Re: Installing debian

2002-06-15 Thread Glen Lee Edwards
On Wednesday 12 June 2002 11:00 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 18:17, FreeportWeb Debian Support Account wrote: > > Which leads to my question. Once you have that up and > > running, whats the best way to install KDE? > > As a former KDE 2.2.1 user (in my Mandrake days) who thinks

Re: Debian: abandon ship?

2002-06-15 Thread Glen Lee Edwards
On Thursday 06 June 2002 11:35 am, Ivo Wever wrote: > >[snippety] But as a distribution, it's head and shoulders above the > >competition. > > If the other dists are so terrible that they can't even support the > internet connection of a small group of people for three hours a day, > then why is an

Re: Unable to make Linux bootable from HD or make boot floppy

2002-06-15 Thread Ron Johnson
Hi, Mark. You, presumably a total Linux-newbie have set yourself up with a daunting task trying to install not-the-most-hand- holding distribution on _really_ancient_ hardware. If you get it working you'll have something to write home about... On Sat, 2002-06-15 at 20:58, Mark Fickett wrote: > H

users and menus, update-menus

2002-06-15 Thread Rick Pasotto
Where/when does gnome get its menus? If I make a change to /etc/menu and run update-menus as root I see the changes immediately in the gnome/debian menus. However if I make a change to ~/.menu and run update-menus as a user I do *not* see that anything has happened. Also, the 'sort' option doesn't

Re: libfreetype6 or pango broken

2002-06-15 Thread Anthony Fok
Hello all, On Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 02:48:02AM +0900, Akira TAGOH wrote: > > On Sat, 15 Jun 2002 13:39:24 +0200, > > "DO" == David Odin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > DO>I can confirm: I've just rebuild pango from source, and the problem > DO> disappear. So rebuilding the pango packag

Re: DMA settings

2002-06-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2002-06-15 at 17:01, Jason Bleazard wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > On Sat, 2002-06-15 at 09:25, Matthias Ellinger wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'd like to permanently set the dma=1 parameter on my HD (UDMA100) and > > > DVD-ROM-drives. hdparm does the job manually, but after reboot th

sair and linux certification

2002-06-15 Thread Deedra Waters
I know that this is slightly off topic so please if you do respond please respond to me privately... I'm looking into the possibility of going into working with linux, and want totake related courses to help build my background because I'm not experienced enough. I have looked specificly into the

Re: bash login script problems...

2002-06-15 Thread Neal Lippman
> When you run a script in a subshell, it can modify the environment of > that subshell, then that subshell terminates (when the script is done) > and you get the prompt from your original shell again. Unlike MS-DOS, > scripts normally run in subshells and can't wreak havoc on your > environment.

Re: bash login script problems...

2002-06-15 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 10:16:37PM -0400, Neal Lippman wrote: | I am having two problems with bash login scripts, which I cannot seem to sort | out. Probably something simple, but I'm missing it. | | 1. First, here is a few lines from my .bash_profile. These lines were | commented out by default

Re: devfs + grub [was Re: RAM upgrade]

2002-06-15 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 06:12:57AM +0800, csj wrote: | On Fri, 14 Jun 2002 18:05:01 -0500 | "Derrick 'dman' Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | | > The only odd thing I've noticed is the root= parameter to the kernel. | > That must be the old name. I have no idea why, but trying the devfs | >

bash login script problems...

2002-06-15 Thread Neal Lippman
I am having two problems with bash login scripts, which I cannot seem to sort out. Probably something simple, but I'm missing it. 1. First, here is a few lines from my .bash_profile. These lines were commented out by default, and I have uncommented them. # set PATH so it includes user's privat

Unable to make Linux bootable from HD or make boot floppy

2002-06-15 Thread Mark Fickett
Hello, I am working on installing Debian 2.2r6 on a Packard Bell Intel machine, which has a Pheonix BIOS, 23.0MB RAM, a 428MB Hard Drive, a 3.5" 1.44MB floppy drive, and a Matsushita CD-ROM drive (as well as a keyboard, mouse, monitor, two COM ports, two telephone ports, etc). I'm completely ne

Re: appearance of xfce on Debian

2002-06-15 Thread Jeff
Eric G. Miller, 2002-Jun-14 23:37 -0700: > On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 11:06:44PM -0700, Jeff wrote: > > Michael P. Soulier, 2002-Jun-14 23:19 -0400: > > > On 14/06/02 Kevin C. Smith did speaketh: > > > > > > > It sets the bar below the screen for some reason. > > > > > > > > edit ~/.xfce/xfwm-sessio

LICQ and KDE

2002-06-15 Thread Erik Mathisen
Hello all, I know this is more of a KDE question, but hopefully someone here can answer my query. I am running LICQ in KDE (both of them curring to the unstable version). I use the dock icon, and I was hoping that it would dock into the KDE panel, but instead it puts itself at the top of the des

xine wants /dev/nuss - why?

2002-06-15 Thread umidori kamome
Hey Yo Hoh, Travis! sorry if this becomes a double-post, but im not yet very familiar with this mail prog (yahoo), so im not sure if I answered right (I sitll dont have my own answer mails). So once again, thank you very much Travis. oss works fine. cu kamome __

Re: hang during upgrade - pcmcia-cs package ? - lead to hard disk corruption

2002-06-15 Thread Jerome Lacoste
On Sun, 2002-06-16 at 02:02, Jerome Lacoste wrote: > I also had to modify / I had to modify /etc/gdm/sessions/Gnome to remove the gnome-session parameter --purge-delay=15000 This may have had an importance, but that was the only way I could get gnome to work from gdm. Perhaps if there an upgra

hang during upgrade - pcmcia-cs package ? - lead to hard disk corruption

2002-06-15 Thread Jerome Lacoste
Hi all, I had a hang while doing an upgrade. I think it was during the upgrade of the pcmcia-cs pacjage. Note: the only pcmcia card I have is a Schlumberger smart card reader unsupported under Linux). Unfortuntely after the hard reset I was obliged to do, I ended up having big troubles with my ex

Re: Recover files

2002-06-15 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya aaron from my little world files dont disappear unless you delete it - put samba back the way it was... or recreate the account ?? ( caution.. am assuming that creating accounts in windoze ( doesnt wipe out its old files/directories ( ( creating new user

Re: /etc/printcap with CUPS & Openoffice 1.0

2002-06-15 Thread W. Paul Mills
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (nate) writes: > > >> I had a similar problem with wordperfect 7. I used "lpr -o raw" >> with cups to solve the problem. >> > > > where did you use the lpr? did/does wordperfect have a way to > specify a command line printer command? seems most X apps do, > gnotepad+, netscape 4

xine wants /dev/null - why?

2002-06-15 Thread umidori kamome
Hey Yo Hoh! Sound doesnt work with xine here (its an es1371, does work under kde, xfce and progs like mpg321). In the "setup window", "audio" the default driver is "null" - not too cool! But even changing it to dsp or /dev/dsp (is the device wanted here or really a driver?) or es1371 doesnt have

Re: OT question sorry but i need salution fast ....

2002-06-15 Thread Gary Turner
On Thu, 13 Jun 2002 00:47:17 -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > >On Tuesday, June 11, 2002, at 02:14 , faisal gillani wrote: >> >> well i have 2 ethernet networks running which i want >> to connect but the distance between them is above 400 >> meters .. so this is way beyond the normal lan >> hard

Recover files

2002-06-15 Thread Aaron Wrasman
I've done some research already and I hope someone will have a better answer than I currently have so far. The situation: I misconfigured samba to point at /home/accountname for roaming profiles. It has been this way for over a year. No one noticed. I'm the only p

Re: DMA settings

2002-06-15 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 06:01:15PM -0400, Jason Bleazard wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > On Sat, 2002-06-15 at 09:25, Matthias Ellinger wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'd like to permanently set the dma=1 parameter on my HD (UDMA100) and > > > DVD-ROM-drives. hdparm does the job manually, but af

RE: Problems installinf XFree 4.2 on Woody

2002-06-15 Thread Peter Whysall
On Sat, 2002-06-15 at 21:28, Ronald Castillo wrote: > I've already tried that, but that way I can only configure my video card > as a Generic VGA, and like that I can only use 256 Kb of video RAM (I > have 2048 Kb), so it doesn't work for me... > Have you tried doing "XFree86 -configure" and foll

K7S5a & md driver, Debian 2.2R6 problems

2002-06-15 Thread lketter
To whoever gets this; Thanks for taking the time to read it. Have a K7S5A that is locking on the CDROM boot of disk 1. It locks after the floppy detect when it starts to load the md driver (version 0.36.6 ). The DDR chip is the CE POWMEM 512MB 266MHZ, 184 pin It keeps locking c

error in libxml-dev?

2002-06-15 Thread James Green
Setting up libxml-dev (1.8.17-2) ... syntax error in status file: nls_iso8859-1 2848 0 (autoclean) at /usr/sbin/install-docs line 399, line 1. dpkg: error processing libxml-dev (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 255 Any ideas how to fix thi

Re: DMA settings

2002-06-15 Thread csj
On 15 Jun 2002 10:28:40 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'd like to permanently set the dma=1 parameter on my HD (UDMA100) > > and DVD-ROM-drives. hdparm does the job manually, but after reboot > > the old state is active again. > > So make a startup script that runs hdparm..

Strange boot up problem.

2002-06-15 Thread B. L. Jilek
I have a SuperMicro P6DBU motherboard with built in SCSI. All the drives are SCSI on the system. I just recently bought a 80G IDE drive to use for storage. The problem is that after I installed the drive the system booted up fine. I have the bootup in the bios to start with Floppy then SCSI dri

Re: Configuring a NIC

2002-06-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 03:19:20PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > I'm running Woody. I don't have lspci on my system and can't find it > in dselect. Where should I look for it. It's in the pciutils package. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

ghost email after reboot ???

2002-06-15 Thread Michael D. Schleif
I have a server, upgraded from potato to woody; still running 2.2.20 . . . Oddly enough, every time I reboot, root receives eight (8) emails from nearly one year ago -- long, long ago deleted. Yes, the exact same mail every time I reboot. Since this is a server, I pickup that mail remotely and

Re: mp3 splitting

2002-06-15 Thread csj
On 15 Jun 2002 19:12:32 +0200 Baan Zoltan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can you help how to split my large mp3 files (mix's) to get smaller > files? > Are there any command line or gui program for it? Try mpgtx (debian package): Description: Toolbox to manipulate MPEG files (video, system, and a

Re: Configuring a NIC

2002-06-15 Thread Paul E Condon
I'm running Woody. I don't have lspci on my system and can't find it in dselect. Where should I look for it. On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 03:26:49PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sat, 2002-06-15 at 14:53, Phil wrote: > > I installed Debian and never got the network card recognized. I've been > > l

Galeon screwed in sid

2002-06-15 Thread James Green
Hi all, I've had a box with sid on it that was last dist-upgraded about four months ago. Galeon ran on it fine. Today I dist-upgraded again and galeon again loaded fine. I made a lilo change, rebooted, and now galeon says it cannot find a default schema, to check my gconf settings. I checked t

Re: devfs + grub [was Re: RAM upgrade]

2002-06-15 Thread csj
On Fri, 14 Jun 2002 18:05:01 -0500 "Derrick 'dman' Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The only odd thing I've noticed is the root= parameter to the kernel. > That must be the old name. I have no idea why, but trying the devfs > name fails. > > Here's my grub stanza for booting the pre-pack

Re: if I post here I will get spammed of course?

2002-06-15 Thread csj
On Fri, 14 Jun 2002 18:25:19 -0500 "Derrick 'dman' Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | You see I'm 31K modem brief connect to ISP POP box. I read this group > | on google. Sure I've got procmail etc. turned on. But that's only > | for after one downloads the box contents. One need IMAP t

Re: DMA settings

2002-06-15 Thread Jason Bleazard
Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Sat, 2002-06-15 at 09:25, Matthias Ellinger wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'd like to permanently set the dma=1 parameter on my HD (UDMA100) and > > DVD-ROM-drives. hdparm does the job manually, but after reboot the old state > > is active again. > > So make a startup script th

local mirror -- again

2002-06-15 Thread schnobs
Hello, I've got three machines running here, and as I'm always toying around on two of them (meaning frequent re- installs) I finally wanted to create a local mirror. It's about time. So I tried apt-move. However, I immediately ran into troble. apt-move expects list files to be named differently

Re: User Logon Logging?

2002-06-15 Thread Seneca
On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 07:45:51PM +0100, Charlie Grosvenor wrote: > In Debian woody how do I turn on user logon logging, so that a log entry > is produced each time a user logs on? In my /etc/syslog.conf: auth,authpriv.* /var/log/auth.log For more information: man syslog.con

Re: Configuring a NIC

2002-06-15 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Phil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I installed Debian and never got the network card recognized. I've been looking over past NIC configuration inquiries on this forum as well as at DebianHELP.org. Most of the solutions seem to involve finding drivers, making modules and compiling a new kernel.

Weirdness in the GNOME panel

2002-06-15 Thread Ron Johnson
Hi, Running up-to-date woody. I want to change the icon associated with a panel object. So I right-click on the object and select "Properties..." from the newly displayed menu. A window describing the object appears. No problem. The problem occurs when I click on the "icon button" so that I c

RE: Problems installinf XFree 4.2 on Woody

2002-06-15 Thread Ronald Castillo
I've already tried that, but that way I can only configure my video card as a Generic VGA, and like that I can only use 256 Kb of video RAM (I have 2048 Kb), so it doesn't work for me... Thanks for your help! Ronald -Original Message- From: Klaus Imgrund [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: Configuring a NIC

2002-06-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2002-06-15 at 14:53, Phil wrote: > I installed Debian and never got the network card recognized. I've been > looking over past NIC configuration inquiries on this forum as well as at > DebianHELP.org. Most of the solutions seem to involve finding drivers, > making modules and compiling

Re: Configuring a NIC

2002-06-15 Thread Phil
At 01:09 PM 6/15/02 -0700, you wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Saturday 15 June 2002 12:53 pm, Phil wrote: > I installed Debian and never got the network card recognized.  I've been > looking over past NIC configuration inquiries on this forum as well as at > DebianHELP.org.  Most of

Quanta & Bluefish weird behaviour

2002-06-15 Thread Helgi Örn
I am having some weird problems with Quanta and Bluefish, severe enough for leaving them unusable. Copy and paste from keyboard does not work in either of them, in Quanta the text vanishes on the far right side of the editor but it appears if I select it. I used the same version of Quanta a lot in

Problems installinf XFree 4.2 on Woody

2002-06-15 Thread Ronald Castillo
Greetings... Today I tried to install XFree 4,2 in my Woody system, first making a copy of the directories/usr/X11R6 and/etc/X11. After installing the new version (I had 4,1) KDM stopped working, although GDM works well. The main problem that I have is that, although when executing startx the vid

Configuring a NIC

2002-06-15 Thread Phil
I installed Debian and never got the network card recognized. I've been looking over past NIC configuration inquiries on this forum as well as at DebianHELP.org. Most of the solutions seem to involve finding drivers, making modules and compiling a new kernel. unfortunately downloading driver

Re: Is the default debian machine ripe for port attack?

2002-06-15 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2002-06-15T06:50:16Z, Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > as the first line of many of the /etc/init.d/* files, then notice > [using "nmap" which I downloaded] all these things listening to open ports: > discard,daytime,ftp,telnet,smtp,time,finger,pop3,sunrpc,auth,nntp, > imap2,imap3,s

Re: Mozilla fonts

2002-06-15 Thread Ross Boylan
On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 10:42:46AM -0400, Travis Crump wrote: > > > Ross Boylan wrote: > >I was playing around with fonts on Mozilla today, and noticed a number > >of odd things. I'd be curious if anyone can explain a bit more about > >what is going on. > > > >1. I can't find anything that contr

User Logon Logging?

2002-06-15 Thread Charlie Grosvenor
In Debian woody how do I turn on user logon logging, so that a log entry is produced each time a user logs on? Thank you Charlie --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.371 / Virus Database: 206 - Release Date: 13/06/2002

Nautilus lost all my icon captions

2002-06-15 Thread Dave Carrigan
After doing an upgrade from sid yesterday, Nautils no longer shows my icon captions. It shows the icons, but the caption below is blank. You can see the problem at http://www.rudedog.org/nautilus-bogosity/ Thinking it was a nautilus bug, I tried filing a bug (#150084) and got the terse and use

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Re: 3D - Acceleration for Nvidia TNT 2 graphic card

2002-06-15 Thread Peter Whysall
On Sat, 2002-06-15 at 18:48, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On Sat, 15 Jun 2002, Christian Banik wrote: > > > i'm using SUSE Linux 8.0 but i will install Debian 3.0 final . Nvidia > > offers RPM - Files for my graphic - card TNT 2 to activate the 3D > > acceleration. I've heard that the RPM system is

Re: libfreetype6 or pango broken

2002-06-15 Thread Akira TAGOH
> On Sat, 15 Jun 2002 13:39:24 +0200, > "DO" == David Odin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: DO>I can confirm: I've just rebuild pango from source, and the problem DO> disappear. So rebuilding the pango package with the new libfreetype6 DO> should fix the whole thing. Sure. I'll rebuild

Re: 3D - Acceleration for Nvidia TNT 2 graphic card

2002-06-15 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sat, 15 Jun 2002, Christian Banik wrote: > i'm using SUSE Linux 8.0 but i will install Debian 3.0 final . Nvidia > offers RPM - Files for my graphic - card TNT 2 to activate the 3D > acceleration. I've heard that the RPM system is not compatibel with GNU > / Debian. What can i do? Thanks Ch

mp3 splitting

2002-06-15 Thread Baan Zoltan
Hi, Can you help how to split my large mp3 files (mix's) to get smaller files? Are there any command line or gui program for it? Zoltan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

3D - Acceleration for Nvidia TNT 2 graphic card

2002-06-15 Thread Christian Banik
i'm using SUSE Linux 8.0 but i will install Debian 3.0 final . Nvidia offers RPM - Files for my graphic - card TNT 2 to activate the 3D acceleration. I've heard that the RPM system is not compatibel with GNU / Debian. What can i do? Thanks Christian . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: ipchains not working?

2002-06-15 Thread Kevin Buhr
"Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I have the following rule on my WAN interface (eth1): > > ipchains -A input -s 63.148.99.0/24 -j DENY -l -i eth1 > > So why is 63.148.99.229 able to access my Apache server? Two possibilities come to mind. First, and most obviously, are you sure the t

diald problem

2002-06-15 Thread if . frijns
Dear all, I installed Debian 2.2r6, installed a ppp-dialup link. This works fine with 'pon provider' I automated it with diald so it responds when there is an ISP-request an brings the link down after som idle time. So far, so good. I recently installed a new kernel 2.4.18. This look OK, but di

powerbook lombard

2002-06-15 Thread Kevin C. Smith
To the person that provided is XF86Config-4 config. It worked perfectly. Thanks. Question: Have you been able to get sound working? What modules do you need? We have tried a few but with no success. In fact any advice in general on the install. We are still working on sound, pcmcia, and dv

Re[6]: Problems getting crontab to execute my script

2002-06-15 Thread Søren Neigaard
Saturday, June 15, 2002, 5:24:15 PM, Patrick wrote: PW> On Sat, 15 Jun 2002, Søren Neigaard wrote: >> It is executable by all now, and it still does not work :( Here is my >> script, it calls other scripts, but that's ok right? >> >> ./killproximus.sh >> mv /var/log/proximus_log /var/log/proximu

Re: appearance of xfce on Debian

2002-06-15 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 10:06:19AM -0500, Kevin C. Smith wrote: > On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 09:27:48AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > > On 14/06/02 Eric G. Miller did speaketh: > > > > > Log out from X and edit it from a console session. My guess is > > > your editing it from within an xfce ses

Re: Problems getting crontab to execute my script

2002-06-15 Thread Shri Shrikumar
On Sat, 2002-06-15 at 11:55, Søren Neigaard wrote: > I have made a script that restarts a Java app., and I have no trouble > running it manually. But when I try to run it with crontab, nothing > happends!? > > Here is my crontab line (as root): > > 0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * > /pr

umsdos and vfat works but no uvfat - any ideas?

2002-06-15 Thread Shri Shrikumar
Hi All, I've been trying to get uvfat working and it says that I just need to enable umsdos and vfat (which I have) and they both work fine. However, when I do mount -t uvfat /dev/hda11 /mnt it tells me that uvfat is not supported by the kernel. Anybody get uvfat working and if so, how ? Im r

Re: DMA settings

2002-06-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2002-06-15 at 09:25, Matthias Ellinger wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > I'd like to permanently set the dma=1 parameter on my HD (UDMA100) and > DVD-ROM-drives. hdparm does the job manually, but after reboot the old state > is active again. So make a

Re: IBM PS/2

2002-06-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2002-06-15 at 09:21, Paladin wrote: > On 14 Jun 2002 18:55:58 -0500 > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > You use Sylpheed? Try "Reply to Sender". > > Replies to you! :/ Oh, well. It was a thought... There's a Sylpheed mailing list and archive. Maybe that will help. -

Re: Re[2]: Problems getting crontab to execute my script

2002-06-15 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sat, 15 Jun 2002, Sven Hoexter wrote: > Maybe he's missing a blank line at the end of his crontab. That was my fault > once I had just the same prob. We've already been through that :) cron runs in a very impoverished environment; perhaps the script is making some assumptions about the enviro

Re: appearance of xfce on Debian

2002-06-15 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 09:27:48AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On 14/06/02 Eric G. Miller did speaketh: > > > Log out from X and edit it from a console session. My guess is > > your editing it from within an xfce session, and your changes are > > getting clobbered when you end the session.

Re: Re[2]: Problems getting crontab to execute my script

2002-06-15 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 10:42:27AM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On Sat, 15 Jun 2002, Søren Neigaard wrote: Hi, > > As I remember crontab used to mail root is there was any problems, but > > I get no mails, and my script does not run!? Any ideas? > > I'm not sure what to suggest. I just creat

Re: Unix-only analog to WinPopup?

2002-06-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2002-06-15 at 04:53, Eric G. Miller wrote: > On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 01:55:39AM -0700, nate wrote: > > > > > Using "apt-cache search" doesn't show much. (Unless I'm using > > > the wrong keyword to search by!) > > > > > > while i am not certain what your end goal is, rpc.walld is > > a

Re: My LVM does not work at all

2002-06-15 Thread Michael Stone
Please don't crosspost to so many lists. Follow-ups set to the bug report. You should most definately have more than the ramdisk driver in /proc/devices. I also run devfs & lvm and have this in /proc/devices: Block devices: 1 ramdisk 3 ide0 7 loop 8 sd 9 md 11 sr 22 ide1 58 lvm 65 sd

Re: Re[2]: Problems getting crontab to execute my script

2002-06-15 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sat, 15 Jun 2002, Søren Neigaard wrote: > As I remember crontab used to mail root is there was any problems, but > I get no mails, and my script does not run!? Any ideas? I'm not sure what to suggest. I just created a test script and */5 * * * * /root/test.sh ran it on time. Have you verif

DMA settings

2002-06-15 Thread Matthias Ellinger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'd like to permanently set the dma=1 parameter on my HD (UDMA100) and DVD-ROM-drives. hdparm does the job manually, but after reboot the old state is active again. Cheers, - -- Matthias Ellinger [EMAIL PROTECTED], PGP key at: http://www.berna

Re: Foreign Language with OpenOffice?

2002-06-15 Thread Chris Halls
On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 03:44:40PM -0600, Jorge Santos wrote: > > Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I appreciate your response. Could any one give me any guidance as to > > > how this is done? Do I use the standard OpenOffice (English version) > > > that I already have and just do somethi

Re: IBM PS/2

2002-06-15 Thread Paladin
On 14 Jun 2002 18:55:58 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You use Sylpheed? Try "Reply to Sender". Replies to you! :/ -- Paladin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

networking script not executing.

2002-06-15 Thread FreeportWeb Debian Support Account
I have interesting problem on one of my boxes. We've tried everything to figure this out. Basically, when the machine is started, the /etc/init.d/networking script isn't running, or its not running correctly so that ifup executes. I'll explain the issue: The machine is a woody machine using th

Re: Nasty X + Mozilla bug...

2002-06-15 Thread Dale Hair
> That may stops mozilla from crashing x by rendering huge fonts, but > I'm wondering if it breaks the page layout. I think the latest mozilla from unstable fixed this problem with huge fonts. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EM

Re: appearance of xfce on Debian

2002-06-15 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 14/06/02 Eric G. Miller did speaketh: > Log out from X and edit it from a console session. My guess is > your editing it from within an xfce session, and your changes are > getting clobbered when you end the session. Agreed. I tried this and it worked. Note that the first two numbers are

Re: debian is neat but how do I turn the computer off?

2002-06-15 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 15 Jun 2002, Dan Jacobson wrote: > However, no matter how I inquire to the kernel, e.g. lsmod, it doesn't > mention apm. That's presumably because apm is compiled into the kernel and is not a module. Patrick -- Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux user #17943 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re[2]: Problems getting crontab to execute my script

2002-06-15 Thread Søren Neigaard
Saturday, June 15, 2002, 2:47:23 PM, Patrick wrote: PW> On Sat, 15 Jun 2002, Søren Neigaard wrote: >> Here is my crontab line (as root): >> >> 0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * >> /projects/proximus/bin/restart_proximus.sh >> >> Should this not call my script every 5 minutes? PW> You

Re: How do I make a start script

2002-06-15 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 09:06:49AM +0200, Søren Neigaard wrote: | I need to make a script that can find the PID for a Java application, | where the process string contains 'proximus', and 'kill -9' that | process. My Java process spawns quite some threads, so I need to kill | the main process, not

Re: debian is neat but how do I turn the computer off?

2002-06-15 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 02:56:33PM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: | indeed, booting with append=" apm=on nls_cp950 nls_cp437" ^^^ I don't think any part of the kernel will actually do anything with those arguments. | and allows shutdown -h now to

Re: Problems getting crontab to execute my script

2002-06-15 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sat, 15 Jun 2002, Søren Neigaard wrote: > Here is my crontab line (as root): > > 0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * > /projects/proximus/bin/restart_proximus.sh > > Should this not call my script every 5 minutes? You can use */5 instead of your list, for every 5 minutes; and make sur

Re: libfreetype6 or pango broken

2002-06-15 Thread David Odin
On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 12:10:43PM +0200, David Odin wrote: > >Hi, > > I'm using Sid, so I expect some problems, that's why this mail isn't a > complain but really a bug report. > > Since yesterday, as I've apt-get update/upgrade my system, I cannot > compile any program which use gtk+-2

Re: Nasty X + Mozilla bug...

2002-06-15 Thread Gerhard Gaussling
Hi Karsten Am Samstag, 15. Juni 2002 08:49 schrieb Karsten M. Self: > What happens if you disable font sizing via a user CSS? Like I > do ;-) > > http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Download/userContent.css That may stops mozilla from crashing x by rendering huge fonts, but I'm wondering if it

Installing XFree 4.2

2002-06-15 Thread Ronald Castillo
Hello.. I'm currently running the version of XFree 4.1 that was installed with woody but I was planning to install XFree 4.2, but I have some questions before I do: First of all, what is the best way to install it? I have read about some debs that have problems and I have already downloaded the so

Problems getting crontab to execute my script

2002-06-15 Thread Søren Neigaard
I have made a script that restarts a Java app., and I have no trouble running it manually. But when I try to run it with crontab, nothing happends!? Here is my crontab line (as root): 0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * /projects/proximus/bin/restart_proximus.sh Should this not call my sc

diald won't respond

2002-06-15 Thread if . frijns
Dear all, I installed Debian 2.2r6, installed a ppp-dialup link. This works fine with 'pon provider' I automated it with diald so it responds when there is an ISP-request an brings the link down after som idle time. So far, so good. I recently installed a new kernel 2.4.18. This look OK, but di

libfreetype6 or pango broken

2002-06-15 Thread David Odin
Hi, I'm using Sid, so I expect some problems, that's why this mail isn't a complain but really a bug report. Since yesterday, as I've apt-get update/upgrade my system, I cannot compile any program which use gtk+-2.0. From what I've seen, the only updated package which is related to gtk

Re: Unix-only analog to WinPopup?

2002-06-15 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 01:55:39AM -0700, nate wrote: > > > Using "apt-cache search" doesn't show much. (Unless I'm using > > the wrong keyword to search by!) > > > while i am not certain what your end goal is, rpc.walld is > a cool program, it won't do a popup(as far as i know) but it can > br

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Re: Unix-only analog to WinPopup?

2002-06-15 Thread nate
> Using "apt-cache search" doesn't show much. (Unless I'm using > the wrong keyword to search by!) while i am not certain what your end goal is, rpc.walld is a cool program, it won't do a popup(as far as i know) but it can broadcast a message out to connected servers on a network. i didn't even

Re: Diagnosing serial ports

2002-06-15 Thread nate
> I'm beginning to wonder if some other process has locked up the serial > port (although fuser -v /dev/ttyS1 shows nothing) or if I'm missing some > module or kernel option. I know this is speculative, but if anyone's got > an idea I'd be very grateful. > > This is woody running custom-built ke

Re: /etc/printcap with CUPS & Openoffice 1.0

2002-06-15 Thread nate
> I had a similar problem with wordperfect 7. I used "lpr -o raw" > with cups to solve the problem. > where did you use the lpr? did/does wordperfect have a way to specify a command line printer command? seems most X apps do, gnotepad+, netscape 4.7x, adobe acrobat, some kde apps, but star/open

Re: Is the default debian machine ripe for port attack?

2002-06-15 Thread nate
> is the standard procedure to comment them out one by one in > /etc/inetd.conf, at least the ones I would never use or worse, let folks > connect to when i call my ISP? I see hosts.deny is also wide open. comment them out ..remove the ones totally that you would never use. to find out which p

Re: /etc/printcap with CUPS & Openoffice 1.0

2002-06-15 Thread nate
>> "nate" == nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > I can't really help you with your printing problem, since I don't print > From Star/Open Office, but you can save a step in your workaround. If > you run spadmin, you can create a PDF writer which basically runs ps2pdf > for you. ok

How do I make a start script

2002-06-15 Thread Søren Neigaard
I need to make a script that can find the PID for a Java application, where the process string contains 'proximus', and 'kill -9' that process. My Java process spawns quite some threads, so I need to kill the main process, not one of the threads. How do I do this, I have no clue, and no shell prog

Re: How to get the ALSA driver to start at boot?

2002-06-15 Thread Steven Yap
On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 07:18, Ivo Wever wrote: > Simon Law wrote: > > You should add the correct module lines (that you would put in > > modconf) in /etc/alsa/modutils/0.9 > > > I couldn't gather the format of a module line from the alsa docs and it > isn't in the example. What should such a line

Is the default debian machine ripe for port attack?

2002-06-15 Thread Dan Jacobson
Oh great, I chose the woody home user installation setup, and after putting exit #until i know what it does as the first line of many of the /etc/init.d/* files, then notice [using "nmap" which I downloaded] all these things listening to open ports: discard,daytime,ftp,telnet,smtp,time,fin

Re: debian is neat but how do I turn the computer off?

2002-06-15 Thread Dan Jacobson
indeed, booting with append=" apm=on nls_cp950 nls_cp437" causes the second line not to appear in /var/log/messages anymore: Jun 14 09:10:51 debian kernel: apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.13) Jun 14 09:10:51 debian kernel: apm: disabled on user request. and allows shutdown -h no

Re: Nasty X + Mozilla bug...

2002-06-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Jun 12, 2002, Eric G. Miller (egm2@jps.net) wrote: > See http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/25689.html for a nasty X > crashing (and possibly machine crashing) bug regarding huge fonts. > > Guess it's back to links/lynx/w3m or whatever for a little while. What happens if you disable font

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