Re: password protect a directory?

2000-11-02 Thread Joey Hess
Mr. Strockbine wrote: > is there a way to password protect a directory? > for instance there is a single ftp account on > a machine (one user-id/password combo) and its > shared amoung several users. Is it possible for > one user to password protect a directory so the > other users cannot view the

Re: zope

2000-11-02 Thread Chris Gray
Point your web browser at http://localhost:8080/ and you're in business. (Depending on what other web services you have on your machine you may have to point your web browser at http://localhost:9673/ instead.) The first screen you see will point you to some documentation and then you'll want to

Re: DIVX?

2000-11-02 Thread Krzys Majewski
Damien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > but of course, if you'd done your homework > > > > and that would be...? > > the documentation on the web sites of the above mentioned players are helpful. No need -- your synopsis was excellent. thanks, chris

Re: How to use Suspend to RAM

2000-11-02 Thread Krzys Majewski
Manegold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > However, the HD and its fans as well as the power supply with its fan > continue to run. How can I have them go to suspend too, as they > should?? Linux apm doesn't handle this. Use hdparm -y to power down the hard drive. For the power supply, the

Re: Lilo and vga=mode Question

2000-11-02 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi Christopher! On Thu, 02 Nov 2000, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: > 9 0122 100x30 > BTW... I have tried all the modes and they all work for me. > I just want to automatically start in "mode=9". If you had read the docs carefully, you would have read somewhere, that this "0122" is hex but lilo

zope

2000-11-02 Thread John-Mark
  All I have installed zope. It asked me for a user name and password when installing and on boot up i notice it says starting zope and consequently stoppes it on termination of the system. I have read some where that it is a web development tool. Since installation now man files available .

Re: Lilo and vga=mode Question

2000-11-02 Thread David Bellows
Hello, > > 7 0100 40x25 > 8 0121 100x25 > 9 0122 100x30 > a 0123 132x25 > b 0133 132x44 > > I would like "mode 9". I tried to put "vga=9" and "vga=0122" > into my lilo file but when I re-boot, I'm told I chose an > invalid mode. How can I get the mode that I want w/o using > "vga=ask

Re: sed question (bibtex problem)

2000-11-02 Thread Damian Menscher
On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Brian May wrote: > bibtex likes to word-wrap/mangle/destroy my long lines (eg. URLs) into > this form: > > \bibitem[Mic00]{Microsoft2000} > Microsoft. > \newblock Windows 2000 kerberos authentication. > \newblock White paper, Microsoft, January 2000. > \newblock > > \url=ht

sed question (bibtex problem)

2000-11-02 Thread Brian May
If I have a file with the following format: a% ss j% ddd how do I tell sed (or another program) to remove the % and \n character at the end of each line. ie. something like sed 's/%\n//' but that doesn't work :-( The reason: bibtex li

Lilo and vga=mode Question

2000-11-02 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
I placed a "vga=ask" line in my Debian 2.2 lilo.conf file and re-ran lilo. When I re-boot, lilo askes me for video mode. I press "enter" and the following seven modes are listed: 0 0F00 80x25 1 0F01 80x50 2 0F02 80x43 3 0F03 80x28 4 0F05 80x30 5 0F06 80x34 6 0F07 80x69 Then a ques

Re: Can't install Helix Gnome

2000-11-02 Thread Greg Gilbert
Sounds like someone disobeyed the XFree86 maintainer when he said not to build packages against the beta packages of XFree86 4. They are on www.debian.org/~branden if you are willing to upgrade. If you don't want to upgrade, you can just try and get the stuff you need for gnome manually. G

Exim-3.16

2000-11-02 Thread Flyitlow
Mid September I downloaded Exim-3.16 which ran perfectly on a 2.2 system. Other than a couple of files, there were no major dependencies to take care of. Unfortunately I didn't retain the package. Now I have a fresh 2.2 install and would like to re-install 316. However, now the only version of 31

Can't install Helix Gnome

2000-11-02 Thread Joel Dinel
I havn't been able to install Helix-Gnome in a while ... apt-get install task-helix-gnome - SNIP SNIP - Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: task-helix-gnome: Depends: task-helix-core but it is not going to be installedE: Sorry, broken packages Ok ... so : apt-get in

ISDN Dial In

2000-11-02 Thread Daniel Borgmann
hello i just got my first debian cd's ever and everything worked fine yet. but like every time i have problems setting up the ISDN connection (maybe it's the most complicated task cause i can't get online help during the configuration ;) i installed the isdnutils package, the kernel modules for

Re: Dual Monitors for X

2000-11-02 Thread Damien
> I am using X 3.3.6 > I have looked at x2x but it does not say how to set up the secondary > video device (at least not that I can find.) nor does it say what, if > any, changes need to be made to XF86Config. I have tried just running > x2x --east and my mouse does go off the screen like I would

Re: NVidia kernel module won't compile

2000-11-02 Thread Florian Friesdorf
On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 10:05:00PM +, Matthew Sackman wrote: > 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. Hi Matthew (again) I think a newer kernel could be the

Re: Which editor for programming?

2000-11-02 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 09:35:18AM -0600, Brooks R. Robinson wrote: > Pico is the only way to go. No messy interfaces, just clean, easy. And does nothing. :) Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like eff

Re: Sendmail account setup

2000-11-02 Thread sena
I heard that Ernest Johanson wrote this on 02/11/00: > You can assign the users a shell of /bin/false, which will prevent normal > logins to the machine. Users won't be able to directly set forwarding > either though, so you might need a way for them to do that. Somewhere I > have seen a CGI scrip

Re: Which editor for programming?

2000-11-02 Thread Damien
> I am not a newbie (using Debian for 3 years now, programming with pico for > 5), I prefer clean interfaces, and to remain outside of the jihad of > editors. pico is clean the same way the microsoft windows interface is clean. reality is you've become quite adept in pico, despite its lacking as a

Re: DIVX?

2000-11-02 Thread Damien
> > 1 -> you need the correct modelines for it to swith down to the correct > > resolution, if you decide you still want software mode. > > Aha, right. > What do you mean by "software mode"? fullscreen video playback can be done in two ways: 1) the resolution is changed down and the video opti

Re: Woody

2000-11-02 Thread Brian Potkin
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 09:20:36AM +, john gennard wrote: > I have used Slink and now use Potato. As I seem to be getting > problems installing KDE on Potato and many people say they > are running Woody successfully, I wonder if I shall go to Woody. My feeling is that sorting out your install

Broken link on debian website

2000-11-02 Thread total
Sorry this message is not posted to the correct location, and so short, but I seem to have technical problems posting today. On: www.debian.org/MailingLists/subscribe this link is broken: www.debian.org/devel/maintainer_contacts.html Hope this helps someone.

Question about potato/woody

2000-11-02 Thread doppo
I'm a potato user and I would like to know some things about it. I use my computer at home just to work, but I would like to know if I should upgrade to woody, because I would like to have the last packages of some programs, and potato does not have the last version(stable or not), and It really an

Re: List troll bot (was Re: Chapter one *Securing and optimizing Linix*)

2000-11-02 Thread Bud Rogers
On Thu, 02 Nov 2000, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > on Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 07:58:10AM +, guran remberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > Ted Nackad wrote: > > > Dear friend: > > > > Hi > > > > Well, I like your book very much, but it has more to offer than I was > > looking for. So I have

apt: prebuilt package same as src pkg + build?

2000-11-02 Thread M Joonas Pihlaja
Hello, I'm a new Debian user and have a problem with apt-cache and dselect using the source package CDs: They don't know about the source packages! I can use apt-get to fetch and build the source once I know the package I want, followed by calling dpkg to install it. Since in theory source pa

Re: apt && woody.

2000-11-02 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi Jason! On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Seth Cohn wrote: > > > It would be useful, Jason, to understand what the message means: > > It means an error that is not understood by the code was generated by the > lookup. An error that is not 'name not found' or

Re: XFree 4.x Package

2000-11-02 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) wrote: >Adam Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Is there a .deb for XFree 4.x? A friend of mine said he found one but >>appearently is has vanished since. Does anyone happen to know where I >>could find it? > > http://people.debian.org/~branden/ ... and XFree86

Re: InterMezzo and Debian

2000-11-02 Thread Mark Phillips
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 01-Nov-2000 Mark Phillips wrote: > > Is anyone using InterMezzo with Debian? It looks like quite a good > > system --- especially for connecting laptops with desktops. > > > > Are there plans to provide a Debian package for InterMezzo? > > >

Re: compress - contained in which packet?

2000-11-02 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: compress - contained in which packet? Date: Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 05:04:06PM +0100 In reply to:Walther, Christoph Quoting Walther, Christoph([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi, > > does somebody know, which packet of the Debian 2.2 -distribution containes > the > wellknown UNIX-

graphicx for plain tex in potato

2000-11-02 Thread A R
Where is graphicx in linux-unix for plain tex in potato? I've seen it only for latex, graphicx.sty. I remembered using it in windows for plain tex, so I copied it from windows -miktex-, and is giving me a lot of trouble. Has anyone been able to use it in plain? I attach what I used in windows, shou

samba/win for workgroups problem

2000-11-02 Thread Dean Allen Provins
Hello: I have one Linux (Debian) machine and one legacy Windows for Workgroups machine on a private network. All worked well (i.e. they shared files and printers) until this morning, when I decided it was time to change the passwords. I haven't been able to get the WFW -> Linux host communicatio

Re: Voice recognition (ViaVoice Dictation?)

2000-11-02 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Francesco Bochicchio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 10:29:11AM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote: > > Is anyone doing anything with voice recognition under Debian? > > > > I purchased ViaVoice Dictation for Redhat and I've tried to install it > > under Debian with no success. If

Re: can't get kbd focus with Voodoo3 2k / Tuxracer

2000-11-02 Thread jfpatry
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 01:41:06PM -0500, Juergen Fiedler wrote: > Hi, folks! > > I finally got my system to run Tuxracer 3D accelerated (I assume that it > will work for other Mesa based programs too, then). The only problem is > that I don't get the keyboard focus: After I close Tuxracer (CTRL-C

Re: strange message

2000-11-02 Thread Colin Watson
Stefano Calza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Today my linux box has started sending me this message: >159.xxx.xxx.23 sent an invalid ICMP error to a broadcast >What does it means? How can I get rid of it? >It pops up on then screen every few minuts. It's due to certain systems with misconfigured TCP/

Re: XFree 4.x Package

2000-11-02 Thread Colin Watson
Adam Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Is there a .deb for XFree 4.x? A friend of mine said he found one but >appearently is has vanished since. Does anyone happen to know where I >could find it? http://people.debian.org/~branden/ -- Colin Watson [EMAIL P

Re: compress - contained in which packet?

2000-11-02 Thread Colin Watson
"Walther, Christoph" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >does somebody know, which packet of the Debian 2.2 -distribution >containes the wellknown UNIX-commands > >compress and uncompress ? ncompress. They aren't installed by default because (a) they're allegedly encumbered by the Unisys patent on LZW and

XFree 4.x Package

2000-11-02 Thread Adam Wilson
Is there a .deb for XFree 4.x? A friend of mine said he found one but appearently is has vanished since. Does anyone happen to know where I could find it? Thanks Adam

Re: Zip CD RW drive

2000-11-02 Thread Heather
> Hi everybody, > has anyone had any success or failures using a Zip CD > RW drive. They have a portable model that connects > through the USB port that looks interesting. > > thanks, > Andy most CDRW drives seem to be a lot happier if you load the applicable SCSI generic layer over them. E.g.

RE: switching from local time to UTC

2000-11-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 02-Nov-2000 Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote: > > Hi, > > until yet I could not find docs describing this procedure on an already > installed system. Where are changes necessary? I know that an entry in > /etc/default/rcS can be changed and afterwards settings have to be done > with hwclock, but is t

switching from local time to UTC

2000-11-02 Thread Kerstin Hoef-Emden
Hi, until yet I could not find docs describing this procedure on an already installed system. Where are changes necessary? I know that an entry in /etc/default/rcS can be changed and afterwards settings have to be done with hwclock, but is this all it needs? Besides that, I have no idea to what t

List troll bot (was Re: Chapter one *Securing and optimizing Linix*)

2000-11-02 Thread kmself
on Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 07:58:10AM +, guran remberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Ted Nackad wrote: > > > > Dear friend: > > > Hi > > Well, I like your book very much, but it has more to offer than I was > looking for. So I have concluded 'to do it my way'. > > Background: > > I have been u

Re: File permissions for /dev/*

2000-11-02 Thread kmself
on Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 04:23:09PM +, Jan Warnking ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > Stupid me, I inadvertently changed the permissions for all of the device > files on my potato box to 660. How do I get them back to their initial > state? I didn't find any documentation on t

Re: question about dselect

2000-11-02 Thread kmself
on Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 10:15:05AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > once i try to remove a package by dselect,when it still not start to > remove,i skiped,but question comes,later when i use dselect again,and > it always try to remove the packages that i selected before,bec

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

2000-11-02 Thread kmself
on Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 12:16:26AM -0800, Krzys Majewski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: > > > 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 aft

KDE2 for potato availability

2000-11-02 Thread David A. Rogers
I keep seeing messages pointing people to kde.tdyc.com. When I first read the announcement of KDE2 availability here http://dot.kde.org/972331966/ it had ftp sites for both potato and woody debs for kde. Potato: http://ftp.kde.org/stable/2.0/distribution/deb/Debian/dists/potato/ Woody: http://ftp

Re: Netscape crashing (even more) when using junkbuster

2000-11-02 Thread kmself
on Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 03:46:50AM -0900, Ethan Benson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 10:32:01AM -0200, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > i found that if i edit the junkbuster blockfile while netscape is > running it will usually crash on the next network access. also > restarti

Re: Q: Best partition breakdown one OS?

2000-11-02 Thread kmself
on Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 12:37:21PM +0100, Jonathan Gift ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > Right now I have a dual boot system setup on a 5Gig drive. I gave W98SE > 2Gig, then set up Linux in the extended partitions with: > > /boot 15MB > /swap/100MB > / 2gig > /home 500MB > > The question I

Re: Dual Monitors for X

2000-11-02 Thread Adam Wilson
"Ingles, Raymond" wrote: > > > From: Adam Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Does anyone happen to know where I can find information on how to > > implement dual monitors for X? I did find a HOWTO on the subject but > > the author states that if any release of XFree 4 is available then the > >

Trollbot (was Re: dead hoarse, crawling away.)

2000-11-02 Thread kmself
Synopsis: trollbot. Killfile the source and move on. on Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 09:17:22AM -0700, Ray Percival ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Did this make sense to anyone? Cause I sure as hell did not get it. > > -- Original Message -- > From: guran remberg

woody networking problems

2000-11-02 Thread Mark Mackenzie
Hi, Is anyone else having networking problems in woody? I cannot work out what is wrong. 2.2.17 kernel with eth0 card that worked fine up untill a few days ago. When I ping another computer, the packets do not seem to get to the networking layer. ifconfig shows no increase in the tx packets (it

Re: How to start sgml?

2000-11-02 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 13:36:45 +0100, Kai Weber wrote: > I just installed the task-sgml package for learning and using sgml. But > where do I start? There is no hint from where I should start learning > the sgml syntax and so on. http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~jdassen/onderwijs/stuva/debug/ contai

Re: World's largest mailing list?

2000-11-02 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On 2 Nov 2000, John Conover wrote: > Its not exactly a Debian/Linux question, but does anyone know how many > email addresses are on the world's largest mailing list, and the OS/HW > it runs on? Average messages per day? Well, I can tell you that the debian.org list server has 8 subscribers

Re: Windowmaker themes?

2000-11-02 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 10:11:37 +, Glyn Millington wrote: > So is there a "debian way" of installing Windowmaker themes Yes. wmakerthemetodeb(1), part of the "theme-converters" package. HTH, Ray -- Tevens ben ik van mening dat Nederland overdekt dient te worden.

RE: Dual Monitors for X

2000-11-02 Thread Ingles, Raymond
> From: Adam Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Does anyone happen to know where I can find information on how to > implement dual monitors for X? I did find a HOWTO on the subject but > the author states that if any release of XFree 4 is available then the > HOWTO is extremely outdated. For X 4.

Re: How to start sgml?

2000-11-02 Thread David Z. Maze
Thomas Guettler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: TG> On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 01:36:45PM +0100, Kai Weber wrote: KW> I just installed the task-sgml package for learning and using sgml. But KW> where do I start? There is no hint from where I should start learning KW> the sgml syntax and so on. TG> TG>

Re: Woody

2000-11-02 Thread David Z. Maze
john gennard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JG> I have used Slink and now use Potato. As I seem to be getting JG> problems installing KDE on Potato and many people say they JG> are running Woody successfully, I wonder if I shall go to Woody. Well, remember, Woody is Debian's *unstable* branch. Which

Re: libc6 >=2.1.94

2000-11-02 Thread David Z. Maze
john gennard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JG> Trying to install libmng_0.9.2-3.deb (from the command line) JG> to satisfy a dependency of libqt2.2_2.2.1-4.potato.2_i386.deb JG> and progress on to KDE2, I get the following error:- JG> libmng depends on libc6 (>=2.1.94) JG> version of libc6 o

Re: Mozilla M18 on potato (pentium100)

2000-11-02 Thread Hubert Chan
"J. Bruce Fields" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've run those "i686" binaries on a P150 and they work. They're much too > slow to be usable, though that may be the fault of the memory (32 megs) > and not the processor--Mozilla seemed to be spending a lot of time > swapping the one time I tried i

Dual Monitors for X

2000-11-02 Thread Adam Wilson
Hello, Does anyone happen to know where I can find information on how to implement dual monitors for X? I did find a HOWTO on the subject but the author states that if any release of XFree 4 is available then the HOWTO is extremely outdated. Thanks in advance! Adam

Re: Drivers for Geforce256

2000-11-02 Thread Greg Gilbert
www.nvidia.com along with drivers for all the other OS's. Greg * Tybalt rule ! ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello all ! > > I am new to the list so, first of all I'd like to say hello :) > > My first question: > > Where can I find drivers for my Nvidia Geforce256 card ? > > > Thanks,

can't get kbd focus with Voodoo3 2k / Tuxracer

2000-11-02 Thread Juergen Fiedler
Hi, folks! I finally got my system to run Tuxracer 3D accelerated (I assume that it will work for other Mesa based programs too, then). The only problem is that I don't get the keyboard focus: After I close Tuxracer (CTRL-C), everything I typed during the game shows up in the window from which I s

KDE2 Themes

2000-11-02 Thread Joseph A. Martin
Hello, I am running Debian Woody with the latest KDE2 packages. I have been trying to install some themes I downloaded from kde.themes.org. One of the themes is a 1.1.2 theme and one is a KDE2 theme. However, I can't find out how to install the themes. From my searching on the 'net it seems that I

Drivers for Geforce256

2000-11-02 Thread Tybalt rule !
Hello all ! I am new to the list so, first of all I'd like to say hello :) My first question: Where can I find drivers for my Nvidia Geforce256 card ? Thanks, Tybalt

Some Newbie-questions

2000-11-02 Thread Arne
Hallo I am new on Debian, now I want to know which services (inetd,nfs and so on) have to run on my machine. The machine is a stand alone workstation and connected with a modem using ppp to the internet. I also need a stable easy to configure and using mailprogram for X. Sorry my english is really

Re: Woody

2000-11-02 Thread Timothy Keitt
On 2 Nov 2000, Krzys Majewski wrote: > years, it's not changing *that* fast.. My impression is that many > people upgrade for the sake of upgrading, and because it forces them > to upgrade other things, thus providing an endless source of material for > procrastination. Or maybe I'm just projec

I broke my GLX!

2000-11-02 Thread Krzys Majewski
I had GLX (utah-glx) working under XFree 4.0.1. Then I downgraded back to 3.3.6 (by symlinking the X directories to their backup copies). I've got Section "Module" Load "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/glx.so" EndSection and Option "no_font_cache" Option "no_pixmap_cache" in the "Device" sec

Re: File permissions for /dev/*

2000-11-02 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 04:23:09PM +, Jan Warnking wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > Stupid me, I inadvertently changed the permissions for all of the device > files on my potato box to 660. How do I get them back to their initial > state? I didn't find any documentation on the default file permi

Re: Sendmail account setup

2000-11-02 Thread Ernest Johanson
You can assign the users a shell of /bin/false, which will prevent normal logins to the machine. Users won't be able to directly set forwarding either though, so you might need a way for them to do that. Somewhere I have seen a CGI script that would administer forwarding through a web page, but I

[OT] rpmfind.net

2000-11-02 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I found this amusing and figured I'd share it with debian-user. The machine that is rpmfind.net, a project to collect RPMs in one central, searchable location (mostly to make up for the fact that they don't have apt-get), has a great big Debian stick

Re: newbie with a bunch of questions

2000-11-02 Thread Tom Frey
Hi, gut auf deutsch kann ich vielleicht mein problem besser erklären =) Also das basis-system läuft jetzt nur ich hab jetzt das problem die binaries zu installieren... Ich hab sie mir komplett gesaugt und ins Verzeichnis /debian/dists/potato/main/binary-i386 kopiert. So im dselect kann ich den ort

Zip CD RW drive

2000-11-02 Thread Andrew Dixon
Hi everybody, has anyone had any success or failures using a Zip CD RW drive. They have a portable model that connects through the USB port that looks interesting. thanks, Andy __ Do You Yahoo!? >From homework help to love advice, Yahoo! Experts ha

Re: Mozilla M18 on potato (pentium100)

2000-11-02 Thread J. Bruce Fields
On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Pap Tibor wrote: > On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Kristian Rink wrote: > > In this case I recommend downloading the standard Mozilla build directly > > from > > > > http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/release-notes/ > > > > where You will find several packages for Linux-x86 as

Re: Woody

2000-11-02 Thread Krzys Majewski
john gennard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a 56K modem and have to pay line charges. Whilst I don't > mind spending a reasonable time downloading, I've no wish > to be on line for many hours ( the tarball of a kernel takes 70 - 80 > minutes which is quite acceptable). > > Would someone kin

RE: Which kernel to use for SMP?

2000-11-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 02-Nov-2000 Jonathan Chang wrote: > Hi, there, > > Recently I plan to install Debian on a IBM Netfinity 3500 M20 (without > RAID). This machine has two Pentium III 733Mhz, and I want to build a > kernel with SMP support from kernel source. My question is, which kernel > should I try? I heard

Which kernel to use for SMP?

2000-11-02 Thread Jonathan Chang
Hi, there, Recently I plan to install Debian on a IBM Netfinity 3500 M20 (without RAID). This machine has two Pentium III 733Mhz, and I want to build a kernel with SMP support from kernel source. My question is, which kernel should I try? I heard that the kernel 2.4 series have much better SMP su

Re: libc6 >=2.1.94

2000-11-02 Thread Krzys Majewski
john gennard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Trying to install libmng_0.9.2-3.deb (from the command line) > to satisfy a dependency of libqt2.2_2.2.1-4.potato.2_i386.deb > and progress on to KDE2, I get the following error:- > libmng depends on libc6 (>=2.1.94) > version of libc6 on sys

strange message

2000-11-02 Thread Stefano Calza
Hi everyboby. Today my linux box has started sending me this message: 159.xxx.xxx.23 sent an invalid ICMP error to a broadcast What does it means? How can I get rid of it? It pops up on then screen every few minuts. I use a debian 2.2 on a laptop connected to a LAN. Thanks, Stefano

Re: DIVX?

2000-11-02 Thread Krzys Majewski
Damien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1 -> you need the correct modelines for it to swith down to the correct > resolution, if you decide you still want software mode. Aha, right. What do you mean by "software mode"? > 2 -> you need to recompile sdl (preferably 1.1.6) for the xvideo extenti

Help Warning: Second attempt for an answer

2000-11-02 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, Trying to post this again and see if I get any response this time. Got to figure out a better subject heading I guess... Original Post: I've noticed with leaving X that I see in the X boot msgs the following: Warning: Ron = 43, Rloop = 10, Roff = 46 What is this and should I worry? I have

Q: Best partition breakdown one OS?

2000-11-02 Thread Jonathan Gift
I'm posting this again because I got a refusal first time, Debian mailbox being full... Hi, Right now I have a dual boot system setup on a 5Gig drive. I gave W98SE 2Gig, then set up Linux in the extended partitions with: /boot 15MB /swap/100MB / 2gig /home 500MB The question I have is when I fi

Re: problems w/ fully qualified domain names over DHCP

2000-11-02 Thread Jorgensen, Jens
First, changing the NS IPs in resolv.conf might help your machine think that it's IP address maps to your FQDN but it doesn't help anyone else. The change in dynamic dns will take a few seconds to take effect. I realize though that for things like apache it's helpful/necessary to have the FQDN-d

Re: How to start sgml?

2000-11-02 Thread Martin Bialasinski
* "Daniel" == Daniel Freedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Daniel> You can find more info (including free online copy of an Daniel> O'reilly book on the subject) at: Daniel> http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ Also, a guide how to use emacs with psgml mode is available at http://www.snee.com/bob/s

Re: Windowmaker themes?

2000-11-02 Thread Ray Percival
Since installing a theme just consists of copying files into the right spots there is no need to have .debs just go to www.themes.org and find something you like and do what it says. -- Original Message -- From: Glyn Millington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To

Re: dead hoarse, crawling away.

2000-11-02 Thread Ray Percival
Did this make sense to anyone? Cause I sure as hell did not get it. -- Original Message -- From: guran remberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 11:05:25 + >Hi > >I have just read an article by a chap named Kurt Seifrieds, which was >mainly abo

Re: Security Updates.

2000-11-02 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 03:06:09PM -, mr matsui wrote: > Could anybody please clarify for me, > Should I use proposed-updates/ or security.debian.org in apt-get for > security updates ? security.debian.org > Are there any mirrors for security.debian.org ? no > Whats the difference between p

Re: Horrifying suggestion

2000-11-02 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Andrew Dixon wrote: > HI All, > > I have a question on the go-gnome debate. Is there > any advantage to using: > > #go-gnome > > as opposed to: > > #apt-get install task-helix-gnome The advantage with go-gnome is only for _real_ newbies, who haven't yet learned how to use an editor, or

compress - contained in which packet?

2000-11-02 Thread Walther, Christoph
Hi, does somebody know, which packet of the Debian 2.2 -distribution containes the wellknown UNIX-commands compress and uncompress ? They seem not be installed by the default-installation, so I couldn't find these commands in the /usr/bin-directory ! Thanks, Christoph Walther Email: mailto

Re: external apps in Netscape

2000-11-02 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 04:46:01PM +0100, Manegold wrote: > Hi! How can I have Netscape use external apps for certain files? I > did add them in the Preferences and they get started, but they are not > passed the file to display. I tried " %f" and ... %d but > nothing works. The help system does

Re: Horrifying suggestion

2000-11-02 Thread Andrew Dixon
HI All, I have a question on the go-gnome debate. Is there any advantage to using: #go-gnome as opposed to: #apt-get install task-helix-gnome I tried out helix-gnome using apt-get, setting up the sources.list file as described on helix-code's website and found it to work well this way

RE: Which editor for programming?

2000-11-02 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
I am not a newbie (using Debian for 3 years now, programming with pico for 5), I prefer clean interfaces, and to remain outside of the jihad of editors. Brooks > -Original Message- > From: Jason Stechschulte [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 9:53 AM > To: Brook

newbie with a bunch of questions

2000-11-02 Thread Tom Frey
Hi, i've just downloaded debian potato but only potato/main/binary-i386 and potato/main/disks-i386. Well now i could install the very base system. But now i don't get along with installing the binaries. I started dselect and modified the access file that i want to install from file:/debian/binar

RE: Which editor for programming?

2000-11-02 Thread Jason Stechschulte
Newbie. Jason Stechschulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Brooks R. Robinson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 10:35 AM To: Stephan Kulka; debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: Which editor for programming? Pico is the only way to go. No messy

external apps in Netscape

2000-11-02 Thread Manegold
Hi! How can I have Netscape use external apps for certain files? I did add them in the Preferences and they get started, but they are not passed the file to display. I tried " %f" and ... %d but nothing works. The help system does not even mention that aspect. At least I can't find it. Any ideas?

Re: Bastille-Linux and Debian / Debian Security

2000-11-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 02-Nov-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > how would the sources-lines for woody be? > i don't need source-code, so I suppose updates / non-us and non-free would > be sufficiently. Just writing woody instead of potato doesn't seem to > work... > >> ## security updates >> deb http://security

RE: Bastille-Linux and Debian

2000-11-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 02-Nov-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'd like to know if Bastille-Linux (which was intended for Red Hat > 6.x-Systems) works fine on Debian, too, if anyone has experiences with it > already > and / or if there's an equivalent for Debian aswell. I have read the bastille perl scripts and I am

How to use Suspend to RAM

2000-11-02 Thread Manegold
HI! I have a Tekram DC390F SCSI adapter Bios 3.20 and an ASUS K7V Mainboard, which supports suspend to RAM. I have a 9GB IBM SCSI HD and a DVD ROM on the SCSI Adapter and use Kernel 2.2.17 and Potato with apm support installed. Now my question. How can I have the System go into suspend? When I iss

RE: Proposal - simple textual wrapper for packages

2000-11-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
This seems to be solved by Joey Hess's debconf which Debian is moving towards. You will see pieces of it in a potato install, woody will support it even more.

Re: Automatic Debian 'slushy'

2000-11-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > Anthony Towns was working on creating a new `testing' distribution to > be inbetween unstable and frozen. its similar to what your > proprosing, im not sure what happened with it, i think mirror space is > a problem. > it became a bigger idea. Look for more news after the r1 release of pot

RE: Which editor for programming?

2000-11-02 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
Pico is the only way to go. No messy interfaces, just clean, easy. Brooks > -Original Message- > From: Stephan Kulka [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 3:00 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Which editor for programming? > > > I started progr

Re: Netscape crashing (even more) when using junkbuster

2000-11-02 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: Ethan Benson writes: > i found that if i edit the junkbuster blockfile while netscape is > running it will usually crash on the next network access. also > restarting junkbuster will usually kill netscape too. so long as i > leave the junkbuster files alone netscape seems fine. its only when

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