Re: Handling lots of mail

2002-04-25 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 25-Apr-2002 Ross Boylan wrote: On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 01:07:31PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Thu, Apr 25, 2002, Ross Boylan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I am currently using mutt, but many of my folders are getting very big, and I'm getting annoyed by the length of time it takes to

Re: basic directory perm question

2002-04-24 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 24-Apr-2002 justin cunningham wrote: Why is it that when I create a directory on one machine an 's' is added to the permissions? Ex. drwxr-sr-x2 sam sam 4096 Apr 24 05:17 test drwxr-sr-x2 rootroot 4096 Apr 24 05:18 test2 while on another machine this is

RE: basic directory perm question

2002-04-24 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 24-Apr-2002 justin cunningham wrote: umask on potato is 022 while on woody it's 0022. I compared the files listed below and they look like their defaults though I'm comparing potato to woody. dunno what the problem is. this is not a problem unless you do not want this behaviour. The

Re: XFree86 Server CPU Leak??

2002-04-24 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 24-Apr-2002 Quenten Griffith wrote: Hi all I have a Nvidia TNT2 graphic card, and I was using Xfree86 4.1 that dexconf configed using the XFree_SVGA server. I recently d/l the kernel moudles for the NVidia card so I can use GLX, that went fine. Then I configured X using Xfree86 -configure

RE: basic directory perm question

2002-04-24 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 24-Apr-2002 Andrew Agno wrote: Is it even possible to have a umask set so that newly created files have the s bit set? It seems that the only way for this to happen is by having an alias which chmods things afterwards or by making dirs under dirs with the group s bit set. I assumed it

Re: XFree86 Server CPU Leak??

2002-04-24 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 24-Apr-2002 Quenten Griffith wrote: Only application that is running for X at the time is KDM I am not even logged into KDE at the time. So it could be something to do with KDM and Xfree server... when I do a Xfree86 -version I get a little message that says it is a pre-release and is

Re: sourceforge

2002-04-22 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 22-Apr-2002 Marcelo Leal wrote: hi, i did tryed install the sourceforge package in my machine (woody), and does not works. sorry by the english... i hope tha you understand me... :) then, i did heard about changes in post installation scripts, for it works... did you know about it?

Re: Need help changing soundcard

2002-04-20 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 20-Apr-2002 Mike Frisch wrote: I have recently changed sound cards in my machine running 'woody', but my system seems to keep loading the old module (emu10k1). I have updated /etc/modutils/sound to use the new module and run update-modules. I have also updated my initrd for the kernel I

Re: configuring multiple NIC's at boot

2002-04-20 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 20-Apr-2002 Pollywog wrote: When I got DSL, I had a problem with my two NICS's. Things would usually end up with the NIC's being assigned the wrong addresses. What I did to correct this mess was to have the DSL modem's NIC get configured in /etc/init.d/local. What is the best way

Re: SOS

2002-04-20 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 20-Apr-2002 Luigi Rolatti wrote: Ho necessità di sapere come entrare col login (eventualmente con quale comando per bypassarlo) poichè non mi accetta il login e pw inseriti all'installazione ho installato i due cd della versione Linux Debian 2.2r5 Grazie per la risposta Luigi E-mail

Re: configuring multiple NIC's at boot

2002-04-20 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
the way this works is the first driver to be loaded gets eth0. So the 3Com you compiled into the kernel SHOULD be setup as eth0. It does now, but when I had support for both cards compiled into the kernel, the 3Com card did not get eth0, it got eth1 and the DSL's NIC got eth0 and I

Re: Suspending laptop screws up servers

2002-04-20 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 20-Apr-2002 Jesper Holmberg wrote: I usually run my old Dell laptop all-day, and then suspend it during nights. Unfortunately, the last couple of months, this gives me some side-effects: 1. The general volume of the sound goes down to zero, shutting off sound, after I wake the

Re: Suspending laptop screws up servers

2002-04-20 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 20-Apr-2002 Jesper Holmberg wrote: Thanks for your suggestions, Sean. * On Sat Apr 20, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: the sound modules may be getting unloaded and reloaded, don't know if that will make a difference. An lsmod before and after a suspend/resume shows no differences, so

Re: my isp is being told *i* am broadcasting spam?

2002-04-19 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
HELO dontuthink.com 250 server Hello 12-235-84-58.client.attbi.com [12.235.84.58] MAIL FROM:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 250 [EMAIL PROTECTED] is syntactically correct RCPT TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 550 relaying to [EMAIL PROTECTED] prohibited by administrator if you are relaying, I do not see how. If someone

Re: Printing to Windows

2002-04-19 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 19-Apr-2002 Raffaele Sandrini wrote: Hi Wich print system would you suggest me to print to a Windows machine from my Debian system. Wich one is the simpliest or the one with the most features? :-) if I understand you right you have a printer connected to a Windows machine physically

Re: linux partition help

2002-04-19 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 19-Apr-2002 Ilia Lobsanov wrote: I just did something stupid. I used partition magic to effectively move my linux partition a few sectors down. LILO doesn't work anymore, so I'm stuck on windlowsXP. Is there any way to boot into the linux partition? find an install cd and boot with that.

Re: emacs21 on potato..

2002-04-19 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
add dependency on dpkg (= 1.9.0) for new install-info. But trying to install I get dependency errors. Emacs21 depends on dpkg =1.9.0 and potato comes with 1.6.15. I guess nothing in emacs21 really depends on dpkg except for maybe the install/remove scripts? Then I thought, okay I'll port

Re: xconsole won't allow input!?!

2002-04-18 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 18-Apr-2002 Michael Kahle wrote: I have been using Debian Woody now for about 2 months. This is installed on an old P5 166 w/ 64 mb of ram. I made the decision today to install XFree86 with afterstep for a lightweight window manager. I managed to get everything working fine, but when I

Re: login.defs

2002-04-18 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 18-Apr-2002 Priit Kivisoo wrote: Hi, Just wanted to know, why I can't use LOGIN_STRING %s's password: in login.defs. The default password string (Password: ) won't change. I've tried it on several Linuxes (RH, Slack, SuSE) and it worker perfectly. Thanks in advantage... #

Re: netscape bus error

2002-04-18 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 18-Apr-2002 John Habermann wrote: Hi Do some support for a community group that recycles computers, installs debian and then gives them to low income people. One of the recipients has issues with Netscape. Netscape (4.77-2) doesn't open at all and when netscape is entered into an

Re: Suggestions for multi-platform game development library?

2002-04-18 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Any suggestions? I'd prefer opinions with experiences. I know of allegro, SDL, and libgengameng (but I don't do C++, ... yet.) just from a quick scan through dselect. I guess what I'm looking for is something to manage to graphics (no 3D required, yet...), sound, and perhaps sound

Re: Conflicts

2002-04-18 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 18-Apr-2002 Ted wrote: Hi. I am trying to install the gnome games package uning gnome apt but it tells me The following packages have unmet dependencies libguile9: Conflicts libguile6 but 1:1.3.4-2 is installed. ..Any help appreciated. can you remove libguile6? -- To

Re: make-kpkg

2002-04-18 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 18-Apr-2002 dave mallery wrote: hi i had good luck making a custom 2.2.20 kernel yesterday (following the newbie instructions) this morning i made a custom 2.4.18 from the source package. it is no good.. probably a config omission. question: can i simply: dpkg -r

Re: xdm/wdm/gdm/kdm/login.app etc.

2002-04-18 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 19-Apr-2002 Charles Baker wrote: I'm setting up a general use box for my family. It would be easier on all if there was a graphical login. I'm wondering which of these display managers to choose? Does anyone know of a comparison? We'll be using WindowMaker and Xfce as our primary

Re: Is there a way to continue a process elsewhere?

2002-04-17 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 16-Apr-2002 andrej hocevar wrote: Hello, suddenly, all my consoles went blank after trying to open a file with bmv (this is not normal behaviour!) but I could still enter X. Since I wasn't using screen at that time, would there be a way of continuing a process in X? Or sending a command

Re: Help installing packages (newbie but refusing to give up)

2002-04-17 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 16-Apr-2002 GQ Kokidko wrote: I am a new user and have installed the base system of the stable debian linux on hdb1 and windows 2000 on hda1. I can boot to linux and windows and have lilo configured properly but dselect and tasksel aren't able to find the packages (which are on hda1 in

Re: encrypt ISO image files

2002-04-17 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 17-Apr-2002 Patrick Hsieh wrote: Hello list, I use mkisofs to make my backup archive into multiple ISO images. Is it possible to encrypt them so that when they were burned, the owner still need to enter password to authentacate? couldn't you wrap them with gpg? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Emacs advice,what to install?

2002-04-16 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 16-Apr-2002 Russ Pitman wrote: I have always disliked emacs, so much so that when the install programs loaded it I dumped it out as soon as I got to the root prompt, right from years ago when I first started in linux. Now I want to try out speech, no I am not losing my sight, its simply

Re: pcmcia problems

2002-04-15 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 15-Apr-2002 Deva Seetharam wrote: hi all, i am running debian kernel 2.4.17 on a ibm t22 laptop. i am trying to install pcmcia modules to use my wavelan/ethernet cards. when i do a make all, i get the following error message and it dies. could anyone pls help? apt-get install

Re: Need utility to search for duplicate files

2002-04-13 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 13-Apr-2002 Alex Malinovich wrote: My desktop system is used by 3 users, each having a few thousand files in their home directory. Since we primarily have the same interests, there are a LOT of duplicates to be found. Earlier I found an mpeg movie that all three of us had that was 120 MB.

Re: kill, kill, kill...

2002-04-13 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 13-Apr-2002 David Wright wrote: How do I tell *$#*@% dpkg: I dont' care that your f**king postremoval script returned errors, just get absolutely everything that had to do with this package off my system and forget it ever existed ??? dpkg --force-all --purge XXX doesn't do it. My

Re: dselect question

2002-04-13 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 13-Apr-2002 stan wrote: On one of my woody machines, when I do an Update, and then go into Request Packages, all teh new packages are presented to me at the top of the list. One the otehr machines this is not true, and I cannot seem to figure out how to change dselect to make it so.

Re: Flash editor

2002-04-12 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 12-Apr-2002 Master_PE wrote: hi, Im intrested in if there is a flash editor version for linux, I have looked for it but i cant find it. because it doesn't exist. flash is a proprietary format from macromedia. Only they release and/or license the tools. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: SANE: only root has access to scanner

2002-04-12 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 12-Apr-2002 Coen De Roover wrote: Hi, I've just finished installing my Acer scanner using sane. All went fine and I'm able to use it with xsane / gimp when I'm root, but not when I'm an ordinary user. Should I add myself to a certain group to allow myself scanner access ? Or is

Re: SANE: only root has access to scanner

2002-04-12 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 12-Apr-2002 Coen De Roover wrote: On Fri, 2002-04-12 at 19:24, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: so, what are the owner/group and perms of /dev/usbscanner? crw-r--r--1 root root 180, 48 Apr 12 18:44 /dev/usbscanner I have never seen the c before so I didn't know what

Re: Blackbox functionality

2002-04-11 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
configuration. In this menu choose 'Focus model' and then choose sloppy focus and auto raise. If you want to change the auto raise delay, edit the rc file. Around 250 is a good number. Shaleh current Blackbox coder and maintainer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Blackbox functionality

2002-04-11 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
In the blackbox submenu choose configuration. In this menu choose 'Focus model' and then choose sloppy focus and auto raise. If you want to change the auto raise delay, edit the rc file. Around 250 is a good number. The default is : session.autoRaisedelay: 250 But still

Re: Correct way to modify a pkg's logrotate and cron

2002-04-11 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
I know I could do some deletes and so forth, but I wanted to see if there was a debian method so that I would stay package friendly. if the file lives in /etc you should be able to edit it and have the changes survive an upgrade. Otherwise look into dpkg-divert. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Growing File Count with apt-get/dpkg

2002-04-10 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 10-Apr-2002 James A. Lupo wrote: I've been using apt-get/dpkg for some time, tracking the unstable distribution. I've noticed that the number of files reported by dpkg grows continuously. The file count has grown continuously till now its over 104,000. Disk space utilization increases

Re: Unix(LF) files to MSDOS(CRLF) and vice versa

2002-04-09 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 09-Apr-2002 Crispin Wellington wrote: On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 10:42, Daniel Toffetti wrote: Hi ! How can I use rpl (or any other suitable command) to transform the \n character between Unix and Msdos formats ?? rpl seems to be the right tool, but I can't figure out how to specify that

Re: fakeroot

2002-04-09 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 09-Apr-2002 Theo Bierman wrote: Hi All I am trying to build a .deb package using fakeroot from any *.tgz file. And I kepe on getting : fakeroot debian/rules binary dh_testdir make: dh_testdir: Command not found make: *** [thread-stamp] Error 127 Any ideas quick hint, look in the

Re: which getty?

2002-04-08 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 08-Apr-2002 Grant Edwards wrote: Is there one particular getty program that is typically used for Debian systems (uugetty, mgetty, agetty, ...) ? you get agetty by default. it does what most people ever need. I run mingetty on my machines as it is even more light weight and gives me

Re: Alt as Meta Key in Emacs21 and XFree 4.1.0.1

2002-04-08 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 08-Apr-2002 Holger Rauch wrote: Hi! I noticed that in Debian Woody the Alt key does not work as Meta key when using Emacs 21 under X (XFree 4.1.0.1). What do I have to put in my .emacs file to get it to work? (I was looking at the FAQ using Help-Emacs FAQ, but found nothing there.)

Re: How to change default domain?

2002-04-08 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 08-Apr-2002 Balazs Javor wrote: Hi, During the first time when installing Debian and networking it asked for the default domain name that is to be appended to non qualified host names... if you mean you want to do 'ping host' not 'ping host.mydomain' the usual method is to add a

Re: Network connection utility

2002-04-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Does anyone know of a utility to reconfigure a network quickly from dialup to lan-via-ethernet and back without network breakage? Would like to use it when people bring dialup boxen here to add to my lan for upgrading to Woody. run a dhcp server locally and have a copy of dhcp-client on

Re: Should I use a proxy? DNS cache?

2002-04-06 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
DNS is another issue. I would suggest you use djbdns ( http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html ) rather than Bind, as it will allow you to decide what you want and only what you want to have it do, and will use significantly less resources on your gateway machine. It is easier to configure, less prone

Re: Prepping for Woody - Stable

2002-04-06 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
I think this is what I want. today: woody = testing after Debian 3.0 Woody = stable --and all my apt-get updates will be essentially only on the woody package. I generally use the dist name (Woody, Slink, whatever) instead of the symbolic 'stable' or 'testing'. This way my machine

Re: Linksys Wireless WDT11 w/ Woody

2002-04-06 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 06-Apr-2002 Mike Madden wrote: Does anyone know if the Linksys WDT11 is supported under Woody? I am running the latest snapshot from ftp.fsn.hu with kernel 2.2.20. If it is supported or anyone has gotten it to work, please let me know. Also, if it requires a kernel update to the 2.4.x

Re: Linksys Wireless WDT11 w/ Woody

2002-04-06 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 06-Apr-2002 Mike Madden wrote: I already have a Linksys BEFW11S4 Wireless 4-Port Cable/DSL Router and a Linksys WDT11. What would you recommend as a good wireless NIC? I have had poor luck with all of the prism based cards which are unfortunately all the local stores carry. Maybe you

Re: USB Mass Storage in 2.4.18-686

2002-04-05 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
# lsmod grep 'usb\|scsi' usb-storage _ _ _ _ _ _48000 _ 0 _(unused) scsi_mod _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 84984 _ 2 _[sd_mod usb-storage] usbcore _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _48192 _ 0 _[uhci usb-storage] ... usb-storage is unused though, as if the kernel can't find the device - which I guess is what the original

Re: KDE3 and Woody

2002-04-05 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 05-Apr-2002 Patrick Schnorbus wrote: Is Woody going to use KDE3 or do I need an upgrade to Sid? KDE3 will likely not end up in woody. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian on old notebook

2002-04-05 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 05-Apr-2002 Mirek Dobsicek wrote: Hi all, I have few question. Most of time I'm at college and twice a months I go home for a weekend. I dont have computer at home, and sometimes I need to continue at my work (coding and writing articles in VIM). I'd like to buy some old notebook and

Re: debian on old notebook

2002-04-05 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Right now this notebook luckly run W95(really good usable), so I hope it can run few consoles at good speed. just consoles and just text editing (not write code, compile, debug) you should be fine. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: debian on old notebook

2002-04-05 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
That is too much money for a very old laptop. I just picked up a p100 with 1.2GB HD and 40MB RAM. This is terribly slow, but usable in light x duty. You might consider searching around for a pentium or better for your $100. Ebay is a good place to start if you don't have a good

Re: Can't find appropriate command

2002-04-04 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 04-Apr-2002 Costa, Todd (DMH) wrote: Hi Debian-Users, I am stuck on how I can manually start-stop-restart a daemon from the command line. I have a daemon that gets flaky and the only way I can get it back running again is to restart the entire system. I really don't want to do

Re: Debian boot without X?

2002-04-03 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 03-Apr-2002 Mathias Vingaard wrote: Hello. I have just installed my debian. While I experiment with different configurations I would like to boot up without X. Is there a text file I can edit in order to disable automatic start up of X? I have tried to look in /etc/inittab but

Re: xlib problem

2002-04-03 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 03-Apr-2002 Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Hello! sometimes I get the message locale 'en_US.ISO-8859-1' not supported by Xlib how can I fix it? Thanks! edit /etc/locale.gen and add 'en_US ISO-8859-1' then run locale-gen as root. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: rescue floppy

2002-04-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 02-Apr-2002 fti International wrote: Hello, My question is simple. The size of the rescue floppy on debian web site, under the directory /...1.44/, is 1.4mb.But a floppy labeled 1.44mb, once formatted by DOS or Windows, has only 1.38mb available.How can a 1.4mb-size

Re: Xfree86 4.2.XXX

2002-04-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
The problem is Debian. I have potato installed, which of course uses X 3.3.6 (which by the way isn't even supported by XFree86 anymore it's so old). There are no X 4.2.0 debs to be found for potato (hell, 4.1 for potato is still a development release!!), so that option is pretty much

Re: setting alias for DHCP client

2002-04-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
The main motive for this is that it should then be possible for the DNS server to use this information. Long shot? Better go talk to our network admin? only way DNS server could is if you managed to have the dhcp server send DNS updates (yes this is possible). Why does your machine need

Re: ROX eating memory?

2002-04-01 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 01-Apr-2002 Nils-Erik Svangård wrote: Hi! I'm running unstable, on an AMD XP1800, 512 Mb. My free swap and memory seems to be less and less for every day that goes by. I have 19 days uptime with 2.4.18. If I start a VNC server the same thing happens, after a while that process starts

Re: rc.local equivalent in Woody?

2002-03-31 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
This question comes up enough that a policy ought IMVAO be set for it. Viz: any rc script named local-foo is considered local and sacrosanct by the system, where -foo could have any arbitrary value, including null (for the single instance of a local script). But this way I could, say,

Re: bug in textutils ?

2002-03-31 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
head -21 gives the first 21 lines as expected, but head -22 gives the first 23 lines, ie. one extra, and it seems that values above 21 gives an extra line. Is this a known bug (or maybe a feature :-) $ dpkg -l textutils Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold |

Re: Mouse Button (re) mappings

2002-03-30 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
ahem, borrowing from mandrake's helpful support site (-: http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/xwin/xmouse.html Putting Side Buttons To Work section specifically. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: why use sendmail?

2002-03-30 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 30-Mar-2002 John Lord wrote: Hi folks, Just a simple question realy, why should I use sendmail in conjunction with KMail, rather than let KMail do the job? I'm sorry but I can't see the reason why, but there probably is one. I have sat reading the various files about setting it

Re: internal debugger in kdevelop

2002-03-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 29-Mar-2002 Laurent Hausermann wrote: Hi all, First post on a debian list so please excuse me if it's not the right place. I am running a testing up to date (now 29/03/2002) I can't use the internal debugger of kdevelop ? Is there any serious bug in the kdevelop package ? you

Re: signal 4 kills X

2002-03-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
#define SIGILL 4 /* Illegal instruction (ANSI). */ According to the /usr/include/bits/signum.h. This implies somewhere the code is doing something bad and getting killed for it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Debian optimized for Pentium-class CPUs?

2002-03-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 29-Mar-2002 Paul F. Pearson wrote: Not that Woody is slow on my new 900MHz Celeron, 512MB PC, but I was wondering to what CPU target the precompiled distro was configured? Would I see a significant difference if I tried to recompile the whole thing optimized for the Celeron (if that's

Re: Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library

2002-03-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 30-Mar-2002 Troy Telford wrote: I've been getting this error when installing/upgrading packages for quite a while now. AFAIK, I have everything set up OK. Everything runs OK. I just wonder what's causing the warning, and how to rid myself of it. /etc/locale.gen is the file you need.

Re: changing bit-depth in X

2002-03-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 30-Mar-2002 will trillich wrote: okay, control-alt-plus and control-alt-minus rotate through the various x/y resolutions available to the X video drivers, right? is there a way to rotate through the Z dimension? that is, it'd be nice to see 8-bit, 16(15)bit, 24-bit... where's the manual?

Re: How much Linux on 1 GB hard drive?

2002-03-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 30-Mar-2002 Davor Balder wrote: G'day to all, I am planning to install Linux on my friends computer... I am thinking of Debian Potato just for start... I think he has 4 GB hard drive... His sister may be using Windoze, but he would like to start off with Linux. So, my question is,

Re: where are the woody iso files?

2002-03-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 30-Mar-2002 Jerry T wrote: Still trying to figure out the Debian mirror sites. Where are the woody CD iso files? not sure they exist just yet, woody is not officially released. http://cdimage.debian.org would be the place to start looking. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: What is neighbour table overlow?

2002-03-28 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 28-Mar-2002 Anthony Campbell wrote: I'm trying to install Debian on a rather old computer. During installation I'm getting neighbour table overflow messages. What do these mean and are they serious? The installatiion seems to continue regardless. Please reply to me directly since I'm

Re: maintenance mode in woody

2002-03-28 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 28-Mar-2002 Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Hello! how can I enter the maintenance mode in woody at boot time, for example for run e2fsck? fsck should be run for you. other wise, if you really need to touch the system at the lilo prompt enter 'linux single'. This will run just enough of

Re: KDE background program causing X memory leak?

2002-03-27 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
However, every time the background updates itself, X's memory usage increases by about 8 MB. Right now, X is using 356MB of RAM, and it will keep increasing on every update until there's no system memory left, upon which X crashes. Apparently, X doesn't free up the memory used by the

Re: rc.local equivalent in Woody?

2002-03-26 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 26-Mar-2002 Randolph S. Kahle wrote: In my Potato installation, I place a call to hdparm in rc.local. In my new Woody installation, I cannot find rc.local. What is the correct place / file to use for boot-up configuration / control commands? make a /etc/init.d/local script (call it

Re: make-kpkg asks an unexplainable question

2002-03-25 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
very kind and humorous, but a make-kpkg clean before erases the stamp-* files and makes me lose the revision number of the kernel, which i could specify explicitly on the modules-image command line, but i'd rather know what caused the change. the above message doesn't really sense to me...

Re: pppoe in a debian 1.3

2002-03-25 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 24-Mar-2002 Romuald PERINELLE wrote: I have a local network at home and an ADSL connexion. I would like to install my linux box as a firewall for my network. Unfortunately I can't upgrade my debian version (1.3) because of compatibility reasons with my hardware and my bios. Is there a way

Re: OT crossover cable speed

2002-03-25 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 25-Mar-2002 Rob VanFleet wrote: Sorry this has nothing to do with Debian, but I'm at a loss as to where else to ask (if it matters, both machines are running Debian g). I am looking to connect two machines, one will be connected to the outside network, the other connected to it via a

Re: 3D Modeller -- No Blender...

2002-03-22 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 22-Mar-2002 Rohan Deshpande wrote: Hi again, I was just wondering if anyone had any recommendations for 3D modellers in linux, since Blender is dead (hopefully GPL'd!). But, for the time being, if anyone could suggest replacement programs in apt for Blender, that would be nice for the

Re: network configuration??

2002-03-22 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 22-Mar-2002 Michael Griffis wrote: I am new to linux and rather ambitiously installed Woody on my Fujitsu laptop with good results. However every time I reboot I am asked to choose a network environment and the only option is to set a new environment and enter a new IP. I use DHCP so I

Re: How to install a new kernel when your / partition is neary f

2002-03-20 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
I have /usr, /var, /home etc mounted on different partitions. One obvious way would be to shrink other partitions and grow /, but I don't want to do that, at least not yet before taking a look at other (better) options. Therefore, I am just wondering whether there is any suggestion as to

Re: How to install a new kernel when your / partition is neary f

2002-03-20 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
That's what I really want to find out :-). A couple of years ago, even a 50 Mb / partition seemed OK. IIRC, with debian 1.3 it was just a 3 or 4 floppy install. From what I gather, when you install a new kernel image using apt-get, the old one is kept (which is a sensible decision)

Re: dosemu: cua

2002-03-20 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 20-Mar-2002 Cheryl Homiak wrote: Looking again at the README.txt.gz, I see that all the serial examples use /dev/cua1 etc, though the examples in /etc/dosemu/dosemu.conf use /dev/ttyS0, etc. What on earth is a /dev/cua device; I don't have anything like that in /dev. /dev/cua is the

Re: temporary ethernet card

2002-03-19 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 19-Mar-2002 Paul F. Pearson wrote: This sounds like it probably reduces to a newbie question... I just bought a new computer, and need to transfer a bunch of data onto it from my old computer. Neither one has an ethernet card (don't need one - I use dialup). A coworker has offered to

Re: Which window-manager for a kiosk?

2002-03-19 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 19-Mar-2002 Kent West wrote: Which window manager will give me the ability to size/move/close/etc windows, but without the ability to start other programs, etc. I want a kiosk style setup, on a low-memory machine. ICEWM has that menu at the bottom with the Start menu, so it's

Re: Debain backspace key maping unfriendly

2002-03-18 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 18-Mar-2002 stan wrote: I'm puting a few Debian machine into systems with lot's of ther *NIX boxes. All the oothers have the backspace jey maped to ^H, but Debian seems to have choosen to map it to soehting else (delete ?). How can I fix my Debian machines to be more friendly twoard thee

Re: Need dpkg expert

2002-03-18 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
I'm down to looking at a rebuild, which I am really, really loathe to do, since that's the solution in the Microsoft world and isn't supposed to be the solution for Linux, but unless one of you gurus can help me fix this, it's the only solution I have left. cd /var/lib/dpkg/info. Edit

Re: exim getting the from addresses right

2002-03-17 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Apparently I've given exim bad info, but not at all clear how to tell exim to address my mail with newsguy but I'm not really it... hehe. exim uses address rewriting. You can either do this directly in the exim file (look at the last section) or use /etc/email-addresses. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: many-button mouse question

2002-03-17 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
does this help: http://koala.ilog.fr/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/

Re: exim getting the from addresses right

2002-03-17 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Thanks I read thru a little of exims documenation about rewriting. I showed a lot of tenacity, and didn't jump off a bridge or shoot myself after the first paragraph. Near as I can tell, the whole section on rewriting is basically unparsable by regular humans. I know not one whit more

Re: Changing from a PS/2 mouse to a USB mouse?

2002-03-16 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 16-Mar-2002 stan wrote: I'm finally installing my wife's new woody workstation this weekend. Much to my chagrin, I find out that the cable from the IR mouse reciever is not long enough to reach from the computer (on the left of the desk) to where the mouse needs to be (on the right).

Re: SSH 2 slower than 1?

2002-03-15 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 15-Mar-2002 Jonathan Matthews wrote: Does anyone have idea why, after dist-upgrading my 486/25 router from stable - testing, ssh'ing in takes massively longer than before? ssh2 is more computationally intensive.

Re: A couple of general Debian questions

2002-03-14 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 14-Mar-2002 Paul F. Pearson wrote: 1) when using Dselect, I sometimes select packages, and find out that I don't have the space to actually install them. How can I unselelect all? 2) I want to install Woody on my PC at home (I currently have Potato at home, Woody for PPC at work). My

Re: A couple of general Debian questions

2002-03-14 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 14-Mar-2002 Paul F. Pearson wrote: 1) when using Dselect, I sometimes select packages, and find out that I don't have the space to actually install them. How can I unselelect all? see the help. 'R' reverts the options, 'Q' forces exit, Control-C exits without saving, 'del' is the

Re: OT? -- IPP print servers

2002-03-14 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 14-Mar-2002 Randolph S. Kahle wrote: This may be a bit off-topic for the list... I have a mixed Linux (all Debian) / Windows environment and I would like to standardize on IPP for printing (Linux and Windows as clients). Are there recommendations for an IPP network print-server device?

Re: dhcpd won't start

2002-03-14 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 14-Mar-2002 Rick Pasotto wrote: When I try to start dhcpd I get the following in daemon.log: Mar 14 10:27:30 tc dhcpd-2.2.x: socket: Protocol not available - make sure CONFIG_PACKET and CONFIG_FILTER are defined in your kernel configuration! Mar 14 10:27:30 tc dhcpd-2.2.x: exiting.

Re: removing exim installing sendmail in debian

2002-03-14 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 14-Mar-2002 faisal gillani wrote: Well debian comes with builtin exim mailer deamon which is good but i want to replace it with sendmail mainly cause i have bought its book but i cant remove the package as it keeps giving me dependicies problem .. so how can i remove it install send

Re: How to Increase the number of logs rotated

2002-03-14 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 14-Mar-2002 Costa, Todd (DMH) wrote: Hello Debian-Users, I am using Debian 2.2 with Squid 2.2.5 loaded. I want to increase the number of log files being rotated (compressed) from 3 to 8. Can anyone help or point me in the right direction? $ man -k rotate dh_installlogrotate (1) -

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-13 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 13-Mar-2002 Chris wrote: You are kidding right? IRC is extremely inappropriate for a child to use, period. You are way off base, your perspective is badly skewed and I fear for the safety of your daughter online. I wish her the best of luck with such poor guidance to grow with. And

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