Re: Problem with fetchmail.

On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 12:06:07AM +0200, Alberto Garc?a wrote: > I am not able to download my email with fetchmail. I try to download being > root and I configured it with fetchmailconf. It just picks the lists of > emails, but fails to download them. What could be the problem. > Thanks in advan

Obtaining the Ximian GNOME 1.4 Sources

Ximian is a Free Software company, says the web page . So does anybody know the deb-src line for Ximian GNOME?

Re: /usr/src/redhat on Debian?

Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 05:55:11PM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: > > > Because you have rpm installed, which may be because you installed > > > alien. > > I did install alien but these directories were all empty which is why > > I asked the question. > > If you use alien packag

Re: mutt's default colors (Potato)

will trillich wrote: > what *I* would like to know is -- is there a way to hilite > messages in a newsgroup based on a score of some sort? how? # Idiot filter (sorta). #color index white default '~h ^X-[Mm]ailer:.*Eudora' #color index white default '~h ^X-[Mm]ailer:.*Forte' #color index white defa

Re: OT: compile problem--solved (apparently)

On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 11:44:55PM +0200, Erdmut Pfeifer wrote: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 11:54:31PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > > I hope someone can give me clues about what's screwing up the compilation of > > a molecular docking app I'm trying to assemble for my classes... It is > > suppo

Re: Debian on 386SX/3MB

On Fri, Apr 27, 2001, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote: > On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Indraneel Majumdar wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > Can anyone please tell me whether it is possible to install Debian on a > > 386SX with 3MB RAM. I tried to install using the potato floppies but it > > starts to load the com

Re: Debian on 386SX/3MB

On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Indraneel Majumdar wrote: > Hello, > > Can anyone please tell me whether it is possible to install Debian on a > 386SX with 3MB RAM. I tried to install using the potato floppies but it > starts to load the compressed ramdisk from the root floppy and then > simply hangs. No fu

Re: kdebase-crypto

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, John Galt wrote: > > Hrm. You need > > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/ testing/non-US main contrib > non-free > > (single line...) > > crypto packages are in non-US. okay, i added the following: deb http://non-us.deb

PostgreSQL 7.1 packages for potato

Packages of PostgreSQL 7.1 for potato are now available from http://people.debian.org/~elphick/postgresql/potato.html -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP: 1024R/32B8FAA1: 97 EA 1D 47 72 3F

Re: dpkg -S inadequacies

"Thomas J. Hamman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 12:11:10PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: > > > The RPM thing is nice because you can find out what package matches an > > exact file, and not get any extraneous results. > > You mean like this? > > hawk3:~$ dpkg -S /usr/X11R6

Debian on 386SX/3MB

Hello, Can anyone please tell me whether it is possible to install Debian on a 386SX with 3MB RAM. I tried to install using the potato floppies but it starts to load the compressed ramdisk from the root floppy and then simply hangs. No furthur output. The floppies are OK and work fine on other sys

Re: dpkg -S inadequacies

On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 12:11:10PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: > The RPM thing is nice because you can find out what package matches an > exact file, and not get any extraneous results. You mean like this? hawk3:~$ dpkg -S /usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir xutils: /usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir The problem isn

make problems with mp3::info perl module install

i am trying to install a perl module. i read on http://www.rcbowen.com/imho/perl/modules.html that you simply run: perl makefile.pl make make test make install however, make returns an error in all three of its steps which says?: "your make file has been rebuilt" "please rerun the make command"

Re: ALSA problems in Debian/unstable

> I've installed gamix and also gmix with gnome-media, but still ther's > no sound. > Furthermore alsaplayer does'nt start with a GUI, I can call it from the > command line but it yields nos sound. > xmms is also hanging as soon as I want to start ato play a track. > It seems very mysterious to me.

Re: Postgresql-problems

Johann Spies wrote: >1. There was no .dsc-file. >2. I could not get to compile it because of the following error: >-- > checking for tclConfig.sh... no >configure: error: file `tclConfig.sh' is required for Tcl >make: *** [config.cache] Error 1

Re: How to add plugins to Mozilla

On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 05:36:23PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > For months off-and-on I've tried to add Java and/or Flash to Mozilla. > Nothing I've done seems to work. > > I'm currently running Mozilla Build ID: 2001032614. i am running the 0.8.1 packages from Kitame's site. > > Can anyone tel

Re: kdebase-crypto

Hrm. You need deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/ testing/non-US main contrib non-free (single line...) crypto packages are in non-US. On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA1 > >On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Simon Law wrote: > >> I

Re: nfs re-export issues

Shane Liebling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hey all, I am working on getting a diskless cluster working and > everything seems to be fine except for one thing, but first let > me give you a breakdown of the suspects: > > client - app server - file server > > The client mounts /export/home as /e

How to add plugins to Mozilla

For months off-and-on I've tried to add Java and/or Flash to Mozilla. Nothing I've done seems to work. I'm currently running Mozilla Build ID: 2001032614. Here's the contents of my /usr/local/mozilla/plugins directory: westek[westk]:/home/westk> ls -l /usr/local/mozilla/plugins/ total 976 -rwx

Re: kdebase-crypto

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Simon Law wrote: > I'm guessing you're running testing? kdebase-crypto is in > unstable, and I'm guessing that it hasn't filtered down into testing yet. > If you want, you can just download the package and do a dpkg -i on i

Re: login hassles........

On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 06:38:51AM -0700, Pad Bambury wrote: > Hey all, > problem with logging in to a pc. Can shell in > remotely, and log in using the consoles, but the gnome > login merely disappears as if it's going to work and > then brings you back to the login screen. typically, the graphi

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

On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 12:48:52PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: > > See http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/hardware/46g.png for some quick > benchmark results showing the differences between a single IDE > drive, two drives on separate channels, and two drives on the same > channel. Hm. The server r

Re: nfs re-export issues

> Hey all, I am working on getting a diskless cluster working and > everything seems to be fine except for one thing, but first let > me give you a breakdown of the suspects: > > client - app server - file server > > The client mounts /export/home as /export/home off the app > server, and the app

nfs re-export issues

Hey all, I am working on getting a diskless cluster working and everything seems to be fine except for one thing, but first let me give you a breakdown of the suspects: client - app server - file server The client mounts /export/home as /export/home off the app server, and the app server mounts /

Re: OT: compile problem--where 2 look 4 cause? (short story, long info)

On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 11:54:31PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > I hope someone can give me clues about what's screwing up the compilation of > a molecular docking app I'm trying to assemble for my classes... It is > supposed to compile on a number of *nix platforms including Linux, but my > att

Postgresql-problems

I am using Postgresql 6.5.3 on Potato. My daily backup script started reporting the following a few days ago: --- ERROR: cannot create pgdump_oid Can not create pgdump_oid table. Explanation from backend: 'ERROR: cannot create pgdump_oid '. -

Re: Fw: Snarled console after X 4.0.2 runs.

> > >Robb Kidd wrote: > Check the "console" section, I think, for the items that are enabled. > If there aren't too many, post them here to the list. > > Sure thing ... > > # > > # Console drivers > > # > > CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y > > CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y > > > > ... That is it for the console sect

X setup in Woody

Upgraded a fresh Potato install to Woody. Came with XFree4, but XF86Setup is gone. So is xf86config, anXious and there is no dexter, which I understand is the replacement. Now I understand why people say setting up X is so hard :-) How to use debconf or other tools to set up X? Or can I dump Xfree

Re:

Hmmm... Try looking near the top of the case in one of the 5.25" bays.. That's often where the CD ROM can be found. The d drive is usually found in MS Windows or in MS DOS, not Linux. :-) (Sorry.. it's Friday) Seriously though, I'm guessing you probably have your CD ROM and your second hard drive

Re: kdebase-crypto

On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > i'm trying to get konqueror set up to access https pages. the setup tells > me that i need to install kdebase-crypto, but apt-get install > kdebase-crypto responds: > > Package kdebase-crypto h

kdebase-crypto

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 i'm trying to get konqueror set up to access https pages. the setup tells me that i need to install kdebase-crypto, but apt-get install kdebase-crypto responds: Package kdebase-crypto has no available version, but exists in the database. This typical

Re: ALSA problems in Debian/unstable

I've installed gamix and also gmix with gnome-media, but still ther's no sound. Furthermore alsaplayer does'nt start with a GUI, I can call it from the command line but it yields nos sound. xmms is also hanging as soon as I want to start ato play a track. It seems very mysterious to me. However apl

Re: least memory xterm look-alike

On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 03:31:58AM +0800, csj wrote: > On Friday 27 April 2001 12:21, 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? > > re: wm's, you probably c

printing text

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 i can print from wordperfect (the MS version running under win4lin and the linux version), but i can't print text documents from the command line, pine, etc. Here's my /etc/printcap: lp:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\ :mx#0:\ :sh:\

Re: aol

On Saturday 28 April 2001 02:59, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote: > I'm hoping that someone will come up with a Free Software > equivalent of QuarkXPress as good as the Gimp. I've contacted > Quark a few times, and they still thumb their nose at Linux - > which is a shame, because I'm sure a lot of

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

Tim Wood wrote: Dumped Win98 > Loaded NT4.0 (SP6) > > The latter made it necessary to boot off floppy as I have yet to find a > way to make it boot through the NT loader. You should be able to start the NT loader through LILO. An entry like this should work: other=/dev/hda1 label=nt I have

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

On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 12:48:52PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: > See http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/hardware/46g.png for some quick > benchmark results showing the differences between a single IDE drive, two > drives on separate channels, and two drives on the same channel. > > Apart from one

Re: least memory xterm look-alike

On Friday 27 April 2001 12:21, 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? re: wm's, you probably can't get any faster than fvwm, the F(?) Virtual Window Manager.

Re: ALSA problems in Debian/unstable

Stefan Deibel wrote: > Hi, > After upgrading to Debian/unstable I want to get sound with ALSA. I install > alsa-source and compiled the alsa-driver for Soundblaster 128 PCI (Ensoni1 > 1371) it using kernel 2.4.3. After installation lsmod shows > > snd-seq-midi4816 0 (autoclean) (unu

Re: sigh... and now what .. !\*#!!

On Fri, Apr 27, 2001, Adriano Peluso wrote: > Hello all, > > Ok, I run the rsync process and it took half a day. > > When at 99% I got a "file corrupted. Moved while tranferring?" message. > > I looked at the server and the dir 2.2_rev2 I was downloading from had been > removed ands substitute

Re: LaTeX convertion tools

On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 01:14:24PM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote: > detex -> latex to text > dvi2tty -> dvi to text > latex2html -> latex to html > latex2rtf -> latex to rtf hevea --> latex to html or text Johann -- J.H. Spies - Tel. 082 782 0336. Posbus 4668, Tygervallei 7536 "Submit yourse

Problem with SBLive Platinum 5.1 partially solved

Hi, Thanks to you who took your time to answer my previous post. It turned out that sound was working after all, just not as I expected. First thing that threw me off track was that /dev/sndstat didn't respond. It has been suggested that this device is obsoleted and I would like to know if anyone

Re: aol

On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Kent West wrote: > Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote: > > Whatever you do, be sure to send an email to AOL about > > their lack of support - particularly if you switch > > providers. Vote with your pocketbook. Granted, if you're > > the only guy who does it, they'll probably not ge

Re: Capturing console output

On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 07:18:44AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > As a matter of fact I only meant to capture a file in my stand-alone laptop > bash console. As far as I'm concerned the right suggestion to me was : use > script! > Thanks to all > Vittorio Heh, funny.

Re: Quick Time needed!

On Friday 27 April 2001 23:06, Jean-Sylvestre Gakwaya wrote: > Is there anyone who has Quicktime player for linux? :OS > > > Jean-Sylvestre Some versions of Apple's Quicktime players run fine under wine. From experience these are the older 2.x (iirc) versions. The latest (forgot the version

Re: The Perfect Debian / Personal Computer

On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 09:20:02AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > To make sure I understand this, what you are telling me is that a > response to a command is pulled off by the driver polling the card's > buffer? > > But incoming data is "pushed" by the card, using an IRQ? > > It does make sense

Re: can't load libXpm.so.4

"Stephen E. Hargrove" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Alan Shutko wrote: > > > > You need the libc5, xpm4.7, and xlibc packages. (You may have some > > already, but you need all of them for it to work.) > > i don't seem to be able to locate xlibc: As Colin corrected me, that'

Re: How to remove messages from mbox based on relative date?

On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 02:59:58PM +0100, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Mike Fedyk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 11:32:05AM +0100, David Wright wrote: > > > > If you process email using the Date: header, then you're basing > > > your processing on the date it was allegedly sent.

Re: Quick Time needed!

Don't have it yet, but you might check out: http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=quicktime On Friday 27 April 2001 08:06 am, Jean-Sylvestre Gakwaya wrote: > Is there anyone who has Quicktime player for linux? :OS > > > Jean-Sylvestre -- 73, JC Portlock KE6UME [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 144

Re: umsdos/loopback with debian

on Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 07:10:53AM +0100, Saqib Shaikh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > hi all, > > what i want to do is convert my existing linux partition into an > umsdos or loopback filesystem to send to a friend. i have done the > opposite - converted umsdos to ext2, but could someone tell me ho

Re: aol

Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote: > Whatever you do, be sure to send an email to AOL about > their lack of support - particularly if you switch > providers. Vote with your pocketbook. Granted, if you're > the only guy who does it, they'll probably not get too > upset. But, as Arlo Guthrie says, if fif

Re: samba + netatalk

I am currently reading a book that has some info on configuring a Samba/Appletalk server. It's Linux Samba Server Administration by Roderick W. Smith (Sybex, ISBN 0-7821-2740-1). Haven't gotten very far into the book yet, but so far is well written and technically informed. Ernest Johanson Web Sy

Re: cron: nth of month?

on Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 10:18:58AM -0500, Dave Sherohman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 01:20:00AM -0400, Dan Christensen wrote: > > Does anyone have any clever solutions to the following problem of a > > similar nature: I want to run a job at 28 day intervals, i.e. on > > e

Re: Snarled console after X 4.0.2 runs.

Hall Stevenson wrote: >Robb Kidd wrote: >> My problem certainly appears to be related to others' experiences >> with framebuffer issues. How do I disable the framebuffer if the >> CONFIG_FB entry is missing from kernel-source-2.4.2/.config? >> Is this a line I can safely add? > > If you don't have

Re: Shutting down as a user

On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 02:31:11AM -0700, Jim McCloskey wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 08:16:06AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Using debian on a stand-alone laptop I usually work as an ordinary > > user and find somewhat awkward the fact that I have to su in order > > to shutdown th

sigh... and now what .. !\*#!!

Hello all, Ok, I run the rsync process and it took half a day. When at 99% I got a "file corrupted. Moved while tranferring?" message. I looked at the server and the dir 2.2_rev2 I was downloading from had been removed ands substituted with 2.2_rev3 but the new one was still empty. So I try

Re: cron: nth of month?

on Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 10:36:57AM -0500, Dave Sherohman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 12:32:46PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > Another missing specification: does anyone have a good "last weekday of > > month" recipie? > > 'Last weekday of the month' is equivalent to

Re: can't load libXpm.so.4

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Colin Watson wrote: > Minor correction: xlib6. ah, that did the trick. thanks! - -- ) ,_) (-(__ -|- __ ) | (/_\/(/_ ( ___ | mailto : [EMAIL PROTECTED]|

Re: can't load libXpm.so.4

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Alan Shutko wrote: > > You need the libc5, xpm4.7, and xlibc packages. (You may have some > already, but you need all of them for it to work.) i don't seem to be able to locate xlibc: # dpkg -l *xlib* un texlib

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

On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 05:32:31PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: ... > - even if you had 2 power supplies... > - most motherboards only has one atx power connector True. And if you went for redundant PS's and a mobo that supports them, the cost would go way up. > - are the two power supplies pro

Re: speedup nvidia?

Hi, On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Anthony Lau wrote: > Hi, > > > Hmm..my X works without this option. Maybe I should add that into my > XF86Config file! I added this options but X refuse to use it; maybe it's not compatible or something else. > > You need to comment out > > Load "GLcore" >

Grand Opening

First off I would like to Thank You for taking time to read this letter. Second of all your e-mail address was pulled from an on-line source, if this was unsolicited from an unclean source we're very sorry, but you will not receive any other e-mails from us. This is the only & last mes

gimp version in unstable

Hola~ For the longest time, I couldn't figure out why my gimp version was at 1.0.4 while gimp 1.2 had been out for quite some time. As it turns out, the package for gimp 1.2 is gimp1.2, which will not upgrade over 1.0.4 unless explicitly installed. As it turns out, this isn't the only package wh

Re: missind cd-rom; d drive

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, cris wrote: > my cd-rom is missing, ls -al /dev/cdrom and tell us what it says. >also my d drive where do i look ? > what is your d drive? - -- ) ,_) (-(__ -|- __ ) | (/_\/(/_ (

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

On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 12:49:13AM -0500, Rahul Jain wrote: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 09:33:19PM -0700, Brandon High wrote: > > 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 he

Re: speedup nvidia?

Hi, [chomp] I added the option Option "NvAgp" "1" to the screen section of my XF86Config-4 and rebooted (somehow, once I get in X, my keyboard hangs when I try to leave it and since I don't have a second pc close at home, the reset button is the only feasable solution). Yeah. the green rectangl

Re: cant get grip to rip (SOLVED)

On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 10:14:56AM -0700, Charles Lewis wrote: > Apparently it was a permissions problem with /dev/sg0. > Not sure what that device is used for, because my cd is on /dev/scd0, but > after I fixed permissions, grip worked just fine. sg0 refers to the sg.o kernel module which provide

Re: can't load libXpm.so.4

Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >"Stephen E. Hargrove" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> i just downloaded and installed WordPerfect 8. throughout the install it >> complained of a missing libXpm.so.4, but it didn't appear to be a >> showstopper. > >When things complain of missing libraries,

Re: C to Z hard drives ( C copy?s) on win sys.

On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 02:03:12AM +0300, vordoo wrote: > > 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 d

Re: cant get grip to rip (SOLVED)

> > Apparently it was a permissions problem with /dev/sg0. > Not sure what that device is used for, because my cd is on /dev/scd0, but > after I fixed permissions, grip worked just fine. i'm pretty sure /dev/sg* are the generic scsi devices. if your cd writer is ide/atapi, then you're probably

Re: Ximian gnome 1.4

On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 07:34:11AM +, Viktor Lakics wrote: > Hi All, > > Yesterday I tried to install the now Ximian Gnome 1.4 on potato > stable, unsuccesfully. After automatically downloading the installer, > then manually downloading the installer, and running it, the > installer complains

Re: root fs not mounted

Thanks, that did the trick. I didn't know that. Seems I should read the changelog the next time more careful. Stephan On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: > i'm not sure of your configuration, but i had the same problem until i > answered 'y' to IDE/ATA-2 DISK support. > > On Sun, 22

no usbmgr for 2.4.x kernels?

i updated my debian unstable laptop today to have the usbmgr package refuse to configure itself for a 2.4.x kernel. isn't usbmgr the program that runs my nice little scripts to configure my usb devices when they are attached? what should i do, since i'm running 2.4? thanks -- __

Re: can't load libXpm.so.4

"Stephen E. Hargrove" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i just downloaded and installed WordPerfect 8. throughout the install it > complained of a missing libXpm.so.4, but it didn't appear to be a > showstopper. When things complain of missing libraries, it's always a showstopper. You need the li

Re: cron: nth of month?

On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 12:32:46PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > Another missing specification: does anyone have a good "last weekday of > month" recipie? 'Last weekday of the month' is equivalent to 'Monday - Thursday where tomorrow is next month or Friday where 3 days from now is next month'.

Re: Problem with SBLive Platinum 5.1

On (27/04/01 13:50), Anton Emmerfors wrote: > > I just wanted to ask if anyone has gotten a SoundBlaster Live Platinum > 5.1 to work with the kernel drivers (emu10k1) with 2.2.19 or 2.4.3? I > have checked all the documentation I saw as relevant and still can't > find what's wrong. I haven't used

Re: Why is xdm slow to start? OT

What does my display need entropy for? Don't I cause enough chaos myself? ;-) Dave On 27-Apr-2001 Benjamin Black wrote: >> > I asked this question a short time ago, but with a (probably) >> > unhelpful subject header. I will try again. >> > >> > Can anyone give me a clue as to why xdm is ve

Re: cron: nth of month?

On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 01:20:00AM -0400, Dan Christensen wrote: > Does anyone have any clever solutions to the following problem of a > similar nature: I want to run a job at 28 day intervals, i.e. on > every fourth Sunday. Not terribly clever, but just end your script with echo '/path/to/scrip

[no subject]

my cd-rom is missing, also my d drive where do i look ?

Re: cant get grip to rip (SOLVED)

Apparently it was a permissions problem with /dev/sg0. Not sure what that device is used for, because my cd is on /dev/scd0, but after I fixed permissions, grip worked just fine. -- Charles Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Just installed the grip package, but I can't get it to rip. I've tried both > the

Quick Time needed!

  Is there anyone who has Quicktime player for linux? :OS   Jean-Sylvestre

can't load libXpm.so.4

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 i just downloaded and installed WordPerfect 8. throughout the install it complained of a missing libXpm.so.4, but it didn't appear to be a showstopper. now when i execute xwp: /usr/bin/wp/wpbin/xwp: can't load library 'libXpm.so.4' i've verified th

Re: Why is xdm slow to start?

> > I asked this question a short time ago, but with a (probably) > > unhelpful subject header. I will try again. > > > > Can anyone give me a clue as to why xdm is very slow to start X > > windowing. I have been using xdm for some time. Recent upgrades (to > > testing?) seem to have changed

Re: GUI Email program

On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 07:05:53PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > 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. wha

Re: Timeout for shell script

On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 04:34:25PM +0200, Andre Berger wrote: > * Keith O'Connell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2001-04-26 16:29 +0200: > > > I have a shell script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ that synchronizes the system > > > clock with time servers via rdate. Sometimes the servers can't be > > > reached, and the

Re: Shutting down as a user

On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 08:16:06AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Using debian on a stand-alone laptop I usually work as an ordinary user and > find somewhat awkward the fact that I have to su in order to shutdown the PC. > Is there a way to power my PC off as a user? Use sudo. Someone pos

Re: Stalled modems, Re: The Perfect Debian / Personal Computer

> " I have an internal USR modem that goofed up when I would > dual-boot. > " Win95 would screw it up so that it would not work under > Linux. > "*No* initialization string would fix this; I had to power off the > machine to " properly reset it." I have an internal USR modem that had *no* problems

Re: The Perfect Debian / Personal Computer

Mike Fedyk wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 11:16:29AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > > > > You see, the modem actually does work in the sense that you can send > > 'AT' strings to it and get 'OK''s back. > > > > It's just that it never can dial and make a connection successfully. It > > seems

Re: Shutting down as a user

David Wright wrote: > Quoting Mark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > When logged in, press Alt+ to halt the system with > > > the Keyboard Request. > > > > > > > Is there anyway to change this key sequence to something like > > ++ ? > > I think it's the "KeyboardSignal" in your keymap. > What

KINGMAX-PCMCIA NET CARD

Has anybody installed a Kingmax KEN0100-RFpcmcia net card ? THANKS

Re: Shutting down as a user

» David Wright disse isso e eu digo aquilo: > Quoting francisco m . neto ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > I suggest a different approach. Still lon /etc/inittab, you > > can put another entry, for the keyboard request: > > > > kb::kbrequest:/sbin/shutdown -h -a -t0 now > > > > The '-a' option

Re: Compiling package from "testing" for potato

Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mark> However, the last few lines of output when compiling the .deb seem a Mark> little worrying:dpkg-deb: Mark> Mark> building package `hotplug' in `../hotplug_0.0.20010228-3_all.deb'. Mark> dpkg-genchanges -b M

Re: Compiling package from "testing" for potato

Colin Watson wrote: > Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >However, the last few lines of output when compiling the .deb seem a > >little worrying:dpkg-deb: > > > >building package `hotplug' in `../hotplug_0.0.20010228-3_all.deb'. > >dpkg-genchange

Re: The Perfect Debian / Personal Computer

Hall Stevenson wrote: > > * 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.

Re: Shutting down as a user

Quoting Mark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > When logged in, press Alt+ to halt the system with > > the Keyboard Request. > > > > Is there anyway to change this key sequence to something like > ++ ? I think it's the "KeyboardSignal" in your keymap. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel

Re: Shutting down as a user

Dear friends, thanks to all of you for the many helpful suggestions. In the end I've complied with the method of Francisco Neto which is IMHO the tidiest. Here it is enclosed. Ciao Vittorio - Forwarded message from francisco m . neto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - » I suggest a different

Re: How to remove messages from mbox based on relative date?

Quoting Mike Fedyk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 11:32:05AM +0100, David Wright wrote: > > If you process email using the Date: header, then you're basing > > your processing on the date it was allegedly sent. > > > > If you process email using the output of the date command, the

Re: Shutting down as a user

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Martin Würtele wrote: > > tha man page says something abaout /etc/shutdown.allow but i haven't got it > to work by now. it also says that you have to use the -a option if you want it to use shutdown.allow. and, that you need to m

Re: ISDN packages broken?

In article "Felix E. Klee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for all the replies! I found out what the problem was: my card is > not supported by the HISAX drivers in the kernel because it is an AVM > Fritz! card v2.0 (I didn't suppose the version number makes such a big > difference). After inst

Stalled modems, Re: The Perfect Debian / Personal Computer

" I have an internal USR modem that goofed up when I would dual-boot. " Win95 would screw it up so that it would not work under Linux. *No* " initialization string would fix this; I had to power off the machine to " properly reset it." Quoting Keith G. Murphy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hall Stevenson

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