Re: How to capture start up messages?

2001-12-11 Thread Marc Wilson
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 12:35:46AM -0500, Jeremy Gaddis wrote: > > How can I do this? > > $ less /var/log/dmesg Same problem, only contains kernel messages. Those produced during init ain't there. :( -- Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpMRKHknLE3s.pgp Description: PGP signa

Re: Getting email together with dman Newbie #61

2001-12-11 Thread Brenda J. Butler
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 08:29:52PM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote: > EXIM > > I ran eximconfig again, correctly, and am sure there is no problem > there. > > > > The "visible" mail name of your system should be the same as "echo > > $HOST". Don't worry about it too much, just don't pick the name >

Re: Installation help

2001-12-11 Thread Osamu Aoki
I hope you are talking Debian root disk. I would try without some non essential cards. On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 04:26:20PM -0600, Richard Frovarp wrote: > Asus P4T-E (Socket 478) > P4 1.7 GHz > 1GB RAM > Leadtek Winfast 500 TD > 3COM 905c ***> Creative Live! 5.1 ***> Belkin Firewire card > > Any

Re: How to capture start up messages?

2001-12-11 Thread Jeremy Gaddis
On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Stan Brown wrote: > I need to be able to capture the start up messages issued when my woody > system boots. > > dmesg only gives me up to the point control is transfered from the kernel, > and I'm seeing erros after that, that flash by to quickly to read. > > How can I do this

Re: Dual Processor machine

2001-12-11 Thread dman
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 06:11:00AM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: | dman wrote: | > On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 05:15:14AM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: | > | Bonjour: | > | Futhermore, I have created a swap file four times greater | > | than the RAM of the machine (1Gb): | > | my actual swap (checked with

Re: Proxy packages in Debian and difference between transparent andnon-transparent SOCKS?

2001-12-11 Thread Calyth
So dante is a SOCKS server? Cool. I'll try that. Calyth

Difference between APT pin and dpkg hold

2001-12-11 Thread Andrew Nesbit
What is the difference between pinning a package (as described in the APT HOWTO), and setting the ``hold flag'' using dpkg? Do APT and dpkg respect each other's methods of ``holding''? TIA -Andrew Nesbit

Re: Gnome window manager problems with woody.

2001-12-11 Thread Marc Wilson
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 12:01:14AM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > I'v added swafish-gnome, but when I try to configure it using the Gnome > control panle, I can't get the configuration tool to run. Sawfish's configuration tool isn't going to be available unless sawfish is actually running... which win

Re: Gnome window manager problems with woody.

2001-12-11 Thread Simon Wong
On Wed, 2001-12-12 at 16:01, Stan Brown wrote: > I'm having troubles with geting a window manager to work with Gnome in > woody. > > I'v added swafish-gnome, but when I try to configure it using the Gnome > control panle, I can't get the configuration tool to run. The sawfish configuration is dim

Re: gnumeric, rxvt hang because of fontpath

2001-12-11 Thread Craig Dickson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 282 ?S 0:00 /usr/X11R6/bin/xfstt --port 7100 --daemon --user > nobody > > Does xfstt, see above count ? It ought to. Try this. As root, run "netstat -anp --tcp" and verify that something is actually listening on port 7100, and that that something has t

Re: Help please, geting framebuffer working

2001-12-11 Thread dman
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 11:58:05PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: | On Tue Dec 11 19:41:19 2001 dman wrote... | >On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 06:46:19PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: ... | >| I enabled it in the kernel, and rebooted, but I did not get a frambuffer, | >| juts plain old console. | >| | >| I've read

Re: Dual Processor machine

2001-12-11 Thread Eric Sharkey
> I have just install the Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (testing/unstable) > on a dual processor machine > --I installed Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 on my laptop a few months ago. > To have a nice login I have installed the `linuxlogo' package: > according to the printed message, only one processor is identified.

Re: How to capture start up messages?

2001-12-11 Thread irvine . russell
Quoting Stan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I need to be able to capture the start up messages issued when my woody > system boots. > > dmesg only gives me up to the point control is transfered from the > kernel, > and I'm seeing erros after that, that flash by to quickly to read. I am not sure

Re: Dual Processor machine

2001-12-11 Thread Jerome BENOIT
dman wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 05:15:14AM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > | Bonjour: > | > | I have just install the Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (testing/unstable) > | on a dual processor machine > | --I installed Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 on my laptop a few months ago. > | To have a nice login I hav

Re: How to capture start up messages?

2001-12-11 Thread DvB
"Stan Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I need to be able to capture the start up messages issued when my woody > system boots. > > dmesg only gives me up to the point control is transfered from the kernel, > and I'm seeing erros after that, that flash by to quickly to read. > > How can I do

Gnome window manager problems with woody.

2001-12-11 Thread Stan Brown
I'm having troubles with geting a window manager to work with Gnome in woody. I'v added swafish-gnome, but when I try to configure it using the Gnome control panle, I can't get the configuration tool to run. Sugestions? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-

How to capture start up messages?

2001-12-11 Thread Stan Brown
I need to be able to capture the start up messages issued when my woody system boots. dmesg only gives me up to the point control is transfered from the kernel, and I'm seeing erros after that, that flash by to quickly to read. How can I do this? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help please, geting framebuffer working

2001-12-11 Thread Stan Brown
On Tue Dec 11 19:41:19 2001 dman wrote... > >On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 06:46:19PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: >| I've just installed wood on a machine with an ATI Radeon LE video card. The >| I built a new kernel (2.4.16) using kernel-package. >| >| First I tried enabling the framebuffer Radeon support

Re: Dual Processor machine

2001-12-11 Thread dman
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 05:15:14AM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: | Bonjour: | | I have just install the Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (testing/unstable) | on a dual processor machine | --I installed Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 on my laptop a few months ago. | To have a nice login I have installed the `linuxlogo' pa

Re: Dual Processor machine

2001-12-11 Thread shock
* Jerome BENOIT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Bonjour: > > How can we check that the two processor are detected ? cat /proc/cpuinfo you should have one set of entries for each processor. -- ) ,_),_) (-(__ |_ _ _ |/ ) | |(_)(_ |\ ( \_,

Re: /usr/bin/studio in two packages kdestudio and linuxvideostudio

2001-12-11 Thread Ben Burton
Zakend - thanks for pointing this out. > I try to install linuxvideostudio. Dpkg had signaled an error which was a > consequence of existency of two files /usr/bin/studio. One from kdestudio > package and second from linuxvideostudio. For me this look like a bug which > have to be deal by maintai

Re: /dev/st0 doesn't exist

2001-12-11 Thread Chad Morgan
On 2001.12.11 20:15 Nathan E Norman wrote: > > yet /dev/st0 is not there. > > The message from the driver doesn't imply file creation :) I assume > you're using the old dev directory and not using devfs? > > In any case, you probably simply need to create the device files. I > now use devfs so

Re: routing mail through local box

2001-12-11 Thread john
Mike, Try adding rfc1413_query_timeout = 0s to the Main section of exim.conf. John P Foster http://www.golden-orb.com/ "Michael P. Soulier" wrote: > Hey people. > > I'd like to use my router/firewall as my SMTP server. Mail sent from it > works fine, and I've configured exim to accept

Dual Processor machine

2001-12-11 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Bonjour: I have just install the Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (testing/unstable) on a dual processor machine --I installed Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 on my laptop a few months ago. To have a nice login I have installed the `linuxlogo' package: according to the printed message, only one processor is identified.

Re: /dev/st0 doesn't exist

2001-12-11 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 08:04:52PM -0800, Chad Morgan wrote: > I'm trying to setup a SCSI tape drive. > > For the record it is an HP C1537A 12/24GB DDS Drive > > This is the output of /proc/scsi/scsi: > Attached devices: > Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 04 Lun: 00 > Vendor: HP Model: C1537

routing mail through local box

2001-12-11 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hey people. I'd like to use my router/firewall as my SMTP server. Mail sent from it works fine, and I've configured exim to accept mail from network 192.168.0.0/24. But, it looks like exim on my desktop is trying to do a DNS lookup on my firewall, which obviously does not exist. How do I

Re: apt-get source problem

2001-12-11 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 11:32:26AM +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote: > Hello, > > I've defined stable,testing and unstable URLs in my sources.list file. > After apt-get update, seems apt-get will only deal with the latest version > of packages or sources. Is there any way to specify a specific > tree(s

/dev/st0 doesn't exist

2001-12-11 Thread Chad Morgan
I'm trying to setup a SCSI tape drive. For the record it is an HP C1537A 12/24GB DDS Drive This is the output of /proc/scsi/scsi: Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 04 Lun: 00 Vendor: HP Model: C1537A Rev: L610 Type: Sequential-AccessANSI SCSI re

laptop+Linksys NIC+2.2r4

2001-12-11 Thread Dale Kosan
I have installed Debian but am having a problem getting my nic to function. My Adaptec card is configured properly but PCMCIA nic is not even being seen, I know it works with Redhat and is on the supported list. Could someone point me in the right direction, I am still a newbie and I have checked t

Re: Newbie comments & queries (numlock)

2001-12-11 Thread Brenda J. Butler
On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 08:15:35AM -0600, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 03:58:05PM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote: > > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > Place this in in your /etc/rc.d/rc.local to activate Numlock for the > > > first six terminals: > > > > > > echo "Activating Numlock ...

Re: scsi card compatibility under Debian

2001-12-11 Thread Mark Seven Smith
THANK YOU! :-) Excellent advice (and under the circumstances, very helpful!) On Tuesday 11 December 2001 02:13 am, Robert Storey wrote: > Any decent quality scsi card will have 50 pins. It would > be very shortsighted to buy a 25-pin card just to save a > few bucks. There are plenty of cable ad

Re: Where can I get slink?

2001-12-11 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 07:10:20PM -0800, Eric House wrote: > For reasons having to do with the size of binaries linking to its > version of glibc, slink is the preferred distribution for working with > floppy-based router software like LRP. > > Anyway, I'm running woody and potato and can't find

apt-get source problem

2001-12-11 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello, I've defined stable,testing and unstable URLs in my sources.list file. After apt-get update, seems apt-get will only deal with the latest version of packages or sources. Is there any way to specify a specific tree(stable,testing,unstable) of a specific package? Say, I'd like to get the so

/usr/bin/studio in two packages kdestudio and linuxvideostudio

2001-12-11 Thread Zdzislaw A. Kaleta
I try to install linuxvideostudio. Dpkg had signaled an error which was a consequence of existency of two files /usr/bin/studio. One from kdestudio package and second from linuxvideostudio. For me this look like a bug which have to be deal by maintainers of the packages. Below the report form th

Re: XFree86: Fatal Server error

2001-12-11 Thread Marc Wilson
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 12:30:28PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > Some font package -- and no one has yet been able to figure out which > one -- is apparently managing to clobber the > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.alias file. The xawtv package drops three fonts into /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fon

Where can I get slink?

2001-12-11 Thread Eric House
For reasons having to do with the size of binaries linking to its version of glibc, slink is the preferred distribution for working with floppy-based router software like LRP. Anyway, I'm running woody and potato and can't find slink anywhere. debian.org seems to have it, but I can't find any actu

Re: lm-sensors build, sanity check

2001-12-11 Thread Marc Wilson
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 10:06:13AM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: > If you're using an older kernel or want the updated i2c drivers, you can > also install them from the i2c-source package (in which case you should > completely disable i2c in the kernel). Doesn't the documentation say different? I'm

Re: What happened to compose? Yet more information

2001-12-11 Thread dman
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 10:52:12AM -0500, dman wrote: | On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 01:38:06PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: | | We found this this morning: | | | | In bash type Ctrl-v Ctrl-. "e and then get ë. | | Do you have bash (readline) in "vi" mode or "emacs" mode? In vim I | can type ^V to esc

Re: Need help w/ dhcpd and shared-network option . . .

2001-12-11 Thread Jeff Vincent
There are no other routers between the subnets that I know of. When we configure our machines statically, all use the same static route at address X.Y.D.254 (same as static route?) and all use the same subnet mask of 255.255.252.0 regardless of subnet and has been that way for nearly 2 years. (n

Re: Boot sequence freezes at "Starting cannaserver..."

2001-12-11 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Kirk Cheney: > Another linux Newbie. I saw this exact problem in the archives. I have > installed Debian Potato 2.2r2, I recently upgraded a few apps, and now the > machine freezes during the boot sequence, with: > > INIT: Entering runlevel: 2 > Starting system log daemon: syslogd

Re: 'swapon -s' shows used: 0. Even when thrashing!

2001-12-11 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Seth Delackner: > This is a stock potato 2.2.19 kernel from my initial installation of > debian about 2 days ago. In the logs it definitly shows "Adding > Swap:..." and no errors. 'free' and 'swapon -s' show that I have 64 > megs of swap space on my swap partition that are completely e

Re: Kmail bug

2001-12-11 Thread tabanna
On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I upgraded to woody, and now when I use KMail to download my email, it > doesn't show the headers correctly, most email show "No Subject" and sender > "unknown" > But if I look at the headers in vi the info is there. ~ if you delete all the .ind

Re: numlock and twm [was Re: get leds on after bootup. Newbie #61]

2001-12-11 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Ian Balchin: > Hi, > > a good thread going here .. _but_ > > a. am running in console mode so have no fears of what will happen > in x mode > b. i still am unsure of what to do after finding out that debian > does not use rclocal and not comprehending the instructions given

/etc/init.d/rc: 2: command not found

2001-12-11 Thread Shawn Lamson
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >Josef Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>The first startup call >>+startup /etc/rc2.d/S10ipchains >>+ ´[` N '!=' N ´]´ > >What is this --> ´ <-- character ? In iso-8859-1, which is the charset >you're using in this message it's a "z" with a "~" above it. That is

Re: HTML editing

2001-12-11 Thread Neal Lippman
On Tuesday 11 December 2001 01:25, Alec wrote: > Hi > > I just discovered that Mozilla has a gread WYSIWYG HTML editor. Up until > now my favorite choice was VIM. I'm still trying to figure out how to start > that editor without starting Mozilla itself, but does anyone know if KDE > offers any WYSI

Re: adding applications to WindowMaker menu

2001-12-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 12:11:43AM -0700, Paul Scott ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I just installed OpenOffice 641. Where I learn how to get this into the > WindowMaker menu? I prefer bypassing the Debian menus for top-level WindowMaker root menus. You can add a hook to the system Debian menus u

Re: X starts on boot--no exit--shades of J P Sartre

2001-12-11 Thread Gary Turner
On Tue, 11 Dec 2001 23:28:13 +, p wrote: >On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 09:51:53PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: >> I configured xfree86 but I'm not running X because 1) my mouse acts >> squirrelly and 2) I haven't downloaded the i810e server yet. Tonight I >> wanted to study/work on the shutdown proce

Re: Need help w/ dhcpd and shared-network option . . .

2001-12-11 Thread Jeff
Jeff Vincent, 2001-Dec-11 17:16 -0700: > Our test lab has 4 class C address blocks assigned to it that are all on > the same wire (segment?) and we are finally getting around to installing > a dhcp server. We have a Debian-woody (testing) server up, but when I > start it, it says: > > Address ran

Re: List archives delayed.

2001-12-11 Thread Pollywog
On 2001.12.11 23:55 Alan Chandler wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I made a couple of posts in the last few days to this list, and they have not appeared back to me. I think I may have had my e-mail filters wrong, so I thought I would check out the archive. Unfortunatelyt,

Re: Newbie comments & queries

2001-12-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 10:58:03PM +0200, Ian Balchin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > dman, Brenda, Karsten, & others, hi, > > following quite heavy complaints about my long-running Subject > line I changed it but have lost all help in the process, so am > posting this again under the original off

List archives delayed.

2001-12-11 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I made a couple of posts in the last few days to this list, and they have not appeared back to me. I think I may have had my e-mail filters wrong, so I thought I would check out the archive. Unfortunatelyt, whilst I can pull up the first page of th

Re: Amount of RAM L1 cache on a processor will support

2001-12-11 Thread nate
> > > If you put more RAM in a computer system than the caching system > will suppport, the system will run more slowly than it would with > less RAM. IF I understand correctly, the amount of RAM depends on > the amount of tag RAM. that really depends on what you do. ive run 430TX chipsets with

Re: Problems with drawtool

2001-12-11 Thread Scott Johnston
Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: > Hi: > > I am running Debian Woody. When I try to run drawtool I get: > > acccepting import port (20001) connection > Xerror of failed request: BadAccess (attempt to access private > resource denied) > Major op code of failed request 89(X_Store Colors) > S

Re: Help please, geting framebuffer working

2001-12-11 Thread dman
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 06:46:19PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: | I've just installed wood on a machine with an ATI Radeon LE video card. The | I built a new kernel (2.4.16) using kernel-package. | | First I tried enabling the framebuffer Radeon support in the kernel, but | the results were not so goo

Re: Amount of RAM L1 cache on a processor will support

2001-12-11 Thread dman
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 05:05:24PM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote: | dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 01:17:30PM -0500, David Teague wrote: | > | | > | | > | If you put more RAM in a computer system than the caching system | > | will suppport, the system will run more slow

Re: gnumeric, rxvt hang because of fontpath

2001-12-11 Thread briand
> "Craig" == Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Craig> It's presumably looking for an X font server, which I guess Craig> you don't have. If you are running XFree86 4.x, you don't Craig> need one unless you plan to have other machines getting fonts Craig> from this one. 282 ?

Re: sendmail(exim) configuration on Woody

2001-12-11 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 09:52:14AM -0800, Alec wrote: > > IRC, on Potato there was a program that would > configure mail on your workstation. You could pick > among several options of mail delivery. I think it was > launched with dpkg-reconfigure , where > was exim, if I'm not mistaken. How is it

Re: X starts on boot--no exit--shades of J P Sartre

2001-12-11 Thread p
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 09:51:53PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: > I configured xfree86 but I'm not running X because 1) my mouse acts > squirrelly and 2) I haven't downloaded the i810e server yet. Tonight I > wanted to study/work on the shutdown procedures, and said shutdown -r > now. This was first

Re: Amount of RAM L1 cache on a processor will support

2001-12-11 Thread Gary Hennigan
dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 01:17:30PM -0500, David Teague wrote: > | > | > | If you put more RAM in a computer system than the caching system > | will suppport, the system will run more slowly than it would with > | less RAM. IF I understand correctly, the amount o

Re: Installation scripts - a request

2001-12-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 02:00:26PM +0200, Johann Spies ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > A request of many of the people was that there should be more > opportunity to go back to a previous screen during the installation > scripts On the installation scripts, this is possible by selecting an arbitra

Re: Test

2001-12-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 12:08:14PM -0800, Jeffrey W. Baker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Debian kicks ass. And its mailing lists always work. You passed the test ;-) -- Karsten M. Selfhttp://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the br

Re: scsi card compatibility under Debian

2001-12-11 Thread Robert Storey
Any decent quality scsi card will have 50 pins. It would be very shortsighted to buy a 25-pin card just to save a few bucks. There are plenty of cable adaptors that will allow you to use a 25-pin device with a 50-pin card. - Robert Storey On Sun, 9 Dec 2001 18:39:10 -0800 Mark Seven Smith <[EMAI

Need help w/ dhcpd and shared-network option . . .

2001-12-11 Thread Jeff Vincent
Our test lab has 4 class C address blocks assigned to it that are all on the same wire (segment?) and we are finally getting around to installing a dhcp server. We have a Debian-woody (testing) server up, but when I start it, it says: Address range .201 to .254 not on net .0/255.255.252.0 and th

Re: Patititioning hard drive

2001-12-11 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Mario Vukelic ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > On Tue, 2001-12-11 at 15:11, Kent West wrote: > > > There are two basic reasons for having extra partitions: reliability, and > > security. > > The other day I read that it's /not/ recommended to partition a single > disk too much, since the ke

Help please, geting framebuffer working

2001-12-11 Thread Stan Brown
I've just installed wood on a machine with an ATI Radeon LE video card. The I built a new kernel (2.4.16) using kernel-package. First I tried enabling the framebuffer Radeon support in the kernel, but the results were not so good. The first console gets messed up during the boot up messages, and w

CVSup help . . . please!

2001-12-11 Thread Jeff Vincent
This may be obvious, but I have never used cvsup(d) nor have I used sup. I want to sync and backup a complete directory tree from Server1 to Server2, both running the latest Debian 'woody' testing build. The directory I want to sync is a CVS repository with other other related files located at '/

Re: apt-get error

2001-12-11 Thread Simon Wong
On Wed, 2001-12-12 at 04:05, shock wrote: > > any ideas on what i need to do to get this corrected? Have a look at the debian bug pages, there is some info there I think. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=libgnomeprint-data&repeatmerged=yes > -- > ) ,_),_) > (-(__

Boot sequence freezes at "Starting cannaserver..."

2001-12-11 Thread Kirk Cheney
Another linux Newbie.  I saw this exact problem in the archives.  I have installed Debian Potato 2.2r2, I recently upgraded a few apps, and now the machine freezes during the boot sequence, with:    INIT: Entering runlevel: 2 Starting system log daemon: syslogd klogd Starting anac(h)ronistic

Re: sendmail(exim) configuration on Woody

2001-12-11 Thread dman
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 09:52:14AM -0800, Alec wrote: | Hi | | IRC, on Potato there was a program that would | configure mail on your workstation. You could pick | among several options of mail delivery. I think it was | launched with dpkg-reconfigure , where | was exim, if I'm not mistaken. How

Re: Network Card Modules

2001-12-11 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 06:39:30PM +, Keith O'Connell wrote: > Is there anyone out there using the FA311 who can tell me which module I > should be using from a potato distribution? You need the natsemi module. It is not included with kernel 2.2.x, but you can get the source for it (as well a

'swapon -s' shows used: 0. Even when thrashing!

2001-12-11 Thread Seth Delackner
This is a stock potato 2.2.19 kernel from my initial installation of debian about 2 days ago. In the logs it definitly shows "Adding Swap:..." and no errors. 'free' and 'swapon -s' show that I have 64 megs of swap space on my swap partition that are completely empty. So why does it refuse to use

Re: Amount of RAM L1 cache on a processor will support

2001-12-11 Thread dman
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 01:17:30PM -0500, David Teague wrote: | | | If you put more RAM in a computer system than the caching system | will suppport, the system will run more slowly than it would with | less RAM. IF I understand correctly, the amount of RAM depends on | the amount of tag RAM. |

Re: Help with SB Live and digital out--LONG

2001-12-11 Thread Jeff
Brad Cramer, 2001-Dec-11 15:01 -0600: > I have asked this before and still can't get the problem fixed so here we go > again. > System specs: > AMD Athlon 1.4 > 512 meg PC2100 DDR RAM > Nividia Geforce Ti200 agp video card > Realtek NIC card > WinTV tv card > SB Live 5.1 sound card Nice system! I

Re: After upgrade to woody, having weird problem with KMail

2001-12-11 Thread Bob Underwood
On Tuesday 11 December 2001 15:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I upgraded to woody, and now when I get my email with KMail, half of the > emails don't have "no subject" and sender "unknown" But when I look at the > headers the information is there. this was discussed recently on debian-kde. the w

Re: crontab $MAILTO question

2001-12-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 09:33:59AM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > >> Hi > >> > >> I make backups using a cron job and I set MAILTO="" > >> Can I configure cron to mail me > >> a) *only* when there were errors > >> b) email only STDERR (not STDOUT) > > Why not just remove

Re: Homework

2001-12-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 02:01:52PM -0300, Nicolás Conde ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >Hello. >I don't mean to be rude with this, but i've noticed that few people > do their homework before posting. I've seen some questions over and over > again for which answers exist in the {manual pages |

Re: XFree86: Fatal Server error

2001-12-11 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 07:21:00PM +0100, Scott H. Hawley wrote: > Thanks very much. I followed your advice, and I did some further checking > in hopes of finding this rogue package to no avail. > > I have tried removing xfonts-base and re-installing it, to no avail. > I even removed everythi

Re: Patititioning hard drive

2001-12-11 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Tue, 2001-12-11 at 15:11, Kent West wrote: > There are two basic reasons for having extra partitions: reliability, and > security. The other day I read that it's /not/ recommended to partition a single disk too much, since the kernel would not handle that well: it would read/write the partit

Re: gnumeric, rxvt hang because of fontpath

2001-12-11 Thread Craig Dickson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have the following fontpath set-up : > > Section "Files" > # breaks rxvt & gnumeric !? > # FontPath "unix/:7100" > FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled" > FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled" > FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fon

Re: Kmail bug

2001-12-11 Thread Bud Rogers
On Tuesday 11 December 2001 15:06 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I upgraded to woody, and now when I use KMail to download my email, it doesn't show the headers correctly, most email show "No Subject" and sender "unknown" > But if I look at the headers in vi the info is there. > > Anyone else

Netgear MA401 802.11b PCMCIA card

2001-12-11 Thread techlists
I'm having real trouble getting the Netgear MA401 working. I'm running Woody with the 2.4.3 kernel. Obviously, the card is not supported out of the box. I followed their instructions which had a pcmcia-cs compile and a linux-wlan compile(both are their programs). It doesn't work. I've got a s

Re: Logwatch anyone using it on Debian?

2001-12-11 Thread Josef Oswald
Hi:-) Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 09:53:03AM -0800, ben wrote: > > On Tuesday 11 December 2001 07:46 am, Dave Sherohman wrote: >> [snip] >> > (And, as a side note, Debian's default MTA is exim, not postfix.) Sorry:-) I did not start with a plain Debian

Installation help

2001-12-11 Thread Richard Frovarp
I posted a request the other day for help on installation and still haven't been able to figure it out still. It fails to even try to read the root disk. The same disk set works on the laptop I have. When trying to install Solaris 8 it reboots on its own after causing a fault. RedHat 7.2 throw

Re: apt-get and/or dpkg problem

2001-12-11 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hi, Your local package databse is locked. You have another instance of apt/dpkg/dselect/aptitude/etc running already... close that, and then it should work fine. Cameron Matheson On Tue, 2001-12-11 at 14:06, Alexander Dreweke wrote: > Hi > > While installing mozilla-browser and mozilla-xmlter

Re: program balks at 3.9GB file

2001-12-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 11:31:51AM +0800, csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sunday 09 December 2001 08:50, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > Side question: are the GNU utilities afflicted by the 2 GB limit? > > > Can dd properly handle 2GB+ files. > > > > Easy to test: > > > >     $ dd if=/dev/zero of

Re: Homework

2001-12-11 Thread Pollywog
On 2001.12.11 19:45 Brian McGroarty wrote: On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 02:01:52PM -0300, Nicol?s Conde wrote: If people see man, /usr/share/doc/, pointers to previous posts and similar resources mentioned a dozen times a day, they may be more likely to think of looking in these places before askin

Re: get leds on after bootup. Newbie #61

2001-12-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 02:58:12AM -0800, Erik Steffl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Dave Sherohman wrote: > > > > On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 12:28:53AM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote: > > > To the point, why does debian switch off the numlock in the first > > > place when it has been set on at bios level, a

Re: Patititioning hard drive

2001-12-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 08:11:45AM -0600, Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wednesday 05 December 2001 03:35 am, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > > My new hard drive is a 20gg drive as opposed to my old 2.5gg. I have read > > all the information about partitioning. I have decided to make linux the >

gnumeric, rxvt hang because of fontpath

2001-12-11 Thread briand
Hi, Running testing. I have the following fontpath set-up : Section "Files" # breaks rxvt & gnumeric !? # FontPath "unix/:7100" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"

Kmail bug

2001-12-11 Thread techlists
I upgraded to woody, and now when I use KMail to download my email, it doesn't show the headers correctly, most email show "No Subject" and sender "unknown" But if I look at the headers in vi the info is there. Anyone else having this problem? John

Re: OT: outlook reply to sanity converter for vim

2001-12-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 01:00:24PM -0600, Mike Brownlow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm feeling random, so I thought I'd share this fun thing I added for > messages that are outlook user replies. Hmmm I'm playing with it. Pretty cool start. Not sure it's quite prime-time yet > It w

Re: Logwatch anyone using it on Debian?

2001-12-11 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, ben wrote: > are you sure about this? i would expect that any default application would be > part of the default installation--yet, despite numerous installations and > upgrades, i have yet to see that exim installed as default and postfix didn't. Yeah, exim is the default MT

apt-get and/or dpkg problem

2001-12-11 Thread Alexander Dreweke
Hi While installing mozilla-browser and mozilla-xmlterm I get the follwoing error-messages. Haven't got any idea why these errors occure, can somebody help me, please? Note: I've triered wir mozilla-packages 0.9.6-1, 0.9.6-2, 0.9.6-3, 0.9.6-4, 0.9.6-5, 0.9.6-6, ... so I don't think it's a pack

After upgrade to woody, having weird problem with KMail

2001-12-11 Thread techlists
I upgraded to woody, and now when I get my email with KMail, half of the emails don't have "no subject" and sender "unknown" But when I look at the headers the information is there.

Newbie comments & queries

2001-12-11 Thread Ian Balchin
dman, Brenda, Karsten, & others, hi, following quite heavy complaints about my long-running Subject line I changed it but have lost all help in the process, so am posting this again under the original offending subject line. I have got so far and can get no further. I have installed mutt, ex

Re: numlock and twm [was Re: get leds on after bootup. Newbie #61]

2001-12-11 Thread Ian Balchin
Hi, a good thread going here .. _but_ a. am running in console mode so have no fears of what will happen in x mode b. i still am unsure of what to do after finding out that debian does not use rclocal and not comprehending the instructions given by Colin (as per my 9th Dec reply). Can

Re: Some program wrongly updates my /etc/resolv.conf after reboot

2001-12-11 Thread Sam Varghese
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 02:32:18PM +0200, Daniel Mashao wrote: > Which program is doing that and how can I stop it from updating my > resolv.conf? look in /etc/ppp/resolv/; there should be a file there giving details of your nameservers. if this is at variance with the nameservers entered in your

emacs 20.3 registered but not installed

2001-12-11 Thread Paul Yeatman
Hi, I get the following daily message: "From root Tue Dec 11 07:41:11 2001 Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 07:41:11 -0800 From: root (Anacron) To: root Subject: Anacron job 'cron.daily' /etc/cron.daily/suidmanager: suidregister: /usr/lib/emacs/20.3/i386-debian-linux-gnu/movemai

Re: Logwatch anyone using it on Debian?

2001-12-11 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 09:53:03AM -0800, ben wrote: > On Tuesday 11 December 2001 07:46 am, Dave Sherohman wrote: > [snip] > > (And, as a side note, Debian's default MTA is exim, not postfix.) > > are you sure about this? i would expect that any default application would be > part of the default

Re: [Alsa-user] Help with SB Live and digital out--LONG

2001-12-11 Thread Kevin Cosgrove
I don't have your card, so I'm stabbing in the dark a little, but it looks to me like you need lines like alias sound-slot-0 sb in your /etc/modules.conf file. I use a vanilla soundblaster, so I alias mine to "sb". You'll have to do something different there. G'luck

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