Re: Upgrade KDE?

2004-10-20 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041021 02:43]: > >Heya; I'm pretty new to Linux, and have barely ever used apt-get, save on a > >ol' powermac w/ yellow dog linux. Newho, what exactly do I need > >to do to upgrade KDE 2.2 on my i586 Woody box to the latest KDE? > Upgrade to Sarge or try http://www.ba

Re: Upgrade KDE?

2004-10-20 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 11:39:00PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Heya; I'm pretty new to Linux, and have barely ever used apt-get, save on a > ol' powermac w/ yellow dog linux. Newho, what exactly do I need > to do to upgrade KDE 2.2 on my i586 Wo

tetex-bin fails installation

2004-10-20 Thread Art Edwards
On my last upgrade, tetex-bin failed to install. I received the following in the debconf window: The generation of some of the format files needed to run TeX, LaTeX etc. has failed. You will not be able to run these programs until this is fixed. The most frequent cause for such a failure is tha

LILO problem

2004-10-20 Thread a perez
I partitioned my hard drive in such a way that i can install 2 OS. The partition goes like this: /dev/hda1 - Linux (ext3)- Bootable /dev/hda5 - Linux Swap /dev/hda3 - Linux (reiserfs) /dev/hda1 has Knoppix3.3 (LiveOIO) and /dev/hda3 has Knoppix 3.6. I configured /dev/hda3's lilo.conf by putting /

Re: Debian and Win XP

2004-10-20 Thread William Ballard
> Given that I need to know how to make a bootable Linux > cdrom with ntfsresize on it. Some bright apple decised Knoppix. You can always mount an SMB or NFS share if it isn't on there. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PRO

Re: Debian and Win XP

2004-10-20 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi, * Shane Clement <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041021 13:35]: > I have a Toshiba Satellite A30 with Win XP installed. How > do I resize the ntfs file system since fips will not work > on it and the only ntfsresize I can find is set to run > under Linux. > > Given that I need to know how to make a boot

Re: procmail puzzle

2004-10-20 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Matt Price: > David Clymer wrote: > > > >perhaps you need to add the customary :0 line prior to each > >rule: > > > >:0 > ># ximian... > >* ^Subject: .*Evolution > >$MAILDIR/.evolution/ > > god I'm such an idiot. thanks everyone for the help! Obviously I'd be > *toast* without th

Re: apache error on restart --gaah!

2004-10-20 Thread Matt Price
Matt Price wrote: hey folks, well, after three months I rebooted my computer today -- that was silly! Now apache won't start. I get this error: Starting web server: apachePHP Warning: Unknown(): Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib/php4/20020429/curl.so' - /usr/lib/php4/20020429/curl.s

eclipse 3

2004-10-20 Thread Blake Swadling
does anyone know if eclipse 3.0.1 or 3.1 RC is available anywhere as a deb package? Cheers Blake -- Blake Swadling Senior Software Engineer Newton Pty Ltd Telephone: +61 2 6247 3544 Fax:+61 2 6247 3533 Mobile: +61 407 026277 Web:http://www.eenvoy.com.au --

Debian and Win XP

2004-10-20 Thread Shane Clement
I have a Toshiba Satellite A30 with Win XP installed. How do I resize the ntfs file system since fips will not work on it and the only ntfsresize I can find is set to run under Linux. Given that I need to know how to make a bootable Linux cdrom with ntfsresize on it. Some bright apple decised th

sarge and libc6-i686 (nptl)

2004-10-20 Thread John L Fjellstad
I noticed that sarge has the libc optimized for i686 with the new thread library (nptl). Has anyone tried it? Is it safe to install (guessing the 'old' non-optimized libc gets removed if I do?). I really want to test out nptl, but I'd like to hear about other people's experience (in installation

apache error on restart --gaah!

2004-10-20 Thread Matt Price
hey folks, well, after three months I rebooted my computer today -- that was silly! Now apache won't start. I get this error: Starting web server: apachePHP Warning: Unknown(): Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib/php4/20020429/curl.so' - /usr/lib/php4/20020429/curl.so: cannot open sha

after power outage: Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs :(

2004-10-20 Thread Royce
Had a power outage, and when I brought my Debian 3 system back up it was hosed: --- EXT2-fs: unable to read superblock Attempt to access beyond device . . . FAT bread failed Invalid session number or type of track . . . Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 03:04 --- How d

Re: procmail puzzle

2004-10-20 Thread Matt Price
David Clymer wrote: On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 22:18, Matt Price wrote: I'm trying to filterm ail form the evolution lists into a sep. mailbox, but for some reason it's not working. I've looked over the recipes I wrote & they seem exactly like the ones that DO work... Can anyone tell me what's wrong wi

Re: Sounds off in bash

2004-10-20 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, Otto Wyss wrote: > In bash rather many time the speaker sounds. Unfortunately my speaker is > so loud I had to disconnect it. Since that isn't a permanent solution is > does anyone know how to disable any sound in bash? > > There is a readline variable "bell-style" but I can'

Re: [root@comcast.net: Cron if [ -x /usr/sbin/exim_tidydb ]; then /usr/sbin/exim_tidydb /var/spool/exim retry >/dev/null; fi]

2004-10-20 Thread Jules Dubois
On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 15:47:44 -0400, xucaen wrote: > Does anyone know what this message means? > > - Forwarded message from Cron Daemon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - > Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: Cron Daemon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It means Comscat's mail service is broken. -- To UNSUBSC

sarge, postfix and sasl problem

2004-10-20 Thread Jean-Yves Boisiaud
hello, I'm using Sarge with Postfix 2.1.4-5, SASL2 2.1.19-1.5 and kernel 2.4.27-1-686 When I do a telnet to the smtp server it exits immediatly, I have the log message : Oct 21 04:59:27 proxy postfix/smtpd[16924]: fatal: no SASL authentication mechanisms Here is my main.cf file : default_pri

Re: procmail puzzle

2004-10-20 Thread David Clymer
On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 22:18, Matt Price wrote: > I'm trying to filterm ail form the evolution lists into a > sep. mailbox, but for some reason it's not working. I've looked over > the recipes I wrote & they seem exactly like the ones that DO work... > Can anyone tell me what's wrong with the follo

Re: procmail puzzle

2004-10-20 Thread Nick Hastings
* Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041021 11:39]: > > I'm trying to filterm ail form the evolution lists into a > sep. mailbox, but for some reason it's not working. I've looked over > the recipes I wrote & they seem exactly like the ones that DO work... > Can anyone tell me what's wrong with the

Re: procmail puzzle

2004-10-20 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Matt Price: > > # ximian... :0< > * ^TO_evolution > $MAILDIR/.evolution/ > > > # ximian... :0< > * ^To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > $MAILDIR/.evolution/ > > # ximian... :0

procmail puzzle

2004-10-20 Thread Matt Price
I'm trying to filterm ail form the evolution lists into a sep. mailbox, but for some reason it's not working. I've looked over the recipes I wrote & they seem exactly like the ones that DO work... Can anyone tell me what's wrong with the following recipes: # ximian... * ^TO_evolution $MAILDIR/.

Re: can't see amavis-stats result via browser

2004-10-20 Thread ms linux
--- ms linux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > today toy : apt-get install amavis-stats > > http://localhost/amavis-stats > Forbidden > You don't have permission to access /amavis-stats/ > on > this server. > > Include /etc/amavis-stats/apache.conf already exist > in > /etc/apache/httpd.conf ( def

Re: Formatting an unused partition

2004-10-20 Thread Icebiker
What an enabling piece of information! Got a huge /home partition now. Thanks - icebiker - Original Message - From: "Mark Lanett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 14:26 Subject: Re: Formatting an unused partition :: Is it safe to mkfs on a dis

Re: aptitude: packages have been kept back

2004-10-20 Thread ms linux
rds wrote: > Hi, > > Ran "aptitude upgrade --show-versions" today and got the following. Can anyone > shed some light on why these packages are kept back? And what should I do about > it (I'd like to keep the system in synch with testing)? > > Thanks in advance > >

can't see amavis-stats result via browser

2004-10-20 Thread ms linux
today toy : apt-get install amavis-stats http://localhost/amavis-stats Forbidden You don't have permission to access /amavis-stats/ on this server. Include /etc/amavis-stats/apache.conf already exist in /etc/apache/httpd.conf ( default created by debconf ), file permision in /usr/share/amavis-sta

Re: problems with new apt-proxy

2004-10-20 Thread Art Edwards
Nick Hastings wrote: Hi, * Art Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041021 09:18]: I have upgraded to the newest apt-proxy and things have become really sl. I spend a lot of time [Waiting for headers]. Is there some configuration that I'm missing? Sounds like you're experiencing a know bug

Re: problems with new apt-proxy

2004-10-20 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi, * Art Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041021 09:18]: > I have upgraded to the newest apt-proxy and things have become really > sl. I spend a lot of time [Waiting for headers]. Is there some > configuration that I'm missing? Sounds like you're experiencing a know bug (don't know the numbe

Re: aptitude: packages have been kept back

2004-10-20 Thread robin
rds wrote: Hi, Ran "aptitude upgrade --show-versions" today and got the following. Can anyone shed some light on why these packages are kept back? And what should I do about it (I'd like to keep the system in synch with testing)? Thanks in advance -- Checking

Re: Building binaries for older versions of libc6

2004-10-20 Thread Brian Nelson
On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 02:58:16PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > I have a C++ program which requires g++ 3.4 to build due to parser bugs > in older versions of g++. I'm currently building on a development > machine running mostly woody with some packages from sarge, including > g++-3.4 of cours

Re: Upgrade KDE?

2004-10-20 Thread robin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Heya; I'm pretty new to Linux, and have barely ever used apt-get, save on a ol' powermac w/ yellow dog linux. Newho, what exactly do I need to do to upgrade KDE 2.2 on my i586 Woody box to the latest KDE? Thanx, ES Upgrade to Sarge or try http://www.backports.org/ -- T

problems with new apt-proxy

2004-10-20 Thread Art Edwards
I have upgraded to the newest apt-proxy and things have become really sl. I spend a lot of time [Waiting for headers]. Is there some configuration that I'm missing? Art Edwards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTE

aptitude: packages have been kept back

2004-10-20 Thread rds
Hi, Ran "aptitude upgrade --show-versions" today and got the following. Can anyone shed some light on why these packages are kept back? And what should I do about it (I'd like to keep the system in synch with testing)? Thanks in advance -- Checking if the

Re: X driver?

2004-10-20 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eric Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yo, I just installed Debian 3.0. During the setup I set my graphics > driver to VGA just 'cuz I didn't know what to use. After the > install, X wouldn't start with a 'VGA can't support 24 bit" error or > some

Re: removing wierd files

2004-10-20 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > is there a way to reference files whose names begin with -? I think it's done by adding another - to the start of the filename when you're specifying it. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (

Re: Not happy with Woody's Kmail and Konqorer Web Browser

2004-10-20 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Scotty Fitzgerald (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Andreas Janssen wrote: >> Scotty Fitzgerald (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: >> >>> I was not completely happy with these two parts of the K desktop >>> environment. >>> [...] >>> Konqueror because it does not support HTTPS: >> >> Sure? Du you m

Re: Wireless interface not working

2004-10-20 Thread Shreyas Ananthan
Werner Otto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sorry for the scrappy info: > > I am running the testing version of Debian. > > lspci Network controller: Intel Corp. PRO/Wireless 2200BG (rev 05) > > as for the wireless tools, I have been searching for a source to add > to my sources.list file to obta

Re: ssh tput error 'tput: No value for $TERM and no -T specified'

2004-10-20 Thread Thomas Dickey
Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thomas Dickey wrote: >> Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>>I've checked and $TERM is in fact set to 'xterm' on the client >>>temrinal before I execute the ocmmand, and in remote sessions started >> >> >> perhaps. I just ran >> ssh server

dpkg missing binary `keep'

2004-10-20 Thread Anders Breindahl
Hi list, I've run into a problem with Sid: When upgrading the package lm-sensors I get this error: le-skrewz:/home/skrewz# dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/lm-sensors_2.8.8-1_i386.deb (Reading database ... 93306 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace lm-sensors 2.8.7-8

[OT] kudos to the debian-installer team!

2004-10-20 Thread Pim Bliek
Just a short note to congratulate the debian-installer team on their excellent work! I tried installing Debian several times on my ASUS A7N8X Deluxe with 180 GB SATA disk on the Intersil 3112 controller, without any good results. Kernel hangs, all kinds of weirdness etc. I understood from reading

Re: Highpoint HPT374 Controller + debian install

2004-10-20 Thread Chad Davis
Okay, I see I could do the floppy options but I don't have any floppy drives unfortunatly. Ubuntu seems to not have any support for it either. I also downloaded the latest debian-installer from yesterday and still had no luck :( On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 23:49:17 +0100, Mark Crean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: iptables troubles

2004-10-20 Thread Pim Bliek
Sorry for the slow reply. Yes, ftp is working without the iptables firewall on. So that is no problem. I don't see why I should use a nat module, since I am not doing NAT. It is a single server, directly connected to the internet. No LAN behind. So no NAT. However, this iptables script is still

Re: [OT] hardware problem

2004-10-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Justin Guerin wrote: On Wednesday 20 October 2004 07:17, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi Debian! I have a problem and would like suggestions on how to isolate what is wrong. 1. I am running a Abit KT7A with 2 Maxtor HDD's 80GB + 40GB Model=Maxtor 6Y080P0, FwRev=YAR41BW0, SerialNo=Y2FAZ3HE hda Model=Maxto

Re: Highpoint HPT374 Controller + debian install

2004-10-20 Thread Mark Crean
Chad Davis wrote: Greetings, I have a highpoint HPT373 controller and am trying to install Debian. However I can not get it to read the drives because none of the kernels have the correct drivers included. How can I deal with this and get debian installed? What are my options? Any feedback would

Re: [video-dvdrip], where is mp2enc

2004-10-20 Thread Tong
On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 22:34:38 +0200, Joan Tur wrote: > Es Dilluns 18 Octubre 2004 03:43, en Tong va escriure: > | sh: line 1: mpeg2enc: command not found > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# apt-file search mpeg2enc > mjpegtools: usr/bin/mpeg2enc Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you very much, Joan Tur! (F

Re: losing vc cursor

2004-10-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Wayne Topa wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: Hi Debian! At times I lose my cursor in a vc. Is there a way to try to get it back? This is probably related to the fact that I use 2.6.7-Ruby multi-user Linux. I'll ask there... Hugo I also am experiencing that Hugo.

Upgrade KDE?

2004-10-20 Thread scottclansman
Heya; I'm pretty new to Linux, and have barely ever used apt-get, save on a ol' powermac w/ yellow dog linux. Newho, what exactly do I need to do to upgrade KDE 2.2 on my i586 Woody box to the latest KDE? Thanx, ES -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Upgrade KDE?

2004-10-20 Thread scottclansman
Heya; I'm pretty new to Linux, and have barely ever used apt-get, save on a ol' powermac w/ yellow dog linux. Newho, what exactly do I need to do to upgrade KDE 2.2 on my i586 Woody box to the latest KDE? Thanx, ES -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Upgrade KDE?

2004-10-20 Thread scottclansman
Heya; I'm pretty new to Linux, and have barely ever used apt-get, save on a ol' powermac w/ yellow dog linux. Newho, what exactly do I need to do to upgrade KDE 2.2 on my i586 Woody box to the latest KDE? Thanx, ES -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Upgrade KDE?

2004-10-20 Thread scottclansman
Heya; I'm pretty new to Linux, and have barely ever used apt-get, save on a ol' powermac w/ yellow dog linux. Newho, what exactly do I need to do to upgrade KDE 2.2 on my i586 Woody box to the latest KDE? Thanx, ES -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Upgrade KDE?

2004-10-20 Thread scottclansman
Heya; I'm pretty new to Linux, and have barely ever used apt-get, save on a ol' powermac w/ yellow dog linux. Newho, what exactly do I need to do to upgrade KDE 2.2 on my i586 Woody box to the latest KDE? Thanx, ES -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: USB wireless

2004-10-20 Thread Martin J. Hillyer
Tom Kuiper wrote: > > > Does anyone know of a USB wireless device that can be used under Linux > > without too much effort? > > > > Thanks > > > > Tom I've used both a Linksys WUSB11 and (currently) a Netgear MA111 for 802.11b connectivity. Both work well once I noodled out the setup. If you

Re: Highpoint HPT374 Controller + debian install

2004-10-20 Thread Sergio Basurto
On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 17:24:31 -0500, Chad Davis wrote: > > Greetings, > > I have a highpoint HPT373 controller and am trying to > install Debian. > However I can not get it to read the drives because > none of the > kernels have the correct drivers included. How can I > deal with this > and get

Re: losing vc cursor

2004-10-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Thomas Adam wrote: --- Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At times I lose my cursor in a vc. What do you mean "lose"? What happens? What are you doign at the VC usually before it disappears? Is there a pattern that you can see? Are you using framebuffers? "lose" means it's gone. Everyth

Re: Not happy with Woody's Kmail and Konqorer Web Browser

2004-10-20 Thread Scotty Fitzgerald
Andreas Janssen wrote: > Hello > > Scotty Fitzgerald (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > >> I was not completely happy with these two parts of the K desktop >> environment. >> >> Kmail because there seems to be no way to read just the email headers >> and then deleting spam on the server and loading

Highpoint HPT374 Controller + debian install

2004-10-20 Thread Chad Davis
Greetings, I have a highpoint HPT373 controller and am trying to install Debian. However I can not get it to read the drives because none of the kernels have the correct drivers included. How can I deal with this and get debian installed? What are my options? Any feedback would be appreciated!

grace6 broken??

2004-10-20 Thread Glen Snyder
Hi. I'm running Sarge and wanted to know if this problem is just on my computer, and if there are any suggestions to fixing this, or if I should file a bug report. The grace install works fine with Sarge, but I can't get the install of grace6 to work. If I start with xmgrace, or gracebat, I get: B

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2004-10-20 Thread Thomas Blattmann
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MIPS32 Crosscompiler

2004-10-20 Thread madprops
Hi, I tried to set up a mipsel crosscompiler with tpkg-make mipsel. debuild and debi worked quite well within the binutils directory. Debi fails, however, within gcc-mipsel-3.0.4/: make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/gcc-mipsel-3.0.4/build/libiberty' make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/gcc-mipsel-3.0

Re: UTF-8 locale, strange chars in X terminal pager(s), specifically man pages

2004-10-20 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, > On Saturday 02 Oct 2004 12:50:25 +0200, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > Who said Debian has moved completely to UTF-8 ? > > man, aptitude > > I thought these are not UTF ready. See BTS. > > > > I wish these were. So if you do, you need multiple locales. > > > > I suggest creating custom meny fo

Re: How to run a program before logging out

2004-10-20 Thread Toshiro
Ok, I know about bash_logout, but I want to run a command when I exit the gnome session, not a terminal/console. Is it possible to do this? > Incoming from Toshiro: > > Anybody knows if there is a way to execute some command(s) before logging > > out from a gnome session? > > Create a ~/.bash_lo

Re: losing vc cursor

2004-10-20 Thread Wayne Topa
Johann Spies([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 06:57:15AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > Hi Debian! > > > > At times I lose my cursor in a vc. > > Is there a way to try to get it back? > > This is probably related to the fact that I use 2.6.7-Ruby multi-user

Re: How to run a program before logging out

2004-10-20 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Toshiro: > Anybody knows if there is a way to execute some command(s) before logging out > from a gnome session? Create a ~/.bash_logout (0) keeling /home/keeling_ cat .bash_logout (cd ; date ; uptime ; echo " ") >> /home/keeling/dox/uptime.txt This will be run for every inst

How to run a program before logging out

2004-10-20 Thread Toshiro
Anybody knows if there is a way to execute some command(s) before logging out from a gnome session? Thanks, Toshiro. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: strange ps

2004-10-20 Thread Sergio Basurto
On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 22:29:19 +0300, Cristi Banciu wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a computer which behaves strange. > ps doesn't show all the processes runing on the > machine. For example if > I have apache, mysql, qmail, tinydns running it will > show only first 3 > of them (or something like that

Re: [video-dvdrip], where is mp2enc

2004-10-20 Thread Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Es Dilluns 18 Octubre 2004 03:43, en Tong va escriure: | sh: line 1: mpeg2enc: command not found [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# apt-file search mpeg2enc mjpegtools: usr/bin/mpeg2enc - -- Joan Tur (aka Quini), Eivissa-Spain Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

mounting root file system over nfs

2004-10-20 Thread Micha Feigin
I am trying to make a boot disk with a kernel on it that will mount the root file system over nfs (testing of openmosix before I install a full system). adding the line boot=:/ doesn't work. How do I do this? (Couldn't find documentation with google, only about booting completely over nfs, no loca

Re: [root@comcast.net: Cron if [ -x /usr/sbin/exim_tidydb ]; then /usr/sbin/exim_tidydb /var/spool/exim retry >/dev/null; fi]

2004-10-20 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from xucaen: > > Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: Cron Daemon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> if [ -x /usr/sbin/exim_tidydb ]; then > /usr/sbin/exim_tidydb /var/spool/exim retry >/dev/null; fi > X-Cron-Env: > X-Cron-Env: > X-Cron-En

Re: Koqueror & Kaffeine

2004-10-20 Thread Justin Guerin
On Wednesday 20 October 2004 11:10, Erik Jakobsen wrote: > Justin Guerin wrote: > >You don't associate kaffeine with Konqueror, you associate kaffeine with > >they file type. Open up the KDE control center, open up the file > >associations module (in the KDE components section, at least for KDE 3.

[root@comcast.net: Cron if [ -x /usr/sbin/exim_tidydb ]; then /usr/sbin/exim_tidydb /var/spool/exim retry >/dev/null; fi]

2004-10-20 Thread xucaen
Does anyone know what this message means? thanks Jim - Forwarded message from Cron Daemon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Cron Daemon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> if [ -x /usr/sbin/exim_tidydb ]; then /usr/sbin/exi

Re: Formatting an unused partition

2004-10-20 Thread Justin Guerin
On Wednesday 20 October 2004 13:43, [KS] wrote: > All right, thats done. I used the following command: > $ mkfs.ext3 -v /dev/hdb10 > > mkfs wrote the inodes, made the journal, etc. and I > could see the type as ext3 when I checked /dev/hdb > with cfdisk. > > My next question is, how to allow users

Re: removing wierd files

2004-10-20 Thread CW Harris
On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 02:42:21PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: > CW Harris wrote: > >On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 01:33:30PM -0400, Adam Garside wrote: > > > >>On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 12:51:32PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: > >>[Snip] > >> > >>>rm \-* > >>>or > >>>rm '-0.pnf' > >>> > >>>is there a way to refer

installing on a Compaq Smart Array 3200

2004-10-20 Thread Gilbert, Joseph
Anyone have experience installing Debian on a Compaq Smart Array 3200. Do you have to build a custom boot disk or something to get the drivers loaded? Is there even Linux support for this RAID controller? Joe Gilbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: Webmin (Sarge)

2004-10-20 Thread S.D.A.
On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 01:52:45PM -0400 or thereabouts, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, S.D.A. wrote: > > > It's not just the CRON module, but pretty much everything is borked. I > > cannot read my Apache logs, fetchmail config, etc. > > > > Ok so this is a much bigger problem. Th

Re: Formatting an unused partition

2004-10-20 Thread [KS]
All right, thats done. I used the following command: $ mkfs.ext3 -v /dev/hdb10 mkfs wrote the inodes, made the journal, etc. and I could see the type as ext3 when I checked /dev/hdb with cfdisk. My next question is, how to allow users to write to the partition. Current permissions are drwxr_xr_x

SynCE doesn't like me

2004-10-20 Thread matthias_k
Hi, I'm having trouble using SynCE with my HP iPAQ H2210. 1. `synce-serial-start` produces an error: Quote: FATAL: Module ppp_async not found. synce-serial-start was unable to load the ppp_async kernel module: Please add this module to your Linux kernel before

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2004-10-20 Thread Patrick R. White
Can anyone explain why the iso mirrors and hence the debian master site do not have md5sum's for the iso's individually or a combined MD5SUM for all iso's on a given URL? Sincerely, Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PR

strange ps

2004-10-20 Thread Cristi Banciu
Hi, I have a computer which behaves strange. ps doesn't show all the processes runing on the machine. For example if I have apache, mysql, qmail, tinydns running it will show only first 3 of them (or something like that). If I stop one shown process and I run ps again I will be able to see a hid

Re: USB wireless

2004-10-20 Thread John L Fjellstad
Tom Kuiper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anyone know of a USB wireless device that can be used under Linux > without too much effort? I think the LinkSys USB wireless devices probably works. At least it works enough for Tivo to recommend them for their DVRs (which runs linux 2.4.18 or so).

zero-sized /dev/dsp after forced shutdown

2004-10-20 Thread Karthik Vishwanath
Hello, Experimenting with xmms-plugins on a debian (sid) machine running 2.4.18 on an athlon 2100 chip caused the machine to hang within X while xmms was running. I had to resort to rebooting the machine after logging in remotely. After the machine rebooted, I am unable to hear audio. I am able to

sfdisk to the rescue!

2004-10-20 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi folks, boy did I have one of those days! I was trying to work on a disk but ended up cfdisk'ing the wrong disk. PANIC! I then remembered that I had dd'ed my old dying disk to my current one. so I used knoppix and did 'sfdisk -d /dev/hda | sfdisk /de

Re: Sounds off in bash

2004-10-20 Thread Michael Graham
On 20/10/04 18:57:48, Otto Wyss wrote: There is a readline variable "bell-style" but I can't figure out how to us it. I can't find the file "inputrc. As root edit the file /etc/inputrc and add the line set bell-style none (it should be there just uncomment it) to give all users no bell or add the

Re: removing wierd files

2004-10-20 Thread Matt Price
CW Harris wrote: On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 01:33:30PM -0400, Adam Garside wrote: On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 12:51:32PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: [Snip] rm \-* or rm '-0.pnf' is there a way to reference files whose names begin with -? try 'rm -- -0.pnf' Or "rm ./-0.pnf" works too. doh! and it's even

Re: removing wierd files

2004-10-20 Thread Matt Price
On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 06:32:45PM +0100, Ken Gilmour wrote: > Ar Wed, 20 Oct 2004 12:51:32 -0400, scr?obh Matt Price: > >?somehow I've gotten a bunch of strange files in my home directory: > >?I've tried to remove them but bash doesn't seem to like commands of > >?hte kind: > > > >?rm \-* > >?or >

Re: Sounds off in bash

2004-10-20 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Otto Wyss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In bash rather many time the speaker sounds. Unfortunately my speaker is > so loud I had to disconnect it. Since that isn't a permanent solution is > does anyone know how to disable any sound in bash? Console: setterm -blength 0 X: xset b off For

Re: Sounds off in bash

2004-10-20 Thread Ken Irving
On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 07:57:48PM +0200, Otto Wyss wrote: > In bash rather many time the speaker sounds. Unfortunately my speaker is > so loud I had to disconnect it. Since that isn't a permanent solution is > does anyone know how to disable any sound in bash? > > There is a readline variable "be

Re: removing wierd files

2004-10-20 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 12:51:32PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: > > hi, > > somehow I've gotten a bunch of strange files in my home directory: > > -rw---1 matt matt 16K 2004-05-31 17:07 -0.png > -rw---1 matt matt 80K 2004-05-31 17:07 -0.wmf > -rw---

kernel panic w/ 2.6.8 and, separately, w/ RAID

2004-10-20 Thread Richard Weil
Here's the system: K7 SMP system w/ 3 scsi drives. New install of debian sarge, running 2.6.x kernel. Using stock kernels w/ udev. Everything is installed on 1 of the three drives. Situation: o I installed the 2.6.7 kernel and the machine boots okay. There are some errors about modules related t

Re: X driver?

2004-10-20 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Eric Scott: > Yo, I just installed Debian 3.0. During the setup I set my graphics driver > to VGA just 'cuz I didn't know what to use. After the install, X wouldn't > start with a 'VGA can't support 24 bit" error or something like that. How do > I change my video driver? I

Re: Sounds off in bash

2004-10-20 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Otto Wyss: > In bash rather many time the speaker sounds. Unfortunately my speaker is > so loud I had to disconnect it. Since that isn't a permanent solution is > does anyone know how to disable any sound in bash? There's a few ways: xset b 0 will tell X not to use it. You could

Re: Sounds off in bash

2004-10-20 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 19:57:48 +0200, Otto Wyss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In bash rather many time the speaker sounds. Unfortunately my speaker is > so loud I had to disconnect it. Since that isn't a permanent solution is > does anyone know how to disable any sound in bash? > > There is a readlin

Re: Formatting an unused partition

2004-10-20 Thread Mark Lanett
:: Is it safe to mkfs on a disk that already has active, used :: partitions? Totally safe. Check your typing twice, format once. ~mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

X driver?

2004-10-20 Thread Eric Scott
Yo, I just installed Debian 3.0. During the setup I set my graphics driver to VGA just 'cuz I didn't know what to use. After the install, X wouldn't start with a 'VGA can't support 24 bit" error or something like that. How do I change my video driver? I'm newbie to linux, so be easy o

Sounds off in bash

2004-10-20 Thread Otto Wyss
In bash rather many time the speaker sounds. Unfortunately my speaker is so loud I had to disconnect it. Since that isn't a permanent solution is does anyone know how to disable any sound in bash? There is a readline variable "bell-style" but I can't figure out how to us it. I can't find the file

Re: removing wierd files

2004-10-20 Thread CW Harris
On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 01:33:30PM -0400, Adam Garside wrote: > On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 12:51:32PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: > [Snip] > > rm \-* > > or > > rm '-0.pnf' > > > > is there a way to reference files whose names begin with -? > try 'rm -- -0.pnf' Or "rm ./-0.pnf" works too. -- Chris

Re: Webmin (Sarge)

2004-10-20 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, John Fleming wrote: > FWIW, my cron jobs are back in the Webmin listing. My problem might have > been local; That's good to know. Thanks John. -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> La Salle Debain - http://www.braincells.com/debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Webmin (Sarge)

2004-10-20 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, S.D.A. wrote: > It's not just the CRON module, but pretty much everything is borked. I > cannot read my Apache logs, fetchmail config, etc. > Ok so this is a much bigger problem. The Debian packages expect configs to be in /etc/webmin/ is that where yours are? > I noticed w

Re: Formatting an unused partition

2004-10-20 Thread Icebiker
Hi, Actually, I'm in the same position myself, somehow I missed creating a /home partition during install, and only recently discovered an 18GB black hole on my disk. Is it safe to mkfs on a disk that already has active, used partitions? Or is there a risk that exiting partitions could get wipe

Re: removing wierd files

2004-10-20 Thread Ken Gilmour
Ar Wed, 20 Oct 2004 12:51:32 -0400, scríobh Matt Price: > somehow I've gotten a bunch of strange files in my home directory: > I've tried to remove them but bash doesn't seem to like commands of > hte kind: > > rm \-* > or > rm '-0.pnf' > > is there a way to reference files whose names begin with -

Re: removing wierd files

2004-10-20 Thread Adam Garside
On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 12:51:32PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: [Snip] > rm \-* > or > rm '-0.pnf' > > is there a way to reference files whose names begin with -? try 'rm -- -0.pnf' -- asg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PRO

Re: Koqueror & Kaffeine

2004-10-20 Thread Erik Jakobsen
Justin Guerin wrote: You don't associate kaffeine with Konqueror, you associate kaffeine with they file type. Open up the KDE control center, open up the file associations module (in the KDE components section, at least for KDE 3.3 in Sid), and find the entry for the file type. Make sure kaffe

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