Re: disable paragraph flows in mozilla?

2002-05-17 Thread Paul Scott
Michael D. Crawford wrote: A usenet moderator pointed out to me that my paragraphs are flowed when I post to usenet. I think what he means is that my paragraphs are all one line terminated by a return, rather than a sequence of lines each terminated by a return. I don't see how to disable

Re: Problems: mutt to Outlook (Express)

2002-05-17 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 begin On 16 May 2002, Grant Edwards wrote: The symptoms of the gpg thing are that the Outlook user gets the e-mail, but instead of treating it as a signed message, it treats it as an empty message with an attachment (or something like that). I

Re: Problems: mutt to Outlook (Express)

2002-05-17 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 16 May 2002, Cam Ellison wrote: To the best of my knowledge, they do not. It is difficult for me to actually get into each of the machines in question and play around, since they are some distance away (anywhere from 40 km across a large

Re: jpeg

2002-05-17 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 16 May 2002, Ted wrote: Can anyone please help..My son is currently wandering around India and he has sent me mail with an attachment kaur_jpeg..This jpeg opens at the bottom of the mail showing 4 photos...I want to print one of these but

Re: Using program output for a MOTD file

2002-05-17 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Brandt Dusthimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As bonkers as this might seem, does any one know if there is any way of setting up a file (like a motd file) so that it uses the output of a program like fortune? I think if you could get fortune to write to a FIFO then you would be laughing.

Re: Running openoffice as regular user?

2002-05-17 Thread Bill Wohler
Chris Halls [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: - Hangs complete machine on S3 Savage with Xfree 4.1 by default I trust you already knew about the export SAL_DO_NOT_USE_INVERT50=true trick? -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer of

MS Outlook98: wrong place for mails from Debian-User-DE-list

2002-05-17 Thread Walther, Christoph
Dear Debian-interested conmunity, I'm subscribed in debian-user-german@lists.debian.org, incoming mails from this list are provided to be received in the folder Debian-User-DE Liste in my Outlook post-box. Unfortunately, some of this mails will be directlly allocated in the Outlook post-box

Re: Why wdm opens a TCP port?

2002-05-17 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 08:54:04AM +0300, Petteri Heinonen wrote: Yes, it's not the _X_ which keeps open the port, but the _wdm_. But the port indeed changed every time I restarted the wdm. I just restarted it couple of times, and the port numbers were 1083, 1084, 1085, etc. Very odd... It's

Re: GUI front-end for writing CD audio to CD-R?

2002-05-17 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 16 May 2002, Mike Frisch wrote: Can somebody recommend a decent GUI front-end for writing CD audio to CD-R? Essentially a wrapper for cdrecord and some utility to convert MP3 to WAV. I am looking for something easy to use and reliable.

how can I install the dpkg tool?

2002-05-17 Thread Squirrel
The dpkg tool is a form of .deb.Then how can I install it?who has other form ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: From latex to context

2002-05-17 Thread Vittorio
Carel Fellinger [debian-user] 16/05/02 16:19 +0200: On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 01:01:19PM +, Vittorio wrote: I've been using latex for some months. Now I'd like to start using Context which is included in the tetex packages but as far as I can grasp is not ready-for-use. as root run

Re: MS Outlook98: wrong place for mails from Debian-User-DE-list

2002-05-17 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 17 May 2002, Walther, Christoph wrote: I'm subscribed in debian-user-german@lists.debian.org, incoming mails from this list are provided to be received in the folder Debian-User-DE Liste in my Outlook post-box. Unfortunately, some of this

Re: Why wdm opens a TCP port?

2002-05-17 Thread Petteri Heinonen
Eric G. Miller wrote: On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 08:54:04AM +0300, Petteri Heinonen wrote: Yes, it's not the _X_ which keeps open the port, but the _wdm_. But the port indeed changed every time I restarted the wdm. I just restarted it couple of times, and the port numbers were 1083, 1084,

Re: Why wdm opens a TCP port?

2002-05-17 Thread Petteri Heinonen
Petteri Heinonen wrote: Eric G. Miller wrote: On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 08:54:04AM +0300, Petteri Heinonen wrote: Yes, it's not the _X_ which keeps open the port, but the _wdm_. But the port indeed changed every time I restarted the wdm. I just restarted it couple of times, and the

Re: GUI front-end for writing CD audio to CD-R?

2002-05-17 Thread Dayalan Manohar
Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: On Thu, 16 May 2002, Mike Frisch wrote: Can somebody recommend a decent GUI front-end for writing CD audio to CD-R? Essentially a wrapper for cdrecord and some utility to convert MP3 to WAV. I am looking for something easy to use and reliable. MP3 to

Re: Line wrapping with mutt/emacs (was Re: Problems: mutt to Outlook (Express))

2002-05-17 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 07:10:30PM -0700, Cam Ellison wrote: Thank you, Richard. I don't know about the '+/^$' bit either - I cribbed my .muttrc from someone else, and dutifully copied that bit. Looks like both that and the textwidth setting came from a vim user. '+/^$' will tell vim to go to

Re: how can I install the dpkg tool?

2002-05-17 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 03:38:07PM +0800, Squirrel wrote: The dpkg tool is a form of .deb.Then how can I install it?who has other form ? Most people use the Debian installer to unpack it. If you need to do so independently, you have two choices: * Use the fact that a .deb is just an ar

Re: Running openoffice as regular user?

2002-05-17 Thread Chris Halls
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 12:17:23AM -0700, Bill Wohler wrote: Chris Halls [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: - Hangs complete machine on S3 Savage with Xfree 4.1 by default I trust you already knew about the export SAL_DO_NOT_USE_INVERT50=true trick? Yep, see

Re: Using program output for a MOTD file

2002-05-17 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 04:32:54PM +0930, Tom Cook wrote: On 0, Brandt Dusthimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As bonkers as this might seem, does any one know if there is any way of setting up a file (like a motd file) so that it uses the output of a program like fortune? I think if you

Identical installations on several machines

2002-05-17 Thread Lukas Ruf
Dear all, using Debian 3.0, I really admire the dselect feature. As I have to administer several machines which are identical hardware-wise and also regarding their duties, I would like to know if there is a possibility to have one station which I administer using dselect and then I copy over

Re: MS Outlook98: wrong place for mails from Debian-User-DE-list

2002-05-17 Thread Tim Dijkstra
On Fri, 17 May 2002 09:12:06 +0200 Walther, Christoph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Debian-interested conmunity, I'm subscribed in debian-user-german@lists.debian.org, incoming mails from this list are provided to be received in the folder Debian-User-DE Liste in my Outlook post-box.

Re: Upgrade Potato to Woody (3.0)

2002-05-17 Thread Lukas Ruf
Hi, thanks for all your hints. Finally, I got it working by using the approach of installing manually libstdc++2.10-dev_1%3a2.95.4-7_i386.deb Do now ask me why, it suddenly worked after this... Thanks again, --lpr On Wed, 15 May 2002, Jamin W.Collins wrote: On Wed, 15 May 2002 14:43:58

Re: Identical installations on several machines

2002-05-17 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 10:08:56AM +0200, Lukas Ruf wrote: Dear all, using Debian 3.0, I really admire the dselect feature. As I have to administer several machines which are identical hardware-wise and also regarding their duties, I would like to know if there is a possibility to have one

Re: spurious xterm windows on boot

2002-05-17 Thread Tim Dijkstra
On Thu, 16 May 2002 18:08:11 -0400 lists [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello all, Every time I boot into my personal login, incrementally more xterm windows start up on my desktop. It doesn't happen when I just log in, only when I boot. The same thing happens with the root account, except

Re: how can I install the dpkg tool?

2002-05-17 Thread Squirrel
I have done as you directed .But when I install .deb packages,it always says failed to open package info file /var/lib/dpkg/status for reading:no such file or directory.Can you help me? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

SUGGESTION for Debian FAQ

2002-05-17 Thread Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim
To Whom It May Concern: I am writing in regard of Debian FAQ to the addresses that are mentioned in F8 function of the debian-boot disk as well as suggested by the debian FAQ itself. My concern is that it is not so obvious to find the Debian FAQ, and therefore I would like to suggest: - The

qt / kde with anti aliased fonts - segfaults

2002-05-17 Thread Cameron Tonks
I was using kde3 (unofficial debs with my own compiled qt3) for a while up until about a week ago. then all qt3 apps started segfaulting. I have attached a stack trace of trying to run konqueror. from what i can tell it is to do with xlibs (libXft.so/libXt.so) now im assuming this is a problem

mail user

2002-05-17 Thread Ben Cooling
The primary group of my mail user is set to lp. Is this correct? I would have expected it to be the mail group. I am running sid, and the first mta I installed was EXIM (IIRC this creates the mail user). Thanks, Ben. -- Ben Cooling Technical Consultant Nexor Ltd. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how can I install the dpkg tool?

2002-05-17 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 04:41:04PM +0800, Squirrel wrote: I have done as you directed .But when I install .deb packages,it always says failed to open package info file /var/lib/dpkg/status for reading:no such file or directory.Can you help me? You'll probably want to touch

Re: / on raid1

2002-05-17 Thread Karoly VEGH
On Thu, 16 May 2002, Dave Sherohman wrote: Take a close look at your boot messages. Your system most likely booted off /dev/hda1, then mounted /dev/md1 as /. If so, it's still running the kernel from hda1, which is the source of those active inodes. i booted from a floopy, docu for this was

Re: MD player in Linux

2002-05-17 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 03:46:45AM -0400, Edwin Lau wrote: Hi everyone, I wanna buy a MD player that works under Linux. Any suggestion? And does Sony's MZ-N707 works under linux? Thanx Uh, this is a pretty meaningless question. I can think of three similar questions you might mean

exim configuration

2002-05-17 Thread Tom Allison
I think I'm getting stuck on this configuration. Below is the last (summary) screen of the eximconfig process. What I'm trying to do is use this to send email from my own domain (tacocat.net) that is sent to this machine from others on the network AND to relay email I'm sending out with my

Re: Administrator

2002-05-17 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 05:46:57PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for your post. Pastor Chick is very busy processing Emails and Internet tape orders. Please be patient as he will respond to you as soon as possible. Creation Ministries Staff Does this mean that we're looking

Re: / on raid1

2002-05-17 Thread Karoly VEGH
On Thu, 16 May 2002, Alvin Oga wrote: if you are trying to hotadd ... you need to hotremove it first... ~ # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] read_ahead 1024 sectors md1 : active raid1 hdb1[0] 4200896 blocks [2/1] [U_] md2 : active raid1 hda2[1] hdb2[0] 6297408 blocks [2/2]

Re: / on raid1

2002-05-17 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya karoly... did you try raidsetfaulty ? raidsetfaulty /dev/md0 /dev/hda1 raidhotremove /dev/md0 /dev/hda1 .. what does your lilo.conf look like ?? - does it have initrd.gz in it ?? - which kernel is in initrd.gz ?? thanx alvin On Fri, 17 May 2002,

lpr to NT4 intermittent problem

2002-05-17 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
We have a NT4 machine that serves as a (proprietary) plot sender to an OCE plan printer. I'm spooling files from a linux server using lpr. About twice a week We get this sort of message 4 times after which plotting is disabled until we restart the NT4 machine: 2001-08-07-10:52:27.312 hopnet

Re: / on raid1

2002-05-17 Thread Karoly VEGH
On Fri, 17 May 2002, Alvin Oga wrote: hi ya karoly... hi thx for the help, did you try raidsetfaulty ? raidsetfaulty /dev/md0 /dev/hda1 raidhotremove /dev/md0 /dev/hda1 ~ # raidsetfaulty /dev/md1 /dev/hda1 ~ # raidhotremove /dev/md1 /dev/hda1 /dev/md1: can not hot-remove disk:

Re: / on raid1

2002-05-17 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya karoly since hda1 is NOT in your /dev/md0 ... you're stuck... -- once it all works... use /dev/hda and /dev/hdc instead -- remove all the extra (disk info) jibberish in your lilo.conf and raidtab but ... first, try building your raid manually...

Re: debconf problem during upgrade

2002-05-17 Thread Joey Hess
Eric Richardson wrote: I think there is a problem with debconf or whatever the interface is that is used to answer questions during upgrade from potato to woody. The problem occurs like this. You walk away from the machine and then one of these configuration screens comes up, and then the

Re: debconf problem during upgrade

2002-05-17 Thread Robert Webb
Also just use something like the "ALT" key instead of the spacebar. You shouldn't have a problem then. Joey Hess wrote: Eric Richardson wrote: I think there is a problem with debconf or whatever the interface is that is used to answer questions during upgrade from potato to woody.The

Re: Problems: mutt to Outlook (Express)

2002-05-17 Thread Cam Ellison
I have had my suspicions about the existence of some such thing, but being no expert on M$ (I was an OS/2 user before Linux), I have not been sure where to look. I shall go looking for it (my kids' machine will run Win98 for up to an hour before it GPFs). :-) Thank you, sir Cam * Paul 'Baloo'

Re: word format

2002-05-17 Thread luc . lefebvre
I resort to RTF format using latex2pdf provided the source is latex, which it often is in my case... or ps2pdf. Hope this helps... -- Luc Lefebvre o /`-' Open Source, a strategic choice \ for mission-critical

Re: debconf problem during upgrade

2002-05-17 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Fri, 10 May 2002 11:48:55 -0700 Eric Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem occurs like this. You walk away from the machine and then one of these configuration screens comes up, and then the monitor blanks out for power saving. Next you come back and press space bar and then

Re: Line wrapping with mutt/emacs (was Re: Problems: mutt to Outlook (Express))

2002-05-17 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Thu, 16 May 2002, cam == Cam Ellison wrote: cam set editor=emacs '+/^$' \set textwidth=70\ Nope. On my system this tells emacs to edit a file named (something like) textwidth=70. Look at your list of buffers when you use this command string. cam What should I do differently? There's

Re: disable paragraph flows in mozilla?

2002-05-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 01:25, Paul Scott wrote: Michael D. Crawford wrote: A usenet moderator pointed out to me that my paragraphs are flowed when I post to usenet. I think what he means is that my paragraphs are all one line terminated by a return, rather than a sequence of lines each

Re: word format

2002-05-17 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 09:46:56AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I resort to RTF format using latex2pdf provided the source is latex, which it often is in my case... or ps2pdf. Hope this helps... While RTF is a nice format to use when people want resume's in 'Word format', latex2pdf won't

OT: Decent .us registrar?

2002-05-17 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Any recomendations for a cheap and fast .us registrar? - -- Baloo -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE85RC8NtWkM9Ny9xURApgTAJ0djQxCZEpya0zrNQ07SBszXV/ijACfcPs5 niV7ZoYDb7IK/eMBMP48nSM= =tlLe -END PGP

Re: GUI front-end for writing CD audio to CD-R?

2002-05-17 Thread Mike Frisch
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 12:26:40AM -0700, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: MP3 to WAV, I use xmms with the disk writer output plugin. For the burning process itself, I use cdroast. I am trying to make it a one-step process, instead of two. I tried xcdroast but quickly found that it doesn't handle

XFree86

2002-05-17 Thread Matthew Reath, CCNA
I am currently running Debian 2.2r6 and want to upgrade to XFree86 4.1 or XFree86 4.2. My last experience with upgrading to 4.2 was educational. It said I needed GLIBC_2.2 to run. So I wanted to run XFree86 4.1 instead. I was just wonderingwhat the best/easiest routewas for upgrades

Re: GUI front-end for writing CD audio to CD-R?

2002-05-17 Thread Jean-Marc V. Liotier
On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 16:18, Mike Frisch wrote: On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 12:26:40AM -0700, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: MP3 to WAV, I use xmms with the disk writer output plugin. For the burning process itself, I use cdroast. I am trying to make it a one-step process, instead of two.

Re: GUI front-end for writing CD audio to CD-R?

2002-05-17 Thread Matthew Reath, CCNA
I have found that ecliptRoaster has worked out great for me. Instead of writing your own perhaps it would be wise to join another project. I have found that cd burning frontends have gotten out of hand today. There are way to many that only work partially. If they all combined into a really

Re: SUGGESTION for Debian FAQ

2002-05-17 Thread Matt Zimmerman
Please do not cross-post to so many lists with general comments. Following up to debian-user. On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 03:54:37PM +0700, Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim wrote: BTW, I tried to find out (in FHS and Debian Policy) the differences between /usr/doc/ and /usr/share/doc as well as why

Converting incoming image attachments

2002-05-17 Thread Alan Shutko
At work, I keep receiving bmp attachments from our clients. These are annoying because they're big and my mailer won't display them inline. I'd like to convert them automatically to pngs before they hit my mailer. Anyone know of an easy way to do that, perhaps a procmail recipe or something?

Re: GUI front-end for writing CD audio to CD-R?

2002-05-17 Thread Mike Frisch
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 09:36:42AM -0500, Matthew Reath, CCNA wrote: I have found that ecliptRoaster has worked out great for me. Never heard of that one, but the screenshot on freshmeat looks nice. Yet another burner app to try :-) Instead of writing your own perhaps it would be wise to join

Re: exim configuration

2002-05-17 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 10:33:57PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: The problem I have is that I'm not really clear on what of the 5 choices I should pick up for the Server versus the various clients I have, which are running exim as localhost mail. Can someone give me a rough sketch of where I

Re: Problems: mutt to Outlook (Express)

2002-05-17 Thread Grant Edwards
Paul 'Baloo' Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The symptoms of the gpg thing are that the Outlook user gets the e-mail, but instead of treating it as a signed message, it treats it as an empty message with an attachment (or something like that). I think you're getting your bugs mixed up.

Re: Identical installations on several machines

2002-05-17 Thread Mark Lanett
dpkg --get-selections dpkg --set-selections - Original Message - From: Lukas Ruf [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian User debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 1:08 AM Subject: Identical installations on several machines Dear all, using Debian 3.0, I really admire the

Re: mail user

2002-05-17 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 11:42:56AM +0100, Ben Cooling wrote: The primary group of my mail user is set to lp. Is this correct? I would have expected it to be the mail group. No. mail's primary group should be mail, with uid and gid 8. lp should be uid and gid 7. You might want to check

Re: GUI front-end for writing CD audio to CD-R?

2002-05-17 Thread Rick Macdonald
Paul Baloo Johnson said: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 16 May 2002, Mike Frisch wrote: Can somebody recommend a decent GUI front-end for writing CD audio to CD-R? Essentially a wrapper for cdrecord and some utility to convert MP3 to WAV. I am looking for

Re: Why wdm opens a TCP port?

2002-05-17 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 10:45:36AM +0300, Petteri Heinonen wrote: Netstat reports that foreign address is *:*, and I indeed _can_ connect to it with telnet, altough if I send anything to it with the telnet, the connection gets closed. Further, there is only one wdm process running. Maybe I'll

Re: exim configuration

2002-05-17 Thread dman
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 06:51:20AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: | I think I'm getting stuck on this configuration. | Below is the last (summary) screen of the eximconfig process. | What I'm trying to do is use this to send email from my own domain | (tacocat.net) that is sent to this machine from

Re: Problems: mutt to Outlook (Express)

2002-05-17 Thread dman
On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 11:43:21PM -0700, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: [snip] | The bug you describe is caused when it recieves a message that | starts with begin and isn't starting a uuencoded file. OE users | will attest to this as this particular post will trigger that bug. Oh, yeah, that

Re: disable paragraph flows in mozilla?

2002-05-17 Thread Travis Crump
Michael D. Crawford wrote: A usenet moderator pointed out to me that my paragraphs are flowed when I post to usenet. I think what he means is that my paragraphs are all one line terminated by a return, rather than a sequence of lines each terminated by a return. I don't see how to disable

syn flood attacked?

2002-05-17 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello list, I have a heavy smtp server and recently I got a lot messages like May 17 22:53:24 ms2 kernel: possible SYN flooding on port 25. Sending cookies. May 17 22:54:25 ms2 kernel: possible SYN flooding on port 25. Sending cookies. May 17 22:55:25 ms2 kernel: possible SYN flooding on port

Re: pcmcia orinoco in a desktop, problems

2002-05-17 Thread Mark Lanett
Thanks all. Using yenta_socket made things work. There was a little problem with cardmgr looking for the orinoco drivers in /lib/modules/xxx/pcmcia instead of /lib/modules/xxx/kernel/drivers/net/wireless; this may be related to the problem G. Edwards mentioned. Creating soft links in pcmcia to

How does Debian support iSCSI

2002-05-17 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello list, I am evaluating iSCSI solution on Debian. How does it currently being supported on Linux? Any experience highly appreciated. -- Patrick Hsieh [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG public key http://pahud.net/pubkeys/pahudatpahud.gpg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: GUI front-end for writing CD audio to CD-R?

2002-05-17 Thread Matthew Reath, CCNA
I would like to find a nice ncurses based console burning app myself. I use GUIs but most of the work gets done via the command line. Thanks, Matt - Original Message - From: Mike Frisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 10:09 AM Subject: Re:

Re: spurious xterm windows on boot

2002-05-17 Thread Kenneth Dombrowski
This all is really strange I'm not sure what's going on, but maybe it has something to do with gnome 'restoring' the last session? What happens if you kill all xterms and then say 'restore session'? This doesn't explain the incrementing numbers though. Maybe that's got something to do with a

Invitación a globalservice@domeus.es

2002-05-17 Thread globalservice-unsubscribe
Hola debian-user@lists.debian.org, Bienvenidos a Al-andalus Noticias y Servicos - domeus le confirma su suscripción al boletín globalservice Por favor, conserve este e-mail para futuras referencias. SI NO DESEA RECIBIR más información de este boletín,

cfingerd always hangs

2002-05-17 Thread Juergen Fiedler
Hi, I installed cfingerd 1.4.3-1.1 on a Woody system and opened port 79 in my firewall. I'm trying to finger myself from another host that's also behind a firewall. The messages I get in daemon.log look like this: May 17 12:41:20 fiedlerfamily cfingerd[5616]: connect from somewhereelse May

Stupid pan question

2002-05-17 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Hi, Somehow I seem to have gotten my pan newsreader into a state where it doesn't display articles in the header pane in threaded mode, just in flat mode. How do I get it back to threaded mode? I can't find any menu items that seem relevant. (It's version 0.11.3-2, if that makes any

Automounter problems

2002-05-17 Thread stan
I have a debian woody machine on a network with various FreeBSD OpenBSD and HP-UX machines. On all the machine I have exports files that export all of the various filesystems to a netgroup called all. Using the autmounter on the Debian amchine, I can cd /net/{machine_mane} and have acess to the

make is really slow!

2002-05-17 Thread Michael Lee \(TOR\)
Hi, I'm completely stumped. I recently upgraded my Debian system from a 2.2 kernel to 2.4.18, and since then it has slowed to a near-halt (on a Celeron 733). Where it's most notable is if I run make. For example, make menuconfig takes about two full minutes to bring up the dialog boxes. And

Re: make is really slow!

2002-05-17 Thread David Roundy
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 11:46:55AM -0600, Michael Lee (TOR) wrote: I recently upgraded my Debian system from a 2.2 kernel to 2.4.18, and since then it has slowed to a near-halt (on a Celeron 733). Where it's most notable is if I run make. Have you tried rebooting using your old kernel? --

RE: make is really slow!

2002-05-17 Thread Michael Lee \(TOR\)
Yep. I wish it were that simple. :( ~~ michael lee -Original Message- From: David Roundy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 1:55 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: make is really slow! On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 11:46:55AM -0600, Michael Lee (TOR)

Re: make is really slow!

2002-05-17 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 17-May-2002 Michael Lee (TOR) wrote: Hi, I'm completely stumped. I recently upgraded my Debian system from a 2.2 kernel to 2.4.18, and since then it has slowed to a near-halt (on a Celeron 733). Where it's most notable is if I run make. is swap enabled? Do you have enough? This is

Re: GUI front-end for writing CD audio to CD-R?

2002-05-17 Thread Dale Hair
On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 09:36, Matthew Reath, CCNA wrote: I have found that ecliptRoaster has worked out great for me. The deb package is eroaster. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: make is really slow!

2002-05-17 Thread David Roundy
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 11:57:35AM -0600, Michael Lee (TOR) wrote: Yep. I wish it were that simple. :( From that I presume you got the same slowness even under the old kernel? -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: make is really slow!

2002-05-17 Thread Craig Dickson
Michael Lee (TOR) wrote: Hi, I'm completely stumped. I recently upgraded my Debian system from a 2.2 kernel to 2.4.18, and since then it has slowed to a near-halt (on a Celeron 733). Where it's most notable is if I run make. For example, make menuconfig takes about two full minutes to

Re: word format

2002-05-17 Thread luc . lefebvre
Hi, My mistake, I meant latex2rtf for RTF and ps2pdf for PDF... Thanks for pointing that out. -- Luc Lefebvre o /`-' Open Source, a strategic choice \ for mission-critical applications___/___./ Key

RE: make is really slow!

2002-05-17 Thread Michael Lee \(TOR\)
Considering everything was fine under the 2.2 kernel, I don't think it's a swap issue. :( I also checked gcc. Anyone have any comments about my suspicions of running i386 builds on a Celeron (Coppermine) machine? OR better yet... any thing that I could have just completely missed? (This is

Software RAID question

2002-05-17 Thread Robert Webb
Is it possible with the newer kernels to actually boot to a software raid?? I have a machine with 4 SCSI drives and I want to be able to RAID 1 the drives in pairs. One pair for the / and the second pair for /var only. But everything I have read to date says you cannot do this. TIA Robert

RE: make is really slow!

2002-05-17 Thread Michael Lee \(TOR\)
Well, this Celeron 700 has 256 MB of RAM. Here's the swap useage. So that looks okay to me. I'll check some of the hard drive stuff you mentioned. shiner:/# free -t total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:254180 223784 30396 0

RE: make is really slow!

2002-05-17 Thread Michael Lee \(TOR\)
No, under the old kernel, everything was great. I upgraded and everything slowed down. At the same time, I upgraded a similar machine with a slightly slower CPU. It suffered no degredation of any kind when upgrading the kernel. Michael Lee (TOR) Service Architect TELUS Corporation 910-222 Bay

Re: Software RAID question

2002-05-17 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya booting into raid1 or raid0 for / should be fine... for scsi disks... you'd need to make sure the kernel supports your controller... ( use initrd ) am assuming ( md0 ) / contains /boot and everything needed for single user mode if it was ide ... /dev/md0 ==

Re: make is really slow!

2002-05-17 Thread David Roundy
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 12:18:46PM -0600, Michael Lee (TOR) wrote: No, under the old kernel, everything was great. I upgraded and everything slowed down. But if you boot back into the old kernel, does it speed up again? -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

fonts in gnome 1.4

2002-05-17 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hi! any way to implement antialiasing fonts in gnome 1.4 shipping with woody? TIA Marcelo -- Marcelo Chiapparini DFT-IF/UERJ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Software RAID question

2002-05-17 Thread Robert Webb
Hi, Thanks for the info. But my issue is that I do not have a RAID Controller. I was looking at using the raid features built into the kernes. I have been playing with 2.4.18 and raidtools2. Thanks Alvin Oga wrote: hi yabooting into raid1 or raid0 for / should be fine...for scsi disks...

RE: make is really slow!

2002-05-17 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 17-May-2002 Michael Lee (TOR) wrote: Well, this Celeron 700 has 256 MB of RAM. Here's the swap useage. So that looks okay to me. I'll check some of the hard drive stuff you mentioned. shiner:/# free -t total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:

Re: make is really slow!

2002-05-17 Thread traxlend
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 11:46:55AM -0600, Michael Lee (TOR) wrote: Hi, I'm completely stumped. I recently upgraded my Debian system from a 2.2 kernel to 2.4.18, and since then it has slowed to a near-halt (on a Celeron 733). Where it's most notable is if I run make. For example, make

Re: xvidtune + xfree4 [SOLVED]

2002-05-17 Thread Harvey Kelly
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 11:39:06AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Wed, May 15, 2002, Harvey Kelly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 01:45:53AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Fri, May 10, 2002, Harvey Kelly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I've upgraded to XFree 4.0.2

Re: fonts in gnome 1.4

2002-05-17 Thread Hubert Chan
Marcelo == Marcelo Chiapparini [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Marcelo Hi! any way to implement antialiasing fonts in gnome 1.4 Marcelo shipping with woody? Look at the libgdkxft0 package. Beware, though, that it's a hack. There's no reasonable way to get gtk+ 1.2 programs to do antialiased fonts

Re: SGML help

2002-05-17 Thread Eduardo Gargiulo
Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 05:33:42PM -0300, Eduardo Gargiulo wrote: Hi all. I'm looking for help (for newbies) on using debiandoc-sgml. The problem is that I want to write documents in spanish, and i don't know how, because the dtd's control entities

RE: make is really slow!

2002-05-17 Thread Michael Lee \(TOR\)
Whew! I just got back from the data centre. As I was getting ready to boot into the old kernel, something that Craig Dickson pointed out struck me: check the DMA settings. Well i rebooted and went into my BIOS settings. There was this weird option (with no descriptions) that said, Load Optimal

Re: Stupid pan question

2002-05-17 Thread Philippe Marzouk
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 01:33:24PM -0400, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: Hi, Somehow I seem to have gotten my pan newsreader into a state where it doesn't display articles in the header pane in threaded mode, just in flat mode. How do I get it back to threaded mode? I can't find any menu items

starnge problem with dialup clients with pop3

2002-05-17 Thread César Augusto Seronni Filho
Hi guys, I am having troble with qpopper performace with some kind of client. First I have one email server with sendmail and qpopper. And I have 3 kind of email client, first kind is my LAN, second is ADSL from Internet and the last is dialup laptops from Internet. To send email, all my clients

RE: make is really slow!

2002-05-17 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 17-May-2002 Michael Lee (TOR) wrote: Whew! I just got back from the data centre. As I was getting ready to boot into the old kernel, something that Craig Dickson pointed out struck me: check the DMA settings. Well i rebooted and went into my BIOS settings. There was this weird option

Problem with gdm, local and remote logins, and pam_group

2002-05-17 Thread Mike Renfro
(I posted this to debian-security earlier today, but debian-user might be a better place for it. Please CC: me on replies.) Haven't found a solution in any searches I've done thus far, so here's my problem: Given: - 1 workstation running gdm 2.2.5.5-2 (and pam 0.72-35), offering XDMCP access

RealPlayer does nothing at all

2002-05-17 Thread Daniel Katz
Hi. Last night I tried to install the realplayer using the 'realplayer' package in unstable. As instructed by the package help, I downloaded the 'RealPlayer 8 Basic' RPM from real.com, and let the package install it. (It did this with no complaints.) I then tried to run it from the command

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