Building from source

2001-05-02 Thread Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil
Hello I have downloaded somepackage..diff.gz somepackage.dsc somepackage.orig.tar.gz from incoming. Presently I have a potato installation How do I make a deb file from the above TIA sunil

Re: HP 1220C troubles cont.'d

2001-05-02 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: HP 1220C troubles cont.'d Date: Wed, May 02, 2001 at 02:22:55PM + In reply to:K. Matthew Victor Quoting K. Matthew Victor([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Okay, I"ve now gotten the beast to print garbled trash and consume large > stacks of paper!! > Progress, sort of. > So

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V101 #529

2001-05-02 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: debian-user-digest Digest V101 #529 Date: Wed, May 02, 2001 at 12:37:43PM + In reply to:K. Matthew Victor Quoting K. Matthew Victor([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > Thank you for the help, thus far no joy! > Results from the suggested commands: > $ whereis lpd > lpd

MSI K7 MASTER MS-6341 MOTHERBOARD

2001-05-02 Thread Landon Hendee
(please 'CC' me your replies. Thanks. This is also my first posting to any debian.org lists, so if I'm posting to the wrong group, etc. please let me know. I hope the cross-post is ok, also.) I'm buying a motherboard soon and want to know if this one is compatible with Debian. (Info and specs a

samba setup gaflooey

2001-05-02 Thread will trillich
now that apple-communications are all lovely (thanks to ethan and his quickie fix) i though samba would be a breeze. silly me. after 24 hours, my uptime was OVER FIVE, and tcpd was consuming 98% of cpu time (according to 'top').. 9869 ?R 0:01 \_ tcpd /usr/sbin/nmbd -a 8493 ?

Re: Splitting Apache logs

2001-05-02 Thread will trillich
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 07:11:49PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: > I would like to receive suggestions both on functionality and on any issues > regarding the documentation (if you don't understand the man page then let me > know). log via DBI to postgresql. then yank whatever crossections you lik

Re: backup strategies

2001-05-02 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya I'd use disk as backups... if i was starting from scratch - nothing need be done...unlike tapes that requires regular possibly daily interaction ) 20Gb disks are about $100 now... and can hold 2-3 months of daily/weekly incremental backups before you have to

Re: ReiserFS + 2.4.4

2001-05-02 Thread Oki DZ
Ilya Martynov wrote: > I'm not sure about reiserfs but at least ext3 does replays logs on > read only filesystem. I'm going to check if it so with reiserfs. > > Here http://kt.zork.net/kernel-traffic/kt20010119_103.html#1 you can > find some discussion why on jornaling filesystems log can be repla

Re: backup strategies

2001-05-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, May 01, 2001 at 04:47:00PM -0700, Osamu Aoki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 04:11:25PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > The cd solution probably has an advantage, since I could use the cd-writer > > > for other cd-writing too. > > > > http://kmself.home.netcom.

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

2001-05-02 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya > I think if you use a diode to connect the outputs you are limiting > the current flow in one way only. And why would you want to do this? the diodes need to be power diodes... vs signal diodes given you cannot tie the power supplies at two diff voltages together... you have to isolate

Re: Linux style dialup automatically

2001-05-02 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 11:35:23AM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: > > Why not using /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/fetchmail ? > Note that it uses /etc/init.d/fetchmail which, in turn, needs > /etc/fetchmailrc. > > Please read /usr/share/doc/fetchmail/README.Debian > -- Is this a multi user box? Do you want each

Re: debian package mirrors

2001-05-02 Thread Colin Watson
"Matus \"fantomas\" Uhlar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Colin Watson wrote: >-> That's very old, and doesn't seem to know about pools. The one I quoted >-> is billed as a working pool-aware partial mirror script. > >well, pool is just subdirectory in the hierarchy, why should it work badly? Because

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

2001-05-02 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 11:21:49PM +0200, PiotR wrote: > Also I didn't understood why Alvin said "If one PS dies you are dead" I > believe it will only fail to power those drives attached to them. This would only work in a raid >=1 setup. You'd have one one drive on PS1, and its mirror on PS2 md

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

2001-05-02 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 04:52:03PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 11:21:49PM +0200, PiotR wrote: > > I think if you use a diode to connect the outputs you are limiting the > > current flow in one way only. And why would you want to do this? > > Could this topic die or go

Re: netatalk setup gaflooey

2001-05-02 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 08:45:19AM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: > > hostname -tcp -noddp -nosetpassword -nouservol -noguest > > Is hostname arbitrary? hostname should be replaced with whatever hostname your machine has, sorry fo the confusion. > I noticed in the init script, afpd -n "$serv

Re: any women here?

2001-05-02 Thread Ailbhe Leamy
On (18/04/01 11:58), Deirdre Saoirse wrote: > On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Erik Steffl wrote: >>> It could be because a lot of women are brushed off, or feel that >>> they are. I must confess that sometimes it seems like men have >>> invisible rays with which they communicate, because women aren't a >>>

Kernel sound problems

2001-05-02 Thread Craig Holyoak
I have been running kernel 2.4.1 without any problems for some time now on my Debian (woody) box. I just tried to upgrade to 2.4.4, but now mp3's don't play properly - it's just a bunch of static and the time ticks over really slowly (thats in xmms, but the same problem also occurs in mpg123). CD's

Re: Having 3 jpg images side by side to create one bigger image?

2001-05-02 Thread Jason Healy
At 988868879s since epoch (05/02/01 17:47:59 -0400 UTC), Shaul Karl wrote: > Is there a utility to have 3 jpg image files put side by side in order to > create one image? You could try to talk `montage` (part of the imagemagik suite) into doing it. Montage will stick pictures next to each other.

Re: Parallel zips

2001-05-02 Thread David Harper
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Wright) wrote: > > I have tried the imm module, but this will not install. (It just tells > > me that "Device or resource busy". It adds, of course, that this can be > > caused by incorrect parameters, but it will not accept any parameters I > > can think to give it. >

Re: Having 3 jpg images side by side to create one bigger image?

2001-05-02 Thread straylite
At Thu, 03 May 2001 00:47:59 +0300 , Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Is there a utility to have 3 jpg image files put side by side in order to >create one image? > I am no gimp guru, but it shouldn't be too hard to do this with the gimp. Just create a new image with adequate horizontal

Re: kde2

2001-05-02 Thread Hans
I believe there were only rpm's on that disk, and they suggested to build it yourself from source for other distro's. I didn't buy it. Go for apt-sources. --Hans P.S. for the unenlightened, Linux Format is a UK magazine also sold in Holland in bigger bookstores. At 04:06 PM 5/2/01 +0100, David Ri

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

2001-05-02 Thread Rich Puhek
(Sorry about the blank email... too much caffeene got me a twitchy trigger finger). Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > > In fact, > there will be some point at which each individual PSU will run > just as hot as if it handled all the load on its own (you can be sure > your box will draw exactly that much lo

Re: Netscape 4.77 - spell checker

2001-05-02 Thread Greg Madden
Keith O'Connell wrote: > > Hi, > > I recently went from Netscape 4.76 to 4.77 via stable and have just > noticed that the spell check option is greyed out on the menues now. > > What should I do to get the spell checker back? > What idiot thing am I likly to have done to have lost it? > > I als

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

2001-05-02 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 11:21:49PM +0200, PiotR wrote: > On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 08:30:10AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 08:42:04PM +0200, PiotR wrote: > > > If you short circuit both PS's outputs then the voltage is the same and > > > there won't be any reverse current

Having 3 jpg images side by side to create one bigger image?

2001-05-02 Thread Shaul Karl
Is there a utility to have 3 jpg image files put side by side in order to create one image? That is, the final image will be something like: = | 1st image | 2nd image | 3rd image | = -- Shaul Karl <[EMAI

Re: play - or other program to play waves...

2001-05-02 Thread Ilya Martynov
JTH> Hi, JTH> I'm looking for "play" (used by licq) anyone know which package JTH> could contain it? Or any other program (should work with arts) artsplay? -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- | Ilya Martynov (http://martynov.org/)

Re: 3ware raid - custom rescue floppy?

2001-05-02 Thread aphro
well i guess i don't have to worry about it. the servers were so defective that im just shippin em back. gonna get the right stuff this time, no more OS on a raid array. nate > i thought that the debian rescue disk didnt include support > course i havent tested this yet. > > and no the systems

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

2001-05-02 Thread Rich Puhek
-- _ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. 2125 1st Ave East Hibbing MN 55746 tel: 218.262.1130 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Re: gnome/sawfish: windows only open on workspace #1

2001-05-02 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 11:30:23PM +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote: > On 02 May 2001 15:23:12 -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > > After I "logout" from the gnome session, and log back in, all the same > > windows open -- as near as I can tell -- but THEY ALL OPEN ON > > WORKSPACE #1 which makes an unh

Re: gnome/sawfish: windows only open on workspace #1

2001-05-02 Thread Mario Vukelic
On 02 May 2001 15:23:12 -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > After I "logout" from the gnome session, and log back in, all the same > windows open -- as near as I can tell -- but THEY ALL OPEN ON > WORKSPACE #1 which makes an unholy mess. Sawfish as 2 config items in gnomecc: "Automatically remembe

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

2001-05-02 Thread PiotR
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 08:30:10AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 08:42:04PM +0200, PiotR wrote: > > If you short circuit both PS's outputs then the voltage is the same and > > there won't be any reverse current, neither in the data cables. So te load > > will be distribut

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

2001-05-02 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 03:13:34PM -0500, Rich Puhek wrote: ... > I agree with Matthew in that there _is_ a reason to share the load, > actually a few that I can think of. Let's say you have a pair of 300W > supplies on a box that draws 250W at rest. Rather than let one supply > crank along at 250W

Re: Downloading of Debian

2001-05-02 Thread Timothy J. Ford
"Quek Choon Huat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > >   > >     I am very new to Linux. Is there anyone who can tell me which exactly to > download for installation. > >   > > Thnks and Rgds Have you considered buying a set of installation CD's? When you have a working system, it is easy to

HP 1220C troubles cont.'d

2001-05-02 Thread K. Matthew Victor
"K. Matthew Victor" wrote: > > > > > Okay, I've now gotten the beast to print garbled trash and consume large stacks of paper!! Progress, sort of. So, now to try to find a driver that will give at least a minor amount of utility. Thanks, Matt Using lpj4 without postscript @600dpi, will print

Netscape v.s. C source code

2001-05-02 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, I have HTML-ized documentation for a code library that contains links to the actual header files. Clicking on the link is supposed to show the contents of the "fool.h" file, for example. However, instead of displaying the text in the netscape window, I get a little popup showing the first fe

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

2001-05-02 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 08:18:20PM +0100, Matthew Sackman wrote: ... > > Every production server that I've seen that has 2 PSUs has both > continuously running. At hopefully < 50% capacity. Interesting. Could you post the list of brand names/vendors so that we'll know what not to buy. ... Of >

HP 1220C troubles cont.'d

2001-05-02 Thread K. Matthew Victor
"K. Matthew Victor" wrote: > > > > > > Subject: Re: Any hope of help? or suggestions? > > Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 10:04:12 -0400 > > From: Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > > > Subject: Any hope of help? or suggestions? > > Date: Wed, May 02, 2001 at 04:

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

2001-05-02 Thread Rich Puhek
Dell Poweredge 2450 style servers is what you're looking for. They have two power supplies, each with its own power cord. Yes, it can run on one PS... the last one I set up ran that way on my desk since I only had one cord handy. Of course, you'll want to make damn sure the grounds are at the same

sendmail and setgroups()

2001-05-02 Thread Shane Wegner
Hi, The current SendMail in unstable appears to be doing a setgroups() call when it does not have superuser privileges. I am getting the following on a regular basis from my lids kernel. LIDS: sendmail (9 2 inode 32909) pid 19760 user (8/8) on NULL tty: more CAP_SETGID violation: Try to setgroup

crontab problem ? - SOLVED

2001-05-02 Thread Dominique Deleris
Dominique Deleris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello list. > > I want to run a script, using the crontab facilites in debian : I > have created a symbolic link to my administrative script in > /etc/cron.weekly, but it seems to me that it is never triggered. > > Here is the ls for the symlink in

gnome/sawfish: windows only open on workspace #1

2001-05-02 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, I'm using GNOME with sawfish as the window manager. In GNOME's control centre, I have ticked the option to "automatically save changes to session". This appears to work: when I log in (using gdm), the applications that were running in my last session are restarted. Sawfish, like any moder

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

2001-05-02 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 12:05:11PM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > 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 >

Re: play - or other program to play waves...

2001-05-02 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Then look at artsplay :) Go figure . . . I set it up on licq and kde/potato. Works fine. So, if you already have a copy of kde2's latest, the artsplay *should* already be available on your system. type art+tab+tab for other arts stuff in a vt or console.. tatah On Wednesday 02 May 2001 10:58

Re: IRQ 0 for 3C900 Combo PCI? -> SOLVED!

2001-05-02 Thread Matt Thompson
Turns out IRQ 0 meant that the card wasn't actually getting an IRQ at all (thanks to the ever fabulous rcw :). I set the BIOS to a non-PNP OS and all is well. :) Matt Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Administrator Williamson & Associates http://www.wassoc.com On Wed, 2 May 2001, Matt Thompso

Re: play - or other program to play waves...

2001-05-02 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, try bplay: apt-get install bplay Greetz, Sebastiaan On Wed, 2 May 2001, Jan Torben Heuer wrote: > Hi, > I'm looking for "play" (used by licq) anyone know which package could contain > it? Or any other program (should work with arts) > > thanx, > > Jan Torben > -- > /

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V101 #529

2001-05-02 Thread K. Matthew Victor
> > > Subject: Re: Any hope of help? or suggestions? > Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 10:04:12 -0400 > From: Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > Subject: Any hope of help? or suggestions? > Date: Wed, May 02, 2001 at 04:35:39AM + > > In reply to:K. Matthew Victo

Re: FW: Sendmail

2001-05-02 Thread Rich Puhek
How are you trying to "start sendmail"? If you are just trying "sendmail" as root, you're not starting the daemon up to listen for incoming mail, you're invoking the sendmail program as if you want to create a message. Try (as root) "/etc/init.d/sendmail start" and see what you get. Sendmail is a

Re: play - or other program to play waves...

2001-05-02 Thread Terry Warner
apt-get install sox That will provide the play command :) Terry On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 07:58:16PM +0200, Jan Torben Heuer babbled: > Hi, > I'm looking for "play" (used by licq) anyone know which package could contain > it? Or any other program (should work with arts) > > thanx, > > Jan

IRQ 0 for 3C900 Combo PCI?

2001-05-02 Thread Matt Thompson
Greetings, list :) I just set up a server in our office here in Houston with the above mentioned card. When the system boots, the 3Com ethernet card comes up with IRQ 0 which, of course, doesn't work. WTF??? :) Any help anyone could give would be GREATLY appreciated since I'm supposed to fly ho

play - or other program to play waves...

2001-05-02 Thread Jan Torben Heuer
Hi, I'm looking for "play" (used by licq) anyone know which package could contain it? Or any other program (should work with arts) thanx, Jan Torben -- /\ | http://www.jtheuer.de (Elektronik, Perl, Linux)| | mail:

Re: How to uncompress a *.lzh in Debian?

2001-05-02 Thread Alan Shutko
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I find a package of lha, I guess it can only archive files > into a *.lzh but not do the reverse. Thanks in advance. It should be able to decompress those files. Iirc, it's lha x filename.lzh -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! If it ain'

Re: kde2

2001-05-02 Thread Sean Quinlan
* Jaye Inabnit ke6sls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-05-02 17:25): > On Wednesday 02 May 2001 08:06, David Richards wrote: > > I have just got linux format in the uk and it has kde2.1 on the cd. Has > > anyone installed it yet and will i be able to get any packages that it will > > needs, that arent inc

Re: Printing text

2001-05-02 Thread David Wright
Quoting Stephen E. Hargrove ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I'm still chasing my text problem. I've installed magicfilter, and it > prints postscript files just fine. However, text files suffer from the > dreaded stair-step problem. Following is my printcap file. Any > suggestions would be most appreci

Re: Parallel zips

2001-05-02 Thread straylite
You'll need the parport (and I think the parport_pc) as well as the imm modules. At Wed, 2 May 2001 14:09 +0100 (BST) , [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Harper) wrote: >I am sure this must be an FAQ, but I cannot find it. > >Is it possible to use the standard Debian install process (Debian 2.2 r2) to >

Error while rsyncing - "@ERROR: chroot failed"

2001-05-02 Thread Robb Kidd
I get an "@ERROR: chroot failed" while trying: rsync --dry-run --port 8731 ftp.nuri.net::freeiso/debian-cd/* I don't recall needing to run rsync with any special permissions. What could I have done wrong?

Splitting Apache logs

2001-05-02 Thread Russell Coker
I am in the middle of writing a program to split CLF format log files (as produced by Apache and most other web servers) based on the domain name of the server. The idea is that log data for http://www.coker.com.au/ will go into the file coker.com.au and log data for http://www.workbenelux.nl/

Re: postgresql do.maintenance messages

2001-05-02 Thread Ramin Motakef
"Oliver Elphick" writes: > Ramin Motakef wrote: > >Hi, > >since updateting postgres to 7.1 i get the followin mails from the > >do.maintenance cron job: > > > >NOTICE: Cache reference leak: cache pg_operator (15), tuple 666 has count > 1 > ... > >I have no idea what that means

Re: netatalk setup gaflooey

2001-05-02 Thread will trillich
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 08:45:19AM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: > Even though my atalkd starts fine I thought this sounded like a good > idea. > > I did this by commenting out the following in /etc/init.d/netatalk. > /usr/sbin/atalkd > echo -n " atalkd" > > > /etc/netatalk/afpd.conf: > > hostnam

Re: Netscape 4.77 - spell checker

2001-05-02 Thread Eric Richardson
Keith O'Connell wrote: > > Hi, > > I recently went from Netscape 4.76 to 4.77 via stable and have just > noticed that the spell check option is greyed out on the menues now. I noticed this too. I also found that emacs didn't have spell checking and was looking for ispell so I loaded ispell but t

How to uncompress a *.lzh in Debian?

2001-05-02 Thread wen
Hi, everyone, Is there any package can handle a *.lzh archived file in Debian? I find a package of lha, I guess it can only archive files into a *.lzh but not do the reverse. Thanks in advance. Regards, --Wen [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kde2

2001-05-02 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Hello David, Linux format? Maybe you mean linux *distro*? kde2 afaik doesn't ship with debian (but anyone could if they wanted to). The latest potato builds are available, go to http://kde.debian.net and it will tell you how to set your apt source.list up. I'm using it now, and it still h

Printing text

2001-05-02 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm still chasing my text problem. I've installed magicfilter, and it prints postscript files just fine. However, text files suffer from the dreaded stair-step problem. Following is my printcap file. Any suggestions would be most appreciated. # Th

large files in potato?

2001-05-02 Thread Gregory Carl Kettler
How much effort would it take for me to enable support for large (>2GB) files in a i386 potato system? I'm running kernel 2.4.3; it looks like I would also have to use a newer version of glibc. If I installed a version of glibc from testing or unstable, would it work, or am I still missing someth

Netscape 4.77 - spell checker

2001-05-02 Thread Keith O'Connell
Hi, I recently went from Netscape 4.76 to 4.77 via stable and have just noticed that the spell check option is greyed out on the menues now. What should I do to get the spell checker back? What idiot thing am I likly to have done to have lost it? I also noticed, whilst I am on the subject, that

Re: [Q]Internet phone server

2001-05-02 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
On Tuesday 01 May 2001 12:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ke6sls> take a look at gphone. It's a pretty small packages and will let > you talk to ke6sls> both fellow gphone users, and speakfreely users. ^^^ And it's free and *also* availabl

Re: Printer Failure

2001-05-02 Thread Steve Gran
let's see - I've tried adding a form feed character at the end of foo.txt - still fails silently. I added the IO address and IRQ line /etc/modules.conf (and just to see if it would work to /etc/modules). I have no file /etc/modules/parport (hmmm . . .) I also just looked at /var/log/lp-errs,

Re: Help now unable to print or restart lpd

2001-05-02 Thread Steve Gran
Try /etc/init.d/lpd start or /etc/init.d/lpd restart - that's how the daemon is managed. if that doesn't work for some reason, try lpcenable all. These should start the lpd daemon. if you still can't print reasonable looking pages, magicfilterconfig will let you set up the appropriate filter

Re: netatalk setup gaflooey

2001-05-02 Thread Eric Richardson
Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 09:07:00PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > > trying to install netatalk for macintosh file serving capabilities, and the > > setup script goes all fuxnored(tm). is this something i caused? or can > > cure? > > > > # apt-get install netatalk > >

Re: debian package mirrors

2001-05-02 Thread Matus \"fantomas\" Uhlar
-> >-> >i using rsync mirror script d'l-ed from debian web page. -> >-> -> >-> Which one? -> >-> -> >-> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0011/msg01827.html -> > -> >http://www.debian.org/mirror/anonftpsync -> -> That's very old, and doesn't seem to know about pools. The one I quoted -> is

Re: postgresql do.maintenance messages

2001-05-02 Thread Oliver Elphick
Ramin Motakef wrote: >Hi, >since updateting postgres to 7.1 i get the followin mails from the >do.maintenance cron job: > >NOTICE: Cache reference leak: cache pg_operator (15), tuple 666 has count 1 ... >I have no idea what that means /* *AtEOXact_CatCache * * Clean up c

Re: changing console framebuffer modes

2001-05-02 Thread Alexander Zhuckov
> John Kerr Anderson (JKA) writes: JKA> This is what happens when I try to run the commands: fbset JKA> 640x480-72 JKA> error message: ioctl FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO: Invalid argument JKA> or JKA> fbset --all 640-480-72 gives the same exact error message. JKA> Is there something that is n

Re: Any hope of help? or suggestions?

2001-05-02 Thread Bob Nielsen
The first place to look for printing help is Grant Taylor's excellent http://www.linuxprinting.org site. Unfortunately, it doesn't give any complete solutions for this printer, but there are some suggestions there. I would recommend installing the latest (non-free) gs-aladdin, plus lprng and magi

dpkg --configure -a seg faulting

2001-05-02 Thread The Doctor
Just like it says. I was running apt-get update/upgrade this am ( I run unstable) and now I can't configure any packages I install. Like so: Setting up xspecs (4.0.3-1) ... Setting up xvfb (4.0.3-1) ... Segmentation fault # dpkg --configure -a Segmentation fault Any one else have this ha

Re: debian package mirrors

2001-05-02 Thread Colin Watson
"Matus \"fantomas\" Uhlar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >-> >i using rsync mirror script d'l-ed from debian web page. >-> >-> Which one? >-> >-> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0011/msg01827.html > >http://www.debian.org/mirror/anonftpsync That's very old, and doesn't seem to know about poo

kde2

2001-05-02 Thread David Richards
I have just got linux format in the uk and it has kde2.1 on the cd. Has anyone installed it yet and will i be able to get any packages that it will needs, that arent included on the cd via apt-get ? regards david

Re: debian package mirrors

2001-05-02 Thread Matus \"fantomas\" Uhlar
-> >-> On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 09:45:59PM +0100, Dean Liversidge wrote: -> >-> > Are the debian package trees being reorganised ? -> >-> -> >-> Yes when new testing/unstable was introduced. -> >-> -> >-> Mirror pool to get it working. I mirroed OK using fmirror. I posted -> >-> script to do it

Re: ReiserFS + 2.4.4

2001-05-02 Thread mdevin
Here is what I did step by step on 2 separate computers to change over to reiserfs. First of all you must have a partition large enough to hold everything. Lets say you have 4 partitions and part4 is big enough to hold everything. Lets say the 4 partitions are mounted as /boot, swap, /, /var. Y

Re: fetchmail, mutt, imapd and netscape

2001-05-02 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Karsten Bolding wrote: > > Hello > > Here is what I want: > get mail via fetchmail - sort into maildir format (~/Maildir) - works! > use mutt to read mail when at the console - works! > Run an imapd to serve the ~/Maildir directory structure - problems > Use netscape to read mail when not at cons

Re: libssl096

2001-05-02 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 10:05:36AM +0530, Raghavendra Bhat wrote: > > libssl096 is a virtual package. This is provided by > libssl0.9.6. You can get this by adding the line > Thanks for the link. But, I could not find the file there. What I found was libssl09_0.9.4-5.deb. Does thi

tcpdump broken by upgrade (Potato)

2001-05-02 Thread Wayne Topa
Has anyone else (using the 2.4.4 kernel packages) lost tcpdump? apt-get install tcpdump Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution t

Re: Problems with printing

2001-05-02 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: Problems with printing Date: Wed, May 02, 2001 at 06:59:34AM - In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Well, Wayne, I don't really think a Debian potato distribution fails in a > strategic and basic piece of software such

Re: Any hope of help? or suggestions?

2001-05-02 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Any hope of help? or suggestions? Date: Wed, May 02, 2001 at 04:35:39AM + In reply to:K. Matthew Victor Quoting K. Matthew Victor([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > "K. Matthew Victor" wrote: > > > "K. Matthew Victor" wrote: > > > > > Please give me a hand straightening this mud

Re: Timeout for shell script

2001-05-02 Thread Moritz Schulte
Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks... but still I'd like to know if it's possible to use a shell > script with a timeout, in general. Have a look at /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/scripts/timeout.gz (in package 'bash-doc'). hth, moritz -- Moritz Schulte <[EMAIL PROT

Re: [Q]Internet phone server

2001-05-02 Thread wen
Yes, it is. I will try it soon. Thank you so much. Regards, --Wen [EMAIL PROTECTED] mark> OpenH323 application ohphone mark> $http://packages.debian.org/unstable/comm/ohphone.html will talk to mark> Microsoft Netmeeting which I think will do what you want.

Re: /proc/kcore

2001-05-02 Thread David Z. Maze
Renai LeMay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: RL> can someone tell me what the file /proc/kcore is used for? The /proc filesystem consists entirely of virtual files created by the kernel for various purposes. kcore happens to be an image of the system memory; it's probably useful for kernel debugging.

Re: Parallel zips

2001-05-02 Thread David Wright
Quoting David Harper ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I am sure this must be an FAQ, but I cannot find it. > > Is it possible to use the standard Debian install process (Debian 2.2 r2) to > set up an external, parallel port 250Mb Iomega Zip drive? If so, what > modules / parameters do I need? > > I have

Re: /proc/kcore

2001-05-02 Thread David Wright
Quoting Renai LeMay ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > can someone tell me what the file /proc/kcore is used for? Not really, but I can tell you what it is. It's a kernel representation of your system memory, made to look like a file, as is everything in /proc. Take a look at Documentation/proc.txt in the

email options and --force with dpkg

2001-05-02 Thread john gennard
Following helpful replies from Kent(ktb) and Steve Gran to a request under the subject of 'email options', I've been looking further into the possibilities. I want to try qmail which I've found and built. It will not install as it conflicts with ssmtp - seems I can have only one MTA. Dselect w

Parallel zips

2001-05-02 Thread David Harper
I am sure this must be an FAQ, but I cannot find it. Is it possible to use the standard Debian install process (Debian 2.2 r2) to set up an external, parallel port 250Mb Iomega Zip drive? If so, what modules / parameters do I need? I have tried the imm module, but this will not install. (It jus

Re: Need Help; Read Only file system needs to be Read Write in new Sid upgrade

2001-05-02 Thread John Foster
Osamu Aoki wrote: > Really. > > # mount -n -t remount,rw / > # mount -avt nonfs,noproc,nosmbfs > > Did you do this with -n and -t? This should remount rw. > > I have several standard recovery tricks listed in my web page below > including this one. --

Re: [Q]Internet phone server

2001-05-02 Thread Mark Purcell
OpenH323 application ohphone $http://packages.debian.org/unstable/comm/ohphone.html will talk to Microsoft Netmeeting which I think will do what you want. Mark On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 04:01:12AM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ke6sls> take a look at gphone. It's a pretty small packages and w

md5sum of iso images

2001-05-02 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, Is this OK? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp/debian-cd$ md5sum -b -c MD5SUMS md5sum: MD5 check failed for 'binary-i386-2.iso' [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp/debian-cd$ md5sum binary-i386-2.iso a9ed0ce9f6476a694614f524430bddc5 binary-i386-2.iso [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp/debian-cd$ cat MD5SUMS | gre

Re: bad bios (i think)

2001-05-02 Thread Hall Stevenson
> I just received an old acer pentium 133 to use as my linux > box. Major problem with it is as soon as I turn the damn > thing on it fails to go thru BIOS. It just stares back at me > for a minute then displays "keyboard interface error" then > after another minute "pointing device error." It's

Re: SOLVED: (Post Upgrade?) Boot Disaster revisited

2001-05-02 Thread Alan Davis
I apologize for the bandwidth. The last time we met, I was unable to boot my machine, which suffered a horrid clattering/clacking sound after displaying LILLinux02 and freezing. At last I have solved this problem. Perhaps this information will be of interest. The problem was due to my ha

Pseudo Image Kit

2001-05-02 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, I'm trying to use the pseudo image kit to build iso images from R3. I got the .list files, ran make-pseudo-image script, got the 650MB files and now I'm going to run rsync to transform the pseudo-image files in real iso9660 files. My doubt is: the pseudo-image files h

Re: Any hope of help? or suggestions?

2001-05-02 Thread ktb
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 04:35:39AM +, K. Matthew Victor wrote: > "K. Matthew Victor" wrote: > > > "K. Matthew Victor" wrote: > > > > > Please give me a hand straightening this muddle up. > > > I need to figure out how to get the printer daemon back up and working. > > > (1): Storm Linux 2000-

Gnome colors

2001-05-02 Thread Mathias
:-) Hi! I have installed the newest potato and ximian gnome 1.4. Does anybody know what i have to do, to get another color then grey for all windows and menus of gnome? TIA -- Please don't support monopolys like M$-Windows! Look at Tux and try Linux! It's great to use open source! General Publi

Re: debian package mirrors

2001-05-02 Thread Colin Watson
"Matus \"fantomas\" Uhlar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >-> On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 09:45:59PM +0100, Dean Liversidge wrote: >-> > Are the debian package trees being reorganised ? >-> >-> Yes when new testing/unstable was introduced. >-> >-> Mirror pool to get it working. I mirroed OK using fmirro

Re: (OT) Storage (8*IDE HDs) any experiences? +55v

2001-05-02 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Alvin.. have you really been following this thread at all? On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 05:43:57PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > and if the power supply to the disk dies... > than you're out of luck > or if the powersupply tot eh motherboard dies... > you'd be out of luck too So what? It'

Re: glibc and Oracle problem

2001-05-02 Thread Ilya Martynov
DW> STIL MORE DW> Well I suppose my stupidity might help someone else, so I may as well DW> document it. DW> The libc_nonshared.a is in the libc-dev package. DW> If someone is reading this while trying to follow the instructions DW> from the discussion list on the Oracle site... DW> The libc_no

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