Re: Does a Maxtor 5000 LE USB Drive Work under Linux?

2003-01-01 Thread Andy Saxena
---BeginMessage--- On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 12:26:50PM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: I presently have 2 unknowns I am trying to resolve. I have installed USB support and the USB mass-storage driver on a Debian system using the 2.4.19 kernel. The USB stuff installs with no complaint at

Re: moving mail to imap

2003-07-30 Thread Andy Saxena
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 07:13:21PM +0200, Juri Haberland wrote: It is said that the server with the most features is Cyrus-IMAPd, which is quite hard to istall and to configure. I have cyrus server running for personal use, and I am by no means an admin. One of the bigger differences between

Re: Accidently uninstalled KDE

2003-08-02 Thread Andy Saxena
On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 07:25:19PM +0200, Christophe Courtois wrote: I know this problem :-) I suppose this is KDE3. The second time, I was fed up with this dependency problem, and each time I use dselect, I make a backup of /var/lib/dpkg/status to make a rollback if I forget to type

Re: how to use NT's shared files?

2002-10-14 Thread Andy Saxena
On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 01:21:38PM +0200, Jean-Marc V. Liotier wrote: Or if you are GUI minded, take a look at komba or gnomba. Works well to mount SMB shares with a couple of mouse clicks. Compared to Windows network neighborhood, the discovery behaviour is much more consistent, especially

Re: Knoppix DemoLinux

2002-10-14 Thread Andy Saxena
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 05:45:08PM -0400, Andy Saxena wrote: Hi, I am trying to promote Linux at the office. I handed out a few DemoLinux CDs for my co-workers to use. Could somebody draw a comparison between DemoLinux Knoppix? Thank you. Andy To answer my own question Knoppix has

Re: Automating IMAP email maintenance

2002-10-16 Thread Andy Saxena
On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 07:28:49AM -0700, Dave Carrigan wrote: Cyrus doesn't use maildir. It uses something that kinda looks like maildir. Regular users can't even read the files in the Cyrus mail spool. This is precisely the reason why I was asking the question in the first place. I was

Re: Automating IMAP email maintenance

2002-10-16 Thread Andy Saxena
On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 09:23:01AM -0500, Mark Roach wrote: The package description doesn't mention it, but the version of archivemail in SID has IMAP support. Thanks to all those who suggested archivemail. It is exactly what I was looking for. -Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Knoppix DemoLinux

2002-10-16 Thread Andy Saxena
On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 03:51:44PM -0700, Jeff wrote: the heathen, I love it! I must say that I've done quite a few demo's with Knoppix when folks pop in and ask, Hey, what are you using there?. I also get questions when I pull my laptop out of my bag, open the lid and start typing

Re: Terminal like server for linux

2002-10-18 Thread Andy Saxena
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 05:30:34PM -0700, Curtis Vaughan wrote: You know, as far as I know, only 1 person at a time can access a VNC server, right? I am almost certain, that the company I'm talking about has a server, much like Windows Terminal Services, that allows multiple remote users

Re: Netscape 7.0

2002-10-19 Thread Andy Saxena
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 09:37:51AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: [cjwatson@arborlon ~]$ madison kvirc kvirc | 1:2.1.2-11 |stable | source, alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc kvirc | 1:2.1.2-11 | testing | source, alpha, arm, hppa,

Re: The *ONLY* real problem with Debian...

2002-10-24 Thread Andy Saxena
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 10:33:08PM -0500, Jamin W.Collins wrote: On 22 Oct 2002 23:15:58 -0400 Mark L. Kahnt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let's be honest - if users didn't have to work through the install, a key headache and admitted weakness in Debian would be avoided... So, preinstall PCs

Re: vncserver: cannot restart on same display

2002-10-24 Thread Andy Saxena
On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 06:36:48PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: how come it is not possible to run vncserver reusing the display number? the following should work: vncserver :1 vncserver -kill :1 vncserver :1 the first two work, the third one does not, her's the error mesage from

Old packages archive

2002-10-25 Thread Andy Saxena
I believe somebody had setup an archive of all the old packages that come through Sid. Could somebody please point me to the URL? Thanks, Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Old packages archive

2002-10-25 Thread Andy Saxena
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 11:44:06AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 06:36:41AM -0400, Andy Saxena wrote: I believe somebody had setup an archive of all the old packages that come through Sid. Could somebody please point me to the URL? http://snapshot.debian.net

SOLVED Re: Old packages archive

2002-10-25 Thread Andy Saxena
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 07:08:16AM -0400, Andy Saxena wrote: Thanks for the immediate response, Colin. I am looking for X includes to build Kapital, since the Debian package they offer is for Woody. I thought they might be in the xlibs-dev package. However, I am running the 4.1.0-17 version

Kapital on Sid (unstable) with KDE 3.0

2002-10-26 Thread Andy Saxena
Has anybody had any luck running Kapital on KDE3? -Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

bash login file [was Re: Debian equivalent of .login file?]

2002-10-26 Thread Andy Saxena
On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 10:14:00PM -0400, Levi Waldron wrote: I found that commands in my .bashrc file got executed every time I opened a new konsole, but I have commands I only want to run once when I first log in. It seems there are 2 ways to make commands that only run when you first log

archivemail will not delete mail

2002-10-27 Thread Andy Saxena
I am unable to get the --delete option of archivemail to work. $ archivemail --delete -d21 -v imap://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/inbox.backup archiving 'imap://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/inbox.backup' to 'inbox.backup_archive' ... set tempfile directory to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' guessing mailbox is

Backup - USBLink External Hard Drive (40 GB)

2002-10-28 Thread Andy Saxena
Has anybody had any luck with the Buslink L40 40 GB External Hard Drive or similar piece of hardware? It seems there is a requirement for a driver for this apart from the usual USB kernel modules. -Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: Printing fonts from browser

2002-11-01 Thread Andy Saxena
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 07:41:38PM -0400, David Sanders wrote: I successfully installed truetype fonts for X. They appear on the screen fine and I can print them via ghostscript. But when I print a web page containing the fonts from Mozilla/Galeon, generic fonts are substituted. Surely it

Re: Backup - USBLink External Hard Drive (40 GB)

2002-11-02 Thread Andy Saxena
On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 12:39:02PM -0500, Guy Durand wrote: Andy Saxena wrote: Has anybody had any luck with the Buslink L40 40 GB External Hard Drive or similar piece of hardware? It seems there is a requirement for a driver for this apart from the usual USB kernel modules. -Andy

Re: Better calendar tool?

2002-11-02 Thread Andy Saxena
On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 03:38:06PM -0500, Paul Smith wrote: What do people use out there for a personal calendar tool? I've been using gnomecal, from gnome-pim, but it's too buggy: I've installed the latest version from unstable and still it can't do the most trivial things, such as

VMWare on Debian and VPN on Windows

2002-11-02 Thread Andy Saxena
Does anybody have any experience running VMWare on Debian hosting Windows (preferably Win2K) and using Windows VPN software? -Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: VMWare on Debian and VPN on Windows

2002-11-02 Thread Andy Saxena
On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 06:31:21AM -0700, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: On Sat, 2002-11-02 at 05:33, Andy Saxena wrote: Does anybody have any experience running VMWare on Debian hosting Windows (preferably Win2K) and using Windows VPN software? I run vmware all the time (with Windows2000). I

SOLVED [Re: archivemail will not delete mail]

2002-11-09 Thread Andy Saxena
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 02:53:18AM -0500, Andy Saxena wrote: I am unable to get the --delete option of archivemail to work. $ archivemail --delete -d21 -v imap://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/inbox.backup archiving 'imap://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/inbox.backup' to 'inbox.backup_archive

NOT SOLVED [Re: archivemail will not delete mail]

2002-11-10 Thread Andy Saxena
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 10:11:56AM -0500, Andy Saxena wrote: I got it to work $ archivemail --delete -d 21 -v imap://user:passwd@imapserver/inbox.backup Sorry about the false report. It still doesn't work! I didn't realize that it is created backup files as stated in the original posting

Re: procmail + cron for regular email cleanup?

2002-11-16 Thread Andy Saxena
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 01:04:46PM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: -- Chun Kit Edwin Lau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (on Friday, 15 November 2002, 12:47 PM -0500): I want to cleanup my sent mailbox regularly. If any email in the mailbox is more than 2 months old, the email should be

digital voice recorders for Linux

2003-03-15 Thread Andy Saxena
Hello, I would appreciate a recommendation for a digital voice recorder that works with Linux, along with a recommendation for the software. Thank you, Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

tightvnc java security

2003-03-16 Thread Andy Saxena
Hi, I am trying to figure out a way to securely connect to the X server on my machine (the host machine) using a web browser. Tightvnc with java is very promising since I don't need any special software as the applet downloads from the host machine upon access through the browser. I don't know

Re: Setting up printing

2001-07-15 Thread Andy Saxena
I have the Epson Stylus color 740 that I am using under usb. I don't know how the i model differs. I got myself printer drivers from www.turboprint.de. Works like a charm. The pages come out centered and I can adjust the margins. I tried pdq but wasn't quite satisfied with it. Anyway, that's

Re: usb scanners printers

2001-07-15 Thread Andy Saxena
I have a Microtek Scanmaker X6. The pro is that the driver is included in the kernel package. -Andy On Sunday July 15 2001 00:08, Sam Varghese wrote: On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 10:06:48AM -0700, tony mollica wrote: Hi. The local computer fair is in town today and I'm in the market for a new

Re: Testing upgrade: Potentially harmful(?) problem

2001-07-15 Thread Andy Saxena
I have recently ugraded from potato. So 70debconf is the new file instead of apt.conf? On Sunday July 15 2001 00:09, Jimmy Richards wrote: Sorry, but I guess I forgot to mention that the file would be apt.conf if your running potato. Glad you found the right file though.

Re: mkfs.vfat? where is it ??

2001-07-15 Thread Andy Saxena
On the other hand try parted. It's a utility with pretty much the same functionality as Partition Magic. It will even resize your ext2 partitions. I have used it for this purpose and it worked out great. -Andy On Saturday July 14 2001 09:31, Disem wrote: I was unable to create an *windows*

Re: Can't play audio CDs

2001-07-15 Thread Andy Saxena
Under redhat my drive showed up as /dev/cdrom. I'm not sure if this is significant. /dev/cdrom is a soft link to your cdrom device. It should link to /dev/hdc in your case. -Andy

Re: X4 scrolling

2001-07-15 Thread Andy Saxena
I faced a similiar problem before, but reversed :). Make sure the modes line in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 reads like this: Modes 640x480 800x600 X creates a virtual screen corresponding to the largest screen resolution and uses the first entry as the default startup resolution. -Andy On

Re: kde2 and wmdockapps

2001-07-15 Thread Andy Saxena
Absolutely! Dock Application Bar can be accessed from Panel = Add = Extension menu. There is a bug that may not allow you to display all your dockapps. You can resolve this by writing a startup script that will launch your dockapps. -Andy On Sunday July 15 2001 17:31, Jonathan Daugherty

Re: X4 scrolling

2001-07-15 Thread Andy Saxena
Mr. Oberin, You need to get off this problem and step out into the fresh air. Perhaps it will relieve your frustration :-). Not to mention the kind of trouble one can get into for blowing steam at volunteers. And oh, before you step out, could you please send us a copy of

Re: X4 scrolling

2001-07-16 Thread Andy Saxena
On Sunday July 15 2001 22:55, Eric G. Miller wrote: On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 12:30:03PM +1000, Bek Oberin wrote: [snip] Subsection Display Depth 24 Modes 800x600 640x480 ViewPort0 0 Virtual 800 600 EndSubsection [snip]

Re: Newbieish question

2001-07-16 Thread Andy Saxena
Hi Brian, I recently went through two upgrade cycles - from stable (AKA Potato) to testing (AKA Woody), and then to unstable (AKA Sid). On Sid about a 100 or so packages are updated everyday. A few weeks ago, I had a severely disabled system when the PAM modules failed to function. In

Re: Audio CD Problems with Potato

2001-07-16 Thread Andy Saxena
On Monday July 16 2001 01:47, Mark Wagnon wrote: On 07/16/01 07:20:47 +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: Better is: add your user to the cdrom group and chmod the device to that group instead of disk. Thanks for the heads up. I know how to add a user to a group, but how does one remove a user from

Re: X question

2001-07-19 Thread Andy Saxena
It has to do with keymapping. I am feeling too lazy to look up my notes now, and hopefully somebody will come along to help. In the meanwhile use CTRL-A for Home and CTRL-E for End, if you aren't already :). -Andy On Thursday July 19 2001 14:57, Sebastiaan wrote: Hello, I have upgraded to

Re: gotmail

2001-07-19 Thread Andy Saxena
If you just started getting this error, log into hotmail itself. The interface has changed :). That might explain the problem. -Andy On Thursday July 19 2001 15:36, The Doc wrote: If anyone out there uses gotmail, have you been getting this error, or one like it -- and if so, do you know how

Re: running out of room on root system

2001-07-20 Thread Andy Saxena
The following will definitely help; execute as root. # runlevel N 2 [might not be 2 for you] (log out of any X sessions, because in the next step you will change your runlevel to the single mode) # telinit 1 (make your changes now.) # exit [or] telinit 2 [should put you back into the normal

Re: bash ${parameter%%patern} does not work ?

2001-07-23 Thread Andy Saxena
On Monday July 23 2001 03:36, Osamu Aoki wrote: Hi, I have been scratching my head for bash parameter substitution. I understand ## in following examples but I can not understand %%. Is this how bash 2.0 supposed to work? $ XXX=123456123456 $ echo $XXX 123456123456 $ echo ${XXX%%*1}

Re: upgrading kde?

2001-07-23 Thread Andy Saxena
On Monday July 23 2001 06:26, Rodolfo Canet wrote: Hi all Which package should I apt-get install to get the newest kde? (kdebase, etc...) Thanks.. 02:38pm [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/perl-programming 536 $ dpkg -l *kde* | grep ^ii ii kdeartwork-sty 2.2-beta1-1widget styles released with KDE

Re: Preventing windows from screwing linux up

2001-07-23 Thread Andy Saxena
Could you please provide more information? It would help to know what your partition table looks like (from fdisk). Could you state more specifically what symptoms this has caused? Were you not able to boot into Linux; files went missing, etc. -Andy On Monday July 23 2001 17:35, Cormac

Re: KDE2 X display security

2001-07-28 Thread Andy Saxena
On Saturday July 28 2001 14:05, Ross Boylan wrote: I'm looking for a configuration file setting so that I won't need to type that command every time I start. On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 03:55:36PM +0200, Philipp Lehman wrote: On Sat, 28 Jul 2001, Ross Boylan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I

Re: history

2001-07-30 Thread Andy Saxena
On Sunday July 29 2001 19:10, Markus Hansen wrote: hi how can i clear the history of visited webpages while using conqueror? thanks for helping. markus The quick-and-dirty way is to close konquerer and delete all the files in ~/.kde/share/apps/kio_http/cache I am currently running

Re: zip drive problems...

2001-07-31 Thread Andy Saxena
On Tuesday July 31 2001 04:57, Phillip Deackes wrote: On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 13:39:47 -0700 Sometimes the partition you need to access is /dev/sda1 rather than /dev/sda4. Don't know why, but I have several zip disks, some where the uabale partition is /dev/sda1 and others where it is /dev/sda4.

Re: LILO (OPT: vga -- question)

2001-07-31 Thread Andy Saxena
On Monday July 30 2001 21:52, louiemiranda wrote: vga = normal how can i make lilo to use 800x600 res, on the lilo.conf options? ex: vga = 800x600? -- louiemiranda (axishift.ath.cx) PGPID : 0xDABA60C7 Not quite sure what you are trying to do here.

Re: xdm login problems

2001-07-31 Thread Andy Saxena
On Monday July 30 2001 14:46, Pedro Quaresma de Almeida wrote: Hi my xdm setup is broken... :( When I try to run xdm, it starts nicely showing the login-screen but when I try to login it fails returning to the xdm login-screen. Whats the problem? Can you help me? Thank you. You need to

Re: Wake on LAN question

2001-07-31 Thread Andy Saxena
On Monday July 30 2001 09:24, Robert Kerr wrote: Hi all, I am setting up a machine to do firewalling/IP masquerading. I'd like to be able to leave this machine on all the time, but perhaps in a powered-down mode, so it's not using as much electricity, and not so noisy at night. I envision

Re: Is my memory's speed normal?

2001-07-31 Thread Andy Saxena
On Tuesday July 31 2001 05:31, Tao Liu wrote: I tried memtest86 to test my memory. It says: Memtest-86 v2.6 Celeron 434.3MHz L1 Cache 32k 4342.6MB/s L2 Cache 128k 1085.6MB/s Memory 128M 71.1MB/s Cacheable 128M I choiced all tests, it worked 10 hours, and still not

Fwd: Re: xdm login problems

2001-07-31 Thread Andy Saxena
Andy Saxena writes: On Monday July 30 2001 14:46, Pedro Quaresma de Almeida wrote: Hi my xdm setup is broken... :( When I try to run xdm, it starts nicely showing the login-screen but when I try to login it fails returning to the xdm login-screen. Whats the problem

Re: Questions about XFree86 4.x

2001-08-03 Thread Andy Saxena
On Thursday August 02 2001 11:42, Aaron Traas wrote: [snip] 4) in my /etc/profile, I add the line: alias ls='ls --color -F' This works very nicely at the console, but for some reason, when I'm in X, this doesn't work in Konsole or Xterm. I have to do an: exec bash --login Each

Re: mail stuck in queue

2002-04-02 Thread Andy Saxena
On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 04:36:40PM +0200, Rudy Gevaert wrote: Hello, Running exim and potato here. My last two sent messages are stuck in the mail queue... It get this message: Due that I am not at home much (only weekends), and I don't use it much to send mail this could be going

Re: Unstable Packages installed in Woody listing?

2002-04-03 Thread Andy Saxena
On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 02:05:47PM +0100, Charlie Grosvenor wrote: Hi I have debian woody installed and have a number of packages from the unstable distribution installed. How can I list all the packages that I have installed that are from the unstable distribution only? Thankyou

Re: Kernel idle interference??

2002-04-03 Thread Andy Saxena
On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 09:29:06PM -0500, H. S. Teoh wrote: [Please Cc: replies to me, I'm not subscribed due to high volume.] Recently, I noticed this very odd phenomenon with my sound card. I'm using an SB16 with the OSS drivers, and there is this persistent background static hum, which

Re: LILO dualbooting Sid and XP

2002-04-06 Thread Andy Saxena
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 03:05:32AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: I've been using the NT bootloader for as long as I've been using Debian to handle switching between my M$ OS's and Linux. However, since I've switched to using Debian 364 days a year, this is no longer working for me. My XP boot

Re: debian reinstallation

2002-04-06 Thread Andy Saxena
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 09:30:20PM +0200, Hanspeter Roth wrote: On Apr 06 at 09:29, Vivek G. Bharathan spoke: So I installed Debian in February and I've just discovered that my /usr partition is much too small. I'd like to somehow set apt and dselect to If you have appropriate spare

Re: Trouble getting my screen resolution correct.

2002-04-06 Thread Andy Saxena
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 11:47:54AM -0800, Steve Juranich wrote: I'm having trouble getting my screen resolution set correctly. The relevant part of my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file says: snip DefaultDepth 24 SubSection Display Depth 24

Re: No Internet Connection (DHCP)

2002-04-06 Thread Andy Saxena
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 01:30:25PM -0800, Brian W. Carver wrote: I boot up and first thing I type: ifconfig I get: eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:C0:F0:56:2E:E9 inet addr:192.168.0.1 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX

Re: Mutt and From: line

2002-04-06 Thread Andy Saxena
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 04:54:36PM -0500, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: I have been messing with mutt and trying to make it display my name currectly for FAR too long, and I have gotten no where. I have tried every combination of set realname, set from, my_hdr From: with every combination of

Re: No Internet Connection (DHCP)

2002-04-07 Thread Andy Saxena
Brian W. Carver wrote: Your assumptions below are correct. I am using potato 2.2 r5, but this problem started when a dselect session went bad and I believe that I may now have some sid and some woody packages. I know I have a new xdm interface because it looks totally different when I boot up

Re: Reducing font size in X

2002-04-08 Thread Andy Saxena
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 08:59:58PM +0200, Erik van der Meulen wrote: Dear group - I have just installed a Sid box supposed to run only X and Galeon. I found that the default install leves me with rather large fonts for the applications. I recall having solved this before by exchanging the

Re: Reducing font size in

2002-04-10 Thread Andy Saxena
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 12:07:15AM -0700, Florentin Ionescu wrote: My understanding is that unix/:7100 is necessary if you run xfstt server - from documentation I thought that is necessary to run xfstt if you want support for all true type fonts. Is this true or false ? For configuration I

Re: Reducing font size in X

2002-04-13 Thread Andy Saxena
On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 07:36:30AM -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote: Wow. I just halted xfs and restarted X. Everything looks the same. Before I unsinstall xfs completely, I have two questions: - Does anything need the font server? Sometimes I launch X-windows remotely after connected via

Re: package management

2002-04-13 Thread Andy Saxena
On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 05:28:49AM -0700, David Wright wrote: 2) Is there any way to tell dpkg to mark a specific package with a hold flag without going through the dselect menus? I always end up getting lost and doing things I don't want to in dselect, and I really want to be able to

Re: Someone tell me the secret of mutt

2002-04-13 Thread Andy Saxena
On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 11:23:57AM -0500, David Turetsky wrote: On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 10:16:34PM -0400, N. Thomas uttered: -- * Jeffrey W. Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-04-11 18:55:27 -0700]: -- -- Ximian Evolution really is a foul pig of an MUA. I love pine, but it is -- slow and

Re: Linux on Walmart's systemless computers

2002-04-14 Thread Andy Saxena
On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 09:59:47AM -0700, Craig Dickson wrote: begin Shawn McMahon quotation: Meanwhile, a few less girl babies get drowned because their parents can't feed them. As I understand it, Chinese families that drown their baby daughters do so because the Chinese government

Re: Mouse problem

2002-04-17 Thread Andy Saxena
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 06:06:26PM -0700, David Smead wrote: Apparently potato doesn't default install to XF86Config-4. I figured it was best to start with stable before moving to Woody, but maybe stable has been orphaned. That is correct and mentioned on the Debian website - potato is no

Re: stoppling console logging

2002-04-17 Thread Andy Saxena
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 09:27:18PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: /etc/init.d/cron restart Whatever that was supposed to do, it didn't make any difference. I think you are trying to get rid of the messages syslog(?) directs to the console. I believe your solution lies in the tweaking of the

Verifying file permissions

2002-04-19 Thread Andy Saxena
Hi, I was wondering if there is any way to verify the file permissions on the files installed by debian packages. Thanks, Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

verifying debian package integrity

2002-04-19 Thread Andy Saxena
Hi, I, like most of you, download deb packages from a mirror site. While this mirror site is listed on debian's list of mirrors, is there anyway to check the integrity of these deb packages automatically when I download them? A possible setup would be to fetch the md5 checksums from the official

Re: Verifying file permissions

2002-04-20 Thread Andy Saxena
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 08:26:44PM -0700, craigw wrote: On Fri Apr 19, 2002 at 10:54:26PM -0400, Shawn McMahon wrote: begin Andy Saxena quotation: I was wondering if there is any way to verify the file permissions on the files installed by debian packages. Depends; what do you

Re: linux partition help

2002-04-20 Thread Andy Saxena
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 02:43:14PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: On 19-Apr-2002 Ilia Lobsanov wrote: I just did something stupid. I used partition magic to effectively move my linux partition a few sectors down. LILO doesn't work anymore, so I'm stuck on windlowsXP. Is there any way

Re: Finding unused packages

2002-04-20 Thread Andy Saxena
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 10:47:47PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: Noah Meyerhans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 03:00:34PM +0200, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: Some time ago, I've read somewhere about a tool that can find installed debian packages that are not used, based

Re: verifying debian package integrity

2002-04-20 Thread Andy Saxena
On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 06:57:45AM +0800, csj wrote: On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 22:37:49 -0400 Andy Saxena [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I, like most of you, download deb packages from a mirror site. While this mirror site is listed on debian's list of mirrors, is there anyway to check

Re: XF86Config

2002-04-21 Thread Andy Saxena
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 05:51:21PM -0400, Bob Hilliard wrote: I am going to have to use an old, undocumented machine while I am on vacation for the next several weeks. I plan to bring my own hard disk with Debian installed, but my XF86Config-4 will not work with this undocumented

Re: Erratic mouse behavior

2002-04-21 Thread Andy Saxena
On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 02:06:23PM -0400, Jonathan David Pearce wrote: I've been running unstable for several months now. I just did a package update in dselect and selected a few new packages to install. I also updated all the already installed packages that had updates available. Last update

Re: Erratic mouse behavior

2002-04-21 Thread Andy Saxena
On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 02:25:45PM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: * Jonathan David Pearce ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020420 14:12]: I've been running unstable for several months now. I just did a package update in dselect and selected a few new packages to install. I've ran into some odd mouse

Re: Erratic mouse behavior

2002-04-21 Thread Andy Saxena
On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 07:17:06PM -0500, John Foster wrote: - I've had a similar recent experience started about 2 weeks ago after a general woody upgrade. 2 wierd problems. 1. I now have a conflict between my console mouse and my xwindows. they

Re: xauthority and root

2002-04-21 Thread Andy Saxena
On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 05:37:44PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 05:22:48PM -0500, Decibels wrote: Seems that a lot of the stuff I try to do, like 'make xconfig' and starting a xfm session,... for root, when I need to use root, I still have to do the xauth merge

Re: Bug in xfree86-xserver setup?

2002-04-21 Thread Andy Saxena
On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 01:46:31AM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: * Sridhar M.A. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: Hi, Just today when apt-get upgrade installed the new version of xfree86-xserver in testing (4.1.0-16), I could not start X. It was looking for Nvidia chipsets. This

Re: Bug in xfree86-xserver setup?

2002-04-21 Thread Andy Saxena
On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 07:21:05AM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: Hi, Just today when apt-get upgrade installed the new version of xfree86-xserver in testing (4.1.0-16), I could not start X. It was looking for Nvidia chipsets. This appeared strange and on checking I found that the installation

Re: DHCP/BOOTP

2002-04-21 Thread Andy Saxena
On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 10:38:02PM -0700, Alexis Georges wrote: Hello I just got back to using Debian..I'll just tell you what the problem is : i boot normally from the cd's and start the installation process; i choose the right drivers and modules..when i get the Configure Network, i enter

Re: Setting up ntl cable modem/DHCP?

2002-04-21 Thread Andy Saxena
On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 10:41:18AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi The DHCP client software I am using is chcp3-client v3.0+3.0.1r when I run the ?dhclient? command I get the following: Listening on LPF/eth0/00:80:5f:c1:55:40 Sending on LPF/eth0/00:80:5f:c1:55:40 Listening on LPF/lo/

Re: Updating woody-isolinux.iso using rsync?

2002-04-21 Thread Andy Saxena
On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 02:19:26PM +0100, Brian Greenfield wrote: Hi I used wget to grab Rapha?l Hertzog's woody iso last weekend and was going to try it out today, but I see he's released a new version. I've tried to update it using rsync -- I'm an rsync virgin:), but everything I've

Re: Aptitude fails to configure packages

2002-04-21 Thread Andy Saxena
On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 03:38:05AM +0400, Ricardo Fitzgerald wrote: Hi, I've doing some package installation using Aptitude and after downloading everything and start configuring it locks and keeps showing the configure message forever. After 2 hours I decide to stop it and retry to

Re: Kernel panic: NO INIT FOUND, but seems to be there.

2002-04-23 Thread Andy Saxena
On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 04:24:54PM -0400, Alessandro Ghigi wrote: Hi! Thank you for your answer. I have tried passing to the boot prompt linux root=/dev/hda9 init=/sbin/init, but the result is the same as before. Actually /sbin is on the root partition. I guess the reason why my

Re: KDM Path

2002-04-23 Thread Andy Saxena
On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 02:57:30PM -0400, Quenten Griffith wrote: Seems when one uses KDM it no longer reads the paths out of /etc/profliles or ~/.bash_profile or .bashrc. Where is KDM getting the paths? I need to add a path System wide to a program, and I use KDM at start up thanks.

Re: Scwawcaac: I need a little more on apps available for Linux

2002-04-23 Thread Andy Saxena
On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 02:28:30PM -0700, David Smead wrote: You can use LaTeX and associated programs to publish books, catalogs, data sheets, e-commerce sites, etc. Software cost $0.00. Some learning required. -- Sincerely, David Smead http://www.amplepower.com. Just brew up a

Re: xauthority and root

2002-04-23 Thread Andy Saxena
and getting use to KDE, so would like to keep using it. *** Doesn't work if you are using kdm/kde :-}. -Andy *** - Original Message - From: Andy Saxena [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 11:24

Re: Aptitude fails to configure packages

2002-04-23 Thread Andy Saxena
On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 06:35:27AM +0400, Ricardo Fitzgerald wrote: I use aptitude exclusively for my package management. Which distro of Debian are you using and which version of aptitude? -Andy I'm using Woody PPC , can't remember which aptitude version it has to be latest

Re: KMail/Mozilla /var/mail

2002-04-23 Thread Andy Saxena
On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 12:35:51AM -0600, Troy Telford wrote: How do I set up kmail/mozilla to read email in /var/mail? -- Troy Telford .=. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Repartitioning/Reinstalling

2002-04-24 Thread Andy Saxena
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 03:48:41PM -0400, Rich Johnson wrote: Folks-- Its time to repartition my disks. The plan is to: 1. Put all the user data I want to keep onto tape 2. Install debian from scratch (including repartition) 3. Restore .deb package database 4. Re-fetch current .debs

Re: Q's on backup to CD-R

2002-04-25 Thread Andy Saxena
On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 10:47:30AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: At 10:26 AM 4/24/02 +0200, you wrote: Ross Boylan wrote: Just a thought -- I have heard that CD-Rs have a 1-bit per 100kB error rate in 1 year. What that means is that in your typical 1-Meg program, backed up to CD-R, you're not

Re: Sharing Mozilla profiles with W2k

2002-04-25 Thread Andy Saxena
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 06:01:38PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: I run mozilla under both Linux and MS Win2000. I would like both versions to use the same data (specifically, bookmarks, lists of sites visited, passwords--I'm not using it for mail or news). Is this advisable, or am I likely to

Re: apt-sources List

2002-04-25 Thread Andy Saxena
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 04:51:17PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: * Matt Chipman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020423 15:51]: Is there a list of or a method of finding alternative apt-able archives for both woody and potato? see these pages:

Re: Repartitioning/Reinstalling

2002-04-25 Thread Andy Saxena
On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 08:12:59AM -0400, Rich Johnson wrote: In any case, I am done with my rants. If you want to repartition without reinstalling post a message here. By the way, don't ever forget the backups, and experiment with doing a selective restore, if not a full one, before you

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