Re: Hi All

2001-01-09 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
hmmm... i was under the impression that suid wasn't honored for scripts? or was that just bash scripts? pete On Wed 10 Jan 01, 11:09 AM, Sathish C said... > > Hi All > > I am having debian linux on my machine. > > I want to give permission to create and delete users on my machine,to > some sp

Hi All

2001-01-09 Thread Sathish C
Hi All I am having debian linux on my machine. I want to give permission to create and delete users on my machine,to some specified users. I tried giving execute permissions on useradd and userdel to those users. It did not work. Then I set setuid bit and tried. It worked. Is this going to have

Re: More legacy/proprietry app headaches.

2001-01-09 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 03:29:08PM +1100, Stewart James wrote: > > Thanks eric, but unfortunately this did not help. > > I am thinking that the library is probaly fine, maybe it has something > todo with something else. Seeing as how it finds all the other libs. > > I was hoping that someone on

Re: Dist-upgrade woes

2001-01-09 Thread Joey Hess
JP Sartre wrote: > Can't locate warnings.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5 > /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.6 > /usr/local/lib/site_perl/i386-linux /usr/local/lib/site_perl > /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.005 .) at > /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/warnings/registe

Re: The OReilly Book distro

2001-01-09 Thread Nate Amsden
Tom Schuetz wrote: > > Has anybody else had a particularly hard time getting Xf86 running off of the > CDs that come with "Learning GNU/Linux"? > > I saw some comment about this version being a mixed bag of versions. since others seem not to like it i suppose i should point out that it was the

Dist-upgrade woes

2001-01-09 Thread JP Sartre
Hi all. I was running woody originally before it became testing and decided to do a fresh install. Upon realizing that testing didn't include many packages I enjoyed having I tried a dist-upgrade to sid. Here's my problem. I remember reading about problems with the new perl upgrade and how i

Re: More legacy/proprietry app headaches.

2001-01-09 Thread Stewart James
Thanks eric, but unfortunately this did not help. I am thinking that the library is probaly fine, maybe it has something todo with something else. Seeing as how it finds all the other libs. I was hoping that someone on this list was running nscal as that would atleast be a ray of hope, but alas

Re: Will 'apt-get install kernel-image-2.2.17' work OK?

2001-01-09 Thread Brad Burns
The kernel-image-* packages all seem to be compiled for uniprocessor support.. At this point I just compile the kernel myself (I have an SMP system), but if there are any SMP versions I'm not seeing, could someone point me to them? Compiling the kernel myself is no big deal, but I'm lazy, and

Re: strange bash feature

2001-01-09 Thread irvine
Thanks I found the info I needed in the man page. T:Irvine At 14:40 9.1.2001 -0800, you wrote: >on Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 09:45:50PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> >> >> I was recently using a computer (not my home computer) from which I have access >> to a linux account

Please resend the Aptiva mwave instructions

2001-01-09 Thread Ernest Tucker
A fins sole sent em instructions on how to get the mwave card on my aptiva to work and I promptly deleted the mail by accident. Caould that kind sole please resend it to me? thanks and sorry for the noise ==perry = ==perry My opinions are my own! The do not necessarily reflect the postion

Re: Need help setting up parallel printer

2001-01-09 Thread D-Man
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 08:47:22PM -0500, David Shepherd wrote: | 'modprobe lp' gives me | modprobe: Can't locate module lp | | This is/was a stock debian kernel from an official CD. | | Anything else I can try, or do I have to recompile the kernel (I've never | done it before). | Can I som

Re: Will 'apt-get install kernel-image-2.2.17' work OK?

2001-01-09 Thread D-Man
As a new Debian user and not real familiar with the intricacies of it's package system I can vouch that it worked for me. I upgraded from 2.2.17-idepci (used for a network install) to 2.2.18 (normal). It's worked nicely so far. Even did a bunch of module configuration (use modconf) and haven't

RE: Will 'apt-get install kernel-image-2.2.17' work OK?

2001-01-09 Thread John Griffiths
David Shepherd wrote: >I guess 2.2.18 would be better, I want to know whether 'apt-get install...' >is a reliable method of upgrading the kernel. >Dave > well with some trepidation and good backups made i upgraded the kernel of my little i486 DX2 LAMP box (linux/apache/mysql/PHP) using that method

RE: Will 'apt-get install kernel-image-2.2.17' work OK?

2001-01-09 Thread David Shepherd
I guess 2.2.18 would be better, I want to know whether 'apt-get install...' is a reliable method of upgrading the kernel. Dave -Original Message- From: John Griffiths [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 10 January 2001 4:46 p.m. To: David Shepherd Cc: Debian-User Subject: Re: Will '

Re: Will 'apt-get install kernel-image-2.2.17' work OK?

2001-01-09 Thread John Griffiths
David Shepherd wrote: >Can please someone tell me whether 'apt-get install kernel-image-2.2.17' >will safely update my kernel from the 2.2.17-compact version to the 'full' >version. sure you don't want 2.2.18?

Will 'apt-get install kernel-image-2.2.17' work OK?

2001-01-09 Thread David Shepherd
Can please someone tell me whether 'apt-get install kernel-image-2.2.17' will safely update my kernel from the 2.2.17-compact version to the 'full' version. Thanks Dave

Removing mesa safely

2001-01-09 Thread Jonathan Markevich
I upgraded to XFree 4.0.2 last week, and it went well. However, in trying to install the nVidia driver, I had a conflict with Mesa... it wants to remove mesa as well as all of kde2! I believe it provides gl1 or something of that nature... The question is, do I need mesa with XFree 4.0.2? Isn't t

Re: wacky kernel question

2001-01-09 Thread Joey Hess
Carel Fellinger wrote: > it's because on a teletype you couldn't erase, so backspacing wouldn't > help in keeping things readeable:) Hm, ok, that makes sense. I was thinking in the context of dumb terminals; teletypes were slightly before my time. -- see shy jo

Re: mail client

2001-01-09 Thread Harlan Crystal
If you're used to pico, there's a free software program that aims to resemble pico named 'nano.' It's in package 'nano.' You might want to try the mutt mailreader, also. I used to use pine at one point but found that mutt is superior in most ways. It's in package 'mutt.' -- harlan > On Mon,

Re: Need help setting up parallel printer

2001-01-09 Thread mikepolniak
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 08:56:30PM -0500, David B. Harris wrote: > To quote "David Shepherd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > # 'modprobe lp' gives me > # modprobe: Can't locate module lp > # > # This is/was a stock debian kernel from an official CD. > # > # Anything else I can try, or do I have to rec

Re: Jazip config problem

2001-01-09 Thread Giulio Morgan
Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Giulio Morgan wrote: > > > I installed jazip yesterday (from "testing"), and I have not been able to > > configure the tool successfully, or to mount my internal zip drive. From the > > start up messages, it appears that the Zip drive is seen: > >

Re: More legacy/proprietry app headaches.

2001-01-09 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 09:36:32AM +1100, Stewart James wrote: > > Hi all, > > New problem with not only a proprietry app, but a old one. > > Netscape calendar client doiesn't want to play with Debian. Even worse > this is a product that Netscape has dropped which means a big fat zero > support

Re: mail client

2001-01-09 Thread ktb
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 05:51:21PM -0600, Casey Webster wrote: > Hello, > > I've noticed debian doesnt distribute pine on its package mirrors, and > as i've only really used pine under unix for mail, what mail clients do > you guys use, so i can check them out. > You can get Pine to wor

Re: Need help setting up parallel printer

2001-01-09 Thread David B . Harris
To quote "David Shepherd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # 'modprobe lp' gives me # modprobe: Can't locate module lp # # This is/was a stock debian kernel from an official CD. # # Anything else I can try, or do I have to recompile the kernel (I've never # done it before). # Can I somehow grab the sto

RE: Need help setting up parallel printer

2001-01-09 Thread David Shepherd
'modprobe lp' gives me modprobe: Can't locate module lp This is/was a stock debian kernel from an official CD. Anything else I can try, or do I have to recompile the kernel (I've never done it before). Can I somehow grab the stock kernel from a distribution mirror? Please excuse my lack

Re: Need help setting up parallel printer

2001-01-09 Thread Matthew Dalton
David Shepherd wrote: > > Typing 'insmod lp' > gives me > insmod: lp: no module by that name found > > typing find / -name 'lp.o' > finds nothing > > How should I install this module? It sounds like you've recompiled your kernel at some stage, since you don't have all of the modules com

Re: Need help setting up parallel printer

2001-01-09 Thread David B . Harris
To quote "David Shepherd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # Typing 'insmod lp' 'insmod' takes a real file as an argument; for instance, 'insmod /lib/modules/2.4.0c/kernel/drivers/block/paride/paride.o'. 'modprobe', however, doesn't need the whole file, just the name(in my example, "paride"). # gives me #

Re: Command line search and replace

2001-01-09 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 11:29:31AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: :on Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 08:20:18AM -0500, Jonathan D. Proulx ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: :> find . -name *.txt -exec cp {} {}.tmp \; -exec sed s/foo/boo/g {} \; :> :> or writing a small shell/perl/sed/awk/whatever script that

webtrends

2001-01-09 Thread Jeff Green
webtrends ( a nasty paid for web log analysis package, but what can I do my boss likes it) has a version for "red hat linux 6.x") has anyone any experience of installing it under Debian? Any comments greatly appreciated Jeff Green

Re: The OReilly Book distro

2001-01-09 Thread Ray Percival
It was a hacked kernel that VA put together. This is the only O'Reilly book I've ever been sorry for buying. Read the online version buy Running Linux and get a cd from someplace else. -- Original Message -- From: "Tom Schuetz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To

RE: Need help setting up parallel printer

2001-01-09 Thread David Shepherd
Typing 'insmod lp' gives me insmod: lp: no module by that name found typing find / -name 'lp.o' finds nothing How should I install this module? Dave -Original Message- From: Matthew Dalton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 10 January 2001 2:08 p.m. To: David Shepherd Cc

Re: Anyone with a HP Deskjet working from Potato?

2001-01-09 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 07:43:42PM -0500, David Shepherd wrote: > I'm trying to get my Deskjet695C working. > > I posted earlier under subject "Need help setting up parallel printer" but > didn't get any takers :-( mist that one, besides I know next to nothing of it. But hey, I've got the files a

Re: Need help setting up parallel printer

2001-01-09 Thread Matthew Dalton
David Shepherd wrote: > > I've just switched from Redhat 6.2 to Debian 2.2r2 and can't get my > DeskJet695C working. > Everything worked fine under RH using printtool to set it up. [cut] > When I try > > echo "this is a test" > /dev/lp0 > > I get > > su: /dev/lp0: No such devi

Re: wacky kernel question

2001-01-09 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 01:31:04PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > I've been using linux for years and years, but I have never figured this > odd little corner out. Perhaps someone here will know. > > If you type when the kernel is booting up, it echos to the screen. > That's normal for linux of course.

Anyone with a HP Deskjet working from Potato?

2001-01-09 Thread David Shepherd
I'm trying to get my Deskjet695C working. I posted earlier under subject "Need help setting up parallel printer" but didn't get any takers :-( Can someone please post me the following: 1. the lines from /var/log/messages where the parport driver is loaded 2. the /etc/modules.conf file 3. the /et

Re: slink archive?

2001-01-09 Thread Matthew Dalton
Lachlan Patrick wrote: > > Is slink archived anywhere? A year ago I installed slink on > my venerable 486/8MB system and it worked like a charm. > Now, slink is apparently gone from the net, so if I just > want to install a few packages for my 2.0.38 kernal, how > do I do it? I'm a big fan of the

slink archive?

2001-01-09 Thread Lachlan Patrick
Is slink archived anywhere? A year ago I installed slink on my venerable 486/8MB system and it worked like a charm. Now, slink is apparently gone from the net, so if I just want to install a few packages for my 2.0.38 kernal, how do I do it? I'm a big fan of the "if it ain't broke don't fix it" phi

Re: eml attached file problem

2001-01-09 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Erdmut Pfeifer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # Copy these lines into a file, e.g. "base64dec.pl", make it executable # and call it like this # # base64dec.pl in.base64 >out.gif # # "in.base64" is your chunk of cryptic-looking data you're having # problems with. It should consist of the part *betw

Re: Emergency: RADIUS server HDD down!

2001-01-09 Thread Casey Webster
i find that if there is not a vilid superblock at 8193, you might be able to find one at 32768. On my larger partitions, that is the first backup superblock that is made. -casey On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Ron Mullins wrote: > I think I might have a problem. ;-) > > My radius server (an old DELL P75 w

Re: snmpd package do not have processor load in snmp tree?

2001-01-09 Thread brian moore
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 03:41:07PM +0800, Tam, Vincent wrote: > Dear all, > > We're using Debian 2.2 system. We've installed the snmpd package > and configured read access. The problem is we cannot find any place in > the snmp tree that show the processor load?! > > We do an snmpwalk and found

Re: OT: logname?

2001-01-09 Thread David B . Harris
To quote "Christopher W. Aiken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # # Slightly off topic. There is a utility, /usr/bin/logname # that returns the "login name" of the user. The problem is: # # 1) in xterm, Eterm, kterm logname works OK # 2) in gnome-terminal and kconsol logname always returns # "lognam

Re: X Window Manager

2001-01-09 Thread David B . Harris
To quote kmself@ix.netcom.com, # - twm is a pretty minimal window manager. # - blackbox and sawfish are both pretty slim. I love Sawfish, but I don't think it's appropriate in this case. Almost all of Sawfish is written in the Rep dialect of Lisp, and is interpreted at runtime. That's a CPU-de

Re: Recommend Version/book/cd source

2001-01-09 Thread Lance Simmons
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 09:48:54AM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: > > I would also like a book recommendation specifically for Debian from the > URL below and perhaps one general reference book as well. The book I've gained most from in trying to learn linux has been _Think Unix_ by Jon Lasser (Qu

OT: logname?

2001-01-09 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
Slightly off topic. There is a utility, /usr/bin/logname that returns the "login name" of the user. The problem is: 1) in xterm, Eterm, kterm logname works OK 2) in gnome-terminal and kconsol logname always returns "logname: no login name" Why doesn't "logname" work correctly all of the

Re: eml attached file problem

2001-01-09 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 09:28:00PM +0100, Nicolas Bertolissio wrote: > > On Sun, 07 Jan 2001 00:11:44 Eric G . Miller wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 10:10:51PM +0100, Nicolas Bertolissio wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I've a potato upgraded in woody, and I'm using balsa_0.9.5-1.0.pre5-1. > >

Re: Emergency: RADIUS server HDD down!

2001-01-09 Thread kmself
on Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 04:45:27PM -0500, Ron Mullins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I think I might have a problem. ;-) > > My radius server (an old DELL P75 with two old Western Digitals) had the > second drive (holding /usr) go down. e2fsck gave me: > > * > e2fsck 1.18, 11-Nov-1999 for EXT2

install suggestion

2001-01-09 Thread S.
For those concerned with the installation process: "We" need to check for a partition which is TOO SMALL before attempting to copy up the operating system. Otherwise, we go 'round and 'round without any indication that we have been parked in orbit, or why. This is especially critical when we

Re: Recommend Version/book/cd source

2001-01-09 Thread Sthitaprajna
On Tue, 9 Jan 2001 17:58:26 +0100 Jonathan Gift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would also like a book recommendation specifically for Debian from the > > URL below and perhaps one general reference book as well. I saw someone > > mention Running Linux. Is this a good general reference? > > http:

Re: OT: X window-managers

2001-01-09 Thread kmself
on Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 11:47:28AM -0800, Xucaen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi all. I'm curious.. > I installed X for the first(?) time last weekend > and I installed FVWM. I had heard about Gnome, > but decided not to use it because I wanted > something fast and small. Now I'm wondering, what

Re: mutt mailbox default

2001-01-09 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: mutt mailbox default Date: Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 11:07:02PM -0200 In reply to:Marcelo Chiapparini Quoting Marcelo Chiapparini([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Thanks to everyone who helped me with this!!! It worked fine. > The last question: how can I change the default mail fo

Re: strange bash feature

2001-01-09 Thread kmself
on Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 09:45:50PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > I was recently using a computer (not my home computer) from which I have > access > to a linux account, using F-Secure SSH. > > I noticed that any time I typed a command I would get the command repeat

Re: X Window Manager

2001-01-09 Thread kmself
on Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 12:51:32PM -0500, cdryburgh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Have got an old 386 with Debian Linux on it. Have loaded X and am > looking for a window manager for it. There are a lot of them. I was > hopping that if I give some specs that someone could narrow down the > list. >

More legacy/proprietry app headaches.

2001-01-09 Thread Stewart James
Hi all, New problem with not only a proprietry app, but a old one. Netscape calendar client doiesn't want to play with Debian. Even worse this is a product that Netscape has dropped which means a big fat zero support wise. I can assure anyone who tries to help that it can run under redhat and ma

dpkg on other OSs

2001-01-09 Thread Stephen Carpenter
[please cc me on responses - I can't handle the volume of mail that comes from actually subscribing to this list - its been a long time since I had the time to read it] Ok... at work we are looking into package management for sysadmin stuff that we do. Its not really my project but, as a debian

Emergency: RADIUS server HDD down!

2001-01-09 Thread Ron Mullins
I think I might have a problem. ;-) My radius server (an old DELL P75 with two old Western Digitals) had the second drive (holding /usr) go down. e2fsck gave me: * e2fsck 1.18, 11-Nov-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 Couldn't find ext2 superblock, trying backup blocks... e2fsck: Bad magic numb

Re: wacky kernel question

2001-01-09 Thread Nate Amsden
Joey Hess wrote: It doesn't often matter, since there is > little point to type at the kernel while it's booting, unless you are > extremely bored during a long fsck. :-) i think there is a fsck patch to play tetris or something while the system fscks ... http://www.movement.uklinux.net/fscktris

Re: Gimp Lists?

2001-01-09 Thread Jonathan Gift
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Yes, when they ask if you have anything to declare - tell them you only > have the Mr.Rogers Naughty Neighborhood videos... > > They like that joke. And tell them about the explosives your friends hid in the linings of the car's upholstery as a going away prank. It w

wacky kernel question

2001-01-09 Thread Joey Hess
I've been using linux for years and years, but I have never figured this odd little corner out. Perhaps someone here will know. If you type when the kernel is booting up, it echos to the screen. That's normal for linux of course. The interesting behavior that puzzles me is that if you hit the back

Re: How to get Woody on an Off-line computer?

2001-01-09 Thread D-Man
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 10:14:14PM +0100, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: | On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 20:54:09 +, Pollywog wrote: | > Is "testing" a new designation? I had not seen it before. | | Yes. It's between "stable" and "unstable" - essentially a delayed version of | "unstable" with some cont

Re: The OReilly Book distro

2001-01-09 Thread Frozen
Eric Richardson wrote: > Tom Schuetz wrote: > > > > Has anybody else had a particularly hard time getting Xf86 running off of > > the CDs that come with "Learning GNU/Linux"? > > > > I saw some comment about this version being a mixed bag of versions. > > I read a review on the o'reilly site th

Re: How to get Woody on an Off-line computer?

2001-01-09 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 20:54:09 +, Pollywog wrote: > Is "testing" a new designation? I had not seen it before. Yes. It's between "stable" and "unstable" - essentially a delayed version of "unstable" with some control to prevent packages with "important" or higher bugs to come into it from "u

Re: How to get Woody on an Off-line computer?

2001-01-09 Thread Pollywog
> Just to let you know, Woody isn't unstable any more - it's "testing". It > has glibc-2.2 now, but it still doesn't have XFree 4.0.2. You'll need to > get Sid to get all the latest stuff. > Is "testing" a new designation? I had not seen it before. Is "Sid" the name of the next version? I

Re: The OReilly Book distro

2001-01-09 Thread Eric Richardson
Tom Schuetz wrote: > > Has anybody else had a particularly hard time getting Xf86 running off of the > CDs that come with "Learning GNU/Linux"? > > I saw some comment about this version being a mixed bag of versions. I read a review on the o'reilly site that said this version was not so good -

LDAP auth for some users

2001-01-09 Thread Anton Emmerfors
Hi, I'm in the process of converting authentication (and some other stuff) to LDAP but not quite ready to put all users into the LDAP directory. Thus I want pam_ldap.so to authenticate users found in the directory but pam_unix.so to authenticate local accounts. Using the current style in /etc/pam

Re: How to get Woody on an Off-line computer?

2001-01-09 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Preben Randhol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # I have a computer at home which is not connected to the internet (no # modem, ISDN etc). I want woody on this machine as all new packages # require libc6 2.2.x and X 4.0 and I need the latest versions of some # packages. I downloaded the unofficial CDs

The OReilly Book distro

2001-01-09 Thread Tom Schuetz
Has anybody else had a particularly hard time getting Xf86 running off of the CDs that come with "Learning GNU/Linux"? I saw some comment about this version being a mixed bag of versions. Thanks, Tom Schuetz [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: configuring sendmail

2001-01-09 Thread staf wagemakers
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 03:26:18PM +, Sergio Matos wrote: > staf wagemakers wrote: > > > Normally if sendmail rejects mail for any reason ( unresolvable domains, > > relaying denied, too many hops etc. ) the sender will be notified by email. > > > > You don't have to configure anything for thi

Re: eml attached file problem

2001-01-09 Thread Nicolas Bertolissio
On Sun, 07 Jan 2001 00:11:44 Eric G . Miller wrote: > On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 10:10:51PM +0100, Nicolas Bertolissio wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I've a potato upgraded in woody, and I'm using balsa_0.9.5-1.0.pre5-1. > > I've received a mail with an attachment that is an .eml file format > > (see bel

Re: How to get Woody on an Off-line computer?

2001-01-09 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Preben Randhol wrote: > D-Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 08/01/2001 (14:37) : > > > You could just download all the packages you might want and to a HD > > install. (Assuming you have a machine with a decently fast connection > > and a disk big enough to transfer to the un-connected machine) >

Re: Voodoo 3

2001-01-09 Thread Andrea Vettorello
David Steinberg wrote: > Hi all, > > I was wondering if anyone could help me figure out what to do to set up my > voodoo 3 to provide hardware-accelerated OpenGL under X 3.3.6? > > At this point, what I think I know is that Mesa is a free implementation > of the OpenGL API, and that it can work wi

Re: strange bash feature

2001-01-09 Thread sena
On 09/01/2001 at 21:45 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > This is a little irritating at times. If I try to do the following > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ls -l 'which ls' > > I get > > ls -l 'which ls' > ls: which ls: No such file or directory > > Whereas I would normally expect the fol

Re: Unidentified subject!

2001-01-09 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Dataflash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # I use Corel Linux, which is a debian distribution. Correction; Corel Linux is a distribution *based* on Debian, but it is not an official Debian distribution. In some cases, that's an extremely important difference. Those WINE packages look like they were

OT: X window-managers

2001-01-09 Thread Xucaen
Hi all. I'm curious.. I installed X for the first(?) time last weekend and I installed FVWM. I had heard about Gnome, but decided not to use it because I wanted something fast and small. Now I'm wondering, what are the advantages to using something like Gnome, (which runs on top of a window manag

strange bash feature

2001-01-09 Thread russirv
I was recently using a computer (not my home computer) from which I have access to a linux account, using F-Secure SSH. I noticed that any time I typed a command I would get the command repeated before I got the output - as an example [EMAIL PROTECTED] ls ls index.htm other files

Re: Apache graceful as non-root

2001-01-09 Thread kmself
on Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 09:38:59AM +0100, Sven Burgener ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello Nate > > [yes, do CC: me] > > Nate Amsden wrote: > > > > Sven Burgener wrote: > > > > > > Is there a way to do "apachectl graceful" as non-root user? Because when > > > I do, I get an error about denied p

Re: apt, dpkg

2001-01-09 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Andreas Rath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # hello, # # i am working with unstable, and i am a little confused, because # dselect wants to remove some parts from my kde! # apt seems to have the same problem, but it keeps some packages # back. # Who can i detect and resolve this problem? # # greeti

RE: X Window Manager

2001-01-09 Thread Daniel Oxenhandler
Chris, I don't know about item #3, but I have been very happy with the blackbox window manager (http://blackbox.alug.org/). Very lightweight, and clean, and very little screen real estate is wasted. I switched to blackbox when the Gnome window manager made my P100 w/24MB RAM very slow. Good luc

Unidentified subject!

2001-01-09 Thread Dataflash
Guayaquil, Jan. 9th, 2001 Dear Sir, I found that on http://gluck.debian.org/~andreas/debian/dists/wine/main/binary-i386/ you maintain the *.deb binaries and sources of the Wine project. I use Corel Linux, which is a debian distribution. I downloaded the files at the above mentioned address,

Re: Command line search and replace

2001-01-09 Thread kmself
on Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 08:20:18AM -0500, Jonathan D. Proulx ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 11:52:26PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > :> My vote for most elegant: > :> > :> find . -name *.txt -exec sed s/foo/boo/g {} \; > :> {} refers to file found

Re: hi all

2001-01-09 Thread Matthew Sackman
In a stats colum in linux format this month, it said: 64,000 is the maximum number of users that could connect to a linux box before kernel version 2.4 With a 2.4 kernel, you can have 4.3bn connections. I'd image that the structures to handle this number of user ids must be implace otherwise thi

Re: hi all

2001-01-09 Thread Matthew Sackman
In a stats colum in linux format this month, it said: 64,000 is the maximum number of users that could connect to a linux box before kernel version 2.4 With a 2.4 kernel, you can have 4.3bn connections. I'd image that the structures to handle this number of user ids must be implace otherwise this

Re: Kernel 2.4.0 support for potato 2.2r2

2001-01-09 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I've compiled 2.4.0 on my potato firewall, and it seems to be booting > nicely. However, there seems to be some issues with the location of the > kernel modules. I'm sure that there are ot

apt, dpkg

2001-01-09 Thread Andreas Rath
hello, i am working with unstable, and i am a little confused, because dselect wants to remove some parts from my kde! apt seems to have the same problem, but it keeps some packages back. Who can i detect and resolve this problem? maxl:/home/raa # dselect Reading Package Lists... Done Building De

Re: Mail not bouncing back on errors?

2001-01-09 Thread Jonathan Gift
Mark Brown wrote: > On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 05:47:48PM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote: > That worked. Switching the local_domains back as they were in exim.conf did it. So now that works, but I'm stick wth the earlier problem which that solved . Thanks for the helped. Jonathan -- "He

Re: X Window Manager

2001-01-09 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 12:51:32PM -0500, cdryburgh wrote: > Have got an old 386 with Debian Linux on it. Have loaded X and am > looking for a window manager for it. There are a lot of them. I was > hopping that if I give some specs that someone could narrow down the > list. > > 1. Have limited me

re: Debug X - "could not open default font 'fixed' "

2001-01-09 Thread M David Tilson
It's a "fatal server error" - How to fix? Thanks to all who have been helping me. I'll do my thank you notes next time I am on AOL.

Re: X Window Manager

2001-01-09 Thread Lance Simmons
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 12:51:32PM -0500, cdryburgh asked about window managers. Here's my suggestion: No question in my mind: uwm. It has the best interface I've ever used. You can perform any operation on any window by clicking on it _anywhere_. You can also use keystrokes to do pretty much anyt

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2001-01-09 Thread Jurgen de Wijs
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Re: implicit lock in formail - FIXED

2001-01-09 Thread Marco C .
Il 8 gennaio 2001 (lunedì), alle 23:57, Defresne Sylvain ha scritto: > You need to remove the second colon from this line. It tells > procmail to use a lock and since you don't provide a name, it > try to determine the name of the lock from the name of the > mailbox and it

Re: invalidfontAladdin

2001-01-09 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 06:07:39PM +0100, Nikolaus Neumaier wrote: > Hi > I do run a testing system (woody) > whenever I try to display a postscript file generated by a2ps, grace or > scigraphica or another programm, I get following error message from > ghostscript: > > Error: /invalidfontAladdin

Re: X Window Manager

2001-01-09 Thread David B . Harris
To quote cdryburgh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # The ICEWM looks like a possibility to me. Any other opinions. That would have been my suggestion. Generally, I've found you get most bang for the resources with IceWM. Blackbox is supposed to be extremely lightweight though, so you might want to check it o

Re: X Window Manager

2001-01-09 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, cdryburgh wrote: -|Have got an old 386 with Debian Linux on it. Have loaded X and am -|looking for a window manager for it. There are a lot of them. I was -|hopping that if I give some specs that someone could narrow down the -|list. -| -|1. Have limited memory resources so mus

Re: Jazip config problem

2001-01-09 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Giulio Morgan wrote: > I installed jazip yesterday (from "testing"), and I have not been able to > configure the tool successfully, or to mount my internal zip drive. From the > start up messages, it appears that the Zip drive is seen: > > Jan 4 16:47:23 pieno kernel: hdc: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI

Re: Recommend Version/book/cd source

2001-01-09 Thread Eric Richardson
Jonathan Gift wrote: > > Eric Richardson wrote: > > > > >From the Debian site it would seem that 2.2r2 (potato) would be a good > > choice. I would prefer something that would have the least problems > > installing, running etc. This will be the users first taste of Linux and > > my first install

Re: X Window Manager

2001-01-09 Thread Jon Pennington
cdryburgh wrote: > > 1. Have limited memory resources so must not use much. > 2. Have small monitor 14". Must allow for maximum screen viewing. > 3. I am a programmer so will probably be doing GUI's and CORBA related > stuff at some point. Sounds like a perfect candidate for Blackbox 0.61.x, pack

Re: potato + certain unstable packages

2001-01-09 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Zach Loafman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # Appending to myself: # # > cp /etc/apt/sources.list.stable /etc/apt/sources.list # apt-get update # > apt-get dist-upgrade # > cp /etc/apt/sources.list.unstable /etc/apt/sources.list # apt-get update # > apt-get install # # This method doesn't please

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2001-01-09 Thread usecurit
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Re: Whirl logo instead of Tux

2001-01-09 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Peter Hugosson-Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # I'm trying to make sense of this thread, but I guess I'm too dense: exactly when # would this boot logo show up? # # 1) post LILO but pre kernel load? # 2) post kernel load but pre init? # 3) Is it used as a background picture for xdm or gdm? #

X Window Manager

2001-01-09 Thread cdryburgh
Have got an old 386 with Debian Linux on it. Have loaded X and am looking for a window manager for it. There are a lot of them. I was hopping that if I give some specs that someone could narrow down the list. 1. Have limited memory resources so must not use much. 2. Have small monitor 14". Must al

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