On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 02:54:11PM -0500, David A. Rogers wrote:
| I've got a 56k modem on my home machine. Is it feasible/reasonable for me
| to run testing on this machine? I've got 2.2r2 CDs. Any guesstimates as to
| how long it will take for the initial upgrade to testing?
A few weeks ago
On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 10:22:07PM +0200, Matthias Richter wrote:
| Andy Mott wrote on Sun Jul 22, 2001 at 07:45:14PM:
| Bud Rogers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
|
| Ah, yes. I didn't think of MUA's that call external editors. I've
| used kmail for the last year or so, and gnus for years
On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 05:42:32PM -0400, Sunny Dubey wrote:
| hey,
|
| I have two hubs, and I'd like to be able to connect them to each other. Both
| have a port called uplink port, do I need to use a cross over cable to
| connect both hubs using their uplink ports, or should I use a normal
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 09:17:27PM +0100, Graham Ward wrote:
| I just tried to upgrade my system from potato to woody. I believe
| these are the correct steps:
|
| (1) replace potato with woody everywhere in /etc/apt/sources.list
| (2) apt-get update
| (3) apt-get dist-upgrade.
These
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 02:54:45AM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote:
| On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 07:59:15PM -0400, dman wrote:
| I've just spent some time on kernel.org and elsewhere, but I can't
| find any FMs to R regarding the procedure to upgrade from kernel
| 2.2.19 to 2.4.x. Is an apt-get install
On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 09:34:34PM -0400, D-Man wrote:
| On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 02:54:45AM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote:
| | On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 07:59:15PM -0400, dman wrote:
| | I've just spent some time on kernel.org and elsewhere, but I can't
| | find any FMs to R regarding the procedure
] (D-Man)
At the moment I don't really need it (because I am sending directly
from that account) but if I send stuff from my Linux box I need it or
else the MTA will make my linux account the from (and thus the
default reply-to) address which won't work.
HTH,
-D
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 11:00:52AM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote:
| On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 09:43:39AM +0200, Guy Geens wrote:
| Martin == Martin F Krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
|
| Martin instead, it keeps crashing on me... kernel panic in pid 0
| Martin process swapper. however, memtest86
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 04:34:23PM +0100, Keith O'Connell wrote:
| Hi,
|
| I want a new machine, and for fun and education I am going to build it
| from scratch. I have pretty much decided on an Athlon 1.2GHz. I will run
| a small partition with Windows Me on it, but it will predominantly be up
|
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 02:06:29PM -0400, Allan M. Wind wrote:
| On 2001-07-21 13:17:14, Adam Bell wrote:
|
| What I would like to do is have one box, running Debian, which has a
| constant routable IP (via cable or some other sort-of high speed protocol)
| and a normal domain name.
|
|
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 11:56:31AM +0200, Alexander Steinert wrote:
| I do it with a combination of a line in my muttrc and a couple
| of lines in my /etc/mailcap
|
| first put this line in /etc/mailcap:
|
| text/html; /usr/bin/links -dump '%s'; copiousoutput; description=HTML Text;
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 03:16:55PM -0700, Duncan Watson wrote:
| Hi all,
|
| I am a current mutt/fetchmail user and have been for two years or so. I
| use Linux at home and at work and keep about 630MB of mail in various
| maildirs. I use mail to keep all sorts of notes and crap as well.
|
|
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 04:04:09PM -0400, Mike wrote:
[snip]
| This might be a kinda dumb question, but does X need to be running on the
| remote machine? I've tried having X running on the remote machine, but it
| hasn't seemed to make a difference.
X must be running on the local side,
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 09:40:16PM -0400, Andy Saxena wrote:
| It has to do with keymapping. I am feeling too lazy to look up my notes now,
| and hopefully somebody will come along to help.
|
| In the meanwhile use CTRL-A for Home and CTRL-E for End, if you aren't
| already :).
If it is a
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 10:58:56AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 06:03:25PM +0200, Bj?rn Fischer wrote:
| Hello,
| it is me again, trying to start the ne module. Now the module is actually
| trying to start, but alway quits with the message Resource or device busy.
|
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 09:55:45AM -0500, Darryl L. Pierce wrote:
| On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 10:45:34PM -0400, D-Man wrote:
| On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 07:58:17AM +1000, Doug Hespe wrote:
| | Hi J?rgen,
| | I am having difficulty reading your name in mutt where it shows up as
| | J?rgen
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 08:27:49AM -0400, Richard Black wrote:
| For some reason, I can no longer remote login to another terminal and
| display stuff on mine! This started happening last week (with,
| possibly, the changes to gdm...)
|
| I have tried many different things. Typical is something
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 07:17:11AM -0400, Todd V . Rovito wrote:
| I have procmail set up to filter my mail into folders for the list
| servers I belong to. Some days I just don't have the time to read
| the mail in that particular folder (or list server), I would like to
| be able to perform a
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 06:28:54PM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote:
|
| On Thu, 19 Jul 2001 12:10:12 EDT, D-Man writes:
| Based on your examples there, $TERM might be helpful. For example in
| my .cshrc on the school's Solaris box I have
|
| if ( $TERM == linux )
| bash exit
| end
|
| Hmm
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 01:25:58PM -0400, Mike wrote:
| D-Man wrote:
|
| I would use ssh instead of rlogin if you can. Also, enable the
| ForwardX11 option in ssh. If you do this then the display will be
| setup for you and it will be encrypted as well. This is also the
| easiest (only
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 10:39:50AM -0700, Matheson Cameron wrote:
| Hey,
|
| I'm kind of in a fix at work here. I installed debian
| at home, and i brought the machine in here at work,
| but i can't connect to any ftp sites. I've configured
| everything for the LAN at work, but not everything's
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 11:06:47AM -0700, Mike Pfleger wrote:
| Hello.
|
| I'm running testing, and last night I tried to install j2sdk1.3.1 from
| Blackdown. Everything went fine, until apt got to the doc-installer.
| It started to unpack the zip, and then dies when it wants to move the
| doc
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 08:10:24PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote:
| also sprach Joost Kooij (on Thu, 19 Jul 2001 12:25:30PM +0200):
|telnet 127.0.0.1 25
|
| or
|
|telnet localhost smtp
|
| or
|
| netstat -lAinet | grep smtp
|
| which is better since it gives a more certain answer
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 11:51:06AM -0400, Daniel Patrick Berdine wrote:
| Is there an environment variable in bash that can be used to tell where
| bash is running from? For example, is there a variable I can test in
| my .bashrc to tell whether I am running remotly, from a tty, from
|
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 05:19:55PM +0200, Pietro Cagnoni wrote:
| On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 09:23:53AM +0200, Pietro Cagnoni wrote:
| | 2) reboot in maintenance mode (or whatever is called in english: in
| | italian is Modalità provvisoria: 640x480 screen with very few colors);
|
| FYI it is
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 12:54:19PM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote:
| Is there such thing as a GUI File Manager that any
| security and safety consious Debian users would
| use, as ROOT, to manage a file system (i.e. move,
| copy, change permissions) ?? Is it just a better
| practice to use CLI
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 02:22:30PM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote:
| I've never used mc, but I did try gmc a while back. I
| stopped using gmc when I tried to _copy_ some files
| from a floppy. Instead the default drag-n-drop action
| is move.
|
| From being a fairly experienced windows user,
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 10:01:56PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| What is segmentation error and how do you solve it ?
A segmentation fault occurs when a program doesn't behave with its
memory. Generally this only occurs with programs wirtten in a
language that provies direct access to memory
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 07:58:17AM +1000, Doug Hespe wrote:
| Hi J?rgen,
| I am having difficulty reading your name in mutt where it shows up as
| J?rgen. The problem is even worse in Xemacs and in regular Emacs where
| it is shown as =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22J=FCrgen_A=2E_Erhard=22?=.
I don't
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 06:53:51PM +1000, Steve Kowalik wrote:
| On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 04:05:10PM +1000, Brian May uttered:
| Well, in theory, all UDP packets could be numbered, much like TCP
| packets, and you get exactly the same reliability TCP offers. This
|
| I doubt that. UDP isn't a
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 10:18:44PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| I've noticed that progeny Debian has auto-upgrade of kernel upgrades. How do
I do this with my Desktop Debian system, and what are the cons?
apt-get doesn't _automatically_ change (upgrade or downgrade) your
kernel if you
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 09:23:53AM +0200, Pietro Cagnoni wrote:
| 2) reboot in maintenance mode (or whatever is called in english: in
| italian is Modalità provvisoria: 640x480 screen with very few colors);
FYI it is called Safe Mode in English. You may need to press F5
during startup to get the
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 01:12:56AM +1000, Sam Varghese wrote:
| On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 10:43:26AM +0100, J.A.Serralheiro wrote:
| well maybe you misconfigured your video card.
| Run xf86config. Its a text based environment and re-do the configurations.
| It may help. be sure you know what
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 11:32:08AM +0100, Frank Zimmermann wrote:
| Leonard Stiles wrote:
| Note that you can alternatively specify auto as the file-system
| type, in which case it will be auto-detected by mount.
|
| I realized some problemes with auto and vfat, namely long
| filenames. When I
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 07:29:12PM +, Hereward Cooper wrote:
| Is there a gateway HOWTO? I found something along that lines but none of it
| applied to a debian system.
It would be titled IP Masquerade and Linux Networking or something
like that (on linuxdoc).
| Also what do i need a 2.4.6
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 11:06:28AM -0700, William S. wrote:
| I used apt-get install to get the latest unstable
| version of gnucash. When I try to run it I get:
|
| gnucash: error while loading shared libraries:
| libqthreads.so.9: cannot open shared object file: No
| such file or directory
|
|
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 09:39:54AM +1000, Sam Varghese wrote:
| On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 04:15:06PM -0400, D-Man wrote:
| I know you will need iptables for a 2.4 kernel (haven't been there
| yet). For 2.2 kernels it is as simple as apt-get install ipmasq
| (which will install ipchains which
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 06:08:49PM -0700, Nicole Zimmerman wrote:
|
| As far as java itself goes, there are blackdown java 2 packages at:
Yeah, Sun didn't want to pay to make a Linux JDK so instead the
Blackdown people agreed to sign NDAs with Sun for the privilege to
create Linux binaries. It
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 12:03:13AM -0400, Jeff Maxson wrote:
| On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, Petr [Dingo] Dvorak wrote:
| On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, Jeff Maxson wrote:
|
| JM mount -t vfat /dev/hdd1 /zip
| JM
| JM gets me
| JM
| JM hdd: The drive reports both 100663296 and 100646912 bytes as its
capacity
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 12:57:42AM -0400, Evan Flynn wrote:
| Hi.
|
| I tried the Realtek 8139 driver with no parameters and unfortunetely i got
| the device busy error. Please note that I am INSTALLING Debian and
Hmm, that's not fun. What are the numbers on the card itself? Is
there a
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 03:22:09PM +0200, Sebastiaan wrote:
| Hello,
|
| yes, finally succeeded. A guru at school assisted me in building a new
| XF86Config file.
Cool!
| I have attached a working XF86Config (sorry, its for the greater good),
| works with the SVGA driver as well as with S3.
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 05:27:04PM +0200, Ellenkamp, Guus wrote:
| I have an MAD-16 soundcard and thought I installed all the required stuff,
I am not familiar with this one.
| but program's don't recognize the card. How to install correctly?
You need to edit a file in /etc/modutils (I think
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 03:56:02PM +1000, Brian May wrote:
| Jeremy == Jeremy Gaddis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
|
| Jeremy Two possible suggestions: - tunnel the NFS traffic over an
| Jeremy SSH traffic (similar to remote X sessions)
|
| Can you use SSH to tunnel UDP traffic???
|
| (I
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 12:56:34PM +0200, Ellenkamp, Guus wrote:
| Hello Matthias,
|
| Thanks for the reply.
|
| Might be I'm looking for an ADE. I used to work with an Atari-ST, which had
| a nice integrated editor/compiler/linker/debugger (edit sources, compile,
| jump from errors to source,
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 02:27:40PM +0200, Ellenkamp, Guus wrote:
| I don't have the information here, but I'm just compiling a very small
| program which only opens a window, so only the 'basic' library is missing.
| Header files seem ok, it just doesn't link. It gives some errors like
| symbols
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 01:53:36AM +1000, Sam Varghese wrote:
| On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 11:44:06AM -0400, D-Man wrote:
|
| You need to edit a file in /etc/modutils (I think
| /etc/modutils/local_config is a good name) and include some lines like
|
| The file is /etc/modules.conf
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On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 11:44:54AM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
| * D-Man ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
| ...
| Interesting ... from my understanding UDP is a connectionless
| protocol, and as such packets aren't guaranteed to arrive at the
| destination. It seems to me that for a file
| I was unable to create an *windows* filesistem...
|
| mkfs -t vfat /dev/myharddrivepartition..
|
| mkfs.vfat: no such file or directory
I was also wondering since I don't think it was on my system. I just
checked and it is in the 'dosfstools' package. We should probably try
installing that
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 12:45:22PM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
| * D-Man ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
| ...
| Ok, that makes sense. How about if probability leaves us behind
| and a packet is lost? Does NFS provide any way to correct for
| that or will your filesystem be hosed
[I haven't been following most of this thread, but]
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 10:59:23AM -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote:
| Night before last I ran 'find /usr/doc -name index.html foo.txt' and
| then spent 2 hours adding links from foo.txt to my local home/start
2 hours!? Wow. Learn vi(m) or some
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 08:36:22PM +0200, Philipp wrote:
| Hi there,
|
| i have a soundblaster compatible sound card which is pluged on an isa-slot.
|
| I installed the soundcard like this:
|
| modprobe sb irq=5 dma=0 io=220
|
| When i look in the /var/log/syslog i see that a ESS1868 chip is
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 01:43:34PM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
| * D-Man ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
| ...
|
| Now suppose just the right packets are lost and the RPC call ends up
| matching a different, existant, procedure that doesn't have the
| intended effect grin ... sounds like
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 03:09:20PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| thanks to everyone who helped with my mformat problem, but i am
| still unable to get my boot disks working so i though i'd write
| another e-mail in a little bit greater detail
IMO it is much easier to make a boot disk with
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 03:24:06PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
| Jeld The Dark Elf wrote:
|
| There is a wierd problem with ZIP disks. The ones formatted for
| windows have their main partition at /dev/hdd4 while the ones
| formatted with ext2 are /dev/hdd1. Don't know why.
|
| I've never
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 12:13:10PM -0700, Francois Gouget wrote:
| On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, D-Man wrote:
| On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 12:45:22PM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
| | * D-Man ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
| | ...
| | Ok, that makes sense. How about if probability leaves us behind
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 03:43:56PM -0400, Walter Tautz wrote:
Dunno about VPN.
| Basically the problem is to able to setup a lab where people with
| laptops can login into the VPN with the appropriate authentication
| and be able to do `work'. A wireless capability would be bonus but
| not
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 08:36:09PM -0600, Jimmy Richards wrote:
| Hi,
|
| I found that I type 'la' by mistake more often than 'sl', so I made
| symlink for sl to la. :-) I Love that train coming down the track! Ok,
Aliases are better than symlinks because it doesn't muck up your
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 03:41:01PM -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote:
| D-Man uttered:
|
| [I haven't been following most of this thread, but]
|
| On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 10:59:23AM -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote:
| | Night before last I ran 'find /usr/doc -name index.html foo.txt
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 12:28:21AM +, Robin Gerard wrote:
| okay, windoz give me : sound card: sb
| irq :05
| dma :01
| io : 220
| linux give me :sound card sb
| irq:
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 04:58:23PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Hi!
|
| My name is Jim. Windows is a pain in the neck so i decided to use linux ;o)
Great! Welcome to the community.
| But i have a problem with the install. I downloaded the three mirror files
| (.iso) and made myself the
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 03:56:17PM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote:
| On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 09:22:44PM -0500, will trillich wrote:
| On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 06:01:39PM -0400, D-Man wrote:
| ...
| folder-hook . set sort=date ; set index_format=%4C %Z%{%b%d}
%-15.15F(%4l) %s
|
| I think
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 09:56:03PM -0400, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote:
|
| Hi (Jim and D):
|
| Some further notes. The dist-upgrade seems to get stuck trying
| to install libc6-dev2.2.3-5 ( it seems to think that
| this depends on libc62.2.1 ) but this is not available in testing:
I did have
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 08:39:27AM -0500, Donald R. Spoon wrote:
| Evan Flynn wrote:
|
| Has anyone had any luck doing a network install of debian with a D-Link
| DFE-530TX+? What module can I use and if it's not included with the driver
| set where can I download it?
|
| I have about 5 of
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 04:59:06AM +, florentin ionescu wrote:
|
| Sorry for the inconvenience but I am used Hotmail web-mail because can't use
Yeah, it is no fun when your preferred MUA can't be used. See below
for a solution someone gave me so that HTML mail isn't too bothersome
anymore
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 09:04:45AM -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote:
| D-Man uttered:
| On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 04:41:40PM -0300, Juan wrote:
| | HI,
| |
| | Which packages will I have to install to run compile Java? And run Java
| | Server Pages?
|
| kaffe might be enough
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 12:04:24AM +0100, Paul Tansom wrote:
| On Sat, 14 Jul 2001, Rick Commo wrote:
| The module is the via-rhine and it's been included in
| kernel since 2.2 IIRC.
|
| Watch out here. I believe that the via-rhine driver works with an earlier
| of version of this card. The
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 09:16:50AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote:
| On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 06:01:39PM -0400, D-Man wrote:
| On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 03:42:33PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote:
| | Or, better, just tell it that debian-user is a list. Maybe I'm just
| | doing something wrong
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 09:32:54AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote:
| On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 12:13:20PM +0100, J.A.Serralheiro wrote:
| On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Alexey wrote:
| You know, while running DOS or Windows, the CPU is hot (I can touch it),
| even if I do nothing. It becomes cool under
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 04:58:59PM +0200, Schoppitsch Dieter wrote:
| Hi,
| what is going wrong?
|
| Dialing in to my ISP (with pppd) and fetching mails (with fetchmail)
| works well. But then I get the message SMPT connect to localhost
| failed
Do you have an MDA (or MTA) installed on your
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 11:52:35AM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
| * Lamer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
| This would also (theoretically) lead to less power consumption and a
| lower electric bill. Pretty nice! Say, does that HLT instruction
| work on a i486 or only on newer CPUs? I
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 04:41:40PM -0300, Juan wrote:
| HI,
|
| Which packages will I have to install to run compile Java? And run Java
| Server Pages?
kaffe might be enough. There are different versions and vendors of
Java interpreters so it depends on which one you want. Most aren't
DFSG
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 03:53:45PM -0400, Case, Benjamin wrote:
| I am currently d/l all the SID Cd images from
| ftp://ftp.uni-bremen.de/pub/mirrors/debian_cdimages/debian-unofficial/sid/
| .
| I noticed that they are all dated 3/10/2001. How far behind will these
| discs be ?
They'll be
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 04:46:58PM -0400, Case, Benjamin wrote:
| That makes complete sence. Is 3/10 ancient times as far as SID is
March is ancient in OSS terms.
| concerned ? I just want to work with the 2.4 kernel, some Xfree 4
| stuff, and I know that there are SID level dependancies that I
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 04:57:14PM -0400, Daniel Patrick Berdine wrote:
| The Redhat machine I use at work seems to include ./ in the PATH
| variable, I can always run executables from my current directory
| without using ./ like on my home debian system. This has always seemed
| more
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 12:19:01AM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote:
| also sprach Joost Kooij (on Fri, 13 Jul 2001 11:51:14PM +0200):
| Rechnerbeschwoerer
So what's the literal translation?
| cool beans! i'll write that. and if everything fails, you'll hire me,
| right?
Sure wink.
-D
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 06:49:43PM -0400, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote:
| Hi:
|
| I am trying to upgrade testing on my second machine (apt-get
| update; apt-get dist-upgrade) but it aborts. So I first tried to
| install debconf ( apt-get install debconf ) and I get:
|
| Extra Packages to be
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 12:34:59AM +0100, Stig Brautaset wrote:
| Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| ray p wrote:
|
| Or better yet get putty. It supports SSH 2 with public key
| authentication. And is small enough that you can put a key the
| client and the scp and sftp (FTP tunnled
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 01:21:39AM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote:
| also sprach D-Man (on Fri, 13 Jul 2001 07:06:05PM -0400):
| | Rechnerbeschwoerer
|
| So what's the literal translation?
| literally, this is the incantation or conjuration of computers...
Haha! That's good (although I
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 04:27:11PM -0700, crombie wrote:
| hi,
|
| attempting to install linksys nc100 ethernet card on
I haven't heard of the nc100 yet, but ...
| debian potato. when compiling using that long gcc
| command,
|
| gcc -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/net/inet
| -Wall
I want to install gcj on my system. I am running woody, and when I
try and apt-get install gcj it says it needs gcj-2.95. Ok, so I add
that to the apt line. Now it says it will install cpp-3.0 gcc-3.0
gcc-3.0-base and libgcc300. Will there be any problem with letting
apt install gcc-3.0 next
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 08:52:35PM +0930, David Purton wrote:
| questions:
|
| 1. I gather you can get PC66, PC100 and PC133 MHz ram. Does my board
| limit my options to one of these speeds? If so, how can I tell which
| speeds are supported?
Pretty much all I know is that PC133
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 09:15:23AM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote:
|They can either let you run linux, or pay for your
|MCSE courses.
|
| That's reasonable ... as long as they've paid for
| everyone else's MCSE course who uses Windows
| on the campus.
|
| speaking from experience
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 10:52:25AM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote:
| Is it useful to subscribe again to this mailing list?
|
| Since you're message made it to the list and was
| posted, I believe you're subscribed.
|
| Posting to the Debian mailing lists is open to anybody:
| it's not
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 11:52:03AM -0400, Chuck Stickelman wrote:
| D-Man wrote:
| What does the single argument to the kernel mean? (check Linux
| docs, not grub). I am not familiar with it and that may be causing
| the problem.
|
| the `single` argument on the kernel command line stops
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 12:09:11PM -0400, Daniel Patrick Berdine wrote:
| On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Andrei Ivanov wrote:
|
| Well, if its a zombie process, it'll go away by itself after a while.
| Can you send an output of ps aux for that process (or top), please?
| Andrei
|
| not zombie...
|
|
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 01:57:48PM -0400, Andrew Dixon wrote:
| Hi All,
| I've been having some weird problems with ssh. I can connect to our
| server (RH 7.1) but when I try to connect to another Debian box on the
| network (PPC) I get the following message:
|
| [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ssh -l
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 02:30:18PM -0400, User zos wrote:
[ suggestion to put list name in subject ]
I'm on some lists that do this and some that don't. I've found that
when my filters work I like it better when the list doesn't because it
keeps the subject shorter so it may actually fit on my
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 01:35:42PM -0400, Brian Nelson wrote:
| Why on earth would you want a single application to do all of that? Do
This was my reaction also. Just for the record I used to be a
full-time windows user, before I was introduced to Unix and Linux. I
have tried a lot of
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 12:14:56PM -0700, Kurt Lieber wrote:
| Thanks to all who posted constructive feedback regarding my question
| about MUAs. Here's a synopsis of the suggestions, along with URLs for
| the various products:
|
| KDE2.2/Kmailer -- http://www.kde.org/
| Screenshot:
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 03:16:30PM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote:
| Mutt also has a G or g function for groups but I don't
| use it.
FYI, g stands for group-reply, which is called Reply To All in
some other MUAs.
G is used to retrieve mail from a POP3 server.
-D
[ I missed this one the first time. ]
| User zos wrote:
|
| Also since everyone here finds it in good taste to keep all replies
| directed to the list (so we can all benefit) why not add a simple
| reply-to: line?
|
| reply-to: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Don't make this mistake. Instead
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 10:13:04PM -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote:
| On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 11:44:30PM -0400, D-Man wrote:
|
| I want to install gcj on my system. I am running woody, and when I
| try and apt-get install gcj it says it needs gcj-2.95. Ok, so I add
| that to the apt line. Now
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 03:42:33PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote:
| On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 03:16:30PM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote:
| If you use mutt to read your mail, tell it that you subscribe
| to debian-user mailing list.
|
| Or, better, just tell it that debian-user is a list. Maybe I'm
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 01:22:39AM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote:
| also sprach Michael A. Miller (on Thu, 12 Jul 2001 06:16:15PM -0500):
| Can anyone suggest a way to scp from a machine where I'm not
| allowed to install scp? (For example, win98 and win2000 machines
| in our libraries)
|
|
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 01:00:25AM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote:
| also sprach Hall Stevenson (on Thu, 12 Jul 2001 03:16:30PM -0400):
| If you use mutt to read your mail, tell it that you subscribe
| to debian-user mailing list. Then, when you want to reply to
| a message and have it go *only*
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 10:07:36PM -0400, David H. Silber wrote:
| Greetings,
|
| I would like to use DocBook to create the documentation for a project
| I'm working on (see signature) but have been unable to find instructions
| for generating various formats of output.
See the newbiedoc
Disclaimer : I have no experience with ReiserFS, but I do use grub.
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 11:54:49AM -0400, Chuck Stickelman wrote:
| San Segkhoonthod wrote:
|
| GRUB do *support* ReiserFS. My debian boxes have
| ReiserFS root file system and I boot them with GRUB.
|
| Then I've done
On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 10:03:16PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote:
| Jesper Holmberg wrote:
|
| What is the recommended way of adding support for the scroll wheel
| (Logitech mouse) under X4.0.3 and Woody?
|
| here's what I have, it's for the mouseman wheel (with the sidebutton):
snip
I tried
I did some more experiementing with samba mounts last night, and read
the mount, fstab, and smbmount man pages, but couldn't find an
explanation or a solution. I would like to have fstab entries that
reference the samba shares on the win* boxes on my LAN and provide a
global (ie under /mnt)
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