RE: What CDs?

2002-09-12 Thread Joyce, Matthew
1 and 2 get used quite a bit, but three, well, out of the seven, I carry 1,2 & 3. But if you are connected, you might be better leaving 3 and using the net to get whatever might be on 3 that use want. Certainly I have not used 3 *much*. Matthew Joyce -Original Message- From: Richard

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Re: What CDs?

2002-09-12 Thread Robert Ian Smit
On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 02:58:10AM -0400, Richard Spillane wrote: > I have already downloaded the > first Debian image, and am currently downloading the second, almost > finished with that one. My question is if there is anything worth > downloading on the third one? More specifically, w

Re: Changing appearance of (x-)terminal

2002-09-12 Thread Robert Ian Smit
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 01:33:57PM -0400, Time wrote: > On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 04:26:26PM +0200, Robert Ian Smit wrote: > > Colours would be great, having a background image on the terminal > > (if terminal support is available, otherwise ignore) would be > > heaven. Any other obvious visual clue

Re: Sid & Openoffice (user interface font not working)

2002-09-12 Thread Chris Halls
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 06:22:29PM +0200, Jean-Marc V. Liotier wrote: > Sound quite like my "No menus and weird field size" problem. If you > could elaborate on the steps required to identify the problem font, I > would post it to the lists. The only way that I know of is to do a binary search of

Re: Set a Realtek 8019AS network card to half duplex - HOW?

2002-09-12 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Fri, 2002-09-13 at 06:05, Gene Wheelbarger wrote: > (hopefully I don't get flamed too hard for this!) > > Or you could just download > ftp://152.104.125.40/cn/nic/rtl8019as/rset-8019(330).zip That's what I found eventually, thanks. Of course, when I google for 'Linux Realtek 8019' this does

What CDs?

2002-09-12 Thread Richard Spillane
I am in an odd position. Trapped behind various forms of network control servers (routers, proxies, etc..) I am restricted to my bandwidth and what I can spend it on. I have already downloaded the first Debian image, and am currently downloading the second, almost finished with that one. My

Re: Linux in Universities

2002-09-12 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 18:48, Dan Kegel wrote: > I've put together a resource page re "Linux in Universities" > at http://www.kegel.com/linux/edu/ Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich, Switzerland - has several computer labs (generally accessible to students) with various Linux distribution

RE: connect 2 computers with USB

2002-09-12 Thread Joyce, Matthew
On Fri, 2002-09-13 at 01:38, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: >> Go get a couple cheap network cards and a four-port ethernet hub. It's >> easier and cheaper. >No need for a hub, when it's only 2 computers for the foreseeable future. Get a crossover ethernet cable >instead. Leaves off 1 cable

Re: connect 2 computers with USB

2002-09-12 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Fri, 2002-09-13 at 01:38, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > Go get a couple cheap network cards and a four-port ethernet hub. It's > easier and cheaper. No need for a hub, when it's only 2 computers for the foreseeable future. Get a crossover ethernet cable instead. Leaves off 1 cable and the

apt-build world ?

2002-09-12 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello list, I've read the manpage of apt-build. Is there anyone tried apt-build world? Is it stable? -- Patrick Hsieh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Linux in Universities

2002-09-12 Thread Dan Kegel
David P James wrote: > > http://www.kegel.com/linux/edu/ > > (1) I don't know how or if this fits, but for what it is worth the > department of economics here at Queen's runs on Debian servers, and has > some Debian-based workstations available for use by grad students and > faculty. However, the

woody and resierfs mini-cd wanted

2002-09-12 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello list, Is there woody netinstall mini-cd with reiserfs support available? -- Patrick Hsieh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Writing a kernel building walkthrough - proofreaders wanted

2002-09-12 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Kirk Strauser wrote: > I never can remember the exact steps for building my Debian kernel packages > from one time to the next (it's not like I do it all that often), so I made > a web page to detail the process. It's at > http://subwiki.honeypot.net/cgi-bin/view/Main/Debian

Re: Linux in Universities

2002-09-12 Thread Dan Kegel
Ken Bloom wrote: > You should consider discussing universites whose departments use linux in > their labs. For example, I attend UC Davis and have taken computer classes > in three departments: Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and > Mathematics. Each of these departments' labs run Unix vari

Re: Writing a kernel building walkthrough - proofreaders wanted

2002-09-12 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Kirk" == Kirk Strauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Kirk> I never can remember the exact steps for building my Debian Kirk> kernel packages from one time to the next (it's not like I do Kirk> it all that often), so I made a web page to detail the process. Kirk> It's at Kirk> http://subwiki

Re: usb mouse

2002-09-12 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, David Kimdon wrote: > Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 11:36:30AM +0200 wrote: > > hello!!, > > > > I have installated debian 3.0, but the mouse does not work. It uses usb. How >can I configurate it? > > > Hi, > > This question is better suited to debian-user, cc'ing. Here is a >

Re: debian3.0 (Woody) login interface - How?

2002-09-12 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, damar thapa wrote: > Hi, > > I installed Debian3.0, during which I chose KDE as my > default X Window. Everything works fine, and I like > the login interface, from which I could (i)login as > root (or any users, of course), (ii) Switch to > different X managers, and (iii)

Re: quick one about which realease I got

2002-09-12 Thread Oliver Fuchs
Hi, see LDP linuxcookbook-1.2: A.5.2 What Version of Linux Am I Running? A.5.3 What Version of Debian Am I Running? Oliver -- ... don't touch the bang-bang fruit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mutt

2002-09-12 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, Andre Berger wrote: > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2002-09-13 00:43 -0400: > > I've edited a lot in mutt, read all the info I can find but was still > > wondering about something. > > > > in .muttrc you can: set from="" > > but that affects the from for all email

Re: Linux in Universities

2002-09-12 Thread Ken Bloom
You should consider discussing universites whose departments use linux in their labs. For example, I attend UC Davis and have taken computer classes in three departments: Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Mathematics. Each of these departments' labs run Unix variants exclusively: Compute

Re: Linux in Universities

2002-09-12 Thread Dan Kegel
DvB wrote: > > http://www.kegel.com/linux/edu/ > > Don't mean to be finicky, but I believe you have a typo in "Maryland," > in your list of survey results (I found that section quite interesting, > BTW). Thanks, I took this opportunity to finally learn how to use aspell, and fixed all the obviou

Re: mutt

2002-09-12 Thread Andre Berger
--vOmOzSkFvhd7u8Ms Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2002-09-13 00:43 -0400: > I've edited a lot in mutt, read all the info I can find but was still > wondering about somethi

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2002-09-12 Thread jade
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've edited a lot in mutt, read all the info I can find but was still wondering about something. in .muttrc you can: set from="" but that affects the from for all emails. I was wondering if there is a way to have the from address changed to a specif

Re: [OFF TOPIC] majordomo and exim

2002-09-12 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 06:19:24PM +0100, Keith Robinson wrote: | I am trying to set up majordomo alongside exim, but everytime I mail | majordomo (majordomo@my_domian), the mail is frozen and remains | undelivered until I remove it from the queue. | | I have listed below all relevant details Yo

RE: Set a Realtek 8019AS network card to half duplex - HOW?

2002-09-12 Thread Joyce, Matthew
You could just try guessing the option in modconf. duplex=0 and duplex=1 are common for other nics. -Original Message- From: Gene Wheelbarger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 13 September 2002 2:06 PM To: Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re

Re: Set a Realtek 8019AS network card to half duplex - HOW?

2002-09-12 Thread Gene Wheelbarger
(hopefully I don't get flamed too hard for this!) Or you could just download ftp://152.104.125.40/cn/nic/rtl8019as/rset-8019(330).zip and extract the contents(rset8019.exe) to a DOS bootable floppy (you do still have one, right?), boot to DOS from the floppy, run the rset program and change whate

Re: sort question

2002-09-12 Thread Andre Berger
* Nick Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2002-09-12 23:45 -0400: > sort -n > > * Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020913 13:32]: > > I have a csv file I would like to sort linewise like > > > > 1 text > > 2 text > > 3 text > > . > > . > > . > > 10 text > > > > How can I avoid the curr

Re: sort question

2002-09-12 Thread Nick Hastings
sort -n * Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020913 13:32]: > I have a csv file I would like to sort linewise like > > 1 text > 2 text > 3 text > . > . > . > 10 text > > How can I avoid the current sorting result > > 1 text > 10 text > 2 text > 3 text > . > . > . > > ? TIA

Re: char-major-6

2002-09-12 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 08:13:30PM -0400, Daniel Barclay wrote: > > $ ls -l /dev | grep " 6," > > crw-rw1 root lp 6, 0 Nov 30 2000 lp0 > ... > > > Where is it defined in the kernel that character major device number 6 is > parallel port support? It isn't. > - Is that

sort question

2002-09-12 Thread Andre Berger
--huq684BweRXVnRxX Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I have a csv file I would like to sort linewise like 1 text 2 text 3 text =2E =20 =2E =20 =2E=20 10 text How can I avoid the current sorting result 1

Re: Ongoing saga of upgrading my old Woody

2002-09-12 Thread David Teague
Colin David wrote: > > I ran dpkg -l, dpkg --audit, got a bus error On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, Colin Watson wrote: > I'd be rather concerned about that last one. Are you sure you haven't > got disk corruption or memory problems? An I/O error points to the > former. Can you 'less /var/lib/dpkg/statu

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Re: Sid & Openoffice (user interface font not working)

2002-09-12 Thread Warren Dodge
Ah! So I'm not the only one! Here's what I found and how I fixed (hacked) it... Both XF86Config-4 and XftConfig contained font paths including the following: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType /usr/share/fonts/truetype (among other path entries, including type1 and bitmapped fonts, etc.) The

Re: a quickie

2002-09-12 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 10:13:30PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Rob Mahurin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-11 23:09:08 -0400]: > > Copy to me, I'm not on the list. Thanks, > > What's the perl command to convert a text file from DOS or unix > > newline format to the macintosh newline format? (CR->LF?

Re: debian3.0 (Woody) login interface - How?

2002-09-12 Thread Geoff Crompton
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 06:49:09PM -0700, damar thapa wrote: > Hi, > > I installed Debian3.0, during which I chose KDE as my > default X Window. Everything works fine, and I like > the login interface, from which I could (i)login as > root (or any users, of course), (ii) Switch to > different X

Re: connect 2 computers with USB

2002-09-12 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 07:38:36PM -0400, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > --Geoff Crompton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > (on Friday, 13 September 2002, 09:26 AM +1000): > > On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 01:32:02PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 03:28:45PM +0200, Robert

Exim 3.35 + Mysql in Debian Potato

2002-09-12 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all, I have a debian potato server with exim 3.12 (with mysql support) installed. But I'm getting these errors that are correct using allow_mx_to_ip diretive > all relevant MX records point to non-existent hosts: > it appears that the DNS operator for this domain has i

debian3.0 (Woody) login interface - How?

2002-09-12 Thread damar thapa
Hi, I installed Debian3.0, during which I chose KDE as my default X Window. Everything works fine, and I like the login interface, from which I could (i)login as root (or any users, of course), (ii) Switch to different X managers, and (iii) most importantly I could go to text mode login. Recent

Re: connect 2 computers with USB

2002-09-12 Thread Geoff Crompton
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 08:49:21PM -0400, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > The rates I've seen are between 5 and 7Mbit/s -- slower than 10BaseT, I'm > not sure what 10Base2 rates are, so judge for yourself. And the > ones I've seen so far only allow you to connect two boxes -- but there > may be

Re: Linux in Universities

2002-09-12 Thread Andre Berger
* David P James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2002-09-12 20:22 -0400: [...] > training students to mount and unmount a floppy for instance, as we use > floppies for data storage quite a bit. Not a big task, but nevertheless, > who is going to do it? apt-get install mtoolsfm -Andre msg02087/pgp0.

RE: Linux in Universities

2002-09-12 Thread Haines, Charles Allen
Mariland is spelled Maryland. Might want to fix that. Also, I can vouch that a good number of student at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Mass use Linux. If you would like I can have a poll done and give you the results. I attend this school and am a sys admin for more than a dozen organizat

Re: Webpage that might be useful for newbies

2002-09-12 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
--David Pastern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Friday, 13 September 2002, 09:25 AM +1000): > Whilst looking around, I found this page: > http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/ Thanks for pointing this out -- I'm not exactly a newbie, but I was able to find a few documents on there that flushed out deta

Re: connect 2 computers with USB

2002-09-12 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
--Geoff Crompton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Friday, 13 September 2002, 09:47 AM +1000): > > You need special USB devices to do this -- such a device > > allows two usb hubs to connect and communicate with each other, as well > > as to communicate information about their systems. It's basicall

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Re: vi saved file message from root

2002-09-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Richard Otte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-12 14:50:52 -0700]: > On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 09:51:19AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > > You can list files that are available for recover with 'vi -r'. At > > boot time or perhaps by cron this is being mailed to users. > > I tried this, and it didn't list

Re: Any way to re-install packages?

2002-09-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 10:26:32AM +1000, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > From: Joe Emenaker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Now, it would be nice if there were something like "apt-get reinstall" that > > would save steps 3 and 4. What would be better is something that would > > download/install all insta

Re: debian hints server, a debian quote of the day that gives help?

2002-09-12 Thread Jeremy Turner
On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 19:30, Tom Cook wrote: > On 0, Walter Tautz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > just curious if such a beast could be created or exists already. People could > > subscribe to it or perhaps it could be a packages on their local system that > > would periodically mail them little

Re: debian hints server, a debian quote of the day that gives help?

2002-09-12 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Walter Tautz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > just curious if such a beast could be created or exists already. People could > subscribe to it or perhaps it could be a packages on their local system that > would periodically mail them little hints on how better to use a particular > piece of so

Re: debian hints server, a debian quote of the day that gives help?

2002-09-12 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Walter Tautz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > just curious if such a beast could be created or exists already. People could > subscribe to it or perhaps it could be a packages on their local system that > would periodically mail them little hints on how better to use a particular > piece of so

RE: Any way to re-install packages?

2002-09-12 Thread Joyce, Matthew
Title: Message apt-get install packagename --reinstall   I believe.   Matthew Joyce -Original Message-From: Joe Emenaker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 13 September 2002 10:26 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Any way to re-install packages? I had a hard drive g

Any way to re-install packages?

2002-09-12 Thread Joe Emenaker
I had a hard drive go wiggy on me yesterday.   It didn't crash completely... it merely started giving read errors and causing all kinds of filesystem wierdness (like things in /usr/bin that you can't run because they're "not found", but you can't install a replacement because "file exists").

Re: Dselect wont show installed programs

2002-09-12 Thread Robert Ian Smit
On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 12:06:12AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > What is wrong with that? > > The chief problem with apt-get is that it doesn't show Recommends: and > Suggests: (and isn't designed to do so - it was originally just a test > program for the apt libraries). Since package maintainer

Re: char-major-6

2002-09-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 08:13:30PM -0400, Daniel Barclay wrote: > Where is it defined in the kernel that character major device number 6 is > parallel port support? In include/linux/major.h. > - Is that definition only within the parallel-port support module? > - Is that definition known on

Re: char-major-6

2002-09-12 Thread Daniel Barclay
> From: Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 11:03:59AM -0400, Mike Kuhar wrote: > > I keep getting the message: > > > > Aug 14 07:09:21 mkuhar2 modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module > > char-major-6 > > > > in my syslog. I've searched /etc/modules.conf and /etc/m

Re: Bandwidth limiting problems

2002-09-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 09:52:50AM +1000, Jason Clarke wrote: > Below is pasted the errors I receive when trying to run the shaper.. > > Can some one either point me in the right direction (eg, a howto or url), or > even tell me flat out what I need to do. > > Jason > > Starting CBQ traffic sha

Bandwidth limiting problems

2002-09-12 Thread Jason Clarke
Below is pasted the errors I receive when trying to run the shaper.. Can some one either point me in the right direction (eg, a howto or url), or even tell me flat out what I need to do. Jason Starting CBQ traffic shaping: /lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/net/sched/sch_cbq.o: unresolved symbol qdisc_

Re: connect 2 computers with USB

2002-09-12 Thread Geoff Crompton
> I did some research on this a couple years ago, and have followed it > ever since. You need special USB devices to do this -- such a device > allows two usb hubs to connect and communicate with each other, as well > as to communicate information about their systems. It's basically a > point-t

Re: connect 2 computers with USB

2002-09-12 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
--Geoff Crompton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Friday, 13 September 2002, 09:26 AM +1000): > On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 01:32:02PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 03:28:45PM +0200, Robert Ian Smit wrote: > > | On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 03:17:00PM +0200, Olivier Esser wro

ISDN Troubleshooting.

2002-09-12 Thread Mark
I have a ILS-2000 ISDN simulator with two ISDN modems connected across it. One is a linux box and one is a windows box. On the linux box I only get a 'BUSY' tone when I try and dial the number using minicom. (The number is 1-800-835-8661 on the simulator) All I get is this is kern.log: Sep 12

Re: connect 2 computers with USB

2002-09-12 Thread Geoff Crompton
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 01:32:02PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 03:28:45PM +0200, Robert Ian Smit wrote: > | On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 03:17:00PM +0200, Olivier Esser wrote: > | > Is it possible to connect two computers with a USB cable? > | > | Yes, but it won't ge

Webpage that might be useful for newbies

2002-09-12 Thread David Pastern
Hi guys, Whilst looking around, I found this page: http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/ Looks good. Hopefully other newbies out there can take advantage of the information present on these pages. Have fun. Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: using two exims for dialup, was Re: Using exim efficiently on a dialup machine

2002-09-12 Thread Geoff Crompton
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 09:21:45AM +0200, Robert Ian Smit wrote: > On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 01:43:46PM +1000, Geoff Crompton wrote: > >Is it possible to configure exim on homepc to use dially as a smart > >relay, and to continually poll dially (say every 5 minutes) to try > >and deliver

Re: Ongoing saga of upgrading my old Woody

2002-09-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 03:07:59PM -0400, David Teague wrote: > elentari:~# apt-get dist-upgrade || apt-get -f install > Reading Package Lists... Error! > E: Read error - read (5 Input/output error) > E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. > Reading Package Lists... Err

Re: Dselect wont show installed programs

2002-09-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 09:03:10PM +0200, Robert Ian Smit wrote: > On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 10:11:52AM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: > > This is generally poor advice. A typical would be much better off using > > an interactive apt frontend for package management. If dselect gives > > you the willie

Re: Simple bandwidth limiting examples?

2002-09-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 03:53:26PM -0500, Michael Jinks wrote: > On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 08:50:05AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > Oki DZ wrote: > > > You can go to Google, and look for "cbq.init". > > > > No need to google - it's in the shaper package. > > Really? I used to maintain it. Trust

Virtual console corruption.

2002-09-12 Thread Rob Weir
Howdy all, A couple of weeks ago, my video card was damaged and, as a temporary replacement, I'm using an old S3 card in console mode. This is going fine, and I've been quite surprised at how well I can get along without X. Anyhow, a couple of days ago I started experiencing some console weirdn

Re: test if cron is running?

2002-09-12 Thread Roman Joost
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 12:29:47AM +0200, Roman Joost wrote: > Is there a possibility to test, if cron is running? I tried something with roots It was gnome2. Have a look in the "/var/log/auth.log" and there will be a lots of "Permission denied" messages. Downgrading pam modules... Thanks to Fred

RE: Ongoing saga of upgrading my old Woody

2002-09-12 Thread David Pastern
Dave, I have no idea if this will work, but i'd personally suggest removing the sources.list file. Then recreate it apt-setup. I'm not sure if this will work, i'm new to linux, but it does seem that it is having a problem reading the packages. Try the posts on these sites as well: http://www.

Re: vi saved file message from root

2002-09-12 Thread Richard Otte
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 09:51:19AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > You can list files that are available for recover with 'vi -r'. At > boot time or perhaps by cron this is being mailed to users. I tried this, and it didn't list any files. Thanks for suggesting RTFM, but I had done that and wrote th

Re: Gnucash with PostgreSQL?

2002-09-12 Thread Mark Roach
On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 07:32, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > Is it possible to use the Woody Gnucash package with PosgreSQL? on a sid system: $ apt-cache search gnucash gnucash - A personal finance tracking program gnucash-sql - A personal finance tracking program $ apt-cache show gnucash-sql [sni

nvidia and console freeze

2002-09-12 Thread Matthew Sackman
Hi all, I know this has popped up before, but I have found a solution that works for me (P4, i845G, nVidia Ti 4200). Turn off APM in the BIOS. That's it folks! Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham England BOFH Excuse Board: Someone was smoking in the computer room and set off the halon sys

Re: Linux in Universities

2002-09-12 Thread Edward Guldemond
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 04:15:45PM -0400, David P James wrote: > Just training students to mount and unmount a floppy for instance, > as we use floppies for data storage quite a bit. Not a big task, but > nevertheless, who is going to do it? Assuming that the students ususally do work at home on

packages installed today/yesterday

2002-09-12 Thread martin f krafft
is it possible to get a list of packages that were installed today, or yesterday? i remember this vaguely, but it's not happening... -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; net@madduck micro$oft windoze is like an air-con

Re: Problems with pcmcia/modem

2002-09-12 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach PRIOUR Gaetan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.09.12.2233 +0200]: > no, it does on beep, then a long beep (so it's wrong) because i have > to take the modem out, and then back in to have it working... so you get it to work eventually? please keep this on the list. -- martin;

Re: Simple bandwidth limiting examples?

2002-09-12 Thread Michael Jinks
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 08:50:05AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > > > You can go to Google, and look for "cbq.init". > > No need to google - it's in the shaper package. Really? dpkg -L doesn't see it... (shaper version 2.2.12-0.6.2-5, installed on woody). I do find it here, FWIW: https://sou

Re: Linux in Universities

2002-09-12 Thread David P James
Dan Kegel was roused into action on 09/12/02 12:48 and wrote: > Hi all, > not quite who to contact to get input from the Debian project > on this -- apologies if "debian-user" isn't the right place. > > I've put together a resource page re "Linux in Universities" > at http://www.kegel.com/linux/e

Re: Ongoing saga of upgrading my old Woody

2002-09-12 Thread David Teague
On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Jamin W.Collins wrote: > Nope, no one will help you. All the people that have provided advice so > far appear to have not been seen as helping. =) > > Now, I'm no expert at either apt or dpkg, but what do the following > commands return on that box? > > ls -l /var/lib/apt

Re: Linux in Universities

2002-09-12 Thread Ignacio Solis
* Dan Kegel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > I would appreciate your feedback on the content. If there's anything > missing there from your point of view, please let me know, > and I'll see if I can fix it. Hi Dan. Why are you not including LUGs? Many universities have LUGs. They are a clear sign

Writing a kernel building walkthrough - proofreaders wanted

2002-09-12 Thread Kirk Strauser
I never can remember the exact steps for building my Debian kernel packages from one time to the next (it's not like I do it all that often), so I made a web page to detail the process. It's at http://subwiki.honeypot.net/cgi-bin/view/Main/DebianKernelBuilding . Would any of you be so kind as to

Re: Set a Realtek 8019AS network card to half duplex - HOW?

2002-09-12 Thread Q. Gong
If you are using module for the NIC, it's perhaps possible to set the half duplex mode in the options passed to the module. Good luck, Qian On 12 Sep 2002, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: > Hi! > > I have a cheapo ISA Realtek8019AS card (worst Ethernet card ever built > etc.). Also

Re: multiple x sessions?

2002-09-12 Thread Andreas Obermaier
On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 09:51:51PM +, Tom Goulet (UID0) wrote: > Well, almost. Thanks -- now I remember having read this before! but > for some reason, the simple startx command puts me right into kde, > without the usual dialog box asking how I want to log in. This > happens regardless of

Re: test if cron is running?

2002-09-12 Thread Roman Joost
> It's the other way round -- anacron executes the cron jobs. cron jobs > normally are run around midnight, when your desktop pc usually is > turned off. So they don't get executed at all. Anacron tries to start > these jobs as soon as possible (e.g. the next morning you are turning > on your co

Re: Local address lookup

2002-09-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Jan Willem Stumpel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-12 20:38:41 +0200]: > 3. But it is not the whole truth, because (as I said) I have an >/etc/nsswitch.conf file on my machine, and it says > hosts: files dns >and still local lookups do not work (i.e. outside name servers >are

Re: Linux in Universities

2002-09-12 Thread DvB
Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, > not quite who to contact to get input from the Debian project > on this -- apologies if "debian-user" isn't the right place. > > I've put together a resource page re "Linux in Universities" > at http://www.kegel.com/linux/edu/ > My goal is to enc

Re: Ongoing saga of upgrading my old Woody

2002-09-12 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Thu, 12 Sep 2002 15:07:59 -0400 (EDT) David Teague <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I haver read the documents, the help files, the man pages with zero > results. I have asked on the list and got some answers that appear to > have got me some place, but NOT FIXED. > > Now will someone PLEASE help

Re: not mailing output of cronjobs

2002-09-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Mike Dresser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-12 13:39:38 -0400]: > On 12 Sep 2002, Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen wrote: > > I tried to read man but with no success. > > How do i avoid to get a report by mail of a specific cronjob? > > I run it hourly and I do not want to receive mail about it. > > put a

Re: NTP not syncronising

2002-09-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-12 19:21:47 +0200]: > My problem was simple, the hardware clock was about 20 minutes different > from timeserver so ntp just killed itself. i adjusted the clock quite > close to the timeserver and everything was ok again. You probably should

Ongoing saga of upgrading my old Woody

2002-09-12 Thread David Teague
I have a Woody installation, done circa Nov 2001, on which I have done apt-get update, then apt-get install aptitude. This was the last thing I have done that was successful. OK I reread the installation and upgrade notes, none of which directly address my problem which is updating my old Wood

Set a Realtek 8019AS network card to half duplex - HOW?

2002-09-12 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
Hi! I have a cheapo ISA Realtek8019AS card (worst Ethernet card ever built etc.). Also, I have a cheap 10Mbit hub. The 8019AS sadly thinks that it should operate at 10Mb Full-Duplex, featuring transfer rates around 100kB per second... (with collision rates going over the top, of course). Appare

Re: Dselect wont show installed programs

2002-09-12 Thread Robert Ian Smit
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 10:11:52AM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: > > Sorry about not being able to give a direct answer to your question, > > but maybe you'll like this alternative. > This is generally poor advice. A typical would be much better off using > an interactive apt frontend for package m

Re: quick one about which realease I got

2002-09-12 Thread Martin Bruns
Am Don, 2002-09-12 um 17.32 schrieb Mike Egglestone: > Hi, > Just wondering if there's a quick way to know > which release I have running? > I know I can use "uname" but doesn't tell my Debian release. > or > I could just telnet localhost and see what comes up. > but is there a quick fast way or c

RE: Local address lookup

2002-09-12 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Carlos Henriques dos Santos wrote: > host.conf is obsolete, i think it was used by old libc5. > You must edit /etc/nsswitch.conf: > > hosts: files dns 1. When was this change made? Is it documented anywhere? (I could find no references on the Web). 2. There must be some truth i

Re: integrity checkers

2002-09-12 Thread David Roundy
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 07:18:08PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > thanks for the information. 1:0:0:0 for aide it is. i'd be interested > in people with samhain and integrit experience. I've used both aide and integrit. integrit I found a little easier to set up nicely, but aide is also nice.

Re: Canon LBP-660

2002-09-12 Thread ben
On Thursday 12 September 2002 12:33 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hey! > > Do somebody have expience about Canon LBP-660 printer > on a Woody Debian System? > > How can I install it? > check out cups [www.cups.org]. i'm not familiar with your particular printer but, using cups, i managed to get

Re: Set group seting to multiple files

2002-09-12 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.09.12.2003 +0200]: > chmod -R u+r ~/* ~/.* > > which _is_ destructive. not with the zsh shell: fishbowl:~/tmp> chmod -vR u+r .* | head zsh: no matches found: .* (the dir contains no dotfiles.) -- martin; (greetings from the hea

Re: Set group seting to multiple files

2002-09-12 Thread Alan Shutko
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > /music/mp3/* includes .. and since you are doing things the recursive > way... No, it doesn't. Try "echo *" somewhere. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! Doubt grows with knowledge -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Set group seting to multiple files

2002-09-12 Thread Alan Shutko
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > having now checked it (chmod -R u+r ~/* is a non-destructive way in > 98% of the cases), it seems that things changed. the reason i warned chmod -R u+r ~/* is always (and has always been) non-destructive. But it's not complete, since it won't chmod

Re: usb mouse

2002-09-12 Thread Time
On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 11:00:26PM -0700, David Kimdon wrote: > Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 11:36:30AM +0200 wrote: > > hello!!, > > > > I have installated debian 3.0, but the mouse does not work. It uses usb. How >can I configurate it? > > > Hi, > > This question is better suited to debian-user,

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