Re: Mozilla idealab link

2003-04-01 Thread Travis Crump
Paul M Foster wrote: On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 11:45:11PM -0600, Donald Spoon wrote: Paul M Foster wrote: I'm running testing, and the Mozilla that comes with it. Every time I start the program, it goes to a local page on my hard drive which has my favorite links on it. Immediately thereafter, bef

Re: compiling testing for unstable

2003-03-31 Thread Travis Crump
David Fokkema wrote: Hi, I have a box with a cd-writer which also acts as a file/print/internet server, so I run stable (just to be on the safe side). Now I would like to have cdrdao, but that is only available for testing. Of course, I could recompile the whole thing from source and be done with

Re: sylpheed-doc package broken?

2003-03-27 Thread Travis Crump
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I understand that apt doesn't know anything about packages other than what it't told about dependencies and conflicts. Let's get to the big picture -- is the doc there to support the use of the binary, or is the binary there to support the use of the doc? If we can agree th

Re: Difference between "woody" and "stable" in apt Default-Release?

2003-03-27 Thread Travis Crump
Uwe Storbeck wrote: What am I doing wrong? You're tring to use woody-proposed-updates which is really neither stable nor woody. If it[pulling woody-proposed-updates] works when you set Default Release to woody then my suspicion is that it wants a default release of either stable/testing/unst

Re: Permission denied -- Say what?

2003-03-25 Thread Travis Crump
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: bash:/home/ronin/files/seti$ ./setiathome bash: ./setiathome: Permission denied what are the options for the partition that it is on[in fstab]? Does it have 'noexec' set? Remember that 'user' implies noexec. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Re: Status of Testing

2003-03-25 Thread Travis Crump
Bill Moseley wrote: On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Travis Crump wrote: Bill Moseley wrote: Can someone fill me in on the status of Testing -- I have not updated my Testing/Unstable machine for a while (IIRC the glibc issue??). The glibc issue is resolved, if you upgrade now than you will probably

Re: Status of Testing

2003-03-24 Thread Travis Crump
Bill Moseley wrote: Can someone fill me in on the status of Testing -- I have not updated my Testing/Unstable machine for a while (IIRC the glibc issue??). The glibc issue is resolved, if you upgrade now than you will probably upgrade on the order of 100-200 packages depending on how many were al

Re: opera browser

2003-03-23 Thread Travis Crump
Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: Does anyone know when the debian package for Opera 7 is going to be released? I just tried to update and it says that 6.03 is the latest. thanks :) emma never, Debian doesn't package opera because it is non-free. If you mean when will a .deb become available, well, you'd

Re: getting rid of flash

2003-03-23 Thread Travis Crump
Hans Wilmer wrote: Hi! How can I get rid of the annoying messages from Mozilla that tell me to download a plugin whenever a webpage contains one of those obsolete It would suffice if I could tell Mozilla to just ignore 'flashes' instead of popping up a message, and not to download them. delete lib

Re: GnuPG on stable?

2003-03-22 Thread Travis Crump
Peter Lavender wrote: The "problem" is that gnupg is at version 1.0.6, but there are more recent versions available. Just how does one go about updating something like gpg to a newer version with out breaking the package management system? has 1.2.1-1 -- To U

Re: Magic SysRq

2003-03-21 Thread Travis Crump
Michael Naumann wrote: According to /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18/Documentation/sysrq.txt I have to set CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ when configuring the kernel to enable this feature. Yet, I do not find this key in .config nor under "make menuconfig". Any hint what I'm missing here? TIA, Michael It's un

Re: Mozilla Baynesian Filters

2003-03-21 Thread Travis Crump
Rob Weir wrote: On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 05:08:27PM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: Klaus Imgrund wrote: On a related topic, anybody ever got the mozilla spamfilter to do some actual filtering? I hear it's great but it doesn't do anything for me. I haven't. Part of my problem is t

Re: How do I 'tar' a huge file?

2003-03-21 Thread Travis Crump
Roberto Sanchez wrote: This actually worked in that I was able to store the whole file into seperate archives. But, when I tried to untar, it failed on the first file, saying it encountered an unexpected EOF. Am I missing something here? or can this simply not be done? -Roberto Sanchez Did y

Mozilla Baynesian Filters

2003-03-20 Thread Travis Crump
Klaus Imgrund wrote: On a related topic, anybody ever got the mozilla spamfilter to do some actual filtering? I hear it's great but it doesn't do anything for me. Klaus I haven't. Part of my problem is that I don't get enough spam[that gets past spamassassin] to train it on. I think the trick

Re: Detecting "default browser"?

2003-03-20 Thread Travis Crump
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Re: Detecting "default browser"?

2003-03-20 Thread Travis Crump
Ralf Treinen wrote: Salut Xavier, On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 08:04:10AM +0100, Xavier Roche wrote: Is there a clean way to detect the default (installed) browser on Debian? The idea would be to avoid if possible scripts like: for i in mozilla galeon konqueror ..; do if test -x "/usr/bin/$i"; then

Re: Apt: Searching for "Provides: ..."

2003-03-19 Thread Travis Crump
Thomas Guettler wrote: Hi! I want to search for all packages which provide xserver. apt-cache search 'Provides.*xserver.*' This should find xserver-s3, but it doesn't. Any hints? 'grep-available -FProvides xserver -s Package -d' grep-available is in the grep-dctrl package. -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: No "File -> Save" in gimp

2003-03-19 Thread Travis Crump
Dave Sherohman wrote: image window (as is the case with GIMP, which only has a menu on the toolbox window), then saving the focused window makes no sense. Dumb-founded that no one has pointed this out yet, I thought I may as well mention it before this thread ends. GIMP[at least the version in t

Re: making nvidia drivers

2003-03-16 Thread Travis Crump
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK. The light *finally* dawns. There's no way to build the glx with make-kpkg, since nvidia-kernel must be *installed* before glx will build. And THAT'S why nvidia-glx doesn't get copied into /usr/src/modules. So I guess I've gone as far as I can. There is no way to buil

Re: message from cron

2003-03-15 Thread Travis Crump
John F. wrote: I am getting about 60 or so messages a day from the cron daemon. I would like to stop them coming, but I don't know how. I would think if I disabled the netnews server, but it doesn't show up as being enabled with "ksysv", so I don't know what to do. A complete copy of one of t

Re: matrix uniq

2003-03-15 Thread Travis Crump
Youichi Mano wrote: Hi all, I want to "uniq" by comparing the specified column for matrix data. I want to realize this operation by command line programs , not any script file. Is there any idea? Umm, use 'uniq'...? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uniq -W1 << EOF > 1 eagle 197 > 1 bird 387 > 2 camera 91 >

Re: List of base-system debs

2003-03-14 Thread Travis Crump
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where can I find a list of the packages included in the basic installation of Woody? Kevin 'grep-available -FPriority required -s Package' and/or 'grep-available -FPriority standard -s Package'. Standard priority packages are installed if dselect is run, even if you do

Re: strace conflicts php4 ?

2003-03-12 Thread Travis Crump
Xavier Barnabe-Theriault wrote: hi On testing, I get this for strace: And just to be sure it's not my fault for some corruption that might have happened, I tried to apt-get another package and it went peacefully. Any idea to get strace ?? Xavier The new libc6 conflicts with php4. If you want,

Re: Why people use `find ... |env -i xargs rm -f' instead of `find...| xargs rm -f'?

2003-03-11 Thread Travis Crump
Michael Wardle wrote: On Wednesday, March 12, 2003 14:45, Dai Yuwen wrote: Why people want to clean the environment variables before rm files? Some systems have an alias for "rm" that invokes "rm -i". It's possible that running with env -i ensures that the true, unaliased command is run. 'rm

Re: testing migration

2003-03-11 Thread Travis Crump
Jim McCloskey wrote: I expected to see all sorts of messages here about difficulties with testing after the migration of glibc 2.3.1-14. Hardly anything, though. I've been holding back from the upgrade till things settle down. Are there any brave souls who went ahead and upgraded and have the tim

Re: The Very Verbose Guide to Updating and Compiling Your DebianKernel

2003-03-05 Thread Travis Crump
Daniel Farnsworth Teichert wrote: # make sure you've got the bzip2 package; the comment in the # article confusing 'tar' and 'gzip' also confused me, BTW... apt-get install bzip2 not necessary since kernel-source depends on bzip2 it will be brought it automatically when you install the kernel sour

Re: some doubts - [newbie]

2003-03-05 Thread Travis Crump
Gilberto Garcia Jr. wrote: 4) why a simple hello word program in java, that works fine on windows, return this error on linux (java.lang.NoDefFoundError) bash$cat test.java public class test { public test() {} public static void main(String[] argc) { System.out.print

Re: How to use many(>6) button mouse devices

2003-03-04 Thread Travis Crump
Brad Sawatzky wrote: I've got myself a Kensington ExpertMouse USB trackball. The thing has 6 "special" buttons (ie. intended for exe launching, etc) 4 regular buttons 1 wheel This gives me three usable regular buttons (ie. right, left, middle), and a working wheel. In 'xev' the remaining

Re: Patched sendmail? testing?

2003-03-04 Thread Travis Crump
stan wrote: On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 06:15:02AM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: Someone else running testing in a production environment. And my choices are? As I see them. 2. Run stable and have 1970's versions of software/ woody has the exact same versions[except with security updates] of softw

Re: About user nobody

2003-03-03 Thread Travis Crump
Satish Iyer wrote: Hi, I have installed Woody 3.0 r0 on my desktop system. At times I notice a process with high disk activity running under user name "nobody". How can I figure out which program is responsible for this and what exactly is it upto? The user doesn't appear in the linuxconf inte

Re: /var/cache/apt/archives is big

2003-03-01 Thread Travis Crump
Alan Chandler wrote: My /var/cache/apt/archives directory seems to have nearly a gig of .deb files. I notice there is more than one version of each (it looks like its always 2). Is there a command to shrink it? 'apt-get autoclean' will get rid of the duplicate ones[or more precisely all debs th

Re: How to play custom sound on mail alert in Moz Mail?

2003-02-28 Thread Travis Crump
Bob Proulx wrote: Kent West wrote: Anyone know how to configure Mozilla Mail on Debian to play a custom sound when new mail arrives? Yes. First off don't try to do it with Mozilla. Do it with procmail as the mail is processed on your machine. Procmail will put it in your mailbox to be read b

Re: Dummy

2003-02-28 Thread Travis Crump
Kent West wrote: Teilhard Knight wrote: Kent West wrote: But natively, Debian doesn't use the .rpm format (although it can in many cases with the "alien" package). Thanks a lot, Kent. A friend of mine told me Debian takes Red Hat drivers and to install it as simply as: rpm -ivh package_name.

Re: How to find out apt-get's reasoning

2003-02-28 Thread Travis Crump
Colin Watson wrote: On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 03:05:36PM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: The more likely cause of this behavior is the "Replaces" field of kdelibs-data. I think apt-get will automatically try to install on dist-upgrade any package that claims to replace an installed pac

Re: How to find out apt-get's reasoning

2003-02-28 Thread Travis Crump
Jonathan Matthews wrote: Having just installed the Gnome 2.2 backport, I'm trying to drop kde from my box totally. Never liked the "underline the desktop icons" thing anyway[1] :-) I thought I'd got it all out, but witness the following: bigdaddy:/home/jaycee# apt-get dist-upgrade -u [snip] Th

Re: kept back packages because of libfam0c102

2003-02-28 Thread Travis Crump
Francois Chenais wrote: Hello, I have many kept back packages because there upgrade needs libfam0c102 to be installed implying e17 efsd libfam0 to be removed !!! But I don't want removing e17 !:-| Must I have to do this ?? e17 and efsd aren't in the main archives, where are you getting t

Re: vim: first letter of last word on line ???

2003-02-25 Thread Travis Crump
Michael D. Schleif wrote: It seems that I'm always in vim trying to goto the first letter of the last word on a line. Is there already a key binding to do that? The closest I've found is Esc A Esc B ; but, that is really (3+) keystrokes ;< What do you think? Well, you can replace 'A Esc' with '$'

Re: mysql >v4.0

2003-02-24 Thread Travis Crump
Joyce, Matthew wrote: Does anyone know of a apt-source to update my mysql server ? there are some features in v4 which are not in the v3.23. thanks Matt deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian ../project/experimental main Quality of stuff in experimental isn't guaranteed[fresh install is probably

Re: Package Depedency Problems/Conficts

2003-02-21 Thread Travis Crump
Nathan E Norman wrote: On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 08:53:42AM +, Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 11:19:34PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 11:54:09AM +, Colin Watson wrote: Actually, unstable updates at 19:52 UTC (or 20:52 UTC if auric is on daylight savings t

Re: spamassassin - three basic questions

2003-02-21 Thread Travis Crump
Dave Sherohman wrote: On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 09:11:00AM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: At 2003-02-21T13:29:45Z, Sandip P Deshmukh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: 1. how to i tell spamassassin *not to* process some messages? for instance, debain mailing list, i understand, is already processed for sp

Re: Where does "dpkg -l" reads package info?

2003-02-19 Thread Travis Crump
David Z Maze wrote: "Yildiz, Murat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: and run apt-setup and let read all 8 cd's but it seems it doesn't write available and status files again. The canonical way to do this is to run 'apt-get update', hit 'u' in aptitude, or select "update" from dselect's main menu.

Re: dynamic MMap ran out of room.. no apt.conf file?

2003-02-16 Thread Travis Crump
Adam Robson wrote: While trying to download using apt-get or dselect or tasksel, i get the error message E: dynamic MMap ran out of room I've read the solution is to change the /etc/apt/apt.conf file with APT::Cache-Limit 1000 or some big number, but this file doesn't appear in that direc

Re: dcgui problems

2003-02-10 Thread Travis Crump
Colin Watson wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 02:09:01AM +0100, Nils-Erik Svang?rd wrote: Hi my dcgui hangs when it conncts to a hub, regardless of which hub. Dies with the message dcgui: relocation error: dcgui: undefined symbol: __fixunsdfdi Does anyone know whats wrong? Im running unstable on P

Re: Lyx package recommends sgml-tools, but...

2003-02-10 Thread Travis Crump
Brian Potkin wrote: On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 09:59:39AM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote: I just downloaded and installed Lyx using aptitude on a Sarge system. The package recommends also installing 'sgml-tools' which, from its name, sounds like a good idea, but the search function in aptitude cann

Re: perl 5.6.1-8.2 in testing?

2003-02-09 Thread Travis Crump
Rob Weir wrote: On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 01:28:13AM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: Not that I am complaining because security updates are always good, but how exactly did perl 5.6.1-8.2 make it into testing sometime in the last couple of days? It didn't come from unstable, because unstable

Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-07 Thread Travis Crump
Ron Johnson wrote: On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 20:57, Gary Turner wrote: [snip] eg. Actually, all goods and services come from the government...Try producing your own goods and services. Maybe I'm missing something, but what are you talking about. People and corporations produce their own goods a

Re: More ardour build requiremnets questions

2003-02-07 Thread Travis Crump
stan wrote: I'm trying to build Ardour from CVS, which appears to be the only way to get it. I have installed the unstable version of gettext, which it needs, and now it wants automake 1.5 or greater. I tried to apt-get automake from unstable, hoping it would be a later version, but there does not

Re: spaces in filenames

2003-02-06 Thread Travis Crump
Sheldon Lee-Wen wrote: Hi, I'm trying to write a script where I can get the names of files in a directory. Normally this is easy, like this: for doc in `ls /var/www/htlml/files` do echo $i done However, some of the files have spaces in the names, like "My File.html" How d

perl 5.6.1-8.2 in testing?

2003-02-05 Thread Travis Crump
Not that I am complaining because security updates are always good, but how exactly did perl 5.6.1-8.2 make it into testing sometime in the last couple of days? It didn't come from unstable, because unstable moved to perl 5.8.0 a while ago, and I didn't know that there /was/ any other way for

Re: ogg to mp3 audio (also via 8233a question)

2003-02-05 Thread Travis Crump
Craig Dickson wrote: Travis Crump wrote: Colin Watson wrote: That of course doesn't prevent the holders of LAME's copyright from releasing it under the GPL, since the copyright holders are not themselves bound by the terms of the licence, Why shouldn't they be bound by t

Re: ogg to mp3 audio (also via 8233a question)

2003-02-05 Thread Travis Crump
Colin Watson wrote: That of course doesn't prevent the holders of LAME's copyright from releasing it under the GPL, since the copyright holders are not themselves bound by the terms of the licence, Why shouldn't they be bound by the terms of the licence? As copyright holders they are perfectly

Re: gcc not working

2003-02-02 Thread Travis Crump
J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 12:17:58 -0300, Albert Knox wrote: libc6-dev: Depends: libc6 (= 2.2.5-14.3) but 2.3.1-9 is to be installed E: Sorry, broken packages I'm using testing. No you're not. At least, your /etc/apt/sources.list has entries for "sid" ("unstable"

Re: OT Help with Mozilla

2003-02-02 Thread Travis Crump
bob parker wrote: On Sun, 2 Feb 2003 05:48, Travis Crump wrote: bob parker wrote: I'm in the middle of using ncftp to download Knoppix iso - 700meg. As a consequence Moz keeps timing out while I attempt to access other site I regularly use. Is it possible to increase the time out del

Re: OT Help with Mozilla

2003-02-01 Thread Travis Crump
bob parker wrote: I'm in the middle of using ncftp to download Knoppix iso - 700meg. As a consequence Moz keeps timing out while I attempt to access other site I regularly use. Is it possible to increase the time out delay in Mozilla? How? Thanks Bob It looks like you want to adjust the pr

Re: [NEWBIE]: HP DeskJet 710c - installation problems

2003-01-31 Thread Travis Crump
ketil V. wrote: I am trying Debian for the first time, and can not find any support for my printer. In RedHat the printer is supported by the pnm2ppa - system, along with the 712, 720, 810 and 1000 - series, but I do not find this package in my Woody CD-set. Does anybody know where I can find

Re: starcraft on wine

2003-01-31 Thread Travis Crump
Andrei Smirnov wrote: On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 10:57:40PM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: a black screen and i didint found any solutions on winehq and such Here the situation: Debian 3.0 with 4.1.0 X craft runs under wine with sound but without graphics (with a black screen) ... i tried to change

Re: starcraft on wine

2003-01-30 Thread Travis Crump
Andrei Smirnov wrote: a black screen and i didint found any solutions on winehq and such Here the situation: Debian 3.0 with 4.1.0 X craft runs under wine with sound but without graphics (with a black screen) ... i tried to change bpp, resolutions ... on bpp 8 640x480 it not work at all on the o

Re: Trying to build Phoenix

2003-01-29 Thread Travis Crump
David P James wrote: I've been trying to build Phoenix from source and have run into a bit of a snag. I want to build it with QT support, which is fine, as there is an option to do this. Just because there is an option doesn't mean it will work... http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1

Re: OT: running a command on many files in many subdirectories

2003-01-28 Thread Travis Crump
Levi Waldron wrote: I'm sure this is simple, but maybe someone here can help me do it in a few minutes instead of hours. I have a bunch of files in a bunch of directories, and I want to run the same command on each of them. For each input file, the output file should have the same name except

Re: do i need stable in my sources.list?

2003-01-27 Thread Travis Crump
Kent West wrote: Colin Watson wrote: On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 01:43:32AM +, iain d broadfoot wrote: testing/unstable, do i still need the stable entries? No. testing started out as a copy of stable. The exceptions are if you happen to want something that's been removed from testing si

Re: redirecting output to /dev/null on cron not working!

2003-01-27 Thread Travis Crump
louie miranda wrote: I have a script that is on a cron basis, It runs every hour. I have read a document that if you dont want any output. You can add >/dev/null 1>&2 to redirect it to /dev/null But i still received email about those output, is this syntax im trying to add on my cron for debian co

Re: /var still counts /var/cache

2003-01-27 Thread Travis Crump
Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: I made a new partition for /var/cache since that's where all my data is. Unfortunately /var is still counting the contents of /var/cache and thinks that /var is full. I'm not sure how to tell /var that it doesn't hold /var/cache anymore. FilesystemSize Used Av

Re: apt-get

2003-01-26 Thread Travis Crump
Barry Pollock wrote: You wil have to create a Packages file and a Release file and a Package file. You can simply download the package and do a dpkg -i p`fullpagagename' . The Release file and Package file are optional. A minimally functional Packages file can be created by running 'dpkg-sca

Re: Re: Some myths regarding apt pinning

2003-01-24 Thread Travis Crump
Lloyd Zusman wrote: Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [ ... ] but the point is that pinning is not very good because you either bring a number of important packages from unstable (libc6, perl etc) or you simply cannot use it. reading of the manual page and checking the apt-listch

Re: vsound issue - a return

2003-01-23 Thread Travis Crump
Vaughan, Curtis wrote: Whereas vsound would not record RealAudio on a PowerBook, I am now trying it on an i686-based computer. After issuing the command: vsound -f test.wav realplay http://128.208.34.102:8080/ramgen/RadioIntersection/20021203intersection.rm RealPlayer is launched, connects and

Re: mail relay ???

2003-01-23 Thread Travis Crump
Martin A. Hansen wrote: hi i have a unix account with a mail address. i want all mail to that account forwarded to another mail address. how is this done? martin echo > ~/.forward If that doesn't work you are going to have to give more info or ask whoever administers your system. --

Re: Problems when starting the install of Debian Woody Linux

2003-01-22 Thread Travis Crump
Osamu Aoki wrote: On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 10:10:32PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But, the reason I write this is that I have also been faced up to another type of problem, namely a problem with installation of the new system. I attach the dbg_log.tgz file to ease the resolution of my problem

Re: Compiling gnucash 1.7.7 for Woody?

2003-01-22 Thread Travis Crump
Michael D. Crawford wrote: I would like to try out the new GnuCash 1.7.7. It has some small business features I'd find helpful, and is supposed to have an easier way to handle foreign currency exchange, among many other new features. I want to install it on a PowerPC woody system, a Mac 8500.

Re: Recovering /var (package status only)

2003-01-21 Thread Travis Crump
Karsten M. Self wrote: Here is a good article about recovering a Debian system without having a backup of /var/lib/dpkg... http://www.linuxworld.com/2003/0113.petreley.html Funny, I walked someone through that on irc.debian.org:#debian last week. This can be somewhat simplified from Nick's

Re: How to change start up screen resolution for X?

2003-01-19 Thread Travis Crump
nate wrote: Ross Boylan said: I am looking for a way to get hardware accelerated 3d performance out of my video card. For reasons detailed below, this seems to come down to the need to start X in a lower resolution and depth than I customarily use. I am looking for a good way to do that, or th

Re: kernel upgrade to 2.4.20-k7

2003-01-18 Thread Travis Crump
Eduard Bloch wrote: #include * jrn [Sun, Jan 19 2003, 12:48:34AM]: Hello, I'm currently using Sarge with 2.4.18-k7 kernel for my Athlon XP and the kernel-headers-2.4.18-k7. I've seen that 2.4.20-k7 kernel was available for the testing version but the problem is that there's no kernel-headers-2

Re: How to analyze a server crash?

2003-01-16 Thread Travis Crump
Paul Johnson wrote: On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 04:01:53AM -0600, Michael Heironimus wrote: panic. I've had that happen when X crashed, too, and that wasn't really even a driver bug (it was combination of wine and font servers). This one's resolvable if you have the Magic System Request key enabl

Re: Window Manager doesn't start

2003-01-15 Thread Travis Crump
Colin Watson wrote: To my knowledge, startx has only ever used .xinitrc, not .xsession ... I don't know why it used to work. Maybe you had a symlink in place at one point? man startx: [...] Note that in the Debian system, what many people traditionally put in the .xinitrc file should go in

Re: what can be done with broken packages

2003-01-12 Thread Travis Crump
Roland Wegmann wrote: Hi I installed aptitude and therefore find out that I have some broken packages on my debian powerpc box (testing). cpp-2.95, perl, perl-base, libstdc++2.10-glibc2.10 What does a broken package mean? And how can I made a package 'unbroken'? Kind regards, Roland [EMAIL PR

Re: [apt] Disabling upgrade to insecure packages

2003-01-12 Thread Travis Crump
Vincent Lefevre wrote: On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 15:57:04 +, Faheem Mitha wrote: If you want a particular version not to be installed, then give it a Pin lower than 100 and it will never be installed if there is another installable version in your sources. This is what the manual says, but

Re: apt-get --print-uris: why filenames sometimes different?

2003-01-08 Thread Travis Crump
Dan Jacobson wrote: $ man apt-get --print-uris Instead of fetching the files to install their URIs are printed. Each URI will have the path, the destination file name, ... Note that the file name to write to will not always match the file name on

Re: make CD of only newest 3 months of sid

2003-01-07 Thread Travis Crump
Dan Jacobson wrote: F> get those packages with wget -i file and put the on a cd or laptop apparently figuring out by hand how much to put on each cd... [PS, what happens one day when debian has one package so big that it wont fit on one cd :-)] I would be surprised if you managed to fill up on

Re: dvd playback problems and questions

2003-01-06 Thread Travis Crump
Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: I discovered that Xine worked with the Xshm video mode, but it, too, was choppy. I had trouble getting ogle to work in gui mode, so I compiled and installed by hand, and that worked. The video is still choppy, but less so than when I used the debian package (wierd).

Re: apt_preferences setting

2003-01-06 Thread Travis Crump
Tom Allison wrote: I would like to have both Stable and Testing available for install. But I don't want to have packages removed because they are not in Testing. I originally started with preferences levels of Stable: 600 Testing: 601 but packages like junior-programming are slated for removal.

Re: kdevelop - unmet dependencies

2003-01-05 Thread Travis Crump
Kevin Coyner wrote: I'm running testing and would like to install kdevelop, but when I run apt-get install kdevelop I get the following: Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some re

Re: Files saved to one directory Drive space consumed somewhere else

2003-01-04 Thread Travis Crump
Denzil Kelly wrote: I downloaded an .iso and specified that it be saved to /home/myhome/myiso, however, when doing this wmmount shows that the / partition is the one actually decreasing in size as the file downloads. Does anyone know why this might be happening? I have a 2 drives in this box and t

Re: burning divx to play on dvd player

2003-01-02 Thread Travis Crump
John Griffiths wrote: hullo all. I've got a divx file (not a copyrighted one, it's from http://www.crewoftwo.com/movie/index.html and they made it themselves) that i'd like to play on a dvd player. my flatmate burns them under windows all the time but i don't ahve a windows cd bruner and figure

Re: lm-sensors

2002-12-16 Thread Travis Crump
Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: On Monday 16 December 2002 19:58, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: Most people lose on step two, it appears. If you built modules using 'make-kpkg modules-image', did you install the resulting package? If you're using sid, 'sudo debian/rules modules-nokpkg' should Just Work if

Re: Default fonts for applications?

2002-12-15 Thread Travis Crump
Lloyd Zusman wrote: Perhaps I didn't make my original question clear. Many X apps, including mozilla (which is NOT a gtk app) Mozilla has its own widget layer[xul] to allow for easy cross-platform development, but the xul widgets themselves are implemented with gtk for the default X builds[

Re: imap with fetchmail-ssl?

2002-12-14 Thread Travis Crump
Nori Heikkinen wrote: all of a sudden i need to be using secure fetchmail, which i should have been to begin with, but didn't really realize i wasn't. i apt-got fetchmail-ssl, and changed the POP3 line to IMAP in my .fetchmailrc but can't retrieve mail from my server at all. any tips or places o

Re: Newbie trying to install mod_ssl

2002-12-13 Thread Travis Crump
Jokke Heikkilä wrote: Or, just 'apt-get install libapache-mod-ssl' ... mod_ssl will be added to your Apache config and you will be able to tweak it to your heart's content. This would be ideal, but I can't find mod_ssl package under dselect and 'apt-get install libapache-mod-ssl' produces t

Re: mozilla 1.2 and debian

2002-12-12 Thread Travis Crump
Andy wrote: Your recommendation seemed to be the safest and easiest so I tried it and got the following error as I was not doing any symlinking and just running from within the directory: steelhead:/home/andy/mozilla# ./mozilla ./mozilla-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++-lib

Re: mozilla 1.2 and debian

2002-12-12 Thread Travis Crump
Andy wrote: Kind of a newbie question here. I really want to try Mozilla Calendar but I need Mozilla 1.2 first. My apt-get tells me that my Mozilla 1.0.0 is already the newest version. 4 questions please: Should I just download and compile Mozilla 1.2 on my own? I would like to stick with the D

Re: mozilla 1.2 and debian

2002-12-12 Thread Travis Crump
Jon wrote: Hi Andy. On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 14:17, Andy wrote: Kind of a newbie question here. I really want to try Mozilla Calendar but I need Mozilla 1.2 first. My apt-get tells me that my Mozilla 1.0.0 is already the newest version. 4 questions please: The version of Mozilla in stable an

Re: mozilla spell checker

2002-12-11 Thread Travis Crump
Colin Watson wrote: On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 12:41:53PM +0100, Olivier Esser wrote: ** nsNativeComponentLoader: SelfRegisterDll(/usr/lib/mozilla/components/libspellchecker.so) Load FAILED with error: libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3: cannot open shared ob

Re: mozilla mail reader

2002-12-10 Thread Travis Crump
Bruce Park wrote: From: Travis Crump <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It shows just the time of all mails sent today because it assumes that you know what day it is. OK... but wouldn't it make more sense to list the date? I can understand TODAY's things not being dated. With that bein

Re: mozilla mail reader

2002-12-10 Thread Travis Crump
Bruce Park wrote: Hello debian users, I am currently using Mozilla 1.0.0 and I noticed a strange effect in the mail reader. The mail reader has "fields" such as subject, date, etc. In the date field, I get the time when the mail was sent or received instead of the date. Is this field configura

Re: "What satisfies this dependancy?"

2002-12-09 Thread Travis Crump
Phil Edwards wrote: Here's a simple question, I'm sure: We all know how packages can provide meta-virtual-package-dependancy thingies, e.g., the mailx package requires a mail-transport-agent package, and a bunch of packages all provide mail-transport-agent, so take your pick. How do I discover w

Re: shell game

2002-12-06 Thread Travis Crump
Drew Cohan wrote: Hi, Using a bash shell script (/bin/sh), I need to know how to check to see if certain files exist in a directory, as in, "Are there any jpegs in this directory?". I've tried various things (like using -s, -f with test and a do/for loop) but nothing seems to work right. The cl

Re: Mozilla profiles....

2002-12-06 Thread Travis Crump
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With woody I use mozilla as my pet browser with two alternative profiles under the same user: One, for PPP internet dialup connections; the other one for network connections at office via eth0 and a proxy. Now it happens that when I start the first profile (PPP) the Java

Re: Package conflicts

2002-12-05 Thread Travis Crump
Kovacs Istvan wrote: Hi, I would like to install the Zorp firewall (http://www.balabit.hu/en/news/) on Woody. The packages provided by the manufacturer require libglib1.3 and python-base, which are not available on woody. Instead of libglib1.3, we have libglib2.0-data (replacing libglib1.3) and p

Re: A winmodem problem

2002-12-03 Thread Travis Crump
Barry Cugley wrote: Hello I hope someone here can help me. The system is Debian version 3 and kernel 2.4.18 The modem is described as: LM (AusTel: 018-05600618) L56DM+S InModem IN5699 (OEM pack), Model IN5692, Lucent 1646T00/1034AH-J (Mars-2) chipset, Requires Lucent "Linmodem" driver Yes No P

Re: Help configuring old mozilla compile

2002-12-02 Thread Travis Crump
Oki DZ wrote: On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 03:24:11AM +, Pigeon wrote: But I've got this infuriating circular problem. It wants to link with the libraries libjs.a and libjsj.a. What source package are these provided by? Mozilla. Can I figure out how to get it to build them before it wants to link

Re: firewall problems !!

2002-12-01 Thread Travis Crump
daves debian wrote: I have firestarter installed on my system, I logon as root, start the setup wizard, simple config, test as root, aok, log out and into a user account, aok re-boot my machine and root is OK but no matter what I configure, my day to day user account cannot access the web, or m

Re: debian user vs. browser plug-ins

2002-11-30 Thread Travis Crump
Leo Spalteholz wrote: hmm.. dumb question perhaps but how do you get mplayer to display a GUI? Its working from the console and I did install some skins. leo edit /etc/mplayer.conf so that it contains gui=yes[and get rid of gui=no if it exists] or add gui=yes to ~/.mplayer/config in whic

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