fluxbox settings get lost

2003-01-26 Thread Joris Huizer
Hello everybody, I've got a small question now: Each time I boot Debian the settings of fluxbox are gone (the background style is set to a gray one) Is this a bug or do I have to change something ? Thanks regards, Joris Huizer __ Do you

Re: making /var bigger

2003-01-26 Thread Barry Pollock
You can mount the new partition under /var and put your data in the new partition. Then you can move your data that you want to place in the new partiton. If you leave directories like `/var/lib alone, most of the other directories will be fine in the new partition. On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Kent West

Recovering lost partitions

2003-01-26 Thread Alex Malinovich
I made a BIG mistake. Assuming that fdisk -l partition numbers and parted partition numbers would be identical, I happily deleted two of my disk partitions. One of them was the wrong one. Here's how my partition table USED to look: MinorStart End Type Filesystem Flags 1

How to mount storage world readable

2003-01-26 Thread Elie De Brauwer
How do I mount (vfat) partitions/storage (in this case a usb pendrive) world readable ? Anybody got a solution to this ? helios@Kafka:~$ su Password: Kafka:/home/helios# cd /mnt/ Kafka:/mnt# ls -l total 8 drwxr-xr-x2 root root 4096 Sep 26 16:18 cdrom drwxr-xr-x2 root

Re: plex86, VMWare, other emulators (was Re: Desktopproductivity with Debian GNU/LINUX)

2003-01-26 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le dim 26/01/2003 à 04:55, Karsten M. Self a écrit : plex86 is an x86 hardware emulator. That is, it provides an x86 system, entirely within software. The primary advantage is that it's very portable. The primary disadvantage is that it's painfully slow. VMWare by contrast is a

Re: openssl Illegal instruction with sid version

2003-01-26 Thread Mark Devin
On Sat, 2003-01-25 at 15:31, Rob Weir wrote: openssl req -new -x509 -keyout demoCA/private/cakey.pem -out demoCA/cacert.pem -days 3650 Illegal instruction So then I tried running: openssl version Illegal instruction So I figure that there is a problem with the sid version of

Re: Some myths regarding apt pinning

2003-01-26 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 19:05:49 -0500, Bruno Diniz de Paula wrote: Are you really sure that setting the priorities of stable, testing and unstable to 900, 800 and 700, respectively, we would be able to have a mixed system? IMHO, with this configuration, and entries for stable, testing and

Re: /etc/shutdown.allow user

2003-01-26 Thread Gary Turner
Egor Tur wrote: Hi. I read man for `shutdown' command. And this man describe how permit any user using shutdowning. Need create /etc/shutdown.allow and list of peaples that can use `shutdown'. I create it and now do from user /sbin/shutdown -a -r now -- but I cannot reboot. Only root can do

How can I control the display output (number of lines)

2003-01-26 Thread Roland Wegmann
Hy all How can I control number of lines per 'page'? For example when I use the command 'aptitude search gnome' the output is a huge list, that 'runs over' my 'bash window' and I can only read the last search results. Which tool do I have to use that i can read the 'output pages' one by one?

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Re: Recovering lost partitions

2003-01-26 Thread Barry Pollock
You could try deleting the partition and try to restore the original format. as long as the file tables haven't been over written, you should be able to recover most of your data if you have used mke2fs on the data area you have deleted you will be most likely out of luck Remember that the size

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autologin supermount.

2003-01-26 Thread Malcolm Candlish
Having used Mandrake 9.0 and finding out that they are going bust, I am considering moving to Debian 3.0. However, could some one please tell me if it is possible to use 'autologin' and 'supermount' in this distro? Thank you for your reading. -- Malcolm Candlish [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To

Re: How can I control the display output (number of lines)

2003-01-26 Thread Thorsten Haude
Moin, * Roland Wegmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-01-26 11:21]: How can I control number of lines per 'page'? For example when I use the command 'aptitude search gnome' the output is a huge list, that 'runs over' my 'bash window' and I can only read the last search results. Scroll back using

Checkinstall problems

2003-01-26 Thread Sridhar M.A.
I have been using checkinstall which ha helped me in installing many packages by making debs out of tgz files. That is one very useful software. Of late, I noticed that it was taking inordinately long time to make a deb package even after the compilation was over. I then found out that it was

Re: How can I control the display output (number of lines)

2003-01-26 Thread Gary Turner
Roland Wegmann wrote: Hy all How can I control number of lines per 'page'? For example when I use the command 'aptitude search gnome' the output is a huge list, that 'runs over' my 'bash window' and I can only read the last search results. Which tool do I have to use that i can read the

Re: Recovering lost partitions

2003-01-26 Thread Michael Heironimus
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 03:38:04AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: I managed to rescue partition 7 using parted rescue, however that partition was empty to begin with. The one that I REALLY need is 8, and it doesn't seem to want to come back. This is exactly what I've done since deleting the

Re: How can I control the display output (number of lines)

2003-01-26 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Roland Wegmann said: Hy all How can I control number of lines per 'page'? For example when I use the command 'aptitude search gnome' the output is a huge list, that 'runs over' my 'bash window' and I can only read the last search results. Which tool do I have to use that i can read the

Re: SDL with JPEG support?

2003-01-26 Thread Thorsten Sonntag
Hello, James Tappin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does any of the various libsdl packages supply the above which is needed to build piave? [...] checking for IMG_LoadJPG_RW in -lSDL_image... no configure: error: *** Unable to find SDL_image libary with JPG support

Re: How can I control the display output (number of lines)

2003-01-26 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Sunday 26 January 2003 11:21, Roland Wegmann wrote: How can I control number of lines per 'page'? For example when I use the command 'aptitude search gnome' the output is a huge list, that 'runs over' my 'bash window' and I can only read the last search results. Which tool do I have to use

Re: How can I control the display output (number of lines)

2003-01-26 Thread Eduard Bloch
Moin Roland! Roland Wegmann schrieb am Sunday, den 26. January 2003: Hy all How can I control number of lines per 'page'? For example when I use the command 'aptitude search gnome' the output is a huge list, that 'runs over' my 'bash window' and I can only read the last search results.

Re: How to mount storage world readable

2003-01-26 Thread Charlie Imbusch
On Sun, 26 Jan 2003 11:20:04 +0100, Elie De Brauwer wrote: How do I mount (vfat) partitions/storage (in this case a usb pendrive) world readable ? Anybody got a solution to this ? I think you are looking for the umask=[value] option. But attention value is given in octal ;-). Have a look at

Re: Content-Length header (Was: Some myths regarding apt pinning)

2003-01-26 Thread Isaac To
Bob == Bob Proulx [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bob And added by any delivery agent delivering mail to an old style Bob mail file. It is not just procmail. It is required. I know. But then, there is no standard anyway, so that can't be said to be required. For me as long as my tools

Re: Window Managers

2003-01-26 Thread James Buchanan
Hi Osamu, I recommend one package that detects all installed Window managers, and allows the user to select which one to start, or click a checkbox that updates an /etc/wmconfig file to make that window manager the default. And also it should have a hot key so that if you press F12 for example

Re: Window Managers

2003-01-26 Thread James Tappin
On Sun, 26 Jan 2003 23:41:39 +1100 James Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: also it should have a hot key so that if you press F12 for example in an emergency the whole Window system can be brought down and you can login at a command prompt instead of that annoying wdm login thing. This is

Re: Mailman problems

2003-01-26 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 03:48:23AM +, Ed Lawson wrote: | I am running a server using woody with Exim as MTA and am having | troubles getting mailman to function. The web interface works and | subscriptions via it all seem to work. However subscriptions by email | do not and the lists do

Re: Does a Maxtor 5000 LE USB Drive Work under Linux?

2003-01-26 Thread Martin McCormick
This was a thread I started around the first of January and I have good but cautionary news to report. When I first tried the Maxtor drive, it was on a 256-MHZ Dell Pentium mother board with a single IDE controller for the hard drive and CDROM, the usual IBM-style 1.4-meg floppy

Re: Problems running Gnome

2003-01-26 Thread Riccardo Gusso
On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 04:38, Chris Hoover wrote: Hello Everyone, I am having some problems running Gnome. I have just built my new Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop with Debian 3.0 and used the unstable tree for the install of packages. I know that the unstable tree is a moving target, but it

Re: Desktop productivity with Debian GNU/LINUX

2003-01-26 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 01:53:34PM +1100, Russell wrote: Rohan Nicholls wrote: * Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030125 00:17]: You are right there, and there is plex86, but I have not explored that fully yet, but intend to. I gave it a shot. Overall it's still quite slow, and doesn't

Re: pci scan

2003-01-26 Thread Tom Allison
David Z Maze wrote: Tom Allison [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there some tool that you can use to autoscan your hardware? For PCI specifically? /sbin/lspci should get you a listing of everything you have installed; there are a couple of packages that claim to do autoconfiguration of one sort

cant install gnome in unstable

2003-01-26 Thread Roman Joost
i cannot install gnome from the actual unstable distribution: aptitude install gnome Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree Reading extended state information... Done E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. E: Unable to correct dependencies, some

re: for making /var bigger

2003-01-26 Thread Sean
One method I like to use when running short on space, and cleaning up crud that I feel I don't need doesn't help, is to buy another hard drive, decide how much space I'll probably need for say /var/log. Then I simply move everything from /var/log into the /mnt/newdrive, edit fstab to indicate that

re: motherboard choice

2003-01-26 Thread mobtek mobtekl
Hi all, looking at motherboards for a new system, anyone installed debian on a box with an ASUS P4PE i845PE P4 motherboard? cheers Peter van der Male -- -- For dark is the suede that mows like a harvest. or -- Sono kaeru o nameru na. Genkaku o okosaseru. Do not lick that Frog. It

CD-ROM

2003-01-26 Thread Tom Allison
OK, I'm getting more than a little frustrated. I am constantly getting CD-Record errors when I try to create ANY kind of CD. Can someone please provide any suggestions on what to check/test/do. It worked very nicely for a long time when I was under stable. It's been many months since I've tried

Installion Diffs between v2. and v3.

2003-01-26 Thread Tom Allison
I have an older Debian 2.2 installation CD (single CD) that I've been using for installations. I was wondering if there are any differences in the installation process between this and the Debian 3.0 with regard to the set-up and configuration. -- We wish you a Hare Krishna We wish you a Hare

Is there a way to force apt/dpkg to rebuild the menu in X ?

2003-01-26 Thread Elie De Brauwer
On one of my workstations (Sun Blade 100) I have a problem, my debian menu isn't being updated anymore by apt. When I apt-get install galeon on another x86 machine, everything works and under wmaker i get apps - net - galeon to link to the binary, but everything on my Sun seems static, nothing

Re: devfs newbie questions about mounting

2003-01-26 Thread Dave W
On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 00:09, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: devfsd creates symlinks from old device names to devfs device names. /dev/hda1 will be a symlink to ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1. Your /dev/cdrom will be a symlink to /dev/cdroms/cdrom0. So mount /dev/fd0 /floppy will still work, or

Re: libcupsys2 is kept back

2003-01-26 Thread Alexey Chetroi
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 10:35:23AM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 10:35:23 -0500 From: Derrick 'dman' Hudson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: libcupsys2 is kept back On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 10:11:12AM +0200, Alexey Chetroi wrote: | Dear All,

Booting into Command Line mode

2003-01-26 Thread geno
Is there something I can add to the F3-listed rescue command to start up in command-line mode rather than in KDE when booting from the first CD? Thanks. geno -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: devfs newbie questions about mounting

2003-01-26 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Sunday 26 January 2003 15:32, Dave W wrote: What I _did_ try was mount /dev/scd0 /cdrom and that still fails. I still have scsi emulation and the like setup so I guess perhaps at least THAT little bit has changed. Perhaps it's using sr or sg or one of the other scsi alphabet soup

Re: pci scan

2003-01-26 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 01:06:23PM +0700, Mouammer H. Rayes wrote: kata Hugh Saunders On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 05:21:31AM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: Is there some tool that you can use to autoscan your hardware? not sure what you mean by 'autoscan' but lspci [-vv] or cat /proc/pci will

Intel extreme graphics

2003-01-26 Thread Janke Dvid
Hi all! Has anybody experience with intel extreme graphics (I845G/I845GE), and XFree86? I'm going to by a motherboard and an ASUS P4GE-V would be a godd choice for me. David --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version:

Re: Memory usage on debian

2003-01-26 Thread Hans Wilmer
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 05:18:46PM -0500, Jason McCarty wrote: Well, it does :) What is the difference between 'cached' and 'buffers'? I wanted to know that since long, but never found out. Well, after digging through the kernel sources (such fun!), I think I figured that out. cached is

Re: tune2fs ext2 - ext3

2003-01-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 01:52:06PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: On Sat, 25 Jan 2003 14:59:58 + Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frankly I wouldn't bother with that second step. I've never needed it for any of the filesystems I've converted to ext3. Then how do you move .journal

How to determine why a package is held back?

2003-01-26 Thread stan
I've got 2 differnt testing' machines that should be set up in a very similar fashion (mine which I tend to test things on first, and my wife's, which I ry to keep _very_ stable). Latley when I do apt-gte update ; apt-get dist-upgrade, her machine has been holding back gnome-common. How can I

Re: Some myths regarding apt pinning

2003-01-26 Thread Bruno Diniz de Paula
On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 05:02, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 19:05:49 -0500, Bruno Diniz de Paula wrote: Are you really sure that setting the priorities of stable, testing and unstable to 900, 800 and 700, respectively, we would be able to have a mixed system? IMHO, with

Re: debian rookie trying to get his bearings...

2003-01-26 Thread Jeff Hahn
On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Kent West wrote: How about renaming S20apache to NOS20apache? This way, you can see at a glance which scripts are start scripts, which are kill scripts, and which are scripts that have been disabled by the sysadmin, as opposed to wondering which of the K scripts were

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Re: debian rookie trying to get his bearings...

2003-01-26 Thread Shyamal Prasad
Kent == Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kent Ron Johnson wrote: The Unix Way [to disable automatic starting of init scripts] is to rename S20apache to K20apache. That way, you can see what's been explicitly turned off, and you'll know that if it's not in

flash card readers/writers

2003-01-26 Thread Hanasaki JiJi
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Re: restart / shutdown by normal user

2003-01-26 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 04:22:34PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: Craig Jackson wrote: # chmod +s /sbin/shutdown This is not something I would do though. Why don't you do this when you want to shut down: I recommend against doing that chmod on shutdown. It has not been inspected for

Re: Has Anyone Used This Debian Book?

2003-01-26 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 01:22:49PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: I just found this book for almost nothing at a local book discount shop: Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 Unleashed by Mario Camou and Aaron Von Cowenberghe *2.1*? That's slink and rather old. ~1998 or so. If I understand apt, upgrading

Re: big problem with libc6 install

2003-01-26 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 06:35:43PM -, Alberto Rodriguez wrote: I have a host with debian woody. It was a few time that I didn´t upgrade the packets. with apt-get I tried upgrade packets but this failed. Now if I run dpkg -C I get: Package: libc6 Status: install reinstreq

Re: (forw) [hugh@mjr.org: Re: Quick aptitude question...]

2003-01-26 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 11:46:28PM +, Hugh Saunders wrote: On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 11:20:25PM +, iain d broadfoot wrote: - Forwarded message from Hugh Saunders [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 22:57:15 + From: Hugh Saunders [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: iain d

Re: Mysterious disk activity

2003-01-26 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 12:57:57AM -0800, Steve wrote: Maybe the disk needs defragging? Or, you need more RAM :-) I've got 512Mb, and there's no swap being used. I'll try the defrag, but the fragmentation level is only around 5-6%. Pigeon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: cdrecord and BIG DISKS - Might help someone

2003-01-26 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 02:45:56AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On Sat, 2003-01-25 at 23:30, Marc Wilson wrote: On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 10:43:35PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: Where did you get 900MiB CD-Rs? Buy them in a store. ^_^ You can get 90 minute and 99 minute discs now. Silly

Re: *install* the kernel was Re: GeForce4 MX

2003-01-26 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 08:29:46PM -0500, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 03:49:55PM +, Pigeon wrote: No I didn't, you did :-) After I compiled the kernel (again) tonight I had remake the drivers. All I had to do was make to get them to load (I couldn't just

Re: CPU usage on debian (was: Re: Memory usage on debian)

2003-01-26 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 03:03:10AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On Sat, 2003-01-25 at 21:42, Pigeon wrote: On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 12:20:56AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 10:21:12PM +, Pigeon wrote: [snip] Now, I have a UDMA66 HD, which on buffered disk reads in

AMD processor

2003-01-26 Thread raymond gree
Hi, I have an AMD2100 on my mother board, I would like to know if there is an advantage to use the K7 kernel. I tried to install it but did not succeed. is there a procedure to so this kernel upgrade ? Thanks Raymond -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: OT -- gentle makefile assistance?

2003-01-26 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 02:41:56AM -0600, will trillich wrote: okay, i used to know how these makefiles worked, but that was a few lifetimes ago... :( i'm doing many iterations on the edit-run-edit cycle in creating a postgresql 7.2.1 (woody) and thought that make would be able to help keep

Re: gnome2 hang (solved)

2003-01-26 Thread Timo --Blazko-- Boewing
Ron Jones wrote: Hi Timo, Hello Ron, Sorry for the late reply. Saw your post on debian-user about hanging at splash screen. I have the same problem, did you get anywhere with fixing this? Yes, the problem on my side was caused by the name scheme change in Debians GNOME2 packages. To

Re: motherboard choice

2003-01-26 Thread mess-mate
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 01:17:19 +1100 mobtek mobtekl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Hi all, | looking at motherboards for a new system, anyone installed debian on a box | with an ASUS P4PE i845PE P4 motherboard? | | cheers Peter van der Male | Installed a P4T533-R asus MB with P4 2.53G and 256

Kernel compiling and ports conflicts on Compaq Evo N1015v

2003-01-26 Thread Barak BAR
Hi I compiled kernel 2.4.18 on Compaq Evo N1015v but I couldn't make the sound and the CDROM to work at the same time (it I compile the sound module the CDROM will not work). When looking in the output of dmseg I that I have some IRQ conflicts but I couldn't understand what devices are conflicts.

Re: Some myths regarding apt pinning

2003-01-26 Thread Thomas Hood
Bruno Diniz de Paula diniz () cs ! rutgers ! edu wrote: But before looking at the priority, it looks at the version of the packages. No, it is the other way around, I believe. First priority, then version. I include an updated edition of the apt preferences(5) manual page; it hasn't yet been

Re: phoenix and java?

2003-01-26 Thread Robert Land
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 02:14:21PM -0500, Seneca wrote: On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 12:27:55PM -0500, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: Is there a way to add java support to Phoenix by using debian packages? I did a quick google and came up with these: Phoenix works for me with the Blackdown Java debs.

Re: [OT] question regarding sort(1)

2003-01-26 Thread Steve Juranich
On 26 January 2003 at 10:37, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I want, though, is a straight, dumb ASCII sort based on each whole line of text, where collates before 0, etc. I've looked in the man page, but see nothing. I guess I'm not quite clear on what you want, but as I see it

Re: (forw) [hugh@mjr.org: Re: Quick aptitude question...]

2003-01-26 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 01:46:41PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: # aptitude install bleh Yeah, i figured that but then i thought why not apt-get!! Would still be good to be able to sync the aptitude package status with the actual package status, is this possible? hugh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: AMD processor

2003-01-26 Thread Kent West
raymond gree wrote: Hi, I have an AMD2100 on my mother board, I would like to know if there is an advantage to use the K7 kernel. I tried to install it but did not succeed. is there a procedure to so this kernel upgrade ? Thanks Raymond I would assume there's an advantage, since the K7

Re: Mailman problems

2003-01-26 Thread Andy
I am running a server using woody with Exim as MTA and am having troubles getting mailman to function. The web interface works and snip What else is needed or is something broken here? When I had problems getting Mailman to go on Debian, I ended up switching from Exim to Qmail, after

fonts in tables

2003-01-26 Thread Robert Land
Intention is to define font-bold _only_ for one column in a table. I had tried this using w3m without any success: table colgroup col font-weight=bold col font-weight=normal /colgroup tr..here are my table contents /table Would someone kindly provide some advice? Robert -- To

Re: Booting into Command Line mode

2003-01-26 Thread Kent West
geno wrote: Is there something I can add to the F3-listed rescue command to start up in command-line mode rather than in KDE when booting from the first CD? Thanks. geno I'm not familiar with the first CD, or using the F3 key on it, but I assume it presents you with a LILO: prompt or

Re: [OT] question regarding sort(1)

2003-01-26 Thread Alan Shutko
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a text file, and part of it is a column of numbers. When I run sort(1) v4.5.2, it is trying to be clever, sorting on the column of numbers. I have a sneaking suspicion that export LC_COLLATE=C will cure your problem -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL

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Re: Mailman problems

2003-01-26 Thread Mike Egglestone
Quoting Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Can anyone else comment about Mailman working with an Exim MTA? I am about to install a Debian system for a customer to act as a file/print server but also to run Mailman to blast out newsletters to a mailing list of over 5,000 people. Does it matter which

Re: Galeon scrollbar resembling the one in Mozilla

2003-01-26 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 06:50:13PM +0100, Robert Ian Smit wrote: * Hubert Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [26-01-2003 02:19]: Christopher I have Galeon from sid (although I've tried the one in Christopher woody which shows the same thing), and I would like to Christopher change the main vertical

Re: cdrecord and BIG DISKS - Might help someone

2003-01-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 08:50, Pigeon wrote: On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 02:45:56AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On Sat, 2003-01-25 at 23:30, Marc Wilson wrote: On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 10:43:35PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: Where did you get 900MiB CD-Rs? [snip] Besides, when I have more than

Re: CPU usage on debian (was: Re: Memory usage on debian)

2003-01-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 07:37, Pigeon wrote: On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 03:03:10AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On Sat, 2003-01-25 at 21:42, Pigeon wrote: On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 12:20:56AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 10:21:12PM +, Pigeon wrote: [snip] Now, I have

Re: debian rookie trying to get his bearings...

2003-01-26 Thread Bob Proulx
Shyamal Prasad wrote: There is a common misconception that files in /etc/rc?.d/ must only be handled via update-rc.d. I'm not sure where that comes from but a *lot* of people make that assumption. It is a requirement for package postinst scripts, not for users. But for package scripts they

Re: Galeon scrollbar resembling the one in Mozilla

2003-01-26 Thread Hubert Chan
Christopher == Christopher Nehren [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] Christopher Peculiarly enough, I switched between Modern and Classic in Christopher my Mozilla to no avail, and even switched from Classic to Christopher Modern to a different theme which I installed as a test Christopher theme.

Re: AMD processor

2003-01-26 Thread Donald Spoon
Kent West wrote: raymond gree wrote: Hi, I have an AMD2100 on my mother board, I would like to know if there is an advantage to use the K7 kernel. I tried to install it but did not succeed. is there a procedure to so this kernel upgrade ? Thanks Raymond I would assume there's an

Re: Hex Editor

2003-01-26 Thread Jeetu Golani
Hi, Yup saw quite a few Hex Editors using apt-cache...hadn't tried that but just wanted to know what the general consensus as to the best around is :)will try one of them. Thanks a lot for your help Bye On Saturday 25 Jan 2003 10:47 am, Rob Weir wrote: On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at

OT: finite-state automata in LaTeX

2003-01-26 Thread Nori Heikkinen
i won't waste my time with it if i have to do it all in postscript, but i was wondering if there were a LaTeX package out there for making pretty FSA diagrams easily. you know, a few labelled circular nodes, with labelled arrows running between them? just curious. thanks, /nori -- .~.

Re: Fwd: getting postfix + sasl to work

2003-01-26 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Derrick 'dman' Hudson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003.01.24.2244 +0100]: /etc/postfix/sasl/smtpd.conf pwcheck_method: PAM If postfix is in a chroot, will that work? What happened to saslauthd? You can't assign IP address 127.0.0.1 to the loopback adapter, because it is a reserved

Re: LinkSYS BEFSR41 router

2003-01-26 Thread Paul Mackinney
Antonio Rodriguez declaimed: I am trying to install drawboard (http://drawboard.souceforge.net) in my home network as trial before making it accessible to the outer world. But when I run java -cp . as indicated the response from the system is unknown option I have installed sun java

RE: [OT] question regarding sort(1)

2003-01-26 Thread Charlie Reiman
-Original Message- From: Ron Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2003 11:03 AM To: Debian-User Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [OT] question regarding sort(1) On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 11:40, Steve Juranich wrote: On 26 January 2003 at 10:37, Ron

Re: devfs newbie questions about mounting

2003-01-26 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 04:05:52PM +0100, Nicos Gollan wrote: On Sunday 26 January 2003 15:32, Dave W wrote: What I _did_ try was mount /dev/scd0 /cdrom and that still fails. I still have scsi emulation and the like setup so I guess perhaps at least THAT little bit has changed.

Re: Intel extreme graphics

2003-01-26 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 04:12:14PM +0100, Janke Dávid wrote: Hi all! Has anybody experience with intel extreme graphics (I845G/I845GE), and XFree86? I'm going to by a motherboard and an ASUS P4GE-V would be a godd choice for me. David http://www.xfree86.org/~dawes/845driver.html

Re: Mailman problems

2003-01-26 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Andy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030126 10:39]: I am running a server using woody with Exim as MTA and am having troubles getting mailman to function. The web interface works and snip What else is needed or is something broken here? When I had problems getting Mailman to go on Debian, I

Re: big problem with libc6 install

2003-01-26 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 02:09:52PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 06:35:43PM -, Alberto Rodriguez wrote: I have a host with debian woody. It was a few time that I didn?t upgrade the packets. with apt-get I tried upgrade packets but this failed. snip Ooooh, ouchy. That's

Re: phoenix and java?

2003-01-26 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 06:11:28PM +0100, Robert Land wrote: On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 02:14:21PM -0500, Seneca wrote: On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 12:27:55PM -0500, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: Is there a way to add java support to Phoenix by using debian packages? I did a quick google and came up

Re: CD-ROM

2003-01-26 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 09:18:15AM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: OK, I'm getting more than a little frustrated. I am constantly getting CD-Record errors when I try to create ANY kind of CD. Can someone please provide any suggestions on what to check/test/do. It worked very nicely for a

Re: Some myths regarding apt pinning

2003-01-26 Thread Bruce Sass
Missed one... ++ | | | Recommended | | | User type | Criteria | Debian | Note | | | | Flavor |

apt-get problem

2003-01-26 Thread Trey Sizemore
While trying fix some broken packages, I ran apt-get -f install from my terminal...after all packages were downloaded, I got the following error(s): etched 49.1MB in 19m6s (42.8kB/s) Preconfiguring packages ... (Reading database ... 159964 files and

Re: debian rookie trying to get his bearings...

2003-01-26 Thread Bruce Sass
On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Shyamal Prasad wrote: David == David Z Maze David writes: David Jeff Hahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm setting up a test debian server (contemplating a move of several redhat boxes) One quick question to get me going a little better... How do

Re: Sun java in testing

2003-01-26 Thread Douglas Guptill
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 01:44:05PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: I am trying to install drawboard (http://drawboard.souceforge.net) in my home network as trial before making it accessible to the outer world. But when I run java -cp . as indicated the response from the system is unknown

ports puzzle

2003-01-26 Thread csj
When I run nmap and rpcinfo after a fresh boot, I get the following values: # nmap localhost Starting nmap V. 3.10ALPHA4 ( www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) Interesting ports on beta (127.0.0.1): (The 1599 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed) Port State Service 9/tcp

Re: OT: finite-state automata in LaTeX

2003-01-26 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 13:43:53 -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: i won't waste my time with it if i have to do it all in postscript, but i was wondering if there were a LaTeX package out there for making pretty FSA diagrams easily. you know, a few labelled circular nodes, with labelled arrows

Re: Can not get UDMA-100 working...

2003-01-26 Thread mess-mate
Hi, On 26 Jan 2003 21:21:04 +0100 Dominique Deleris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Hello, | | The background: I have recently bought a new Seagate Barracuda V | disk (60 Gb), which is UDMA-100 capable. Since my motherboard | (Asus CUV4X) is only UDMA-66 ready, I have also bought a Promise IDE |

Re: Backup Consensus?

2003-01-26 Thread Grant Bowman
Is there a place where a general consensus has been reached on exactly what is necesary to backup a Debian system? I'm sure this has been asked and answered many times before, so I am looking for URLs to where this has been discussed in the past. I apologize in advance, but I'm not a subscriber

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