RE : What is the current stable version

2004-08-19 Thread Frederic . Dreier
> -Message d'origine- > De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] De la part de > Christoph Wegscheider > Envoyé : vendredi, 20. août 2004 00:03 > À : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Objet : Re: What is the current stable version > > > Josef Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Wel

Re: problem installing Sendmail

2004-08-19 Thread John Summerfield
s. keeling wrote: Incoming from [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Nah. Debian's real sane that way. If you install exim, it first uninstalls your other MTA. You mean, it *tries* to uninstall it... all it takes is one screw-up to put me in the O-zone with things like that. What if (*just* for insatan

Re: can't post to "linux.debian.user" "solved"

2004-08-19 Thread Tim Connors
Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Fri, 20 Aug 2004 01:43:22 +0200: > On Aug 20, Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I suppose one is supposed to put both Message-ID's into the References > > header if one follows-up. > No. If one reads a debian mailing list in a linux.debian.* gro

Re: De vuelta con fetchmail

2004-08-19 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 01:01:29AM +0200, Luis Fernando Llana DÃaz wrote: > Hola, > hace unos meses estuvimos dicutiendo sobre problemas con fetchmail y el > servidor de correo de ya.com. Recoge sÃlo las primeras lÃneas del mensaje y > el resto las

Re: usb flash sticks, good as swap partitions? or logging partitions?

2004-08-19 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 10:40:50AM +1200, Steven Jones wrote: > just a thought > > I have a 64Meg stick sitting here...was thinking a cascade type scenarioswap to > flash first off then connventional disk later... > > Or possibly use it as a

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Re: [OT] DNS switching & which

2004-08-19 Thread Alec Berryman
begin quotation of Nori Heikkinen on 2004-08-16 15:57:03 -0400: > 2. any advice on which dns server package i should use, if i'm to do > it myself? i seem to recall hearing the praises of DJBDNS sung, and > i don't want to start a religious war, but i'm curious if there is a > recommended beginn

maxqueries dns error resolving spamcop.net

2004-08-19 Thread Will Trillich
here 'boss' is the hostname of the machine running the dns server (bind v8 from woody) -- these no doubt come from spamassassin: Unusual System Events =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Aug 19 04:14:20 boss named[25505]: MAXQUERIES exceeded, possible data loop in resolving (230.209.217.193.bl.spamcop.net) Aug

Re: nfs not working

2004-08-19 Thread Luke Kearney
On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 20:01:20 +0100 Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > I just discoverd that nfs mounts that previously had been working do not seem > to be anymore. > > When ever I try to mount the nfs exported directory on my client machine I get > > mount: RPC: Program not regis

Sending RBL mail to email account instead of deny

2004-08-19 Thread Kent Andersen
is there any way to tell exim to forward RBL blacklist mail to an email account for further review?     Thanks   kent

Re: OT: Questions or Doubts?

2004-08-19 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 11:04:21PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > Hopefully this won't offend anyone; I'm just curious. > > I often see posts on this list with subject lines like: > > Doubt about Debian Installation > > or > > Configuring PS/2 Mouse D

Re: Dead Gnome MIME settings

2004-08-19 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 13:50 +0200, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 15:25:17 -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > Yeah, I forgot to mention that little part which I suppose probably could > > have been rather important. So yes, I'm using experimental. > > In that case, this is exp

Re: DVD Recording question

2004-08-19 Thread Brad Sims
On Thursday 19 August 2004 10:12 pm, Brad Sims wrote: Ok this is wierd; dvd+rw-mediainfo correctly shows the drive as a 8x drive... cdrecord-ProDVD and K3b was convinced that the drive was a 4x but after running dvd+rw-mediainfo it now thinks my 8x drive is 6x drive (probably reading the MMC info

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2004-08-19 Thread Mark Theophilis
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OT: Questions or Doubts?

2004-08-19 Thread Kent West
Hopefully this won't offend anyone; I'm just curious. I often see posts on this list with subject lines like: Doubt about Debian Installation or Configuring PS/2 Mouse Doubts Is this word "doubt" a non-American-English-speaker's word for "question"? And if so, in that person's language, is "doub

Re: Home Debian "Mirror"

2004-08-19 Thread John Summerfield
Jamin W. Collins wrote: On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 04:37:18PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 "Jamin W. Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I believe he actually wanted to use the CDs to create a central internal repository that he could use for netwo

Re: Install Debian on DELL 2450 (Woody)

2004-08-19 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I am trying to replace RedHat 9.0 on my Dell 2450 box. I have installed via CD and floppy about 5 systems on Debian. The problem I have is that I have obtained a set of install disks http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/ that I

Re: DVD Recording question

2004-08-19 Thread Marc Wilson
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 10:12:05PM -0500, Brad Sims wrote: > Is there a way around the 4X limitation on DVD burning? Sure. Use an 8x drive and 8x media. There is no other limitation. > In other words is there a package I need to download to allow > me to use my 8x burner and media at full speed

Re: Quick question: Choice of release

2004-08-19 Thread John Summerfield
Anders Breindahl wrote: I and a friend are playing with the idea of convincing our gymnasium to using Debian GNU/Linux as their main server OS. As it comes to this issue, which release we would want; stable, testing or unstable? Making the choice, it would matter that the focus is on reliabil

Re: Microsoft Optical Desktop Pro not working in USB

2004-08-19 Thread Kent West
Bharath Ramesh wrote: I have a Microsoft Optical Desktop Pro Keyboard and Mouse. When I try using this using USB I can only either use the mouse or keyboard in debian. I have had this problems for a long time. I would like to know if anyone else has had a similar problem. If so did you manage to fi

RE: I have broken apt-get Panic!

2004-08-19 Thread Steven Jones
what commands are you using to upgrade with? regards thing -Original Message- From: Dave Whiteley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 16 August 2004 12:14 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: I have broken apt-get Panic! Hello, I have an old system that has been running "stable" fo

Re: problem installing Sendmail

2004-08-19 Thread John Summerfield
Carlos Sousa wrote: On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 17:15:23 +0800 John Summerfield wrote: (replying manually to the list, as I suspect [EMAIL PROTECTED] won't be a good recipient for my purposes ;) :-) See what it resolves to. Since tbird doesn't have "reply to list" I "reply to all" then prune. Setting r

Re: Help requested: DMA, Seagate ST340014A, Kernel 2.4

2004-08-19 Thread John Summerfield
Richard Cobbe wrote: Lo, on Sunday, August 15, James Vahn did write: Didn't know about lspci; thanks. If I'm reading the output correctly, though, I'm not using a VIA IDE interface: [nanny-ogg:~/mail/.spools]$ lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]: Unknown device 700c (rev 11)

Re: X resolution gnome/wmaker

2004-08-19 Thread Amir Tal
the resolution is an X parameter, and icon size is a gnome parameter. for resolution, edit you /etc/X11/XF86config-4 file. everything you need to know is in the file itself, and for more info refer to the man page : man xfree. icon sizing is actually very simple with gnome. right click on an icon

Re: 2.6.x kernel doubts

2004-08-19 Thread John Summerfield
John L Fjellstad wrote: Leonardo Marques <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Im thinking in upgrade to new kernel line (2.6.x), im using debian stable, i wanna know if have some problem between deb stable and 2.6.x kernel line. If exists, can i do something? You can, but like previously mentione

Re: Help requested: DMA, Seagate ST340014A, Kernel 2.4

2004-08-19 Thread John Summerfield
Rthoreau wrote: Richard Your lspci listing should not contain any unknown devices, for example below is my listing for my MP 2460. It really does not matter. All it means is the device is not in the PCI utilities database. -- Cheers John -- spambait [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

DVD Recording question

2004-08-19 Thread Brad Sims
Is there a way around the 4X limitation on DVD burning? In other words is there a package I need to download to allow me to use my 8x burner and media at full speed? -- Tax stupidity, not wealth. -- Tanuki the Raccoon-dog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub

Re: missing eth0

2004-08-19 Thread John Summerfield
Freddy Freeloader wrote: I did a clean install of woody. I immediately upgraded to sarge, and then immediately upgraded my kernel to 2.6.6 from source using apt. Since then I have a really strange problem. On every reboot my eth0 card is not found. I have to modprobe, and then restart /etc

Re: migration to debian from NT4 :)

2004-08-19 Thread Tim Kelley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 19 August 2004 05:08, Gabriel Granger wrote: > Hi All, > > I've been asked to move our domain from NT in to the linux world :) > naturally Debian of course. I would like advise if anyone has does > this on the best way to do this. The ser

Re: 200GB firewire drives and bios drive size limits

2004-08-19 Thread John Summerfield
Alexander Schmehl wrote: Well, I didn't tried it myself, but I guess a machine which is recent enough to support firewire should be modern enough to support large drives. Nothing prevents you from getting a firewire 800 card and puttting it in your old Pentium 60:-) I would expect it to work a

Re: Help needed setting up Debian

2004-08-19 Thread matt zagrabelny
On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 15:00, Glenn Keenan wrote: > I am a complete newbie to Debian and just installed it using sarge. > Install went fine, machine rebooted without a problem, continued > install over network via http and then got to the package > installation. Here is my problem. I canʼt figure

Re: usb flash sticks, good as swap partitions? or logging partitions?

2004-08-19 Thread John Summerfield
Steven Jones wrote: just a thought I have a 64Meg stick sitting here...was thinking a cascade type scenarioswap to flash first off then connventional disk later... Or possibly use it as a logging "disk" for /var/log as mine are getting hammered I don't have any kind of flash drive,

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XEmacs21 not changing fonts in X

2004-08-19 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
XEmacs21 is not changing the fonts or font sizes in X. I am using TESTING and X4.3. XEmacs21 came from Stable. Any suggestions on how I can get the fonts working? Lance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

WMaker not updaing menus

2004-08-19 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
Hello, Just installed TESTING the other day (what is the code name for TESTING? SARGE?). I have been installing new packages since the initial install. The GNOME and KDE window managers appear to be updating their menus. WindowMaker is not. Is this a bug? What do I need to do so that WMaker wi

RE: Systemimager 3.0.1-11 on Sarge.

2004-08-19 Thread Michael Bellears
> This is usually indicative of memory problems. Get a rescue > CD such as 'lnx-bbc' and run memtest86, just to check the > memory on the machine is OK. If it is (runninf it for 12 > hours is a good idea), then it is probably down to poor > coding, or you simply do not have enough RAM. :) Than

Re: All these open ports

2004-08-19 Thread Dana J. Laude
Jon Dowland wrote: On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:56:17 -0400, Tong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I've just noticed that my debian testing open many ports by default: How can I close them? Firstly open up the rc file for your inetd (e.g. /etc/inetd.conf) and comment out any lines you don't need. This sho

Re: Debian Linux on a mac?

2004-08-19 Thread S.D.A.
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 07:01:19PM -0300 or thereabouts, Filipi Vianna wrote: > Jacob S. wrote: > I'm runing om my Powerbook... > I've got an iso cd image at: > > http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/distributions/debian-cd/powerpc/ > > Everything was fine... Not the original poster, so please excu

Re: Delayed mails on debian-user [Now mostly fixed]

2004-08-19 Thread S.D.A.
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 07:52:54PM -0400 or thereabouts, Carl Fink wrote: > BTW, I didn't see a single delayed message during the whole affair. I > wonder if this is because I subscribed to this list so many years ago. If > the list manager sends out messages in the order in which people subscrib

Re: Trying to install the iso image?

2004-08-19 Thread Wayne Ward
> Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Received: (qmail 28661 invoked by uid 118); 20 Aug 2004 00:43:41 - > Received: from unknown (HELO taconic.net) (127.0.0.1) > by 0 with SMTP; 20 Aug 2004 00:43:41 - > X-MessageWall-Score: 0 (taconic.net) > Received: fro

Webcam and Linux

2004-08-19 Thread Piers Kittel
Hello all, Have finally got my Quickcam webcam to work under Linux, and want to capture video from it - not images, but video. The only software that I could find that would capture video was xawtv - is there any other? My problem with xawtv is that I can start it with 'xawtv -c "/dev/video0"'

Kernel 2.6.7 will not boot on Averatec 3120V

2004-08-19 Thread Carl Fink
I've got Debian Sarge running on my laptop, using the stock 2.4.23 kernel. However, any attempt to boot 2.6.7-1 results in successful detection of hard disks and some other hardware (rockets by too fast to read), then many repetitions of: modprobe: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.7/modules

Re: Video player package without Gnome/KDE requirements

2004-08-19 Thread Stefan O'Rear
On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 02:39:32PM +0200, Otto Wyss wrote: > Now I only need to know how I get the /dev/dvd device. Is there a > package for that as well or is it somewhere documented? /dev/dvd is a symlink to your DVD device (it'll be something like /dev/hdc...) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Re: X application keyboard snooper

2004-08-19 Thread Roy Pluschke
On August 19, 2004 15:47, Thomas Adam wrote: > On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 03:34:47PM -0700, Roy Pluschke wrote: > > I'm creating some video tutorials (X screen capture movies using xvidcap) > > and would like to show what keys I'm currently pressing in a small window > > on the screen. The utility wo

Re: Delayed mails on debian-user [Now mostly fixed]

2004-08-19 Thread Jacob S.
On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 19:52:54 -0400 Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > BTW, I didn't see a single delayed message during the whole affair. I > wonder if this is because I subscribed to this list so many years ago. > If the list manager sends out messages in the order in which people > subscrib

Re: Systemimager 3.0.1-11 on Sarge.

2004-08-19 Thread Thomas Adam
On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 09:29:38AM +1000, Michael Bellears wrote: > Parted -s -- /dev/sda mklabel msdos || shellout > Segmentation fault > > Googling on the above has revealed a couple of others experiencing > similar problems, but no solution. This is usually indicative of memory problems. Get a

the Packages files should get to mirrors last

2004-08-19 Thread Dan Jacobson
On the Debian mirrors, each day there is a period, perhaps a few hours, between the time the Packages files arrive, and the time packages themselves arrive. This is not a problem, because it happens early in the morning when all Debian users are of course asleep... except for me. It would seem to

Re: can't post to "linux.debian.user" "solved"

2004-08-19 Thread Dan Jacobson
> My messages were posted, but they didn't show up in the proper place > in the threads in Mozilla. References and In-Reply-To looked correct > so I don't know what happened Note how you are currently reading uncorrupted Message-ID <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> at gmane.org, and <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on http

Re: Problem with noflushd in Sarge

2004-08-19 Thread Thomas Adam
On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 11:19:29PM +0100, Matthew T. Atkinson wrote: > 'ello, > > I'm pretty sure that noflushd is not spinning down /dev/hdd after 5 mins > (which is how I have it set up). Unfortunately, no messages from it are > appearing in syslog (they used to in Woody) so I am unable to tell

Re: Microsoft Optical Desktop Pro not working in USB

2004-08-19 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bharath Ramesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am not subscribed to this list so I would really apreciate it if you > can CC me the reply. I wouldn't count on that happening. Most people discourage private replies because it doesn't tend to allow fo

Re: usb flash sticks, good as swap partitions? or logging partitions?

2004-08-19 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 "Steven Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > just a thought > > I have a 64Meg stick sitting here...was thinking a cascade type > scenarioswap to flash first off then connventional disk later... Flash memory can only be flashed so many times

Re: Delayed mails on debian-user [Now mostly fixed]

2004-08-19 Thread Carl Fink
BTW, I didn't see a single delayed message during the whole affair. I wonder if this is because I subscribed to this list so many years ago. If the list manager sends out messages in the order in which people subscribed, every single gmail customer would be listed after me. -- Carl Fink

Re: can't post to "linux.debian.user" "solved"

2004-08-19 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 20, Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I suppose one is supposed to put both Message-ID's into the References > header if one follows-up. No. If one reads a debian mailing list in a linux.debian.* group and wants to reply to the list he is supposed to followup to the newsgroup and NO

Get relisted in search directories

2004-08-19 Thread Jennifer Clark
Got a useful www-site, but no one even knows whether it exists? Have every page of your web site submitted by EVERY major Search Directory including: Google, Yahoo Search, MSN Search, AOL Search, Excite, Lycos, HotBot, Overture, Inktomi, Ask Jeeves, Webcrawler, etc. Getti

Setting up development environment

2004-08-19 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm trying to set up a standard development environment in Debian and running into some problems. It's no longer possible during installation to select a development environment during installation with the installer, so I've got to piece it together a

Re: usb flash sticks, good as swap partitions? or logging partitions?

2004-08-19 Thread Tim Kelley
On Thursday 19 August 2004 17:40, Steven Jones wrote: > just a thought > > I have a 64Meg stick sitting here...was thinking a cascade type > scenarioswap to flash first off then connventional disk later... > > Or possibly use it as a logging "disk" for /var/log as mine are getting > hammere

Re: Help needed setting up Debian

2004-08-19 Thread Glenn Keenan
Well I guess I didn't try every key. Now on with the rest of the installation. Thanks for the quick help. - Original Message - From: "Michael Bellears" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 5:48 PM Subject: RE: Help needed setting up Debian >I've

Re: postfix removal/install

2004-08-19 Thread Stefan O'Rear
On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 04:47:59AM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 03:48:37PM -0700, Stefan O'Rear wrote: >> >> To completely remove a package do "dpkg --purge packagename", or >> "apt-get purge packagename". >> > Should it not be apt-get --purge remove packag

Re: postfix removal/install

2004-08-19 Thread Thomas Adam
On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 04:47:59AM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 03:48:37PM -0700, Stefan O'Rear wrote: >> >> To completely remove a package do "dpkg --purge packagename", or >> "apt-get purge packagename". >> > Should it not be apt-get --purge remove packag

Re: security updates

2004-08-19 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello! On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 02:30:50PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > okay, i get it! i didn't understand how this would help until i tried > it -- what i had been not getting was that apt-get installing a > package that i already had installed would upgrade it if it needed to > be upgraded.

Re: Fonts in pdf files suddenly very ugly

2004-08-19 Thread Eddy
Le Fri, 20 Aug 2004 00:20:06 +0200, Eddy a écrit : > Hello, > > I'm new to Debian and to this list (not subscribed yet, reading from > usenet). > > I have a problem with some pdf files the fonts of which have suddenly > become very ugly. Files that displayed very well a few days ago now > displa

Re: postfix removal/install

2004-08-19 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 03:48:37PM -0700, Stefan O'Rear wrote: > > To completely remove a package do "dpkg --purge packagename", or > "apt-get purge packagename". > Should it not be apt-get --purge remove packagename? Regards, -- Sridhar M.A. GP

De vuelta con fetchmail

2004-08-19 Thread Luis Fernando Llana Díaz
Hola, hace unos meses estuvimos dicutiendo sobre problemas con fetchmail y el servidor de correo de ya.com. Recoge sólo las primeras líneas del mensaje y el resto las bora. El problema no lo resolví, y empecé a leer los mensajes desde el gesto local de correo. Pero como lo de fetchmail me in

Re: usb flash sticks, good as swap partitions? or logging partitions?

2004-08-19 Thread Stefan O'Rear
On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 10:40:50AM +1200, Steven Jones wrote: > just a thought > > I have a 64Meg stick sitting here...was thinking a cascade type scenarioswap to > flash first off then connventional disk later... Linux has a "priority" feature for swap areas. from my fstab: /dev/hda5

Re: usb flash sticks, good as swap partitions? or logging partitions?

2004-08-19 Thread Jacob S.
On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 10:40:50 +1200 "Steven Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > just a thought > > I have a 64Meg stick sitting here...was thinking a cascade type > scenarioswap to flash first off then connventional disk later... > > Or possibly use it as a logging "disk" for /var/log as

Re: postfix removal/install

2004-08-19 Thread Stefan O'Rear
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 05:30:36PM -0500, Roger wrote: > I'm attempting to install postfix - I ran into a problem(of my own > doing) and decided to start from scratch.. > > I removed the debs > > postfix > postfix-tls > but I still get them in the list of packages.. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc

Re: X application keyboard snooper

2004-08-19 Thread Thomas Adam
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 03:34:47PM -0700, Roy Pluschke wrote: > I'm creating some video tutorials (X screen capture movies using xvidcap) and > would like to show what keys I'm currently pressing in a small window on the > screen. The utility would have to handle shift-ctrl-alt-meta combinations

Re: postfix removal/install

2004-08-19 Thread Thomas Adam
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 05:30:36PM -0500, Roger wrote: > At this point I'm looking to remove postfix 100% and start clean. dpkg -P -- Thomas Adam -- "Frankly, Mr. Shankly, since you ask. You are a flatulent pain in the arse." -- Morrissey. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Microsoft Optical Desktop Pro not working in USB

2004-08-19 Thread Bharath Ramesh
I have a Microsoft Optical Desktop Pro Keyboard and Mouse. When I try using this using USB I can only either use the mouse or keyboard in debian. I have had this problems for a long time. I would like to know if anyone else has had a similar problem. If so did you manage to fix it and how. I am not

Monitor loses its OSD settings.

2004-08-19 Thread Thomas Adam
Hello, all - I have a cheap Belinea CRT monitor. It's not a bad monitor, but one thing that has annoyed me is that it forgets the settings I feed it from its OSD. This seems to be a known issue with some Belinea monitors. This means that each time I restart X, or switch from VT <--> X, or turn my

X application keyboard snooper

2004-08-19 Thread Roy Pluschke
I'm creating some video tutorials (X screen capture movies using xvidcap) and would like to show what keys I'm currently pressing in a small window on the screen. The utility would have to handle shift-ctrl-alt-meta combinations well since the app makes heavy use of them. Does anyone know of s

usb flash sticks, good as swap partitions? or logging partitions?

2004-08-19 Thread Steven Jones
just a thought I have a 64Meg stick sitting here...was thinking a cascade type scenarioswap to flash first off then connventional disk later... Or possibly use it as a logging "disk" for /var/log as mine are getting hammered ? regards thing

Re: ./configure pb or faulty configure.in?

2004-08-19 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello! On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 05:34:30PM +0200, messmate wrote: > [...] > checking for xml-config... no > checking for libxml... checking for xml2-config... (cached) no > checking for libxml2... no > *** Could not find libxml. Check out the libxml homepage at > *** http://www.xmlsoft.org or just

Re: Help upgrade

2004-08-19 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* John Fleming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040819 19:00]: > I have a Debian Unstable install that I'm trying to get up to date. Please, if you use unstable read manpages, read the BTS and search the listarchive of different lists. > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-get upgrade [..] > The following packages ha

postfix removal/install

2004-08-19 Thread Roger
I'm attempting to install postfix - I ran into a problem(of my own doing) and decided to start from scratch.. I removed the debs postfix postfix-tls but I still get them in the list of packages.. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc# dpkg -l | grep -i postfix rc postfix2.1.3-1A high-performan

Re: Trouble with ifup (Resolved)

2004-08-19 Thread Ian Thomas
On Aug 19, 2004, at 6:02 PM, Stefan O'Rear wrote: Try removing the backslashes. My /e/n/interfaces: auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.2.4 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.2.255 gateway 192.168.2.1 network 1

Re: ./configure pb or faulty configure.in?

2004-08-19 Thread Eric Gaumer
On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 14:53, messmate wrote: > On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 10:12:59 -0700 > Eric Gaumer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> This seems that xml2-config isn't found ! > >> But it's there : > >> locate xml2-config > >> /usr/bin/xml2-config > >> /usr/share/man/man1/xml2-config.1.gz > > > > > >It's

Re: Help needed setting up Debian

2004-08-19 Thread Michael Janis
Hi Glenn, If you are using the sarge installer CD, it should bring you to several options for package selection after rebooting (part of the base-config dialog). If you choose tasksel, one option is to install a task (such as desktop environment) which will then download a variety of packages, su

Re: Trouble with ifup

2004-08-19 Thread Tom Furie
Hi Ian, On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 05:43:30PM -0400, Ian Thomas wrote: > auto eth0 > iface eth0 inet static\ > address 192.168.2.3\ > netmask 255.255.255.0\ > gateway 192.168.2.1 > > When running 'ifup -a', I get the following error, > > /etc/network/interfaces:12: too many param

icewm bidirectional setup?

2004-08-19 Thread Richard Lyons
I hope this isn't a duplicate posting. I tried three days ago, and it seems to have sunk without trace... I googled in vain for this. It is OT really, but someone here probably has this set up. how do I get icewm set up to switch to hebrew (or arabic would do -- it must be the same setup, go

Re: 200GB firewire drives and bios drive size limits

2004-08-19 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Jim Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040819 20:15]: > I am trying to find information on whether large external firewire > drives are effected by the various bios limitations on older hardware. > Google is not turning up much and I would be appreciative of any pointers > to docs and articles people m

Re: What is the current stable version

2004-08-19 Thread Christoph Wegscheider
Josef Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well it seems that Sarge is _now_ the current stable release? No the current stable version of Debian now is Woody. Sarge will be the next stable version it'll be released on September 19th but that date is only a prospective release date. Ch

Re: What is the current stable version

2004-08-19 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Josef Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040819 22:09]: > Well it seems that Sarge is _now_ the current stable release? No, it isn't. > When login into shell I see Debian Gnu/Linux 3.1. The package base-files contains the file /etc/debian_version. This content of this file is displayed on the lo

Re: Trouble with ifup

2004-08-19 Thread Stefan O'Rear
Try removing the backslashes. My /e/n/interfaces: auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.2.4 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.2.255 gateway 192.168.2.1 network 192.168.254.0 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: Debian Linux on a mac?

2004-08-19 Thread Filipi Vianna
Jacob S. wrote: On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 12:37:57 -0700 (PDT) Bobby Edlebeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is it possible to run Debian Linux on a mac? http://www.nl.debian.org/ports http://www.nl.debian.org/ports/powerpc/ HTH, Jacob I'm runing om my Powerbook... I've got an iso cd image at: http://mirro

Re: ./configure pb or faulty configure.in?

2004-08-19 Thread messmate
On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 10:12:59 -0700 Eric Gaumer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 08:34, messmate wrote: >> Hi, >> i've to compile 'gshieldconf-0.40 on my sarge. >> On the configure >> the following messages appears : >> >> loading cache ./config.cache >> checking for a BSD compat

Re: Help needed setting up Debian

2004-08-19 Thread Chris Metzler
On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 16:00:13 -0400 "Glenn Keenan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am a complete newbie to Debian and just installed it using sarge. > Install went fine, machine rebooted without a problem, continued install > over network via http and then got to the package installation. Here is

RE: Help needed setting up Debian

2004-08-19 Thread Michael Bellears
>I've tried all the keys and only the arrow keys and the enter key seem to do anything Have you tried the space key? Regards, MB

Trouble with ifup

2004-08-19 Thread Ian Thomas
I'm not able to get the file, /etc/network/interfaces, to be read successfully with by ifup(8). The following is a copy of what is the contents of the interfaces file (I've left out the comments). auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static\ address 192.168.2.3\

Re: Debian Linux on a mac?

2004-08-19 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 the mental interface of Bobby Edlebeck told: > Is it possible to run Debian Linux on a mac? Of course yes ;-) See [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ciao Elimar -- >what IMHO then? IMHO - Inhalation of a Multi-leafed Herbal Opiate ;) --posting from alex in debian-user--

Fonts in pdf files suddenly very ugly

2004-08-19 Thread Eddy
Hello, I'm new to Debian and to this list (not subscribed yet, reading from usenet). I have a problem with some pdf files the fonts of which have suddenly become very ugly. Files that displayed very well a few days ago now display and print with a font too large and letters colliding. To ge

Help needed setting up Debian

2004-08-19 Thread Glenn Keenan
I am a complete newbie to Debian and just installed it using sarge.  Install went fine, machine rebooted without a problem, continued install over network via http and then got to the package installation.  Here is my problem.  I can’t figure out how to actually select the package I want (d

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Re: Debian Linux on a mac?

2004-08-19 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello! On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 12:37:57PM -0700, Bobby Edlebeck wrote: > Is it possible to run Debian Linux on a mac? Like ? Looks like... for details better go see instead of this list. Cheers, Flo signature.asc

Re: What is the current stable version

2004-08-19 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Josef Oswald (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Well it seems that Sarge is _now_ the current stable release? > When login into shell I see Debian Gnu/Linux 3.1. No, not yet. Right now Sarge is still the testing branch, and Woody is stable. best regards Andreas Janssen -- Andreas J

Re: Debian Linux on a mac?

2004-08-19 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Bobby Edlebeck (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Is it possible to run Debian Linux on a mac? Yes. There is also a debian mailing list for Debian powerpc users: best regards Andreas Janssen -- Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP-Key-ID

Re: Debian Linux on a mac?

2004-08-19 Thread Jacob S.
On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 12:37:57 -0700 (PDT) Bobby Edlebeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it possible to run Debian Linux on a mac? http://www.nl.debian.org/ports http://www.nl.debian.org/ports/powerpc/ HTH, Jacob -- GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 Random .signature #8: "When you say 'I wrote a progr

Install Debian on DELL 2450 (Woody)

2004-08-19 Thread chris
Hi I am trying to replace RedHat 9.0 on my Dell 2450 box. I have installed via CD and floppy about 5 systems on Debian. The problem I have is that I have obtained a set of install disks http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/ that I copied to 6 diskettes

Re: Delayed mails on debian-user [Now mostly fixed]

2004-08-19 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 10:51:46AM -0400, S.D.A. wrote: > His problem seems to be caused by the major ISPs recently implementing > Greylisting, causing a backup que when sending large volumes outbound. Properly-implented greylisting only applies to a given mail server *once*, ever. -- Carl Fink

What is the current stable version

2004-08-19 Thread Josef Oswald
Well it seems that Sarge is _now_ the current stable release? When login into shell I see Debian Gnu/Linux 3.1. LinuxUser aka Josef Oswald [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- registered-linux-user # 134.818 at http://counter.li.org The box said Windows, NT or better, so I installed Linux :-) -- To UNS

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