staroffice..

Well after a little bit lurking the web a see the only real chance to see powerpoint files under linux is staroffice (yes I know I could use wmware and the like but I want something as lighter as possible since I wont use it too much). I see at staroffice site a file which is called "player".. doe

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I've been having some problems with my printing since I installed debian. Perhaps someone here can pinpoint my problem rather quickly. I have a linux server with CUPS installed and it is able to print locally with no problem whatsoever. When I configured samba to allow my windows (2k & me) ma

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I am sure that other folks are experiencing the same problem. I am interested in installing X after upgrading to debian 2.2, but can seem to run xf86config get the message, command not found startx don't work either, but I can even set up my xf86config file! so that makes sense. locate xf

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Re: how to edit the kernel....make menuconfig???

There is an official debian way to recompile kernels, but I don't bother.. download the kernel source from debian.org or kernel.org (avoid minor versions which are not divisible by 2, like 2.1.* or 2.3.*) read the README in /usr/src/linux, and you're go. Basically make menuconfig ma

Re: Lion Worm

John Hasler wrote: > Shawn Yarbrough writes: > > Why did I have to do this at all? Wouldn't it make sense to have > > security.debian.org in the sources.list file by default? > > It would. And it fact, it is done by current versions of apt-setup in stable. Just not those released with r0 -- se

Re: OpenSSH grief part 2

What happens if you ssh -v -v -v to both the good machine and the bad machine? The output below suggests that the bad machine is choking on both your rsa key and your dsa key. The good machine only chokes on the dsa key, so maybe it's using whatever rsa key you give it (and perhaps this is

adressbook recomendation

anyone recommend a gui based addressbook program for storing names, addresses, phone numbers, etc? I was using the addressbook package, but it seems to have broken somewhere along the woody upgrade line - no idea when even. cheers Today pe

Re: Potato and satellite internet connection

I know nothing about satellite internet connections, but FWIW I'll guess that getting this to work should have little to do with which official Debian release you're running. Maybe you can find out what other satellite users with unixlike operating systems are doing, and try to imitate

Re: Lion Worm

Shawn Yarbrough writes: > Why did I have to do this at all? Wouldn't it make sense to have > security.debian.org in the sources.list file by default? It would. > At the very least I think there is a user education problem here. Yes. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse

Re: Lion Worm

If you check the "bind worm" thread, you will see that an updated version of bind is at security.debian.org. There other important security fixes there as well. IMHO, all potato users should add the following to there /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://security.debian.org/ potato/updates main cont

Re: Lion Worm

Thanks. This worked great. It upgraded my BIND to version 8.2.3-0.potato and also upgraded a bunch of other important-looking packages. Version 8.2.3 seems to be immune to the Lion Worm so I feel better now. I did a 'dselect', Update, Select, Install instead of the 'apt-get update; apt-get upg

Re: powerpoint viewer.

> > Can somebody advise me a good viewer/converter for m$ powerpoint under > > debian? > > just a converter would be fine... I prefer command-line tools... > No converter I'm aware of, unless you like 'strings' . StarOffice, > that bloated stuck pig of an office suite, works pretty well. I didn

Re: powerpoint viewer.

on Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 11:48:19PM +0100, Roberto Diaz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi! > > Can somebody advise me a good viewer/converter for m$ powerpoint under > debian? > > just a converter would be fine... I prefer command-line tools... No converter I'm aware of, unless you like 'strings'

Re: known libc6 2.2.2-2 install failure

No, thank you Ben for staying on the handle (ie not flying off) and for all your hard work. On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Ben Collins wrote: >Ok, it is now a known issue (since I've gotten 5 bug reports over the >past 2 hours). Please refrain from sending more bug reports, and remove >libc6-i586 or libc6

security.debian.org in sources.list (was Re: bind worm)

on Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 06:13:27PM -0500, Bill White ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 05:39:14PM -0500, Bill White wrote: > > This is very confusing to me. It looks to me as if the version of bind > > in stable is 8.2.2p7-1. It looks to me as if you have to go to unstable > >

Re: Lion Worm

Sorry, in my concern about this recent worm, I wrote too hastily. I just discovered through a search of the security mailing list archive that security updates are for stable *only*, and I'm running a testing box. Best, Glenn Becker Online Producer, Community SCIFI.COM At 10:14pm on Fri, 23 Ma

Re: Lion Worm

OK, I've tried adding this line via dselect *and* direct editing of the source.list file ... and I get '404 file not found's for the security stuff. What could I be doing wrong? I've fiddled with the security listing several times but still can't get past the 404 upon apt-get update ... Glenn Be

Re: disk drive controller failure

On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 05:18:09PM -0800, Michael O'Brien wrote: > Hola~ > > I've got a Dell Inspiron 8000 on which I have the unstable debs installed. > > I believe the laptop has a buggy disk or drive controller. I'm finding some > files saved to the disk contain garbage. For example, in downlo

Re: sndconfig in potato

* L.V.Gandhi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010323 19:37]: > Using alien, I converted sndconfig.rpm of rh6.2 and tried to install it > potato with stock kernel. First it gave the error of conf.modules as > predicated. It couldn't either auto or manual, install sound. Then I > changed modules.conf with lines

Re: Quicktime *.mov player

Justin Burke wrote: > What about using VMWare? vmware would work..ive been using vmware for almost 2 years now and i still can't get sound working :) nate -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

apt question

is it posible to have two distro lines in /etc/apt/sources.list like this: deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib and prevent apt from taking every package from unstable since it has the newer version.

Re: Lion Worm

Shawn Yarbrough writes: > Can anybody tell me if Debian's BIND is in danger from the Lion Worm? Not if you hsve put deb http://security.debian.org/ potato/updates main contrib non-free in your /etc/apt/sources.list and done apt-get update; apt-get upgrade recently. -- John Hasler [EMAIL

dpkg-split...help.

I have tried to run dselect to install a basic set of packages on my old 486 with 4mb RAM. ( had to use the hamm dist and the lowmem boot disk.) I have selected the packages and resolved the conflicts. I am atempting to install from floppies. when i run the install option I get the following

Can't get remote X clients to display on Debian machine

xhost + rlogin remote_machine export DISPLAY=debiab_box run_x_task And I get "can't connect" errors. What's going on here? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for

Lion Worm

I'm using Debian stable (Debian 2.2 upgraded with current upgrades using dselect over apt-get). This new "Lion Worm" is spreading rapidly over the internet and appears to successfully attack all Linux systems running certain versions of BIND, both old and relatively new. BIND 8.2.2, (the Debian s

Re: Quicktime *.mov player

hi ya matheson... donno which one support *.mov formats... but there's my collection of stuff http://www.linux-Video.net ( look at the mpeg players list ) maybe its time to do a list of ... - which apps support what formats c ya alvin http://www.linux-1u.net ... 1U Raid

Re: Quicktime *.mov player

* Nate Amsden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > i think what your looking for is codecs, most of the stuff for quicktime is > encoded in very protected codecs which are not available on linux in any > player. i don't think wine can do quicktime either. What about using VMWare? Justin --- GPG Key

Re: xawtv and sound

Stan Brown wrote: > > On Fri Mar 23 11:50:10 2001 Nate Amsden wrote... > > > >Stan Brown wrote: > >> > > > >> > >> However, there are still a couple of problems. > >> > >> 1. I am not getting sound from the TV chanel while it's runing. Sound > >> seems to work > >> for everything else I have trie

Re: Wvdial - How do you surf without being root?

On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 07:10:27AM -0500, Barry Mathieu wrote: > Hmmm... I'm a Debian newbie using wvdial as an ordinary user, so I > wonder about the legitimacy of my method. > > I've added my username to the 'dialout' group in '/etc/group'. After you > edit that file, exacute, 'update-passwd'.

Re: sndconfig in potato

"L.V.Gandhi" wrote: > > Using alien, I converted sndconfig.rpm of rh6.2 and tried to install it > potato with stock kernel. First it gave the error of conf.modules as > predicated. It couldn't either auto or manual, install sound. Then I > changed modules.conf with lines from Rh6.2, lines for soun

Re: Quicktime *.mov player

Matheson Cameron wrote: > > Hey, > > I was wondering if their is a quicktime (*.mov) player > for Linux that *works*. The version of xanim that > came with Debian doesn't load quicktime, if I get it > myself will it? I tried one called xmovie that didn't > work. i think what your looking for i

Re: disk drive controller failure

Michael O'Brien wrote: > Anyway, I was curious if there was some sort of disk drive diagnostic or > testing package? I was looking at bonnie, but it seems more geared toward > finding disk performance than diagnostics. not that i'm aware of..but one thing you can try if you haven't already is dis

Re: nvidia tnt2 drivers and Xfree 24bit true color

Truecolor on the nVidia driver is 32 bit. The 3.3.6 _SVGA server will work nicely at that depth. Brent

disk drive controller failure

Hola~ I've got a Dell Inspiron 8000 on which I have the unstable debs installed. I believe the laptop has a buggy disk or drive controller. I'm finding some files saved to the disk contain garbage. For example, in downloading the kernel 2.4.2 source, one of the files contained some syntactically

Re: SourceForge binaries

Am Samstag, 24. März 2001 01:27 schrieb Phil Reardon,,,: > What line would I add to sources.list so I apt-get it from my home > directory? Try dpkg --install package.deb -- bye Joerg GPG-Keyid: 0x1120D31B Fingerprint: A3D2 83A4 535D A826 F2AA 4348 8BDD 849C 1120 D31B

Quicktime *.mov player

Hey, I was wondering if their is a quicktime (*.mov) player for Linux that *works*. The version of xanim that came with Debian doesn't load quicktime, if I get it myself will it? I tried one called xmovie that didn't work. Cameron Matheson __ Do

Re: xawtv and sound

On Fri Mar 23 11:50:10 2001 Nate Amsden wrote... > >Stan Brown wrote: >> > >> >> However, there are still a couple of problems. >> >> 1. I am not getting sound from the TV chanel while it's runing. Sound seems >> to work >> for everything else I have tried (festival, and playing a CDTOM, Realpl

Re: SourceForge binaries

Do you absolutely have to use apt-get to isntall it? You could just use dpkg -i packagename.deb while you're in the the directory the package is in. Apologies if this is not what you're after. Andrew Sione Taumoefolau [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://users.pipeline.com.au/tonga/ - Original Mes

sndconfig in potato

Using alien, I converted sndconfig.rpm of rh6.2 and tried to install it potato with stock kernel. First it gave the error of conf.modules as predicated. It couldn't either auto or manual, install sound. Then I changed modules.conf with lines from Rh6.2, lines for sound in its conf.modules. Still so

Re: bind worm

On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 03:20:49PM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > Bill White wrote: > > > you might want to check the archives of security but AFAIK the > security problems are released for potato as well. So I guess if it was > fixed in testing/unstable it was also fixed in stable... Well, actual

SourceForge binaries

Hi. I want to apt-get a .deb file I downloaded from SourceForge (gpltrans) It is not available from the debian archive or any mirrors. What line would I add to sources.list so I apt-get it from my home directory?

lprng: printing to a remote host

hi all, i'm totally new to lprng, and am finding the volume of documentation difficult to deal with. i'm trying to do something very basic: satan (192.168.0.2): has an hp laserjet6mp and standard lpd navalle (192.168.0.3): would like to use the above printer and runs lprng printcap on navalle

Re: XDM and /etc/profile

On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 11:37:41PM +, Simon Read wrote: > Folks, > > I was trying to change the path for users of my freshly installed > Debian machine. I found (to my dismay) that /etc/profile is NOT used > if I login at the console using 'xdm', but IS used if I login remotely > (using

Re: ? [linux books]

Hi, I think you're a little vague about what level you want these books on or what you need to accomplish, but I'd suggest: Linux, 2nd Edition, by Michael Koffler (published by Addison-Wesley) as one of my favorite Linux introductions as it goes to great pains to explain not only linux (and its

Re: XDM and /etc/profile

* Simon Read ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010323 18:42]: > > I was trying to change the path for users of my freshly installed > Debian machine. I found (to my dismay) that /etc/profile is NOT used > if I login at the console using 'xdm', but IS used if I login remotely > (using ssh). > > There s

XDM and /etc/profile

Folks, I was trying to change the path for users of my freshly installed Debian machine. I found (to my dismay) that /etc/profile is NOT used if I login at the console using 'xdm', but IS used if I login remotely (using ssh). There seem to be multiple options for fixing this problem,

RE: HP has released DeskJet printer driver!!!

Carlos- Although it´s true that there was no "need" for a DeskJet driver, this one is from HP. It simply prints better. For more details about printer and Linux, check out: 23/03/2001 05:10:44, Carlos Laviola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: Viewing html-attachments with mutt

* Bastian Bowe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, > > I try to view an html-attachment using mutt. After pressing "v" and > choosing the file netscape comes up. Netscape says "no such file or > directory" or something like that. Sometimes it works. Mutt seems > to copy the attached file to /

I can't see images in KDE2.1x / XFree4.02 / SID / 2.4.2 / LIBQT2

Hi, I have the subject's config. I have a strange problem. Either with Konkeror, Kview, or whatever I use to see a JPG (even the background kde image) won''t load. Kview will give me an error msg saying `image could not be loaded`. Konqueror will simply put `missing image` image.

Re: bind worm

Bill White wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 02:23:16PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 12:53:59PM -0500, John Cuson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > forwarded sans alert ... > > > > > > john cuson > > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > > > > > "Why, som

Re: bind worm

* Bill White ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010323 17:45]: > > > > Note that > > Package: bind > > Version: 1:8.2.3-4 > > > > This is very confusing to me. It looks to me as if the version of bind > in stable is 8.2.2p7-1. It looks to me as if you have to go to unstable > to get 8.2.3-4. So, w

Re: bind worm

On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 05:39:14PM -0500, Bill White wrote: > This is very confusing to me. It looks to me as if the version of bind > in stable is 8.2.2p7-1. It looks to me as if you have to go to unstable > to get 8.2.3-4. So, when you say we should "run our updates", does that > means we shou

Re: how to edit the kernel....make menuconfig???

From: Mike Egglestone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I'm having a tough time finding info on how to > edit the kernel so I can add "transparent_proxy" support. > Isn't there some utility to do this? You want to recompile the kernel with transparent_proxy? If so, see http://www.chowells.uklinux.net/files

Re: deleting specific files

on Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 12:53:59PM -0600, Jason P. Holland ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I need to delete a bunch of files, all of them of the form > > *.doc, scattered into several subdirectories inside a given > > directory. What should I do? > find /dir -name "*.doc" -exec rm -rf {} \; As

powerpoint viewer.

Hi! Can somebody advise me a good viewer/converter for m$ powerpoint under debian? just a converter would be fine... I prefer command-line tools... Regards Roberto Roberto Diaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://vivaldi.ddts.net

Re: Installation problem

On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 10:12:25PM +0100, Sergio Da Silva wrote: > Hi everybody, > > Recently I have tried to install a Debian system on a newly purchased Dell > system. When trying to fill apt's package database with the contents of > the CDs a strange error message appears saying that the system

how to edit the kernel....make menuconfig???

Hi all... I'm having a tough time finding info on how to edit the kernel so I can add "transparent_proxy" support. Isn't there some utility to do this? I'm running potato If someone could help me out.. that would be great!! Thanks Mike

Re: bind worm

On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 02:23:16PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 12:53:59PM -0500, John Cuson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > forwarded sans alert ... > > > > john cuson > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > > > "Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six

RE: Hey

On 24-Mar-2001 strife wrote: > Hey, just thought if you can add ftp.iglu.org.il to your mirror list, > it'd be great. > thanks! > strife [EMAIL PROTECTED] (dw) File a bug (severity 'wishlist', please) against 'ftp.debian.org' requesting this. -- Carlos Laviola - ICQ 55799523 pub 1024D/3516D372

Re: bind worm

on Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 12:53:59PM -0500, John Cuson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > forwarded sans alert ... > > john cuson > ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > "Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things > before breakfast." > > Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 10:39:47 -

net-pf-1 and LILO

inite loop of (roughly): modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-1 modprobe: cannot create /var/log/ksymoops/20010323.log Secondly, I'm surprised the default install of LILO is not statically built, considering it role in booting, and therefore often fixing a bad MBR. The current tes

Gnome will not run for root user

I can run Gnome (Ximian) as a regular user but when I try to start it as root, it stalls when the picture of the Greek village comes up, every time. What should I check? Also, I installed Red Carpet and it worked the first time, but now it says that it's database is corrupted and I can't fix

Re: can't print from acroread

> In cases where the same thing acts differently from different > programs, I usually suspect the environment. Add > > env > > to your script, and see what differs. I don't know offhand what it > could be, but it's worth a try. > > -- > Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavo

Re: How can I start from a terminal instead of gdm

on Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 09:20:40AM -0500, Andrew D Dixon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi All, > Does anyone know how I can start from a terminal instead of gdm? When > X starts it's locking up my keyboard and mouse so I need to disable it > on boot up. I don't have a boot disk (of course) so I'm

Re: STILL Need Help getting rid of really anoying messages from Pam_unix(cron).

On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 02:03:32PM -0600, John Foster wrote: ... > I just installed the ones from the unstable site today. I have both > klogd and syslogd-ng installed. The minute I purged the sysklogd from my > server the messages stopped. I'm afraid I do not know what to tell > you :-( I mea

"startx -- :1" suddenly fails but "startx -- :1 -dpi 75" works in woody?

Hi, I use an up-to-date woody. Some of these days (sorry, can't give the upgrade date) startx -- :1 started to fail: I use to change to root from my user account within X (running on display 0) with "su -" and then I run startx -- :1. However, this suddenly doesn't work anymore, giving me a Fatal

Re: can't print from acroread

peanut butter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > so the execution of the script is exactly the same, > printing the exact same postscript file, while printing correctly from > one execution (command line) yet not from the other (acroread). In cases where the same thing acts differently from different

Re: printer setup

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 23 March 2001 16:13, Chris Howells wrote: > From: jens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > I installed 1.1.6 the same way you are suggesting and all went > > fine. I then tried installing kups which is a nicer interface > > as part of > > > > > D

Hey

Hey, just thought if you can add ftp.iglu.org.il to your mirror list, it'd be great. thanks! strife [EMAIL PROTECTED] (dw)

Re: Matlab R11 doesn't want to run after recent apt-get upgrade

Hi, I have a dual-boot system and use MatLAb 5.3 Student version in windows. I was unaware of the linux version. Where did you get it from? Dave W - Original Message - From: "Sebastiaan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Kenneth Litko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 7:20 PM S

Re: can't print from acroread

Ok, here's some preliminary information to this problem I'm still experiencing with a pdf not printing from the acroread application. Erdmut Pfeifer gave an excellent suggestion below to which I dedicated a few hours. In short: make a script that gets executed as the the "print command" from with

Re: printer setup

From: jens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I installed 1.1.6 the same way you are suggesting and all went fine. I > then tried installing kups which is a nicer interface as part of > Did you have the same problem ? Do you use kups ? How did you resolve > the issue ? Sorry, no, I simply use the web in

Installation problem

Hi everybody, Recently I have tried to install a Debian system on a newly purchased Dell system. When trying to fill apt's package database with the contents of the CDs a strange error message appears saying that the system is not able to read the CDs and that no Debian CD is in the drive. The sy

AVM FritzCard PCI and Capi-2.0

I'm using Debian Woody with kernel 2.4.2. I would like to test the AVM driver fcpci.o. I have downloaded and compiled this driver from the AVM website. Also I've compiled the kernel with capi support. Now I don't know how to install the module fcpci.o correctly. I guess it will have something to do

Re: HP has released DeskJet printer driver!!!

* Alejandro Garin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 20010323 14:57 +0100: > This is a good news for linux, > but why Hp doesn't support the 720C !!! > I can't believe it! They work in a drivers and my > printer is not supported yet... I WILL DROP THIS > PRINTER FOR THE WINDOW N

Making X debs

--Please CC me-- In order to use the newest matrox drivers I need to recompile X. I have done this before successfully but I just copied the new X11R6 directory to /usr/X11R6. While this worked I had to hold the X packages with dpkg. This obviously caused some problems with other packages.

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Hello there!!!   I want to ask you if you know about linux books for self trainning. If you do can you send me a list of the 5 first books you recomend in order to have my own linux internet server.   Thanks in advance!!!   Internet & TelecomunicacionesCalle Padre Emiliano Tardif No.36, Evari

Re: beginner -- installing ssh

Do you have a non-us site in your /etc/apt/sources.list? Something like deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US/main Most of the security related packages are at non-US, because Congressmen don't read the Constitution. On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 02:30:05PM -0600, Jake R. Johnson scrib

modem's and mtr/mru :was unidentified subject

I'm using 2.2r2 and kernel2.2.18pre21 on a PII 350. Works great now after many reinstalls. I have a Supra Express 56K modem and when I initially set it up using pppconfig I used the 115200 setting. With that setting I was getting time outs a lot with apt-get. I was advised to change it to 57600

known libc6 2.2.2-2 install failure

Ok, it is now a known issue (since I've gotten 5 bug reports over the past 2 hours). Please refrain from sending more bug reports, and remove libc6-i586 or libc6-i686 to fix the problem, or don't upgrade until 2.2.2-3 is available sometime tomorrow. Thanks to all those that did send bug reports.

Re: beginner -- installing ssh

On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 01:56:20PM -0600, Jake R. Johnson wrote: > I am trying to install ssh and am having some problems > > #apt-get install openssh There is no 'openssh' package. The 'ssh' package is really openssh. The 'ssh-nonfree' package is ssh. I personally think that was a terrible dec

RTF converter

Does anyone know of a program which will do conversion from DVI files, PS-files or PDF-files into RTF format? The best I've managed so far is to use pstotext to extract an ASCII file from the PS-file and then enscript to turn that into an RTF file. That works OK, but it's not great. It would be

Re: beginner -- installing ssh

I have it installed as the ssh package apt-get install ssh And it setup all of the dependencies for me. And it works too (I'm running mutt thru it right now). On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 01:56:20PM -0600, Jake R. Johnson scribbled... > I am trying to install ssh and am having some problems > > #apt-

Re: X11 header files - which package? -SOLVED

On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 05:41:29PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > Thanks to you and Moritz Schulte for replies. I got vim-6.0y to compile > in the end; I deleted the whole directory and unpacked the tar.gz files > again, and this time it worked. I suppose there were some broken files > left over

Re: beginner -- installing ssh

> I am trying to install ssh and am having some problems > > #apt-get install openssh > > then it asks for deps When it says that more files (deps) are needed, say "Yes" to download and install them. > #apt-get install openssl > > why can't I do this? One of the packages requirements is "libssl

Re: kppp and pon (provider)

I also had difficulties and after having read all ppp posts from the archives for the last 7 months I decided to only use pon and to start fresh. First I uninstalled ppp and pppconfig. Next I installed fresh copies of ppp and pppconfig. Then after install was complete I ran pppconfig. pppconfig is

Re: Need Help getting rid of really anoying messages from Pam_unix(cron).

Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 08:57:49AM -0600, John Foster wrote: > Could you post the versions of sysklogd, klogd & syslog-ng you installed? > I installed klogd form unstable but not sysklogd -- I've syslog-ng, and > I'm still getting all those messages. > > Dima > -- > Yes

beginner -- installing ssh

I am trying to install ssh and am having some problems #apt-get install openssh then it asks for deps #apt-get install openssl why can't I do this?

Re: WinTV card

What is the output if you run xawtv from xterm? On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 09:16:04PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > I am in the process of setting up a new machine. I have a WinTV card in it. I > loaded a minimal stable fileset, and then pointed my apt-get source to the > Progeny > RC1 loaction. The I

Re: deleting specific files

"Jason P. Holland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > find /dir -name "*.doc" -exec rm -rf {} \; Nits: * -r is probably not desired for this problem. If you run across a directory named "something.doc", it's clearly not a file and you may not want to delete it. * -f is possibly not desired fo

Re: How do I enable framebuffer?

Do you have a file /dev/fb0. If not generate on using MAKEDEV. On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 07:53:18PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > Since no one seems to able to help me figure out why the Debian xawtv package > fails > to find the xaw3d liraries (which are present). I decided to try the frame > buffer

Re: starting programs on kdm/startx startup

Someone posted this to me: >Have you tried using a ~/.xinitrc file instead of ~/.xsession? I use the former >and have never had a problem with background apps staying up when X closes. >But then all the apps I background are X based. What are you running background >that's staying up? That xplanetb

Re: gzipped dvi's

On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 11:23:16AM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: > Hi, > > I wondered if there is an easier way to view .dvi.gz files than to unpack > them first to /tmp. > > I looked through the optionlist of xdvi, tried pipes, but found nothing > usefull. > [...] Hi, Sebastiaan, You may want to tr

RE: deleting specific files

On 23-Mar-2001 Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hi debianers! > I need to delete a bunch of files, all of them of the form *.doc, scattered > into several subdirectories inside a given directory. What should I do? > (a couple of month ago I posted a similar email, but unfortunatly I deleted > the ve

RE: deleting specific files

find /dir -name "*.doc" -exec rm -rf {} \; Jason > > Hi debianers! > I need to delete a bunch of files, all of them of the form > *.doc, scattered > into several subdirectories inside a given directory. What > should I do? > (a couple of month ago I posted a similar email, but > unfortunatly

deleting specific files

Hi debianers! I need to delete a bunch of files, all of them of the form *.doc, scattered into several subdirectories inside a given directory. What should I do? (a couple of month ago I posted a similar email, but unfortunatly I deleted the very clever answer by accident. I surfed the archives,

Re: Potato and satellite internet connection

I know that with Star Band's equipment, there is a way hack the equipment so that you have a ethernet connection, but you void the warranty. Other than that, I myself have found nothing, even tried posting here once before, never got a response. If you find an answer let me know... -- Mike W

Re: Log rotation in Debian /var/log

%% Ilya Martynov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: im> Just curious: What drawbacks? I found two, but only one is really critical: 1) You can use globbing to have a single stanza match multiple log files, BUT the entire stanza is run each time for each log file, _including_ the postrotate s

Re: [Semi-OT] Mixer for OPL3-SA2 sound card?

On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 05:19:57PM +0200, Laurynas Biveinis wrote: > > Hello, > > recently I've upgraded to 2.4.2 kernel and I no longer > can set master volume, bass, treble channels for my OPL3-SA2 > sound card. I did RTFM and found out that the new driver > implements two mixer devices instead

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