: > On Sat, 12 Jan 2002 14:09:59 -0800 > "Karsten M. Self" wrote: > > > It's a shell trick. It's a shell trick if you're using a Bourne-style shell, like bash, ksh, or such. :) > > You can set an environment variable for the _current process_ by > > specifying it f

Re: Palm pilot problems

2002-01-13 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 09:50:29PM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: > Im trying to get my palm m125 to sync with my computer. I am having > trouble. I have read the How-tos on this subject and followed them, but > I can not get the infernal thing to sync. I am useing woody along with > ximian gnome.

Re: What part of X causes major display problems?

2002-01-13 Thread Seneca Cunningham
It seems that old bits of memory have been put onto the screen (as I am probably the last person to realise), when the screen is in pixel-lines. The two examples of this I have are the xf86cfg graphics going into the pixel-lines after using it without adding the "-textmode". The other, more recent

Re: RFC: Beginner's vim tutorial

2002-01-13 Thread Lonnie Mullenix
On Sun, 13 Jan 2002 21:50:38 +0100 Romain Lerallut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thus spake Lonnie Mullenix on Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 08:42:46PM -0600: > > Only thing I would add is that it would be really nice to be able to get > > this to print properly. > > Do you mean you can't print the HTML p

Re: exim + fetchmail configuration question

2002-01-13 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 13 January 2002 7:41 pm, Michael A. Miller wrote: ... > using fetchmail. This fails with a message that says > > Some addresses were rejected by the MDA fetchmail forwards to. >.. > > I think that can solve this problem if I add localhost

Re: Play VCD on computer

2002-01-13 Thread Mark Ferlatte
On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 06:06:24PM +0800, csj wrote (0.50): > ..diff.gz, .orig.tar.gz). Does the mplayerhq.hu source (which I see as a > single gz/bz2 tar file) come with an internal ./debian directory? Yes. M

Re: RFC: Beginner's vim tutorial

2002-01-13 Thread Romain Lerallut
Thus spake dman on Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 04:28:57PM -0500: > On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 09:50:38PM +0100, Romain Lerallut wrote: > | The printable version has always been not-quite-as-good as the > | HTML version. That's a fact. I'm working on switching to XML, so > | if FO is more customizable than ds

Re: list all packages that are installed

2002-01-13 Thread csj
On Sat, 12 Jan 2002 14:09:59 -0800 "Karsten M. Self" wrote: > on Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 07:58:47PM -0600, Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Friday 11 January 2002 05:58 pm, Stephen Rueger wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at

Re: exim + fetchmail configuration question

2002-01-13 Thread dman
On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 02:41:45PM -0500, Michael A. Miller wrote: | I'm about to move inside of a firewall. I'm told that I can get | my mail from our imap server (which is outside the firewall) | using fetchmail. This fails with a message that says | | Some addresses were rejected by the MDA

gtk theming documentation?

2002-01-13 Thread Timo --Blazko-- Boewing
Hello, I plan to create an own gtk theme, but i cannot find any documents on how to do this, except for taking existing gtkrcs, but in some details this doesn't also help. I did not find any local manpages and no info on these sites: gtk.org, themes.org, linuxdoc.org Any hints for gtkrc hacking

Re: RFC: Beginner's vim tutorial

2002-01-13 Thread dman
On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 09:50:38PM +0100, Romain Lerallut wrote: | Thus spake Lonnie Mullenix on Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 08:42:46PM -0600: | > Only thing I would add is that it would be really nice to be able to get | > this to print properly. | | Do you mean you can't print the HTML properly (old n

Re: RFC: Beginner's vim tutorial

2002-01-13 Thread Romain Lerallut
Thus spake Lonnie Mullenix on Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 08:42:46PM -0600: > Only thing I would add is that it would be really nice to be able to get > this to print properly. Do you mean you can't print the HTML properly (old news... :), or that you can't print the PostScript docs ? > I broke my Debi

Re: X Configuration in Woody

2002-01-13 Thread Mark Wagnon
On 01/13/02 14:28:21 -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > No, they couldn't have! ...RTFM'ing... They didn't. > Modelines are optional in X v.4 because it can automagically configure > itself on modern hardware. But you can still have them. > Man XF86Config-4 is your friend. ;-) Yeah, I had to tweak m

Re: (OT) A strange situation ... Could somebody help

2002-01-13 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* shyamk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > A strange client arrived with a stranger set of requests > (at a time when I am cash-starved) . He dropped the following > ideas over phone (perhaps his requirements -or- modus - operandi. > > He said he wanted VB -on- Solaris ! Vmware should be able

Re: X Configuration in Woody

2002-01-13 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Mark Wagnon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: ... > I've used xvidtune to fine tune my modelines in the past. There > doesn't seem to be the traditional modeline in the XF86Config-4 file. No, they couldn't have! ...RTFM'ing... They didn't. Modelines are optional in X v.4 because it can automagic

lpr: unable to create temporary file.

2002-01-13 Thread Aidan OReilly
I recently installed and configured CUPS in order to get the proper driver for my new Epson Stylus C60. I can print from the command line with no problem, and lpstat -d -p shows my printer as the default. However, when trying to print from Netscape, I get the error message in the subject line. A

Re: Strange problem with modem when computer is "off"

2002-01-13 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 2002-01-14 03:56:35, Terence Sheridan wrote: > For the life of me, I cannot understand why after my system goes for > shutdown or reboot, my modem tries to connect to the phone line when > the power management finally switches off the computer. > > When I reboot/turn on the computer, the modem d

Strange problem with modem when computer is "off"

2002-01-13 Thread Terence Sheridan
Hello all, Several months back, I did a system upgrade to Debian 2.2r3 using apt-get. A few minor glitches and some things were broken, but I managed to fix or work around all of them. There is one outstanding problem though that baffles me to no end. For the life of me, I cannot understand

exim + fetchmail configuration question

2002-01-13 Thread Michael A. Miller
I'm about to move inside of a firewall. I'm told that I can get my mail from our imap server (which is outside the firewall) using fetchmail. This fails with a message that says Some addresses were rejected by the MDA fetchmail forwards to. Reporting-MTA: dns; localhost Final-Recipient:

Re: gpm 1.19.6-8 seems broken... hold on to -5

2002-01-13 Thread thedoctor
I have done so... (had to apt-get install reportbug). Best regards, thedoctor On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 11:14:05AM -0600, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 11:18:07AM -0500, thedoctor wrote: > > I just had to downgrade gpm 1.19.6-8 to -5 because -8 wasn't working... > > no mouse cursor w

Re: gpm 1.19.6-8 seems broken... hold on to -5

2002-01-13 Thread Brian Nelson
thedoctor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just had to downgrade gpm 1.19.6-8 to -5 because -8 wasn't working... > no mouse cursor with my laptop. > -- Jon When you post such advice, include the laptop model and mouse type/brand you use. gpm doesn't break in this way for everyone, just for specif

Re: Gnome Error Message

2002-01-13 Thread Tobias Wolter
On 2002-01-13T11:57:08 +, Eileen Orbell wrote: > When starting up gnome I get this message: > Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library Please post the output of 'locale'. Probably there's just some bogus locale value filled in ('spose US doesn't need anything else than C, right?). -

Re: Debian Vs RedHat

2002-01-13 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Karsten M. Self [2002.01.12.2203 +0100]: > LDS indicates /etc/{init,rc}.d, so RH is coming around to the standard. LDS? LSB? i've not seen LDS, but LSB is the linux standard base, which would be the one dictating this... -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.

Re: user logger!

2002-01-13 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.13.0016 +0100]: > I've got a user who I think is screwing up my server. How do I set up > a log to "log" everything this person does? And can I watch it real > time? compile your kernel with accounting turned on (does the debian stock ke

Re: X Configuration in Woody

2002-01-13 Thread Mark Wagnon
On 01/13/02 02:18:58 -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 10:03:57PM -0800, Mark Wagnon wrote: > > On 01/12/02 10:03:03 +0100, Joachim Fahnenmueller wrote: > > > Edit your XF86config-4 file, look for lines like these (see below). > > > Insert the correct frequency settings for yo

Re: Fetchmail Problems with Retrieving Mail

2002-01-13 Thread Mark Wagnon
On 01/13/02 01:07:05 -0800, Dmitriy wrote: > On a retreival of a certain message server drops connection. > > You have to go into webmail account (which may be inaccesible for > around 10 mins or so after attempt), and move all messages to a > different folder. Then go through all of them until u

Re: (OT-ish:) procmail eating messages -- why?

2002-01-13 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Brenda J. Butler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.12.2340 +0100]: > > on Sat, 12 Jan 2002 04:20:22PM -0500, dman insinuated: > > > tail -f > > Actually, use less on the file; then when in less type F > (capital-f). > > It does the same thing, plus you can escape out with > C-c and you're

Re: Fetchmail Problems with Retrieving Mail

2002-01-13 Thread Mark Wagnon
On 01/13/02 00:38:08 -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: > Setup a system-wide /etc/fetchmailrc file. See the stuff at the top of > /etc/init.d/fetchmail. I saw the instructions there and placed a system-wide config file under /etc, but it didn't look like it was working. There was no feedback when I star

how to report bugs (was: Re: Locale problems)

2002-01-13 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach nori heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.12.2002 +0100]: > i wasn't exactly installing woody, but i may as well have been -- i > was installing spamassassin, which is only available >=woody, so i > also got 125 packages that needed to be upgraded. i have absolutely > no experience i

Re: (OT-ish:) procmail eating messages -- why?

2002-01-13 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.12.2220 +0100]: > If you use "h" on a message you can see all the headers. the "message" we are talking about here is a zero-sized file in a Maildir. thus: no headers whatsoever. but still a good tip, dman! -- martin; (greetings from the

Re: gpm 1.19.6-8 seems broken... hold on to -5

2002-01-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 11:18:07AM -0500, thedoctor wrote: > I just had to downgrade gpm 1.19.6-8 to -5 because -8 wasn't working... > no mouse cursor with my laptop. Please make sure the gpm maintainer knows about this kind of thing. See http://bugs.debian.org/src:gpm to find out whether it's alr

Gnome Error Message

2002-01-13 Thread Eileen Orbell
Title: Message Hi,   When starting up gnome I get this message:Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library Not sure why this happening but any help would be appreciated.    Thanks   ISA Major Capitol College Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.orbell.net A good plan today is better than

Re: problems copying audio cd w/ cdrecord and cdrdao

2002-01-13 Thread Thomas Kral
Sorry for the delay, just close this thread, yes there certainly is a difference between R/ & R/W cd media, because IT WORKED ON R/ CD in the end for me. Thanx Carel. On Tue, 08 Jan 2002 22:41:40 Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 08:25:14PM +0100, Thomas Kral wrote: > > Worry no

gpm 1.19.6-8 seems broken... hold on to -5

2002-01-13 Thread thedoctor
I just had to downgrade gpm 1.19.6-8 to -5 because -8 wasn't working... no mouse cursor with my laptop. -- Jon

Re: graphical lilo

2002-01-13 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 04:17:25PM +0100, Gordon Fraser wrote: > >install=/boot/boot.b >^^ > You still need to set: install=/boot/boot-bmp.b > Dumb of me. I knew that /boot/boot.b is a symlink to /boot/boot-menu.b. I just confused it as boot-bmp.b. Now I

Re: OT: Perl & UTF-8

2002-01-13 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Holger Rauch wrote: > libunicode-string-perl - Perl modules for Unicode strings > libunicode-map8-perl - Perl module to map 8bit character sets to Unicode > > Does anybody have experience using these two Perl modules? Could they be a > solution to the problem I'm having? > Wel

Re: tricky debian woody update problem

2002-01-13 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 11 January 2002 8:45 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > .raw & .iso mean the same thing... > > On Friday 11 January 2002 02:32 pm, Alan Chandler wrote: > [snip alot] > > > At the moment the only thing I can think of doing is to download a > > testing C

Re: evolution / uw-imapd-ssl woes

2002-01-13 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On 13 Jan 2002, Forrest L Norvell wrote: > The only real problem at this point is getting Evolution and imapd-ssl > to talk to each other. I have SSL enabled between Evolution and the IMAP > server. After a lot of head-bonking, I figured out that setting the > namespace to "Mail" would allow me to

Re: Woody 2.4 Netinst iso

2002-01-13 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 13 January 2002 1:22 am, Nate Custer wrote: > Theo, > > Unoffical is fine with me. I found these iso's allready. From the FAQ: > -- > Q: Will you add feature? / Will you make images that use Linux > 2.4.x? > > A: No. The netinst CDs use the

Re: graphical lilo

2002-01-13 Thread Gordon Fraser
Sridhar M.A. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >> map=/boot/map-bmp >^^^ > My woody does not have this file. Where do I get it? What sort of a file > is it? Now that you say so, this line is of course nonsense and has nothing to do with the splash screen. :) I just compared

Re: OT: Perl & UTF-8

2002-01-13 Thread Holger Rauch
Hi Henry! Thanks a lot for replying! On Sat, 12 Jan 2002, Henry House wrote: > [...] > Perl 5.6 has EXPERIMENTAL UTF-8 support. There are bugs. If possible, you > should use iconv to convert the files to an ISO 8859 encoding before > processing. In the likely event that that is not possible, yo

Re: setting up FTP-server

2002-01-13 Thread Martin Wuertele
On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 01:41:02PM +0100, Kurdt wrote: > I want to set up an FTP server on a non-standard port. Like 4321. How > to do? I can't find any HOWTO. > Or an HTTP-server, also non-standard port. I want those ports because > of being blocked from my ISP. What is the right setting-up?

Re: Plip problems: do I need NFS server?

2002-01-13 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 25 Dec 2001, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > > > That's troubling. What are the error messages when you try and install > the packages on the laptop? > [snip] Thank you. During the setting up of nfs-kernel-server, the process gets as far as Starting NFS kernel daemon: nfsd and the

informazioni

2002-01-13 Thread Alberto
buongiorno, sono un ragazzo che ha per le mani la versione "debian2.2.r3", mi potreste informare come si installa dato che le spiegazioni sono in inglese e io lo capisco solo un poinoltre e' possibile installare debian con windows??   saluti

Re: How to get sound with MSI a K7T266 Pro2

2002-01-13 Thread Guy Geens
> "R" == R Pac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: R> which options in the 2.4.17 kernel configuration should I R> check to get sound with the sound card integated on the MSI R> maincard K7T266 Pro2. You will need ALSA. The driver you need is called `snd-card-via8233'. I just bought the same mo

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