Re: Driver Support for Intel Motherboard

2003-10-21 Thread Johann Spies
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 11:57:25PM +0530, Srikanta Prasanna wrote: >I am Srikanta Prasanna from Bangalore > (India) doing my final year Degree. I recently installed Debian (Knoppix > 3.2) on my system (P4, 2Ghz, 845 GLAD Intel motherboard). I am not able to > fin

Problems installing xfree86 4.3 from experimental

2003-10-21 Thread Alexander Barinov
Hi! I'm trying to install debian/unstable on my laptop and I badly need xfree86 4.3 there. I use aptitude for package management. So that's what I did: 1. Added deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian ../project/experimental main to my sources.list 2. Updated package lists using 'u' key in aptit

Re: installing Debian...

2003-10-21 Thread kmark
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Jukka Salmi wrote: > Hello, > > every now and then I install Debian on new ix86 machines (Dell PowerEdge). > They often have hardware which is not yet supported by the kernels of the > official stable Debian release 3.0r1. So far I was using an unofficial > "stable" netinst

Re: mouse

2003-10-21 Thread kmark
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Marlin Unruh wrote: > Hi, > > I just installed debian 3.0r1 and the mouse will not work. I have a serial > track ball with a PS/2 adapter, and have it plugged into the PS/2 port. The > track ball is a Kensington Expert Mouse. > > Do I need to edit /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file?

Re: Sound stutter

2003-10-21 Thread Rene Cunningham
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 10:48:59PM +0200, Michael Bona wrote: > I am running Woody / KDE 3.1.3 with aRts on a Duron 800 with 258 MB of RAM. > I have tried several players, notably noatun and kaboodle. Soundserver runs > with realtime priority (setting in KDE control center). > > Any advice? Try

Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax

2003-10-21 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 12:44:49 -0500, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 09:05, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 07:35:22 -0500, > > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > On Sun,

Boot Partition corruption

2003-10-21 Thread Conrad Strydom
Hi there all, I have a case where the boot partition on the machine looks like it is acting up. It all started with lilo not going past LI . I ran a rescue boot off the Woody CD , and tried to run FSCK , but keep getting an error like , The filesystem size (according to the superblock) is 104

Routing table drops packets via ppp0

2003-10-21 Thread Mark Devin
I am having some trouble getting routing to work properly on a box with three network connections. One, eth0, is connected to a router and is the default gateway. Another, ppp0 (eth1 - ADSL) is connected to a private network on the 192.168.17.0/24 address range. The third is a standard LAN (

Re: Thanks Pigeon for Your mailfilterrc

2003-10-21 Thread Paul Mackinney
Doug MacFarlane declaimed: > On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 22:10, Pigeon wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 11:39:15AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > The dialog on spam has become so lenghty I am afraid you would never see > > > my thank you note there. > > > > > > Just wanted you to know how much

Re: running XFce4 under KDM

2003-10-21 Thread Joel Alexandre
i have the same problem. With kdm, xfce4 doesn-t start. but with gdm there is no problem. >Hi, > >I tried out the latest xfce4, and it's pretty cool. One of the best >desktops around. I want it to run under kdm, but so far I could not >figure out how to do it. Any one tried that? Any help in

Re: Exim4 and MailDir

2003-10-21 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 00:07:53 -0500, Doug MacFarlane wrote: > Googling for an Exim4 + MailDir + HowTo has yeilded little of value to > this poor soul. > > One referred to a maildirmake command, which isn't on my sarge box inspite > of it's exim4 installation. That command can be used when crea

Issue with nsswitch.conf and LDAP

2003-10-21 Thread Alex
I've seen a problem that I've heard others have too concerning nsswitch.conf and ldap in woody atleast, haven't tried others. The problem is that in configurations where files are to be checked before ldap, it still looks for the ldap server. This causes a delay in login. That it is a problem with

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL

2003-10-21 Thread David Palmer.
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 03:45:51 +0100 Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 10:48:07AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > Could this thread please be taken to some other list or private > > mail? I think it's clear that it's got hopelessly off-topic. > > It's a bit far out for -cur

Re: Epiphany.

2003-10-21 Thread David Palmer.
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Re: wxWindows + building from source in Debian

2003-10-21 Thread Dave Howorth
I wrote: I need wxWindows to be able to build a specific non-Debian application. wxWindows is not supported on Woody, which is what I run. Hence, I need to compile it. Mark Roach replied: That being the case, you could just grab the backport from this source deb http://www.arrakis.es/~frigola/pys

Re: Please permanently block *@lists.debian.org from your mailing lists: [info@bairestrade.com: canned peach in syrup x 850 grs.]

2003-10-21 Thread Pascal Hakim
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 12:34:50AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > Bairestrade: > > Someone is apparently subscribing one or more mailing lists at > @lists.debian.org to your mailing lists. These relate to a > computer-related project, the Debian GNU/Linux distribution, which has > no interest in

NGPT for/in Debian?

2003-10-21 Thread W. Borgert
Hi, a colleague asked me whether Debian supports Next Generation POSIX Threading. Do you know? Thanks in advance! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

allowing a "normal" user to work efficiently

2003-10-21 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Hi, i'm wondering what the best method is of allowing a normal user account to do stuff like writing cd's, accessing local webpages (/var/www) and so on. There are a couple of methods like: 1. Making a group, put the user in that group and set that group as owner of say /var/www or another dir wh

Re: Sound stutter

2003-10-21 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 15:30:06 -0600, "Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 at 20:48 GMT, Michael Bona penned: > > Hi all, > > > > one things really bugs me about my Linux box: Playing MP3s or Oggs > > is frequently interrupted for a s

[SOLVED] Re: wxWindows + building from source in Debian

2003-10-21 Thread Dave Howorth
I wrote: I need wxWindows to be able to build a specific non-Debian application. wxWindows is not supported on Woody, which is what I run. Hence, I need to compile it. Roberto Sanchez suggested: > I've been thinking about it, and in your case it iw probably easier > build it from upstream and i

Re: NGPT for/in Debian?

2003-10-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 12:03:35PM +0200, W. Borgert wrote: > a colleague asked me whether Debian supports Next Generation POSIX > Threading. Do you know? NGPT has been pretty much obsoleted by NPTL (Native POSIX Threading Library). NPTL is only supported with the glibc in experimental at the mome

Re: Enable ACPI on kernel-image-2.4.22?

2003-10-21 Thread Herbert Xu
Damien Solley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > #211594). However, when I boot with "acpi=on" as a kernel argument, I > get no ACPI. There is an off-by-one bug that breaks acpi=on. Try acpi=force instead. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMA

Klaus

2003-10-21 Thread Bill Marcum
On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 07:17:09PM -0200, klaus imgrund wrote: > > I did not write that and anybody that tells me I did will not get any more > beer. > > Klaus But you did write this (or a script on your machine did): > "Help!" stammered the nymphomaniacal hussy as the sphincter licking donkey

dependency problems

2003-10-21 Thread Martin Wegmann
hello, I have some dependency problems - broken packages and tried to fix them with apt-get -f install/remove but that does not work, any advice how to proceed? using testing/unstable Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/baliola# dpkg --configure -a dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration

Re: Re: Strange ownership when mounting a MINIX floppy

2003-10-21 Thread Francesc Oller
Karsten M. Self wrote Hi all, After doing: prompt$ superformat /dev/fd0 hd prompt$ /sbin/mkfs -t minix /dev/fd0 prompt$ mount /floppy prompt$ ls -la /floppy drwxr-xr-x 2 francesc 232 4096 Set 8 10:10 . drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Set 8 10:10 .. Where does gid 232 come from? Is there a

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL

2003-10-21 Thread Johan Kullstam
Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > ..as in; "Where _is_ Osama and Saddam?". And playing the > > "west bank settler" games on the Iraqis, is _not_ gonna help. > > > > I'm beginning to see this as an issue over which rational and reasonable > people can disagree. > > For me, this all ties ba

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL

2003-10-21 Thread Johan Kullstam
Arnt Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 10:48:07 +0100, > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Could this thread please be taken to some other list or private mail? > > I think it's clear that it's got hopelessly off-topic. > > .

Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax

2003-10-21 Thread Johan Kullstam
Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 02:01:24PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 12:29, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > > > On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 at 11:15 GMT, Tom penned: > > > > [OT, sorry -- but question is obscure, will be hard to google] > > > > > > > > Are a

Re: Klaus

2003-10-21 Thread klaus imgrund
On Monday 20 October 2003 23:16, Bill Marcum wrote: > On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 07:17:09PM -0200, klaus imgrund wrote: > > > > I did not write that and anybody that tells me I did will not get any more > > beer. > > > > Klaus > > But you did write this (or a script on your machine did): > > "Help

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL

2003-10-21 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On 21 Oct 2003 08:00:40 -0400, Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I am using gnus/emacs. It treats mail like news. This way, I get > mail lists each in their own group and the discussions are threaded. ..agreed, and emacs and gnus _is_ on my todo list

Re: update in sid has killed gnome-terminal

2003-10-21 Thread David Lloyd
You know what? All you technical whizz bang, dumbass geeks haven't even given a link to how to fix the problem. You've HINTED at what it is, but there's no solution. You're so fucking helpful. <<-(( -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL

2003-10-21 Thread Aaron
Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said, > On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 10:34:52PM +0800, Dasn Cups wrote: > > Hi, all. > > I know little about License...:) > > > > If I use GNU's source code in my project but don't open my source, who will > > punish me? > > > > Nobody, as long as you don't give it to anyone.

RESOLVED Re: Enable ACPI on kernel-image-2.4.22?

2003-10-21 Thread Damien Solley
On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 20:58, Herbert Xu wrote: > Damien Solley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > #211594). However, when I boot with "acpi=on" as a kernel argument, I > > get no ACPI. > > There is an off-by-one bug that breaks acpi=on. Try acpi=force instead. > -- > Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out!

Configuring three nics on a gateway/web server

2003-10-21 Thread Lucio
Hi, after a two days-long headache I've got that probably I need some help. I've successfully installed and configured Apache on a already working gateway box. I know this can play a little unusual (web and gateway server in the same box) but unfortunately at the moment I just have this hardware

Re: sed problem

2003-10-21 Thread Floris Bruynooghe
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 10:09:47PM +0100, Dave selby wrote: > >I need to get the contents of a HTML title tag & put it in a string. > > > >ie > >specialist cards > > > >I need the "specialist cards" in a variable $titlecontents > >I thought it would be easy with sed > > > >sed -n '//,/<\/title>/p'

Apache - groups - can anyone explain this?

2003-10-21 Thread Ron Rademaker
Hello, If anyone could tell me how this is possible... Please do because I have no idea: My apache runs as user / group www-data / www-data I got Options ExecCGI Within my VirtualHost When I try to access: index.cgi on this virtualhost -> Forbidden Logs tell me:

Wins with DHCP

2003-10-21 Thread Alice Pinard
Hi, I have a debian firewall set up as a dhcp server, dhcp3. Recently I set up a wireless subnet along with my wired subnet. Now windows machines on the wired subnet can't see the wireless machines for purposes of file sharing and vice versa. All machines can ping each other. Sounds like a WINS is

Re: Exim4 and MailDir

2003-10-21 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 04:29, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 00:07:53 -0500, Doug MacFarlane wrote: > > Googling for an Exim4 + MailDir + HowTo has yeilded little of value to > > this poor soul. > > > > One referred to a maildirmake command, which isn't on my sarge box inspite

Re: Problems installing xfree86 4.3 from experimental

2003-10-21 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Alexander Barinov wrote: Hi! I'm trying to install debian/unstable on my laptop and I badly need xfree86 4.3 there. I use aptitude for package management. So that's what I did: 1. Added deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian ../project/experimental main to my sources.list 2. Updated package lists

Re: big troubles in little libc

2003-10-21 Thread iain d broadfoot
* iain d broadfoot ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > * David Z Maze ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > and you'll generally get a segfault where the program actually messes > > up, rather than when the symptoms are seen later. There's a cost in > > both memory and runtime, but using LD_PRELOAD inside gdb m

Re: allowing a "normal" user to work efficiently

2003-10-21 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Benedict Verheyen wrote: Hi, i'm wondering what the best method is of allowing a normal user account to do stuff like writing cd's, accessing local webpages (/var/www) and so on. There are a couple of methods like: 1. Making a group, put the user in that group and set that group as owner of say /v

Re: Problems installing xfree86 4.3 from experimental

2003-10-21 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 02:51, Alexander Barinov wrote: > Hi! > > I'm trying to install debian/unstable on my laptop and I badly need > xfree86 4.3 there. I use aptitude for package management. > > So that's what I did: > > 1. Added > deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian ../project/experimental

Re: allowing a "normal" user to work efficiently

2003-10-21 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 12:22:36PM +0200, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > What is the best method with security and user-friendliness in mind? There's always a tradeoff: security for convenience. The more security you have, in general the less convenient it is to use your computer. > I mean, I could

Exim4 won't send mail - what does this error message mean?

2003-10-21 Thread Anthony Campbell
I'm getting serious trouble with exim4. A lot of mail, incoming and outgoing, just sits in /var/log/exim4/input indefinitely. This includes even messages I email to myself. However, some things do go out (including this, if it reaches the list). The relevant lines in /var/log/messages/exim4/mai

Re: update in sid has killed gnome-terminal

2003-10-21 Thread Roberto Sanchez
David Lloyd wrote: You know what? All you technical whizz bang, dumbass geeks haven't even given a link to how to fix the problem. You've HINTED at what it is, but there's no solution. You're so fucking helpful. <<-(( How is this for helpful: wget http://incoming.debian.org/gnome-terminal_2.

Re: Routing table drops packets via ppp0

2003-10-21 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 03:39, Mark Devin wrote: > I am having some trouble getting routing to work properly on a box with > three network connections. One, eth0, is connected to a router and is > the default gateway. Another, ppp0 (eth1 - ADSL) is connected to a > private network on the 192.168

Re: update in sid has killed gnome-terminal

2003-10-21 Thread Clive Menzies
On (21/10/03 22:29), David Lloyd wrote: > > > You know what? > > All you technical whizz bang, dumbass geeks haven't even given a link to > how to fix the problem. You've HINTED at what it is, but there's no > solution. > > You're so fucking helpful. Ouch ! Hi David I'm not any sort of geek,

Re: Wins with DHCP

2003-10-21 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Alice Pinard said on Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 06:18:38AM -0700: > Hi, I have a debian firewall set up as a dhcp server, dhcp3. > > Recently I set up a wireless subnet along with my wired subnet. Now > windows machines on the wired subnet can't see the wireless machines for > purposes of file sharing a

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL

2003-10-21 Thread Tom
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 09:17:13AM -0400, Aaron wrote: > Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said, > > On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 10:34:52PM +0800, Dasn Cups wrote: > > > Hi, all. > > > I know little about License...:) > > > > > > If I use GNU's source code in my project but don't open my source, who will > > >

Re: update in sid has killed gnome-terminal

2003-10-21 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 08:59, David Lloyd wrote: > > > You know what? > > All you technical whizz bang, dumbass geeks haven't even given a link to > how to fix the problem. You've HINTED at what it is, but there's no > solution. > > You're so fucking helpful. > > <<-(( http://bugs.debian.org

Re: Exim4 won't send mail - what does this error message mean?

2003-10-21 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 09:55, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I'm getting serious trouble with exim4. > > A lot of mail, incoming and outgoing, just sits in /var/log/exim4/input > indefinitely. This includes even messages I email to myself. > > However, some things do go out (including this, if it reach

Re: Apache - groups - can anyone explain this?

2003-10-21 Thread Gilberto Villani Brito
Try Options ExecCGI Em Tue, 21 Oct 2003 15:16:15 +0200 "Ron Rademaker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > Hello, > > If anyone could tell me how this is possible... Please do because I have > no idea: > > My apache runs as user / group www-data / www-data > I got > >

Re: Debian Font Guide for Newbies and the Confused

2003-10-21 Thread moseley
Rob, Thanks much for writing this up. One issue I have problems with is solving font problems with specific applications. It think that's due to my general lack of understanding of fonts, and that there's more than one font system in use. I would love to see a trouble shooting section. I'm n

Lots of brokeness in Sid this morning

2003-10-21 Thread Kent West
I did an apt-get upgrade on a sid box just now, and now there are a lot of broken apps. mozilla (from apt-get; an older moz from mozilla.org works) thunderbird (from mozilla.org) mozilla-thunderbird (from apt-get) gnumeric icewm Since so many different apps are affected, I'm assuming the problem

Re: allowing a "normal" user to work efficiently

2003-10-21 Thread Benedict Verheyen
>> 2. In case of cd writing, you can set the SUID of cdrecord and related >> programs or you can use sudo. Only problem with sudo is that the user >> has to type sudo in front of the commands. >> > > dpkg-reconfigure cdrecord, and then set it suid. Add users to the cdrom > group if you want them t

ide-scsi problem on woody

2003-10-21 Thread [loonyx | rolf joho]
hi there even though i load the ide-scsi module at boottime, i can not mount my ide-dvd-writer. since i was perfectly able to do that on earlier installations, i am asking for hints. through /etc/modules i successfully load this: sr_mod ide-scsi my complete lsmod can be found at the end of the

Re: update in sid has killed gnome-terminal

2003-10-21 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 at 12:59 GMT, David Lloyd penned: > > > > You know what? > > All you technical whizz bang, dumbass geeks haven't even given a link > to how to fix the problem. You've HINTED at what it is, but there's no > solution. > > You're so fucking helpful. > ><<-(( > It's generally

Re: disable boot logo from LILO (kernel boot command line)?

2003-10-21 Thread Daniel Barclay
Roberto Sanchez wrote: Daniel B. wrote: ... (You can no longer use vga= in lilo.conf to use a high-resolution text mode to see kernel boot messages. If you run less on the console, the top lines of the file aren't visible, apparently because less thinks the screen is 24 lines high, but the firs

Re: dependency problems

2003-10-21 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 01:46:19PM +0200, Martin Wegmann said > hello, > > I have some dependency problems - broken packages and tried to fix them with > > apt-get -f install/remove > > but that does not work, any advice how to proceed? using testing/unstable > > Martin > > [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: big troubles in little libc

2003-10-21 Thread iain d broadfoot
* iain d broadfoot ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Has anyone else had similar problems? OK, more debugging finds the following: (gdb) backtrace #0 0x407196c9 in free () from /lib/libc.so.6 #1 0x4096e34f in ?? () from /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 #2 0x0001 in ?? () #3 0x409c98e8 in ?? () from

Re: allowing a "normal" user to work efficiently

2003-10-21 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 09:48:33AM -0400, Roberto Sanchez said > Benedict Verheyen wrote: > >Hi, > > > >i'm wondering what the best method is of allowing a normal user account to > >do stuff like writing cd's, accessing local webpages (/var/www) and so on. > >There are a couple of methods like: > >

[FIXED]Don't use gsfonts-other Was: Re: big troubles in little libc

2003-10-21 Thread iain d broadfoot
* iain d broadfoot ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > thoughts/flames welcome... From http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=216605 "For those who encounter this bug: you should either remove gsfonts-other, or keep the previous version of fontconfig, until this bug is fixed." sorry for the n

Re: software download

2003-10-21 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Tuesday, Oct 21, 2003, at 00:36 America/New_York, J. Javier Maestro wrote: On Oct Mon 20 2003 02:01, SpawnPPC wrote: Hi all, I'm Emanuele, from Italy. Where I can found and download with apt-get this software for DebianPPC unstable distribution? - Wine - WineX - PSX Emulator - Nintendo64

Re: Lots of brokeness in Sid this morning

2003-10-21 Thread Kent West
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 09:31:03AM -0500, Kent West wrote: I did an apt-get upgrade on a sid box just now, and now there are a lot of broken apps. Steve Mayer wrote: Kent, If these apps are segfaulting, it may be the same issue that some of us have been running into. There seems to be a p

Re: Lots of brokeness in Sid this morning

2003-10-21 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Kent West wrote: I did an apt-get upgrade on a sid box just now, and now there are a lot of broken apps. mozilla (from apt-get; an older moz from mozilla.org works) thunderbird (from mozilla.org) mozilla-thunderbird (from apt-get) gnumeric icewm Since so many different apps are affected, I'm assu

Re: Lots of brokeness in Sid this morning

2003-10-21 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 09:31:03AM -0500, Kent West wrote: I did an apt-get upgrade on a sid box just now, and now there are a lot of broken apps. Steve Mayer wrote: I removed the gsfonts-other package and the applications started working fine for me again. Yep, that fixed

Re: allowing a "normal" user to work efficiently

2003-10-21 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Rob Weir wrote: On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 09:48:33AM -0400, Roberto Sanchez said Benedict Verheyen wrote: Hi, i'm wondering what the best method is of allowing a normal user account to do stuff like writing cd's, accessing local webpages (/var/www) and so on. There are a couple of methods like: 1.

Re: Exim4 won't send mail - what does this error message mean?

2003-10-21 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 02:55:13PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > 2003-10-21 14:47:02 1ABwqk-H3-Fu == [EMAIL PROTECTED] > R=userforward defer (-1): bad mode (0100664) for /home/ac/.forward: 020 > bit(s) unexpected > > Can anyone suggest what is

Re: Exim4 won't send mail - what does this error message mean?

2003-10-21 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 10:12:51AM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > Yes, the files mode is incorrect. usually it should be 0600, from the > looks of it, it appears to be 0620 > I am guessing you know how to fix that. Appears to be 0020, not 0620. - --

Re: allowing a "normal" user to work efficiently

2003-10-21 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Benedict Verheyen wrote: 2. In case of cd writing, you can set the SUID of cdrecord and related programs or you can use sudo. Only problem with sudo is that the user has to type sudo in front of the commands. dpkg-reconfigure cdrecord, and then set it suid. Add users to the cdrom group if you want

Re: disable boot logo from LILO (kernel boot command line)?

2003-10-21 Thread Daniel Barclay
Andrés Roldán wrote: Just for the sake of being clear, LILO does not change anything in the kernel, it just passes parameters to the kernel and then, when the kernel has been completely loaded, LILO has nothing to do hereafter. Right, except that before booting the kernel, LILO can set the video m

Re: Boot Partition corruption

2003-10-21 Thread Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschler
did your recently do an apt-get upgrade? Chris On Tuesday 21 October 2003 09:46, Conrad Strydom wrote: > Hi there all, > > I have a case where the boot partition on the machine looks like it is > acting up. > > It all started with lilo not going past LI . > > I ran a rescue boot off the Woody CD

Re: Exim4 won't send mail - what does this error message mean?

2003-10-21 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 21 Oct 2003, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 10:12:51AM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > > Yes, the files mode is incorrect. usually it should be 0600, from the > > looks of it, it appears to be 0620 > > I am guessing you know how to fix that. > > Appears to be 0020, not 0620. > > --

Re: Lots of brokeness in Sid this morning

2003-10-21 Thread Steve Mayer
Kent, Glad to have helped. I got lucky yesterday and ran across a bug report that looked like this problem. Steve On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 10:28:17AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 09:31:03AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > > >I did an apt-get upgrade on a sid box just now, and

Re: software download

2003-10-21 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 11:08:49AM -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > Google isn't everyone's friend: http://www.google-watch.org/ > > There are other search engines out there, and they actually work. Yes, > Google seems to work best, but its scary to me that they are completely > private

Re: Lots of brokeness in Sid this morning

2003-10-21 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Kent West wrote: Kent West wrote: On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 09:31:03AM -0500, Kent West wrote: I did an apt-get upgrade on a sid box just now, and now there are a lot of broken apps. Steve Mayer wrote: I removed the gsfonts-other package and the applications started working fine for me again.

Re: allowing a "normal" user to work efficiently

2003-10-21 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 11:34:52AM -0400, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > If the machine is isolated behind a firewall, then you probably have > nothing to worry about. I think the concern is that cdrecord lets you > remotely access the burning device, which could be trouble on a file > server as you poi

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL

2003-10-21 Thread csj
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 17:45:48 +0800, David Palmer. wrote: [...] > What started the inciting were bombs dropped on Bin Laden and > his Taliban. Up until then, America had been supplying the > Taliban with arms, and the C.I.A. had been involved with field > assistance. When a gas and oil field was

Re: Lots of brokeness in Sid this morning

2003-10-21 Thread Kent West
Roberto Sanchez wrote: Kent West wrote: Kent West wrote: On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 09:31:03AM -0500, Kent West wrote: I did an apt-get upgrade on a sid box just now, and now there are a lot of broken apps. Steve Mayer wrote: I removed the gsfonts-other package and the applications started w

Re: ide-scsi problem on woody

2003-10-21 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello [loonyx | rolf joho] (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > even though i load the ide-scsi module at boottime, i can not mount my > ide-dvd-writer. since i was perfectly able to do that on earlier > installations, i am asking for hints. > > through /etc/modules i successfully load this: > sr_mod

Re: No X configuration offered during install of Woody (30r1)

2003-10-21 Thread Olav Lavell
Op di 21-10-2003, om 01:25 schreef John Hasler: > Olav Lavell writes: > > Denbian still installs too much stuff I did not ask for. It's not a > > "minimal" distribution > > The Debian base system is too much? Isn't it? Why would one ever install Exim in a _base_ system? To name just one. [the

Re: Lots of brokeness in Sid this morning

2003-10-21 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 11:31:44AM -0500, Kent West wrote: | [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/westk:> mozilla-thunderbird | find: /usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/startup-hooks.d/*: No such file or | directory | | and then just dies. So I'd say there's still some brokenness in sid's | version. I don't know

Re: woody spamassassin tests

2003-10-21 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 12:18:26PM +1000, Geoff Crompton wrote: | Hi, | | Can someone tell me where I can find which tests are used/available in | Woody's spamassassin package? RTSL. | I know I can do a "grep '^score ' *" in /etc/spamassassin, but does | this tell me all the possible test

Re: No X configuration offered during install of Woody (30r1)

2003-10-21 Thread Clive Menzies
On (21/10/03 18:44), Olav Lavell wrote: > Op di 21-10-2003, om 01:25 schreef John Hasler: > > > Olav Lavell writes: > > > Denbian still installs too much stuff I did not ask for. It's not a > > > "minimal" distribution > > > > The Debian base system is too much? > > Isn't it? > > Why would one

RE: anti-spam idea for this list

2003-10-21 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
> -Original Message- > From: Paul Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 11:12 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: anti-spam idea for this list > > > > On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 03:17:48AM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > > I will give up my keyboard and text mode

Re: No X configuration offered during install of Woody (30r1)

2003-10-21 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Olav Lavell wrote: The Debian base system is too much? Isn't it? Why would one ever install Exim in a _base_ system? To name just one. I believe because certain things (like the daily update of the man and locate databases) depend on the ability to send mail to a user on the system if there is

Re: No X configuration offered during install of Woody (30r1)

2003-10-21 Thread John Hasler
Olav Lavell writes: > Why would one ever install Exim in a _base_ system? To name just one. Exim isn't part of the Debian base. Don't confuse 'base' with 'standard'. > I am missing your point here - have no problems finding sources or > compiling them. > My remark was just to clarify that there

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL (BS)

2003-10-21 Thread Thomas Pomber
Two-cents-worth from Canada:   It's nice being a Canadian because you get a little bit of variety in the propaganda you're exposed to, which lends itself to a more well-rounded brainwashing.  You get to pick what bullshit you are going to believe.   We sympathize for our brothers in the States who

Re: anti-spam idea for this list

2003-10-21 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 12:08:41PM -0500, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: > How about using ASCII art instead (a la figlet or somesuch)? See also: Warlording. http://ursine.ca/jargon/html/W/warlording.html - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Your debian-user@lists.debian.org subscription has been terminated

2003-10-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 18:17, Debian Listmaster Team wrote: > Dear subscriber, > > The following unsubscription has been done on your behalf: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] from [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > This email address was removed from the list, as we received > 1478 messages in the last 24 hours. Duri

Re: package for bug regarding system installation and boot logo

2003-10-21 Thread Daniel Barclay
Brian Nelson wrote: > The little penguin at the top of the screen while the kernel is loading? Bugs for that should be filed against "kernel", I believe. Thanks. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

still image capture from video stream

2003-10-21 Thread stan
I;ve got a need to capture iamges at a rate of about 1 per second from four locations, Two of thes locations will be new, so Ill use web cameras there. Two however are existing and have industrial grade CCTV cameras, These locations are also in a fairly hostile environment, so I want to re-use thes

Re: anti-spam idea for this list

2003-10-21 Thread Tom
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 12:08:41PM -0500, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: > How about using ASCII art instead (a la figlet or somesuch)? it's machine parsable, defeats the purpose -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: anti-spam idea for this list

2003-10-21 Thread Ray
On Tuesday 21 October 2003 12:08, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: > How about using ASCII art instead (a la figlet or somesuch)? > > $ figlet -w 72 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Makes perfect sense to a human eye, but should foil spam harvester > bots. try it without a monospace font. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: No X configuration offered during install of Woody (30r1)

2003-10-21 Thread Olav Lavell
Op di 21-10-2003, om 19:13 schreef Roberto Sanchez: > Olav Lavell wrote: > > >>The Debian base system is too much? > > > > Isn't it? > > > > Why would one ever install Exim in a _base_ system? To name just > > one. > > I believe because certain things (like the daily update of the man and > lo

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL (BS)

2003-10-21 Thread Tom
God, y'all I promise I'll shut up. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Help with VIA EPIA-CL mini-ITX with two onboard ethernet ports

2003-10-21 Thread Chris Evans
Ho hum, do hope I haven't got myself ahead of Debian hardware compatibility. Situation is that I have to replace an ageing three port firewall on my home/ADSL network. I wanted something small and quiet so have bought a little box with a VIA EPIA-CL mini-ITX motherboard which has two ethernet

what exactly does "init_module: No such device" mean?

2003-10-21 Thread Daniel Barclay
When trying to load a driver reports "init_module: No such device", what exactly does that mean? Does it mean that the module couldn't find any instances of the type of hardware device that the module handles, using whatever degree of scanning or probing that that particular module performs? (Does

Re: No X configuration offered during install of Woody (30r1)

2003-10-21 Thread Olav Lavell
Okay, learning every day :) Op di 21-10-2003, om 19:26 schreef John Hasler: > Olav Lavell writes: > > Why would one ever install Exim in a _base_ system? To name just one. > > Exim isn't part of the Debian base. Don't confuse 'base' with 'standard'. Then how do I install a _base_ system? I am

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL (BS)

2003-10-21 Thread Tom
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 01:26:38PM -0400, Thomas Pomber wrote: > But I suspect American feelings about their military might are over-rated. For > instance, if they gave a shit, China would kick your ass in a war. > > America has become a bully. And pride comes before a fall. You haven't seen

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