Re: nvidia kernel and make-kpkg

2003-09-17 Thread David Z Maze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, Im trying to use I make-kpkg modules_install Do you mean 'make modules_install'? Or do you mean 'make-kpkg modules-image', followed by 'dpkg --install ../nvidia-*.deb'? it installs one module the nvidia.o in to /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/driver folder

Re: How to build a wireless network

2003-09-17 Thread David Z Maze
tvn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: One of my computer is running Debian as the main server, it has 2 nics and connected to a hub and cable modem. Its current job is acting as a router so other computers in my lan can connect to its hub and share the internet connection. Now I want to try

Re: sid: kinit showing passwd!

2003-09-17 Thread David Z Maze
Anders Lennartsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David Maze wrote: kinit (from the MIT Kerberos packages, not Heimdal) works as I (and you) expect. Where does your kinit come from? which kinit dpkg -S `which kinit` This is most disturbing. After a check at my home lan where it worked, of

Re: ssh + X11

2003-09-17 Thread David Z Maze
Rodrigo Valenzuela [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When i connect via ssh to my computers it goes fine, but when i tried 'startx ' it complains with 'X: user noy authorized to tun the x server'. ...and you don't actually want to succeed at this, since if you do there will be an X server running

Re: adding a directory to apt source

2003-09-16 Thread David Z Maze
emarsk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From the tree where the packages are (they can be in one or more subdirs) type: touch override #(scanpackages need an override file, that can be blank) dpkg-scanpackages ./ override Packages #I tried

Re: adding a directory to apt source

2003-09-16 Thread David Z Maze
Jerry Turba [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've been reading and trying the same procedure. I noticed that in the example given (deb file:/root debs/) there is no forward slash between root and debs. I strongly suspect that that is not a typo but cannot figure out why the / is missing

Re: XFree86

2003-09-16 Thread David Z Maze
TongKe Xue [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I did a search for XFree86 in the packages section, and one of the responses I got was: experimental xfree86-common 4.3.0-0pre1v1 (583.7k) I'm curious about (1) What is experimental? Even more unstable than unstable? (2) What's been holding

Re: command line workspace switch

2003-09-16 Thread David Z Maze
Neo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: anybody know of a way to switch workspaces in gnome/ any windowmanager? (on Debian of course ;-) ) Background: I want a central monitoring station in a 24x7 monitoring environment to cycle automatically through each workspace which each contains a monitoring

Re: Upgrading to testing

2003-09-16 Thread David Z Maze
Valter G. Nogueira Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to use sarge. ... 2. apt-cdrom add (sarge cds) ... Now I want to make gnome my desktop but I am not sure about what package should I install. In order to get it, I tried to install several packages but I get nothing ... After

Re: kernel recompile in woody

2003-09-15 Thread David Z Maze
raoul duke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i need to recompile my kernel (2.4.18-k7) with some minor adjustments to the configuration. since i can get the configuration file from /boot, all i need is the kernel source. i installed kernel-source-2.4.18, configured it and tried to compile it but it

Re: apt-get, debian-user-digest, xfree86

2003-09-13 Thread David Z Maze
tongKe Xue [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (2) I want to be able to post to debian-user, but read in digest mode ... I started out subscribing to debian-user-digest, but then realized I didn't know how to post, debian-user doesn't place any particular restrictions on who can post; it's fine to

Re: How do I make quality PDFs from LaTeX?

2003-09-09 Thread David Z Maze
Jonathan Matthews [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm trying to get a nice looking PDF from a latex document. I'm using the normal article class, with no other packages loaded. I'm using a couple of symbols that I wouldn't expect to find on a keyboard (namely \times and \equiv) but apart from

Re: Using parted without a floppy disk?

2003-09-08 Thread David Z Maze
Josh Rehman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would like to dual boot my machine, and need to exec parted to do this. However, parted isn't on the Debian 3.0 distro CDs that I have, and gnu only provides floppy images - and my laptop doesn't have a floppy drive (nor an IR port...beware, prospective

Re: testing/unstable reccomendation

2003-09-08 Thread David Z Maze
Joey Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I understand there are no security updates for testing/unstable, because they are so fluid, but what exactly is the difference between them Developers upload packages to unstable. Those are available to users who follow unstable within 24 hours. A

Re: rsh-server

2003-09-08 Thread David Z Maze
Victory [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just installed rsh-server and don't know how to set it up so that I can do rlogin temp1 -l root from remote machine. You almost certainly don't want to, unless you *want* your root password passing across the network in the clear. Better: (1) Remove

Re: ifconfig

2003-09-05 Thread David Z Maze
Adrian Berardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, im experiencing trouble when configuring eth1 card. with the ifconfig command i bring up the card, but it resets when restarting. Yes, that's the way ifconfig works. You probably want to put the relevant information in /etc/network/interfaces

Re: Which release

2003-09-05 Thread David Z Maze
Joey Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am installing Debian on a Internet-capable computer for experimentation and a way to continue learning about Linux without the limitations of a live CD. Should I use stable, testing, or unstable? My preference would be to have the most recent

Re: So what the hell is wrong with X?

2003-09-04 Thread David Z Maze
Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There are specific faults to X11. The technology as a whole is not broken, and any wholesale replacement would have to answer to a great many requirements. 4. Configuration. In particularly, on-the-fly reconfiguration of X resolution

Re: Traction (was Re: OT: Debian Mailinglist server slow?)

2003-09-04 Thread David Z Maze
Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you have a Windows box laying around, Microsoft Train Sim has several scenarios running with power set up like this as well if you wanted to try your hand at it. Controls are synched between all power units automatically (iRL and in the game).

Re: Routing

2003-09-04 Thread David Z Maze
Mark Maas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. (*) text/plain ( ) text/html (Please post to the list in plain text only, not HTML, and set your mailer to wrap lines at 72 columns.) when only eth0 is up I can reach my local lan, 192.168.8.0-255, the lan of another firm,

Re: lm-sensors

2003-09-04 Thread David Z Maze
Menno [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: fakeroot debian/rules kdist_image \ KSRC=/usr/src/kernel-headers-2.4.18-1-686 \ KVERS=2.4.18-1-686 KDREV=2.4.18-11 This ignores the kernel-source package you installed entirely, incidentally. But if it works, that's good to hear. But somehow it

Re: verifying a Debian package

2003-09-03 Thread David Z Maze
Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Many files within many debian packages _do_ have MD5 sums. The debsums package allows you to validate installed files against an md5sum database. Think through what it is you're trusting when you do this. I've found debsums very useful in

Re: Why ROOT all in uppercase

2003-09-03 Thread David Z Maze
jserrachinha [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: if i login with ROOT (UPPERCASE in ttyx) and password, the chars are all in uppercase. Is this a feature!? Yes. I don't remember what exactly it's intended to correct against, but I can try to log in as DMAZE (with the normal mixed-case-and-symbols

Re: Memory

2003-09-03 Thread David Z Maze
Eicke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Gary I appreciate your response. My machine is a Dual Xeon 2.8 GHz 64-bit. What does this mean? I thought Xeon was Intel's brand name for server-grade Pentium, which still implies a 32-bit ISA and a 36-bit physical memory address. Maybe you mean that

Re: lm-sensors

2003-09-03 Thread David Z Maze
Menno [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David Z Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I believe unstable's make-kpkg has some support for building kernel modules given I use stable, and there is some kind of support in it. According to the docs in /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/README.modules

Re: gnus nnslashdot

2003-09-02 Thread David Z Maze
Keith O'Connell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When I first started using gnus a few years ago I managed to get slashdot messages into gnus, but for me at that time it was all a bit much to try and control, so I commented out the slashdot specific lines in .gnus.

Re: Why does X need so much CPU power?

2003-09-02 Thread David Z Maze
Wayne Gemmell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Excuse my ignorance but couldn't the problem (at least in some part) lie in the fact that everything is coded/compiled for a 386? See the list archives; this is practically a FAQ. The answer always seems to be no, except for very specialized things

Re: lm-sensors

2003-09-02 Thread David Z Maze
Menno [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Until recently I have used the packages: kernel-image-2.4.18-686 2.4.18-5 lm-sensors-2.4.18-686 2.6.3-5+2.4.18-5 (from http://people.debian.org/~blade/misc/modules-i386/2.4.18-686/ ) lm-sensors2.6.3-5 libsensors1

Re: Design Questions - recommendations and clarifications needed

2003-09-01 Thread David Z Maze
Bengt Thure'e [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have been struggling to understand what the GPL means and what I can use ... Been checking Mozilla's GPL, GPL, LPGL etc and I guess I got overloaded with to much data and abreviations... Some of the standard open-source licenses are in

Re: dist-upgrade -vs- apache -vs- newbie

2003-08-30 Thread David Z Maze
Brendan Jennifer Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. (*) text/plain ( ) text/html (Please post to the list in plain text only.) From what I've read, I believe I understand that once a stable release is usurped by a new stable release (i.e. what will happen to woody once

Re: libc6 in unstable

2003-08-30 Thread David Z Maze
Carlos Sousa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Could anybody running unstable please tell me if there are any current major problems with libc6 currently in unstable, version 2.3.2-4, for the i386 platform? http://bugs.debian.org/libc6 probably could. I can at least tell you that none of my i386

Re: Getting XFree 4.3?

2003-08-29 Thread David Z Maze
Jon Haugsand [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My Dell Latitude needs XFree 4.3, but I'm not sure how to get it for my Woody laptop. IMHO, you'll run into too many problems if you try to go the backport route; lots of things depend on the X libraries (which, fundamentally, haven't changed in 10 years)

Re: devfs backward compat. problem (solved)

2003-08-29 Thread David Z Maze
Nick Hastings [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Todd Pytel [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030829 16:11]: On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 15:11:00 +0900 Nick Hastings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any devfs experts know how to fix this line properly? Correct the typo in REGISTER? Thanks. Do you want to file the bug

Re: open source distribution

2003-08-29 Thread David Z Maze
Emma Jane Hogbin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hopefully a (quick) question...if I make a product which is open source I don't have to *distribute* the product, do I? I don't think anything compels you to distribute it, no. But if you do distribute it you generally have to distribute it with

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-28 Thread David Z Maze
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The same thing is happening now with gnucash, which is partly written in Guile. Guile is a Scheme implementation designed for real world programming, providing a rich Unix interface, a module system, an interpreter, and many extension languages.

Re: FW: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-28 Thread David Z Maze
Alphonse Ogulla [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: C, Erlang, Prolog, Perl, Python and C++ are all refered to in the above paragraph. Java is conspicuouly not mentioned. I construe that to mean Java is so much lacking in useful qualities to serve any practical purpose. Java is garbage-collected, and

Re: xferring files from window

2003-08-27 Thread David Z Maze
Jianan Huang [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. I have to re-use Hotmail because I notice that mails I sent via Yahoo are separately listed from the ones sent via Hotmail. Is it possible to request the Debian mail administrator to combine them? Probably, but asking the mailing list isn't going to

Re: Linux - CDR

2003-08-26 Thread David Z Maze
Li-Ren Zhou [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm somewhat new to linux in general. I was just wondering what was a good tool for burning/ripping cd's (audio and bin/cue). For ripping CDs, I use abcde, which is a fairly nice console-based tool that looks at a CD, gets cddb information on what CD it is

Re: Prevent X Windows Starting up

2003-08-26 Thread David Z Maze
captain kierkegaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: use the update-rc.d command, to stop the display managers from starting, i used the following command: # update-rc.d -f ?dm remove stop 1 2 3 4 5 6 where the question mark is g, k, or x depending on which is starting at boot. This is a bad

Re: kernel 2.4.21 swsp acpi

2003-08-22 Thread David Z Maze
Lajos Mester [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After upgrade-grub, my menu shows: ### title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.4.21 root(hd0,2) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21 root=/dev/hda3 ro savedefault boot ### But when booting the kernel panics, saying, he couldn't

Re: /etc/rc.boot

2003-08-21 Thread David Z Maze
martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: /etc/init.d/rcS says that /etc/rc.boot is run only for compatibility. What's the Debian standard for rc.local/rc.boot now? Please don't make me write init.d scripts for every single line I need. So create a single /etc/init.d/local script, copying

Re: left out fat32 partition

2003-08-21 Thread David Z Maze
oskar debian lists [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. (*) text/plain ( ) text/html (Please post to the mailing list in plain text only, and set your mailer to wrap lines at 72 characters.) One of my vaft32 partition are having surface or other kind of trouble that make the

Re: listing directory contents with color

2003-08-20 Thread David Z Maze
Alphonse Ogulla [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How do I get ls to list directory contents with color without passing the --color option everytime? My shell dotfiles (for zsh, but this should work for any modern Bourne shell) have: ls() { /bin/ls --color --classify $@; } which implements this

Re: Problem with rebooting or shutting down the system

2003-08-20 Thread David Z Maze
Hooman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have recently made my Debian linux working. Now, when I boot the system, I see a login screen in which I can login as a regular user with Gnome or KDE. The problem occurs when I want to logout and reboot or shutdown the system. As I click on logout on both

Re: Anyone installed sarge?

2003-08-14 Thread David Z Maze
Sven Heinicke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I download the _Official net install images for the testing release_ about once a month for a few months now, todays (August 13th) was the closest I have gotten to getting an install working: When I tested debian-installer recently, I was told that the

Re: NVIDIA driver (nvidia-kernel-source)

2003-08-14 Thread David Z Maze
Michael Bonert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I followed the instructions on the 'nvidia-kernel-source 1.0.4496-2' page (http://packages.debian.org/unstable/x11/nvidia-kernel-source.html). It suggusts working through instructions in a file called 'README.Debian' (full path

Re: Changing window managers The Debian Way

2003-08-14 Thread David Z Maze
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Isn't it The Debian Way to do: # update-alternatives --config x-window-manager Only if you want to change the default for everyone on your system. If you're the only user of your machine and don't want to edit .xsession/.xinitrc, it's fine, but if you have

Re: Best kernel-building procedure

2003-08-14 Thread David Z Maze
David [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've been building kernel-images for a while.. since I'm on dialup, and it takes so long to download the complete source every time, I keep the kernel-source..orig file.. currently I have 2.4.21... I then download the current kernel-source..diff and apply the

Re: NIS substitute

2003-08-14 Thread David Z Maze
Paladin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've been trying for some time to change from NIS to LDAP. ... I needed to install and configure SASL so that I had encryption for the all process. At that time I had to choose some libsasl modules, so I installed gssapi-mit and digestmd5-des. Do you, in

Re: Backport issue

2003-08-14 Thread David Z Maze
Ismael Valladolid Torres [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: However, I am finding an issue backporting packages that build-depend on cdbs. For satisfying build dependencies, I always end up backporting a package called springgraph, but then it refuses to install, asking for some other packages that

Re: Install X windows

2003-08-14 Thread David Z Maze
Shashank Bhide [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have installed a test system with potato debian potato is quite old at this point; I would definitely recommend you upgrade to Debian 3.0, woody, which has been the current stable release for over a year now. and want to have the KDE installed onto

Re: alsa yields no sound

2003-08-14 Thread David Z Maze
Derrick 'dman' Hudson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I rebuilt the kernel (2.4.20) with the alsa modules. I booted with the new kernel, loaded the sound modules and saw that the card was detected and the device nodes exist (I'm using devfs, so once the kernel recognizes the device

Re: Woody vs. Sarge vs. You've heard this before ;-)

2003-08-14 Thread David Z Maze
Jacob Anawalt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was under the impression that the progression from most reliable to most chaotic was Stable - Testing - Unstable. Is that not so? So was I. It is not so (or so I've been told and my experiance backs this up.) Unstable has been fine for my desktop for

Re: ATI Radeon 9000 question

2003-08-14 Thread David Z Maze
lameth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Version 4.1 of Xfree86 doesn't support my graphics card, an ATI Radeon 9000. My new laptop has an ATI Radeon Mobility 9000 M9; I don't know how similar it is, but I know XFree86 4.2 (in unstable) doesn't support it. Since I have a dual boot system with

Re: pdf readers

2003-08-14 Thread David Z Maze
Greg Folkert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 13:17, Vincent Lefevre wrote: I use xpdf on my PPC laptop since gv renders some PDF documents very badly and acrobat doesn't exist here. Begging to differ with you: duke:~# apt-cache policy acroread acroread:

Re: where to change WM manually

2003-08-14 Thread David Z Maze
Nyc0n [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. (*) text/plain ( ) text/html (Please post to the list in plain text only, not HTML.) Where does debian and or linux select the window manager at boot? Not at boot; when you run 'startx' or log in via a display manager. I installed

Re: versioning for custom packages

2003-08-14 Thread David Z Maze
Dj Statik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am wanting to build custom packages of various utilities that are already in the Debian archive. Is there a recommended versioning system I should use while building these packages? You should probably look in the Debian Policy Manual for details on how

Re: Debian way to make lmsensors working with kernel 2.6 ?

2003-08-12 Thread David Z Maze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would like to make i2c working with kernel 2.6 to use lmsensors the problem is that I havent /proc/bus/i2c directory anymore I read sometimes that I need a /sys directory which is not present in Debian I can at least tell you that you're probably not going to have

Re: Alsa-utils make error

2003-08-11 Thread David Z Maze
Daniel Reginald Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am having a problem installing the alsa-utils package: dhunt:/usr/src/alsa/alsa-utils-0.9.6# ./configure;make;make install By way of style, 'configure' and 'make' can and should generally be run as a mortal user: alsa-utile-0.9.6$

Re: Source Builds

2003-08-09 Thread David Z Maze
Tom Allison [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a link that describes how to go about building packages from the deb-src files and how I might identify packages for source build only? Modify the source as you feel appropriate, add a new entry to the top of debian/changelog, and run 'debuild'

Re: --purge when package already gone ?

2003-08-04 Thread David Z Maze
Christophe Courtois [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Slrn is gone a long time ago on my small server, but cron.weekly complains it is not there. I could rm the script, but that's not 'clean'. I'd like to do a 'apt-get remove --purge', but apt-get doesn't want to. Any way through the standard tools ?

Re: operating system

2003-08-04 Thread David Z Maze
stan nin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. (*) text/plain ( ) text/html (Please post to the mailing list in plain text only, not HTML, and set your mailer to wrap lines at 72 characters.) I have a question for you my system comes up with operating system not found i have

Re: Telnet Access as root

2003-08-04 Thread David Z Maze
vinz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. (*) text/plain ( ) text/html (Please don't post to mailing lists using HTML; set your mailer to send plain text only.) Why can I not access my linux server as the root? It's easier to tell who did what, and is slightly more secure (in a

Re: cron bash date

2003-08-01 Thread David Z Maze
Lance Hoffmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to run a bash script in cron. I originally wanted it to run at 11:59pm on the last day of every month. February will always cause problems because of leap years. Therefore, I decided to run cron on the first day of every month using

Re: installing debian though compiling most everything.....

2003-08-01 Thread David Z Maze
(This is a FAQ, as much as it's a question. See the archives of both debian-user and debian-devel about this.) tripolar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I recently tinkered with another GNU/Linux distro Gentoo. I was impressed with several features- especially having everything run super fast

Re: dselect apt-get coordination

2003-08-01 Thread David Z Maze
DePriest, Jason R. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The /etc/apt/apt.conf files is extremely customizable. See 'man apt.conf' for all the details. The biggest problem I have with dselect over apt-get: it is easier to pick which version of a particular package I want to install when multiple

Re: How to force a module to load at boot

2003-08-01 Thread David Z Maze
Rich B [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This has to be an easy one, but I'm lost. I don't know the correct way to force a kernel module to load at boot. Add it to /etc/modules... I got a new PCMCIA network card for my laptop. The old one loaded the correct module automagically, but the new one

Re: User Mangment: LDAP, AFS, Kerberos

2003-08-01 Thread David Z Maze
Raffaele Sandrini [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm thinking about creating a central managed user and data system here. It should use AFS (OpenAFS) as virtual filesystem and LDAP (OpenLDAP) as User and Comuter info Database. I tried this earlier but it ended in more than one user database (LDAP

Re: dependency problem

2003-08-01 Thread David Z Maze
Jacques Haubensack [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a circular dependancy problem with installation of debian packages/ I try to install the alsaplayer sound modules But alsaplayer-alsa depends on alsaplayer-common and alsaplayer-common depends on alsaplayer-alsa ...installing with 'dpkg

Re: How do I log onto anonymous ftp ?

2003-08-01 Thread David Z Maze
David selby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have logged onto ftps before, but never an anonymous one. I need to log into ftp://archive.progeny.com/ I don't think the error is real I can loggin mozilla no probs. Is my anonymous user ID correct ? do I need a password ? I don't use ncftp.

Re: script to run at boot

2003-08-01 Thread David Z Maze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Other Linuxes have a p;ace to put a file that is to be run after the usual bootup, where I can put extra commands that are also to be run at every boot. Is there such a place in Debian? Put the file in /etc/init.d (copy /etc/init.d/skeleton if you need to; it

Re: apt-get nightmare

2003-08-01 Thread David Z Maze
user list [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm trying to upgrade a laptop and I get the following error. Removing gnome-control-center dpkg: error processing gnome-control-center (--remove): subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 127 Any insight would be appreciated. The

Re: can mozilla be safely removed?

2003-07-29 Thread David Z Maze
Dan Jacobson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: $ apt-cache show mozilla Description: Mozilla Web Browser - dummy package This is a dummy package that depends on the main components of the mozilla web browser. It is here to ease upgrades, installations, and provide a consistent upgrade path from

Re: only get packages that haven't changed in last 5 days

2003-07-29 Thread David Z Maze
Dan Jacobson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I want to only upgrade packages that haven't changed on sid in the last 5 days, but without date information in Packages.gz it isn't easy... This sounds like you're looking for the testing distribution, aside from that the cutoff is generally 10 days,

Re: Opening account in gnucash

2003-07-29 Thread David Z Maze
Aaron Maxwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm running Gnucash version 1.8.4. My system is sarge, except Gnucash and its dependencies are from sid. I have three accounts: 'Checking', 'Imbalance-USD', and 'Opening Balances'. I am able to open the last two just fine, but can't open the

Re: Looking for more Debian packages

2003-07-29 Thread David Z Maze
(You seem to have sent your message three times to the list...) Jianan Huang [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1) I read about disk boot problem in the mail list. Right now I boot from a floppy. My machine BIOS can only boot from the C drive or the floppy. I use D drive for my Linux. Note that you

Re: new-bie problem

2003-07-29 Thread David Z Maze
Joydeep Bakshi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I can enter into the interactive mode of Redhat by pressing * key i * at the time of booting. but this technique doesn't work in Debian . how to get the same thing in Debian ? ...what does it do? What effect are you actually after? -- David Maze

Re: rpms and dependencies

2003-07-29 Thread David Z Maze
J. Zidar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there any difference in Debian if you install from debs or rpms? You can't directly install RPM files in Debian. Use 'alien' to convert them to .deb packages first, then use 'dpkg -i' to install them. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: batch renaming for filenames with space

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

Re: setting up an openafs server on Debian

2003-07-25 Thread David Z Maze
To add, in somewhat more gory detail, to what Todd said: Faheem Mitha [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1) When using an afs client, the command `klog' fetches tokens from the campus server. Am I correct in thinking that this fetching involves use of kerberos on the campus server? There's some

Re: crack traces in /var ?

2003-07-25 Thread David Z Maze
(Some of this is my personal opinion; I don't claim to be a security expert.) Andreas von Heydwolff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My home dir contains no database files but lots of proprietary WordPerfect docs, pdfs, oggs/mp3s/wavs and jpgs and my mail archive. The thing you're mostly worried

Re: incomplete shutdown?

2003-07-24 Thread David Z Maze
Richard Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I managed to eliminate the graphic login by unlinking the k, x, and g desktops in /etc/rc2.d. That did what I expected, and allowed me to login at the terminal. But 'shutdown now' seems to only partly shut down, leaving me with a 'Enter root

Re: bash: can I cd from a script

2003-07-23 Thread David Z Maze
Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 11:17:58AM +0100, David selby wrote: I have a script to show a certain directory, it would be great if that script could change my pwd to that directory. Inside my script is a cd /usr/lo., however since the script

Re: Empty package to facilitate upgrades, can be safely removed.Really?

2003-07-23 Thread David Z Maze
Dan Jacobson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: # apt-cache show fileutils Description: The GNU file management utilities (transitional package) Empty package to facilitate upgrades, can be safely removed. # apt-get remove fileutils The following packages will be REMOVED: alsa-modules-2.4.18-k7

Re: error upgrading debconf in debian unstable - python2.2:invalid option -- O

2003-07-23 Thread David Z Maze
johan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello! I have problems upgrading to debconf 1.3.4. I get the following error message: Setting up debconf (1.3.4) ... python2.2: invalid option -- O Try `python2.2 --help' for more information. dpkg: error processing debconf (--configure): subprocess

Re: SSL

2003-07-22 Thread David Z Maze
Francisco Castellon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. (*) text/plain ( ) text/html (Please configure your mailer to send only plain text, not HTML.) I am wanting to be able to use SSL on my current apache installation (version 1.3.26). However I was doing some reading on the

Re: X server won't start

2003-07-22 Thread David Z Maze
Steven Schlansker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. (*) text/plain ( ) text/html (Please configure your mailer to send only plain-text mail, not HTML.) I'm trying to install Debian What version? on a PC as a server for my school, and the administrator decided that he

Re: x-window display managers

2003-07-21 Thread David Z Maze
Jianan Huang [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A simple question: gdm, kdm and xdm: which one uses minimum runtime memory? Almost certainly xdm, since it doesn't have to pay the memory cost of a major widget set. (It might use Xt/Xaw, but I'm pretty sure that's strictly cheaper than Qt or Gtk2.) I

Re: XDM init file

2003-07-21 Thread David Z Maze
Rus Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've just started using xdm rather than loggin strigh in on the console. One thing I have found is that instead of calling ~/.xinitrc and starting sawfish xdm generally runs .xsession, xinit (startx) runs .xinitrc. It seems to be fairly common to symlink

Re: Can't open display after migrating from sarge to sid

2003-07-21 Thread David Z Maze
Dougie Nisbet [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I upgraded to sid running KDE 3 last weekend. Now I find I can't display X apps from other hosts onto my PC. 'ssh -X remotehost.example.com' has always worked just fine for me... Running 'xhost +' *NEVER EVER* do this; you've now made it possible

Re: Smaller margins in postscript documents.

2003-07-21 Thread David Z Maze
Torquil Macdonald Sørensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I want to shrink the margins of postscript documents, thereby enlarging the text to occupy a larger portion of each page. Any suggestions? I suspect you're not really writing postscript documents by hand; what is producing the files?

Re: cvs command usage remotely

2003-07-21 Thread David Z Maze
Asim Hussain [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i want to use CVS commands such as update, checkout and checkin remotely... i used the command: cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/product/b/cvs/srcRepositiory login to logini enter my password and i get in... Do you, in fact, have a CVS pserver

Re: lm-sensors i2c-viapro

2003-07-19 Thread David Z Maze
Tit \Black\ Petric [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: im running latest sid (regularely updated), and i installed lm-sensors just now. the sensors-detect report that i should load i2c-viapro which is quite right, but that module doesnt exist under the installed kernel. is there any way to get the

Re: rmnologin in rc$.d

2003-07-19 Thread David Z Maze
Jimmy Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I have recently installed Debian and I love it so far! I'm currently trying to secure it as much as I can... I'm reading debian-security-howto as I go along. I'm currently trying to remove unneeded daemons from /etc/rc?.d/ Why not uninstall them

Re: Upgrading over the internet

2003-07-19 Thread David Z Maze
J F [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: TekMate wrote: tom wrote: OK, I finally got my potato distro connected to the internet. I want to upgrade to Woody over the internet. I forgot how to do it. Anyone remember? Apt-get dist-upgrade remember to change your sources in /etc/apt/sources.list Why

Re: Running 8 bit applications in 24 depth screen?

2003-07-18 Thread David Z Maze
Paladin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is it possible to run a 8 bit color application in X with depth set to 24 bit? If a given program will only support a PseudoColor visual and your X server doesn't support that, you'll probably lose. (But there's nothing to be hurt by trying.) The X server

Re: Remounting / as RW

2003-07-17 Thread David Z Maze
Ahmed Charles [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've found myself with allittle problem and I was wondering how to remount /(root) read-write instead of read-only after booting with init=/bin/sh. This would help allot, thanks. You need to use mount(8) with the 'remount' option to change the mount

Re: selective apt-get upgrade options

2003-07-17 Thread David Z Maze
wsykes.lists [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am would like to use apt-get upgrade, but with the ability to choose which packages i can upgrade. For example when i type apt-get upgrade i get a huge list of packages most of which i dont care to upgrade. Is there a way to do a selective apt-get

Re: How to batch-process data files

2003-07-10 Thread David Z Maze
Joerg Johannes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I thought that the text and the dashed line would confuse gnuplot, but they are just ignored. Thanks, Nick, and sorry for the noise... (Anyway, it would still be interesting how to just comment out the first six lines of text...) I'd use sed -e

Re: Apt-get unmet dep problem

2003-07-09 Thread David Z Maze
steve downes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've got evolution on my system working fine as far as I am concerned. It wants to download libpisync0 which is for palm sync ( don't have a palm device). It tries then fails apt-get stops at that point. How do I get apt-get to ignore this non problem

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