Re: ksh download problem ??

2003-03-11 Thread Michael D. Schleif
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Also sprach Vivek Kumar (Tue 11 Mar 02003 at 11:26:50AM -0500): Hi Vineet, I am new to Debian/Linux world. We have few Debian boxes and a redhat box with redhat 8.0. All the scripting on debian boxes are done in ksh and perl. I want to install

Re: Problem with Mozilla

2003-03-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 11:34, Nicos Gollan wrote: Hi all... I've got a little problem with Mozilla. When I try to load certain URLs, X crashes with a segfault. I cannot remember having this problem with a self-built X installation, it came along with the 4.2.1 .deb's. It happens with

Re: DVD Recording

2003-03-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 11:30, Joao Paulo wrote: In cds i use mkisofs and cdrecord. In dvds i use ? and dvdrecord. Here's how I do it with a firewire DVD-RW drive: make sure that these modules are loaded: ieee1394 sbp2 raw1394 ohci1394 And this is compiled in the kernel: udf support

Re: image viewer that refreshes?

2003-03-11 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (on Tuesday, 11 March 2003, 12:09 PM -0600): On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 09:24, Gregory Seidman wrote: Benjamin Rutt sez: } I have a .jpg image that keeps changing (from a webcam). Is there an } image viewer in debian's packages that will display the image

Re: zsh auto completion

2003-03-11 Thread Jason Lunz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: with my ZSH 4.0.6 shell, one apparently can do sophisticated autocompletion. i look into /usr/share/zsh/4.0.6/functions/Completion and am impressed. however, nothing works. how do i enable these completions? run compinstall. Jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

entrance exam [was wt?(long and fustrated)]

2003-03-11 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 10:48:30AM -0700, Glenn English wrote: I've got to agree with David Krider's complaints about the Debian install process. This isn't rocket science; it's just a hardware prober. If the 'lesser' distros can install in one try (and without rebooting several times), surely

Re: Bad Debian (L.A.H.)

2003-03-11 Thread Svenn Are Bjerkem
On Sunday 09 March 2003 18:10, J. Lambrecht wrote: Sigh, and now i now why Debian's not for kids By reading a book? Then I recomend a couple of books by Alex Comfort. Should give you a real jump start to life. Don't believe anything you read and only half of what you see. -- Svenn -- To

Re: zsh auto completion

2003-03-11 Thread Vineet Kumar
* martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20030311 11:08 PST]: with my ZSH 4.0.6 shell, one apparently can do sophisticated autocompletion. i look into /usr/share/zsh/4.0.6/functions/Completion and am impressed. however, nothing works. how do i enable these completions? For a druid-style

Re: debian spammed

2003-03-11 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-03-11T18:14:38Z, Carla Schroder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Oh frabjous day, my debian-users list address is getting spammed. What a lovely world we live in. $100 cash reward for the inventor of an infallible spammer brain burner. $500 if I get to pull the switch Noting that you said

RE: Logging/ Logrotate Problem

2003-03-11 Thread Stefan Drees
Thanks for your help. I will try to reduce named logging. Now i have disabled logging for iptables, auth, debug, user, mail.info and mail.err and mail.warn in /etc/syslog.conf, so the logfiles aren´t growing so fast. I have viewed them before and hope it is ok to disable, i will see. Stefan Drees

Re: Apache Not Serving Up Documents

2003-03-11 Thread Joseph A Nagy Jr
Nicolas Kratz wrote: snip OK, I'm saving what comes to mind first for the next time. Either jan-jr-ent is not the web server, or you have no Apache running on port 80. Try again. Got both Apache AND my network up and running. Now Apache serves up the site just fine. It appears ipchains (which I

Postfix: Moving users

2003-03-11 Thread Curtis Vaughan
Since the postfix user list has been having some problems, maybe someone here knows the answer to my question: Can anyone tell me how difficult (or simple) it will be to move user mailboxes from one Postfix server set up with cyrus to another Postfix server using courier-imap. Also, whereas on

Re: Iptables is driving me nuts (beginner)

2003-03-11 Thread Graeme Tank
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 07:49:16AM +0100, n/a wrote: Hello there, For the past couple of days i've been looking into setting up an old pc as a firewall/router for a couple of students. To do so i enabled iptables and started looking into configuration issues. Eventually i came up with a

Re: DVD drive faulty, will any one do ?

2003-03-11 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Dave Selby [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003.03.11.1548 +0100]: I am looking to replace it. Will any bog standard IDE DVD drive do ? most likely, yes. the standard is ATAPI. -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' :

woody base system

2003-03-11 Thread Hugh Saunders
IIRC potato had a base system which was a tar, so if you wanted to setup a new root [ie for nfs mount by a diskless workstation] then you could expand that archive and you would have a basic system. I think it was about 15MB [excuse the subjectiveness!] anyway, i was looking on the woody cd:

Re: debian spammed

2003-03-11 Thread Svenn Are Bjerkem
On Tuesday 11 March 2003 19:14, Carla Schroder wrote: $100 cash reward for the inventor of an infallible spammer brain burner. $500 if I get to pull the switch Quick money that fast This must be spam. -- Svenn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: Getting Ogle to work

2003-03-11 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Jack Pistachio [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003.03.11.1909 +0100]: I get the same error he mentioned previously and have also excecuted the script install-css.sh can you please send me the install-css.sh script? privately, not to the list? -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I

Re: Software RAID and drive failures

2003-03-11 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-03-11T18:41:12Z, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why wouldn't you get parallel reads, especially if you do async IO? I guess a better example would be when two files are accessed, and each has blocks that physically reside on the same two drives. Imagine that both files are

Re: DVD drive faulty, will any one do ?

2003-03-11 Thread Jérôme Blanc
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As far as I know, there are no problem with any DVD drive. But well, I don't know very far though ;) All I can testify is that so far, both the IDE DVD drives my computer had have been recognised perfectly by my system and are/were working fine.

Re: wtf? (long and frustrated)

2003-03-11 Thread John Schmidt
On Tuesday 11 March 2003 10:48 am, Glenn English wrote: Many thanks to all of you for the compassion and the information. The little sucker is making pictures now - I learned a lot about X in the past couple days. Next step is getting it to realize there's an Ethernet connector in it's

Re: identifying [DR]SA key used for ssh key-based login

2003-03-11 Thread Vineet Kumar
* martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20030311 11:45 PST]: also sprach Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003.03.11.1227 +0100]: right, but then i'd have to manage this file, which is everything but nice. Don't understand. It's easy. What are you actually trying to *do*? see my

Re: image viewer that refreshes?

2003-03-11 Thread Benjamin Rutt
Matthew Weier O'Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I haven't used this, but I have used a number of other applications that work like this. Basically, giving 'display' the option '-immutable' and throwing it into the background makes display sorta kinda act like a server of sorts -- commands

Re: Apache Not Serving Up Documents

2003-03-11 Thread Brian Clark
* Joseph A Nagy Jr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [Mar 11. 2003 09:44]: Nicolas Kratz wrote: On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 11:24:20PM -0600, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ telnet jan-jr-ent.homelinux.org 80 Trying 24.158.191.171... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused

galeon y mozilla

2003-03-11 Thread foros
Tengo un problema a raiz de instalar galeón. Mozilla ha dejado de funcionar y no arranca, se queda consumiendo recursos y no aparece (tengo que hacer kill 9 mozilla-bin). Galeon tampoco me funciona. Lo arranco y empiezan a arrancar infinitas sesiones. Tengo debian sid actualizado a la

Re: DVD Recording

2003-03-11 Thread Greg Madden
On Tuesday 11 March 2003 08:30 am, Joao Paulo wrote: In cds i use mkisofs and cdrecord. In dvds i use ? and dvdrecord. Tanks. Afaik, you can use mkisofs with dvdrecord. I don't make the iso images myself, I let jigdo do this, but you can use iso9660 to do dvd. -- Greg Madden -- To

Switching to unstable

2003-03-11 Thread Matthias Szupryczynski
Hi list, I am thinking to switch from stable to unstable these days. Is this advisable at the moment, or is the unstable branch suffering from mayor problems right now (libc broken etc.) Please cc to me as I am not on the list. Thanks Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

exim + spamprobe/bogofilter

2003-03-11 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On a woody system, using exim 3.35, I'm trying to install either spamprobe or bogofilter from source (as the packages don't exist in woody yet). The issue I have is that I can't seem to figure out how to correctly modify the exim configuration to have the spam program operate correctly. All of the

Re: entrance exam [was wt?(long and fustrated)]

2003-03-11 Thread Glenn English
On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 12:39, Hugh Saunders wrote: IMHO the installer is fine but i tend to just let it install the base system then i do the rest -installing and configuring with apt and vim :-) I'm sure (pretty sure) that would work fine - once you know what's going on. But to the Debian

Re: Ethernet problems: old 3c509b card is having overrun and errors

2003-03-11 Thread Calyth
Well I got a spare 3c509 that has not been used. I suppose I could try that card too. I got no spare cable, but if the spare card is also having problems, that would give me a good idea what's going on. Thanks all for the help! Calyth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: zsh auto completion

2003-03-11 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Vineet Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003.03.11.2051 +0100]: For a druid-style initialization, type 'compinstall'. yeah, i remember. that one scared me off the last time! autoload -U compinit compinit cool, that was wicked easy! had i known... compinstall totally scares me. i hate

Re: Getting Ogle to work

2003-03-11 Thread debian_newbie
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 19:45:22 +0100 martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] sat at his keyboard and wrote: also sprach debian_newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003.03.11.1729 +0100]: Well, I did do that. It was in the docs that came with the Ogle that I apt-getted off of the debian mirror. I did notice that

debian ISO for powerpc

2003-03-11 Thread Nori Heikkinen
hey all, i'm converting a friend to debian (cackle cackle) ... we've been looking around the sites that debian.org points to, but are confused -- which one should we download?: Name Size Kind Last Modified debian-30r1-powerpc-binary-1.iso 586,112K Document Thu, Feb 13, 2003, 9:00 PM

Re: Onboard rtl8139 works in 2.2 kernel but not in 2.4 kernel,please help

2003-03-11 Thread Tinus Kotzé
Hi I also have a rtl8139 card. It works perfectly well for me. I compiled kernel 2.4.18 from unstable(which i am running) with support for the rtl8139 card. Had no problems with getting the 8139too driver probed. Worked first time around. I am to a certain degree a newbee, but are you sure the

Re: Ethernet problems: old 3c509b card is having overrun and errors

2003-03-11 Thread Calyth
It seems that at least switching to the other card doesn't seem to lead to overruns and errors. I'll have to run some transfers to be sure. Thanks lots for the help! Is there others here who know about software channel bonding in Linux? It would be an interesting thing to do. Calyth -- To

Re: image viewer that refreshes?

2003-03-11 Thread Michael Wardle
On Wednesday, March 12, 2003 01:48, Benjamin Rutt wrote: I have a .jpg image that keeps changing (from a webcam). Is there an image viewer in debian's packages that will display the image and automatically refresh the image when it has changed? I think both gThumb and kuickshow use the file

Re: Postfix: Moving users

2003-03-11 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Curtis Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003.03.11.2117 +0100]: Can anyone tell me how difficult (or simple) it will be to move user mailboxes from one Postfix server set up with cyrus to another Postfix server using courier-imap. Also, whereas on the cyrus Postfix server the email are

Re: [possibly OT] change in behavior of terminal windows after upgrade to GNOME 2.2

2003-03-11 Thread Michael Wardle
On Wednesday, March 12, 2003 01:52, Ron Johnson wrote: Specifically, this regards window blanking in full screen curses apps (like man(1), less(1) vi(1), but not more(1)). When I was running GNOME 1.4 from sarge, the screen would not blank when I exited these type of apps; i.e., the last

Re: The case of the missing Helvetica

2003-03-11 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 11 Mar 2003 4:46 pm, daniel huhardeaux wrote: David Z Maze wrote: [...] I know little enough about how GNOME 2 font selection works to track down where this is going on. (The larger problem is that I get the same ugly font in Galeon.)

Re: Onboard rtl8139 works in 2.2 kernel but not in 2.4 kernel, pleasehelp

2003-03-11 Thread Donald Spoon
Jonathan Matthews wrote: On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 11:07:10AM -0500, Fraser Campbell wrote: Hi, [snip rtl8139 problems] No idea if this is feasible here, but my favourite way of solving 8139 problems is to put a decent nic in the box (Intel EtherExpress, Tulip, LinkSys - maybe, etc.) and ignore

default gateway

2003-03-11 Thread Pavlos Parissis
Hello all, I am looking for the file that I have to modify in order to have static route enabled. I add the gateway manually with route add -net default gw 192.168.100.1 and I would like to find the config file. I am using woody 3.0.r1,any ideas? Pavlos -- ~~ I

Mounting SMB FS

2003-03-11 Thread Joseph A Nagy Jr
jan-jr-ent:~# smbclient -L //hal9001 added interface ip=192.168.1.11 bcast=192.168.1.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 Got a positive name query response from 192.168.1.10 ( 192.168.1.10 ) Password: Domain=[THE_MATRIX] OS=[Windows 5.1] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager] Sharename Type

Re: Switching to unstable

2003-03-11 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Matthias Szupryczynski wrote: Hi list, I am thinking to switch from stable to unstable these days. Is this advisable at the moment, or is the unstable branch suffering from mayor problems right now (libc broken etc.) Please cc to me as I am not on the list. Why do

Re: more on 1 liner perl/awk

2003-03-11 Thread Osamu Aoki
Colin, you are the king. On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 09:18:05PM +, Colin Watson wrote: On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 12:26:47PM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: Another guy replied with (All of this is untested.) Here is my test results. Well, you can clearly save some keystrokes by using a postfix

Re: identifying [DR]SA key used for ssh key-based login

2003-03-11 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Vineet Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003.03.11.2159 +0100]: Unless you're trying to use huge numbers of different keys, You could effect it without any modifications to sshd by just using an 'environment=' option in your authorized_keys file. Yes, you would have to insert the

Re: entrance exam [was wt?(long and fustrated)]

2003-03-11 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 02:44:26PM -0700, Glenn English wrote: The main reason I'm beating my head against this wall is because Debian *doesn't* do things like replace LILO with GRUB. Things take a while; possibly because there's nobody available to do them, but I'd like to think it's more

PPP failling to connect to ISP

2003-03-11 Thread Aedificator
After successfully turning a Winmodem into a Linmodem I am not able to setup a dial-up connection to my ISP. Is module tty-ldisc-3 part of the kernel? Where can I find Debian specific help regarding ppp? Thanks in advance. Zee The syslog says: Mar 6 23:53:16 diablo chat[874]: send

Re: woody base system

2003-03-11 Thread Birzan George Cristian
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 08:22:11PM +, Hugh Saunders wrote: so then, how do i install a minimal system to a dir for a diskless terminal to use? http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-preparing.en.html#s-linux-upgrade That part of the isntall guide should be exactly what you need,

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Motherboard Madness

2003-03-11 Thread Bill Moseley
Proably the wrong forum, but trying to build a new Debian imap server. After spending a few hours the last few days researching motherboards I went to the local stop to pick up an Asus P4B-533-E (which they said they had on the phone). Of course, they were out and said it was no longer

Re: default gateway

2003-03-11 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Pavlos Parissis wrote: Hello all, I am looking for the file that I have to modify in order to have static route enabled. I add the gateway manually with route add -net default gw 192.168.100.1 and I would like to find the config file. I am using woody 3.0.r1,any ideas?

Re: zsh auto completion

2003-03-11 Thread Vineet Kumar
* martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20030311 15:04 PST]: also sprach Vineet Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003.03.11.2051 +0100]: For a druid-style initialization, type 'compinstall'. yeah, i remember. that one scared me off the last time! autoload -U compinit compinit cool

Re: C, math.h and globals

2003-03-11 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 16:05:50 +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: I assume those functions are only available within *nix, since my partner who uses Borland doesn't have this problem. There are available on RISC OS too. Well, on any system where the same mathematical library can be used. -- Vincent

Re: default gateway

2003-03-11 Thread Birzan George Cristian
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 12:28:51AM +0200, Pavlos Parissis wrote: Hello all, I am looking for the file that I have to modify in order to have static route enabled. It's /etc/network/interfaces, man 5 interfaces. Somethnig that isn't stated in the docs, put your default option under the

Re: debian ISO for powerpc

2003-03-11 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Tue, 11 Mar 2003 04:59:01PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen insinuated: -- which one should we download?: figured it out already; thanks. /nori -- .~. nori @ sccs.swarthmore.edu /V\ http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/~nori/jnl/ // \\ @ maenad.net /( )\ www.maenad.net

Re: Problem with Mozilla

2003-03-11 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Tuesday 11 March 2003 20:14, Ron Johnson wrote: I do, however, see mozilla crash occasionally. I think it has to do with the version of Java I run (Sun 1.3.1). That's definitely not the problem I'm encountering ;-) It's not Mozilla that's crashing, it's X. Weird stuff, I just get thrown

Re: Mounting SMB FS

2003-03-11 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
Does your kernel understand the Samba filesystem. You might see if insmod smbfs does anything or making sure it's compiled into your kernel. On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 16:49, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: jan-jr-ent:~# smbclient -L //hal9001 added interface ip=192.168.1.11 bcast=192.168.1.255

Re: default gateway

2003-03-11 Thread Seneca
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 12:28:51AM +0200, Pavlos Parissis wrote: I am looking for the file that I have to modify in order to have static route enabled. I add the gateway manually with route add -net default gw 192.168.100.1 and I would like to find the config file. I am using woody

Re: debian ISO for powerpc

2003-03-11 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Nori Heikkinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003.03.11.2259 +0100]: i'm converting a friend to debian (cackle cackle) ... we've been looking around the sites that debian.org points to, but are confused -- which one should we download?: just the first one. you are likely not going to need

Re: newbie mutt questions

2003-03-11 Thread ktb
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 02:56:15PM -0500, Chris Hoover wrote: Sorry for this newbie type of questions, but how do you move mail messages to another folder when in mutt? If you want to move one message at a time you can use s for save. If I move a whole folder I generally just cp folder

Re: debian on laptop w/ limited ram/speed/HD

2003-03-11 Thread Matt Price
Sorry for the long delay -- just wanted to say THANK YOU to everyone who responded, you were all very helpful. I'm looking forward to this project -- and I'll see if I can hunt down some extra ram for this machine! thanks, matt On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 10:21:28AM -0500, Narins, Josh wrote:

Re: Mounting SMB FS

2003-03-11 Thread Jeremy Cheng
Try leaving out the fs in mount -t smbfs. So it would be mount -t smb //server/resource /mountPoint. The problem with that is you have to make sure that your kernel is configured to support smbfs. If you don't find any sucess in what I just said, you can install the debian package smbfs and it

Re: Mounting SMB FS

2003-03-11 Thread Jeremy Cheng
Sorry, I left out the -o in the previous message. Jeremy Joseph A Nagy Jr said: jan-jr-ent:~# smbclient -L //hal9001 added interface ip=192.168.1.11 bcast=192.168.1.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 Got a positive name query response from 192.168.1.10 ( 192.168.1.10 ) Password: Domain=[THE_MATRIX]

Re: newbie mutt questions

2003-03-11 Thread Matt Price
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 02:56:15PM -0500, Chris Hoover wrote: Sorry for this newbie type of questions, but how do you move mail messages to another folder when in mutt? s it';ll prompt you for a folder name. look in the mutt manual (the whole hting, in /usr/share/doc/mutt, not man mutt,

Re: default gateway

2003-03-11 Thread Richard Hector
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 12:28:51AM +0200, Pavlos Parissis wrote: Hello all, I am looking for the file that I have to modify in order to have static route enabled. I add the gateway manually with route add -net default gw 192.168.100.1 and I would like to find the config file. I am using

testing migration

2003-03-11 Thread Jim McCloskey
I expected to see all sorts of messages here about difficulties with testing after the migration of glibc 2.3.1-14. Hardly anything, though. I've been holding back from the upgrade till things settle down. Are there any brave souls who went ahead and upgraded and have the time to do a quick

Re: Partition Magic-like S/W for Knoppix/Debian

2003-03-11 Thread Abdul Latip
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, D. wrote: Use Mandrake GNU/Linux installation CD :-) Mandrake Linux release 9.0 (dolphin) for i586 Well, unfortunately, I am trying to sell Debian through Knoppix; not Mandrake :^). I believe that he was giving you another option that would partition your disk using

Re: woody base system

2003-03-11 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 01:02:53AM +0200, Birzan George Cristian wrote: On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 08:22:11PM +, Hugh Saunders wrote: so then, how do i install a minimal system to a dir for a diskless terminal to use?

Re: newbie mutt questions

2003-03-11 Thread Martin Kacerovsky
Hi, On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 02:56:15PM -0500, Chris Hoover wrote: Sorry for this newbie type of questions, but how do you move mail messages to another folder when in mutt? Press 's' as save (press '?' to see all key bindings) Bye. -- +--+ | Martin Kacerovsky

Re: [possibly OT] change in behavior of terminal windows afterupgrade to GNOME 2.2

2003-03-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 16:11, Michael Wardle wrote: On Wednesday, March 12, 2003 01:52, Ron Johnson wrote: Specifically, this regards window blanking in full screen curses apps (like man(1), less(1) vi(1), but not more(1)). When I was running GNOME 1.4 from sarge, the screen would not

Re: newbie mutt questions

2003-03-11 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 02:56:15PM -0500, Chris Hoover wrote: Sorry for this newbie type of questions, but how do you move mail messages to another folder when in mutt? 's' in mutt index, then specify the target mbox/maildir prob more usefull to do shiftt ~O ;s this does: 1. prompt for tag

Re: default gateway

2003-03-11 Thread David Z Maze
Pavlos Parissis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am looking for the file that I have to modify in order to have static route enabled. I add the gateway manually with route add -net default gw 192.168.100.1 and I would like to find the config file. You're almost certainly looking for

Re: newbie mutt questions

2003-03-11 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 02:56:15PM -0500, Chris Hoover wrote: Sorry for this newbie type of questions, but how do you move mail messages to another folder when in mutt? Individual messages can be moved by pressing 'C' (upper case). Mass moving can be done by tagging (use 't') and then

Re: Mounting SMB FS

2003-03-11 Thread Martin Kacerovsky
Hi, On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 04:49:46PM -0600, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: jan-jr-ent:~# smbclient -L //hal9001 [..] jan-jr-ent:~# mount -t smbfs -o username=someuser,pass=somepass //hal9001/C /mnt/windows/ mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on //hal9001/C, or too

Re: debian ISO for powerpc

2003-03-11 Thread Sebastiaan
High, On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Nori Heikkinen wrote: hey all, i'm converting a friend to debian (cackle cackle) ... we've been looking around the sites that debian.org points to, but are confused -- which one should we download?: Name Size Kind Last Modified

Re: more on 1 liner perl/awk

2003-03-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 09:18:05PM +, Colin Watson wrote: Then there are the usual tricks of eliminating whitespace and so on. In fact, all the whitespace in the arguments to perl in the line above can be removed if you feel so inclined: perl -lane'print$F[2]if$F[1]eq1957' mat.txt

Re: testing migration

2003-03-11 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 04:49:19PM -0800, Jim McCloskey wrote: | | I expected to see all sorts of messages here about difficulties with | testing after the migration of glibc 2.3.1-14. | | Hardly anything, though. | | I've been holding back from the upgrade till things settle down. | | Are

Re: X and mouse problem

2003-03-11 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 05:45:43PM +0530, Bhushan Kulkarni wrote: +++ Bhushan Kulkarni [10/03/03 10:21 +0530]: | Hi , | I am using Debian Woody3.0 r1 . | My problem is when gpm service is on i face problems using mouse . Mouse gets | hang for few seconds and retains again after, mouse

3.0-r1 ipchains problem (kernel 2.2.20)

2003-03-11 Thread Franco Galian
Hi, I'm having trouble with a kernel update. First of all, I'd installed a Debian 3.0-r1. Everything worked fine, except for ipchains. When I tried to run ipchains -L, the following message appeared: ipchains: Incompatible with this kernel. After doing some research, I decided to upgrade the

Re: Motherboard Madness

2003-03-11 Thread Mike Dresser
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Bill Moseley wrote: Proably the wrong forum, but trying to build a new Debian imap server. After spending a few hours the last few days researching motherboards I went to the local stop to pick up an Asus P4B-533-E (which they said they had on the phone). Of course,

Re: Motherboard Madness

2003-03-11 Thread nate
Bill Moseley said: Not being a hardware buff, can any one help with what boards or chipsets? I'm a supermicro fan for servers - http://www.supermicro.com/Product_page/product-m1.htm I personally have never run a P4 system though. As for the 850 problems not sure, but I do notice theres only 1

Re: 3.0-r1 ipchains problem (kernel 2.2.20)

2003-03-11 Thread Nicolas Kratz
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 11:25:39PM -0300, Franco Galian wrote: It says something about unable to mount root What filesystem do you have? If you are using reiserfs or something else which is not included in the stock kernels, that would precisely explain your problem. Solution: Obtain and

mozilla sans gnome = crash

2003-03-11 Thread dzpost
When I'm running a plain X session (without Gnome), both Mozilla and Galeon crash at the drop of a hat. So much that they're virtually unusable. But when I run a Gnome session, everything is very stable. I'm using FVWM for both the X session and the Gnome session, but I've also tried other

Re: DVD drive faulty, will any one do ?

2003-03-11 Thread dave selby
On Tuesday 11 March 2003 18:53, Jérôme Blanc wrote: As far as I know, there are no problem with any DVD drive. But well, I don't know very far though ;) All I can testify is that so far, both the IDE DVD drives my computer had have been recognised perfectly by my system and are/were working

Re: gimp gimp print

2003-03-11 Thread dave selby
On Tuesday 11 March 2003 16:52, Donald Spoon wrote: Dave Selby wrote: I have installed gimp print CUPS to use my epson stylus C60 printer. They work fine and I can print at different resolutions colours. I have now started using gimp quite heavily. When I print from gimp my epson is

Re: gimp gimp print

2003-03-11 Thread dave selby
On Tuesday 11 March 2003 17:17, Greg Madden wrote: On Tuesday 11 March 2003 05:44 am, Dave Selby wrote: I have installed gimp print CUPS to use my epson stylus C60 printer. They work fine and I can print at different resolutions colours. I have now started using gimp quite heavily. When

Re: PPP failling to connect to ISP

2003-03-11 Thread Jack Pistachio
Make sure you have at least the following modules installed: ppp_generic ppp_async ppp_deflate (zlib_inflate and deflate are good too) bsd_comp -jackp --- Aedificator [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After successfully turning a Winmodem into a Linmodem I am not able to setup a dial-up connection to

nvidia geforce4... help...

2003-03-11 Thread Jeremy Cheng
I have successfully built the nvidia drivers and Gnome is looking great. However, when I logout of X and return to console, my monitor displays a box that says Monitor is working, out of scan range, change PC settings It also happens when I do ctrl-alt-F* into any other terminals from X. Does

Why people use `find ... |env -i xargs rm -f' instead of `find ...|xargs rm -f'?

2003-03-11 Thread Dai Yuwen
Hi, Dear all I often find this line in shell scripts: find ... |env -i xargs rm -f Why people want to clean the environment variables before rm files? Has this line find ...| xargs rm -f any harm? Thanks in advance. Best regards, dai Yuwen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [off topic] Learning Shell from an old UNIX book

2003-03-11 Thread Shyamal Prasad
Aryan == Aryan Ameri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Aryan I want to learn shell programming. Thus I went to my Aryan university's library and found a book named UNIX Shell Aryan Programming. The problem is, the book is written on 1988, Aryan and covers shell programming on Korn,

Setting Static IP Address

2003-03-11 Thread CM Miller
Very new to Debian and installed Woody last weekend. FOr some reason, it didn't recognize by pci 3com nics, but after a little help on this list I got them. Now, how do I set a static ip address? thanks -Chris = Winning an argument on the internet is like getting 1st place at the

Re: [possibly OT] change in behavior of terminal windows after upgrade to GNOME 2.2

2003-03-11 Thread Michael Wardle
On Wednesday, March 12, 2003 12:14, Ron Johnson wrote: On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 16:11, Michael Wardle wrote: On Wednesday, March 12, 2003 01:52, Ron Johnson wrote: Specifically, this regards window blanking in full screen curses apps (like man(1), less(1) vi(1), but not more(1)). When

Re: nvidia geforce4... help...

2003-03-11 Thread Michael Wardle
On Wednesday, March 12, 2003 14:35, Jeremy Cheng wrote: I have successfully built the nvidia drivers and Gnome is looking great. However, when I logout of X and return to console, my monitor displays a box that says Monitor is working, out of scan range, change PC settings It also happens when

Re: libc6: did it move from unstable to testing?

2003-03-11 Thread Walt Mankowski
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 09:48:06PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 07:30:11AM -0500, Kevin Coyner wrote: Sorry for the detailed and probably somewhat obvious question, but I switched over to Debian last summer, and am loving it. But this is the first time I've encountered

Re: Why people use `find ... |env -i xargs rm -f' instead of `find ...| xargs rm -f'?

2003-03-11 Thread Michael Wardle
On Wednesday, March 12, 2003 14:45, Dai Yuwen wrote: Why people want to clean the environment variables before rm files? Some systems have an alias for rm that invokes rm -i. It's possible that running with env -i ensures that the true, unaliased command is run. -- Michael Wardle Adacel

Re: testing migration

2003-03-11 Thread Travis Crump
Jim McCloskey wrote: I expected to see all sorts of messages here about difficulties with testing after the migration of glibc 2.3.1-14. Hardly anything, though. I've been holding back from the upgrade till things settle down. Are there any brave souls who went ahead and upgraded and have the

Re: [off topic] Learning Shell from an old UNIX book

2003-03-11 Thread John Hasler
Aryan writes: I want to learn shell programming. Thus I went to my university's library and found a book named UNIX Shell Programming. The problem is, the book is written on 1988, and covers shell programming on Korn, Bourne and the C Shell on both ATT System V and Berkely systems ( I guess

Re: Setting Static IP Address

2003-03-11 Thread ktb
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 07:52:04PM -0800, CM Miller wrote: Very new to Debian and installed Woody last weekend. FOr some reason, it didn't recognize by pci 3com nics, but after a little help on this list I got them. Now, how do I set a static ip address? That is set in -

Re: Setting Static IP Address

2003-03-11 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
The file you want is /etc/network/interfaces. For example: # /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8) # The loopback interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # (network, broadcast and gateway are optional) auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address

Thanks! (was Re: buy or build computer?)

2003-03-11 Thread Peter Christensen
The replies to this question have been so helpful! Also, the discussion on quiet computer cases. This is of concern to me because some of the new computers I've seen are SO noisy that I hesitate to order one through the mail. I feel like I need to hear it first! My old Gateway was extremely

Re: Why people use `find ... |env -i xargs rm -f' instead of `find...| xargs rm -f'?

2003-03-11 Thread Travis Crump
Michael Wardle wrote: On Wednesday, March 12, 2003 14:45, Dai Yuwen wrote: Why people want to clean the environment variables before rm files? Some systems have an alias for rm that invokes rm -i. It's possible that running with env -i ensures that the true, unaliased command is run. 'rm -i

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