RE: eth0/eth1 which one?

2004-02-15 Thread Shaddy.Baddah
Shaddy just rejoiced over my response (see ``purity -p nerd|grep ^100'') ;-), and felt an irresistible compulsion to rephrase it. Besides, s/he has other problems like replying both to me and the list, and [1]TOFU, besides being rude. [1] http://www.vranx.de/mail/tofu.html I sincerely

Re: sarge installer successes?

2004-02-15 Thread Steven Leach
Please write to the debian-boot list and describe the problems you've had, they love install reports :-) When I tried the Beta 2 a week or two ago, I tried (as per the instructions on the debian-installer website) to file a bug report. Fill out template

Debian's Perl installation

2004-02-15 Thread kynn
Here are a couple of posts that I recently found while reading Usenet news. I have myself run into similar problems/questions as the author describes, so I thought I'd re-post them here. (BTW, the few replies the OP received are not helpful.) kj P.S. please cc me in your replies.

Re: mapping mouse buttons

2004-02-15 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 02:19:33PM -0500, Anthony R. J. Ball wrote: I have been looking around with no luck. Is it possible to map extra mouse buttons, like buttons 6 and 7, to keycodes? For instance, map button 6 to alt-tab? imwheel can do this. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get

Re: ssh -X from A through B to C

2004-02-15 Thread Cristian Gutierrez
Mark Gillingham wrote: On Wednesday, February 11, 2004, at 12:36 AM, Cristian Gutierrez wrote: % ssh -X -v web2.mydomain.org /usr/X11R6/bin/xcalc [...] Error: Can't open display: As someone else already pointed out in answer on this thread, you may be missing the xbase-clients package, which

Re: Holy Shee-it

2004-02-15 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 12:21:30AM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: http://infoworld.com/article/04/02/13/HNlinuxoffice_1.html That's a wierd story. Not from IBM's perspective. Reminiscent of the OS/2 for Windows 2.1 product, which pulled me out of Windows into alternatives. Kenward -- In a

Re: Does dpkg -l refer only to installed, as opposed to available, packages?

2004-02-15 Thread David
On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 12:12:38PM -0800, C. Chad Wallace wrote: Mario Vukelic wrote: On Sat, 2004-02-14 at 03:24, Colin Watson wrote: It says the same for me in the man page for dpkg-query(8), but when I do a dpkg -l, all the packages listed are either 'ii' (meaning selected and

Re: Rip DVD audio: TOC for CD?

2004-02-15 Thread Bill Moseley
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 05:26:28PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 07:26:26AM -0800, Bill Moseley said 2) If I extract audio into a large wav file is there a tool that would allow me to set track locations when burning the audio? In other words, anyone know of a (GUI?) tool

Re: mozilla bugs: The BTS is vary difficult to use at present.

2004-02-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 05:54:38PM -0800, Mike Mestnik wrote: I was just reporting a bug about mozilla-browser and I was swamped with 426 outstanding bugs. There are many more if you look at othe mozilla pkgs. I should read all of these every time a report a bug and to be honest I didn't. If

Re: gdb 6.0 (unofficial) backport from unstable to testing available?

2004-02-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 12:12:07PM +0100, Holger Rauch wrote: Since gdb 6.0 has not yet officially made it into testing due to some dependency problems, where can I find a backported version of gdb 6,0 to Debian testing so that I can debug my program using gdb 6.0? Backports from unstable to

kernel 2.6.2: no arp replies with Intel Etherexpress 100 - no connection; works fine with 2.4.23

2004-02-15 Thread Mario Vukelic
Hi, OS is Debian Woody + backports (mainly backports.org). This machine has 2 NICs. It does IP masquerading for the internal LAN. eth0 is a Broadcom 4400 onboard interface (on Asus P4PE). Kernel module is b44. It is used by pppoe to connect to my ADSL provider. eth1 is an Intel Etherexpress 100

Re: sarge installer successes?

2004-02-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 09:42:03AM -0500, Steven Leach wrote: When I tried the Beta 2 a week or two ago, I tried (as per the instructions on the debian-installer website) to file a bug report. Fill out template (http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/report-template) check.

Re: modules

2004-02-15 Thread cdummy
Thanks o lot. I see discover running. I'll try installation without discover and with discover. Since I'm running SCSI/IDE system I'll compile drivers form my controllers to kernel. No initrd needded Thanks Rob Weir wrote: On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 11:15:34AM -0500, cdummy said Hello. I'm new

Re: Rip DVD audio: TOC for CD?

2004-02-15 Thread csj
On 14. February 2004 at 7:26AM -0800, Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I know how to rip to audio from a dvd using mplayer. Here's one way: mplayer -quiet -ao pcm -aofile a.wav -vo null -vc dummy dvd:// I have two questions: 1) I assume that there's some type of table

Re: aol art files:

2004-02-15 Thread Mkrista8765
can you please remove all art files for me please it is really slowing my computer down or how do i find the art files and delete them?Thank you

Re: apt-proxy without inetd

2004-02-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 02:05:14PM +0100, Benedict Verheyen said - Original Message - From: Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2004 6:54 AM Subject: Re: apt-proxy without inetd Hi, is it possible to run apt-proxy without inetd? I'm not

logrotate: three questions

2004-02-15 Thread Monique Y. Herman
Hi all! I've looked in the logrotate man page, /usr/share/doc/logrotate (not much there), and google, and I can't seem to find the answer to these questions: 1) I'd like to have the option of never deleting the backups for certain files. The 'rotate' keyword doesn't seem to do this for me,

Re: Linux Compatibility Issue

2004-02-15 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-14, Abdul Latip penned: Hello: Once in a while, users are asking me about the compatibilty problem of Linux. They reasoning that M$Office can be installed anywhere like Win98, WinME, WinNT, et. al. Whereas it is hard to install a RedHat package into Debian, and so on. Actually,

Re: recommended reading?

2004-02-15 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 17:44:03 +1100, Rob Weir wrote: On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 07:16:54AM +0100, Thorsten Haude said * s. keeling wrote (2004-02-09 06:44): Just because it doesn't mention kde 3.x doesn't mean it's obsolete. The book is 20 years old! There wasn't even an X Window to speak of!

Modifying pdf metadata

2004-02-15 Thread Ian Melnick
Hello all, Does anyone know of a utility that can update the document fields / xml info (or create it) in a pdf file? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sarge installer successes?

2004-02-15 Thread Steven Leach
Hmm. Your message was a multipart/alternative message, one part plain text, the other part text/enriched, which seems to be a strange pseudo-HTML kind of thing (RFC 1896). The bug tracking system's logic follows the MIME specification and takes the last part it understands. Unfortunately, it

Re: Quasi-(un)deletion question

2004-02-15 Thread Jan Minar
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 09:20:55AM -0500, Tim Otten wrote: The other day, I did something really stupid. I started a download with BitTorrent, and, half-way through, deleted the file it was downloading. The file still existed because the torrent client had it open. I could use 'lsof' to get

Re: Debian on 640KB or RAM?

2004-02-15 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 06:40:06AM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 09:48:58PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: Mike writes: I don't think the 80286 has a memory management unit It does, but the architecture is different. A 286 won't run Linux. Are you sure? I thought

Re: aol art files:

2004-02-15 Thread John Hasler
Mkrista8765 writes: can you please remove all art files for me please it is really slowing my computer down or how do i find the art files and delete them? Thank you find / -name '*.art' -exec rm \{\} \; -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To

Re: jabber server howto

2004-02-15 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 08:52:43AM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: I want you to know Paul that I appreciate your help. For example, I didn't know about this site for the jargon. That is already a good new thing. Thanks. No problem, glad to help.

Re: Rejecting viruses the Right Way[tm]

2004-02-15 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 12:48:02AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: Because the large upstream that can't do a decent job of running a smarthost also can't do a decent job of policing their network or shutting down spammers on their network. The

Real Time Clock won't boot

2004-02-15 Thread Michael West
When I compile the Real Time Clock into my kernel I cannot complete the boot process and login. This is true in single user mode. Strangly, most of the boot process completes. The hang appears to be in the /etc/rcS.d scripts. The last message to the screen is WARNING:

Re: Holy Shee-it

2004-02-15 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 12:21:30AM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: http://infoworld.com/article/04/02/13/HNlinuxoffice_1.html That's a wierd story. Yeah, no kidding. I've gone and posted that up on my website...that's just bizarre. http://ursine.ca/ -

Re: ADSL ISP in UK

2004-02-15 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 12:31:53PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: On (15/02/04 00:28), Pigeon wrote: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Pigeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 00:28:26 + Subject: Re: ADSL ISP in UK On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 03:12:09PM +, Clive Menzies wrote:

Re: Something horribly broken in Sid's debconf

2004-02-15 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 03:23:56AM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: I just noticed that in debconf questions I can't arrow up/down, but I can tab and enter. I tried rolling back to the previous version of debconf but that didn't fix it. This repros on 2

Re: Debian on 640KB or RAM?

2004-02-15 Thread John Hasler
Pigeon writes: I think the 286 extended the concept of far pointers somehow to extend the addressing range to 16 megs and make it a bit more like a proper MMU, but you were still limited to 64k blocks. Sort of. The 286 had a truly brain-damaged segmentation scheme. It did run protected-mode

Re: Quasi-(un)deletion question

2004-02-15 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 09:20:55AM -0500, Tim Otten wrote: The other day, I did something really stupid. I started a download with BitTorrent, and, half-way through, deleted the file it was downloading. Is it possible to access the file using a

Re: How to install Debian with Promise FastTrak 376 chip onboard?

2004-02-15 Thread Antony Gelberg
Please don't CC me. It's in my sig and it's list policy. On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 09:21:40PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 02:24:28AM +, Antony Gelberg wrote: I came in a bit late here. Have a look on my site - http://www.antgel.co.uk/compsci/linux/promise_raid.shtml.

Re: cdparanoia a song in negative space

2004-02-15 Thread i'll teach you to turn away.
Jan Minar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: JM On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 06:39:56AM +, i'll teach you to turn away. 6[-1:30]-6[-0:02]. does anyone know how i can trick cdparanoia to do this, or know of another program/bit of code that would comply? thanks. JM File a bugreport. heh. thanks?

Re: Quasi-(un)deletion question

2004-02-15 Thread Martin Dickopp
Tim Otten [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The other day, I did something really stupid. I started a download with BitTorrent, and, half-way through, deleted the file it was downloading. The file still existed because the torrent client had it open. I could use 'lsof' to get an inode number -- but

Re: Real Time Clock won't boot

2004-02-15 Thread John Hasler
The last message to the screen is WARNING: no network interfaces found which is what I get when mounting samba shares I am mounting at boot. This means that the _next_ service is hanging. Sounds like a hwclock problem. Try upgrading util-linux. If that fixes it file a bug. -- John Hasler

Re: Quasi-(un)deletion question

2004-02-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 10:41:41AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 09:20:55AM -0500, Tim Otten wrote: The other day, I did something really stupid. I started a download with BitTorrent, and, half-way through, deleted the file it was downloading. Is it possible to access

Re: logrotate: three questions

2004-02-15 Thread Joey Hess
Monique Y. Herman wrote: 3) Permissions. The logrotate app is only executable by root on my box. I'm trying to imagine the situation in which giving a normal user access to logrotate would hurt anything, as long as logs have appropriate permissions. Could the paranoid among us speak up and

Re: Quasi-(un)deletion question

2004-02-15 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Martin Dickopp: Tim Otten [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The other day, I did something really stupid. I started a download with BitTorrent, and, half-way through, deleted the file it was downloading. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ echo This is a test. t.txt [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ tail -f

downloading dependency files

2004-02-15 Thread lsrwein
I've recently installed spamassassin on debian stable using a backport. spamassassin_2.63-0.backports.org.1_all.deb. Got the following dependency errors: *** dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of spamassassin: spamassassin depends on

Building packages from source with my options

2004-02-15 Thread dana sibera
Is there some central way in debian to build source packages with certain compiler options forced on? I have a few PPC machines here, PPC601 to be precise, and those CPUs have quite a few instructions left over as part of the POWER chips that they derived from; instructions that no other PPC

Re: Quasi-(un)deletion question

2004-02-15 Thread Tim Otten
(1) debugfs(8) or equivalent Ah! debugfs looks perfect. I probably couldn't have added an entry for the file (because the filesystem was mounted, and the man page doesn't say whether it's safe to edit a live filesystem), but the 'dump' command worked fine in a test that I just did. (2)

Re: How to install Debian with Promise FastTrak 376 chip onboard?

2004-02-15 Thread Antony Gelberg
On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 05:17:39PM +0100, Danny wrote: Hi Antony, you are the man, which saved me! Install with the help of your webpage was easy and fast and the installer detected my harddisk (no raid). But now after reboot, I can't boot. Grub crashes and showed only the Grub prompt at

Re: Something horribly broken in Sid's debconf

2004-02-15 Thread Nano Nano
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 10:38:23AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 03:23:56AM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: I just noticed that in debconf questions I can't arrow up/down, but I can tab and enter. I tried rolling back to the previous version of debconf but that didn't fix

Re: Building packages from source with my options

2004-02-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 06:19:55AM +1100, dana sibera wrote: Is there some central way in debian to build source packages with certain compiler options forced on? Try pentium-builder. Despite the name, it can be used for other processors too. This isn't really a general way to build source

Re: How to install Debian with Promise FastTrak 376 chip onboard?

2004-02-15 Thread Nano Nano
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 06:42:56PM +, Antony Gelberg wrote: Please don't CC me. It's in my sig and it's list policy. It's your fault. Your mail includes the header: Mail-Followup-To: Antony Gelberg [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] which makes Mutt's list-reply function add

Re: Quasi-(un)deletion question

2004-02-15 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 12:11:18PM -0700, s. keeling wrote: However, that's just standard *nix filesystem behaviour. You can rm 'til the cows come home, but as long as one symlink to the data remains, the data remains as well. Hard link not symlink :) Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL

Re: downloading dependency files

2004-02-15 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 01:00:34PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there an easier way to go about collecting dependencies? Use apt instead of trying to do it by hand. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' : `. `'` proud

Re: Quasi-(un)deletion question

2004-02-15 Thread Jan Minar
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 02:03:06PM -0500, Tim Otten wrote: file (because the filesystem was mounted, and the man page doesn't say whether it's safe to edit a live filesystem), but the 'dump' command worked fine in a test that I just did. It's not. You did it the most right way. -- Jan Minar

Re: logrotate: three questions

2004-02-15 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-15, Joey Hess penned: Monique Y. Herman wrote: 3) Permissions. The logrotate app is only executable by root on my box. I'm trying to imagine the situation in which giving a normal user access to logrotate would hurt anything, as long as logs have appropriate permissions. Could

Re: cdparanoia a song in negative space

2004-02-15 Thread Jan Minar
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 06:22:53PM +, i'll teach you to turn away. wrote: yeah, ripping the whole cd just doesn't see the negative space. i don't even know how they recorded this, let alone how i can get it off They probably used a microphone? Seriously, this might be yet another

Re: logrotate: three questions

2004-02-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 12:20:26PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: On 2004-02-15, Joey Hess penned: That would be a violation of debian policy, and is not the case on any of my systems. -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 33K Oct 9 2002 /usr/sbin/logrotate* Well, Bastille locked

Re: Ext3 journaling errors

2004-02-15 Thread GCS
On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 06:16:07AM +, Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Feb 14 00:23:12 herby kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device Feb 14 00:23:12 herby kernel: hda4: rw=0, want=1940101904, limit=24418800 Feb 14 00:23:12 herby kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device Feb

Re: Debian on 640KB or RAM?

2004-02-15 Thread Steven Leach
On Feb 15, 2004, at 1:39 PM, John Hasler wrote: Pigeon writes: I think the 286 extended the concept of far pointers somehow to extend the addressing range to 16 megs and make it a bit more like a proper MMU, but you were still limited to 64k blocks. Sort of. The 286 had a truly brain-damaged

Re: downloading dependency files

2004-02-15 Thread lsrwein
Paul Johnson writes: On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 01:00:34PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there an easier way to go about collecting dependencies? Use apt instead of trying to do it by hand. *** Yes, but I want to install an unstable package on stable

Re: logrotate: three questions

2004-02-15 Thread David Clymer
On Sun, 2004-02-15 at 11:16, Monique Y. Herman wrote: Hi all! I've looked in the logrotate man page, /usr/share/doc/logrotate (not much there), and google, and I can't seem to find the answer to these questions: 1) I'd like to have the option of never deleting the backups for certain

Re: downloading dependency files

2004-02-15 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 02:02:34PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Johnson writes: On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 01:00:34PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there an easier way to go about collecting dependencies? Use apt instead of trying to do it by hand. Slightly better but,

Re: Building packages from source with my options

2004-02-15 Thread dana sibera
On 16/02/2004, at 6:32 AM, Colin Watson wrote: On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 06:19:55AM +1100, dana sibera wrote: Is there some central way in debian to build source packages with certain compiler options forced on? Try pentium-builder. Despite the name, it can be used for other processors too. This

Re: [Repost] F-prot update cron script fails

2004-02-15 Thread Edward J. Shornock
Hello VSJ, Wednesday, February 11, 2004, 3:38:58 PM, you wrote: V Unfortunately, this doesn't work, I get an e-mail twice a day with the V following subject: V Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] root if [ -x /usr/lib/f-prot/tools/check-updates ]; V then /usr/lib/f-prot/tools/check-updates -cron -quiet; fi

Re: cdparanoia a song in negative space

2004-02-15 Thread David T-G
crank -- ...and then i'll teach you to turn away. said... % ... % yeah, ripping the whole cd just doesn't see the negative space. i % don't even know how they recorded this, let alone how i can get it off Strange indeed. Like Jan, I'm interested in your results (my little collection

Re: recommended reading?

2004-02-15 Thread Thorsten Haude
Hi, * Rob Weir wrote (2004-02-15 07:44): On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 07:16:54AM +0100, Thorsten Haude said * s. keeling wrote (2004-02-09 06:44): Just because it doesn't mention kde 3.x doesn't mean it's obsolete. The book is 20 years old! There wasn't even an X Window to speak of! I haven't

Re: logrotate: three questions

2004-02-15 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-15, Colin Watson penned: On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 12:20:26PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: On 2004-02-15, Joey Hess penned: That would be a violation of debian policy, and is not the case on any of my systems. -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 33K Oct 9 2002

Gnus not including text in follow-up

2004-02-15 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
Have been trying to use Gnus. When trying to F (follow up quoting message), I get: run-hooks: Symbol's function definition is void: turn-on-mime-edit Checked my .emacs.el etc, but I really have no idea about what to look for or where. Any tips welcome. --

Re: downloading dependency files

2004-02-15 Thread lsrwein
Osamu Aoki writes: Hi, On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 02:02:34PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Johnson writes: On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 01:00:34PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there an easier way to go about collecting dependencies? Use apt instead of trying to do it by hand.

Re: Debian and Gigabyte m/b GA-6BXDU

2004-02-15 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 09:31:24PM +1100, Phillipus Gunawan wrote: Hi there, I had a gigabyte motherboard, GA-6BXDU - rev1.3, dual PIII 500 with scsi 50pin and 80pin on board. To boot from cd-rom, this m/b only support cd-rom boot via scsi, it wont allow me to boot ide cd-rom, that is what

Re: Debian testing kernel for use with pwcx.o (webcam) module.

2004-02-15 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 07:30:04PM +, Adam Funk wrote: I have a Logitech QuickCam 4000 Pro and a Debian sarge system on an Athlon 1100 with the 2.4.23-1-386 kernel. I've tried to use the pwcx module from http://www.smcc.demon.nl/webcam/ by copying pwcx-8.4/2.4.23/gcc-3.2/pwcx.o to

Re: downloading dependency files

2004-02-15 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 03:28:03PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It may be better to completely move to unstable. Do many people use unstable for production systems? For my web server, I run Woody (Stable) and use an occasional file from backports.org if I need something more current. --

Re: downloading dependency files

2004-02-15 Thread Chris
On Sun, 2004-02-15 at 22:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Osamu Aoki writes: Hi, On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 02:02:34PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Johnson writes: On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 01:00:34PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there an easier way to go about

Re: cdparanoia a song in negative space

2004-02-15 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 06:22:53PM +, i'll teach you to turn away. wrote: yeah, ripping the whole cd just doesn't see the negative space. i don't even know how they recorded this, let alone how i can get it off (digitally - i can always record it to cassette take that to .wav,

Re: downloading dependency files

2004-02-15 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 02:02:34PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In collecting all the needed .debs it takes some time and patience in order to determine which ones should be installed first. Just wondered if there was an easier way. The lazy way is to stick 'em all in a directory and then

Re: Quasi-(un)deletion question

2004-02-15 Thread Tim Otten
/proc/PID/fd seems to work just fine; see transcript below. OMG. That does work. I didn't try it because the file looks like a symlink in 'ls' -- a similar process with symlinks on a normal filesystem will produce different results: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ echo This is a test t.txt [EMAIL

Re: k3b: unable to find cdrecord executable

2004-02-15 Thread Chris
On Sun, 2004-02-15 at 11:56, Midnight wrote: I've installed k3b on my machine and every time I start k3b up, it gives me an error message: unable to find cdrecord executable. I undoubtedly have cdrecord installed on my machine. ls -al cdrecr* in /usr/bin provides the following output:

Re: Debian testing kernel for use with pwcx.o (webcam) module.

2004-02-15 Thread Jerome R. Acks
On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 07:30:04PM +, Adam Funk wrote: I have a Logitech QuickCam 4000 Pro and a Debian sarge system on an Athlon 1100 with the 2.4.23-1-386 kernel. I've tried to use the pwcx module from http://www.smcc.demon.nl/webcam/ by copying pwcx-8.4/2.4.23/gcc-3.2/pwcx.o to

Re: Quasi-(un)deletion question

2004-02-15 Thread Martin Dickopp
Tim Otten [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: /proc/PID/fd seems to work just fine; see transcript below. OMG. That does work. I didn't try it because the file looks like a symlink in 'ls' -- a similar process with symlinks on a normal filesystem will produce different results: Yes, /proc is quite

kernel upgrade and LVM

2004-02-15 Thread wattoo
Hello, I am running a Debian unstable with kernel 2.4.18 and LVM support. # df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/vgos/root248M 150M 86M 64% / /dev/vgos/usr 248M 135M 101M 58% /usr /dev/vgos/tmp 124M 14K 118M 1% /tmp /dev/vgos/var

Re: Real Time Clock won't boot

2004-02-15 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 10:11:02 -0800, Michael West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: When I compile the Real Time Clock into my kernel I cannot complete the boot process and login. This is true in single user mode. Strangly, most of the boot process

Disable plugins in Mozilla?

2004-02-15 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Is it possible to disable a specific plugin (like Flash) in Mozilla without physically removing the files from the plugins directory (or renaming them)? -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone [662-518-1636] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: logrotate: three questions

2004-02-15 Thread Joey Hess
Monique Y. Herman wrote: Is this really a bug, or just a bad/pointless idea? I mean, it asked me if I should lock these tools down, and I said yes. I can always loosen up permissions on a case by case basis. Unless bastille closes down access to programs like perl, python, gcc, the shell,

Re: apt-proxy without inetd

2004-02-15 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Rob Weir] apt-proxy is a shell script, and thus cannot run as a daemon. Well, you could hack something together with netcat, but that has about as much point as using a screwdriver as a chisel. inetd is the right tool for the job. Peter signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: downloading dependency files

2004-02-15 Thread lsrwein
Chris writes: On Sun, 2004-02-15 at 22:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Osamu Aoki writes: Hi, On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 02:02:34PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Johnson writes: On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 01:00:34PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there an easier way to go

Re: cdparanoia a song in negative space

2004-02-15 Thread i'll teach you to turn away.
David T-G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DTG ...and then i'll teach you to turn away. said... DTG % yeah, ripping the whole cd just doesn't see the negative space DTG Strange indeed. Like Jan, I'm interested in your results (my little DTG collection comes to about 4700 tracks from a few over 600

Re: cdparanoia a song in negative space

2004-02-15 Thread i'll teach you to turn away.
Pigeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: P On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 06:22:53PM +, i'll teach you to turn away. wr yeah, ripping the whole cd just doesn't see the negative space. i P ...so an audio CD player does play it OK? I've never encountered this P problem myself, so don't know about a

Re: How to install Debian with Promise FastTrak 376 chip onboard?

2004-02-15 Thread Antony Gelberg
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 11:35:12AM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 06:42:56PM +, Antony Gelberg wrote: Please don't CC me. It's in my sig and it's list policy. It's your fault. Your mail includes the header: Mail-Followup-To: Antony Gelberg [EMAIL PROTECTED],

[VIRGE] VIRUS NOTIFICATION

2004-02-15 Thread Virge
# VIRUS NOTIFICATION # A message you sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] contains a virus or a worm, and was not delivered. -- DATE : Sun, 1 Feb 2004 09:30:50 +1200 SUBJECT: (UNKNOWN) VIRUS : WORM_MYDOOM.A -- It is possible your computer is infected

Re: kernel upgrade and LVM

2004-02-15 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 15 February 2004 02:19 pm, wattoo wrote: Hello, I am running a Debian unstable with kernel 2.4.18 and LVM support. # df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/vgos/root248M 150M 86M 64% /

Re[2]: [Repost] F-prot update cron script fails

2004-02-15 Thread Edward J. Shornock
Oops...I was wrong # cat /etc/cron.d/f-prot-installer # Regular cron jobs for the f-prot-installer package # # automatically update the f-prot(tm) virus signature definitions # (.DEF files) with the 'check-updates' bash script. # NOTE: Don't use this script in combination with mailscanner.

Re: Holy Shee-it

2004-02-15 Thread Christian Schnobrich
On Son, 2004-02-15 at 19:35, Paul Johnson wrote: Yeah, no kidding. I've gone and posted that up on my website...that's just bizarre. [btw, for all that didn't follow the link: it says there's to be a Microsoft Office for Linux] Hmmm. Reminds me of something I read years ago: if Linux gains

Re: Gnus not including text in follow-up

2004-02-15 Thread Richard Hoskins
Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Have been trying to use Gnus. When trying to F (follow up quoting message), I get: run-hooks: Symbol's function definition is void: turn-on-mime-edit Checked my .emacs.el etc, but I really have no idea about

Re: apache won't start although no errors

2004-02-15 Thread Brian
Hi, man strace ? I have the same problem with apache. What do I look for in the strace? - Here is the tail end of the output: If I run sudo strace /etc/init.d/apache restart, I get: ... waitpid(-1, Processing config directory: /etc/apache/conf.d [WIFEXITED(s) WEXITSTATUS(s)

Re: kernel upgrade and LVM

2004-02-15 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 23:19:18 +, wattoo wrote: I used lvmcreate_initrd to build an initrd with LVM support. I never got this to work. I just compiled my own kernel with built-in LVM (not a module). And RAID too. -- Leandro Guimares Faria Corsetti Dutra +55 (11)

Kde gone

2004-02-15 Thread Dan Weikert
Greetings, I recently started exploring Debian. I installed Woody and after a day or so upgraded to Sarge. While exploring the available packages I eventually upgraded to kernel 2.4.24 and shortly after that installed xearth. While monitoring the progress of the apt-get install xearth I saw some

Skolinux; unable to change resolv.conf

2004-02-15 Thread Kent Tenney
Howdy, I just installed Skolelinux, standalone profile, and the nameserver values in /etc/resolv.conf are wrong. I run # ifdown --all Edit /etc/resolv.conf then run # ifup --all /etc/resolv.conf has the same wrong values as before editing. What else do I need to do? Thanks in advance for any

Re: Kde gone

2004-02-15 Thread Chris
On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 03:02, Dan Weikert wrote: Greetings, I recently started exploring Debian. I installed Woody and after a day or so upgraded to Sarge. snip . If I do an apt-get install kde now, I get the following errors- - # apt-get install kde Reading

Re: Kde gone

2004-02-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 09:02:16PM -0500, Dan Weikert wrote: I recently started exploring Debian. I installed Woody and after a day or so upgraded to Sarge. While exploring the available packages I eventually upgraded to kernel 2.4.24 and shortly after that installed xearth. While monitoring

Re: Holy Shee-it

2004-02-15 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-16, Christian Schnobrich penned: On Son, 2004-02-15 at 19:35, Paul Johnson wrote: Yeah, no kidding. I've gone and posted that up on my website...that's just bizarre. [btw, for all that didn't follow the link: it says there's to be a Microsoft Office for Linux] But provided by

Debian's Perl installation

2004-02-15 Thread kynn
[ I already sent this in many hours ago, but for some reason it hasn't been posted to the list, so I'm sending it in again. My apologies for any repeats. ] Here are a couple of posts that I recently found while reading Usenet news. I have myself run into similar problems/questions as

Re: Kde gone

2004-02-15 Thread Adam Aube
On Sunday 15 February 2004 09:02 pm, Dan Weikert wrote: I recently started exploring Debian. I installed Woody and after a day or so upgraded to Sarge. While monitoring the progress of the apt-get install xearth I saw some disturbing lines indicating kde was being removed The archives

Re: How to install Debian with Promise FastTrak 376 chip onboard?

2004-02-15 Thread Nano Nano
On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 01:07:54AM +, Antony Gelberg wrote: All correct, what a plum I am. Except for this. I asked not to be CC'd. You CC'd me. The fact that your MUA uses Mail-Followup-To: does not remove your obligation to check that the To: field of an email that you send is

Re: Holy Shee-it

2004-02-15 Thread Adam Aube
On Sunday 15 February 2004 09:15 pm, Monique Y. Herman wrote: On 2004-02-16, Christian Schnobrich penned: [btw, for all that didn't follow the link: it says there's to be a Microsoft Office for Linux] But provided by IBM, not MS, right? (At least, that's what I recall from the slashdot

Re: Kde gone

2004-02-15 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 09:02:16PM -0500, Dan Weikert wrote: Any suggestions from those more experienced? I'll be happy to provide any further information but don't be shy about giving explicit instructions. :) After updating I always use the '-s' option to apt-get first before actually

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