Re: setting ultra DMA for hdd at boot time?

2001-11-08 Thread Andrew Nesbit
> not all systems work good with DMA on. especially some VIA > chipsets. i had major problems with DMA on them so i stopped > using the onboard ide and started using promise ata100 cards > in their place. > > older motherboards are even worse A little while ago I heard that this is due to fundamen

Re: Xwindows GUI

2001-11-08 Thread Reza
--- Reza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had this problem before too, and /etc/inittab just > confused me, so I used "update-rc.d -f [gxk]dm > remove", it basically remove the [gxk]dm in the > startup.. > Good luck > > > --- Cameron Matheson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey, > > > > > I just i

Re: Xwindows GUI

2001-11-08 Thread Reza
I had this problem before too, and /etc/inittav just confused me, so I used "update-rc.d -f [gxk]dm remove", it basically remove the [gxk]dm in the startup.. Good luck --- Cameron Matheson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey, > > > I just installed Debian and made the mistake of > turning on the Xw

GTK for Mplayer??

2001-11-08 Thread Reza
Hi.. I was just trying to install mplayer with GUI, but then it needed GTk, so I asked my friend, and he said the package was gtk1.2. But when I tried to apt-get install gtk1.2, these are the messages I got: ~# apt-get install gtk1.2 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done So

Re: Xwindows GUI

2001-11-08 Thread Kristiadi Himawan
Do you know root password ? Then when you boot in lilo just go to init 1 and fix the configuration in /etc/inittab On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, 57j wrote: |I just installed Debian and made the mistake of turning on the Xwindows GUI |login. How do I turn that off and startup with the text prompt? | |Thanks

depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.19pre17/net/e100.o

2001-11-08 Thread tiny tiger
Having downloaded the driver of NC3121 network adpater of Comaq Deskpro EN 6333/3 from http://www.compaq.com/support/files/server/us/download/10569.html , I extracted and compiled the source according to the instruction. After 'make install', an error message was shown": depmod: *** Unresolved

Re: Xwindows GUI

2001-11-08 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, > I just installed Debian and made the mistake of turning on the Xwindows GUI > login. How do I turn that off and startup with the text prompt? Look for something like '/etc/init.d/[gxk]dm' and then just move it to '/etc/init.d/[gxk]dm.old'. Then it shouldn't start up anymore. Cameron Math

Re: unstable: "could not open default font 'fixed'"

2001-11-08 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya michael Check your /etc/X11/XF86Config ( at the beginning ) Fonts ... FontPath "unix/:-1" if you have it, you probably need to be running xfs ( x fontserver ) or (quickie test) comment it out and test to see if works... "X -probeonly" will tell you what else you mig

Re: Which installer? Aptitude, dselect deity...

2001-11-08 Thread Craig Dickson
Phillip Deackes wrote: > I strongly recommend the Storm Package Manager (stormpkg) currently in > testing and unstable. No other GUI interface to apt-get comes close. > Stormpkg makes it easy whether you want to do a full upgrade or install > just one package, or look at what you have on your syst

Re: POP over SSL

2001-11-08 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya alexander.. are you building a ssl-enabled pop3s server ?? - telnet localhost 995 ( if it connects you already have a secure pop3s server are you trying to read (pop) your email from a pop3s server?? - see if your client email app has a "enable SSL" button (

Xwindows GUI

2001-11-08 Thread 57j
I just installed Debian and made the mistake of turning on the Xwindows GUI login. How do I turn that off and startup with the text prompt? Thanks, Cathy Cramer

Type or print Barcodes, Inspection (GD&T or SPC) symbols from "CAD", "Solidworks", "Word" etc.

2001-11-08 Thread brenda
Print SPC, Barcode and GD&T symbol fonts from your Computer in Word, Excel, CAD etc. We also provide a link to FREE Military and Dept. of Defense specifications. To read or print. No catches! Print Geometric Dimension and Tolerancing (GD&T), Statistical Process Control (SPC) or Barcodes (Code 3

Re: upgrades in woody: "dhelp_parse: can't open /var/lib/dhelp/titles"

2001-11-08 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Thu, 2001-11-08 at 02:52, Colin Watson wrote: > It's open but tagged 'woody'. Once dhelp 0.5.5 makes it into woody, this > bug will be closed. Karl, Colin: thanks -- I did not vote for the Austrian government

PLIP problem pls help

2001-11-08 Thread Steve Kieu
Hi, Sorry if it is not related to debian specific but I hope some one would help me out. I got two boxes and wish to use plip to connect. Kernel 2.4.12-ac2 compiled with plip and lp as modules. Printting is normal; So, I removed lp and even I removed parport_pc so on, and modprobe parport_pc

Re: Preparations for installing a Farm

2001-11-08 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 09:18:48AM -0500, John Kuhn wrote: > I think the key is when doing your get-selections use: >dpkg --get-selections \* > my_selections > > Without the '*' dpkg will only list installed packages. With the '*' > it will also list purged packages. True and how easy. Where

php4 in woody - won't start

2001-11-08 Thread John Griffiths
Hi all, I've installed a machine with woody from a set of boot disks (worked well for the record) got the disks from here: http://people.debian.org/~aph/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/ upgraded the kernel to 2.4.12-586 then tried to get IMP (webmail) running using #ap

Re: Mail retrieval / delivery

2001-11-08 Thread antti
On 11-09-2001 01:59 am, you wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I recommend against setting fethcmail in daemon mode. My exprience > > is that it can stop functioning after a while. Instead run from > > cron. > > > I'm trying daemon mode now, with a single system-wide fetchmail handling > e

Re: Mailing List policy regarding From: and Reply-To: ?

2001-11-08 Thread dman
On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 08:47:29AM -0600, Colin Watson wrote: | On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 03:38:11PM +0100, Erik Simon wrote: | > OK, so if I understand well, the trick is | > | > Reply-To: | > Mail-Followup-To: | > | > and use the group-reply for the list and the reply for the private | > addre

Re: OT: scripting question

2001-11-08 Thread dman
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 04:44:15PM -0600, Michael D. Schleif wrote: | Stephen Gran wrote: [ specification ] | How about this? | | | #!/bin/sh | DIR=/home/mds | for dir in `find $DIR -type d | sort` | do | echo $dir | echo | for file in `find $dir -maxdepth 1 -type f | so

Re: opening morgue/rhona for public access? (was Re: .deb archive?)

2001-11-08 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 06:42:46PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > We're really not that short on space on auric right now. :-) This is a > common request too. Perhaps it would be nice to modify the archive > maintainance scripts to keep superceded files for a while. It already keeps them for a couple

exim question

2001-11-08 Thread Stephen Gran
Hello all - A strange thing, presumably of my own doing, just appeared. I was looking through apt-cache show, and I happened upon exim-tls, which is exim with ssl support. I decided that would be a great idea, so I backed up my exim.conf, went ahead and installed it, restored my old conf, and al

Re: Preparations for installing a Farm

2001-11-08 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 12:12:03PM +, Paul Sargent wrote: > Hi People, > > I'm currently in the process of preparing to install several Debian boxes > which will be used to form a processing farm. I'm therefore looking for ways > to ease the installation so that it's not going to need lots of

Re: newbie .. how to start with autofs

2001-11-08 Thread Neal Lippman
On Thursday 08 November 2001 04:25, Mirek Dobsicek wrote: > Hi, > I'd like to have my cdrom and floppy, automatically mounted and umounted. > A friend told me "use autofs" . But this advice is not any help to me :-( > > Mirek Dobsicek I've been using autofs under MDK 7.2 and 8.1 for some

Re: setting ultra DMA for hdd at boot time?

2001-11-08 Thread Steffen Evers
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 17:01, nate wrote: > not all systems work good with DMA on. especially some VIA > chipsets. i had major problems with DMA on them so i stopped > using the onboard ide and started using promise ata100 cards > in their place. > older motherboards are even worse sometimes ..i t

Re: HOWTO upgade to 2.2.r 4 ?

2001-11-08 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 06:22:48AM -0800, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free > > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib > > non-free > > deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main > > Change pot

Re: Apache mod_auth can't authenticate

2001-11-08 Thread Brian Nelson
Jens Gecius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At my box (apache 1.3.9) removing the line with Load Module > sys_auth_module... from the config did the trick. Don't ask me why, it > just worked :-). Just make sure that module is NOT loaded. That module wasn't loaded, but I commented out a couple other

Re: setting ultra DMA for hdd at boot time?

2001-11-08 Thread nate
Steffen Evers said: > I wonder why the corresponding kernel parameters are not set by > default in the debian kernels: > CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO=y > CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO=y not all systems work good with DMA on. especially some VIA chipsets. i had major problems with DMA on them so i stopped using th

Re: Please help! XFree86 4.1.0 Problems

2001-11-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 03:14:52PM -0700, Jason Machacek wrote: > I installed XFree86 4.1.0 from the binaries provided at > ftp://ftp.xfree86.org, and it installed some font server that my system > doesn't let work(and causes the system to hang during startup). What is the > proper way to install

Re: GDM error

2001-11-08 Thread Craig Dickson
Craig Dickson wrote: > Shaya Potter wrote: > > > are you suffering from "could not open default font 'fixed'" problem as > > well? > > No, that doesn't seem to be the problem. Turned out that was the problem after all -- I didn't realize I had to look in a different log file to find that error

setting ultra DMA for hdd at boot time?

2001-11-08 Thread Steffen Evers
Hi there, I used to compile my kernel by myself, but now I would like to use the provided debian kernel images. A problem I have encountered is that my harddiscs are not in UDMA mode after boot up. Ok I can set them with hdparms every time and could also put that in a boot script, but there shoul

Re: Mouse wheel in woody

2001-11-08 Thread Steffen Evers
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 23:33, Aniartia wrote: > > Is it the same procedure with woody (XFree86 4.1.0)? > > Yes but you shouldn't need to do this: > > > > in Xsession: > > > > > > - > > > # Starts the imwheel process from the global > > > # Xsession file. > > > . /

Re: Mail retrieval / delivery

2001-11-08 Thread Craig Dickson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I recommend against setting fethcmail in daemon mode. My exprience > is that it can stop functioning after a while. Instead run from > cron. My experience is that fetchmail running from a cron job sometimes hangs. Not often, but every once in a while I notice that the

Re: Apache mod_auth can't authenticate

2001-11-08 Thread Jens Gecius
Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ok, I'm feeling pretty retarded as I can't figure this out. > > I'm trying to set up user authentication in apache. So I created a > entry in httpd.conf for the area with > restricted access and gave it 'AllowOverride AuthConfig'. > > I also made sure

opening morgue/rhona for public access? (was Re: .deb archive?)

2001-11-08 Thread Joey Hess
Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 04:35:14PM -0500, Chris Gray wrote: > > Is there any place where copies of superseded .deb packages go to die? > > No official one, no, as the archive doesn't have enough disk space. Hmmm: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>df /org /dev/sdc1 238G 75G

Re: ssh hangs when X programs exit

2001-11-08 Thread Bill Wohler
Dimitri Maziuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Bill Wohler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > I just started noticing that ssh hangs with X commands. I believe > > this behavior began with the recent ssh upgrade on woody. > > Try "ssh -1". > > I get this a lot when connecting to ssh-2.5.1

Re: OT: 3Ware vs. Promise

2001-11-08 Thread nate
David Priban said: > What exactly is the issue you are talking about? > I was just about to build a system using 6410 raid 5 :( > > Also couple of weeks ago 3ware announced it is going to > discontinue Escalade line of products. This makes me wonder > if this issue will ever get fixed. > Just check

Re: Mouse wheel in woody

2001-11-08 Thread Aniartia
On Thursday 08 November 2001 21:54, Steffen Evers wrote: > Is it the same procedure with woody (XFree86 4.1.0)? Yes but you shouldn't need to do this: > > in Xsession: > > > > - > > # Starts the imwheel process from the global > > # Xsession file. > > . /etc/X11/im

Re: OT: scripting question

2001-11-08 Thread Steffen Evers
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 17:24, Stephen Gran wrote: > Hello all, > What I'd like to end up with is a short script that will scan my music > directories and output to a file. I'd like this to strip off the full > path and any ending extension, and ideally leave a blany\k line in > between directorie

Re: Mouse wheel in potato...

2001-11-08 Thread Rafael Sasaki
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 08:13:03AM -0600, Alexander Wallace wrote: > Hello there! Could someone tell me what needs to be in /etc/X11/XF86Config > to enable the mouse wheel in the X that comes with potato? Hello, just put the line: ZAxisMapping4 5 on the Section "Pointer" of the fil

Re: OT: scripting question

2001-11-08 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Michael D. Schleif: > > Stephen Gran wrote: > > > > Hello all, > > What I'd like to end up with is a short script that will scan my music > > directories and output to a file. I'd like this to strip off the full > > path and any ending extension, and ideally leave a blany\k line in >

Re: Mail retrieval / delivery

2001-11-08 Thread Mike Williams
>>> On Thu, 8 Nov 2001 14:40:57 -0400, >>> "cmasters" == C Masters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: cmasters> I should be able to configure fetchmail to retrieve ~my~ mail cmasters> (at first) and then use any mailer to read and send mail. Just configure your ~/.fetchmailrc, along the followin

Re: CD riping problem with abcde

2001-11-08 Thread Stan Brown
On Thu Nov 8 17:32:05 2001 Mike Williams wrote... > > >>> On Thu, 8 Nov 2001 08:50:48 -0500 (EST), > >>> "Stan" == "Stan Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >ounds liek a good thing. > > Stan> when I run [abcde], I get the following error: > Stan> > Stan> abcde: internal error: cddb-choice not

Re: Newbie comments & queries

2001-11-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 08:13:24AM -0500, Brenda J. Butler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 12:35:19PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 05:42:51AM +0200, Ian Balchin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > # pr myfile -o6 | lpr > > Well I didn't know ab

Re: Woody, reiserfs: used space on partitions < ~100MB?

2001-11-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 10:10:11AM +0100, Eduard Bloch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > #include > Karsten M. Self wrote on Tue Nov 06, 2001 um 11:32:48PM: > > just a few percent used, with reiser the free space wsa about 50%. I'm > > having similar issues with my / partition. > > You hit the point

Re: OT: scripting question

2001-11-08 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Stephen Gran wrote: > > Hello all, > What I'd like to end up with is a short script that will scan my music > directories and output to a file. I'd like this to strip off the full > path and any ending extension, and ideally leave a blany\k line in > between directories. The best I can do so fa

Apache mod_auth can't authenticate

2001-11-08 Thread Brian Nelson
Ok, I'm feeling pretty retarded as I can't figure this out. I'm trying to set up user authentication in apache. So I created a entry in httpd.conf for the area with restricted access and gave it 'AllowOverride AuthConfig'. I also made sure I was loading 'auth_module', and set 'AccessFileName .h

Re: CD riping problem with abcde

2001-11-08 Thread Mike Williams
>>> On Thu, 8 Nov 2001 08:50:48 -0500 (EST), >>> "Stan" == "Stan Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ounds liek a good thing. Stan> when I run [abcde], I get the following error: Stan> Stan> abcde: internal error: cddb-choice not recorded. Stan> Stan> what am I doing wrong here? Per

Re: POP over SSL

2001-11-08 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Alexander Wallace: > Hello there! > > What is the package I need to apt-get to be able to connect to my server > using SSL? > > Thanks! apt-get install fetchmail-ssl should do the trick. Good luck, Steve -- Pudder's Law: Anything that begins well will end badly. (Not

Re: bar-code-like font weirdness in XFree86

2001-11-08 Thread Matt Fair
I tried this and nothing happened, except that my graphics slowed down. The fonts are screwed up in for example I just downloaded the new Ximian Evolution, and I can't read email in that. The font in PDF's are all mangled so you can't read them. Is there a way to set the default font? How does

OT: scripting question

2001-11-08 Thread Stephen Gran
Hello all, What I'd like to end up with is a short script that will scan my music directories and output to a file. I'd like this to strip off the full path and any ending extension, and ideally leave a blany\k line in between directories. The best I can do so far is : ls -R /home/mp3 | (read fil

Re: Mail retrieval / delivery

2001-11-08 Thread antti
On 11-08-2001 09:18 pm, you wrote: > > That's my ~future~ hope. I'd like to be able to have one box setup to > handle all the admin responsibilities (server, firewall, etc.) in > addition to being a work-station, with other boxes strictly as ws's. I have something like that. I have DSL connec

Re: Unable to compile a bootable kernel, or, how do I make a romfs?

2001-11-08 Thread Timothy J. Miller
On Thu, 2001-11-08 at 15:33, Morbo wrote: > It sound like the same or very similar problem I had with every single 2.4.x > kernel I've tied. > In my case LILO started loading and after putting some dots on the screen > the PC just rebooted. You're not getting far enough for initrd to make a diffe

Please help! XFree86 4.1.0 Problems

2001-11-08 Thread Jason Machacek
I installed XFree86 4.1.0 from the binaries provided at ftp://ftp.xfree86.org, and it installed some font server that my system doesn't let work(and causes the system to hang during startup). What is the proper way to install xfree86 4.1.0 on Debian Potato 2.2r3? I don't think the install script

POP over SSL

2001-11-08 Thread Alexander Wallace
Hello there! What is the package I need to apt-get to be able to connect to my server using SSL? Thanks!

Mouse wheel in woody

2001-11-08 Thread Steffen Evers
Is it the same procedure with woody (XFree86 4.1.0)? On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 16:36, Horacio de Oro wrote: > > Hello there! Could someone tell me what needs to be in /etc/X11/XF86Config > > to enable the mouse wheel in the X that comes with potato? > > in XF86Config: (change '/dev/mouse' to your m

Re: OT: 3Ware vs. Promise

2001-11-08 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 11:48:57PM +0100, Martin Loschwitz wrote: > What IDE-Raid-Controller would you prefer? The 3Ware Escalade > 6410 or anyone from Promise? And why? > > best regards, > Martin "Madkiss" Loschwitz 3ware has been in the kernel longer and has always seemed to support linux more

Re: CD audio

2001-11-08 Thread Ville Uski
* Rory O'Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011108 08:16]: > I can play the CD with xmms and gtcd...just no sound. mp3s play on xmms > just fine. i'm totally stumped. anyone had this problem? I often have this problem on my laptop. I'd like to know the reason, maybe it's the same as in your case. I

Re: Big time problem after disk crash

2001-11-08 Thread calyth-shaw
It's rather strange... all the files that you've listed are fine. However, I notice that somehow my regular user doesn't start gnome or enlightenment, and if I use xinit and then type enlightenment in the terminal window, then enlightenment would start... Any ideas? Also, should /etc/X11/Xserver h

Re: apt-get upgrade woes

2001-11-08 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 20:07:04 +, P Kirk wrote: > install-info: failed to lock dir for editing! Operation not permitted Weird. link(2) lists only two possible causes for EPERM: "The filesystem containing oldpath and newpath does not support the creation of hard links." and "oldpath is a dire

Building package caches not under Debian

2001-11-08 Thread David West
I'm building on a non-Debian box a package cache of a subset of testing to be used later to populate a base Debian install. I've already ensured that the dependencies are satisfied locally. I understand that apt needs Packages.gz files for the local cache. My question is: can I use the correspondi

imaps taking a very long time to complete

2001-11-08 Thread Andrew Pritchard
I've got an IMAP server setup at home - which works internally just fine. However, I'm about to go on holiday and would like to be able to collect my email over the net. However I don't want to send my cleartext password over 3000 miles of internet. So I've set it up with IMAPS. BUT it's ta

Re: Unable to compile a bootable kernel, or, how do I make a romfs?

2001-11-08 Thread Morbo
Hi, It sound like the same or very similar problem I had with every single 2.4.x kernel I've tied. In my case LILO started loading and after putting some dots on the screen the PC just rebooted. My guess is that it couldn't mount the root filesystem, allthough I'm not sure as I'm fairly new to thi

Re: Exim and nospam -how do I pipe using .forward?

2001-11-08 Thread martin f krafft
* Phillip Deackes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.11.08 20:59:12+]: > I use Exim with a .forward file. What would I need in .forward to do the > same thing? just that: > | /usr/bin/nospam however, this assumes that nospam will actually deliver, not only filter. if it's just a filter, you should be

Re: wvdial problems being recognized

2001-11-08 Thread ben
have you set up /etc/resolv.conf to list a search domain and nameservers? Hamma Scott wrote: > > Hello, > > Due to circumstances beyond my control, I needed to > reinstall my system. I'm starting with a 2.2r3 version > of potato on installation CD's. I tried to setup > wvdial. I was able to get

Re: libncurses

2001-11-08 Thread David Raeker-Jordan
Daniel D Jones wrote:> > #make menuconfig > > rm -f include/asm > ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) > make -C scripts/lxdialog all > make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.14/scripts/lxdialog' > >> Unable to find the Ncurses libraries. > >> > >> You must have Ncurses installed in order

Re: libncurses

2001-11-08 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Thu, 2001-11-08 at 13:58, Daniel D Jones wrote: > Attempting a new install on a Dell Inspiron 8100 laptop. Installed from > Potato CDs, then did an apt-get dist-upgrade to Woody. I'm now trying to > custom compile a kernel. > > #make menuconfig > > rm -f include/asm > ( cd include ; ln -sf

libncurses

2001-11-08 Thread Daniel D Jones
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Attempting a new install on a Dell Inspiron 8100 laptop. Installed from Potato CDs, then did an apt-get dist-upgrade to Woody. I'm now trying to custom compile a kernel. #make menuconfig rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) make -C scripts/

wvdial problems being recognized

2001-11-08 Thread Hamma Scott
Hello, Due to circumstances beyond my control, I needed to reinstall my system. I'm starting with a 2.2r3 version of potato on installation CD's. I tried to setup wvdial. I was able to get a connection it found the login line, password line and was able to call a ppp connection. The problem is no

Exim and nospam -how do I pipe using .forward?

2001-11-08 Thread Phillip Deackes
I am trying to setup 'nospam' from http://www.bero.org/NoSpam/ I have compiled the binary and placed it in /usr/local/bin The readme file gives instructions for piping the mail using Procmail: :0 fw: * ^.* | /usr/bin/nospam I use Exim with a .forward file. What would I need in .forward to do th

2 out of 3 eth; IBM EtherJet 10-BaseT ISA

2001-11-08 Thread lloyder
Hello all, I have continued to stumble towards Debianization. I have successful installed 2 machines with Potato from CD and Woody from floppies and net. I have got 2 out of 3 network cards working. The third I am almost ready to identify it as NOT SUPPORTED. The card: IBM EtherJet 10-BaseT

Re: modules.conf et al.

2001-11-08 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > Hullo, > > basically, all i want to do is have my box load the module for > the second NC and assign it /dev/eth1. > > I've read the manpages for modules.conf, update-modules, > read the files themselves as well as anything present in > /etc/modutils. > I sti

Re: Unable to compile a bootable kernel, or, how do I make a romfs?

2001-11-08 Thread Herbert Xu
Timothy J. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I never had these problems prior to moving to initrd stuff. 8( So stop using it. Custom kernels do NOT need initrd. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gond

Re: Mail retrieval / delivery

2001-11-08 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake C Masters: > On Thursday 08 November 2001 15:08, Craig Dickson wrote: > > C Masters wrote: > > > I have several users on this box (2 room mates), each of us uses a > > > different method to read mail (KMail, Mozilla, Netscape), therefore > > > any system would have to be transparent to t

Re: Second sending...

2001-11-08 Thread Steffen Evers
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 17:43, Ian Millsom wrote: > I have a debian machine which keeps dropping its ethernet connection > around every 2.3 minutes. ... > Any thoughts would be appreciated.. Have you tried if this problem is Debinan/Linux specific? This way you can make sure that it is not a ghar

new Xsession mechanism

2001-11-08 Thread Greg Wiley
Good day! I am wondering if there is a correct place to put X session shutdown code now that .../Xsession.d is used. Kind of like S vs. K in /etc/init.d . After studying all the scripts in the lifecycle of an X session, I don't see any such mechanism. That doesn't mean there isn't one, tho. If

Re: apt-get upgrade woes

2001-11-08 Thread P Kirk
I wonder if there's a way to specify an info directory or indeed no info directory using dpkg? something along the lines of ./configure infodir=/foo/bar when doing it from source?

Re: apt-get upgrade woes

2001-11-08 Thread P Kirk
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 08:26:06PM +0100, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: >> drwxrwxrwx3 root root 4096 Nov 6 15:35 /usr/info/ > >OK, it may be a permission/ownership problem. Does the problem go away if >you try the dpkg line again after you've done > chmod 755 /usr/info >

Re: unstable: "could not open default font 'fixed'"

2001-11-08 Thread Shaya Potter
yup, figured that out about 30 minutes ago, was about to send an e-mail to the list. I actually just reinstalled xfonts-base, which did the same thing. shaya On Thu, 2001-11-08 at 14:25, Jeremy Nickurak wrote: > > > | This is the first time I've rebooted (or probably even exited X) in > > > |

Re: woody - problems with dns

2001-11-08 Thread Steffen Evers
On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 22:16, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > Host should not look at your /etc/hosts file. It's one line description > puts it quite succinctly: I got several private mails about that and knwo I think there is a problem with looking up loca host, but it has nothing to do with the 'ho

Re: Mouse wheel in potato...

2001-11-08 Thread Horacio de Oro
On Thu, 8 Nov 2001 08:13:03 -0600 (CST) Alexander Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello there! Could someone tell me what needs to be in /etc/X11/XF86Config > to enable the mouse wheel in the X that comes with potato? in XF86Config: (change '/dev/mouse' to your mouse device) ---

modules.conf et al.

2001-11-08 Thread schnobs
Hullo, basically, all i want to do is have my box load the module for the second NC and assign it /dev/eth1. I've read the manpages for modules.conf, update-modules, read the files themselves as well as anything present in /etc/modutils. I still have no clue what file I need to change or crea

Re: apt-get upgrade woes

2001-11-08 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 12:00:16 +, P Kirk wrote: > 2192 open("/usr/sbin/install-info", O_RDONLY|0x8000) = 4 > 2192 fstat64(0x4, 0x80f5c80) = 0 > 2192 fstat64(0x4, 0xbfffd36c) = 0 > 2192 link("/usr/info/dir", "/usr/info/dir.lock") = -1 EPERM (Operation not > permitted)

KDE/X crashed after re-switching from konsole

2001-11-08 Thread Patrick Schnorbus
hi, i have a big problem with x. it often crashes when switching to a konsole (CTRL+ALT+F1) and back to X. I use SID with the most recent packages on a PIII with an NVIDIA TNT2 chip and the NVIDIA driver. may you help? TIA patrick

X11 v4 Switch

2001-11-08 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
I recently ran an apt-get dist-upgrade on a Woody box. I noticed that it upgraded X, which is fine. However, the box isn't running the upgraded server. What do I need to change in order to get v4 to fire up? Thanks. -- ) ,_),_) (-(__ |_ _ _ |/ ) | |(_)(_ |\ (

Re: unstable: "could not open default font 'fixed'"

2001-11-08 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
> > | This is the first time I've rebooted (or probably even exited X) in > > | three days, and I upgrade packages every day, so I'm not sure what > > | caused it. I searched bugs.debian.org and mailing list archives, but > > | no one else seems to have the same problem. This is recent breaka

Re: Unable to compile a bootable kernel, or, how do I make a romfs?

2001-11-08 Thread Timothy J. Miller
On Thu, 2001-11-08 at 11:52, Jeremy T. Bouse wrote: > Not sure I follow what you're trying to do with cramfs but I've > not had to use the cramfs packaging at all... I just use mkinitrd in the > initrd-tools package and haven't had a problem... Done that, to no effect. All I'm trying to do

Re: package mystery - SOLVED/beaten-into-submission

2001-11-08 Thread Mike Pfleger
* Vineet Kumar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > have you any libgnomeprint-dev ? Pretty much, for compiling, you're > gonna need all the -dev packages for the required libraries. Hey Vineet, Yeah, I installed this, but the package puts these headers in one place and the make file for terraform ex

Re: GDM error

2001-11-08 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
On Thu, 2001-11-08 at 10:52, Craig Dickson wrote: > My Sid GDM can't start; I'm guessing something broke in some recent > daily upgrade, but I thought I'd inquire and see if anyone knows what's > causing it, and what workaround there might be other than downgrading > gdm and/or who knows what else.

Re: Mail retrieval / delivery

2001-11-08 Thread C Masters
On Thursday 08 November 2001 15:08, Craig Dickson wrote: > C Masters wrote: > > I have several users on this box (2 room mates), each of us uses a > > different method to read mail (KMail, Mozilla, Netscape), therefore > > any system would have to be transparent to the other users. > > ... snip of

Mouse wheel in potato...

2001-11-08 Thread Alexander Wallace
Hello there! Could someone tell me what needs to be in /etc/X11/XF86Config to enable the mouse wheel in the X that comes with potato? Thanks!

Re: Mail retrieval / delivery

2001-11-08 Thread Craig Dickson
C Masters wrote: > I have several users on this box (2 room mates), each of us uses a > different method to read mail (KMail, Mozilla, Netscape), therefore any > system would have to be transparent to the other users. > > My initial thoughts are that I should be able to configure fetchmail to

Re: ssh hangs when X programs exit

2001-11-08 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Bill Wohler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > I just started noticing that ssh hangs with X commands. I believe > this behavior began with the recent ssh upgrade on woody. Try "ssh -1". I get this a lot when connecting to ssh-2.5.1p2 on IRIX, with tty logins as well as X, when using ver

Re: OT: PCI video recommendations

2001-11-08 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 11:32:53AM -0500, dman wrote: > On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 09:00:54AM -0600, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: > [ wants PCI video card ] > > I've heard that Matrox cards are really good -- they're cheap and work > well. I think the G200 is a PCI card, but I don't think PCI cards ar

Re: ATI AIW Radeon and TV-OUT/IN

2001-11-08 Thread Andreas Leitner
On Thu, 2001-11-08 at 18:54, Shaya Potter wrote: > > I have one, haven't played around with it getting to work. you don't want > bttv driver (as it doesn't use that chip). cool, thanks! > look at www.linuxvideo.org for what you need. tried their ati tgz for X 4.1.0 (which i use), but it only

Mail retrieval / delivery

2001-11-08 Thread C Masters
Greetings, I just had to resubscribe to all the debian mailing lists, due to too many bounces. Not a happy camper. This was (in part) due to the fact that mail tends to arrive at my ISP when I am not at my box and able to retrieve mail; I also have a 5M limit on mail held at my ISP. Although I

Re: Newbie question

2001-11-08 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Sean Morgan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > On Wed, 7 Nov 2001 14:56:35 -0600 > Dimitri Maziuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yeah well. I did a "for i in `ls`" on a large directory once and > > ended up with a lot of files with funny names. That's probably > > just me, things-that-could-nev

Re: [OT] A simple network question - login hangs

2001-11-08 Thread Jeff
Peter Howell Jr, 2001-Nov-08 11:36 -0500: > Now I can ping either computer from the other one, and all appears well. > When I try to telnet of ftp between them, however, I get the login prompt, > and then the connection just hangs. Any ideas? > Peter Could be that the remote system is trying to re

Re: Apache - libexpat woody upgrade problem

2001-11-08 Thread Horacio de Oro
On Thu, 8 Nov 2001 13:15:45 -0500 Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: you could make a symlink to the real lib. i've done this: # cd /usr/local/lib # ln -s /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1.0.0 libexpat.so.0 # cd /etc # mcedit ld.so.conf then you add a new line '/usr/local/lib' save the file and run # ldc

Re: Apache - libexpat woody upgrade problem

2001-11-08 Thread Wayne Topa
Colin Watson([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 12:50:00PM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: > > Yesterdays dist-upgrade of woody caused apache to fail to load with > > the following error message. > > > > Cannot load /usr/lib/apache/1.3/libphp4.so into server: > > l

Re: Apache - libexpat woody upgrade problem

2001-11-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 01:15:45PM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: > Colin Watson([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > There's a libexpat1 update in woody now which works around this problem. > > I had just complated a dist-upgrade when I wrote the report. Just > tried to install libexpat1 a

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