Re: Mozilla PSM downloaded, but not installed? (did Debug -> Install PSM)

2000-12-11 Thread Timothy C . Klein
There is a bug in the psm module. You have to run your browser as root to use it. However, if you look in /usr/doc/mozilla/psm-helper there is a README which will take you step by step on creating a work around for this. (It involves making a dummy library called libjedimindtrick, he he he) H

X problems

2000-12-11 Thread Ken Weingold
Sorry if this is obvious or in a FAQ somewhere, and if it is, please feel free to point me to it. I am asking here because I have a sort of working X system. It is running Window Maker. First of all, the keyboard is messed up. When I exit X, I see why I guess. It is looking for xkbcomp in /u

Re: OT: 3dfx voodoo 5 errata

2000-12-11 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Peter Jay Salzman, > to be honest, the 39fps is an improvement over the voodoo3, but not by much. > i was expecting something much, much faster. is there anyone else on this > list with a voodoo5 or voodoo4 and quake3? can you email me your benchmarks > for timedemo1? i'd like to compare

Re: inetd questions

2000-12-11 Thread Damian Menscher
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: > tell what is so damn insecure about these? > > $ while true ; do makepasswd --chars=12 ; done > t2nWXiWynAU8 > qdesULEdwzLG > g3YfAxqxLG1d Well, since you asked there is no punctuation. Ideally, I would like to see control characters in passwords.

grayscale printing

2000-12-11 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hey people. I notice that my printer filter is set to handle colours beautifully, using the option of -sColourMode=CMYK to ghostscript. I'm wondering though, if I want grayscale printing instead, what's the correct option? I looked in the gs manpage, and I don't see the ColourMode option at all

Re: How to verify TrueType fonts are working?

2000-12-11 Thread Matthew Dalton
Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > rick, netscape does see TT fonts. i can verify that. > > simple test: > > write a small webpage using a tt font that you know you have. view it with > netscape. You don't have to go to that much trouble even. Just go to the fonts section in the netscape preference

Re: Spam admin autoresponder (was Re: mutt question)

2000-12-11 Thread kmself
on Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 07:44:07PM +1100, Damon Muller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Quoth kmself@ix.netcom.com, > > There are also several resources listed at Freshmeat, in particular: > > > > parp: http://freshmeat.net/projects/parp/ > > ricochet: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ricoche

NAT

2000-12-11 Thread Eduardo Gargiulo
Hi all. I'm trying to set up NAT in my internal network The problem is that when I connect the router to my linux box with a cross UTP, I only see (from the router) th IP address that is connected in the other end, but not the others. The router don't send packets for other IPs. Is there a way

Re: OT: 3dfx voodoo 5 errata

2000-12-11 Thread Rob VanFleet
It was my understanding that you didn't need device3dfx at all when running X4. I thought tdfx replaced it's functionality. -Rob On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 04:38:11PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > i made an astonishing discovery: > > device-3dfx (3dfx.o) is only needed for glide applications.

Re: getty problem

2000-12-11 Thread Kent West
Marvin Stodolsky wrote: On a old NEC 486 50mHz Versa V\50 laptop, the following periodically appears in the text console. What is an appropriate modification. MarvS -- Several repeats of: Usage: /sbin/getty [-hiLmw] [-l login_program] [-t timeout] [-I initstring] [-H login_host] baud_rate,

getty problem

2000-12-11 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
On a old NEC 486 50mHz Versa V\50 laptop, the following periodically appears in the text console. What is an appropriate modification. MarvS -- Several repeats of: Usage: /sbin/getty [-hiLmw] [-l login_program] [-t timeout] [-I initstring] [-H login_host] baud_rate,... line [termtype]

Re: "linux tips and trick" and setting up MTRR's

2000-12-11 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Mon 11 Dec 00, 7:44 PM, Nate Amsden said... > Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > > > dear all, two questions. > > > > 1- is there a resource on the web that explains how to correctly set up > > your MTRR's? > > didn't know you had to..i just enabled support and left it at that :) after digging

Re: cd-burning

2000-12-11 Thread Peter Wollny
I didn't know that cdrecord is able to do that. Thanks for the info, I'll study the doc now! -- pit

Re: How to verify TrueType fonts are working?

2000-12-11 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
rick, netscape does see TT fonts. i can verify that. simple test: write a small webpage using a tt font that you know you have. view it with netscape. also, gimp has access to my TT fonts as well, as does star office 5.2 (both the spreadsheet and wordprocessor.) pete On Mon 11 Dec 00, 7:52

Printing to legal paper (urgent help needed)

2000-12-11 Thread Arcady Genkin
Hello: I *really* need to print a document to a legal-size paper. I formatted a document using psnup to fit 10 pages on one side: psnup -plegal -Pletter -10 report.ps /tmp/rep10.ps and when I open it with gv, I can see all ten pages, but only if I choose `legal' from the drop-down list of pap

Re: downloading Debian

2000-12-11 Thread John Travis
On Tuesday 12 December 2000 03:35, Xucaen wrote: > this sounds like fun. :-) I've been > contemplating my options and I think installing > from the base disk sets would be good. it would > at least give me a better understanding of and > more control over what is actually being > installed. (as op

How to verify TrueType fonts are working?

2000-12-11 Thread Rick Loga
I have XF86Free 4.0.1 and followed docs on installing true type fonts, which were to copy the tt fonts from my W95 box, use ttmkfdir, and change the config file XF86Config-4. I also stopped and started the xfs service. I use gnome and netscape and netscape does not list the true type fonts as

Re: Enlightenment, X, and Gnome

2000-12-11 Thread John Travis
On Tuesday 12 December 2000 03:50, Chris wrote: > Hello, > > I have just installed Debian 2.2 with X, enlightenment, and gnome. > When I boot the system and log in, it goes into enlightenment. > From here I can no longer seem to get to a command prompt (i.e. log > out) In addition, how do I get x t

Re: "linux tips and trick" and setting up MTRR's

2000-12-11 Thread Nate Amsden
Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > dear all, two questions. > > 1- is there a resource on the web that explains how to correctly set up > your MTRR's? didn't know you had to..i just enabled support and left it at that :) > > 2- i remember seeing a linux "tips and tricks" page. it was specifically

Cardmngr

2000-12-11 Thread dude
Hello all. i have a compaq Presario 1700. I have installed potato but have to access it using boot: linux 1 because at first the thing would just horribly hang when it said Starting PCMCIA services: ok, well i downloaded the latested (from sourceforge) pcmcia package onto my wins paritions

"linux tips and trick" and setting up MTRR's

2000-12-11 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
dear all, two questions. 1- is there a resource on the web that explains how to correctly set up your MTRR's? 2- i remember seeing a linux "tips and tricks" page. it was specifically set up because of the mindcraft fiasco. i know there are tons of "tips and tricks" sites, but this one wa

Re: how to see the full name in dpkg -l

2000-12-11 Thread Colin Watson
Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [quoting reordered to be in the normal reading order, from top to bottom] >Peter Jay Salzman wrote: >> when i do a dpkg -l "*netscape*", some of the output looks like: >> >> Name VersionDescription >> pn netscape-java- (no de

Re: inetd questions

2000-12-11 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 10:28:53AM -0700, Myles Green wrote: > > Huh? WTF are you smoking? There's no binary stuff there, just a _good_ > mix of upper and lower case plus numbers and other keyboard symbols. want to bet smart ass? $ cat /dev/urandom | od -s8 -An æÅãHÓà «Ï Üäþ1èvp'­·¤Äß WÚ¬:ÐVÂa¡

Enlightenment, X, and Gnome

2000-12-11 Thread Chris
Hello, I have just installed Debian 2.2 with X, enlightenment, and gnome. When I boot the system and log in, it goes into enlightenment. >From here I can no longer seem to get to a command prompt (i.e. log out) In addition, how do I get x to start gnome when I type startx? Thanks Chris Hax

Re: IP problems with 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-11 Thread Max Kamenetsky
* Phil Brutsche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [12/11/00 17:43] wrote: > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > Hi, > > I'm using 2.4.0-test12-pre7 (compiled it on my own, not through a > > .deb) and I've encountered a very strange problem. There are certain > > websites that my s

Re: downloading Debian

2000-12-11 Thread Xucaen
--- kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > However, in general, you're far better off > grabbing the minimal images > necessary to do a local installation and > complete your installation off > the Internet with apt-get. this sounds like fun. :-) I've been contemplating my options and I think installing

Re: switch of the mousepointer?

2000-12-11 Thread Joey Hess
Cajus Pollmeier wrote: > xsetroot -cursor file file_mask (1x1 bitmap with no bit set) > > does not work, since some applications like i.e. "xterm" activate their own > cursor. Well you could look at using unclutter with a _very_ short idle time (0 or 1 seconds, or it could probably be modified t

Re: downloading Debian

2000-12-11 Thread kmself
on Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 09:14:29PM -0500, Rakopoulos ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, I am interested in downloading Debian and putting it onto a CD and then > installing it from the CD. How would I go about doing this? > > Thanks, > kr ISOs are available at: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian-cd/

downloading Debian

2000-12-11 Thread Rakopoulos
Hi, I am interested in downloading Debian and putting it onto a CD and then installing it from the CD. How would I go about doing this?   Thanks, kr

modules.conf more recent than modules.dep

2000-12-11 Thread mikpolniak
I was successfully running a new kernel -2.2.18pre21 then recompiled so i could update my ethernet card driver from rtl8139 to 8139.too. I rebooted from the new boot floppy. Then i did modprobe 8139.too and ifup eth0 and networking ran fine. So i decided to put alias eth0 8139.too

Re: MP3 players

2000-12-11 Thread brian moore
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 04:07:54PM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > but does any of these USB jukebox players work with linux? The Pjbox does. Works great. You can get one from thinkgeek: they're a bit spendier than the Nomad Jukebox from Creative, but I find them to be much nicer: the Nomad, for r

Low quality printing

2000-12-11 Thread Timmy Douglas
I am using a canon bjc4000 printer with the bj800 driver using apsfilter. it works fine, but the printing goes really slow. when i try to change the lights at the top to make it do less quality, it turns it back on when i try to print. does anyone know how to get this to print fast/lower-qual

Re: exim

2000-12-11 Thread A R
Done. Works. Thanks. Now, there is still some details: How do I tie fetchmail to mutt? When I start mutt and type "G", I get POP server not defined. If I retrieve mail with fetchmail, it gets it, I read it with simple command $ mail, and so forth. But it also tells me that there is some failure wh

Mozilla PSM downloaded, but not installed? (did Debug -> Install PSM)

2000-12-11 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Hello. I think I've seen these instructions twice on this list: > Go to 'Debug' -> 'Install PSM.' But that didn't work for me... I did that, Mozilla opened the softwre installation window, I told it to go ahead, so it downloaded a reasonably big file... But after that, I still had no crypto su

Re: IP problems with 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-11 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Hi, > I'm using 2.4.0-test12-pre7 (compiled it on my own, not through a > .deb) and I've encountered a very strange problem. There are certain > websites that my system now refuses to c

Re: cd-burning

2000-12-11 Thread Michael Sauer
> Does anybody know about a program which can overburn a normal cdr? It's > usefull for burning audio-cds. I have encountered some problems with xcdroast > and 700MB cds. The 650s never caused troubles. > In the windoze world there is a nice (and free) audio-burning tool called > Feurio which i

IP problems with 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-11 Thread Max Kamenetsky
Hi, I'm using 2.4.0-test12-pre7 (compiled it on my own, not through a .deb) and I've encountered a very strange problem. There are certain websites that my system now refuses to connect to. I know that these sites are up because other systems can connect to them. And I can even ping these sa

Setting up Printing to a networked printer

2000-12-11 Thread Chris
Hello, If I have an HP LaserJet 4 Plus on an HP print server, that has been assigned an IP address and raw3, how do I set up Debian to print to that IP address. Thanks Chris

Re: Setting up a postscript printer

2000-12-11 Thread csj
On Monday 11 December 2000 15:55, MH wrote: > > Vi scribis: > > I have a Lexmark Optra E312 Postscript printer that I am trying, > > unsuccessfully, to configure. > > > > I decided to use CUPS as the LinuxPrinting-HOWTO mentions that to be > > quite easy. So I apt-get installed cupsys, cupsys-bsd,

Re: exim

2000-12-11 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 07:30:56PM -0500, A R wrote: > I am inserting the needed info next to your statement, please indicate how the > exim conf file will look > THANKYOU > > > There are several sides to mail delivery on a linux system: > > > > 1) mail transport (send mail from one computer to an

Re: Case of login relevant?

2000-12-11 Thread kmself
on Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 09:13:58PM +, sena ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On 11/12/2000 at 12:28 -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > Yes. UserIDs are case sensitive, except in the special case of a userid > > entered in uppercase only, in which case the system assumes that your > > tty cannot

OT: 3dfx voodoo 5 errata

2000-12-11 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
i made an astonishing discovery: device-3dfx (3dfx.o) is only needed for glide applications. and then, only if you want to play the glide game as non-root. quake3 plays just dandy as non-root. in fact, i have a question about this. i do a lot of benchmarking, and i've found that quake3 plays

Re: OT: Mozilla won't load page that Konqueror will load

2000-12-11 Thread John Travis
On Monday 11 December 2000 20:58, Kent West wrote: > I'm web-development illiterate, so was wondering if some of you more > HTML-savvy folks might help. > > My higher-ups want me to test-run a web-based personality assessment > that we're thinking about using for new hires. The site is > > > http:/

Re: X-Windows, Enlightenment, & Gnome

2000-12-11 Thread Defresne Sylvain
Hello, * Chris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, > > I have just installed the base Debian 2.2 system. > Now I would like to down load and install, X-Windows, Enlightenment, & > Gnome. > I can get Dselect to show me the available packages, but I am having > problems The easiest ways is

Re: Creating CD's from ISO's

2000-12-11 Thread csj
Since you mentioned you have succesfully burned other distro's ISO images, then why not just use them? They all come with Joerg Schilling's excellent cdrecord. For example: cdrecord -v dev=/dev/sg0 speed=4 cdrom.img On Tuesday 12 December 2000 00:29, Jack Hockett wrote: > Heinrich, > Than

Re: exim

2000-12-11 Thread A R
I am inserting the needed info next to your statement, please indicate how the exim conf file will look THANKYOU > There are several sides to mail delivery on a linux system: > > 1) mail transport (send mail from one computer to another) >a) use exim for remote mail delivery using your isp's

Re: MP3 players

2000-12-11 Thread Erik Steffl
but does any of these USB jukebox players work with linux? erik brian moore wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 05:34:42PM -0500, Mike wrote: > > Ken Weingold wrote: > > > > > > Not sure now much it is, but I have something great made by Genica. > > > It looks like a discman, but plays

X-Windows, Enlightenment, & Gnome

2000-12-11 Thread Chris
Hello, I have just installed the base Debian 2.2 system. Now I would like to down load and install, X-Windows, Enlightenment, & Gnome. I can get Dselect to show me the available packages, but I am having problems locating the necessary packages. Should I try apt-get instead. If so how to I learn t

Re: Sound Card Blues

2000-12-11 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all I have potato 2.2 installed on my system, I also have a Sound Blaster awe 1024 card. A friend debian-user very kindly gave me a hand recompiling the kernel to get the Sound Blaster drivers installed (this was magic as far as I remember nothing comes to mind ab

Sound Card Blues

2000-12-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello all I have potato 2.2 installed on my system, I also have a Sound Blaster awe 1024 card. A friend debian-user very kindly gave me a hand recompiling the kernel to get the Sound Blaster drivers installed (this was magic as far as I remember nothing comes to mind about how this was achieved).

Re: MP3 players

2000-12-11 Thread Ken Weingold
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000, brian moore wrote: > Radio Shit has one advertised in their current catalog (supposedly 'RCA" > made, but who -really- makes it is another question -- even the old > 'minimus11' speakers, the only decent thing R/S has ever made now are > supposedly made by RCA). Grab a CueCat

Re: Going Debian: advice request

2000-12-11 Thread sena
On 11/12/2000 at 15:58 -0600, Gregory Guthrie wrote: > > > >Woody's definitely unstable... > > -- Second that. I have had two installs (upgrades potato -> woody) trip > over their own dependencies and fail. > Well, I made a potato->woody upgrade and it went pretty smooth. Nothing stopped wor

Re: MP3 players

2000-12-11 Thread brian moore
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 05:34:42PM -0500, Mike wrote: > Ken Weingold wrote: > > > > Not sure now much it is, but I have something great made by Genica. > > It looks like a discman, but plays audio CDs as well as CDR/CDRW's > > with MP3's, so your limit is 650 megs. Great search features, too. > >

Re: list codes?

2000-12-11 Thread Bob Nielsen
wtf is included in the bsdgames package. Another useful tool is dict, which with its various databases, particularly dict-jargon, will also do this, plus it gives general dictionary information as well. Bob On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 11:19:06AM -0800, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > > It's the little

Re: MP3 players

2000-12-11 Thread Mike
Ken Weingold wrote: > On Mon, Dec 11, 2000, Mike wrote: > > > > Any idea on what the availability of these things are? As in, do you know > > what, if any, retail-type stores might carry these? Or are they mail-order > > only? I looked around on Genica's web site but found nothing on how to > >

Re: MP3 players

2000-12-11 Thread Ken Weingold
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000, Mike wrote: > Ken Weingold wrote: > > > > Not sure now much it is, but I have something great made by Genica. > > It looks like a discman, but plays audio CDs as well as CDR/CDRW's > > with MP3's, so your limit is 650 megs. Great search features, too. > > And here's the kick

Re: problems with netscape

2000-12-11 Thread Ken Weingold
Sorry for the sort of OT, but does Mozilla (or NS6 for that matter) have the stupidly left out Open button from the later Netscape releases? -Ken -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]AIM: ScopusFest

Re: ICQ with debian firewall

2000-12-11 Thread Andreas Muck
"Kyle Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Hello everyone. I'm planning on changing my network router from Sygate 4.0 >on a Win NT 4.0 server to a debian ip masq machine. Right now, ICQ is >working excellent with sygate. How does it work with IP masq? When I set >the firewall rules, to I hav

Re: exim

2000-12-11 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 03:06:07PM -0500, A R wrote: > Can someone provide a simple exim.conf sample file, where pop3, > smtphost, local user, remote user, password variables -over a dialup > connection to at&t server- are set? There are several sides to mail delivery on a linux system: 1) mail t

Re: cd-burning

2000-12-11 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
we were talking about audio tracks, but if you want to talk about an iso filesystem, it's as simple as simple can be: mkisofs -r -o /home/p/thisone.iso /usr/local/share/directoryofstuff -r == rockridge extension. -o == output to this file (like gcc -o) note that if you want to copy a ful

Re: MP3 players

2000-12-11 Thread Mike
Ken Weingold wrote: > > Not sure now much it is, but I have something great made by Genica. > It looks like a discman, but plays audio CDs as well as CDR/CDRW's > with MP3's, so your limit is 650 megs. Great search features, too. > And here's the kicker: it's $100. 50 second anti-shock - and it

Re: scanning SCSI-bus on a running system

2000-12-11 Thread Carl Johnson
Joerg Johannes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi there > > I would like to get my scanner recognized when turned on at a runing > system. I know I can do that on Win 98, so it should be possible to > rescan the SCSI-Bus without "disturbing" any of the other devices. The > only question is: How? T

Re: GL screen hacks corrupting display

2000-12-11 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 06:18:43PM +0100, Andrea Vettorello wrote: > Try to resize the screen size with the CTRL ALT and numpad minus and plus > key, but Many thanks, it works. I wasn't aware of that keybinding. > i should remove the package xscreensaver-gl to avoid problems... I forgot to men

A Solution: LILO stops at "LI"

2000-12-11 Thread Terry Hancock
I noticed a few different posts from people having similar problems to mine (a couple of examples follow), in which LILO would stop after just typing "LI" on the screen and hang up. Various different reasons for the problem were proposed, centering on hardware compatibility problems. After examin

RE: exim (II)

2000-12-11 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Gregory, > thank you very much for your comment. Below is the first part of my > exim.conf file. Could you take a look to it please? is it OK? After Tim's > comment I realized that my ISP us

Re: Going Debian: advice request

2000-12-11 Thread Ignasi Tura
Hola Rodolfo, salutacions des de Barcelona! > After long doubts and four years using Linux, I'm finally decided to > use Debian as my distro and not change anymore. Good decision! :) > > I'm thinking of installing potato, since am really fed up of half-boiled > distros (RH7, for instance), bu

Re: cd-burning

2000-12-11 Thread A R
> > > i use cdrecord (no need to use xcdroast; cdrecord is a no-brainer) and > regularly burn CD's that are over 700MB. afaik, xcdroast is just a front > end for some other program, prolly cdrecord. > What cdrecord command do you use to read the image from cd, say, on /dev/cdrom to file /home/p

Re: cd-burning

2000-12-11 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
i don't think software is the answer here; there's no magic involved with "overburning". it's like saying that formatting a floppy at 1.680 MB is more special than 1.44 MB. are you sure it's not the quality of your cd? i use cdrecord (no need to use xcdroast; cdrecord is a no-brainer) and regu

Re: Going Debian: advice request

2000-12-11 Thread Gregory Guthrie
At 04:43 PM 12/11/2000 -0500, Randy Edwards wrote: > but I´d like to have some packages in more bleeding-edge versions. > Any problem about that? Should I install woody instead if I intend > to use non-stable packages? Woody's definitely unstable... -- Second that. I have had two installs (

cd-burning

2000-12-11 Thread Peter Wollny
Hello, Does anybody know about a program which can overburn a normal cdr? It's usefull for burning audio-cds. I have encountered some problems with xcdroast and 700MB cds. The 650s never caused troubles. In the windoze world there is a nice (and free) audio-burning tool called Feurio which is

Re: Going Debian: advice request

2000-12-11 Thread Randy Edwards
> but I´d like to have some packages in more bleeding-edge versions. > Any problem about that? Should I install woody instead if I intend > to use non-stable packages? Woody's definitely unstable. You can install various items from unstable into a potato system. Whether you should go all wood

Re: GnuPG can't Check signature msg?

2000-12-11 Thread brian moore
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 04:09:30PM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote: > Hi, > > I installed the GnuPG and set up my own publick key and while most of > the msg headers to do withnot finding pgp on pgp using email are gone, > one remains: > > gpg: Signature made Mon Dec 11... > gpg: Can't check signature

RE: exim (II)

2000-12-11 Thread chiappa
Tim, if localhost is my account in my system, then yes, my ISP username and my localhost one are the same. I think I need to solve the problem in the same way you did. Please, how can I entry to the alias file? is an alias for what? Thank you very much for your help!! Cheers Marcelo On 11-Dec

Re: Case of login relevant?

2000-12-11 Thread sena
On 11/12/2000 at 12:28 -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > Yes. UserIDs are case sensitive, except in the special case of a userid > entered in uppercase only, in which case the system assumes that your > tty cannot use lowercase characters. > Is there any documentation that describes the behavi

RE: exim (II)

2000-12-11 Thread chiappa
Gregory, thank you very much for your comment. Below is the first part of my exim.conf file. Could you take a look to it please? is it OK? After Tim's comment I realized that my ISP username and the name of my account (localhost?) in my system are the same. Could be this a problem? Please note that

Re: inetd questions

2000-12-11 Thread sena
On 11/12/2000 at 10:28 -0700, Myles Green wrote: > Huh? WTF are you smoking? There's no binary stuff there, just a _good_ > mix of upper and lower case plus numbers and other keyboard symbols. > > $ cat /dev/urandom | od -s8 -An > $3,y3?es > w3[Am'4j. > )w{'375u > l]TqFCG3 > V}gJR'CKQ > NLUy1~,C:

Re: OT: Mozilla won't load page that Konqueror will load

2000-12-11 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 01:58:40PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > I'm web-development illiterate, so was wondering if some of you more > HTML-savvy folks might help. > > My higher-ups want me to test-run a web-based personality assessment > that we're thinking about using for new hires. The site is >

RE: exim

2000-12-11 Thread chiappa
I think this is a very good idea! I would like to have a look to a working dialup exim.conf file too. Can someone help us? :) Thanks a lot in advance! On 11-Dec-2000 A R wrote: > Can someone provide a simple exim.conf sample file, where pop3, > smtphost, local user, remote user, password variable

Re: symbolic links etc

2000-12-11 Thread Hall Stevenson
> How does one remove a symbolic link to say /dev/ttyS0 or /dev/hdc. > This is not clear in any literature I have seen, although under 'rm' > and its '--directory' option there is mention of 'unlink' but no > further reference is made to this anywhere and I doubt it's relevant. You do use "rm". Do

Cocoon problems

2000-12-11 Thread Chris Mayes
Hello, everyone. I've been having problems getting Cocoon running on my machine (both here and at work). Here's a snippet from my post to the Cocoon list: -- So, here's the cycle: 1. Restart JServ and Apache 2. http://localhost/servlets/IsItWorking responds appropriately. (Note:

Re: Case of login relevant?

2000-12-11 Thread kmself
on Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 09:42:51AM +0100, Ralf G. R. Bergs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi there, > > this is to raise the issue whether the case of the login (username, user-ID) > is relevant on Linux. Yes. UserIDs are case sensitive, except in the special case of a userid entered in uppercas

Re: symbolic links etc

2000-12-11 Thread Alexey Vyskubov
> How does one remove a symbolic link to say /dev/ttyS0 or /dev/hdc. If you did ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/that_link so rm /dev/that_link will work fine :) > If I need to recreate /dev/ttySx or /dev/hdx which 'ls -l' show as > crw-rw and brw-rw respectively, how would I go about > doing so?

Re: symbolic links etc

2000-12-11 Thread Gary Hennigan
"john gennard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How does one remove a symbolic link to say /dev/ttyS0 or /dev/hdc. > This is not clear in any literature I have seen, although under 'rm' > and its '--directory' option there is mention of 'unlink' but no > further reference is made to this anywhere an

Re: GL screen hacks corrupting display

2000-12-11 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Rob VanFleet wrote: > I'm using potato with the /dev/3dfx - Mesa combo for 3D. When I run a GL > screen hack like gears or morph3d, it runs accelerated and looks nice. The > problem is that when I exit them, the display in X is completely whacked; I > can't do anything. So far, I've just been A

symbolic links etc

2000-12-11 Thread john gennard
How does one remove a symbolic link to say /dev/ttyS0 or /dev/hdc. This is not clear in any literature I have seen, although under 'rm' and its '--directory' option there is mention of 'unlink' but no further reference is made to this anywhere and I doubt it's relevant. If I need to recreate /de

Re: dhcp

2000-12-11 Thread Sebastiaan
High, > > Run ps xa | grep dhcp. I you can see a line for dhcpd it is running, > take a look at /var/log/syslog for dhcpd error messages. If there is no > dhcpd running try editing /etc/init.d/dhcp, set run_dhcpd=1 and restart > the dhcp daemon (/etc/init.d/dhcp restart). Debian sets run_dhcpd=0 t

Re: compiling mpg123 with esd support

2000-12-11 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Damon" == Damon Muller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Damon> Hi gang, For some reason, xmms is these days taking up an inordinate Damon> amount of CPU time. I decided to go back to mpg123 and gqmpeg, which Damon> is a lot less fancy, but doesn't even make a dent in the cpu usage.

Re: how to see the full name in dpkg -l

2000-12-11 Thread Erik Steffl
you can resize your terminal window, the sad part is that it is always like the example below if you redirect/pipe it. erik Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > when i do a dpkg -l "*netscape*", some of the output looks like: > > Name VersionDescription > pn netscape

OT: Mozilla won't load page that Konqueror will load

2000-12-11 Thread Kent West
I'm web-development illiterate, so was wondering if some of you more HTML-savvy folks might help. My higher-ups want me to test-run a web-based personality assessment that we're thinking about using for new hires. The site is http://www.profilesontheweb.com When I use Mozilla M18 and click

exim

2000-12-11 Thread A R
Can someone provide a simple exim.conf sample file, where pop3, smtphost, local user, remote user, password variables -over a dialup connection to at&t server- are set? The answers to eximconfig questions are not always clear, so I need some help in this. I've been using debian for over 1.5 years,

Re: Window Maker

2000-12-11 Thread Defresne Sylvain
Hello * Ken Weingold ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I noticed that the latest is 0.62.1, but the latest stable package is > 0.61.1. Anyone have any problems in the 'unstable' 0.62.1 package? Works fine for me, except I can't get the name of the virtual desktop to show (and fade) w

Re: Which X is running?

2000-12-11 Thread Bob Nielsen
ls -al /etc/X11/X If this returns /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 (or /usr/bin/X11/XFree86 which is a symlink) then it is 4.01, otherwise 3.3.6. On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 11:15:02AM -0800, Aaron Brashears wrote: > I recently did an apt-get upgrade on my system. Sadly, this completely > broke X. To fix thing

Re: OT: regular expression question

2000-12-11 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Eric" == Eric G Miller writes: Eric> On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 11:16:11AM -0700, Hubert Chan wrote: >> It all depends on what you mean when you say "word". I used it in the >> abstract sense, which is just a string of characters. So abcba is a >> word, even though it is not

Re: configuring kdm or gdm to see both kde and gnome

2000-12-11 Thread mario
On Monday 11 December 2000 20:13, Anderson, Tim TL33E wrote: > Hi, > I'd like to have both KDE and GNOME (helix) in my display manager's session > menu (I'm not bothered which one I use). I thought this would be quite > simple but after looking through docs, config files and mailing list > a

Re: list codes?

2000-12-11 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
It's the little things that just make debian rock :) btw - wtf is installed on basic system cuz I certainly didn't install in here - yet there it is :) regareds On Monday 11 December 2000 07:51, Mailing list collection place wrote: > A package that I've found useful in decoding some of these me

Re: Netscape problems

2000-12-11 Thread Ville Harju
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 09:21:54AM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > I think I had the same problem once, can't remember what solved it, > but I definitely found the cause of the problem. I think it had > something to do with files in /tmp or something like that. I am quite > sure there were some lefto

Re: Which X is running?

2000-12-11 Thread Hall Stevenson
> I recently did an apt-get upgrade on my system. Sadly, this completely > broke X. To fix things, I manually installed task-x-window-system-core > since apt-get was holding it back. I configured the system during the > set up script and X still wouldn't start claiming that the > configuration file

Re: Mutt/gpg

2000-12-11 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 04:25:37PM -0300, Eduardo Gargiulo wrote: > Hi all. > > I'm new using mutt. > I want to send my messeges clear signed, but I can't. > I'm using gnupg, and I put in my .muttrc > set pgp_sign_command="gpg --clearsign" > but the signature is attached in binary format. How c

Re: configuring kdm or gdm to see both kde and gnome

2000-12-11 Thread Casey Henderson
Hi, I've never gotten Gnome to work with KDM, but I've gotten KDE to work with GDM. Create a file called KDE that contains the line /usr/bin/kde2 and save it to your /etc/gdm/Sessions directory. Set the permissions to executable, and then you'll be able to choose KDE from the GDM login box. -

Mutt/gpg

2000-12-11 Thread Eduardo Gargiulo
Hi all. I'm new using mutt. I want to send my messeges clear signed, but I can't. I'm using gnupg, and I put in my .muttrc set pgp_sign_command="gpg --clearsign" but the signature is attached in binary format. How can I sign my messages in ASCII from mutt? -- :%s/Micros~1/GNU\/Linux/g^M :wq!

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