Re: what plugins i needed?

2003-07-13 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Marino Fernandez wrote: > Zip zip... shoot I dont know the proper way... let me see > >> >> Oh, and please take a look at >> http://learn.to/quote >> especially part 2.1 "How much should I quote?". > > uhm!, I do not speak german. Damn! The text is available in english (and also dutch).

Re: Konqueror- is there a way to block popup ads?

2003-07-13 Thread Rthoreau
I do not know what version of Konqueror you are using, but in version 3.1.2 you can find popup blocking under JavaScript at the very bottom. It does work well, I know its in a weird place but it does work. Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

Installing SSL

2003-07-13 Thread Jackson Cheng
Hi: This is Jackson, and I'm now having a problem with the package SSL. I was using my real IP for my first installation with SSL (apt-get install apache-ssl), then I got a warning message saying that "[alert] apache-ssl: Could not determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.

Re: Konqueror- is there a way to block popup ads?

2003-07-13 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 08:29:48PM -0400, J F wrote: > Konqueror- is there a way to block popup ads? In Konqueror 3.x, set your Javascript policy to Smart. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian admin and user `. `'

Re: Konqueror- is there a way to block popup ads?

2003-07-13 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 08:29:48PM -0400, J F wrote: > Konqueror- is there a way to block popup ads? Settings, Configure Konqueror, Konqueror Browser, JavaScript, at the bottom of the dialog click on "Deny". -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading ht

query !

2003-07-13 Thread subhransu mishra
questions Q 1. how can i set power management mode power level 1 to 8 ? Currently I dont use power level. Q 2.How can I get WEP mapping keys for all interface? Can I get all WEP keys in proc directory(in rids files)? _

Mutt moping: folders not working.

2003-07-13 Thread Adam Bogacki
Hi, I set up my latest Mutt six months ago but mail from a number of high-volume lists [including debian-user-digest] floods into my inbox and takes much too long to process. I've tried various things, consulted oracles, but nix. The one thing that occurs to me is that when my previous dual-

Overriding GTK+1.x fonts

2003-07-13 Thread Javier Kohen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What's the proper way of overriding the settings in /etc/gtk/gtkrc.? I've recently switched to an UTF-8 locale and the font settings in /etc/gtk/gtkrc.utf-8 are taking precedence to my $HOME/.gtkrc. Besides, I'd like to use Bitstream Vera instead of Ar

Re: Why mozilla always starts five instances??

2003-07-13 Thread Richard Heycock
On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 14:24, Nathan Poznick wrote: > Thus spake Zhao You Bing: > > And every one cost 58M memory, > > How to make mozilla only start one process?? > > It doesn't start 5 instances, and each one is not taking up 58M memory. > Mozilla is a multithreaded program. Under Linux, each th

Re: Hi, how to install rpms on Debian??

2003-07-13 Thread SYNeR
From: "Zhao You Bing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2003 1:21 PM Subject: Hi, how to install rpms on Debian?? > Thanks!!! > -- > Zhao YouBing, Ph.D student > State Key Lab of CAD&CG,Zhejiang University, > Hangzhou, 310027, P.R.China > Tel : 0571-87951045(O),

Woody->Sid (unresolved symbols) :( Please Advise

2003-07-13 Thread Rob
Ok - So I finally ditched windows.. and I'm having lots of problems... Anyway - I installed Woody (net install) and did a dist-upgrade to unstable. I wanted a newer kernel (2.4.21) and when I went to install it everything worked fine... except my ethernet was broke! I have a realtek card and

Re: Why mozilla always starts five instances??

2003-07-13 Thread Nathan Poznick
Thus spake Zhao You Bing: > And every one cost 58M memory, > How to make mozilla only start one process?? It doesn't start 5 instances, and each one is not taking up 58M memory. Mozilla is a multithreaded program. Under Linux, each thread appears to be a separate process, but in reality they shar

Why mozilla always starts five instances??

2003-07-13 Thread Zhao You Bing
And every one cost 58M memory, How to make mozilla only start one process?? Thanks! -- Zhao YouBing, Ph.D student State Key Lab of CAD&CG,Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, P.R.China Tel : 0571-87951045(O), 87933444(H) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN : [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: installing a Debian system on a 2nd hdd while booted off thefirst

2003-07-13 Thread allasso
>2. I next did the localization setup (this command probably more >complicated than necessary. The string was wrapped by my MUA): > ># chroot /mnt/debinst /usr/bin/env >-i HOME=/root TERM=$TERM PS1='\u:\w\$ ' >PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin >/bin/bash --login I too am trying to install debian t

Re: OT: IDE/Bad Blocks: Call for mental assistance

2003-07-13 Thread Alan Shutko
Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Some drives can, in fact do bad sector remapping on the fly. By some drives, you mean "all drives sold in the last 10 years", right? > However, manually finding bad blocks on a drive is no real cause for > concern. When a bad sector is found, it sh

RE: New IDE drive dramatically slow system?

2003-07-13 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> having a slow system due to adding a disk is equally bad as a > scrambled disk. ( fix the problems that causing the symptoms ) > -- dont mix drives unless they are both ata-100 > and both have 2MB disk buffers .. etc.etc.. > > c ya > alvin > I've never heard of matching buffe

Re: bash: for to, reading escaped spaces in filenames

2003-07-13 Thread Fraser Campbell
On July 13, 2003 06:05 am, David selby wrote: > I need to scan a directory for the file names contained in it. > > for _scantox in $(ls $_tox); do > . > done If I expect to find files with spaces I always use some variant of this: ls /somewhere | while read file; do something "$file" don

Re: what plugins i needed?

2003-07-13 Thread James Ng Yuen Sum
Hi Andreas, Andreas Janssen wrote: Hello James Ng Yuen Sum wrote: The following page is my "help>about plugins". rpnp.so File name: rpnp.so MIME Type Description SuffixesEnabled audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin RealPlayer Plugin Metafile rpm Yes [more

Re: SSH: Corrupted MAC on input error - keeps recurring

2003-07-13 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
Anand posts : >> got a Debian 3.0 stable server running (with a few packages from >> testing) It is better to use back-ported Woody packages of the stuff you want instead of a mix of woody and sarge. >> get the error "Corrupted MAC on input" or "incorrect MAC on packet" >> with both client

Re: Confessions of a reluctant port scanner

2003-07-13 Thread Bruce Banner
Also, the target IP is slashdot's ip... --- Bruce Banner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It doesn't look like anything to worry about they > are > false positives leaving your network. Your network > is > a private network 192.168.1.x and the false attacks > are you hitting a dns probably your dns an

Re: Confessions of a reluctant port scanner

2003-07-13 Thread Bruce Banner
It doesn't look like anything to worry about they are false positives leaving your network. Your network is a private network 192.168.1.x and the false attacks are you hitting a dns probably your dns and your network hitting a website. 192.168.1 is a private network range that means they are unro

SSH: Corrupted MAC on input error - keeps recurring

2003-07-13 Thread Anand Atreya
Hi,   I've got a Debian 3.0 stable server running (with a few packages from testing), and am having some trouble with the SSH server.  I've tried using both PuTTY and ssh.com's client, and get the error "Corrupted MAC on input" or "incorrect MAC on packet" with both clients. This usually occ

Confessions of a reluctant port scanner

2003-07-13 Thread Patrick Albuquerque
Hello, Anyone have an idea why I'm a portscanner? I'm running unstable, dsl thru a router. Some sample snort output: [**] [117:1:1] (spp_portscan2) Portscan detected from 192.168.1.1: 6 targets 6 ports in 19 seconds [**] 07/13-15:11:32.418841 192.168.1.1:32769 -> 198.32.64.12:53 UDP TTL:64 TOS:0

Re: Need help getting sound working

2003-07-13 Thread Marc Hinrichs
Am Freitag, 11. Juli 2003 17:12 schrieb Chris Metzler: > BTW, ESD is the sound-mixer-of-choice for Gnome. If you run Gnome, you > almost certainly have ESD running. KDE uses its own sound mixer daemon, > called "arts". Programs that are part of Gnome will want to send their > sound output to ES

Re: IEEE 1394 (FireWire) on Debian

2003-07-13 Thread Bill Morgan
On 7/13/03 1:31 PM, "Matthew Daubenspeck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 01:30:18PM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: >> Does anyone have any info to share about 1394 devices on Debian? I just >> ordered an external IDE enclosure with a DVD ROM drive that uses a 1394 >> connectio

sarge dependancy problems with dhcp3-client/samba/samba-common

2003-07-13 Thread Hanasaki JiJi
Just did an apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade dhcp3-client seems to be mutaully exclusive with samba/samba-common. Installing one takes out the other. -- = = Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the = =

Konqueror- is there a way to block popup ads?

2003-07-13 Thread J F
Konqueror- is there a way to block popup ads? Thanks JF ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTEC

RE: sources.list

2003-07-13 Thread Louie Miranda
Thank you for all the help! -- Thank you, Louie Miranda ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andreas Janssen Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 4:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: sources.list Hello Louie Miranda wrote: > Am I miss

OT: How to recursively call a script?

2003-07-13 Thread westk
OT: How to recursively call a script? I've got a Solaris box, and I need to remotely restart the ssh daemon. On Debian, most init scripts have a "restart" option. Solaris apparently doesn't (what's with that?!). The script looks roughly like this: #!/bin/sh case $1 in 'start') Ê /usr/local

Re: what plugins i needed?

2003-07-13 Thread Marino Fernandez
Zip zip... shoot I dont know the proper way... let me see > > Oh, and please take a look at > http://learn.to/quote > especially part 2.1 "How much should I quote?". uhm!, I do not speak german. Damn! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

FW: changes to crontab not effective

2003-07-13 Thread Jochen Daum
> Hi Johann! > > > > 0 5 * * * root rm /root/index.ph* > > > # > > > 0 12 * * * root sh /etc/init.d/backup.sh > > > 0 17 * * * root sh /etc/init.d/backup.sh > > > > I don't know about the first one, but scripts in > /etc/init.d usually > > require an argument, such as start,stop,restart,etc. I

Re: LCDproc client problem!

2003-07-13 Thread Todd Pytel
Perhaps you need to specify a backlight value for the client? That is, it may be that the client is displaying perfectly well, but with no backlight so that you can't see it. Also, note that the lcdproc client has problems with CrystalFontz displays - something having to do with character encod

Re: changes to crontab not effective

2003-07-13 Thread Johann Koenig
On Monday July 14, 2003 at 00:00 "Jochen Daum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 0 5 * * * root rm /root/index.ph* > # > 0 12 * * * root sh /etc/init.d/backup.sh > 0 17 * * * root sh /etc/init.d/backup.sh I don't know about the first one, but scripts in /etc/init.d usually require an argument, such as

Re: OT: IDE/Bad Blocks: Call for mental assistance

2003-07-13 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 01:51:23PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > Folks, > > Over the past year, I have replaced something around 20 IDE > Harddrives in 5 different computers running Debian because of drive > faults. I know about IDE and that it's "consumer quality" and no > more, but it can't be

Re: what plugins i needed?

2003-07-13 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello James Ng Yuen Sum wrote: > The following page is my "help>about plugins". > rpnp.so > > File name: rpnp.so > > MIME Type Description SuffixesEnabled > audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin RealPlayer Plugin Metafile rpm Yes [more plugins] > The required plugin is pr

RE: changes to crontab not effective

2003-07-13 Thread Jochen Daum
Hi Andreas! > Hello > > Jochen Daum wrote: > > > I've made changes to crontab, of which only one is working. > > /etc/crontab says, cron doesn't have to be restarted, and > I wouldn't > > know how, cause there is no rccron like in Suse. > > Try "/etc/init.d/cron reload" or "/etc/init.d/cron re

Re: Package to OCR from Image of Text, tips?

2003-07-13 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Searching for ocr at http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages gives a few interesting hits: gocr gocr-gtk gocr-tk gocr-doc clara Don't know how good are, though. You can use xsane for scanning -- Torquil Macdonald Sørensen, http://folk.uio.no/tmac -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

question about ftpd and ftpchroot

2003-07-13 Thread Grzesiek Sedek
Hi, Quick question: I've added myself to /etc/ftpchroot and after login I could upload but was unable to see the content of directory. Is there a way to see it? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

amd pentium chips comparison

2003-07-13 Thread Antonio RodrH
Could anyone give a comparison (raw, doesn't have to be detailed) between amd and pentium chips now being sold? How they perform with debian, etc. How they compare to each other. Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTE

Re: 2.5 series kernel experiences

2003-07-13 Thread Bob Hilliard
Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anyone care to share any experiences with the 2.5 series kernels? I'm > looking at moving my primary desktop and my laptop over to 2.5.75. Linus > has said that 2.6 betas would be out this month, so I figure now's a > good time to get a head start. Any

Re: Package to OCR from Image of Text, tips?

2003-07-13 Thread Joseph Barillari
> "DH" == Dan Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DH> I want to optical character recgonize some typewritten pages. DH> The documents were done on an old manual typewriter and is a DH> family history of sorts, going back six generations and by now DH> one more generation has to be

Re: changes to crontab not effective

2003-07-13 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Jochen Daum wrote: > I've made changes to crontab, of which only one is working. > /etc/crontab says, cron doesn't have to be restarted, and I wouldn't > know how, cause there is no rccron like in Suse. Try "/etc/init.d/cron reload" or "/etc/init.d/cron restart". best regards Andr

changes to crontab not effective

2003-07-13 Thread Jochen Daum
Hi ! I've come to Debian after using Suse for a while. Please excuse any expectations, though mine are not big. I've made changes to crontab, of which only one is working. /etc/crontab says, cron doesn't have to be restarted, and I wouldn't know how, cause there is no rccron like in Suse. Any ide

Re: Strange eth0 problem. Help!!!!

2003-07-13 Thread Bruce Banner
I fingered it out. In /var/lib/dhcp/dhcp.leases the dlink put in a very long lease(about 3 months) I deleted the entry now my machine knows nothing about 192.168.0.1. Kevin if you don't want to wait you can shorten the amount of time it looks for a dhcp server in /etc/dhclient.conf timeout I set

Package to OCR from Image of Text, tips?

2003-07-13 Thread Dan Hunt
I want to optical character recgonize some typewritten pages. The documents were done on an old manual typewriter and is a family history of sorts, going back six generations and by now one more generation has to be added. I could scan them into tif or jpg images, and them transfer then onto

Re: Mozilla Very Very slow in rendering

2003-07-13 Thread Mark C
On Sat, 2003-07-12 at 00:48, Nathan Poznick wrote: > Is the redhat mozilla using XFT? I'd guess offhand no... I'm pretty sure it it, as its anti aliased > Out of curiosity, are you running an NVidia card? If so, you can use: > >Option "RenderAccel" "on" Yes I am, I'll give that a go

Re: Strange eth0 problem. Help!!!!

2003-07-13 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 14:03:16 -0700 (PDT) Bruce Banner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay I only used the exclamation marks to get your > attention. My problem is that I had to change my IP > address from dhcp to static to setup my dlink > broadband router then I changed eth0 back to dhcp. > Now u

I need a really good radius server...

2003-07-13 Thread James Myers
I need some suggestions for a good radius server. Thanks James <>

Re: Change font?

2003-07-13 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 03:02:05AM -0400, The Nyc0n wrote: > Here is the only thing I have found in my XF86Config-4 file that > references fonts, is this what I am suppose to have by default? I don't A couple months or so ago, an update to XFree86 changed the default order of fonts. If you are us

Strange eth0 problem. Help!!!!

2003-07-13 Thread Bruce Banner
Okay I only used the exclamation marks to get your attention. My problem is that I had to change my IP address from dhcp to static to setup my dlink broadband router then I changed eth0 back to dhcp. Now upon rebooting my laptop if I don't have my cable plugged in it takes along time for it to ge

Re: 2.5 series kernel experiences

2003-07-13 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
On Sunday 13 July 2003 20:25, Alex Malinovich wrote: > Anyone care to share any experiences with the 2.5 series kernels? I'm > looking at moving my primary desktop and my laptop over to 2.5.75. Linus > has said that 2.6 betas would be out this month, so I figure now's a > good time to get a head st

Re: How "unstable" is unstable?

2003-07-13 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
Brian McGroarty wrote: sid is pretty stable for most people. It is pretty usable, however take care of problematic combinations of platform/day of week when upgrading from a fresh woody install. Avoid PPC/Saturday, if posible. :P Regards, Ismael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: USB CD-RW for linux

2003-07-13 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sun, 2003-07-13 at 13:59, Ahmed Charles wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of a good USB > CD-RW drive with linux support. As I'm not familiar with usb and linux, I > don't know if its as setup friendly as with windows. > > Thanks > > Ahmed Charles

Re: 2.5 series kernel experiences

2003-07-13 Thread aradorlinux
El 13 Jul 2003 13:25:10 -0500 Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > for? I'm going to be using make-kpkg and friends to do all the work. Any > issues with that? Also, how about .config? Can I just copy over my > 2.4.21 .config and add new selections as necessary? Well, currently we've k

USB CD-RW for linux

2003-07-13 Thread Ahmed Charles
Hi, I was wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of a good USB CD-RW drive with linux support. As I'm not familiar with usb and linux, I don't know if its as setup friendly as with windows. Thanks Ahmed Charles _ MS

Unidentified subject!

2003-07-13 Thread Ahmed Charles
Hi, I was wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of a good USB CD-RW drive with linux support. As I'm not familiar with usb and linux, I don't know if its as setup friendly as with windows. Thanks Ahmed Charles _ Ti

Unidentified subject!

2003-07-13 Thread Ahmed Charles
Hi, I was wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of a good USB CD-RW drive with linux support. As I'm not familiar with usb and linux, I don't know if its as setup friendly as with windows. Thanks Ahmed Charles _ Ad

Re: PS1 in .bashrc

2003-07-13 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 19:30:10 +0200, Robin Gerard wrote: > with this PS1 I get: > > [18:31 : 0.16] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1] ~$ > > but if I write a very long command the cursor remains on the same line and > overlaps the prompt. >From "man bash": > \[ begin a sequence of non‐printing chara

Re: IEEE 1394 (FireWire) on Debian

2003-07-13 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 01:30:18PM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: > Does anyone have any info to share about 1394 devices on Debian? I just > ordered an external IDE enclosure with a DVD ROM drive that uses a 1394 > connection and am wondering how to proceed. I'm assuming (hoping) that > it's not mu

X 4.3 equivs

2003-07-13 Thread Piero
I compiled, just for th fun of doing it once, X 4.3. Now I shoud build the equivs files for apt. I suppose I have to download the equivs package. And then: which equivs should I build? Please: do not bother to tell me a detaild list. Just tell me: how can I know which equvs should be builded? --

IEEE 1394 (FireWire) on Debian

2003-07-13 Thread Alex Malinovich
Does anyone have any info to share about 1394 devices on Debian? I just ordered an external IDE enclosure with a DVD ROM drive that uses a 1394 connection and am wondering how to proceed. I'm assuming (hoping) that it's not much more difficult than USB storage devices. i.e. Load a low-level 1394 dr

Re: bash: esc space not recognised in cat script ?

2003-07-13 Thread David selby
Colin Watson wrote: On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 04:47:39PM +0100, David selby wrote: Hello again, more thorny bash escaped space problems ... in $_tox is a file called "this is a test" Below is the portion of code that is causing problems for _scantox in $_tox/* ; do _scantox=${_scantox//

2.5 series kernel experiences

2003-07-13 Thread Alex Malinovich
Anyone care to share any experiences with the 2.5 series kernels? I'm looking at moving my primary desktop and my laptop over to 2.5.75. Linus has said that 2.6 betas would be out this month, so I figure now's a good time to get a head start. Any particular things I should watch out for? I'm going

Re: OT: Text to speech engines

2003-07-13 Thread Joseph Barillari
> "LS" == Leo Spalteholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: LS> Hi, This is fairly OT but I'd be interested to hear your ideas LS> on this subject. First a little background information. I LS> may have the opportunity to develop an application that will LS> enable quadriplegics and

Re: why does debian undo boot text size

2003-07-13 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 16:47:47 +0200 (CEST) Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you have framebuffer support enabled in the kernel (and it works with > your card) you can try vga=791. That will give you 1024x768 (128 columns > x 48 rows) at 16 bpp. It's what I use on my laptop to avoid

OT: Text to speech engines

2003-07-13 Thread Leo Spalteholz
Hi, This is fairly OT but I'd be interested to hear your ideas on this subject. First a little background information. I may have the opportunity to develop an application that will enable quadriplegics and other severely disabled persons to communicate by selecting common phrases from a set

Re: OT: IDE/Bad Blocks: Call for mental assistance

2003-07-13 Thread Shri Shrikumar
On Sun, 2003-07-13 at 13:18, martin f krafft wrote: > What is weird is that S.M.A.R.T. reports no errors on most drives. > I use the smartmontools, and even long offline tests don't produce > any error information. Martin, Try checking the drives on yet another machine; How old are these machines

Re: what happened to freeswan?

2003-07-13 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 02:59:04PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > Rene isn't answering my mails. What happened to the FreeS/WAN kernel > patches? kernel-patch-freeswan-ext is gone, and > kernel-patch-freeswan is back to 1.96 (with 1.99 being the current > version). Moreover, freeswan-modules-sourc

crash on shutdown

2003-07-13 Thread Jaque Moreau
My freshly installed debian often crashes on shutdown when calling the umountfs script and my /usr partition is not unmounted. I use kernel-image-2.4.18-686 with ext2 on woody. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

PS1 in .bashrc

2003-07-13 Thread Robin Gerard
Hello, I encountered a trifling problem in my .bashrc: . . # Define some colors: RED='\e[1;31m' cyan='\e[0;36m' CYAN='\e[1;36m' YELLOW='\e[1;33m' NC='\e[0m' # No Color ...

Re: OT: IDE/Bad Blocks: Call for mental assistance

2003-07-13 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sun, 2003-07-13 at 06:51, martin f krafft wrote: > Folks, > > Over the past year, I have replaced something around 20 IDE > Harddrives in 5 different computers running Debian because of drive > faults. I know about IDE and that it's "consumer quality" and no > more, but it can't be the case tha

What do you suggest ?

2003-07-13 Thread Joachim Smit
I am configuring a router for a friend of mine. The last few weeks I've been trying to make it work with Redhat 9, but although I've quite some experience with iptables, I couldn't make it work. I think the reason is that he has a PPTP-connection to his ISP, and the combination Redhat 9 - PPT

Re: bash: esc space not recognised in cat script ?

2003-07-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 04:47:39PM +0100, David selby wrote: > Hello again, more thorny bash escaped space problems ... > in $_tox is a file called "this is a test" > Below is the portion of code that is causing problems > > for _scantox in $_tox/* ; do > _scantox=${_scantox// /\\ } Per

Apache fails to start after dist upgrade 2.2 to 3

2003-07-13 Thread Gordon Chapman
Just upgraded from Debian 2.2 to 3.0, fortunately on a test machine, but now Apache won't start. Problem I presume is related to Tomcat. Error given is Syntax error on line 69 of /etc/apache/httpd.conf: Invalid command 'JkWorkersFile', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a module not included in the

bash: esc space not recognised in cat script ?

2003-07-13 Thread David selby
Hello again, more thorny bash escaped space problems ... in $_tox is a file called "this is a test" Below is the portion of code that is causing problems for _scantox in $_tox/* ; do _scantox=${_scantox// /\\ } echo $_scantox cat "$_scantox" | xmessage -fn 9x15 -center -buttons OK,Print,

Re: bash: for to, reading escaped spaces in filenames

2003-07-13 Thread David selby
Jeff Schaller wrote: David selby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I need to scan a directory for the file names contained in it. However some of the file names are in the form of 342345\ remind\ for\ apt-get\ update ie they have escaped spaces in the name. Without resorting to c

Re: Changing from Woody to sarge

2003-07-13 Thread Antonio Rodr
On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 14:20:22 +0200 Kay-Michael Voit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I'm running a Woody system. > Now I would liken to change to Sarge, but I don't get along with the > Sarge installer. It fails to load libcudeb an (Inofficial DVD > Image/Network install/...) > Can I just u

Re: bash: for to, reading escaped spaces in filenames

2003-07-13 Thread David selby
Steve Lamb wrote: On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 11:05:41 +0100 David selby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I need to scan a directory for the file names contained in it. for _scantox in $(ls $_tox); do . done Why use ls? Use the shell's globbing. IE, poor man's ls: bash-2.05b$ echo * De

Re: why does debian undo boot text size

2003-07-13 Thread Roberto Sanchez
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: > > I'm using a boot time text setting (using the vga= setting in lilo) > which sets up a 80x50 screen size. Some time during the boot process > this gets undone and I'm back to 80x25. > > This start happening a while back. > > Anyone know why this might be happ

Re: Accidently uninstalled KDE

2003-07-13 Thread David Goodenough
On Sunday 13 July 2003 14:20, Brian Gonzales wrote: > > > Can I just shitcan all of KDE and start with a fresh install? > > > > Yeah, that can work. > > Well, my question didn't come out as I expected. Is there a command to > completely remove *only* KDE, then, do a fresh KDE install. It depends o

Re: Radeon 9000 Pro

2003-07-13 Thread Roberto Sanchez
--- Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > --- Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I'm trying to get XFree86 going with my Radeon 9000 Pro in Woody. > >> > > > > There is your problem. The Radeon 9000 Pro is too new for that > >

Re: Line drawing character missing?

2003-07-13 Thread Paladin
On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 21:55:16 -0400 Kevin McKinley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This isn't a font problem, it's a language/encoding problem. > > Run "dpkg-reconfigure locales". > > From the list choose one of the options beginning with "pt" (I > suspect you want "pt_PT ISO 8859-1"). I've that se

Re: Line drawing character missing?

2003-07-13 Thread Paladin
On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 21:36:27 -0400 Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This may seem obvious but which fonts have you installed in X. Is this what you're asking: xfonts-100dpi xfonts-100dpi-transcoded xfonts-75dpi xfonts-75dpi-transcoded xfonts-base xfonts-base-transcoded xfonts-scalabl

Re: Eject problem

2003-07-13 Thread Jerry Van Brimmer
Henning Moll wrote: On Saturday 12 July 2003 03:28, Jerry Van Brimmer wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ eject /dev/hdc < eject returns an error eject: unable to eject, last error: Invalid argument I got the same problem here. But then i realised, that the command works for root. So i think it

Re: Radeon 9000 Pro

2003-07-13 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 01:45:21AM +0100, Antony Gelberg wrote: > Antony Gelberg wrote: > > Maybe not. The site is NLA. I've emailed Daniel Stone to see where > > his Woody backports live these days, meanwhile if anyone knows where > > they are, please feel free to share! > > > > Antony > > Righ

Re: How "unstable" is unstable?

2003-07-13 Thread Adam Garside
Another approach, and the suggested one is to check www.apt-get.org for a backport of the sid packages you require. You might also attempt to backport a package yourself, though kde is quite non-trivial. asg On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 10:50:26PM -0500, Brian McGroarty wrote: > On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 a

Re: Accidently uninstalled KDE

2003-07-13 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 07:20:09AM -0600, Brian Gonzales wrote: > > > Can I just shitcan all of KDE and start with a fresh install? > > > > Yeah, that can work. > > > Well, my question didn't come out as I expected. Is there a command to > completely

Re: Kernel compile error with make-kpkg

2003-07-13 Thread Chris Metzler
On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 17:15:13 +0200 "Esben Laursen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [ past traffic trimmed ] > > The funny part is that if I do a "make dep && make && make modules" > there is no error message and it compile correct. why is that? Read your original error messages again. You'r

Re: X's "default console input source" = /dev/what? [Solved]

2003-07-13 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Sat, 2003-07-12 at 13:32, Pigeon wrote: > On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 09:27:46PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 12:23:15PM -0400, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > > > My own > > > suspicion is that it *could* be looking for the virtual console on which > > > X11 is running, particularly if t

Re: Changing from Woody to sarge

2003-07-13 Thread Wolfgang Fischer
On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 14:40:16 +0200, Kay-Michael Voit wrote: > Hi, > I'm running a Woody system. > Now I would liken to change to Sarge, but I don't get along with the > Sarge installer. It fails to load libcudeb an (Inofficial DVD > Image/Network install/...) > Can I just update my old Woody

Re: Accidently uninstalled KDE

2003-07-13 Thread Brian Gonzales
> > Can I just shitcan all of KDE and start with a fresh install? > > Yeah, that can work. > Well, my question didn't come out as I expected. Is there a command to completely remove *only* KDE, then, do a fresh KDE install. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "uns

what happened to freeswan?

2003-07-13 Thread martin f krafft
Rene isn't answering my mails. What happened to the FreeS/WAN kernel patches? kernel-patch-freeswan-ext is gone, and kernel-patch-freeswan is back to 1.96 (with 1.99 being the current version). Moreover, freeswan-modules-source seems to be new. I hope that Debian doesn't expect people to run FreeS

Re: mutt: record to gzipped mbox?

2003-07-13 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 04:59:36AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Wherps, sorry. Erm, ok, dumb question, do the docs ever mention > that it would work as the default for sent mail? From what I > gathered from the muttrc examples it would work for ho

Changing from Woody to sarge

2003-07-13 Thread Kay-Michael Voit
Hi, I'm running a Woody system. Now I would liken to change to Sarge, but I don't get along with the Sarge installer. It fails to load libcudeb an (Inofficial DVD Image/Network install/...) Can I just update my old Woody installation to Sarge completely? What doo I have to do with apt-get? -

Re: OT: IDE/Bad Blocks: Call for mental assistance

2003-07-13 Thread martin f krafft
What is weird is that S.M.A.R.T. reports no errors on most drives. I use the smartmontools, and even long offline tests don't produce any error information. -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian develo

Re: Installing Intel Fortran on debian - db3 errors ?

2003-07-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 01:37:13PM -0500, B Thomas wrote: > I am trying to install intel fortran 90 compiler on debian unstable. > I get the following error : > > error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - No such file or directory (2) > error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm > In

Re: Pixels get messed up in X

2003-07-13 Thread Jochen Rosenbauer
Am Sonntag, 13. Juli 2003 00:58 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Hi, > > I installed Debian for the 1st time last night but I am having trouble > with X. Where I click buttons or drag windows the pixels get messed > up.This is only around the area where I have clicked and moved the > mouse. > Assuming

OT: IDE/Bad Blocks: Call for mental assistance

2003-07-13 Thread martin f krafft
Folks, Over the past year, I have replaced something around 20 IDE Harddrives in 5 different computers running Debian because of drive faults. I know about IDE and that it's "consumer quality" and no more, but it can't be the case that the failure rate is that high. The drives are mostly made by

Re: mutt: record to gzipped mbox?

2003-07-13 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 04:55:02 -0700 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Right, yes, that is in the Debian version of mutt by default and it > works like a charm for everything else, I just can't figure out how to > use it for a gzipped folder as the record... Wherps, sorry. Erm, ok, dumb

Re: mutt: record to gzipped mbox?

2003-07-13 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 04:14:53AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Well, I googled on "mutt mboz gzip" and came up with the muttrc here: > http://216.239.57.104/search?q=cache:N_HY6Wb7CTAJ:muttfr.org/mutt/perso/vv/muttrc.html+mutt+gzip+mbox&hl=en&ie=UTF

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