Re: Help: Screwed up Partition + - Won't boot

2001-04-26 Thread emarkham
- F I can't imagine that you can't do a straight(startup/install) boot from the CD, so going on from that assumption: Boot frm CD into install exit to shell fsck primary linux part(hda2?) - if that's usable go on, if not your DOA-SOL make mount point ( I use /tmp/root or t

Re: least memory xterm look-alike

2001-04-26 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001, Renai LeMay wrote: > Can someone pass me their recommendation as to the xterm -lookalike program > which is the fastest/uses the least memory - similarly with window managers? > > regards, > > Renai Hi Renai, Don't have anything to add to xterm issue. But I really love b

Re: least memory xterm look-alike

2001-04-26 Thread Joost van der Lugt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Renai LeMay ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010426 09:38]: >Can someone pass me their recommendation as to the xterm -lookalike program >which is the fastest/uses the least memory - similarly with window managers? I personnally like Windowmaker with aterm: nice and lightweight however there are probably a

Re: Help: Screwed up Partition + - Won't boot

2001-04-26 Thread Jeff Coppock
Actually, the "NT OS Loader + Linux mini-HOWTO" describes dual booting NT and Linux very nicely. I used this howto to set my machine up and it works fine. You can find the howt at the Linux Documentation site: http://www.linuxdoc.org jc On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 11:41:22AM +0800, Tim Wood wr

Re: Can't locate module nls_iso8859-1

2001-04-26 Thread Brandon High
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 10:01:35PM -0400, Brian Nelson wrote: > Ever since I've rolled my own kernel, I've got this message on bootup > that's been bugging the hell outta me. > > When mounting some vfat partitions on bootup, I repeatedly get a > message that's something like: > modprobe: can't loc

Re: Help: Screwed up Partition + - Won't boot

2001-04-26 Thread Jeff Coppock
Actually, the "NT OS Loader + Linux mini-HOWTO" describes dual booting NT and Linux very nicely. I used this howto to set my machine up and it works fine. You can find the howt at the Linux Documentation site: http://www.linuxdoc.org jc On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 11:41:22AM +0800, Tim Wood wrote

RE: mouse problem under Xwindows

2001-04-26 Thread Price, Tim
> -Original Message- > From: john connolly [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 1:57 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: mouse problem under Xwindows > > I have potato installed using a SiS6326 4MB graphics card. > After the SVGA server was installed X

Re: Storage (8*IDE HDs) any experiences?

2001-04-26 Thread Brandon High
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 09:42:16PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > IDE causes a bit of a performance hit, I don't think we're talking high > speed file access here though... cheap is the objective. You'd be suprised at the performance hit. I had 2 drives/channel and suffered from really bad perf

Re: Newbie: Netscape woes

2001-04-26 Thread Matthew Dalton
David Carlile wrote: > > Thank you very much. I don't feel too dumb... There wasn't any sort of error > message. There would have been one if you had run it from an xterm. Try it and see - load an xterm and type "netscape". If you're root, you'll see the error. The restriction that Netscape can'

least memory xterm look-alike

2001-04-26 Thread Renai LeMay
Can someone pass me their recommendation as to the xterm -lookalike program which is the fastest/uses the least memory - similarly with window managers? regards, Renai

Re: PCI wierdness

2001-04-26 Thread Anthony Lau
At 1:20 PM -0500 4/26/2001, Shawn Yarbrough wrote: Your box crashed? Why did it crash? Probably didn't have anything to do with sound. I was bouncing between tty and X which sometimes goes flaky and locks me out (ie. no keyboard or mouse input, screen frozen between tty and X). Mostly likel

mouse problem under Xwindows

2001-04-26 Thread john connolly
I have potato installed using a SiS6326 4MB graphics card. After the SVGA server was installed Xwindows loads ok but I cannot control the (ps2) mouse. The mouse works ok in console mode. I think the Xwindows version is 3.3.6. Thanks for your help. JWC

RE: Newbie: Netscape woes

2001-04-26 Thread David Carlile
figured it out myself... :) backed up .netscape directory and deleted it. NS made a new one for me. -Original Message- From: David Carlile [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 8:52 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: Newbie: Netscape woes Thank you very m

RE: Newbie: Netscape woes

2001-04-26 Thread David Carlile
Thank you very much. I don't feel too dumb... There wasn't any sort of error message. Now I'm stuck again. Netscape complains about the existence of a lock file in the .netscape subdirectory of my home directory. Far as I can tell, there is only a bookmarks.htm file in there. I looked for hidden fi

Re: OFFTOPIC

2001-04-26 Thread John Griffiths
I don't know if a branch of philosphy based on hating everything counts as a new doorway for the human spirit At 01:44 PM 4/27/01 +1000, Renai LeMay wrote: >Hi Dan, > >offtopic, but wasn't Friedrich Nietzsche a huge pessimist, and didn't he get >nihilism started off - a whole new branch of philo

Help: Screwed up Partition + - Won't boot

2001-04-26 Thread Tim Wood
Hi, Been pretty stupid I'm afraid. The computer:- Gateway 5150 Notebook, PII-233, 64MB RAM, IBM DKLA 4.6 GB HDD Background-: Came with Win98. Split and loaded RH6.0, then Debian 2.2r0 Dumped RH Dumped Win98 Loaded NT4.0 (SP6) The latter made it necessary to boot off floppy as I have yet to find

OFFTOPIC

2001-04-26 Thread Renai LeMay
Hi Dan, offtopic, but wasn't Friedrich Nietzsche a huge pessimist, and didn't he get nihilism started off - a whole new branch of philosophy? (re your signature) correct me if I'm wrong - and if I'm not, I'm only being pedantic :) Renai On Friday 27 April 2001 13:21, D.B.E. wrote: > > I go to

Re: Newbie: Netscape woes

2001-04-26 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 08:16:52PM -0700, David Carlile wrote: > >apt-get install communicator navigator netscape navigator would suffice >It looks on my cd rom for the packages and reports back that they >aren't there. I go out on my install disk and find NS3. I run the The

Re: Newbie: Netscape woes

2001-04-26 Thread ktb
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 08:16:52PM -0700, David Carlile wrote: > I go to my applications menu and click on Communicator. Nothing. Nada. Zip. > I am going to shelf the rant/whine and just ask... Does anybody have any > idea why Netscape will not launch? Is it my old non-deb install that I never >

Re: Newbie: Netscape woes

2001-04-26 Thread D.B.E.
> I go to my applications menu and click on Communicator. Nothing. > Nada. Zip. > I am going to shelf the rant/whine and just ask... Does anybody > have any > idea why Netscape will not launch? Is it my old non-deb install > that I never > uninstalled? Please help! I almost bought a shrink-wrapped

Newbie: Netscape woes

2001-04-26 Thread David Carlile
Have you ever felt like you were the butt of some cosmic joke that everyone else was in on but you? Oh well. I will hold off on the newbie rant. I am trying to set up a Linux/Netscape test machine to test web applications. I got Debian up and running including X and my nic card. TCP/IP seems

Re: GUI Email program

2001-04-26 Thread Alan Shutko
will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > c'mon, now you KNOW you'll never go back and look at 6000 old > messages. what gives? Maybe not directly, but you can index them and search them. I was doing this with freewais-sf before I switch to debian (just haven't gotten around to rebuilding it).

Re: Capturing console output

2001-04-26 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 07:43:41PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 07:29:54PM -0700, Mike Fedyk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > I think he wants to read what another user on another vt is doing. I forget > > the package name, anyone remember? > > ttysnoop, IIRC. Yep, tha

Re: Capturing console output

2001-04-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 07:29:54PM -0700, Mike Fedyk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 10:20:05AM +0300, Atukunda Martin wrote: > > > > On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 07:07:00AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > How can I capture in a file what's going on in a bash console?

Re: Not using dselect or the likes

2001-04-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 07:03:51AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I resolved some problems with sane and my usb scanner by downloading > the source code of sane from the official sane site and compiling the > new-brand programs. (Obviously) I've found that the various fi

Re: The Perfect Debian / Personal Computer

2001-04-26 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 07:32:25PM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: > Well, now you've went and given us more and *important* information. You > left this out originally, didn't you ?? Nonetheless, rule out a > windows-related PnP issue. > > Hall I think you've mixed me with the origional poster, plea

Re: Capturing console output

2001-04-26 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 10:20:05AM +0300, Atukunda Martin wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 07:07:00AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > How can I capture in a file what's going on in a bash console? > > Ciao > > Vittorio > > use script > I think he wants to read what another user on an

Re: apt-package

2001-04-26 Thread ktb
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 11:34:44AM +1000, Renai LeMay wrote: > can someone point me to the source for the apt-get and dpkg family of utils? > They are in the "apt" package and "dpkg" package. You can find them - http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages kent -- From seeing and seeing the seeing

Can't locate module nls_iso8859-1

2001-04-26 Thread Brian Nelson
Ever since I've rolled my own kernel, I've got this message on bootup that's been bugging the hell outta me. When mounting some vfat partitions on bootup, I repeatedly get a message that's something like: modprobe: can't locate module nls_iso8859-1 However, the partitions seem to work fine. I do

Re: Implications of using kernel 2.4

2001-04-26 Thread Hall Stevenson
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 03:32:28PM -0400, Cheng wrote: > > Second, I'd like to install the 2.4 kernel due to some of the > advantages I've heard about it, such as Athlon optimization, more > efficient threads, and memory detection. Does 2.4.x really offer anything special in regards to Athlon pr

Re: Storage (8*IDE HDs) any experiences?

2001-04-26 Thread mdanish
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 08:02:30PM -0500, Rahul Jain wrote: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 01:39:01PM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > > Hi all > > > > I notice there are these new-fangled motherboards with 2*ATA-100 and > > 2*ATA-33 ports. With 75GB disks, that baby should give us 600GB of raw > > disk

apt-package

2001-04-26 Thread Renai LeMay
can someone point me to the source for the apt-get and dpkg family of utils? thanks, Renai

Re: Implications of using kernel 2.4

2001-04-26 Thread Gordon Hart
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 03:32:28PM -0400, Cheng wrote: As you first say this .. > Second, I'd like to install the 2.4 kernel due to some of the advantages I've > heard about it, such as Athlon optimization, more efficient threads, and > memory detection. then .. > To me stability is more im

Re: Storage (8*IDE HDs) any experiences?

2001-04-26 Thread Rahul Jain
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 01:39:01PM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > Hi all > > I notice there are these new-fangled motherboards with 2*ATA-100 and > 2*ATA-33 ports. With 75GB disks, that baby should give us 600GB of raw > disk space (8 drives) at around $2K US. Sounds attractive, considering > that

Re: documentation rant

2001-04-26 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 10:52:32PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > i agree that many times the howtos and stuff are outdated. > very rarely have i referred to them. most often i use > www.alltheweb.com to search and read/join mailing lists .. I prefer google myself, but point taken. It's

Re: documentation rant

2001-04-26 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 05:22:50AM -0300, John R Lenton wrote: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 12:10:37AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > > I am so sick of spending hours crawling over HOWTOs from LinuxDoc just > > to > > find out that the documentation is wrong! Worse, tons of people know it's >

Re: mkttfdir

2001-04-26 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Thanks. Why isn't this on main ftp site? Mike On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 09:03:43AM -0500, Brian Nelson wrote: > This worked for me: > http://hell.hell.pl/baran/tek/linux/debian/ttmkfdir/ttmkfdir_1.0-6_i386.deb > > Alternatively, you can build ttmkfdir from the tarball... > > -Nelson > >

Re: Storage (8*IDE HDs) any experiences?

2001-04-26 Thread Alvin Oga
hi dima think different motherboard uses different onboard ide controllers... ( dont know which one is which... - promise card i was referring to is the Proise ata/100 series not the onboard controllers yes... most 1U chassis comes with one 1 power supply... ( no physcial room in the back...

Re: cron: nth of month?

2001-04-26 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 12:32:46PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > To run on the fifth Sunday in a month, only if it exists: > > 0 1 29 1,3-12 * echo 'command -args' | at 1:34 sunday > > To run on the fifth Sunday in a month, *or* the following > Sunday if it does not: > > 0 1 29 *

Re: GUI Email program

2001-04-26 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 07:59:41AM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote: > -*-Mutt: =debian-user [Msgs:6445 New:39 Inc:2 > 22M]---(threads/date)--(92%)--- c'mon, now you KNOW you'll never go back and look at 6000 old messages. what gives? > -- > The beauty of a pun is in the "Oy!" of the beholder. peo

Re: bridge? tunnel?

2001-04-26 Thread aphro
> I have a Debian computer acting as a DSL router. My ISP gave me 5 > static IP addresses but I'm currently using only one, for the router > itself. lucky you ..not many isps do that :) (mine is good too ..) > But what I want to do now is "promote" one or another of the masqed > computers onto

Re: documentation rant

2001-04-26 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 10:52:32PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > I am so sick of spending hours crawling over HOWTOs from LinuxDoc > > i agree that many times the howtos and stuff are outdated. > very rarely have i referred to them. most often i use > www.alltheweb.com to search and

Re: bridge? tunnel?

2001-04-26 Thread john
Shawn, I did essentially what you want using iptables and DNAT. There are security issues witth protocols that require helper apps though. Hope it helps, John P Foster Shawn Yarbrough wrote: > Networking theory question: > > I have a Debian computer acting as a DSL router. My ISP gave me 5 >

Re: The Perfect Debian / Personal Computer

2001-04-26 Thread Hall Stevenson
* Mike Fedyk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010426 15:39]: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 11:16:29AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > > Hall Stevenson wrote: > > > > > > > > > Your problem sounds like a Plug-n-Play one. A similar problem occurs > > > with some network cards. Disable PnP on the card. Also, in you

Re: Lilo problem after kernel reinstall: LIL-

2001-04-26 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 07:59:15AM -0700, Tiarnan O'Corrain wrote: > Thanks to all who replied. Here's what I did in the end > (not having a rescue disk and being too ashamed to admit it)... You do not need rescue disk made during installation for this. If you have boot floppy for installation or

Re: Downloading pgp-keys in a bunch (via procmail?)

2001-04-26 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 08:51:25AM +0200, Karsten Heymann wrote: > i'm wondering wether it is possible to download the public keys of all > signed emails as soon as i download them instead of waiting 'til you > read the mail and then letting mutt/gpg initiating a new connection > which is quite a

C to Z hard drives ( C copy’s) on win sys.

2001-04-26 Thread vordoo
Hi, I have successfully installed Linux as a dull boot sys, on one H.D. 20Gb/2 with grub as the boot loader. Linux side works good but booting to my old win/me I get C to Z hard drives all are copy’s off my old C disk. what do I do? Thanks, Jeff ___

Re: apt-get etc

2001-04-26 Thread Mike
Keith O'Connell wrote: > Hi, > > I am using stable. and periodically use the "apt-get update;apt-get > dist-upgrade" option to stay current. I have noticed that the programs > terminate normally and all appears to be in order except that I get > told that; > > The following packages have bee

Re: Getting package from "testing" for potato

2001-04-26 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 03:54:32AM -0700, D. Hoyem wrote: > Do Not get to excited about this i did it last night > and received this message unknown command -dep. I'm > using Potato upgraded to 2.2r.3 > --- csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wednesday 25 April 2001 18:15, Harry Henry Gebel > > w

Re: Storage (8*IDE HDs) any experiences?

2001-04-26 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 03:23:03PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: ... > your options for 6 or 8 disks are the promise cards > and/or 3ware ... Well, unfortunately purchasing is a bit strange around here... That mobo (with HPT-370 controller) is the one we can buy _easily_ -- from the university's techsto

Popularity-contest submission not getting through to klecker.debian.org (solved, hopefully)

2001-04-26 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hello, I had them in my /etc/hosts file as... 198.186.203.20klecker.debian.orgdebian.org I took that out and hopefully that will solve my problem, doh! Jimmy Richards

Re: Storage (8*IDE HDs) any experiences?

2001-04-26 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya... good that these huge systems exists... att is working on a 12disk ide system... your options for 6 or 8 disks are the promise cards and/or 3ware ... has anybody measured the +12V current needed when all 8 drives start up...at the same time... hummm we have a 1u chassis ( C2300 )

cant get grip to rip

2001-04-26 Thread Charles Lewis
Just installed the grip package, but I can't get it to rip. I've tried both the "grip (cdparanoia)" option without success. I've also tried the "cdparanoia" option with the default command-line variable and hard-coded command-line options. I can run cdparanoia from the command line with success. Wh

Re: pdp11 support

2001-04-26 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
> "Karsten" == Karsten M Self writes: Karsten> I believe there's a PDP-11 emulator that runs under Karsten> GNU/Linux, try "Ersatz-11" and "CHARON-11". My Karsten> understanding is that it's faster than real life ;-) Any while we're at it, there's the simh package... for those o

RE: debian install

2001-04-26 Thread destruss
On 25 Apr 2001, at 23:59, Artem Litvinovich wrote: > The mount error message on the console says something about "invalid > arguement" when trying to mount /dev/cdrom /instmnt -o ro. > > I assume the CD is good if it boots and lets me create/initialize partitians > and the mount the root. Am I wr

Re: Storage (8*IDE HDs) any experiences?

2001-04-26 Thread Bryan Andersen
Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > > Hi all > > I notice there are these new-fangled motherboards with 2*ATA-100 and > 2*ATA-33 ports. With 75GB disks, that baby should give us 600GB of raw > disk space (8 drives) at around $2K US. Sounds attractive, considering > that el-cheapo RAID boxes of similar capaci

Re: FRÅGA?!?!

2001-04-26 Thread Nick Croft
< 4 Primary = EASY hda1 /boot hda2 /root hda3 swap

Re: Xemacs21-gtk - build against stable.

2001-04-26 Thread Dana S. Wheeler
  Its been a while since I built it but what I remember is that yes it took some special packages none of which were hard to find (links off of his page and looking with dselect) and it compiled with no problems the first time (after I had all of the packages installed). I've been using it for a

Popularity-contest submission doesn't go through to apenwarr-survey@klecker.debain.org

2001-04-26 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hi All, I was wondering if I need to file a bug report on the popularity-contest pacakge or not. I really don't know very much about e-mail address issues, but I think I have my MTA configured ok. Hopefully someone can help point me in the right direction by having a look at the error messag

IBM MQSeries Setup

2001-04-26 Thread Ranjan Bagchi
Hi -- Has anyone been successful in setting up an MQSeries server on debian? I'm running woody and used alien to install the rpm's which shipped on IBM's DeveloperWorks CD (they don't support Debian, but it apparently works on RedHat and Caldera). When I try and set up a Queue (validating install

Re: Latex and amsmath in testing and unstable.

2001-04-26 Thread Alan Shutko
Sebastian Canagaratna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >My latex installation was working fine till I upgraged yesterday >to testing ( and anther machine I upgraded to unstable ). Could you post a sample document which has this problem? (Preferably one trimmed down to just the header and the

Re: HP Deskjet 959C + PCL codes (w/ apsfilter)

2001-04-26 Thread Dominique Deleris
"Lewis, James M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I am using apsfilter CVS version, and I have set up RECODE > > options as follows: > > RAW_PROLOGUE='\033&k2G\033&l2E\033&a2L\033(s1Q' > > RAW_EPILOGUE='\033&l1H' > > meaning that these escape codes are sent to the printer > > before and after the

Re: Implications of using kernel 2.4

2001-04-26 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001, Cheng wrote: > I am a relatively new Linux user. I've used RedHat and Slackware before and > now I'm switching to Debian. My questions is about the possible problems I > may face if I install kernel 2.4 as well as the advantages it'd might have. > > First, I'm used to inst

Implications of using kernel 2.4

2001-04-26 Thread Cheng
I am a relatively new Linux user. I've used RedHat and Slackware before and now I'm switching to Debian. My questions is about the possible problems I may face if I install kernel 2.4 as well as the advantages it'd might have. First, I'm used to installing distro off of bootable CDs. So Instead

Re: cron: nth of month?

2001-04-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 07:23:51AM -0400, Rob Mahurin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 03:58:28AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > I've got a job I'd like to run once a month, on a set day of the week, > > say, the first Sunday of the month. Suggestions as to how to do this >

Re: cron: nth of month?

2001-04-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 09:09:25AM -0500, Dave Sherohman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 03:32:43PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > Hence, my crontab recipie to execute a job on the first sunday of the > > month is: > > > > 1 1 1 * * echo 'command -args' | at 1:35 sunday

Re: using Xfig with LaTeX

2001-04-26 Thread Alan Shutko
MaD dUCK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > except pdflatex can't deal with eps files - you'd have to export > Xfig's to pdf's instead Or use epstopdf on them. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! The wise shepherd never trusts his flock to a smiling wolf.

Logcheck enhancement needs a volunteer

2001-04-26 Thread Francois Gouget
Hi, Back in the days of logcheck 1.1.1-8 I was bitten by the ignore.d bug. So I looked at the source of logcheck and it seemed to me that it was pretty innefficient to do one grep per file in the ignore.xxx directories. I also thought that it would be nice to factorize some code between th

Re: setting up an apt repository

2001-04-26 Thread Bruce Mobarry
Renai LeMay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At our company, I administer a network of Unix/Linux machines. Basically, > we're looking at setting up a series of debian machines in many different > locations, providing services to local users. > > What we'd like to do, is set up one machine as a deb

Re: Is PostgreSQL 7.1 in Sid broken??

2001-04-26 Thread John Foster
Timothy Burt wrote: I had problems with PostgreSQL 7.1 in Sid at this very point and now it > seems to be working. Sorry I didn't save the transcript, but the problem > for me was where the postinst script was creating /var/lib/postgres/.profile: > this .profile attempts to source /etc/postgresql

Re: mkttfdir

2001-04-26 Thread Bruce Mobarry
Hello Michael, I used the mkttdir in the debian package. It didn't find all of the truetype fonts that I had installed (converting all of the file names to lower case is supposed to fix this, but I was lazy), but it worked. There have been a couple of recent threads on this in Debian-user (the one

Re: using Xfig with LaTeX

2001-04-26 Thread Andrew Perrin
Indeed, I misunderstood your question. But fig2dev should work fine. I tried using mpage -2 on my dissertation and also got screwy results with eps written by xfig; but everything worked fine with psnup: psnup -2 dissertation.ps d2.ps ap --

Re: local package mirror

2001-04-26 Thread Simon Law
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Brad Cramer wrote: > I have a machine running Redhat that has a lot of free disk space on it and > I would like to use it to set up a local package mirror for the rest of my > network that is running Debian. Could someone give me some pointers or point > me to a howto on doing

bridge? tunnel?

2001-04-26 Thread Shawn Yarbrough
Networking theory question: I have a Debian computer acting as a DSL router. My ISP gave me 5 static IP addresses but I'm currently using only one, for the router itself. The rest of my network is masqueraded very successfully. But what I want to do now is "promote" one or another of the masqed

Storage (8*IDE HDs) any experiences?

2001-04-26 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
Hi all I notice there are these new-fangled motherboards with 2*ATA-100 and 2*ATA-33 ports. With 75GB disks, that baby should give us 600GB of raw disk space (8 drives) at around $2K US. Sounds attractive, considering that el-cheapo RAID boxes of similar capacity are around $10K. Anyone runs [Deb

Re: debian install

2001-04-26 Thread DvB
That might not be your problem then. The only reason I suggested that is because I got a 2 cd debian set from linuxmall, both of which are bootable and will do partitions but only one of them (the one labelled 1 of 2) will work past that stage. The other will fail with a mount error but I don't

Samba 2.2.0 debs?

2001-04-26 Thread Ivens Porto
Anybody knows where i can get Samba 2.2.0 .deb files that work with potato? - Ivens Porto [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: using Xfig with LaTeX

2001-04-26 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Nicholas Robbins (on Thu, 26 Apr 2001 02:37:49PM -0400): > or just > > pdflatex file except pdflatex can't deal with eps files - you'd have to export Xfig's to pdf's instead, which i never got to work. but \usepackage{times} in the TeX file and ps2pdf produces output just as pretty..

Re: HP Deskjet 959C + PCL codes (w/ apsfilter)

2001-04-26 Thread Shawn Yarbrough
I saw this same problem with an HP 855Cse printer earlier this week. I experimentally discovered that the print job would print and complete normally if the text file ended with a form feed (ctrl-L). Later I fixed my problem for good by choosing a better magicfilter printer driver. The 855Cse wa

Re: using Xfig with LaTeX

2001-04-26 Thread Nicholas Robbins
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, MaD dUCK wrote: > of course there is: > > latex file && dvips -o - file | ps2pdf - file.pdf or just pdflatex file -Nicholas Robbins ___ "A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep." -W.H. Auden ___

Re: using Xfig with LaTeX

2001-04-26 Thread MaD dUCK
thank you all for your responses. considering that every single email i received suggested to export .eps from Xfig and then to use \epsfig, i must have not made myself clear enough... (a) i need a batch method to convert. but anyway, fig2dev is what's used by Xfig anyway, which is what i have bee

Re: PCI wierdness

2001-04-26 Thread Shawn Yarbrough
Your box crashed? Why did it crash? Did your sound card go bad, maybe? Or a component on your mainboard? Shawn Yarbrough [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian install with a softwareraid.

2001-04-26 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 03:09:16PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > hi peter > > check "root-raid howto" and software-raid howto > > http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Root-RAID-HOWTO.html > http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html > > nothing special about bootflops... > - it either

local package mirror

2001-04-26 Thread Brad Cramer
I have a machine running Redhat that has a lot of free disk space on it and I would like to use it to set up a local package mirror for the rest of my network that is running Debian. Could someone give me some pointers or point me to a howto on doing this. TIA Brad

Re: [perl] glob() and filenames w/ spaces

2001-04-26 Thread Sven Burgener
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 07:33:49PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > or, maybe try > > use File::Find; > my @list = (); > find( \&iterator , "./path/one" , "/another/path/here"); > &munge( @list ); > > sub iterator { > push @list,$File::Find::name >

Re: Debian install with a softwareraid.

2001-04-26 Thread Johann Spies
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 01:18:35AM +0200, Peter Durieux wrote: > Thnx 4 info, but I have already found the software raid howto. You can also look at http://www.clug.org.za/talks/software-raid-1.clug.html Johann -- J.H. Spies - Tel. 082 782 0336. Posbus 4668, Tygervallei 7536 "Submit your

Re: need help configuring hosts.deny

2001-04-26 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, ok, here I attached a relevant piece of the logfile. A few things you should know: jon00793.speed.planet.nl is the name the provider gave this internet connection sacred-key.org is the name I chose myself for this machine onix.sacred-key.org is the machine itself Mail is sent with sender '[E

Re: The Perfect Debian / Personal Computer

2001-04-26 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 11:16:29AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > Hall Stevenson wrote: > > > > > > Your problem sounds like a Plug-n-Play one. A similar problem occurs > > with some network cards. Disable PnP on the card. Also, in your BIOS, > > disable the "PnP Operating System" option if you

Re: CVS file permission problems

2001-04-26 Thread Nathan
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 11:10:23AM -0500, Hanasaki JiJi wrote: > I have created a new file and checked it into CVS. It's mode comes > out as 444 in the CVSROOT subdir. Noone else can check it out. Could > someone please explain this to me? > > Since I checked it in and left it unlocked, I would

Re: LaTeX convertion tools

2001-04-26 Thread Michael Soulier
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 05:55:06PM +0100, Saqib Shaikh wrote: > >I am wondering if there are any programs (preferabley Debian packages >but not necessarily) to aid in converting LaTeX documents to ASCII >text, HTML, RTF or Info? latex2html For ASCII, you probably want detex.

Re: flush route table?

2001-04-26 Thread Simon Law
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello, > > Is it possible to flush the route table in debian with the route cmd? I > know its possible in freeBSD. If not what might be some other > options? Thank you in advance for your time. > Hi there, If you have the iproute pack

Re: Ximian gnome 1.4

2001-04-26 Thread Brandon High
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 08:04:01PM +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote: > On 25 Apr 2001 07:34:11 +, Viktor Lakics wrote: > > > Or installing it in the debian way with dselect or apt? But what > > should I put into sources.list, and what command to use to start the > > install (This could be done even

RE: HP Deskjet 959C + PCL codes (w/ apsfilter)

2001-04-26 Thread Lewis, James M.
> -Original Message- > From: Dominique Deleris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 10:58 AM > To: debian-user-list; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: HP Deskjet 959C + PCL codes (w/ apsfilter) > > > Hello people ! > > I have a problem printing plain ASCII text to my p

Re: LaTeX convertion tools

2001-04-26 Thread Andrew Perrin
detex -> latex to text dvi2tty -> dvi to text latex2html -> latex to html latex2rtf -> latex to rtf Not sure about info. Check packages.debian.org for which packages - pretty sure most of them are in tex-base. ap -- Andrew J Per

Re: apt-getting ximian gnome 1.4 resulted in...

2001-04-26 Thread Brandon High
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 09:15:43AM -0700, Denzil Kelly wrote: > Setting up gnome-utils (1.4.0-ximian.4) ... > /var/lib/dpkg/info/gnome-utils.postinst: > scrollkeeper-update: command not found > dpkg: error processing gnome-utils (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error >

Re: LaTeX convertion tools

2001-04-26 Thread Jason Healy
At 988325706s since epoch (04/26/01 12:55:06 -0400 UTC), Saqib Shaikh wrote: > Hi All, > > I am wondering if there are any programs (preferabley Debian packages but not > necessarily) to aid in converting LaTeX documents to ASCII text, HTML, RTF or > Info? Here are some that I know of (these ar

A mess installation...looking a suggestion

2001-04-26 Thread Rogelio E. Castillo Haro
Hello! Since I upgraded to woody, my linux box become a mess, potato package, dependencies without target or sources...really a mess!!! What is the better solution for this? Reinstall all from potato, or how can I reorder this situation? Thanks in advance! -- Rogelio E. Castillo Haro [EMAIL

LaTeX convertion tools

2001-04-26 Thread Saqib Shaikh
Hi All,   I am wondering if there are any programs (preferabley Debian packages but not necessarily) to aid in converting LaTeX documents to ASCII text, HTML, RTF or Info?   Any information greatly appreciated.   Regards, Saqib Shaikh Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web site http://www.saqibshaikh.com

Re: Fwd: USENET archives are alive again!

2001-04-26 Thread John Bagdanoff
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 07:09:20AM -0700, Matheson Cameron wrote: > Not sure if anyone would be intereseted in this, but i > know a lot of the old unix-gurus liked usenet, so here > it is: Hey, I got the same spam! I miss dejanews, & can't get used to google. etin.com looks promising, but not alo

Re: VMware

2001-04-26 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Colin Watson wrote: >> In the case of Debian, maybe that's just because there's no-one to form >> a strategic marketing alliance with or whatever? :) > >I used to think Progeny might do some of that, but I guess that's not >part of their mission. Making Debian more corpo

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