Re: adding new hard disk

2004-01-05 Thread Travis Crump
Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Mon, 05 Jan 2004 at 12:51 GMT, Paul Morgan penned: On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 23:09:31 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Mon, 05 Jan 2004 at 06:59 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] penned: On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 08:07:30PM -0800, Anita Rohani wrote: Hi A few hard disk partitions

Re: adding new hard disk

2004-01-04 Thread Travis Crump
panda wrote: Hi Actually her question brings up an interesting point. Suppose this needed to be done in a big corporation where it is necessary to maintain some level of service and the question of scalability is a very important one. They would prefer some means of doing the same adding

Re: lost adobe fonts in Mozilla

2004-01-03 Thread Travis Crump
Arthur H. Edwards wrote: I just upgraded to testing and lost the adobe fonts in Mozilla. How do I get them back? Art Edwards Remove mozilla-xft. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: David Grudek/COR/AXE is out of the office.

2003-12-29 Thread Travis Crump
Colin Watson wrote: On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 10:01:07AM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 01:21:12 +, Colin Watson wrote: On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 05:39:16AM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 00:50:16 +, Ken Gilmour wrote: I believe the Americans do it

Re: wanting to play .asx files

2003-12-27 Thread Travis Crump
Scott Berry wrote: Hi there, Is anyone aware of a player which will play .asx files. I have checked out mplayer and they do not support asx as either a video codec or an audio codec. Thanks for the help. 'less' ;) Most asx files that I have run across are just short xml text files that

Re: Synching volumes on logout

2003-12-24 Thread Travis Crump
David Baron wrote: The problem that I had, several times, was a shutdown hangup on something like deconfiguring inetd. At this point, the keyboard was disabled. I could escape to another TTY# but could type nothing. The best behaved shutdown at this point as a control./alt/del. It apparently

Re: compiling kernel

2003-12-22 Thread Travis Crump
GCS wrote: On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 07:59:20PM -0700, Lucas Albers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I sure wish debian had a secure version of the kernel; a binary version of grsecurity would add a huge amount of security. Anyone know why Debian does not have this in the main archive? At least a

Re: Bug in testing abiword package?

2003-12-13 Thread Travis Crump
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Under testing and gnome 2.2 I'm trying to install abiword issuing the command apt-get install abiword. The installation fails immediatedly because (unfortunately I'm translating from Italian into English!) Abiword depends on libperl5.6 (= 5.6.1-8.3) while you're using

Re: Why is konqueror my x-www-browser when it doesn't provide it?

2003-12-13 Thread Travis Crump
Nunya wrote: On my machine: # update-alternatives --display x-www-browser x-www-browser - status is auto. link currently points to /usr/bin/konqueror /usr/bin/konqueror - priority 100 Current `best' version is /usr/bin/konqueror. But: $ grep-available -FProvides x-www-browser nothing Why is

Re: is symlink linu necessary while compiling new kernel?

2003-12-06 Thread Travis Crump
H. S. wrote: Leandro Guimares Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote: Em Sat, 06 Dec 2003 18:11:13 -0500, H. S. escreveu: some of them mentioning that I should first delete a symlink linux in /usr/src if it exists before I untar and unzip a download kernel file, and then recreate it. Some pages do not

Re: RFC: Create d-user-woody, d-user-sarge maillists, deactivate d-user

2003-12-01 Thread Travis Crump
Hereon wrote: Debian stable releases have been approximately 1-2 years apart. During this period of time, many Debian users make active use of the testing/unstable system. Currently, user questions about testing/unstable are likely to be asked in the debian-user list. But, that is definitely not

Re: openoffice.org inline in mozilla

2003-11-26 Thread Travis Crump
Christoph Simon wrote: On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 13:39:50 -0800 Arthur Barlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Put the following line in your /etc/mailcap file if it's not there already: text/html; /usr/bin/mozilla '%s'; description=HTML Text; test=test -n $DISPLAY; nametemplate=%s.html On Wed, 2003-11-26 at

Re: CTRL+ALT+Backspace will kill the X-server

2003-11-20 Thread Travis Crump
Dan Jacobson wrote: is that the usual way to get rid of X windows if in case one wants just to use the humble console? I know there is a startx program, but no stopx. Preston CTRL+ALT+Backspace will kill the X-server. Indeed it does, with no questions asked. But then it just springs back to

Re: How do I use dpkg without superuser privileges?

2003-11-17 Thread Travis Crump
Matt Zimmerman wrote: (this is debian-user; please read the descriptions of the various lists) On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 11:02:27AM -0800, Debs Spammagnet wrote: I've been trying to de-deb a .deb file without root permission. I just want to unwrap the file like a tar file. I DO NOT WANT TO INSTALL

Re: GeForce4 MX440 with kernel 2.4.18-bf24

2003-10-30 Thread Travis Crump
Hoyt Bailey wrote: Is anyone running the subject video card on the subject kernel. If so what driver are you using? If you know where can I get a copy of your driver? Regards; Hoyt I use the 'nvidia' driver which you install from nvidia-kernel-source and nvidia-glx. I have also used the 'nv'

Re: aptitude - finding broken packages

2003-10-28 Thread Travis Crump
Richard Lyons wrote: Is there a quicker way of locating the broken packages announced at the head of the screen than scrolling through everything? TIA hit / to get the search box[or l to limit the display to just those packages], search for ~b. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: rm -rf .* alternatives

2003-10-26 Thread Travis Crump
Jason Lunz wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Other tips? use zsh: [orr](0) % zsh [orr](0) % touch .foo [orr](0) % echo .* .foo [orr](0) % bash bash-2.05b$ echo .* . .. .foo Jason or just use a recent version of coreutils[5.0-5 tested] $rm

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-24 Thread Travis Crump
Paul Johnson wrote: On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 11:11:59AM -0400, James D. Freels wrote: Does this not require installing some additional software other than what normally is installed with WindowsXP, Linux w/KDE, or Linux w/Gnome ? Why does it matter? If you can get it done, why moan? Not to

Re: Bug#217452: mailfilter: installing under Debian

2003-10-24 Thread Travis Crump
Marc Wilson wrote: On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 12:08:05PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: Under a typical Debian setup, you want to trigger mailfilter before every run of fetchmail. True enough. Or rather, you want to run mailfilter before whatever mail-getter you use runs. Since fetchmail ordinarily

Re: apt-get install pkg and remove pkg on the same line?!

2003-10-19 Thread Travis Crump
smurfd wrote: Hey there Debian-user list, ive been thinking, (not well enough, as it seems). How does dselect do, when you select/deselect packages to be added/removed ? i mean, can you type yourself, like on one line.. apt-get install packages remove packages? Im not meaning apt-get

Re: [OT] sed expression wildcard bafflement

2003-10-17 Thread Travis Crump
Nori Heikkinen wrote: a friend just asked me about a shell script she's trying to write. she's got a file that looks like this: blah blah thi. blah thi. blah blah blah thi. blah thi. blah blah blah c. -- lots of thi.s in there. she's trying something equivalent to: word1=thi.;

Re: downgrading libc6

2003-10-15 Thread Travis Crump
Paul Yeatman wrote: I'm tempted to downgrade with a: dpkg -i libc6_2.2.5-11.5_i386 libc6-dev_2.2.5-11.5_i386 locales_2.2.5-11.5_i386 I'm I asking for a lot of trouble Is there a safer more sure way to do this? Thanks, Paul How much of an idiot do you think the former admin was? It seems

Re: What is the difference between `Sid' and `unstable' ?

2003-10-11 Thread Travis Crump
Jerome BENOIT wrote: Thanks for the reply. Ok, forget the capital `S' (I do use `sid' in my data file) Paul Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 12:42:23PM +0300, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Note that my `/etc/apt/sources.list' data file reaches both

Re: how to get gnome?

2003-10-08 Thread Travis Crump
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or is there a task or meta-package or sumsuch that I simply didn't see? Usually, yes. Currently[for testing], no. You could try the metapackage from sid which is mostly installable on sarge with the exception of nautilus and gnome-media. pgp0.pgp Description:

Re: Disable / override meta-refresh?

2003-10-06 Thread Travis Crump
Karsten M. Self wrote: I'm looking for information on blocking or disabling the meta refresh tag: meta http-equiv=refresh content=time in seconds; url=target url I'm using (usually) Galeon 1.2.5, with a squid proxy. Other browsers (w3m, dillo) either ignore or allow overriding meta

Re: frustration building, please help(was: does debian xfree support my video?)

2003-10-04 Thread Travis Crump
skippi wrote: Thank you in advance for any and all assitance. Oh, and for those of you just joining in, I'm trying to build, or install, XFree v4.3. I have the files to build it, also the deb files to install it, but I can't upgrade as the packages are kept back. I would surmise they require

Re: Wrong /usr/local/lib/libgcc_s.so.1

2003-10-04 Thread Travis Crump
Stefan Karrmann wrote: Hi, everytime after updating some packages I have to update /usr/local/lib/libgcc_s.so.1. Why does this happen? I use: Package: gcc-3.3 Version: 1:3.3-2 Package: libgcc1 Version: 1:3.3.1-0pre0 After running: # apt-get install alsa-source mplayer-k7 mencoder-k7 [...] I check

Re: frustration building, please help(was: does debian xfree support my video?)

2003-10-04 Thread Travis Crump
skippi wrote: = Original Message From Travis Crump [EMAIL PROTECTED] = skippi wrote: Thank you in advance for any and all assitance. Oh, and for those of you just joining in, I'm trying to build, or install, XFree v4.3. I have the files to build it, also the deb files to install

Re: Adding a user with a dot (.) in his name: How?

2003-10-03 Thread Travis Crump
Karsten M. Self wrote: on Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 03:58:55AM +0200, Arnt Karlsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 00:48:41 +0100, Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: on Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 09:58:38PM +0200, Andreas Schildbach ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: Question on GPG

2003-09-28 Thread Travis Crump
Roberto Sanchez wrote: I just started playing with GPG today. Can't you tell? :-) Anyhow. I generated bunches of keys trying to get Enigmail to play nice with Thunderbird and also with gpg on the command line. When I finally got around to the part of the HowTo on searching for keys (of course I

Re: Cron

2003-09-26 Thread Travis Crump
Russell Shaw wrote: Hi, I set this with crontab -e : 3 * * * * /usr/bin/mailfilter ; /bin/echo Mailfiltering | /usr/bin/mail -s mai 1 * * * * /bin/echo Date is `date`. | /usr/bin/mail -s cron root ### I should get mail every minute, but it doesn't work. If i try: /bin/echo Date is `date`. |

Re: reuse apt-get cache

2003-09-23 Thread Travis Crump
Benedict Verheyen wrote: Hi, i have a server and it has a quite extensive sources.list. Now i would like to make a cron job that does apt-get update every so often and then use that cache for my connected client so i don't have to download the packages list again and thus use unnecessary

OT: Re: having reponse problem

2003-09-21 Thread Travis Crump
David Palmer wrote: On Monday 22 September 2003 10:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: every time i turn on the computer. I think you are going to experience another one here. Regards, David. Spamassassin marked [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s message as spam and when I saw it in my caught spam box I couldn't

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-20 Thread Travis Crump
Steve Lamb wrote: On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 02:56:10 -0500 Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ummm, the pop server that stores your email until you press what- ever key in your MUA that fetches the email from pop.yourisp.net down to your PC. Uhm, no. You're operating under the assumption

Re: how to revert unstable package upgrade?

2003-09-17 Thread Travis Crump
Ivan Nestlerode wrote: Hello debian-user, I'm running Debian unstable and I would like to revert one package upgrade that I did earlier this week. I upgraded to version 0.6.1-5 of mozilla-firebird. After some testing and attempts to do basic things with bookmarks, I've found it much too buggy

Re: Sudden increase in size of Debian (Mirror)?

2003-09-16 Thread Travis Crump
Kevin McKinley wrote: --exclude dists/Debian2.2r7 --exclude dists/old-proposed-updates \ --exclude dists/oldstable --exclude dists/potato-proposed-updates/ \ --exclude dists/potato/ \ That list resulted in a mirror of ~15 Gb until a few weeks ago, when the size started climbing sharply

Re: Using Japanese (and Chinese) on an prodominantly english system

2003-09-15 Thread Travis Crump
Rebecca Dridan wrote: Hi all, I speak a little Japanese and am now learning Mandarin. I would like to be able to read and write both languages on my computers, but leave my systems basically in English. I'm looking mostly to be reading and writing Japanese with a text editor. I use vim and do not

Re: kernel config files

2003-09-12 Thread Travis Crump
Tom Allison wrote: Is there some way to capture the .config file of my currently runing system. /boot/config-`uname -r` has the config of the running kernel. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: where is netscape 4 in testing?

2003-09-09 Thread Travis Crump
Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote: Am Mo, 2003-09-08 um 02.12 schrieb Roberto Sanchez: How else would they ID a browser? The site I have personally had problems with (I've posted about it here a few times already) apparently identifies the browser with some really slick trick, since it goes out as

Re: bf2.4 and the ptrace exploit

2003-09-09 Thread Travis Crump
Markus Dejmek wrote: Hi, The exploit still works with the latest 2.4.18-5woody4. I just tried it. silly question, did you remember to remove the suid permission bit from the exploit binary between tests? pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: mixing stable and testing

2003-09-06 Thread Travis Crump
Vikki Roemer wrote: On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 01:14:02PM +1000, Russell Shaw wrote: In same directory: dpkg-source -x metalog_0.7beta-3.dsc cd metalog_0.7beta dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -rfakeroot cd .. dpkg -i metalog_0.7beta-3_i386.deb Ok, I did all that, but when I try to run dpkg -i, I get

Re: Key mapping using Alt + [ , etc.

2003-09-05 Thread Travis Crump
Pål Dahle wrote: Please excuse me for sending an Xfree86 related question to this list. On a US keyboard I'm trying to generate the norwegian characters ae, oslash and aring. I would like the following mapping Alt + [ -- ae Alt + | -- oslash Alt + ] -- aring It doesn't necessarily have to

Re: libc.so.6

2003-09-02 Thread Travis Crump
Philip Clark wrote: Hi there, I have managed to delete /lib/libc.so.6 and since the whole system depends on it eg. I can't even create a new link or new file. Also booting from a boot disk doesn't work. Does anyone have any ideas? I am presuming a rescue disk is the way to go. How do I make one?

Re: Quoting

2003-08-31 Thread Travis Crump
Christian Schoeller wrote: On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 12:19:08PM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: Well, I have been attending a university for 5 years now, and in all that time I've met one student who regularly uses Linux and one professor who has used Linux before. It's a relatively small school

Re: 2.4 kernel boot CD for woody?

2003-08-31 Thread Travis Crump
Chris Wilcox wrote: Hi all, Is anyone aware of a network install boot iso for Woody? I've done some digging on google.co.uk/linux and debian planet and not found much. Thanks for any replies, nry go to debian.org, click on 'network install' under 'Getting Debian', click on 'minimal CD'...

Re: Funny failure of a CR system on debian-devel

2003-08-28 Thread Travis Crump
John Hasler wrote: manoj writes: First, there was a notice that mail from debian-devel was quarantined, and there was a sekrit to send to unlock the mails. Next, we got a notice that the sekrit was successfully received. It didn't say that the secret had been received, only that debian-devel

Re: apt-get -t unstable install gnome fails with unmet dependencies

2003-08-27 Thread Travis Crump
Nicos Gollan wrote: On Tuesday 26 August 2003 23:08, Adam wrote: This is a fresh install of debian. I have edited my preferences and sources.list to be just like those on another system that worked in January. I just tried it on the other system and it fails there too. The apt-get -t unstable

Re: Is Gnome working in teesting?

2003-08-25 Thread Travis Crump
Colin Watson wrote: On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 11:15:56PM -0400, stan wrote: I don't know the problem you're referring to, so I have no idea ... smokey:~# apt-get upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages have been kept back aspell aspell-en

Re: debian lists have no nomail option

2003-08-25 Thread Travis Crump
Dan Jacobson wrote: I was surprised to find that some debian lists require a subscription to post, but have no nomail option. Umm, which debian lists require a subscription in order to post? pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: debian lists have no nomail option

2003-08-25 Thread Travis Crump
Travis Crump wrote: Dan Jacobson wrote: I was surprised to find that some debian lists require a subscription to post, but have no nomail option. Umm, which debian lists require a subscription in order to post? never mind, I figured it out(some==2, debian-chinese-(big5|gb) and debian-ctte, both

Re: Backporting debhelper

2003-08-16 Thread Travis Crump
Rob Weir wrote: On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 04:26:29PM +0200, Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: Mensaje escrito por Bob Proulx el 14/08/2003 1:54: For my own backports I have been changing the debhelper version dependency in the debian/control file to specify the woody version. I have not backported

Re: Packages.gz blocked by Symantec Web Security

2003-08-14 Thread Travis Crump
Frank Chung wrote: Hi all, My company uses Symantec Web Security to screen for viruses at the HTTP proxy machine (and there's no way to bypass the proxy). SWS returns with this message when I try to open any Packages.gz (whether it's in stable/testing/unstable, or main/contrib): -- -- Access

Re: make-kpkg detects wrong processor type

2003-08-14 Thread Travis Crump
Bret Comstock Waldow wrote: On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 17:54, Wayne Gemmell wrote: Is there an equivalent for this package with a menu interface like make menuconfig in normal kernel compilations? It is so much quicker... You do the 'make menuconfig' step before you compile with make-kpkg, as you

Re: How can I use bittorrent?

2003-08-14 Thread Travis Crump
stan wrote: On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 03:09:58AM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 19:24, Roberto Sanchez wrote: --- stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribi??: I just used apt-get to install bittorrent from unstabele. Question is, how to use it? All the instructions on the home page

Re: Need help generating odd crontab line

2003-08-14 Thread Travis Crump
Travis Crump wrote: Kent West wrote: I need to send out an email reminder via cron to a club I'm a member of. I need the reminder to go out on the Friday morning before the second Monday of every month. I'm a newbie to cron, and would appreciate it if someone would provide me with a crontab

Re: Need help generating odd crontab line

2003-08-14 Thread Travis Crump
Kent West wrote: I need to send out an email reminder via cron to a club I'm a member of. I need the reminder to go out on the Friday morning before the second Monday of every month. I'm a newbie to cron, and would appreciate it if someone would provide me with a crontab line to accomplish this

Re: Easy/Fast way to view a package's debian/changelog

2003-08-04 Thread Travis Crump
Michael D. Schleif wrote: Yes, I have a mixed system, preferring to stay with stable; but, I need certain packages from testing and unstable . . . However, it is python-apt that has the problem with the non-existent libapt packages. Nevertheless, I have stable, testing and unstable in

Re: web interface to submit bugs

2003-08-03 Thread Travis Crump
Paul Johnson wrote: On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 02:40:44AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah. reportbug isn't bad, but it requires a mail server (or a mail account). Well, considering so many other things require an MTA (cron, anacron, at, most MUAs), and exim is part of the base system, why

kernel-source-2.6.0-test1?

2003-08-03 Thread Travis Crump
Where can I find the source used to build kernel-image-2.6.0-test1-i386? kernel-source-2.6.0-test1 doesn't exist as far as I can determine[and apt-get source kernel-source-2.6.0-test1-i386 and/or apt-get build-dep kernel-source-2.6.0-test1 suggest that is where the source should be and is in

Re: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.

2003-08-02 Thread Travis Crump
Steve Lamb wrote: What's worse is that so far noone's told me how two people using C-R ever *start* communicating. Person 1 mails person 2. Person 2's C-R sends off a challenge to Person 1. Person 1's C-R sends off a challenge to Person 2. Repeat. I think the theory is that Person 1

Re: Is there a *console* screen capture

2003-08-01 Thread Travis Crump
Alan Connor wrote: Most of us don't have the software to interpret them Speak for yourself. Well, very few people use pgp signatures on the list. Some may HAVE the software, but have the good taste not to use it when there is no point. For the record, roughly 21% of mail to this list is

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade, now gnome session fails to login

2003-07-29 Thread Travis Crump
Marc Shapiro wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote: Can anyone tell me how I can get back to any version of a working gnome session? Gnome1.4 worked fine for me and I would not object to going back to it if someone can tell me just what needs to be downgraded, uninstalled, etc. I just want a working

Re: batch renaming for filenames with space

2003-07-28 Thread Travis Crump
Micha Feigin wrote: I am trying to do a batch rename for a bunch of files with spaces in the name (in order to remove the spaces actually). I tried to use bash's for .. in command but it splits up the lines on spaces and not on line ends. Any ideas? The files are named Copy of ... and I want to

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade, now gnome session fails to login

2003-07-27 Thread Travis Crump
Marc Shapiro wrote: Can anyone tell me how I can get back to any version of a working gnome session? Gnome1.4 worked fine for me and I would not object to going back to it if someone can tell me just what needs to be downgraded, uninstalled, etc. I just want a working system. Marc Shapiro

Re: packages removed by Release Manager just reveal older versions

2003-07-27 Thread Travis Crump
Joey Hess wrote: (This question is appropriate for the debian-user mailing list, redirecting.) Dan Jacobson wrote: there seems no mechanism at present to warn the user that he shouldn't install it, even if he has done apt-get update from the mirrors. In bug 202919 you will see I was just lucky

Re: rmnologin in rc$.d

2003-07-19 Thread Travis Crump
David Z Maze wrote: Another is to use the man command; often random files are documented in man pages. For example, nologin(5) documents what exactly /etc/nologin does such that you'd need an init script to remove it. No, it doesn't. It documents why you'd need an init script to remove it

Re: apt-get source: bash wild card

2003-07-16 Thread Travis Crump
Abdul Latip wrote: Hi, Unlike apt-get install, I guess that apt-get source does not check if the source is already loaded. It always has for me[or rather it resumes the download and resuming a 100% download is pretty quick. :)] Random package for which I already had source: [EMAIL

Re: apt-get source: bash wild card

2003-07-16 Thread Travis Crump
Travis Crump wrote: Notice that it only fetched 1628B as opposed to all 39.8kB [1628B==diff+dsc+1B but that may just be a coincidence] Not a coincidence. I had compiled it without bumping the version number so that the dsc and diff were overwritten with local versions that didn't match

Re: compiling lufs

2003-07-05 Thread Travis Crump
Sebastian Kapfer wrote: On Thu, 03 Jul 2003 21:20:11 +0200, Ken Bloom wrote: I've also tried from the kernel source directory (Adding --append-to-version) but the module has unresolved symbols when I run depmod. I get unresolved symbols here, too. Other modules work fine (ALSA, LIRC, NVIDIA).

Re: How to change a symlink without breaking anything (problems withg++)

2003-07-02 Thread Travis Crump
David Z Maze wrote: Morten Eriksen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is the correct manner of changing a symlink file belonging to a Debian package? Is it sufficient to just rm and re-link, or should I use any of the package-handling tools? You can't. (Well, you can, but the next time you

Re: sed expression problem ?

2003-06-30 Thread Travis Crump
David selby wrote: I am starting to use sed but am having a problem with one expression in ... cat /mnt/archive/fluxbox/keys | sed 's/:ExecCommand//g ;s/^Mod4 \(.\) Mod 4 \(.\)/WinKey \1\2/g' works except I hoped s/\/[^ ]+\///g would match any /path/to/file/ and delete it. It refuses to match.

Re: Mozilla on local server

2003-06-29 Thread Travis Crump
[replying to OP cause the lists have been screwy the last couple of days] Russell Shaw wrote: Hi, I'm using mozilla to get email from the ISP pop3 account and make posts using its own smtp. Now i set up fetchmail, exim, and procmail to deliver to the mozilla ~/Mail/Inbox, but mozilla doesn't show

Re: Trouble compiling 2.4.21 kernel

2003-06-25 Thread Travis Crump
Roberto Sanchez wrote: I just downloaded the new kernel-source-2.4.21-1 package. When I unpacked it and tried 'make xconfig', I got this: rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) make -C scripts kconfig.tk make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.21/scripts' cat

Re: Want to update the kernel

2003-06-23 Thread Travis Crump
Rob Weir wrote: On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 04:28:44PM +0800, Miranda, Joel Louie M wrote: Im using the default 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel. I want to add some more modules, w/c I usually does at compiling from source Its actually a kernel patch, how can I do that from a deb package kernel? Sure. Go get

Re: What's going on with Gnome in testing?

2003-06-23 Thread Travis Crump
stan wrote: My testing macines tried to remove gnome-core this mrning, when I did a dist-upgrade. What's going on here? Is this another case of just wait a while and it will get better? gnome-core itself is a meta-package and unimportant, but I too am sitting on the upgrade for now. It scares

Re: Compiling kernel 2.4.21 and gcc version

2003-06-23 Thread Travis Crump
Marino Fernandez wrote: Something unexpected happened to me. I upgraded gcc to 3.3.3, and afterwards I was unable to compile the 2.4.21 kernel. I was still able to compile the 2.4.20 version. However with gcc 3.2.3 and 2.95 I can compile the 2.4.21 kernel. I do not remember the exact error

Re: [OT] Bogus undelivered message

2003-06-13 Thread Travis Crump
Pigeon wrote: The main weakness of the system is in the key security; you can't fully trust a key unless you have actually met the keyholder to get it and checked that you didn't meet an impostor. This is only really significant for spy-novel type situations, though, and doesn't materially weaken

Re: [OT] Bogus undelivered message

2003-06-13 Thread Travis Crump
John Hasler wrote: Pigeon writes: It would be possible for $CYBERSPY to crack the keyserver and replace $CYBERPAL's key with his own, then intercept all mails from $CYBERPAL, replace the signature and send them on. Which will do $CYBERSPY no good at all since his key will not carry any of the

Re: OT mozilla filter to keep my debian mail list organized

2003-06-11 Thread Travis Crump
Jeff Ali wrote: I didn't realize I was joining such a cool and active list so now I must find a way to keep the emails organized. Can someone tell me how to set up a simple filter in mozilla so that all the mail I receive from debian-users list gets put in a folder. I was going to set up the

Re: xfree and mouse buttons

2003-06-10 Thread Travis Crump
LeVA wrote: Hi! I'm using 4.1.0 xfree, and a m$ intellimouse explorer 3.0a usb mouse. The mouse has 5 buttons. I want to use all of the 5 buttons, and the scrolling wheel too, which also has button numbers, what I must assign to the 'ZAxisMapping' option in the XF86Config file. Here is my

Re: gtk2 and sarge

2003-06-09 Thread Travis Crump
Chris Metzler wrote: On Mon, 09 Jun 2003 00:53:00 -0500 Hanasaki JiJi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any news on when gnome2 and/or gtk2 will be in sarge? sarge recently got xchat2 which needs gtk2. sarge is still on gnome1.4 and gtk1 Check again; gtk2 and gnome2 are in testing. See

Re: Pbl with enigmail !

2003-06-09 Thread Travis Crump
David CABATON wrote: In the help box of enigmail : Running Enigmail version 0.74.3.0 Warning: EnigMime module not available ERROR: Failed to access enigmail service! IPCService/ProcessInfo not available Thank's for help !! David Make sure gpg itself is working properly. Make sure you have a

Re: Florida! (was Re: Knoppix ISO image is 715MB - How Do I burnit ?)

2003-06-08 Thread Travis Crump
Paul Johnson wrote: On Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 02:18:19PM -0400, Stephen Touset wrote: Name one democracy we've set up. I'll bet you my right knuckle that each and every one is a democracy in name only, and a republic in practice. Not even a republic. Nicaragua: Dictatorship. Afghanistan

Re: lilo broken after upggrade

2003-06-07 Thread Travis Crump
Dan Hunt wrote: So something is wrong. My /boot/ has a wastland of files from various kernels I tried to get working. Four, count them 4, kernels. My /boot is on /dev/hda5 ext3 hda1 (ext2 with 100 MB free) hda2 hda 5 6 7 8 9 hda3(swp) hda4(tmp) My lilo.conf looks something like this without any

Re: apt-get - install additional libraries

2003-06-07 Thread Travis Crump
Paul Johnson wrote: On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 08:43:46AM -0700, Rodney D. Myers wrote: How do I go about keeping my current gtk stuff around, and install the gtk2.0 as well? If you compiled it yourself, you should keep your self-compiled version in /opt... Unfortunately, all by way of apt-get So

Re: xdm starting, but not configured

2003-06-04 Thread Travis Crump
Kevin Mark wrote: There are different runlevels: 6 is reboot 5 is run X and networking 3 is run networking 2 is single user mode so: linux 3 is what I would say. Then you can type 'startx' This is a Debian list, not Red Hat. Runlevels 2-5 are identical by default. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP

Re: Wine with apt-get

2003-05-31 Thread Travis Crump
Miguel M. wrote: Hey, OK i found a site that I can d/l Wine from but I keep getting this error message: --- Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: wine: Depends: libwine (= 1:0.20030529.034101) but 0.0.20030408-1 is to be installed How can I tell apt-get that I want to

Re: Perl in testing?

2003-05-31 Thread Travis Crump
Bill Moseley wrote: On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 10:31:25AM -0400, stan wrote: I've got a testing machine that I'm using in production 24/7 (yes, I've heard the speech on that). One of the things that it does is run a perl daemon that uses the perl hi res time functions. I'm trying to get the machine

Re: more problems because of this testing mess

2003-05-31 Thread Travis Crump
Chris Metzler wrote: .. . .which are not depended on by anything in testing. I don't know why libparted1.4 and libparted1.6 are both in testing right now, because libparted1.4 looks like it isn't used by anything in testing, and actually conflicts with the version of parted that's currently in

Re: man, oh man

2003-05-27 Thread Travis Crump
Mike M wrote: I've installed some minimal stable configurations lately (answered no to tasksel and dselect during installation of bf24). When I run man on the minimal system, it's like the output is piped to more. In a workstation installation machine, running man results in a environment

Re: Heads Up - Gnome 2.2 moving into Sarge

2003-05-27 Thread Travis Crump
Mark L. Kahnt wrote: The subject about says it - was doing an apt-get -s update of Sarge and got indications of a large number of parts of Gnome 2.2 entering Sarge. If you track Testing, use Gnome, and haven't moved to 2.2 yet, be ready to migrate with your next apt-get upgrade. There you go

Re: login as root to GUI

2003-04-03 Thread Travis Crump
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 23:31:52 -0800 Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Please turn your line wraps on to something more sensable like 72 columns per line instead of one paragraph per line. This isn't meant to be picking on

Re: default run level

2003-04-03 Thread Travis Crump
Irish, Jon D BAE SYSTEMS wrote: Here is a newbie question: Which default run level do I change inittab to so that the PC boots to a VGA console instead of X? The default run level is 2[ie /etc/rc2.d/]. So presumably you want to do something like 'mmv /etc/rc2.d/S99?dm /etc/rc2.d/K99#1dm'...[you

Re: Shell based text editor for writing prose

2003-04-02 Thread Travis Crump
John Griffiths wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 G'day all. Due to a somewhat complicated set of circumstances I'm looking for a decent non graphical shell based text editor to write prose with. - - basically i want to be able to ssh onto my server and write from a number of

Re: no gnome-terminal package in sarge?

2003-04-02 Thread Travis Crump
Joe Buck wrote: Hi, I recently upgraded a woody box to sarge and found that there is no gnome-terminal package in testing, although there is one in unstable. What's the story here? As a stopgap I am setting things up to use multi-gnome-terminal, but this looks strange. The sid version is gnome2,

Re: Mozilla idealab link

2003-04-01 Thread Travis Crump
Paul M Foster wrote: On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 11:45:11PM -0600, Donald Spoon wrote: Paul M Foster wrote: I'm running testing, and the Mozilla that comes with it. Every time I start the program, it goes to a local page on my hard drive which has my favorite links on it. Immediately thereafter,

Re: compiling testing for unstable

2003-03-31 Thread Travis Crump
David Fokkema wrote: Hi, I have a box with a cd-writer which also acts as a file/print/internet server, so I run stable (just to be on the safe side). Now I would like to have cdrdao, but that is only available for testing. Of course, I could recompile the whole thing from source and be done with

Re: Difference between woody and stable in apt Default-Release?

2003-03-27 Thread Travis Crump
Uwe Storbeck wrote: What am I doing wrong? You're tring to use woody-proposed-updates which is really neither stable nor woody. If it[pulling woody-proposed-updates] works when you set Default Release to woody then my suspicion is that it wants a default release of either

Re: sylpheed-doc package broken?

2003-03-27 Thread Travis Crump
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I understand that apt doesn't know anything about packages other than what it't told about dependencies and conflicts. Let's get to the big picture -- is the doc there to support the use of the binary, or is the binary there to support the use of the doc? If we can agree

Re: Status of Testing

2003-03-25 Thread Travis Crump
Bill Moseley wrote: On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Travis Crump wrote: Bill Moseley wrote: Can someone fill me in on the status of Testing -- I have not updated my Testing/Unstable machine for a while (IIRC the glibc issue??). The glibc issue is resolved, if you upgrade now than you will probably

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