Re: Convert realaudio to free audio ???

2003-10-10 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 19:13, Roberto Sanchez wrote: $ mplayer proprietary.rm -oa pcm -oafile=open.wav Slight bugfix, I think that last command should be '-oafile open.wav' without the = sign. How do you do that for video files? My school does some courses over the web with streaming video

Re: Convert realaudio to free audio ???

2003-10-09 Thread Gavin Hamill
mplayer can play realplayer files (I guess that audio too). I'm not sure about converting them though... Since mplayer can play realmedia (it may need you to install the binary realplayer for some of the very new formats, but I'm unsure on this point), it can also send the output to a

Evolution image/pjpeg inline display (again)

2003-10-08 Thread Gavin Hamill
Hi :) I'm a longstanding Debian user (running sid at the moment) so have Evo 1.4.5, and am experiencing the problem listed in the subject, that image/pjpeg attachments are not displayed inline, but am only given the option to Save Attachment. I've found quite a few references to this on the web,

Re: Partitions and format

2003-10-08 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Wednesday 08 October 2003 19:40, Joachim Fahnenmueller wrote: It shouldn't be necessary to reinstall. Worst case - ackup your data and reformat the partition. I think it is even possible to upgrade a partition from ext2 to ext3, but I don't know in detail. Yes, not only is it possible, but

Re: `who' is broken?

2001-05-25 Thread Gavin Hamill
So Who is broken, Whereis uninstalled and Which is on hold? ;) Sorry :) gdh

SCSI DDS-2 Tape drives

2001-05-11 Thread Gavin Hamill
Hi :) I've just acquired a HP C1533A tape drive, and whilst I can successfully tar files back and forth from it, I'm poking in the dark.. I'm using 90m DDS-1 tapes, which give an uncompressed capacity of 2Gb with this drive... but are there any tools to accurately measure both the data rate and

Re: wet blue

2001-05-05 Thread Gavin Hamill
DEAR SIR , WE ARE INTERESTED TO BUY WET BLUE SPLIT CATTLE HIDES , WITH FOLLOWING SPECIFICATIONS : THICKNESS:over 3.5 MM . SIZE :40 TO 42 SQ/FT AVERAGE SIZE PLEASE SEND YOUR OFFER BY E-MAIL . Uuhhh yeh... we're running a special offer at the moment of 13.6

Re: video editing under linux

2001-04-30 Thread Gavin Hamill
You might want to look at http://heroinewarrior.com/bcast2000.php3 :) gdh - Original Message - From: Saqib Shaikh To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 8:54 PM Subject: video editing under linux hi a friend of mine is wondering if there are any video editing

Re: Need to resize a Win2K NTFS partition before I can install

2001-04-20 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Felix Oxley wrote: Can you suggest a tool which can do this? Sure. Partition Magic. The NTFS driver for Linux is very unstable, so it follows that there's certainly nothing GPL'd which can rebuild the structure of an entire NTFS system :) If you could afford Win2000 in

Re: mp3 encoder Deb

2001-04-20 Thread Gavin Hamill
WB HI, WB Ive been looking for an mp3 encoder in a deb package, anyone found one? I WB have installed Grip and CDParanoia. No, there is no such. There's certainly no package available from any of the Debian mirrors... but add this to your /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://forcix.cx/ debian/

Re: Breakage in samba security update?

2001-04-18 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Dave Sherohman wrote: Replying to myself, but... The server in question is an Alpha. Any attempt to connect to its workgroup (for which it is the master browser) causes the following to appear in /var/log/smb: [2001/04/18 10:48:55, 0] lib/util_sec.c:assert_gid(72)

Re: Does anyone know what this is ?

2001-04-18 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Benj wrote: I run top, and see this process: 7705 0.0 % -discard [164.138.*.*] What is this process -discard ?? The IP (from which i've hidded the last two numbers) is totally unknown, its not my servers's or mine. discard is a TCP service

Re: bad minute?

2001-04-15 Thread Gavin Hamill
00,15,30,45 * * * * /usr/local/etc/logcheck.sh The double-zero might be causeing it to choke.. the rest of the crontab seems fine... Regards, Gavin.

Re: Need a way to install driver / packages

2001-04-10 Thread Gavin Hamill
Somehow mount the DOS partition and read files from there? Yep :) mkdir /mnt/msdos mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/msdos Format a disk so Linux will read it, and copy the files from DOS to there? Yep :) mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /floppy vfat is the Windows9x long-filename support ... you can

Re: Need a way to install driver / packages

2001-04-10 Thread Gavin Hamill
Hi. I responded to your message above about the 3c905c. You seem to be taking my word that you can't get the driver for this card. That's daft :) We use nothing but 3c905c's at work The module you need is '3c59x' and is part of the standard distribution - yeh I know it's not terribly

Re: Help! Accidentally started deleting /usr

2001-04-07 Thread Gavin Hamill
I created a directory /opt/tmp and later wanted to delete it, but I accidentally typed rm -r usr instead (within the /opt directory). What is the best way to restore my system to health? I suggest you read the recent archives of this list, as some poor guy did much the same as you The

Re: Home/End Keys with Putty (Woody)

2001-04-02 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Heiko Ordelt wrote: Hi there! After i upgraded my debian box to woody i can't use the Home/End keys with Putty anymore ;( Anyone knows a solution for this problem? Hello Heiko... I had this problem, too and solved it by including the following line in .bash_login in my

Re: #!/bin/bash

2001-04-01 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote: it seems apache could run with ash for example w/o problems - it just needs change all echo -ne blahblah\n to echo blahblah (wtf do we need the first?) The first doesn't take a new line so it's possible to do this: echo -ne Restarting

Re: #!/bin/bash

2001-04-01 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote: - echo -ne Restarting apache web server: echo -n is enough for this and works even in ash OK, yes the -e is just for interpreting \n and friends... - And anyway, why would you want to insist on 'ash' ? faster, smaller etc. it could be ksh

Formatting/Mounting ext2/vfat floppies addendum

2001-03-31 Thread Gavin Hamill
Was just poking through the manpage for mount, looking for something else, and thought this little section might be useful ? Note that the auto type may be useful for user-mounted floppies. Creating /etc/filesystems can be useful to change the probe order (e.g., to try

Re: Recommended mailer software

2001-03-28 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Robert Waldner wrote: On Wed, 28 Mar 2001 17:03:19 +0200, Joakim Nordlander writes: The mailing list is currently using Majordomo, but I'm thinking of moving to Smartlist. Try listar. Fast, flexible and with a _very_ helpful mailing list. Listar also has a lovely

Nautilus ?

2001-03-20 Thread Gavin Hamill
Just a pop question :) I've installed potato as a bare-bones system, and upgraded to woody... I take it, in theory, I should have been able to so apt-get install nautilus and it'd install that package, plus all necessary X server and library files? Needless to say it didn't :) Anyway, that's

Re: Nautilus ?

2001-03-20 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Rob VanFleet wrote: You need nautilus-mozilla, which you can't get because it depends on Mozilla .8 or later, which hasn't been packaged yet (even in unstable, it is still at M-18). So at the moment the only way to get a fully functional nautilus in Debian is to either

Re: Flash Player ?

2001-03-19 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Sun, 18 Mar 2001, Stan Brown wrote: What's the Debian way of installing a Flash Player plugin for Netscape? Add this to /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://forcix.cx/ debian/ then do apt-get update, and apt-get install flashplayer-nonfree :) Regards, Gavin.

Re: Flash Player ?

2001-03-19 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Allan M. Wind wrote: then do apt-get update, and apt-get install flashplayer-nonfree Looks like they rename a dir and didn't include a readme, so the installer fails. Gah :/ It's not a package I've used myself... I use that source because the guy also packaged the mp3

Re: nameserver for class CHAOS ?

2001-03-15 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, will trillich wrote: i've gotten a strange DNS/NAMED/BIND error message: =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Mar 12 10:36:45 server named[2991]: No root nameservers for class CHAOS where do i look to determine whether or not this is important? and what to do about it,

Re: requirements of cipe

2001-03-15 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Nick wrote: what kernel do I need? Can I use 2.2.14 or 2.2.18 I have tried a few times and never had any joy with this... So I had a hunt around and found 'vtun' instead, which does exactly the same thing, is more flexible and is quite straightforward to configure :)

Re: nameserver for class CHAOS ?

2001-03-15 Thread Gavin Hamill
Besides, 'host' is shorter to type than 'nslookup'... =) But not 'nsltab' ;))) gdh

Re: nameserver for class CHAOS ?

2001-03-15 Thread Gavin Hamill
It's not terribly important, and I'd do a grep on your entire /var/named (or wherever your zone files live) for CHAOS... hmm! grep CH /etc/bind/* nothing! maybe i've got a hosed slave/master relation specification...? Your zone files live in /etc/bind? The debian default was

Re: system slowdown when copying audio CDs

2001-03-13 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Romain Lerallut wrote: I have a problem when writing audio tracks from a CD to my HD. My PC slows down a *lot* when copying tracks from an audio CD, but not when I'm reading data (neither when I'm burning a CD). Ripping audio data requires your machine to throttle the

Re: system slowdown when copying audio CDs

2001-03-13 Thread Gavin Hamill
It isn't really. Data CD's contain data headers that help the drive position itself in arbitrary locations - similar to sector headers on floppy and hard disks. Well done that man! You said what I was going to say - except I'd have rambled on aimlessly for ages :) gdh

Re: Powerpoint player (extreme programming presentation)

2001-03-12 Thread Gavin Hamill
I have to do a presentation of extreme programming for my colleges. And I have found a powerpoint presentation on the net. Is there any powerpoint players for Linux. Nope, any solution would be based around either running an entire Windows installation in VMware, or using WINE...

RE: Powerpoint player (extreme programming presentation)

2001-03-12 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Joris Lambrecht wrote: This might be the way to go, in case you do ... there is a free powerpoint presentation viewer available at the microsoft site. Maybe someone should try to get this to work with WINE. Well, it was about 18 months ago but I managed to get Word to run

RE: ProFTP server not serving win clients!!

2001-03-12 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Rick Jansen - Tweakers.net wrote: Try to enable Passive mode on your Windows clients. I don't know what version is currently active with debian, but ProFTPd 1.2.0rc2 had (amongst many others) a stupid bug where PASV mode didn't work... so I'd suggest try toggling passive

Re: mp3 encoding

2001-03-10 Thread Gavin Hamill
Put deb http://forcix.cx/ debian/ in your /etc/apt/source.list and then type apt-get install lame Well, the source-line didn't work, but I grabbed the .deb in my browser. It does work - did you remember to a) Put a space between forcix.cx/ and debian/ ? b) run apt-get update before

Re: where to get potato boot floppies

2001-03-09 Thread Gavin Hamill
I need to reinstall Potato (my Woody system got screwed today and I can't figure out how to fix the numerous problems). My friend has my CD's, so I was going to just install off of the net, but I don't know where to get boot floppies, please help Try

Re: where to get potato boot floppies

2001-03-09 Thread Gavin Hamill
You need the four driver disks, boot.bin and rescue.bin Typo! root.bin, not boot.bin :) And boot from the rescue.bin floppy =) gdh

Re: Output cron in mailbox

2001-03-08 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, mark's-debian wrote: Hello, I setup a cronjob to fetch these mailinglists messeages from my mailserver. Everytime the job is run I get an email with the output from this job. How do I stop this. Because I'm afraid I'm loosing valuable diskspace Put this at the end of

Re: Is OpenSSH broken in sid?

2001-03-06 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Mon, 5 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having this odd ball problem where ssh refuses to read the host keys and it is unable to setgid. I've no idea what is wrong. Does anyone have a clue about this? I'm getting it too, and it's terribly annoying... but I worked around it by

Re: Is OpenSSH broken in sid?

2001-03-06 Thread Gavin Hamill
Read http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=86908repeatmerged=yes and then do a dist-upgrade - the bug in libpam has been fixed, and SSH works again :) gdh

Re: ssh or not to ssh

2001-03-06 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Robert L. Harris wrote: Ok, new scenario. 3 debian unstable boxes. 3 2.4.2 kernels. 3 boxes all upgraded to latest dist-upgrade yesterday. 1 box will take ssh logins the other deny. I get the standard /etc/motd, then a line saying: setgid: Operation not permitted

Re: size of a directory

2001-03-05 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Gregor Kaleta wrote: How can I view the size of a spezial directory e.g. /usr? Try du /usr play with the options for the du command... du -sh is a good one for simply getting the total space used in an easily readable format :) gdh

Re: Is it possible to downgrade a Debian system from testing to stable?

2001-03-04 Thread Gavin Hamill
So, short of starting over from scratch, is there a way to get back to stable? Yep sure... edit /etc/apt/sources.list and change anything that says 'testing' to 'stable' then run apt-get update and finally apt-get dist-upgrade. That should bring you back to stable :) Of course, if youwant

Re: Is it possible to downgrade a Debian system from testing to stable?

2001-03-04 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Dave Sherohman wrote: No, it won't. When you run the dist-upgrade, apt will see that all packages on the system are already at least as new as those available (testing's version numbers are higher than stable's) and do nothing at all. I thought that this was one of the

Re: Console text scrambled (in a different way :)

2001-03-01 Thread Gavin Hamill
Thanks for that :) 'reset' - feck, if I'd known it would be that simple... Right, will try that next time said thing happens! Thankyou! gdh

Re: Console text scrambled (in a different way :)

2001-03-01 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Gavin Hamill wrote: Thanks for that :) 'reset' - feck, if I'd known it would be that simple... Right, will try that next time said thing happens! Thankyou! It worked! Much appreciated! gdh

Re: Eek! X won't go away!

2001-02-28 Thread Gavin Hamill
On 27 Feb 2001, John Hasler wrote: It was the generic 'xdm' that was the problem, but when I tried to remove it, it wanted to take 'task-x-window-system' away, too.. Let it. 'task-x-window-system' is an empty package which does nothing but depend on a bunch of X stuff so that the X stuff

Thanks re: Eek! X won't go away!

2001-02-28 Thread Gavin Hamill
Just wanted to drop a note to say thanks to all the people who replied so quickly to this little dilemma! Fankoo! :) gdh

Console text scrambled (in a different way :)

2001-02-28 Thread Gavin Hamill
Hullo again.. sorry to bother you nice people, but this one has been bugging me since I started using Linux a couple of years ago.. it's not Debian specific, but I've had better, more educated responses from this list than any other. Now, enough of the brown-nosing ;) If I display a file which

Eek! X won't go away!

2001-02-27 Thread Gavin Hamill
I have a MOST bizarre and interesting problem at the moment! After my 'unstable' machine boots.. about 2 minutes later, X will start up, with an xconsole in the corner showing 'dmesg' output, and a simple graphical login prompt in the centre of the screen forces a login before anything else can

Re: Eek! X won't go away!

2001-02-27 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Glenn Becker wrote: It sounds like you have xdm running. I don't much like it either - it is difficult to get to pure console with that thing in the way. You're quite right I do indeed have xdm running, and had already noticed the problem vanished when xdm did, but I

Re: Eek! X won't go away!

2001-02-27 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Glenn Becker wrote: I don't really know what the purpose of xdm is. There are packages to 'prettify' it, but I just object to the whole thing. :-) Urk! Yes.. 'This version of Linux is better because it's version 7 instead of 2.2 and it has a nicer looking login prompt'

Re: Eek! X won't go away!

2001-02-27 Thread Gavin Hamill
3. Remove gdm completely by doing something like apt-get remove gdm as root. Hi :) It was the generic 'xdm' that was the problem, but when I tried to remove it, it wanted to take 'task-x-window-system' away, too.. so I decided to just remove the startup lines in /etc/rc.* :) Thanks! gdh

Re: Procmail, pine, imapd and bogus mailboxes...

2001-02-26 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Thomas Guettler wrote: Do you really need this link? Why don't you don't you filter your mails to different mboxes in your $HOME with procmail? (With a .procmailrc) Probably not, but it's handy for running the odd bit of legacy software that needs this old 'standard'...

Procmail, pine, imapd and bogus mailboxes...

2001-02-24 Thread Gavin Hamill
Hullo! I'm writing here 'because I never had this problem with Slackware' :) Okie, in /var/spool/mail, I have a symlink from 'gdh' to my real mailbox in /home/gdh/Mailbox, and this link in this preset dir lets crappy stuff like pine and UW's imapd work correctly... However, I've moved to Debian

Re: resolv.conf gets modified on boot

2001-02-22 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Lex McPhail wrote: Using DHCP - will try using a static IP and see what happens. Thanks for the info. I can't speak for 'pump' but if you're using dhcpcd, try 'dhcpcd -R' - that'll prevent it from updating your resolv.conf :) gdh

Re: resolv.conf gets modified on boot

2001-02-22 Thread Gavin Hamill
I can't speak for 'pump' but if you're using dhcpcd, try 'dhcpcd -R' - that'll prevent it from updating your resolv.conf :) How to pass that flag when dhcpcd is called from /etc/network/interfaces? Ooh :/ That's a good question... Don't know, sorry.. the dhcpcd man page doesn't seem to

Re: OT - Can windows mount NFS volumes exported by my Linux box?

2001-02-21 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Daniel de los Reyes wrote: Can this be done? Can I mount NFS volumes from a win machine or am I stuck to using Samba? Short answer: Yes. Longer Answer: At a price. There's a shareware package called DiskAccess, and commercial offerings from Hummingbird and Omni-NFS..

Re: OT - Can windows mount NFS volumes exported by my Linux box?

2001-02-21 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Andrew Perrin wrote: True enough - but recognize that Samba's advantage is that it runs on the stable OS, so you don't have to load anything at all on the windows side! I'm not a fan of NFS... but it can be useful in situations where file permissions are important... and

Re: Urk! apt wants to uninstall my entire system!

2001-02-20 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, ^chewie wrote: I did an apt-get update today on my alpha 'unstable' system and nearly required new trousers this morning when I almost pressed 'Y' to this little lot... [Perl 5.6 reorg, revert to stable/testing] OK, the easy route sounds like a good plan :)

Re: Urk! apt wants to uninstall my entire system!

2001-02-20 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, ^chewie wrote: I did an apt-get update today on my alpha 'unstable' system and nearly required new trousers this morning when I almost pressed 'Y' to this little lot... Just out of curiousity, I did an apt-get update this morning, then apt-get install perl and that

Re: Running Deb on old PCs

2001-02-20 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, David B. Harris wrote: That'd be more complex; you'd probably have to write a web front-end ... and you'd also have to install some sort of webserver :( At 340M, you're already going to be limited to how many voice messages you can store with only the base Debian config;

Re: Exceed 6.0 with Debian 2.2r2 and Windows95

2001-02-20 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Walther, Christoph wrote: Dear Debian-Community, how do I setup Linux Debian 2.2r2, so that I can connect to it remotely using Hummingbird Exceed 6.0, running on a Win95-Box? This one is easy enough... let's say your Win95 box has an IP of 10.0.0.95, just type export

Urk! apt wants to uninstall my entire system!

2001-02-19 Thread Gavin Hamill
Hello :) I did an apt-get update today on my alpha 'unstable' system and nearly required new trousers this morning when I almost pressed 'Y' to this little lot... macha:/home/gdh/# apt-get dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done The