Re: lightweight window manager - any sugegstions?

2003-01-09 Thread Lance Simmons
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 11:12:48AM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > i have heard about ratpoison and [black | flux]box. any feedback from > actual users is welcome. ratpoison is great. Get your shortcuts set up just the way you want, and you'll never want to go back to using a mouse. I've b

Re: pppoe and dsl on debian

2003-01-09 Thread Brenda J. Butler
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 11:34:00AM -0500, David F. Skoll wrote: > > > Jan 9 10:39:56 seal pppoe[12969]: PPP session is 6497 > > Jan 9 10:39:59 seal pppd[12966]: Couldn't set pass-filter in kernel: Invalid >argument > > Dunno what the previous message means, but it should not be fatal. yes,

Re: lightweight window manager - any sugegstions?

2003-01-09 Thread Emil Pedersen
eb wrote: > > * Shyamal Prasad ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > "Sandip" == Sandip P Deshmukh writes: > > > > Sandip> i have heard about ratpoison and [black | flux]box. any > > Sandip> feedback from actual users is welcome. i am currently > > Sandip> using windowmaker. > > > > Give

Re: kernel 2.5.55

2003-01-09 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 11:25, HNIX wrote: > Hi everyone, > i upraded kernel 2.4 from kernl 2.5 and my nvidia geforce 4 and > snd-emu10k1 are not working anymore. Also, make xconfig is not working. > I got a lot of error. I already have qt-dev install. Is there any > package I need to install? Whe

Re: Converting audio CDs to audio files

2003-01-09 Thread Emil Pedersen
Trey Sizemore wrote: > > I remember reading somewhere that Konqueror can convert audio CDs to > audio files by entering 'audiocd:/' on the url window. I have tried > this, but cannot get it to find my audio CD in my CD drive. I have SCSI > emulation set up and here is my /etc/fstab file. I have

Re: sftp access from ISP to home machine

2003-01-09 Thread eb
* stan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I've got ssh working on my home machine, and I've added sftp as a subsystem. > > > Now when I try to run sfto from my ISP shell account I get prompted for a > password. Unfortunately, I don't get prompted for a username. And since my > user name on my home mach

Re: lightweight window manager - any sugegstions?

2003-01-09 Thread eb
* Sandip P Deshmukh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 03:54:44PM -0800, Peter Hicks wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 11:12:48AM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > >hello all > > > > > >i am doing most of my work in console and was looking for a small and > > >fast window manag

Re: lightweight window manager - any sugegstions?

2003-01-09 Thread eb
* Shyamal Prasad ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > "Sandip" == Sandip P Deshmukh writes: > > Sandip> i have heard about ratpoison and [black | flux]box. any > Sandip> feedback from actual users is welcome. i am currently > Sandip> using windowmaker. > > Give xfce a try, it is one that

Re: Recommendation for dual head video card

2003-01-09 Thread Emil Pedersen
David Z Maze wrote: > > Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Any suggestions? 3D support, too? > > If you already have a reasonable video card, you might find it just as > easy to get a second (PCI) video card. XFree86 supports this > configuration very well these days, and it's how

Re: HD access

2003-01-09 Thread eb
* Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I have an ancient Pentium 90 whose BIOS is convinced that no hard > > > drives are attached! Yet the system boots fine :) > > > > Reading this should enlighten you as to why you've no problems and the > > thread starter has :-) > > > > http://www

Re: broken package: testing: libapache-request-perl

2003-01-09 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Tom" == Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tom> Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: Tom> libapache-request-perl: Depends: perlapi-5.6.1 Depends: Tom> libapache-mod-perl but it is not going to be installed Tom> Before I make this a bug-report, can someone sugges

Re: capture realaudio

2003-01-09 Thread Kenneth Dombrowski
On Thu, 09 Jan 2003 22:50:37 -0500 Kenneth Dombrowski wrote: > this thread is pretty old, but I just gave this a try and it worked > beautifully. My only complaint is I didn't get the .wav file I asked > for, but I'm listening to the .au file now & it sounds quite good. > > One difference is tha

Chinese Big5

2003-01-09 Thread Jack Chang\(張勝誡\)
hi dear  Where can I download the Dedian Chinese Traditional installing manual ? thanks

Re: PAM messages

2003-01-09 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 06:30:55PM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > I keep getting messages like: > PAM_unix[982]: (cron) session closed for user lance > on my console. Start your syslog program (why isn't it running?). -- .''`. Baloo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian admin and u

Re: lightweight window manager - any sugegstions?

2003-01-09 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 03:54:44PM -0800, Peter Hicks wrote: > On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 11:12:48AM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > >hello all > > > >i am doing most of my work in console and was looking for a small and > >fast window manager for some occasional work there. > > > >aesthetics, bells

RE: Re: (OT) Worst night ever. WAS Adding a ide drive to an all scsi comp uter

2003-01-09 Thread Mike Dresser
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Michael Kahle wrote: > blow this one up... be sure I will NOT be sharing with anyone... a future > employer will look me up and Google and decide he cannot afford my less than > adequate performance. > Some of the best hardware problems are prefaced with things like "Nah, it'

Re: dual-boot redhat/debian

2003-01-09 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Thursday 09 January 2003 05:33 pm, Robert Storey wrote: > On Thu, 9 Jan 2003 07:42:15 -0500 > > Gregory Seidman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ignoring, for the moment, why I would do such a thing, I want to set > > up a machine (laptop) to dual-boot both Redhat 8.0 and Debian > > (testing/unsta

RE: kernel 2.5.55

2003-01-09 Thread dbalder
Hi everyone, i upraded kernel 2.4 from kernl 2.5 and my nvidia geforce 4 and snd-emu10k1 are not working anymore. Also, make xconfig is not working. I got a lot of error. I already have qt-dev install. Is there any package I need to install? Where can I find documentation installing my video card a

kernel 2.5.55

2003-01-09 Thread HNIX
Hi everyone, i upraded kernel 2.4 from kernl 2.5 and my nvidia geforce 4 and snd-emu10k1 are not working anymore. Also, make xconfig is not working. I got a lot of error. I already have qt-dev install. Is there any package I need to install? Where can I find documentation installing my video ca

Re: Mail server and iptables/exim

2003-01-09 Thread David P James
Nathan E Norman was roused into action on 2003-01-09 22:22 and wrote: On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 09:48:41PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: This one time, at band camp, David P James said: As you have noted, there are quite a few variables. Rule out iptables and tcpwrappers first - from an address ou

Re: capture realaudio

2003-01-09 Thread Kenneth Dombrowski
Ludwig wrote: On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 21:04, sean finney wrote: heya, i had to do something similar myself recently, and iirc vsound did the trick. check it out (it's in the vsound package). if not there's another package or two that also do a similar job (do an apt-cache search sound record ds

Fwd: Re: Fwd: Re: (OT) Worst night ever. WAS Adding a ide drive to an all scsi comp uter

2003-01-09 Thread Doug MacFarlane
-- Forwarded Message -- From: Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On 09 Jan 2003, 17:48:18, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Doug MacFarlane said: > > > He said Mountain Dew, but it sounds like beer to me (^: > >=20 > > I'm thinking Martini, regular Bombay, not Sapp

package corruption from /non-us.debian.org

2003-01-09 Thread Tom Allison
I see this from time to time and don't know what to do with it, so I'll just post the error messages: gzip: stdin: not in gzip format Err http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US/main Sources Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1) 99% [Waiting for file] [Waiting for file] [Waiting for file]

Re: Mail server and iptables/exim

2003-01-09 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 09:48:41PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, David P James said: > > >As you have noted, there are quite a few variables. Rule out iptables > > >and tcpwrappers first - from an address outside the LAN, telnet > > >your.host.ip 25 - if the connection

broken package: testing: libapache-request-perl

2003-01-09 Thread Tom Allison
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: libapache-request-perl: Depends: perlapi-5.6.1 Depends: libapache-mod-perl but it is not going to be installed Before I make this a bug-report, can someone suggest anything? I have perl 5.8.0 (unstable) Shou

Re: Mail server and iptables/exim

2003-01-09 Thread David P James
Stephen Gran was roused into action on 2003-01-09 21:48 and wrote: This one time, at band camp, David P James said: I sshed to my brother's Redhat server and did the telnet my.host.ip 25 thing back to my server; the connection timed out. I tried a few other ports (21, 80, 22, 110) and got a c

Re: Apache Configuration

2003-01-09 Thread Tom Allison
Tom Allison wrote: OK, I ran into another problem with configuration MASON for Apache I added: PerlModule HTML::Mason::ApacheHandler SetHandler perl-script PerlHandler HTML::Mason::ApacheHandler Right before the start of Section 3: I thought is was OK, but now the configtest dies with:

Re: any experience with IBM Thinkpad A31, model 2652M5U ?

2003-01-09 Thread Alan Shutko
Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That's depressing. My A21 at least had an option at the time that I > bought it. Too bad IBM, a big Linux supporter, can't seem to sell any > notebooks with Linux on them. When I bought my A20p, they were only offering the lower-end model with Linux. T

Re: md driver?

2003-01-09 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 06:29:42PM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 > md: could not lock [dev 08:01], zero-size? Marking faulty. > > What is this? If I determine I don't need it how do I > remove it in the kernel? Multiple-disk device driver.

Re: Mail server and iptables/exim

2003-01-09 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, David P James said: > >As you have noted, there are quite a few variables. Rule out iptables > >and tcpwrappers first - from an address outside the LAN, telnet > >your.host.ip 25 - if the connection times out, it's probably iptables, > >if it's refused, it's either ipt

Apache Configuration

2003-01-09 Thread Tom Allison
OK, I ran into another problem with configuration MASON for Apache I added: PerlModule HTML::Mason::ApacheHandler SetHandler perl-script PerlHandler HTML::Mason::ApacheHandler Right before the start of Section 3: I thought is was OK, but now the configtest dies with: bash-2.05b$ sudo a

Mason, step one

2003-01-09 Thread Tom Allison
OK, I thought I would try Mason tonight. I loaded this into httpd.conf and restarted OK: - PerlModule HTML::Mason::ApacheHandler SetHandler perl-script PerlHandler HTML::Mason::ApacheHandler - I added: <% 2+2 %> Into an HTML page just like the docs suggested. I get "<% 2+2 %>" a

Re: dual-boot redhat/debian

2003-01-09 Thread Robert Storey
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003 07:42:15 -0500 Gregory Seidman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ignoring, for the moment, why I would do such a thing, I want to set > up a machine (laptop) to dual-boot both Redhat 8.0 and Debian > (testing/unstable mix). I'd also like to share as much as possible > between them. I

Please help: Can't install: dpkg fails

2003-01-09 Thread Lionell Pack
Whenever I try to install a package (or fix a partially installed package) using apt-get, dselect, or dpkg, dpkg fails during the unpack stage with the following error: dpkg-deb: wait for gzip -dc failed: No child processes dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/whatever.deb (--unpack): s

Re: HELP...linux installation

2003-01-09 Thread Kent West
Jason Berg wrote: I'm trying to get rid of windows on my laptop, but it's turning out to be more difficult than anticipated. I installed Debian Linux 3.0r1 and during the first boot, I got the error contained at the bottom of this message. It will boot up fine in single user mode, but not

Re: Mail server and iptables/exim

2003-01-09 Thread David P James
Stephen Gran was roused into action on 2003-01-09 18:23 and wrote: This one time, at band camp, David P James said: I've been trying to setup my Debian Woody network server as a mail server as well. At present I can send email to an account on that server from *within* the lan using the serve

Re: md driver?

2003-01-09 Thread Seneca
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 06:29:42PM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > During boot I keep getting: > > md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 > md: could not lock [dev 08:01], zero-size? Marking faulty. > > > What is this? If I determine I don't need it how do I > remove it in the ker

Re: sftp access from ISP to home machine

2003-01-09 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"stanb" == stanb writes: stanb> I've got ssh working on my home machine, and I've added stanb> sftp as a subsystem. Now when I try to run sfto from my stanb> ISP shell account I get prompted for a stanb> password. Unfortunately, I don't get prompted for a stanb> username

Re: Mail server and iptables/exim

2003-01-09 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"David" == David P James writes: David> At present I can send email to an account on that server David> from *within* the lan using the server's internet domain David> name (davidium.dyndns.org) in the email address, but not David> from outside (the connection times out, acco

Re: libqt-mt-dev ( was l )

2003-01-09 Thread Nick Hastings
* suresh kumar sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030110 10:18]: > hi, > I have a debian unstable on my sony vaio laptop . > I have acpi support in my kernel verion 2.4.20 . > I was trying to install Kacpi from source but > when I do ./configure I keep getting error > this error . > "checking for Qt... co

Converting audio CDs to audio files

2003-01-09 Thread Trey Sizemore
I remember reading somewhere that Konqueror can convert audio CDs to audio files by entering 'audiocd:/' on the url window. I have tried this, but cannot get it to find my audio CD in my CD drive. I have SCSI emulation set up and here is my /etc/fstab file. I have a CD drive and a CDRW drive ins

Re: Komodo Monitor

2003-01-09 Thread Nick Hastings
* Richard Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030110 10:01]: > I have the woody linux, Geforce video-card a Komodo 16" monitor 1280x1024 > @60HZ and error NO SCREEN Found. What should I do to get X to work. Read the log file to find out where it borked. less /var/log/XFree86.0.log BTW, how did you confi

error: Qt (>= Qt 3.0.3)

2003-01-09 Thread suresh kumar sharma
hi, I have a debian unstable on my sony vaio laptop . I have acpi support in my kernel verion 2.4.20 . I was trying to install Kacpi from source but when I do ./configure I keep getting error this error . "checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 3.0.3) (library qt-mt) not found. Please check

RE: Komodo Monitor

2003-01-09 Thread dbalder
>I have the woody linux, Geforce video-card a Komodo 16" monitor 1280x1024 >@60HZ and error NO SCREEN Found. What should I do to get X to work. The problem is not in monitor. You should download the drivers. You should download nVidia (proprietary) drivers from their website and follow the instr

sftp access from ISP to home machine

2003-01-09 Thread stan
I've got ssh working on my home machine, and I've added sftp as a subsystem. Now when I try to run sfto from my ISP shell account I get prompted for a password. Unfortunately, I don't get prompted for a username. And since my user name on my home machine differs from that on the ISP's shell machi

Re: PAM messages

2003-01-09 Thread Alaa The Great
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003 18:30:55 -0600 Lance Hoffmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I keep getting messages like: > PAM_unix[982]: (cron) session closed for user lance > on my console. run the system logger daemon, # syslogd or # /etc/init.d/sysklogd start make a symlink to it in your rc dir to

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2003-01-09 Thread suresh kumar sharma
hi, I have a debian unstable on my sony vaio laptop . I have acpi support in my kernel verion 2.4.20 . I was trying to install Kacpi from source but when I do ./configure I keep getting error this error . "checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 3.0.3) (library qt-mt) not found. Please check

Re: any experience with IBM Thinkpad A31, model 2652M5U ?

2003-01-09 Thread Tom Allison
Walter Tautz wrote: Specifically, Thinpad A31 Model # 2652M5U$3689.99 P4 1.8Ghz/256MBDDR/40GB/CDRW/DVD/15"/56KV.92/10/100ENET/WiFi/Windows XP Professional 256MB PC2100 CL2.5 NP DDR SDRAM SODIMM$164.00 Model #10K0030 IBM does not seem to allow an option to buy laptops with linux as an o

Komodo Monitor

2003-01-09 Thread Richard Powell
I have the woody linux, Geforce video-card a Komodo 16" monitor 1280x1024 @60HZ and error NO SCREEN Found. What should I do to get X to work. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Two IP, one NIC

2003-01-09 Thread ignacio
Nils-Erik Svangård wrote: Hi! I have two Ip and one NIC. I'm trying to configure so that some applications reports that its coming from my other Ip, but the rest should come from the first Ip. How do I do this? I have looked throug IP-Alias and Networking howto but I cant figure it out. Any idea

Re: XEmacs and Gnome Terminal copy/paste

2003-01-09 Thread Glyn Millington
"Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Whenever I have weird problems with Emacsen I always start by > renaming/moving my ~/.emacs (or ~/.xemacs) to some scratch name and > try whatever it is without an Emacsen init file. Does that show you > anything? In other words, make sure you're not pu

Re: grubing my debian box

2003-01-09 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 08:35:22PM +, Hugh Saunders wrote: > On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 12:46:57PM -0500, Hubert Chan wrote: > > > "Hugh" == Hugh Saunders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > [...] > > > > Hugh> 4. wrote /boot/grub/menu.1st > > ... > > > > Grub expects that to be menu.lst, n

Re: HD access

2003-01-09 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 05:52:37PM +, eb wrote: > * Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 12:23:42AM +0100, mess-mate wrote: > > > Happy new year.. and > > > I can't access my HD, 60GB, jumpers set to master. > > > On the bios he's recognized as only +/- 8.5

PAM messages

2003-01-09 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
I keep getting messages like: PAM_unix[982]: (cron) session closed for user lance on my console. How do I stop this? lance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: HD access

2003-01-09 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 12:10:28AM +0100, mess-mate wrote: > You'r lucky :-) > I've only '01 01 01 01' after 'DMI pool DATA...' This sounds like a LILO error. > The BIOS recognize the nbrs of cylinders but not the size. > I changed the jumpers to 15 heads and had no more success. > I forgot,

md driver?

2003-01-09 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
During boot I keep getting: md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 md: could not lock [dev 08:01], zero-size? Marking faulty. What is this? If I determine I don't need it how do I remove it in the kernel? Lance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: Recommendation for dual head video card

2003-01-09 Thread David Z Maze
Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Any suggestions? 3D support, too? If you already have a reasonable video card, you might find it just as easy to get a second (PCI) video card. XFree86 supports this configuration very well these days, and it's how my dual-head machine at home is set u

Re: Two IP, one NIC

2003-01-09 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 06:26:10PM -0300, ignacio wrote: > Nils-Erik Svangård wrote: > > >Hi! > > > >I have two Ip and one NIC. > >I'm trying to configure so that some applications reports that its > >coming from my other Ip, but the rest should come from the first Ip. > >How do I do this? > >I ha

Re: grubing my debian box

2003-01-09 Thread David Z Maze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hugh Saunders) writes: > My only query is that when specifying the root file system i have to > specify using the /dev/hd* notation rather than the devfs way. > is there anyway i can direct the kernel to a root filesystem > using devfs? It seems like the kernel "find the root p

Postfix bounce

2003-01-09 Thread Curtis Vaughan
Is it possible to turn off bounce under postfix? Or, at least, configure bounce so that it doesn't attach any attachments to the original letter? -- Curtis Vaughan North Pacific Corporation Tel: (425) 822-1001 Cell: (206) 423-6979 WashTech (CWA Local 37083) IWW x353203 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: Startup Messages

2003-01-09 Thread mess-mate
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003 15:42:58 -0500 "Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On 09/01/03 Daniel L. Miller did speaketh: | | > How can I log all the messages generated during boot? The stuff that | > talks about the peripherals detected, driver loading, etc. | | man dmesg | | Mik

Re: Fwd: Re: (OT) Worst night ever. WAS Adding a ide drive to an all scsi comp uter

2003-01-09 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Doug MacFarlane said: > > He said Mountain Dew, but it sounds like beer to me (^: > > I'm thinking Martini, regular Bombay, not Sapphire, and poured, not shaken > . . . > > at least that was the culprit that nabbed me last time . . . > > madmac If it had been Sapp

Printing problem

2003-01-09 Thread Aravind Vinnakota
Hi all, I am running debian 3.0 on Sun ultra 5's. CUPS software has been installed long back and we were able to print for a while. But of late I am getting the error [test (plain): 1 page on 1 sheet] lpr: error - no default destination available. a2ps: received signal 13: Broken pipe when I tr

Re: autofs w/ floppy

2003-01-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 02:30:25PM -0800, David N. Welton wrote: > Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > - its a bad idea to automount fd pop your mounted floppy and > > watch things go bonkers > > Well that's a poor design. If windows and mac can do it, we should be > able to as well:-/

Re: Problems with apt-get source

2003-01-09 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Kenneth Stephen said: > Hi, > > Here is what I get when using apt-get source : > > ebiz:/etc/apt# man apt-get > Reformatting apt-get(8), please wait... > ebiz:/etc/apt# apt-get source krb5-telnetd --download-only > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Depend

Re: Recommendation for dual head video card

2003-01-09 Thread Bill Moseley
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, David Z Maze wrote: > :0.0 is an NVidia GeForce2 card, and using the NVidia magic drivers, I > get fairly nice OpenGL performance. :0.1 is a cheap card (an S3 > Trio3D, I think); I have a Nvidia GeForce2 TI. It was a debate when I bought that card because of no open source d

Re: Variuos NICs

2003-01-09 Thread Donald Spoon
Matthias Krauss wrote: Hi ! i'd like to gt rid of my suse box and migrade to debian, i've a 3com a realtec and a winbound which doesnt wanna load on debian (woddy 2418) except the 3com. lspci reports on suse+debain: 00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX [Fast Etherlink] (rev 74)

RE: autofs w/ floppy

2003-01-09 Thread Charlie Reiman
> -Original Message- > From: David N. Welton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 2:30 PM > To: Alvin Oga > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: autofs w/ floppy > > > Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > - its a bad idea to automount fd pop your mounte

Re: Mail server and iptables/exim

2003-01-09 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, David P James said: > I've been trying to setup my Debian Woody network server as a mail > server as well. > > At present I can send email to an account on that server from *within* > the lan using the server's internet domain name (davidium.dyndns.org) in > the ema

Problems with apt-get source

2003-01-09 Thread Kenneth Stephen
Hi, Here is what I get when using apt-get source : ebiz:/etc/apt# man apt-get Reformatting apt-get(8), please wait... ebiz:/etc/apt# apt-get source krb5-telnetd --download-only Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: Could not open file /var/lib/apt/lists/http.u

Re: Order of identifying filesystems for "auto"

2003-01-09 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 15:48, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Mark L. Kahnt said: > > I haven't touched this the past couple of kernels, so it may have > > changed, but another thread reminded me of this problem. I deal with > > diskettees at times from a variety of operating syst

Re: HD access

2003-01-09 Thread mess-mate
You'r lucky :-) I've only '01 01 01 01' after 'DMI pool DATA...' The BIOS recognize the nbrs of cylinders but not the size. I changed the jumpers to 15 heads and had no more success. I forgot, the HD is only a few mounths old (not an old one). I remember a similar message 6-10 months ago from

Two IP, one NIC

2003-01-09 Thread Nils-Erik Svangård
Hi! I have two Ip and one NIC. I'm trying to configure so that some applications reports that its coming from my other Ip, but the rest should come from the first Ip. How do I do this? I have looked throug IP-Alias and Networking howto but I cant figure it out. Any ideas? /nisse -- <+-- -

Re: lightweight window manager - any sugegstions?

2003-01-09 Thread Peter Hicks
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 11:12:48AM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: >hello all > >i am doing most of my work in console and was looking for a small and >fast window manager for some occasional work there. > >aesthetics, bells and whistles do not matter much. speed and overheads >matter a lot. > >i h

Re: dual-boot redhat/debian

2003-01-09 Thread Michael Heironimus
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 07:42:15AM -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote: > Is there anything else I can or should share? The goal is to wean my boss > from the Redhat teat, so I want the user experience to be as similar as > possible between the two (bluecurve notwithstanding). Depending on how much non-

Re: lightweight window manager - any sugegstions?

2003-01-09 Thread Magnus Therning
Try out ratpoison, it's light, and very spartan :-) /M On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 11:12:48AM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > hello all > > i am doing most of my work in console and was looking for a small and > fast window manager for some occasional work there. > > aesthetics, bells and whistle

Re: Variuos NICs

2003-01-09 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 08:52:49PM +0100, Matthias Krauss wrote: > Hi ! > i'd like to gt rid of my suse box and migrade to debian, i've a 3com a > realtec and > a winbound which doesnt wanna load on debian (woddy 2418) except the 3com. > lspci reports on suse+debain: > 00:0a.0 Ethernet controller:

Re: Two IP, one NIC

2003-01-09 Thread nate
Nils-Erik Svangård said: > Hi! > > I have two Ip and one NIC. > I'm trying to configure so that some applications reports that its coming > from my other Ip, but the rest should come from the first Ip. How do I do > this? > I have looked throug IP-Alias and Networking howto but I cant figure it > o

Re: Recommendation for dual head video card

2003-01-09 Thread David Z Maze
Gregory Seidman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > David Z Maze sez: > } If you already have a reasonable video card, you might find it just as > } easy to get a second (PCI) video card. XFree86 supports this > } configuration very well these days, and it's how my dual-head machine > } at home is set

Re: autofs w/ floppy

2003-01-09 Thread David N. Welton
Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - its a bad idea to automount fd pop your mounted floppy and > watch things go bonkers Well that's a poor design. If windows and mac can do it, we should be able to as well:-/ Any other ideas on how to implement something so that a computer user who d

Fwd: Re: (OT) Worst night ever. WAS Adding a ide drive to an all scsi comp uter

2003-01-09 Thread Doug MacFarlane
-- Forwarded Message -- From: Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On 09 Jan 2003, 15:41:11, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Kirk Strauser said: > >=20 > > At 2003-01-09T08:58:45Z, Michael Kahle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >=20 > > > In a moment of "ah-ha" I caref

Re: Recommendation for dual head video card

2003-01-09 Thread Gregory Seidman
David Z Maze sez: } Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: } } > Any suggestions? 3D support, too? } } If you already have a reasonable video card, you might find it just as } easy to get a second (PCI) video card. XFree86 supports this } configuration very well these days, and it's how my du

Mail server and iptables/exim

2003-01-09 Thread David P James
I've been trying to setup my Debian Woody network server as a mail server as well. At present I can send email to an account on that server from *within* the lan using the server's internet domain name (davidium.dyndns.org) in the email address, but not from outside (the connection times out,

RE: Re: (OT) Worst night ever. WAS Adding a ide drive to an all scsi comp uter

2003-01-09 Thread Michael Kahle
> > > > In a moment of "ah-ha" I carefully removed two of the > pressed on > > > > connectors to the ribbon cables, and then just as carefully > > > > pressed them back on with the help of a vice and a micrometer. > > >=20 > > > Just for the record, may we know what brand of soda > inspired th

Re: lightweight window manager - any sugegstions?

2003-01-09 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Sandip" == Sandip P Deshmukh writes: Sandip> i have heard about ratpoison and [black | flux]box. any Sandip> feedback from actual users is welcome. i am currently Sandip> using windowmaker. Give xfce a try, it is one that no one has mentioned yet. It is not particularly small no

Re: 3c90x drive

2003-01-09 Thread nate
Ron Johnson said: > On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 13:50, nate wrote: >> Stephen Gran said: >> >> > It's a kernel module. Definitely in the later 2.2 series, don't >> rememebr if it's also in 2.4 >> >> I think it's only included with donald becker's drivers(not with the >> official kernel). I think he uses

Re: Need help for Toshiba Libretto 70 CT

2003-01-09 Thread Nico Meijer
Hi Kumar, > I have Toshiba Libretto 70 CT. I have booting problem. How do i go into > Setup mode ? I have a Satellite Pro 470CDT, which goes into setup mode when powering up with the Esc key pressed. I don't know about any Libretto stuff, but who knows? Good luck... Nico -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: XEmacs and Gnome Terminal copy/paste

2003-01-09 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Jorge Santos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It seems like I can't paste with the middle button to the Gnome > Terminal (2.x) text selected inside XEmacs, however pasting to other > programs work as does pasting the other way around. Anyone can > confirm this and/or suggest a solution? > > BTW, I

RE: Startup Messages

2003-01-09 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Thank you all for the dmesg tip. Following is a copy of my startup. Can anyone give me a tip on any potential problems or inefficiencies noted here - in particular the messages regarding my USB setup. Linux version 2.4.18-bf2.4 (root@zombie) (gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)) #1 S

Re: Order of identifying filesystems for "auto"

2003-01-09 Thread Seneca
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 02:12:20PM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > Is there a way, other than rewriting the code for mount, to have it look > that little bit more to see if the freshly found FAT volume is aactually > vfat, or have I been fortunate and that is already done and I should > just try it a

XEmacs and Gnome Terminal copy/paste

2003-01-09 Thread Jorge Santos
It seems like I can't paste with the middle button to the Gnome Terminal (2.x) text selected inside XEmacs, however pasting to other programs work as does pasting the other way around. Anyone can confirm this and/or suggest a solution? BTW, I'm using Gnome Terminal 2.1.0 and XEmacs 21.4 (patch 6

Re: Order of identifying filesystems for "auto"

2003-01-09 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Mark L. Kahnt said: > I haven't touched this the past couple of kernels, so it may have > changed, but another thread reminded me of this problem. I deal with > diskettees at times from a variety of operating systems, including > MacOS, OS/2, and vfat. As such, I'd thou

Re: (OT) Worst night ever. WAS Adding a ide drive to an all scsi comp uter

2003-01-09 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Kirk Strauser said: > > At 2003-01-09T08:58:45Z, Michael Kahle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > In a moment of "ah-ha" I carefully removed two of the pressed on > > connectors to the ribbon cables, and then just as carefully pressed them > > back on with the help of

Re: Startup Messages

2003-01-09 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 09/01/03 Daniel L. Miller did speaketh: > How can I log all the messages generated during boot? The stuff that > talks about the peripherals detected, driver loading, etc. man dmesg Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 "...the word HACK is used as

Re: XF86Config-4 and msttcorefonts

2003-01-09 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Bill Moseley said: > Can someone that likes their font setup, and has msttcorefonts and XFree86 > 4.2.1 post their "Files" section of XF86Config-4? > > I finally took some time tonight to look at my fonts. One of my problems > was that many applications were using the

Re: grubing my debian box

2003-01-09 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 12:46:57PM -0500, Hubert Chan wrote: > > "Hugh" == Hugh Saunders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > > Hugh> 4. wrote /boot/grub/menu.1st > ... > > Grub expects that to be menu.lst, not menu.1st (ell, not one). thanks! i renamed the file, rebooted, loaded the conf

Re: 3c90x drive

2003-01-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 11:51, user list wrote: > We have recently had similar behavior. However, we found that even > though the we received installation failed messages, it actually worked. > During the device driver configuration step, are you also installoing > pci-scan? When I did this on a rece

Re: 3c90x drive

2003-01-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 13:50, nate wrote: > Stephen Gran said: > > > It's a kernel module. Definitely in the later 2.2 series, don't rememebr > > if it's also in 2.4 > > I think it's only included with donald becker's drivers(not with the official > kernel). I think he uses it to improve code port

Re: Nagio for Debian?

2003-01-09 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
It is in Woody under its previous name, netsaint. HTH, Jeffrey Quoting stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Saw an interesting tool on Slashdot today. It's called nagio. So I fired up > dselect to grab it to check it out. > > But it did not seem to be in my choices. > > Did I miss somethign? > > -

Re: syslog

2003-01-09 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Okay. That is what's going on. Guess I will have to depend on the firewall protecting syslog or move to a more secure variant. Thanks, Jeffrey Quoting nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Jeffrey L. Taylor said: > > I don't want syslogd listening on the LAN. According to the man > > pages, it should

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