Re: Installing Intel compiler RPMs on Debian

2003-03-08 Thread Gary Turner
Charlie Zender wrote: >Hi, > >What is the recommended way to install the Intel Fortran and C/C++ >compilers on Debian? They come as a set of RPMs. The RPMs do not >install on my Debian system, because there are no RPMs installed >on my Debian system so it can't find any pre-requisites: > >error:

Re: Installing Intel compiler RPMs on Debian

2003-03-08 Thread Barry deFreese
Charlie Zender wrote: Hi, What is the recommended way to install the Intel Fortran and C/C++ compilers on Debian? They come as a set of RPMs. The RPMs do not install on my Debian system, because there are no RPMs installed on my Debian system so it can't find any pre-requisites: error: cannot op

Re: man links

2003-03-08 Thread David Lloyd
Peter, > my gentoo distro has the browser 'links' but no 'man links' page; how > do i get a man page for a given program? If no man page has been installed then you can: 1) The Linux Documentation Project http://www.tldp.org/ [I think - I get their new URL wrong constantly] 2) Run the pr

Re: man links

2003-03-08 Thread Glyn Millington
peter hodgson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > my gentoo distro has the browser 'links' but no 'man links' page; how > do i get a man page for a given program? Install debian! WE get a man page on links ;-) Might be worth asking on the Gentoo list ? Glyn -- Debian Home http://www.debia

Re: Install over plip

2003-03-08 Thread ScruLoose
Hi again, everybody In my ongoing attempt to get woody installed on this ol' P 133 laptop. I installed the base system with floppies, which seems to have worked. I've finally convinced it to load the plip module, and it's allowing me to add a route to my desktop box. The laptop is called roadie,

Re: kde fonts & stuff ...

2003-03-08 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Saturday 08 March 2003 9:05 pm, Dave Selby wrote: >I have bought a 15" TFT. I love it, its great. However while experimenting I >changed some fonts for kde via the conroll centre, look & feel, fonts. > >This resulted in some huge fonts especially in xterm ! > >I selected "use defaults" and apply

man links

2003-03-08 Thread peter hodgson
my gentoo distro has the browser 'links' but no 'man links' page; how do i get a man page for a given program? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Installing Intel compiler RPMs on Debian

2003-03-08 Thread Charlie Zender
Hi, What is the recommended way to install the Intel Fortran and C/C++ compilers on Debian? They come as a set of RPMs. The RPMs do not install on my Debian system, because there are no RPMs installed on my Debian system so it can't find any pre-requisites: error: cannot open Packages index usin

Re: libc6: did it move from unstable to testing?

2003-03-08 Thread Michael D. Schleif
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Also sprach Craig Dickson (Sat 08 Mar 02003 at 09:29:13PM -0800): > Kevin Coyner wrote: > > > I'm running a strictly testing box, and just a bit ago I did an apt-get > > update and apt-get dist upgrade, and before I knew it, the system > > was downloa

Re: mozilla: goto top/bottom of webpages ???

2003-03-08 Thread Michael D. Schleif
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Also sprach nate (Sat 08 Mar 02003 at 09:24:22PM -0800): > Michael D. Schleif said: > > > What am I missing? > > contact your keyboard manufacturer and ask them to send you a "Home" > and "end" keys :) they should be standard on most keyboards, maybe

Re: CUPS, HP LaserJet 4L; won't print

2003-03-08 Thread Geordie Birch
said nate (on 2003-03-08), > another thing to try.. > > echo "Blah" >/dev/lp0 > > I think your printer can handle ascii.. if that works at least you > know the printer and cable and computer can talk... Still no thing. Geordie. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

[SOLVED] Re: fetchmail and SMTP return codes

2003-03-08 Thread ScruLoose
On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 08:27:19PM +, Jason Chambers wrote: > On Mar 8 13:44, ScruLoose wrote: > > poked at the man page some, commented out no_bouncemail, so fechmail_daemon > > is no longer spamming me (local postmaster) with the error, *but* I don't > > know what syntax it wants for values

Re: util-linux-locales Configuring Locales --- Unable to select

2003-03-08 Thread Gary Turner
Gary Turner wrote: [...] > >I searched BTS for util-linux-locales, and/or Configuring Locale to no >avail. I am not BTS fluent, so my search could be faulty. > >I may be wrong about the package in which I see the error, though doing >"apt-get install --reinstall util-linux-locales" gave me the sa

Re: CUPS, HP LaserJet 4L; won't print

2003-03-08 Thread nate
Geordie Birch said: > Stumped (and wishing I had a spare cable and a known-to-work printer.) another thing to try.. echo "Blah" >/dev/lp0 I think your printer can handle ascii.. if that works at least you know the printer and cable and computer can talk... nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

qt (dependency) hell?

2003-03-08 Thread Hugo Ideler
Hi, after a recent format and installing of debian woody(but set all sources to download from unstable) and KDE 3.1 I want to get qt working so I can compile e.g. kmail 1.5 which afaik is not yet a .deb in unstable? I normally added the KDE download ftp as debian source and used that kmail, but

Re: CUPS, HP LaserJet 4L; won't print

2003-03-08 Thread Geordie Birch
said nate (on 2003-03-08), > also be sure nothing else is using the port > lsof | grep /dev/lp Nothing else seems to be using it. > modprobe parport irq=7 io=0x378 > (I think thats the right module, either that or maybe its parport_pc..) > > 7 is the most commonly used IRQ for parallel ports in

Re: libc6: did it move from unstable to testing?

2003-03-08 Thread Craig Dickson
Kevin Coyner wrote: > I'm running a strictly testing box, and just a bit ago I did an apt-get > update and apt-get dist upgrade, and before I knew it, the system > was downloading 89 upgrades, one of which was libc6 ver 2.3.1-14. > > But when I go to packages.debian.org, and look at the libc6 deb

Re: libc6: did it move from unstable to testing?

2003-03-08 Thread nate
Kevin Coyner said: > So I'm a bit lost. Did I mess something up? Or was libc6 or something > else moved from unstable to testing just a bit early? someone sent out an announcement to a buncha lists a couple days ago warning of the new packages I think .. or maybe that was for gcc..I don't run

Re: SmartUPS (Re: Software RAID and drive failures)

2003-03-08 Thread nate
Joao Pedro Clemente said: > Hi. Sorry for bugging in, but I got curious: > These SmartUPS really do "wave-correction"? I've heard, from other brand > vendors (some Italian brand) that APC didn't had ANY such UPS, that they > only worked in a garanteed sine-wave with correct voltage when operating

Re: mozilla: goto top/bottom of webpages ???

2003-03-08 Thread nate
Michael D. Schleif said: > What am I missing? contact your keyboard manufacturer and ask them to send you a "Home" and "end" keys :) they should be standard on most keyboards, maybe they will give you a refund... nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: why doesn't XF86Config-4 include defoma-managed TrueType fonts?

2003-03-08 Thread Andy Hurt
Mike Williams wrote: I'm trying to determine the most "standard" way of making defoma-managed TrueType fonts available under X11. 8< What's the best way to do this? Should I (a) Disable debconf control of the "Files" section, and craft my own? (b) Install

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libc6: did it move from unstable to testing?

2003-03-08 Thread Kevin Coyner
I'm running a strictly testing box, and just a bit ago I did an apt-get update and apt-get dist upgrade, and before I knew it, the system was downloading 89 upgrades, one of which was libc6 ver 2.3.1-14. But when I go to packages.debian.org, and look at the libc6 debs in there, I see that it clea

mozilla: goto top/bottom of webpages ???

2003-03-08 Thread Michael D. Schleif
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've been using konqueror for sometime under linux and mozilla under windoze. The other day, I powered up mozilla v1.2 under woody and I'm thinking to switch. However, I cannot figure out how to the very top nor very bottom of webpages? Yes, page up

util-linux-locales Configuring Locales --- Unable to select

2003-03-08 Thread Gary Turner
On an apt-get upgrade, the util-linux-locales package is among the upgraded packages in Sarge. The "Configuring Locales" screen comes up and I would like to indicate "no change". The problem is that I am unable to make a selection. The only option I seem to have is to scroll up and down the list

SmartUPS (Re: Software RAID and drive failures)

2003-03-08 Thread Joao Pedro Clemente
> the system operates in an ideal enviornment with 90CFM of airflow > going through the case, a sine-wave APC SmartUPS powering it, as Hi. Sorry for bugging in, but I got curious: These SmartUPS really do "wave-correction"? I've heard, from other brand vendors (some Italian brand) that APC didn't

Re: Another Happy Debian User

2003-03-08 Thread Joseph A Nagy Jr
Jeff Elkins wrote: On Saturday 08 March 2003 7:27 pm, p wrote: when i finally figured out how to play dvd's on a debian (sid) box, i nearly fell outta my chair. I can relate to that! I had LOTR Extended Ed. playing on my iMac using Xine under did whilst I was coding on a i686 sid box that li

Re: kde fonts & stuff ...

2003-03-08 Thread Bob Paige
Bob Paige wrote: Dave Selby wrote: I have bought a 15" TFT. I love it, its great. However while experimenting I changed some fonts for kde via the conroll centre, look & feel, fonts. This resulted in some huge fonts especially in xterm ! I selected "use defaults" and apply, the fonts are now l

Re: XMMS and CD Audio Broken

2003-03-08 Thread Lonnie Sutton
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 06:52:03PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 07:04:09PM -0800, Lonnie Sutton wrote: > > I am using Woody 3.0 and XMMS 1.2.7 and until recently had both a SCSI > > CD Burner and an IDE CDROM that I used for normally reading data and > > playing CD's, using XMMS

Re: XMMS and CD Audio Broken

2003-03-08 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 06:07:22PM -0800, Lonnie Sutton wrote: > > Thanks for your help. As you may have seen in my reply to Michael, I had > *not* changed the audio cable from the defunct drive to the burner > drive, as I should have. It is now done, and as I said, it works using >

Re: kde fonts & stuff ...

2003-03-08 Thread Bob Paige
Dave Selby wrote: I have bought a 15" TFT. I love it, its great. However while experimenting I changed some fonts for kde via the conroll centre, look & feel, fonts. This resulted in some huge fonts especially in xterm ! I selected "use defaults" and apply, the fonts are now listed as mainly

Re: wvdial permissions modem device

2003-03-08 Thread Jeff
matt zagrabelny, 2003-Mar-07 09:16 -0600: > i am currently stopping wvdial with: > > killall wvdial > > sometimes the permissions to /dev/modem (/dev/ttyS0) > which are usually "root dialout -rw-rw" > do not get reset to this. > > i know that when pppd is running that it removes > group "rw"

Re: XMMS and CD Audio Broken

2003-03-08 Thread Stephen Cormier
On March 9, 2003 03:01 am, Lonnie Sutton wrote: > Also, there is a symlink /dev/cdrom -> /dec/scd0. Did you check the permissons on the /dev/scd0 I had the same problem and I just had to chmod +rwx /dev/scd0 and now CD's play perfectly in XMMS. -- May the source be with you! Stephen Cormier

Re: exim & iptables

2003-03-08 Thread Gary Turner
Hal wrote: >I'm using Woody as a firewall with NAT to protect a small network that >includes a mail and web server on an unregistered (192.168) >network. I'd like to configure the fw so that it can send mail alerts >to the users via the mail server on the protected net. If I set >exim.c

Re: Two network cards of same type, which eth0, which eth1?

2003-03-08 Thread Jeff
Mark Janssen, 2003-Mar-07 14:17 +0100: > On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 13:26, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > > I am going to be installing two new network cards soon, most likely > > I'll be getting that cheap junk that is the rtl8139. How do I choose > > which one must be eth0? Module parameters to the 8139t

Re: [Fwd: [LIP] Fw: Boycott Caldera/SCO Products]

2003-03-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 12:39:19PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Saturday 08 March 2003 05:55 am, Sharninder wrote: > > This, therefore, is a call to boycott all Caldera and SCO products. > > Do not use or recommend the use of: > > > > * Caldera OpenLinux > > * SCO Linux > > * SCO OpenServer > > *

Re: hard drives larger than 137gb

2003-03-08 Thread Lupust
On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 12:13, Ric Otte wrote: > Hi, > > Is it possible to use some of the large IDE hard drives (such as 160, > 180, 200gb) that are being advertised with linux? If so, is some sort > of patch needed to be able to 'see' the whole drive? And can I install > it just as I would a no

Bad CRC [was Debian freezes]

2003-03-08 Thread Robert Storey
On Sat, 8 Mar 2003 06:49:50 -0500 Subba Rao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am clueless as to find why the X is freezing. Sometimes it uses 99% > CPU while other times it simple freezes the system. > Cntrl+Alt+Backspace will do nothing. I have to power down the system > and in worst cases (when

Re: where does "root" mail go ?

2003-03-08 Thread Dave Selby
On Friday 07 March 2003 9:57 pm, Glenn English wrote: > On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 11:20, Dave Selby wrote: > > When an application sends mail to ''root" where does it go ? because I > > cant find it ! All mail I have ever accessed is via the web with kmail. > > On some systems (of which mine is one) it

kde fonts & stuff ...

2003-03-08 Thread Dave Selby
I have bought a 15" TFT. I love it, its great. However while experimenting I changed some fonts for kde via the conroll centre, look & feel, fonts. This resulted in some huge fonts especially in xterm ! I selected "use defaults" and apply, the fonts are now listed as mainly helvetica 12, howev

Re: Another Happy Debian User

2003-03-08 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Saturday 08 March 2003 7:27 pm, p wrote: >when i finally figured out how to >play dvd's on a debian (sid) box, >i nearly fell outta my chair. I can relate to that! I had LOTR Extended Ed. playing on my iMac using Xine under did whilst I was coding on a i686 sid box that lives on the same de

Re: stung by dependancies

2003-03-08 Thread Marlin Unruh
Thanks for the AWESOME response. I will re-install debian ASAP and give it a REAL try. I'm impressed with the response time, it seems to be at the speed of light. Marlin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: XMMS and CD Audio Broken

2003-03-08 Thread Lonnie Sutton
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 03:05:25AM -0500, Brian Clark wrote: > * Michael Waters ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [Mar 07. 2003 02:10]: > > > Is the cd audio cable attached to the soundcard? :) > > Also, note the last line: > > Package: xmms-cdread > . > Description: Input plugin for XMMS that reads aud

Re: Debian cannot recognize NIC (was Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2003 #814)

2003-03-08 Thread Seneca
On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 05:11:08PM -0800, CM Miller wrote: > Ok, I think I got the right right driver, no how do I > set a static ip address? I've tried a few things, but > nothing has worked. When I first setup my 3c905b, I had to initially use manually use ifconfig. I think what I entered was

Re: XMMS and CD Audio Broken

2003-03-08 Thread Lonnie Sutton
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 01:51:29AM -0500, Michael Waters wrote: > On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 19:04 -0800, Lonnie Sutton wrote: > > I am using Woody 3.0 and XMMS 1.2.7 and until recently had both a SCSI > > CD Burner and an IDE CDROM that I used for normally reading data and > > playing CD's, using XMM

Re: recover lost root password

2003-03-08 Thread Carla Schroder
On Saturday 08 March 2003 5:15 pm, Hugh Saunders wrote: > On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 04:41:36PM -0800, Carla Schroder wrote: > > Well here's a good one, is there a way to get into a system when > > you've lost the root password? Without a CD or boot floppy? Used to be > > you could pass in "init=/bin/

Re: stung by dependancies

2003-03-08 Thread John
I had problems with some compiled GTK apps on unstable, which required different libs ( png problems ), what i did was get hold of those libs and dropped them into /usr/local/lib/gtk_fix i then set up scripts for the couple of programs that need to use those libs as follows - #!/bin/sh expo

Re: stung by dependancies

2003-03-08 Thread Donald Spoon
Marlin Unruh wrote: I would like to switch from an RPM based package handling distro. In fact I installed a debian distro, but uninstalled it because one of the main programs I use is for drawing schematics and PCB. It uses some old components, ld-linux.so.1 and libc-5.3.12-3, both in RPM form.

Re: conflicting backports

2003-03-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Paul Frederiks wrote: > > I have a woody system with my most favorite apps being backports. Today > I installed the gnome 2.2 backport with a lot of gnome goodies. It's a > very usefull and pleasant desktop running my favorite apps galeon, > gnumeric, evolution plus a fast nautilus (which woody's

Re: Another Happy Debian User

2003-03-08 Thread Andy
> the whole experience is enriching. For me personallyDebian is my favorite and what keeps popping into my head when I think about itis that Linux, in general, and Debian, in particular, is very compelling and especially "LIBERATING". That is the one word I use to tell all of my friends,

Re: stung by dependancies

2003-03-08 Thread Greg Madden
On Saturday 08 March 2003 03:58 pm, Marlin Unruh wrote: > ibc-5.3.12-3 There is a libc5 & ldso package available in woody. I don't know for a fact that these are what you need but I use them for an old copy of WordPerfect for Linux. -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Spamassassin Logging to Console

2003-03-08 Thread David Lloyd
Hi There, I have: ii spamassassin 2.20-1woodyPerl-based spam filter using text ii sysklogd 1.4.1-11 System Logging Daemon ii fetchmail 5.9.11-7 POP3, APOP, IMAP mail ii exim 3.36-4 An MTA (Mail Transport Agent) ii procmail 3.22-6

Re: CUPS, HP LaserJet 4L; won't print

2003-03-08 Thread nate
nate said: > Geordie Birch said: > >> Mar 8 00:01:12 skid kernel: lp0: using parport0 (polling). >> Mar 8 00:01:12 skid kernel: ppdev: user-space parallel port driver > > try putting the printer in interrupt-driven mode > > for 2.2.x kernels > > echo 7 /proc/parport/0/irq > (where '7' is the IRQ

Re: stung by dependancies

2003-03-08 Thread nate
Marlin Unruh said: > I would like to switch from an RPM based package handling distro. In fact > I installed a debian distro, but uninstalled it because one of the main > programs I use is for drawing schematics and PCB. It uses some old > components, ld-linux.so.1 and libc-5.3.12-3, both in RPM f

Re: recover lost root password

2003-03-08 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 04:41:36PM -0800, Carla Schroder wrote: > Well here's a good one, is there a way to get into a system when > you've lost the root password? Without a CD or boot floppy? Used to be > you could pass in "init=/bin/sh" from LILO, and work some /etc/shadow > magic. (like copy the

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2003 #814

2003-03-08 Thread CM Miller
>> Did a clean install of Debian Woody w/kernel >> 2.4.18-bf2.4 yesterday and when it came time to load >> modules for my NIC, which is a 3Com Fast Etherlink XL >> 10/100 Base TX, it was giving me errors. Since I >> can't get this machine on my network, unable to get >> apt-get up as well. >>"g

Re: exim & iptables

2003-03-08 Thread Andy
On Saturday 08 March 2003 07:37, Hal wrote: > I'm using Woody as a firewall with NAT to protect a small network that > includes a mail and web server on an unregistered (192.168) > network. I'd like to configure the fw so that it can send mail alerts > to the users via the mail server on the

Re: recover lost root password

2003-03-08 Thread Carla Schroder
On Saturday 08 March 2003 4:41 pm, Carla Schroder wrote: > Well here's a good one, is there a way to get into a system when you've > lost the root password? Without a CD or boot floppy? Used to be you could > pass in "init=/bin/sh" from LILO, and work some /etc/shadow magic. (like > copy the hashed

adding mime support for viewing ps.gz attachments

2003-03-08 Thread Faheem Mitha
Dear People, /usr/lib/mime/packages/gv has only the following lines application/postscript; /usr/bin/X11/gv %s; test=test -n "$DISPLAY"; description=postscript application/ghostview; /usr/bin/X11/gv %s; test=test -n "$DISPLAY" application/pdf; /usr/bin/X11/gv %s; test=test -n "$DISPLAY" Howeve

stung by dependancies

2003-03-08 Thread Marlin Unruh
I would like to switch from an RPM based package handling distro. In fact I installed a debian distro, but uninstalled it because one of the main programs I use is for drawing schematics and PCB. It uses some old components, ld-linux.so.1 and libc-5.3.12-3, both in RPM form. Is there any way I

Re: CUPS, HP LaserJet 4L; won't print

2003-03-08 Thread nate
Geordie Birch said: > Mar 8 00:01:12 skid kernel: lp0: using parport0 (polling). > Mar 8 00:01:12 skid kernel: ppdev: user-space parallel port driver try putting the printer in interrupt-driven mode for 2.2.x kernels echo 7 /proc/parport/0/irq (where '7' is the IRQ assigned to the port in the

Re: Another Happy Debian User

2003-03-08 Thread Shri Shrikumar
On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 23:13, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: > Love you guys. I really do. :) I am with you man. Debian has helped me to take steps that I would never have before. I am now hosting a small time site with mail server, cvs etc. etc. Debian is truly awesome. The best OS *EVER* Shri -- --

why doesn't XF86Config-4 include defoma-managed TrueType fonts?

2003-03-08 Thread Mike Williams
I'm trying to determine the most "standard" way of making defoma-managed TrueType fonts available under X11. I'm using an XF86Config-4 file generated by debconf, ie. # dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 I take the default options wherever possible, including allowing debconf to generate the "F

recover lost root password

2003-03-08 Thread Carla Schroder
Well here's a good one, is there a way to get into a system when you've lost the root password? Without a CD or boot floppy? Used to be you could pass in "init=/bin/sh" from LILO, and work some /etc/shadow magic. (like copy the hashed root password from a different system) But GRUB is different

Re: Script

2003-03-08 Thread Steve Lamb
On 08 Mar 2003 21:46:30 +0200 Tinus Kotze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > appreciate it. I am familiar with programming in delphi,java and a bit > of C, altough no real scripting so far. If you're looking at this as an experience to learn a scripting language I'd say, given the languages listed,

Re: Another Happy Debian User

2003-03-08 Thread p
On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 05:13:53PM -0600, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: > Love you guys. I really do. :) > -- > Let me meddle not in the affairs of Linuxen > For I am an idiot and will toast my boxen. > > http://www.hsv-hotspots.com/ > Your hotspot for Wireless in HSV, AL > > > -- > // yeah, debia

Re: Another Happy Debian User

2003-03-08 Thread debian_newbie
On Saturday 08 March 2003 03:13 pm, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: > Love you guys. I really do. :) I also am one of those. I mucked around in other distros for 2 1/2 years trying to find just "one" that wasn't broken. I am so glad I finally found Debian stable. I run stable with a few testing

CUPS, HP LaserJet 4L; won't print

2003-03-08 Thread Geordie Birch
I have an old HP LaserJet 4L plugged into the parallel port. The printer seems to be in working order: the lights work as expected and a test page can be printed by pressing the sole button on the case. I believe the parallel port is set up correctly: /var/log/messages contains the following two

Another Happy Debian User

2003-03-08 Thread Joseph A Nagy Jr
Love you guys. I really do. :) -- Let me meddle not in the affairs of Linuxen For I am an idiot and will toast my boxen. http://www.hsv-hotspots.com/ Your hotspot for Wireless in HSV, AL -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: iptables + dhcp_client

2003-03-08 Thread Johan Ehnberg
Is this in 'man dhclient-script' under /etc/dhclient-exit-hooks ? It appears that I have to write up my own script, yes? Yes, you'll have to write your own script, but it's not difficult. It's the same as giving commands through a terminal, you just Get More Functionality (tm) and Make the Com

Re: Howto find the Agfa SnapScan 1212p

2003-03-08 Thread Donald Spoon
Joris Huizer wrote: Hello Everybody, I have got this problem: I have an Agfa SnapScan 1212p scanner - but I don't know how to make Debian woody see and communicate with it. I did a small search on "Linux Agfa SnapScan 1212" with few results. Can anybody tell me what I should do to get Linux to w

conflicting backports

2003-03-08 Thread Paul Frederiks
Hi, I have a woody system with my most favorite apps being backports. Today I installed the gnome 2.2 backport with a lot of gnome goodies. It's a very usefull and pleasant desktop running my favorite apps galeon, gnumeric, evolution plus a fast nautilus (which woody's gnome 1.4 lacks). But it wi

RE: How does macrovision work?

2003-03-08 Thread Hell.Surfers
a coax signal that displays perfectly on tv, n' crap on vhs... hmm... Hell Bastard. On Sat, 8 Mar 2003 17:32:03 +0100 Nicos Gollan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- Begin Message --- On Saturday 08 March 2003 17:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > anyone got any ideas? links? Read this: http://www.repa

Re: Build Geramik from Unstable Source

2003-03-08 Thread Andy Hurt
Yuhanes Tjandra wrote: Hi there, I think, I never get a good feeling (and good result) when I try to build unstable source. I can't even imagine the feeling the prople who package this stuff get ;-) Must be good, though. executing apt-get -b source gtk-engines-geramik gives me the following r

Re: Script

2003-03-08 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Tinus Kotze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030308 12:06 PST]: > I am currently using proftp as a server. I am still learning scripts. I > was thinking of using a script to help me with my access. I would like > to take the xferlog and firstly takeout all the ip's that have logged &g

Re: Debian cannot recognize NIC

2003-03-08 Thread Seneca
On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 11:26:50AM -0800, CM Miller wrote: > Did a clean install of Debian Woody w/kernel > 2.4.18-bf2.4 yesterday and when it came time to load > modules for my NIC, which is a 3Com Fast Etherlink XL > 10/100 Base TX, it was giving me errors. Since I > can't get this machine on my

Re: How can I power down the computer?

2003-03-08 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Jeffrey L. Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030308 05:57 PST]: > Quoting Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 06:42:18PM -0600, Ian Melnick wrote: > > > > If there any way to configure debian so it does everything in one step and > > >

Re: Software RAID and drive failures

2003-03-08 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Sat, 8 Mar 2003, Juhan Kundla wrote: > > I have a task to set up a file server. I have very small budget but > quite high demands for data integrity. I must do everything possible to > ensure, that i can recover data after hardware or user failures. > The performance of the computer is

compilation problems

2003-03-08 Thread Christian Fuchs
Dear Debian Community, I just installed Debian 3.0.0r0 from the set of 7 cd's and I am very excited about it (and a new user to debian). I have, however a problem compiling any kind of C - Files. I first tried compiling the kernbel source and got errors; then i write a small hello-word program

Howto find the Agfa SnapScan 1212p

2003-03-08 Thread Joris Huizer
Hello Everybody, I have got this problem: I have an Agfa SnapScan 1212p scanner - but I don't know how to make Debian woody see and communicate with it. I did a small search on "Linux Agfa SnapScan 1212" with few results. Can anybody tell me what I should do to get Linux to work with the scann

Re: Software RAID and drive failures

2003-03-08 Thread nate
Juhan Kundla said: > I buy two smaller (and cheaper) IDE disks and use them in RAID-1 array. I > hope that this gives me good protection against hardware failures. If one > disk fails, then other will still have my data intact, right? The main > question is, that how good is the software RAID, whe

Re: Software RAID and drive failures

2003-03-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 13:40, Juhan Kundla wrote: > Hei! > > I apologise, that i bother you with questions, that are not entirely > Debian specific. I don't know any better place to ask those questions. > If someone here could point a newbie like me to right direction, it > would be very much appre

Re: pci video card suggestions?

2003-03-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 14:15, Phil wrote: > I have an old box I use for a file server and experimenting/testing. it > does not have a AGP video card slot, just pci slots. anyone have a > suggestion for an inexpensive card linux likes? I'm tired of looking at > 640x480 resolution! There are nv

Re: fetchmail and SMTP return codes (was Re: recurring error in exim's log)

2003-03-08 Thread Jason Chambers
On Mar 8 13:44, ScruLoose wrote: > I had no_bouncemail set in fetchmail's global config file (came that way by > default) and also 'set antispam' to a value of -1 (also default) So I > poked at the man page some, commented out no_bouncemail, so fechmail_daemon > is no longer spamming me (local po

Re: Script

2003-03-08 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 09:46:30PM +0200, Tinus Kotze wrote: > I am currently using proftp as a server. I am still learning scripts. I > was thinking of using a script to help me with my access. I would like > to take the xferlog and firstly takeout all the ip's that have logged > into my server. T

Re: Get in Trouble Now

2003-03-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 01:05:14PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 03:51:38PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 11:28:26AM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: > > > The gdm is sid is the GNOME 1.4 gdm; I don't think the GNOME 2.x gdm > > > is there at all. (Not entirel

Freetype & WINE

2003-03-08 Thread Bret Comstock Waldow
Hello all, I'm running Woody, and I've added WINE via apt-get install wine. I'm trying to run a Windows program via wine, getting mixed results. One issue is this: bash-2.05a$ wine planner.exe Invoking /usr/bin/wine.bin planner.exe ... Wine cannot find the FreeType font library. To enable Wine

pci video card suggestions?

2003-03-08 Thread Phil
I have an old box I use for a file server and experimenting/testing. it does not have a AGP video card slot, just pci slots. anyone have a suggestion for an inexpensive card linux likes? I'm tired of looking at 640x480 resolution! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Debian cannot recognize NIC

2003-03-08 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 11:26:50AM -0800, CM Miller wrote: > > > Did a clean install of Debian Woody w/kernel > 2.4.18-bf2.4 yesterday and when it came time to load > modules for my NIC, which is a 3Com Fast Etherlink XL > 10/100 Base TX, it was giving me errors. Since I > can't get this machine

Script

2003-03-08 Thread Tinus Kotze
I am currently using proftp as a server. I am still learning scripts. I was thinking of using a script to help me with my access. I would like to take the xferlog and firstly takeout all the ip's that have logged into my server. Then I would like to use host to lookup the ip and then save under eac

Software RAID and drive failures

2003-03-08 Thread Juhan Kundla
Hei! I apologise, that i bother you with questions, that are not entirely Debian specific. I don't know any better place to ask those questions. If someone here could point a newbie like me to right direction, it would be very much appreciated. I have a task to set up a file server. I have very s

Build Geramik from Unstable Source

2003-03-08 Thread Yuhanes Tjandra
Hi there, I think, I never get a good feeling (and good result) when I try to build unstable source. executing apt-get -b source gtk-engines-geramik gives me the following result: make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/yuhanes/geramik-0.21/geramik' make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/yuhanes/gerami

Re: fetchmail and SMTP return codes (was Re: recurring error inexim's log)

2003-03-08 Thread Jacob S .
On Sat, 8 Mar 2003 13:44:16 -0500 ScruLoose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay, we're getting closer to a solution. (Thank you!) > I had no_bouncemail set in fetchmail's global config file (came that > way by default) and also 'set antispam' to a value of -1 (also > default) So I poked at the

Re: need to run qbasic program on Debian Linux

2003-03-08 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 13:40, K. Matthew Victor wrote: > Greetings, I need to find out how one would go about running a program > that was written in qbasic on a linux machine. Any suggestions? (please > restrain the flames, i realize many of you are experts in programing > etc.. I am not, and new t

Re: need to run qbasic program on Debian Linux

2003-03-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 12:40, K. Matthew Victor wrote: > Greetings, I need to find out how one would go about running a program > that was written in qbasic on a linux machine. Any suggestions? (please > restrain the flames, i realize many of you are experts in programing > etc.. I am not, and new t

Debian cannot recognize NIC

2003-03-08 Thread CM Miller
Did a clean install of Debian Woody w/kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4 yesterday and when it came time to load modules for my NIC, which is a 3Com Fast Etherlink XL 10/100 Base TX, it was giving me errors. Since I can't get this machine on my network, unable to get apt-get up as well. What do I have to do

RE:The SCO IP suit [was Fw: Boycott Caldera/SCO Products]

2003-03-08 Thread Hell.Surfers
indeed, I have header files, I believe have been nicked by NVidia. If SCO win their case, ill win mine... Hell Bastard. On Sun, 09 Mar 2003 02:27:06 +0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Begin Message --- On Sat, 8 Mar 2003 16:25:53 +0530 (IST), Sharninder wrote: [...] > The SCO Group (aka Calder

Re: Subj: CUPS (configuration problem for NON-root) only root can print properly

2003-03-08 Thread nate
iks_kzm said: > I have > lpd/hplj120 > and lpd/postscript > and > > cups that is indicative of multiple spoolers installed on the system, run a dpkg -l | grep lp and see if lpr and/or lprng show up, also it may help to do a dpkg -l | grep apsfilter and dpkg -l | grep magicfilter remove any of t

Re: Subj: CUPS (configuration problem for NON-root) only root canprint properly

2003-03-08 Thread iks_kzm
Thanks for answer. On Sat, 8 Mar 2003, nate wrote: > iks_kzm said: > > > > How one can configure printer for NON-root user? > > be sure you only have 1 print spooler installed. e.g. lpr/lprng > should not be installed. in /var/spool/ I have lpd/hplj120 and lpd/postscript and cups > > /etc/p

Re: need to run qbasic program on Debian Linux

2003-03-08 Thread nate
K. Matthew Victor said: > Greetings, I need to find out how one would go about running a program > that was written in qbasic on a linux machine. Any suggestions? (please > restrain the flames, i realize many of you are experts in programing etc.. > I am not, and new to attempting to run win. stuff

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