Re: Adding a user with a dot (.) in his name: How?

2003-10-03 Thread Travis Crump
Karsten M. Self wrote: on Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 03:58:55AM +0200, Arnt Karlsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 00:48:41 +0100, Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: on Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 09:58:38PM +0200, Andreas Schildbach ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: frustration building, please help(was: does debian xfree support my video?)

2003-10-04 Thread Travis Crump
skippi wrote: Thank you in advance for any and all assitance. Oh, and for those of you just joining in, I'm trying to build, or install, XFree v4.3. I have the files to build it, also the deb files to install it, but I can't upgrade as the packages are kept back. I would surmise they require

Re: Wrong /usr/local/lib/libgcc_s.so.1

2003-10-04 Thread Travis Crump
Stefan Karrmann wrote: Hi, everytime after updating some packages I have to update /usr/local/lib/libgcc_s.so.1. Why does this happen? I use: Package: gcc-3.3 Version: 1:3.3-2 Package: libgcc1 Version: 1:3.3.1-0pre0 After running: # apt-get install alsa-source mplayer-k7 mencoder-k7 [...] I check

Re: frustration building, please help(was: does debian xfree support my video?)

2003-10-04 Thread Travis Crump
skippi wrote: = Original Message From Travis Crump [EMAIL PROTECTED] = skippi wrote: Thank you in advance for any and all assitance. Oh, and for those of you just joining in, I'm trying to build, or install, XFree v4.3. I have the files to build it, also the deb files to install

Re: Disable / override meta-refresh?

2003-10-06 Thread Travis Crump
Karsten M. Self wrote: I'm looking for information on blocking or disabling the meta refresh tag: meta http-equiv=refresh content=time in seconds; url=target url I'm using (usually) Galeon 1.2.5, with a squid proxy. Other browsers (w3m, dillo) either ignore or allow overriding meta

Re: how to get gnome?

2003-10-08 Thread Travis Crump
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or is there a task or meta-package or sumsuch that I simply didn't see? Usually, yes. Currently[for testing], no. You could try the metapackage from sid which is mostly installable on sarge with the exception of nautilus and gnome-media. pgp0.pgp Description:

Re: What is the difference between `Sid' and `unstable' ?

2003-10-11 Thread Travis Crump
Jerome BENOIT wrote: Thanks for the reply. Ok, forget the capital `S' (I do use `sid' in my data file) Paul Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 12:42:23PM +0300, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Note that my `/etc/apt/sources.list' data file reaches both

Re: downgrading libc6

2003-10-15 Thread Travis Crump
Paul Yeatman wrote: I'm tempted to downgrade with a: dpkg -i libc6_2.2.5-11.5_i386 libc6-dev_2.2.5-11.5_i386 locales_2.2.5-11.5_i386 I'm I asking for a lot of trouble Is there a safer more sure way to do this? Thanks, Paul How much of an idiot do you think the former admin was? It seems

Re: [OT] sed expression wildcard bafflement

2003-10-17 Thread Travis Crump
Nori Heikkinen wrote: a friend just asked me about a shell script she's trying to write. she's got a file that looks like this: blah blah thi. blah thi. blah blah blah thi. blah thi. blah blah blah c. -- lots of thi.s in there. she's trying something equivalent to: word1=thi.;

Re: apt-get install pkg and remove pkg on the same line?!

2003-10-19 Thread Travis Crump
smurfd wrote: Hey there Debian-user list, ive been thinking, (not well enough, as it seems). How does dselect do, when you select/deselect packages to be added/removed ? i mean, can you type yourself, like on one line.. apt-get install packages remove packages? Im not meaning apt-get

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-24 Thread Travis Crump
Paul Johnson wrote: On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 11:11:59AM -0400, James D. Freels wrote: Does this not require installing some additional software other than what normally is installed with WindowsXP, Linux w/KDE, or Linux w/Gnome ? Why does it matter? If you can get it done, why moan? Not to

Re: Bug#217452: mailfilter: installing under Debian

2003-10-24 Thread Travis Crump
Marc Wilson wrote: On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 12:08:05PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: Under a typical Debian setup, you want to trigger mailfilter before every run of fetchmail. True enough. Or rather, you want to run mailfilter before whatever mail-getter you use runs. Since fetchmail ordinarily

Re: rm -rf .* alternatives

2003-10-26 Thread Travis Crump
Jason Lunz wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Other tips? use zsh: [orr](0) % zsh [orr](0) % touch .foo [orr](0) % echo .* .foo [orr](0) % bash bash-2.05b$ echo .* . .. .foo Jason or just use a recent version of coreutils[5.0-5 tested] $rm

Re: aptitude - finding broken packages

2003-10-28 Thread Travis Crump
Richard Lyons wrote: Is there a quicker way of locating the broken packages announced at the head of the screen than scrolling through everything? TIA hit / to get the search box[or l to limit the display to just those packages], search for ~b. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: GeForce4 MX440 with kernel 2.4.18-bf24

2003-10-30 Thread Travis Crump
Hoyt Bailey wrote: Is anyone running the subject video card on the subject kernel. If so what driver are you using? If you know where can I get a copy of your driver? Regards; Hoyt I use the 'nvidia' driver which you install from nvidia-kernel-source and nvidia-glx. I have also used the 'nv'

Re: sarge to stable?

2004-02-01 Thread Travis Crump
Simon Buchanan wrote: Does anyone know what the timeframes are for debian testing to become stable? http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2003/debian-devel-announce-200308/msg00010.html ;) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: cdrecord priority

2004-02-04 Thread Travis Crump
Alf Werder wrote: On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 17:46, Monique Y. Herman wrote: On 2004-02-04, Gustavo Halperin penned: Hello List When I roast some CD with 'xcdroast' (or any other application), I can also do it another thinks in the computer. But if I call to the command 'cdrecor' (also I did

Re: window managers with maximize-vertical?

2004-02-09 Thread Travis Crump
Marc Wilson wrote: On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 10:42:17PM -0500, Johann Koenig wrote: Enlightenment. Right click to maximize vertically, middle click to maximize horizontally. Have not used with Gnome, so I can't comment. Enlightenment v17 CVS will, as it supports EWMH. You can forget about E v16.

Re: CPU-intensive periodic processes, e.g. xscreensaver-gl

2004-02-17 Thread Travis Crump
Nano Nano wrote: [1] 230 mhz bus, 14% increase. Kernel compile time went from 6:11 to 5:20, a 14% increase. It's worth the trouble. So, you have a 14% performance boost, but you can only use it 75% of the time. 1.14*0.75=86%... signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: How do I use dpkg without superuser privileges?

2003-11-17 Thread Travis Crump
Matt Zimmerman wrote: (this is debian-user; please read the descriptions of the various lists) On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 11:02:27AM -0800, Debs Spammagnet wrote: I've been trying to de-deb a .deb file without root permission. I just want to unwrap the file like a tar file. I DO NOT WANT TO INSTALL

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

2003-11-20 Thread Travis Crump
Dan Jacobson wrote: is that the usual way to get rid of X windows if in case one wants just to use the humble console? I know there is a startx program, but no stopx. Preston CTRL+ALT+Backspace will kill the X-server. Indeed it does, with no questions asked. But then it just springs back to

Re: openoffice.org inline in mozilla

2003-11-26 Thread Travis Crump
Christoph Simon wrote: On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 13:39:50 -0800 Arthur Barlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Put the following line in your /etc/mailcap file if it's not there already: text/html; /usr/bin/mozilla '%s'; description=HTML Text; test=test -n $DISPLAY; nametemplate=%s.html On Wed, 2003-11-26 at

Re: RFC: Create d-user-woody, d-user-sarge maillists, deactivate d-user

2003-12-01 Thread Travis Crump
Hereon wrote: Debian stable releases have been approximately 1-2 years apart. During this period of time, many Debian users make active use of the testing/unstable system. Currently, user questions about testing/unstable are likely to be asked in the debian-user list. But, that is definitely not

Re: is symlink linu necessary while compiling new kernel?

2003-12-06 Thread Travis Crump
H. S. wrote: Leandro Guimares Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote: Em Sat, 06 Dec 2003 18:11:13 -0500, H. S. escreveu: some of them mentioning that I should first delete a symlink linux in /usr/src if it exists before I untar and unzip a download kernel file, and then recreate it. Some pages do not

Re: Bug in testing abiword package?

2003-12-13 Thread Travis Crump
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Under testing and gnome 2.2 I'm trying to install abiword issuing the command apt-get install abiword. The installation fails immediatedly because (unfortunately I'm translating from Italian into English!) Abiword depends on libperl5.6 (= 5.6.1-8.3) while you're using

Re: Why is konqueror my x-www-browser when it doesn't provide it?

2003-12-13 Thread Travis Crump
Nunya wrote: On my machine: # update-alternatives --display x-www-browser x-www-browser - status is auto. link currently points to /usr/bin/konqueror /usr/bin/konqueror - priority 100 Current `best' version is /usr/bin/konqueror. But: $ grep-available -FProvides x-www-browser nothing Why is

Re: burning divx to play on dvd player

2003-01-02 Thread Travis Crump
John Griffiths wrote: hullo all. I've got a divx file (not a copyrighted one, it's from http://www.crewoftwo.com/movie/index.html and they made it themselves) that i'd like to play on a dvd player. my flatmate burns them under windows all the time but i don't ahve a windows cd bruner and figure

Re: Files saved to one directory Drive space consumed somewhere else

2003-01-04 Thread Travis Crump
Denzil Kelly wrote: I downloaded an .iso and specified that it be saved to /home/myhome/myiso, however, when doing this wmmount shows that the / partition is the one actually decreasing in size as the file downloads. Does anyone know why this might be happening? I have a 2 drives in this box and

Re: kdevelop - unmet dependencies

2003-01-05 Thread Travis Crump
Kevin Coyner wrote: I'm running testing and would like to install kdevelop, but when I run apt-get install kdevelop I get the following: Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some

Re: apt_preferences setting

2003-01-06 Thread Travis Crump
Tom Allison wrote: I would like to have both Stable and Testing available for install. But I don't want to have packages removed because they are not in Testing. I originally started with preferences levels of Stable: 600 Testing: 601 but packages like junior-programming are slated for

Re: dvd playback problems and questions

2003-01-06 Thread Travis Crump
Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: I discovered that Xine worked with the Xshm video mode, but it, too, was choppy. I had trouble getting ogle to work in gui mode, so I compiled and installed by hand, and that worked. The video is still choppy, but less so than when I used the debian package (wierd).

Re: make CD of only newest 3 months of sid

2003-01-07 Thread Travis Crump
Dan Jacobson wrote: F get those packages with wget -i file and put the on a cd or laptop apparently figuring out by hand how much to put on each cd... [PS, what happens one day when debian has one package so big that it wont fit on one cd :-)] I would be surprised if you managed to fill up

Re: apt-get --print-uris: why filenames sometimes different?

2003-01-08 Thread Travis Crump
Dan Jacobson wrote: $ man apt-get --print-uris Instead of fetching the files to install their URIs are printed. Each URI will have the path, the destination file name, ... Note that the file name to write to will not always match the file name on

Re: [apt] Disabling upgrade to insecure packages

2003-01-12 Thread Travis Crump
Vincent Lefevre wrote: On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 15:57:04 +, Faheem Mitha wrote: If you want a particular version not to be installed, then give it a Pin lower than 100 and it will never be installed if there is another installable version in your sources. This is what the manual says, but

Re: what can be done with broken packages

2003-01-12 Thread Travis Crump
Roland Wegmann wrote: Hi I installed aptitude and therefore find out that I have some broken packages on my debian powerpc box (testing). cpp-2.95, perl, perl-base, libstdc++2.10-glibc2.10 What does a broken package mean? And how can I made a package 'unbroken'? Kind regards, Roland [EMAIL

Re: Window Manager doesn't start

2003-01-15 Thread Travis Crump
Colin Watson wrote: To my knowledge, startx has only ever used .xinitrc, not .xsession ... I don't know why it used to work. Maybe you had a symlink in place at one point? man startx: [...] Note that in the Debian system, what many people traditionally put in the .xinitrc file should go in

Re: How to analyze a server crash?

2003-01-16 Thread Travis Crump
Paul Johnson wrote: On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 04:01:53AM -0600, Michael Heironimus wrote: panic. I've had that happen when X crashed, too, and that wasn't really even a driver bug (it was combination of wine and font servers). This one's resolvable if you have the Magic System Request key

Re: kernel upgrade to 2.4.20-k7

2003-01-18 Thread Travis Crump
Eduard Bloch wrote: #include hallo.h * jrn [Sun, Jan 19 2003, 12:48:34AM]: Hello, I'm currently using Sarge with 2.4.18-k7 kernel for my Athlon XP and the kernel-headers-2.4.18-k7. I've seen that 2.4.20-k7 kernel was available for the testing version but the problem is that there's no

Re: How to change start up screen resolution for X?

2003-01-19 Thread Travis Crump
nate wrote: Ross Boylan said: I am looking for a way to get hardware accelerated 3d performance out of my video card. For reasons detailed below, this seems to come down to the need to start X in a lower resolution and depth than I customarily use. I am looking for a good way to do that, or

Re: Recovering /var (package status only)

2003-01-21 Thread Travis Crump
Karsten M. Self wrote: Here is a good article about recovering a Debian system without having a backup of /var/lib/dpkg... http://www.linuxworld.com/2003/0113.petreley.html Funny, I walked someone through that on irc.debian.org:#debian last week. This can be somewhat simplified from Nick's

Re: Compiling gnucash 1.7.7 for Woody?

2003-01-22 Thread Travis Crump
Michael D. Crawford wrote: I would like to try out the new GnuCash 1.7.7. It has some small business features I'd find helpful, and is supposed to have an easier way to handle foreign currency exchange, among many other new features. I want to install it on a PowerPC woody system, a Mac 8500.

Re: Problems when starting the install of Debian Woody Linux

2003-01-22 Thread Travis Crump
Osamu Aoki wrote: On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 10:10:32PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But, the reason I write this is that I have also been faced up to another type of problem, namely a problem with installation of the new system. I attach the dbg_log.tgz file to ease the resolution of my

Re: mail relay ???

2003-01-23 Thread Travis Crump
Martin A. Hansen wrote: hi i have a unix account with a mail address. i want all mail to that account forwarded to another mail address. how is this done? martin echo forwarding address ~/.forward If that doesn't work you are going to have to give more info or ask whoever administers

Re: vsound issue - a return

2003-01-23 Thread Travis Crump
Vaughan, Curtis wrote: Whereas vsound would not record RealAudio on a PowerBook, I am now trying it on an i686-based computer. After issuing the command: vsound -f test.wav realplay http://128.208.34.102:8080/ramgen/RadioIntersection/20021203intersection.rm RealPlayer is launched, connects and

Re: Re: Some myths regarding apt pinning

2003-01-24 Thread Travis Crump
Lloyd Zusman wrote: Erik Steffl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [ ... ] but the point is that pinning is not very good because you either bring a number of important packages from unstable (libc6, perl etc) or you simply cannot use it. reading of the manual page and checking the

Re: apt-get

2003-01-26 Thread Travis Crump
Barry Pollock wrote: You wil have to create a Packages file and a Release file and a Package file. You can simply download the package and do a dpkg -i p`fullpagagename' . The Release file and Package file are optional. A minimally functional Packages file can be created by running

Re: /var still counts /var/cache

2003-01-27 Thread Travis Crump
Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: I made a new partition for /var/cache since that's where all my data is. Unfortunately /var is still counting the contents of /var/cache and thinks that /var is full. I'm not sure how to tell /var that it doesn't hold /var/cache anymore. FilesystemSize Used

Re: OT: running a command on many files in many subdirectories

2003-01-28 Thread Travis Crump
Levi Waldron wrote: I'm sure this is simple, but maybe someone here can help me do it in a few minutes instead of hours. I have a bunch of files in a bunch of directories, and I want to run the same command on each of them. For each input file, the output file should have the same name

Re: Trying to build Phoenix

2003-01-29 Thread Travis Crump
David P James wrote: I've been trying to build Phoenix from source and have run into a bit of a snag. I want to build it with QT support, which is fine, as there is an option to do this. Just because there is an option doesn't mean it will work...

Re: rmnologin in rc$.d

2003-07-19 Thread Travis Crump
David Z Maze wrote: Another is to use the man command; often random files are documented in man pages. For example, nologin(5) documents what exactly /etc/nologin does such that you'd need an init script to remove it. No, it doesn't. It documents why you'd need an init script to remove it

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade, now gnome session fails to login

2003-07-27 Thread Travis Crump
Marc Shapiro wrote: Can anyone tell me how I can get back to any version of a working gnome session? Gnome1.4 worked fine for me and I would not object to going back to it if someone can tell me just what needs to be downgraded, uninstalled, etc. I just want a working system. Marc Shapiro

Re: packages removed by Release Manager just reveal older versions

2003-07-27 Thread Travis Crump
Joey Hess wrote: (This question is appropriate for the debian-user mailing list, redirecting.) Dan Jacobson wrote: there seems no mechanism at present to warn the user that he shouldn't install it, even if he has done apt-get update from the mirrors. In bug 202919 you will see I was just lucky

Re: batch renaming for filenames with space

2003-07-28 Thread Travis Crump
Micha Feigin wrote: 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 Copy of ... and I want to

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade, now gnome session fails to login

2003-07-29 Thread Travis Crump
Marc Shapiro wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote: Can anyone tell me how I can get back to any version of a working gnome session? Gnome1.4 worked fine for me and I would not object to going back to it if someone can tell me just what needs to be downgraded, uninstalled, etc. I just want a working

Re: Is there a *console* screen capture

2003-08-01 Thread Travis Crump
Alan Connor wrote: Most of us don't have the software to interpret them Speak for yourself. Well, very few people use pgp signatures on the list. Some may HAVE the software, but have the good taste not to use it when there is no point. For the record, roughly 21% of mail to this list is

Re: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.

2003-08-02 Thread Travis Crump
Steve Lamb wrote: What's worse is that so far noone's told me how two people using C-R ever *start* communicating. Person 1 mails person 2. Person 2's C-R sends off a challenge to Person 1. Person 1's C-R sends off a challenge to Person 2. Repeat. I think the theory is that Person 1

Re: web interface to submit bugs

2003-08-03 Thread Travis Crump
Paul Johnson wrote: On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 02:40:44AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah. reportbug isn't bad, but it requires a mail server (or a mail account). Well, considering so many other things require an MTA (cron, anacron, at, most MUAs), and exim is part of the base system, why

kernel-source-2.6.0-test1?

2003-08-03 Thread Travis Crump
Where can I find the source used to build kernel-image-2.6.0-test1-i386? kernel-source-2.6.0-test1 doesn't exist as far as I can determine[and apt-get source kernel-source-2.6.0-test1-i386 and/or apt-get build-dep kernel-source-2.6.0-test1 suggest that is where the source should be and is in

Re: Easy/Fast way to view a package's debian/changelog

2003-08-04 Thread Travis Crump
Michael D. Schleif wrote: Yes, I have a mixed system, preferring to stay with stable; but, I need certain packages from testing and unstable . . . However, it is python-apt that has the problem with the non-existent libapt packages. Nevertheless, I have stable, testing and unstable in

Re: Packages.gz blocked by Symantec Web Security

2003-08-14 Thread Travis Crump
Frank Chung wrote: Hi all, My company uses Symantec Web Security to screen for viruses at the HTTP proxy machine (and there's no way to bypass the proxy). SWS returns with this message when I try to open any Packages.gz (whether it's in stable/testing/unstable, or main/contrib): -- -- Access

Re: make-kpkg detects wrong processor type

2003-08-14 Thread Travis Crump
Bret Comstock Waldow wrote: On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 17:54, Wayne Gemmell wrote: Is there an equivalent for this package with a menu interface like make menuconfig in normal kernel compilations? It is so much quicker... You do the 'make menuconfig' step before you compile with make-kpkg, as you

Re: How can I use bittorrent?

2003-08-14 Thread Travis Crump
stan wrote: On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 03:09:58AM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 19:24, Roberto Sanchez wrote: --- stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribi??: I just used apt-get to install bittorrent from unstabele. Question is, how to use it? All the instructions on the home page

Re: Need help generating odd crontab line

2003-08-14 Thread Travis Crump
Travis Crump wrote: Kent West wrote: I need to send out an email reminder via cron to a club I'm a member of. I need the reminder to go out on the Friday morning before the second Monday of every month. I'm a newbie to cron, and would appreciate it if someone would provide me with a crontab

Re: Need help generating odd crontab line

2003-08-14 Thread Travis Crump
Kent West wrote: I need to send out an email reminder via cron to a club I'm a member of. I need the reminder to go out on the Friday morning before the second Monday of every month. I'm a newbie to cron, and would appreciate it if someone would provide me with a crontab line to accomplish this

Re: Backporting debhelper

2003-08-16 Thread Travis Crump
Rob Weir wrote: On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 04:26:29PM +0200, Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: Mensaje escrito por Bob Proulx el 14/08/2003 1:54: For my own backports I have been changing the debhelper version dependency in the debian/control file to specify the woody version. I have not backported

Re: Is Gnome working in teesting?

2003-08-25 Thread Travis Crump
Colin Watson wrote: On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 11:15:56PM -0400, stan wrote: I don't know the problem you're referring to, so I have no idea ... smokey:~# apt-get upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages have been kept back aspell aspell-en

Re: debian lists have no nomail option

2003-08-25 Thread Travis Crump
Dan Jacobson wrote: I was surprised to find that some debian lists require a subscription to post, but have no nomail option. Umm, which debian lists require a subscription in order to post? pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: debian lists have no nomail option

2003-08-25 Thread Travis Crump
Travis Crump wrote: Dan Jacobson wrote: I was surprised to find that some debian lists require a subscription to post, but have no nomail option. Umm, which debian lists require a subscription in order to post? never mind, I figured it out(some==2, debian-chinese-(big5|gb) and debian-ctte, both

Re: apt-get -t unstable install gnome fails with unmet dependencies

2003-08-27 Thread Travis Crump
Nicos Gollan wrote: On Tuesday 26 August 2003 23:08, Adam wrote: This is a fresh install of debian. I have edited my preferences and sources.list to be just like those on another system that worked in January. I just tried it on the other system and it fails there too. The apt-get -t unstable

Re: Funny failure of a CR system on debian-devel

2003-08-28 Thread Travis Crump
John Hasler wrote: manoj writes: First, there was a notice that mail from debian-devel was quarantined, and there was a sekrit to send to unlock the mails. Next, we got a notice that the sekrit was successfully received. It didn't say that the secret had been received, only that debian-devel

Re: Quoting

2003-08-31 Thread Travis Crump
Christian Schoeller wrote: On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 12:19:08PM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: Well, I have been attending a university for 5 years now, and in all that time I've met one student who regularly uses Linux and one professor who has used Linux before. It's a relatively small school

Re: 2.4 kernel boot CD for woody?

2003-08-31 Thread Travis Crump
Chris Wilcox wrote: Hi all, Is anyone aware of a network install boot iso for Woody? I've done some digging on google.co.uk/linux and debian planet and not found much. Thanks for any replies, nry go to debian.org, click on 'network install' under 'Getting Debian', click on 'minimal CD'...

Re: libc.so.6

2003-09-02 Thread Travis Crump
Philip Clark wrote: Hi there, I have managed to delete /lib/libc.so.6 and since the whole system depends on it eg. I can't even create a new link or new file. Also booting from a boot disk doesn't work. Does anyone have any ideas? I am presuming a rescue disk is the way to go. How do I make one?

Re: Key mapping using Alt + [ , etc.

2003-09-05 Thread Travis Crump
Pål Dahle wrote: Please excuse me for sending an Xfree86 related question to this list. On a US keyboard I'm trying to generate the norwegian characters ae, oslash and aring. I would like the following mapping Alt + [ -- ae Alt + | -- oslash Alt + ] -- aring It doesn't necessarily have to

Re: mixing stable and testing

2003-09-06 Thread Travis Crump
Vikki Roemer wrote: On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 01:14:02PM +1000, Russell Shaw wrote: In same directory: dpkg-source -x metalog_0.7beta-3.dsc cd metalog_0.7beta dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -rfakeroot cd .. dpkg -i metalog_0.7beta-3_i386.deb Ok, I did all that, but when I try to run dpkg -i, I get

Re: where is netscape 4 in testing?

2003-09-09 Thread Travis Crump
Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote: Am Mo, 2003-09-08 um 02.12 schrieb Roberto Sanchez: How else would they ID a browser? The site I have personally had problems with (I've posted about it here a few times already) apparently identifies the browser with some really slick trick, since it goes out as

Re: bf2.4 and the ptrace exploit

2003-09-09 Thread Travis Crump
Markus Dejmek wrote: Hi, The exploit still works with the latest 2.4.18-5woody4. I just tried it. silly question, did you remember to remove the suid permission bit from the exploit binary between tests? pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: kernel config files

2003-09-12 Thread Travis Crump
Tom Allison wrote: Is there some way to capture the .config file of my currently runing system. /boot/config-`uname -r` has the config of the running kernel. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Using Japanese (and Chinese) on an prodominantly english system

2003-09-15 Thread Travis Crump
Rebecca Dridan wrote: Hi all, I speak a little Japanese and am now learning Mandarin. I would like to be able to read and write both languages on my computers, but leave my systems basically in English. I'm looking mostly to be reading and writing Japanese with a text editor. I use vim and do not

Re: Sudden increase in size of Debian (Mirror)?

2003-09-16 Thread Travis Crump
Kevin McKinley wrote: --exclude dists/Debian2.2r7 --exclude dists/old-proposed-updates \ --exclude dists/oldstable --exclude dists/potato-proposed-updates/ \ --exclude dists/potato/ \ That list resulted in a mirror of ~15 Gb until a few weeks ago, when the size started climbing sharply

Re: how to revert unstable package upgrade?

2003-09-17 Thread Travis Crump
Ivan Nestlerode wrote: Hello debian-user, I'm running Debian unstable and I would like to revert one package upgrade that I did earlier this week. I upgraded to version 0.6.1-5 of mozilla-firebird. After some testing and attempts to do basic things with bookmarks, I've found it much too buggy

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-20 Thread Travis Crump
Steve Lamb wrote: On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 02:56:10 -0500 Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ummm, the pop server that stores your email until you press what- ever key in your MUA that fetches the email from pop.yourisp.net down to your PC. Uhm, no. You're operating under the assumption

OT: Re: having reponse problem

2003-09-21 Thread Travis Crump
David Palmer wrote: On Monday 22 September 2003 10:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: every time i turn on the computer. I think you are going to experience another one here. Regards, David. Spamassassin marked [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s message as spam and when I saw it in my caught spam box I couldn't

Re: reuse apt-get cache

2003-09-23 Thread Travis Crump
Benedict Verheyen wrote: Hi, i have a server and it has a quite extensive sources.list. Now i would like to make a cron job that does apt-get update every so often and then use that cache for my connected client so i don't have to download the packages list again and thus use unnecessary

Re: Cron

2003-09-26 Thread Travis Crump
Russell Shaw wrote: Hi, I set this with crontab -e : 3 * * * * /usr/bin/mailfilter ; /bin/echo Mailfiltering | /usr/bin/mail -s mai 1 * * * * /bin/echo Date is `date`. | /usr/bin/mail -s cron root ### I should get mail every minute, but it doesn't work. If i try: /bin/echo Date is `date`. |

Re: Question on GPG

2003-09-28 Thread Travis Crump
Roberto Sanchez wrote: I just started playing with GPG today. Can't you tell? :-) Anyhow. I generated bunches of keys trying to get Enigmail to play nice with Thunderbird and also with gpg on the command line. When I finally got around to the part of the HowTo on searching for keys (of course I

Re: starcraft on wine

2003-01-30 Thread Travis Crump
Andrei Smirnov wrote: a black screen and i didint found any solutions on winehq and such Here the situation: Debian 3.0 with 4.1.0 X craft runs under wine with sound but without graphics (with a black screen) ... i tried to change bpp, resolutions ... on bpp 8 640x480 it not work at all on the

Re: starcraft on wine

2003-01-31 Thread Travis Crump
Andrei Smirnov wrote: On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 10:57:40PM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: a black screen and i didint found any solutions on winehq and such Here the situation: Debian 3.0 with 4.1.0 X craft runs under wine with sound but without graphics (with a black screen) ... i tried to change

Re: [NEWBIE]: HP DeskJet 710c - installation problems

2003-01-31 Thread Travis Crump
ketil V. wrote: I am trying Debian for the first time, and can not find any support for my printer. In RedHat the printer is supported by the pnm2ppa - system, along with the 712, 720, 810 and 1000 - series, but I do not find this package in my Woody CD-set. Does anybody know where I can find

Re: OT Help with Mozilla

2003-02-01 Thread Travis Crump
bob parker wrote: I'm in the middle of using ncftp to download Knoppix iso - 700meg. As a consequence Moz keeps timing out while I attempt to access other site I regularly use. Is it possible to increase the time out delay in Mozilla? How? Thanks Bob It looks like you want to adjust the

Re: OT Help with Mozilla

2003-02-02 Thread Travis Crump
bob parker wrote: On Sun, 2 Feb 2003 05:48, Travis Crump wrote: bob parker wrote: I'm in the middle of using ncftp to download Knoppix iso - 700meg. As a consequence Moz keeps timing out while I attempt to access other site I regularly use. Is it possible to increase the time out delay

Re: gcc not working

2003-02-02 Thread Travis Crump
J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 12:17:58 -0300, Albert Knox wrote: libc6-dev: Depends: libc6 (= 2.2.5-14.3) but 2.3.1-9 is to be installed E: Sorry, broken packages I'm using testing. No you're not. At least, your /etc/apt/sources.list has entries for sid (unstable)

Re: ogg to mp3 audio (also via 8233a question)

2003-02-05 Thread Travis Crump
Colin Watson wrote: That of course doesn't prevent the holders of LAME's copyright from releasing it under the GPL, since the copyright holders are not themselves bound by the terms of the licence, Why shouldn't they be bound by the terms of the licence? As copyright holders they are

Re: ogg to mp3 audio (also via 8233a question)

2003-02-05 Thread Travis Crump
Craig Dickson wrote: Travis Crump wrote: Colin Watson wrote: That of course doesn't prevent the holders of LAME's copyright from releasing it under the GPL, since the copyright holders are not themselves bound by the terms of the licence, Why shouldn't they be bound by the terms

perl 5.6.1-8.2 in testing?

2003-02-05 Thread Travis Crump
Not that I am complaining because security updates are always good, but how exactly did perl 5.6.1-8.2 make it into testing sometime in the last couple of days? It didn't come from unstable, because unstable moved to perl 5.8.0 a while ago, and I didn't know that there /was/ any other way for

Re: spaces in filenames

2003-02-06 Thread Travis Crump
Sheldon Lee-Wen wrote: Hi, I'm trying to write a script where I can get the names of files in a directory. Normally this is easy, like this: for doc in `ls /var/www/htlml/files` do echo $i done However, some of the files have spaces in the names, like My File.html How do

Re: More ardour build requiremnets questions

2003-02-07 Thread Travis Crump
stan wrote: I'm trying to build Ardour from CVS, which appears to be the only way to get it. I have installed the unstable version of gettext, which it needs, and now it wants automake 1.5 or greater. I tried to apt-get automake from unstable, hoping it would be a later version, but there does

Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-07 Thread Travis Crump
Ron Johnson wrote: On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 20:57, Gary Turner wrote: [snip] eg. Actually, all goods and services come from the government...Try producing your own goods and services. Maybe I'm missing something, but what are you talking about. People and corporations produce their own goods

Re: Lyx package recommends sgml-tools, but...

2003-02-10 Thread Travis Crump
Brian Potkin wrote: On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 09:59:39AM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote: I just downloaded and installed Lyx using aptitude on a Sarge system. The package recommends also installing 'sgml-tools' which, from its name, sounds like a good idea, but the search function in aptitude

Re: dcgui problems

2003-02-10 Thread Travis Crump
Colin Watson wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 02:09:01AM +0100, Nils-Erik Svang?rd wrote: Hi my dcgui hangs when it conncts to a hub, regardless of which hub. Dies with the message dcgui: relocation error: dcgui: undefined symbol: __fixunsdfdi Does anyone know whats wrong? Im running unstable on

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