Re: Glib Question

2002-07-01 Thread Matthew Dalton
Osamu Aoki wrote: On Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 11:02:16AM -0700, Larry Smith wrote: I run Potato, which installs with glib 1.2. I notice that recently made applications require newer glibs, such as glib 2.x Is it possible to update the glib version on Potato, or must I update my entire

Re: umount

2002-06-25 Thread Matthew Dalton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't get umount to unmount my cdrom or floppy drive (at least not in a reliable way). So far I have had one horrific crash as a result of this problem :-( . I have tried a lot of different options and read a lot but have seen no solution to device busy etc. I am

Re: AWK: adds ^M at the end of line?

2002-06-24 Thread Matthew Dalton
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 05:10:15AM -0400, Abdul Latip wrote: What file are you trying to read. If it is mail coming from fetchmail, there were some change which causes ^M in mail file. It is ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc-index.txt I believe that that file does not have ^Ms.

Re: OS hallucinates hard drive geometry

2002-06-19 Thread Matthew Dalton
Aaron Maxwell wrote: shiznit:~# df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 11G 4.5G 6.0G 43% / /dev/hda2 926M 65M 814M 8% /mnt/hda2 Note that: 1) /dev/hda2 is smaller than it should be. 2) /dev/hda3 could not be mounted

Re: aptitude, dselect, synaptic at the same time

2002-06-18 Thread Matthew Dalton
Petr Vanek wrote: On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 09:12:41AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: If one sometimes uses aptitude sometimes uses synaptic sometimes uses dselect, and in each sometimes quits out after making his selections and then not following thru and installing the packages, can this lead

Re: what if I have a 2nd cdrom drive?

2002-06-18 Thread Matthew Dalton
Dan Jacobson wrote: I have two CDROM drives. This is apparently not noticed upon debian woody installation. Swifteax. Neateaux. I suppose the distributions of the pros consider that a personal issue or something. I think you're being paranoid. OK, so I must do this myself. OK, I make

Re: Kills Linux hdd's?

2002-06-04 Thread Matthew Dalton
Frank Brodbeck wrote: All worked pretty fine and then suddenly I heard this strange sound from my harddrive. It twanged like the read/write header of the hdd would somehow hang. First of all, the system just froze for several seconds but after short time the system started to freeze

Re: ncurses

2002-04-30 Thread Matthew Dalton
Ted Goodridge, Jr wrote: What package has the header files/libs for ncurses? libncurses5 shared libs libncurses5-dev headers/static libs You can use apt-cache to find this stuff out very easily. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Detatch and re-attatch shell/process?

2002-04-18 Thread Matthew Dalton
Dave Price wrote: screen will do what you like - type screen, run you command, ^A^R to detatch, screen -r later on to reconect. Screen is the best tool for the job IMO, but the detatch command is ^Ad, not ^A^R. Best just to read the screen man page anyway. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: X window cut-n-paste question

2002-04-10 Thread Matthew Dalton
Bill Moseley wrote: Ok, I have to ask. What's the equivalent to windows, mark text to copy, Ctrl-C, move mouse, mark text to replace, ctrl-V to replace? I often find my self highlighting some that I want to paste someplace else. But that someplace else (like a Location entry for a

Re: Mutt and vim just will not play nice for me :-(

2002-04-03 Thread Matthew Dalton
Patrick Kirk wrote: In .muttrc I have this: set editor=vim -c 'set filetype=mail' # Must wrap mail Has anyone got this combo working right? Because mutt won't wrap at all. I just use: set editor=vim -c 'set tw=72 expandtab' (in my .muttrc, of course) Matthew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: fstab mounted windows shares

2002-03-21 Thread Matthew Dalton
curtis wrote: Question: In order to mount at boot windows shares I have the following fstab entry: //Server/sharename/home/Serversharesmb username=user,password=password12 [cut] Surely there is a way to not have to enter my username and password in the fstab. Or is

Re: Installing Debian

2002-03-20 Thread Matthew Dalton
Hi John, John Lynch wrote: I just read the Debian installation manual. And most of it went over my head. I have never used a Linux OS before, and I don't know THAT much about computers, however I am learning. Debian is a wonderful Linux distribution, but it far from the easiest to install for

Re: Installing Debian

2002-03-20 Thread Matthew Dalton
Alan Poulton wrote: Tuesday, March 19, 2002, 10:23:52 PM, Matthew Dalton wrote: You could try an internet install, but I doubt you'll be able to get your system connected to Telstra Cable without a working system first, so it's kind of a chicken-egg problem. I just wanted to point

Re: How to Upgrade from Potato to Woody?

2002-02-26 Thread Matthew Dalton
dman wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 11:58:41AM -0500, Ed Lawson wrote: | | On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 08:58:35AM -0600, David Bell wrote: | | | | | Change all references to 'stable' in /etc/apt/sources.list to 'testing' | | and run apt-get update apt-get -u dist-upgrade. You're now

Re: any ideas? no network traffic gets through

2002-02-24 Thread Matthew Dalton
will trillich wrote: i never have understood the command line args portion of modconf: Please enter any command-line arguments for the XYZ module. Many modules can autoprobe and do not require additional parameters. i don't understand the syntax needed. The 'command line args' portion of

Re: 2 questions

2002-02-22 Thread Matthew Dalton
dman wrote: It isn't too surprising that it still has a 2.0 kernel packaged for it, (in fact, .38 must be fairly new since I thought the 2.0 series ended at .36) but the installer uses a 2.2 kernel. Not only did the 2.0 series not end at 2.0.36, but it is still going. 2.0.40-rc3 was released

Re: VIM command to convert comma delimited text to latex table

2002-02-20 Thread Matthew Dalton
Vineet Kumar wrote: * Abner Gershon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020220 09:01]: Can someone tell me search and replace commands I can use to convert comma delimited text in form: field 1,field 2,field 3 to text file to be used in tabular latex file of form: field 1 field 2 field 3 [cut]

Re: erasing CDRW media?

2002-02-19 Thread Matthew Dalton
Dave Price wrote: Question... Can CDRW media be reused with cdrecord (burning ISO images)? If so, how does one go about 'erasing the media first? cdrecord has a 'blank' option. Read the cdrecord man page ('man cdrecord').

Re: sound is really soft

2002-02-18 Thread Matthew Dalton
Jason Stechschulte wrote: Since I can't seem to remember to turn down the speakers before rebooting, is there something I can do about this behavior? Have you tried using a mixer program to change the volume in Linux? Aumix might be a good starting point.

Re: cvs question

2002-02-17 Thread Matthew Dalton
Charles Baker wrote: Are there any cvs guru's on the list? I had some files that had previously been checked into cvs. There were also some files in the same project which had not been checked in ever. I moved the source to a different machine where I had set up a new repository. I

Re: 486 SX

2002-02-13 Thread Matthew Dalton
Seneca Cunningham wrote: Do think it is possible for me to get it onto my 386 with 1M RAM? I think you might be struggling with only 1Mb of ram to get any Linux distribution running. Even Small Linux (http://www.superant.com/smalllinux/) requires a 386 with 2Mb ram.

Re: date reset on a /dev/ file

2002-02-10 Thread Matthew Dalton
ben wrote: one if my /dev/ files has a mysterious date of 0 april 2001. has anyone had this before. can i/should i manually reset that, and, if so, how is it done? Are you sure you're reading the ls output right? In my /dev directory I have an entry: brw-rw1 root disk

Re: console Editors similar to winedit

2002-01-15 Thread Matthew Dalton
Sam Varghese wrote: On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 03:52:06PM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: Does anyone know of a console editor that might be similar to Winedit? I am moving a number of people from Windows to Linux and all they know is Winedit. I don't want to put them through the grief of

Re: ext2 - reiserfs

2002-01-10 Thread Matthew Dalton
Mirek Dobsicek wrote: I have 2 questions: I was thinking that /etc/mtab is a fixed file ... but it looks it is beeing written during starting the system /etc/fstab is the file you're after.

Re: Hardware advice needed

2002-01-02 Thread Matthew Dalton
Penguin wrote: Potato fails to recognise my video card and I am lost and confused about my modem, since I can't get the packages with my Internet connection (not one of them) because when I specify HTTP or FTP as a source for packages, it fails to dial my ISP. Also, once I had setup wvdial,

Re: How do you access your floppy drive?

2001-12-03 Thread Matthew Dalton
Tobias Wolter wrote: On 2001-12-03T17:42:51 +, Reena Mahbubani wrote: I was wondering how you access your floppy drive from the command line mount /dev/fd0 /mnt Then cd /mnt and voila, there you have your floppy drive. If you're using DOS formatted disks, it's much easier to use

Re: gtk related

2001-11-19 Thread Matthew Dalton
Jeffrin wrote: Is there any chat channel specific to gtk programmer's ? Try looking at http://www.gtk.org

Re: emacs related

2001-11-15 Thread Matthew Dalton
DvB wrote: Jeffrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello all Can anything be done in emacs to eliminate space after a comma or a full stop ? hmm... run some kind of replace-regexp maybe? Don't know how much emacs regexps support though. Personally, I'd probably just run it

Re: Newbie comments queries

2001-11-14 Thread Matthew Dalton
Ian Balchin wrote: Karsten Matthew, Thanks, you have cleared up the mysteries for me. Well, almost. s, if Debian is looking for a bashrc or profile file, it won't mind if it has a dot in front or not, right? : Not exactly... If it's in your home directory, it's got a

Re: Newbie comments queries

2001-11-13 Thread Matthew Dalton
Ian Balchin wrote: I wanted to colorise the prompt. Also (down the road) I wanted to get some colour to joe (they have it yellow and red at the local university) as it is a bit bland with everything white on black. This is something that Joe itself must support for it to work. I don't know if

Re: Shell Scripting Question

2001-11-05 Thread Matthew Dalton
Sunny Dubey wrote: how come the followind doesn't seem to work ... for i in `ls -1 /some/dir` ; do cat /some/dir/$i /usr/fruits.txt done cat just gives me the odd error of files not being found, however, I can't see why the files wouldn't be found ... hrrm ... thanks much for

Re: gnu make files

2001-11-01 Thread Matthew Dalton
Osamu Aoki wrote: On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 10:50:56PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: here's a question I can't seem to find an answer to.. why does GNU make automatically compile .cpp files, but with .cxx files I have to explicitly add a g++ line in the make file? There is no rule for

Re: Word-wrapping text editor

2001-09-25 Thread Matthew Dalton
dman wrote: Ditto for vim. See :help textwidth and :help formatoptions for more details. For writing mails (such as this) I use :set tw=70 fo=tcq. (BTW this can be added to the .vimrc and executed automatically or it can be typed as shown.) You can also set options for individual files

Re: Help installing Debian 2.2r17

2001-09-05 Thread Matthew Dalton
Hall Stevenson wrote: No worries here... Using seperate physical drives makes things much easier. This will actually be a LILO 'issue', but it can handle it just fine. One thing: Install Lilo to your 'first' (/dev/hdaX) hard disk's MBR. Don't install LILO to the MBR! If Windows 2000 is

Re: Problems with network connection after upgrading from potato to woody

2001-07-17 Thread Matthew Dalton
Laurent PETIT wrote: I tried route : it does'nt work, it doesn't even want to give me the prompt, What about 'route -n'? 'route' by itself does DNS lookups, so maybe that's where your problem lies (or maybe you can't reach your DNS because of the broken route ;) Matthew

Re: CVS breaks Makefile (pattern contains no % ??)

2001-07-13 Thread Matthew Dalton
Eric G. Miller wrote: should i use something different? Use the -ko flag to add in CVS for the generated files to stop keyword expansion. If you want to use keyword expansion, then you have to be careful in your usage (especially with perl or shell scripts). You can change/add -k flags to

Re: hi masters of linux, surely you know some tricks...

2001-06-28 Thread Matthew Dalton
thomas anderson wrote: I want to try to put a perl script in the /usr/lib/perl directory however I don't have permission access...I tried symlinking it but it still won't work. is there I way to do this without becoming root or sudo? I think you misunderstand how Unix/Linux systems are

Re: Problems installing postfix

2001-05-23 Thread Matthew Dalton
jennyw wrote: Is this normal? I tried installing exim and sendmail instead, but the same thing results. Do I have to do something special to get the spool files created? Do I have to do something special to get the postfix (or whatever) to write to the spool files? Postfix probably creates

Re: modutils

2001-05-23 Thread Matthew Dalton
Oki DZ wrote: It seems that libc6 has to be upgraded too; what are the consequences of having unstable libs on a stable machine? Why not compile your own modutils package from the sources in unstable? You don't need to upgrade glibc then. Well, actually, my question is: what unstable

Re: modutils

2001-05-23 Thread Matthew Dalton
Matthew Dalton wrote: Oki DZ wrote: It seems that libc6 has to be upgraded too; what are the consequences of having unstable libs on a stable machine? Why not compile your own modutils package from the sources in unstable? You don't need to upgrade glibc then. Instructions

Re: lyx (was Re: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel)

2001-05-21 Thread Matthew Dalton
Karsten M. Self wrote: - What happened to Klyx? The homepage is 404 http://www.lyx.org/~ettrich/klyx.html, and its parent suggest it won't come back any time soon http://www.lyx.org/~ettrich/ (K'mon, people: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/backups.html). Luckily,

Repost (Re: lyx (was Re: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel))

2001-05-21 Thread Matthew Dalton
Sorry about the last post... my fingers slipped on the 'send mail' kb shortcut. That's what I get for using Netscape messenger... Karsten M. Self wrote: - What happened to Klyx? The homepage is 404 http://www.lyx.org/~ettrich/klyx.html, and its parent suggest it won't come back any

Re: Repost (Re: lyx (was Re: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel))

2001-05-21 Thread Matthew Dalton
Karsten M. Self wrote: That doesn't work for me. I've found in the past that Google uses distributed servers, on which content may vary. Could you resubmit the URL above resolving a numeric IP for your local Google server? Try:

Re: [OT]: apache won't run cgi-script

2001-05-17 Thread Matthew Dalton
Cameron Matheson wrote: I'm having a little trouble w/ apache. When I go to my page (www.mifix.net), it says i don't have permission to execute the script. Everything's fine as far as permissions on the script go, so I'm assuming this is something wrong w/ my httpd.conf, anyone seen this

Re: /usr/src is empty

2001-05-02 Thread Matthew Dalton
John Willey wrote: Feeling rather silly, but I don't seem to have anything in this directory. I was trying to compile the drivers for a Linksys 10/100 PCI card, and it couldn't find various files. I checked, and discovered that nothing is in there. It's looking for the kernel headers.

Re: spam here and there

2001-05-01 Thread Matthew Dalton
Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: I am getting this now in my private email here as well as via the debian-user list. I assume my address came from this list. Are others on this list getting this personally too? Yeah, the lowlife spammer scum sent one to me as well.

Re: ReiserFS + 2.4.4

2001-05-01 Thread Matthew Dalton
William Leese wrote: also, is it 'safe' to use hdparm when having reiserfs partitions? If you used it with ext2 partitions, I don't see why using it with reiserfs would be a problem. It's all disk access. I'll be doing the following: 1) backup each dir and its subdirs with tar (tar cf

Re: ReiserFS + 2.4.4

2001-05-01 Thread Matthew Dalton
William Leese wrote: 3) rm -rf /usr, /lib.. etc after mounting the vfat partition which also contains a copy of /sbin and /bin untarred. Hmmm... aren't there important things in /lib, namely libc? would that be needed for running mkreiserfs, tar and perhaps a few other gnu tools?

Re: Newbie: Netscape woes

2001-04-27 Thread Matthew Dalton
David Carlile wrote: Thank you very much. I don't feel too dumb... There wasn't any sort of error message. There would have been one if you had run it from an xterm. Try it and see - load an xterm and type netscape. If you're root, you'll see the error. The restriction that Netscape can't be

Re: documentation rant

2001-04-26 Thread Matthew Dalton
Michael P. Soulier wrote: /rant Are you talking about one or two HOWTOs in particular? Which ones? Could it be that these HOWTOs are distribution-specific?

Re: Documentation for total beginners

2001-04-19 Thread Matthew Dalton
Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote: I don't use Mutt all the time, but you can set it to 72 by typing :set columns=72 If you're using a vi-type editor. You can tell mutt what editor to use by setting that up in a local .muttrc - and then set up your vi clone to default to 72 columns if

Re: making bootable CD from running debian setup

2001-04-18 Thread Matthew Dalton
will trillich wrote: Point me to the faq -- i don't know where to look for it or what it might be named... Objective: to create a bootable CD for a Debian network hub-like system that'll have NO hard drive (and probably no keyboard or monitor, either). booting from

Re: Power off Button

2001-04-05 Thread Matthew Dalton
Dumb wrote: I don't really have an answer, but sometimes on my machine I have to hold the button for like 5 seconds before it shuts off, and at other times it just shuts off with no problem. I don't have an answer either, but I have had interesting experiences wrt auto power off. Windows

Re: ResiserFS?

2001-04-05 Thread Matthew Dalton
Brian May wrote: I have heard rumours of it causing data corruption on 2.4.x kernels, including 2.4.3. That's interesting. Where did you hear about the corruption under 2.4.3? I have never had a problem with it myself though... I haven't had any problems with it either, but I haven't

Re: getting /bin files for debian unstable x86

2001-04-05 Thread Matthew Dalton
Karsten M. Self wrote: $400 USD cost more than my computer cost Completely irrelevant. I wish I could say that. I'm a student I don't have extra cash. This and your other responses are largely irrelevant. Bordering on tiresome. System administration, like economics, is about

Re: Q: Any Linux on 2MB Ram?

2001-03-28 Thread Matthew Dalton
Jonathan Gift wrote: I don't think so. I have an old, very old, laptop floating around with 2MB ram on it. Anyone know of a Linux distro that will run on it? Maybe one of the embedded one's? If it's a 386 or higher you might find a floppy based distro that will run on it. http://lwn.net has a

Re: SourceForge binaries

2001-03-27 Thread Matthew Dalton
francisco m . neto wrote: I one does so, and installs the package using dpkg, won't the apt-get database get dependency problems when one tries to install some other package that depends on the first package? The apt-get database and the dpkg database are one and the same. Actually,

Re: Time

2001-03-27 Thread Matthew Dalton
stephen wrote: I'm having a heck of a time getting my system time set correctly. /etc/localtime is a symlink to the proper time zone. I've looked in /etc/default/rcS and switched UTC from yes to no and back again. And, I've read the man page for hwclock a few times. Still, my system time

Re: Serial port problems

2001-03-26 Thread Matthew Dalton
Michael Dickey wrote: eth0: Xircom Cardbus Adapter (DEC 21143 compatible mode) rev 3 at 0xa00, 00:10:A4:E6:B8:2E, IRQ 3. eth0: MII transceiver #0 config 3100 status 7809 advertising 01e1. serial_attach(bus 35, fn 1) tty00 at 0x0a80 (irq = 3) is a 16550A Does it work if you don't have your

Re: Quicktime *.mov player

2001-03-26 Thread Matthew Dalton
Matheson Cameron wrote: XAnim Rev 2.80.0 by Mark Podlipec Copyright (C) 1991-1999. All Rights Reserved Video Codec: Sorenson Video not yet supported.(E18) Sorenson Video not supported, and is not likely to be for a while yet due to patents, agreements between Sorenson and Apple, and Apple

Re: nvidia drivers - file missing

2001-03-26 Thread Matthew Dalton
Tomaas Ortega wrote: ive had the same problem when it comes to installing natsemi drivers for my netgear ethernet card. 2.4.x have the modversion files but it seems 2.2.x do not. I just edited the source. all works perfectly now... I believe that this file is created when you do 'make dep'

Re: Help with XFree86Setup

2001-03-22 Thread Matthew Dalton
Jason Majors wrote: Try upgrading to 4.x it supports more cards, and I'm not sure if the v3 is supported by 3.3.6 (plus 4.x is just sooo much better). The Voodoo3 is supported by Xfree86 3.3.6. I think it would be better for this guy to get some experience with Linux before he attepmts to

Re: Cc: ing to debian-user when replying to a question

2001-03-21 Thread Matthew Dalton
Jimmy Richards wrote: There is something I have been confused/wondering about for some time. I thought I once saw someone say in their reply that they didn't need to Cc: to debian-user@lists.debian.org when replying to a message because they are already signed up on the mailing

Re: Problem reading Windows CDR

2001-03-21 Thread Matthew Dalton
Alexander Poquet wrote: However, I was unable to play the MP3s off the CD -- I presumed this was because I have an old computer whose CD read speed was simply too slow. How slow? I used to have problems reading some (not all) CD-Rs with my old 2x cdrom. The problem was just that the drive was

Re: Problem reading Windows CDR

2001-03-21 Thread Matthew Dalton
Alexander Poquet wrote: How slow? I'm actually not sure, because I didn't buy the computer. Is there some way to tell how fast Debian thinks it is? I don't know... Well, as it happens, the CDR that works (the Debian one) and the CDRs that don't (the MP3 M$ formatted ones) are the same

Re: Linux wannabe

2001-03-21 Thread Matthew Dalton
Bill White wrote: You've never used Windows ME have you? I once interviewed with someone who said that If you don't reboot Windows 10 times a day you aren't working hard enough. Of course, when I worked on Linux device drivers I had the same thoughts. That's fair enough... I mean, device

Re: New user missing his true-type fonts

2001-03-19 Thread Matthew Dalton
Paul D. Smith wrote: I did this a few months ago and wrote it down; try this and see if it helps: http://www.paulandlesley.org/linux/debian_tt.html If you've got the doc-linux-text package installed, you'll find the truetype-debian howto somewhere under /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/ (I

Re: laptop boot image?

2001-03-05 Thread Matthew Dalton
Michael P. Soulier wrote: Hey people. I heard a rumour that the toshiba laptop I have works with Slackware, so while I wasn't able to get Debian's boot disks to work, the Slackware bootamp.i image worked great. Is there a Debian laptop-specific boot disk? Toshiba laptops have a problem

Re: Reconstructing Var?

2001-02-28 Thread Matthew Dalton
John Travis wrote: Is there an easy way to reconstruct the basic heirarchy and files for /var? I had a reiserfs meltdown after installing 2.4.2. When you say 'meltdown', what exactly do you mean? Can you go into more detail about what appeared to happen? What kernel version did you upgrade

Re: did something stupid - removed gzip

2001-02-26 Thread Matthew Dalton
CaT wrote: On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 12:18:01AM -0600, Jason N. Price wrote: Okay, I just did something that, in hindsight, was very stupid. :) I have been getting a lot of errors from gzip, so I decided to apt-get remove it and then re-install it. I removed it, but I now seem unable to

Re: debian-user: strange problem with VIM and cursor keys.

2001-02-26 Thread Matthew Dalton
Brendan J Simon wrote: When I use VIM in an X terminal (eg. gnometerm), I can't use the cursor keys to navigate whilst in insert mode. *However*, if I have a ~/.vimrc file with nothing in it, I *can* navigate with the cursor keys in insert mode. Very strange. Is this a bug or have I got

Re: How did linux corrupt hda1 (C: drive) fat16 filesystem?

2001-02-26 Thread Matthew Dalton
M David Tilson wrote: You didn't do 'cp foo /dev/hda1', did you? Probably yes. Is there any way to recover? Have you tried running fsck.msdos under Linux?

Re: How did linux corrupt hda1 (C: drive) fat16 filesystem?

2001-02-25 Thread Matthew Dalton
M David Tilson wrote: Tried to cp a file from hda2 (linux) to hda1 (fat16). Now lilo cannot find anything on c: to boot. You didn't do 'cp foo /dev/hda1', did you?

Re: scsi emulation

2001-02-22 Thread Matthew Dalton
Michael P. Soulier wrote: So I'm told I need scsi emulation for my IDE CD writer and xcdroast. So, I recompile 2.2.18pre21 with scsi support, emulation and scsi cdrom support. xcdroast still complains. [cut] Help? http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO.html

Re: Ip masquerading help

2001-02-20 Thread Matthew Dalton
Guilherme Barile wrote: From a computer in the 10.0.0.x network I can ping the internet (via ADSL) and any computer on the 10.0.1.x network (vice versa for the computers on the 10.0.1.x net) BUT, i cannot access the servers connected to NIC2 (eth1) directly I need some special rule for

Re: autofs example

2001-02-20 Thread Matthew Dalton
Alvin Oga wrote: /etc/auto.master /.autofs/etc/auto.misc --timeout 600 I found that with the debian autofs init script (/etc/init.d/autofs), the timeout option wasn't parsed properly unless it was specified like so (YMMV): /.autofs/etc/auto.misc timeout=600

Re: Missing C Lib man pages

2001-02-20 Thread Matthew Dalton
Todd V . Rovito wrote: It seems like I am missing my standard C man pages. Is there a way to get these installed?? I am sure its apt-get install something, what is the something? Have you tried looking for it with apt-cache search man? (That's 'apt-cache search man', not 'apt-cache search,

Re: Can't connect two debian boxes via PLIP

2001-02-15 Thread Matthew Dalton
Dr. Aldo Medina wrote: I'm trying to connect my PII 350 with Debian 2.2r2 potato (kernel 2.2.17) with my PIII 800 with Debian woody (2.2.18 recompiled) using a laplink cable. I've followed PLIP-Howto steps, but even when I already tried two cables (which work under Windows, I know this

Re: Can't connect two debian boxes via PLIP

2001-02-15 Thread Matthew Dalton
Chris Majewski wrote: No idea, but I had the same problem last summer, and gave up (I was setting up a new machine and ended up transferring the data via 100M Zip disks).. Well, I've done it. It's how I installed debian slink onto my laptop (over a year ago now). I used an anonymous ftp

Re: A debian-based distro for the New

2001-02-15 Thread Matthew Dalton
Forrest English wrote: Be a real friend and help them start off with the *right* distribution. or you could get down off your high horse... realize that linux, is still linux. all of those still have a lot of debian's good parts there, basicaly with some gui config tools, which are

Re: virus detection

2001-02-07 Thread Matthew Dalton
Zac Epkes wrote: I was unable to see who said there where no Viruses for UNIX based systems, i jsut wanted to tell anyone and everyone, im sure there are Virueses for ALL systems of anykind, even that old TANDY or whatever you can pull out of your closet/attic (hehe im only 17 here) im

Re: mouse - clicks heard on speaker

2001-02-06 Thread Matthew Dalton
will trillich wrote: hardware newbie whenever i move my mouse -- for every single pixel (or every mouse pointer redraw) -- i hear a small 'click' through my speakers. this happens on both console (alt-ctl-f[1-6]) and in X displays... any ideas? what further information could i provide?

Re: The Next Yahoo

2001-02-06 Thread Matthew Dalton
Brooks R. Robinson wrote: Spam. The other other white meat ;-). I thought Spam was pinkish I thought the other other white meat was baby...

Re: The Next Yahoo

2001-02-06 Thread Matthew Dalton
will trillich wrote: On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 01:11:13PM +1100, Matthew Dalton wrote: Brooks R. Robinson wrote: Spam. The other other white meat ;-). I thought Spam was pinkish I thought the other other white meat was baby... that's funny to someone who's never had, only

Re: [OT] perl regex problem

2001-02-05 Thread Matthew Dalton
Hunter Marshall wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp - od -x junk 000 6968 0a0a 0a0a 0a0a 000a 011 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp - perl -n -e 'print yup\n if /\x0a/;' junk yup yup yup yup yup yup yup [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp - perl -n -e 'print yup\n if /\x0a\x0a/;' junk This one-liner is

Re: permission-denied

2001-02-05 Thread Matthew Dalton
T. Green wrote: HELP -- NOVICE I am tring to install software from my cdrom and i keep getting the following responce. bash: /Setup.sh: permission denied My question is why, i am in root. help Maybe you have mounted your cdrom with the 'noexec' option? Check in your /etc/fstab for

Re: Toy Story???

2001-02-01 Thread Matthew Dalton
Rino Mardo wrote: yeah! :-) well the prospector can also be at the same level as sid. I for one can't wait to be installing the Debian 'Stinky Pete' release ;)

Re: Kernel Error ?

2001-01-24 Thread Matthew Dalton
Jorge wrote: Last day linux gives me this error: Unable to handle kernel null pointer dereference at virtual adress 0024 current tss.cr3 = 2d6c5000, %cr3 = 2d6c5000 *pde = and after that hungs up. This Linux has kernel 2.2.15 with 2 GB RAM and 1GB Swap. Try updating to

Re: Perl 5.6 and potato

2001-01-24 Thread Matthew Dalton
mike polniak wrote: Arcady Genkin wrote: I'd like to install Perl 5.6, without upgrading potato's default 5.005. Do you think that if I installed Perl 5.6 under /usr/local and renamed the executable to perl-5.6 for instance there would be any issues with using it or it interfering with

Re: Perl 5.6 and potato

2001-01-24 Thread Matthew Dalton
Ethan Benson wrote: On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 03:39:49PM +1100, Matthew Dalton wrote: The alternatives system probably takes care of it. /usr/bin/perl is probably a symlink to /etc/alternatives/perl, which is in turn a symlink to either

Re: Package Garbage Collection

2001-01-23 Thread Matthew Dalton
Martin Fluch wrote: On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Matt Miller wrote: How do I detect packages on which nothing depends? I know I must have accumulated a number of these that I no longer want. Short of running dselect (or storm?) and performing a package- by-package examination, what can be

Re: package holding doesn't work in dselect

2001-01-23 Thread Matthew Dalton
Cameron Matheson wrote: I wanted to install wmaker for my newly compiled X4, but I can't because it requires me to install xfree86-common and xlib6g. This won't do, so I put those two packages on hold, but then it comes up with the dependancy problem screen, with them re-selected. Why

Re: more on memory problem

2001-01-23 Thread Matthew Dalton
If there were a FAQ for this list (is there?), this would be the first question in it. Ken Weingold wrote: what happens is that applications don't release memory when they are done. Ken Weingold also wrote: 6:13pm up 20 min, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 27 processes: 26

Re: more on memory problem

2001-01-23 Thread Matthew Dalton
Matthew Dalton wrote: Mem: 517500K av, 49412K used, 468088K free, 14644K shrd, 22516K buff ^^^ There's your 'free' memory. Line wrapping killed the meaning... 22516K buff - that's the bit I meant... :/ ^^^

Re: epson stylus color 740 - ugly printing

2001-01-18 Thread Matthew Dalton
Erik Steffl wrote: http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net thanks for the response. I did install the gimp-print but: [cut] I haven't actually used gimp-print... I don't own a colour printer, so I don't know the answer to your questions (although someone else on debian-user might). A good

Re: epson stylus color 740 - ugly printing

2001-01-16 Thread Matthew Dalton
Erik Steffl wrote: I have epson stylus color 740 printer and cupsys 1.1.4-3 the printing seems to be working but: lp -d epson740 picture.jpg # 360 dpi prints a picture but it's ugly, the colors are quite off (not completely off, just noticeably different) Like I said to

Re: Epson Stylus Photo 870

2001-01-15 Thread Matthew Dalton
Jay Ford wrote: Text printing works, which is good. The problem is that graphic (PostScript...) doesn't work well or at all, probably because I don't have the right printcap entries, gs devices, and/or magicfilter filters. I dug through the HOWTOs, list archives, other places, but can't

Re: slink archive?

2001-01-09 Thread Matthew Dalton
Lachlan Patrick wrote: Is slink archived anywhere? A year ago I installed slink on my venerable 486/8MB system and it worked like a charm. Now, slink is apparently gone from the net, so if I just want to install a few packages for my 2.0.38 kernal, how do I do it? I'm a big fan of the if it

Re: Need help setting up parallel printer

2001-01-09 Thread Matthew Dalton
David Shepherd wrote: I've just switched from Redhat 6.2 to Debian 2.2r2 and can't get my DeskJet695C working. Everything worked fine under RH using printtool to set it up. [cut] When I try echo this is a test /dev/lp0 I get su: /dev/lp0: No such device Have you

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