Re: We need a FAQ. Don't you think we need a FAQ?

2000-08-21 Thread Joey Hess
s. keeling wrote: > In that spirit, I'd like to suggest that this list needs a FAQ list. You have a faq. http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ And also: http://www.debian.org/fom/1.html The latter allows anyone to submit questions and answers. -- see shy jo

We need a FAQ. Don't you think we need a FAQ?

2000-08-21 Thread s. keeling
I popped my mail last night, and still there were ca. 180 waiting for me when I got home this evening. I cannot keep up at that rate. Many questions were repeats of questions I've been answering for years. Then again, I've asked questions here that never were answered. In that spirit, I'd like t

xfstt & the Gimp

2000-08-21 Thread Erik Mathisen
Hi, I have xfstt running and a bunch of fonts copied into /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ First question, do I have to do anything besides having the .ttf in the directory and running xfstt? Second question, how do I get the Gimp to see these fonts? Thanks in advance, Erik

Re: Voodoo3 and 3D stuff

2000-08-21 Thread David Bellows
Aaron Maxwell wrote: > > Do you know if the 3dfx module is installed? > > Type 'lsmod'; the output should include a line with the string '3dfx' in > it (eg, '3dfx.o'). If not, good news! That's your problem and it's easy > to fix! > > To fix it, find the module; mine is /lib/misc/3dfx.o, but i

Re: installing Netscape Navigator 4.75

2000-08-21 Thread Mark Wagnon
On 08/21/00 21:49:25 -0400, John Anderson wrote: > I've tried installing several versions of Netscape with no luck. The > most recent was version 4.75 Stand alone browser for Linux 2.2. I was > given the message that I needed the shared library > . > > I've checked in the internet, but all I fin

Re: X can't find the mouse! - Solved

2000-08-21 Thread Michael L Ried
I was having a similar problem when I read the following messages concerning the mouse. I ran XF86config and used /dev/psaux as my device file for my mouse. The error messages concerning the mouse were gone after that. Thanks for your help. At 09:30 PM 8/17/2000 -0700, Trevor Ramoutar wrote: >

Re: Cannot start X - solved!

2000-08-21 Thread Michael L Ried
I found my problem when I ran: xinit 1>xinit.log 2>&1 X was wanting to run a xterm and I needed to still install xterm. Thanks for your help. On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 08:09:52PM -0500, Michael L Ried wrote: > I cannot start up X windows after using the startx command. It looks > like X windows

Re: trouble with fetchmail via exim

2000-08-21 Thread Florian Friesdorf
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 02:32:49AM +0200, Andreas Hetzmannseder wrote: > Dear debian-users, > > I ran fetchmail, it read the first incoming message, but then it stopped > and told me the following: > ..exim: neither action flags nor mail addresses given. > fetchmail terminated with

installing Netscape Navigator 4.75

2000-08-21 Thread John Anderson
I've tried installing several versions of Netscape with no luck. The most recent was version 4.75 Stand alone browser for Linux 2.2. I was given the message that I needed the shared library . I've checked in the internet, but all I find is rpm packages for other libraries. Has anyone been succe

Re: Fortify and Netscape Navigator

2000-08-21 Thread Brad
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 04:48:51PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > be aware that you are probably still vulnerable to at least the java > security hole in 4.74 and previous since the java files were not > updated (and i think that is where the bug lies) Even though the version numbers in the nets

Re: Fortify and Netscape Navigator

2000-08-21 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 06:19:03PM -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote: > On 08/21/00 16:48:51 -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > be aware that you are probably still vulnerable to at least the java > > security hole in 4.74 and previous since the java files were not > > updated (and i think that is where the bug

Re: Fortify and Netscape Navigator

2000-08-21 Thread Mark Wagnon
On 08/21/00 16:48:51 -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > be aware that you are probably still vulnerable to at least the java > security hole in 4.74 and previous since the java files were not > updated (and i think that is where the bug lies) > hmm. Okay. There was a java symlink in the directory where

Re: Fortify and Netscape Navigator

2000-08-21 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 05:19:08PM -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote: > On 08/20/00 19:13:32 -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > its not the debian packages that are at fault, its fortify, fortify > > does not and will not support netscape past 4.72. you have to do one > > of 3 things to get 128 netscape: > >

trouble with fetchmail via exim

2000-08-21 Thread Andreas Hetzmannseder
Dear debian-users, I ran fetchmail, it read the first incoming message, but then it stopped and told me the following: ..exim: neither action flags nor mail addresses given. fetchmail terminated with signal 13 My ~/.fetchmailrc looks like this: poll pop.netway.at

Re: Staroffice

2000-08-21 Thread I. Tura
At 16.37 21/8/00 -0600, Cameron Matheson ha escrit: >Hey, > >Now that Staroffice is open source, will Debian include it? Or is it >not GPL'd? > >Cameron > It seems that Mr. Stallman has given his approvation to Sun. Take a look to http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/12671.html

Re: bad new large hard disk? [chirps]

2000-08-21 Thread I. Tura
I don't think that the information that I give right now is applicable to your case due to the chirp issue you mention, but as I've found working HDDs that also chirp, I've thought this would be interesting for you. In the case of a defective electrical installation, if the comput

Win98 won't shutdown after Linux install

2000-08-21 Thread Jonathan Neufeld
I'm a casual user of Linux and have some familiarity with several distributions. I recently bought a new computer and installed Win98 first, then paritioned the drive (using DiskDrake during a Mandrake install) and installed several distributions, including Debian 2.2 and Storm. Since partitionin

Re: XFree4.0.1 on potato

2000-08-21 Thread Florian Friesdorf
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 09:47:15PM +0200, Tibor D. wrote: > Hi, > what is the correct or best way to install XFree86 4.0.1 on Debian 2.2 > or - to replace the included XFree 3.3.6? > Are there somewhere installable .deb's, or when I have to get the > tar-files: how do I install it without breaking

SpeedStream 4060 DSL "modem"

2000-08-21 Thread David Karlin
Hello, I'm converting a win98 system into a potato masq-box for a small office. It is connected to the Internet via DSL with a SpeedStream 4060 DSL "modem" which connects to the host machine via USB. Is this supported by Debian? Has anyone [successfully] used the SpeedStream 4060 with Debian? P

Re: Fortify and Netscape Navigator

2000-08-21 Thread Mark Wagnon
On 08/20/00 19:13:32 -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > its not the debian packages that are at fault, its fortify, fortify > does not and will not support netscape past 4.72. you have to do one > of 3 things to get 128 netscape: > > download the netscape tarball from netscape.com and extract the > app

All of a sudden can't load DBI.so

2000-08-21 Thread Januski, Ken
Hi This is my first Debian posting so hope I'm not too off the mark in describing my problem. Last Friday I couldn't get a web page to use "upload file" properly. I thought maybe my cgi.pm was out of date so I decided to use dselect to get newest version. Either I did something wrong or there were

Re: Staroffice

2000-08-21 Thread kmself
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 11:44:16PM +0100, Bruce Stephens wrote: > Cameron Matheson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Now that Staroffice is open source, will Debian include it? Or is > > it not GPL'd? > > Source isn't available yet. It's due in the autumn, and presumably > once there's somethin

Re: .emacs startup file SOLVED!

2000-08-21 Thread Dale L . Morris
I think I found the problem. There was a file in my user directory called .emacs.el and I disabled it. Now, emacs is starting with word wrap selected. I'm not sure where the emacs.el file came from, maybe I ran compile in elisp menu or something. thanks On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 03:07:02PM -0700 16

Re: Linux Mail Client

2000-08-21 Thread John Griffiths
At 11:46 PM 8/21/2000 +0100, Matthew Sackman wrote: >Back to Linux... >If (to the person who started this thread) does not want to mix his personal >and professional emails then he should have two accounts on his Linux >machine. Then, as the mail comes in and is handed over to the MTA, the MTA >sho

Re: apt-get -- connecting to localhost ? (slink)

2000-08-21 Thread kmself
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 02:18:52PM -0700, Brett Neely wrote: > On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 01:59:51PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > I've got this problem with two boxes I'm maintaining, both currently > > slink. > > potato is now the new stable. My bad. I'd upgraded both to potato just prio

Re: .emacs startup file

2000-08-21 Thread Dale L . Morris
Gary, just tried commenting out all but the first two lines and the behavior is the same. Only works properly when I manually tell emacs to evaluate current buffer. On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 05:10:05PM -0600 18, Gary Hennigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Dale L . Morris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> write

Re: Shockwave Plugin

2000-08-21 Thread ktb
"Dale L . Morris" wrote: > > I don't know where the non-free package list is, if I go to > debian/packages it doesn't list a non-free grouping. I have seen it > before, but don't know where it's at.. > I apologize for this duh.. type question, but it's a duh.. kind of > day. > thanks http://www.m

Re: .emacs startup file

2000-08-21 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Dale L . Morris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When I start up emacs, word wrap is not turned on. If I write into the > *scratch* buffer, it doesn't word wrap. If I check the help/options > menu at the top of the window, auto-fill word wrap in text modes is > not selected. > However, if I do M-x e

Re: Linux Mail Client

2000-08-21 Thread John Griffiths
Kent West wrote: >Perhaps this isn't the time or place to ask, but what about using IMAP >instead of POP (on "client" machines, like a family computer, not >"servers")? Unless you need to be disconnected from your email server >(which I realize is needed in some situations) or have a tendency to >e

Re: Shockwave Plugin

2000-08-21 Thread Michael Smith
Edit /etc/apt/sources.list to add non-free and contrib. Find a line that says something like this: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main (actually, any big debian mirror will work) and change it so it goes like this: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free

Re: Emacs meta-key

2000-08-21 Thread Nick Croft
Thanks ferret, I've got 104 key boards on both machines. The mystery is why the two installs end up so differently. The machine I'm on now, at home, is 133mhz Pentium. I started with slink and went straight to potato., then up to woody. I got a slightly better machine at work. 333mz Pentium II. I'v

Re: .emacs startup file

2000-08-21 Thread Dale L . Morris
When I start up emacs, word wrap is not turned on. If I write into the *scratch* buffer, it doesn't word wrap. If I check the help/options menu at the top of the window, auto-fill word wrap in text modes is not selected. However, if I do M-x eval-current-buffer then it turns on wordwrap in the help

Re: Linux Mail Client

2000-08-21 Thread Steve Lamb
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 11:46:50PM +0100, Matthew Sackman wrote: > If (to the person who started this thread) does not want to mix his personal > and professional emails then he should have two accounts on his Linux > machine. I don't see it that way. Why should they be forced to create a who

Re: Linux Mail Client

2000-08-21 Thread Matthew Sackman
> I build computers as a side line, and I usually install Windows 98. Have > you tried setting Windows up in an easy-to-use form which allows a > family to have an email address each from the same ISP and only > see/download their own emails, making sure the correct address is shown > in the 'from'

Re: Staroffice

2000-08-21 Thread Bruce Stephens
Cameron Matheson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now that Staroffice is open source, will Debian include it? Or is > it not GPL'd? Source isn't available yet. It's due in the autumn, and presumably once there's something that works, someone will package it for Debian. I'm not quite sure whether

Re: setting clock to EDT

2000-08-21 Thread Mike Werner
John Anderson wrote: > This sounds stupid, but when I installed Debian I selected EST vs. EDT. I > have tried using the date command with no success. Any suggestions? Try tzconfig -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | He that is slow to believe anything and | everything is of great u

Re: kernel VM

2000-08-21 Thread Moritz Schulte
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 02:31:17PM -0100, Paulo Henrique B de Oliveira wrote: > I have a Debian GNU/Linux server that kernel killed cron (like this in > /var/log/syslog): > Aug 19 17:22:49 machine kernel: VM: killing process cron > Aug 19 17:22:50 machine kernel: VM: killing process apache [...] w

Re: .emacs startup file

2000-08-21 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Dale L . Morris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My apologies if I'm not posting this to the right list, I've already > tried the gnu emacs help newsgroup, with no success. I'm thinking it's > a specific debian configuration problem.. > > I'm having trouble getting emacs to startup with parameters

Re: setting clock to EDT

2000-08-21 Thread Kent Pirkle
I think tzconfig is what you are looking for. On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 06:32:46PM -0400, John Anderson wrote: > This sounds stupid, but when I installed Debian I selected EST vs. EDT. I > have tried using the date command with no success. Any suggestions? > > > John Ker

RE: setting clock to EDT

2000-08-21 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 21-Aug-2000 John Anderson wrote: > This sounds stupid, but when I installed Debian I selected EST vs. EDT. I > have tried using the date command with no success. Any suggestions? > run tzconfig as root, choose EST5EDT. OR choose a city on the East coast of the U.S. Linux (and other unices

Staroffice

2000-08-21 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, Now that Staroffice is open source, will Debian include it? Or is it not GPL'd? Cameron

setting clock to EDT

2000-08-21 Thread John Anderson
This sounds stupid, but when I installed Debian I selected EST vs. EDT. I have tried using the date command with no success. Any suggestions? John Kerr Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux 2.2

Re: Linux Mail Client (was: Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error))

2000-08-21 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Monday, August 21, 2000, 12:44:11 PM, kmself wrote: >> If it did do it I'd love to see the actual mail reading removed from the >> editor. ^^

Re: Strange things like drwx--S--- with elm...

2000-08-21 Thread Morten Liebach
On 21, aug, 2000 at 09:28:24 +0200, Andreas Hetzmannseder wrote: > Eric G . Miller wrote: > > Your description of fetchmail opening an elm display does not jibe > > with my experience in using fetchmail. > > The reason for this was probably the following entry in my > ~/.fetchmailrc: > mda

Re: Voodoo3 and 3D stuff

2000-08-21 Thread Aaron Maxwell
Do you know if the 3dfx module is installed? Type 'lsmod'; the output should include a line with the string '3dfx' in it (eg, '3dfx.o'). If not, good news! That's your problem and it's easy to fix! To fix it, find the module; mine is /lib/misc/3dfx.o, but it could be in /lib/modules. If you

Re: bad new large hard disk? [chirps]

2000-08-21 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
Jeff Green wrote: > > Is said disk IDE or SCSI, if IDE IDE. I can't afford scsi :) > and your motherboard is over 18 months > or so old you will need to flash the motherboard bios. Uh, oh :) It's from the first set of 603's that worked (once they dropped the third sdram slot), so it's near

.emacs startup file

2000-08-21 Thread Dale L . Morris
My apologies if I'm not posting this to the right list, I've already tried the gnu emacs help newsgroup, with no success. I'm thinking it's a specific debian configuration problem.. I'm having trouble getting emacs to startup with parameters specified in .emacs. Specifically, I want it to start in

SendMail Problem

2000-08-21 Thread Jay Kelly
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Group, I have Sendmail running as a MX'ed mailserver. I had a problem with sending mail out from a client with a error "relay-denied" amd I fix it by adding the ip addresses of my clients. When I try to have mail sent to me I am unable to reteive

Potato and ll_rw_block - and a bit about Gnus

2000-08-21 Thread Samuli Suonpaa
(This is a rough translation of an article I posted a few hours earlier on Finnish linux-newsgroup.) What is ll_rw_block and why is kernel nagging me about it? from /var/log/syslog: Aug 21 17:02:24 erasmus kernel: ll_rw_block: device 03:06: only 1024-char blocks implemented (4096) Aug 21 17:02:

Re: How to upgrade to Potato via network with small hard disk

2000-08-21 Thread Jeff Green
If it isn't much too small for the packages uninstall several of the packages you currently have (preferably largish ones) using apt-get remove, delete all that is currently in /var/cache/apt/archives apt-get upgrade then delete /var/cache/apt/archives again and now apt-get install the packages fro

Voodoo3 and 3D stuff

2000-08-21 Thread David Bellows
Hello all, Ok, I'm at my wits end (didn't take long). I cannot get full screen 3D stuff working on my Debian 2.2 box with a Voodoo3 2000. I need help. I do have it working on this same box using a different distribution, so I know it *can* work. Here's what I've done: 1. Installed all the mes

Re: bad new large hard disk? [chirps]

2000-08-21 Thread Jeff Green
Is said disk IDE or SCSI, if IDE and your motherboard is over 18 months or so old you will need to flash the motherboard bios. However it should be silent and should still detect as a smaller disk, if I get a hard drive that chirps my supplier gets a prompt request for a replacement. Jeff "Richard

Re: Shockwave Plugin

2000-08-21 Thread Dale L . Morris
I don't know where the non-free package list is, if I go to debian/packages it doesn't list a non-free grouping. I have seen it before, but don't know where it's at.. I apologize for this duh.. type question, but it's a duh.. kind of day. thanks On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 11:45:29AM -0700 50, Michae

Re: apt-get -- connecting to localhost ? (slink)

2000-08-21 Thread Brett Neely
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 01:59:51PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > I've got this problem with two boxes I'm maintaining, both currently > slink. potato is now the new stable. > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:karsten]$ apt-get update > 0% [Connecting to localhost] [Connecting to localhost] Co

RE: How to upgrade to Potato via network with small hard disk

2000-08-21 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 21-Aug-2000 Jeffrey Austen wrote: > How do I upgrade from Slink to Potato on a networked system with a small > hard disk? I am using apt-get to upgrade and there is not enough room in > /var/cache/apt/archives to download all the upgrade files at once. Is there > a way to upgrade in multiple st

Re: exim and multiple alias files

2000-08-21 Thread Brad
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 01:14:55PM -0500, Brent Harding wrote: > Can exim handle multiple alias files? Yes, and it seems to work rather well. You just need to add a new director to /etc/exim.conf. For example, here's what i use for listar (both to keep the aliases separate and to set the user vari

Re: Linux Mail Client (was: Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error))

2000-08-21 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Monday, August 21, 2000, 2:14:00 PM, brian wrote: > Considering that mutt doesn't do SMTP with anything, Steve's demand > probably will never happen. > (Though there are certainly ways to do it, the SMTP configuration ain't > part of Mutt.) Right

Re: Linux Mail Client (was: Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error))

2000-08-21 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Monday, August 21, 2000, 2:01:38 PM, Mike wrote: > Oh, you meant actually send it out through different servers? I thought you > were just meaning the message addressing - i.e. what From: line is used. > Seems I misunderstood exactly what you meant.

Re: Linux Mail Client (was: Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error))

2000-08-21 Thread brian moore
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 05:01:38PM -0400, Mike Werner wrote: > Steve Lamb wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Monday, August 21, 2000, 1:42:58 PM, Mike wrote: > > > Wrong. mutt can do that just fine. > > > > Don't even try to kid me on that aspect ok? The da

bad new large hard disk? [chirps]

2000-08-21 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
I sent this earlier, but it doesn't seem to have made it to hte list . . . This weekend, I tried installing the 20G IBM drive I picked up on vacation, and I think it has serious problem s :( It chirps, which seems to come haveter a major (loud) move of the heads. The bios can find the drive abo

How to upgrade to Potato via network with small hard disk

2000-08-21 Thread Jeffrey Austen
How do I upgrade from Slink to Potato on a networked system with a small hard disk? I am using apt-get to upgrade and there is not enough room in /var/cache/apt/archives to download all the upgrade files at once. Is there a way to upgrade in multiple steps so that I don't have to download all of th

Re: Linux Mail Client (was: Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error))

2000-08-21 Thread Mike Werner
Steve Lamb wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Monday, August 21, 2000, 1:42:58 PM, Mike wrote: > > Wrong. mutt can do that just fine. > > Don't even try to kid me on that aspect ok? The day mutt can send mail > out my work SMTP from home (yes, that level of separat

apt-get -- connecting to localhost ? (slink)

2000-08-21 Thread kmself
I've got this problem with two boxes I'm maintaining, both currently slink. When attempting to run any apt-* commands (eg: apt-get update), I first get a status line reading: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:karsten]$ apt-get update 0% [Connecting to localhost] [Connecting to localhost] Then u

[linux_ch@iname.com: XFree4.0.1 on potato]

2000-08-21 Thread Rev GRC Sperry
I'd recommend you wait a month or so as some debs are soon moving from alpha to beta with what appears to be lots of progress. Many Debian users are installing from the source but for future compatibility and my own laziness, I've decided to just wait around for the debs. -Grant `

Re: Linux Mail Client (was: Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error))

2000-08-21 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Monday, August 21, 2000, 1:42:58 PM, Mike wrote: > Wrong. mutt can do that just fine. Don't even try to kid me on that aspect ok? The day mutt can send mail out my work SMTP from home (yes, that level of separation) is the day I'll concede. Rig

Re: Modprobe and modules - is this a problem?

2000-08-21 Thread bsamuels
Florian Friesdorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 08:53:28PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I thought I had better reply to my own message as I've discovered > > that the crontab does unload the unused ppp modules if they were > > loaded by kmod. > > > > If I load the mo

Re: Linux Mail Client (was: Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error))

2000-08-21 Thread Mike Werner
Steve Lamb wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Monday, August 21, 2000, 10:11:17 AM, Michael wrote: > > Also, you can grab pop mail from multiple servers if you're like the typical > > guy and have 5+ mail addresses. > > Right, and have to stuff them into a single acc

kernel VM

2000-08-21 Thread Paulo Henrique B de Oliveira
I have a Debian GNU/Linux server that kernel killed cron (like this in /var/log/syslog): Aug 19 17:22:49 machine kernel: VM: killing process cron Aug 19 17:22:50 machine kernel: VM: killing process apache What is wrong? My kernel is 2.2.15 -- Então Linus, o que faremos essa noite? A mesma coisa

Re: looking for simple finance program

2000-08-21 Thread Thomas Weinbrenner
Christopher Mosley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Something simple for bank/checking accounts and amounts spent on > types of items. gnucash -- Thomas Weinbrenner

Re: Security - trust etc.. (Was: Reading e-mails on text mode)

2000-08-21 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 03:08:49PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > You can't. Period. Same goes for source. Same goes for commercial > binaries. Same goes for any code you haven't read (or had someone you > thoroughly trust read). Agreed. However, the classic statement on the subject is eve

Help

2000-08-21 Thread Woodrow Lovett
Piranha, please contact me off the list.

Re: automounter & NIS

2000-08-21 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya oren simple tests... - make sure /home is exported to be rw to your deb box... - am assuming you want to write into your home dir - on your deb box...make sure you can at least manually mount it deb# mkdir /mnt/test deb# mount solaris:/home /mnt/test - i use autof

RE: looking for simple finance program

2000-08-21 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
xacc-smotif 1.0.17-1(1166.5k) A personal finance tracking program. xacc 1.0.18-4 (344.4k)A personal finance tracking program. gnucash 1.3.4-3 (1485.7k) A personal finance tracking program. > -Original Message- > From: Christopher Mosley [mailto:[E

Re: Basic questions about X

2000-08-21 Thread Moritz Schulte
On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 09:29:44PM -0300, Ricardo Gabriel Herdt wrote: > it. But, I don't know why, when I boot Debian it initializes the X > automactilly. To correct this I tried to change the runlevel on the > inittab file, but it doesn't work. How correct this? you've to remove the runlevel-li

XFree4.0.1 on potato

2000-08-21 Thread Tibor D.
Hi, what is the correct or best way to install XFree86 4.0.1 on Debian 2.2 or - to replace the included XFree 3.3.6? Are there somewhere installable .deb's, or when I have to get the tar-files: how do I install it without breaking dependencies (I think lots of packages depend on X)? TIA -- visit h

Re: Netscape crashed my network connection?

2000-08-21 Thread Sven Burgener
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 12:10:23PM -0700, Greg Strockbine. wrote: > thanks I was looking for some kind of > command thing just like that, I'm a newbie on the network > part. Reminds me of `apachectl restart'. Yes, indeed. Most (all?) scripts in /etc/init.d/ support the following options: /etc/i

Re: Linux Mail Client (was: Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error))

2000-08-21 Thread kmself
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 11:35:29AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Monday, August 21, 2000, 11:11:42 AM, Mark wrote: > > I strongly suspect that Gnus can do what you want, but I've not actually > > tried. It certainly supports multiple servers and folders and can > > conditionally set headers based up

FW: Dell PowerEdge 2450 RAID

2000-08-21 Thread Kim O
> -Original Message- > From: Kim O [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, August 21, 2000 3:40 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Dell PowerEdge 2450 RAID > > > Anyone out there know if Debian linux will support the onboard > raid controllers > that come in the DELL PowerEdge 2450

looking for simple finance program

2000-08-21 Thread Christopher Mosley
Something simple for bank/checking accounts and amounts spent on types of items. Thanks

Re: printing printcap

2000-08-21 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: printing printcap Date: Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 02:35:52PM -0500 In reply to:Debian Mail Quoting Debian Mail([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hello, > Debian ghost here... have a question about printing via debian. > I ran the magicfilterconfig and set up a laser jet printer on the la

Re: Strange things like drwx--S--- with elm...

2000-08-21 Thread Andreas Hetzmannseder
Eric G . Miller wrote: > Your description of fetchmail opening an elm display does not jibe > with my experience in using fetchmail. The reason for this was probably the following entry in my ~/.fetchmailrc: mda "/usr/bin/elm" fetchmail --version gave me the following explanation:

Addicted to Linux

2000-08-21 Thread Greg Strockbine.
I just installed Debian Linux via storm last Thursday morning in a half an hour right before leaving for work. This past weekend I spent umpteen hours sussing Linux out. I kept thinking I would have to go back to windoze as there would be something it could do that Linux couldn't. So far as my n

Re: Playing MIDI files -- another plea

2000-08-21 Thread Jesse Jacobsen
Adding another plea to the thread... I'd like to obtain the best economical sound card for playing MIDI externally, through a MIDI-capable instrument (organ). I have the cable. I've tried it with an ESS1688 and the OSS driver for 2.2 with no success. ("Device not configured" was the best I cou

Re: Security - trust etc.. (Was: Reading e-mails on text mode)

2000-08-21 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, hogan wrote: > I go to this site, download the .deb's .. How can I be sure they're not > malicious. You can't. Period. Same goes for source. Same goes for commercial binaries. Same goes for any code you haven't read (or had someone you

Re: Netscape crashed my network connection?

2000-08-21 Thread Greg Strockbine.
thanks I was looking for some kind of command thing just like that, I'm a newbie on the network part. Reminds me of `apachectl restart'. > Perhaps even "/etc/init.d/networking restart" would have done. > FYI: That is equivalent to "ifdown -a; ifup -a".

Re: Netscape crashed my network connection?

2000-08-21 Thread Sven Burgener
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 10:59:39AM -0700, Greg Strockbine. wrote: > Question: is there another way besides rebooting to > have fixed this? What about going into single user mode and back again? # init 1 followed by # init 2 Perhaps even "/etc/init.d/networking restart" would have done. FYI: Th

Re: Linux Mail Client

2000-08-21 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Monday, August 21, 2000, 11:35:05 AM, Mark wrote: > I am somewhat tempted to ask why if you want to keep two sets of mail > separate sets of mail you find it imperative to handle them both with > one instance of a program. Convenience. There is n

Re: Linux Mail Client

2000-08-21 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 11:19:30AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Only because Unix people have been brainwashed into thinking there is only > one TRUE WAY of doing it. I am somewhat tempted to ask why if you want to keep two sets of mail separate sets of mail you find it imperative to handle the

Re: Shockwave Plugin

2000-08-21 Thread Michael Smith
There's an install script in nonfree. It tells you to go to an url and download the plugin. Then tell the config script where the file is downloaded and it installs. "Dale L . Morris" wrote: > Is there a debian package for the shockwave plugin? If not, how's the > best way to install it on my

Re: Linux Mail Client (was: Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error))

2000-08-21 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Monday, August 21, 2000, 11:11:42 AM, Mark wrote: > I strongly suspect that Gnus can do what you want, but I've not actually > tried. It certainly supports multiple servers and folders and can > conditionally set headers based upon various criteria.

Re: Linux Mail Client (was: Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error))

2000-08-21 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 10:50:18AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Right, and have to stuff them into a single account to get at them with a > single client. That, to me, is inelegant. For good reasons I do /not/ mix my > personal and professional email. Using fetchmail in the prescribed manner

Re: Emacs meta-key

2000-08-21 Thread ferret
Depends on what keyboard map you're using. I'm running xfree86 4.0.1 from Brandon's phase1 debs, but it's about the same way under 3.3.6. If you have a keyboard with the windows keys you want to select a 104 key keyboard; then the window key is 'Meta' and the alt key is 'Alt'. Or if you use the 1

mail and domains

2000-08-21 Thread Brent Harding
Is there a good free email host that I can point mx of a domain to that will store mail until I come online to retrieve it? I suppose all mail forwarding to one pop account gets fishy with email lists and friends you want to give an address to on your domain. It seems that moderate

Re: Linux Mail Client

2000-08-21 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Monday, August 21, 2000, 10:56:54 AM, Kent wrote: > I use IMAP on my office computer and home computer. Anything I want to > keep I transfer to folders on one of the local computers. But this > allows me to read my Inbox from anywhere I can setup an IM

Re: Linux Mail Client

2000-08-21 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Monday, August 21, 2000, 11:05:16 AM, John wrote: > An accurate description of any attempt to discuss email software with > Mr. Lamb. Only because Unix people have been brainwashed into thinking there is only one TRUE WAY of doing it. - --

Re: Linux Mail Client

2000-08-21 Thread John Hasler
Phillip Deackes writes: > hitting head against nearest wall An accurate description of any attempt to discuss email software with Mr. Lamb. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

exim and multiple alias files

2000-08-21 Thread Brent Harding
Can exim handle multiple alias files? I tried switching to sendmail for this, but whatever I did playing with postfix to see what it was about before removing it, made everything halt up in mqueue under var/spool, I think. Mail wouldn't even go to local users, using exim fixed it,

Re: Linux Mail Client

2000-08-21 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Monday, August 21, 2000, 10:09:55 AM, Phillip wrote: > No, no, no!!! Ah, yes, the sound of a fetchmail user trying to wrap his brain around a new concept. > On my machine fetchmail fetches all mail from my ISP and hands it on to > Exim which, i

Security - trust etc.. (Was: Reading e-mails on text mode)

2000-08-21 Thread hogan
Ok.. so call me cynical etc. I go to this site, download the .deb's .. How can I be sure they're not malicious. I have nothing against the mirror host in this circumstance, indeed I'm happy there's a deb to download for PINE (even though I should really learn how to make a package from a load of

Netscape crashed my network connection?

2000-08-21 Thread Greg Strockbine.
I'm running potato, via storm installation. Netscape crashed and took with it my network connection. I couldn't ping any remote host. I did a `ps' and removed a lurking netscape process but still I couldn't get any kind of network connection. I hated like hell to reboot, because I want to be be

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