Re: Printing Question

2001-07-02 Thread Mark Wagnon
Hi Larry, I CCd this to the debian-user list in order to preserve the thread. On 07/02/01 23:16:38 -0500, Lance Simmons wrote: > On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 08:35:35PM -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote: > > > My parallel port is still being detected at boot, here's the excerpt > > from dmesg: > > > > parp

Ximian-Gnome/Sawfish Configuration and ESD

2001-07-02 Thread Patrick Cheong Shu Yang
Hi people, It has been sometime since I last wrote to the list. I recently upgraded by box (the previous hardware all but blew up on me due to a faulty power supply - CPU, MB, AGP, HD and all...) to an Althlon Thunderbird 1Ghz/Epox 8KTA3/Maxtor 20Gb ATA 100, etc. Having reinstalled Potato R3 and X

Re: Soundblaster live digital output

2001-07-02 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, Ed Falis wrote: > I have a Soundblaster live value and a speaker system capable of accepting > digital input. Anyone know whether it's possible and how to enable the > Soundblaster digital output under Debian? I have the same card. I'm under the impression that the "Value"

RE: limiting "ps" command on every user..

2001-07-02 Thread KenrickC
- Original Message - From: "ktb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 11:48 AM Subject: Re: limiting "ps" command on every user.. > On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 11:48:53AM +0800, louiem+ wrote: > > > > is it possible to limit the "ps ax"/etc.. ? commands on every user? > > i

Re: limiting "ps" command on every user..

2001-07-02 Thread Lamer
make one isn't that hard, though i suggest that there are already something made already.. Calvin Chong - Original Message - From: "louiem+" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 12:03 PM Subject: Re: limiting "ps" command on every user.. > what kind of wrapper? or i real

Re: limiting "ps" command on every user..

2001-07-02 Thread louiem+
what kind of wrapper? or i really do have to make one?. ty luwim+ - Original Message - From: "Lamer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 11:56 AM Subject: Re: limiting "ps" command on every user.. > Actually, what he want is 'enforced

Re: limiting "ps" command on every user..

2001-07-02 Thread louiem+
ic, but what if.. i want to really limit all my users from seeing all the "ps" process that the machine runs? and only show their process. ty.. luwim+ - Original Message - From: "ktb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 11:48 AM Subject: Re: limiting "ps" co

Re: limiting "ps" command on every user..

2001-07-02 Thread Lamer
Actually, what he want is 'enforced policy', not 'grepping' :) i do think that a wrapper in perl will do, tho :P -- Calvin Chong - Original Message - From: "ktb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 11:48 AM Subject: Re: limiting "ps" command on every user.. > On Tue,

Re: how to run X apps as root?

2001-07-02 Thread Arne Goetje
Hi, > In the root shell type > > export DISPLAY=:0 > > so that the X client knows what server to use. If that alone doesn't > solve the problem (it ususally does for me) then type something like > 'xhost +localhost' in a terminal as a regular user (ie the one who > started the xserver). I did bo

Re: limiting "ps" command on every user..

2001-07-02 Thread ktb
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 11:48:53AM +0800, louiem+ wrote: > > is it possible to limit the "ps ax"/etc.. ? commands on every user? > i mean, example i have the id/user "luwi" > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> ps ax > > > it will only show the process which i ran, and not all the process that > the machine ru

Re: how to run X apps as root?

2001-07-02 Thread Christian Jaeger
On Tuesday, 3. July 2001 05.17, D-Man wrote: > solve the problem (it ususally does for me) then type something like > 'xhost +localhost' in a terminal as a regular user (ie the one who > started the xserver). I don't find this a good solution, as you open up your X session to everyone else on yo

limiting "ps" command on every user..

2001-07-02 Thread louiem+
is it possible to limit the "ps ax"/etc.. ? commands on every user? i mean, example i have the id/user "luwi" [EMAIL PROTECTED]> ps ax > it will only show the process which i ran, and not all the process that the machine runs.. ty. luwim+

Upgrade killed perl5.6

2001-07-02 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
Hi, After my upgrade yesterday something seems to be wrong around my perl5.6 and / or apache. during init apache can't be loaded. Here is the output: ** Starting web server: apache. [Tue Jul 3 05:36:30 2001] [error] Can't locate Apache.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/lib/perl

Re: Printing Question

2001-07-02 Thread Mark Wagnon
Hi all, again: This is starting to drive me crazy. I decided to give CUPS a spin, since I haven't been able to get plain text files to print with the lpd/magicfilter combo. Anyway, before installing CUPS (maybe sooner, but I have tried to print anything since playing with this yesterday), I was ab

Re: Soundblaster live digital output

2001-07-02 Thread Matthew Garman
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 10:59:09PM -0400, Ed Falis wrote: > I have a Soundblaster live value and a speaker system capable of accepting > digital input. Anyone know whether it's possible and how to enable the > Soundblaster digital output under Debian? Furthermore, on a similar note, how well is

Re: how to run X apps as root?

2001-07-02 Thread Steven Smolinski
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 11:13:37AM +0800, Arne Goetje wrote: > > 2nd Problem: I tried today to run a second instance of startx with -- :1 to > run it as root. today it didn't work anymore... I'm using unstable. I'm using woody, and recently it stopped for me as well. The error message (didn't c

Backwards compatibility

2001-07-02 Thread CM
Hi all, I have a quick question regarding installing php4-xml. My system is Woody with a few Sid packages. Including php4 4.0.6-1. When i try to install php4-xml i get the following error: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: php4-xml: Depends: php4 (= 4.0.3pl1-0potato

Re: how to run X apps as root?

2001-07-02 Thread D-Man
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 11:13:37AM +0800, Arne Goetje wrote: | Hi, | | sometimes I need to run some X apps as root (i.e. ethereal, lprngtool) but | Xlib complains that the server refuses the connection. In the root shell type export DISPLAY=:0 so that the X client knows what server to use. If

how to run X apps as root?

2001-07-02 Thread Arne Goetje
Hi, sometimes I need to run some X apps as root (i.e. ethereal, lprngtool) but Xlib complains that the server refuses the connection. how can I make the Xserver accept programs as root when I'm working as normal user? 2nd Problem: I tried today to run a second instance of startx with -- :1 to

Soundblaster live digital output

2001-07-02 Thread Ed Falis
I have a Soundblaster live value and a speaker system capable of accepting digital input. Anyone know whether it's possible and how to enable the Soundblaster digital output under Debian? TIA - Ed

Re: cd-rom "medium not found", no modules load

2001-07-02 Thread Shaul Karl
> > --TB36FDmn/VVEgNH/ > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Thanks! I got it working just by issuing sudo hdparm -d0 /dev/hdc, > turning off dma for the drive. Now that it works, I'll see about > turning off D

Re: iptables modules kill ppp

2001-07-02 Thread Matthew Garman
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 09:51:59PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > flushing procedure is in error somehow. to test that try > > /sbin/iptables -L -n -v ; /sbin/iptables -L -t nat -n -v ; > /sbin/iptables -L -t mangle -n -v > > I think you will find you still have some rules there. Yup. I did some m

Re: buying a computer

2001-07-02 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, Jeff Reed wrote: > http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pchardnut/chapter/ch25.html > > check it out Thanks for the reference. It looks useful. Best, Faheem Mitha.

Re: newbie doc volunteers

2001-07-02 Thread Mark Wagnon
Hi Will, I'm interested. I've been reading the docbook documentation and putting together an account of my experiences getting exim, fetchmail, and mutt to play on my system. I signed up for a sourcefoge account, I just haven't joined up yet. I'll get back to you (maybe off list) when I get it tog

Re: iptables modules kill ppp

2001-07-02 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: RE: iptables modules kill ppp Date: Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 01:47:59PM -0500 In reply to:garman Quoting garman([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > >Please define, "PPP won't work". > > I meant it won't work as in what I described in my previous email post to the > list about PPP no

Hopefully a simple latex question.

2001-07-02 Thread Shaul Karl
[05:00:24 heblatex]$ grep -A2 'override TEXMF' /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf % You can set an environment variable to override TEXMF if you're testing % a new TeX tree, without changing anything else. % [05:00:32 heblatex]$ Indeed I need to override TEXMF, or that is what I think: [05:00:32 heblatex]$ T

Re: Any way to get apt or dpkg to compile sources for SMP automatically?

2001-07-02 Thread Lamer
however, that means forking process out (to some extent) and forking another process does nothing except giving an additional overhead to machine. generally very few machine have advantage on compiling SMP support into applications - that's because as always there, as usual, won't have less than 2

Re: Any way to get apt or dpkg to compile sources for SMP automatically?

2001-07-02 Thread Joey Hess
John Foster wrote: > What I'm trying to do is totally optimize my software for dual processor > systems. I want to be able to use apt-get sources xxx.deb to download > and automatically compile the application with SMP support and to > optimize it for various pentium or other processors. This does

Re: newbie doc volunteers

2001-07-02 Thread Lamer
I would like to join also. Any more details about that? grateful to hear that. Calvin "Lamer" Uncertified Linux Player Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "will trillich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Troy Mutton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 6:10 AM Subjec

Re: Building and installing gcc-3.0

2001-07-02 Thread Lamer
if memories serves, there should be a tool that can help you make such virtual package - hmm.. however, if you would build it as if you are building the package gcc, it'll work just fine. -- remember to replace the maintainer information,tho. -- Calvin "Lamer" Uncertified Linux Player Email: [EMAI

Re: random lines

2001-07-02 Thread Joost Kooij
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 01:46:29PM -0400, Steven Smolinski wrote: > On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 11:24:40PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote: > > also sprach Joost Kooij (on Mon, 02 Jul 2001 11:15:38PM +0200): > > > perl -e 'print map {$_->[1]} sort {$a->[0]<=>$b->[0]} map {[rand,$_]} <>' > > > file > >

Re: XF86Config-4 weirdnesses

2001-07-02 Thread John Carline
I never did get my XF86Config-4 working with FontPath "unix/:7101" I suspect it was a clash between the new font server with true type capability and xfstt, but I've been to busy lately to troubleshoot it. All I know is that once I commented out the "unix/:7101" line it worked for me. John B

Re: ASCII documentation in /usr/share/doc

2001-07-02 Thread Joey Hess
Holger Rauch wrote: > In which package can I find "html2text" when I'm running a potato 2.2r3 > system? It seems like I only have "html2ps"...(but maybe I was overlooking > something). It's in unstable only. Use lynx -dump instead or something. -- see shy jo

Re: [users] Re: Time to fight for our beloved DEB format!

2001-07-02 Thread Theodore Tso
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 12:34:31PM -0600, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote: > It's not anti-commercial, but it's not pro-commercial either. It's > unfortunate that people spend so much time worrying about whether GNU/Linux > or Free Software is "good for business" in the sense of selling commercial >

Re: cd-rom "medium not found", no modules load

2001-07-02 Thread Vineet Kumar
Thanks! I got it working just by issuing sudo hdparm -d0 /dev/hdc, turning off dma for the drive. Now that it works, I'll see about turning off DMA by default for it. My next step is to investigate whether there exists a boot-time parameter to disable dma for hdc while allowing it to remain on for

RE: xcdroast in sid/unstable not installable?

2001-07-02 Thread Marc Wilson
Especially since dselect doesn't, in fact, handle dependencies superior to apt, since they both use the SAME dependency mechanism. Something else is at work here. Did you, perhaps, forget to update before trying to install xcdroast, and remembered to do that when you used dselect? What ELSE did

Re: Building and installing gcc-3.0

2001-07-02 Thread Shaul Karl
> Hi all, > > I want to build and install gcc-3.0 on my Debian "potato" 2.2r3. I have > downloaded gcc-3.0.tar.gz. If I simply type "configure", "make" and "make > install", would Debian realize that gcc has been upgraded? If by `Debian' you meant dselect, dpkg and freinds then the answer i

Re: perl 5.6.1 and h2ph ???

2001-07-02 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 04:52:04PM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > /usr/include # h2ph -r -l . Destination directory /usr/local/lib/perl/5.6.1 > doesn't exist or isn't a directory > > Huh? What happened, /usr/local/lib/site-perl/i386-linux isn't good enough > for 5.6.1? Why not generate .ph's auto

Re: [users] Re: random lines

2001-07-02 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach Steven Smolinski (on Mon, 02 Jul 2001 02:47:49PM -0400): > Huh? I thought you wanted one random line chosen out of several? yeah well, so did i. but in retrospect, for a random playlist of albums for a custom script to be used with mpg123, permutations make more sense. but i still do

Re: buying a computer

2001-07-02 Thread Jeff Reed
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pchardnut/chapter/ch25.html check it out -- -- Jeff Reed -- Linux System Administrator -- Metro West Boston Linux User Group -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.linuxbusca.com -- Daytime/Evening: (508)792-6070

Re: buying a computer

2001-07-02 Thread Andrew Perrin
Faheem- Since I know you're at UNC, I'll just tell you that I've recently completed installing debian 2.2r3, over the net, on a CCI machine, which is an IBM NetVista A40 with a PIII-1Ghz chip in it. Things have gone pretty well, except that the built-in audio chip doesn't seem to be supported, so

Re: editing /etc/init.d

2001-07-02 Thread Shaul Karl
> I need to edit a script in /etc/init.d to allow a program, which I > haven't been able to get to run, to log what is happening. > > So far I've not touched this area and find the manpage for > 'update-rc.d' a little confusing. The script to be edited is linked > to /etc/rc0/ /etc/rc6/ (as

Re: Apache config question

2001-07-02 Thread Mark Wagnon
On 07/02/01 13:18:23 -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > I bet you're running portsentry... > > When you installed apache, portsentry was already listening on pot 80. > When you rebooted, apache was started before portsentry, so it got the > port and portsentry left it alone since there's something le

Re: [users] Re: random lines

2001-07-02 Thread Steven Smolinski
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 12:23:20AM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote: > also sprach Steven Smolinski (on Mon, 02 Jul 2001 01:46:29PM -0400): > > That algorithm is one of the purest distillations of beauty I've ever > > seen. :-) Remember, the perlfaq is far more peer-reviewed than almost > > any othe

Re: newbie doc volunteers

2001-07-02 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 01:02:22PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > Troy Mutton wrote: > > > > Hi Will, > > > > Im a debian new*ie, and would like to help out if i can with this new > > project. > > > > ive been using debian for about 2 months now, after migrating from winblows > > to red hat about

Re: Can't create temporary file, errno=30

2001-07-02 Thread David L. Craig
J_Ramón Fdez wrote: > I have start up my linux box for 28 days. Suddenly, when > I have tried to edit a file with vi, the system said: > > Can't create temporary file, errno= 30 > > I don't understand what happend. Can you help me? >From /usr/include/asm/errno.h: #define EROFS 30

slightly off topic: LISP

2001-07-02 Thread Darryl Röthering
OK, all you LISPers got me off my duffus to take a LISP tutorial. So, can you please email me off-list with answers to this question? I don't understand something, but I'm not sure what I am missing: it seems to be either the QUOTE or the REST function. I will show you what I think ought to be

Any way to get apt or dpkg to compile sources for SMP automatically?

2001-07-02 Thread John Foster
What I'm trying to do is totally optimize my software for dual processor systems. I want to be able to use apt-get sources xxx.deb to download and automatically compile the application with SMP support and to optimize it for various pentium or other processors. This does not mean just the kernel I

Re: [users] Re: random lines

2001-07-02 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach Steven Smolinski (on Mon, 02 Jul 2001 01:46:29PM -0400): > That algorithm is one of the purest distillations of beauty I've ever > seen. :-) Remember, the perlfaq is far more peer-reviewed than almost > any other source of info. okay, okay. i believe you. did you give me a link for t

Re: buying a computer

2001-07-02 Thread David L. Craig
Faheem Mitha wrote: > My main question is -- can anyone recommend a good > firm to custom-build computers for Linux? It would > be a big plus if said firm knows enough to be able to > install Debian on it. I might do a reinstall, but it > would be greatly reassuring to know that it works on > the

Re: Re. Total Confusion

2001-07-02 Thread David L. Craig
Bruce wrote: > Youngsters! What is this world coming to, never heard of a comm prg, > probably don't know what x/y/zmodem and kermit are either. ;) > > just for the fun of it... > I can dial in and read my mail/surf-the-web using a C64 and a comm > program, and if my ZX81 was still working I co

Re: Can't create temporary file, errno=30: SOLVED

2001-07-02 Thread Debian User
El Lun 02 Jul 2001 22:03, escribiste: > Debian User wrote: > > El Lun 02 Jul 2001 21:42, Mike Brownlow escribi?: > > > Debian User wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I have start up my linux box for 28 days. Suddenly, when I have tried > > > > to edit a file with vi, the system said: > > > > > > > > Can't

Re: xcdroast in sid/unstable not installable?

2001-07-02 Thread tim
On Monday, 2. July 2001 18:31, Joost Kooij wrote: > On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 05:25:08PM +0200, tim wrote: > > tim:~# apt-get install xcdroast > > Reading Package Lists... Done > > Building Dependency Tree... Done > > xcdroast: Conflicts: cdrecord (>= 3:1.10a18.0) but 4:1.10-1 is to > > be installe

Re: process w/o attached tty?

2001-07-02 Thread David L. Craig
Tom Massey wrote: > Depends on how you close the Eterm - if you close it > by clicking on the close button of the window it's in, > yes you're right. But if you exit from the shell with > a or 'exit' the Eterm closes and leaves > backgrounded processes running. And I don't like > messages vanishi

Re: Can't create temporary file, errno=30

2001-07-02 Thread Mike Brownlow
Debian User wrote: > El Lun 02 Jul 2001 21:42, Mike Brownlow escribi?: > > Debian User wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I have start up my linux box for 28 days. Suddenly, when I have tried > > > to edit a file with vi, the system said: > > > > > > Can't create temporary file, errno= 30 > > > > One way if yo

Re: newbie tip

2001-07-02 Thread will trillich
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 03:24:33PM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 09:32:38PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > ... > > but i don't have "dos2unix" on my debian potato, and i'm not > > having a great deal of luck finding it at packages.debian.org > > either... all i find is 'sys

perl 5.6.1 and h2ph ???

2001-07-02 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
/usr/include # h2ph -r -l . Destination directory /usr/local/lib/perl/5.6.1 doesn't exist or isn't a directory Huh? What happened, /usr/local/lib/site-perl/i386-linux isn't good enough for 5.6.1? Why not generate .ph's automagically during install? -- they need about 500K and HD space is cheap.

Re: PostgreSQL 7.1 packages for potato

2001-07-02 Thread will trillich
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 04:15:14AM -0500, Donald R. Spoon wrote: > Will Trillich wrote: > >---snip---< > > # apt-get -f install > > Reading Package Lists... Done > > Building Dependency Tree... Done > > Correcting dependencies... Done > > The following extra packages will be installed: > > libpg

Re: editing /etc/init.d

2001-07-02 Thread John Hasler
john gennard wrote: > So far I've not touched this area and find the manpage for > 'update-rc.d' a little confusing. Look at /usr/doc/sysvinit/README.runlevels.gz. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

Re: More On 2.4.5 Processor Support

2001-07-02 Thread David L. Craig
D-Man wrote: > Thanks for the info! I had the same question, but hadn't asked yet. > I'll build my own eventually to get NFS built-in (for a diskless > XTerm). If I think about it for a minute, I have to pick "486" or > worse for that. You can install kernel-image-2.4.5-k6 and get K6 performanc

Re: random lines

2001-07-02 Thread Steven Smolinski
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 11:24:40PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote: > also sprach Joost Kooij (on Mon, 02 Jul 2001 11:15:38PM +0200): > > perl -e 'print map {$_->[1]} sort {$a->[0]<=>$b->[0]} map {[rand,$_]} <>' > > file > > that's perfect! > > the other perl algorithm permitted did a scan through

RE:Can't create temporary file, errno=30

2001-07-02 Thread Andrew Agno
Debian User writes: > Can't create temporary file, errno= 30 Looks like it's trying to create a file in a read only file system (EROFS). Do you know where it's creating the temp file? If so, then check to see if you can write to the mount on which the temp file is being created. Andrew.

Re: Can't create temporary file, errno=30

2001-07-02 Thread Mike Brownlow
Debian User wrote: > Hi, > I have start up my linux box for 28 days. Suddenly, when I have tried > to edit a file with vi, the system said: > > Can't create temporary file, errno= 30 One way if you have kernel headers installed: $ grep 30 /usr/include/asm/errno.h #define EROFS 30

Re: Can't create temporary file, errno=30

2001-07-02 Thread Robert Waldner
On Mon, 02 Jul 2001 22:38:16 -, Debian User writes: >I have start up my linux box for 28 days. Suddenly, when I have tried to edit >a file with vi, the system said: > >Can't create temporary file, errno= 30 > >I don't understand what happend. Can you help me? maybe one[0] of your file-syste

ucspi-tcp compiling problem

2001-07-02 Thread Gaston
Hi all, I've just tried to compile (with 'build-ucspi-tcp') the ucspi-tcp-src.0.88-5.deb and I get this error: gzip -fr debian/tmp/usr/share/doc/ debian/tmp/usr/man/ make: *** [binary-arch] Error 2 Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong? Thanks -- Dear Emily: I'm having a serious disag

Can't create temporary file, errno=30

2001-07-02 Thread Debian User
Hi, I have start up my linux box for 28 days. Suddenly, when I have tried to edit a file with vi, the system said: Can't create temporary file, errno= 30 I don't understand what happend. Can you help me? Many thanks. J_Ramón Fdez

ISOs for Debian PPC and x86

2001-07-02 Thread Patrick Klee
Hi, How do I make ISOs for Debian Potato on PPC and x86 architecture? Can someone point me to a HOWTO or does someone know how to do it? Cheers, Patrick

Re: random lines

2001-07-02 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach Joost Kooij (on Mon, 02 Jul 2001 11:15:38PM +0200): > perl -e 'print map {$_->[1]} sort {$a->[0]<=>$b->[0]} map {[rand,$_]} <>' file that's perfect! the other perl algorithm permitted did a scan through the file, halting on a given line according to a random number. i may well be wron

Re: random lines

2001-07-02 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 05:15:13PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote: > hey, > do you guys know of a smart way to access random lines in a file? so > if a file had lines 1-5, 5 random reads would return something like > line3, line1, line2, line5, line4? you get the picture... oh, and that > preferably

Re: buying a computer

2001-07-02 Thread Paul Whitmer
The first thing I would do is take a look at www.thedukeofurl.org and they have an article called the linux hardware guide where they give you three different systems that you might want to put together with all of the compatible equipement. It goes from low end to suicidal screamer. After th

Re: [users] Re: Time to fight for our beloved DEB format!

2001-07-02 Thread Theodore Tso
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 01:08:04AM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote: > > 1) A transparent way to install LSB-compliant rpms in Debian is > > implemented. Preferably one should be able to install rpms with 'dpkg' > > command line tool, although an automatic format transform with 'alien' > > could be pe

Re: [users] buying a computer

2001-07-02 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach Faheem Mitha (on Mon, 02 Jul 2001 04:15:13PM -0400): > I live in North Carolina, US. I am thinking of having it custom-built and > it would be nice to get Debian preloaded. I looked at resellerratings.com. > There seem to be some good small vendors out there. For example, well, you lea

Re: xfree86-sis -- needs patching?

2001-07-02 Thread D-Man
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 03:20:48PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: | On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 01:50:36PM +0100, Rev Simon Rumble wrote: | > I have a laptop which doesn't work with the SiS X server included in | > Debian. It does, however, work when I compile and install the patched | > version from

Re: buying a computer

2001-07-02 Thread D-Man
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 04:15:13PM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote: | I am thinking of replacing my now rather elderly Pentium II 233 Mhz This ought to run just fine. You're not using M$ Windows, now are you? | My main question is -- can anyone recommend a good firm to custom-build | computers for

Re: buying a computer

2001-07-02 Thread Alan Shutko
Faheem Mitha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Has anyone bought computers from Dell recently? I bought a Dell 1400SC server I've put Debian on. It is true that they only preload Redhat, but everything works under Debian, except for their server monitoring agent. That fails because their kernel mod

Re: Re. Total Confusion

2001-07-02 Thread D-Man
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 01:36:24PM -0400, D-Man wrote: | | [ | Aside : Not to start a MUA war, but could you ditch Eudora? It | seems to work rather badly with replying to a mailing list. I | notice that all your posts break the threading displayed in mutt, | so I find it hard to

Re: xfree86-sis -- needs patching?

2001-07-02 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 01:50:36PM +0100, Rev Simon Rumble wrote: > I have a laptop which doesn't work with the SiS X server included in > Debian. It does, however, work when I compile and install the patched > version from the SiS web site. (http://www.sis.com.tw) The xserver-sis package is qui

Re: HOW TO: Use of /etc/environment to manage SMP application compiles

2001-07-02 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 02:09:16PM -0500, John Foster wrote: > > # environment settings > LANG=C > CONFIG_SMP=y > CONCURRENCY_LEVEL=2 > DEBIAN_BUILDARCH=pentium > # EOF The CONCURRENCY_LEVEL variable only has meaning to make-kpkg, not to make or to anything else. So adding it to your environment

Re: Time to fight for our beloved DEB format!

2001-07-02 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Me <[EMAIL PROTECTED] reference.com> writes >> When I've mentioned about incompabilities between >> distros then I've mentioned about not only packaging >> format. I can only repeat that you expect to much if you >> think that common packaging format is the only prob

Re: editing /etc/init.d

2001-07-02 Thread Bruce Sass
On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, john gennard wrote: > I need to edit a script in /etc/init.d to allow a program, which I > haven't been able to get to run, to log what is happening. > > So far I've not touched this area and find the manpage for > 'update-rc.d' a little confusing. The script to be edited is li

buying a computer

2001-07-02 Thread Faheem Mitha
Dear people, I am thinking of replacing my now rather elderly Pentium II 233 Mhz Digital computer with something new. I am new to Debian, but am very impressed so far. I am currently running SuSE (6.2 + lots of additions) and think I will run Debian on my new computer. I live in North Carolina, U

Re: Unidentified subject!

2001-07-02 Thread Miguel Griffa
At 12:52 p.m. 02/07/01 -0700, Jenner Almanzar wrote: how can i set ftp mode to passive in order to download some files from a website? i use this command: wget http://216.219.229.225/download/debian-2.2r3-1.iso It tells me to wait for an answer, but then it tells me that i cannot download it '

Re: [users] Unidentified subject!

2001-07-02 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach Jenner Almanzar (on Mon, 02 Jul 2001 12:52:50PM -0700): > how can i set ftp mode to passive in order to download > some files from a website? > > i use this command: > > wget > http://216.219.229.225/download/debian-2.2r3-1.iso wget --passive-ftp http://216.219.229.225/download/debia

Re: [users] Re: Re. Total Confusion

2001-07-02 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach Joost Kooij (on Mon, 02 Jul 2001 09:26:39PM +0200): > On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 01:36:24PM -0400, D-Man wrote: > > apt-get remove --purge wvdial minicom > ^^ > dpkg --purge wvdial minicom > ^^ dpkg -P wvdial minicom > Less typing. ^^^ c

Unidentified subject!

2001-07-02 Thread Jenner Almanzar
how can i set ftp mode to passive in order to download some files from a website? i use this command: wget http://216.219.229.225/download/debian-2.2r3-1.iso It tells me to wait for an answer, but then it tells me that i cannot download it 'cause the host doesn't found a local ip ('cause i got a

Re: Speeding up Kernel compiles using make-kpkg

2001-07-02 Thread Joost Kooij
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 12:51:17PM -0500, John Foster wrote: > If I put the CONCURRENCY_LEVEL := 2 in my root environment variable will > it be useful in allowing all of my compiled applications to run with > maximum efficiency on my dual processor system? No, it will only affect the (one-time) co

Re: Re. Total Confusion

2001-07-02 Thread D-Man
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 01:19:25PM -0600, Bruce Sass wrote: | On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, D-Man wrote: | > | > As Wayne mentioned, minicom and wvdial aren't supposed to authenticate | > or maintain a ppp connection, that is pppd's job :-). minicom is an | > _interactive_ dialer. | | Minicom is a "termin

Re: Re. Total Confusion

2001-07-02 Thread Joost Kooij
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 01:36:24PM -0400, D-Man wrote: > apt-get remove --purge wvdial minicom ^^ dpkg --purge wvdial minicom ^^ Less typing. Cheers, Joost

Re: PS/2 mouse problems... IRQ conflict?

2001-07-02 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 08:43:04PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: > 1st question: Are you also using gpm? Try turning that off and see if > problems persist. I have gpm running, but configured it to use only the serial mouse. (As I don't want to use the repeater, and ps/2 mouse cannot be used by both

Re: Re. Total Confusion

2001-07-02 Thread Bruce Sass
On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, D-Man wrote: > On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 02:49:43AM -0700, Sidney Brooks wrote: > | For those of you who tried to help with my problem, several weeks > | ago, here is a statement of the problem and solution. > > | After following all suggestions offered here and consulting with a

Re: DPMS broken in xfree 4.x/gnome 1.4?

2001-07-02 Thread Rick Macdonald
Well, it took about 2 seconds to find the answer at the gnome website. I'm just trying it now. I don't seem to have the xscreensaver daemon running by default; that's probably key... http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53860 This is not a bug, as it turns out, just a feature with diffi

Re: [users] dd question

2001-07-02 Thread D-Man
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 03:17:09PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: [ need custom kernel to boot with root as non-ext2 ] | Much better approach anyway is to rtfm lilo docs, and create a lilo | boot block on a floppy, that can boot all your systems on the harddisk. | You must however update this boot blo

Re: DPMS broken in xfree 4.x/gnome 1.4?

2001-07-02 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, G.LeeJ wrote: > > In gnome Control Center, under Destop/Screensaver, I have: > > > > No Screensaer > > but also: > > Start after 3 minutes > > Require Password (not selected) > > Priority (about in the middle) > > Use Power Management (selected) > > Shitdown monitor 10 minutes

HOW TO: Use of /etc/environment to manage SMP application compiles

2001-07-02 Thread John Foster
I want to know how to use environment variables to manage the software compiles for a dual processor system. I have these as what I think might work as setting. I need tips, advice on proceeding. # environment settings LANG=C CONFIG_SMP=y CONCURRENCY_LEVEL=2 DEBIAN_BUILDARCH=pentium # EOF Has an

RAID, fs labels, and fsck

2001-07-02 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
I'm working on a test machine which is running an XFS filesystem on a software RAID0 volume. The XFS filesystem has a lable ("foo"). In /etc/fstab I have the following entry associated with it: LABEL=foo /mntxfs defaults0 0 Since the last field listed is 0, I expect

Re: CVSup equiv. in debian

2001-07-02 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 12:34:55PM -0400, Alexander Stavitsky wrote: > $ apt-cache show cvsup > Package: cvsup Well yes, CVSup is available in Debian. That's not really the point, though. In *BSD you use CVSup to update the source tree for your whole system. It's sort of like 'apt-get dist-upgr

Re: CVSup equiv. in debian

2001-07-02 Thread Alexander Stavitsky
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Re: [users] editing /etc/init.d

2001-07-02 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach john gennard (on Mon, 02 Jul 2001 03:30:03PM +0100): > So far I've not touched this area and find the manpage for > 'update-rc.d' a little confusing. The script to be edited is linked > to /etc/rc0/ /etc/rc6/ (as defaults with runlevels and > sequence code). Do I need to remove al

RE: iptables modules kill ppp

2001-07-02 Thread garman
>= Original Message From [EMAIL PROTECTED] = > Subject: iptables modules kill ppp > Date: Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 09:23:28PM -0500 > >Quoting Matthew Garman([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >> I posted not too long ago about PPP not working with my new kernel. The >> culprit turned out to be t

Re: 質問です 。

2001-07-02 Thread Neil Booth
If you have a (fast) internet connection you should be OK. You can download two or three floppies from Debian's web site, and that is all you need to install. The rest of the distribution is downloaded from the internet. If you haven't got a fast connection, it can take a while. But I did it on

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