Re: Recently installed packages

2002-09-25 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Stuart Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I recently installed several packages along with their dependencies. I > have since decided that I didn't really want those packages after all > but I can't remember the names of all the installed dependencies. > > Is there any way to get a li

Re: X question, startup

2002-09-25 Thread Oki DZ
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 06:59:41AM +, Alexander Koch wrote: > b) with gdm it will start, but with no borders around the > windows, it just won't work out. It seems that you didn't have a window manager running. > What is the right thing to do with gdm, do I need .xinitrc > or .xsession or b

Recently installed packages

2002-09-25 Thread Stuart Johnston
I recently installed several packages along with their dependencies. I have since decided that I didn't really want those packages after all but I can't remember the names of all the installed dependencies. Is there any way to get a list of packages installed within a certain time frame (perha

X question, startup

2002-09-25 Thread Alexander Koch
I have tried two variants, both do not work out: a) doing xinit it will all start, then I say log out and it will not terminate, the panels are still there b) with gdm it will start, but with no borders around the windows, it just won't work out. What is the right thing to do with gdm, do I nee

Re: OT: Alternatives to ls for sorting files by modification time

2002-09-25 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 19:47, Jeff Cours wrote: > > If somebody wants to do some clever scripting: I have a similar need, > > but not yet found a simple solution: I want to purge some cache > > directory and just leave the most recently accessed k megabytes. File > > sizes vary greatly, so file co

Re: Newbie question

2002-09-25 Thread Russell
Koen Niehof wrote: > > Hi all, > > How do I get to the screen where I can login as root? Now I get the graphical > login screen and I can't login as root. When I try to setup my ADSL connection > to the internet the pppoeconf program tells me I have to become root first. > When I open a window a

mutt and LC_CTYPE, won't work

2002-09-25 Thread Alexander Koch
Hello, I use mutt and have LC_CTYPE set to LC_CTYPE=de_DE.ISO-8859-15@euro and it displays umlauts just fine, very nice. Now I see some text like this: \204X Y\223 Probably these are some '"`' or so, but does anyone know? How could I probably use UTF-8 and will it cure this? Thanks for

Re: Re[2]: apache FollowSymLinks and SymLinksIfOwnerMatch question

2002-09-25 Thread nate
Patrick Hsieh said: > Hello "nate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > OK. This is my situation. I am running mutiple apache server which all > mount nfsserver:/var/www/ as their local /var/www and share the same > storage via nfs. > > Is apache any configuration to avoid symbolic link across documentroot? I

Re[2]: apache FollowSymLinks and SymLinksIfOwnerMatch question

2002-09-25 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello "nate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, OK. This is my situation. I am running mutiple apache server which all mount nfsserver:/var/www/ as their local /var/www and share the same storage via nfs. Is apache any configuration to avoid symbolic link across documentroot? I hope to keep the consistency of

Re: CUPS configuration

2002-09-25 Thread Alan Chandler
On Thursday 26 September 2002 4:12 am, christophe barbé wrote: > > Is there something you don't like about http://localhost:631/ as a > > means of configuring cups on the cups server? > > Yes. Guessing the uri. > As far as I know it's possible to detect available network printers and > I am looki

Re: Newbie question

2002-09-25 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Wednesday 25 September 2002 22:51, Koen Niehof wrote: > Hi all, > > How do I get to the screen where I can login as root? Now I get the > graphical login screen and I can't login as root. When I try to setup my > ADSL connection to the internet the pppoeconf program tells me I have to > become

Re: compiling & Installing different versions of kernel

2002-09-25 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 11:04:31AM +0530, J.S.Sahambi wrote: > I am using 2.4.19 kernel and now I want to appy the a patch to certain > file, compile it, and install it as diffeeret version, say > "2.4.19-patched" (so that it has differenet modules directory and should > not mess up with my wor

Newbie question

2002-09-25 Thread Koen Niehof
Hi all, How do I get to the screen where I can login as root? Now I get the graphical login screen and I can't login as root. When I try to setup my ADSL connection to the internet the pppoeconf program tells me I have to become root first. When I open a window and type the command su root the

Re: apache FollowSymLinks and SymLinksIfOwnerMatch question

2002-09-25 Thread nate
nate said: > IMO ldap is more secure then NIS/NIS+ because it does not depend > upon RPC services(which historically have many security problems). one more thing to mention in regards to LDAP. With PAM/NSS LDAP you can configure your directory server to require authentication for queries, so a

Re: apache FollowSymLinks and SymLinksIfOwnerMatch question

2002-09-25 Thread nate
Patrick Hsieh said: > Hello list, > > Now that apache has FollowSymLinks and SymLinksIfOwnerMatch options, > there's still some security issue. For example, someone cp /etc/passwd to > his home directory(/home/foo/passwd), create a symbolic link from > /home/foo/passwd to /var/www/hidden_dir/passw

Re: can't boot new kernel - VFS error

2002-09-25 Thread Arash Bijanzadeh
On Wednesday 25 September 2002 08:52, John Reinke wrote: > (I'm resending this, since I don't see it in the archives for yesterday.) > > I've not been successful with any of the solutions to similar problems > I've found on the web so far, so hopefully someone here can offer > suggestions. > > I a

Re: compiling & Installing different versions of kernel

2002-09-25 Thread Travis Crump
J.S.Sahambi wrote: > I am using 2.4.19 kernel and now I want to appy the a patch to certain > file, compile it, and install it as diffeeret version, say > "2.4.19-patched" (so that it has differenet modules directory and should > not mess up with my working /lib/modules/2.4.19). > > So how can

compiling & Installing different versions of kernel

2002-09-25 Thread J.S.Sahambi
I am using 2.4.19 kernel and now I want to appy the a patch to certain file, compile it, and install it as diffeeret version, say "2.4.19-patched" (so that it has differenet modules directory and should not mess up with my working /lib/modules/2.4.19). So how can I proceed to compile, install

apache FollowSymLinks and SymLinksIfOwnerMatch question

2002-09-25 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello list, Now that apache has FollowSymLinks and SymLinksIfOwnerMatch options, there's still some security issue. For example, someone cp /etc/passwd to his home directory(/home/foo/passwd), create a symbolic link from /home/foo/passwd to /var/www/hidden_dir/passwd. Since the owner maches, it w

Re: workstations syslogging to server

2002-09-25 Thread nate
D. J. Bolderman said: > Hi All, > > I'm trying to setup my debian workstations to redirect all their logs to > my server. My server is running logcheck so it would be nice if I would > get an e-mail with all "strange" things that happen on my workstations. > > I know i must configure the syslog se

workstations syslogging to server

2002-09-25 Thread D. J. Bolderman
Hi All, I'm trying to setup my debian workstations to redirect all their logs to my server. My server is running logcheck so it would be nice if I would get an e-mail with all "strange" things that happen on my workstations. I know i must configure the syslog service for this, but I can't seem t

Re: ADSL-ON BOOT

2002-09-25 Thread Shawn Lamson
you can add "adsl-start" to your /etc/init.d/rc.local or similar file --- Edward Guldemond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 08:41:07PM -0400, Gord Berta wrote: > > I have Bell Sympatico High Speed Modem. I am running Libranet 2.7 > and > > installed the latest roaringpengui

Re: Installing a stand-alone .deb

2002-09-25 Thread Russell
Thanks, i just got it to work;) david hong wrote: > > How about dpkg -i packagename > > On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 13:43:25 +1000, Russell wrote > > Hi, > > > > I copied nictools-pci.deb to /root to install > > it, but dselect doesn't seem to have an option > > for doing a single file outside of the d

Re: Installing a stand-alone .deb

2002-09-25 Thread david hong
how about dpkg -i pkgname On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 13:43:25 +1000, Russell wrote > Hi, > > I copied nictools-pci.deb to /root to install > it, but dselect doesn't seem to have an option > for doing a single file outside of the distribution. > (my network isn't working, and i have no CD) > > Does ap

Installing a stand-alone .deb

2002-09-25 Thread Russell
Hi, I copied nictools-pci.deb to /root to install it, but dselect doesn't seem to have an option for doing a single file outside of the distribution. (my network isn't working, and i have no CD) Does apt-get or dpkg have a way to install it? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: hyperterminal

2002-09-25 Thread nate
david hong said: > > For troubleshooting, can we > do a connection to linux server via serial port > and hyperterminal and monitor any console message?? > > if yes, any infor? yes, look for the Linux Serial Console HOWTO this describes most everything you need. A good place to start may be the L

Re: CUPS configuration

2002-09-25 Thread christophe =?unknown-8bit?q?barb=E9?=
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 05:28:58PM -0500, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > "christophe" == christophe barb writes: > > christophe> Hi, Is there a tool to configure printers in cups. > > Is there something you don't like about http://localhost:631/ as a > means of configuring cups on the cups se

Re: SuSE vs. Debian ???

2002-09-25 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2002-09-26T01:04:56Z, "Michael D. Schleif" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The customer is insisting that they must run SuSE, since they are > convinced that that is the only platform on which their oracle stuff is > certified, e.g., SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 7. *If* that is true, then use

hyperterminal

2002-09-25 Thread david hong
For troubleshooting, can we do a connection to linux server via serial port and hyperterminal and monitor any console message?? if yes, any infor? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ethernet card problem

2002-09-25 Thread Russell
Elizabeth Barham wrote: > > Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > My debian pc with on-board 82559 intel ethernet board stopped > > talking. I can ping localhost, but the windows pc sees the cable > > from it as 'dead'. I checked all relevant files and ifconfig and > > netstat, and it was al

Re: Increasing screen refresh rate in X

2002-09-25 Thread Russell
Andy Saxena wrote: > > Hi, > > How would I increase the screen refresh rate in X? XF86Config-4 allows > one to set a range for horizontal and vertical sync rates. How can I > find out what the current refresh rates are? I think you'd just define some modelines with faster pixel clocks. Look up

Re: SuSE vs. Debian ???

2002-09-25 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Thank you -- all of you . . . Alvin Oga wrote: > > anything you edit manually will be erased by yast/yast2 upon reboot(?) > so use yast/yast2 do make system changes See? This is the kind of inside scoop that makes my question worthwhile! -- Best Regards, mds mds resource 888.250.3987

Re: Flyvideo TV card

2002-09-25 Thread nate
John Joe said: > i have Debian 2.2 and Flyvideo TV but can't run xawtv, > it says: sounds like you do not have the video4linux drivers loaded. What drivers are you *using* and what options are you passing to them? for example, on one of my machines which runs xawtv 24/7/365 I use: modprobe bttv

Re: G550 / XFree86

2002-09-25 Thread Andrew Shipton
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 02:02:32PM -0400, Tom Allen wrote: > I found a volume of information, but seem to be missing something. > I use a matrox G550, and when I installed, X would not run (the actual > error is (EE) No devices detected). There's bound to be a FAQ > somewhere, but I'm having trou

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Flyvideo TV card

2002-09-25 Thread John Joe
i have Debian 2.2 and Flyvideo TV but can't run xawtv, it says: This is xawtv-3.06, running on Linux/i686 (2.2.19) visual: id=0x22 class=4 (TrueColor), depth=16 x11: 800x600, 16 bit/pixel, 1600 byte/scanline, DGA, VidMode can't open /dev/video: No such device waitpid: No child processes v4l-conf

Re: SuSE vs. Debian ???

2002-09-25 Thread nate
Michael D. Schleif said: > > I must accept a project to build and manage systems to run oracle db 9i > and tools 11i. > > The customer is insisting that they must run SuSE, since they are > convinced that that is the only platform on which their oracle stuff is > certified, e.g., SuSE Linux Enterp

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2002-09-25 Thread Jim Hribar
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Re: SuSE vs. Debian ???

2002-09-25 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya michael On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > > Of course, I recognize these points -- they are truly sound. I am not > of a mind to convert the customer to debian. oops... okay.. > Rather, I am looking for pointers on learning SuSE and how to manage the > beast. Although

Re: ADSL-ON BOOT

2002-09-25 Thread Edward Guldemond
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 08:41:07PM -0400, Gord Berta wrote: > I have Bell Sympatico High Speed Modem. I am running Libranet 2.7 and > installed the latest roaringpenguin ppp0e. I would like it to 'adsl-start' > on boot so I do not have to 'command' this in the terminal. > Any help appreciated.

Re: SuSE vs. Debian ???

2002-09-25 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Of course, I recognize these points -- they are truly sound. I am not of a mind to convert the customer to debian. Rather, I am looking for pointers on learning SuSE and how to manage the beast. Although, to some extent, linux is Linux, I have been around enough to recognize that all apples ar

Re: Stream audio file with netscape/mozilla?

2002-09-25 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Kendall" == Kendall Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Kendall> With netscape and mozilla in linux, the entire file is Kendall> downloaded, then it launches the player. Is there a way to Kendall> stream audio files from a web page, using netscape/mozilla? The best thing I can think o

Re: SuSE vs. Debian ???

2002-09-25 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya "use what the customer wants"... - if it fails... they picked the os/hw/etc.. - its also certified that oracle db9i works on suse... and ibm certifies their db2 works on rh-x.y - if it does works as advertised... be happy.. - and lots of annoying habits that you

Re: Why a dependency on X stuff for an ldap server?

2002-09-25 Thread Mike Dresser
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Colin Watson wrote: I updated it, the server side of it works flawlessly, and I just had to add a -P 2 -x to my ldapmodify in the script I use. I use a program called lookout, it's really old, but it imports the passwd entries just fine into the address book for our Netsca

SuSE vs. Debian ???

2002-09-25 Thread Michael D. Schleif
I must accept a project to build and manage systems to run oracle db 9i and tools 11i. The customer is insisting that they must run SuSE, since they are convinced that that is the only platform on which their oracle stuff is certified, e.g., SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 7. I have not experience

Re: Why a dependency on X stuff for an ldap server?

2002-09-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 01:14:53AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 05:02:37PM -0700, nate wrote: > > you can recompile openldap to exclude odbc support, from a quick > > search it seems the odbc library is the one that wants gtk/X: > > It doesn't appear to do so in unstable,

Re: Why a dependency on X stuff for an ldap server?

2002-09-25 Thread Mike Dresser
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 05:02:37PM -0700, nate wrote: > > you can recompile openldap to exclude odbc support, from a quick > > search it seems the odbc library is the one that wants gtk/X: > > It doesn't appear to do so in unstable, although the changelo

ADSL-ON BOOT

2002-09-25 Thread Gord Berta
I have Bell Sympatico High Speed Modem. I am running Libranet 2.7 and installed the latest roaringpenguin ppp0e. I would like it to 'adsl-start' on boot so I do not have to 'command' this in the terminal. Any help appreciated. Thanks Gord -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Increasing screen refresh rate in X

2002-09-25 Thread Oki DZ
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 04:31:22PM -0400, Andy Saxena wrote: > How would I increase the screen refresh rate in X? XF86Config-4 allows > one to set a range for horizontal and vertical sync rates. How can I > find out what the current refresh rates are? It depends on your monitor, I guess; some of

Re: Why a dependency on X stuff for an ldap server?

2002-09-25 Thread nate
Mike Dresser said: > too bad slapd depends on libiodbc2, or it'd be a simple fix. I suspect > compiling slapd source would take even more stuff I don't want installed > on this server. 2 easy ways I can think of around this: 1) compile the app on another system, then install the debs by hand u

Re: Why a dependency on X stuff for an ldap server?

2002-09-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 05:02:37PM -0700, nate wrote: > Mike Dresser said: > > I'm upgrading from a potato machine, to woody. > > > > Any other way around this? I really don't want all that crap installed > > if I don't have to. > > you can recompile openldap to exclude odbc support, from a quic

Re: Why a dependency on X stuff for an ldap server?

2002-09-25 Thread Mike Dresser
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, nate wrote: > Mike Dresser said: > you can recompile openldap to exclude odbc support, from a quick > search it seems the odbc library is the one that wants gtk/X: too bad slapd depends on libiodbc2, or it'd be a simple fix. I suspect compiling slapd source would take even

Re: Why a dependency on X stuff for an ldap server?

2002-09-25 Thread nate
Mike Dresser said: > I'm upgrading from a potato machine, to woody. > > Any other way around this? I really don't want all that crap installed > if I don't have to. you can recompile openldap to exclude odbc support, from a quick search it seems the odbc library is the one that wants gtk/X: Pac

Why a dependency on X stuff for an ldap server?

2002-09-25 Thread Mike Dresser
I'm upgrading from a potato machine, to woody. Did the dselect thing, it didn't bother to upgrade openldapd for me, but I found it in the obsolete pile. So I run off to install slapd, after a bit of googling to see what replaced openldapd. # apt-get install slapd Reading Package Lists... Done B

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Re: Help with Debian apt-get & Gnome2

2002-09-25 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Anand" == Anand Subramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Anand> Hi, I recently converted to Debian from RH and though I Anand> managed to install Debian 3.0 rev0 on my laptop and could Anand> connect to the internet via DSL, I simply am not able to Anand> upgrade to Gnome2. In

Re: .

2002-09-25 Thread Vineet Kumar
* martin f krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020925 14:51]: > also sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [2002.09.25.2323 +0200]: > > . > > who's links.com.cn and why is he flooding this list? could not find "flooding"? This is the only message I see from links.com.cn in my debian-user folde

Re: fluxbox menus

2002-09-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 04:02:18PM -0400, Kevin Coyner wrote: > On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 08:15:03PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote.. > > Beware, changes in /usr/lib/menu will be overwritten on upgrade ... /etc > > is safe, /usr isn't. > > Oh-oh. Geez, and I thought I had it figured out. I've look

Re: CUPS configuration

2002-09-25 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"christophe" == christophe barb writes: christophe> Hi, Is there a tool to configure printers in cups. Is there something you don't like about http://localhost:631/ as a means of configuring cups on the cups server? /Shyamal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Re: how to install CUPS

2002-09-25 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Sahambi" == J S Sahambi writes: Sahambi> I am using LPD for my print in Debain 2.4.19. Can any Sahambi> body guide me how to upgrade the printing on my system Sahambi> with CUPS? Sahambi> If cups does not work, can I still use my older LPD for Sahambi> printing? I rec

woody; apache + tomcat4

2002-09-25 Thread joe udder
Hi. I was thinking about learning JSP so I started setting up Tomcat4 and Apache 1.3.x Everything went fine, I could connect to tomcat via port 8081 (or what is was). However, I failed upon remove Tomcat's HTTP-connector and use Apache as connector instead. So my questions are; Is the "lib

Re: Configuring Kernel Options (/usr/src/linux/.config)

2002-09-25 Thread Andy Saxena
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 11:47:12PM +0300, Amir Tal wrote: > On Wednesday 25 September 2002 23:40, Andy Saxena wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I want to know if there are any side-effects of copying the .config file > > from one kernel source tree to another. > > by all means ;) > then run (from the new so

Re: Configuring Kernel Options (/usr/src/linux/.config)

2002-09-25 Thread Edward Guldemond
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 05:58:47PM -0400, Andy Saxena wrote: > On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 01:42:39PM -0700, nate wrote: > > never used oldconfig, I usually just manually re-configure each kernel > > as I get them(habbit? maybe). > > > > Also, I'd like to know that if I copied .config from 2.4.4 to

Re: Configuring Kernel Options (/usr/src/linux/.config)

2002-09-25 Thread Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen
Andy Saxena wrote: >On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 01:42:39PM -0700, nate wrote: > > >>never used oldconfig, I usually just manually re-configure each kernel >>as I get them(habbit? maybe). >> >> >> > >How do you do it? Isn't it a pain to go through the entire configuration >routine when, perhaps,

Re: using adduser script & ldap

2002-09-25 Thread nate
Thorsten Klein said: > hi, > > i'd like to know if it's possible to use the adduser script with a > ldap-server on woody. I don't think so. even if 'passwd' works, that still leaves a big chunk out: authenticating to the database to add a user to it. I don't think PAM offers a way to do this, PAM

Re: Configuring Kernel Options (/usr/src/linux/.config)

2002-09-25 Thread Andy Saxena
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 01:42:39PM -0700, nate wrote: > never used oldconfig, I usually just manually re-configure each kernel > as I get them(habbit? maybe). > How do you do it? Isn't it a pain to go through the entire configuration routine when, perhaps, all you want is an additional feature t

using adduser script & ldap

2002-09-25 Thread Thorsten Klein
hi, i'd like to know if it's possible to use the adduser script with a ldap-server on woody. i'd googled for a while and can't find anything usefull on that topic. everything else seems to work (in fact everything that i have tested ;) e.g. ssh, imap, su...) but i can't get adduser working if

Re: .

2002-09-25 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.09.25.2323 +0200]: > . who's links.com.cn and why is he flooding this list? could not find a reference to links.com in the various debian status files on my system. can we blackhole him if this doesn't stop? -- martin; (greeti

Re: Printing trouble driving me crazy.

2002-09-25 Thread Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen
Andy Saxena wrote: >On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 05:16:48PM -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > > >>Hello Joh: >> >>IMO, the thing you did wrong was not installing cups. I think it has to be >>the most user-friendly way to get a printer up and running on any distro of >>Linux. The driver base is

Knoppix & DemoLinux

2002-09-25 Thread Andy Saxena
Hi, I am trying to promote Linux at the office. I handed out a few DemoLinux CDs for my co-workers to use. Could somebody draw a comparison between DemoLinux & Knoppix? Thank you. Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROT

Re: Printing trouble driving me crazy.

2002-09-25 Thread Andy Saxena
On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 05:16:48PM -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > Hello Joh: > > IMO, the thing you did wrong was not installing cups. I think it has to be > the most user-friendly way to get a printer up and running on any distro of > Linux. The driver base is huge and the ability to co

Re: first kernel belongs to package?

2002-09-25 Thread Guy Geens
> "Anders" == Anders Lennartsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Anders> I mean when a fresh install of Debian is made on a, say Anders> previously empty, box, there seem to be no package that owns Anders> the first kernel, This is correct, and it's been a pet peeve of mine for a long time. You

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2002-09-25 Thread maillist
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[Re: Configuring Kernel Options (/usr/src/linux/.config)]

2002-09-25 Thread Andy Saxena
Just thought I'd make this part of the mailing list. -Andy --- Begin Message --- Andy Saxena wrote: >Hi, > >I want to know if there are any side-effects of copying the .config file >from one kernel source tree to another. > >Specifically, there are two cases that I am interested in: > >1.) Cop

Re: Map Keys ???? pls help

2002-09-25 Thread Andy Saxena
Reposting three times in two days isn't going to get you an answer. If nobody's replied so far it's because nobody that's read your posts knows the answer. Please wait a few days, and if somebody who knows the answer reads your post, they will help you out. Thanks, Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: Logical Volume Manager

2002-09-25 Thread Alan Chandler
On Tuesday 24 September 2002 10:19 am, Tom Allison wrote: > Can you implement LVM on an already installed system? I did, although I did not replace my root partition, I did with all the others. The reason I didn't try and replace the root partition was that the docs says you need to create an

Re: Configuring Kernel Options (/usr/src/linux/.config)

2002-09-25 Thread Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen
Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen wrote: > Andy Saxena wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I want to know if there are any side-effects of copying the .config file >> from one kernel source tree to another. >> >> Specifically, there are two cases that I am interested in: >> >> 1.) Copying config file from the 2.2 seri

Re: can't boot new kernel - VFS error

2002-09-25 Thread shaulka
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 10:52:30AM -0500, John Reinke wrote: > (I'm resending this, since I don't see it in the archives for yesterday.) > > I've not been successful with any of the solutions to similar problems > I've found on the web so far, so hopefully someone here can offer > suggestions. >

Re: Configuring Kernel Options (/usr/src/linux/.config)

2002-09-25 Thread Amir Tal
On Wednesday 25 September 2002 23:40, Andy Saxena wrote: > Hi, > > I want to know if there are any side-effects of copying the .config file > from one kernel source tree to another. by all means ;) then run (from the new source directory) : make oldconfig . you will be prompted only for the new c

Re: Configuring Kernel Options (/usr/src/linux/.config)

2002-09-25 Thread nate
Andy Saxena said: > Hi, > > I want to know if there are any side-effects of copying the .config file > from one kernel source tree to another. > > Specifically, there are two cases that I am interested in: > > 1.) Copying config file from the 2.2 series to the 2.4 series. I wouldn't try this.. >

Configuring Kernel Options (/usr/src/linux/.config)

2002-09-25 Thread Andy Saxena
Hi, I want to know if there are any side-effects of copying the .config file from one kernel source tree to another. Specifically, there are two cases that I am interested in: 1.) Copying config file from the 2.2 series to the 2.4 series. 2.) Copying the config file from one minor version to an

Re: Increasing screen refresh rate in X

2002-09-25 Thread nate
Andy Saxena said: > Hi, > > How would I increase the screen refresh rate in X? XF86Config-4 allows > one to set a range for horizontal and vertical sync rates. How can I find > out what the current refresh rates are? xvidtune, I think the only way to manually set the refresh rate would be to make

Increasing screen refresh rate in X

2002-09-25 Thread Andy Saxena
Hi, How would I increase the screen refresh rate in X? XF86Config-4 allows one to set a range for horizontal and vertical sync rates. How can I find out what the current refresh rates are? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL P

Re: quoting (was: idiosyncratic "ln" not making hard links)

2002-09-25 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 22:01:52 +0200 martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > also sprach Mark L. Kahnt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.09.25.1953 > +0200]: > > > > > > > | :~$ touch k > > > > > > > | :~$ ln k y > > > > I'm going to toss in a *wild* question, but given that the actual link > > attem

Re: fluxbox menus

2002-09-25 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 16:02:18 -0400 Kevin Coyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All I'm trying to do is add a geometry argument to xzgv when it's called > up from the menu (i.e. xzgv -g 680x480+50+20). I suppose I'm supposed > to make an edit in /etc/menu-methods/fluxbox, but just how to do that is

Re: IDE master to slave conversion

2002-09-25 Thread Andy Saxena
On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 11:01:13PM -0700, nate wrote: > install rescue cd(if your using the default kernel). lilo may complain > if you try to point it to a non-existant device. with a boot disk you > can do > > linux root=/dev/hdb6 > > and have it boot, then you can run lilo to install the new

Re: portable .fetchmailrc

2002-09-25 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.09.25.1954 +0200]: > Since I'm going to change my $USERNAME, I'm thinking of rewriting my > ..fetchmailrc so it will survive the transition. Given a .fetchmailrc > line consisting of: > > user 'foo' there with password 'whocares' is 'bar' here > > is t

Re: OT: M$ Proxy Server

2002-09-25 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.09.25.1943 +0200]: > Besides, we don't need another MS Linux distro -- we already have RedHat > ;-) and SuSE. heck, even mandrake qualifies... -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*>

Re: OT: M$ Proxy Server

2002-09-25 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Robert Vazan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.09.25.1826 +0200]: > There are two problems: > 1. "Transparent" proxy using WSP clients. > 2. Authorization of web access. > Which one is yours? I was thinking the first one. The link above > solves only the second one. Right. But web access is t

quoting (was: idiosyncratic "ln" not making hard links)

2002-09-25 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Mark L. Kahnt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.09.25.1953 +0200]: > > > > > > | :~$ touch k > > > > > > | :~$ ln k y > > I'm going to toss in a *wild* question, but given that the actual link > attempt is failing, this wandered through the chasm I use as a mind: in that case, please don't t

Re: fluxbox menus

2002-09-25 Thread Kevin Coyner
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 08:15:03PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote.. > > > update-menus is doing this. There's documentation in the menu package, > > > and (as I remember) some provision for the kinds of user additions > > > you're trying to make. > > > > You're spot on right. update-menus. I'v

RE: Help!! Need old LIB libstdc++.so.2.8

2002-09-25 Thread Irving Carrion
I was able to find the correct link. Thanks for your help! IRV ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/oldlibs/libstd c++2.8_2.90.29-2.deb -Original Message- From: Colin Watson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Colin Watson Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 3

Re: having problem with X on woody with r128

2002-09-25 Thread Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen
b d wrote: >hah. I thought I had enough skills to do this (and >no, man apt-get, didn't seem to help me either - :) ). > >I put Branden's line in my sources.list (deb >http://people.debian.org/%7Ebranden/ sid/i386/) and >did an apt-get update and upgrade, and it all looked >fine and dandy that 8

RE: Samba causes kernel panic on my Woody !

2002-09-25 Thread Eric Belhomme
"Irving Carrion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:000f01c264ca $525fb2d0$82c0@icarrion: > I don't know the answer to this question but it may help others if you > include the file system your using. Just a thought =) > I put some URLs on my original message : http://www.ricospirit.net/php

Re: Help!! Need old LIB libstdc++.so.2.8

2002-09-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 03:46:37PM -0400, Irving Carrion wrote: [reordered to avoid top-posting] > Colin Watson wrote: > > Try this: > > > > >ftp://ftp.debian.org/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/oldlibs/libstdc++2.8_2.90.29-2.deb > > Thanks > This link doesn't work though Sorry, add "/debian"

Re: ----strange problem----

2002-09-25 Thread mun
> >>On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 15:21:43 +0200 mun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I'm connected to LAN: dynamical IP (dhcp) >> I use dhclient3 to obtain info,IP, etc. from DHCP server >> DHCP giving me a correct IP and everything looks good, but i cannot >> connect normal to internet. > >What is providi

Re: having problem with X on woody with r128

2002-09-25 Thread b d
hah. I thought I had enough skills to do this (and no, man apt-get, didn't seem to help me either - :) ). I put Branden's line in my sources.list (deb http://people.debian.org/%7Ebranden/ sid/i386/) and did an apt-get update and upgrade, and it all looked fine and dandy that 8 packages relating

RE: Help!! Need old LIB libstdc++.so.2.8

2002-09-25 Thread Irving Carrion
Thanks This link doesn't work though -Original Message- From: Colin Watson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Colin Watson Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 3:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Help!! Need old LIB libstdc++.so.2.8 On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 03:25:23PM -0400, Ir

Re: IMAP is a memory hog

2002-09-25 Thread Andy Saxena
On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 09:27:59AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > IMHO there are only two IMAP servers worth the bother: Cyrus and Courrier. > You should try both, and use whichever works best for you. For Cyrus, it is > very, very, very important to read the docs, otherwise you p

Re: Help!! Need old LIB libstdc++.so.2.8

2002-09-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 03:25:23PM -0400, Irving Carrion wrote: > Im trying to install uvscan and I'm getting errors because it needs > libstdc++.so.2.8. The oldest version that I see in the OLD Archives on > the debian site is 2.9. There is no 2.8. Try this: ftp://ftp.debian.org/dists/pot

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