Sendmail problem on woody ?

2003-03-13 Thread Tim Timmerman
Hi, I'm kind of stuck on this one, hoping somebody can help me out.. I host a small family mailing list on one of my debian-woody machines, using majordomo. This is a very low traffic list (often weeks go by without any messages.) This week, traffic on the list was up, but I rece

Re: dselect, apt-get and unstable

2003-03-13 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 09:25:56PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 19:00:38 -0800 > Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > What tools you use for Debian archive access and what dependency > > problem you encounter are orthogonal problem. It is just an > > impression y

Re: 'gcc logjam'

2003-03-13 Thread Jeremy Cheng
LogJam is a client for LiveJournal.com. For more information, you can find it at http://www.livejournal.com . As for gcc, I am not too sure what you are asking for... Good Luck! Jeremy Matt Price said: > hi everyone, > > I've noticed frequent references in this list to the 'gcc logjam'. > Now

Re: [Possibly OT] can't I turn off message delivery?

2003-03-13 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 09:54:05AM -0800, linux learner wrote: > How do i turn off message delivery without losing my > posting privilages? Debian-user is an open list, you can post whether or not you're subscribed. Hence all the annoyingly rude idio

Requesting the resending of digests

2003-03-13 Thread Pigeon
I just activated my dialup to retrieve email... received 18 messages, mostly debian-user-digest... the exim log on the gateway shows them being passed on to the main box... the exim log on the main box shows that exim didn't even run. And the 18 messages have vanished into thin air. My question is

Re: Unresolved symbols in ... & alsa

2003-03-13 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Egor Tur wrote: > Hi folk. > I compile alsa module and try install it. > When I do > dpkg -i alsa-modules-2.4.20_0.9.0rc7-2_i386.deb > I have: > Configuration file for ALSA 0.9 exists. > Attempting to start. > > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.20/alsa/snd-e

Re: Debian Boot Process

2003-03-13 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 13:01, Kris wrote: > Ok I am trying to do some fancy stuff and need to know how the debian 2.4.18 > boot process works. Ok ouch I will compare. If for example I wanted to > know the step by step process of an msdos system I would say something like > > It loads the kernel i

Re: Debian install with Promise ATA100

2003-03-13 Thread Jack Pistachio
Exactly what type of Promise controller do you have? Is it a PCI card or an onboard chip? If its an onboard chip, what is the chipset for you're motherboard? The bf2.4 flavor kernel should have what you desire. -jackp --- Adam Stroud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Where can I get the kernel module

Matrox G550 and Dual Head

2003-03-13 Thread Bill Moseley
I know a few people here are using this video card. I have one for a new machine I'm building. I'm running X11 4.2.1 with IceWM. I have a few questions: - It says at http://xfree86.org/current/Status18.html#18 "The G450 and G550 are supported only in 4.3.0" So, that means I need to install

Re: alternative to endeavour2

2003-03-13 Thread Jack Pistachio
Boy, that many files I would prefer writing a shell script or two, that is, if there is any consistency at all in the filenames / current orginization. Maybe I'd organize really old files by date stamp. There are a number of possible options here, but I wouldn't be inclined to mousing around for

Re: using white noise for cryptography

2003-03-13 Thread Paul E Condon
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 08:14:57PM -0500, Jason Healy wrote: > At 1047600013s since epoch (03/13/03 19:00:13 -0500 UTC), sean finney wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 11:43:54PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > > > 1. is there already a package that enables this? > > > > not that i know of. > >

Re: Debian install with Promise ATA100

2003-03-13 Thread Donald Spoon
Adam Stroud wrote: Where can I get the kernel modules to load at install time so that Deb can see my harddrives on my ATA controllers?? I am new to debian so be nice :) Cheers Are you talking about the Promise ATA RAID controller (Fastrack100 TX2), or just their "Ultra100 TX2" controller

Re: dvd + cdrw + modules = problems

2003-03-13 Thread Jack Pistachio
You need to use scsi emulation to enable cdwritind. cdrecord -scanbus scans the scsi bus. See the CDWriting HOWTO. -jackp --- Conrad Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been trying to set things up with a DVD on hdc and > > a CD-burner on hdd using modules, but without success. > > I a

Trouble compiling with wxwindows

2003-03-13 Thread Federico Grau
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I am unable to compile programs against wxWindows. Does anybody have any advice on what the problem might be? I have an up to date Sid installation with the following wxWindows related packages installed: ii libwxgtk2.22.2.9.2.1 wx

Debian install with Promise ATA100

2003-03-13 Thread Adam Stroud
Where can I get the kernel modules to load at install time so that Deb can see my harddrives on my ATA controllers?? I am new to debian so be nice :) Cheers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Java: Sun1Studio (ME) Windows without text

2003-03-13 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 01:20:47AM +, Joel Alexandre wrote: | i installed j2sdk1.4.0: [...] | Also installed SunOneStudio, MobileEditon version. | | but when i run SunOneStudio i only get windows with no text, as you | can see here: http://mega.ist.utl.pt/~jcma/imagem_sun1studio.png | | What

Re: alternative to endeavour2

2003-03-13 Thread Jeff
martin f krafft, 2003-Mar-13 20:18 +0100: > > there's endeavour2. it's nice. But until it can put a filter on > files and weed out dotfiles and links out of the display, it's > hardly usable. > I've been using Endeavour2 for a couple months now and really liking it. I forgot to check this the f

mysql v4

2003-03-13 Thread Joyce, Matthew
I am keen to move to a later version of Mysql. I have a fairly unmessed-around Woody stable, can anyone guide me through the upgrade from mysql v3.23 to 4 ? thanks Matt Children's Cancer Institute Australia is the only independent medical research institute in Australia solely devoted to rese

Re: alternative to endeavour2

2003-03-13 Thread matt zagrabelny
> i have a tree of all the documents i ever touched in the last 14 > years, and i would like to reorganise it. there are 120,000 files > and thus i am reverting to a GUI approach; on the shell, my fingers > would fall off, mc is nice but a little archaic to use i find, so > i want a mouse-driven pr

Re: 'gcc logjam'

2003-03-13 Thread John Schmidt
On Thursday 13 March 2003 8:14 pm, Matt Price wrote: > hi everyone, > > I've noticed frequent references in this list to the 'gcc logjam'. > Now, I know gcc is the C compiler, and that more or less everything > in Debian is dependent on it... ut I don't know much else. Can > anyone tell me what t

Re: Strange messages

2003-03-13 Thread Joseph A Nagy Jr
Rodrigo Sobrinho wrote: I receive this message, but I don't understand who send it. Cron Daemon? What this job does? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cron Daemon) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2003

Re: security updates

2003-03-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 08:31:30PM -0600, Patrick L. McGillan wrote: > The security updates site is listed as pnly being a http type address. I have > to use ftp from work as there is no way to tell it how to get thru the proxy. > Is there an alternate site to goto that supports ftp? ftp://secur

Strange messages

2003-03-13 Thread Rodrigo Sobrinho
I receive this message, but I don't understand who send it. Cron Daemon? What this job does? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cron Daemon) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2003 06:35:03 + /etc/c

dvd + cdrw + modules = problems

2003-03-13 Thread Conrad Newton
I have been trying to set things up with a DVD on hdc and a CD-burner on hdd using modules, but without success. I am using Debian/unstable with kernel 2.4.20 configured in the same way as the Debian package kernel-image-2.4.20-686, that is with a highly modular kernel. I am willing to believe

Re: cups installation: Unable to read configuration file '/etc/cups/cupsd.conf' - exiting

2003-03-13 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 03:08:07PM +0100, iks_kzm wrote: > > > I had problem with cups: Please don't break the text in you message into blocks by placing "--" between the blocks. Some mail user agents (e.g. mutt) interpret this as the start of a signature. It makes it difficult to incorporate t

Re: smartctl vs cat

2003-03-13 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 02:58:19AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Hugh Saunders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.03.14.0221 +0100]: > > can anyone explain why the cat worked? > > it is entirely possible that reads work fine, just that writes don't > stick. so say a given byte is 0xcf and wh

'gcc logjam'

2003-03-13 Thread Matt Price
hi everyone, I've noticed frequent references in this list to the 'gcc logjam'. Now, I know gcc is the C compiler, and that more or less everything in Debian is dependent on it... ut I don't know much else. Can anyone tell me what the _issues_ are with gcc, and what the nature of the 'logjam' is

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security updates

2003-03-13 Thread Patrick L. McGillan
Hey, The security updates site is listed as pnly being a http type address. I have to use ftp from work as there is no way to tell it how to get thru the proxy. Is there an alternate site to goto that supports ftp? Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsu

Re: Lightweight xlock alternatives?

2003-03-13 Thread David Z Maze
Remo Inverardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a lightweight xlock alternative? Actually, I just want to > lock my X session, so I don't have to logoff when I leave my office to > get coffee. Xlock with the "-lock blank" parameter is about what I'm > looking for, but it's *way* to big. In

Re: 100dpi, 75dpi, unscaled ?

2003-03-13 Thread David Z Maze
dave selby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Debian has a lot of fonts what is the difference between > > /usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi > /usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled, > > I cant find any .. can someone enlighten me ? Do I need both ? If I ask for -*-helvetica-medium-r-normal--*-110-100-10

Re: Problem with libc6

2003-03-13 Thread ronin2
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 15:42:49 + [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +++-==-==-== > == > iHR libc6 2.2.5-11.1 GNU C I was hoping s

Two Debian Release Cycle Issues

2003-03-13 Thread Abdul Latip
Hi, First of all, apology for my poor English. This following is *NOT* a complaint, but I would like to know if I have got the picture correctly in regard of the Debian release cycle (e.g. from Woody to Sarge). Please let my know the URL if this issue has been discussed before. * The Essential Pa

Re: how to apply diff file

2003-03-13 Thread David Z Maze
"nate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I have downloaded the source file of an application (apt-get source appl). >> Along with the .tar.gz file, I got and diff.gz file which I don't know how >> to apply it to the .tar.gz file (after the extract of cource). > > last i checked apt-get source automat

Re: dselect, apt-get and unstable

2003-03-13 Thread ronin2
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 11:42:24 +1100 Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > $ aptitude install bleh > > instead of > > $ apt-get install bleh > > Also, aptitude doesn't ignore Suggests and Recommends, like apt-get > does. > And for others not yet familiar with aptitude, you can use it to brows

Re: smartctl vs cat

2003-03-13 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Hugh Saunders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.03.14.0221 +0100]: > can anyone explain why the cat worked? it is entirely possible that reads work fine, just that writes don't stick. so say a given byte is 0xcf and when you read it, you get 0xcf, but when you write 0x45 to it, it either rema

Re: dselect, apt-get and unstable

2003-03-13 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 03:24:56AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 08:59:36 +0100 (MET) > David Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > with that except from the fact that I'd like to play AVI-files. So > > that is in unstable. Big deal. And it depends on the new libc6. Ok,

kdevelop and kdelibs3/4

2003-03-13 Thread Jean Richelle
Hi, I'm trying to install kdevelop but it seems to depend on kdelibs4 that does not want to be installed; cf err msg below. At the web site it said to depend on kdelibs3 ! What can be done ? Regards, Jean apt-get -t stable install kdevelop Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tre

Re: Problem with libc6

2003-03-13 Thread prueba1
I am a bit surprising since nobody answers my question. Perhaps it's not the correct list. In this case could somebody to say me the list where I have to send the message. Thanks. [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: I have a machine with debian woody. After upgrade with dselect or apt-get ( this w

Re: exim & iptables

2003-03-13 Thread Hal Klingsporn
On Thursday, March 13, 2003, at 07:43 PM, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 09:03:03AM -0500, Hal Klingsporn wrote: | Mail to/from users on the local net are handled by a mail (exim) server | inside the firewall. This works very well. The only issue is getting | machine gen

Re: fixing perl scripts for register_globals = Off

2003-03-13 Thread Michael Heironimus
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 04:41:59PM -0800, Ron Farrer wrote: > I'm new to PHP and I have several PHP pages that were working fine until > the admins changed register_globals = On to register_globals = Off. Now > all of my PHP pages are broken. I looked through all of my PHP reference > books and did

Re: ALSA conf

2003-03-13 Thread ScruLoose
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 01:15:56AM +0200, Johan Ehnberg wrote: > > > >To maximize your popularity on this list... avoid top-posting (it kinda > >screws up the readability of a thread), > > > Top-posting? You mean answering without really replying (header > missing)? Or? > In my email client (moz

Re: emacs fonts/locale error

2003-03-13 Thread Andy Hurt
Sorry for the solitary reply, Emma . . . . Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: (I'm ruthlessly snipping here) From what I can tell, the default system environment is set in /etc/environment (LANG=C, etc.). yes the default is C, not en_US as was mentioned earlier So I changed the system environment back

smartctl vs cat

2003-03-13 Thread Hugh Saunders
hello, I have a hdd which i suspect id dieing [yes i have burnt cds of any important stuf] this drive is in a windows box, so stuck in knoppix cd for diagnostics. cat /dev/hda >/dev/null gives no output [no errors?] -me thought that would be a good indication that all sectors of the disk are read

Java: Sun1Studio (ME) Windows without text

2003-03-13 Thread Joel Alexandre
Hi, i make java aplications for mobile phones. i used to use jbuilder + mobileset(windows), but i want to leave win for good. So i tried to install some ide (sun1studio). i installed j2sdk1.4.0: $ java -version java version "1.4.0_03" Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.0

Re: using white noise for cryptography

2003-03-13 Thread Jason Healy
At 1047600013s since epoch (03/13/03 19:00:13 -0500 UTC), sean finney wrote: > On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 11:43:54PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > > 1. is there already a package that enables this? > > not that i know of. While there isn't a package, there is a guy who is doing this on a compute

Re: using white noise for cryptography

2003-03-13 Thread John Griffiths
In this situation would a third party with a copy of the audio environment (say through bugging) be able to use that against the crypto? Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, sean finney wrote: 2. is there a way to inject bytes into the entropy pool of the linux kernel?

Re: dselect, apt-get and unstable

2003-03-13 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 11:37:05AM +0100, David Fokkema wrote: > I'll look at mplayer, thanks! Christian has lots of stuff of 'dubious legality' on his site, most of which is also built for stable. Have a poke around, I'm sure there's some other stuff that will interest you. Another good place t

Re: kinda OT: Web Hosting

2003-03-13 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 08:22:20AM -0600, Jeff Hahn wrote: > Didn't someone here mention a favorite web hosting company recently?? > > I think it was 750 MB storage and 20 GB traffic for a very reasonable price. > > Any favorites or companies to avoid??? I've recently started using phpwebhosting

Re: rxvt and kde 2.2

2003-03-13 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 08:45:29AM +0100, Thomas Krennwallner wrote: > On Wed Mar 12, 2003 at 02:03:41PM +1100, the boisterous > Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote to me: > > On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 06:02:44PM +0100, Thomas Krennwallner wrote: > > > How does KDE affect my .Xressources and how can

Re: using white noise for cryptography

2003-03-13 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, sean finney wrote: > > 2. is there a way to inject bytes into the entropy pool of the > > linux kernel? If you're going to do it by sampling the noise in an audio card, you better analyze the output to check if it is indeed crypto-strong randomness. Your sampling modul

Re: exim & iptables

2003-03-13 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 09:03:03AM -0500, Hal Klingsporn wrote: | Mail to/from users on the local net are handled by a mail (exim) server | inside the firewall. This works very well. The only issue is getting | machine generated mail from the fw to the internal mail server. | Disabling local

fixing perl scripts for register_globals = Off

2003-03-13 Thread Ron Farrer
Hello, I'm new to PHP and I have several PHP pages that were working fine until the admins changed register_globals = On to register_globals = Off. Now all of my PHP pages are broken. I looked through all of my PHP reference books and did a google search, but I couldn't find anything helpful. So

Cups problem

2003-03-13 Thread Riccardo Gusso
Hello, yesterday I have installed cups and successfully configured my Epson Stylus Color 580 usb printer to work with my Sid. I have printed some pages, and everything seemed to work. Today I have tried to print a three pages file from xemacs, and after two of them the printer stopped. I have tried

Re: Mozilla stops accepting typed input

2003-03-13 Thread Andy Hurt
Andy Hurt wrote: Jonathan Matthews wrote: Recent builds (can't remember how long ago it started) of Mozilla have included a "type-ahead" feature, roughly translating to the "find-next" feature in, say, lynx. It's loaded with the same key too - "/" - and I haven't personally found a way of tell

Re: How can I unistall mysql?

2003-03-13 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Didier Caamano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.03.14.0029 +0100]: > But the funny thing is this: > athena:~# mysql -p you deleted the server. dpkg -P mysql-client and the binary you used will also disappear. -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. marti

Re: Mozilla stops accepting typed input

2003-03-13 Thread Andy Hurt
Jonathan Matthews wrote: Recent builds (can't remember how long ago it started) of Mozilla have included a "type-ahead" feature, roughly translating to the "find-next" feature in, say, lynx. It's loaded with the same key too - "/" - and I haven't personally found a way of telling Mozilla (Galeo

Re: How can I unistall mysql?

2003-03-13 Thread Nicolas Kratz
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 04:29:15PM -0700, Didier Caamano wrote: > Thank you for your help, but this is the output for the line that you give > me: > athena:~# apt-get remove --purge mysql > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > Package mysql is not installed, so not re

Re: emacs fonts/locale error

2003-03-13 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
(I'm ruthlessly snipping here) > From what I can tell, the default system environment is set in > /etc/environment (LANG=C, etc.). yes the default is C, not en_US as was mentioned earlier > So I changed the system environment back to C. As root, '# locale' gives > me all "=C", but, for my

Re: using white noise for cryptography

2003-03-13 Thread sean finney
hey martin, On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 11:43:54PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > 1. is there already a package that enables this? not that i know of. > 2. is there a way to inject bytes into the entropy pool of the > linux kernel? yeah, at least as a module. don't know about from userla

topposting; was: Re: ALSA conf

2003-03-13 Thread Nicolas Kratz
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 01:15:56AM +0200, Johan Ehnberg wrote: > Top-posting? You mean answering without really replying (header > missing)? Or? > In my email client (mozilla-mail 1.3b) the mail came in the right place > in the thread... > I'd like to hear what I could do better, as this is somet

Re: recommendation on which identd daemon is best/most configurable/secure?

2003-03-13 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Walter Tautz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.03.13.2016 +0100]: > midentd - identd replacement with masquerading support. > nullidentd - small, fast identd daemon > pidentd-des - TCP/IP IDENT protocol server with DES support. i've used those three and like nullidentd the best. it doesn't pro

Re: How can I unistall mysql?

2003-03-13 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach deFreese, Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.03.13.2059 +0100]: > apt-get remove --purge mysql save yourself some keystrokes: dpkg -P mysql -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer,

Re: Mozilla stops accepting typed input

2003-03-13 Thread John Stevenson
I have had this very same problem with Mozilla and have found two 'remedies', but no real answer 1) The anonying remedy: Minimise or shade the window that is not responding to text input and then unminimise / unshade that window. You should now be able to insert text. 2) The 'Okay so far

Re: emacs fonts/locale error

2003-03-13 Thread Andy Hurt
Matt Price wrote: Hi everyone, when I run emacs from within X, I suddenly now get the following message: --- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ emacs .muttrc No fonts match `-*-*-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-c-*-iso8859-15' --- this seems especially wierd since my locale is set to en_US, which us

RE: How can I unistall mysql?

2003-03-13 Thread Didier Caamano
Thank you for your help, but this is the output for the line that you give me: athena:~# apt-get remove --purge mysql Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Package mysql is not installed, so not removed 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgrade

Never mind! Re: Toshiba Libretto 100 or 110 docking station problem

2003-03-13 Thread Bruce Perens
Never mind. It turns out to have been poor seating in the docking unit. Thanks Bruce On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 09:13:05PM +, bruce wrote: > Does anyone out there have the Toshiba Libretto 100 or 110? I can't > get the PCMCIA slots in the docking unit to be recognized. This is

Re: ALSA conf

2003-03-13 Thread Johan Ehnberg
Oh, and a little pointer: To maximize your popularity on this list... avoid top-posting (it kinda screws up the readability of a thread), Top-posting? You mean answering without really replying (header missing)? Or? In my email client (mozilla-mail 1.3b) the mail came in the right place in t

problem with freenet-unstable package

2003-03-13 Thread Matias Hermanrud Fjeld
Hello. When i try to install freenet-unstable on my machine running Debian unstable, the post-inst script goes into an infinite loop saying: "The port must be a number between 1 and 65535 inclusive. Please try again!" But i haven't been asked for a port or anything. when i try to uninstall

Re: alternative to endeavour2

2003-03-13 Thread Benjamin Rutt
Bob Paige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Speaking of replying, I use Mozilla-Mail. Is there a way to have it > default to replying only to the list, and not all recipients? Upgrade to a mail client that supports the Mail-Followup-To: header. That way, when you respond to a mailing list post which

using white noise for cryptography

2003-03-13 Thread martin f krafft
a friend of mine implanted this thought that won't let me loose no more. white noise (i.e. data from a random microphone) seems to be a good source of entropy. thus i am wondering whether that can be used as the basis for all the crypto going on on a system with such a mic attached. so i have a cou

Re: considered harmful (was [off topic] Learning Shell from an old UNIX book)

2003-03-13 Thread John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > But I know of at least one big project that uses tcsh > scripting, OpenOffice.org. I wrote: > Thanks for the warning. I had been considering installing it. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Not needed if all you want is to run it. I have no faith in the quality of the work

Re: deb(x)conf

2003-03-13 Thread Andy Hurt
Brian Nelson wrote: Andy Hurt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rob Weir wrote: On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 10:45:15AM -0500, Andy Hurt wrote: But, I'm concerned about the lines: # If you want your changes to this file preserved by dexconf, only make # changes before the "### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION" line

apt-pinning gnucash 1.8.2-1 in testing errors

2003-03-13 Thread wayne
Hi, I am running Testing and have managed to install the above package using apt pinning: apt-get -t unstable install gnucash This worked with no errors. When I tried to run it from the menu, nothing happened, so I tried from the commandline to see if there was any output and I get: ERROR: Coul

Re: Debian Boot Process

2003-03-13 Thread Donald Spoon
Kris wrote: Ok I am trying to do some fancy stuff and need to know how the debian 2.4.18 boot process works. Ok ouch I will compare. If for example I wanted to know the step by step process of an msdos system I would say something like It loads the kernel in msdos.sys and io.sys then it loads the

Re: Getting Ogle to work

2003-03-13 Thread Jack Pistachio
I'm beginning to wonder if the ioctl error is related to the fact that my DVD drive is USB. Ogle mentions that any 2.4.x kernel should have the ioctl included, but perhaps this is only for an IDE interface, and the USB drivers do not yet fully support it. -jackp --- martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: Setting Static IP Address

2003-03-13 Thread Harley D. Eades III
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? thanks -Chris = Winning an argument on the internet is like getting 1st

Re: alternative to endeavour2

2003-03-13 Thread Bob Paige
martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Bob Paige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.03.13.2218 +0100]: xftree? is that packaged for Debian? wajig install xfce You can run xftree without starting the rest of the pieces. also, please don't CC me, as I request in my footer. no biggie though. Sorry,

Re: considered harmful (was [off topic] Learning Shell from an old UNIX book)

2003-03-13 Thread csj
On 12 Mar 2003 18:28:52 -0600, John Hasler wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > But I know of at least one big project that uses tcsh > > scripting, OpenOffice.org. > > Thanks for the warning. I had been considering installing it. s/installing/compiling Not needed if all you want is to run

Re: Mozilla stops accepting typed input

2003-03-13 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Thursday 13 March 2003 21:54, Martin J. Hillyer wrote: > On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 12:40:51PM -0800, Martin J. Hillyer wrote: > > I'm running testing, kernel 2.4.20, X 4.2.1 with an Athlon XP1500+, > > 512 MB RAM and an nVidia GeForce2/MX-400 64MB video card. I have been > > bitten by the AMD-AGP

Re: Mozilla stops accepting typed input

2003-03-13 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 12:40:51PM -0800, Martin J. Hillyer wrote: > I'm having an irritating problem with Mozilla. After what appears to > be a random length of time (often very short, eg, after one entry), it > stops accepting typing in, for example, the address box, or in a > google text input

Re: alternative to endeavour2

2003-03-13 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.03.13.2142 +0100]: > Give Filerunner a look-see. I use it when I'm doing reorganizing like > you describe. I has a two-pane view, mouse driven, supports FTP, > flexible config, etc. interesting, but i am missing two things: - drag and drop - hotkey

Re: adduser wants root passwd though I am root

2003-03-13 Thread Kevin Buhr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > I am root and want create new user ... > > $> whoami > $> root > $> adduser test > $> Password: Under the hood, "adduser" uses "useradd" (from the "passwd" package) to do its work. My "adduser" and "passwd" packages are the current Woody/stable version: adduser ver

Re: alternative to endeavour2

2003-03-13 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Bob Paige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.03.13.2218 +0100]: > xftree? is that packaged for Debian? also, please don't CC me, as I request in my footer. no biggie though. -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :

Re: Mozilla stops accepting typed input

2003-03-13 Thread Jacob S .
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 12:40:51 -0800 "Martin J. Hillyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm having an irritating problem with Mozilla. After what appears to > be a random length of time (often very short, eg, after one entry), it > stops accepting typing in, for example, the address box, or in a > go

Re: alternative to endeavour2

2003-03-13 Thread Bob Paige
martin f krafft wrote: i have a tree of all the documents i ever touched in the last 14 years, and i would like to reorganise it. there are 120,000 files and thus i am reverting to a GUI approach; on the shell, my fingers would fall off, mc is nice but a little archaic to use i find, so i want a m

Re: Mozilla stops accepting typed input

2003-03-13 Thread Jamin Collins
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 12:40:51PM -0800, Martin J. Hillyer wrote: > I'm having an irritating problem with Mozilla. After what appears to > be a random length of time (often very short, eg, after one entry), it > stops accepting typing in, for example, the address box, or in a > google text input

Re: Source for 2.2.20 kernel

2003-03-13 Thread Ernst-Magne Vindal
On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 21:25, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: > Quoting Jeffrey L. Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > isn't apt a good alternative to find that out? > > > > > > > Sound very reasonable, but: > > > > ~# apt-cache policy kernel-sourc

Toshiba Libretto 100 or 110 docking station problem

2003-03-13 Thread Bruce Perens
Does anyone out there have the Toshiba Libretto 100 or 110? I can't get the PCMCIA slots in the docking unit to be recognized. This is a problem because the PCMCIA slots in the Libretto are destroyed (by the previous owner, I got a good price). The controller for the additional slots doesn't show

Printer Setup

2003-03-13 Thread GBV
I have 3 printers: Xerox Docuprint N32 Techtronix Phaser 850 Lexmark Optra 614 all connected via ethernet on Novell Print Server How can I configure samba to be the server for these printers? Is there an ethernet way to do it? thks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: deb(x)conf

2003-03-13 Thread Brian Nelson
Andy Hurt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Rob Weir wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 10:45:15AM -0500, Andy Hurt wrote: >> >>> But, I'm concerned about the lines: >>> >>> # If you want your changes to this file preserved by dexconf, only >>> make # changes before the "### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION" line

Re: Mozilla stops accepting typed input

2003-03-13 Thread Martin J. Hillyer
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 12:40:51PM -0800, Martin J. Hillyer wrote: > > I'm running testing, kernel 2.4.20, X 4.2.1 with an Athlon XP1500+, > 512 MB RAM and an nVidia GeForce2/MX-400 64MB video card. I have been > bitten by the AMD-AGP issue, but this seems to be pretty much under > control with t

Re: Debian Boot Process

2003-03-13 Thread ktb
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 11:27:55AM -0800, Kris wrote: > You state it calls init. Where is init /usr/bin /usr/sbin. is init a > program. Thanks /sbin/ # which init $ man init $ ps ax|grep init kent -- To know the truth is to distort the Universe. Alfred N. Whitehead (a

Re: alternative to endeavour2

2003-03-13 Thread Jeff
martin f krafft, 2003-Mar-13 20:18 +0100: > i have a tree of all the documents i ever touched in the last 14 > years, and i would like to reorganise it. there are 120,000 files > and thus i am reverting to a GUI approach; on the shell, my fingers > would fall off, mc is nice but a little archaic to

Unresolved symbols in ... & alsa

2003-03-13 Thread Egor Tur
Hi folk. I compile alsa module and try install it. When I do dpkg -i alsa-modules-2.4.20_0.9.0rc7-2_i386.deb I have: Configuration file for ALSA 0.9 exists. Attempting to start. depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.20/alsa/snd-emu10k1-synth.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/mo

Mozilla stops accepting typed input

2003-03-13 Thread Martin J. Hillyer
I'm having an irritating problem with Mozilla. After what appears to be a random length of time (often very short, eg, after one entry), it stops accepting typing in, for example, the address box, or in a google text input area. I have to kill that instance and start another to get it to accept t

Re: Video Screen shift to the right

2003-03-13 Thread Christian Schoenebeck
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 14:23:08 -0500 "Wathen, Metherion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > solution. I just installed Woody (stable) on an older PC with a 3Dfx > Voodoo3 video card (16Mb RAM on the vid card) after some trial and > error I finally got X-4.1 to work but now it shifts the video screen > to

Re: ALSA conf

2003-03-13 Thread ScruLoose
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 08:20:41PM +0200, Johan Ehnberg wrote: > Yes. That solved it! Many thanks to you. I'm now listening to music > through xmms :-) . Yay! It feels good to have something to give back. I'm still rather a newbie at this, and mostly asking questions of my own. > The functional

Re: Source for 2.2.20 kernel

2003-03-13 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Quoting Jeffrey L. Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > isn't apt a good alternative to find that out? > > > > Sound very reasonable, but: > > ~# apt-cache policy kernel-source-2.2.20 > kernel-source-2.2.20: > Installed: (none) > Candidate: (n

Re: Debian Boot Process

2003-03-13 Thread Shaun ONeil
On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 13:01, Kris wrote: > Ok I am trying to do some fancy stuff and need to know how the debian 2.4.18 > boot process works. Ok ouch I will compare. If for example I wanted to > know the step by step process of an msdos system I would say something like > > It loads the kernel i

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