Re: kernel 2.4: where's the FM? (found)

2001-07-22 Thread D-Man
On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 09:34:34PM -0400, D-Man wrote: | On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 02:54:45AM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: | | On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 07:59:15PM -0400, dman wrote: | | > I've just spent some time on kernel.org and elsewhere, but I can't | | > find any FMs to R regardi

Re: kernel 2.4: where's the FM?

2001-07-22 Thread D-Man
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 02:54:45AM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: | On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 07:59:15PM -0400, dman wrote: | > I've just spent some time on kernel.org and elsewhere, but I can't | > find any FMs to R regarding the procedure to upgrade from kernel | > 2.2.19 to 2.4.x. Is an apt-get instal

Re: dist-upgrade from potato to woody

2001-07-22 Thread D-Man
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 09:17:27PM +0100, Graham Ward wrote: | I just tried to upgrade my system from potato to woody. I believe | these are the correct steps: | | (1) replace "potato" with "woody" everywhere in /etc/apt/sources.list | (2) apt-get update | (3) apt-get dist-upgrade. These

Re: [OT] HUB question

2001-07-22 Thread D-Man
On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 05:42:32PM -0400, Sunny Dubey wrote: | hey, | | I have two hubs, and I'd like to be able to connect them to each other. Both | have a port called "uplink port", do I need to use a cross over cable to | connect both hubs using their uplink ports, or should I use a normal

Re: Email line-length defaults to about 76; how to increase?

2001-07-22 Thread D-Man
On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 10:22:07PM +0200, Matthias Richter wrote: | Andy Mott wrote on Sun Jul 22, 2001 at 07:45:14PM: | > Bud Rogers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | > > | > > Ah, yes. I didn't think of MUA's that call external editors. I've | > > used kmail for the last year or so, and gnus for ye

Re: Can run testing with slow net connect?

2001-07-22 Thread D-Man
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 02:54:11PM -0500, David A. Rogers wrote: | I've got a 56k modem on my home machine. Is it feasible/reasonable for me | to run testing on this machine? I've got 2.2r2 CDs. Any guesstimates as to | how long it will take for the initial upgrade to testing? A few weeks ago I

Re: MUA with html support

2001-07-21 Thread D-Man
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 03:16:55PM -0700, Duncan Watson wrote: | Hi all, | | I am a current mutt/fetchmail user and have been for two years or so. I | use Linux at home and at work and keep about 630MB of mail in various | maildirs. I use mail to keep all sorts of notes and crap as well. | | Ov

Re: MUA with html support

2001-07-21 Thread D-Man
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 11:56:31AM +0200, Alexander Steinert wrote: | > I do it with a combination of a line in my muttrc and a couple | > of lines in my /etc/mailcap | > | > first put this line in /etc/mailcap: | > | > text/html; /usr/bin/links -dump '%s'; copiousoutput; description=HTML Text;

Re: Hardware Question

2001-07-21 Thread D-Man
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 02:06:29PM -0400, Allan M. Wind wrote: | On 2001-07-21 13:17:14, Adam Bell wrote: | | > What I would like to do is have one box, running Debian, which has a | > constant routable IP (via cable or some other sort-of high speed protocol) | > and a normal domain name. | |

Re: Motherboards

2001-07-21 Thread D-Man
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 04:34:23PM +0100, Keith O'Connell wrote: | Hi, | | I want a new machine, and for fun and education I am going to build it | from scratch. I have pretty much decided on an Athlon 1.2GHz. I will run | a small partition with Windows Me on it, but it will predominantly be up |

Re: it keeps crashing

2001-07-21 Thread D-Man
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 11:00:52AM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: | On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 09:43:39AM +0200, Guy Geens wrote: | > > "Martin" == Martin F Krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > | > Martin> instead, it keeps crashing on me... kernel panic in pid 0 | > Martin> "process swapper." howev

Re: [users] Mail from OE to linux and more

2001-07-21 Thread D-Man
t; command like : # used to make the From: header correct. my_hdr From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (D-Man) At the moment I don't really need it (because I am sending directly from that account) but if I send stuff from my Linux box I need it or else the MTA will make my linux account the "from" (and thus the default reply-to) address which won't work. HTH, -D

Re: Again NE2000 network device

2001-07-20 Thread D-Man
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 10:58:56AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 06:03:25PM +0200, Bj?rn Fischer wrote: | > Hello, | > it is me again, trying to start the "ne" module. Now the module is actually | > trying to start, but alway quits with the message "Resource or device bu

Re: X question

2001-07-20 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 09:40:16PM -0400, Andy Saxena wrote: | It has to do with keymapping. I am feeling too lazy to look up my notes now, | and hopefully somebody will come along to help. | | In the meanwhile use for Home and for End, if you aren't | already :). If it is a keymap thing and

Re: embarrassing X question

2001-07-20 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 04:04:09PM -0400, Mike wrote: [snip] | This might be a kinda dumb question, but does X need to be running on the | remote machine? I've tried having X running on the remote machine, but it | hasn't seemed to make a difference. X must be running on the local side, obviously

Re: a 'who called me?' variable?

2001-07-19 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 11:51:06AM -0400, Daniel Patrick Berdine wrote: | Is there an environment variable in bash that can be used to tell where | bash is running from? For example, is there a variable I can test in | my .bashrc to tell whether I am running remotly, from a tty, from | konsole,

Re: How do you edit the /etc/hosts with the smtp information - fetchmail problems

2001-07-19 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 08:10:24PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote: | also sprach Joost Kooij (on Thu, 19 Jul 2001 12:25:30PM +0200): | > telnet 127.0.0.1 25 | > | > or | > | > telnet localhost smtp | | or | | netstat -lAinet | grep smtp | | which is better since it gives a more certain ans

Re: j2dsk-doc-installer

2001-07-19 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 11:06:47AM -0700, Mike Pfleger wrote: | Hello. | | I'm running testing, and last night I tried to install j2sdk1.3.1 from | Blackdown. Everything went fine, until apt got to the doc-installer. | It started to unpack the zip, and then dies when it wants to move the | doc di

Re: Urgent! everything is Connection refused!

2001-07-19 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 10:39:50AM -0700, Matheson Cameron wrote: | Hey, | | I'm kind of in a fix at work here. I installed debian | at home, and i brought the machine in here at work, | but i can't connect to any ftp sites. I've configured | everything for the LAN at work, but not everything's

Re: embarrassing X question

2001-07-19 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 01:25:58PM -0400, Mike wrote: | D-Man wrote: | > | > I would use ssh instead of rlogin if you can. Also, enable the | > ForwardX11 option in ssh. If you do this then the display will be | > setup for you and it will be encrypted as well. This is also the

Re: a 'who called me?' variable?

2001-07-19 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 06:28:54PM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote: | | On Thu, 19 Jul 2001 12:10:12 EDT, D-Man writes: | >Based on your examples there, $TERM might be helpful. For example in | >my .cshrc on the school's Solaris box I have | > | >if ( "$TERM" == "lin

Re: Mutt Question

2001-07-19 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 07:17:11AM -0400, Todd V . Rovito wrote: | I have procmail set up to filter my mail into folders for the list | servers I belong to. Some days I just don't have the time to read | the mail in that particular folder (or list server), I would like to | be able to perform a ma

Re: embarrassing X question

2001-07-19 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 08:27:49AM -0400, Richard Black wrote: | For some reason, I can no longer remote login to another terminal and | display stuff on mine! This started happening last week (with, | possibly, the changes to gdm...) | | I have tried many different things. Typical is something

Re: Characters shown as ? in mutt

2001-07-19 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 09:55:45AM -0500, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: | On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 10:45:34PM -0400, D-Man wrote: | > On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 07:58:17AM +1000, Doug Hespe wrote: | > | Hi J?rgen, | > | I am having difficulty reading your name in mutt where it shows up as | &g

Re: Characters shown as ? in mutt

2001-07-18 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 07:58:17AM +1000, Doug Hespe wrote: | Hi J?rgen, | I am having difficulty reading your name in mutt where it shows up as | "J?rgen". The problem is even worse in Xemacs and in regular Emacs where | it is shown as "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22J=FCrgen_A=2E_Erhard=22?=". I don't

Re: Segmentation error

2001-07-18 Thread D-Man
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 10:01:56PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | What is segmentation error and how do you solve it ? A segmentation fault occurs when a program doesn't behave with its memory. Generally this only occurs with programs wirtten in a language that provies direct access to memory

Re: Safe File Manager to run as root ?

2001-07-18 Thread D-Man
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 02:22:30PM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote: | > I've never used mc, but I did try gmc a while back. I | > stopped using gmc when I tried to _copy_ some files | > from a floppy. Instead the default drag-n-drop action | > is move. | | From being a fairly experienced windows use

Re: Safe File Manager to run as root ?

2001-07-18 Thread D-Man
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 12:54:19PM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote: | > Is there such thing as a GUI File Manager that any | > security and safety consious Debian users would | > use, as ROOT, to manage a file system (i.e. move, | > copy, change permissions) ?? Is it just a better | > practice to use C

Re: But ....

2001-07-17 Thread D-Man
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 05:19:55PM +0200, Pietro Cagnoni wrote: | > On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 09:23:53AM +0200, Pietro Cagnoni wrote: | > | 2) reboot in maintenance mode (or whatever is called in english: in | > | italian is "Modalità provvisoria": 640x480 screen with very few colors); | > | > FYI i

Re: seting up a gateway

2001-07-17 Thread D-Man
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 09:39:54AM +1000, Sam Varghese wrote: | On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 04:15:06PM -0400, D-Man wrote: | > I know you will need iptables for a 2.4 kernel (haven't been there | > yet). For 2.2 kernels it is as simple as "apt-get install ipmasq" | > (whi

Re: gnucash 1.6.1-2

2001-07-17 Thread D-Man
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 11:06:28AM -0700, William S. wrote: | I used apt-get install to get the latest unstable | version of gnucash. When I try to run it I get: | | gnucash: error while loading shared libraries: | libqthreads.so.9: cannot open shared object file: No | such file or directory | |

Re: seting up a gateway

2001-07-17 Thread D-Man
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 07:29:12PM +, Hereward Cooper wrote: | Is there a gateway HOWTO? I found something along that lines but none of it | applied to a debian system. It would be titled "IP Masquerade" and "Linux Networking" or something like that (on linuxdoc). | Also what do i need a 2.

Re: zip drive?

2001-07-17 Thread D-Man
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 11:32:08AM +0100, Frank Zimmermann wrote: | Leonard Stiles wrote: | > Note that you can alternatively specify "auto" as the file-system | > type, in which case it will be auto-detected by mount. | | I realized some problemes with "auto" and vfat, namely long | filenames. W

Re: boot problem

2001-07-17 Thread D-Man
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 01:12:56AM +1000, Sam Varghese wrote: | On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 10:43:26AM +0100, J.A.Serralheiro wrote: | > well maybe you misconfigured your video card. | > Run xf86config. Its a text based environment and re-do the configurations. | > It may help. be sure you know what ch

Re: But ....

2001-07-17 Thread D-Man
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 09:23:53AM +0200, Pietro Cagnoni wrote: | 2) reboot in maintenance mode (or whatever is called in english: in | italian is "Modalità provvisoria": 640x480 screen with very few colors); FYI it is called "Safe Mode" in English. You may need to press F5 during startup to get

Re: Kernel upgrades

2001-07-17 Thread D-Man
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 10:18:44PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I've noticed that progeny Debian has auto-upgrade of kernel upgrades. How do I do this with my Desktop Debian system, and what are the cons? apt-get doesn't _automatically_ change (upgrade or downgrade) your kernel if you use

Re: NFS alternative

2001-07-17 Thread D-Man
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 06:53:51PM +1000, Steve Kowalik wrote: | On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 04:05:10PM +1000, Brian May uttered: | > Well, in theory, all UDP packets could be numbered, much like TCP | > packets, and you get exactly the same reliability TCP offers. This | | I doubt that. UDP isn't a co

Re: sound card not working properly

2001-07-16 Thread D-Man
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 12:28:21AM +, Robin Gerard wrote: | okay, windoz give me : sound card: sb | irq :05 | dma :01 | io : 220 | linux give me :sound card sb | irq:

Re: "man" command made easy?

2001-07-16 Thread D-Man
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 03:41:01PM -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote: | D-Man uttered: | > | > [I haven't been following most of this thread, but] | > | > On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 10:59:23AM -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote: | > | Night before last I ran 'find /usr/doc -name &

Re: sl anyone? was [Re: ./ in PATH, always bad?]

2001-07-16 Thread D-Man
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 08:36:09PM -0600, Jimmy Richards wrote: | Hi, | | I found that I type 'la' by mistake more often than 'sl', so I made | symlink for sl to la. :-) I Love that train coming down the track! Ok, Aliases are better than symlinks because it doesn't muck up your filesyst

Re: VPN for linux?

2001-07-16 Thread D-Man
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 03:43:56PM -0400, Walter Tautz wrote: Dunno about VPN. | Basically the problem is to able to setup a lab where people with | laptops can login into the VPN with the appropriate authentication | and be able to do `work'. A wireless capability would be bonus but | not absolu

Re: NFS alternative

2001-07-16 Thread D-Man
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 12:13:10PM -0700, Francois Gouget wrote: | On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, D-Man wrote: | > On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 12:45:22PM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: | > | * D-Man ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: | > | ... | > | > Ok, that makes sense. How about if probab

Re: zip drive?

2001-07-16 Thread D-Man
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 03:24:06PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: | Jeld The Dark Elf wrote: | | > There is a wierd problem with ZIP disks. The ones formatted for | > windows have their main partition at /dev/hdd4 while the ones | > formatted with ext2 are /dev/hdd1. Don't know why. | | I've nev

Re: boot disks (again)

2001-07-16 Thread D-Man
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 03:09:20PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | thanks to everyone who helped with my mformat problem, but i am | still unable to get my boot disks working so i though i'd write | another e-mail in a little bit greater detail IMO it is much easier to make a boot disk with grub

diskless terms and NFS/alternatives (was Re: NFS alternative)

2001-07-16 Thread D-Man
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 01:43:34PM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: | * D-Man ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: | ... | > | > Now suppose just the right packets are lost and the RPC call ends up | > matching a different, existant, procedure that doesn't have the | > intended effect

Re: sound card not working properly

2001-07-16 Thread D-Man
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 08:36:22PM +0200, Philipp wrote: | Hi there, | | i have a soundblaster compatible sound card which is pluged on an isa-slot. | | I installed the soundcard like this: | | modprobe sb irq=5 dma=0 io=220 | | When i look in the /var/log/syslog i see that a ESS1868 chip is de

Re: "man" command made easy?

2001-07-16 Thread D-Man
[I haven't been following most of this thread, but] On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 10:59:23AM -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote: | Night before last I ran 'find /usr/doc -name "index.html" >foo.txt' and | then spent 2 hours adding links from foo.txt to my local home/start 2 hours!? Wow. Learn vi(m) or some

Re: NFS alternative

2001-07-16 Thread D-Man
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 12:45:22PM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: | * D-Man ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: | ... | > Ok, that makes sense. How about if probability leaves us behind | > and a packet is lost? Does NFS provide any way to correct for | > that or will your filesystem

Re: mkfs.vfat? where is it ??

2001-07-16 Thread D-Man
| I was unable to create an *windows* filesistem... | | mkfs -t vfat /dev/myharddrivepartition.. | | mkfs.vfat: no such file or directory I was also wondering since I don't think it was on my system. I just checked and it is in the 'dosfstools' package. We should probably try installing that

Re: NFS alternative

2001-07-16 Thread D-Man
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 11:44:54AM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: | * D-Man ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: | ... | > Interesting ... from my understanding UDP is a connectionless | > protocol, and as such packets aren't guaranteed to arrive at the | > destination. It seems to me t

[OT] legal restrictions on email

2001-07-16 Thread D-Man
Disclaimer : Those without a sense of humor should not read this message. It may be dangerous to your health. | Any information transmitted by means of this email (and any | of its attachments) is intended exclusively for the addressee | or addressees and for those authorized by the addressee |

Re: How to install sound on Debian Linux

2001-07-16 Thread D-Man
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 01:53:36AM +1000, Sam Varghese wrote: | On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 11:44:06AM -0400, D-Man wrote: | > | > You need to edit a file in /etc/modutils (I think | > /etc/modutils/local_config is a good name) and include some lines like | | The file is /etc/modules.con

Re: XWindows library

2001-07-16 Thread D-Man
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 02:27:40PM +0200, Ellenkamp, Guus wrote: | I don't have the information here, but I'm just compiling a very small | program which only opens a window, so only the 'basic' library is missing. | Header files seem ok, it just doesn't link. It gives some errors like | "symbols n

Re: GUI for GCC

2001-07-16 Thread D-Man
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 12:56:34PM +0200, Ellenkamp, Guus wrote: | Hello Matthias, | | Thanks for the reply. | | Might be I'm looking for an ADE. I used to work with an Atari-ST, which had | a nice integrated editor/compiler/linker/debugger (edit sources, compile, | jump from errors to source, gr

Re: NFS alternative

2001-07-16 Thread D-Man
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 03:56:02PM +1000, Brian May wrote: | > "Jeremy" == Jeremy Gaddis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | Jeremy> Two possible suggestions: - tunnel the NFS traffic over an | Jeremy> SSH traffic (similar to remote X sessions) | | Can you use SSH to tunnel UDP traffic???

Re: How to install sound on Debian Linux

2001-07-16 Thread D-Man
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 05:27:04PM +0200, Ellenkamp, Guus wrote: | I have an MAD-16 soundcard and thought I installed all the required stuff, I am not familiar with this one. | but program's don't recognize the card. How to install correctly? You need to edit a file in /etc/modutils (I think /et

Re: Why is setting up X so arcane? (SOLVED!!!)

2001-07-16 Thread D-Man
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 03:22:09PM +0200, Sebastiaan wrote: | Hello, | | yes, finally succeeded. A guru at school assisted me in building a new | XF86Config file. Cool! | I have attached a working XF86Config (sorry, its for the greater good), | works with the SVGA driver as well as with S3. Let

Re: D-Link DFE-530TX+ (again)

2001-07-16 Thread D-Man
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 12:57:42AM -0400, Evan Flynn wrote: | Hi. | | I tried the Realtek 8139 driver with no parameters and unfortunetely i got | the "device busy" error. Please note that I am INSTALLING Debian and Hmm, that's not fun. What are the numbers on the card itself? Is there a revisi

Re: zip drive?

2001-07-16 Thread D-Man
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 12:03:13AM -0400, Jeff Maxson wrote: | On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, Petr [Dingo] Dvorak wrote: | > On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, Jeff Maxson wrote: | > | > JM> mount -t vfat /dev/hdd1 /zip | > JM> | > JM> gets me | > JM> | > JM> hdd: The drive reports both 100663296 and 100646912 bytes as it

Re: Installing Java

2001-07-16 Thread D-Man
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 06:08:49PM -0700, Nicole Zimmerman wrote: | | As far as java itself goes, there are blackdown java 2 packages at: Yeah, Sun didn't want to pay to make a Linux JDK so instead the Blackdown people agreed to sign NDAs with Sun for the privilege to create Linux binaries. It i

Re: Installing Debian Linux

2001-07-15 Thread D-Man
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 04:58:23PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Hi! | | My name is Jim. Windows is a pain in the neck so i decided to use linux ;o) Great! Welcome to the community. | But i have a problem with the install. I downloaded the three mirror files | (.iso) and made myself the d

Re: D-Link DFE-530TX+

2001-07-14 Thread D-Man
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 12:04:24AM +0100, Paul Tansom wrote: | On Sat, 14 Jul 2001, Rick Commo wrote: | > >>The module is the via-rhine and it's been included in | > >>kernel since 2.2 IIRC. | > | > Watch out here. I believe that the via-rhine driver works with an earlier | > of version of this ca

Re: Installing Java

2001-07-14 Thread D-Man
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 09:04:45AM -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote: | D-Man uttered: | > On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 04:41:40PM -0300, Juan wrote: | > | HI, | > | | > | Which packages will I have to install to run & compile Java? And run Java | > | Server Pages? | > | > kaff

Re: XFree86 4.0.3 configuration (and autoviewing HTML mail in mutt)

2001-07-14 Thread D-Man
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 04:59:06AM +, florentin ionescu wrote: | | Sorry for the inconvenience but I am used Hotmail web-mail because can't use Yeah, it is no fun when your preferred MUA can't be used. See below for a solution someone gave me so that HTML mail isn't too bothersome anymore (

Re: D-Link DFE-530TX+

2001-07-14 Thread D-Man
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 08:39:27AM -0500, Donald R. Spoon wrote: | Evan Flynn wrote: | | > Has anyone had any luck doing a network install of debian with a D-Link | > DFE-530TX+? What module can I use and if it's not included with the driver | > set where can I download it? | | I have about 5 of

Re: Testing upgrade: Potentially harmful(?) problem

2001-07-14 Thread D-Man
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 09:56:03PM -0400, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: | | Hi (Jim and D): | | Some further notes. The dist-upgrade seems to get stuck trying | to install libc6-dev2.2.3-5 ( it seems to think that | this depends on libc62.2.1 ) but this is not available in testing: I did have som

Re: The format (or lack thereof) of the list...

2001-07-14 Thread D-Man
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 03:56:17PM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: | On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 09:22:44PM -0500, will trillich wrote: | > On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 06:01:39PM -0400, D-Man wrote: | ... | > > folder-hook . set sort=date ; set index_format="%4C %Z%{%b%d} %-15.15F(%4l) %s

Re: linksys nc100 problem. modversions.h not found.

2001-07-13 Thread D-Man
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 04:27:11PM -0700, crombie wrote: | hi, | | attempting to install linksys nc100 ethernet card on I haven't heard of the nc100 yet, but ... | debian potato. when compiling using that long gcc | command, | | gcc -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/net/inet | -Wall -

Re: [OT] job title

2001-07-13 Thread D-Man
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 01:21:39AM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote: | also sprach D-Man (on Fri, 13 Jul 2001 07:06:05PM -0400): | > | > "Rechnerbeschwoerer" | > | > So what's the literal translation? | literally, this is the "incantation" or "conjur

Re: sysadmin won't allow linux - PLEASE HELP

2001-07-13 Thread D-Man
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 12:34:59AM +0100, Stig Brautaset wrote: | Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > ray p wrote: | > | > > Or better yet get putty. It supports SSH 2 with public key | > > authentication. And is small enough that you can put a key the | > > client and the scp and sftp (FTP

Re: Testing upgrade: Potentially harmful(?) problem

2001-07-13 Thread D-Man
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 06:49:43PM -0400, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: | Hi: | | I am trying to upgrade testing on my second machine (apt-get | update; apt-get dist-upgrade) but it aborts. So I first tried to | install debconf ( apt-get install debconf ) and I get: | | Extra Packages to be in

Re: [OT] job title

2001-07-13 Thread D-Man
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 12:19:01AM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote: | also sprach Joost Kooij (on Fri, 13 Jul 2001 11:51:14PM +0200): | > "Rechnerbeschwoerer" So what's the literal translation? | cool beans! i'll write that. and if everything fails, you'll hire me, | right? Sure . -D

Re: ./ in PATH, always bad?

2001-07-13 Thread D-Man
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 04:57:14PM -0400, Daniel Patrick Berdine wrote: | The Redhat machine I use at work seems to include ./ in the PATH | variable, I can always run executables from my current directory | without using ./ like on my home debian system. This has always seemed | more convenien

Re: SID out of Date ??

2001-07-13 Thread D-Man
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 04:46:58PM -0400, Case, Benjamin wrote: | That makes complete sence. Is 3/10 ancient times as far as SID is March is ancient in OSS terms. | concerned ? I just want to work with the 2.4 kernel, some Xfree 4 | stuff, and I know that there are SID level dependancies that I w

Re: SID out of Date ??

2001-07-13 Thread D-Man
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 03:53:45PM -0400, Case, Benjamin wrote: | > I am currently d/l all the SID Cd images from | > ftp://ftp.uni-bremen.de/pub/mirrors/debian_cdimages/debian-unofficial/sid/ | > . | > I noticed that they are all dated 3/10/2001. How far behind will these | > discs be ? They'll

Re: Installing Java

2001-07-13 Thread D-Man
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 04:41:40PM -0300, Juan wrote: | HI, | | Which packages will I have to install to run & compile Java? And run Java | Server Pages? kaffe might be enough. There are different versions and vendors of Java interpreters so it depends on which one you want. Most aren't DFSG f

Re: RAM size. [OT]

2001-07-13 Thread D-Man
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 11:52:35AM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: | * Lamer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: | > > This would also (theoretically) lead to less power consumption and a | > > lower electric bill. Pretty nice! Say, does that HLT instruction | > > work on a i486 or only on newer CPUs?

Re: fetchmail, mutt, mail

2001-07-13 Thread D-Man
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 04:58:59PM +0200, Schoppitsch Dieter wrote: | Hi, | what is going wrong? | | Dialing in to my ISP (with pppd) and fetching mails (with fetchmail) | works well. But then I get the message "SMPT connect to localhost | failed" Do you have an MDA (or MTA) installed on your s

Re: RAM size.

2001-07-13 Thread D-Man
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 09:32:54AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: | On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 12:13:20PM +0100, J.A.Serralheiro wrote: | > On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Alexey wrote: | > > You know, while running DOS or Windows, the CPU is hot (I can touch it), | > > even if I do nothing. It becomes cool under

Re: The format (or lack thereof) of the list...

2001-07-13 Thread D-Man
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 09:16:50AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: | On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 06:01:39PM -0400, D-Man wrote: | > On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 03:42:33PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: | > | Or, better, just tell it that debian-user is a list. Maybe I'm just | > | doing someth

Re: DocBook User Documentation

2001-07-12 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 10:07:36PM -0400, David H. Silber wrote: | Greetings, | | I would like to use DocBook to create the documentation for a project | I'm working on (see signature) but have been unable to find instructions | for generating various formats of output. See the newbiedoc project,

Re: The format (or lack thereof) of the list...

2001-07-12 Thread D-Man
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 01:00:25AM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote: | also sprach Hall Stevenson (on Thu, 12 Jul 2001 03:16:30PM -0400): | > If you use mutt to read your mail, tell it that you subscribe | > to "debian-user" mailing list. Then, when you want to reply to | > a message and have it go *o

Re: sysadmin won't allow linux - PLEASE HELP

2001-07-12 Thread D-Man
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 01:22:39AM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote: | also sprach Michael A. Miller (on Thu, 12 Jul 2001 06:16:15PM -0500): | > Can anyone suggest a way to scp from a machine where I'm not | > allowed to install scp? (For example, win98 and win2000 machines | > in our libraries) | |

Re: The format (or lack thereof) of the list...

2001-07-12 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 03:42:33PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: | On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 03:16:30PM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote: | > If you use mutt to read your mail, tell it that you subscribe | > to "debian-user" mailing list. | | Or, better, just tell it that debian-user is a list. Maybe I'm

Re: installing gcj, is this ok? (gcc-3.0)

2001-07-12 Thread D-Man
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 10:13:04PM -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote: | On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 11:44:30PM -0400, D-Man wrote: | | > I want to install gcj on my system. I am running woody, and when I | > try and apt-get install gcj it says it needs gcj-2.95. Ok, so I add | > that to the

Re: The format (or lack thereof) of the list...

2001-07-12 Thread D-Man
[ I missed this one the first time. ] | User zos wrote: | | Also since everyone here finds it in good taste to keep all replies | directed to the list (so we can all benefit) why not add a simple | reply-to: line? | | reply-to: debian-user@lists.debian.org Don't make this mistake. Instead rea

Re: The format (or lack thereof) of the list...

2001-07-12 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 03:16:30PM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote: | Mutt also has a "G" or "g" function for "groups" but I don't | use it. FYI, "g" stands for group-reply, which is called "Reply To All" in some other MUAs. "G" is used to retrieve mail from a POP3 server. -D

Re: Summary: MUA clients similar to Outlook

2001-07-12 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 12:14:56PM -0700, Kurt Lieber wrote: | Thanks to all who posted constructive feedback regarding my question | about MUAs. Here's a synopsis of the suggestions, along with URLs for | the various products: | | KDE2.2/Kmailer -- http://www.kde.org/ | Screenshot: http://www.kd

Re: MUAs that compare with Outlook (your chance to show how much better Linux is than MS!!)

2001-07-12 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 01:35:42PM -0400, Brian Nelson wrote: | Why on earth would you want a single application to do all of that? Do This was my reaction also. Just for the record I used to be a full-time windows user, before I was introduced to Unix and Linux. I have tried a lot of differe

Re: The format (or lack thereof) of the list...

2001-07-12 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 02:30:18PM -0400, User zos wrote: [ suggestion to put list name in subject ] I'm on some lists that do this and some that don't. I've found that when my filters work I like it better when the list doesn't because it keeps the subject shorter so it may actually fit on my sc

Re: ssh strangeness

2001-07-12 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 01:57:48PM -0400, Andrew Dixon wrote: | Hi All, | I've been having some weird problems with ssh. I can connect to our | server (RH 7.1) but when I try to connect to another Debian box on the | network (PPC) I get the following message: | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ssh -l andre

Re: harsher kill than kill -9 ?

2001-07-12 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 12:09:11PM -0400, Daniel Patrick Berdine wrote: | On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Andrei Ivanov wrote: | | > Well, if its a zombie process, it'll go away by itself after a while. | > Can you send an output of ps aux for that process (or top), please? | > Andrei | | not zombie... | |

Re: GRUB & Rieserfs

2001-07-12 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 11:52:03AM -0400, Chuck Stickelman wrote: | D-Man wrote: | > What does the "single" argument to the kernel mean? (check Linux | > docs, not grub). I am not familiar with it and that may be causing | > the problem. | | the `single` argument on the

Re: what is up the list

2001-07-12 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 10:52:25AM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote: | > >> Is it useful to subscribe again to this mailing list? | > > | > >Since you're message made it to the list and was | > > posted, I believe you're subscribed. | > | > Posting to the Debian mailing lists is open to anybody: | > it'

Re: [users] Re: sysadmin won't allow linux - PLEASE HELP

2001-07-12 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 09:15:23AM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote: | > > > They can either let you run linux, or pay for your | > > > MCSE courses. | > > | > > That's reasonable ... as long as they've paid for | > > everyone else's MCSE course who uses Windows | > > on the campus. | > | > speaking fro

Re: OT Ram upgrade options

2001-07-12 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 08:52:35PM +0930, David Purton wrote: | questions: | | 1. I gather you can get PC66, PC100 and PC133 MHz ram. Does my board | limit my options to one of these speeds? If so, how can I tell which | speeds are supported? Pretty much all I know is that PC133 memory

installing gcj, is this ok? (gcc-3.0)

2001-07-11 Thread D-Man
I want to install gcj on my system. I am running woody, and when I try and apt-get install gcj it says it needs gcj-2.95. Ok, so I add that to the apt line. Now it says it will install cpp-3.0 gcc-3.0 gcc-3.0-base and libgcc300. Will there be any problem with letting apt install gcc-3.0 next t

Re: [OT] Why attached text messages?

2001-07-11 Thread D-Man
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 09:44:18PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: | On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Greg Wiley wrote: | > Why do certain peoples' posts to this | > list show up as attached text files in | > my mail client (OE)? I get a blank | > message with two attachments: | > .txt and .dat. T

Re: sysadmin won't allow linux - PLEASE HELP

2001-07-11 Thread D-Man
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 05:05:42PM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: | Do windoze lusers also sign that? If not, you could yell "discrimination". | Because it's _your_ desktop. Because you don't know shit about winders. | They can either let you run linux, or pay for your MCSE courses. I like these

Re: sysadmin won't allow linux - PLEASE HELP

2001-07-11 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 01:51:03AM +0300, Haim Ashkenazi wrote: | 4. disable exim/postfix/sendmail. this will mean that you won't be able |to send mail locally (some applications like mutt rely on local MTA |to send their mail). If you use ssmtp instead of exim/other_complete_MTA you can

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