Re: avview

2002-09-08 Thread stan
On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 12:58:19PM +0200, Christoph Claus wrote: avview: Depends: libc6 (= 2.2.5-13) but 2.2.5-6 is to be installed E: Sorry, broken packages Yes, avview needs libc6 version greater or equal 2.2.5-13 (that is, libc6 from unstable), but you have libc6 from woody. I

Re: Iptable 1.2.7a-2 upgrade problem

2002-09-08 Thread David Z Maze
D.J. Bolderman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Running Debian unstable, i'm trying to upgrade my iptables to 1.2.7a-2. It's giving me this error message : empty control file at /usr/sbin/install-docs line 629 Anyone having this problem to, or know how to solve it ? While your question seems to

Dial out on boot of Woody box

2002-09-08 Thread root
I have just installed Woody on a new box (named galadriel). My old box (Potato, named gandalf) acts as DNS server and internet gateway (ISDN dial out). When I booted Woody, I noticed a dial out to my ISP on my old box. This dial out seems to be caused by DSN requests from Woody near the end

List of purged packages?

2002-09-08 Thread Adam Warner
Hi all, Is there a way to obtain a straight list of purged packages? The only unsatisfactory way I known of at present is: dpkg -l '*' | grep -i 'pn ' However this cuts off package names. Something strange has happened to one of my package databases. It lists 307 packages as being purged.

Re: swap confusion

2002-09-08 Thread Guy Geens
Joerg == Joerg Johannes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Joerg ahead and set the priority in /etc/fstab with pri=PRIORITY, but Joerg wait... the man page tells me that swap priority can have any Joerg non-negative value, but the above kern.log tells me both Joerg partitions have a negative value.

apm does not suspend

2002-09-08 Thread Andy Saxena
Hi, I am trying to cut down my electricity bills. I'd like to be able to suspend my desktop when it detects no activity for 30 min. I have the apmd package installed, but I get the message # apm: suspend was vetoed For example, overnight I will have a dozen of these messages on the console.

Re: List of purged packages?

2002-09-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 04:01:45AM +1200, Adam Warner wrote: Is there a way to obtain a straight list of purged packages? The only unsatisfactory way I known of at present is: dpkg -l '*' | grep -i 'pn ' However this cuts off package names. You can set the COLUMNS variable to something

Re: bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

2002-09-08 Thread nate
Alex Withers said: Hello, I've recently installed Debian 3.0 on a home machine. After logging into the machine through xdm I open an xterm with no trouble but when I try to spawn another xterm it hangs for a few seconds before spitting out the message: bash: fork: Resource temporarily

Re: apm does not suspend

2002-09-08 Thread nate
Andy Saxena said: Hi, It's likely that not a lot of desktop users care to put their machine into suspend, but I am still hoping some of the laptop users can shed some light on this. I have googled around, but haven't seen anything that explains this with any satisfaction. one thing i

Re: Printing problems....help???

2002-09-08 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Matthew Claridge wrote: Its funny you should say that because when printtool tries to autodetect a printer, it says I don't have parallel port modules loaded. the output of lsmod looks like this: # lsmod Module Size Used byTainted: PF Mvnetd

Re: Main breakup?

2002-09-08 Thread Matthew Hambley
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthew Hambley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It strikes me that the 'main' part of the Debian distro is way too big. The fact that every user who does an apt-get update is pulling well over a meg each time one

Re: Main breakup?

2002-09-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 06:28:45PM +0100, Matthew Hambley wrote: So I see but after just spending another 13m on-line just to find out that a single package needs to be upgraded I am left wondering why all this discussion hasn't turned into action. Because it's not very obvious how it could

Re: Printing problems....help???

2002-09-08 Thread Matthew Claridge
Donald R. Spoon wrote: In my list of modules, I have the following loaded: parport parport_pc lp Since I don't see any of those in your 'lsmod results, I would say your printer port is not being initialized on boot-up. As a test, try to load each of these modules with modprobe and

Re: Joining Large Files

2002-09-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Elizabeth Barham [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-09-08 01:47:11 -0500]: Would catting it into gzip be okay? As in: cat largeFile.* | gzip -c - x.gz Yes. I assume you mean on a small file only system? Both cat and gzip (gzip 1.3) know about large files. So this should be good up until the gzip

Re: Joining Large Files

2002-09-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Mirek Dobsicek [EMAIL PROTECTED]: oops, I tried it on my Sarge box, with own compiled kernel 2.4.18 and it gave me only 2GB large file. What can be wrong? I have no clue. What filesystem are you running? I am using ext3 for the results I posted. Bob msg01254/pgp0.pgp Description:

Re: Next step in bringing my Woody up to date

2002-09-08 Thread Bob Proulx
David Teague [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-09-07 21:45:52 -0400]: Any more advice? Subscribe to the debian security announce mailing list. Very low volume. When you get an advisory from them that should wake you up that you should run 'apt-get update apt-get upgrade'. The advisory may be on

Re: Install system

2002-09-08 Thread Bob Proulx
- Is there a way to remove packages cleanly with apt? With cleanly I mean that when a package is removed also all packages wich the main package depends on and wich have no other depenceies are also removed? That would be cool to avoid dead packages on a system. Aptitude does this.

Re: xmcd, using the speakers to play music cds how?

2002-09-08 Thread Bytor
I can get the sound if I use the headphone jack so I need to go out and get a cable to hook up from the cdrom to my sound card, thanks for the info. I however am still having one problem with xmcd. I can use it and it works great when I am logged in as root, but when I start it as an

Re: GRUB install disk, menu.1st

2002-09-08 Thread Q. Gong
On 8 Sep 2002, Scott Henson wrote: Date: 08 Sep 2002 05:28:23 -0400 From: Scott Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian User [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: GRUB install disk, menu.1st Resent-Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2002 04:28:27 -0500 (CDT) Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 2002-09-06 at

Re: how to recover from an X lockup

2002-09-08 Thread Andreas Obermaier
On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 08:20:31PM -0400, Travis Crump wrote: What is the recommended way to recover from an X lockup? Just a little bit ago, X locked up on me(I was using a GL program and had multiple[2] X's running) and I tried to get my system back by logging in remotely and killing

Re: Sun4M booting!

2002-09-08 Thread Andreas Obermaier
On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 10:27:11AM -0500, Terry Dabbs wrote: To the Great Penguin in the sky, or Pumpkin? I have purchased what is apparently the potato release for sparc. I acquired two Sparc600LM servers ($27 for the pair!) which are at this time runnung Sunos 4.1.3, which I am (or was, in

consistant userid:username setup for system accounts?

2002-09-08 Thread nate
hi I have ran accross this a few times in the past but was curious if there was any effort in Debian 3.0 that goes to assigning a uid number to the system accounts to keep them consistant accross installations. Many of the accounts already are(the core ones) but at least in my case I had some

Re: bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

2002-09-08 Thread Wade Richards
On Sun, 08 Sep 2002 12:19:21 PDT, Alex Withers writes: On Sun, 8 Sep 2002, Nicos Gollan wrote: As it turns out that was it, in a way. I had a line in my .bashrc that went like so: PAGER=`which less`. For some reason this would cause a momentary explosion in the number of which processes. They

Problem with dselect - Debian 2.1

2002-09-08 Thread Mike Berrisford
Hello list, i recently installed Debian 2.1 and i'm having a problem with dselect. I'm using the access method apt. It tells me i have the source list deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free However when i run Update, i get the following Get ftp://ftp.debian.org

Re: how to recover from an X lockup

2002-09-08 Thread Peter Whysall
Alvin Oga wrote: hi ya travis - try the various(6) consoles ( Alt-F1 ... alt-F6 ) - start X11 from console ( init 3 ) and you can kill X by control-C on cosole No. This seems to have caused quite some confusion. This is NOT how X is started on a regular Debian installation.

Re: Problem with dselect - Debian 2.1

2002-09-08 Thread nate
Mike Berrisford said: Hello list, i recently installed Debian 2.1 and i'm having a problem with dselect. I'm using the access method apt. It tells me i have the source list deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free most likely because you are running a REAALY

Re: max_loop option not working for autofs

2002-09-08 Thread Charles Lewis
Rainer Ellinger wrote: Charles Lewis wrote: lilo.conf append = mem=nopentium max_loop=64, however this does not seem to affect anything. And you've created the correlative loop devices in /dev? Hrm...I guess you mean that I need to create /dev/loop8 thru /dev/loop63? I didn't

qmail - tcprules trouble

2002-09-08 Thread Heilig (Cece) Szabolcs
Hello! I need to enable some IP areas qmail relaying. I tried to alter /etc/tcp.smtp and after that i ran tcprules tcp.smtp.cdb tcp.smtp.tmp tcp.smtp under the /etc dir. After that i checked the config with tcprulescheck tcp.smtp.cdb and it says: default: allow connection But my tcp.smtp

Re: max_loop option not working for autofs

2002-09-08 Thread Rainer Ellinger
Charles Lewis wrote: Hrm...I guess you mean that I need to create /dev/loop8 thru /dev/loop63? I didn't realize I needed to do this. How do I do this? for i in $(seq 8 63) ; do mknod /dev/loop$i b 7 $i ; done chmod 660 /dev/loop* ; chown 0.disk /dev/loop* Also, what impact on memory will

Re: fileutils don't have a Debian Sig

2002-09-08 Thread Hubert Chan
Colin == Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Colin On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 03:01:36PM +0200, Josef Oswald wrote: Colin [snip stuff that to be honest is too vague to comment on ...] As I wrote above I wanted to update Progeny-Newton to Debian-Woody but in the middle of apt-get -f

Re: CDRDAO -- can it record iso files?

2002-09-08 Thread Balazs Javor
Hi, CDRDAO is for recording bin/cue files. Cdrecord id for burning iso files. Use mkisofs + cdrecord to burn files from a directory, and cdrdao mainly for downloded stuff... Here's my short rundown: mkisofs -r -U -J -f -o cd_image private_collection/ cdrecord -v speed=8 dev=0,0,0 -data

Re: Speller

2002-09-08 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 08:46:13AM -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: On Thursday 05 September 2002 12:16 am, Oki DZ wrote: Hi, Is there any dict's client that works like ispell? I mean, an ispell-like program that makes use the dict server. TIA, Oki Greetings Oki: I am not

Re: X hangs when trying to configure

2002-09-08 Thread Gerard Robin
On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 08:01:54PM -0400, Paul Galbraith wrote: I've tried running xfree86cfg, and XFree86 -configure. Both cause my screen to go blank, and after several minutes wait, nothing else happens. I've tried hitting CTRL-ALT-F2 (F3/F4, etc), as well as CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE and

Re: i810 video and Debian 3.0

2002-09-08 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya evan if after all those kernel checking didnt solve your x11 problem... than you would need to: a. install the silly agp drivers I810Gtt-0.2-4.src.rpm b. install the silly X server for the onboard SVGA i810 chipset XFCom_i810-1.2-3.i386.rpm c. config your XF86Config

Re: i810 video and Debian 3.0

2002-09-08 Thread Peter Whysall
Evan Burkitt wrote: At 09:09 2002.09.08 +0100, Peter Whysall wrote: On Sun, 2002-09-08 at 07:44, Evan Burkitt wrote: I recently installed version 3.0 of Debian on a Dell GX110, which has a built-in video adaptor based on the Intel i810 controller. I set up Xfree86 during

Re: pppoe not reconnecting if dropped

2002-09-08 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Once upon a time Ross Tsolakidis said... Hi all, Running Debian Woody on my gateway box at home. 1 NIC connected to ADSL modem, the other to my network (standard setup). I use the debian package to do pppoe, (roaring penguin). I seem to be having issues when I drop line sync for a long

Re: List of purged packages?

2002-09-08 Thread Adam Warner
Hi Colin Watson, On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 04:01:45AM +1200, Adam Warner wrote: Is there a way to obtain a straight list of purged packages? You can set the COLUMNS variable to something large (e.g. 200) to avoid this. Alternatively, you can use grep-status from the grep-dctrl package, with

Re: backwards-completion in zsh

2002-09-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 02:09:53AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: does anyone know how i can backwards-complete search the history of the zsh shell? For example, after calling dpkg-buildpackage and then dpkg-deb thereafter, how can I enter 'dpkg' and then let the shell complete (give options

telnet and old ANSI graphics

2002-09-08 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
Is there a way to get that standard telnet command in a terminal window to support ANSI graphics? I am really embarrassed to mention why :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: pop server

2002-09-08 Thread nate
Tom Allison said: I'm looking for suggestions on a pop-ssl server. I'm currently working with postfix and am not really a great expert on POP. if you use sslwrap you can SSL-enable any POP3 server on the system I've been doing this for years without any trouble, same for IMAP4 servers. I

HPPA Install Problem with libc6

2002-09-08 Thread Brian Tutor
I am attempting an install on an HP B2600. Due to the USB keyboard/mouse I am installing via the serial interface. I downloaded the Jigdo ISO images (with good checksum verify) and burned CD1. I then booted from it via PALO. The install program comes up and all is well. I set up the

Re: Postfix options

2002-09-08 Thread Tom Allison
David Wright wrote: I have written a Debian-centric whitepaper on using Postfix. You can find it at http://www.metaconsultancy.com/whitepapers/ There is also the beginnings of a Cyrus whitepaper, but it isn't anywhere near finished. Seeing as how we are both in Seattle, though, you could

Re: pop server

2002-09-08 Thread Sean
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm currently running courier-imap-ssl and courier-pop-ssl for IMAP and POP3 on a smallish server I have sitting out there in the great beyond, and have had good luck so far. Sean On Sunday 08 September 2002 08:59 pm, Tom Allison wrote: I'm

Re: telnet and old ANSI graphics

2002-09-08 Thread nate
Matthew Daubenspeck said: Is there a way to get that standard telnet command in a terminal window to support ANSI graphics? I am really embarrassed to mention why :) it doesn't depend upon the telnet command it depends upon the terminal emulator(the terminal window). I prefer gnome-terminal

make-kpkg doesn't parse version correctly ?

2002-09-08 Thread Pierre THIERRY
I've got a very strange error with make-kpkg when trying to build an image a second time. I've already used the woody one on this linux source successfully, so suspected a problem with the sarge I've upgraded to. But I have the same error with woody and sarge kernel-package... I used 7.107 and

Re: problems with tux(racer|kart)

2002-09-08 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, martin f krafft said: also sprach Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002.09.08.2347 +0200]: my guess is your opengl settings. If you dont have hardware support for opengl it will be a nightmare running such applications As I said, I have no clue

ext3 w/Woody 3.0r0?

2002-09-08 Thread Rob Leachman
Just wanted to check before I do something wrong... does Woody 3.0r0 support ext3? I'm told to worry about kernel support, is it in the distributed 2.2.20-compact #1 kernel? Also, while I'm asking these simple questions, I understand the way to upgrade to ext3 is simply: 1) Add ext3

Re: ext3 w/Woody 3.0r0?

2002-09-08 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Rob Leachman wrote: Just wanted to check before I do something wrong... does Woody 3.0r0 support ext3? I'm told to worry about kernel support, is it in the distributed 2.2.20-compact #1 kernel? Also, while I'm asking these simple questions, I understand the way to upgrade to ext3 is

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Re: gcc version issues

2002-09-08 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Gib Bogle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My Debian system is 2.4.18, which was built with gcc 2.95.4. I want to compile some software which apparently requires gcc 2.96 or later. What should I do? My first thought was simply to install a later version of gcc, but it occurs to me that this

Re: Postfix options

2002-09-08 Thread David Wright
Any suggestions on a pop-server? The Cyrus server also offers POP access. Turning it on just requires un-commenting one line in the configuration file. If any user ever requested POP, that's what I would do, but no one has, because... 1) Nearly every popular email client system now supports

ISDN: Detect MSNs automatically

2002-09-08 Thread Torsten Schlabach
Dear list, as far as I know there is a mechanism in Euro ISDN (DSS1) that allows a device attached to the ISDN network to automatically detect the MSNs of the trunk it is connected to. At least Siemens Gigaset ISDN DECT base stations support this. Does anyone know the protocol for

Re: bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

2002-09-08 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Sunday 08 September 2002 17:33, Alex Withers wrote: Hello, I've recently installed Debian 3.0 on a home machine. After logging into the machine through xdm I open an xterm with no trouble but when I try to spawn another xterm it hangs for a few seconds before spitting out the message:

Re: bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

2002-09-08 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Sunday 08 September 2002 19:24, Elizabeth Barham wrote: Nicos Gollan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We had this on the list some days ago. Run ps ax and see if you've got a huge quantity of (defunct) processes. I must have missed that thread; what ever became of it? The last thread was

Re: consistant userid:username setup for system accounts?

2002-09-08 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 12:24:06PM -0700, nate wrote: hi I have ran accross this a few times in the past but was curious if there was any effort in Debian 3.0 that goes to assigning a uid number to the system accounts to keep them consistant accross installations. Many of the accounts

Re: serving debian to redhat boxen

2002-09-08 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Gregory Seidman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) export /usr with NFS from my Debian box, and mount it over /usr on the other linux boxen (only solves development platform maintenance) You really cannot share /usr over NFS between debian boxes right now (dpkg would

RE: American Online Services And Unknown Soul Complaint Against Link In E-Mail

2002-09-08 Thread WBISOFIEEP
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