Re: sqwebmail

2003-11-25 Thread Kevin Coyner
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 11:38:04AM -0500, David Gaudine wrote.. I'm having trouble with sqwebmail. I'm using sarge, but a quick attempt on a Woody system seemed the same. I followed the instructions in README.Debian; -copied /usr/lib/courier/sqwebmail/html to /home/mywebmail

Running SCO RM-COBOL under Debian GNU/Linux 3.0r1

2003-11-25 Thread Raúl Alexis Betancort Santana
Hi all, I have received the task of doing a migration from a SCO Unix server to a Debian GNU/Linux one, the only problem its a COBOL app that is running on the SCO system, I have found information about using SCO binaries under Linux, but it's quite old, does anyone have recent information about

Re: Need a user-friendly, low-requirement desktop

2003-11-25 Thread Ilkka Lindroos
On Tuesday 25 November 2003 13:58, Alex Malinovich wrote: In this particular case, however, I'm dealing with a Pentium 233 MHz with 32 MB of RAM. While I'd love to put Gnome and Nautilus on there and call it a day, waiting 10 minutes for the desktop to load and another 2 minutes for the

Re: Are the main archives back online yet?

2003-11-25 Thread Tom
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 08:55:45AM -0500, Paul Smith wrote: %% Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: t I've read http://www.wiggy.net/debian/status/ but it's not clear if t the main archives are back up yet. The system housing the main archive was not compromised, so it never went down in the

Re: running script from cdrom fails

2003-11-25 Thread Gregory K. Johnson
Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When I try to run shell scripts from cdrom I get the following message: bash: ./INSTALLDOCS.SH: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied I got this with several bash scripts and in fact, I don't remmember one that did work. Any idea? Probably your

Re: Anaconda, where's the beef?

2003-11-25 Thread Fraser Campbell
On Saturday 15 November 2003 07:00, David Palmer. wrote: I don't know why we have to go to Red Hat for something that Debian requires. My reason for being interested in anaconda-debian is kickstart, that's the entire reason, the only reason. I agree that debian-installer is the way to go for

Re: Learning debian Linux

2003-11-25 Thread ScruLoose
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 09:15:48PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 10:42:31AM +0100, Knut Willy wrote: 5. Is it possible to go ahead as I have mentioned above? Well, if it is at all possible to get that machine online,

Re: finding what is using a mount point

2003-11-25 Thread ScruLoose
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 03:43:49PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: I mounted an image through a loop interface and now when I try to unload it I get a message: umount: /home/micha/tmp: device is busy I made sure no file is open from there but nothing helps. How do I see what is using that mount

Can't Re-Subscribe

2003-11-25 Thread Thomas H. George
My subscription to this list must have been cancelled - but not by me! -as I have resceived no new postings in the last two days. Several times I have gone to the Debian web site and tried to re-subscribe. Each time, after a long wait, I get a message that the site is not responding. I wont

Re: apt-getting source for my kernel

2003-11-25 Thread David Z Maze
Mark Healey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I need to compile the nic driver for my Broadcom bcm4401. I have the source but it needs the kernel source. I installed from disk 5 which means I have kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4. I tried apt-getting kernel-source-2.4.18-bf2.4 and was told it doesn't exist.

Re: Can't Re-Subscribe

2003-11-25 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 08:40:44AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: My subscription to this list must have been cancelled - but not by me! -as I have resceived no new postings in the last two days. Not really, no. Subscribe to debian-announce and

Re: Need a user-friendly, low-requirement desktop

2003-11-25 Thread John Peter
Alex Malinovich wrote: I've finally managed to get a few friends and family members with very little computer knowledge to switch to Linux. One in particular at the moment has me at a bit of a loss as to what to suggest. My friend's mother is fed up with Windows 98 and wants something better.

Re: finding what is using a mount point

2003-11-25 Thread Tom
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 02:16:06PM -0500, ScruLoose wrote: ,-. -ScruLoose- |You don't *have* a soul. You *are* a soul. Please | You *have* a body, temporarily. do not Cc

how do I subscribe to debian-announce?

2003-11-25 Thread Rohit Kumar Mehta
I had previously used the web interface at lists.debian.org to get on this debian mailing list, but now that redirects me here: http://www.debian.org/distrib/ftplist Should I just wait until it can be restored or is there another way to subscribe? Many thanks to the entire Debian team and

Re: Need a user-friendly, low-requirement desktop

2003-11-25 Thread John Peter
Alex Malinovich wrote: I've finally managed to get a few friends and family members with very little computer knowledge to switch to Linux. One in particular at the moment has me at a bit of a loss as to what to suggest. My friend's mother is fed up with Windows 98 and wants something better.

NoMailAudit error

2003-11-25 Thread Haines Brown
I'm trying to get Spamassassin to work with Postfix and Procmail. I got to the point of creating a filter account, and went to it to test it by running: # cat notspam.txt | ./sa-filter.sh -f brownh -- brownh I message I received as a result lacked body and spam test. There were at least two

Re: apt-getting source for my kernel

2003-11-25 Thread John Peter
I need to compile the nic driver for my Broadcom bcm4401. I have the source but it needs the kernel source. I installed from disk 5 which means I have kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4. I tried apt-getting kernel-source-2.4.18-bf2.4 and was told it doesn't exist. Where are you trying to gett it from? (the

Re: Anaconda, where's the beef?

2003-11-25 Thread David Palmer.
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 14:11:01 -0500 Fraser Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 15 November 2003 07:00, David Palmer. wrote: I don't know why we have to go to Red Hat for something that Debian requires. My reason for being interested in anaconda-debian is kickstart, that's the

Re: how do I subscribe to debian-announce?

2003-11-25 Thread Pascal Hakim
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 09:50:32AM -0500, Rohit Kumar Mehta wrote: I had previously used the web interface at lists.debian.org to get on this debian mailing list, but now that redirects me here: http://www.debian.org/distrib/ftplist The list archives (lists.debian.org) are hosted on

Re: apt-getting source for my kernel: Second post since the list server seemed to be down.

2003-11-25 Thread Kent West
Mark Healey wrote: I need to compile the nic driver for my Broadcom bcm4401. I have the source but it needs the kernel source. I installed from disk 5 which means I have kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4. I tried apt-getting kernel-source-2.4.18-bf2.4 and was told it doesn't exist. Without networking how do

Re: running script from cdrom fails

2003-11-25 Thread ScruLoose
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 03:58:43PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: When I try to run shell scripts from cdrom I get the following message: bash: ./INSTALLDOCS.SH: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied I got this with several bash scripts and in fact, I don't remmember one that did work. Any

apt-get etiquette

2003-11-25 Thread RichardA
I'm a Mandrake user hoping to trade up. As such, I expect to break my install beyond my capacity to fix it at least a few times. Does it matter that I upgrade from stable to unstable, and pull many packages from the server, each time? Is there a (n easy) way to use a local cache? Once up and

Re: evolution usability (somewhat OT)

2003-11-25 Thread Todd Pytel
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 00:27:54 -0800 Erik Steffl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Erik, Go to the 'view' menu, and click 'hide deleted messages.' That will solve your first two points. they don't seem to go to trash (I would like the emails from IMAP server go to trash on the same

Re: Xaw-based applications have XOpenFont failures, but only locally

2003-11-25 Thread David Z Maze
Brian Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David Z Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Starting sometime within the past week, something has broken on my (x86 unstable) system, such that Xaw-based applications won't start up. For example: {53} dmaze% xcalc X Error of failed request: BadValue

Re: 3rd Attempt at installing Debian

2003-11-25 Thread Kent West
Mark Healey wrote: There is no networking. I need to build a module for my nic which doesn't have a .deb package. I have the source but need the kernel source which wasn't installed. I discovered that unilike what many people told me I don't need to rebuild the kernel. I fought with a

Re: Importing Corel Draw

2003-11-25 Thread Terry Hancock
On Tuesday 25 November 2003 01:07 am, Thanasis Kinias wrote: scripsit Luis Fernando Llana Díaz: I have some pictures made with Corel Draw. Is there any possibility of use them under Linux? I haven't been able to find any. I have many of these, too, from an earlier career -- as well

How to downgrade a package

2003-11-25 Thread Bill Moseley
I'm having problems since upgrading to the latest apache-perl in Sid. How can I downgrade to the previous package (including all dependencies)? I want to verify what I think is wrong. I still have these in my cache. I'd like to downgrade to the 1.3.28-4, which is the last version that I was

Re: .db files

2003-11-25 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 12:20:35 +, amit tiwari wrote: hi i have come to know through google will u pls tell me how to open .db files $ cat foo.db $ vim foo.db $ less foo.db What do you want to do with it? Also, what *type* of file is it? Note that *type* and *name* are two independent

Re: finding what is using a mount point

2003-11-25 Thread Bob Proulx
Micha Feigin wrote: I mounted an image through a loop interface and now when I try to unload it I get a message: umount: /home/micha/tmp: device is busy I made sure no file is open from there but nothing helps. How do I see what is using that mount point? The 'fuser' command. fuser -m

Re: (unofficial) Debian project list status

2003-11-25 Thread Clive Menzies
On (25/11/03 02:48), Karsten M. Self wrote: I've been lurking on the #debian-devel IRC channel, some info on lists. This is an unofficial informational posting. If you weren't already aware, several Debian project servers were compromised by what appears to have been a password capture

Re: *plonk* Re: Code of Conduct (was Re: Totally [OT] Re: Opium)

2003-11-25 Thread csj
On November 21, 2003 at 7:27PM +0800, David Palmer. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 09:24:16 + ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 20:50:09 -0800 Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 04:49:14AM +, ben ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Debian?

2003-11-25 Thread Scarletdown
On 21 Nov 2003 at 11:05, John Peter wrote: Roberto is right - don't let yourself be intimidated with it ! Put everything on paper and follow the guide step by step, you will succed and it's not that hard - it just seems so... Don't forget to unninstall and clean everything you did

Woody on Sparc

2003-11-25 Thread Sridhar M.A.
I could install woody on a dual cpu SparcStation20. Everything is working fine except X. For the xserver, I tried fbdev, sunfbdev, suncg3, suncg14 in 8, 16 and 24 bit depths. Every time startx fails. Searched the archives and googled. Could not find much info on getting X on such a machine. If

Re: apt-get update not working properly 11/21/03

2003-11-25 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 10:41:23 -0600, red [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: All, Im getting this from many of my my deb boxen any ideas? ..it has been shut down on suspicion of a dns crack attempt, see the www.debian.org thread. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind

Re: finding what is using a mount point

2003-11-25 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 03:43:49PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: I mounted an image through a loop interface and now when I try to unload it I get a message: umount: /home/micha/tmp: device is busy I made sure no file is open from there but nothing helps. How do I see what is using that mount

.note.GNU-stack in XFree86.0.log file

2003-11-25 Thread Jonathan Wheelhouse
Hi XFree86 version is 4.2.1-14 (apt-cache show xserver-xfree86); I use NVIDIA's installer for my graphics card rather than the nv driver. /var/log/XFree86.0.log shows [snip] XFree86 Version 4.2.1.1 (Debian 4.2.1-14

Re: What up with www.debian.org ?

2003-11-25 Thread John L. Fjellstad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 21 November 2003 09:33, Raghavendra Bhat wrote: Maybe the first thing you should do is to downgrade all the upgraded packages to stable/woody. Backup critical data and wait! Let us hear the extent of damage and then proceed

Re: Experiment: Neophyte versus Windows XP Debian Woody

2003-11-25 Thread John L. Fjellstad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 20 November 2003 16:16, John Cichy wrote: This is when you find something that you need to run on your RPM based system, you download the RPM and attempt to install it, only to find out you need another RPM (actually a lib from another

Re: Learning debian Linux

2003-11-25 Thread John L. Fjellstad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 20 November 2003 22:36, sda wrote: Actually I don't think it's hard at all, remember, many 1st timers haven't installed anything before. Most consumers don't ever install a Windoze OS, they buy it pre-installed. I think it's more of an

Re: evolution usability (somewhat OT)

2003-11-25 Thread Rebecca Dridan
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 12:27:54AM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 22:50, David Palmer. wrote: On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 14:58:24 -0800 Erik Steffl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (unstable debian, evolution) I find evolution to be fairly nice MUA but: - is

Re: Need a user-friendly, low-requirement desktop

2003-11-25 Thread BruceG
- Original Message - From: Ilkka Lindroos [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 9:13 AM Subject: Re: Need a user-friendly, low-requirement desktop On Tuesday 25 November 2003 13:58, Alex Malinovich wrote: In this particular case, however, I'm

woody vs. raid array

2003-11-25 Thread Will Trillich
i've managed to get an actual budget to put together a woody server with a real raid -- and of course, it's not going smoothly. athlon xp 1800+ 768mb eec-registered ddr ram dual 160gb (western digital, 7200rpm) drives, raid1 (mirror) fasttrak100 lite yet, during

Re: mutt - saving message to disk (not mail folder)

2003-11-25 Thread Thanasis Kinias
scripsit Pete Harlan: On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 08:37:29PM +, p wrote: On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 09:22:01PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: How do I save a mail message to disk with mutt? I want to save it to disk, not another mail folder (saving to a different mail folder appears quite

Re: apt-get update not working properly 11/21/03

2003-11-25 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Fri, November 21 at 10:41 AM EST red [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, Im getting this from many of my my deb boxen any ideas? Err http://non-us.debian.org unstable/non-US/contrib Release Could not connect to non-us.debian.org:80 (194.109.137.218). - connect (111 Connection refused) Err

Re: Woody on Sparc

2003-11-25 Thread Bojan Baros
I could install woody on a dual cpu SparcStation20. Everything is working fine except X. For the xserver, I tried fbdev, sunfbdev, suncg3, suncg14 in 8, 16 and 24 bit depths. Every time startx fails. Searched the archives and googled. Could not find much info on getting X on such a machine.

Re: Xfree86 and a Matrox G550

2003-11-25 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 21 Nov 2003, James Hosken wrote: Hi Has any one had experience of installing Debian with a Matrox G550 Graphics Card? I've just installed Woody and XFree86 will not work. I've found some drivers at matrox.com, http://matrox.com/mga/support/drivers/latest/home.cfm They say that you

Re: X Won't Start

2003-11-25 Thread Mark Healey
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 07:44:14 -0600, Kent West wrote: Mark Healey wrote: On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 21:13:24 -0600, Kent West wrote: Mark Healey wrote: My X won't work with the default installation. snippage here and elsewhere Someone Suggested that I boot knoppix and copy /etc/X11/XF86Config-4

Re: apt-get etiquette

2003-11-25 Thread David Z Maze
RichardA [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm a Mandrake user hoping to trade up. As such, I expect to break my install beyond my capacity to fix it at least a few times. Does it matter that I upgrade from stable to unstable, and pull many packages from the server, each time? Is there a (n easy) way

Re: apt-get etiquette

2003-11-25 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 10:56:50PM +, RichardA said I'm a Mandrake user hoping to trade up. As such, I expect to break my install beyond my capacity to fix it at least a few times. Does it matter that I upgrade from stable to unstable, Well, unstable does break, and you need to know how

Re: finding what is using a mount point

2003-11-25 Thread Michael D Schleif
Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003:11:21:15:43:49+0200] scribed: I mounted an image through a loop interface and now when I try to unload it I get a message: umount: /home/micha/tmp: device is busy I made sure no file is open from there but nothing helps. How do I see what is using that

Segmentation Faults and Paging Errors

2003-11-25 Thread Thomas H. George
The problem: Intermittent kernel paging errors, errors during shutdown which result in boot to runlevel 1 on reboot. After a second shutdown the system reboots properly. My system - testing with a 2.4.22 kernel - was stable, no problems whatsoever. Wishing to take advantage of USB 2, I

Re: Keine Umlaute auf der Konsole

2003-11-25 Thread Johannes Zarl
This will install too many unneeded packages. I do not want to have german stuff (docs etc.), just want my umlauts to be displayed on the console. On my pc it helped to set convert-meta on in inputrc. This basically turns on 8-bit characters on the console. For more info see man 3 readline.

Re: cdrom

2003-11-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 09:46:05PM +0100, Jose Colmenares ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have a HP Pentium I. The cdrom sudenly stopped working, and I replaced it for an used one (wich worked just fine). As it turns out, the cdrom I just installed isn´t working either... I get a message like:

Re: Learning debian Linux

2003-11-25 Thread David Meiser
You know, Debian users need to get over this commercial distribution fobia. You are all on the same side. I haven't been reading this list for a couple of months now, and when I signed up again, the first thing I read is another rant about RedHat. It's getting pretty boring. Debian works

Re: unsubscribe

2003-11-25 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 10:23:40 -0200 Cassio Druziani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Some dumb unnecessary quoting, including THIS:] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: running script from cdrom fails

2003-11-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 03:58:43PM +0200, Micha Feigin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: When I try to run shell scripts from cdrom I get the following message: bash: ./INSTALLDOCS.SH: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied I got this with several bash scripts and in fact, I don't remmember one

Re: finding what is using a mount point

2003-11-25 Thread Marc Nozell
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 03:43:49PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: I mounted an image through a loop interface and now when I try to unload it I get a message: umount: /home/micha/tmp: device is busy I made sure no file is open from there but nothing helps. How do I see what is using that mount

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

2003-11-25 Thread David Z Maze
John Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Or, if you want to get X out of the way, edit /etc/inittab , look for the lines : # The default runlevel. id:2:initdefault: and replace the runlevel 2 with 1. ...which will also conveniently stop your Web server, your ssh server, your power-management

Debian and Ultra Ata 133 Controller

2003-11-25 Thread Stefan Lemsitzer
I want to install Debian on a Harddisc, which is plugged into an Ata 133 Controller. Unfortunately the installation program doesn't recognize the disc and asks for a floppy with additional drivers in directory boot... Any hints? regards Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

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

2003-11-25 Thread csj
On November 21, 2003 at 8:13AM +0800, Dan Jacobson [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Re: www.debian.org

2003-11-25 Thread Ken Gilmour
Replying to the message sent by Lukas Ruf on Fri, 21 Nov 2003 14:44:21 +0100, received at 15:58:11 on 21/11/2003. Lukas Ruf wrote: snip If I may kindly ask you to set the line-length to 72 characters... Done -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: *plonk* Re: Code of Conduct (was Re: Totally [OT] Re: Opium)

2003-11-25 Thread csj
On November 20, 2003 at 8:50PM -0800, Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 04:49:14AM +, ben ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 13:23:48 +0800 csj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 19:54:17 -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:

Re: www.debian.org

2003-11-25 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 01:22:27PM +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote: Cristi Banciu [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-11-21 13:17]: http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/files/fw/debian-security-20031121.txt after having read: I have run upgrades on various machines this morning. Is there any chance that these

Re: running script from cdrom fails

2003-11-25 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 03:58:43PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: When I try to run shell scripts from cdrom I get the following message: bash: ./INSTALLDOCS.SH: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied I got this with several bash scripts and in fact, I don't remmember one that did work. Any

Re: Need a user-friendly, low-requirement desktop

2003-11-25 Thread Kent West
Conrad Newton wrote: From Alex Malinovich on Tuesday, 2003-11-25 at 05:58:25 -0600: I've finally managed to get a few friends and family members with very little computer knowledge to switch to Linux. snip In this particular case, however, I'm dealing with a Pentium 233 MHz with 32 MB of RAM.

Re: running script from cdrom fails

2003-11-25 Thread Lukas Ruf
Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-11-21 17:16]: When I try to run shell scripts from cdrom I get the following message: bash: ./INSTALLDOCS.SH: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied I got this with several bash scripts and in fact, I don't remmember one that did work. Any idea?

Apt error in Debian/Sid with Python

2003-11-25 Thread C Stefan
Hello I have a Debian/Sid distrib and after an apt-update/apt-upgrade i`ve encounterred this error : Reading changelogs... (Reading database ... 26901 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace python 2.3.2-4 (using .../python_2.3.2-6_all.deb) ... Unpacking replacement

Re: RUS-CERT: Several Debian hosts compromised, archive not affected

2003-11-25 Thread Andrew Schulman
http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/files/fw/debian-security-20031121.txt [Note: The original announcement didn't have a GnuPG signature.] Why did the original announcement not have a GnuPG signature? Is no one else bothered by

Re: xterm ignores Xresources when run as x-terminal-emulator

2003-11-25 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 02:32:36PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: | I set up some setting for xterm in .Xresources as | xterm.foreground=white | ... | when running xterm this works fine, when running x-terminal-emulater | when it is pointing to xterm this doesn't work and the same lines for |

Re: pppd boring problem...

2003-11-25 Thread Mark Roach
On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 12:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I get this error after a while with pppd with persist option. I need to kill the pppd and restart it. Any hints would be welcome... Here is a more complete log... [...] Couldn't create new ppp unit: Inappropriate ioctl for device

Re: Learning debian Linux

2003-11-25 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 11:44, Clive Menzies wrote: On (20/11/03 10:42), Knut Willy wrote: I am a novice at Linux. Never used it, but want to teach myself. 1. Have a Windows-98 PC, which has internet connection. Do not intend to use Linux on this one. Afraid of having two operating

mutt and forwarded mail

2003-11-25 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
Hey everyone, I have mail being bounced from my school account. However it is a dumb system and not easily configured. It's a First Class system, for those of you who know it. For those of you who don't--be grateful. My incoming mail from that address has the following headers:

Debian Wireless help...

2003-11-25 Thread Kevin Krumwiede
I'm new to Debian and wireless networking at the same time. I've successfully installed Woody on my laptop, but I have yet to get the wlan-ng drivers to build. (Or build and install a kernel, for that matter -- something I consider routine on RH.) I'm hoping I'll have things sorted out by

Re: finding what is using a mount point

2003-11-25 Thread Alf Werder
On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 14:43, Micha Feigin wrote: I mounted an image through a loop interface and now when I try to unload it I get a message: umount: /home/micha/tmp: device is busy I made sure no file is open from there but nothing helps. How do I see what is using that mount point? lsof

Re: Experiment: Neophyte versus Windows XP Debian Woody

2003-11-25 Thread Kevin Krumwiede
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 12:27:33 -0700 Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, I wonder why the RH powers never tried to copy dselect, apt-get, etc. Surely, they were aware of their existence. They did; it's called redhat-config-packages. But it's GUI-only, AFAIK. There's also apt-rpm, but

Re: scsi emulation for CD burner

2003-11-25 Thread marcos
Gregory K. Johnson a écrit : I got an error much like this a few days ago while updating my kernel. I stayed up late looking into and found: * It's a known bug, #213663.[1] * The changelog for the upstream 2.4.23-rc2 kernel release says: Fix ide-scsi initialization lockup (kudos to

Bad fonts after upgrade to X4.3

2003-11-25 Thread Bill Moseley
I upgraded to X4.3 and now larger fonts are blocky. Look at the Not Found at http://hank.org/images/blocky.png I've listed below my files section. I used dpkg-reconfigure to create a new XF86Config-4 file from the 4.3 package (assuming that the configure script would best know how to configure

Re: X Won't Start

2003-11-25 Thread Kent West
Mark Healey wrote: On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 07:44:14 -0600, Kent West wrote: Mark Healey wrote: Appearantly I have no gpm. I was surprised when I had no text mode mouse but figured that it was something I could use. Is this somethihg I might be able to install? Yes. apt-get install gpm. Did that,

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

2003-11-25 Thread David Z Maze
Sridhar M.A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you want to temporarily disable booting to xdm on your VT100 and revert to xdm once you get back the monitor, just disable the xdm startup from all levels. # update-rc.d -f xdm remove After you get back the monitor, # update-rc.d xdm

Re: apt-get update not working properly 11/21/03

2003-11-25 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 17:41, red wrote: any ideas? http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/files/fw/debian-security-20031121.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: antivirus recomendation?

2003-11-25 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 14:10:16 +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 17:14:41 -0700, Monique Y. Herman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 at 21:12 GMT, Arnt Karlsen penned: ..other wintendo compiler and virus signatures, anyone?

Re: running script from cdrom fails

2003-11-25 Thread Xavier Andrade
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Micha Feigin wrote: When I try to run shell scripts from cdrom I get the following message: bash: ./INSTALLDOCS.SH: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied I got this with several bash scripts and in fact, I don't remmember one that did work. Any idea? The cdrom

Re: hmm debian.org..?

2003-11-25 Thread Christian Schnobrich
On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 14:49, smurfd wrote: Have a little faith in the debian folks! I sure do! What i dont trust, is some one claiming such things, and not having a @debian.org mailadress :) Me too. On top of that, I won't trust any email in this matter (as I don't know how to check the

Re: finding what is using a mount point

2003-11-25 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Micha Feigin wrote: I mounted an image through a loop interface and now when I try to unload it I get a message: umount: /home/micha/tmp: device is busy I made sure no file is open from there but nothing helps. How do I see what is using that mount point? lsof /home/micha/tmp pgp0.pgp

Re: finding what is using a mount point

2003-11-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 03:43:49PM +0200, Micha Feigin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I mounted an image through a loop interface and now when I try to unload it I get a message: umount: /home/micha/tmp: device is busy I made sure no file is open from there but nothing helps. How do I see what is

Re: finding what is using a mount point

2003-11-25 Thread Marcelo Ramos
Micha Feigin wrote: I mounted an image through a loop interface and now when I try to unload it I get a message: umount: /home/micha/tmp: device is busy I made sure no file is open from there but nothing helps. How do I see what is using that mount point? Try with 'lsof | grep \/home\/micha\/tmp'

Re: running script from cdrom fails

2003-11-25 Thread Marcelo Ramos
Micha Feigin wrote: When I try to run shell scripts from cdrom I get the following message: bash: ./INSTALLDOCS.SH: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied I got this with several bash scripts and in fact, I don't remmember one that did work. Any idea? Check if the shell scripts are in dos

Re: finding what is using a mount point

2003-11-25 Thread Andreas von Heydwolff
Micha Feigin wrote: I mounted an image through a loop interface and now when I try to unload it I get a message: umount: /home/micha/tmp: device is busy I made sure no file is open from there but nothing helps. How do I see what is using that mount point? # lsof /home/micha/tmp -- AvH -- To

Re: finding what is using a mount point

2003-11-25 Thread Andreas von Heydwolff
Micha Feigin wrote: I mounted an image through a loop interface and now when I try to unload it I get a message: umount: /home/micha/tmp: device is busy I made sure no file is open from there but nothing helps. How do I see what is using that mount point? # lsof /home/micha/tmp -- AvH -- To

Re: antivirus recomendation?

2003-11-25 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 17:02:49 -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: [-- text/plain, encoding 7bit, charset: us-ascii, 15 lines --] Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 10:59:00 -0500, Stephen wrote: What antivirus agent have given good results with Stable Exim3?

signed package information

2003-11-25 Thread Tom Allison
I was just reading slashdot about the Debian distro and there was some discussion about the md5 signature of packages. Is there some way that this (is already or can be) implimented by default on package installations? I didn't know about this and would like to know more if I could. Thanks.

Re: Any tool for access NTFS partition of damaged hard drive

2003-11-25 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 06:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I have a hard drive that is damaged and the BIOS can't recognize it. Could I access using some tool of Linux? I'm only interested in one file. Is the .pst file where Outlook saves the mail, it's a very large file but I would be

Re: apt-get update not working properly 11/21/03

2003-11-25 Thread ScruLoose
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 10:41:23AM -0600, red wrote: All, Im getting this from many of my my deb boxen any ideas? Err http://non-us.debian.org unstable/non-US/contrib Release Could not connect to non-us.debian.org:80 (194.109.137.218). - connect (111 Connection refused) SNIP I suspect

Re: Best Current Pratice Postgres upgrade 6.5--7.2

2003-11-25 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 16:23, Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 at 02:50 GMT, Henry Hollenberg penned: Hello, I have a database running on potato using postgres 6.5 that I'd like to upgrade to Woody running postgres 7.2. ... I believe the install notes say, somewhere, that

Re: Running SCO RM-COBOL under Debian GNU/Linux 3.0r1

2003-11-25 Thread tallison
Hi all, I have received the task of doing a migration from a SCO Unix server to a Debian GNU/Linux one, the only problem its a COBOL app that is running on the SCO system, I have found information about using SCO binaries under Linux, but it's quite old, does anyone have recent information

aspell with mutt

2003-11-25 Thread Stephen
What's the syntax to use to invoke aspell rather than ispell in ones muttrc? I've perused the fine manual, but I can't find an example of the syntax for this function, as mutt assumes ispell by default. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-25 Thread Stephen
Hello: What virus scanner is the choice for most Debian users? I'm using Woody, and rather than download and install several, I would like to have actual user feedback, on the pros/cons of any/either. Thank-you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: xterm ignores Xresources when run as x-terminal-emulator

2003-11-25 Thread David Z Maze
Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I set up some setting for xterm in .Xresources as xterm.foreground=white ... when running xterm this works fine, when running x-terminal-emulater when it is pointing to xterm this doesn't work and the same lines for x-terminal-emulator doesn't seem to

Re: finding what is using a mount point

2003-11-25 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 10:06, Ken Gilmour wrote: Replying to the message sent by Micha Feigin on Fri, 21 Nov 2003 15:43:49 +0200, received at 16:06:15 on 21/11/2003. Micha Feigin wrote: I mounted an image through a loop interface and now when I try to unload it I get a message: umount:

Re: Which GCC version for kernels?

2003-11-25 Thread Paul Morgan
Davor Balder wrote: On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 12:54:21AM -0500, Kevin Krumwiede wrote: Should I be using GCC 3.x for building kernels on Woody? I'm using 2.95 and I keep getting errors like undefined symbols and modules not being built or installed. I've tried both 'make-kpkg kernel-image' and

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