Re: redirecting : fetchyahoo to thunderbird + colorful console

2004-06-23 Thread Marco Paganini
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 10:01:14PM -0400, S.D.A. wrote: > Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't know what the advantage of FetchYahoo > is. I use Yahoo to, but I have no problem with fetchmail retreving the mail > from Yahoo at the same time it po

Re: How to replicate debian system on Local Network?

2004-06-23 Thread Marco Paganini
> > > On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 04:19:38PM +1000, James Sinnamon wrote: > > >>I have a Debian system set up on one PC and would like to replicate > > >> it onto another (to eventually replace my Redhat 9.0 system.). > > >> > > >>What would be the easist way to accomplish this? Easiest way? - Boot

how stop the dns service?

2004-06-23 Thread Felipe Martins
hello, in RedRat there is command 'service' to start, restart, stop and verify status of services. - which command in debian is equivalent? - how can i verify which services are running? - is it possible to avoid a service being started during boot or machine initialization? thanks all. -- To U

Re: System clock too fast after kernel upgrade

2004-06-23 Thread Marco Paganini
On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 04:42:27PM +0200, Felix C. Stegerman wrote: > Now, my system clock is running too fast: about 3-4x normal speed. > This is obviously not very convenient. Specially because this will make you age 3-4x faster. You'll lose your youth in a snap. Hey, at least your middle age cr

Re: Hard Drive Limitations

2004-06-23 Thread Marco Paganini
Hi Gayle, > I did not run into the 128 GB limitation because I partitioned the drive > into 6 partitions, none bigger than 40 GB. My smallest partition is 2 GB > as permitted by the Western Digital Data Lifeguard utility available off > their website. I got it because I was aware of the 64 GB

higher performance in knoppix

2004-06-23 Thread Nathan
Recently I was playing around with Knoppix 3.4, and I decided to check out glxgears performance. After loading the nVidia driver, I got 1500-1700 frames per second. The interesting thing is that on the same exact computer, with Debian unstable running, I only get around 800. I've looked at the XF

Re: moving to the 2.6 kernel?

2004-06-23 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 12:53:05AM -0600, Jules Dubois wrote: > On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 14:02:14 +1000, Aaron Robertson-Hodder wrote: > > > Just wondering if all you people are moving to 2.6 from Woody, Sarge or > > sid? I have been trying to compile the 2.6.6 kernel on my Woody distro and > > keep ge

Re: can not change gtk font with 'switch'

2004-06-23 Thread LeVA
2004. június 23. 18:20, LeVA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -> "Debian-User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi! > > I've just managed to get back my old nice font-looking in gtk apps, > and now I have another problem. > I'm using 'switch' to change my gtk theme, but I can not change the > font of the gtk apps with '

Re: Wierd Question

2004-06-23 Thread Chris Metcalf
I agree. Better to go to a university that gives you a good solid foundation in computer science and then to specialize later on. If you want to learn about *nix programming, why not pick a university whose courses show loyalty towards working on *nix platforms? At my alma mater (the University of

Re: virtual consoles unresponsive

2004-06-23 Thread Carl D. Blake
On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 10:46, Ricky Clarkson wrote: > Perhaps you could take down the X server using /etc/init.d/xdm stop > (or gdm or kdm if you use those). That might give the monitor time to > adjust itself, which restarting X wouldn't do. > I tried that, didn't help. > If that gives you a sh

Re: Apache and CGI

2004-06-23 Thread Greg Sidelinger
On Tuesday 22 June 2004 11:23 am, richard lyons wrote: > On Tuesday 22 June 2004 08:19, Greg Sidelinger wrote: > > Ok I feel pretty stupid for even asking this but how do I make cgi > > scripts work with apache2 and unstable. I did just the default > > install of apache2 and tried to run the test-

Re: Wierd Question

2004-06-23 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-06-23, Cecil penned: > I'm headed back to school. But I had a thought after I considered why > I wanted to go back to school. It would be totally cool if there was > some sort of "Linux School". A 4 year or 6 year school, where you > majored in... oh.. for example, Driver development. Or ga

Gnome 2.6 volume control applet not seeing audio channels?

2004-06-23 Thread Paul Smith
I recently updated my sid box to all the latest stuff for the first time in a month or two, which got me from Gnome 2.4 to 2.6. Once I discovered that I had to kill the old services like gconf (which doesn't happen normally when you log out) it seems fine. Except one thing: the volume control app

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-23 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-06-23, Goedson Paixao penned: > On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 08:40:54 -0600, Monique Y. Mudama >> Now I'm confused. A search through packages.debian.org turns up >> gpg4pine and pine-docs, not to mention something called pine-tracker >> that appears to be a way to check your installed version of p

Re: kerenls: hand-rolled v. stock

2004-06-23 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-06-23, Nori Heikkinen penned: > > in general, is there much of an advantage to hand-rolling over > grabbing a stock kernel? i feel like everything i probably want to > insert as a module (soundcore; usb; whatever) should be available in a > stock kernel. I roll my own because, um ... beca

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Re: setting up user directories with apache2

2004-06-23 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 07:27:27PM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: | I am trying to enable user directories with apache2 in unstable. [...] | When trying to connect I get the message | | Forbidden | You don't have permission to access /~/ on this server. | The directory is chmod 755. | Any ideas? I

Re: Install CD does not boot on LITE-ON model LTN-403

2004-06-23 Thread Rich
- Original Message - From: "Ketil Froyn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 6:29 PM Subject: Install CD does not boot on LITE-ON model LTN-403 > Hi, > > I have been trying to help a colleague install debian, but we ran into > some serious trouble b

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-23 Thread Travis Crump
Monique Y. Mudama wrote: On 2004-06-23, Travis Crump penned: Monique Y. Mudama wrote: On 2004-06-23, John Summerfield penned: I have been to www.apt-get.org and I got Mozilla from here, pine from there, KDE from somewhere else, Xfree from another... Do you get the picture? Well, just to be pedan

setting up user directories with apache2

2004-06-23 Thread Micha Feigin
I am trying to enable user directories with apache2 in unstable. I linked the file /etc/apache2/mods-available/userdir.conf to /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/userdir.conf and put the following lines in it: UserDir /home/*/html UserDir disabled root AllowOver

Re: OT: Network question

2004-06-23 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-06-22, Magnus Therning penned: [snip] > If it were a DNS problem, why doesn't switching DNS have any > influence? (I have tried 3 different ones, the default one from my > ISP, an openly available one from 12move.nl, and one openly available > from Chalmers in Sweden.) Is it working now

Cancel Apt-Get

2004-06-23 Thread Michael Montagne
So I've got myself into a bit of a dependency problem by jumping the gun. kdelibs-data needs a later version of openoffice.org than will be installed. I think if I just let libranet handle this it would be ok but I need to get apt cleared up first. How can I cancel all pending actions and allow

Re: virtual consoles unresponsive

2004-06-23 Thread Ricky Clarkson
Perhaps you could take down the X server using /etc/init.d/xdm stop (or gdm or kdm if you use those). That might give the monitor time to adjust itself, which restarting X wouldn't do. If that gives you a shell, use dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 to sort out the config. If it doesn't, you coul

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-23 Thread Goedson Paixao
On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 08:40:54 -0600, Monique Y. Mudama > Now I'm confused. A search through packages.debian.org turns up > gpg4pine and pine-docs, not to mention something called pine-tracker > that appears to be a way to check your installed version of pine against > the official version ... but

Install CD does not boot on LITE-ON model LTN-403

2004-06-23 Thread Ketil Froyn
Hi, I have been trying to help a colleague install debian, but we ran into some serious trouble booting the CD. None of the debian install CDs worked (tried netinst beta 4, test candidate 1, and woody cd 1), whereas redhat and all other CDs he has tried worked fine. The CD-ROM drive in question wa

Re: virtual consoles unresponsive

2004-06-23 Thread Carl D. Blake
On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 08:48, Carl D. Blake wrote: > I've lost the ability to switch virtual consoles on my Woody system. > One of the sysadmins logged in as the backup user through the kdm > desktop and when he logged out the monitor went dark. Now we can't > switch to a virtual console using Ctr

Re: Convert SVCD-Image to DVD

2004-06-23 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 04:03:23PM +0200, Werner Mahr wrote: > Hi, > I have two bin/cue Images of an Movie (SVCD), and want to burn them on one > DVD. Can anybody tell me how to do this? > > -- > MfG usw. > > Werner Mahr > registered Linuxuser: 295882 > cdrdao pointing at the cue file -- T

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-23 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-06-23, Ernie McCracken penned: > On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 09:35:48 -0600, Monique Y. Mudama ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > where I work we still have a 7.0 box in place: I chose 7.0 over 7.1 >> > so as to have a 2.2 kernel as standard (required for a sat card). >> >> It seems odd to me to c

Re: kerenls: hand-rolled v. stock

2004-06-23 Thread Paul E Condon
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 12:29:07PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > i'm looking into grabbing a new kernel (because the one i'm using > doesn't appear to have the "soundcore" option either compiled in or as > a module -- can i fix this without updating kernels?). the one i have > right now, i hand-r

Re: Moving to a dedicated host...

2004-06-23 Thread Jonathan Matthews
[EMAIL PROTECTED] had the gall to say: > Hi all, [snip] > Any > experiences with other providers of decent non-managed Debian boxes with > a monthly datalimit of about 100GB? FWIW, I find www.bytemark.co.uk to be very good. They provide UML machines for a very reasonable amount. I can't remembe

Re: Re: Sound troubles

2004-06-23 Thread David Wright
Thanks so much for the detailed advice! I have taken it, but I am afraid it still doesn't entirely solve the problem. I blacklisted the OSS modules for both discover and hotplug, as described in the alsa-base docs. Loaded modules now have only snd- modules, including snd-pcm-oss: aloysha:~# lsmod

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-23 Thread John Fleming
> UPGRADE FROM PREVIOUS RELEASES > Because Red Hat Linux Release 4.2 is built with advanced RPM > technology, your system will never become obsolete. As new > releases become available you can upgrade any or all of your > components to the newest versions using a simple upgrade program >

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-23 Thread Ernie McCracken
On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 09:35:48 -0600, Monique Y. Mudama <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > where I work we still have a 7.0 box in place: I chose 7.0 over 7.1 so > > as to have a 2.2 kernel as standard (required for a sat card). > > It seems odd to me to choose a release based on the kernel, but okay.

kerenls: hand-rolled v. stock

2004-06-23 Thread Nori Heikkinen
i'm looking into grabbing a new kernel (because the one i'm using doesn't appear to have the "soundcore" option either compiled in or as a module -- can i fix this without updating kernels?). the one i have right now, i hand-rolled froum the 2.4.20 source. i don't feel like doing anothert one mys

can not change gtk font with 'switch'

2004-06-23 Thread LeVA
Hi! I've just managed to get back my old nice font-looking in gtk apps, and now I have another problem. I'm using 'switch' to change my gtk theme, but I can not change the font of the gtk apps with 'switch'. When I check the font checkbox, and setup a new font, it doesn't change ie. xmms's or g

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-23 Thread richard lyons
On Wednesday 23 June 2004 02:32, John Summerfield wrote: > Monique Y. Mudama wrote: [...] > >And the dot-oh releases were well known to be buggy piles of crap. > >There was always some nasty gotcha lurking in the system. I don't > > know why that was the case, but it definitely held true from at >

Re: firewire, iPod and Linux

2004-06-23 Thread Erik Steffl
Kevin Mark wrote: On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 01:21:42AM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: Erik Steffl wrote: Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: ... smeagol:/mnt 21:28:04 $ mount ipod2 mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda2, or too many mounted file systems what about sda3? This is what work

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-23 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-06-23, John Summerfield penned: > David Fokkema wrote: > > >>Please, no. Debian stable is rock solid, something RedHat, in my >>opinion, has never been able to achieve. I would love to hear from >>people who are still running a RedHat system older than two years. I >>know of a lot of people

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-23 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-06-23, John Summerfield penned: >> >>Yes, but there's no way to test those backports thoroughly enough to >>match the amount of testing that went into stable in the first place. > > Do you believe that? The point of stable is not just that each package has been tested to the nth degree, it

virtual consoles unresponsive

2004-06-23 Thread Carl D. Blake
I've lost the ability to switch virtual consoles on my Woody system. One of the sysadmins logged in as the backup user through the kdm desktop and when he logged out the monitor went dark. Now we can't switch to a virtual console using Ctrl-Alt-Fn, nor can we switch to the kdm desktop with Ctrl-A

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-23 Thread Clive Menzies
On (23/06/04 08:40), Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > On 2004-06-23, Travis Crump penned: > > > > Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > >> On 2004-06-23, John Summerfield penned: > >> > >>>I have been to www.apt-get.org and I got Mozilla from here, pine from > >>>there, KDE from somewhere else, Xfree from another

Re: building a how-to

2004-06-23 Thread big wang
http://www.tldp.org/FAQ/LDP-FAQ/index.html#AEN109 They suggest DocBook XML or SGML. On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 06:20:29 -0800, mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm looking to build a document in the same format > as the standard linux How-to documents. > (www.tldp.org) > Are there some to

Firefox Quits When Trying to Print

2004-06-23 Thread Ed Sutherland
Firefox 0.8 is acting oddly when trying to print with xprt-xprintorg installed. Here is the sequence of events: 1) boot system 2) type "xplsprinters" and get a list of printers (hp940c@:64, xp_pdf_spooldir_tmp_Xprintjobs@:64). 3) start mozilla-firefox and pick hp940c@:64 as the printer. 4) a mes

building a how-to

2004-06-23 Thread mike
Hi, I'm looking to build a document in the same format as the standard linux How-to documents. (www.tldp.org) Are there some tools on building these docs? I could simply use openoffice and build a text document, but I was hoping to publish it on the web. If there is a standard format or set of rul

Re: intellimouse is crazy

2004-06-23 Thread Panos
>Hi all... > >I am geeting some troubles with a Intellimouse Ps2 in Debian Sarge 2.6.6. >Its completely crazy in graphical interface. I know i have to modify >/etc/XF86Config-4 (and I did it), but it doesnt work. >Any suggestion. > >>From now, thanks all. I have intellimouse explorer and Debian wi

Re: Firebird/Interbase DBD for Debian

2004-06-23 Thread Daniel Miller
Joao Serrachinha wrote: Daniel Miller wrote: Cameron Hutchison wrote: Once upon a time Daniel L. Miller said... I'm looking for a Firebird/Interbase DBD under Debian Unstable - I'm not finding a package. Is there one? How are you looking? apt-cache search firebird This returns a number of matches

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-23 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-06-23, Travis Crump penned: > > Monique Y. Mudama wrote: >> On 2004-06-23, John Summerfield penned: >> >>>I have been to www.apt-get.org and I got Mozilla from here, pine from >>>there, KDE from somewhere else, Xfree from another... Do you get the >>>picture? >> >> >> Well, just to be p

Moving to a dedicated host...

2004-06-23 Thread HdV
Hi all, My employer has requested that I move my webpages and personal mail to somewhere else. Thus, now I am searching the net for good dedicated hosting providers so I can build my own host. My first choice was 1und1.de because they offer a nice service, including backup and a remote boot capab

Re: Convert SVCD-Image to DVD

2004-06-23 Thread Andrew A. Raines
Werner Mahr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have two bin/cue Images of an Movie (SVCD), and want to burn > them on one DVD. Can anybody tell me how to do this? You don't burn them to DVDs; you burn them to CDs using cdrdao. If you really mean you'd rather put them on a DVD, then use vcdxrip from

How do I start Xprt-xprintorg

2004-06-23 Thread Ed Sutherland
How do I start Xprt-xprintorg for Debian? Additionally, how do I set the XPSERVERLIST variable in bash? And create a printer xplsprinters can see? (right now, it says no printers are defined -- although there is one CUPS printer.) Thanks. Ed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

problem setting up apache-ssl (can't read certificate)

2004-06-23 Thread Micha Feigin
I am trying to setup apache-ssl. The server fails to start with the error (in the log file): [Wed Jun 23 16:12:04 2004] [crit] Error reading server certificate file /etc/apache-ssl/apache.pem [Wed Jun 23 16:12:04 2004] [crit] error:0906D06C:PEM routines:PEM_read_bio:no start line I tried recrea

Re: Moving to the 2.6 kernel

2004-06-23 Thread Panos
I did it with Woody (2.6.6). Youe problem propably is not just module-init-tools..! Before trying you new kernel be sure you have not only the latest module-init-tools but also some other utilities.. I remember I had to update the following: procps (to find version: "#ps --version", minimum versio

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-23 Thread john
>>The cycles are too short. RedHat's and some other's, that is. This has been an interesting thread for us newbies. There seems to be no clear "right answers". Rather, Debian provides several good choices so that you can choose what flavor best suits your needs. I was hot on Red Hat and then Fe

Something odd in XFree86 (unstable)

2004-06-23 Thread David Goodenough
Just recently the Alt+ shortcut to get to KDE menu entries stopped working. I commented on this on the debian-kde list and got the reply that someone had cured it by backout from 4.3.0dfsg.1-5_all to 4.3.0-7_all. I am unsure which of the various xfree86 packages to raise a bug on. Is this a know

Convert SVCD-Image to DVD

2004-06-23 Thread Werner Mahr
Hi, I have two bin/cue Images of an Movie (SVCD), and want to burn them on one DVD. Can anybody tell me how to do this? -- MfG usw. Werner Mahr registered Linuxuser: 295882 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: resolv.conf gets reset

2004-06-23 Thread John Hasler
Remove resolvconf. You don't need it (why did you install it?) -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: make xconfig in kernel 2.6.6. - how?

2004-06-23 Thread David Goodenough
On Wednesday 23 June 2004 13:38, Anthony Campbell wrote: > The 2.6 kernel requires the qt library for "make xconfig". > > Could somebody kindly tell me which of the many qt libraries listed in > Sid are needed here? I have libqt3c102 and libqt3c102-mt, which are > supposed to be the Trolltech libra

Re: resolv.conf gets reset

2004-06-23 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 08:57:05PM -0700, Brenden T. wrote: | Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | | >On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 09:11:40AM -0700, Brenden wrote: | >| Hi all, new debian user here with some basic questions. | >| | >| My resolv.conf file keeps getting reset to nothing (well, just the | >| t

Re: make xconfig in kernel 2.6.6. - how?

2004-06-23 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 01:38:23PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: | The 2.6 kernel requires the qt library for "make xconfig". Yes. The xconfig UI is much nicer than the old one. There is also a GTK version you can choose, but it isn't as stable. | Could somebody kindly tell me which of the man

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-23 Thread John Summerfield
David Fokkema wrote: The problem is someone deploying stable _now_ has a little over a year, someone deploying stable in two years can expect two years of life... The cycles are too long. If the cycles were shorter, people would install systems which would be outdated in less than six mon

make xconfig in kernel 2.6.6. - how?

2004-06-23 Thread Anthony Campbell
The 2.6 kernel requires the qt library for "make xconfig". Could somebody kindly tell me which of the many qt libraries listed in Sid are needed here? I have libqt3c102 and libqt3c102-mt, which are supposed to be the Trolltech libraries that are needed, but they don't help. Anthony -- [EMAIL P

Wierd Question

2004-06-23 Thread Cecil
I'm headed back to school. But I had a thought after I considered why I wanted to go back to school. It would be totally cool if there was some sort of "Linux School". A 4 year or 6 year school, where you majored in... oh.. for example, Driver development. Or game programming. Or a specific lan

Re: Gnome fonts and themes

2004-06-23 Thread Norman Walsh
/ Lee Hanxue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: | I am using Debian testing/unstable, and running Gnome 2.6 I use | Windowmaker as my window manager. The problem is whenever I start a | gnome app, such as gnome-terminal or galeon, the font will appear | awfully small. On my system, the font is

Problem XF86Config

2004-06-23 Thread Paal Marker
I need to prevent a box from blanking out. In redhat8 I could succesfully put this section in the end of /etc/X11/XF86Config Section "Serverflags" Option "BlankTime""0" Option "StandbyTime" "0" Option "SuspendTime" "0" Option "OffTime" "0" EndSection The resul

Re: moving to the 2.6 kernel?

2004-06-23 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Once upon a time Jules Dubois said... > On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 15:32:47 +1000, Aaron Robertson-Hodder wrote: > > > make-kpkg --revision=786:MyKernel2.4.20 kernel_image > > I think that's correct. I don't use the 'revision' switch. Instead I've > been modifying the top-level Makefile and setting th

Sympa and postgresql

2004-06-23 Thread Johann Spies
System: Woody with Postgresql 7.2.1-2woody4 and sympa 3.3.3-3. I am trying to get sympa to work with postgresql on the same machine but I get the following error message during the installation: Trying to configure your PostgreSQL database ...Failed I was not able to configure your database beca

Re: Reserving space for mail on /var

2004-06-23 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 08:05:51PM +0100, Shri Shrikumar wrote: > On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 12:04, Thomas Adam wrote: > > Those files are handled by logrotate -- you can get that to delete them on > > each rotation. > > If the file gets bigger than 1gb during the day, will it still rotate it > out of

Re: Unidentified subject!

2004-06-23 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 02:21:09AM -0700, audie macapal wrote: > It is true that Devian/Linux OS and softwares cannot > be infected by computer virus? > BSD,UNIX,LINUX have much smaller changes than Windows. Windows has so many wide open ways to exploit it. the most popular windows viruses are t

Re: firewire, iPod and Linux

2004-06-23 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 01:21:42AM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > Erik Steffl wrote: > >Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > >... > > > >>smeagol:/mnt 21:28:04 $ mount ipod2 > >>mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda2, > >> or too many mounted file systems > > > > > > what about sda3

can not compile kde, some xmkmf problem

2004-06-23 Thread LeVA
Hi! After reading the #76360 bug at kde.org, I decided to compile a kdebase snapshot, but during the configure, I get this error: [...] checking for xmkmf... /usr/X11R6/bin/xmkmf checking various X settings... failed configure: error: /usr/X11R6/bin/xmkmf (imake) failed. Make sure you have all n

Re: /etc/hostname

2004-06-23 Thread Darryl Luff
David Fokkema wrote: On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 10:33:06PM +1000, Darryl Luff wrote: Tom Allison wrote: My /etc/hostname file contains only the machine name and not the FQDN of the machine. This is causing problems with procmail, squirrelmail and probably 50 other things out there. How do I set th

Re: wireless virgin

2004-06-23 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, richard lyons wrote: > I`ve seen another thread here `11g PCI Wireless recommendations` which > probably has the info I need -- if only I understood. I have never > even used a wifi connected laptop, so all the terminology is a bit > strange to me. don't worry about t

Re: Upgraded to exim 4 and now I'm getting knoppix messages (not a knoppix user though!)

2004-06-23 Thread Clive Menzies
On (22/06/04 22:17), Jerome Werner wrote: > I upgraded to exim 4 in unstable and now I'm getting error messages in my user inbox: > > /begin message/ > > >From Mailer-Daemon > X-Failed Recipients: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [...] > Subject: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender > [...] > A m

Re: 11g PCI Wireless recommendations

2004-06-23 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, [iso-8859-1] Pål Dahle wrote: > I'm using a 3com Office Connect 11 a/b/g 3CRPAG175 (with an x-jack > antenna), and the card has worked perfectly so far. > > There is no driver for that card in the kernel, but it may > easily be downloaded from the madwifi CVS server: > > cv

wireless virgin

2004-06-23 Thread richard lyons
I`ve seen another thread here `11g PCI Wireless recommendations` which probably has the info I need -- if only I understood. I have never even used a wifi connected laptop, so all the terminology is a bit strange to me. We are planning to move soon, and I think it would be more logical to i

Re: Hard Drive Limitations

2004-06-23 Thread John L Fjellstad
Marco Paganini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've seen strange problems with big hard drives and 2.4.18. Actually, I lost > an entire hard-drive because I partitioned and created the fs under knoppix > (2.4.22), but was using the system under stable (2.4.18). It seems like, > somehow, 2.4.18 will

Re: TechTables : Anybody using it ???

2004-06-23 Thread Phillipus Gunawan
even though I dont know what "TechTables" is, but your question is about php. It is clear error that you need to fix "pg_connect()" function inside your php file. You should look what is in line 4, it might because you missed passing arguments. But anyway, if you certain that the problem is cause

Re: Firebird/Interbase DBD for Debian

2004-06-23 Thread Joao Serrachinha
Daniel Miller wrote: Cameron Hutchison wrote: Once upon a time Daniel L. Miller said... I'm looking for a Firebird/Interbase DBD under Debian Unstable - I'm not finding a package. Is there one? How are you looking? apt-cache search firebird This returns a number of matches. Yes - but no

Re: XML::Diff in Debian?

2004-06-23 Thread Aaron Maxwell
On Tuesday 22 June 2004 12:41 am, William Ballard wrote: > Am I correct in thinking XML::Diff from Perl: > http://search.cpan.org/~sdether/XML-Diff-0.04/Diff.pm > has not been packaged for Debian? I don't think it has been packaged. apt-file and apt-cache turn up nothing, which means it is not i

Re: broken updates in aptitude & connection failed

2004-06-23 Thread Aaron Maxwell
On Tuesday 22 June 2004 04:31 am, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > Is there a way to make sure aptitude first tries to download all > packages and only updates if ALL packages are succesfully download? Yep. apt-get -dy install FOO && aptitude install FOO where FOO is one or more package names, or 'upg

TechTables : Anybody using it ???

2004-06-23 Thread dodol garut
I need some kind like trouble ticketing tools in my office, then i found this TechTables. but after i set it up i always get : "Fatal error: Call to undefined function: pg_connect() in /var/www/techtables/functions.inc on line 4" i read the manual and i found that the problem is because php needs p

Re: 11g PCI Wireless recommendations

2004-06-23 Thread Pål Dahle
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 01:30:28AM +, John Summerfield wrote: > > > >>I'm seeking recommendations for currently-available 802.11g-compliant > >>Wireless PCI cards for Linux. > >> > >>Please post replies to the list so others can critique them and benefit > >>from them. I'm using a 3com Offic

RE: moving to the 2.6 kernel?

2004-06-23 Thread Jules Dubois
On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 15:32:47 +1000, Aaron Robertson-Hodder wrote: > make-kpkg --revision=786:MyKernel2.4.20 kernel_image I think that's correct. I don't use the 'revision' switch. Instead I've been modifying the top-level Makefile and setting the EXTRAVERSION variable. > Which I got from a gui

Re: System clock too fast after kernel upgrade

2004-06-23 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 22 Jun 2004, Felix C. Stegerman wrote: > Anthony Campbell wrote: > >On 22 Jun 2004, Felix C. Stegerman wrote: > > >>I realise this is probably not Debian-specific, > >>but I'm hoping someone on this list can help me out anyway. > > [...] > > >I found the clock was fast (though not as fast as

RE: moving to the 2.6 kernel?

2004-06-23 Thread Jules Dubois
On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 14:02:14 +1000, Aaron Robertson-Hodder wrote: > Just wondering if all you people are moving to 2.6 from Woody, Sarge or > sid? I have been trying to compile the 2.6.6 kernel on my Woody distro and > keep getting depmod errors. Another thought: Do you have the module-init-tools

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-23 Thread David Fokkema
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 06:32:08AM +, John Summerfield wrote: > Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > > >On 2004-06-23, John Summerfield penned: > > > > > >>I have been to www.apt-get.org and I got Mozilla from here, pine from > >>there, KDE from somewhere else, Xfree from another... Do you get the > >

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