Re: ADA en Linux

2001-03-03 Thread Prosi
ciph3r wrote: A mi la Potato me lo instalo normalmente. Al instalarla creo que al decirle que t instale los paquetes de programación, te instala por defecto el Gnat (el compilador de Ada). Para editar puedes usar el emacs, que también viene por defecto configurado para Ada ;) . El GDB creo

Re: que es reiserfs y como programo el crontab y halt

2001-03-03 Thread Israel Gutierrez
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 El vie, 02 de mar de 2001, a las 12:53:33 -0500, David Felipe Arias Ochoa dijo: quiero pedir el favor que para que alguien me colabore y me diga como puedo usar el reiserfs, lei algo sobre proteccion de archivos, alguien que me colabore y me

Re: ¿Cómo monitorizar los accesos?

2001-03-03 Thread Israel Gutierrez
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 El vie, 02 de mar de 2001, a las 02:28:15 +0100, Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez dijo: ¿Qué usais vosotros para monitorizar conexiones a vuestro equipo?, yo antes tenía xconsole siempre activa y veía casi todo pero desde que en Potato no venía por

Re: Memoria

2001-03-03 Thread Israel Gutierrez
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 El vie, 02 de mar de 2001, a las 10:12:27 -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] dijo: Alguien me podria explicar como maneja la memoria el linux, porque me llama la atencion que luego de haber cargado el kde, el gnome, el staroffice, y alguna cosa mas, cierro

comando dpkg --get-selections

2001-03-03 Thread Prosi
que es lo k te dice exactamente el comando: dpkg --get-selections ? porque por ejemplo me sale: rep-gtk install rep-gtk-gnome install samba install samba-common

Re: Memoria

2001-03-03 Thread Adrián Baños Sabater
$ free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:128172 124756 3416 75196 2660 67888 -/+ buffers/cache: 54208 73964 Swap: 130748 126804 3944 Ahí lo tienen: Todo el swap ocupado y

RE: SiS 630

2001-03-03 Thread Fabian Arias
Exacto!, me refiero al xserver-svga. Por omision debian si no te reconoce tu tarjeta de video, solo instala el xserver-vga16. Asi, cuando quieres configurar la tarjeta sis 630 (que requiere SVGA) da error al tratar de iniciar la X. De mi experiencia con la SiS630, basto instalar el xserver-svga

Configuración postfix

2001-03-03 Thread Ricardo Villalba
Actualmente tengo el smail configurado para haga él la entrega en el buzón del destinatario en lugar de enviarlo al servidor de correo de wanadoo (aunque esto no es lo que deseaba, pero la configuración del smail me pareció algo complicada y decidí dejarlo así). Lo que pasa es que he visto que

Re: KDE 2.1

2001-03-03 Thread Ricardo Villalba
El Mié 28 Feb 2001 14:04, Carles Pina i Estany escribió: Hola libqt2.2-dev is now called libqt-dev (but still provides libqt2.2-dev) y si se llaman libqt-dev aún puedo tener las qt 1.44 y las 2.2 ? o si el paquete se llama igual (se llamaba libqt-dev, no, las 1.x?) pues solo puedo tener

SpellChecker castellano.

2001-03-03 Thread MaX in the FaX
ciao a tutti! hola mundo, me presento: soy italiano, no tengo el teclado castellano, hablo muy mal vuestro idioma, pero me gusta linux y in particular...debian. perdonais todos por los errores y mi tonterias... son solo 9 meses que aprendo castellano.. existe un corector ortografico en

Mutt y signatures

2001-03-03 Thread Gerardo Lopez
Hola. Mi pregunta es muy simple y breve. ¿Como puedo mandar firmas diferentes en mutt dependiendo de la lista a la que escriba? Un saludo a todos.

Re: Mutt y signatures

2001-03-03 Thread Christian García
El Sat Mar 3 14:25:32 2001, Gerardo Lopez escribió: Hola. Mi pregunta es muy simple y breve. ¿Como puedo mandar firmas diferentes en mutt dependiendo de la lista a la que escriba? Un poné, en tu fichero .muttrc: send-hook debian-user-spanish set signature=tu firma para esta lista Un

Instalar kde*-dev

2001-03-03 Thread Hue-Bond
# apt-get install kdebase-dev [...] Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: kdebase-dev: Depends: kdebase (= 4:2.0.1-0.potato6) but it is not going to be installed E: Sorry, broken packages # apt-get install kdebase [...] Sorry, but the following packages have unmet

Re: comando dpkg --get-selections

2001-03-03 Thread Francisco Callejo
El sábado, 3 de marzo de 2001, Prosi escribió: que es lo k te dice exactamente el comando: dpkg --get-selections ? porque por ejemplo me sale: rep-gtk install rep-gtk-gnome install samba

Re: Instalar kde*-dev

2001-03-03 Thread Sergio Rael
El sábado 03 de marzo, Hue-Bond escribió: ¿Y ahora qué toca? Instalarte la versión inestable: Tendrás todo lo que estás pidiendo ahora sin problemas (bueno, sí tendrás algunos problemas pero nada que ver con estos ;-P) ¿Cómo puedo saber cuáles son los paquetes que tienen

Re: Mutt y signatures

2001-03-03 Thread Daniel Payno
Hola Gerardo... decías, el 02:25-03/mar/2001: Hola. Mi pregunta es muy simple y breve. ¿Como puedo mandar firmas diferentes en mutt dependiendo de la lista a la que escriba? fácil... con folder-hook... asignas una regla para que detecte la lista, y le cambias el valor de signature... algo

Re: SpellChecker castellano.

2001-03-03 Thread Jordi Mallach
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 04:18:53PM +0100, MaX in the FaX wrote: soy italiano, no tengo el teclado castellano, hablo muy mal vuestro idioma, pero me gusta linux y in particular...debian. Has visto que hay una lista, debian-italian, para usuarios italianos? existe un corector ortografico en

Re: Java 2

2001-03-03 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
El documento debian-java que puedes encontrar en http://www.debian.org/doc/ddp quizas te aclare los problemas por los que no se va a incluir Java 2 *nunca* en Debian (la version en línea de ldocumento está en http://www.debian.org/doc/user-manuals#java-faq) Javi On Fri, Mar 02,

Re: Problemas con Debconf en Potato

2001-03-03 Thread Jose Manuel
At 12:58 02/03/01 +0100, marmolejo wrote: On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 08:44:48PM +0100, Jose Manuel wrote: Tengo un pequeño problema con el Debconf, a ver si alguien puede ayudarme. El caso es que actualizé el perl y el debconf de Potato al de unstable y me daba un

Re: ADA en Linux

2001-03-03 Thread Enzo Alberto Dari
Prosi wrote: ... HOla que paquete de emcas me instalo? quiero instalarme el emacs para las X's. al hacer un apt-cache search xemacs me aparecen lo menos 15 paketes, cual es el editor para poder programar en ADA? ... En realidad no necesitas xemacs para usar emacs bajo X's. El xemacs es una

Re: ¿Cómo monitorizar los accesos?

2001-03-03 Thread Amaya
J. Carlos Romero dijo: Couldn't open /dev/xconsole ~-barbwiredll /dev/xconsole prw-r-1 root adm 4086 feb 2 20:49 /dev/xconsole ¿A qué puede deberse? Nunca logré ejecutar esa orden. Yo no lo veo mal, ya que se mostraría información sensible a cualquier usuario. O le

Re: Maquinorro, ¿sun?

2001-03-03 Thread Amaya
Christoph Simon dijo: Porque no echas un vistazo a VA Linux, creo que tienen algunas que tienen un buen rendimiento. Tienen distribuidor en España: Adriano Galano [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- If you don't spend energy getting what you want, you'll have to spend it dealing with what you get.

Hola y problema.

2001-03-03 Thread Francisco Javier
Hola a todos. Soy nuevo en esta lista, y es la primera vez que participo. El caso es que hace poco que me he instalado la debian (potato 2.2) y mal que bien, voy consiguiendo que todo me funcione. Todo excepto las X. Tengo una ATI Rage 128 y parece ser que no le sienta muy bien a

Re: SpellChecker castellano.

2001-03-03 Thread MaX in the FaX
Jordi Mallach wrote: On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 04:18:53PM +0100, MaX in the FaX wrote: soy italiano, no tengo el teclado castellano, hablo muy mal vuestro idioma, pero me gusta linux y in particular...debian. Has visto que hay una lista, debian-italian, para usuarios italianos? Claro que

Re: ADA en Linux

2001-03-03 Thread Rodrigo Moya
El xemacs para Debian Potato (2.2) viene en tres variantes: xemacs21-nomule xemacs21-mule xemacs21-mule-canna-wnn por cierto, que tambien esta, para xemacs21, la version GTK, que usa widgets GTK. Los paquetes son xemacs21-gtk* saludos

Ayuda con las X

2001-03-03 Thread linuxrrc
Hola Amigos me gustaria me indiquen lo siguiente - Cual de las X me aconsejan sea la mejor para trabajar con la potato 2.2 - Que navegador me recomiendan que sea estable y bueno para linux - Cual script de conexion seria el mejor de acuerdo a la X que me aconsejen - En otro caso como o donde

mrtg

2001-03-03 Thread Lemus Moreno Jose A
Quiero hechar andar el rmtg pero no logro entender la siguiente kinea de configuracion #Target[leased]: 1:[EMAIL PROTECTED] se que donde esta public es la zona deonde SNMPT donde se encuetra el router dentro de una red pero no he desifrado aun y el manual no no es muy ilustrativo, tambien me

fetchmail y procmail (o maildir)

2001-03-03 Thread Imobach González Sosa
Ante todo, un saludo. Supongo que ya sabrán por dónde van los tiros viendo del asunto del mensaje. El tema es que, aunque no tengo problema para bajarme el correo, no logro clasificarlo. Me gustaría que alguien me indicara donde puedo encontrar documentación detallada acerca de esto (con los

kdevelop

2001-03-03 Thread Imobach González Sosa
Esta duda a lo mejor es un poco estúpida... pero alguien sabe cómo cambiarle el tamaño a las fuentes de kdevelop (me refiero a las fuentes con las que se representa el código fuente, valga la redundancia). Es que para mi es casi ilegible... Gracias -- Imobach González Sosa [EMAIL PROTECTED]

problema con postfix y flush

2001-03-03 Thread Miquel
hola a todos tengo un problema con postfix. Me da un error constante cuando trata de hacer automaticamente un flush; este es el registro del error: Mar 4 03:29:57 onosendai master[3691]: fatal: master_spawn: exec /usr/lib/postfix/flush: No such file or directory Mar 4 03:29:58 onosendai

Re: Ayuda con las X

2001-03-03 Thread Imobach González Sosa
Un saludo. Te responderé a dos de tus cuestiones. La primera es aconsejarte un navegador bueno y estable para linux. Aquí tienes un par de opciones: netscape no es el mejor navegador que hay para linux, al menos a mi, me ha dado algunos problemillas. Ahora estoy probando con Konqueror (de kde)

Re: fetchmail y procmail (o maildir)

2001-03-03 Thread Blu
On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 02:24:45AM +, Imobach González Sosa wrote: Ante todo, un saludo. Supongo que ya sabrán por dónde van los tiros viendo del asunto del mensaje. El tema es que, aunque no tengo problema para bajarme el correo, no logro clasificarlo. Me gustaría que alguien me

Re: apt-get via firewall

2001-03-03 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 08:49:02PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: Not necessarily: an authenticating proxy http firewall may pose problems. I bet you are right. (I thought about it, too. I was thinking ftp while writing it.) Is there any way to know whether proxi exit or not? Just

Re: Eek! X won't go away!

2001-03-03 Thread David B . Harris
To quote MaD dUCK [EMAIL PROTECTED], # also sprach kmself@ix.netcom.com (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 08:42:15PM -0800): # $ startx args exit # # ...which is what I use (do what I mean, not what I say). I can assure # you there are no console sessions on this box. # # this will kill my X

Re: Eek! X won't go away!

2001-03-03 Thread Jonathan Gift
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: Yes, launching X from a console w/o securing (or exiting) the console session is a security hole. However, securing or exiting the console session is trivial. I had just taken xlock off yesterday and i read this thread first thing this morning. Good timing. The

Mouse goes nuts in X

2001-03-03 Thread John McPeek
Hi, As soon as I start X the mouse looks fine, sitting in the middle of the screen. The moment I move it the cursor jumps to the top left and other than bouncing around and jumping back to the corner I can't get it to do anything. I have already tried different mice(PS2) wheel mouse and a

Re: xfree4.0 and 3d accel

2001-03-03 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
oh, sorry -- i thought you were talking about quake 3. do yourself a favor. don't compile the original quake source. there's a project quakeforge which is a group of people doing a re-write of quake, similar to how prboom and doom legacy are working with the original doom code. if you want to

Re: Mouse goes nuts in X

2001-03-03 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
do you have gpm already running? what kind of mouse? peter On Sat 03 Mar 01, 2:28 AM, John McPeek said: Hi, As soon as I start X the mouse looks fine, sitting in the middle of the screen. The moment I move it the cursor jumps to the top left and other than bouncing around and jumping

Re: can i740 work in accelerate mode?[math]

2001-03-03 Thread Jens Gecius
maths [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: my vedio card is i740, could display 800X600, 16bp (or higher, but i only use this mode). the color is beautiful but very slowly. i tty, i could see this message: (**) SVGA: Chipset: i740 (**) Option noaccel . (**) (SVGA) Acceleration disabled

zone own?

2001-03-03 Thread Livia Admin
I'm not sure what it's called. but I want to do something like this if i'm the owner of domain.com... and got a subdomain sub.domain.com. I want 202.202.202.202 to be the dns of *.sub.domain.com. so that he'll own everything below sub.domain.com. what do i do in my config? thanks

Re: Voice Mail

2001-03-03 Thread Johann Spies
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 10:20:58AM -0500, Cory Rudder wrote: Does anyone know of a linux voice mail package I could use with an excutone IDS phone system? Thanks I am not sure whether this is the answer, but I saw this in a freshmeat newsletter: [005] -

Re: an awful mutt thing just happened

2001-03-03 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Sat 03 Mar 01, 1:56 AM, Colin Watson said: debian-user goes to a folder (via procmail), and the only way i have to read my debian mail is by using vi on the mailbox it gets sent to. Surely you could type the folder name in manually, even without knowing the TAB trick? yeah -- i just

Re: Mouse goes nuts in X

2001-03-03 Thread kmself
on Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 02:28:50AM -0500, John McPeek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi, As soon as I start X the mouse looks fine, sitting in the middle of the screen. The moment I move it the cursor jumps to the top left and other than bouncing around and jumping back to the corner I can't get

Re: an awful mutt thing just happened

2001-03-03 Thread kmself
on Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 12:32:19AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sat 03 Mar 01, 1:56 AM, Colin Watson said: debian-user goes to a folder (via procmail), and the only way i have to read my debian mail is by using vi on the mailbox it gets sent to. Surely

Re: an awful mutt thing just happened

2001-03-03 Thread Glyn Millington
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 12:32:19AM -0800, thus spake Peter Jay Salzman: do you happen to know offhand how to change the default directory to look in for mail folders? if you know it offhand, cool. if not, i can RTFM. Put this line in ~/.muttrc set folder=~/Mail # where i keep

/ is suddenly 100% used

2001-03-03 Thread jdls
Greetings, My root filesystem suddenly shows 100% usage even though there's almost nothing there...df shows its 100% but I am sure it's not...I tried to move and even delete, uninstall some files, applications to check if the usage somehow goes down...it doesn't..du doesn't show anything

Re: Eek! X won't go away!

2001-03-03 Thread kmself
on Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 08:06:30AM +0100, Jonathan Gift ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: Yes, launching X from a console w/o securing (or exiting) the console session is a security hole. However, securing or exiting the console session is trivial. I had just

Re: How to re-enable ports

2001-03-03 Thread kmself
on Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 05:56:55AM -0800, Matheson Cameron ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hey, I need to enable my FTP port (21), so that I can use FTP with my proxy server. How do I do this? (or is their a better way?) Your question doesn't make sense. How did you disable this port, if at

Re: / is suddenly 100% used

2001-03-03 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya jd... whats teh rest of your partitions looking like ?? post the results of df use du and see if you see anything odd du /root du /lib du /proc du /boot du /dev du /etc du / all the root stuff ... du /home is

Re: mail configuration questions

2001-03-03 Thread kmself
on Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 06:55:46AM -0800, Tom Schuetz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Please set your linewrap to 72 characters. Is there a single .*rc kind of file where I establish the info for my POP3 server (their DNS #, url, etc.) and that is referred to by mail, fetchmail, emacs, etc?

Re: / is suddenly 100% used

2001-03-03 Thread Oliver Elphick
jdls wrote: Greetings, My root filesystem suddenly shows 100% usage even though there's almost nothing there...df shows its 100% but I am sure it's not...I tried to move and even delete, uninstall some files, applications to check if the usage somehow goes down...it doesn't..du

Re: zone own?

2001-03-03 Thread Alvin Oga
hui ya livia... if you have shacknet.nu and wanna host your friends sites tom.shacknet.nu 192.168.1.* dick.shanet.nu 192.168.2.* harry.shacknet.nu 192.168.3.* you dont need to do much just give them diff ip# they would

Re: / is suddenly 100% used

2001-03-03 Thread kmself
on Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 01:15:00AM -0800, jdls ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Greetings, My root filesystem suddenly shows 100% usage even though there's almost nothing there...df shows its 100% but I am sure it's not...I tried to move and even delete, uninstall some files, applications to check

Re: / is suddenly 100% used

2001-03-03 Thread Matthias Wieser
2Q: In what package can I find fuser? in What package can I find lsof? Thank you - mattHias /** *Hiaslboy* * alias Matthias Wieser * *Kreuzgasse 20/15* * A

Re: kernel menus

2001-03-03 Thread Jo Geraerts
Hello, On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Marvin Stodolsky wrote: # ls -l /usr/include lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 29 Mar 1 14:46 /usr/include - kernel-headers-2.1.17/include how the heck did u accomplish this?? in /usr/include i have a link to the kernel include files, but

Partitioning: speed track position (was Re: Setting Up Partitions:Solved,Thanks)

2001-03-03 Thread kmself
on Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 11:14:08PM -0500, MaD dUCK ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: also sprach kmself@ix.netcom.com (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 08:08:47PM -0800): Advice I've heard (no emperical evidence myself) is that higher utilization is best placed toward the physical midpoint of the disk radius.

Re: / is suddenly 100% used

2001-03-03 Thread Martin Fluch
Try as root: find / -xdev -type f -print0 | xargs -0 ls -s | sort -nr | less And you will see all files sorted by size (in blocks, bigest first) on your root partition... Martin On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, jdls wrote: Greetings, My root filesystem suddenly shows 100% usage even though there's

Re: an awful mutt thing just happened

2001-03-03 Thread will trillich
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 12:48:37AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: on Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 12:32:19AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: set folder=~/Mail mailboxes ! \ +mbox \ +debian-user ... or, if you're piggish (like me) just use

Re: kill: cannot kill some processes

2001-03-03 Thread William T Wilson
On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Ron Peterson wrote: away. They don't consume any CPU time, or any other resources other than the slot in the process table and the less than 1K of memory required to ... Not entirely true. Init can inherit enough zombie processes that it hits its process limit (1024,

x11 - not loading

2001-03-03 Thread David Aldred
Hi, I have just, for the first time installed Linux (YAY) but, although it is installed, I can't get x11 too start. I try entering 'startx' but it says it cannot find the config files. I can post the full errors given if needed Thanks for your help! :o)

Re: x11 - not loading

2001-03-03 Thread Matthias Wieser
On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, David Aldred wrote: Hi, I have just, for the first time installed Linux (YAY) but, although it is installed, I can't get x11 too start. I try entering 'startx' but it says it cannot find the config files. I can post the full errors given if needed Thanks for your

Re: kernel menus

2001-03-03 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
Thanks all. Problem solved. It was merely shooting myself in the foot. In the course of comparing use of header resources for compiling ltmodem.o, I temporarily renamed /usr/include -- /usr/Include Temporarily means, I forgot to /usr/Include -- /usr/include immediately after the little experiment.

Re: x11 - not loading

2001-03-03 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, have you installed everything of X with 'tasksel' (perhaps during installation)? Have you ran anXious? Do you know what kind of video chip you have? Does Linux know this too? The XF86Config is usually in /etc/X11/ and /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/. I believe that the latter is prefered. You can try

Q: Need cron is anacron loading?

2001-03-03 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, I don't have my box on 24hrs a day and cron never worked its magic until I loaded anacron. But I noticed on boot that both cron and anacron are loading. Do I need cron if I have anacron? Or do they complement one another? Thanks, Jonathan -- /* Jonathan Gift [EMAIL PROTECTED] */

/var getting full

2001-03-03 Thread Dale Morris
I just did a new cd install of 2.2. I have a 15g hard drive, 5g of which is a windoze partition, 5g for Linux and another 5 free space for BSD when I finally get around to installing it. I just started watching the disk contents, because I've set up disk partitions with 300megs for /var and /200

Re: Optical mice

2001-03-03 Thread Lee Elliott
Thanks to all who responded on this. Looked like Logitech or M$ - in the end, the local store only had M$ - gah! - but it works fine. Perhaps I'll take it apart and spray it a different colour, or something;-) LeeE

PPP connection

2001-03-03 Thread Steve Linksted
Hi, I am installing Debian for the first time, ona clean hard disk. I got through the basic installation OK, and have now reached the APT setup part. It asks to configure PPP, which I have done, and it then goes off and dials the modem and seemingly connects succesfully. However, when it

invoking manual

2001-03-03 Thread Dale Morris
Recently I did a 2.2 cd install of debian. Before I'd been running the libranet version of debian. I am sourcing the keybind-1.2i file and it has F1 linked to the mutt manual. But, it doesn't work. Trying to get vim to read a .gz file doesn't work either, whereas it used to work with the libranet

PPP

2001-03-03 Thread Steve Linksted
I am installing Debian for the first time, ona clean hard disk. I got through the basic installation OK, and have now reached the APT setup part. It asks to configure PPP, which I have done, and it then goes off and dials the modem and seemingly connects succesfully. However, when it then

Video/sound card

2001-03-03 Thread Jesse Goerz
I'm looking to buy a new video and sound card and I was wondering what everyone recommends to get for Debian 2.2r2. Specifically, I'm looking for something which is easy to install and setup. TIA, Jesse P.S. I'm not on the list please cc me.

invoking manual

2001-03-03 Thread Dale Morris
Recently I did a 2.2 cd install of debian. Before I'd been running the libranet version of debian. I am sourcing the keybind-1.2i file and it has F1 linked to the mutt manual. But, it doesn't work. Trying to get vim to read a .gz file doesn't work either, whereas it used to work with the libranet

Re: kill: cannot kill some processes

2001-03-03 Thread Cory Snavely
One thing about zombie process: Don't worry about trying to make them go away. They don't consume any CPU time, or any other resources other than the slot in the process table and the less than 1K of memory required to hold their state information. They are not worth worrying about.

Re: /var getting full

2001-03-03 Thread Sean
Check out /var/cache/apt/archives ... this is the default place apt puts downloaded packages. apt-get autoclean will clear out old packages, apt-get clean will delete all the packages and if you install apt-move, apt-move update will generate a local mirror for you using the packages in

Re: Optical mice

2001-03-03 Thread Sean
Personally, while I don't care much for their software, I think MS makes pretty good mice. I have an MS Optical Trackball at home and a Logitech Marble Trackball at work, and much prefer the MS one but that's just a personal preference of course, both perform the same as far as I'm

Re: Video/sound card

2001-03-03 Thread Sean
As far as video card goes, I really like my Matrox G400. The 32MB cards are still going for over $100, which I think is overpriced. If I were looking at buying one today, I'd look at either a Radeon or a Geforce2. The support for the G400 is very very good, so the ease of installation is quite

Re: PPP connection

2001-03-03 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, are you sure you want to do an install over your telephone line? I have no experience with this, but have you provided nameservers? (see /etc/resolv.conf for it). Can you ping/telnet when manually starting up ppp (with: pon pppname)? What do the logs say? For example, do on one terminal tail

Re: apt-get testing

2001-03-03 Thread mike polniak
MaD dUCK wrote: hey, how can i use apt-get to get something like postfix-0.0.20010228-1 out of testing? i have testing/main and some other testing's in my sources.list, but apt-get --download-only install testing/postfix doesn't work, and apt-get --download-only install postfix

P2P Networking Question

2001-03-03 Thread Jason Nord
I have a windows 98 - Debian LAN at home, and I can't seem to get either computer to ping the other one. Are there any special configurations I have to set up to make a doze box talk to a linux box? A website address would be very useful if you could supply it. Thanks :) -Jason

Changed: mutt: setup multiple mailboxes

2001-03-03 Thread Osamu Aoki
Good point, but... On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 04:17:57AM -0600, will trillich wrote: or, if you're piggish (like me) just use set folder=~/Mail set spoolfile=+inbox mailboxes `echo ~/Mail/[a-z]*` that way everything that's in ~/Mail/[a-z]* is treated as a mbox; your

Re: invoking manual

2001-03-03 Thread Osamu Aoki
Did you install less and gzip? Check with: $ dpkg -l less gzip If not apt-get install F1 is nothing but running zless. The way you described sounds like missing gzip. It is required package. Regards, Osamu On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 05:36:38AM -0800, Dale Morris wrote: Recently I did a 2.2

Re: Video/sound card

2001-03-03 Thread Jesse Goerz
On Saturday 03 March 2001 10:02, you wrote: On Saturday 03 March 2001 13:46, Jesse Goerz wrote: I'm looking to buy a new video and sound card and I was wondering what everyone recommends to get for Debian 2.2r2. Specifically, I'm looking for something which is easy to install and setup.

Re: /var getting full-SOLVED!

2001-03-03 Thread Dale Morris
this is an easy one, /var was being filled by apt-cache and cleaned up by running apt-get clean Dale Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just did a new cd install of 2.2. I have a 15g hard drive, 5g of which is a windoze partition, 5g for Linux and another 5 free space for BSD when I finally

Re: manually installing mozilla plugins

2001-03-03 Thread Dave Carrigan
Matheson Cameron [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was wondering if their was a way to manually install mozilla plugins. I need the java one, but I can't get it because I can't get FTP to work with my proxy server (help with that too please). I did manage to download it from a Windoze machine

Re: How do I set the default printer?

2001-03-03 Thread Chris Gray
On Fri, 02 Mar 2001, Stan Brown wrote: On Fri Mar 2 08:47:15 2001 Sebastiaan wrote... Hi, I think it has to do with the order in /etc/printcap. Put the default printer on top. I am not sure, but it seems logical. Thanks While this may seem logical to you, it's extremely non

Re: Q: Need cron is anacron loading?

2001-03-03 Thread Andreas Hetzmannseder
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 01:34:54PM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote: Hi, I don't have my box on 24hrs a day and cron never worked its magic until I loaded anacron. But I noticed on boot that both cron and anacron are loading. Do I need cron if I have anacron? Or do they complement one another?

Installing Mozilla

2001-03-03 Thread Wesley Aman
I just installed Version 2.2r2, and downloaded Mozilla0.6. When I try to install Mozilla, I get the error message: mozilla-bin: error in loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory. It would appear I'm missing a package, but,

Re: Installing Mozilla

2001-03-03 Thread bryan
You can search for specific libraries at: http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages (the second search category: searching for contents) A search for the library in question reveals you need the following package: libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1 Cheers, Bryan On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 09:14:57AM -0800,

message: ¨depmod: multiply defined¨

2001-03-03 Thread Andre Cia
The message: depmod: multiply defined appeared when the machine is starting... how can I resolve this problem?

Re: an awful mutt thing just happened

2001-03-03 Thread Tyler Braun
This is a bug with the version of mutt included with unstable. I missed this feature bad, so I went to www.mutt.org, downloaded the source for mutt1.6.13i, compiled it, and rather than do a full install I just moved the mutt binary over my old binary, which I of course saved incase this failed

RE: Getting to the GUI...

2001-03-03 Thread Rick Commo
So here I sit looking at potato running WindowMaker and scratching my head! But before I launch into the saga let me thank all who replied to my posts, especially Manuel Reiter and David Wright. Besides giving me some insights, their input kept me from scrubbing everything Debian off the disk in

Re: apt-get testing

2001-03-03 Thread Colin Watson
MaD dUCK [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hey, how can i use apt-get to get something like postfix-0.0.20010228-1 out of testing? i have testing/main and some other testing's in my sources.list, but apt-get --download-only install testing/postfix doesn't work, If you've got apt 0.5.0, postfix/testing

Re: apt-get via firewall

2001-03-03 Thread kmself
on Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 10:19:57PM -0800, Osamu Aoki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 08:49:02PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: Not necessarily: an authenticating proxy http firewall may pose problems. I bet you are right. (I thought about it, too. I was thinking

Re: Reconstructing Var?

2001-03-03 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 09:52:27PM -0600, will trillich wrote: On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 03:07:58PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 06:52:17PM +, Matthew Sackman wrote: When /var went down, I was able to tar and bzip2 up /home /etc /root and drop them into a

potato and kernel 2.4.1

2001-03-03 Thread Ankit Jain
I have a fresh installation of Debian 2.2r2(Potato) with kernel 2.2.18pre21. I compiled and installed kernel 2.4.1 (following the instructions given in kernel-package) It installed fine.. but when i boot it , it can't find any modules! the mods are installed in /lib/modules/2.4.1 How can i get

Re: Installing Mozilla

2001-03-03 Thread Wesley Aman
That did the trick! Thanks. Wesley Aman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can search for specific libraries at: http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages (the second search category: searching for contents) A search for the library in question reveals you need the following package:

[OT] vmware / boot floppy

2001-03-03 Thread ktb
I'm trying to set up vmware in order to test debian boot floppys. VMware installed fine on slink, 2.4.1 kernel. The problem I'm having is when I try to install potato as a test with boot.bin I get the message, Operating system not found The virtual bios is set to boot off the floppy. The seek

/usr/share and multiple versions

2001-03-03 Thread Dave Sherohman
My network runs a mix of stable/potato and testing/woody systems. I'm considering consolidating their /usr/share directories, but I'm not sure how safe that would be. Specifically, if I put all of them into a single NFS-exported location, will using apt to update the potato machines be prone to

Re: potato and kernel 2.4.1

2001-03-03 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, you need some new packages. Install binutils and ppp from woody. That will work. See Changes (or something) in the /usr/src/linux directory. Greetz, Sebastiaan On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Ankit Jain wrote: I have a fresh installation of Debian 2.2r2(Potato) with kernel 2.2.18pre21. I

Re: xfree4.0 and 3d accel

2001-03-03 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 12:10:08AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: oh, sorry -- i thought you were talking about quake 3. do yourself a favor. don't compile the original quake source. there's a project quakeforge which is a group of people doing a re-write of quake, similar to how prboom

Re: potato and kernel 2.4.1

2001-03-03 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... I have a fresh installation of Debian 2.2r2(Potato) with kernel 2.2.18pre21. I compiled and installed kernel 2.4.1 (following the instructions given in kernel-package) It installed

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