Re: preferred dialup program

2001-05-26 Thread Erik Steffl
Jeff Maxson wrote: is there a best dialup program? I have been using wvdial, and it seems to work ok, so I guess don't fix what ain't broke, but maybe another program is somehow better... I used xisp, works fairly ok, automatically redials, keeps track of time (and price, if you pay for

Re: line numbers in code

2001-05-26 Thread Erik Steffl
john gennard wrote: I'm having to look for certain lines in code and have been doing so by laboriously counting down the program. As many error messages make reference to line numbers, I feel sure there must be a simple way to locate say 'line 1267' How do people go about this? in vi you

mico: where are the examples?

2001-05-29 Thread Erik Steffl
I have just re-installed the mess of a mico (how is one supposed to know which packages are needed? and which are for which version?) and suddenly the examples that used to be under /usr/share/doc/mico (or some other mico doc directory) are gone. Are the examples/docs for mico packaged or are

Re: Adding stuff to menus

2001-05-30 Thread Erik Steffl
Cameron Matheson wrote: Hey, I have a bunch of programs that I've compiled over time, and I kind of want to add them to the debian menus. How would I do this? Is this window-manager specific, or is their a global way to do this? It seems if I do use a window manager's configuration

Re: mouseman wheel on X

2001-05-31 Thread Erik Steffl
tek kno3 wrote: Hi all, i'like some help to make the mouseman wheel work on netscape (if it does!?). running potato 2.2.19pre17-ide; XF 3.3.6, enlightenment 16.2, netscape 4.77 i managed ok (Zaxis on XFconfig) to make the wheel work (eg. w/ xterm) but nothing w/ netscape. later

Re: Prog. Languages (was: question?)

2001-06-01 Thread Erik Steffl
Romain Lerallut wrote: ... Usually, you choose a language depending on what you want done. YMMV. yes, that's most important - depending on what you will do/what interests you, choose appropriate language... in general, go for design/analysis not for particular language - programming is

Re: line numbers in code

2001-06-01 Thread Erik Steffl
Alan Shutko wrote: D-Man [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Naw, (g)vim is much better wink (I have tried emacs, and that is my conclusion, now go make your own after trying both) Sure... does (g)vim include Tetris? Or a text adventure? Or a shrink to help your mind cope with the

Re: xserver

2001-06-01 Thread Erik Steffl
Derya PALANCI wrote: Hi all, How can i stop a working-but-invisible x server?? I had just installed Xfree 4.0, debian potato and kernel 2.4.5. after the configuration i started x server but it was very big so i wanted to close it. But i couldnt manage and press all the combinations of

Re: [OT] True console in X?

2001-06-02 Thread Erik Steffl
Lance Simmons wrote: On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 01:06:23AM -0500, ktb wrote: What would be ideal is to be able to emulate the look of console in X and run that on one or more workspaces. Use uwm as your window manager, edit the uwmrc.hook file to make the borders black and one or two

Re: tabs / was [OT] Coding w/ vim

2001-06-07 Thread Erik Steffl
will trillich wrote: ... one tab, indent one level. done. (why clutter up your source code with all those spaces?) and if you really go overboard ... it's very simple. generally you want lot of peole to view and/or edit the source code. as long as you use spaces only, it looks the same

/etc/init.d/alsa stop does not work?

2001-06-07 Thread Erik Steffl
since about the time alsa in debian was upgraded to .9 there seems to be no way to unload alsa modules, /etc/init.d/alsa stop does not work and rmmod individual modules (the ones that no other module depends on does not work), it does not complain about anything but modules are not unloaded. any

Re: filtering email via perl?

2001-06-07 Thread Erik Steffl
will trillich wrote: ... how can i use perl to break emails into various mailfolders? I remember seeing something fairly capable in perl journal, don't remember the name, check the cpan.org erik

Re: ftp reget via netscape?

2001-06-07 Thread Erik Steffl
Alan Davis wrote: The amazing thing is that netscape on my sid machine DID have the desired behavior, just like the standard FTP. Automatically, it started at the end of the incomplete file on my disk, and FTPd the rest. I wish to know what is the difference, since Netscape on the woody

Re: right way to set system-wide environment variables

2001-06-07 Thread Erik Steffl
Steve Kowalik wrote: On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 08:35:13PM -0400, Daniel Barclay uttered: What's the right way to set system-wide environmen variables (one place to put environment variables to set for all logins for all users). /etc/profile, of course. (for bash shells - tcsh, i don't

CTRL-ALT-Fn doesn't work (potato, sparc)

2001-06-08 Thread Erik Steffl
I have a sun sparcstation with debian potato installed. everything works (so far) but ctrl-alt-fn has strange effect - it switches to given virtual console (few times) but then the only effect is having strange characters (two per keystroke usually) displayed on the screen, I cannot login (enter

Re: Multiple Sessions?

2001-06-08 Thread Erik Steffl
Chris Spencer wrote: Has anyone else running Unstable noticed that multiple tty sessions (ie: ALT-CTRL-F1, F2, etc.) is gone? As well I have noticed that I can't start a second X session. Am I missing something? gone in what way? works fine here but I haven't dist-upgrade'd in few days.

Re: program response sluggish compared to Win98

2001-06-09 Thread Erik Steffl
rich wrote: Howdy all, I've had a problem for a while in which my potato sytem seems to perform relatively sluggishly - most noticably on Wordperfect. Example: While WP8 under W98, I can hold the page down key for 5 seconds, and when I let go, the scroll immediately stops. Doing the same

Re: ripping quiet CDs

2001-06-09 Thread Erik Steffl
Ben Harvey wrote: On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 01:48:35AM -0500, Jason Pepas wrote: in short, it sounds like normalization is exactly what you want. OK fair enough. so that means I can filter a .WAV through normalize before compression - with a little trial error. any ripper

Re: ripping quiet CDs

2001-06-09 Thread Erik Steffl
Michael P. Soulier wrote: On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 02:26:15AM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: I like grip. not sure about abcde nut in grip you can set the wav filter, I guess that's what you want. but even if it's not you can simply set-up the ripper to be a shell script that does rip

Re: netscape4.5

2001-06-09 Thread Erik Steffl
jean jacques moscovitz wrote: comment trouver netscape 4.5 qui est mieux pour mol que le 6 tel 0143250211 DR MOSCOVITZ 2 RUE MABILLON PARIS 6eme merci html post black font on black background (I was only able to read it when I selected the text:-) and in french. how hard do

Re: do you know any free proxy server?

2001-06-10 Thread Erik Steffl
Roderick Cummings wrote: From: ktb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: do you know any free proxy server? Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 17:44:07 -0500 On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 06:21:30AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm assuming www -

Re: Power button doesn't work

2001-06-12 Thread Erik Steffl
Derek Hans wrote: Is it normal that my power button doesn't work? After running shutdown -h now, the system shuts down and issues a message saying Power down. However, when I hit the power button, the computer just beeps but still stays on. The only thing I can then do is a VERY hard

Re: [users] Re: Why can't I?

2001-06-13 Thread Erik Steffl
Ethan Benson wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 01:11:49PM -0400, D-Man wrote: By make my machine download things do you mean that he logs in and uses ftp or a web browser? If so, then he ought to be downloading the stuff into his own home directory. By default (and quite naturally) users

apache apache-ssl upgrade mess

2001-06-16 Thread Erik Steffl
I have apache-ssl installed (and working) but now the apt-get wants to uninstall it and install apache instead. there is a conflict: apache-ssl requires apache-common (= 1.3.19-1), apache-common ( 1.3.20) but it also tries to install apache-common 1.3.20-1. This part is fairly clear - I'll

packages depending on guile

2001-06-16 Thread Erik Steffl
it looks like there's more and more packages depending on guile in one way or another and they are not installable: gnucash conflicts: [-] libguppi11 (= 0.35.5) [-] libgwrapguile1 scwm conflicts: [-] libguile6 (= 1:1.3.4-2) [-] libguile6 these problems are quite old - does

Re: MouseMan ??

2001-06-19 Thread Erik Steffl
Ed Falis wrote: I got the mouse up and running (bothe Debian FreeBSD) except for the wheel. I would assume that the wheel is used to scroll up and down in lieu of the scroll bars in an apt such as Netscape. I did add the OptionZAxisMapping4 5 to my XF86Config

Re: how do I find out which device this bit of dmesg refers to?

2001-06-19 Thread Erik Steffl
Britton wrote: I get a message like this is dmesg: PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 00:0f.0. Please try using pci=biosirq. I think this first showed up around kernel version 2.4.4. Anyone know what might be causing it or how you figure out which device is 00:0f.0? try

Re: MouseMan ??

2001-06-20 Thread Erik Steffl
Hall Stevenson wrote: This is with XFREE86 4.0.x The wheel generally works. The thumb button duplicates button 2. is there any way to set thumb (side) button to do something else? like double click? I think XFree86 only makes the buttons available. It doesn't necessarily

Re: MouseMan ??

2001-06-20 Thread Erik Steffl
Ashley Clark wrote: * Christopher W. Aiken in Re: MouseMan ?? dated 2001/06/18 21:17 * wrote: Thanks Hall. I got the mouse up and running (bothe Debian FreeBSD) except for the wheel. I would assume that the wheel is used to scroll up and down in lieu of the scroll bars in an apt

Re: e-mail, the next level

2001-06-21 Thread Erik Steffl
nico de haer wrote: ... You have: - Debian server (mine is called gardian) able to connect to the internet: - Mail user agent on your client, that understands POP3 and SMTP (do you know one that doesn't?) - There is no permanent link to the Internet (Using a modem, thus in most cases

Re: 3dfx voodoo2

2001-06-21 Thread Erik Steffl
pReJkEr wrote: Ello is there a package for 3dfx card in debian? i've downloaded device3dfx-source but it doesn't create /dev/3dfx you only need it for older X servers (version 3.X). it creates a kernel module. the actual file /dev/3dfx you might need to create yourself, there should

Re: e-mail, the next level

2001-06-21 Thread Erik Steffl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Niko, I think that this is great thing to do. I am equally curious as to how to adopt this on my server at home. If anyone has good comments on how best to do this, I would welcome the information tremendously. Just 2 additional things: 1. What if

Re: Maestro sound

2001-06-30 Thread Erik Steffl
Darryl L. Pierce wrote: I have ESS Maestro 2E sound hardward on my laptop. When I built my kernel (2.2.19) I made sure to enable it and have verified in /var/log/dmesg that the module(s) gets loaded. However, when I try to run a sample sound application (in this case, a JMF applet using

Re: [OT] Harassment of open source developer !

2001-07-04 Thread Erik Steffl
Eric G. Miller wrote: On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 01:00:38PM -0500, Balbir Thomas wrote: Hi, Yet another case of open source developers being harassed. Adobe lawyers ask developer of killustrator to pay fines for using a name that abuses their trade mark illustrator. Go read about it at

Re:

2001-07-04 Thread Erik Steffl
Cédric Hugon wrote: I have problem with installing Debian 2.2. He doesn't see my hard disk (ATA100). What may I do ? glasses? what exactly is the problem? do you get any error message? at which point of the installation do you have a problem? is it the only drive in the system? when you

Re: problem with ATA100

2001-07-04 Thread Erik Steffl
Cédric Hugon wrote: to erik steffl from cedric hugon I have the problem when linux tries to create partitions : he doesn't recognize harddisk (it's the only drive). It's just after configuring keyboard and network. I tried to launch cfdisk(linux) but it stops immediately with an error

lilypond fails (error: latex: command exited with value 256)

2001-07-04 Thread Erik Steffl
(debian unstable, 2.4.3 kernel) I tried the example from info lilypond tutorial: \score { \notes { c'4 e' g' } } then ran command: ly2dvi -P test.ly and here's what I've got: jojda:~/tmply2dvi -P

aptitude: why there are so many packages on hold?

2001-07-07 Thread Erik Steffl
since certain time (few months) aptitude puts a huge number of packages on hold - this time it's about 100. I can still hit '+' and they are installed without any problems - there are no conflicts (most of them, some packages are on hold for a reason). why is it happening? TIA

why are packages deleted?

2001-07-07 Thread Erik Steffl
I just ran aptitude and it wants to remove package: id libical 4:2.1-20014:2.1-2001 is there any way to find the reason why this package is removed? There are some new packages installed but I don't see any that would replace libical

aptitude and apt-get dist-upgrade do different things?

2001-07-07 Thread Erik Steffl
I thought that basically all front-ends for pacakge system would work same way, or at least similarly. However aptitude and apt-get dist-upgrade seem to differ a lot. Why is that? And why are they trying to remove various packages from the system? e.g. I don't want the kde-designer to be

Re: [OT] Harassment of open source developer !

2001-07-07 Thread Erik Steffl
John Hasler wrote: Erik Steffl wrote: they should rename KIllustrator to: Adobe Illustrator Replacement that should be covered by fair use (it only refers to adobe illustrator which is allowed) Fair use is a term in copyright law. It has no meaningful application that I know

Re: No xpr on debian...

2001-11-09 Thread Erik Steffl
Mike Fontenot wrote: The xwd man page (for dumping an image of an X window) gives a see also for xpr (for printing the resulting X window dump). But xpr doesn't exist on my 2.2r3 debian distribution. What's going on? This is a fundamental capability...has xpr been replaced by

Re: No xpr on debian...

2001-11-10 Thread Erik Steffl
Mike Fontenot wrote: Erik Steffl wrote: e.g. gimp can read xwd files, there's /usr/bin/xwdtopnm, I guess there are other programs as well... I couldn't find xwdtopnm on my system. Is it part of some debian package? yes, when faced with a question like this, go to the debian.org

Re: No xpr on debian...

2001-11-10 Thread Erik Steffl
Mike Fontenot wrote: Erik Steffl wrote: yes, when faced with a question like this, go to the debian.org webpage, go to Packages (left side menu) and use the last form on that page to search for a file, it will tell you where it is (if it is in debian). btw the answer in this case

Re: Converting From Red Hat to Debian

2001-11-12 Thread Erik Steffl
Mark Seven Smith wrote: ... What I WANT to do, is to install the latest Debian version onto a second hard drive that I have; then I will put that hard drive as drive hda, and use the second drive (the one that now has Red Hat) as my /home directory. That being said--what I want to know is,

Re: Q3 Horrific Lag on VooDoo 3 [ PLEASE HELP!! ]

2001-11-12 Thread Erik Steffl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, sorry for the extreme subject. Not sure if my last message got through. I installed Quake 3's linux demo, mesag3-glide2, but when I run it, it runs at 1fps! I have seen 2 other people online with this problem, but no one had a solution. The best thing I heard was

Re: OpenGL Install (Was, Quake 3 slowdowns)

2001-11-13 Thread Erik Steffl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, can someone please tell me what packages I need, from a CLEAN debian installation, on a 2.4.5 kernel, to use Quake 3 and Unreal Tournament in OpenGL/Glide 3Dfx mode? What needs to be compiled in, and what .deb's? Please be detailed, I need to make sure I do this

Re: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than ...

2001-11-13 Thread Erik Steffl
Ian Patrick Thomas wrote: I have been getting this message on bootup Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.dep When I check, both have the same creation time. After searching on geocrawler I found a post where someone put the all the

cyrus and sieve: how to setup?

2001-11-14 Thread Erik Steffl
I have cyrus imap server working and I would like to use sieve to filter email. I have several questions that I hope somebody will answer: 1) the only implementation of sieve in debian that I found is undocumented progam called sieve in mailutils - is that the one to use? if not, which one

Re: Which mail user agent do you use?

2001-11-15 Thread Erik Steffl
Tim Dijkstra wrote: Hi, (I'm not sure if this is on topic, but hey, I'am debian-user...) I used to use netscape's messenger to read my mail, but I've had it with that one. Then I tried pine for a while, but I'm not sure about that one either. So I thought before trying all MUAs there

Re: Running DirectX Games using Linux OS [Offtopic response tounrealistic zealot response]

2001-11-15 Thread Erik Steffl
Geoff Beaumont wrote: At 13:13 15/11/2001 +1000, you wrote: By supporting SafeDisk Transgaming is much more likely to get support from games publishers to port using WineX to Linux. And as soon as I can run Evercrack in Linux I can blow Windows off my games machine completely. To be

Re: cyrus and sieve: how to setup?

2001-11-15 Thread Erik Steffl
Andrea Vettorello wrote: On Wed, 2001-11-14 at 13:37, Erik Steffl wrote: I have cyrus imap server working and I would like to use sieve to filter email. I have several questions that I hope somebody will answer: 1) the only implementation of sieve in debian that I found

Re: OT: Hardware upgrades

2001-11-15 Thread Erik Steffl
Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy wrote: I have just upgraded my box ( unstable about 3-4 months berhind on the updates ). The upgrade was from PII 233 BX chipset motherboard to Athlon 1800+ XP VIA KT266A motherboard. The problem seems to be the following: 1. I cannot boot off the hard drive. It will

Re: OT: Hardware upgrades

2001-11-15 Thread Erik Steffl
Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy wrote: On Thursday 15 November 2001 04:16 pm, Erik Steffl wrote: Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy wrote: I have just upgraded my box ( unstable about 3-4 months berhind on the updates ). The upgrade was from PII 233 BX chipset motherboard to Athlon 1800+ XP VIA KT266A

Re: OT: Hardware upgrades

2001-11-15 Thread Erik Steffl
Bob Underwood wrote: On Thursday 15 November 2001 04:16 pm, Erik Steffl wrote: Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy wrote: I have just upgraded my box ( unstable about 3-4 months berhind on the updates ). The upgrade was from PII 233 BX chipset motherboard to Athlon 1800+ XP VIA KT266A

Re: xscreensaver

2001-11-15 Thread Erik Steffl
jeff wrote: xscreensaver runs fast and looks great in 'windowed' (even maximized) mode but it's _really_ slow and yucky in fullscreen mode. hardware is a penitum iii, voodoo 3/200 AGP and 128 mb ram kernel is 2.4.14 w/DRI and voodoo compiled in openGL xscreensaver hacks or all of

Re: xscreensaver

2001-11-15 Thread Erik Steffl
jeff wrote: On Thursday 15 November 2001 23:05, Erik Steffl wrote: jeff wrote: xscreensaver runs fast and looks great in 'windowed' (even maximized) mode but it's _really_ slow and yucky in fullscreen mode. hardware is a penitum iii, voodoo 3/200 AGP and 128 mb ram kernel

Re: xscreensaver

2001-11-15 Thread Erik Steffl
jeff wrote: On Friday 16 November 2001 00:08, Erik Steffl wrote: jeff wrote: On Thursday 15 November 2001 23:05, Erik Steffl wrote: jeff wrote: xscreensaver runs fast and looks great in 'windowed' (even maximized) mode but it's _really_ slow and yucky in fullscreen mode

filesystem suddenly read-only - how come?

2001-11-16 Thread Erik Steffl
system: debian unstable, kernel 2.4.10 my /home filesystem was suddenly read-only, here' what I've found: /var/log/syslog: ... Nov 15 23:38:01 localhost /USR/SBIN/CRON[18175]: (list) CMD ([ -x /usr/bin/python -a -f /usr/lib/mailman/cron/q runner ] /usr/bin/python

Re: cyrus and sieve: how to setup?

2001-11-16 Thread Erik Steffl
Andrea Vettorello wrote: On Thu, 2001-11-15 at 19:42, Erik Steffl wrote: Andrea Vettorello wrote: On Wed, 2001-11-14 at 13:37, Erik Steffl wrote: I have cyrus imap server working and I would like to use sieve to filter email. I have several questions that I hope somebody

Re: Which mail user agent do you use?

2001-11-16 Thread Erik Steffl
op wrote: Also sprach Timo: b) evolution: needs lots of dependencies (many from GNOME) and was broken in sid last time, but when it works, it is just the best; a pure Outlook clone but better! (mail, contacts, tasks, calendar, portal...) I've been looking to migrate from kmail to

freeamp and synchronizing the My Music with filesystem?

2001-11-16 Thread Erik Steffl
freeamp can search computer for the music after I move files around, get new files etc. there's no way to update this info. I can search again but this adds ALL the files again (so most of the files have two instances in My Music). did I miss something? TIA erik

temporary freeze related to gnome double-click?

2001-11-16 Thread Erik Steffl
this is quite strange, it happens with at least two gnome apps (gnucash and freeamp): when I double-click on some item (item that is opened by double-clicking) the application freezes for certain time and fvwm freezes as well (focus doesn't changes, no window decoration or fvwm modules react

Re: filesystem suddenly read-only - how come?

2001-11-16 Thread Erik Steffl
nate wrote: Erik Steffl said: system: debian unstable, kernel 2.4.10 my /home filesystem was suddenly read-only, here' what I've found: I mounted the filesystem, restarted xdm and everything looks ok... any ideas on what's going on? while i can't speak for 2.4.10 but 2.2

Re: filesystem suddenly read-only - how come?

2001-11-16 Thread Erik Steffl
nate wrote: Erik Steffl said: (that was the only error) try forcing a bad block scan. when ive gotten that remounting error i had bad blocks. a good sign for a failing drive or otherwise misconfigured system(cable too long, controller going bad, bad driver etc) would be if the system

Re: UnrealTourney can't find VooDoo 3

2001-11-17 Thread Erik Steffl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Um, I have been compiling kernels with DRI and VooDoo 3 driver. It won't work! I can't find the tdfx driver in there though .. is it vital? will it help? Where do I find it in make xconfig (what category?..) yes, it's vital. it's under character devices, the last

Re: Continuing VooDoo3 Problem

2001-11-17 Thread Erik Steffl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I just ran test3Dfx and it can't find the VooDoo3 board! ... Then it segfaults! I am working on installing the 3dfx device now, but even when I had it installed, Quake 3 still ran at 1 fps, even at 16bpp in XFree86 (I think 3.3.6, it's whatever version comes with

Re: Still can't find TDFX in Kernel Config

2001-11-17 Thread Erik Steffl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm trying to compile my 2.4.5 kernel. I've enabled 3Dfx for the VooDoo3/Banshee, and DRI support. However, I can't find TDFX. I looked in character devices, at the end, near the 3Dfx support and such, but it's not there. I suspect this is probably the reason

Re: GLX and ssystem- how?

2001-11-17 Thread Erik Steffl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: GLX. How do I get it to work with ssystem? I have installed utah-glx and loading gtx.so in XF86Config, which gets to the splash screen, but ssystem quits with the error: X Error of failed request: GLXUnsupportedPrivateRequest Major opcode of failed request:

Re: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than ...

2001-11-18 Thread Erik Steffl
Ian Patrick Thomas wrote: On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 09:38:30PM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: Ian Patrick Thomas wrote: I have been getting this message on bootup Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.dep When I check, both have

Re: libasound.h

2001-11-18 Thread Erik Steffl
Roberto Diaz wrote: Hi! Could somebody tell me in which package is this file now? (I have all the alsa packages from the stable distribution but I havent this file :???) go to debian.org, click on Packages (left side menu), use the last form on the page. erik

Re: missing XFree86 executable in woody (and perhaps potato too) :(

2001-11-18 Thread Erik Steffl
Glen Coates wrote: I am a redhat user trying to migrate to debian and have had no luck with getting X to work on any version of debian. I have posted this query to linux.debian.user with no helpful replies, and now turn to you good people for guidance :) I installed woody (nov-09 ISO's)

Re: added memory, should I increase swap?

2001-11-18 Thread Erik Steffl
Peter Christensen wrote: I started with Debian 2.1 on my Pentium 200 MHz with 32 MB of memory, then upgraded with apt-get to Potato. I recently replaced the single 32 MB SDRAM with two 128 MB SDRAMs. When I installed Debian I created a 32MB swap to match the size of the memory. Should I

Re: [root@dimension11.net: Cron news@bainbridge01 rnews -U]

2001-11-18 Thread Erik Steffl
Eric Brooks wrote: I was wondering if anyone could shed light on what I need to do to get rid of this error message. I am a new Debian user and I think that I don't have my network setup correctly yet (though email is working) and I am not sure what the source of this email is? i'm

sieve (and cyrus) - doesn't work - how to troubleshoot?

2001-11-18 Thread Erik Steffl
Hi everybody, I have the following problem, I would appreaciate any help: briefly: sieve does not work. here's my setup (these are unofficial cyrus packages from www.boxedpenguin.com): jojda:~dpkg -l \*cyrus\*|grep ^ii ii cyrus-admin1.5.19-9 CMU Cyrus mail system

cyrus: how to make it authenticate against unix users?

2001-11-18 Thread Erik Steffl
I would like to set the cyrus authentification to work with unix users that are defined on the system. How do I set it up? I though it would work with pam but when I set up pam: sasl_pwcheck_method: PAM I just get an error saying that PAM authentification was not successful. what do I need

Re: Increasing Swap

2001-11-18 Thread Erik Steffl
Mark Lanett wrote: Unless I'm mistaken, swap in the 2.2 and 2.4 kernels only gets used when you run out of RAM. So if you are upping your RAM and not upping the number of tasks you run, there would be no need to increase swap. Less reason if anything, but disk space is too cheap to make it

Re: Increasing Swap

2001-11-19 Thread Erik Steffl
Aniartia wrote: On Monday 19 November 2001 04:51, Erik Steffl wrote: Mark Lanett wrote: Unless I'm mistaken, swap in the 2.2 and 2.4 kernels only gets used when you run out of RAM. So if you are upping your RAM and not upping the number of tasks you run, there would be no need

Re: [root@dimension11.net: Cron news@bainbridge01 rnews -U]

2001-11-19 Thread Erik Steffl
, 2001 at 08:09:36PM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: Eric Brooks wrote: I was wondering if anyone could shed light on what I need to do to get rid of this error message. I am a new Debian user and I think that I don't have my network setup correctly yet (though email is working) and I am

Re: cyrus: how to make it authenticate against unix users?

2001-11-19 Thread Erik Steffl
nate wrote: nate said: Erik Steffl said: I would like to set the cyrus authentification to work with unix users that are defined on the system. How do I set it up? I though it would work with pam but when I set up pam: what version of cyrus? on both versions in potato

Re: Cyrus - missing saslpasswd

2001-11-19 Thread Erik Steffl
Idar Tollefsen wrote: Hello, I'm running Debian 2.2r3 with kernel 2.4.6. I have just installed Cyrus, or more specifically, the four packages cyrus-common, cyrus-admin, cyrus-imap and cyrus-pop3. After a little tinkering, I've been able to get to create two mailboxes for two regular

Re: Upgrading

2001-11-21 Thread Erik Steffl
nate wrote: Sridhar M.A. said: Hello all, Currently I am running potato with some packages from woody recompiled to run on potato. I plan to upgrade to woody. As I would not have the net connection always, can I ask ap-get to download the packages to the local disk (whenever there

Re: Cyrus - missing saslpasswd

2001-11-21 Thread Erik Steffl
Idar Tollefsen wrote: Erik, I had the same problem recently, I already forgot how I solved it. Try running the saslpasswd as root, I think it creates the file if it does not exist. There is no such file as 'saslpasswd', that's my problem. And yes, I am running as root. sorry

problem: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed

2001-11-22 Thread Erik Steffl
I have noticed few times during last days that sometime system runs out of memory (always when I am not nearby) and kills a program or two and then everything's fine (it kills different programs each time so I am pretty sure the killed program is not the one that causes problems) here's the

WTF: bug uses ee

2001-11-22 Thread Erik Steffl
How come bug program uses ee? that's quite ridiculous, THE editor for anything system related was always vi, at least everybody knows what to expect. IIRC vi was used before. the web page says that joe will be used if neither VISUAL nor EDITOR variables are set. However I ended up with ee which

how to put package on hold using command line tools?

2001-11-22 Thread Erik Steffl
is there any way to put package on hold using command line tools? I didn't find anything relevant in amnd dpkg and man apt-get. TIA erik

Re: how to put package on hold using command line tools?

2001-11-22 Thread Erik Steffl
Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 05:37:51AM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: is there any way to put package on hold using command line tools? echo packagename hold | dpkg --set-selections thank you, isn't this a bug in man dpkg though? all it says about --set-selections

Re: WTF: bug uses ee

2001-11-22 Thread Erik Steffl
Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 05:31:49AM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: How come bug program uses ee? It doesn't. 'update-alternatives --config editor'. right. the question morphs - how come ee has higher priority than vim (or any other vi clone)? The least surprising

Re: how to put package on hold using command line tools?

2001-11-23 Thread Erik Steffl
Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 03:08:30PM +0100, Alexander Steinert wrote: Nevertheless you can file a bug against dpkg. (See 'apt-cache show bug'.) Better, see reportbug. bug hasn't really been maintained seriously for a while now. shouldn't it be taken out of

when was the package updated last (oon my machine)?

2001-11-23 Thread Erik Steffl
is there any way to figure out when was a package updated on my system? or even history of updated? I mean I can check the changelog to see when the package itself was last updated but I am interested in information about when it (=the current version on my machine) got on my system (the last

Re: grep regex

2001-11-23 Thread Erik Steffl
Emil Pedersen wrote: Schnorbus, Patrick wrote: hi, may you help me? i need a regex for grep, to find lines containing NOT: ^192.168 212.23.138 Hi. The '-v' flag inverse the meaning of grep, letting lines _not_ matching regexp through. grep -v -e ^192.168 -e

Re: sieve (and cyrus) - doesn't work - how to troubleshoot?

2001-11-24 Thread Erik Steffl
Dave Carrigan wrote: Erik Steffl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: and here's my ~/.sieve file (straight from managin imap book): if header :contains subject 123 testing sieve { reject testing sieve message rejected!; } but when I send myself an email with subject 123 testing

Re: sieve (and cyrus) - doesn't work - how to troubleshoot?

2001-11-25 Thread Erik Steffl
Dave Carrigan wrote: Erik Steffl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: does cyrus create any log? Not that I know of, sadly. If there's a problem with the sieve file, cyrus silently behaves as if there is no sieve file. that's extremely sad. postfix. it has the lmtp transport method

Re: X11 header files

2001-11-25 Thread Erik Steffl
Batuke wrote: Hi ! I need some X11 header files such as Xlib.h, Xutil.h keysym.h XShm.h. What package/s must i install to get them ? go to debian.org, click on Packages in the left side menu and use the last form to find in which package a file is. erik

sort-of-solved WAS: Re: problem: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed

2001-11-25 Thread Erik Steffl
Sebastian Bober wrote: Am Don, dem 22.November 2001, um 05:27:32 -0800, schrieb Erik Steffl: usually it kills more programs, system services (cron) etc... I have few question related to this problem: - is it possible it's kernel problem? I haven't heard anything too weird about

Re: sieve (and cyrus) - doesn't work - how to troubleshoot?

2001-11-25 Thread Erik Steffl
Dave Carrigan wrote: Erik Steffl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: would this work for 1.6 (as I understand it there's quite a difference between 1.5 and 1.6)? It should work for 1.6. I've never used 1.5. do you know what's the line for cyrus deliver -l in /etc/inetd.conf

Re: sieve (and cyrus) - doesn't work - how to troubleshoot?

2001-11-26 Thread Erik Steffl
Dave Carrigan wrote: Erik Steffl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I thought that the problem might be 700 permissions on my home directory so I changed it to 777 (the same for ~/.sieve) but it still does not work (the message is not rejected). The mode 700 on your directory would

Re: Linux/Windows Universal Benchmark

2001-12-01 Thread Erik Steffl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... That was not a very helpful answer at all. It's as bad as RTFM. RTFM is good answer, even more so when it includes info on which FM to R. sorry, I don't know any comprehensive benchmarks... depending on what you want to test quake might be useful. erik

Re: Somewhat OT: First X uses DRI; 2nd doesn't

2001-12-01 Thread Erik Steffl
Kent West wrote: I'm currently sharing a Debian GNU/Linux box with my sister, and she generally starts X on VT7 via xdm, and I start my X on VT8 with startx -- :1 manually. I finally got direct rendering working on her X, but when I start up my side and run glxinfo|more I get the

Re: global environment variables?

2001-12-02 Thread Erik Steffl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 02:51:27PM -0800, Peter Hicks wrote: On Sunday 02 December 2001 14:01, dman wrote: On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 01:02:50PM -0800, Thomas Zimmerman wrote: | On 03-Dec 01:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | This I aready know. ...but seeing as I

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