Re: Debian Sarge 3.1

2005-05-31 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 09:13:41AM +0800, Mitja Podreka wrote: Maybe there is an boot option or some other way, but a simple solution is: Install Woody and then upgrade the distribution to Sarge with apt-get dist-upgrade. Install the base Woody system and then change the /etc/apt/sources.list

Re: X.org 6.8.2

2005-05-31 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 09:46:48PM +0200, gustavo halperin wrote: Kevin Mark wrote: Hi Sven, I have for the past 2 month been using an unofficial Xorg from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at: deb http://www.acm.cs.rpi.edu/~dilinger/xorg/ ./ deb-src http://www.acm.cs.rpi.edu/~dilinger/xorg/ ./ its

Re: fortune bug ?

2005-05-31 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 08:15:52PM +0200, Aurélien Campéas wrote: Le mardi 31 mai 2005 à 16:09 +0200, Aurélien Campéas a écrit : [...] a lot of crap here, but look at the last stat64 syscalls near the end : it looks like a bug related to localisation (fortune tries to open a file named

Re: Possibility of personalizing OpenOffice documents automatically?

2005-05-31 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 12:36:51PM +0200, Hervé Piedvache wrote: On Tuesday 31 May 2005 12:08, Lee Braiden wrote: On Tuesday 31 May 2005 11:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No I want the operators to not be able to modify the original document ... And to have only a main administrator of the

Re: X.org 6.8.2

2005-05-29 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 09:25:51PM +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote: gustavo halperin wrote: I almost try it, but isn't the problem. There is also a problem with a LD_LIBRARY_PATH, the aren't contain the /usr/X11R6/lib and nothing almost is work at the time that I add manually this path.

Re: Avoiding make-kpkg clean, redux

2005-05-28 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 02:44:28PM -0400, Paul Smith wrote: Hi all; snip Second, I wish make-kpkg would have better support for ccache, like a --ccache flag or something. Yes, I can change my PATH to use /usr/lib/ccache but I don't like this method. I'd prefer to override the kernel CC

Re: root compromise on debian woody

2005-05-28 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 05:59:08AM -0400, Charles Hallenbeck wrote: I am a newbie to Debian, a Slackware convert, but not a newbie otherwise. I compile my own kernels since I use a set of kernel patches to support speech synthesizer to the console, called speakup. A precompiled kernel for

Re: What to do with source package?

2005-05-28 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 12:09:45AM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: I'm consideeing adding functinoality to a Debian package. But I have no experience with source packages and the like. It seems to be distributed in two parts: a .tar.gz file, and a set of diffs applied to that. What's the proper

Re: Thanks to S.O'Rear, R.Sanchez, P.Condon, G.L.Fairless, K.vanWyk, and Laurabelle!

2005-05-26 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 07:52:19PM -0700, David Witbrodt wrote: It has been aggravating, but I've learned a lot! Being a complete Debian newb, I have a lot of reading to do over my 4 day weekend coming up! I just wanted to thank those who helped and encouraged me last fall, and apologize for

Re: How to change Sarge from testing to stable

2005-05-23 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 10:04:50AM -0400, Bee Jay wrote: When Sarge becomes stable since I am running Sarge do I just change my sources from testing to stable? I find Sarge does what I need it to do and no longer have to have the latest thing. Thanks your time Hi Bee, if you track

Re: Sarge Performance

2005-05-22 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 05:06:47PM +0200, Lars Roland wrote: Hi all I just replaced my company anti-virus/anti-spam mail gateway from a Redhat 7.3 with kernel 2.4.24 to Debian Sarge with kernel 2.6.8.1. I had hoped that this transition would lead to better performance (new perl, better

Re: Sound

2005-05-21 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 07:00:32PM +0100, RSPCA Sheffield wrote: Hello I know you can't give instructions on setting up EVERY piece of hardware. But I was wondering, for users running sarge, what tool do you expect them to use to configure sound? In the past I've used sndconfig but it

Re: gog-guru.glade and gnumeric

2005-05-20 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 10:26:22AM +0200, Gerard Robin wrote: Hello, I installed successfully gnumeric Version: 1.5.1-1 ( with dpkg -i ) apt-get -f install is ok However when I want to create a diagram I get the message: immpossible to open the file:

Re: not able to edit telugu in yudit

2005-05-18 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 09:37:55PM -0400, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: This is a long shot as there as not many users who use debian and are interested in telugu fonts. But I am posting it anyway hoping that someone has a solution for this. I have installed ttf-telugu-fonts and yudit

Re: Recommended Debian book?

2005-05-17 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 11:29:32PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Deboo ^ wrote: On 5/16/05, s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Incoming from Deboo ^: On 5/16/05, Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Deboo ^ wrote: What is a good book on debian for and intermediate users?

Re: Installing Debian Linux 3.0r4

2005-05-14 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 08:44:35AM -0400, Councillor Smola wrote: I have purchased a Debian install DVD disk from Softcopy Systems in Toronto. After the initial install process the program asks to reboot and I did so. The next phase was a screen indicating that the installation was correct.

Re: Presenting photos on CD/DVD with transitions and sound?

2005-05-14 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 01:17:13PM +0200, Agustin wrote: Hi, I am a Linux Debian user, and I am looking for an application which will enable me to prepare presentations of photos using transitions and audio, to be recorded on CD-ROM/DVD. With Windows I have successfully used software by

Re: sharing printer and internet connection between two Debian Sarge computers

2005-05-09 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 07:42:11AM +, Tony Ma wrote: I have two desktop computers and both are installed with Debian sarge. The new computer has two ethernet ports, one of the ethernet port is connected to the ADSL modem and this new computer is also connected to the USB printer.

Re: A Simple Scripting Question

2005-05-08 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 03:36:23PM +1000, Byron Hillis wrote: Hi everybody, A bit off topic, but it is on a Debian machine. Here's the situation. I've got a bunch of files layed out like this... /cvs/proj/src/rs232/rs232.asm /cvs/proj/src/rs232/include/rs232_include.inc

Re: apt-get install mysql

2005-05-05 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 03:32:28PM -0400, Gallagher Timothy-TIMOTHYG wrote: I am trying to apt-get install mysql but I cannot find the software package deb. I get the error: Package mysql is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has

Re: about dpkg

2005-05-03 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 06:14:35PM +0300, Voiculescu Corneliu wrote: I had mistaken and I removed the /var/lib/dpkg/available file from a linux Debian sistem What should I do to use apt-get without reinstalling the Debian? Hi V, /var/lib/dpkg/available-old

Re: migrating from RedHat to Debian without losing configuration

2005-05-03 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 02:23:28PM +, Moritz Lennert wrote: Hello, We are planning on migrating a few machines from RedHat to Debian and were wondering whether there exists some way of reusing the red hat configuration files for the Debian configuration. In other words, can a new Debian

Re: Gnome to KDE

2005-05-03 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 11:27:04PM -0400, David R. Litwin wrote: When I boot up in to my Sarge, it automatically goes to the Gnome style login screen. How do I make it go to the KDE type? Hi did you install KDM? if not, 'apt-get install kdm' should do it. if kdm is installded, you can set

Re: getting booted a sim 2010 laptop?

2005-05-03 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 03:14:05PM +0200, Bruno Boettcher wrote: On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 01:55:53PM +0200, Laurent CARON wrote: try switching to another vt ehm... the thing is after the ramsdisk is loaded, CD led stays dark... and all vt's are blank -- try to boot in runlevel 2 or

Re: OPEN SOURCE MASTERPLANS

2005-05-03 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 11:05:14AM -0500, Fafa Hafiz Krantz wrote: Timo, please stop posting this! Get your weak wood out of my wheels! I fight poverty to avoid ending up like you. I work for poor people through UNDP. one more proof that there i) are wrong people in the wrong

Re: claraocr

2005-05-01 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 09:07:10AM -0500, Kent West wrote: Csanyi Pal wrote: Hello! Why can I not to open the URL: http://www.claraocr.org in any browser? Maybe the project is death? It's also not pingable. Nor does host find it. I'd say it's a dead project. -- Kent Hi,

Re: multiport ethernet cards

2005-01-09 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 10:10:03AM +, Chris Evans wrote: In relation to debugging my DNS lookup woes (see other posts!) I'm going to buy a spare PCI ethernet card. Since my firewall machine is tiny and quiet, it only has one PCI slot so I'd like to get a multiport, ideally four port,

Re: updated debian development diagram -- comments?

2005-01-09 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 10:47:50AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Sun, 09 Jan 2005, Holger Levsen wrote: unstable is described as suited for ...laptops and desktops on non-critical systems... testing is described as ... can be used for desktop systems that need more

Re: updated debian development diagram -- comments?

2005-01-09 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 01:22:58AM +0100, Olaf Conradi wrote: On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 01:08:49 -0500, Kevin Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Folks, I have updated my diagram on the debian developement model. Any comments appreciated! Nice work. Maybe use the alignment functions of xfig

Re: updated debian development diagram -- comments?

2005-01-08 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 07:52:22PM +0100, Alexander Schmehl wrote: * Alexander Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] [050107 19:46]: Yes, a legend for the acronyms would be fine. Oh, I just saw, that your diagramm has a legend. I'm wondering, why I didn't noticed it the other day.. Yours

Re: updated debian development diagram -- comments?

2005-01-08 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 05:14:56PM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: || On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 01:08:49 -0500 || Kevin Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: km Hi Folks, km I have updated my diagram on the debian developement model. Any comments km appreciated! IMHO have one wrong information

Re: names good for marketing

2005-01-05 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 04:01:03PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: On Monday 03 January 2005 08:43 pm, Seeker5528 wrote: There are the Indian Tribes with the related occasional political squabbles over casinos and fishing rights. Yup, here in Oregon, the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs

Re: updated debian development diagram -- comments?

2005-01-05 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 01:56:13AM +0100, Alexander Schmehl wrote: Hi Kevin! * Kevin Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] [050103 07:08]: I have updated my diagram on the debian developement model. Any comments appreciated! What is the target group of your diagramm? Hi Alexander, I wanted

Re: updated debian development diagram -- comments?

2005-01-05 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 01:38:46PM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: Kevin Mark dijo [Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 01:08:49AM -0500]: Hi Folks, I have updated my diagram on the debian developement model. Any comments appreciated! Very nice! I expect to use it at some conferences (BTW: Looks like

Re: updated debian development diagram -- comments?

2005-01-03 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 08:47:02AM +0100, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: * Kevin Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Folks, I have updated my diagram on the debian developement model. Any comments appreciated! It's volatile, not volitile -- Ralf Hildebrandt (i.A. des IT-Zentrum) [EMAIL

updated debian development diagram -- comments?

2005-01-02 Thread Kevin Mark
Hi Folks, I have updated my diagram on the debian developement model. Any comments appreciated! Also, the source is *.fig. Can anyone point to a similar .deb of a graphic document so that I can see what documents a graphics file needs so that I can make a GPL DFSG compliant package. I exported

Re: META: Re: When the thread wanders too far

2004-12-31 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 01:14:51PM -0500, Eric d'Alibut wrote: On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 00:20:22 +0100, Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So much easier to just ban abusing list members, after suitable warning. One could ask for no clearer demonstration of the animus that fuels the fervor

Re: what is experimental?

2004-12-29 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 11:45:02PM +0100, Mauro Darida wrote: On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 at 13:57:44 +, Kevin Mark wrote: On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 10:02:41AM +0100, Mauro Darida wrote: checkout my picture: http://kmark.home.pipeline.com/debian.png Thanks, but I cannot access the above picture

Re: what is experimental?

2004-12-23 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 10:02:41AM +0100, Mauro Darida wrote: Hello, just wondering what is experimental. I know about stable, testing and unstable, but cannot find anything about experimental. Someone said it not a real distribution... Hi Mauro, checkout my picture:

Re: Linux native asyncronic I/O

2004-12-22 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 10:12:37AM +0200, Jan Lindstrom wrote: Hello, I have debian unstable and uname says Linux t41 2.6.9-1-686 #1 Thu Nov 25 03:48:29 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux. I need linux native asyncroni i/o library in my work. This means that I need libaio.x.x.x. Where I can get

Re: mastering the console gpm mouse management

2004-12-21 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 04:01:58PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I'd like to know the tricks available in the unix console - I mean raw console, no Xterm or whataver X console. One exemple: a lot of you do some screen output copy in their messages. Copy paste, sort of... How

Re: Automating DebConf answers

2004-12-21 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 01:12:18PM -0500, William Ballard wrote: I'm aware that a text frontend for DebConf is available, where one can simply provide keystrokes to DebConf on stdin. Is there a frontend that informs me which package is being configured, and lets me decide what answers to

Re: Using Debian as an Access Point?

2004-12-18 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 10:03:37AM -0700, Nate Duehr wrote: Bruce Park wrote: Hey guys, Is there anyway to use Debian as an access point? I assume you mean wireless access point and 802.11b is the goal. If you get cards (usually Prism chipset) that support HostAP, then yes. It's

Re: Free alternative to File Maker

2004-12-13 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 12:03:39PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I know it's not a debian question, but I'm looking for an alternative to File Maker Pro. Let me explain my problem. I'm a french teacher and I prepare my students to various exams. We teachers have an association where

Re: Partition Resizing

2004-12-12 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 01:22:33PM +, Leonard Chatagnier wrote: Trying to upgrade to Sarge and discovered that on my last reinstall of woody that I switched the partition sizes on /var and /home. Now /var is too small to hold packages when doing apt-get dist-upgrade. My question is:

Re: [OT] Searching for a new upstream maintainer of Muttprint

2004-12-12 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 05:44:27PM +0100, Bernhard Walle wrote: Hello, at first, what is Muttprint? Muttprint is a small Perl script to print mails in Mutt and other text-based mail clients in a friendly way. I've been working on Muttprint for 3 years. It was my first OpenSource project,

Re: new to debian -- a few questions

2004-12-09 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 06:33:28AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 01:41 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 10:26:54PM -0800, Rich Rudnick wrote: On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 21:28 -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 08:20:58PM -0800, Rich Rudnick

Re: Debian retail kit?

2004-12-09 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 04:57:24PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: I'm looking for suggestions on what people would expect in a retail kit for Debian, as I've been put in charge of pushing Debian in the shop I work at. Right now, since we're concerned only with i386, I'm thinking a Sarge CD

Re: Learning GTK+ proramming under Debian

2004-12-09 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 04:42:45PM -0600, Michael Madden wrote: What resource(s) would you recommend to someone who's new to GUI programming and would like to learn GTK+ development under Debian Woody/Sarge? I've messed around with Motif and Xlib in the past on HP-UX and Solaris, but GTK+ or

Re: Debian retail kit?

2004-12-09 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 06:50:22PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 07:51:39AM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: Hi Paul, When I was becoming more intereted in Debian, I printed the install manaul and the debian refernce. I did it at Kinko's by giing them a PDF which

Re: Debian retail kit?

2004-12-09 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 09:15:23AM -0500, Curt Howland wrote: That's a good question. Did you know that prior Debian stable releases have had books written about them? http://www.linux.org/perl-bin/search_db?qid=4spp=20q=debian I expect that when Sarge is finally released, there will

Re: visual c++ equivalent

2004-12-08 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 04:51:19PM +0800, ms linux wrote: is there a free visual c++ equivalent in linux ? searching so far I only found IBM XLC, but of course, it's not free. thanks, --me-- Hi MS, well there are 3 things that make up vc++ from my perspective: a)c++ language b)gui

Re: logging of dpkg actions

2004-12-07 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 05:12:49PM +0100, J.Rinas wrote: Hello! Is there a a logfile anywhere for the actions dpkg did ... like installation/deinstallation/update of packages? If there is no logfile, Is there another chance to get this Information? I'd like to follow what happens to

Re: new to debian -- a few questions

2004-12-07 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 10:26:54PM -0800, Rich Rudnick wrote: On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 21:28 -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 08:20:58PM -0800, Rich Rudnick wrote: 'Debian' consists of the packages in main. The fundamental essence (IMHO) of main is that these are packages

Re: Debian Installer Error

2004-12-06 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 06:33:47PM +1300, Simon Buchanan wrote: Hi There, Im using the latest debian installer (netinstall) to install and getting this error: Debootstrap error, Couldn't download libnewt0.51. Anyone seen this error before? no. a) which version? b) did you have NIC

Re: /sys and lspci

2004-12-05 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 05:17:43PM +0100, Petter Senften wrote: Hello! I'm new to this list, but after googling for a few hours after a fix to my problem it seems I have no other option than to try to get some attention here :) My server is a Debian Sarge-box (dist-upgraded from Woody a

Re: Can't get hal/udev/hotplug/whatever to mount usb flash card reader

2004-12-05 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 01:13:43PM +0100, Ren Seindal wrote: Ron Johnson wrote (05-12-2004 11:32): On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 15:14 +0100, Ren Seindal wrote: kernel: usb 1-1: control timeout on ep0in last message repeated 7 times kernel: usb 1-1:

Re: How can I change the locale setting?

2004-12-02 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 04:42:08PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: I must have missed something very elementary. I can't find out how to change the locale setting from POSIX to en_US. locale -a shows both are available. apropos locale provides a long list of locale programs including

Re: Microsoft Access

2004-12-02 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 07:07:32PM -0500, Shawn McCuan wrote: Is there a good Linux counterpart to MS Access? -- Hi Shawn, Access is 3 products: a database server, database client and a database frontend maker. the more popular database server/clients are postgres and mysql. I use mysql and

Re: Network down, reboot fixes, update

2004-12-02 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 10:39:51PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: Further investigation shows that web connections work fine. What isn't working is Privoxy, which fails to start up with the message i Hi Carl, I dont know what is the problem, but I have fetchmail, privoxy installed and lately

Re: cd bootstrap

2004-12-02 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 09:10:05AM +0100, Giorgio Giardini wrote: Bootstrap failure with non-us alpha debian woody 3 r3 CD. In woody 3 r2 it's OK. Why? Hi Giorgio, if you provide more information about the errors, maybe someone could help. - -Kev

Re: Odd sql quoting behaviour in stable after updates?

2004-12-02 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 09:56:06AM +, James Green wrote: Hi, Yesterday we dist-upgraded several Debian stable machines that were missing several security updates. The updates included perl and mysql. Approximately 3.5 hours later some perl

Re: PDF-Writer printer?

2004-12-02 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 12:06:58PM +0100, Arrizabalaga, Saioa wrote: Hello all, I need a pdf-printer: I have tried with the cups-pdf package, following the installation steps from (http://transtronics.com/reference/print2pdf.htm). Anyway, if

Re: HTML debloater for reading on PDA

2004-12-01 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 05:32:14AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: Any package for converting the average bloated webpage into slim and trim HTML for a turn of the century browser on a weakling black and white PDA? tidy even with all options turned on isn't aggressive enough. Maybe I will just

Re: Wireless nic recommendation ?

2004-12-01 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 04:55:03PM +1100, Matthew Joyce wrote: Hi, Can anyone recommend a wireless (b) nic or chipset to use with Debain ? Either woody, knoppix or ubuntu. Thanks Matt Joyce Children's Cancer Institute Australia http://www.ccia.org.au Hi Matt, one of the problems

Re: php4 packet on debian stable with enable-dbase option.

2004-12-01 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 10:33:15AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need dbase_open function from php, and php4 is not compiled on debian stable with enable-dbase option. I ask my self, if possible to get the packet with enable-dbase option compiled. Other solution I think is to make the

Re: How to make xkb modifications under Debian

2004-12-01 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 01:52:11PM -0500, Martin D. Weinberg wrote: Folks, I made a new variant to support the extra keys on IBM T41p laptop. I made these changes directly to /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/pc/us in a new stanza called t41p and added it to my XF86Config-4 file as XkbVariant t41p.

Re: Full replacement of MS

2004-11-30 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 08:08:03PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 12:38:12PM -0600, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: I've used Linux virtually exclusively for ten years. About the only thing I currently use MS Windows for is

Re: using mail

2004-11-30 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 09:44:21PM +, Richard Lyons wrote: On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 07:31:56AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Sam Watkins wrote: On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 11:48:57AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: When I use: mail inet.addrs it sends mail to that address with the

Re: .ini files in bash?

2004-11-29 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 04:02:15PM +0200, David Baron wrote: On Monday 29 November 2004 15:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Create a seperate rc file (.scriptrc ?) and have FOO=BAR in that, then source the file in your script eg.. [ .scriptrc ] FOO=BAR [ script ] source

Re: rescue disk

2004-11-29 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 08:47:41PM +0200, George Iordanou wrote: I want to create a rescue disk. I went to debian's official webpage and i downloaded the unstable version which consists of the following files: boot.img cd-drivers.img net-drivers.img root.img How can i create a bootable

Re: On unresponsive maintainers (was: Re: On using magicfilter and gs)

2004-11-27 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 09:50:32PM -0400, Michael D. Crawford wrote: Is there any formal requirement that a maintainer be responsive, or even do his job at all? Is there a procedure for taking a package away from a maintainer, and having

Re: This file...I cannot kill it!

2004-11-24 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 06:35:12PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: On Wednesday 24 November 2004 8:21 am, Dave Ewart wrote: On Wednesday, 24.11.2004 at 08:13 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/.kde/share/config$ ls -l /home/baloo/.kde/share/config/kcmartsrc ls:

Re: Local Deb Mirror

2004-11-24 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 12:07:46AM +0100, Maurits van Rees wrote: On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 02:58:05PM -0800, Raquel Rice wrote: Is that an answer to my question? Raquel, I don't know if you are aware of the fact that any answerthat you get in this list is coming from good willing

set fontsize for one app in gnome (or kde)?

2004-11-22 Thread Kevin Mark
Hi folks, goes anyone know how to set a UI font size for a particular app in Gnome. I've heard mention of setting a general font but nothing about doing it for one app. TIA -Kev -- counter.li.org #238656 -- goto counter.li.org and be counted! (__) (oo) /--\/ / ||| *

Re: VNC server desktop environment?

2004-11-21 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 11:23:41PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 22:52 -0600, Eric Scott wrote: [snip] I had a similar problem under Mandrake Linux 9.1 once, and peeps just told me The sound that a baby chicken makes, told you to upgrade to Mdk 9.2 That truly is

Re: VNC server desktop environment?

2004-11-21 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 11:39:34PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 00:30 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 11:23:41PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 22:52 -0600, Eric Scott wrote: [snip] I had a similar problem under Mandrake Linux 9.1

Re: Is life with 'udev' good?

2004-11-20 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 01:21:16AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 01:57 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 08:55:42PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 19:32 -0700, Jamin W. Collins wrote: On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 02:43:31PM -0500, Christian

Re: [OT] Can I make a prototype Free and sell the final product?

2004-11-19 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 11:20:09PM -0500, William Ballard wrote: I'm hacking together a little prototype for somebody, mostly as a curiosity and kindness. It'll be just a prototype. If they like it, I'll flesh it out and charge them money. Regardless, I'd like to put the prototype on

Re: Is life with 'udev' good?

2004-11-19 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 08:55:42PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 19:32 -0700, Jamin W. Collins wrote: On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 02:43:31PM -0500, Christian Convey wrote: Hey guys, I'm considering installing the 'udev' package as part of my Sarge 2.6 installation.

bootup question

2004-11-15 Thread Kevin Mark
Hi Folks, I am using sid, 2.6.8, and Windowmaker. I am trying to find out where wmaker stores its startup configs -- the icon prefs, the programs it starts, the preferncs for the windows -- window size, placement, maximize. Does anyone know about this? Also, where can I read about the files that

Re: Will Debian grow and stay?

2004-11-14 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 08:08:57PM -0800, ken keanon wrote: Hi, I',m impress. The responses to 'why debian' show that it has won some strong converts and it is supported by some staunch loyalists. I need to know more. There was mention about never for profit, protected non-profit. It is

Re: Can't mount partition on slave drive

2004-11-13 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 01:07:31AM -0500, Ali Alphan Bayazit wrote: On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 21:06 -0600, downtime null wrote: mount: /dev/hdb1 already mounted or /other busy It also does not show up in dmesg. What could be causing this? What can I do to fix it? try using

Re: Can't mount partition on slave drive

2004-11-12 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 09:06:10PM -0600, downtime null wrote: I just finished a major update thanks to several of you and to aptitude, but now I can't mount my slave drive. It was working before the update, now it's not. The entry in /etc/fstab looks fine, but it's not listed in the output of

Re: Can't mount partition on slave drive

2004-11-12 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 09:26:57PM -0600, downtime null wrote: On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 21:08, Kevin Mark wrote: snip Disk /dev/hdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End

Re: Can't mount partition on slave drive

2004-11-12 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 09:51:31PM -0600, downtime null wrote: On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 21:32, Kevin Mark wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 09:26:57PM -0600, downtime null wrote: On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 21:08, Kevin Mark wrote: snip # mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/other mount: /dev/hdb1 already mounted

Re: mystery file spotted in /

2004-11-06 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 03:57:40AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: Say if we spot a file, # ls -l /root-n -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 2004-03-24 00:31 /root-n Can I delete /root-n? Hi Dan, it sounds like a 'finger fumble'. vi $FILE to look at it and run file $FILE and see what it says. to be 100%

Re: Limiting User Commands

2004-11-06 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 01:19:53PM -0800, Stephen Le wrote: On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 18:40:59 +0100, Benedict Verheyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds like you want sudo. I don't think sudo is appropriate for what I'm trying to do. I'd like users to have limited shell access; I'm not trying to

Re: Limiting User Commands

2004-11-06 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 11:21:43AM -0800, Stephen Le wrote: On Sat, 6 Nov 2004 12:43:27 -0500, Kevin Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think it is worth the extra 'sudo'. People should learn the difference between regular commands and special commands. you can have sudo ask for a password

Re: Scripting

2004-11-06 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 11:46:04PM +0100, Silvan Villiger wrote: Hi, I've started to learn scripting in linux. But I have some troubles understandig the redirection of the streams. I tried to test whether a directory already exists using the

Re: a double boot

2004-11-04 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 09:42:22AM +0100, Abd.belahcene wrote: Hi, I ve just installed WIN98, the grub boot is erase I want to put it again, there is no option (for rescue) on the boot disk ( installation disk). I used RH 7.3 , it gives me the access to the system, I use the command

Re: Deciphering the output from tcpflow?

2004-11-02 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 07:11:43PM -0500, Robert Tilley wrote: To discover the identity of the process sending unknown traffic on eth0, it was suggested that I run tcpflow. The result and another question follows: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/tilleyrw/tcpflow-dumps# ls -S

Re: Default application. How to?

2004-10-31 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 09:40:36PM -0400, [KS] wrote: Kevin Mark wrote: On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 07:25:31PM -0400, [KS] wrote: Hi Kev, Thanks for the pointers. Here is what I think/did: 1) - I tried KDE control panel KDE Components Component Chooser Web Browser. It does configure

Re: any comments on diagram?

2004-10-31 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 09:30:20AM +0100, Andrea Vettorello wrote: On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 19:06:54 -0400, Kevin Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Folks, hi made a diagram in xfig of what I think is the debian development model. Could folks give me a few comments on what's not correct. http

any comments on diagram?

2004-10-30 Thread Kevin Mark
Hi Folks, hi made a diagram in xfig of what I think is the debian development model. Could folks give me a few comments on what's not correct. http://kmark.home.pipeline.com/debian.png TIA -Kev -- counter.li.org #238656 -- goto counter.li.org and be counted! (__) (oo) /--\/

Re: Default application. How to?

2004-10-30 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 07:25:31PM -0400, [KS] wrote: Hi, I have been trying to find a way to set one browser to be default one on my Debian Sid box. But till now haven't found any work for all cases solution. Does anyone know how to go about doing this? I want an http:// link from

Re: non-serious question

2004-10-29 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 05:46:28PM -0700, Gilbert, Joseph wrote: Hey guys, Anyone have any suggestions for good games available on Debian? What are some good resources for keeping abreast with what is happening in the Linux gaming world? I know this is an oh-so-frivilous of a question for

Re: Debian unstable vs Ubuntu

2004-10-27 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 03:17:14PM +0200, Alex Polite wrote: So what's with this Ubuntu thing? I've read some reviews but they're all geared towards Mandrake users. How does it compare to the Debian unstable that I'm used to? alex -- Alex Polite http://polite.se Debian

Re: name of the program to use mouse in command line ?

2004-10-27 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 10:14:44AM +0200, debian wrote: Hi! I just forgot the name of the program so that i can use my mouse in command line... can anyone help me ? :) thnx! Phil. gpm -Kev -- (__) (oo) /--\/ / ||| * /\---/\ ~~ ~~ Have you

Re: Can we send attachments?

2004-10-25 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 12:09:52AM -0700, Sean wrote: Earlier I had sent some attachemtns and I didn't see my message get through. Are we alloud to send attachments because I didn't see my post and didn't know if that was the reason it didn't make it through. Sean Hi Sean, this and other

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