Re: apr-get local files

2002-10-18 Thread Arash Bijanzadeh
Look at apt-get HOWTO, there is a solution fo rcreating a local repository for apt. On Saturday 19 October 2002 02:58, David Pastern wrote: > Steve said: > > I know apt-get works great for installing remote files, but how could you > install a deb file you have installed on you local machine. Loo

Re: forced check

2002-10-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 10:18:07PM -0500, Peter McAlpine wrote: > > "Sandip" == Sandip P Deshmukh writes: > > > > Sandip> hello all! i use debian 3.0, filesystem is ext3. > > Maybe you should consider switching to ext3 or

Re: A few questions about settings

2002-10-18 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
1.) How do I fix the problem of program windows that are too big for my screen? Whenever I open gmc, windowmaker control panel, or any other app the window is huge,I mean like off the screen big; using the resize command I can only make the windows wider or bigger not smaller. hold alt key. righ

Re: USB storage (memstick) trouble [solved]

2002-10-18 Thread Kevin Coyner
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 11:03:58PM -0400, Andrew Perrin wrote.. > Check /var/log/messages and /var/log/syslog as the device is plugged into, > and removed from, the USB port. That sometimes provides clues as to what > the drivers are doing. > Great tip checking /var/log/messages, as it show

Re: Linux: a gentle, growing approach

2002-10-18 Thread mtsouk
I think that a good book such as "Linux Administration Handbook" (Prentice Hall) will help a lot. For other good books look at http://www.oreilly.com :-) cheers, Mihalis. On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, Josh Rehman wrote: > Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 11:50:18 -0700 > From: Josh Rehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To

xdm config help

2002-10-18 Thread Paul Mackinney
I'm trying to set up xdm. Whenever I boot the last message I see before the login prompt is: Not starting X Display Manager (xdm); it is not the default display manager. I get the same message when I try to launch it manually as root. I'm been cruising the docs & all the likely files, but don't

Re: Exim misconfiguration ?

2002-10-18 Thread Brian Nelson
Fred <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Fred <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > Hi, >> > >> > I am currently using exim on my laptop for local delivery and sending >> > mails. I'm also using fetchmail and procmail. >> > After the we, when I connect to the internet, the system retrieves many >> > mai

Re: A few questions about settings

2002-10-18 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
Wathen, Metherion wrote: Thanks, I really appreciate for your help. I have limited space on my harddrive is there a way to see how much space a package is going to take before installing it? Thanks again. mw. man dpkg i do not remember the exact options -sandip -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

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Re: Terminal like server for linux

2002-10-18 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 07:43, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > How do I know whether I have them installed? XFree86-devel is not a > Debain package. apt-get install xlibs-dev > > I'm not sure if this is what your looking for but > > check out > > www.ltsp.org > > As for LTSP. My question is this. If

Re: apr-get local files

2002-10-18 Thread Jon-o Addleman
On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 09:28:55AM +1000, David Pastern spake thusly: > Steve said: > > I know apt-get works great for installing remote files, but how could you > install a deb file you have installed on you local machine. Looking in the > man page for apt-get I didn't see an option for install

Re: pcmcia install on IBM laptop

2002-10-18 Thread Kevin Coyner
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 07:26:01AM -0600, Mark Zimmerman wrote.. > On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 08:12:31AM -0400, Kevin Coyner wrote: > > > > I'm installing stable onto an IBM 560X from a FD boot and then FTP. > > > > Most of the install has been uneventful, but getting the PCMCIA to work > > (a

Re: forced check

2002-10-18 Thread Peter McAlpine
Maybe you should consider switching to ext3 or some other journaling fs. -peter > "Sandip" == Sandip P Deshmukh writes: > > Sandip> hello all! i use debian 3.0, filesystem is ext3. > > Sandip> i realize that it checks the partitition after mounting it > Sandip> for 20 times,

Re: SSH Down after Restart

2002-10-18 Thread Dave Thurman (Mailing List Email)
on 10/18/02 8:38 PM, nate stated: > Mailing List Email said: > >> slave sshd[390]: fatal: daemon() failed: Function not implemented > > perhaps a problem with permissions on /dev/null ? > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?archive=no&bug=145451 > > I just read the bug report and

Re: SSH Down after Restart

2002-10-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 08:23:18PM -0500, Dave Thurman (Mailing List Email) wrote: > slave sshd[390]: fatal: daemon() failed: Function not implemented That indicates that something has broken your /dev/null device node. It should look like this in 'ls -l /dev/null': crw-rw-rw-1 root ro

Re: SSH Down after Restart

2002-10-18 Thread nate
Mailing List Email said: > slave sshd[390]: fatal: daemon() failed: Function not implemented perhaps a problem with permissions on /dev/null ? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?archive=no&bug=145451 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: SSH Down after Restart

2002-10-18 Thread Dave Thurman (Mailing List Email)
on 10/18/02 8:06 PM, Dave Thurman (Mailing List Email) stated: > on 10/18/02 7:51 PM, nate stated: > >> what does the logs say? >> >> is there something else using that port? >> >> netstat -an | grep 22 > > I don't see anything in the logs > > slave/# netstat -an | grep 22 > tcp0 0 XX.X

Re: Lite On 40x Burner

2002-10-18 Thread Colin Keefe
* Steven Isaacson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-10-15 16:58:09 -0500]: > Has anyone had success using a Lite On 40/12/48(LTR40125S) burner with > cdrecord and debian? I was looking around and couldn't find any > definative answer. > I am. I've had it since the beginning of August and am using it wit

Re: SSH Down after Restart

2002-10-18 Thread Dave Thurman (Mailing List Email)
on 10/18/02 7:51 PM, nate stated: > what does the logs say? > > is there something else using that port? > > netstat -an | grep 22 I don't see anything in the logs slave/# netstat -an | grep 22 tcp0 0 XX.XX.XX.XX:23XX.XX.XX.XX:2286ESTABLISHED tcp0 0 0.0.0.0.:220 0.0

Re: SSH Down after Restart

2002-10-18 Thread nate
Mailing List Email said: > I even apt-get remove ssh and install ssh as well as felt maybe a > reconfigure may help, dpkg-reconfigure ssh and went through the motions > and still no ssh running. > > Specs are Compaq 450mhz w/512 RAM Woody Linux 3.0 install with SSH ver > 3.4 and all other services

SSH Down after Restart

2002-10-18 Thread Dave Thurman (Mailing List Email)
Hello We have been running a new woody build on one of our Web servers for a little over 3 months. Everything has been fine until this morning when I went to hit a web page on the box. I finally realized that the apache was down and had problems getting it back up, I think we may have a separate c

Re: Debian Gamers/Developers

2002-10-18 Thread Bijan Soleymani
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: Also byte-compiled code is quite slow. Compilling the code kind of defeats it's purpose as c++ would be better in that case. IMHO g++ is more mature than gjc (gnu java compiler). this however is no longer really true. The Java apps I have used were slow to laun

RE: Debian vs. SuSE 8.1

2002-10-18 Thread David Pastern
Geno said: A 7-disk set of Debian costs approximately one-third the $50. price of the comparable low-documents SuSE package. Other than price, what is the attraction of Debian over Red Hat, SuSE or Mandrake? Thanks. geno I'll babble about: Debian is slim, stable, and reliable. Need I say a

Re: USB storage (memstick) trouble

2002-10-18 Thread Kevin Coyner
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 06:22:41PM -0700, Johannes Graumann wrote.. > The Bios cut it - enabling the tw USB controlers and adding > /dev/sda1 /usbfd autonoauto,user 0 0 > to /etc/fstab was all it took in the end - could have had this earlyer, but > this wa

Re: Emacs21: nameserver resolution fails

2002-10-18 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"markus" == markus hoenicka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: markus> If I run vm as a mail client in Emacs 20, I have no markus> problem accessing my pop3 and smtp servers. If I try the markus> same in Emacs 21, I get a message: markus> Temporary nameserver resolution problem

Re: forced check

2002-10-18 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Sandip" == Sandip P Deshmukh writes: Sandip> hello all! i use debian 3.0, filesystem is ext3. Sandip> i realize that it checks the partitition after mounting it Sandip> for 20 times, checking is forced. Sandip> now, is there a way in which i can change it to, say 50 Sa

Re: A little daemon

2002-10-18 Thread Justin Ryan
> I need it for a small KDE application wich needs to execute some privileged > procecesses (like mount) WITHOUT password promting to the user. The KDE app > itself can't run as root (casue that needs an extra enviroment and i don't > want that) and setuid root is not a good idea cause of the kd

Re: Terminal like server for linux

2002-10-18 Thread Curtis Vaughan
Gonzalez Castillo, Alain wrote: Apt-get install rdesktop about rdesktop Actually, i have been using rdesktop for some time. After reinstalling Debian 3 with KDE 3 on my laptop, however, I can't get it to work. The error is: When I tried make after downloading both v 1.0.0 and 1.1.0, I got

Re: Debian vs. SuSE 8.1

2002-10-18 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"geno" == geno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: geno> Other than price, what is the attraction of Debian over Red geno> Hat, SuSE or Mandrake? All of these are good distributions. What Debian offers over the others is multi-architecture support, excellent software package management, a

RE: apr-get local files

2002-10-18 Thread David Pastern
Steve said: I know apt-get works great for installing remote files, but how could you install a deb file you have installed on you local machine. Looking in the man page for apt-get I didn't see an option for installing a local file. Thanks in advance for any help you can offer. Dave says: Li

Re: Strange SSL Problem (can't read certificate)

2002-10-18 Thread Jon-o Addleman
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 11:12:50PM +0200, Daniel Fabian spake thusly: > Hi List, > > I'm trying to include ssl support for apache on my freshly installed > debian system. However it seems I'm failing miserably, because of the > following error which I get everytime I try to start Apache: Hmm.. I

Re: mail does not work

2002-10-18 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Sandip P Deshmukh said: > >Put the NT box in the smarthost line that ends in bydns_a, and change > >bydns_a to byname if you want a local address to work (I think there is > >a seperate way to specify an IP literal - check www.exim.org to make > >sure). bydns_a forces

Re: any good mp3 player?

2002-10-18 Thread Bill Wohler
Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 05:24:05PM -0700, Bill Wohler wrote: >> xmms. Plays mp3s, ogg, wav, CDs, talks to esd. I just point it to the >> root of my music directory, click on the Random button and let it play >> for days. Very nice. > > That's what I

Re: pop server

2002-10-18 Thread Richard Kimber
On Fri, 18 Oct 2002 15:05:48 -0700 Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If the machine running the pop3 server is properly configured (no TCP > wrappers, no firewall, etc) from some other machine you should be able > to: > > telnet machine pop3 (whatever the machine's name is). If

Re: Debian vs. SuSE 8.1

2002-10-18 Thread steve
Debain doesnt install all of the extra crap redhat does. I have never had any luck getting redhat to run on a 386. Debian on the other hand has been up for about 167 day on a old 33Mhz handling all of my email. - Original Message - From: "Sam Varghese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PR

Re: Live CD and Package Licenses

2002-10-18 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Fri, 18 Oct 2002 13:46:43 -0700 Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > gnomemeeting -> openh323 -> libqt -> ssl. Cool... so I chould be good. Thanks. -- Jamin W. Collins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROT

Re: debian-user-digest crippled

2002-10-18 Thread Chris Kenrick
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 12:10:23AM -0700, Johannes Graumann wrote: > Hello, > > Have people aside from me lately had problems with crippled > debian-user-digest messages? The digests I get always have less message > entries than the TOC says and the number of attached original messages > correspon

Re: Debian Gamers/Developers

2002-10-18 Thread Gianfranco Berardi
Alan Chandler wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 18 October 2002 4:10 am, Gianfranco Berardi wrote: In the topic called OT: Programming books, it was mentioned that some people would like to get a group going that would develop games for Debian. This is just to see h

Re: Debian Gamers/Developers

2002-10-18 Thread Gianfranco Berardi
Alan Chandler wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 18 October 2002 4:10 am, Gianfranco Berardi wrote: In the topic called OT: Programming books, it was mentioned that some people would like to get a group going that would develop games for Debian. This is just to see h

Re: unknown restarts

2002-10-18 Thread Chris Kenrick
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 12:47:40AM -0400, Scott Henson wrote: > On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 13:41, Scott Henson wrote: > > I reinstalled my system last week with a mix of unstable and > > experimental(gnome2 packages). Since then I have been experienceing > > some unexplained restarts. Basically the ma

Re: Debian Gamers/Developers

2002-10-18 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Friday 18 October 2002 15:17, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > Java really is a poor choice for Debian as the implementations of Java > by Sun and Ibm are proprietary and aren't included in Debian. > this is a very valid argument and really the clincher for me. Java IS owned by Sun and whoever uses i

Re: pop server

2002-10-18 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya am stepping in late but... On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > On Friday 18 October 2002 14:47, Richard Kimber wrote: > > > > Thanks, but this doesn't work. I.e. pointing the remote client at > > "kimber" (or the equivalent) doesn't allow the remote pc to retrieve mail. > >

Re: Debian Gamers/Developers

2002-10-18 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 18 October 2002 10:13 pm, Gianfranco Berardi wrote: No need to copy me on replies to the list . > > Also I found this: http://lists.debian.org/stats/ > And in it it mentions debian-devel-games-REMOVED > under the normal debian-devel-games. >

Re: Debian Gamers/Developers

2002-10-18 Thread Bijan Soleymani
Benedict Verheyen wrote: On a sidenote: java is not bad for such type of games too with the added advantage of being crossplatform. Also, a lot of games already exist with available source code. A while back i looked at game programming and studied it a bit. In java the basics that go for c++ gam

Re: Simple HTTP Server Recommendation

2002-10-18 Thread Chris Kenrick
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 02:41:55PM +, Doug MacFarlane wrote: > > Team: > > I need to put up a simple, HTML-only site. No database/CGI/anything. > > Apache looks like overkill. > > Can you recommend a nice, compact, efficient alternative? IIRC there is a Linux kernel based webserver, whi

Re: Debian vs. SuSE 8.1

2002-10-18 Thread Sam Varghese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 04:21:29PM -0200, Klaus Imgrund spake thus: > On Fri, 18 Oct 2002 11:14:08 -0400 > geno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > A 7-disk set of Debian costs approximately one-third the $50. price > > of the comparable low-documents S

Re: pop server

2002-10-18 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Friday 18 October 2002 14:47, Richard Kimber wrote: > > Thanks, but this doesn't work. I.e. pointing the remote client at > "kimber" (or the equivalent) doesn't allow the remote pc to retrieve mail. > From Outlook, I get:- > > Connection was unexpectedly terminated by the server. Yet I can ha

Re: CLASSPATH with j2sdk1.3

2002-10-18 Thread Matt Price
thanks everyone, it seems to be working now. m On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 01:16:41AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 06:14:07PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: > > also, I need to seet JAVA_HOME to an appropriate value -- is this > > /usr/share/j2sdk1.3 ? > > /usr/lib/j2sdk1.3 works

Re: convert html to text

2002-10-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 01:54:43PM -0300, Rogerio Acquadro wrote: > Try html2txt7 > > On Thu, 30 May 2002, ben wrote: > > > i seem to remember somebody mentioning an app or script that converts html to > > text. i've searched the archives but can't find any reference to that. > > anybody have a

Re: pop server

2002-10-18 Thread Richard Kimber
On Fri, 18 Oct 2002 15:08:24 -0400 (EDT) Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What are you trying to do? telnet pop. 110 tells telnet > > > to find a machine called "pop.hostname" and connect to port 110, > > > which is equivalent to the pop3 port. I don't think that's what > > > you're

Re: expired gpg keys

2002-10-18 Thread Walt Mankowski
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 12:31:01PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > Cool. But this is a rather time-consuming process. Is there a way to > have it refresh just the keys that are relevant as it verifies > a signature or decodes a message? Not that I'm aware of. I just run --refresh-keys every night

RE: URL forwarding (SOLVED)

2002-10-18 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, I solved my problem more or less now. To redirect everything one can use: RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} =www.mydomain.com RewriteRule ^(.+)http://www.myweb.com/~mypage$1 [R,L] However, this changes the URI in the browser too. So I thought of a little trick. I made a index

Re: Live CD and Package Licenses

2002-10-18 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Fri, 18 Oct 2002 10:48:53 -0700 Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > provided you used only the contents of main the licensing should not be > an issue. That is the whole point of main. The only possible caveat > would be if the cd contained a package which had something like the

Re: A few questions about settings

2002-10-18 Thread 'Matthew Weier O'Phinney'
-- Wathen, Metherion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Friday, 18 October 2002, 02:34 PM -0500): > Thanks, I really appreciate for your help. > I have limited space on my harddrive is there a way to see how much space a > package is going to take before installing it? apt-cache show shows all package

Re: Debian vs. SuSE 8.1

2002-10-18 Thread Klaus Imgrund
On Fri, 18 Oct 2002 11:14:08 -0400 geno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A 7-disk set of Debian costs approximately one-third the $50. price > of the comparable low-documents SuSE package. > Other than price, what is the attraction of Debian over Red Hat, SuSE > or Mandrake? > > Thanks. > > geno >

RE: A few questions about settings

2002-10-18 Thread Wathen, Metherion
Thanks, I really appreciate for your help. I have limited space on my harddrive is there a way to see how much space a package is going to take before installing it? Thanks again. mw. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Template to build nVidia driver as deb ?

2002-10-18 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 06:23:59PM +0200, Robert Rakowicz wrote: > Hello, > > I search for a template to build nVidia video drivers ( kernel & GLX ) > as debian package. Can you help me? > Install the Debian nvidia-kernel-src and nvidia-glx-source packages and follow the instructions in /usr/sha

Re: pop server

2002-10-18 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Richard Kimber wrote: > On Fri, 18 Oct 2002 13:42:04 -0400 (EDT) > Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What are you trying to do? telnet pop. 110 tells telnet to > > find a machine called "pop.hostname" and connect to port 110, which is > > equivalent to the pop3

Re: apr-get local files

2002-10-18 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 18 October 2002 6:29 pm, steve wrote: > I know apt-get works great for installing remote files, but how could you > install a deb file you have installed on you local machine. Looking in the > man page for apt-get I didn't see an option for

Re: URL forwarding

2002-10-18 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Steve Haslam wrote: > On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 12:00:09AM +0200, Sebastiaan wrote: > > Hey, looks like the stuff I need. Unfortunetely I am unable to configure > > it correctly. I am stranded at: > > > > RewriteEngine on > > RewriteBase %{REQUEST_URI} > > RewriteRule

Re: apr-get local files

2002-10-18 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Friday, 18 October 2002, 12:29 PM -0500): > I know apt-get works great for installing remote files, but how could you > install a deb file you have installed on you local machine. Looking in the man > page for apt-get I didn't see an option for installing a l

Re: Template to build nVidia driver as deb ?

2002-10-18 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 17 October 2002 5:23 pm, Robert Rakowicz wrote: > Hello, > > I search for a template to build nVidia video drivers ( kernel & GLX ) > as debian package. Can you help me? > There is already two debian packages nvidia-kernel-src and nvidia

Re: EVMS vs. LVM

2002-10-18 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 18 October 2002 4:01 pm, nuk wrote: > Hello all, > > I have a small home LAN server running RedHat 7.3 (2.4.18-10) w/ LVM to > spread the partitions across the available hard drives. I'm looking at > migrating this system to Debian stable in

Re: Backing-up

2002-10-18 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 18 October 2002 8:10 am, Oki DZ wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to backup my system; I have taken a look at amanda and afbackup. > Unfortunately, I didn't find info on how to set the storage other than > tapes. Is there any way to have a loop devic

Re: apr-get local files

2002-10-18 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, steve wrote: > I know apt-get works great for installing remote files, but how > could you install a deb file you have installed on you local > machine. > Looking in the man page for apt-get I didn't see an option for > installing a local file. Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.

Re: fetchmail shows a weird behaviour

2002-10-18 Thread Robert Wilhelm Land
Edward Guldemond wrote: Do you have exim configured for local delivery? Procmail can only fetch the mail, it then kicks it to the local MDA from delivery. Actually I didn't want to get that far on the first step. My intention was just to retrieve all new mail on the pop3 server via -k (keep) op

Re: apr-get local files

2002-10-18 Thread Steve Juranich
> I know apt-get works great for installing remote files, but how could you install a >deb file you have installed on you local machine. Looking in the man page for >apt-get I didn't see an option for installing a local file. Thanks in advance for >any help you can offer. How about using 'd

Re: Template to build nVidia driver as deb ?

2002-10-18 Thread Johannes Berth
* Robert Rakowicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I search for a template to build nVidia video drivers ( kernel & GLX ) > as debian package. Can you help me? What about http://packages.debian.org/stable/x11/nvidia-glx-src.html http://packages.debian.org/stable/x11/nvidia-kernel-src.html ? -- To UNSUBS

Re: pop server

2002-10-18 Thread Richard Kimber
On Fri, 18 Oct 2002 13:42:04 -0400 (EDT) Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What are you trying to do? telnet pop. 110 tells telnet to > find a machine called "pop.hostname" and connect to port 110, which is > equivalent to the pop3 port. I don't think that's what you're looking > for. W

Re: Debian Gamers/Developers

2002-10-18 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 18 October 2002 4:10 am, Gianfranco Berardi wrote: > In the topic called OT: Programming books, it was mentioned that some > people would like to get a group going that would develop games for Debian. > This is just to see how many would be i

Re: icewm global configuration

2002-10-18 Thread Andre Berger
* Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2002-10-18 10:26 -0400: > * Darryl Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2002-10-17 23:45 -0400: > > I have modified the /etc/X11/icewm/menu and preferences file to suit the > > needs of my family on my home network. In the /etc/X11/icewm/menu it > > says the following: >

Re: Debian Gamers/Developers

2002-10-18 Thread Vinai Kopp
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 11:46:49AM -0500, Jamin W.Collins wrote: > On Fri, 18 Oct 2002 10:24:53 -0500 Gianfranco Berardi > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I agree. Debian and Linux in general sorely needs a decent Pacman game > > Yea... but can we do so without infringing on some copyright? I g

Re: Live CD and Package Licenses

2002-10-18 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Friday 18 October 2002 10:23, Jamin W.Collins wrote: > I've put together a Live CD for the Sony VAIO C1VN that I would like to > release to the public, and would like to make sure that I'm not doing > something wrong. I don't think I am, but I would like to be sure. > > The areas of concern tha

Mondo on Debian 3.0 (Was Re: EVMS vs. LVM)

2002-10-18 Thread nuk
On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 11:01:07 -0400, nuk wrote: > > But I noticed that Debian does support EVMS. Is it a 'superset' of the > > features of LVM, or what? > > Mostly yes. For example, EMVS includes compatibility with Linux LVM volume > groups and

Re: Galeon Mail/News ?

2002-10-18 Thread Keith O'Connell
> Is there any kind of Galeon Mail/News ? It is perfect with sylpheed Keith -- ___ _ Keith O'Connell. -o) Maidstone, Kent. (UK) /\\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] _\_v -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kernel-2.4.18-bf2.4 gives no lilo error, whereas kernel-2.4.18-686-smp does

2002-10-18 Thread Walter Tautz
On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Seneca wrote: > On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 10:59:27AM -0400, Walter Tautz wrote: > > namley > > # lilo > > Warning: Int 0x13 function 8 and function 0x48 return different > > head/sector geometries for BIOS drive 0x80 > > Warning: Int 0x13 function 8 and function 0x48 return di

Re: Debian Gamers/Developers

2002-10-18 Thread Benedict Verheyen
- Original Message - From: "Gianfranco Berardi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Vinai Kopp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 5:24 PM Subject: Re: Debian Gamers/Developers > Vinai Kopp wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 10:10:20PM -0500, Gianfranco Berard

Re: A few questions about settings

2002-10-18 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Wathen, Metherion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Friday, 18 October 2002, 10:23 AM -0500): > 2.) How do I find out what resolution mode X is running in (i.e. 640x480, > 800x600, etc.)? I'm sure there are other ways, but if you look in your /etc/X11/XF86Config file, you'll see an area towards the

Re: Printing with CUPS

2002-10-18 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 18 October 2002 7:11 pm, John Lord wrote: > On Wednesday 16 October 2002 10:56 pm, :Alan Chandler wrote: > > On Wednesday 16 October 2002 8:04 pm, John Lord wrote: > > > Next thing to check? > > > > Whats the device uri in /etc/cups/printers.

Re: pop server

2002-10-18 Thread Andrew Perrin
What are you trying to do? telnet pop. 110 tells telnet to find a machine called "pop.hostname" and connect to port 110, which is equivalent to the pop3 port. I don't think that's what you're looking for. ap -- Andrew J Perrin -

apr-get local files

2002-10-18 Thread steve
I know apt-get works great for installing remote files, but how could you install a deb file you have installed on you local machine.  Looking in the man page for apt-get I didn't see an option for installing a local file.  Thanks in advance for any help you can offer. 

Re: Template to build nVidia driver as deb ?

2002-10-18 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On 17 Oct 2002 18:23:59 +0200 Robert Rakowicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I search for a template to build nVidia video drivers ( kernel & GLX ) > as debian package. Can you help me? nvidia-glx-src - NVIDIA binary XFree86 4.x driver nvidia-kernel-src - NVIDIA binary kernel module -- Jamin W. C

Live CD and Package Licenses

2002-10-18 Thread Jamin W . Collins
I've put together a Live CD for the Sony VAIO C1VN that I would like to release to the public, and would like to make sure that I'm not doing something wrong. I don't think I am, but I would like to be sure. The areas of concern that I've come up with so far are: - Licensing - Package pool secti

Information

2002-10-18 Thread A Diferent Way To Learn A New Language
To whom it may concern:   Our institution, SAAMLanguageCenter, specializes in teaching Spanish as a Second Language (SSL) to foreigners worldwide,  basically High School, College, University students and Corporate professionals, who are looking for a practical program, with both quality and

Re: Debian vs. SuSE 8.1

2002-10-18 Thread Patrick Kirk
geno said: > A 7-disk set of Debian costs approximately one-third the $50. price of > the comparable low-documents SuSE package. > Other than price, what is the attraction of Debian over Red Hat, SuSE or > Mandrake? 1. Political points about being truly free may not matter that much but for man

Re: Printing with CUPS

2002-10-18 Thread John Lord
On Wednesday 16 October 2002 10:56 pm, :Alan Chandler wrote: > On Wednesday 16 October 2002 8:04 pm, John Lord wrote: > > Next thing to check? > > Whats the device uri in /etc/cups/printers.conf > > I have an epson 80 under cups - here is mine > > DeviceURI parallel:/dev/lp0 # Printer configurati

Re: Strange Postfix message

2002-10-18 Thread Curtis Vaughan
martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Curtis Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.10.18.0354 +0200]: If I send a message to more than one recipient on my postfix server, I get a message back stating that each recipient does not exist. what's the output of postconf local_recipient_maps ?

Re: Debian Gamers/Developers

2002-10-18 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Fri, 18 Oct 2002 10:24:53 -0500 Gianfranco Berardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I agree. Debian and Linux in general sorely needs a decent Pacman game Yea... but can we do so without infringing on some copyright? > B-) Just to make sure we're all on the same page, no one should expect > to ma

pop server

2002-10-18 Thread Richard Kimber
I'm getting in a bit of a muddle setting up qpopper as a mail server for a local pc. >From my machine I can do: telnet pop3 and see how many unread messages there are. But if I try telnet pop. 110 I get: could not resolve pop./110: Name or service not known and essentially the same message when

Re: apt-problems

2002-10-18 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 18/10/02 Jacques Kotze did speaketh: > I am behind the firewall of my University. There exists an archive with > the full resource of Debian behind the firewall that I would like to get > access to using apt-get inorder to complete a full package installation > of my system. > > I have conf

Re: Debian?

2002-10-18 Thread Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen
Edward Guldemond wrote: On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 08:03:52PM -0500, Lannie Schafroth wrote: Where I will build the Linux machine is in my office and nowhere near the real router. I will need to use the ICS function. Can Debian use this connection? Debian and linux supports tcp-ip It is ve

Re: Sound Blaster 64 install...

2002-10-18 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 03:08:55PM +0100, Fabien Holler wrote: > Hi there, > > I have a very basic machine (PI 233MHz, 128Meg RAM, ...) and installed > Debian on it. Everything worked just fine, but I cannot have my sound > card installed... I inserted the soundcore.o, sound.o and soundlow.o > mo

Re: smbfs mount over internet?

2002-10-18 Thread Jason M. Harvey
<-- snip --> | If they are serious they have som kind of vpn or encryption that you can | connect to. I use ssh myself. you can use fish protocol and browse | through directories. | Even better is lftp and fish you can then set eg. bandwidth control. | Thats what I use when i do big copies for fil

Re: forced check

2002-10-18 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 04:09:30PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > hello all! > > i use debian 3.0, filesystem is ext3. > > i realize that it checks the partitition after mounting it for 20 times, > checking is forced. > > now, is there a way in which i can change it to, say 50 times or say,

Re: Project organizer and time-tracking software?

2002-10-18 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2002-10-18T07:40:48Z, "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is the same information I'm collecting/documenting at TWikIWeThey: That's a pretty good source of information - thanks. > MrProject seems to be the lightweight option of choice. Indeed. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis n

Re: Debian eth0 full duplex

2002-10-18 Thread Jason M. Harvey
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 10:04:00AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: | On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 11:38:49AM +1000, Rob Weir wrote: | > On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 01:08:01PM -0500, Joe Thykattil wrote: | > > How do I find and/or set my eth0 interface to 100 Mb/s full duplex? | > | > Have a look at the output o

Re: How to compose a line in sources.list

2002-10-18 Thread Kent West
Kent wrote: >>I'm wanting to try out KDE3 from >> >>ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/packages/desktops/kde/stable/3.0.4/Debian/sid/ >> >>but I can't for the life of me figure out how to compose the >>appropriate line in /etc/apt/sources.list. John Schmidt replied: Here is what mine looks like: deb http://

Template to build nVidia driver as deb ?

2002-10-18 Thread Robert Rakowicz
Hello, I search for a template to build nVidia video drivers ( kernel & GLX ) as debian package. Can you help me? I'm sorry for my englisch, isn't my native language ;) Pozdrawiam/Gruß/Regards Robert Rakowicz -- Robert Rakowicz E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:www.rjap.de -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Libranet [was: Manual install/configuration]

2002-10-18 Thread Wendell Cochran
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 01:21:32 -0700 From: "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [SNIP] > Debian tends toward a text / curses based installer, and config-file > based management, rather than GUI tools. There _are_ GUI alternatives > to both if you lean that way, but they're neither required nor

Re: wmaker and MiX problem

2002-10-18 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 05:18:39PM +0500, Timur V. Irmatov wrote: > Hello, people! > > I have debian 3.0 system up and running. I want to use my windows > machine as X terminal. I have installed Microimages X server 3.0.11 > (MiX). I launch it, then log into my Debian server, set DISPLAY > vari

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