Re: apt cache obese?

2004-02-12 Thread Richard Lyons
On Friday 13 February 2004 05:19, David wrote: [...] > that can be put in either ~/.aptitude/config or /etc/apt/apt.conf, > > Aptitude::AutoClean-After-Update That is useful - I'll give it a try. Thanks -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: How to install Debian with Promise FastTrak 376 chip onboard?

2004-02-12 Thread Danny
Hi Nano Nano, to supply a floppy during setup is no problem. There in the Debian 3 installer is an option "Preload modules from disk". And that is all I ask for, the modules (binary device drivers for Promise FastTrak 376), so that I can put it on disk, that the Installer detects my Promise FastTr

Re: Kernel 2.6.2 and X (no core pointer)

2004-02-12 Thread Gregory Soyez
> I had the same problem with my current workstation when I reinstalled at > 2.6.2. The solution for me was in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, the mouse > device had to be defined as /dev/input/mouse0. Here's the relevant > section of my config: > > Identifier "Mouse1" > Driver "mouse" >

Re: clamav and fetchmail?

2004-02-12 Thread Alan Chandler
On Wednesday 11 February 2004 16:58, stan wrote: > On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 05:13:57PM +0100, Marcel Weber wrote: > > stan wrote: > > >I've just discoverd clamav. I'm using fetchmail, procmail, and > > > spamassian to fetch mail from various POP accounts, for loal reading on > > > one of my debian b

Re: installing Maple 7 under Woody

2004-02-12 Thread Sanjay Chigurupati
Hi, it looks like a problem with the script. seems like it is written using sh shell. default shell I guess on linux is bash. have a look at Readme.txt and see what it says. if that doesnt help, just post the code of shell script. we could look at it and try to fix it. seems like changing the sh

Re: Apache 2

2004-02-12 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 05:22:38PM +1100, Rob Weir ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 10:33:45PM -0500, Timothy M. Spear said > > Hi, > > I am getting ready to rebuild a server with debian. Has anyone ported > > Apache 2.0 to Sarge and posted the APT files? > > If you're actu

Re: MAILBOX: From Evolution to Thunderbird

2004-02-12 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 01:40:44AM -0500, Abdul Latip ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Greetings: > > I would like to move from Evolution to Thunderbird. > Unfortunately, I have got a huge mailbox (> 100MB) with cascaded > sub-folders. Before I re-envent the wheel; I am wondering; if > there exists a

Re: downloading packages separately

2004-02-12 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 12:33:13AM -0500, Johann Koenig ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Friday February 13 at 04:11pm > Charles Leow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have a (slow) dial-up connection but wish to download the > > x-window-system using apt-get. > > > > I would like to download the

Re: brainstorming: why Debian?

2004-02-12 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 05:12:46PM +0100, martin f krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi there, > > I'd like to compile the reasons why people use/like/swear by > Debian. I would greatly appreciate if you could let me know what > makes you be part of the Debian crowd, in private mail (Reply-To >

Re: Why Linux, Why Debian

2004-02-12 Thread Marc Wilson
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 05:09:46PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Feel free to reply to me offline, I'll summarize on list; but > I think that a lively dialogue shall elicit more material for an > evangelizing document ;-) Ugh, you were doing great until that. Can't contribute to an adv

Re: Fonts, one more time

2004-02-12 Thread Marc Wilson
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 02:50:24AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What does it take to fix this problem? You to get off your duff and do it. No offense. *You* think there's a problem. *You* apparently think there's a solution for it. Why do you think the nebulous "they" should be out the

Re: hi please i need your help

2004-02-12 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 08:29:52PM -0400, vane ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > hey debian i have this problem installing my apache: > (730048)Only one usage of each socket address (protocal/network > > address/port) is normally permitted. : make_sock: could not bind to > > address > > 0.0.0.0:80 > >

Re: RealOne player

2004-02-12 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 11:44:24PM +, Antony Gelberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi all, > > Anyone using the alpha RealPlayer9? I've been using 8 for ages, and I far prefer to get it then use the xmms libreal.so plugin. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself

Re: Debian, Knoppix, and other varients

2004-02-12 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 09:31:48PM -0500, Mike M ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 07:04:34PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > > > Nope. I use Knoppix to boot from, make the "system image" as far as > > disks etc. I then mount those filesystems apropos and then run > > debootstrap i

Re: a2ps borders problem after upgrade

2004-02-12 Thread Marc Wilson
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 11:16:16AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > Has anyone actually investigated the bugs and come up with fixes? > Perhaps upstream? Well, a2ps hasn't had an upstream release (v4.13) since March 2000, and I don't know where it's CVS lives, or I'd look and see when the last commit

Re: a2ps borders problem after upgrade

2004-02-12 Thread Marc Wilson
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 11:15:10AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > Why is there no release-critical bug filed if it's unreleaseable in its > current form? There are bugs filed against all of the stupidities of the CVS version that was uploaded. None of them are mine, so it's not my place to upgrade

Re: Rejecting viruses the Right Way[tm]

2004-02-12 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 11:45:15AM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 02:18:07PM +0100, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > > If I've understood the configuration I have tried to make correctly, > > if you reject the virus in the SMTP-dialog, either due to a u

Re: recommended reading?

2004-02-12 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 05:12:46PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 10:53:56AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > > > For available online documentation: > > > > Install the 'dwww' > > package, which presents your locally installed docu

Re: Kernel 2.6.2 and X (no core pointer)

2004-02-12 Thread Florentin Ionescu
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Marcio Merlone wrote : » Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 18:39:11 -0200 » From: Marcio Merlone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> » To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] » Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] » Subject: Re: Kernel 2.6.2 and X (no core pointer) » Resent-Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 14:41:27 -0600 (CST) » Resent-From: [EM

Re: downloading packages separately

2004-02-12 Thread Johann Koenig
On Friday February 13 at 04:11pm Charles Leow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a (slow) dial-up connection but wish to download the > x-window-system using apt-get. > > I would like to download the *.deb files separately from another > source (with faster Internet connection). > > How can I e

Re: Your eMail to Gibson Research Corp. was intercepted by GRC Security.

2004-02-12 Thread Katipo
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 02:44:45 + Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 04:12:23PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 11:22:39 +, > > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > If you're going to respond to au

downloading packages separately

2004-02-12 Thread Charles Leow
Hi,   I have a (slow) dial-up connection but wish to download the x-window-system using apt-get.   I would like to download the *.deb files separately from another source (with faster Internet connection).   How can I easily obtain all the *.deb files to achieve this?  I did a search of the p

Re: Comcast has IPv6, when will Debian?

2004-02-12 Thread Nate Duehr
On Wednesday 11 February 2004 08:35 pm, Paul Johnson wrote: > > We need to get rocking on IPv6 anyway. I imagine that it will be > > implemented in a big way by the time that Debian 5 is ready. http://www.debianplanet.org/node.php?id=1038 > Comcast has more subscribers in Portland than any other

Re: alternative to plesk and cpanel?

2004-02-12 Thread Louie Miranda
Well, i would really love to get back on my question. ok, webmin: Im planning to be a hosting provider, and plesk is a web administration panel for users account. Can webmin also do that? -- - Louie Miranda http://www.axishift.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: mount tempfs error on start up

2004-02-12 Thread ThanhVu Nguyen
Hi, thanks for the pointer, problem fixed. On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 22:57:03 -0500 Adam Aube <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 12 February 2004 05:17 pm, ThanhVu Nguyen wrote: > > I received this msg "mount: wrong fs, bad option etc on tmpfs " > > while start up. There's nothing about tmp

Re: Compiling Support for Intel Pro/100 VE Network Adapter

2004-02-12 Thread Sanjay Chigurupati
Hi, I have the same adapter and the driver is available in kernel 2.4.24. just recompiled, selected the driver and ran it. regds, Sanjay Elimar

Re: PS/2 mouse not working after upgrade to kernel 2.6.0

2004-02-12 Thread Kevin Wortman
Everything worked perfectly once I modprobe'd mousedev. Thanks for the help. Kevin Wortman Peter Samuelson wrote: [Kevin Wortman] (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/psaux No such device. I tried to cat /dev/psaux and /dev/input/mice and /dev/input/mouse0 , and all g

Re: eth0/eth1 which one?

2004-02-12 Thread Nano Nano
On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 11:46:58AM +0800, Shaddy.Baddah wrote: > Finally! Thank you Jan. Some of the suggestions are pretty convenient, like > dmesg, which should give you the vendor details, but that would break down > if they are the same vendor. And considering this is the absolute correct > way

Re: apt cache obese?

2004-02-12 Thread David
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 03:21:08PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 06:16:31PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > If you regularly use apt-get (instead of dselect, aptitude, or synaptic) > > it stores all the downloaded packages and does not delete them. The > > other front ends ei

Re: Sarge dist-upgrade wants to remove KDE

2004-02-12 Thread David
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 05:20:30PM +0100, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > I'm tracking Sarge now, and for the past couple of days, when I tried > dist-upgrade, it has wanted to remove pretty much every KDE package on > my system... When I upgraded from stable to Sarge about 3-4 months ago, it remove

Re: jabber server howto

2004-02-12 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 09:22:48PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > Does anyone know of a good jabber server installation how to in debian? > I am trying to save some time. There's always the Admin Guide: http://jabberd.jabberstudio.org/1.4/doc/adminguide The Debian Jabber packages aren't ver

installing Maple 7 under Woody

2004-02-12 Thread Brad Camroux
Hello all... I'm new to this list, and relatively new to Debian. I'm still exploring and finding new and exciting things in the distro. MUCH better than anything I've seen from Red Hat. Anyway... I need to install Waterloo Maple 7(TM) on my system, but seem to be having trouble. I've attached

News Reader with proxy support

2004-02-12 Thread Tom Dudek
Did you find a newsreader with proxy support? --- Tom Dudek IT Manager Iona Presentation College Tel: (08) 9285 5291 Mob: 0414 865 051 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mount tempfs error on start up

2004-02-12 Thread Adam Aube
On Thursday 12 February 2004 05:17 pm, ThanhVu Nguyen wrote: > I received this msg "mount: wrong fs, bad option etc on tmpfs " while > start up. There's nothing about tmpfs on my /etc/fstab, what can cause > this error ? Thanks ... Have you checked this (from the archives): http://lists.debian

Re: enable smp support

2004-02-12 Thread Adam Aube
Please send your replies to the list, not to me personally. On Thursday 12 February 2004 04:18 pm, saravanan wrote: > no, after changing the option, I got kernel panic error. > What to do? Having the exact panic message would be helpful. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

RE: eth0/eth1 which one?

2004-02-12 Thread Shaddy.Baddah
Finally! Thank you Jan. Some of the suggestions are pretty convenient, like dmesg, which should give you the vendor details, but that would break down if they are the same vendor. And considering this is the absolute correct way, some of the other suggestions are a little "long way around" types.

Re: newbie network config

2004-02-12 Thread Jacob S.
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 22:16:22 -0500 Marty Landman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 09:46 PM 2/12/2004, Jacob S. wrote: > > >First, check to make sure you have the kernel module for your NIC > >installed. "lsmod" will show you all the kernel modules currently > >loaded. > > lockd / sunrpc / nls_cp

iptables question

2004-02-12 Thread techlists
I have a box that I use for routing, it's running sid, with ipmaq on it. It works fine for the most part. For a while I had an internal axis webcam that was port forwarded. I use to put in the following at the command prompt iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -j DNAT --proto tcp --dport --to-d

Re: Adjusting the speed of mouse-wheel scrolling [repost]

2004-02-12 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Micha Feigin] > I think the easiest solution if you don't want to access each mouse > differently or use some special driver option to just use one moues > stanza with /dev/input/mice and driver ImPS2. The alternate solution is for the kernel to disable /dev/psaux emulation. Herbert Xu did this

Re: Kernel 2.6.2 and mouse problems

2004-02-12 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Micha Feigin] > IIRC each individual mouse can be accessed in /dev/input/mouse, > probably in raw mode, at least usb ones. Nope, /dev/input/mouse is still the emulated Intellimouse Explorer PS/2 thing, but without the multiplexing. You can also get mouse packets via /dev/input/event, if you loa

Re: newbie network config

2004-02-12 Thread Marty Landman
At 09:46 PM 2/12/2004, Jacob S. wrote: First, check to make sure you have the kernel module for your NIC installed. "lsmod" will show you all the kernel modules currently loaded. lockd / sunrpc / nls_cp437 / pcmcia_core / af_packet / unix You might also check "dmesg" for any output concerning yo

Re: newbie network config

2004-02-12 Thread Jacob S.
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 21:25:17 -0500 Marty Landman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've just installed Woody from the mini-iso on a PI-166/32M ram/6GB > ide with a netgear FS310TX nic installed. The light from the cable on > my lan switch is lit but I couldn't find the nic on the config list, > and att

Re: Your eMail to Gibson Research Corp. was intercepted by GRC Security.

2004-02-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 04:12:23PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 11:22:39 +, > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > If you're going to respond to autoresponders that are replying to spam > > or viruses, please take it *off* debian-use

Re: choice of languages for debian system tool?

2004-02-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 12:34:47PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 03:56:12PM +, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > For what it's worth, though, the base section is pretty much > > obsolete as a specification of what's in base; the actual definition > > nowadays

Re: eth0/eth1 which one?

2004-02-12 Thread Jan Minar
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 10:40:11AM -0800, Lars Jensen wrote: > I have two network cards on my machine How do I tell which one is eth0 > and which one is eth1 ? Quite a bunch of interesting replies :-) Here is mine: Each and every ethernet card has its own unique MAC number, this number usually i

Printing color from Acrobat?

2004-02-12 Thread Jacob S.
Does anyone know the trick to get Acrobat 5.0 (from ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/) to print in color using CUPS? Everything else seems to be printing to CUPS fine, except for Acrobat doing it in black and white. There doesn't seem to be an option to configure the printer in Acrobat, other than ch

newbie network config

2004-02-12 Thread Marty Landman
I've just installed Woody from the mini-iso on a PI-166/32M ram/6GB ide with a netgear FS310TX nic installed. The light from the cable on my lan switch is lit but I couldn't find the nic on the config list, and attempting ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.3 netmask 255.255.255.0 up fails with 'no such de

jabber server howto

2004-02-12 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Does anyone know of a good jabber server installation how to in debian? I am trying to save some time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ntp and dynamic IP

2004-02-12 Thread John Hasler
Schnobs writes: > As it will never recover, I resorted to restarting ntp every day. But > surely, there's a more elegant solution. Or is there? Chrony. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub

MAILBOX: From Evolution to Thunderbird

2004-02-12 Thread Abdul Latip
Greetings: I would like to move from Evolution to Thunderbird. Unfortunately, I have got a huge mailbox (> 100MB) with cascaded sub-folders. Before I re-envent the wheel; I am wondering; if there exists a script or utility that converts Evolution mailbox format to Thunderbird format. Thank you!

ntp and dynamic IP

2004-02-12 Thread Christian Schnobrich
Hello, my ISP disconnects me once a day, so that I won't keep a quasi-static IP I don't pay for. Now, pppd reconnects swiftly, but ntp doesn't seem to like this anyway. Soon after the dis-/reconnect I get this: Feb 9 13:15:01 zwerg ntpd[4732]: sendto(192.53.103.104): Invalid argument Feb 9 13:1

Re: Imap && imap-ssl && pop3-ssl

2004-02-12 Thread Jose Alberto Guzman
Jonathan Matthews wrote: [Sorry for the cross-post - I think it's applicable to both -isp and -user.] I need to offer imap, imapssl and pop3ssl services. FWIW, imap would be localhost only, but -ssl services would be publically accessible. My reading thus far leads me towards Courier-imap with

Re: whew

2004-02-12 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 05:28:05PM -0800, Paul Johnson said > Also, please learn to quote. http://learn.to/quote Huh? -- Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: quiche benelux Bellcore Soviet ASO e-bomb Forte NATO Crowell signature.a

Re: Why Linux, Why Debian

2004-02-12 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I have been asked to give a talk at my local LUG with that > topic. The audience is fairly technical, and there is going to be a > companion talk "Why FreeBSD" later in the year. Why not debian bsd? :) Might be a nice addon at th

Re: [OT] Taking notes

2004-02-12 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Karsten M. Self: > on Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 10:59:57PM +, Jonathan Matthews ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > Fairly OT for d-u, but I'm wondering what people use to take notes for > > courses. > > Stiff-backed, three-hole drilled, microperf, narrow-ruled yellow 8.5x11 > pad, Uni

ezmlm response

2004-02-12 Thread vim-return-
Hi! This is the ezmlm program. I'm managing the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. This is a generic help message. The message I received wasn't sent to any of my command addresses. --- Administrative commands for the vim list --- I can handle administrative requests automatically. Please do not s

Re: Why Linux, Why Debian

2004-02-12 Thread Steve Hargreaves
Manoj Srivastava wrote: Hi, I have been asked to give a talk at my local LUG with that topic. The audience is fairly technical, and there is going to be a companion talk "Why FreeBSD" later in the year. I know why _I_ have decided to go with Linux, and Debian, but I want to delive

Re: AIDE problems

2004-02-12 Thread Keith Nasman
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 11:36:45PM +0100, Werner Mahr wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Am Mittwoch, 11. Februar 2004 18:49 schrieb Keith Nasman: > > > CONFFILE="/floppy/aide/aide.conf" > > DATABASE=`grep "^database=file:/" $CONFFILE | head -1 | cut -d: > > -f2` [ -z "$

Re: AIDE problems

2004-02-12 Thread Keith Nasman
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 09:39:27PM -0500, Adam Aube wrote: > On Wednesday 11 February 2004 12:49 pm, Keith Nasman wrote: > > When my cronjob is run, it reports that it could not access > > /var/lib/aide.db. > > > Here are what I think the relative lines are in /etc/cron.daily/aide > > > CONFFILE=

Re: Your eMail to Gibson Research Corp. was intercepted by GRC Security.

2004-02-12 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 09:10:57 -0800, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 04:12:23PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > ..deal. ;-) > > He has a valid point, it can warp with people's fi

Re: whew

2004-02-12 Thread Clive Menzies
On (12/02/04 16:17), Clive Menzies wrote: > On (12/02/04 16:29), Pedro M. wrote: > > That's a good news. In any case, I would like to see Debian-Newbie email > > list. > > > In view of recent discussion, this is unlikely to happen. > > I first installed Debian as a complete novice having used

Why Linux, Why Debian

2004-02-12 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, I have been asked to give a talk at my local LUG with that topic. The audience is fairly technical, and there is going to be a companion talk "Why FreeBSD" later in the year. I know why _I_ have decided to go with Linux, and Debian, but I want to deliver a talk with from a

Re: apt cache obese?

2004-02-12 Thread Richard Lyons
On Friday 13 February 2004 00:20, Ray wrote: > On Thursday 12 February 2004 16:37, Richard Lyons wrote: > > Quick question re /var/cache/apt. I couldn't understand why my > > little thinkpad's hdd got totally full. Now I'm searching around > > with du and find / var/cache/apt is 1.4GB. Is it alw

Imap && imap-ssl && pop3-ssl

2004-02-12 Thread Jonathan Matthews
[Sorry for the cross-post - I think it's applicable to both -isp and -user.] I need to offer imap, imapssl and pop3ssl services. FWIW, imap would be localhost only, but -ssl services would be publically accessible. My reading thus far leads me towards Courier-imap with Exim 4 backported to sta

Re: apt cache obese?

2004-02-12 Thread Jacob S.
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 22:56:29 + Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 11:37:20PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > > Quick question re /var/cache/apt. I couldn't understand why my > > little thinkpad's hdd got totally full. Now I'm searching around > > with du and find / var/c

Re: apt cache obese?

2004-02-12 Thread Nano Nano
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 06:16:31PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > If you regularly use apt-get (instead of dselect, aptitude, or synaptic) > it stores all the downloaded packages and does not delete them. The > other front ends either delete them immediately after installation or > prompt you. a

Re: apt cache obese?

2004-02-12 Thread Ray
On Thursday 12 February 2004 16:37, Richard Lyons wrote: > Quick question re /var/cache/apt. I couldn't understand why my > little thinkpad's hdd got totally full. Now I'm searching around > with du and find / var/cache/apt is 1.4GB. Is it always that > large, or has mine been eating junk food?

Re: Getting DRI going for Mach64

2004-02-12 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 23:01:36 +0100, David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thursday 12 February 2004 20:46, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Also post the output of lsmod please. > > Did you mean insmod? ..no, just type ' lsmod ' to _list_ the modules. --

Re: apt cache obese?

2004-02-12 Thread Richard Lyons
On Friday 13 February 2004 00:12, Dave Thorn wrote: > On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 11:37:20PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > > Quick question re /var/cache/apt. I couldn't understand why my little > > thinkpad's hdd got totally full. Now I'm searching around with du and > > find / var/cache/apt is 1.4G

Re: apt cache obese?

2004-02-12 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Richard Lyons wrote: Quick question re /var/cache/apt. I couldn't understand why my little thinkpad's hdd got totally full. Now I'm searching around with du and find / var/cache/apt is 1.4GB. Is it always that large, or has mine been eating junk food? sudo apt-get clean If you regularly use

Re: apt cache obese?

2004-02-12 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thursday 12 February 2004 23:56, Mark wrote: > On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 11:37:20PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > > Quick question re /var/cache/apt. I couldn't understand why my little > > thinkpad's hdd got totally full. Now I'm searching around with du and > > find / var/cache/apt is 1.4GB.

Re: apt cache obese?

2004-02-12 Thread Jacob S.
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 22:56:29 + Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 11:37:20PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > > Quick question re /var/cache/apt. I couldn't understand why my > > little thinkpad's hdd got totally full. Now I'm searching around > > with du and find / var/c

Re: apt cache obese?

2004-02-12 Thread Dave Thorn
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 11:37:20PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > Quick question re /var/cache/apt. I couldn't understand why my little > thinkpad's hdd got totally full. Now I'm searching around with du and find / > var/cache/apt is 1.4GB. Is it always that large, or has mine been eating > jun

Re: How to install Debian with Promise FastTrak 376 chip onboard?

2004-02-12 Thread Nano Nano
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 10:26:52PM +0100, Danny wrote: > Hi Nano Nano, > > thank you for your posting, but I'm an absolute Linux beginner. I have > installed only Windows, so I can't compile a new kernel, as I have no Linux > avaiable. > > All I need is for the installation some binary driver tha

Re: apt cache obese?

2004-02-12 Thread Mark
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 11:37:20PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > Quick question re /var/cache/apt. I couldn't understand why my little > thinkpad's hdd got totally full. Now I'm searching around with du and find / > var/cache/apt is 1.4GB. Is it always that large, or has mine been eating > jun

apt cache obese?

2004-02-12 Thread Richard Lyons
Quick question re /var/cache/apt. I couldn't understand why my little thinkpad's hdd got totally full. Now I'm searching around with du and find / var/cache/apt is 1.4GB. Is it always that large, or has mine been eating junk food? -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: alternative to plesk and cpanel?

2004-02-12 Thread Dave's List Addy
On 2/12/04 4:23 PM, "Jaldhar H. Vyas" wrote: > On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Dave's List Addy wrote: > >> On 2/12/04 11:05 AM, "Jaldhar H. Vyas" wrote: >> >>> Please don't use this version. It is buggy beyond belief. The 1.130 >>> packages from unstable should work fine on woody. >> >> Why not just gr

Re: Phone dialer for Linux

2004-02-12 Thread Mark
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 01:21:16PM -0500, David P James wrote: > > And what does atdp represent? Once I've got a terminal > open, sure, I can do that, but that's not really all that useful. I > don't mind if a terminal opens up, just so long as nothing has to be > typed in there other than perh

USB Mouse does not load under Debian Sarge with Kernel 2.6.0 package

2004-02-12 Thread Falziah Cooper
Hello,   Patience on my first post to this list ;-)   I am using Debian Sarge and have overcome most adversities, but this one has me stumped.   My problem is that my USB mouse does not get recognized when I boot with the kernel-image-2.6.0-2 package.   I am using the newest module-

Re: alternative to plesk and cpanel?

2004-02-12 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Dave's List Addy wrote: > On 2/12/04 11:05 AM, "Jaldhar H. Vyas" wrote: > > > Please don't use this version. It is buggy beyond belief. The 1.130 > > packages from unstable should work fine on woody. > > Why not just grab the source from webmin.com and install? Pretty brainl

Re: Debian does not have NIC driver

2004-02-12 Thread Joseph Jones
Anil Gupte wrote: I am relatively new to Debian, so please forgive me if the dumb factor is high. I am trying to install debian from disks (rescue.bin, root.bin, driver-x.bin) and I cannot get it to install the Network drivers. The Network card is an Intel Pro1000 and the driver does not appe

mount tempfs error on start up

2004-02-12 Thread ThanhVu Nguyen
I received this msg "mount: wrong fs, bad option etc on tmpfs " while start up. There's nothing about tmpfs on my /etc/fstab, what can cause this error ? Thanks ... I use Debian testing, kernel 2.4.22 # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # /dev/hdc6 /

Re: recommended reading?

2004-02-12 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 10:53:56AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > For available online documentation: > > Install the 'dwww' > package, which presents your locally installed documentation at > http://localhost/dwww/ Then grab yourself the following packages: > > - ap

Re: Convert Red Hat 7.2 to Debian 3.0

2004-02-12 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-12, Pedro M. penned: > Monique Y. Herman wrote: > >>(If it helps, I backed up the data, /etc directory, etc from a RedHat >>install several years ago and was able to migrate all the settings to >>Debian pretty easily. Got it up and running in a day. So I really >>don't see much need to

Re: How to install Debian with Promise FastTrak 376 chip onboard?

2004-02-12 Thread Danny
Hi Nano Nano, thank you for your posting, but I'm an absolute Linux beginner. I have installed only Windows, so I can't compile a new kernel, as I have no Linux avaiable. All I need is for the installation some binary driver that the Debian 3 R2 installer detects my FastTrak 376. Thanx, Danny

S24 Video Card on Sparc 5: Can it be used in 16 or 24 bit mode?

2004-02-12 Thread Jose Gilberto Torres
Hello, I don't know if I'm asking this question in the correct mail forum, so please don't attack me :-) . I have a SparcStation 5 with a S24 video card. I've installed Debian 3.0r2 on it and everything is working great but just one thing I can't figure out. I'm trying to get into 16 or 24 b

Re: recommended reading?

2004-02-12 Thread Katipo
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 18:26:49 + Steve Hargreaves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/2/04 Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 02:19:27PM +0100, Christian Schnobrich > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > >>On Son, 2004-02-08 at 12:24, Conrad Newton wrote: > >> > >> > OK - I adm

Re:Getting DRI going for Mach64

2004-02-12 Thread David Baron
On Thursday 12 February 2004 20:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Also post the output of lsmod please. Did you mean insmod? Which module am I trying here? > > It looks like something isn't installed right since its loading the > r128 module instead of the mach64 module. Did you load the kernel > m

Re: Smartmontools (Simple question)

2004-02-12 Thread James Tappin
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:05:55 -0600 Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > James Tappin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > In the /etc/init.d script for smartmontools there is a condition that > > checks whether start_smartd is equal to "yes". Is there a "proper" way to > > set this variable so t

Re: eth0/eth1 which one?

2004-02-12 Thread James Tappin
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:02:42 -0800 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 10:40:11AM -0800, Lars Jensen wrote: > > I have two network cards on my machine How do I tell which one is eth0 > > and which one is eth1 ? > >

Debian does not have NIC driver

2004-02-12 Thread Anil Gupte
I am relatively new to Debian, so please forgive me if the dumb factor is high.  I am trying to install debian from disks (rescue.bin, root.bin, driver-x.bin) and I cannot get it to install the Network drivers.  The Network card is an Intel Pro1000 and the driver does not appear to be on any

Re: [OT] Taking notes

2004-02-12 Thread Nano Nano
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 12:21:08PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 10:59:57PM +, Jonathan Matthews ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > Fairly OT for d-u, but I'm wondering what people use to take notes for > > courses. > > Stiff-backed, three-hole drilled, microperf, nar

Intel 536ep

2004-02-12 Thread Steve Hargreaves
Hi there. OK, after my success with the nVidia driver, I decided to have another go with the Intel 536EP modem driver. Downloaded the source from Intel, read the readme, and did the following:- Extracted the archive, logged in as root and CD'd to the ne Intel directory. Typed:- make clean

Re: Convert Red Hat 7.2 to Debian 3.0

2004-02-12 Thread Pedro M.
Monique Y. Herman wrote: On 2004-02-11, System Administrator penned: I am about to cobvert a system from Red Hat to Debian. Idealy I would do a fresh install from scratch, but am trying to avoid this. While at the Linux Expo in NYC last month, the Debian Booth people reccomended a program tha

Re: Compiling Support for Intel Pro/100 VE Network Adapter

2004-02-12 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 12:52:27PM -0600, Doug MacFarlane wrote: > The built-in 10/100 Ethernet NIC is driving me nuts. It's an Intel Pro/100 > VE Network Adapter, according to the XP Device Manager. Sounds like it *might* work with the eepro100 modu

Re: eth0/eth1 which one?

2004-02-12 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 10:40:11AM -0800, Lars Jensen wrote: > I have two network cards on my machine How do I tell which one is eth0 > and which one is eth1 ? If you have DHCP on your segment, then you can plug one in and see which iface gets the IP.

Re: choice of languages for debian system tool?

2004-02-12 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 03:56:12PM +, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 10:49:59AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > > On 2004-01-31, John Hasler penned: > > > Not true. Perl is in the base system. You have to stick to basic > > > Perl, though. No libraries. >

Re: [OT] Taking notes

2004-02-12 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 10:59:57PM +, Jonathan Matthews ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Fairly OT for d-u, but I'm wondering what people use to take notes for > courses. Stiff-backed, three-hole drilled, microperf, narrow-ruled yellow 8.5x11 pad, Uni-Ball rollerball pen, blue ink. Peace. --

Re: enable smp support

2004-02-12 Thread Adam Aube
On Thursday 12 February 2004 03:43 pm, saravanan wrote: > I didn't manually edit the file. While installing > kernel-image-2.4*..-smp.deb, it gives two options > 1) use existing lilo conf > 2) Create new lilo conf > I selected second option & it automatically creates the file. The new file w

Re: Creating a hardware Firewall

2004-02-12 Thread Bojan Baros
> Hi Bojan, > > Which netgear router is it? Has it got a built in firewall? I bet it has. Use that. If your router hasnt got a built in firewall you can get > one from amazon for £50- or so that has. > > It will probably be more secure than a linux firewall. (dons fireproof > suit - I might be wron

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