Re: A NEWBIE inquiry......

2001-07-26 Thread Mark Wagnon
On 07/26/01 22:40:52 -0500, d wrote: > > I am running Windows SE 98+! V4.10.a on a PCChips PC100 MBD/w AMD K6 II > 3D 400meg, 163.48meg RAM, USR 56k INT MDM plus a PCTEL WinModem (that is > NOT being used at this time), two 8.4 gig IDE H/D's. One is setup to run > WinBlows 98 the other I

partition table woes

2001-07-26 Thread dman
I screwed up my partition table today and, like an idiot, I don't have a record of it. Are there any tools I can use to determine where my partitions were? I have a 10GB IDE disk, hda. I had hda1 as /, hda2 as swap and hda3 as /home. The space was approximately evenly divided between / and /

Re: help me!

2001-07-26 Thread dman
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 03:23:43AM +, Zenon Braga F. wrote: | I'm trying with no sucess to download the CD's for powerpc, here | what i'm doing: | | ./make-pseudo-image binary-powerpc-1.list ftp://ftp.inf.ufpr.br/debian | | and what i'm getting: | | ./make-pseudo-image: let

Re: ipchains for the firewall challenged

2001-07-26 Thread Mark Wagnon
On 07/26/01 20:20:05 -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > I notice you've already applied another solution, but I hope I can > provide some direction should you (or anyone else) decide they'd like > to do it yourself: > > I have found that the most useful thing in setting up ipchains or > iptables is to

DVD_ROM and CD_RW

2001-07-26 Thread catalyst
hi all debian users, Can some recommend me a good DVD_ROM and CD_RW currectly supported under latest kernel_2.4.7 or lower.I cant find any good information on googles especially the DVD_ROM.Thanks all. CaT. -- (o_ .--. //\ | JC Wong,S

RE:Quake 3

2001-07-26 Thread Andrew Agno
jason pepas writes: > I upgraded the kernel to 2.4.7, and included support for AGP and DRI > > I am running testing, so I have X 4.x You may need 4.1, which isn't in testing--not too sure about that, though, and/or you may have to download and compile the DRI drivers yourself, depending on wha

Re: C programming: Segmentation fault within malloc?

2001-07-26 Thread Andrew Agno
Richard Cobbe writes: > heap. Unfortunately, this may or may not be the location of the root > error. While I'm a big fan of garbage collectors in general, I don't think You can always hope that it's a piece of memory you were dealing with before. Depending on the malloc debugger, you may als

A NEWBIE inquiry......

2001-07-26 Thread d
Hey folks, this is the LURKER again with an inquiry on installs on the same drive. I purchased a copy of "Mandrakesoft™'s Linux® Mandrake©" v7.0/w 3 CD's (installation disc #1, source disc #2 and extra #3) about a year ago. To make a long story longer, NOT really, there were some major proble

Re: dselect question

2001-07-26 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hi There Lance, I think one of the best ways to solve this problem would be with the 'dpkg --set-selections' command. Get all the names of the packages you want to have it quit trying to install. Then you can the above command on a command line and it will be waiting for your entries,

Re: help me!

2001-07-26 Thread Leonard Leblanc
If you want you can download the iso's from here: http://www.linuxiso.org/debian.html Enjoy! On Thursday 26 July 2001 22:23, Zenon Braga F. wrote: > I'm trying with no sucess to download the CD's for powerpc, here what i'm > doing: > > ./make-pseudo-image binary-powerpc-1.list ftp://ftp.in

help me!

2001-07-26 Thread Zenon Braga F.
I'm trying with no sucess to download the CD's for powerpc, here what i'm doing: ./make-pseudo-image binary-powerpc-1.list ftp://ftp.inf.ufpr.br/debian and what i'm getting: ./make-pseudo-image: let: not found Generating file list... ./make-pseudo-image

Re: ipchains for the firewall challenged

2001-07-26 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Mark Wagnon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010722 00:24]: > Hi all, > > I'm playing around with ipchains, but I'm just not getting the > example given in the IPCHAINS-HOWTO. It's based on a system that's > forwarding packets, but I'm not doing that. All I have is a single box > connected to the world with

Re: Immediate logouts in IMP

2001-07-26 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi... I had this problem too... crap... can't exactly remember how I fixed it... What is the account name of your database manager? I think in the horde setup part...it asks you the default they give you is "hordemgr" or something I changed it to "postgres" or something... I believe I ende

Re: dselect forcing recommends?

2001-07-26 Thread Mike
Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Hey people. > > So, I'm in dselect, and it says that icewm-common recommends icepref. > Unfortunately, it's not just a recommendation, because it won't resolve the > conflict without it selected for install. Yeah ... that's one of the things that drove me awa

dselect question

2001-07-26 Thread Lance Peterson
I selected some a package with dselect and then it automatically selected a *bunch* of dependent packages. Then I decided not to install the original package, but all the other packages it thought were dependent still try and install every time I run dselect even though the original package has be

Re: netscape freeze, additional info

2001-07-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 08:36:55PM -0500, Richard Cobbe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Lo, on Thursday, July 26, Karsten M. Self did write: > > > ObligTelnetBashing: don't use telnet. Remove your telnet daemon. Use > > SSH for all remote access. Consider removing your telnet client > > (there's

Re: Optimizing fron source

2001-07-26 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Victor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010722 13:16]: > I've installed debian potato 2.2r3 and compiled my own 2.2.19 kernel > to take into account my real hardware. > > I see that deb packages are built for a generic i386 processor. Even if the .deb resulting from your make-kpkg adventures says i386 in

Re: Newbie Question

2001-07-26 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Wayne Topa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010724 23:11]: > > > > uninstall, or Problem is my test version "Woody"? > ^^ > Dude > > 2nd time you recommended debfoster. You must be using 'testing' as > I can't find it on my slink, potato or woody boxes.

Re: dselect forcing recommends?

2001-07-26 Thread Colin Watson
"Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >So, I'm in dselect, and it says that icewm-common recommends icepref. >Unfortunately, it's not just a recommendation, because it won't resolve the >conflict without it selected for install. > >Is this a dselect bug? Yes, and there are patch

cpbk

2001-07-26 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, I tried to backup my disk using cpbk. Basically it was all right; ie: the files got copied. Problem is, when I executed the same command immediately for the second time, I had the following: bdg:~# nice cpbk -e "/mnt,/sqcache1,/sqcache2,/sqcache3,/proc" / /mnt Searching source files and build

dselect forcing recommends?

2001-07-26 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hey people. So, I'm in dselect, and it says that icewm-common recommends icepref. Unfortunately, it's not just a recommendation, because it won't resolve the conflict without it selected for install. Is this a dselect bug? Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: netscape freeze, additional info

2001-07-26 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Thursday, July 26, Karsten M. Self did write: > ObligTelnetBashing: don't use telnet. Remove your telnet daemon. Use > SSH for all remote access. Consider removing your telnet client > (there's an alternative, whose name I forget, which is useful for > establishing connections to variou

Re: Multi homed system

2001-07-26 Thread Osamu Aoki
There was same story within a month on this list. Go find it with search like http://groups.google.com I remember Phil Brutsche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was posing smart solution. Regards, Osamu On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 07:29:37PM -0600, Michael Blood wrote: > Does anyone know the best way to find o

Re: C programming: Segmentation fault within malloc?

2001-07-26 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Thursday, July 26, Shaul Karl did write: > Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. > 0x400af19e in malloc () from /lib/libc.so.6 > (gdb) > > > How can it be? If malloc can not allocate memory it should return a NULL > pointer. How can it Seg fault? As Andrew Agno and Alan

Multi homed system

2001-07-26 Thread Michael Blood
Does anyone know the best way to find out exactly how to set up a multi homed system? I am pretty sure that you can do everything within the /etc/network/interfaces file but I can not seem to find an example which fully implements it. Does anyone have any experience or pointer for me Thanks in a

Re: MTAs: rejecting senders with exim and delivering responses to rejected senders

2001-07-26 Thread Sam Varghese
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 01:48:09AM +0200, Hans Wilmer wrote: > > In your exim.conf add a line like this: > > > > host_reject_recipients = lsearch;/etc/mail/block/hosts > > I've set: sender_reject = /etc/exim.reject > > Specifying lsearch; seems to make a difference (unless this is the > default

Re: huge tree of package descriptions in /var/tmp

2001-07-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 08:13:18PM -0400, Andrew Pimlott ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I fear this question will have an embarassing answer, but I just > found a large file tree in /var/tmp/filexQ70qA on my Debian Woody > system. The contents seem to be some form of the Debian packages > database.

Quake 3

2001-07-26 Thread jason pepas
Hey guys, I have been tyring to get Quake3 working recently. I upgraded the kernel to 2.4.7, and included support for AGP and DRI I am running testing, so I have X 4.x I added Load "glx" Load "dri" to my X config however, glxinfo reports "direct rendering: no" I already have Q3 installed, but

Re: Problem with interface eth0

2001-07-26 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hi, Did you compile the driver into the kernel, or as a module? Try the command 'lsmod' if you compiled it as a module and see if you have it loaded. If not, do 'modprobe . What kind of 3com card is it? Jim Richards On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 11:05:15PM +0200, heissu wrote

RE:Problem with interface eth0

2001-07-26 Thread Andrew Agno
heissu writes: > SIOCSIFADDR: Unknown device > eth0: unknown interface > SIOCSIFNETMASK: Unknown device > eth0: unknown interface I think I've gotten this before, when I set the BIOS to have a yes for PnP OS. Andrew.

huge tree of package descriptions in /var/tmp

2001-07-26 Thread Andrew Pimlott
I fear this question will have an embarassing answer, but I just found a large file tree in /var/tmp/filexQ70qA on my Debian Woody system. The contents seem to be some form of the Debian packages database. filexQ70qA/ contains a huge number of directiories (~ 5000--BTW, that takes a while to list

Problem with interface eth0

2001-07-26 Thread heissu
I want a ethernet card (3Com). I have compiled the kernel to that ethernet card. I want configure the interface whith the ifconfig command.But when I do: # ifconfig eth0 numIP netmask numNETMASK up , the shell request: SIOCSIFADDR: Unknown device eth0: unknown interface SIOCSIFNETMASK: Unknown dev

Re: gunzip: ae_962.orig.tar.gz: not in gzip format

2001-07-26 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 03:55:37PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > Try: > > $ file ae_962.orig.tar.gz > > ...which will guess at the file type from various characteristics. You > can also try running 'head' or 'dd' of a few bytes of a file -- output > may or may not be messy, but you can see

Re: Getting CPU model and speed without rebooting

2001-07-26 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) [010726 13:56]: > > Hmmm...I'm not finding it under either testing or unstable. My > sources.list: > > # apt package archives > > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstabl

Re: CD-RW Question...

2001-07-26 Thread John Griffiths
At 04:27 PM 7/26/01 -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: >On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 08:54:25AM +, John Griffiths wrote: >> I've got an AOpen CRW-1232 running SCSI emulation with nary a coaster in >> sight the few caosters i've ahd have been caused by processor overload (it's >> sitting on a pent 200) and n

Re: Getting CPU model and speed without rebooting

2001-07-26 Thread Vineet Kumar
Generally, you'll have better luck getting an answer to your question by doing the following things: Use a subject line that contains the subject of your message, not someone else's. Relatedly, unless you're actually replying to something someone else said, don't hit 'reply' in your mailer. Comp

Re: CD-RW Question...

2001-07-26 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 08:54:25AM +, John Griffiths wrote: > I've got an AOpen CRW-1232 running SCSI emulation with nary a coaster in > sight the few caosters i've ahd have been caused by processor overload (it's > sitting on a pent 200) and not dive controller issues. Did you use "nice" to

Re: gunzip: ae_962.orig.tar.gz: not in gzip format

2001-07-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 05:40:21PM -0400, Andrew Dixon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi All, > I just downloaded the source to ae from the Debian home page and when I > try to untar it I get the following error: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ tar -zxvf ae_962.orig.tar.gz > > gzip: stdin: not in gzip f

Re: CD-RW Question...

2001-07-26 Thread John Griffiths
At 01:28 AM 7/27/01 +1000, Sam Varghese wrote: >On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 10:51:54AM +0100, Phillip Deackes wrote: >> I sold this drive and decided to go with a genuine SCSI CDRW - a suitable >> SCSI card costs very little, I have the Iwill SIDE-2930C which is fully >> supported by Linux. I bought a

Re: GUI/Wmaker system shutdown app?

2001-07-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 10:00:13PM +0100, Wayne ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 10:19:53AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > I've set up a GNU/Linux system for my folks to use and am dissatisfied > > with one aspect of it: there's no good, simple way I'm aware of to shut > > d

Re: Promise IDE ATA-100 controller on ASUS A7V133

2001-07-26 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Oh okay. Yeah the website says there are many kernels in the potato > distribution. Among the most recent 2.2.19 kernels are the following: > > kernel-image-2.2.19-idepci 2.2.19-2 > kernel

Re: Promise IDE ATA-100 controller on ASUS A7V133

2001-07-26 Thread David Grant
- Original Message - From: "Phil Brutsche" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "David Grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 3:17 PM Subject: Re: Promise IDE ATA-100 controller on ASUS A7V133 > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > A long time ago, in a galaxy fa

Re: Promise IDE ATA-100 controller on ASUS A7V133

2001-07-26 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I have an ASUS A7V133 with PDC20265 on-board IDE as well as the standard > on-board VIA controller. I am trying to install Debian potato 2.2r3. I > need to get it to install from the on-bo

Re: Getting CPU model and speed without rebooting

2001-07-26 Thread Jimmy Richards
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 01:46:57PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > > > ...um, what package you got that in? I can't find a package matching > > > 'x86info', and apt-cache search turns up a blank on the term. Try: > > > > > > $ dpkg -S $( which x86info ) > > > ...am I missing somethin

Re: gunzip: ae_962.orig.tar.gz: not in gzip format

2001-07-26 Thread Rolf Schillinger
Hi, On 27 Jul 2001, Mario Vukelic wrote: > On 26 Jul 2001 17:40:21 -0400, Andrew Dixon wrote: > > Hi All, > > I just downloaded the source to ae from the Debian home page and when I > > try to untar it I get the following error: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ tar -zxvf ae_962.orig.tar.gz > > > >

Re: gunzip: ae_962.orig.tar.gz: not in gzip format

2001-07-26 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hi Andy, Once in a while the someone names the file .tar.gz when they tar it then don't use gzip on it. Try just untaring with tar xvf and see what happens. That may do it, not sure. HTH, Jim Richards Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of

CGI isn't working too well

2001-07-26 Thread brandtd
Quick question (and I'm sorry about the huge config file strapped to this message): I'm running an apache server that does not really seem to like executing cgi-scripts. What I want it to do is be able to execute any CGI scripts in my friends /home/news/public_html/cgi-bin/ directory.

Re: gunzip: ae_962.orig.tar.gz: not in gzip format

2001-07-26 Thread Mario Vukelic
On 26 Jul 2001 17:40:21 -0400, Andrew Dixon wrote: > Hi All, > I just downloaded the source to ae from the Debian home page and when I > try to untar it I get the following error: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ tar -zxvf ae_962.orig.tar.gz > > gzip: stdin: not in gzip format > tar: Child returned stat

gunzip: ae_962.orig.tar.gz: not in gzip format

2001-07-26 Thread Andrew Dixon
Hi All, I just downloaded the source to ae from the Debian home page and when I try to untar it I get the following error: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ tar -zxvf ae_962.orig.tar.gz gzip: stdin: not in gzip format tar: Child returned status 1 tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Link between newsgroup linux.debian.user and the debian user mailing list ?

2001-07-26 Thread Yves Dessertine
Hi. I want to know it there is any link between the linux.debian.user newsgroup and the debian user mailing list. It seems to be the same messages on both. Am I right or do some people cross post in both ? I ask this stupid question because I discovered Debian, the usenet groups and this maili

kernel 2.2.19 and af_packet

2001-07-26 Thread Mark Carroll
I've been having some trouble with kernel 2.2.19-6. Since upgrading, I can't get any dhcp clients to work. For example, when dhclient tries to do a socket(PF_PACKET, SOCK_PACKET, 768), it gets a EAFNOSUPPORT - address family not supported by protocol. (Admittedly, socket's manpage seems to tell you

Re: Getting CPU model and speed without rebooting

2001-07-26 Thread Leonard Leblanc
Hey, If you have /proc filesystem support a simple % cat /proc/cpuinfo should give you everything you wanna know. -- Leonard Leblanc Vice President - Technology www.emergeknowledge.com

Re: Getting CPU model and speed without rebooting

2001-07-26 Thread Jimmy Richards
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 01:46:57PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 02:46:32PM -0500, Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 10:38:46AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > on Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 06:29:43AM -0600, Jimmy Richards ([EMAIL > >

Re: GUI/Wmaker system shutdown app?

2001-07-26 Thread Wayne
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 10:19:53AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > I've set up a GNU/Linux system for my folks to use and am dissatisfied > with one aspect of it: there's no good, simple way I'm aware of to shut > down the system from the window manager of choice (WindowMaker). > > I've granted a

Re: LaTeX editor

2001-07-26 Thread Glyn Millington
Vague answer here! Benji Fisher has a couple of really good packages for writing Latex with Vim. You should be able to locate his homepage via www.vim.org - sorry I don't have the up-to-date version, as I've sinced moved over to the One True Editor ;-) hth Glyn -- **

Re: Getting CPU model and speed without rebooting

2001-07-26 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 01:46:57PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > [ I wrote ] > > Looks like it's available in unstable. > > Hmmm...I'm not finding it under either testing or unstable. My > sources.list: > > # apt package archives > > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main co

Re: Free WP9 editor

2001-07-26 Thread Aidan Christian O'Reilly
Thanks, I had a feeling that would be the case. I'll just have to use my NT box (currently undergoing maintenance after locking up--again!) for WP until they dump it next year, hopefully we'll get a cross-platform word processor then. Much appreciated, Aidan On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 04:05:20PM

Re: Getting CPU model and speed without rebooting

2001-07-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 02:46:32PM -0500, Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 10:38:46AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 06:29:43AM -0600, Jimmy Richards ([EMAIL > > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > How about trying the 'x86i

Re: GUI/Wmaker system shutdown app?

2001-07-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 09:16:50PM +0200, Philipp Lehman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > >I've set up a GNU/Linux system for my folks to use and am dissatisfied > >with one aspect of it: there's no good, simple way I'm aware of to shut > >down the sy

Re: C programming: Segmentation fault within malloc?

2001-07-26 Thread Shaul Karl
> > Try breaking the mallocs into separate lines to see which one fails: > > int errflag = 0; > if (!(node = (struct node *)malloc(sizeof(struct node { > errflag = 1; > } else { > if (!(node->data = (struct symbol *)malloc(sizeof(struct > symbol { >

Re: install dpkg without dpkg

2001-07-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 01:19:27AM +0800, Lamer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Miguel Griffa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 12:48 AM > Subject: install dpkg without dpkg > > > > Hi, > > I posted a similar msg few days ago, and having

Re: woody not upgrading 6 packages

2001-07-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 03:48:24PM +, Em Huynh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, > > Everytime I do an > apt-get update > apt-get dist-upgrade > > It tells me it will upgrade x packages remove 0 and not upgrade 6. My > question is, how do i find these 6 packages, and why are they not being

Re: laptop and linux: any dangers?

2001-07-26 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 01:06:22AM +0200, wrote: > I plan to purchase a notebook that shall run debian GNU/Linux. My > question: do I have to take care on special features? I do not expect to General precautions to set up notebook PC for Linux. PCMCIA is started as a part of regular init scrip

Re: USB and Printer problems

2001-07-26 Thread Phillip Deackes
On Thu, 26 Jul 2001 20:01:39 +0100 Roland Hinkley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have been away from Linux and Debian for a while. I am now running a > 'Woody' system. > > I have an Epson USB printer attached which I would like to use. > > I have read the documents I can find on USB in

Re: Off Topic: Mailing Agents?

2001-07-26 Thread dman
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 09:54:05PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: | I could never figure out what went wrong, because when I sent the exchange | competence center people an smtp + pop3 dump illustrating the mangling, | they were completely baffled about the possibility of sending email with | telnet, s

Re: Free WP9 editor

2001-07-26 Thread Alan Shutko
"Aidan Christian O'Reilly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Other than getting WordPerfect, are there any options available > (preferably free as in speech)? There's Corel's WPO2K/Linux, although it's unstable and buggy. There's Corel's WP8 free download, or used to be... but it probably won't sup

Re: woody became unusable - how to recover

2001-07-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 04:14:16PM -0300, Miguel Griffa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > At 11:21 a.m. 26/07/01 -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > >on Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 10:37:36AM -0300, Miguel Griffa > >([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > > > Hi all, > > > I'm having a serious problem with m

Re: Off Topic: Mailing Agents?

2001-07-26 Thread Joost Kooij
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 01:00:45PM -0600, John Galt wrote: > On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > >The reason? My incoming mail goes through an MS-Exchange server, > >and it strips out the signature part and makes a mess of the mail > >header. There's no > > > >* ^X-Mailing-List: > >o

Free WP9 editor

2001-07-26 Thread Aidan Christian O'Reilly
At work, most people use WordPerfect 9 for word processing. Of the word processors and editors I have installed on my Debian system, quite a few are capable of opening MS Word docs, but none can open WP files--tried wp2x, but that only works with WP 5.x. Other than getting WordPerfect, are ther

wine with potato

2001-07-26 Thread p
debs, could somene share /etc/wine.conf with me. apparently, i need to change mine and i don't have a clue. thx. bentley taylor. // Script started on Thu Jul 26 13:57:05 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ wine amb.exe       /home/bt/amb.exe Could not stat /c, ignoring drive C: Invalid pa

Re: Getting CPU model and speed without rebooting

2001-07-26 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 10:38:46AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 06:29:43AM -0600, Jimmy Richards ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > How about trying the 'x86info' program. You should be able to get it > > apt-get. Then run the command 'x86info -mhz'. H

Re: USB and Printer problems

2001-07-26 Thread Dominique Deleris
Roland Hinkley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have an Epson USB printer attached which I would like to use. > > I have read the documents I can find on USB in general and USB printers > in particular. > > Kernel (2.2.19pre17) is compiled with USB and USB printer support as > modules. I have cre

Re: GUI/Wmaker system shutdown app?

2001-07-26 Thread Philipp Lehman
On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: >I've set up a GNU/Linux system for my folks to use and am dissatisfied >with one aspect of it: there's no good, simple way I'm aware of to shut >down the system from the window manager of choice (WindowMaker). > >I've granted access w/o password, via

CUPS with Samba question

2001-07-26 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
I am running CUPS 1.1.9 with Samba 2.0.7-34 (from stable). CUPS runs fine with an HP5MP printer. I can lp and it prints. Samba is running fine. I can go to a Windows2000 box and share directories, etc. Samba and CUPS together are not working. I have the following in my smb.conf file: printing

MB suggestions?

2001-07-26 Thread Matti Airas
Hi, I just upgraded my desktop motherboard and processor to ASUS A7A266 (ALi MaGiK 1) and Athlon 1200 MHz. However, it seems I didn't do my background research well enough - ALi MaGiK won't play together with my BT878-based Hauppauge TV tuner card. The computer hangs completely always when I try t

USB and Printer problems

2001-07-26 Thread Roland Hinkley
Hi, I have been away from Linux and Debian for a while. I am now running a 'Woody' system. I have an Epson USB printer attached which I would like to use. I have read the documents I can find on USB in general and USB printers in particular. Kernel (2.2.19pre17) is compiled with USB and USB pri

Re: woody became unusable - how to recover

2001-07-26 Thread Miguel Griffa
At 11:21 a.m. 26/07/01 -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 10:37:36AM -0300, Miguel Griffa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi all, > I'm having a serious problem with my woody installation at home. The > system freezed, and when I rebooted, fsck reported problems. I boote

Re: Off Topic: Mailing Agents?

2001-07-26 Thread John Galt
On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > >Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > >> > > Yep, I remember the situation now -- Karsten sends his messages PGP >> > > signed (I just checked). OE chokes on them :-). Signing messages is >> > > good so I don't think he'll stop (it's just time for th

Re: *Could someone please post this to linux.debian.user and linux.dev.debian newsgroups*

2001-07-26 Thread Hall Stevenson
> > http://groups.google.com/ will provide > > search-and-post functionality for Usenet-via-Web. > > > > > > I currently post messages using deja/google-groups > (just posted one this morning). They've been allowing > posts for quite some time now. I am, however, using > my old deja account and don

Re: *Could someone please post this to linux.debian.user and linux.dev.debian newsgroups*

2001-07-26 Thread DvB
Karsten M. Self wrote: on Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 05:59:21PM -0500, DvB ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: George wrote: *Could someone please post this to linux.debian.user and linux.dev.debian newsgroups - my news server is not working atm - exclude this part :-)* Why don't you try http://www.deja.

Re: nslookup and packages

2001-07-26 Thread John Galt
On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Kalle Hasselström wrote: >What package contaisn nslookup? Is there a command that lists all dnsutils >packages that supply command (or file) foo? apt-cache search foo will sometimes do the trick. I personally use the bottom search engine on http://www.debian.org/distrib/

Re: Keyboard Setup

2001-07-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 12:23:33AM +, Nic Strong ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi all, > > Small problem. I have managed to get my GB keyboard layout working from > X (XkbModel pc101 and XkbLayout gb), but are struggling to find where I > should change my config so this will work in the cons

Re: woody became unusable - how to recover

2001-07-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 10:37:36AM -0300, Miguel Griffa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi all, > I'm having a serious problem with my woody installation at home. The > system freezed, and when I rebooted, fsck reported problems. I booted with > rescue, fscked and now I have a very weird a

Re: PPPoE +Debian ?

2001-07-26 Thread Adam Shand
> Where can I find documentation that will explain the install and usage > of PPPoE with Debian ? i just set this up this morning for an earthlink connection. it's pretty straight forward. from memory, quickly here are the steps (as root): first make sure your ethernet adapter is setup and doe

Laptops and Linux

2001-07-26 Thread Adam Bell
Anyway: Linux Laptops! Yay! I am currently running Linux on 2 laptops, and I have set up 3 different models. The verdict? You can nearly always get everything to work with some tweaking. The things you need are: 1) DETAILED tech specs...Dell is a good candidate for this, Sharp is the worst 2

Re: Disk change detected on device

2001-07-26 Thread Steve Gran
On Thu, 26 Jul 2001 04:56:13 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > I am getting this message from time to time on my server: > kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0) > kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device fd(2,0) > But i am sure that there are no disks neither inside the fl

Re: C programming: Segmentation fault within malloc?

2001-07-26 Thread Alan Shutko
Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How can it be? If malloc can not allocate memory it should return a NULL > pointer. How can it Seg fault? You have most likely overwritten the end of an array and overwritten malloc's accounting info, causing a segfault next time you malloc something. --

Re: LaTeX editor

2001-07-26 Thread Peter S Galbraith
"Michael B. Taylor" wrote: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 11:57:35AM -0300, GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI wrote: > > > How can I configure vim (or other editor) to easy write TeX docs? > > I am very happy with emacs+auctex+bibtex+reftex for this. What? No "+bib-cite+font-latex" in there? I'm disapp

Re: Java compilation error: what is missing?

2001-07-26 Thread dman
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 05:47:52PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: | dman wrote: | >Those methods were added in Java2 (jdk >= 1.2). Install the j2sdk1.3 | >package from blackdown.org instead and see if that helps. The newer | >the JVM the better it is, usually. For an apt line you can use thi

Re: Off Topic: Mailing Agents?

2001-07-26 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > Yep, I remember the situation now -- Karsten sends his messages PGP > > > signed (I just checked). OE chokes on them :-). Signing messages is > > > good so I don't think he'll stop (it's just time for the rest of us to > > > catch up > I could care less

Re: Getting CPU model and speed without rebooting

2001-07-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 06:29:43AM -0600, Jimmy Richards ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > How about trying the 'x86info' program. You should be able to get it > apt-get. Then run the command 'x86info -mhz'. Here's what I get from > running the command... ...um, what package you g

Re: *Could someone please post this to linux.debian.user and linux.dev.debian newsgroups*

2001-07-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 11:00:41PM +0100, George ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > *Could someone please post this to linux.debian.user and linux.dev.debian > newsgroups - my news server is not working atm - exclude this part :-)* > > Hi , does anyone know how I can using ip aliasing with the > /etc/ne

Re: *Could someone please post this to linux.debian.user and linux.dev.debian newsgroups*

2001-07-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 05:59:21PM -0500, DvB ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > George wrote: > > *Could someone please post this to linux.debian.user and linux.dev.debian > > newsgroups - my news server is not working atm - exclude this part :-)* > > > > > > Why don't you try http://www.deja.com? T

GUI/Wmaker system shutdown app?

2001-07-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
I've set up a GNU/Linux system for my folks to use and am dissatisfied with one aspect of it: there's no good, simple way I'm aware of to shut down the system from the window manager of choice (WindowMaker). I've granted access w/o password, via sudo, to 'shutdown -h now'. It would be possible t

Re: Promise IDE ATA-100 controller on ASUS A7V133

2001-07-26 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 12:54:27AM -0700, David Grant wrote: > Hi, > > I have an ASUS A7V133 with PDC20265 on-board IDE as well as the standard > on-board VIA controller. I am trying to install Debian potato 2.2r3. I > need to get it to install from the on-board Promise IDE controller. I tried

Re: install dpkg without dpkg

2001-07-26 Thread Lamer
For this time - I suggest a reinstallation. It's VERY hard to build something without gcc or /lib/ld-linux.so.2 :) vivi la PERLa loca... :) question: do spanish support hackish verbalization, noun-ization, post-modern-ed, or so? - Original Message - From: "Miguel Griffa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Browser Problem

2001-07-26 Thread Mart van de Wege
On Thu, 26 Jul 2001 11:57:14 -0400 dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 09:26:06AM -0500, Leonard Leblanc wrote: > | Hey Guys, > | > | I am trying to find a browser that interprets html very close to the > same way > | as Internet Explorer. The reason I am trying to find th

Re: install dpkg without dpkg

2001-07-26 Thread Colin Watson
Miguel Griffa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi, > I posted a similar msg few days ago, and having no response, I >reformule :) > >My woody system got severrr FS damage, and lots of binaries are broken >(including apt, dpkg...) >how can I install dpkg and apt ? Look in the project/dpkg direct

Re: C programming: Segmentation fault within malloc?

2001-07-26 Thread Shaul Karl
> > > On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Shaul Karl wrote: > > > How can it be? If malloc can not allocate memory it should return a NULL > > pointer. How can it Seg fault? > > The internal state of the stack became corrupted. Try compiling with > "-lefence" (electric fence). Then reproduce the error. It wi

Re: install dpkg without dpkg

2001-07-26 Thread Miguel Griffa
mmm... in your opinion would it be better to tar data and cfg and reinstall? I'm somewhat afraid of cfg... but it's good to consider that it may be easier that. thanks At 06:49 p.m. 26/07/01 +0200, Daniel Faller wrote: On Thursday 26 July 2001 18:48, Miguel Griffa wrote: > Hi, > I posted

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