Sarge php4 compile failure

2004-08-07 Thread Phil Bardanes
Hi, Debian newbie here trying to recompile PHP4.3.4 (on Debian Sarge, 2.6.7 kernel) to support postgresql built-in (flag --with-pgsql). $ auto-apt run dpkg-buildpackage -b -D Having to do a bunch of reverse patching in the configure, and then when it finally starts up, am getting the following e

Re: I hate it when that happens...

2004-08-07 Thread William Ballard
On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 11:33:21PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Unless you have something like "snapshot" running, you will invariably > lose whatever it is that you've just been working on, backups or not. So go use Solaris. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: I hate it when that happens...

2004-08-07 Thread listcomm
> Well, I don't want to trade manly quips with you all night, but my point > was something like "don't mess up, and have backups." Unless you have something like "snapshot" running, you will invariably lose whatever it is that you've just been working on, backups or not. Additionally, it doesn't

Re: I hate it when that happens...

2004-08-07 Thread William Ballard
On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 11:03:45PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Nah, screw all that noise. Half the fun of executing 'rm' is the fact > > that you know you have a loaded revolver on your temple. Keeps you on > > your toes, which I think makes me a smarter user. Do I have backups? > >

Re: I hate it when that happens...

2004-08-07 Thread listcomm
> And then you sit down at another machine, blindly type in rm thinking > it will babysit your stuff into the trashcan, and it doesn't. Oops. > > Bandaids are temporary, substandard replacements for real skin. No way. I have NEVER done that. I live in terror of the "rm" command and am merely

Re: I hate it when that happens...

2004-08-07 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > You should have a "soft remove"... "rm -rf *" is a joke so old > I can't believe anyone still gets bitten by it. > > the "rm" command should be aliased to a script which moves the > target file to a "trashcan" directory somewhere which then gets And then you si

Re: I hate it when that happens...

2004-08-07 Thread listcomm
> Nah, screw all that noise. Half the fun of executing 'rm' is the fact > that you know you have a loaded revolver on your temple. Keeps you on > your toes, which I think makes me a smarter user. Do I have backups? > Is this crisp? Am I thinking clearly? But, half the fun of committing sui

Re: XFree vs. xorg

2004-08-07 Thread Chris Metzler
On Sun, 08 Aug 2004 05:02:09 +0800 John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Chris Metzler wrote: >>On Sat, 07 Aug 2004 21:04:31 +0800 >>John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>>How do you justify that pov? At present, we have more platforms than >>>ever before, more packages than ev

Re: [Rant] The Endless Search for a Mail Client That Doesn't Suck

2004-08-07 Thread Brian Nelson
On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 12:01:52PM +0200, John L Fjellstad wrote: > Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 6. It must have a decent expiry system. > > You don't need a mailclient to have a decent expiry system if you are > using Maildir. Since all new mail goes into {MAILBOXNAME}/new and

Re: I hate it when that happens...

2004-08-07 Thread William Ballard
On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 10:48:20PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You should have a "soft remove"... "rm -rf *" is a joke so old > I can't believe anyone still gets bitten by it. > > the "rm" command should be aliased to a script which moves the > target file to a "trashcan" directory somewher

Re: I hate it when that happens...

2004-08-07 Thread listcomm
You should have a "soft remove"... "rm -rf *" is a joke so old I can't believe anyone still gets bitten by it. the "rm" command should be aliased to a script which moves the target file to a "trashcan" directory somewhere which then gets checked by a "cron" job which does a permanent remove of an

Re: Bogus reply-to

2004-08-07 Thread Tim Connors
"Monique Y. Mudama" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Sat, 7 Aug 2004 20:28:08 -0600: x> I don't know if that would even have a prayer of working, but I don't > want to do anything malicious; I'm just sick of getting duplicates! .procmailrc: # if testing, don't do duplicate test # avoid duplicate messa

Re: Configuration DB

2004-08-07 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 12:51:23PM +1000, Cameron Hutchison wrote: > Once upon a time John Hasler said... > > Cameron Hutchison writes: > > > Hard disk crash. I've gone through the same pain as the original poster. > > > > So you mean restore, not reinstall. > > Well, both. I restored my system b

Re: Bogus reply-to - dups

2004-08-07 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-08-08, Alvin Oga penned: > > hi ya "keep it in the list" > > On Sat, 7 Aug 2004, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > >> Yes, that's exactly what I'm doing. It drives me bonkers when I get >> personal emails that are just copies of what I've already read on the >> list. > > shouldnt your get your

Re: Bogus reply-to - fun

2004-08-07 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sun, 8 Aug 2004, John Summerfield wrote: > I presume Alvin thinks that sending mail to &halt;@their-domain.com > might shutdown someone's system. Might. "might" was the whole point of the entertainment ( if it works, it'd be super hilarious - esp since its NOT supposed to work ) > It's p

Re: Sid is Sid, before or after a release, right?

2004-08-07 Thread William Ballard
On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 10:45:17PM -0500, dircha wrote: [snip] > [1] http://www.debian.org/releases/unstable/ I knew that, I was asking about "gotchas" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sid is Sid, before or after a release, right?

2004-08-07 Thread dircha
William Ballard wrote: I run Sid. Whenever Debian makes a major release, it doesn't affect me at all, right, because in theory I'm already running the same or later versions of everything that's being released. "The code name for Debian's development distribution is "sid", aliased to "unstable".

Re: Bogus reply-to - dups

2004-08-07 Thread John Summerfield
Alvin Oga wrote: hi ya "keep it in the list" On Sat, 7 Aug 2004, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: Yes, that's exactly what I'm doing. It drives me bonkers when I get personal emails that are just copies of what I've already read on the list. shouldnt your get your (unwanted) cc mail before you g

Re: Bogus reply-to

2004-08-07 Thread John Summerfield
Monique Y. Mudama wrote: On 2004-08-07, Alvin Oga penned: On Sat, 7 Aug 2004, John Summerfield wrote: I think M was aiming at list members whose aim isa little sloppy. /dev/null is fine: if it's delivered to their own machine perhaps they will wake up to what tbey're doing. they can

Re: NFS, Samba, something more obscure?

2004-08-07 Thread Mark Roach
On Sat, 2004-08-07 at 17:28 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > I've never used NFS, but everything I read says it's highly insecure. OTOH, > my network sits behind a Belkin router with only my own systems as nodes. NFS is very easy to set up, you do need to make sure your uids match between systems, bu

Re: Bogus reply-to - dups

2004-08-07 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya "keep it in the list" On Sat, 7 Aug 2004, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > Yes, that's exactly what I'm doing. It drives me bonkers when I get > personal emails that are just copies of what I've already read on the > list. shouldnt your get your (unwanted) cc mail before you get the mail fro

Re: OT Linux patents and Hurd?

2004-08-07 Thread John Hasler
matt zagrabelny writes: > regarding debian, i would guess that the BSD kernel would become viable > sooner than a HURD kernel. it is already at production stability and has > much more development behind it than HURD. The BSD kernel likely has about as many potential patent infringements as the Li

Re: mouse not working under X, while ok in gpm

2004-08-07 Thread Kent West
Tong wrote: Thanks, Kent, this is by far the most comprehensive respond I ever received! Actually, you won't need to explain this much, If you have read my OP. :-) On Sat, 07 Aug 2004 19:35:27 -0500, Kent West wrote: Step two - configure gpm. [...] As stated in my OP, my console mouse work

Re: Configuration DB

2004-08-07 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Once upon a time John Hasler said... > Cameron Hutchison writes: > > Hard disk crash. I've gone through the same pain as the original poster. > > So you mean restore, not reinstall. Well, both. I restored my system by reinstalling it. > Any package that overwrites your changes to config files an

Re: Bogus reply-to

2004-08-07 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-08-07, John Summerfield penned: > Alvin Oga wrote: > >>On Sat, 7 Aug 2004, John Summerfield wrote: >> >> >> >>>I noticed you're setting replyto,I thought [EMAIL PROTECTED] a more >>>fun address to send it to. Perhaps, though, root is even better:-) >>> >>> >> >>root usually is /dev/nu

Re: Bogus reply-to

2004-08-07 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-08-07, Alvin Oga penned: > > > On Sat, 7 Aug 2004, John Summerfield wrote: > >> I think M was aiming at list members whose aim isa little sloppy. >> /dev/null is fine: if it's delivered to their own machine perhaps >> they will wake up to what tbey're doing. > > they can mail to &halt;@the

Re: Bogus reply-to

2004-08-07 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-08-07, John Summerfield penned: > > I noticed you're setting replyto,I thought [EMAIL PROTECTED] a more fun > address to send it to. Perhaps, though, root is even better:-) I saw someone set their reply-to to a bogus email address at a made-up server; I hate to use what might be someone el

Re: Problems finding X when configuring

2004-08-07 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 02:35:56AM +0200, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Hello > > Shawn McCuan (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > Whenever i try to configure anything (by running ./configure), It > > always stops at "/Checking for X/" or "/Checking for libXext/" or > > "/Checking for X Includes/" . Im

Sid is Sid, before or after a release, right?

2004-08-07 Thread William Ballard
I run Sid. Whenever Debian makes a major release, it doesn't affect me at all, right, because in theory I'm already running the same or later versions of everything that's being released. Right? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Debian-Installer release candidate 1

2004-08-07 Thread Joey Hess
The Debian-Installer team announces the first release candidate of the Debian sarge installer. Significant improvements in this release of the installer include: - Support for the s390 architecture, completing the full set of 11 released Debian architectures. - Added support for more subar

Re: Why is gnome-dev conflicting with KDE?

2004-08-07 Thread matt zagrabelny
On Sat, 2004-08-07 at 18:43, Paul Nolan wrote: > Is it possible to have KDE and GNOME development files installed > concurrently on Sarge? I only ask because when I tried to add the gnome > dev packages, apt decided it wanted to remove loads of other stuff, > including KDE (!) > I never had this

Re: Security camera management software

2004-08-07 Thread matt zagrabelny
> > No. Needs to be all-analog. Analog to digital conversion adds an > > irreversible pixelation. At least with an all-analog system, if you see > > someone you want to get a better look at, you can go back to your analog > > source and digitally zoom in and sharpen it at whatever resolution yo

Re: OT Linux patents and Hurd?

2004-08-07 Thread matt zagrabelny
On Sat, 2004-08-07 at 16:29, Paul Tsai wrote: > Has any read that a possible 283 patent violations could be in the Linux > kernel? Does anyone know the possible ramifications of this? Also what > do you feel the timeline is for Hurd to actually become the main kernel > for Debian? Or is that

mouse not working under X, while ok in gpm

2004-08-07 Thread Tong
Thanks, Kent, this is by far the most comprehensive respond I ever received! Actually, you won't need to explain this much, If you have read my OP. :-) On Sat, 07 Aug 2004 19:35:27 -0500, Kent West wrote: >>From the googling result, it seems that the problem >>only occurs in Debian. > >>Removing

Re: Configuration DB

2004-08-07 Thread John Hasler
Cameron Hutchison writes: > Hard disk crash. I've gone through the same pain as the original poster. So you mean restore, not reinstall. > It is not enough to simply backup /etc, as some packages automatically > generate config files from the debconf info (xfree86 being one). Any package that ov

Gphoto2 -- Sony DSC F707V Driver?

2004-08-07 Thread Kenneth Jacker
I'm running Debian/sarge (kernel-2.4.26-1-686) with gphoto-2.1.4-2 and libgphoto2-2-2.1.4-5. Though everything worked fine with my previous RH9 system, I get the following "syslog" messages under 'sarge' when trying to access photos on my Sony DSC-P10 digital camera: kernel: hub.c: new USB dev

Re: Problems finding X when configuring

2004-08-07 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Shawn McCuan (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Whenever i try to configure anything (by running ./configure), It > always stops at "/Checking for X/" or "/Checking for libXext/" or > "/Checking for X Includes/" . Im fairly sure that my computer has > xfree86 installed, (ive ran */apt-get insta

Re: *****SPAM***** Re: urgent help

2004-08-07 Thread David P James
On Sat 7 August 2004 16:38, Ken Gilmour wrote: > > Probably because everything thinks you are spam... here is what my > server thinks... > > X-Spam-Flag: YES > X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on *a top > secret super atomic server* > X-Spam-Level: > X-Spam-Status: Y

Re: urgent help

2004-08-07 Thread Kent West
Tong Sun wrote: Thanks Kent for the reply. From the googling result, it seems that the problem only occurs in Debian. I've been using RH for many years (with both console and X mouse one) and it never caused me any trouble. Probably because Redhat preconfigures your system according to Joe A

Re: Debian with GeForce4 MX 440 64 MB

2004-08-07 Thread Paul Nolan
Tomy Alarie wrote: Hi, im trying to install my new video card with a fresh installation of debian. Can anyone give me the steps to do it ? Thanks, Tomy I have the same card ^_^ All I did was download the binary driver from www.nvidia.com, then boot up into run level 3 (no X11) and run the instal

Debian with GeForce4 MX 440 64 MB

2004-08-07 Thread Tomy Alarie
Hi, im trying to install my new video card with a fresh installation of debian. Can anyone give me the steps to do it ? Thanks, Tomy - e6e9fe46b17fa16d9a250d4189e8f0cd fingerprint Quadra 650 | Debian 3.0r2 | m68k _ Profitez d

Problems finding X when configuring

2004-08-07 Thread Shawn McCuan
Whenever i try to configure anything (by running ./configure), It always stops at "/Checking for X/" or "/Checking for libXext/" or "/Checking for X Includes/" . Im fairly sure that my computer has xfree86 installed, (ive ran */apt-get install xserver-xfree86/*) and i believe the directory to x

Why is gnome-dev conflicting with KDE?

2004-08-07 Thread Paul Nolan
Is it possible to have KDE and GNOME development files installed concurrently on Sarge? I only ask because when I tried to add the gnome dev packages, apt decided it wanted to remove loads of other stuff, including KDE (!) I never had this problem with my old distro (SuSE) Does anyone know what

Re: NFS, Samba, something more obscure?

2004-08-07 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 05:28:10PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > Now I have a tower and a laptop at home, and to share files it would be much > easier to share a filesystem. Depends how many files you need to share: I tend to shove stuff round the network via scp. I like the fact that it does binary tr

Re: Configuration DB

2004-08-07 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Once upon a time John Hasler said... > Tong writes: > > Thanks, John, that's something I am thinking of as the last resort. > > Why as a last resort? Hard disk crash. I've gone through the same pain as the original poster. It is not enough to simply backup /etc, as some packages automatically ge

Re: How to specify configuration priority level when install pkgs via apt-get

2004-08-07 Thread Tong
On Sat, 07 Aug 2004 16:01:15 -0600, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from Travis Crump: >> s. keeling wrote: >> > >> >man dpkg-reconfigure >> > >> >The man command can answer a lot of your questions for you, and if it >> >> If you are going to give someone a RTFM, at least RTFQ, he knew that and >>

Re: udev, atapi cdrw drives and cdrecord

2004-08-07 Thread Roy Pluschke
> > I am running a 2.6 kernel (2.6.7-k7-1) which is supposed to automatically > include ide-scsi without the need to load a module. > > I have set up udev to create /dev/hdc and also a symlink /dev/cdrw to point > to it. > > I am trying to use cdrecord to make a cd. But it seemingly hangs > (fore

Re: Re-read partition table without reboot?

2004-08-07 Thread Tong
On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 14:29:25 +1000, Michael Bellears wrote: > Is there any way to re-read partition info, without resorting to a > re-boot? Have you make changes to you partitions? If not, try using sfdisk, otherwise, you must reboot if Linux told you so. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: OT Linux patents and Hurd?

2004-08-07 Thread John Hasler
Paul writes: > Has any read that a possible 283 patent violations could be in the Linux > kernel? Yes. > Does anyone know the possible ramifications of this? Not as dire as you think. > Also what do you feel the timeline is for Hurd to actually become the > main kernel for Debian? The Hurd pro

Re: clock set wrong

2004-08-07 Thread Tong
On Sat, 07 Aug 2004 13:21:55 -0400, Dougpol1 wrote: > My clock is about 4hours off. how can I resett it?? Hi, Doug: Check your timezone. I'm sure you've configured the wrong one. The other reason might be that you set the real time clock to using universal time, not local time. I'm new

Re: Configuration DB

2004-08-07 Thread John Hasler
Tong writes: > Thanks, John, that's something I am thinking of as the last resort. Why as a last resort? > I don't have man for debconf in section 7. Which package contains it? debconf-doc. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: How to specify configuration priority level when install pkgs via apt-get

2004-08-07 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Travis Crump: > s. keeling wrote: > > > >man dpkg-reconfigure > > > >The man command can answer a lot of your questions for you, and if it > > If you are going to give someone a RTFM, at least RTFQ, he knew that and > states his understanding of that in his first sentence. Fair eno

Re: Security camera management software

2004-08-07 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 02:25:21PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> Having used security cameras as part of my job, I can safely say that > >> every digital camera system blows balls. If you want usable footage, > >> go analog for this project. Whoever

Re: clock set wrong

2004-08-07 Thread Jacob S.
On Sat, 07 Aug 2004 13:21:55 -0400 Dougpol1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > My clock is about 4hours off. how can I resett it?? hwclock --set --date="08/07/2004 18:00:00" should do it for you. "man hwclock" for more information. HTH, Jacob -- GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 Random .sign

Re: How to specify configuration priority level when install pkgs via apt-get

2004-08-07 Thread Tong
On Sat, 07 Aug 2004 17:22:36 -0400, Travis Crump wrote: > @OP: I think you want 'dpkg-reconfigure debconf'[its the second dialog] Thanks Travis, appreciate *all* your help. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: I've been blocked

2004-08-07 Thread Tong
On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 21:33:44 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > I have seen all of your posts here. yes, but not all of them. The ones I wanted to post very much didn't go through. Sorry to everybody for those short annoying testing messages. It turned out that the very message that I wanted to post v

OT Linux patents and Hurd?

2004-08-07 Thread Paul Tsai
Has any read that a possible 283 patent violations could be in the Linux kernel? Does anyone know the possible ramifications of this? Also what do you feel the timeline is for Hurd to actually become the main kernel for Debian? Or is that not a possibility. Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

NFS, Samba, something more obscure?

2004-08-07 Thread Carl Fink
I've been using Linux for a long time (Debian since Slink), but in all that time I've had no reason to share filesystems. At home I had one computer, and the web/mail/news servers I helped run, had no occasion to do so. Now I have a tower and a laptop at home, and to share files it would be much

clock set wrong

2004-08-07 Thread Dougpol1
Hello, My clock is about 4hours off. how can I resett it?? Thanks Doug -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: How to specify configuration priority level when install pkgs via apt-get

2004-08-07 Thread Travis Crump
s. keeling wrote: Incoming from Tong: You can specify priority level for the configuration questions when doing dpkg-reconfig. How can you specify priority level for the configuration questions when installing via apt-get install ? man dpkg-reconfigure The man command can answer a lot of your ques

Re: strange virus warning

2004-08-07 Thread Tong
On Sat, 07 Aug 2004 18:34:15 +0200, frank coldewe wrote: > Hi, > > I run woody since 2 Jears, sometimes I get when booting the system a > virus warning. (A red box appers an screen, something like: virus trend > award has detected a virus on your system, contact antivirus.com or > reboot the s

Re: XFree vs. xorg

2004-08-07 Thread John Summerfield
Chris Metzler wrote: On Sat, 07 Aug 2004 21:04:31 +0800 John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Brian Nelson wrote: Mark my words, Sarge+1 will not take 3 or 4 years to release. 1 to 1.5 years is my estimate. 2 years, tops. How do you justify that pov? At present, we have more

Re: How to specify configuration priority level when install pkgs via apt-get

2004-08-07 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Tong: > > You can specify priority level for the configuration questions when doing > dpkg-reconfig. How can you specify priority level for the configuration > questions when installing via apt-get install ? man dpkg-reconfigure The man command can answer a lot of your questions fo

No wonder

2004-08-07 Thread Tong
On Sat, 07 Aug 2004 21:38:26 +0100, Ken Gilmour wrote: > On Sat, 7 Aug 2004 13:25:19 -0700 (PDT), Tong Sun wrote: >> Ok, trying again, posting from yahaoo directly... >> >> Subject: Re: urgent help >> Newsgroups: gmane.linux.debian.user Date:Sat, 07 Aug 2004 >> 15:17:17 -0400 >> >> Wh

can't login on console

2004-08-07 Thread Carsten Ehbrecht
Hello, after i upgraded a few weeks ago some packages on testing, i cant login anymore to the text-console (tty). The graphical login is still working. I do not really remember the packages i upgrades. But i think among them were: login pam-modules libc6 (?) I made a diff between my c

Re: *****SPAM***** Re: urgent help

2004-08-07 Thread Ken Gilmour
On Sat, 7 Aug 2004 13:25:19 -0700 (PDT), Tong Sun wrote: > Ok, trying again, posting from yahaoo directly... > > Subject: Re: urgent help > Newsgroups: gmane.linux.debian.user Date:Sat, 07 Aug 2004 > 15:17:17 -0400 > > Why, oh, why, the following message didn't get through the mlist ye

LSTP client setup?

2004-08-07 Thread stan
I noticed that LSTP has released version 4.0. I have a long standing desire to use this for som applications at work, so I decided to take a look at setting it up. The server side looks pretty straightfoward, but I'm having trouble finding much in the way of docs on the client side. I need to use

Re: urgent help

2004-08-07 Thread Tong Sun
Ok, trying again, posting from yahaoo directly... Subject: Re: urgent help Newsgroups: gmane.linux.debian.user Date:Sat, 07 Aug 2004 15:17:17 -0400 Why, oh, why, the following message didn't get through the mlist yet again. I first thought it might because of subject wording, now per

Re: Configuration DB

2004-08-07 Thread Tong
On Sat, 07 Aug 2004 15:06:17 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Setting the debconf priority to "critical" will eliminate most, if not all, > questions. Answer the remaining ones with anything. Restore /etc after > doing "dpkg --set-selections < package-list", overwriting the default > configuration.

Re: Mozilla profile problem

2004-08-07 Thread Tong
On Sat, 07 Aug 2004 14:47:45 +1000, Brendan J Simon wrote: > I have a problem with Mozilla. For some reason Mozilla is asking me to > choose a profile (I think something must have got upgraded). > > I cannot choose my "default" profile. I've had a similar problem in the > past where I created

Re: Configuration DB

2004-08-07 Thread John Hasler
Alec Berryman writes: > Pipe the output of `dpkg --get-selections` to a file, copy that over to > the new computer, and pipe it into `dpkg --set-selections`. Then run > apt-get -f install; it'll attempt to install all packages on the first > computer. You'll still have to answer configuration que

Re: Configuration DB

2004-08-07 Thread Tong
On Sat, 07 Aug 2004 15:31:41 -0400, Alec Berryman wrote: > begin quotation of Tong on 2004-08-07 14:51:16 -0400: > >> On Sat, 07 Aug 2004 15:15:17 -0400, Alec Berryman wrote: >> >> > begin quotation of Tong on 2004-08-07 14:20:53 -0400: >> > >> >> I'm new to Debian. Seems that Debian keeps al

Re: Re: make gconfig (was: make xconfig not working)

2004-08-07 Thread Jane
I was having the same problem.   I finally got it working by deleting the source tree and re-extractin it after I installed all the requirements.  

How to specify configuration priority level when install pkgs via apt-get

2004-08-07 Thread Tong
Hi, You can specify priority level for the configuration questions when doing dpkg-reconfig. How can you specify priority level for the configuration questions when installing via apt-get install ? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

dselect disorientation

2004-08-07 Thread Dieter
I lost the orientation with dselect.-( Can anyone tell how to get it back?-) I think I made somathing wrong but I don't know what. I don't understand why there are so many packages to be removed and downgraded. Is there a good way to get a "clean" status back. This is my apt/sources.lst file: deb h

Re: Sarge

2004-08-07 Thread Mark Lijftogt
Is that when sarge is released as stable you mean ? Take a look at this. http://www.debian.org/releases/ Keep you eye at the "testing" release of Debian. Mark Patrick Donker wrote: Peeps, Anyone knows when Sarge will be released? I have a Compaq ML370 waiting for me, but I'd rather in

Re: Configuration DB

2004-08-07 Thread Alec Berryman
begin quotation of Tong on 2004-08-07 14:51:16 -0400: > On Sat, 07 Aug 2004 15:15:17 -0400, Alec Berryman wrote: > > > begin quotation of Tong on 2004-08-07 14:20:53 -0400: > > > >> I'm new to Debian. Seems that Debian keeps all configuration data in > >> a DB. Is there a way to backup this c

Re: Configuration DB

2004-08-07 Thread John Hasler
Tong writes: > The '--get-selections' and '--set-selections' only give your the list of > packages, they won't save configuration for you. All the configuration data is in files under /etc. Back it up. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Configuration DB

2004-08-07 Thread Tong
On Sat, 07 Aug 2004 15:15:17 -0400, Alec Berryman wrote: > begin quotation of Tong on 2004-08-07 14:20:53 -0400: > >> I'm new to Debian. Seems that Debian keeps all configuration data in >> a DB. Is there a way to backup this configuration data, so that >> next time when I have to reinstall Deb

Re: Configuration DB

2004-08-07 Thread Alec Berryman
begin quotation of Tong on 2004-08-07 14:20:53 -0400: > I'm new to Debian. Seems that Debian keeps all configuration data in > a DB. Is there a way to backup this configuration data, so that > next time when I have to reinstall Debian, using apt-get install > , I don't have to answer those hard

Re: Sarge

2004-08-07 Thread Patrick Donker
Michael Rumpf wrote: On Sat, 2004-08-07 at 20:47, Patrick Donker wrote: Peeps, Anyone knows when Sarge will be released? I have a Compaq ML370 waiting for me, but I'd rather install the latest and greatest on it. Question is, how long before I can install? -3 Months :) I'm running Sarge on my de

Re: No TOC

2004-08-07 Thread Dougpol1
Dougpol1 wrote: Hello all, When I try to open Gnome help the answer I get is [ could not load Toc page]. How might I find out if it's installed or configured?? Thanks

Re: Sarge

2004-08-07 Thread Michael Rumpf
On Sat, 2004-08-07 at 20:47, Patrick Donker wrote: > Peeps, > > Anyone knows when Sarge will be released? I have a Compaq ML370 waiting > for me, but I'd rather install the latest and greatest on it. Question > is, how long before I can install? -3 Months :) I'm running Sarge on my desktop for

Configuration DB

2004-08-07 Thread Tong
Hi, I'm new to Debian. Seems that Debian keeps all configuration data in a DB. Is there a way to backup this configuration data, so that next time when I have to reinstall Debian, using apt-get install , I don't have to answer those hard and tedious questions again? Thanks tong -- To UNSU

No TOC

2004-08-07 Thread Dougpol1
Hello all, When I try to open Gnome help the answer I get is [ could not load Toc page]. How might I find out if it's installed or configured?? Thanks

Sarge

2004-08-07 Thread Patrick Donker
Peeps, Anyone knows when Sarge will be released? I have a Compaq ML370 waiting for me, but I'd rather install the latest and greatest on it. Question is, how long before I can install? -Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAI

Re: [Rant] The Endless Search for a Mail Client That Doesn't Suck

2004-08-07 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2004-08-07 at 06:01, John L Fjellstad wrote: > Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 6. It must have a decent expiry system. > > You don't need a mailclient to have a decent expiry system if you are > using Maildir. Since all new mail goes into {MAILBOXNAME}/new and all > read m

Re: urgent help

2004-08-07 Thread Kent West
Tong Sun wrote: I installed gpm -- the console mouse support. After rebooting, my mouse doesn't work in X any more (I didn't change anything in my XF86config-4 file. ) Currently, my mouse setting is the same in gpm and X, i.e., device is /dev/psaux, and protocol is ps/2. However, console mouse wo

Re: Mozilla profile problem

2004-08-07 Thread Kent West
Brendan J Simon wrote: I have a problem with Mozilla. For some reason Mozilla is asking me to choose a profile (I think something must have got upgraded). I cannot choose my "default" profile. I've had a similar problem in the past where I created a new profile and then copied the folder to t

Re: strange virus warning

2004-08-07 Thread Roy Pluschke
On August 7, 2004 09:34, frank coldewe wrote: > Hi, > > I run woody since 2 Jears, sometimes I get when booting the system a > virus warning. (A red box appers an screen, something like: virus trend > award has detected a virus on your system, contact antivirus.com or > reboot the system with a emp

Re: strange virus warning

2004-08-07 Thread Jacob S.
On Sat, 07 Aug 2004 18:34:15 +0200 frank coldewe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I run woody since 2 Jears, sometimes I get when booting the system a > virus warning. (A red box appers an screen, something like: virus > trend award has detected a virus on your system, contact antivirus.com

strange virus warning

2004-08-07 Thread frank coldewe
Hi, I run woody since 2 Jears, sometimes I get when booting the system a virus warning. (A red box appers an screen, something like: virus trend award has detected a virus on your system, contact antivirus.com or reboot the system with a empty floppy in floppydrive.) Don`t know how to stop this

Re: Getting photos from USB compactFlash into linux

2004-08-07 Thread J F
I gave up on trying to get the SIIG compactflash card reader (USB) (model us2256 or maybe model 02-0739A ) to work. My buddy has this reader and he got his to work using knoppix version from spring or summer of 2003. It automounted the flash card as an icon on the desktop I think. I installed a

Re: udev, atapi cdrw drives and cdrecord

2004-08-07 Thread matt zagrabelny
On Sat, 2004-08-07 at 10:08, Alan Chandler wrote: > I have a hardware setup which includes two atapi cdrom like drives - /dev/hdc > is a cd rewriter (or cd recorder) and /dev/hdd is a dvd drive. > > I am running a 2.6 kernel (2.6.7-k7-1) which is supposed to automatically > include ide-scsi with

Re: DHCP problem

2004-08-07 Thread Alan Chandler
On Saturday 07 August 2004 14:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello. > > I am a relatively new user of Debian and I couldn't figure this one out. > I have 2 machines running Sarge, both configured to use DHCP. At boot time > both for some reason acquire the same address (192.168.102.100) from my > r

Re: DHCP problem

2004-08-07 Thread matt zagrabelny
On Sat, 2004-08-07 at 08:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello. > > I am a relatively new user of Debian and I couldn't figure this one out. > I have 2 machines running Sarge, both configured to use DHCP. At boot time > both for some reason acquire the same address (192.168.102.100) from my > route

udev, atapi cdrw drives and cdrecord

2004-08-07 Thread Alan Chandler
I have a hardware setup which includes two atapi cdrom like drives - /dev/hdc is a cd rewriter (or cd recorder) and /dev/hdd is a dvd drive. I am running a 2.6 kernel (2.6.7-k7-1) which is supposed to automatically include ide-scsi without the need to load a module. I have set up udev to create

Re: Firefox, Thunderbird: printing trouble

2004-08-07 Thread Wayne Topa
Jerome BENOIT([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hello, > > I am using the package xprt-xprintorg. > Then you 'are' using xprint (/etc/init.d/xprint). You have to set that up. Look in /usr/share/doc/xprt-common/ for the instructions. Note xprt-xprintorg depends on xprt-common. If I

Re: Bizarre networking problems on sid

2004-08-07 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 09:15:47 -0400, James Wiggs wrote: > One of the boxes is experiencing network problems where it is incapable of > connecting via certain protocols to certain hosts. For example, using > Mozilla on the box, it connects to www.google.com and www.iso.org, but > *not* to www.oas

DHCP problem

2004-08-07 Thread michael . sherman
Hello. I am a relatively new user of Debian and I couldn't figure this one out. I have 2 machines running Sarge, both configured to use DHCP. At boot time both for some reason acquire the same address (192.168.102.100) from my router. Is there a way to force at least one of them to get a different

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