Re: tomcat 4 and debian

2001-11-10 Thread Andreas Leitner
On Sun, 2001-11-11 at 05:39, hanasaki wrote: > I use it with jdk1.4B3. deb's would be nice but if you really want it. > It is a 20 sec install. But it does not depend on jdk1.4, does it? (btw, are there debs for that? :) Hmm, I only installed tomcat 3.2 on a redhat box from tgz. The debs are m

Re: VIM distribution files missing?

2001-11-10 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sun, 11 Nov 2001 00:00:01 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all.. still playing with vim trying to get it to work properly, and I > noticed that > Debian has no VIM system files! Isn't it supposed to have a default > syntax.vim file and a > default .vimrc file? apt-get install vim-rt Vi

Network Programming in C on Linux ... Pls Help

2001-11-10 Thread shyamk
Dear members , I am having some serious doubts (generated by a vague book and my ignorance/stupidity combined together). 1) First , I wish to talk about the memsetfunction used in the TCPEchoServer.c program . This function takes 3 arguments as far as the documentation is conc

Re: Mounting samba shares...

2001-11-10 Thread Tim Moss
Apparently, on Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 06:15:05AM -0600, Alexander Wallace wrote: > Hi there? is there an easy way to mount samba shares in a linux desktop, > kind of what you do in windoze like \\10.100.100.100\userdir? > > Gnomba doesn't see the shared user directories as shares and I don't know >

Re: dpkg problem

2001-11-10 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I didn't lose textutils; it was listed as installed but somehow it was installed improperly or possibly it didn't upgrade properly when I went to the testing version.

VIM distribution files missing?

2001-11-10 Thread xucaen
Hi all.. still playing with vim trying to get it to work properly, and I noticed that Debian has no VIM system files! Isn't it supposed to have a default syntax.vim file and a default .vimrc file?

Unidentified subject!

2001-11-10 Thread lloyder
Hello, Being prompted for this part and that part, I imagine this is to support using updated copies or a mixed media install. A rescue disk, aka boot disk aka start disk, includes your boot loader, kernel, kernel mods... It depends, you probably want to use one of the rescue disk(s) on on

Re: Support for MS-6378 motherboard

2001-11-10 Thread hanasaki
Thanks. Sound worked ok? no problems with the shared memory stuff for video? I was going to do a firewall with it. What have you found available for those low hieght slots? Thanks. Sam Varghese wrote: On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 03:32:57PM -0600, hanasaki wrote: Has anyone had a good/bad ex

Re: tomcat 4 and debian

2001-11-10 Thread hanasaki
I use it with jdk1.4B3. deb's would be nice but if you really want it. It is a 20 sec install. Andreas Leitner wrote: Hi, I hope this is not offtopic on this list. I was wandering why there are no debs for tomcat 4 in debian. It has been released in september and and I heard a lot of good th

Installation

2001-11-10 Thread critter
I recently downloaded Debian 2.2 r3 and am trying to install. I boot from cd-rom and when I get to Install Operating System Kernel and Modules it asks where I want to install from, I say from the cd-rom drive, it tells me to enter the first cd-rom, so I do, and then I get prompted to enter the r

OT: mutt message scoring: body/header?

2001-11-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
I'm playing with mutt message scoring. It's interesting, but not quite as powerful as I'd like. It seems that the default mutt build and/or current version doesn't allow for filtering on headers or body. This reduces the utility of scoring, as you're largely reduced to filtering on sender and su

Problem with gnome (mouse is locked in the bottom narrow area)

2001-11-10 Thread wqhmath
Every time I start my woody,it fisrt enters a graphic interface,I can see  it is gnome1.4,but there is not typical menu of gnome,and I can hardly to move the mouse,I move and click my mouse randomly,and can see a menu of which in the top of the menu is debian,at the bottom is the menu

x broken

2001-11-10 Thread Soumitri P S
hi.. ran apt-get update/apt-get upgrade and ended up with a broken x. i cant start gdm. "/var/log/gdm/:0.log" attached. sorry if i missed the original thread, but can anyone help! - soumitri This is a pre-release version of XFree86, and is not supported in any way. Bugs may be reported to XFree

Troubleshooting sensible-mda

2001-11-10 Thread Andrew Pollock
Hi, I've got some messages sitting in my mail queue that are deferred, with this message: local mailer (/usr/lib/sm.bin/sensible-mda) exited with EX_TEMPFAIL I'm not really sure how to troubleshoot the sensible-mda program, and therefore can't work out where the problem might be. I'm using a bu

Re: rm a '-R' file

2001-11-10 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 09:17:43PM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > I have a file that was created called "-R". How > do I delete this file? read "man rm". "rm -- -R" should do it. If unsure (like me) $ mv -- -R xxx $ ls -l xxx $ rm xxx cheers :-) -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+

rm a '-R' file

2001-11-10 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
I have a file that was created called "-R". How do I delete this file? Lance

X 4.1.0 and unicode

2001-11-10 Thread Patrick McFarland
When will unicode (utf-8) be avalible in woody's x? -- Patrick "Diablo-D3" McFarland || [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: group directories policy?

2001-11-10 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 02:37:04AM +0100, J?rgen Hermanrud Fjeld wrote: > Hi. > > Are there any policies for group directories? > That is users have their home directories in "/home/users/" on my box, and > groups is "/home/groups" Thus letting me separate users and groups, and > sharing the who

tomcat 4 and debian

2001-11-10 Thread Andreas Leitner
Hi, I hope this is not offtopic on this list. I was wandering why there are no debs for tomcat 4 in debian. It has been released in september and and I heard a lot of good things about it. Are there specific reasons not to include it, or has it just not yet been packaged? tia, Andreas

Re: Fetchmail changes?

2001-11-10 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 11 November 2001 12:32 am, Shaul Karl wrote: > >Before that I wrote ... > > Using kmail, if I get some spam mail, I hit control B which is supposed > > to send a bounce message back to the sender. This pops up a warning > > dialog with the m

group directories policy?

2001-11-10 Thread Jørgen Hermanrud Fjeld
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi. Are there any policies for group directories? That is users have their home directories in "/home/users/" on my box, and groups is "/home/groups" Thus letting me separate users and groups, and sharing the whole groups catalog with samba. Are th

Re: Which kernel is recommended to run in debian testing?

2001-11-10 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sat, 10 Nov 2001 16:39:17 -0800, Jim McCloskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > |> Similarly, 2.4.10+ are the only kernels > |> in the 2.4.x series without major uglies yet > > Hmm, but 2.4.14 won't compile at all, and you have to avoid all > of the kernels from 2.4.10 to 2.4.12 (don't kn

Re: DHCP Servr configuration

2001-11-10 Thread Osamu Aoki
I do this dhcp server for home LAN system on gateway machine. eth0 for cable connection and eth1 for LAN side. On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 10:56:01PM +0100, Eric Smith wrote: > Would like to have the bare minimum config for a single networked > (windows) machine which I want to give internet access t

Re: Thoghts on a computer as a stero component?

2001-11-10 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
* Stan Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > Seroiousl what have people done for computers used promarliy as a steror > system component? Seems to me tahe niose sheidling would be priority No.1, > followed closely by a reasonably compact design, and then, a failry smalle, > but usuable displ

Re: run dselect for remote machine (nfs+chroot?)

2001-11-10 Thread Osamu Aoki
I did experimented on this nfs+chroot approach. Following is my report: > Hans Ekbrand wrote: > >On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 01:52:23AM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > >I have slow 486DX2 (20MB) running woody as router. > > >I realize memory swaps out frequently when I run dselect. > > > >I have 486DX 3

Re: Which kernel is recommended to run in debian testing?

2001-11-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 04:39:17PM -0800, Jim McCloskey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > |> Similarly, 2.4.10+ are the only kernels > |> in the 2.4.x series without major uglies yet > > Hmm, but 2.4.14 won't compile at all, and you have to avoid all > of the kernels from 2.4.10 to 2.4.12 (do

Re: /var/log/messages on the desktop

2001-11-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 09:41:12AM -0500, Sunny Dubey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > hey, > > how do people get messages that get added to /var/log/messages printed to > their desktops ?? > > sort of like the following desktop-screenshot at the bottom > > http://indigo.ie/~fowler/screenshot.jpg

new maintainer was (Re: building my own .debs)

2001-11-10 Thread lloyder
Hello Michael, I am new to Debian, but my understanding of the role of maintainer is that you do not necessarily need to be able to patch the product the package you are maintaining contains, but know the package, and how it fits in to Debian. The more you know about the product, the program's

Re: Which kernel is recommended to run in debian testing?

2001-11-10 Thread Jim McCloskey
|> Similarly, 2.4.10+ are the only kernels |> in the 2.4.x series without major uglies yet Hmm, but 2.4.14 won't compile at all, and you have to avoid all of the kernels from 2.4.10 to 2.4.12 (don't know about 2.4.13) if you want to use the dvd player Xine (don't know if that counts as a `m

Re: can't insmod wd with debian 2.2r3

2001-11-10 Thread Shaul Karl
Could it be that this is a PNP card? Does the card appears in the boot messages? Perhaps you need other io and/or irq settings? Is the appropriate module found in /lib/modules/`uname`/net/? --- Begin Message --- Hi !   I have an old ISA NIC: SMC EtherCard Plus Elite 16 Combo (WD/8013EW)

Re: Fetchmail changes?

2001-11-10 Thread Shaul Karl
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I had a disasterous update to my main server last weeked - in that I tried to > do a testing upgrade and found that many of my applications would no longer > work > > I restored some things via a backup, but during the week I have noticed a

Re: Support for MS-6378 motherboard

2001-11-10 Thread Sam Varghese
On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 03:32:57PM -0600, hanasaki wrote: > Has anyone had a good/bad experience with this? i built a machine using this m-b for a friend; dual-boot, runs w98 and mandrake 8.0. never tried debian on it. sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com

Re: update problems

2001-11-10 Thread Shaul Karl
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Last weekend I attempted to update my [small home] server (with a dselect > update) to the latest version of "testing". I was previously running testing > but I had not updated it for several months > > It failed - disasterously - in that eve

Re: Printer 'HPLaserJ@mansha' - cannot open connection - Connection refused

2001-11-10 Thread dman
On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 09:17:21PM +0530, Pankaj Jangid wrote: | hi all, | | I am having printer on a win2k machine and I want to use it from my | Debian GNU/linux machine. I have lprng installed. I am using testing | distribution of Debian. ... | Can any one tell me what is the problem ? Using

Re: No xpr on debian...

2001-11-10 Thread Erik Steffl
Mike Fontenot wrote: > > Erik Steffl wrote: > > > > yes, when faced with a question like this, go to the debian.org > > webpage, go to Packages (left side menu) and use the last form on that > > page to search for a file, it will tell you where it is (if it is in > > debian). > > > btw the answe

Re: Mutt - Procmail Question

2001-11-10 Thread dman
On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 01:48:29PM -0600, John Patton wrote: | On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 07:48:00PM +0530, Jijo Jose A wrote: ... | 'mutt -f my_mbox ', my_mbox is not a mailbox ... | > how can i solve this ? ... | then fix your procmail action accordingly. Once the mailbox is fixed, I recommend

Re: No xpr on debian...

2001-11-10 Thread Mike Fontenot
Erik Steffl wrote: > > yes, when faced with a question like this, go to the debian.org > webpage, go to Packages (left side menu) and use the last form on that > page to search for a file, it will tell you where it is (if it is in > debian). > btw the answer in this case: netpbm Thanks for the

Re: playmperg and framebuffer problems

2001-11-10 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Stan Brown: > I have a Debian potato + Progeny + 2.4.3 kernel machien with an ATI Rage > video card. When I fire up plaympeg (even with the --novideo switch) it > seems to put my video card in a scan rate that's too high for my monitor > (the minitor puts up a synch lost message, but the

Re: Woody Gnome login is Slow!

2001-11-10 Thread martin f krafft
* hanasaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.11.10 17:08:59-0600]: > xfs is running > no access attempts on 113 - ident? > portmap? Its running. what am I looking for? not 113, sorry. 111/tcp of course. in my case, it has happened that a window manager took a minute to come up because it was trying to co

Re: Woody Gnome login is Slow!

2001-11-10 Thread hanasaki
xfs is running no access attempts on 113 - ident? portmap? Its running. what am I looking for? martin f krafft wrote: * Karsten M. Self [2001.11.10 14:46:52-0800]: Probably DNS reverse-lookup problems. X is a _networked_ windowing protocol. also, if you are not running an Xfont server o

Re: Woody Gnome login is Slow!

2001-11-10 Thread martin f krafft
* Karsten M. Self [2001.11.10 14:46:52-0800]: > Probably DNS reverse-lookup problems. X is a _networked_ windowing > protocol. also, if you are not running an Xfont server or you disabled portmap, then check if there are access attempts to port 113/tcp during the delay. -- martin;

evolution and conduits

2001-11-10 Thread Aaron Brashears
First, thank you so much for making the pre-release of evolution available! It looks pretty darn good. However, one piece that I've been looking for is the pilot-evolution conduit. The gnome control center I have (1.4.0.1-13) allows me to set gnome-pilot-conduits (0.7-1) which include EAddres, ECa

Re: Woody Gnome login is Slow!

2001-11-10 Thread hanasaki
DNS is served off a differnet machine. forward and reverse queries are fine, and fast, for the host / IP Karsten M. Self wrote: on Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 02:46:10PM -0600, hanasaki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Since upgrading to woody, it seems to take a long time to log in. There is also a ma

Re: So: reiserfs or ext3 (was Re: ext3 to be in 2.4.15!)

2001-11-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 08:12:09PM -0200, Jeronimo Pellegrini ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 02:03:10PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > I've got both ext3fs and reiserfs on my most recent laptop build. > > > > There are advantages to each. > > > > Reiserfs has better perf

Re: Woody Gnome login is Slow!

2001-11-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 02:46:10PM -0600, hanasaki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Since upgrading to woody, it seems to take a long time to log in. There > is also a major pause prior to the Gnome splash screen coming up. Probably DNS reverse-lookup problems. X is a _networked_ windowing protocol

Re: No xpr on debian...

2001-11-10 Thread Erik Steffl
Mike Fontenot wrote: > > Erik Steffl wrote: > > > e.g. gimp can read xwd files, there's /usr/bin/xwdtopnm, I guess there > > are other programs as well... > > I couldn't find xwdtopnm on my system. Is it part of some > debian package? yes, when faced with a question like this, go to the de

Re: trying to verify contents of my tar archive

2001-11-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 11:14:36AM -0800, Kurt Lieber ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I've been using Karsten Self's sample backup script available in the Linux > Backup mini-FAQ at: > > http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/backups.html > > This script basically uses tar to archive a list of di

Re: So: reiserfs or ext3 (was Re: ext3 to be in 2.4.15!)

2001-11-10 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 02:03:10PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > I've got both ext3fs and reiserfs on my most recent laptop build. > > There are advantages to each. > > Reiserfs has better performance with larger filesystems, particularly > for large directory listings. In one case, I've got a

So: reiserfs or ext3 (was Re: ext3 to be in 2.4.15!)

2001-11-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 03:16:54PM -0500, Tom Allison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > So, unlike what I read in ReiserFS, I can just hang out on this for a > while and then upgrade at my leisure? This is so totally cool > Is there an performance difference between this "conversion" and > start

DHCP Servr configuration

2001-11-10 Thread Eric Smith
I am attempting to set up a dhcp server and its going rather slowly. Would like to have the bare minimum config for a single networked (windows) machine which I want to give internet access to from my debian server. The debian runs the dhcpcd and is configured thus by the ISP: inet addr:24.132

Re: /var/log/messages on the desktop

2001-11-10 Thread Sean Quinlan
--- Sunny Dubey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-11-10 14:40): > how do people get messages that get added to /var/log/messages printed to > their desktops ?? Try the package root-tail. Cheers, Sean -- Sean Quinlan ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: ext3 to be in 2.4.15!

2001-11-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 12:37:34PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 11:10:50AM -0600, DvB wrote: > > ... it's in as of 2.4.15-pre2 > > > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/testing/patch-2.4.15.log > > Great, they're weren't even done with 2

Re: remote install progress?

2001-11-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 03:22:51PM -0500, Tom Allison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > OK, so I nuked a partition and started building a new Debian > installation using a floppy disk to boot from. > > I'm trying to put together something here that I can have someone use to > boot a computer 1,000 mi

Re: Problem in my CD-Roms

2001-11-10 Thread sloopy malibu
on 11/10/01 3:41 AM using moldy cheese [EMAIL PROTECTED] engraved this message > Dear technicians of Site, > Hello, I hope you have the great time. I want to ask questions about my > corrupt CD-ROMS. I hope you help me. > In fact our four number of CD-ROM were corrupted and I don’t know how to >

Support for MS-6378 motherboard

2001-11-10 Thread hanasaki
Has anyone had a good/bad experience with this? Thanks,

Re: Gigabyte GA-7ZX & sound chip

2001-11-10 Thread Felix von Delius
hi keith, i have a GA-7ZXR, also with onboard sound. to let the sound work i have compiled the kernel (2.4.13) with the following options: CONFIG_SOUND=y CONFIG_SOUND_ES1371=m ...the command lsmod gives me the following output: wind:/usr/src/linux# lsmod Module Size Used by NV

update problems

2001-11-10 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Last weekend I attempted to update my [small home] server (with a dselect update) to the latest version of "testing". I was previously running testing but I had not updated it for several months It failed - disasterously - in that everything started

Re: weird nvidia problem in unstable

2001-11-10 Thread Victor Julien
Hmmm, weird, tried your suggestion, and now it works fine. Even with libc6-2.2.4-5. I thought that 'make install' in the nvidia_glx directory removed all conflicting files... Well, everything is fine now. Thanx On Saturday 10 November 2001 20:54, Dominique Deleris wrote: > On Sat, 10 Nov 2001

snmpd eating memory

2001-11-10 Thread Quietman
I have a strange problem with one of my potato boxes, snmpd sits and slowly eats up all the memory. The box in question has hand-built 2.2.17 kernel, snmpd 4.1.1-2. Since being started on 27th October it is now using 90596k according to memstat, this on a 96meg box. I cannot work out what is goin

Re: Thoghts on a computer as a stero component?

2001-11-10 Thread Aniartia
On Saturday 10 November 2001 19:03, Stan Brown wrote: > OK, I'v got the bug. > > I'm siting here thinking about giving my stero system (medium high end) a > computer for Christmas :-) > > Seroiousl what have people done for computers used promarliy as a steror > system component? Seems to me tahe n

Re: Audio-CD not readable

2001-11-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 10:19:57AM +0100, Angel Parra ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello!! > k > I have some audio-cd's that can`t be readed on my CD-reader (and I > think that in no one) This CD's are the new "anti-copy" tecnique. I > nearly sure that the secret off the anticopy is to pot wrong CR

Woody and XFree driver for voodoo 3500 TV

2001-11-10 Thread hanasaki
since the upgrade, video performance is pretty bad. What could cuase this? Thanks,

Woody Gnome login is Slow!

2001-11-10 Thread hanasaki
Since upgrading to woody, it seems to take a long time to log in. There is also a major pause prior to the Gnome splash screen coming up.

Re: dpkg problem

2001-11-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 05:10:20PM -0600, Cheryl Homiak ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Thank you. I found only two "tr" files: one in /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/tr and > the other, actually a directory, in /usr/share/locale. So I decided that > before jumping to conclusions I would reinstall textutils,

Re: Xwindows GUI

2001-11-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 09:48:34PM -0700, 57j ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I just installed Debian and made the mistake of turning on the Xwindows GUI > login. How do I turn that off and startup with the text prompt? > > Thanks, > Cathy Cramer There's a short FAQ on GNU/Linux X display manager di

Re: ext3 to be in 2.4.15!

2001-11-10 Thread Tom Allison
Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: See, there's no difference between "converting" and "starting from scratch'. Starting from scratch would mean create a ext2 filesystem and add the journal file to it, etc... (And this is absolutely great!) Read some documentation on ext3: http://people.spoiled.org/j

Re: building my own .debs

2001-11-10 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 01:45:17PM -0600, Colin Watson wrote: > > http://www.debian.org/devel/ has just about all the references, > including the New Maintainer's Guide. Thanks. I glanced at the packages needing maintainers, and I'm not sure I'm qualified to handle any on that list. I'm a dec

Re: ext3 to be in 2.4.15!

2001-11-10 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 03:16:54PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > >No, you just have to use tune2fs to add a journal file to each > >partition, and change your fstab. ext3 is forward and backward > >compatible with ext2. Oh -- you will need a recent version of e2fsprogs > > > >J. > > So, unlike what

Re: Fetchmail - Socket problems?

2001-11-10 Thread Tobias Bengtsson
Cam Ellison went something in the lines of: > A look through Google suggests that part of the problem may be the server. Hmm, thanks. I'll look in to the server, to see if there's any problems on that end. But would that be fetchmail specific? I can get mail just fine with any win client, although

remote install progress?

2001-11-10 Thread Tom Allison
OK, so I nuked a partition and started building a new Debian installation using a floppy disk to boot from. I'm trying to put together something here that I can have someone use to boot a computer 1,000 miles away and I can use SSH to install everything else necessary to turn that computer int

Re: ext3 to be in 2.4.15!

2001-11-10 Thread Tom Allison
Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: After all, wouldn't I have to reinstall everying on a new set up partitions in order to get the support for ext3??? No, you just have to use tune2fs to add a journal file to each partition, and change your fstab. ext3 is forward and backward compatible with ext2.

Re: No xpr on debian...

2001-11-10 Thread Mike Fontenot
Nate wrote: > doesn't look like its available on debian. as for fundamental > i can't imagine how it is. if it was it would be included. Well, it's the CAPABILITY that's fundamental. Given an X dump, it's reasonable to want to print out that image. The program xpr converts the X dump to a post

Fetchmail changes?

2001-11-10 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I had a disasterous update to my main server last weeked - in that I tried to do a testing upgrade and found that many of my applications would no longer work I restored some things via a backup, but during the week I have noticed a problem Using

Re: building my own .debs

2001-11-10 Thread Brian Nelson
"Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hey people. > > Apologies for asking something that I should know, but if I have some > source that I've built from a tarball, and I'd like to package it up as a .deb > package and install it, I need to know how. Could someone direct me

Re: ext3 to be in 2.4.15!

2001-11-10 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
> I went from the stable kernel in potatoe to 2.4.9 to 2.4.12. I had to > get to 2.4.12 because 2.4.9 had some irda problems. > > I won't get getting into 2.4.15 for a while yet as I'm curious to see > how this ext3 really shakes out and how it's used. 2.4.15-pre2 locks my box hard... > After

Re: run dselect for remote machine (nfs+chroot?)

2001-11-10 Thread Tom Allison
Hans Ekbrand wrote: On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 01:52:23AM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: I have slow 486DX2 (20MB) running woody as router. I realize memory swaps out frequently when I run dselect. I have 486DX 33 12 Mb, and found out that after selecting packages to install I could reduce the memo

Re: weird nvidia problem in unstable

2001-11-10 Thread Dominique Deleris
On Sat, 10 Nov 2001 20:40:24 +0100, Victor Julien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Victor> Hi Dominique, Victor> Since yesterday i had the same problem, i run debian-testing. Going back to Victor> libc6-2.2.4-3 solved my problem! So nvidia in combination with libc6 seems to Victor> be the problem

Re: ext3 to be in 2.4.15!

2001-11-10 Thread Tom Allison
Michael P. Soulier wrote: On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 12:53:38PM -0500, Jason Wojciechowski wrote: It's a conscious choice. I've read that Alan Cox is a big fan of lots of small-change releases rather than a few big ones. I guess it makes sense to release that way, I just wish they version

proftpd root login not possible anymore

2001-11-10 Thread Dominique Deleris
Hi... Since my last "apt-get dist-upgrade", I can't login anymore as "root" on my local ftp server. My proftpd.conf file contains the "RootLogin on" option as needed, but it simply does not work. That annoys me, because I use it in emacs, when I want to edit files as root. Any idea/suggestion ?

Re: Mutt - Procmail Question

2001-11-10 Thread John Patton
On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 07:48:00PM +0530, Jijo Jose A wrote: > hi all > still i used procmail 3.21.20010831.3.22pre-1 for mail processing and mutt > 1.3.22-1 as MUA, to remove the unwanted headers i wrote '|cat | formail -k -X > From: > -X Return-Path: -X Date:.. >>my_mbox' in .procmailrc as t

Re: weird nvidia problem in unstable

2001-11-10 Thread Victor Julien
Hi Dominique, Since yesterday i had the same problem, i run debian-testing. Going back to libc6-2.2.4-3 solved my problem! So nvidia in combination with libc6 seems to be the problem. Good luck, Victor On Friday 09 November 2001 20:25, Dominique Deleris wrote: > On Mon, 5 Nov 2001 09:46:13 -05

Re: building my own .debs

2001-11-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 01:13:24PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Apologies for asking something that I should know, but if I have some > source that I've built from a tarball, and I'd like to package it up as a .deb > package and install it, I need to know how. Could someone direct me to t

Re: building my own .debs

2001-11-10 Thread Meir Kriheli
On Saturday 10 November 2001 20:13, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Hey people. > > Apologies for asking something that I should know, but if I have some > source that I've built from a tarball, and I'd like to package it up as a > .deb package and install it, I need to know how. Could someone

Re: vhosts policy?

2001-11-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 07:52:26PM +0100, J?rgen Hermanrud Fjeld wrote: > Are there any policies for vhosts? No. Daniel Stone is working on a vhost-base (or vhosts-base? Can't remember) package which might help to establish one. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: No xpr on debian...

2001-11-10 Thread Mike Fontenot
Erik Steffl wrote: > e.g. gimp can read xwd files, there's /usr/bin/xwdtopnm, I guess there > are other programs as well... I couldn't find xwdtopnm on my system. Is it part of some debian package? Mike Fontenot [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ext3 to be in 2.4.15!

2001-11-10 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 12:53:38PM -0500, Jason Wojciechowski wrote: > > It's a conscious choice. I've read that Alan Cox is a big fan of lots > of small-change releases rather than a few big ones. I guess it makes sense to release that way, I just wish they versioned a little differently, s

Postfix troubles (rewriting addresses)

2001-11-10 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Dear all, to rewrite my mail address correctly (ppp connection to university ISP), I inserted the following lines in the config files: - /etc/postfix/main.cf:relayhost = mailout.uni-bonn.de myhostname = wabe.germanistik.uni-bonn.de masquerade_domains

Re: Fetchmail - Socket problems?

2001-11-10 Thread Cam Ellison
I am having similar problems with a cable modem connection. I haven't been able to determine the exact size, but one or two large files have the same effect as several (usually more than 10) messages. Fetchmail indicates it is ready to receive, waits (for nothing), and then eventually gives up

trying to verify contents of my tar archive

2001-11-10 Thread Kurt Lieber
I've been using Karsten Self's sample backup script available in the Linux Backup mini-FAQ at: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/backups.html This script basically uses tar to archive a list of directories to tape and then verifies the backup as well. When I run the script, the output i

Thoghts on a computer as a stero component?

2001-11-10 Thread Stan Brown
OK, I'v got the bug. I'm siting here thinking about giving my stero system (medium high end) a computer for Christmas :-) Seroiousl what have people done for computers used promarliy as a steror system component? Seems to me tahe niose sheidling would be priority No.1, followed closely by a reaso

Re: mozilla 0.9.5 on sid

2001-11-10 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Sat, 2001-11-10 at 19:27, Charles Baker wrote: > > I can't get Mozilla nor Galeon 0.12.4 to display https > pages. for instance https://login.yahoo.com/ and even > going to http://login.yahoo.com, filling in my uid and > pw and pressing submit yeilds nada. You probably don't have mozilla-psm in

Re: mozilla 0.9.5 on sid

2001-11-10 Thread Paul Smith
SSL support in Mozilla is broken out into a separate package, PSM (Personal Security Manager). To use it, you need to install the mozilla-psm package as well. HTH. -- --- Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> HASMAT--HA So

vhosts policy?

2001-11-10 Thread Jørgen Hermanrud Fjeld
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi. Are there any policies for vhosts? - -- Sincerely Jørgen Hermanrud Fjeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjvtd20ACgkQCx+ABR2dqkK+0gCf

Re: tar and '-p' option

2001-11-10 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Lance Hoffmeyer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > When backing up directories do I need the -p > option to save file attributes, ownership... > or do I use -p during restore to do this, OR > do I not need -p and it is done by default? > > I don't really understand this option and I > want to m

Re: Newbie comments & queries

2001-11-10 Thread Brenda J. Butler
> I thought that I had fixed up color on the ls command but it seems not. > I am logged in as user not root > > The mini Colour-ls HOWTO said to add certain lines into .bashrc - well > they were already there so I uncommented them. Once you uncomment them you have to run the script again. You

Re: mozilla 0.9.5 on sid

2001-11-10 Thread Charles Baker
--- Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 05:06:26PM -0800, Charles > Baker wrote: > > When I start mozilla 0.9.5 on sid I get an error > > "Cannot create browser instance" > > Move your ~/.mozilla directory somewhere else and > let Moz recreate it. I > bet it works no

Re: ext3 to be in 2.4.15!

2001-11-10 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
* Michael P. Soulier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Great, they're weren't even done with 2.4.14 yet. Is it just me, or are > they churning out releases too damn fast for comfort? release early, release often. it's easier to locate and correct bugs in "small change" releases than it is

Creating mp3's or vobis's from non CD sources?

2001-11-10 Thread Stan Brown
I'm just figuring out all of the audio things I can do with my Linux machne. Pretty neat stuff. Today, I'm reading in all my CD's! Next, I would like to read in non CD sources, tapes, LP's et all. I recognize I will hev to enter all teh artist/Album/Track data by hand (big task), and I'm willing t

building my own .debs

2001-11-10 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hey people. Apologies for asking something that I should know, but if I have some source that I've built from a tarball, and I'd like to package it up as a .deb package and install it, I need to know how. Could someone direct me to the definite reference on how to do this? Thanks,

Re: Newbie comments & queries

2001-11-10 Thread Wayne Topa
Ian Balchin([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Despite the fact that at install time I gave the command line parameters > for lp (lp port=0x378, irq=7) and this was accepted as 'installation > successful', I see at boot time references to 'polling' > > I had tried to add this line >

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