Re: init 3 does nothing

2000-10-31 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 06:17:17PM +0100, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: > sounds interesting to any other newbies, just do the following: > > $su > Password: > lynx -source http://go-gnome.com/ | sh this is the most horrifying thing i have ever seen suggested. this is even worse then Microsoft's

Re: KDE2 installation

2000-10-31 Thread Bob Nielsen
You have to run [U]pdate in dselect before any new listings will show up, even if you have done "apt-get update". Bob On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 04:15:57AM +, sena wrote: > Hi... I'm planning on installing KDE2 in my potato system. I have the entry > in the sources.list file, and I've made "apt-

Re: rolling a kernel for a different machine

2000-10-31 Thread Andrew Dixon
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: Your boot disk has to point to the root partition of the system it's booting on. What failure or error messages are you getting from the laptop when you try to boot? everything is smooth through the partition check and then I get: Invalid session number

Re: Security of sudo [was: Re: /usr/bin before /usr/local/bin?]

2000-10-31 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I'm of the same opinion with regard to sudo. Basically, if you're the > sort of person who never passes your password over the network in > plaintext (ie., ssh, apop, etc.), then it's unlike

Re: Debian / Free Java

2000-10-31 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 08:24:01AM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: > > 3. How does the PowerPC version of Debian compare to the x86 version? Is > it a viable way to go? The powerpc version of Debian is in pretty good shape, there are a couple packages here and there that are missing or broken but i

Re: Security of sudo [was: Re: /usr/bin before /usr/local/bin?]

2000-10-31 Thread William T Wilson
On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Damon Muller wrote: > Without actually knowing your password, which sudo requires, having > your account *isn't* equivalent to having root. It's certainly possible to build a "rootkit" style setup which would be suitable for converting a privileged account into root. What if

Re: Security of sudo [was: Re: /usr/bin before /usr/local/bin?]

2000-10-31 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Damon Muller, > Quoth kmself@ix.netcom.com, > > I use a fairly liberal sudoers setting for my personal account. Yes, > > this means that I'm usually only a few keystrokes away from being > > root -- but that's what I'm after. And a password is still required. > > I'm of the same opinion

Security of sudo [was: Re: /usr/bin before /usr/local/bin?]

2000-10-31 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth kmself@ix.netcom.com, > I use a fairly liberal sudoers setting for my personal account. Yes, > this means that I'm usually only a few keystrokes away from being > root -- but that's what I'm after. And a password is still required. I'm of the same opinion with regard to sudo. Basically,

Re: fetchmail

2000-10-31 Thread Bob Bernstein
> "cs" == cls-colo spgs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: cs> debs, where do i tell fetchmail my username? (background: my cs> isp username is "pplaw," and my non-root account is "bt." cs> when i run fetchmail, i get, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]," instead of, cs> "[EMAIL PROTECTED]") You ha

Re: [OT] Mozilla and JunkBuster

2000-10-31 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth kmself@ix.netcom.com, > From the symptoms you're describing and the responses so far, I'd > suggest you start posting URLs of sites at which you're observing this > behavior. Sounds like it could be any of several things. Just off the top of my head, from my browsing this morning, I got a

Re: /usr/bin before /usr/local/bin?

2000-10-31 Thread Damian Menscher
On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, William T Wilson wrote: > On 31 Oct 2000, Hubert Chan wrote: > > > My sudoers file is basically just > > hubert ALL=(ALL) ALL > > This can be extremely convenient. But it also makes the security of the > whole system equal to the security of your user account. > > If you

Hurrah for debian

2000-10-31 Thread John Griffiths
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all, Just wanted to share a little success story. we run a mostly BSD shop because the IT cheif prefers *old style* unix the trouble being that upgrades to our mission critical servers are hard to get done and as a result we suffered a nasty ha

KDE2 installation

2000-10-31 Thread sena
Hi... I'm planning on installing KDE2 in my potato system. I have the entry in the sources.list file, and I've made "apt-get update". Now, I have two questions: i) The KDE packages can be seen with "apt-cache", but don't show up in dselect. Is this normal? ii) What pa

Re: /usr/bin before /usr/local/bin?

2000-10-31 Thread kmself
on Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 02:13:49PM -0800, Krzys Majewski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have /root/ symlinked to /home/krzys, so my .bashrc et al get > sourced by root as well. Should I be worried? Yes. This is bad practice. Changes made to your user account are now equivalently c

Re: [OT] Mozilla and JunkBuster

2000-10-31 Thread kmself
on Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 05:40:37PM +1100, Damon Muller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi gang, > > Is anyone else using junkbuster (vanilla potato version) and Mozilla > (recent/latest nightlies)? I'm using the above combination and > junkbuster doesn't seem to work very well anymore. I can't see h

Re: Crash recovery.

2000-10-31 Thread kmself
on Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 11:01:28PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > Had a fun experience today. Debian hung and refused any input. The > only option I had was to power it down. The reboot failed dropping me > at the command prompt to run fsck manually. Thi

Re: [OT] Mozilla and JunkBuster

2000-10-31 Thread Ard Righ
([<> On 1 Nov 2000, some witty mortal wrote: <>]) > WRT the javascript thing, it's also a possibility, as mozilla probably > has support for some tricks that netscape doesnt. Maybe the ads are in the form of inline frames ? I know that a lot of banner ads are starting to combine inline frames w

fetchmail

2000-10-31 Thread cls-colo spgs
debs, where do i tell fetchmail my username? (background: my isp username is "pplaw," and my non-root account is "bt." when i run fetchmail, i get, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]," instead of, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]") ia, t. bentley taylor (potato on 2.2.17) // u

help with some compile errors

2000-10-31 Thread Michael Perry
Hi all- I recently did the glibc and glibc-dev upgrade to get a new sendmail on the system. This seemed to break a few things when I go to compile programs. I downloaded the source for balsa and it complains in the configure script that it cannot find glib but if I look glib is at /usr/lib. I d

Automatic Debian 'slushy'

2000-10-31 Thread Brian
I don't know enough about apt or how Debian distribution sites are maintained to know if this is feasible. Would it be possible to approximate a 'slushy' release by only upgrading to newer packages when the version numbers of said package and its dependencies hasn't changed in (n) days? I'm tryin

Re: where to put shell scripts?

2000-10-31 Thread Brenda J. Butler
On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 04:59:30PM -0600, Bud Rogers wrote: > On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > bin (whether bin or sbin) is more correctly name "executable". If you look > > in /usr/bin or /usr/sbin you will find sh, perl, awk, python, etc scripts. > > > > If it is a system main

Crash recovery.

2000-10-31 Thread paul
Hi Everyone, Had a fun experience today. Debian hung and refused any input. The only option I had was to power it down. The reboot failed dropping me at the command prompt to run fsck manually. This fixed this and that and place a number of things in to /lost+found. Rebooting again and this ti

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Install

2000-10-31 Thread Davíð
I was happy to find a site with Direct links an tell-how´s how to install Linux On the other hand there was a proplem with the downloading of Basa2_2.tgz file. I managed though. but it would be nicer for future downloaders if the link was right. It linked to a non existing file.. Thank you for a

Re: /usr/bin before /usr/local/bin?

2000-10-31 Thread William T Wilson
On 31 Oct 2000, Hubert Chan wrote: > My sudoers file is basically just > hubert ALL=(ALL) ALL This can be extremely convenient. But it also makes the security of the whole system equal to the security of your user account. If you are worried about security, and you have a situation like this,

Re: EXIM

2000-10-31 Thread dude
Well, i would be interested i replying to mail that i have fetched. On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Philipp Schulte wrote: > On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 05:44:06PM -0600, dude wrote: > > > I would like to confiugre my EXIM, but even after reading the docs, > > i still dont know what exactly to do. > > > >

RE: compile network driver

2000-10-31 Thread 李威儒
I solved the problem. I found the reason why I couldn't compile my network driver owing to the libc6 header. Just add -I/usr/src/linux/include to my gcc command, it will be okay. check /usr/share/doc/libc6/README.Debian.gz for more information. Thanks for you help. > -Original Message- >

Re: KDE2 -aria

2000-10-31 Thread brian moore
On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 09:18:37PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > Leen Besselink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Yes, that is ONE person doing the packaging for KDE2 (ofcourse KDE2 is > >not a one-man show), he just 'resinged' though, because ONE person out > >there said bad things to him. > > Hmm - I

Re: exim help needed

2000-10-31 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 03:36:08PM -0800, Krzys Majewski wrote: > On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Carel Fellinger wrote: > > >down /etc/init.d/eam tcp nowait carel /usr/bin/ssh /usr/bin/ssh iae > bin/nc mail.iae.nl eam tcp nowait carel /usr/bin/ssh /usr/bin/ssh ire > bin/nc uucp.iae.nl uucp-pipes stop >

Installation & X problems

2000-10-31 Thread Moah
Hi all, I tried to install the debian version i got in a french magazine. I booted up the "non us" CD and used it as a replacement for CD 1. I choose to do a custom install and have question asked of "medium" and higher priority. Most of it installed, however a few packages had problems that weren

Re: En snabb fr?ga... (A quick question)

2000-10-31 Thread Cliff Rice
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Re: EXIM

2000-10-31 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 05:44:06PM -0600, dude wrote: > I would like to confiugre my EXIM, but even after reading the docs, > i still dont know what exactly to do. > > my set up is that i have an account at csoft.net where i log in to check > my mail Well, that has got nothing to do with exim.

Re: x will not let me log in as anything but root

2000-10-31 Thread Shaul Karl
> Hello. > > I changed the second line of /etc/X11/Xserver > to allow "anybody" to ryn the Xserver with the > same result. Which other X files are related > to passwords? Could some other file > need to be edited ? > Seems to me a permissions problem and the question is where. What exactly happ

sawfish heads-up

2000-10-31 Thread Colin Watson
If you upgrade sawfish to the one in unstable at the moment, don't follow the instruction that says: execute 'kill -9 `pidof sawfish`;sawfish&' in a terminal I did so without thinking, and of course lost all my state. I don't see any reason not to use the old 'sawfish-client -f restart', apart

Broken Packages, system problems

2000-10-31 Thread Robert G. Stevens
Hi: While trying to upgrade to the latest version of Gimp (1.28), I got my system to the point that I cannot run apt-get or dselect. apt-get returns with a sementation fault. dselect returns an error cod of 139 when I try to update. Anyways I am pretty sure that the problems arose from trying t

Re: /usr/bin before /usr/local/bin?

2000-10-31 Thread Hubert Chan
Krzys Majewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have /root/ symlinked to /home/krzys, so my .bashrc et al get > sourced by root as well. Should I be worried? I understand the > privileged status of root, however, given that 90% of my time on this > machine is spent tweaking it (and

Connecting to Netware servers.

2000-10-31 Thread Rogelio E. Castillo Haro
Someone here knows if Debian has a deb package to install a client to login to a netware server? Regards -- Rogelio E. Castillo

Need an xbiff that doesn't suck

2000-10-31 Thread Krzys Majewski
I've been looking for a good xbiff (X app which tells me if I have mail). Features I need: - shows headers (e.g. From:) - count can be reset (to what it was before) if I look at the header and decide I don't want to read this mail right now. This should be easily doable, eg by left-clicki

Re: where to put shell scripts?

2000-10-31 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, William T Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I also question the historical accuracy of 'sbin' as "static binary" - >Unix has always had /sbin, but it hasn't always had dynamic linking. How soon they forget. Not all Unices have always had /sbin. Not even Linux. In

EXIM

2000-10-31 Thread dude
Hello. I would like to confiugre my EXIM, but even after reading the docs, i still dont know what exactly to do. my set up is that i have an account at csoft.net where i log in to check my mail what configuration would be best when setting up exim? thankx would appreciate direct email

Re: exim help needed

2000-10-31 Thread Krzys Majewski
On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Carel Fellinger wrote: >down /etc/init.d/eam tcp nowait carel /usr/bin/ssh /usr/bin/ssh iae bin/nc mail.iae.nl eam tcp nowait carel /usr/bin/ssh /usr/bin/ssh ire bin/nc uucp.iae.nl uucp-pipes stop Come again? > > SSHARGS="${SSHFLAGS} -l ${USER} -L ${LOCALPORT}:${DEST

Re: imap mail server

2000-10-31 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am going to be migrating my other company's mail servers from redhat 6.x > using the UW imap server to debian 2.2 running hopefully a more robust > IMAP server. [...] > the main problem with UW imapd is the cpu utilization it > has when users hav

Re: where to put shell scripts?

2000-10-31 Thread William T Wilson
On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Bud Rogers wrote: > I think it could be argued that those changes are not necessarily good > from the standpoint of system security. In the modern world, sbin really does mean "system" binaries. The division between "things you need to fix a crashed system" and "things for o

Re: rolling a kernel for a different machine

2000-10-31 Thread kmself
on Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 11:56:26AM -0800, Andrew Dixon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi All, > I'm trying to roll a kernel for my laptop using my > desktop machine. I tried the usual: > > #make config > #make dep > #make clean > #make bzdisk > > and as I expected the boot disk d

Re: exim help needed

2000-10-31 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 08:17:21PM -0800, Krzys Majewski wrote: ... > > Just curious, what tricks do you use to create this port forwarding? > > And is it created on the fly? > > I create the pipes in /etc/network/interfaces: > > up sleep 3 && /etc/init.d/tcp-pipes start && /usr/local/sbin/

Re: [OT] Mozilla and JunkBuster

2000-10-31 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Brendan Cully, > hmm, interesting. I've been getting more banners and cookies since I > started using mozilla, too. I figured it was because evil web > advertisers had wised up and were using javascript to do all their > devilish cookie/banner code (I don't think junkbuster attempts to edit

Re: where to put shell scripts?

2000-10-31 Thread Bud Rogers
On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > Current practice seems to have strayed a bit from the concept of only > > having statically linked binaries in the sbin directories. You may find > > shell scripts, perl, python, all kinds of stuff. I think these days a > > lot of people tend to

Re: KDE2 -aria

2000-10-31 Thread Bob Bernstein
> "LB" == Leen Besselink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: LB> Everything I saw should be taken lightly first off Fair enough. Unfortunately, there are too many days when I cannot say the same! LB> *crawling back to where he came from* That sounds a tad extreme, wouldn't you say? Ok, I g

Re: where to put shell scripts?

2000-10-31 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > Current practice seems to have strayed a bit from the concept of only having > statically linked binaries in the sbin directories. You may find shell > scripts, perl, python, all kinds of stuff. I think these days a lot of > people tend to think the 's' stands for system or sysadmin or so

Re: where to put shell scripts?

2000-10-31 Thread Bud Rogers
On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > On 31-Oct-2000 Krzys Majewski wrote: > > I have a habit of writing many shell scripts for everything. Some of > > them are very local to me, so I put them in ${HOME}/shell and stick > > that in my PATH. Some of them may be generally useful, s

RE: [OT] is graphics acceleration/GL dependent on X11?

2000-10-31 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 31-Oct-2000 Krzys Majewski wrote: > Another graphics adapter question. Under linux, are the drivers which > exploit hardware acceleration dependent on X11? My guess is some games > will run under svgalib or whatever, but is that it? It would seem > reasonable to me to have some interface

[OT] is graphics acceleration/GL dependent on X11?

2000-10-31 Thread Krzys Majewski
Another graphics adapter question. Under linux, are the drivers which exploit hardware acceleration dependent on X11? My guess is some games will run under svgalib or whatever, but is that it? It would seem reasonable to me to have some interface to the graphics card which is independent of

Re: where to put shell scripts?

2000-10-31 Thread David Zoll
Krzys Majewski wrote: > > I have a habit of writing many shell scripts for everything. Some of > them are very local to me, so I put them in ${HOME}/shell and stick > that in my PATH. Makes sense. > Some of them may be generally useful, so although I > don't have any users, I'm anal, a

RE: "apt-get source" problems

2000-10-31 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 31-Oct-2000 Mario Vukelic wrote: > >> deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/ stable non-US/main >> non-US/contrib >> non-US/non-free > > Thanks. Unfortunately, I still get the same errors (both for update and > source). > Hmmm > how odd, that is directly from my own sources.list.

RE: "apt-get source" problems

2000-10-31 Thread Mario Vukelic
> deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/ stable non-US/main non-US/contrib > non-US/non-free Thanks. Unfortunately, I still get the same errors (both for update and source). Hmmm -- I did not vote for the Austrian government Linux: The choice of a GNU generation. Visit http://www.gnu.o

RE: jetdirect and lpr

2000-10-31 Thread Lewis, James M.
> Hey Guys, > I've just changed networks and was using lpr with a printer on the lan > that was using jetdirect. I am now on a different network and have edited > my /etc/printcap to point the remote printer to the new IP. > > The only thing is now when I print... nothing comes out on the printer

RE: where to put shell scripts?

2000-10-31 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 31-Oct-2000 Krzys Majewski wrote: > I have a habit of writing many shell scripts for everything. Some of > them are very local to me, so I put them in ${HOME}/shell and stick > that in my PATH. Some of them may be generally useful, so although I > don't have any users, I'm anal, and I p

Re: /usr/bin before /usr/local/bin?

2000-10-31 Thread Brendan Cully
On Tuesday, 31 October 2000 at 14:03, Krzys Majewski wrote: > Any opinions on which should go first in the path: > /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin? > > Arguments I can see: > /usr/local/bin: say you compile your own gcc. This is where it > goes. You may not want to remove the Debian gcc

Re: /usr/bin before /usr/local/bin?

2000-10-31 Thread Krzys Majewski
I have /root/ symlinked to /home/krzys, so my .bashrc et al get sourced by root as well. Should I be worried? I understand the privileged status of root, however, given that 90% of my time on this machine is spent tweaking it (and not writing my thesis), I become root about a h

Re: "apt-get source" problems

2000-10-31 Thread Mario Vukelic
I just realized that apt-get update also gives me an error: Failed to fetch http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists/stable/non-US/source/Sources 404 Not Found Seems to be related. However, I still don't find the error in sources.list -- I did not vote for the Austrian government Linux

RE: "apt-get source" problems

2000-10-31 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 31-Oct-2000 Mario Vukelic wrote: > Hi, > > Whenever I try to do a "apt-get source anypackage" apt responds with: > > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > E: Could not open file > /var/state/apt/lists/non-us.debian.org_debian-non-US_dists_stable_non-US_sourc > e_S

where to put shell scripts?

2000-10-31 Thread Krzys Majewski
I have a habit of writing many shell scripts for everything. Some of them are very local to me, so I put them in ${HOME}/shell and stick that in my PATH. Some of them may be generally useful, so although I don't have any users, I'm anal, and I put them in /usr/local/sbin/. I don't know wha

Re: /usr/bin before /usr/local/bin?

2000-10-31 Thread Damian Menscher
On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Krzys Majewski wrote: > Any opinions on which should go first in the path: > /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin? For a user or for root? For a user, definitely put /usr/local/bin first. That way they can get all of your local customizations for that machine. For root, you want t

/usr/bin before /usr/local/bin?

2000-10-31 Thread Krzys Majewski
Any opinions on which should go first in the path: /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin? Arguments I can see: /usr/bin: this is where Debian stuff goes. If you want to override Debian stuff with your own stuff, 'apt remove' is pretty straightforward. /usr/local/bin: say you compil

Re: KDE2 -aria

2000-10-31 Thread Leen Besselink
On 31 Oct 2000, Bob Bernstein wrote: > > Perhaps it was unintentional, but the "sound" of this sentence rubs me Everything I saw should be taken lightly first off, I have a Very bad memory and secondly my english 'looks quiet' good, but a lot of the times I don't get the details right. So I'll s

"apt-get source" problems

2000-10-31 Thread Mario Vukelic
Hi, Whenever I try to do a "apt-get source anypackage" apt responds with: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: Could not open file /var/state/apt/lists/non-us.debian.org_debian-non-US_dists_stable_non-US_source_Sources - open (2 No such file or directory) Note that

diald and fetchmail

2000-10-31 Thread Neil Darlow
Hi, I'm using fetchmail to collect mail by POP3 over a diald-controlled ppp link under Debian 2.2 r0. My problem is that the POP3 mailserver is sometimes sluggish and diald drops the link before any/all mail is retrieved. Can anyone suggest an appropriate edit to /etc/diald/standard.filter to pr

Re: KDE2 -aria

2000-10-31 Thread Bob Bernstein
rkrusty can speak for himself...BUT > "LB" == Leen Besselink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: LB> Yes, that is ONE person doing the packaging for KDE2 (ofcourse LB> KDE2 is not a one-man show), he just 'resinged' though, LB> because ONE person out there said bad things to him. Perhap

mutt and exim (failure to send with smtp)

2000-10-31 Thread John Leuner
How do I configure mutt to use a remote smtp server? Currently I have exim running on my machine, but if exim forwards mail to my ISP's smtp server, I always get the following error message: This message was created automatically by mail delivery software. A message that you sent could not be de

Re: wrong major or minor number

2000-10-31 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 01:07:32PM -0800, Collin Peters wrote: > I made a bad move awhile ago and accidentaly deleted my linux > source. I 're-apted' it when I needed to re-compile and everything > worked fine except my cdrom. I have scsi emulation installed for my > burner and it still works fi

Re: EFM

2000-10-31 Thread Rob Hudson
EFM - Enlightenment File Manager? No, I had it running a while ago to see how it worked in XF3.6. It's pretty slick. -Rob. Debian Ghost said these things on 20001031.1536: | Hello, | Anyone know if EFM requres XF4.0? | I'd like to try, but I am running XF3.6 on a ati rage pro + dvd. | | Thanks!

Re: KDE2 -aria

2000-10-31 Thread Leen Besselink
> Hmm - I see the front page of http://kde.tdyc.com/, but on balance the > discussion on http://dot.kde.org/971680096/ seems to suggest that he's > going to keep doing work on potato for a while longer. I have a message > on debian-devel from Ivan Moore less than three hours ago which talks > about

xkb settings, BS not working

2000-10-31 Thread Olivier Dragon
I'm using the latest version of XF86 (not quite sure of the exact version) that is available in woody. I've got problems in X with the xkb configuration. In X, my backspace [<--] button does the same as the [Delete] button. I've tried modifying my XF86Config file but it doesn't work. Whatever

Re: password protect a directory?

2000-10-31 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: bm> I think the point I am trying to make, is that this information bm> which gets logged is only going to cause confusion, created in an bm> unscalable manner (ie. what happens if two projects happen to have bm> the same name?), and doesn't benefit

Re: KDE2 -aria

2000-10-31 Thread Colin Watson
Leen Besselink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Yes, that is ONE person doing the packaging for KDE2 (ofcourse KDE2 is >not a one-man show), he just 'resinged' though, because ONE person out >there said bad things to him. Hmm - I see the front page of http://kde.tdyc.com/, but on balance the discussion

wrong major or minor number

2000-10-31 Thread Collin Peters
I made a bad move awhile ago and accidentaly deleted my linux source. I 're-apted' it when I needed to re-compile and everything worked fine except my cdrom. I have scsi emulation installed for my burner and it still works fine. When trying to mount the normal cdrom, though, it gives me the mess

Re: NVidia kernel module won't compile

2000-10-31 Thread Matthew Sackman
Just to add a little more info, the kernel modules are NVidia_kernel 0.95-1 and also (but with fewer problems!), the corresponding GLX module. I am trying to compile both from .tar.gz. My vidio card is a NVidia TNT2 M64. Matthew On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 10:05:00PM +, Matthew Sackman wrote:

NVidia kernel module won't compile

2000-10-31 Thread Matthew Sackman
Dear all (again)! I'm using a 2.4.0 test 5 kernel, which is working fine, I've build and installed kernel headers, and set up /usr/src/linux to point to the headers. I'm trying to compile the NVidia kernel module so that I can make use of /dev/agpart and dri infrastructure, and the advanced NVidi

Re: Inconsistent Emacs behavior in X

2000-10-31 Thread Mark Phillips
Chris Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have two machines set up with Woody. When I run X Windows on one I can > use Alt as the Meta key in Emacs, on the other machine I just get a beep and > have to use ESC. I'd like to use Alt as Meta on both. Alt works as Meta on > the console on both. Any i

Re: Gnome: normal user, logout?

2000-10-31 Thread Moritz Schulte
Damian Gerow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi, > > > - how can I stop Gnome? (it seems it always run after install...) > > > > There should be a point "logout" in you GNOME panel. > > Or possibly try (from a prompt): > > # /etc/init.d/gdm stop Ah, yes. I was talking about a GNOME session, yo

Re: Debian / Free Java

2000-10-31 Thread Bob Bernstein
> "ER" == Eric Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ER> 1. What Java does Debian come with? You can surf to the rather excellent search page: http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages and do a keyword search for any package you wish. As for Blackdown, once you have apt set up, add this

kernel 2.4.0 test 9 unresolved symbols

2000-10-31 Thread Matthew Sackman
Dear all! I've downloaded the 2.4.0 test 9 sources, and have configured the compile options using make menuconfig, then a make-kpkg clean, followed by make-kpkg --revision=custom_0.1 kernel_image and then dpkg -i kernel-image... However, when dpkg is installing, I get an unresolved symbols on ev

EFM

2000-10-31 Thread Debian Ghost
Hello, Anyone know if EFM requres XF4.0? I'd like to try, but I am running XF3.6 on a ati rage pro + dvd. Thanks! D. Ghost

Re: [OT?] XFree86 4.0.1 / apm / DPMS problem

2000-10-31 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 08:24:00PM -0800, Krzys Majewski wrote: > Very weird things happen upon apm --suspend with respect to screen > blanking. I've told the BIOS to turn off the screen with DPMS on > suspend, which worked fine with 3.3.6 but now the server goes down, > more or less, on

Re: emacs JDE and default browser

2000-10-31 Thread Bob Bernstein
> "DP" == Dan Pomohaci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DP> Hi, By default emacs JDE use netscape for browsing doc. How DP> can I change it to w3? I use Debian stable versions of DP> emacs20, JDE, and w3. Try (in ~/.emacs): ;; set up W3 (setq browse-url-browser-function 'browse-url-w

jetdirect and lpr

2000-10-31 Thread Debian Ghost
Hey Guys, I've just changed networks and was using lpr with a printer on the lan that was using jetdirect. I am now on a different network and have edited my /etc/printcap to point the remote printer to the new IP. The only thing is now when I print... nothing comes out on the printer. Am I missi

Re: How to get Wacom Graphire working in X?

2000-10-31 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 11:52:50AM -0600, Brian Dunnette wrote: > I've recently purchased a Wacom Graphire (USB drawing tablet), and have I'm still waiting for my birtday, but men would I love to have one:) > been trying for some time to get it working in X -- I'm using kernel > 2.4.0-test9, so t

Re: fake dhcp bootrequests from an unknown address

2000-10-31 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 06:56:18PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > Oct 29 21:36:30 hostname dhcpd-2.2.x: BOOTREQUEST from 00:00:79:58:97:27 via eth0 (non-rfc1048) ^ This is the MAC of the card. I would recommend to find the system, which has this card (ifconfig) and then look at the c

emacs JDE and default browser

2000-10-31 Thread Dan Pomohaci
Hi, By default emacs JDE use netscape for browsing doc. How can I change it to w3? I use Debian stable versions of emacs20, JDE, and w3. Thanks, Dan

rolling a kernel for a different machine

2000-10-31 Thread Andrew Dixon
Hi All, I'm trying to roll a kernel for my laptop using my desktop machine. I tried the usual: #make config #make dep #make clean #make bzdisk and as I expected the boot disk does not work. Can anyone give me any pointers on rolling a kernel on one machine for an other? thanks

Re: compile network driver

2000-10-31 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 04:13:27PM +0800, Gilbert.Li (§õ«Â¾§) wrote: > > For what card do you try to compile? Did you make check if there is a > > kernel-module for this card? > > This would be much easier. > > I just installed debian 2.2. I use dlink 530TX version B card. > I use kernel image

Re: Unidentified subject!

2000-10-31 Thread sena
I heard that Junior wrote this on 31/10/00: > Hi. > I lost my monitor´s manual and I am having some difficult to configure > X-Free86. If you can, send me the horizontal and vertical sync rate of > Samsung SyncMaster 3. > Thanks. > Hi. I don't know the features of the SyncMaster 3, but I have her

Debian / Free Java

2000-10-31 Thread Eric Richardson
Hi, I'm interested in Debian because I understand it is a completely free/open source linux distribution. I also have been intrigued after reading this list about the package manager used in Debian. I think some of the other Linux distributions are making it hard to keep a completely free platform

Unidentified subject!

2000-10-31 Thread Junior
Hi. I lost my monitor´s manual and I am having some difficult to configure X-Free86. If you can, send me the horizontal and vertical sync rate of Samsung SyncMaster 3. Thanks.

debian on ctx laptop

2000-10-31 Thread Kevin Krafthefer
Greetings, Currently, I am attempting to tune /etc/X11/XF86Config for a CTX 764MT. If anyone has xf86 working on a CTX, what did you use for your monitor settings within XF86Config? Also, what video chipset are you using? My best attempts to date have been with NM2093; but it's very difficult to

RE: Re: how to test hardware acceleration / GL / utahglx?

2000-10-31 Thread Ingles, Raymond
> From: Krzys Majewski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Anyway, they do say "@@Created GLX Context.." and they run OK, though > not as smoothly as, say, television or film. Also use up 65% of my cpu > (Pentium III 500). I wonder if this is the best I can do with the > current video card (ATI xp

Re: x will not let me log in as anything but root

2000-10-31 Thread Bob Edwards
Hello. I changed the second line of /etc/X11/Xserver to allow "anybody" to ryn the Xserver with the same result. Which other X files are related to passwords? Could some other file need to be edited ? Thanks for your time, Bob Edwards Shaul Karl wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > X will not let me

Re: imap mail server

2000-10-31 Thread Damian Gerow
> thanks for any suggestions you may have:) i haven't used any other imap > server other then uw imap yet, and sendmail is my MTA of choice(because of > the spam filters mainly and its less complex to met hen qmail, excluding > that sendmail.cf of course!) Have you checked out postfix (http:

Oracle 8i Release2 - DB creation

2000-10-31 Thread Damian Gerow
(Followup from the post a few hours ago about problems with installing Oracle 8iR2:) I'm now trying to create a DB by script instead of using the dbassist creation. After saving the script and running it, it stops at a password prompt. So I went through the scripts, and on the second command

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