Re: GUI/Wmaker system shutdown app?

2001-07-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 09:16:50PM +0200, Philipp Lehman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: I've set up a GNU/Linux system for my folks to use and am dissatisfied with one aspect of it: there's no good, simple way I'm aware of to shut

Re: Getting CPU model and speed without rebooting

2001-07-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 02:46:32PM -0500, Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 10:38:46AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 06:29:43AM -0600, Jimmy Richards ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi, How about trying the 'x86info' program.

Re: Free WP9 editor

2001-07-26 Thread Aidan Christian O'Reilly
Thanks, I had a feeling that would be the case. I'll just have to use my NT box (currently undergoing maintenance after locking up--again!) for WP until they dump it next year, hopefully we'll get a cross-platform word processor then. Much appreciated, Aidan On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 04:05:20PM

Re: Getting CPU model and speed without rebooting

2001-07-26 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 01:46:57PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: [ I wrote ] Looks like it's available in unstable. Hmmm...I'm not finding it under either testing or unstable. My sources.list: # apt package archives deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib

Re: LaTeX editor

2001-07-26 Thread Glyn Millington
Vague answer here! Benji Fisher has a couple of really good packages for writing Latex with Vim. You should be able to locate his homepage via www.vim.org - sorry I don't have the up-to-date version, as I've sinced moved over to the One True Editor ;-) hth Glyn --

Re: GUI/Wmaker system shutdown app?

2001-07-26 Thread Wayne
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 10:19:53AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: I've set up a GNU/Linux system for my folks to use and am dissatisfied with one aspect of it: there's no good, simple way I'm aware of to shut down the system from the window manager of choice (WindowMaker). I've granted

Re: Getting CPU model and speed without rebooting

2001-07-26 Thread Jimmy Richards
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 01:46:57PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 02:46:32PM -0500, Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 10:38:46AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 06:29:43AM -0600, Jimmy Richards ([EMAIL

Re: Getting CPU model and speed without rebooting

2001-07-26 Thread Leonard Leblanc
Hey, If you have /proc filesystem support a simple % cat /proc/cpuinfo should give you everything you wanna know. -- Leonard Leblanc Vice President - Technology www.emergeknowledge.com

kernel 2.2.19 and af_packet

2001-07-26 Thread Mark Carroll
I've been having some trouble with kernel 2.2.19-6. Since upgrading, I can't get any dhcp clients to work. For example, when dhclient tries to do a socket(PF_PACKET, SOCK_PACKET, 768), it gets a EAFNOSUPPORT - address family not supported by protocol. (Admittedly, socket's manpage seems to tell

Link between newsgroup linux.debian.user and the debian user mailing list ?

2001-07-26 Thread Yves Dessertine
Hi. I want to know it there is any link between the linux.debian.user newsgroup and the debian user mailing list. It seems to be the same messages on both. Am I right or do some people cross post in both ? I ask this stupid question because I discovered Debian, the usenet groups and this

gunzip: ae_962.orig.tar.gz: not in gzip format

2001-07-26 Thread Andrew Dixon
Hi All, I just downloaded the source to ae from the Debian home page and when I try to untar it I get the following error: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ tar -zxvf ae_962.orig.tar.gz gzip: stdin: not in gzip format tar: Child returned status 1 tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors [EMAIL

Re: gunzip: ae_962.orig.tar.gz: not in gzip format

2001-07-26 Thread Mario Vukelic
On 26 Jul 2001 17:40:21 -0400, Andrew Dixon wrote: Hi All, I just downloaded the source to ae from the Debian home page and when I try to untar it I get the following error: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ tar -zxvf ae_962.orig.tar.gz gzip: stdin: not in gzip format tar: Child returned status 1

CGI isn't working too well

2001-07-26 Thread brandtd
Quick question (and I'm sorry about the huge config file strapped to this message): I'm running an apache server that does not really seem to like executing cgi-scripts. What I want it to do is be able to execute any CGI scripts in my friends /home/news/public_html/cgi-bin/ directory.

Re: gunzip: ae_962.orig.tar.gz: not in gzip format

2001-07-26 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hi Andy, Once in a while the someone names the file .tar.gz when they tar it then don't use gzip on it. Try just untaring with tar xvf file and see what happens. That may do it, not sure. HTH, Jim Richards Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the

Re: gunzip: ae_962.orig.tar.gz: not in gzip format

2001-07-26 Thread Rolf Schillinger
Hi, On 27 Jul 2001, Mario Vukelic wrote: On 26 Jul 2001 17:40:21 -0400, Andrew Dixon wrote: Hi All, I just downloaded the source to ae from the Debian home page and when I try to untar it I get the following error: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ tar -zxvf ae_962.orig.tar.gz gzip: stdin:

Re: Getting CPU model and speed without rebooting

2001-07-26 Thread Jimmy Richards
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 01:46:57PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: ...um, what package you got that in? I can't find a package matching 'x86info', and apt-cache search turns up a blank on the term. Try: $ dpkg -S $( which x86info ) ...am I missing something? --

Re: Promise IDE ATA-100 controller on ASUS A7V133

2001-07-26 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... I have an ASUS A7V133 with PDC20265 on-board IDE as well as the standard on-board VIA controller. I am trying to install Debian potato 2.2r3. I need to get it to install from the

Re: Promise IDE ATA-100 controller on ASUS A7V133

2001-07-26 Thread David Grant
- Original Message - From: Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: David Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 3:17 PM Subject: Re: Promise IDE ATA-100 controller on ASUS A7V133 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time

Re: Promise IDE ATA-100 controller on ASUS A7V133

2001-07-26 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... Oh okay. Yeah the website says there are many kernels in the potato distribution. Among the most recent 2.2.19 kernels are the following: kernel-image-2.2.19-idepci 2.2.19-2

Re: GUI/Wmaker system shutdown app?

2001-07-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 10:00:13PM +0100, Wayne ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 10:19:53AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: I've set up a GNU/Linux system for my folks to use and am dissatisfied with one aspect of it: there's no good, simple way I'm aware of to shut down

Re: CD-RW Question...

2001-07-26 Thread John Griffiths
At 01:28 AM 7/27/01 +1000, Sam Varghese wrote: On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 10:51:54AM +0100, Phillip Deackes wrote: I sold this drive and decided to go with a genuine SCSI CDRW - a suitable SCSI card costs very little, I have the Iwill SIDE-2930C which is fully supported by Linux. I bought a Yamaha

Re: gunzip: ae_962.orig.tar.gz: not in gzip format

2001-07-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 05:40:21PM -0400, Andrew Dixon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi All, I just downloaded the source to ae from the Debian home page and when I try to untar it I get the following error: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ tar -zxvf ae_962.orig.tar.gz gzip: stdin: not in gzip format

Re: CD-RW Question...

2001-07-26 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 08:54:25AM +, John Griffiths wrote: I've got an AOpen CRW-1232 running SCSI emulation with nary a coaster in sight the few caosters i've ahd have been caused by processor overload (it's sitting on a pent 200) and not dive controller issues. Did you use nice to

Re: Getting CPU model and speed without rebooting

2001-07-26 Thread Vineet Kumar
Generally, you'll have better luck getting an answer to your question by doing the following things: Use a subject line that contains the subject of your message, not someone else's. Relatedly, unless you're actually replying to something someone else said, don't hit 'reply' in your mailer.

Re: CD-RW Question...

2001-07-26 Thread John Griffiths
At 04:27 PM 7/26/01 -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 08:54:25AM +, John Griffiths wrote: I've got an AOpen CRW-1232 running SCSI emulation with nary a coaster in sight the few caosters i've ahd have been caused by processor overload (it's sitting on a pent 200) and not

Re: Getting CPU model and speed without rebooting

2001-07-26 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) [010726 13:56]: Hmmm...I'm not finding it under either testing or unstable. My sources.list: # apt package archives deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main

Re: gunzip: ae_962.orig.tar.gz: not in gzip format

2001-07-26 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 03:55:37PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: Try: $ file ae_962.orig.tar.gz ...which will guess at the file type from various characteristics. You can also try running 'head' or 'dd' of a few bytes of a file -- output may or may not be messy, but you can see the

Problem with interface eth0

2001-07-26 Thread heissu
I want a ethernet card (3Com). I have compiled the kernel to that ethernet card. I want configure the interface whith the ifconfig command.But when I do: # ifconfig eth0 numIP netmask numNETMASK up , the shell request: SIOCSIFADDR: Unknown device eth0: unknown interface SIOCSIFNETMASK: Unknown

huge tree of package descriptions in /var/tmp

2001-07-26 Thread Andrew Pimlott
I fear this question will have an embarassing answer, but I just found a large file tree in /var/tmp/filexQ70qA on my Debian Woody system. The contents seem to be some form of the Debian packages database. filexQ70qA/ contains a huge number of directiories (~ 5000--BTW, that takes a while to

RE:Problem with interface eth0

2001-07-26 Thread Andrew Agno
heissu writes: SIOCSIFADDR: Unknown device eth0: unknown interface SIOCSIFNETMASK: Unknown device eth0: unknown interface I think I've gotten this before, when I set the BIOS to have a yes for PnP OS. Andrew.

Re: Problem with interface eth0

2001-07-26 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hi, Did you compile the driver into the kernel, or as a module? Try the command 'lsmod' if you compiled it as a module and see if you have it loaded. If not, do 'modprobe name_of_module. What kind of 3com card is it? Jim Richards On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 11:05:15PM

Quake 3

2001-07-26 Thread jason pepas
Hey guys, I have been tyring to get Quake3 working recently. I upgraded the kernel to 2.4.7, and included support for AGP and DRI I am running testing, so I have X 4.x I added Load glx Load dri to my X config however, glxinfo reports direct rendering: no I already have Q3 installed, but it

Re: huge tree of package descriptions in /var/tmp

2001-07-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 08:13:18PM -0400, Andrew Pimlott ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I fear this question will have an embarassing answer, but I just found a large file tree in /var/tmp/filexQ70qA on my Debian Woody system. The contents seem to be some form of the Debian packages database.

Re: MTAs: rejecting senders with exim and delivering responses to rejected senders

2001-07-26 Thread Sam Varghese
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 01:48:09AM +0200, Hans Wilmer wrote: In your exim.conf add a line like this: host_reject_recipients = lsearch;/etc/mail/block/hosts I've set: sender_reject = /etc/exim.reject Specifying lsearch; seems to make a difference (unless this is the default lookup

Multi homed system

2001-07-26 Thread Michael Blood
Does anyone know the best way to find out exactly how to set up a multi homed system? I am pretty sure that you can do everything within the /etc/network/interfaces file but I can not seem to find an example which fully implements it. Does anyone have any experience or pointer for me Thanks in

Re: C programming: Segmentation fault within malloc?

2001-07-26 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Thursday, July 26, Shaul Karl did write: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x400af19e in malloc () from /lib/libc.so.6 (gdb) How can it be? If malloc can not allocate memory it should return a NULL pointer. How can it Seg fault? As Andrew Agno and Alan Shutko

Re: Multi homed system

2001-07-26 Thread Osamu Aoki
There was same story within a month on this list. Go find it with search like http://groups.google.com I remember Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] was posing smart solution. Regards, Osamu On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 07:29:37PM -0600, Michael Blood wrote: Does anyone know the best way to find out

Re: netscape freeze, additional info

2001-07-26 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Thursday, July 26, Karsten M. Self did write: ObligTelnetBashing: don't use telnet. Remove your telnet daemon. Use SSH for all remote access. Consider removing your telnet client (there's an alternative, whose name I forget, which is useful for establishing connections to various

dselect forcing recommends?

2001-07-26 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hey people. So, I'm in dselect, and it says that icewm-common recommends icepref. Unfortunately, it's not just a recommendation, because it won't resolve the conflict without it selected for install. Is this a dselect bug? Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL

cpbk

2001-07-26 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, I tried to backup my disk using cpbk. Basically it was all right; ie: the files got copied. Problem is, when I executed the same command immediately for the second time, I had the following: bdg:~# nice cpbk -e /mnt,/sqcache1,/sqcache2,/sqcache3,/proc / /mnt Searching source files and

Re: dselect forcing recommends?

2001-07-26 Thread Colin Watson
Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, I'm in dselect, and it says that icewm-common recommends icepref. Unfortunately, it's not just a recommendation, because it won't resolve the conflict without it selected for install. Is this a dselect bug? Yes, and there are patches (from

Re: Newbie Question

2001-07-26 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Wayne Topa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010724 23:11]: uninstall, or Problem is my test version Woody? ^^ Dude 2nd time you recommended debfoster. You must be using 'testing' as I can't find it on my slink, potato or woody boxes. He did

Re: Optimizing fron source

2001-07-26 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Victor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010722 13:16]: I've installed debian potato 2.2r3 and compiled my own 2.2.19 kernel to take into account my real hardware. I see that deb packages are built for a generic i386 processor. Even if the .deb resulting from your make-kpkg adventures says i386 in it,

Re: netscape freeze, additional info

2001-07-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 08:36:55PM -0500, Richard Cobbe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Lo, on Thursday, July 26, Karsten M. Self did write: ObligTelnetBashing: don't use telnet. Remove your telnet daemon. Use SSH for all remote access. Consider removing your telnet client (there's an

dselect question

2001-07-26 Thread Lance Peterson
I selected some a package with dselect and then it automatically selected a *bunch* of dependent packages. Then I decided not to install the original package, but all the other packages it thought were dependent still try and install every time I run dselect even though the original package has

Re: dselect forcing recommends?

2001-07-26 Thread Mike
Michael P. Soulier wrote: Hey people. So, I'm in dselect, and it says that icewm-common recommends icepref. Unfortunately, it's not just a recommendation, because it won't resolve the conflict without it selected for install. Yeah ... that's one of the things that drove me away

Re: Immediate logouts in IMP

2001-07-26 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi... I had this problem too... crap... can't exactly remember how I fixed it... What is the account name of your database manager? I think in the horde setup part...it asks you the default they give you is hordemgr or something I changed it to postgres or something... I believe I ended

Re: ipchains for the firewall challenged

2001-07-26 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Mark Wagnon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010722 00:24]: Hi all, I'm playing around with ipchains, but I'm just not getting the example given in the IPCHAINS-HOWTO. It's based on a system that's forwarding packets, but I'm not doing that. All I have is a single box connected to the world with a

help me!

2001-07-26 Thread Zenon Braga F.
I'm trying with no sucess to download the CD's for powerpc, here what i'm doing: ./make-pseudo-image binary-powerpc-1.list ftp://ftp.inf.ufpr.br/debian and what i'm getting: ./make-pseudo-image: let: not found Generating file list...

Re: help me!

2001-07-26 Thread Leonard Leblanc
If you want you can download the iso's from here: http://www.linuxiso.org/debian.html Enjoy! On Thursday 26 July 2001 22:23, Zenon Braga F. wrote: I'm trying with no sucess to download the CD's for powerpc, here what i'm doing: ./make-pseudo-image binary-powerpc-1.list

Re: dselect question

2001-07-26 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hi There Lance, I think one of the best ways to solve this problem would be with the 'dpkg --set-selections' command. Get all the names of the packages you want to have it quit trying to install. Then you can the above command on a command line and it will be waiting for your entries,

A NEWBIE inquiry......

2001-07-26 Thread d
Hey folks, this is the LURKER again with an inquiry on installs on the same drive. I purchased a copy of Mandrakesoft™'s Linux® Mandrake© v7.0/w 3 CD's (installation disc #1, source disc #2 and extra #3) about a year ago. To make a long story longer, NOT really, there were some major

Re: C programming: Segmentation fault within malloc?

2001-07-26 Thread Andrew Agno
Richard Cobbe writes: heap. Unfortunately, this may or may not be the location of the root error. While I'm a big fan of garbage collectors in general, I don't think You can always hope that it's a piece of memory you were dealing with before. Depending on the malloc debugger, you may also

RE:Quake 3

2001-07-26 Thread Andrew Agno
jason pepas writes: I upgraded the kernel to 2.4.7, and included support for AGP and DRI I am running testing, so I have X 4.x You may need 4.1, which isn't in testing--not too sure about that, though, and/or you may have to download and compile the DRI drivers yourself, depending on what

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