Re: unix programing question

2002-03-12 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 12-Mar-2002 a wrote: i use popen to run a command and read output from the command, but the command outputs error message to something else than std out. how can i read the error message? i'll leave the list soon, please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Advanced Programming in the UNIX

Re: Debian as server?

2002-03-12 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 12-Mar-2002 R. van der Slot wrote: Dear support, I was wandering on the internet in search for the perfect server(s) distribution of Linux. My eye felt on Debian, only it's not completely clear if I can use Debian as PROXY, File/print, mail server (with Exchange coorporation) and/or

Re: Pump and Dhclient

2002-03-12 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 12-Mar-2002 hanasaki wrote: I have both installed. - is there a way to tell ifup/down which to use? dhclient seems to need entries for each interface, that will get a lease, in /etc/dhclient.conf. Pump is nice in that it only requireds on place to specifiy that the interface will

Re: What is the difference between Potato and Woody?

2002-03-11 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
So, instead of looking at Debian as a bunch of interesting packages running on top of a kernel, I should view each release as a stable set of packages that all are known to work together. And that to get a release (such as Woody) ready for release this involves: * Release/Install

Re: What is the difference between Potato and Woody?

2002-03-10 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 10-Mar-2002 Randolph S. Kahle wrote: I have started reading details about Woody. (I am running Potato on all of my machines with the 2.4 kernel). I was surprise to see that the 2.4 kernel is optional. This leads me to a fundamental question... What makes Woody different? Are there

Re: DHCPD - No subnet declaration?

2002-03-09 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 09-Mar-2002 Charlie Grosvenor wrote: hi My machine has three network cards in it each attached to a different network. I am trying to use dhcpd to provide ip addresses to machines on two of the networks but don't want it to provide ip addresses to the third network. I have but subnet

Re: apt-get build-deps package or -b switch

2002-03-08 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
I've written hundreds, probably thousands of lines of reports complaints etc. Received piles of helpful replies. And still no stable sytem in working order. Woody may not quite be ready yet. Maybe you need time too. I hope you give it another try some time. Good luck wherever the

Re: apt-get build-deps package or -b switch

2002-03-08 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
dpkg-buildpackage: Build dependencies/conflicts unsatisfied; aborting. Should that happen after running apt-get build-dep package? they should not but it is possible for a few reasons: *) the apt database is out of date. Have you run apt-get update recently? *) they build depend on

Re: BSD or System V

2002-03-08 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 08-Mar-2002 Jorge Escalante wrote: Is Debian based on BSD or SysV? sysV.

Re: Relationship between /etc/network, /etc/pcmcia, and /etc/apm

2002-03-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Some specific questions I have are: 1 - I've noticed that /etc/pcmcia has a network script (with network.opts) and a wireless script (with wireless.opts). What determines which of these gets invoked? Do they do complementary tasks (in other words, do wireless cards need network AND wireless

RE: question about /bin utils

2002-03-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 07-Mar-2002 Michael Marziani wrote: Just like another responder, Andrew, I did a default basic install, and there was no /bin/vi. It was in /usr/local/bin. THEN I replaced it with vim. Um, debian's policy specifically disallows putting anything in /usr/local other than empty

RE: question about /bin utils

2002-03-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 07-Mar-2002 Michael Marziani wrote: Woah my bad.. not /usr/local/bin.. /usr/bin. And yes I do have ae and ed in my /bin. I'd like to think that they could have given me vi too though :) so here is the deal. No one could win the editor wars so Debian decided to choose a neutral party

Re: IRC Client?

2002-03-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 07-Mar-2002 John Shepherd wrote: Hi, Does the debian distribution include a character-based IRC client? If so, what is it called, and where will I find it along with information about setting it up? If not, can someone recommend one and a known good ftp site where I could

Re: apt-get build-deps package or -b switch

2002-03-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 07-Mar-2002 Harry Putnam wrote: How can I capture the output of ./configure and make during a source build with apt-get -b source package I think there might be a small bug in the building of emacs21 that way. The info flew by so quick but I noticed a `no' during ./configure that I

Re: apt-get build-deps package or -b switch

2002-03-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
do you have build-essential installed? Do you have dpkg-dev installed? How about debhelper? Those 3 should clear most things up.

Re: apt-get build-deps package or -b switch

2002-03-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Still apt-get -b source vim Fails with the same message as reported. The message you posted earlier did not actually have a useful error message (basically, it failed). If you cd into the vim dir and do 'dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc' what happens?

Re: From apt-move to apt-proxy

2002-03-06 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 06-Mar-2002 Markus Grunwald wrote: Hi ! I have some local mirrors, made with apt-move. Since today, I use apt-proxy which is better for me. Now I do have a lot of files on the apt-move mirrors, wich I would like to reuse for apt-proxy. Is this possible? Should be able to just copy

Re: new twist on shutting down and restricting ssh users

2002-03-06 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 06-Mar-2002 dman wrote: I want to allow my dad to shut down the router/gateway. I want to do this by creating a login name halt that simply shuts down. I did this by making /sbin/halt the shell. As I understand it, only root is allowed to halt a system, so I made halt owned by

Re: chkconfig is to redhat as ___ is to debian?

2002-03-06 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 06-Mar-2002 Michael Marziani wrote: I've poked around dselect and can't find chkconfig. Is this included in some larger package of handy admin utils? If no chkconfig, is there a package that does something similar? chkconfig is a redhat ism. What are you trying to accomplish?

RE: chkconfig is to redhat as ___ is to debian?

2002-03-06 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 06-Mar-2002 Michael Marziani wrote: I want to: NAME chkconfig - updates and queries runlevel information for system services DESCRIPTION chkconfig provides a simple command-line tool for main- taining the /etc/rc[0-6].d directory hierarchy by

Re: question about /bin utils

2002-03-06 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 06-Mar-2002 Michael Marziani wrote: While I was replacing my vi with vim, I noticed that there is no /bin/vi at all, it's in /usr/bin. I've never seen a distro without a /bin/vi; how do I edit my files when my /usr partition crashes? Just curious if anyone has some insight into this. I

Re: ma esistono donne che usano debian?????

2002-03-05 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 05-Mar-2002 Alino wrote: ma esistono anche donne che usano debian??? mi riferisco a eleonora. che magnifica sorpresa. parità dei sessi e open source. questa è la filosofia giusta libertà ovunque. il mondo sta cambiando! anche i bambini molto presto useranno linux

Re: packeges kept back

2002-03-05 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 05-Mar-2002 François Chenais wrote: What does message The following packages have been kept back means ? while upgrading, apt could not upgrade certain packages. This may mean they have depends which or no longer satisfied or several other possibilities.

Re: Debian package system; some questions :)

2002-03-05 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 05-Mar-2002 I.J.W. Wever wrote: Hi list, I've recently installed Debian2.2r5 from a mounted file system (my windows disk): /mnt/hda5/dl/Linux/dists In that directory I have directories /stable and /potato, which are identical and both contain all available binaries for a 386 system

Re: The future of Debian install??

2002-03-05 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 05-Mar-2002 Michael Marziani wrote: I've installed debian quite a few times and it's not a big deal, but every once in a while I wish it would just auto-detect my network card, graphics card, etc just to save me the trouble of looking them up. Not to mention that xfree86setup is a pain.

Re: apm strangeness

2002-03-05 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Look in /proc. There should be an apm file there. If not, linux is NOT using apm.

Re: Small bug in dh-make-perl? [was dh-make-perl]

2002-03-04 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
So apparently the dh-make-perl overlay is causing this error some how. I need some of the perl modules installed right now for a school project so am installing them directly with the CPAN shell, until I figure out if its my local technique that is the problem. I wonder if doing this

finding a deb package Re: testing symbolic links

2002-03-04 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 04-Mar-2002 Harry Putnam wrote: Angus D Madden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anyone know a of utility to check if a symbolic link is valid? I used a program called vpopbull (part of vpopmail package) to send a notice to a bunch of users. To my surprise, vpopbull ignored the complete

Re: cdrom music

2002-03-04 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 04-Mar-2002 Curtis Vaughan wrote: I have come to the conclusion that the reason why I can't mount a music cd is because the type entry in fstab is iso9660, which is not the format for a music cd. But what is the correct type? Also, can I have 2 entries for /cdrom? 1) When you play

Re: emacs21

2002-03-03 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 03-Mar-2002 Harry Putnam wrote: A fairly long-time emacs user, I'm accustomed to using a site-start.el file as a place to do general things. In my single user system it can be quite a lot since no one else is stuck with it. Having installed the emac21 package, it seems my site-start.el

Re: is task-x-window-system uninstallable from unstable on alpha

2002-03-03 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 03-Mar-2002 Todd Trimble wrote: Am I missing something, or is task-x-window-system uninstallable on my alpha (Noname) from unstable? Can't say I have heard this. I would mail the alpha specific list and ask there.

Re: anacron

2002-03-01 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 01-Mar-2002 Christian Schoenebeck wrote: Hi! I'm using anacron on my router (just an old 486) and everytime anacron is running a job, it's hard to do anything else with it (e.g. takes about 5 seconds or so just to get a login prompt and it takes a minute or more to get a small

Re: 100dpi vs 75dpi sizes

2002-03-01 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
I suppose I could go back to the 75dpi fonts but how do I make that the default for all applications, short of removing the 100dpi fonts? Running testing with XFree86 4.1.0.1 The obvious answer is add -dpi 75 to however X gets started on your system -- either the XDM configs or

Re: Avoid booting direct to X.. I want my starx back

2002-03-01 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
In my redhat dealings it was possible to set default to runlevel 5 which force boot to bring up X. setting runlevel 3 gave you a console login. Where is this choice made on debian? runlevels do not affect Debian. We have a different philosohphy than RedHat. In Debian, any installed

Re: X problem - unwanted logout after 20 min

2002-03-01 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 01-Mar-2002 Martin Hermanowski wrote: Hi, I got an unwanted logout after about 20 minutes of inactivity under X. I am using Sawfish and the only programs I running are xterms. I am not using idled or so. I think this started just after the last upgrade of parts of xfree in woody some

Re: Configuring locales

2002-02-28 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
I have no special foreign language requirements and am a native enlglish speaker. Do I need to select the english ones? Everything will work fine for English speakers. If you want to add a locale later look at /etc/locale.gen and related docs (it will point you to them).

Re: Configuring locales

2002-02-28 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 28-Feb-2002 Harry Putnam wrote: Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have no special foreign language requirements and am a native enlglish speaker. Do I need to select the english ones? Everything will work fine for English speakers. If you want to add a locale later

Re: Enough time wasted, moving on

2002-02-28 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 28-Feb-2002 Harry Putnam wrote: Anyone who wants the official 6 CD set of woody 3.0 Can send me an address privately. First one I get in my inbox with snailmail address will get the cds mailed to them. If you could send a more detailed explanation to me I will forward it on to the other

Re: perl: warning: Setting locale failed

2002-02-26 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 26-Feb-2002 Erik van der Meulen wrote: Kind all - I seem to be missing some vital setting in my system. When I start some application from the command line, I get these messages: perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:

Re: Disabling discard, daytime, time

2002-02-26 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 26-Feb-2002 Balazs Javor wrote: Hi, Are the internal services discard, daytime and time run from inetd critical to the system? I'm trying to close as many ports as possible on my machine, so I was wondering if anything would break if I'd commented them out. You can actually

Re: Unable to find the Ncurses libraries

2002-02-26 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 26-Feb-2002 Bill Moseley wrote: I hate using up my kernel building help chips for this, but... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/linux$ make menuconfig rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) make -C scripts/lxdialog all make[1]: Entering directory

Re: Unable to find the Ncurses libraries

2002-02-26 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ locate libncurses.so /lib/libncurses.so.5 /lib/libncurses.so.5.2 # apt-get install libncurses5-dev [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ locate libncurses.so /lib/libncurses.so.5 /lib/libncurses.so.5.2 /usr/lib/libncurses.so - /lib/libncurses.so.5

Re: Locale e caratteri italiani

2002-02-25 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
(Sorry for the english) Look at /etc/locale.gen. Should have a line like: it_IT ISO-8859-1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ISO-8859-15 if not, add them. Then as root run 'locale-gen'. You should then have access to your locale. There is also a debian-italian@lists.debian.org for Italian language support.

Re: Complied into debs please (Python/Emacs packagers take note)

2002-02-23 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 23-Feb-2002 Roland Mas wrote: Adam Olsen (2002-02-23 15:11:41 +) : So on one side you have plain source, [...] On the other side you could do it like C, [...] And in the middle you have the current method, which only suffers from the minor issues of the .py[co] files not being

Re: make-kpkg with -j switch?

2002-02-23 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 23-Feb-2002 Richard Cobbe wrote: Hello, all. I've done a fair amount of searching on this topic, but a search key of -j confuses a lot of the search engines, so I've not been able to find a conclusive answer here. Is it possible to have make-kpkg supply the -j switch to make? I've

Re: Xwindows install problem on laptop

2002-02-22 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 22-Feb-2002 Carlton Ellis wrote: I just did my first Debian install last evening. Compaq Armada 1520 (oldie). I used debconf to add Xwindows (HTTP install). I have never been able to get past the initial screen (after X-windows starts) with all the X's. The X cursor does go to a

Re: firewall: linux vs. freebsd

2002-02-22 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 23-Feb-2002 timothy bauscher wrote: I am planning on building a firewall here. There is a lot of hype about Freebsd being great for firewalls, and books regarding Linux firewalls. I love Linux, but I believe in finding the best solution for a problem. My question is not which OS is

Re: Using the menu system

2002-02-20 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 20-Feb-2002 Timothy R. Butler wrote: Hi, I wanted to add a few extra shortcuts to my menus in KDE, but from my previous experiences in using menu (from using it in MDK), any changes done by the KMenuEdit will be removed the next time update-menus is run. Is there any kind of GUI I can

Re: Port replicators...

2002-02-20 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 20-Feb-2002 Darryl L. Pierce wrote: I've asked in the past and never got an answer that worked. I'm at a point again where I want to get my Gateway port replicator to work with my laptop. I can use everything on it but the PCMCIA slots. How do I tell linux to use the two slots that are in

Re: Port replicators...

2002-02-20 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
It's complaining: pcilib: Cannot open /proc/bus/pci/0b/00.0 lspci: Unable to read 64 bytes of configuration space. I check the /proc/bus/pci directory, and there I find: mobilemcp:~# ls -l /proc/bus/pci total 0 dr-xr-xr-x2 root root0 Feb 20 11:28 00 dr-xr-xr-x

Re: Using the menu system

2002-02-20 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 20-Feb-2002 Timothy R. Butler wrote: Hi Sean, currently it must be done manually. Thanks. That's not too bad, although it's ashame there isn't some type of GUI. :-\ So write one (-:

Re: date reset on a /dev/ file

2002-02-10 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
thanks for the response, matthew. yeah, i was reading it correctly. touch does change the date but doesn't affect the inability to cat the file. cat still claims that it doesn't exist even though ls sees it. What is the file in question?

Re: User with uid 1000 suddenly appeared on my woody-box.

2002-01-25 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 25-Jan-2002 ae roy wrote: I suddenly noticed when I wanted to recompile my kernel, which lies in /home/kernel/linux that I suddenly didn't have permissions in that directory anymore, although root in the past had done a chown in that directory giving it to the normal user. I used to

Re: root password forgotten

2002-01-25 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 25-Jan-2002 Michael Jinks wrote: One thing you can do: hold left shift during boot to get a prompt, and at the LILO: prompt enter Linux init=/bin/sh (possibly replacing Linux with another image name if your box doesn't have the default). The root fs will come up read-only. To be able to

Re: root password forgotten

2002-01-25 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Wow, I kind of knew there were ways to gain root access or even find out the root password quite easily, but that's really really easy... On every standard Debian install, anybody can gain the root password within minutes (given the attacker has phyiscal access to the box): (warning

Re: from casette tape to computer?

2002-01-24 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 24-Jan-2002 Cheryl Homiak wrote: I want to know if there is a way I can take material on a casette tape and convert it to an audio file on my computer. Thanks. As someone pointed out, gramofile is a good bet. It has an impressive filter assortment to remove things like pops and other

Re: power down

2002-01-24 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Incidentally...where is the power off on shutdown option? On my desktop boxes I just enable APM Bios Support, and it powers down, on the notebook I have far more than that enabled. in make menuconfig, it is one of the last options in the APM section. Some modern laptops do not respond to

Re: a modest proposal - Debian needs more $

2002-01-21 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 21-Jan-2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Debian fans, I have the following modest proposal : Debian should start charging for high-speed apt-get/dselect/whatever downloads from it's sites. 56k is free, anything faster you pay for. Then we can pay people to work on the not fun stuff

Re: .config file upgrader

2002-01-21 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 22-Jan-2002 Oki DZ wrote: Hi, Have you ever encountered a situation where you are about to upgrade the kernel and then noticing that you can't just copy your /usr/src/linux/.config due to the fact that the new kernel version has some new module settings so that plain copying of .config

Re: Warning: Do NOT upgrade base-passwd in unstable!

2002-01-20 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 20-Jan-2002 Kevin B. McCarty wrote: If you are running unstable, do NOT upgrade the base-passwd package!!! Version 3.2.2 has a critical bug which causes it to swap the UIDs and GIDs for users in the /etc/passwd file. (See bug reports #130032 and 130085.) I found this out the hard way.

Re: Where does dselect store it's selections?

2002-01-20 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 20-Jan-2002 Stan Brown wrote: I had high hopes of getting my wife's new woody machine deployed this weekend, but I seem to have sliped inot a descending death spiral on that machine :-( Presently both printing and email are horibly broken on it. So I fired up dselect, amde the mistake

Re: TLS-enabled LDAP debs?

2002-01-10 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 09-Jan-2002 Drew Raines wrote: Has anyone created TLS/SSL-friendly debs for libpam-ldap, libnss-ldap, libldap2, et al? I'd like to not reinvent the wheel if someone's already done this. Have you looked on a non-US server?

Re: Playing WMA audio streams

2002-01-10 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 09-Jan-2002 Coen De Roover wrote: Hi, Is there a program that's capable of playing continuous WMA audio streams ? None I have seen, it is a proprietary microsoft api.

Re: 'auto-apt search' vs 'dpkg -L'

2002-01-03 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 03-Jan-2002 Alec wrote: Hi I noticed that (on woody) searching for a file with auto-apt will sometimes produce no results, while dpkg -L may list the file. E.g. $ auto-apt search pa_sml $ dpkg -L camlp4 | grep pa_sml /usr/lib/camlp4/pa_sml.cmo Why? auto-apt, like apt needs to

Re: Lost in apt-get

2002-01-01 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 01-Jan-2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Im still a little confused with some aspects of apt-get and would like to see if someone could orient me a little, either pointing me to some URLs , or answering briefly... I dont quite get it, lets say i apt-get install a package... so it

Re: How can I get the Euro symbol?

2001-12-31 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
It might be worth having a look at the Euro-Char-Support mini-HOWTO (/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-html/mini/Euro-Char-Support/index.html if you have doc-linux-html installed, or somewhere on http://www.linuxdoc.org/). I'm not sure if it's good enough either - it was put together quite recently -

Re: Public/permanent/media-specific mounts

2001-12-28 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 28-Dec-2001 Matt wrote: Hello.. I remember reading somewhere (FHS maybe?) that permanent mounts should now be put off the root.. I still keep cdrom, zip, floppy under /mnt, by the way (a recent thread addressed this point already..) ...but say I have a public directory that holds

Re: dpkg hiding packages?

2001-12-20 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 20-Dec-2001 Bill wrote: Hi, i've got a sad situation i don't understand: dpkg -l don't seems to be hiding some packages from my view. this is disturbing since I use dpkg as my information source on what software I can easily install on my systems is there a way to sync those two?

Re: init.d: writing custom init-scripts

2001-12-20 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 20-Dec-2001 Timo --Blazko-- Boewing wrote: On Thu, 2001-12-20 at 23:03, Greg Wiley wrote: You've probably checked, but is your default runlevel, indeed, 3? Hello Greg, it should be :-) Well, it is an x-less station and but to go shure i also put the symlinks to runlevels 4,5 and 6

Re: how to use gcc to compile programs for Pentium

2001-12-20 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 21-Dec-2001 a wrote: i read manual of gcc, but can't find answer. BTW what's memory requirement of gnome? There is not a lot of difference between a simply $ gcc -O2 run versus one where you specify the arch. Most apps, especially GUI ones are simply not bound by the CPU. This is why

Re: blackbox + bash aliases?

2001-12-17 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
options) just follow that term's directions for edting .Xdefaults or the like. Otherwise, put the options in a shell script and have blackbox launch the script. Also, this would probably be better answered on the blackbox list than here in debian-user. Shaleh blackbox maintainer

Re: aspell dutch?

2001-12-16 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 16-Dec-2001 Rudy Gevaert wrote: Hello, I aptgetted aspell from stable, but I cant seem to figure out how to get the dutch word list working. I looked at the aspell homepage and downloaded the dutch word list, but ./configure doesn't work because it needs pspell-config. And of

Re: gcc and gcc-3.0 harmony

2001-12-15 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 15-Dec-2001 csj wrote: I see that there's no Conflicts line between the gcc and gcc-3.0 packages. Does this mean they can really coexist at build time? What would happen (I obviously have only one of them installed) when I do something like dpkg-buildpackage? Would the package be

Re: Does anybody know ?

2001-12-15 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 15-Dec-2001 Dragón wrote: What is the deb file that contains the binary httpd to be used in Apache Server? the apache package contains /usr/sbin/apache (rather than httpd). Also, look into the package auto-apt, it is handy for answering this kind of question. Also if you feel more

Re: A package that does not want to die

2001-12-13 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 13-Dec-2001 nate wrote: quote who=Stephen J. Thompson Hello All, I have tried installing the package but it is Fd. Can anyone help me on removing it? if apt-get can't remove it and dpkg can't..id say fuckit and edit the /var/lib/dpkg/status file and remove it from there, then

Re: Advice on upgrading Potato to Sid

2001-12-13 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
What would be the best route to take with what I want? 1. Installing potato and then using apt-cdrom to add the sid cdrom list to souces.list ( I presume then removing potato cdroms from the list), then doing an: apt-get update apt-get -u dist-upgrade safe 2. Installing sid without

Re: Xfree86 and Laptop

2001-12-13 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 13-Dec-2001 Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: I have a Compaq Armada laptop with some goofy Trident CyberBlade i1 AGP card that I cannot get working with X for the life of me. Anyone have any ideas? there is also debian-laptop for laptop specific issues. Perhaps people there have the same

Re:[2] Advice on upgrading Potato to Sid

2001-12-13 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
would it be exactually as i said above: 1. Install_potato_and_then_using_apt-cdrom_to_add_the_sid_cdrom_list_to souces.list_ 2. Removing_potato_cdroms_from_the_sources.list 3. run: apt-get update 4. then run: apt-get -u dist-upgrade Would this keep the old potato packages in hte

Re: Limiting admin privileges

2001-12-13 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 13-Dec-2001 Robert Kerr wrote: Hi all, My group is looking into providing Linux workstations to the engineers, but we're worried about future problems regarding admin privileges. We would like to give our engineers root on their boxes so they can set them up and provide patches and such.

Re: Contents of Sid iso Images

2001-12-13 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 13-Dec-2001 Mark Cooke wrote: On the ftp mirror sites for the sid iso images, there are 8 iso images. I know only iso 1 is required to install sid or upgarde potato to sid. But can anyone tell me roughly what are on the other 7? as I don't fancy downloading all 8 when I don't really need

Re: A package that does not want to die

2001-12-12 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 12-Dec-2001 Stephen J. Thompson wrote: Hello All, I have a package that does not want to be removed. All I keep getting is the following: ferengi:~/temp# apt-get upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: The package firebird-classic needs to be

Re: /etc/init.d/rc: 2: command not found

2001-12-10 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 08-Dec-2001 Shawn Lamson wrote: this is still happening on every boot and telinit runlevel change... also shutdown -r 0 doesnt work... i tried the debug=echo in /etc/init.d/rc and all that does is echo the correct start messages to the screen... i checked and rechecked inittab... maybe

Re: syslog-ng

2001-12-10 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 09-Dec-2001 Imre Vida wrote: Hi, since i upgraded syslog-ng (in testing) the following message gets logged to the active console whenever the netcard module is load/unloaded: PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:0b.0 PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:0a.0 PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:0b.1

Re: Is it possible to convert a debian source package to a tar b

2001-12-08 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 08-Dec-2001 scott worley wrote: Hi, I've been reading the man pages on dpkg dpkg-deb to find out if it's possible to covert the deb source directory: foo-x.y.z.orig debian-dir with all the patches upstream-source-dir to a source tar ball with all patches applied?

Re: Automatic pruning of unused libs

2001-12-08 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 08-Dec-2001 dman wrote: On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 11:05:00AM -0800, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: | Is there a program to remove libraries which were pulled in by apt-get | as prerequisites, but are no longer needed by anything? For example, my | system has libgtkhtml17, 18, 19, and 20. The three

Re: Accessing URLs from a MUA

2001-12-08 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 08-Dec-2001 Bob Hilliard wrote: Until recently, I could right-click on a URL in a mail message, and my running copy of Netscape would access that URL. For some time now this has failed to work. I'm sure the path to my Netscape must be shown in some configuratiOn File, but I can't

Re: Automatic pruning of unused libs

2001-12-08 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 08-Dec-2001 dman wrote: On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 11:23:03AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: ... | deborphan combined with cruft (another package) can lead to a very clean | system. Is cruft useful for you? When I tried it on my system, it listed much of the system as probable cruft

Re: rewriting the From: line in exim

2001-12-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 07-Dec-2001 Andrew Perrin wrote: I have a stupid problem and would appreciate any help. My canonical e-mail address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] But since incoming address is [EMAIL PROTECTED], pine and exim don't like to send mail out as From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Generally I don't care. But

Re: Kernel source

2001-12-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 07-Dec-2001 Dave Sherohman wrote: How different (if at all) are the contents of the debian kernel-source packages from the tarballs on kernel.org, etc.? Does debian do any patching or just distribute the official source unmodified? for the most part we are in sync with the kernel.org

Re: update-rc.d

2001-11-30 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 30-Nov-2001 Oki DZ wrote: Hi, We can have update-rc.d -f daemon-name remove to remove the daemon from the init script. Why can't we have update-rc.d -l daemon-name to list the init levels in which the daemon will be started. because debian by default does not mess with run levels.

Re: Making a debian package

2001-11-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 29-Nov-2001 Chapman, Matt wrote: Hi, I have found one web page that talks about making a debian package but wondered due to its date if there are any suggestions. I am looking for the easiest way to make debs , I have some programs that are on sourceforge and would like to make a

Re: kernel does not compile with gcc-3.0

2001-11-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 29-Nov-2001 Dragos wrote: well, thats about it...is it known not to? dragos PS sistem woody, kernel 2.4.14 a large reason why we still have gcc 2.9.5 as the default compiler ...

Re: kernel does not compile with gcc-3.0

2001-11-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 29-Nov-2001 dman wrote: On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 06:42:04PM +0200, Dragos Delcea (Bucaresti, Ro) wrote: | well, thats about it...is it known not to? Likely. Since gcc 3 is so new, it is also likely that there are bugs in it. The kernel tends to trigger some rare bugs in the compiler,

Re: Games - A question

2001-11-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 29-Nov-2001 Keith O'Connell wrote: OK, Whilst this is not a Debian question, as such, as Debian is the distribution with the purest philosophical roots, I thought I would try to get a discussion settled here. Assuming we are against non-free software and would not contaminate or

Re: kernel does not compile with gcc-3.0

2001-11-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
well, I'll try again tomorow; for now I installed 2.95 and got over it... I'll let you all know what I find out (I think it is gcc for it gave me an error screen which told me to submit a bug report to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) however, can I trust it to compile anything else except the kernel?

Re: Games - A question

2001-11-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 29-Nov-2001 csj wrote: On Friday 30 November 2001 01:21, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: That said games are one of the few things people 'accept' as closed source. _It is an odd blend of real art, CS art, etc. _The best of both worlds is what id Games does by releasing the source a year or so

Re: Games - A question

2001-11-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
OK - I guess I was going to take one between the eyes for the way I put it. The game is an example, the best I could think of. I was digging to find the point at which the acceptability of closed and open blurs from one to the other. I just used a game because I could not think of any other

Re: xfonts-artwiz and mkfontdir

2001-11-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 30-Nov-2001 Robert Rendler wrote: Recently when I upgraded a couple of packages mkfontdir got run and all the fonts provided by xfonts-artwiz dont' seem to get added to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.dir properly. For example the line for snap only shows: snap.pcf.gz snap Anyone

Re: X11/Xlib.h X11/xpm.h

2001-11-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 30-Nov-2001 Charles Baker wrote: I just found this neat little doc app for windowmaker called wmfortune. I tried to compile it, but it can't find these include files: X11/Xlib.h X11/xpm.h . What packages do I need to install to get these include files and presumably their implementations?

Re: new tar wants to remove my kernel!

2001-11-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 30-Nov-2001 David Wright wrote: I am running testing with kernel 2.4.12. Get this... debian:/home/ichbin# apt-get install tar Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: build-essential cpio debhelper debmake devscripts

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