Re: minimal wine confing?

2002-01-21 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 11:04:15PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > I'm building a Debian woody box to replace my wifes HP-UX worksation. > > One of the +must haves_ from her is the ability to play the Windoze version > of solitare (which she does using WABI, remeber WABI?). Yes, I've shown > her severa

Re: Moving root partition

2002-01-21 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 08:26:49AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > On 21 Jan 2002, Nic Strong wrote: > > > I need to move my root parition to another disk. > > My question is it safe just to drop to single user mode, copy the file > > system over, update fstab, lilo.conf and reboot ? > > Make sure that it

Re: iptables in potato

2002-01-20 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 09:31:01AM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On 20/01/02 Colin Watson did speaketh: > [snip...] > Strange. I read an article in the Linux Journal that stated that many > people were upset in the 2.0 to 2.2 transition because they had to drop their > tried and tested ip

Re: dselect

2002-01-20 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 08:20:02AM +, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 10:00:17PM -0700, Asura wrote: > > > > > Completely unattended upgrades are a worthwhile goal, but they aren't > > > possible in the general case yet. > > > &g

Re: dselect

2002-01-20 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 10:00:17PM -0700, Asura wrote: > > > Completely unattended upgrades are a worthwhile goal, but they aren't > > possible in the general case yet. > > I am interested in this because if I'm at home, and telnet to my linux > which is at work, I'd like to tell it to upgrade re

Re: apt errors

2002-01-19 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 04:05:24PM -0500, icewind0 wrote: > Hello. I'm trying to do an apt-get dist-upgrade. I get the error below. > I did the apt-get update before this and I got errors when it came to > the security updates section. What is going wrong and how do I fix this? > > Reading Package

Re: Reconfiguring outboud mail

2002-01-19 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 10:33:28AM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > I'm in the process of building my wife a new machine (woody). > > Frankly when I first isntalled it, I did not pay much attenntion to seting > up mail, and now I'm ready to set it up. > > What do I need to do to rerun the mail configur

Re: removing directories in /usr/share/doc/

2002-01-19 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 09:12:22AM -0800, Patrick Dahiroc wrote: > > Many times, there will be specific doc packages, > > i.e. this > > output from "dpkg -l | grep doc" : > > gnome-db-doc > > gnome-dev-doc > > gnome-doc-tools > > gnumeric-doc > > kernel-doc-2.2.20 > > kernel-doc-2.4.1

Re: setting up mail server

2002-01-18 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 12:44:02PM -0500, Ken Weingold wrote: > Thanks for the reply about setting up smarthost. I reconfigured exim > for that and It works.But now All mail sent out from the machine > gets bounced, saying: > > > Remote host said: 550 relaying to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> prohib

Re: parallel port reading and writing

2002-01-17 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 10:21:26PM +, J.A.Serralheiro wrote: > hi folks. > forgive me for posting just another boring message. I am building > some hardware to work in the parallel port. I want to have full control of > the parallel port control register, to use as some signal lines. In the >

Re: Help! Random reboots after booting

2002-01-15 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 03:30:47PM +, Jason Wood wrote: > Hi, > > Recently, for the last month or so, I have been suffering my computer > occasionally rebooting on bootup. I only found out for sure today, because I > normally let my computer get on with booting whilst I make a cup of tea, et

Re: Where is the etherewake executable

2002-01-15 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 04:08:43PM +, Dougie Nisbet wrote: > Has anyone else tried this? I thought I'd give it a go (woody) and did > apt-get install etherwake without any problems. But I can't find any > executable program. Did updatedb followed by locate etherwake and I get: > > [...] > >

Re: broken "man"

2002-01-14 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 09:41:38AM -0800, icewind wrote: > Hello, > > I installed the lastest stable release of debain over > the network, installing a minimal number of packages. > > Shouldn't 'man' be part of the base install? When I > type man, the system doesnt find anything. I believe it *i

Re: Pentium 4 Processors & 2.2.20 Kernel

2002-01-14 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 03:12:55PM +0100, Holger Rauch wrote: > Hi! > > Are Pentium 4 processors supported by a 2.2.20 kernel out-of-the-box? Yep. I guess that you ask because it mentions i386. This i386 refers to the *architecture* i386 (i.e. to the i386 processor and its offspawn). > If not,

PPP and dial-back

2001-05-22 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
I have now managed to get dial-in access to work. Unfortunately being a MS-shop, they run Windows NT and the like. And to allow me to dial in, I've been issued with a Win2000 laptop (where I don't have any administrator privileges). They support dial-back - and I would like to make use of it from

Re: GPG on Linux kernel source

2001-05-09 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Forgot to reply to the 2nd part of the mail, so here goes: On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 12:28:33PM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > Hi, > > Recently I tried to verify the source from www.linux.org, but I had the > following: > > BTW, for verification of originality of the tarball, wouldn't it be > easier usin

Re: GPG on Linux kernel source

2001-05-09 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 12:28:33PM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > Hi, > > Recently I tried to verify the source from www.linux.org, but I had the > following: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gpg --verify linux-2.4.4.tar.bz2.sign linux-2.4.4.tar.bz2 > gpg: Signature made Sat Apr 28 08:48:08 2001 JAVT using DSA key

Re: Printer Failure

2001-05-03 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
7;t have to print that > often. Have faith. Unless you hardware is broken or unsupported, it *is* possible to get it working. > > Thanks again, > Steve > > On Sun, 29 April 2001, "Karl E. Jorgensen" wrote: > > The box is a Debian Woody distro running on an

Re: Getting StarOffice to print

2001-04-30 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 11:30:39AM +1000, Mark wrote: > Nuhn Yobiznez wrote: > > > --- Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have gs, lprng, apsfilter etc on my potato system > > > and it works. I can > > > print from Abiword, Netscape and the command line. > > > > > > However, nothing happens

Re: Printer Failure

2001-04-29 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 08:34:15AM -0700, Steve Gran wrote: > Hello all, > I am new to the Linux world - I've only had a Linux box for about four > months. The box is a Deabian Woody distro running on an AMD K6-400, I > use lpr to print and I have an HP 712C, which up until now ran fine. > Two

Re: VMware

2001-04-26 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 07:48:08PM -0700, Elfert wrote: > VMware works fine under root but for some reason refuses to work under > another user. It keeps on insisting that it doesn't have permission even > though every file - windows.cfg, windows.dsk, windows.log, windows.nvram has > definitely

Re: debian newbie "tip-of-the-day" signature script

2001-04-25 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 05:26:57PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > > > > > > BTW -- > > > > > > i got this idea from the postgresql "pg-general" mailing list; they > > > append a random tip to each outgoing message. (i've only seen five > > > distinct tips, which ain't too impressive, but the conc

Re: debian newbie "tip-of-the-day" signature script

2001-04-24 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 10:32:43AM -0500, will trillich wrote: > not very, not yet. when i see question #X go by for the tenth > time in a month, i add a quickie (and hopefully i don't get them > wrong). short answer: 26 so far. i try to keep them under four > lines, but that ain't always feasibl

Re: ipmasq

2001-04-24 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 09:14:50PM +0200, Michael Steiner wrote: > As far as I know masquerading is working only for tcp. Have to disagree there. Works fine for UDP too for me. > Domain services are using mainly udp. > Therefor I have running at the firewall a dns server. Always a good choice. A

Re: Problem dialing in via mgetty.

2001-04-22 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 10:33:09PM +1000, Alan Eugene Davis wrote: > I am putting together a four machine (Debian) GNU/Linux network in my > HS classroom. It's substantially working, and, I might add, much to > the credit of the Debian team and the excellent install setup. I am > running 2.2, p

Re: GUI for cvs

2001-04-22 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 03:01:12PM -0700, Edwin G. Castro wrote: > Does anyone know if there is a GUI for cvs? I need to find out for my dad > and he says that a GUI for cvs would interest him a lot. He doesn't care if > it's for X or for Windows. Thanks for everyone's help! > > --Edwin G. Castro

Re: static routes

2001-04-22 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 08:06:33PM -0700, Forrest English wrote: > in redhat, there's /etc/sysconfig/static-routes > > is there an equivalent of this in debian? i grep'd around a little in /etc > looking for static, but nothing turned up. > > pointers anyone? /etc/network/interfaces? -- Karl E.

Re: Static linkage of files in /sbin /usr/sbin

2001-04-21 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 12:39:55AM +0200, Victor Foitzik wrote: > Hi folks, > > maybe this is not the right mailing list, but I don't know where to ask, so > this > is my problem: why are binaries in /sbin and /usr/sbin not statically linked > against libraries ? Thought the 's' stands for static

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