Re: Sawfish (was: Upgrading to Testing)

2001-05-27 Thread Jim McCloskey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) wrote: |> sawfish |> is a GNOME package and so depends on the entire world, so hang on a |> second while I unravel what's going on ... but but but but . Sawfish is indeed well-integrated (or integrable

Re: Unable to authenticate ISP -- truncated username?

2001-05-27 Thread Jean Abercrombie
Bingo! Thank you so much. Jean Abercrombie ( To: Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2001 11:49 PM Subject: Re: Unable to authenticate ISP -- truncated username? > Put your us

Re: potato -> woody zu mutig gewesen?

2001-05-27 Thread Thomas Weinbrenner
Thomas Weinbrenner wrote: [...] Sorry, wrong mailing list. -- Thomas Weinbrenner

OFFTOPIC (Was Re: How do they make money (was: free email a/c allowing download))

2001-05-27 Thread ha shao
-- Best regard hashao

Re: potato -> woody zu mutig gewesen?

2001-05-27 Thread Thomas Weinbrenner
Thomas Marke wrote: > Ich glaube, ich war zu mutig: > Ich habe gestern abend mein potato nach woody "geupgraded". > Jetzt habe ich einige Probleme: > > 1. mein schickes, neues XFree4 kommt mit englischer Tastaturbelegung daher > und nimmt als Aufloesung 1280x1024. Wie kann ich das aendern? Ich ve

Re: Book opinions?

2001-05-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, May 27, 2001 at 12:25:12PM -0400, Wayne ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > Well, I'm getting ready to install Debian for the first time and would > like to get the groups opinion on a book I'm going to purchase. The > book's title is "Debian GNU/Linux Bible" and was published this year.

Re: Unable to authenticate ISP -- truncated username?

2001-05-27 Thread Hall Stevenson
* Jean Abercrombie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010527 22:17]: > Greetings to all: > > I would appreciate any help! I am having a problem connecting to my ISP > using pon/pppconfig. The problem appears to be that pppd is truncating my > username. My username has a "#" in the middle of it and according

RE: Sendmail aliases error

2001-05-27 Thread techlists
I'm using stable. I've tried re-installing. I install exim and exim works fine(which is what I'm running now), but when I try to install sendmail, I get the same problem. wayne -Original Message- From: okidz [mailto:okidz]On Behalf Of Oki DZ Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2001 9:57 PM To: Wayne S

Re: Sendmail aliases error

2001-05-27 Thread Oki DZ
Wayne Sitton wrote: > Cannot open hash database /etc/mail/aliases.db: Invalid argument > WARNING: cannot open alias database /etc/mail/aliases > Cannot create database for alias file /etc/mail/aliases > > What's the deal? Are you using unstable? Try apt-get update, and reinstall sendmail (remove

Re: experience building mozilla for woody

2001-05-27 Thread Ross Boylan
At 06:43 PM 5/27/01 -0700, you wrote: I got the source of Kitame's mozilla package and built it for woody. It seems to be working OK. Thanks Kitame! It even seemed to remove the standard woody package and retain my settings. I installed the libnspr4 package first, then mozilla. The thing is h

Re: Long pause on bootup with 2.4.4 and 2.4.5 kernels

2001-05-27 Thread mdevin
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 08:50:42PM +0100, Phillip Deackes wrote: > On Sat, 26 May 2001 22:07:20 +0100 > Phillip Deackes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > A while ago I compiled the 2.4.4 kernel but went back to 2.4.3 when I > > found I was getting a long pause during boot-up,just after this: > > 'C

Re: I've been getting scanned...

2001-05-27 Thread Paul Wright
On Sun, 27 May 2001 18:17:53 PDT, Karsten wrote: > on Sun, May 27, 2001 at 06:11:11PM -0400, Paul Wright ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > On Sun, 27 May 2001 14:07:46 PDT, Karsten wrote: > > > > > > > > Wrong. > > > > > > Testing is unstable + 10 days - bugs. > > > > > > > Yes, but only for

Re: apt-utils

2001-05-27 Thread Joey Hess
Dave Sherohman wrote: > Whenever I install a new system, debconf (or rather, the minimal version on > the install disks) throws up a curses-based menu asking what mode I want it > to run in, then what level of messages to display. I consistently answer > text/medium. It then preconfigures other p

Re: ugh. more lilo probs

2001-05-27 Thread mdevin
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 08:11:07PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > > I didn't have much luck with lilo on my system either, but grub has > > worked beautifully for me. Its configuration is really simple, though > > you will have to edit the /boot/grub/menu.lst file yourself. > > The

Re: switching to devfs

2001-05-27 Thread mdevin
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 12:47:30AM +0200, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi all, > > I have an 2.4 kernel installed but with the old fashioned /dev-node system. > What is the easiest way to enable and ONLY USE the new DEVFS? Take a look at the doc

Unable to authenticate ISP -- truncated username?

2001-05-27 Thread Jean Abercrombie
Greetings to all: I would appreciate any help! I am having a problem connecting to my ISP using pon/pppconfig. The problem appears to be that pppd is truncating my username. My username has a "#" in the middle of it and according to /var/more/syslog, this is where it is being split. May 24 19:

Re: Woody release date

2001-05-27 Thread David Nusinow
On Sunday 27 May 2001 12:05 pm, Jordi S. Bunster wrote: > Ok folks, I already know Debian is only ready with it's ready, but, > beign involved with the community, can anyone risk a probable time > range for woody to become stable? As far as I can tell, the main thing that's holding up woody from b

experience building mozilla for woody

2001-05-27 Thread Ross Boylan
I got the source of Kitame's mozilla package and built it for woody. It seems to be working OK. Thanks Kitame! It even seemed to remove the standard woody package and retain my settings. I installed the libnspr4 package first, then mozilla. The thing is huge: I chewed up about 230Mg to build it

How do they make money (was: free email a/c allowing download)

2001-05-27 Thread mdevin
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 10:28:46AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 08:53:05AM -0500, ktb wrote: > > On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 11:47:22PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Is there any free mail accounts (like hotmail etc.) that allow you to > > > download your mail so that

Re: I've been getting scanned...

2001-05-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, May 27, 2001 at 06:27:00PM -0400, Carl Fink ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 02:07:46PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > Testing is unstable + 10 days - bugs. > > Oh. > > I misunderstood what it was for -- I always assumed it was "almost > frozen" and once it was

Re: I've been getting scanned...

2001-05-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, May 27, 2001 at 06:11:11PM -0400, Paul Wright ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, 27 May 2001 14:07:46 PDT, Karsten wrote: > > > > > Wrong. > > > > Testing is unstable + 10 days - bugs. > > > > Yes, but only for packages that begin with "a" through "f" ;) Pardon? -- Karsten M. Self

Re: ugh. more lilo probs

2001-05-27 Thread D-Man
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 08:11:07PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | Hi, | | > I didn't have much luck with lilo on my system either, but grub has | > worked beautifully for me. Its configuration is really simple, though | > you will have to edit the /boot/grub/menu.lst file yourself. | | The

Re: ugh. more lilo probs

2001-05-27 Thread burningclown
Hi, > I didn't have much luck with lilo on my system either, but grub has > worked beautifully for me. Its configuration is really simple, though > you will have to edit the /boot/grub/menu.lst file yourself. The (or A, or The Main) problem is that it -seems- there is still a chunk of LILO, or

Re: libc6 missing in woody?

2001-05-27 Thread Joey Hess
Mike Williams wrote: > I've just tried upgrading from "stable" to "testing". I added the > following to my /etc/apt/sources.list ... > > deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/pub/debian/ testing main contrib non-free > deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/pub/debian/ testing/non-US main contrib > non-free >

Re: Packaging WM themes - question

2001-05-27 Thread Casper Gielen
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 11:02:33PM +0200, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: > Casper Gielen wrote: > than a Gigahertz Athlon. No way! However, sacrifing functionality or > user choice (I believe, the thread started about the choices a user has > when installing themes) is not the way to go. > What I'm tr

Re: ugh. more lilo probs

2001-05-27 Thread D-Man
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 06:10:55PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | Hi, | | This is a sort of followup to the lilo-related problems I was having | some days ago. | | Adding the "linear" option to my /etc/lilo.conf didn't effect a fix: | I still got the cascade of "LI" down the screen when I t

libc6 missing in woody?

2001-05-27 Thread Mike Williams
I've just tried upgrading from "stable" to "testing". I added the following to my /etc/apt/sources.list ... deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/pub/debian/ testing main contrib non-free deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/pub/debian/ testing/non-US main contrib non-free However, I can't seem to find the l

Re: 2 ipchains questions

2001-05-27 Thread Alvin Oga
hi andrew... imap connections will not timeout if you check for new mail regularly... for more ipchain/iptables examples and howtos.. c ya alvin http://www.Linux-Sec.net ... security stuff .. On Sun, 27 May 2001, Andrew Perrin wrote: > Thanks for all this. The reason I'd like the masqueraded

Re: downgrading with apt

2001-05-27 Thread Colin Watson
John Patton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Is there a way to force apt-get to install downgraded >packages? One or two packages are no problem... using dpkg >works just fine with them. But how could you downgrade >your system from testing to stable, for example? Have a look in the apt_preferences(5)

downgrading with apt

2001-05-27 Thread John Patton
Is there a way to force apt-get to install downgraded packages? One or two packages are no problem... using dpkg works just fine with them. But how could you downgrade your system from testing to stable, for example? Is it even possible? AFAIK, apt wont even download packages if it thinks that they

Re: "The following packages have been kept back"

2001-05-27 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 08:55:40PM +0200, Bart Martens wrote: > On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 01:30:41PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > > On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 06:53:16PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > How do I get it to upgrade my libc6? > > > > For some reason, apt doesn't want to upgrade lib

Re: SOUND

2001-05-27 Thread Antonio Lobato
Hello, Tobias and all ! I did that you explain, but I wasn`t able. See my outputs debian:~# play asd.wav playing asd.wav modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-0 modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-0-3 sox: Can't open output file '/dev/dsp': No such device

Re: Upgrading to Testing

2001-05-27 Thread Colin Watson
Jim McCloskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) wrote: >|> testing started off as a copy of stable, but at various times I think >|> things have got out of kilter in such a way as to leave certain packages >|> in stable and unstable but not testing (but I may be misrememb

And for the hundredth time...

2001-05-27 Thread Jared Brick
Hi, I've recently tried to update my system from 2.2r2 to testing, and now my eth0 has disappeared. Now I _know_ this has been discussed before (I checked the archive) yet everything I have tried does _not_ work. Here it goes, I have a cable connection with a dynamic ip using dhcp, my /etc/netw

ugh. more lilo probs

2001-05-27 Thread burningclown
Hi, This is a sort of followup to the lilo-related problems I was having some days ago. Adding the "linear" option to my /etc/lilo.conf didn't effect a fix: I still got the cascade of "LI" down the screen when I tried to boot up. SO: I uninstalled the lilo pkg, dpkg --purged it, and tried to rei

Re: 2 ipchains questions

2001-05-27 Thread Andrew Perrin
Thanks for all this. The reason I'd like the masqueraded connections never to time out is that I'd like machines on my private network to be able to maintain connections indefinitely - specifically, IMAP connections. I'd like to be able to leave an IMAP client running on a machine and not get TCP/I

Re: apt-utils

2001-05-27 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 03:29:43PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > I don't know what you're talking about: apt-utils does not use debconf. My mistake; s/apt-utils/debconf/g. Whenever I install a new system, debconf (or rather, the minimal version on the install disks) throws up a curses-based menu aski

switching to devfs

2001-05-27 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I have an 2.4 kernel installed but with the old fashioned /dev-node system. What is the easiest way to enable and ONLY USE the new DEVFS? cheers, Raffaele - -- Raffaele Sandrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For encrypted Mail get my Public Key from

Re: 2 ipchains questions

2001-05-27 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
For better stateful packet inspection I would recommend moving your firewall from ipchains -> iptables which has a better stateful engine... This will watch the related packets (ie- ftp & ftp-data) as well as the connections already established... Jeremy T. Bouse Andrew Perrin was

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade

2001-05-27 Thread Shaul Karl
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi everyone, > > When I execute 'apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade', nothing seems > to happen. apt-get reports back that the packages are up-to-date. I > am pretty sure that they are not because before it was asking me to > update some GNO

Re: Book opinions?

2001-05-27 Thread Shaul Karl
> Hi, > Well, I'm getting ready to install Debian > for the first time and would like to get > the groups opinion on a book I'm going > to purchase. The book's title is > "Debian GNU/Linux Bible" and was published > this year. I plan on using the CD to do my > install. > Thanks. > Wayne > > >

Re: I've been getting scanned...

2001-05-27 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 02:07:46PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > Testing is unstable + 10 days - bugs. Oh. I misunderstood what it was for -- I always assumed it was "almost frozen" and once it was created, packages in it would not be updated except for necessary fixes. So it's basically "sl

Re: swapon: device or resource busy

2001-05-27 Thread Shaul Karl
1. Can you post the output of mount and the command you issued + their output (copy-paste from the terminal)? 2. You didn't mention swapon for /dev/hda7. Have you run it? --- Begin Message --- I recently changed my partition table, and ended up recreating a swap partition.  Ever since then, I

Re: Upgrading to Testing

2001-05-27 Thread Jim McCloskey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) wrote: |> testing started off as a copy of stable, but at various times I think |> things have got out of kilter in such a way as to leave certain packages |> in stable and unstable but not testing (but I may be misremembering |> there) That seems to have been tr

Re: 2 ipchains questions

2001-05-27 Thread Tobias Galitzien
Do something like: # for initialisation - deny everything that will not be allowed later... ipchains -P input DENY ipchains -P forward DENY ipchains -P output DENY ipchains -F # allow local things ipchains -A input -j ACCEPT -i lo ipchains -A output -j ACCEPT -i lo # allow SSH connections from

Re: Free mail a/c that allows download of mail

2001-05-27 Thread D-Man
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 06:59:45PM +0200, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: | Paul Wright wrote: | | > I use gmx.net < http://gmx.net/ >. They also allow you to use them as | > your Smart Mailer using cram-md5 login. I use masqmail to fetch my mail | > from my gmx.net and another account and send all mail

Re: I've been getting scanned...

2001-05-27 Thread Paul Wright
On Sun, 27 May 2001 14:07:46 PDT, Karsten wrote: > > Wrong. > > Testing is unstable + 10 days - bugs. > Yes, but only for packages that begin with "a" through "f" ;) (at least for the moment) -- Paul T. Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -currently seeking employment-

Re: problem running xf86cfg

2001-05-27 Thread Philipp Bliedung
why do I get this? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ xfree86 --configure bash: xfree86: command not found why is that? Is there a package that doesn't automatically gets updated when I run apt-get install xfree86-common xserver-xfree86 . ? Philipp techlists wrote: > XFree86 4.+ quit using xf86config, if

Re: Kde Sid directory problem

2001-05-27 Thread Bruce Sass
On Sun, 27 May 2001, Matthew Gibbins wrote: > And yo was Bruce Sass heard to yodel: > > On Sat, 26 May 2001, Matthew Gibbins wrote: > > > I'm running konqueror in Sid and am encountering problems loading1 some > > > modules > > > for konqueror configuration. > > > Particularly those under the

Re: Scrolling mouse

2001-05-27 Thread Hall Stevenson
* Romain Lerallut ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010527 17:58]: > On Sun, 27 May 2001, Reza wrote: > > Hi there I use Logitech scrolling mouse which is connected in PS/2 > , and I don't what to change to make the scrolling works.. can anyone > help me? thanks regards, Reza Maybe I'm reading it differen

Re: Packaging WM themes - question

2001-05-27 Thread Bruce Sass
On Sun, 27 May 2001, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: <...> > It might not be fast, but this is a 386 we're talking about. It simply > isn't fast by todays standards [1]. But for some purposes it's good > enough. "today's" could be, your's, the people you know, the region you live in, the economy you are

Re: Free mail a/c that allows download of mail

2001-05-27 Thread Jim McCloskey
> Is there any free mail accounts (like hotmail etc.) that allow you to > download your mail so that you can read it with mutt say? Instead of > having to view it through the web browser when connected to the > internet. yahoo (if you can stand it) you can get mail from their POP server with `f

Re: apt-get update/upgrade/dist-upgrade hassels

2001-05-27 Thread Colin Watson
jeroen@valcke.com wrote: >On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 02:44:10PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: >> Er, perl-5.004? That's ancient, go ahead and remove it as long as some >> other perl is still there (which I imagine it is). Most of the others >> have been superseded; dunno about snmp and snmpd. > >Hmm, but

Re: SOUND

2001-05-27 Thread Tobias Galitzien
You should be able to play wav files with a utility like sox. It comes with handy shell scripts that implement a "play" and a "rec" command. Mid files can be played with playmidi. Tobias On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 05:18:20AM -0300, Antonio Lobato wrote: > I have a SoundBlaster 16 sou

opengl setup with riva128 chipset

2001-05-27 Thread Daniel Kleine-Albers
Hello together, i've searched about 4 hours now to find a good manual or howto to set up opengl support under debian linux for the nvidia riva128 chipset. The drivers provided from nvidia don't seem to work with the riva128 chipset. Do you know a good howto or manual about setting up opengl suppor

Re: Scrolling mouse

2001-05-27 Thread Romain Lerallut
On Sun, 27 May 2001, vester wrote: > > apt-get install imwheel In case you use X4 , you don't need imwheel. > On Sun, 27 May 2001, Reza wrote: > > > Hi there > > I use Logitech scrolling mouse which is connected in > > PS/2 , and I don't what to change to make the > > scrolling works.. can a

Re: Progeny install problems

2001-05-27 Thread DvB
Robert Voigt wrote: I thought you get access to a progeny support mailing list or something if you buy a progeny box. Is this wrong? Right and wrong: Right, there is a progeny mailing list. Wrong, it's actually free. http://www.progeny.com/prodserv/support/

O.T. [Linux Jobs in Europe]

2001-05-27 Thread Wayne Sitton
I know many of you who post here are from Europe. I am from the U.S. Because of some personal things happening I may be moving to Denmark or England. So, my question is, What kind of oppertunities are there for Linux people in europe. I am mostly interested in Denmark, but any places in europe wi

Re: Scrolling mouse

2001-05-27 Thread vester
apt-get install imwheel did it for me, simply run "imwheel -k" once you're in x and scrolling should work... of course you have to provide the right lines in your XF86Config, depending on which version of X you're using that will be in a different section, but basically add the following line to

Re: Netscape memory leak in debian?

2001-05-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, May 27, 2001 at 07:05:41PM +1000, Steve Kieu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, every one. > what could cause it? how to fix it? any ideas pls ? Get a real browser: Galeon, Konqueror, Mozilla. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you underst

Re: I've been getting scanned...

2001-05-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, May 27, 2001 at 10:59:47AM -0400, Carl Fink ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 12:20:14AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > > > If you don't want to be running year-old software (with the latest security > > fixes backported), switch over to testing instead. > > Bad news:

Re: apt-get update/upgrade/dist-upgrade hassels

2001-05-27 Thread Jeroen Valcke
Thanks for your reaction On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 02:44:10PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > Er, perl-5.004? That's ancient, go ahead and remove it as long as some > other perl is still there (which I imagine it is). Most of the others > have been superseded; dunno about snmp and snmpd. Hmm, but why

Re: Packaging WM themes - question

2001-05-27 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Casper Gielen wrote: > > On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 06:45:10PM +0200, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: > > > > Come on! I don't mean to be ignorant, but a 286 is 18 years old. The > > 386 is only 3 years younger. No one is "depending" on hardware this old > > -- not even in schools. At least not in Europe

Re: Busybox: used for hacking or part of potato

2001-05-27 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Busybox: used for hacking or part of potato Date: Sun, May 27, 2001 at 12:00:58PM -0500 In reply to:hanasaki Quoting hanasaki([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I just found the following in /var/log/install.log > Can someone tell me where / why it would be on a potato system? > > T

Re: Free mail a/c that allows download of mail

2001-05-27 Thread Michael Powell
www.crosswinds.net does, and www.softhome.com (may be .net or .org) used to, and may still. Mike On Mon, 28 May 2001, csj wrote: > On Sunday 27 May 2001 21:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Is there any free mail accounts (like hotmail etc.) that allow you > > to download your mail so that you c

Packages to run kernel 2.4.x on potato (release 14)

2001-05-27 Thread Adrian Bunk
I have prepared the packages needed to run kernels up to 2.4.4 on a Debian 2.2r3 (potato) system. Please read [1] for more information. The most important change is that there's now a second architecture (sparc). Thanks to Marco for compiling the packages! Changes since the last release:

Re: Upgrading to Testing (was: Re: Ive been getting scanned...)

2001-05-27 Thread Colin Watson
Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >What are the proper lines to put in /etc/apt/sources.list to upgrade >from stable to testing? I seem to recal someone on the list saying to >replace the lines for stable with: > >deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free >deb http:/

RE: kde.tdyc.com unreachable?

2001-05-27 Thread techlists
Well, why is kde.tdyc.com down anyway? Is the only need, is for somewhere to host? I have my own company and could set up a server for that purpose. So what is the complete need? wayne -Original Message- From: Nick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2001 3:22 PM To: debian-k

Re: Busybox: used for hacking or part of potato

2001-05-27 Thread Colin Watson
hanasaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I just found the following in /var/log/install.log >Can someone tell me where / why it would be on a potato system? > >Thanks. >- > >http://busybox.lineo.com/ > >Feb 14 22:14:49 (none) syslogd started: BusyBox v0.43 >(2000.11.30-14:58+) >Feb

Re: line numbers in code

2001-05-27 Thread Neil Booth
Romain Lerallut wrote:- > > Romain Lerallut wrote:- > > > > > You can run *any* text through cpp (not just C program sources, I use it > > > for my Fortran codes:) > > > > That's not true, certainly in GCC 3.0. > > > > Neil. > > > h: > > echo '__LINE__' | cpp-3.0 -P > 1 > > looks like you c

Re: need to kill a package...

2001-05-27 Thread Colin Watson
Eugene Tyurin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >There's this package smpeg-xmms that is apparently no longer available, >but it's sitting in my dpkg database and screwing things up with its >dependencies. > >I tried deleting the entry from /var/lib/dpkg/status, but it didn't do >me any good. I'm perplex

Re: How can I change the menu in the Gnome panel?

2001-05-27 Thread David Z Maze
Preben Randhol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: PR> I installed Ximian and that had a short menu in the panel. Now I PR> upgraded to the Debian Gnome pacakges and that has a terribly long menu. PR> I mean first it is the Foot with Programs then Favourite Settings and PR> Desktop. That takes almost half

need to kill a package...

2001-05-27 Thread Eugene Tyurin
Hello, There's this package smpeg-xmms that is apparently no longer available, but it's sitting in my dpkg database and screwing things up with its dependencies. I tried deleting the entry from /var/lib/dpkg/status, but it didn't do me any good. I'm perplexed... --ET. __

backspace key in X screwed by trying progeny

2001-05-27 Thread Chuck Peters
Then I spend 3 days downloading woody hoping that would fix it, but it still doesn't work. Can someone please tell me how to fix it? Thanks, Chuck

printing trouble, perhaps kernel probs

2001-05-27 Thread Alexander Koch
It does not work... Kernel 2.4.5, printing stuff as modules, HP Deskjet 710 here, tried cups, lprng, lpd. --> desire ~ # modprobe lp 0x378: FIFO is 16 bytes 0x378: writeIntrThreshold is 7 0x378: readIntrThreshold is 7 parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, using FIFO [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,

Re: swapon: device or resource busy

2001-05-27 Thread jennyw
Ooops! It was working after all (the reason it was busy was because I'd successfully mounted the swap partition). I was confused because there was also an error about missing swap signature or something like that (but it went away after I created the new swap partition and reformatted). Than

Re: Free mail a/c that allows download of mail

2001-05-27 Thread csj
On Sunday 27 May 2001 21:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there any free mail accounts (like hotmail etc.) that allow you > to download your mail so that you can read it with mutt say? > Instead of having to view it through the web browser when connected > to the internet. > > I want something th

Re: Getting the content of an RPM package

2001-05-27 Thread Phillip Deackes
On Sun, 27 May 2001 20:30:45 +0200 Viktor Rosenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > is ist possible to access the content of an RPM package, without > actually installing it? Probably the easiest way is to open it with either MC (Midnight Commander) or GMC (Gnome Midnight Commander).

Re: Long pause on bootup with 2.4.4 and 2.4.5 kernels

2001-05-27 Thread Phillip Deackes
On Sat, 26 May 2001 22:07:20 +0100 Phillip Deackes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A while ago I compiled the 2.4.4 kernel but went back to 2.4.3 when I > found I was getting a long pause during boot-up,just after this: > 'Configuring network interfaces: eth0: Setting 100mbs full-duplex based > on >

How can I change the menu in the Gnome panel?

2001-05-27 Thread Preben Randhol
I installed Ximian and that had a short menu in the panel. Now I upgraded to the Debian Gnome pacakges and that has a terribly long menu. I mean first it is the Foot with Programs then Favourite Settings and Desktop. That takes almost half my panel width. I want to remove Favourites and combind Set

Re: Free mail a/c that allows download of mail

2001-05-27 Thread mikepolniak
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there any free mail accounts (like hotmail etc.) that allow you to > download your mail so that you can read it with mutt say? Instead of > having to view it through the web browser when connected to the > internet. > > I want something that you can use fetchmail or

Re: Woody release date

2001-05-27 Thread Colin Watson
"Jordi S. Bunster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Ok folks, I already know Debian is only ready with it's ready, but, >beign involved with the community, can anyone risk a probable time >range for woody to become stable? > >Just wanted to know to see if I download 2.2r3 CDs or wait for >official woody

2 ipchains questions

2001-05-27 Thread Andrew Perrin
Apologies if I've already asked this - I can't remember anymore! I now have a DSL connection, and as such would like to use ipchains to do the following: 1.) Deny all incoming packets coming in on eth1 (the card connected to the DSL gateway) except those destined for port 22 (ssh) or ICMP packets

Re: apt-utils

2001-05-27 Thread Joey Hess
Dave Sherohman wrote: > The two cases that spring to mind of apt-utils consistently reasking > questions are ssh and apt-utils itself. (Although apt-utils is at least > decent enough to remember, when making the second pass through, that I'd > told it to use the text interface the first time aroun

Re: Local DNS?

2001-05-27 Thread Casper Gielen
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 03:07:32PM -0400, Sunny Dubey wrote: > hi, > > what I would I need to run a DNS on a local network? I don't need > something full blown like an ISP would have, rather, I just need something > that will tie names to local IPs like 10.x.x.x. > In the past I've used pdns,

Re: Woody release date

2001-05-27 Thread Forrest English
sometime this century, maybe. ;) -- Forrest English http://truffula.net "When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use" -Fugazi On Sun, 27 May 2001, Jordi S. Bunster wrote: > > Ok folks, I

Re: Woody release date

2001-05-27 Thread ktb
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 04:05:18PM -0300, Jordi S. Bunster wrote: > > Ok folks, I already know Debian is only ready with it's ready, but, > beign involved with the community, can anyone risk a probable time > range for woody to become stable? > > Just wanted to know to see if I download 2.2r3 CDs

Re: x goes blank

2001-05-27 Thread Rafael Sasaki
I`m using the original kernel from the Debian site (udma66). - Original Message - From: "Jordi S. Bunster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Rafael Sasaki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2001 3:23 PM Subject: Re: x goes blank On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 12:17:09PM -0300, Rafael Sasaki wro

Re: dpkg stopping with an error

2001-05-27 Thread Colin Watson
"J.F.Gratton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hello, I'm trying to compile Firestarter 0.7.1 on a Debian (unstable) >system. After I got most of the dependencies correctly, I still needed one >package to be installed, which is libgnomeprint11 > >Everytime I try to install this package, dpkg returns t

Re: apt-utils

2001-05-27 Thread Joey Hess
Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > It is doing that and it has always done that.. It only fails sometimes > because the pipe fills up. > > Probably will take that out.. Ok, I will make dpkg-preconfigure do it's best to always read all input in --apt mode, but I stress that its best is not good enough, I ca

Re: Local DNS?

2001-05-27 Thread ktb
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 03:07:32PM -0400, Sunny Dubey wrote: > hi, > > what I would I need to run a DNS on a local network? I don't need > something full blown like an ISP would have, rather, I just need something > that will tie names to local IPs like 10.x.x.x. > > If anyone knows, please res

Re: Getting the content of an RPM package

2001-05-27 Thread mikepolniak
Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: > Hi folks, > > is ist possible to access the content of an RPM package, without > actually installing it? I tried > > rpm --nodeps --prefix /tmp/foo > > but it says that the package is not relocatable. Since i am not familiar with rpm i would use alien to make the

Re: Local DNS?

2001-05-27 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 03:07:32PM -0400, Sunny Dubey wrote: > hi, > > what I would I need to run a DNS on a local network? I don't need > something full blown like an ISP would have, rather, I just need something > that will tie names to local IPs like 10.x.x.x. bind, it's quite easy to setup f

Re: Setting the time with Samba

2001-05-27 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi... When you run the net time command does your win9x box even have its clock changed? Are you aware that without the /set /y options...nothing will happen? Mike - Original Message - From: "Andrew Pollock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mike Egglestone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Sund

Woody release date

2001-05-27 Thread Jordi S. Bunster
Ok folks, I already know Debian is only ready with it's ready, but, beign involved with the community, can anyone risk a probable time range for woody to become stable? Just wanted to know to see if I download 2.2r3 CDs or wait for official woody iso images. Thanks in advance -- Jsb

Re: Getting the content of an RPM package

2001-05-27 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 08:30:45PM +0200, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: > Hi folks, > > is ist possible to access the content of an RPM package, without > actually installing it? I tried > > rpm --nodeps --prefix /tmp/foo > > but it says that the package is not relocatable. try rpm2cpio, it co

Re: apt-utils

2001-05-27 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Sun, 27 May 2001, Joey Hess wrote: > Jason, if it's doing that, I think that's a dumb heuistic. As you can > see, there are valid reasons for ignoring the input and not failing. It is doing that and it has always done that.. It only fails sometimes because the pipe fills up. Probably will ta

Local DNS?

2001-05-27 Thread Sunny Dubey
hi, what I would I need to run a DNS on a local network? I don't need something full blown like an ISP would have, rather, I just need something that will tie names to local IPs like 10.x.x.x. If anyone knows, please respond, thanks Sunny Dubey

Re: /etc/rc* and locate

2001-05-27 Thread john gennard
On Sat, 26 May 2001, Wayne Topa wrote: > Subject: Re: /etc/rc* and locate > Date: Fri, May 25, 2001 at 08:20:47PM +0100 > > In reply to:john gennard > > Quoting john gennard([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > On Fri, 25 May 2001, ray p wrote: > > > > > > > Thanks for the replies. > > > > I don't u

Re: x goes blank

2001-05-27 Thread ktb
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 12:17:09PM -0300, Rafael Sasaki wrote: > I could install my mouse using gpm, but when i tried to start the x system > (startx) i got some errors and the screen went blank. Now, every time i try > to boot my Linux the screen goes blank. I can not use it. How can i fix it? Pe

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