Re: apt-get install c-compiler

2003-08-17 Thread nate
Dan Jacobson said: > Indeed I see I have a "subscription" to every new version, with no > automatic mechanism to get rid of the old. Is this the ideal situation? since they are seperate packages ..they won't remove each other. if you want to maintain just 1 C compiler and have it upgraded wheneve

Re: emacs & spell checking broke

2003-08-17 Thread Brian Nelson
"Rodney D. Myers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A quick question concerning emacs & spell checking. > > I have emacs20/emacs21 installed, and aspell, aspell-bin, aspell-en, to > work with sylpheed. > > Since aspell, evidently supersedes ispell, now emacs does not spell > check, complaining about n

"Solved"... ?? Re: CUPS fails outside of Gimp. HP1200 LJ

2003-08-17 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 11:25:03AM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > My printer stopped printing yesterday and I can't figure out what happened > from debugging output from CUPS. In most cases there is no apparent ... > I have tried modifying the printer through localhost:631, deleting it and > recr

Re: rms on debian

2003-08-17 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 10:12:13AM +0800, Isaac To wrote: > Diego Calleja Garc?a <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > *ahem*ahem* > > > > I was going to saywell. Better I'll shut up. Some people just > > can't learn. > > Learn what? Or is it that you can't learn? > > Different people have dif

Various terminal display problems

2003-08-17 Thread Ross Boylan
About a week or two ago a number of things changed in my terminals. 1) The default font in my xterm's became one with incredibly wide spacing between the characters. It looked like a very stretched out fixed width font. 2) My .Xresources on root is XTerm*scrollBar: on XTerm*saveLines: 9000 XTer

Re: print manager - cups - mostly SOLVED

2003-08-17 Thread David Fokkema
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 10:30:00PM +0200, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Sunday 17 August 2003 8:31 pm, David Fokkema wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 06:23:10PM +0200, Richard Lyons wrote: > [...] > > > I'll look for the previous thread. > > Did so: suggestion there was that either gimp1.2-print not

Re: Fetchmail stuck on bad messages

2003-08-17 Thread Michael D Schleif
Derrick 'dman' Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003:08:18:00:57:59-0400] scribed: > On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 08:22:52PM -0500, Michael D Schleif wrote: > [...] > > | There must be something that exim can/does do that procmail cannot? > > exim is an MTA (Mail Transfer Agent) that also includes an LDA (

krecord data dropouts

2003-08-17 Thread Tom Kuiper
Greetings all. I'm trying to record music to a .wav file with krecord but I get a lot of dropouts in the recorded data. The resulting .wav file sounds like a skipping CD. I've got a reasonably fast system (1666.743 MHz processor) and I've deleted all other processes so my desktop is empty, excep

Re: Fetchmail stuck on bad messages

2003-08-17 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 08:22:52PM -0500, Michael D Schleif wrote: [...] | There must be something that exim can/does do that procmail cannot? exim is an MTA (Mail Transfer Agent) that also includes an LDA (Local Delivery Agent). procmail is an LDA. exim does a lot that procmail can't do, and p

Re: lost in a sea of iptables docs

2003-08-17 Thread Bret Comstock Waldow
On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 00:20, Paul E Condon wrote: > On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 11:38:42PM -0400, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote: > > I want to get iptables running on my laptop. I'm behind a > > gateway/router now, but I'll be on the road in a few weeks. > > > > I see lots of docs about what rules to w

Re: fetchmail error

2003-08-17 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 06:25:14PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: | Hi deb-users, | could anyone point me in the right direction. | pop3 server->fetchmail->sendmail->pop3 client (evolution) | Fetchmail issues an SMTP error *recieves*, not issues. sendmail issued the error. | and cant continue getting

Re: can see almost all languages in mozilla

2003-08-17 Thread Dan Jacobson
Ladislav> apt-get install ttf-baekmuk should solve your problem. OK, now looking at Japanese, I occasionally notice boxes with "9A28", "6CA2", etc. I must be missing a few chars. What would the mozilla user of today be sure to have apt-gotten in order to be prepared for almost any language? Do

apt-get install c-compiler

2003-08-17 Thread Dan Jacobson
# apt-get install c-compiler Package c-compiler is a virtual package provided by: gcc-3.0 1:3.0.4-13 tcc 0.9.19-1 gcc272 2.7.2.3-18 gcc-3.3 1:3.3.1-1 gcc-3.2 1:3.2.3-7 gcc-2.95 1:2.95.4-17 gcc 4:3.3.1-1 bcc 0.16.3-2 altgcc 1:2.7.2.3-2 You should explicitly select one to install. #

can't post via gmane.linux.debian.user

2003-08-17 Thread Dan Jacobson
I notice nntp postings via gmane.org's gmane.linux.debian.user to this group never get posted, even though NNTP returns 240 OK and http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/ says "This list is not moderated, posting is allowed to anyone." On gmane.discuss they have no further solutions. I don't know if

APT::Cache-Limit 16777216 still needed?

2003-08-17 Thread Dan Jacobson
How can one tell if I still need to set APT::Cache-Limit 16777216; for the current version of apt? $ apt-config dump doesn't say if the default value has been increased. $ which apt-get|xargs strings -a|grep -i limit doesn't help. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

/var/lib/dpkg/available a day behind apt

2003-08-17 Thread Dan Jacobson
Gentlemen, my /var/lib/dpkg/available file always seems a day behind apt: $ grep-available -s version -XP zsh version: 4.0.7-6 $ apt-cache policy zsh Installed: 4.0.7-3 Candidate: 4.0.7-6 $ grep-available -s version -XP base-config version: 1.67 $ apt-cache policy base-config Installed: 1

Re: lost in a sea of iptables docs

2003-08-17 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 11:38:42PM -0400, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote: > I want to get iptables running on my laptop. I'm behind a > gateway/router now, but I'll be on the road in a few weeks. > > I see lots of docs about what rules to write for doing this, stopping > that, etc. > > Where do I pu

Re: rms on debian

2003-08-17 Thread Isaac To
> "Paul" == Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Paul> On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 10:12:13AM +0800, Isaac To wrote: >> ... Different people have different opinions, and the fact that >> www.gnu.org decided not to have a link to Debian means that the crews >> in www.gnu.org

Re: What service is using a port?

2003-08-17 Thread nate
> so I'm trying to find out what's using port 139 that wasn't doing so > yesterday. fuser -n tcp 139 then run ps auxw | grep where is what fuser says is using the port if nothing shows up try netstat -an | grep 139 netstat -anp works well but I use fuser out of habbit nate (my first post t

Re: rms on debian

2003-08-17 Thread Paul E Condon
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 10:12:13AM +0800, Isaac To wrote: > ... > Different people have different opinions, and the fact that www.gnu.org > decided not to have a link to Debian means that the crews in www.gnu.org > agreed to RMS about not having Debian listed

lost in a sea of iptables docs

2003-08-17 Thread Bret Comstock Waldow
I want to get iptables running on my laptop. I'm behind a gateway/router now, but I'll be on the road in a few weeks. I see lots of docs about what rules to write for doing this, stopping that, etc. Where do I put them? How do I start an iptable firewall when my system starts? What file where

Re: Building Ati Radeon 9000 module for Debian bf24 Kernel

2003-08-17 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 18:27:53 -0400 lameth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I installed Debian I selected the BF24 flavor of the pre built > kernel but I've check and there are no source packages for it. Since I > couldn't find the sources for Bf24 I downloaded kernel-source-2.4.18. I > modifie

Re: rms on debian

2003-08-17 Thread Carl Fink
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 10:12:13AM +0800, Isaac To wrote: > Different people have different opinions, and the fact that www.gnu.org > decided not to have a link to Debian means that the crews in www.gnu.org > agreed to RMS about not having Debian listed is a good idea, even though GNU > is the one

Re: Sound Config Asus A7V8x-x with 2.4.22-pre10

2003-08-17 Thread Rex Chan
On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 10:32:06AM -0600, Dan Hunt wrote: > On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 03:35:05PM +1000, Rex Chan wrote: > | Hi Dan, > | > | I'm just wondering if you were able in the end to get sound > | working on your motherboard. > > Thanks for asking Rex, not yet. I will keep you posted. Le

Re: ssh-agent for gpg

2003-08-17 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-08-18T00:17:41Z, Ryan Nowakowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I did an "apt-get install gpgsm" and got a package not found. Similarly a > search of http://packages.debian.org returned nothing. I found a package > at apt-get.org on an unofficial apt repository. Is there no official > de

Re: rms on debian

2003-08-17 Thread Isaac To
> "Diego" == Diego Calleja García <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> programs, and their ftp server distributes them. That's why we don't >> have links to their site on www.gnu.org. Diego> *ahem*ahem* Diego> I was going to saywell. Better I'll shut up. Some people just Di

Re: Building Ati Radeon 9000 module for Debian bf24 Kernel

2003-08-17 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello lameth (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I've downloaded the drivers for Xserver 4.1.0 from Ati's web site. > Although there are over a dozen pre built modules for the 2.4 linux > kernel none of them match Debians. The ati drivers come with the > source code and a script to build a module for

Re: Traditional Install or Knoppix

2003-08-17 Thread Darryl Barlow
Thanks to everyone who replied to my Post on this topic. Though a Knoppix install may be the way to go in some circumstances, I will stick to the more tradititional installation. Darryl -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMA

Re: Traditional Install or Knoppix?

2003-08-17 Thread Michael Epting
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 09:57:08AM +, Lou Losee wrote: > I installed via Knoppix. Things went smoothly and I have had no > problems with the apt-get upgrade process. > > However > > There are *situations* to think about: > - By default the install goes into a single partition. There ar

Re: emacs & spell checking broke

2003-08-17 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 01:15:32 +1000 Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 11:31:48AM -0700, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > > A quick question concerning emacs & spell checking. > > > > I have emacs20/emacs21 installed, and aspell, aspell-bin, aspell-en, > > to work with sylpheed.

Re: rms on debian : background noise

2003-08-17 Thread J.F.Gratton
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 22:07, ben wrote: > be fair. if it wasn't for rms, there might very well not be a linux, > much less a debian. A zealot is a zealot is a zealot. He might have been usefull, but past a certain point, constant whining just becomes background noise. >From what I read (here a

Re: ssh-agent for gpg

2003-08-17 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 06:57:57PM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: > At 2003-08-17T22:43:17Z, Ryan Nowakowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Is there a deb package that offers a password caching agent for gnupg > > similar to ssh-agent? > > Yes. It's called "gpg-agent" (surprisingly enough), and

Re: rms on debian

2003-08-17 Thread Glenn Howell Evans
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 22:07, ben wrote: > Howell Evans wrote: > > Steve Lamb wrote: > > > >> On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 15:26:43 -0400 > >> Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> > >>> What's ironic is that Linex is a Debian derivative. See > >>> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >>> http://

latex stoped handling tif images?

2003-08-17 Thread Micha Feigin
I am using lyx to create some latex documents. When embedding images in lyx everything seems to work fine, but since some point in the upgrades I can no longer create the output from the exported tex file. I get various error messages from pdfelatex and elatex. At first I downgraded and it solved t

Re: rms on debian

2003-08-17 Thread ben
Howell Evans wrote: Steve Lamb wrote: On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 15:26:43 -0400 Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What's ironic is that Linex is a Debian derivative. See http://www.debian.org/misc/children-distros#linex So, how many people upon reading this lost a bit of r

Re: ssh-agent for gpg

2003-08-17 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-08-17T22:43:17Z, Ryan Nowakowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a deb package that offers a password caching agent for gnupg > similar to ssh-agent? Yes. It's called "gpg-agent" (surprisingly enough), and is in the "gpgsm" package. -- Kirk Strauser pgp0.pgp Description: PG

Re: ssh-agent for gpg

2003-08-17 Thread John Hasler
Ryan Nowakowski writes: > Is there a deb package that offers a password caching agent for gnupg > similar to ssh-agent? I hope not. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

ssh-agent for gpg

2003-08-17 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
Is there a deb package that offers a password caching agent for gnupg similar to ssh-agent? -- Ryan Nowakowski Computer Support for Small Business and Individuals http://austincomputersupport.com pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: netbase update

2003-08-17 Thread Chris Metzler
On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 18:09:44 -0400 (EDT) Afra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am sorry if this is already been answered, but from the archives, I > don't think so. Really. I went to the mailing list archives search page, at http://lists.debian.org/search.html and searched on simply "netbase" i

Building Ati Radeon 9000 module for Debian bf24 Kernel

2003-08-17 Thread lameth
I've downloaded the drivers for Xserver 4.1.0 from Ati's web site. Although there are over a dozen pre built modules for the 2.4 linux kernel none of them match Debians. The ati drivers come with the source code and a script to build a module for what ever version of the kernel your running but

Re: print manager - cups - mostly SOLVED

2003-08-17 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sunday 17 August 2003 8:31 pm, David Fokkema wrote: > On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 06:23:10PM +0200, Richard Lyons wrote: [...] > > I'll look for the previous thread. Did so: suggestion there was that either gimp1.2-print not installed (it was) or printer not set up in gimp - it wasn't. Worked as

[Fwd: Netbase config hangs : SOLVED]

2003-08-17 Thread Greg Folkert
Umm here -Forwarded Message- From: J.F.Gratton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian list (user) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Netbase config hangs : SOLVED Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 11:42:15 -0400 ... I should have thought of going at http://bugs.debian.org/ before asking something here ... F

Re: What service is using a port?

2003-08-17 Thread Rus Foster
On Sun, 17 Aug 2003, John M. Purser wrote: > I apologize. I know this was a thread a while back and I believe it was on > this mailing list but now I can't find it. I'm getting this error message > from samba: > [2003/08/17 12:15:26, 0] lib/util_sock.c:open_socket_in(789) > bind failed on port

What service is using a port?

2003-08-17 Thread John M. Purser
I apologize. I know this was a thread a while back and I believe it was on this mailing list but now I can't find it. I'm getting this error message from samba: [2003/08/17 12:15:26, 0] lib/util_sock.c:open_socket_in(789) bind failed on port 139 socket_addr = 0.0.0.0. Error = Address already

netbase update

2003-08-17 Thread Afra
I am sorry if this is already been answered, but from the archives, I don't think so. Upon updating my Debian unstable system, apt-get seems to hang when upgrading the Netbase package to netbase 4.11. When I do a ps, I see entries such as: /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/share/debconf/frontend /var/lib/dpk

Re: exim-tls just says "no, stupid!"

2003-08-17 Thread Will Trillich
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 10:22:02AM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Derrick 'dman' Hudson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030617 09:43]: > > On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 01:17:38AM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: > > | On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 10:42:45PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > > > | > What problems have you face

Re: exim-tls or VPN -- SOLVED (ssh tunnels!)

2003-08-17 Thread Will Trillich
On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 10:42:45PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Will Trillich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030615 22:14]: > > i've been fencing with exim-tls and am at the cusp of > > surrendering. i hear that i could use a vpn to allow my emailers > > to connect securely and send/receive email that way,

Re: rms on debian

2003-08-17 Thread Diego Calleja García
El 17 Aug 2003 00:18:08 -0400 Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > programs, and their ftp server distributes them. That's why we don't > have links to their site on www.gnu.org. *ahem*ahem* I was going to saywell. Better I'll shut up. Some people just can't learn. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: raid question

2003-08-17 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya rudy On Sun, 17 Aug 2003, Rudy Gevaert wrote: > Hello, > > I was wondering can I set up raid when a partition is mounted? > e.g. hda3 is /home and I want to set up raid1 with hdc3. you can do the "mirroring" ( raid1 ) of hda3 to hdc3 but if you expect to boot off hdc when hda is re

Re: Support for UMC8673

2003-08-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 16:02, Chris Owen wrote: > Hi there, wonder if anyone can help me out with this. > > I installed Debian on an old laptop, found that hard disk access is > unusably slow, apparently this is because my disk controller, a UMC8673, > is not supported by the kernel. I have kern

Support for UMC8673

2003-08-17 Thread Chris Owen
Hi there, wonder if anyone can help me out with this. I installed Debian on an old laptop, found that hard disk access is unusably slow, apparently this is because my disk controller, a UMC8673, is not supported by the kernel. I have kernel 2.2.20. Any internet search on this points towards Pa

Re: Is there ANY .pdf format editor for Linux with a WYSIWYG GUI

2003-08-17 Thread John Foster
Jamin W. Collins wrote: On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 09:59:32AM -0500, John Foster wrote: I would be happy to find a way to download .pdf files & convert them to html... You mean, like say: pdftohtml - Translates pdf documents into html format Description: Translates pdf documents into ht

Re: Is there ANY .pdf format editor for Linux with a WYSIWYG GUI

2003-08-17 Thread John Foster
Shaun ONeil wrote: On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 06:24, Wayne Gemmell wrote: On Saturday 16 August 2003 22:32, David Monarres wrote: On Friday 15 August 2003 06:43 pm, John Foster wrote: I want to locate an editor that will run on Linux that will handle .pdf flie format. I really am only in

Re: INVESTMENT

2003-08-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 11:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Attn: Sir/Madam, > > My name is Mr. Richard Cole chairman of contract award and monitoring [snip] > Presently I am now in Europe to search for a reliable person/company of > high > integrity /dignity and one with conscience who will claim thi

Debian Installation on Apple's PowerBook G4

2003-08-17 Thread Christian Banik
my problem is partition the HD. I will use MacOSX and Linux. I've got the following questions: -Can i use the root Mac OS X Partion as Debian /home Partition because of MP3's (i think that's not possible)? -Should i install MacOSx first or Debian? -Are 4 GB enougth for Debian's Mac Version

Re: dualboot

2003-08-17 Thread paul
claus larsen declaimed: > hello. > > I have 2 computers with windows XP and redhat, booted with grub. > I want to install debian on both machines, booted with the existing grub. > How do i do that? 1. Figure out where your Debian installation will live, you need at least one dedicated partition.

Re: Help needed with ethernet configuration - dhclient seems to ignore DHCPOFFER

2003-08-17 Thread Komáromi Eszter
Thanks for the help, David, I managed to find your thread in the archives. I get some weird packets indeed, not arp though. Here's tcpdump's output (tcpdump -s 2000 -nXe -i eth0): tcpdump: WARNING: eth0: no IPv4 address assigned tcpdump: listening on eth0 16:20:58.396095 0:e0:29:9a:6b:ec ff:ff:

Re: Any IMAP portal system

2003-08-17 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 06:55:50PM +0530, Dasmeet wrote: > Hi! Is there any .deb package for PHP based Portal system (scripts) that > have IMAP/SMTP, > calendar, notebook and other utilities build in to it alongwith other > general portal utilities? Any information would be of great help. Thanks

kernel 2.6 how-to

2003-08-17 Thread James Horey
Hello, I recently installed kernel-image-2.6-test2 from the debian repository. However, when I try to boot into the 2.6 kernel, I get the following message: Journalled Block Device driver loaded mount: /dev2/root2 is not a valid block device mount: /dev2/root2 is not a valid block device mount: y

Re: INVESTMENT

2003-08-17 Thread Peter Whysall
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 20:19, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 12:35:37 -0500 > Michael D Schleif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Please, be more concise with your attributions and quoting: > > > > > This has to be a first for me in almost 20 years of being online. Someone > playing

Re: rms on debian

2003-08-17 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 09:23:54PM +0200, David Fokkema wrote: > > Could you elaborate a bit on that? What's the problem with the GNU > _Free_ Documentation License? Other than the ongoing debate on debian-legal about it? Seems some see it as free enough and others don't. Personally, I agree wi

Re: No modem beep with pon - solved

2003-08-17 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Shaul Karl wrote: > I guess that a better description for beeps would be all kind of > whistles, doesn't it? I would try to inspect the modem initialization > string and explicitly set the controls of the speaker to on. It could be > that your modem use the PC built in speak

Re: rms on debian

2003-08-17 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 01:21:53 -0400 Howell Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you didnt know RMS was a zealot and does stuff like this all the time > then you were not paying attention IMHO. You mean much like you CCing people who are clearly reading the list against the standard policies o

Re: rms on debian

2003-08-17 Thread Howell Evans
Steve Lamb wrote: On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 15:26:43 -0400 Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What's ironic is that Linex is a Debian derivative. See http://www.debian.org/misc/children-distros#linex So, how many people upon reading this lost a bit of respect because of RM

Re: rms on debian

2003-08-17 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 15:26:43 -0400 Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What's ironic is that Linex is a Debian derivative. See > http://www.debian.org/misc/children-distros#linex So, how many people upon reading this lost a bit of respect because of RMS' obvious zealotry ignor

Re: rms on debian

2003-08-17 Thread Stephen Touset
David Fokkema wrote: On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 03:19:24PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: David Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: TRB: What about Debian GNU/Linux, which by default does not install any non-free software? RMS: Non-free programs are not officially considered "part of Debia

Re: rms on debian

2003-08-17 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > RMS: When I recommend a GNU/Linux distribution, I choose based on > ethical considerations. Today I would recommend GNU/LinEx, the > distribution prepared by the government of Extremadura, because that's > the only installable distribution that consists ent

Re: rms on debian

2003-08-17 Thread David Fokkema
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 03:19:24PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > David Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > TRB: What about Debian GNU/Linux, which by default does not install any > > > non-free software? > > > > > > RMS: Non-free programs are not officially considered "part of Debian

Re: Hard drive space disappearing

2003-08-17 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 12:39:05PM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: > For the last couple of weeks I've been having a problem with my hard > drive spontaneously "misplacing" about 20 GB of space of my primary > partition. I'll start getting out of disk space errors, do a df, and > see that I have some

Re: INVESTMENT

2003-08-17 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 12:35:37 -0500 Michael D Schleif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wayne Gemmell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003:08:17:18:55:52+0200] scribed: > > I seem to get one of these everyday these days. > > I think its an epidemic!! > > On Sunday 17 August 2003 18:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >

Re: rms on debian

2003-08-17 Thread Peter S Galbraith
David Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > TRB: What about Debian GNU/Linux, which by default does not install any > > non-free software? > > > > RMS: Non-free programs are not officially considered "part of Debian", > > but Debian does distribute them. The Debian web site describes non-free

Re: Hard Drive Mirroring

2003-08-17 Thread James Duberg
Vincent Kruger wrote: Hi I would like to mirror a hard drive and have no idea where else to get information from. I've tried google and the other stuff. but nothing... if anyone has any information or manuals please send for me [EMAIL PROTECTED] thanks. :D Another idea. Hardware. Works with a

Re: [OT]: CVS replacement

2003-08-17 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 17:45:36 +1000, Rob Weir wrote: [...] > Another option would be to create a branch for your home dir and a > branch for your web server. Only have the files you want in each one, > and merge your changes between them. This lets you decide how in sync > you want to keep the

Re: stuck apt-get

2003-08-17 Thread David Fokkema
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 07:32:11PM +0200, David Fokkema wrote: > On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 01:04:34PM -0400, gerard wrote: > > I did an upgrade on my machine and it keeps getting stuck on Setting up > > netbase (4.11) ... > > I did ctrl-C a couple times and it ended it but when I started tit again >

Re: print manager - cups

2003-08-17 Thread David Fokkema
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 06:23:10PM +0200, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Sunday 17 August 2003 7:03 pm, David Fokkema wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 03:24:08PM +0200, Richard Lyons wrote: > [...verbose description of print failure from gimp snipped...] > > > Well, you speak of at least one applicat

xinetd update broke my firewall.

2003-08-17 Thread ZekeVarg
After I ran apt-get dist-upgrade my firewall is totaly out. When booting I see alot of xinetd warnings, but they flash by to fast so I can't read them and at the end there's something about iptables. Tried to look though /var/log to see if I could find anything, but no luck. When checking my firewa

Re: print manager - cups

2003-08-17 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sunday 17 August 2003 7:03 pm, David Fokkema wrote: > On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 03:24:08PM +0200, Richard Lyons wrote: [...verbose description of print failure from gimp snipped...] > Well, you speak of at least one application which prints perfectly > normally. So you know there's nothing wrong

Контролируйте Ваш персонал!

2003-08-17 Thread Бизнес-семинары
Внимание: Вы можете отписаться от рассылок послав любое письмо по адресу [EMAIL PROTECTED] СЕМИНАРЫ: ?Технология подбора и оценки персонала? - 26 августа ?Разработка системы мотивации персонала? – 27 августа. На семинары приглашаются руководители предприятий и организаций всех форм собственнос

Re: Netbase 4.11 broken on "unstable" ?

2003-08-17 Thread Joerg Rossdeutscher
Hi, Am So, 2003-08-17 um 17.30 schrieb J.F.Gratton: > When I apt-get dist-upgrade my unstable system, the configuration phase > of dpkg hangs while configuring netbase > Any hindsights will be appreciated :) ps faux shows clearly that it hangs in a grep-command with a missing "which file to grep

Intel mobo

2003-08-17 Thread bob parker
Hi folks, Anyone have any experience with this board + Debian? Intel D865GBFLK Planning a future system. Thanks Bob Parker -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Hard drive space disappearing

2003-08-17 Thread Alex Malinovich
For the last couple of weeks I've been having a problem with my hard drive spontaneously "misplacing" about 20 GB of space of my primary partition. I'll start getting out of disk space errors, do a df, and see that I have something like 200 KB of free space. I'll shut down, reboot, and have 20 GB o

dualboot

2003-08-17 Thread claus larsen
hello. I have 2 computers with windows XP and redhat, booted with grub. I want to install debian on both machines, booted with the existing grub. How do i do that? Regards Claus _ Get your spam-free, Linux email now --> http://www.Lin

Re: INVESTMENT

2003-08-17 Thread Michael D Schleif
Wayne Gemmell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003:08:17:18:55:52+0200] scribed: > I seem to get one of these everyday these days. > I think its an epidemic!! > > Wayne > > On Sunday 17 August 2003 18:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Attn: Sir/Madam, > > > > My name is Mr. Richard Cole chairman of contract

Re: stuck apt-get

2003-08-17 Thread David Fokkema
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 01:04:34PM -0400, gerard wrote: > I did an upgrade on my machine and it keeps getting stuck on Setting up > netbase (4.11) ... > I did ctrl-C a couple times and it ended it but when I started tit again > it still just stuck there. Any ideas? > > ~gerard Actually, this is t

Re: stuck apt-get -- Netbase 4.11 Workaround

2003-08-17 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 13:04, gerard wrote: > I did an upgrade on my machine and it keeps getting stuck on Setting up > netbase (4.11) ... > I did ctrl-C a couple times and it ended it but when I started tit again > it still just stuck there. Any ideas? I edited /var/lib/dpkg/info/netbase.postinst

Re: Netbase config hangs : SOLVED

2003-08-17 Thread David Fokkema
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 11:42:15AM -0400, J.F.Gratton wrote: > ... I should have thought of going at http://bugs.debian.org/ before > asking something here ... > > > For those of you who were stuck with the same problem, see : > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=205904 > and > h

Re: INVESTMENT

2003-08-17 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 12:55, Wayne Gemmell wrote: > I seem to get one of these everyday these days. > I think its an epidemic!! > > Wayne Been forwarded to proper peoples with full headers. > On Sunday 17 August 2003 18:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Attn: Sir/Madam, > > > > My name is Mr. Ri

Re: Netbase 4.11 broken on "unstable" ?

2003-08-17 Thread David Fokkema
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 11:30:21AM -0400, J.F.Gratton wrote: > Anyone came across this problem ? > > When I apt-get dist-upgrade my unstable system, the configuration phase > of dpkg hangs while configuring netbase > > A quick ps -fe | grep netbase shows this : > > root 29578 29577 9 11:26

stuck apt-get

2003-08-17 Thread gerard
I did an upgrade on my machine and it keeps getting stuck on Setting up netbase (4.11) ... I did ctrl-C a couple times and it ended it but when I started tit again it still just stuck there. Any ideas? ~gerard signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: print manager - cups

2003-08-17 Thread David Fokkema
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 03:24:08PM +0200, Richard Lyons wrote: > I have a Xerox Docuprint 4512 laser printer, which has worked with various > distros of Linux. In some, I have to call it a 4508, as the 4512 driver is > absent, and the 4512N doesn't work. It is not a PS printer. > > Feeling a

Re: Netbase 4.11 broken on "unstable" ?

2003-08-17 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 11:30, J.F.Gratton wrote: > Anyone came across this problem ? > > When I apt-get dist-upgrade my unstable system, the configuration phase > of dpkg hangs while configuring netbase > > A quick ps -fe | grep netbase shows this : > > root 29578 29577 9 11:26 pts/300:0

dpkg: serious warning

2003-08-17 Thread Hendrik Sirges
Hi, after my system halted while installing some packages dselect -> install puts out the following errormessages: dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `kdebase' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed. dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `python

Re: INVESTMENT

2003-08-17 Thread Wayne Gemmell
I seem to get one of these everyday these days. I think its an epidemic!! Wayne On Sunday 17 August 2003 18:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Attn: Sir/Madam, > > My name is Mr. Richard Cole chairman of contract award and monitoring > committee of the ministry of industry and international trade >

Re: sarge(testing) dist-upgrade problem?

2003-08-17 Thread Richard Kimber
On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 08:21:29 -0400 (GMT) Paul Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fixed it. Ran an upgrade via aptitude which installed a few packages > but removed none. Now apt-get dist-upgrade thinks everything's up to > date. Must have been some dependency glitch. [snip] > 1 packages upgr

INVESTMENT

2003-08-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Attn: Sir/Madam, My name is Mr. Richard Cole chairman of contract award and monitoring committee of the ministry of industry and international trade development ,my duty as empowered by the Mauritius government is to provide the basic amenities, social recreational activities in urban and rural ar

Re: Undeleting from a FAT partition

2003-08-17 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sunday 17 August 2003 6:05 pm, Neilen wrote: [...] > Thanks, this worked a charm. I happened to know the names of the files > I wanted to undelete, since they were just dscf.jpg, etc. But how > could one find out what the possible undeletable files are? It's a very long time ago since I u

Which kernel for IBM Pentium 133 Laptop

2003-08-17 Thread Bengt Thure'e
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hej, I have now a number of times tried to upgrade my kernel from Woodys stable default 2.2.20 (installed from boot floppies), to a 2.4 version. I have tried with kernel-image-2.4.18-386 (kernel-pcmcia-modules-2.4.18-386) as well as kernel-image-2.4.18

Re: Undeleting from a FAT partition

2003-08-17 Thread Neilen
Hi Rob On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 10:21, Rob Sims wrote: > On Thursday 14 August 2003 02:08 am, Neilen wrote: > > Is there any linux based software that can undelete FAT files? I have > > not had much luck searching for "linux undelete FAT" on google. Or does > > anyone have a better idea? > > fsck.

FIXED: Re: 'Authentication service cannot retrieve authentication info.'

2003-08-17 Thread Mark
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 04:27:49PM +0100, Mark wrote: > Hi, > > Network uses nis for logins. Since last night, > logins are no longer possible, although password > changes can still be done(!) using yppasswd. > > Attempting to login on a non-yp-server machine > results in 'Login incorrect' at th

ACPI sleep - time/date problem

2003-08-17 Thread Paul Miller
I'm trying to get ACPI sleep working on a Dell I8500 laptop. Currently, it will go to sleep, but the time/date also go to sleep. When it wakes up, Linux reports the time/date that it went to sleep. Is there some way to automatically save the time to the hardware clock and restore the time upon w

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