Re: Progeny Debian

2001-04-11 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 08:11:41PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 07:52:44PM -0500, Bud Rogers wrote: > > On Wednesday 11 April 2001 19:37, Rob VanFleet wrote: > > > Did you file a bug report with them? It's the least you could do. > > > > Good grief, Rob. Didn't anyone

Re: download problem

2001-04-11 Thread ktb
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 12:40:42AM -0400, Rahul Agarwal wrote: > I am trying to download the Debian intallation files (first time > installation) from the website using the ftp ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ > the ftp program has already downloaded data more than 2.4 gigs and is still > going

Unable to locate libpixmap.so

2001-04-11 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
As a normal user, when I execute xmms, I get the following warnings: Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate loadable module in module_path: "libpixmap.so" And then xmms fires up and proceeds to work quite happily. However, I don't get this message if/when I execute xmms as root. dpkg -S libpixmap doe

download problem

2001-04-11 Thread Rahul Agarwal
I am trying to download the Debian intallation files (first time installation) from the website using the ftp ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/  the ftp program has already downloaded data more than 2.4 gigs and is still going on. I was wondering what is the size of the installation files and a

Re: NFS mount at startup

2001-04-11 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 10:15:45PM -0500, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: > How do I prevent NFS filesystems from mounting when I start up my > computer. As the system is booting, it attempts to mount them, and I only > want them mounted when I want them. Here's one example from my fstab: > > papa:/m

Re: WindowMaker Rocks!! ;-) (Was: FW: OT : GUI Interfaces)

2001-04-11 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 07:51:38PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 08:13:22AM +0800, csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > You missed my favorite icewm (in 3 flavors - -gnome -lite). The most > > Windows-like wm (not counting KDE's). > > Legacy MS Windows is not necessarially

Re: gdm login is broken in unstable(?)

2001-04-11 Thread Miles Bader
David Monarres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I had the same problem and it isn't gdm, rather it has to do with a broken > ssh-agent. I just commented out the lines in /etc/gdm/sessions/Gnome that > start ssh-agent and it seemd to work after that. Hey thanks, that fixes things perfectly! [Did'ya f

[OT] kapm-idled takes up 77% of CPU?

2001-04-11 Thread Krzys Majewski
Dig this: 3 root 20 0 00 0 SW 0 74.0 0.0 672:35 kapm-idled 10858 root 10 0 35540 8332 1628 S 0 0.5 6.5 0:03 X 4208 root 9 0 968 964 744 S 0 0.3 0.7 0:14 dozed 31364 krzys 10 0 1492 1492 692 R 0 0.3 1.1 0:00 t

Re: gdm login is broken in unstable(?)

2001-04-11 Thread David Monarres
I had the same problem and it isn't gdm, rather it has to do with a broken ssh-agent. I just commented out the lines in /etc/gdm/sessions/Gnome that start ssh-agent and it seemd to work after that. I have attached the session file on my system. (I don't really know if this was the most correct way

Re: startx not working

2001-04-11 Thread Matheson Cameron
Hey, I have the same problem (although I'm using gdm). What's going on? I need to do homework. Oh well, I guess that's what I get for using unstable :) Cameron Matheson __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://per

Re: install disk boot problem

2001-04-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
Please keep list mail on list. Reply redirected to list. on Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 09:33:56PM -0700, Jack Moffitt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Bad floppies are legion in Debian installs. Try another. And another. > > And another. If you can't get it right in six to ten, consider another > > r

Re: NFS mount at startup

2001-04-11 Thread Rich Puhek
The Automounter will help you. The documentation wasn't real clear to me at first, but I managed to get it up and running. See the Automounter mini-HOWTO at: http://www.kernel.org/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Automount.html or your favorite LDP mirror for more details. --Rich "Stephen E. Hargrove" wrote: >

NFS mount at startup

2001-04-11 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
How do I prevent NFS filesystems from mounting when I start up my computer. As the system is booting, it attempts to mount them, and I only want them mounted when I want them. Here's one example from my fstab: papa:/music/music nfs rsize=1024,wsize=1024 0 0 -- steve * Linux : htt

install disk boot problem

2001-04-11 Thread Jack Moffitt
I'm trying to install Debian potato on my laptop. I've got the generic i386 disks (rescue.bin and root.bin + the drivers1-4, etc). My laptop (a sony vaio picturebook) has a USB floppy drive and no cdrom. So I generally do net installs of RedHat on it. The floppy works great to boot the first dis

Re: Debian install on RAID hardware

2001-04-11 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001, Rafael Hinojosa wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > I'm not exactly sure if this question should be posted to this list, or to > another more specific list. If so, do let me know. > > The organization I belong to just received a new Dell PowerEdge 1400 with > the PercRAID 2/D

Re: water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.

2001-04-11 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 05:46:05PM -0400, Glenn Becker wrote: > I have followed this discussion with great interest. It's been really > lively! :-) > > I hardly consider myself to have achieved 'power user' status. I started > with Slackware Linux in late 1998. At this time I never touch Windows a

WindowMaker Rocks!! ;-) (Was: FW: OT : GUI Interfaces)

2001-04-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 08:13:22AM +0800, csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thursday 12 April 2001 07:44, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > WindowMaker, my preference. Gratuitous screenshots at > > http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Images/Desktop/ It's running very > > happily on my PPro 180MHz/256MB sys

Re: folder highlightning in Pine ?

2001-04-11 Thread Curtis Hogg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What you do, is in your folders page, you hit the ; key... then select [P]roperties (P key), then hit [N]ew (N key). this will check all of your folders for new messages, and put an X next to each one that contains new messages. - -- Curtis Hogg [EMA

DNS: how to set up 192.168.*.* of public IP addys?

2001-04-11 Thread will trillich
Pann McCuaig replied: > will trillich wrote: > > what kind of naming setup do you use for the intRAnet? something > > totally different from the public access point ("timmy.my.lan" > > for example) or do you branch off the original public name > > ("timmy.private.mydomain.org" for example)? > > $

Re: HELP - CS423x sound config and Debian Potato...

2001-04-11 Thread carl . tan
Hello Dima, Before this receipt of this post, I did the following: 1. download alsa-drivers, utils, etc. (ver. 0.5.10) from www.alsa-project.org 2. unpacked in my /root/alsa directory 3. ran a ./configure 4. got an error at "cannot find 'version.h' in /usr/src/linux/include/linux" So I downlo

Re: DNS question

2001-04-11 Thread Nathan
Angel wrote: > Hello!! > > I need to make up a dominium, but with only a server. I will like to > use some DNS server not on my site, ¿can somebody help me? Of course I > have static IP. And if I have to put DNS server on my machine, what can > I use to make it? > > Thank you for a

Re: Debian/Woody broke StarOffice 5.2

2001-04-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 10:16:10AM -0400, James D. Freels ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > It is the only application, commercial or otherwise, that I have found > that does not work for me under Debian/Woody. I suspect it needs an > older library that got overridden. Does anyone have, or know where

Re: Installation Problem (Debian Linux)

2001-04-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 05:13:05AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Dear Sir, Not so formal here, Sujit. > I have a PC with 20GB Hard disk, 810 Intel Chipset Motherboard and > P-III 700 CPU. In my hard disk, there are two partition, First > partition (i.e Pri. Dos portion) c

XFree4 startup error: PEXExtensionInit

2001-04-11 Thread Jeremiah Hunter Savage
I've been running Sid for ~1 month without any trouble, but today when I bootup my computer and tried to 'startx', I got a bizarre message which results in X not starting up. >From my log, I get: [snip] (==) MGA(0): Backing store disabled (==) MGA(0): Silken mouse enabled (**) MGA(0): DPM

Re: outgoing mail header address qyestion

2001-04-11 Thread ktb
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 10:51:41PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > Currently, I am using mutt to access my schools imap server. it's been > working great now I have another email account (pop3) and I use fetchmail to > retrive it. My problem is that whenever I reply my outg

Re: iptables logging?

2001-04-11 Thread Gregory T. Norris
If you're tracking unstable, make sure you have the klogd package installed. It was recently split out from sysklogd, and since apt-get doesn't handle Recommends... On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 12:22:57AM +0100, Adam James wrote: > Hi all, > > This is just something that's getting slightly annoying -

gdm login is broken in unstable(?)

2001-04-11 Thread Miles Bader
As of today I can't login via gdm anymore; it accepts my userid and password, restarts X, and then just restarts X again and shows the gdm login dialog. /var/log/auth.log shows something like: Apr 12 10:44:28 mcspd15 PAM_unix[8872]: (gdm) session opened for user miles by (uid=0) Apr 12 10:44

Re: videoconferencing

2001-04-11 Thread Alvin Oga
hi dan... try looking at my little collection... otherwise google has a good list of urls to go thru... http://www.Linux-Video.net - go to the video conference section have fun alvn On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Dan Berdine wrote: > Hi, > I'v been searching through the debian-user archives for

Re: xfree 4.0.3-pre1v2 broken

2001-04-11 Thread Mike
Kai Weber wrote: > + Thomas Deselaers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > after updating to this I get gdm loginscreen but I am not able to > > login or start a x server as a user. Anybody else having that problem > > and perhaps knowing what to do. > > > > I am using debian sid and updated just 2 hours

Re: xcdroast and devfs

2001-04-11 Thread Christoph Simon
On 12 Apr 2001 10:57:17 +1000 Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Christoph" == Christoph Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Christoph> xcdroast on unstable seems to be severly broken these > Christoph> days. It requires setgid bits to be set, but gtk libs > Christoph> se

Lexmark 5700 printer help please

2001-04-11 Thread Len Dozois
Has anyone gotten this printer to work in debian? Am I fighting a losing battle? I have been trying to get this printer to work for a month. I downloaded the driver and it shows on the list of printers in printool but when I select it and configure it, it never works. When I try to print it says"

Re: NIC problem

2001-04-11 Thread Craig Jones
I have installed the base system (10 or 11 disks, can't remember). It boots up fine, and I do the Alt-F2, login as root and do a modprobe: modprobe wd modprobe wd io=0x280 irq=11 mem=0xcc000 mem_end=0xc Both give: wd.c: No wd80x3 card found (i/o = 0x280) /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21-compact/ne

Re: Progeny Debian

2001-04-11 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 07:52:44PM -0500, Bud Rogers wrote: > On Wednesday 11 April 2001 19:37, Rob VanFleet wrote: > > Did you file a bug report with them? It's the least you could do. > > Good grief, Rob. Didn't anyone ever teach you how to trim quotes? Oh no, another flamewar in the making :

Debian install on RAID hardware

2001-04-11 Thread Rafael Hinojosa
Hello everyone, I'm not exactly sure if this question should be posted to this list, or to another more specific list. If so, do let me know. The organization I belong to just received a new Dell PowerEdge 1400 with the PercRAID 2/DC dual channel RAID card. Current plans are to use this mach

Re: HELP - CS423x sound config and Debian Potato...

2001-04-11 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 08:35:42AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... > Any help here to get it started (either ALSA or sndconfig or modprobe I'm > not fussy :-) would be greatly appreciated. > > I tried google and read many suggestions (all of them reflected by my attempts > above), but to n

Re: xcdroast and devfs

2001-04-11 Thread Brian May
> "Christoph" == Christoph Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Christoph> xcdroast on unstable seems to be severly broken these Christoph> days. It requires setgid bits to be set, but gtk libs Christoph> seem to refuse working for security reasons. Also all Christoph> external he

Re: FW: OT : GUI Interfaces

2001-04-11 Thread John Hasler
csj writes: > To open a new app you have to click at the desktop (or is there some > abstruse keyboard shortcut?) Yes. Type the name of the app into a terminal. Suffix a '&' if you don't want it to take over the terminal. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood

Re: xcdroast and devfs

2001-04-11 Thread Brian May
> "Ethan" == Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ethan> thats because any X program that requires root privileges Ethan> is broken by design. the GUI part should run unprivileged Ethan> and use a small non-GUI backend to perform the privileged Ethan> stuff. getting the r

Re: Progeny Debian

2001-04-11 Thread Bud Rogers
On Wednesday 11 April 2001 19:37, Rob VanFleet wrote: > Did you file a bug report with them? It's the least you could do. Good grief, Rob. Didn't anyone ever teach you how to trim quotes? -- Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.sirinet.net/~budr All things in moderation. And not too mu

Re: FW: OT : GUI Interfaces

2001-04-11 Thread Erik Steffl
csj wrote: ... > Which brings me to my favorite lite-wm peeve. Why do most of them > lack a persistent menu/taskbar? Take Blackbox (a favorite from the > posts I have read). To open a new app you have to click at the > desktop (or is there some abstruse keyboard shortcut?) to bring up > the app-rop

Re: Progeny Debian

2001-04-11 Thread Rob VanFleet
Did you file a bug report with them? It's the least you could do. -Rob On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 12:55:10PM -0700, Forrest English wrote: > i tried it. here's a message i sent to my lug. > > "alright, i gave it a shot. i repeal my defense of progeny. > > wanna know how to break a progeny in

HELP - CS423x sound config and Debian Potato...

2001-04-11 Thread carl . tan
HI all, Have a problem with sound cards containing these chips. Problem Description 2.2.18pre15 kernel already had a cs4232.o to load but failed with "device or resource busy" error. 1. tried "modprobe cs4232 io=0x534 irq=5 dma=1 dma=0" 2. response "Device o

Re: xcdroast and devfs

2001-04-11 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 09:26:20PM -0300, Christoph Simon wrote: > On 12 Apr 2001 10:05:40 +1000 > Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > xcdroast from unstable might fix this(?), but I can't even get it to > > run. (it warns that certain executables aren't setgid, even when run > > as root,

Re: FW: OT : GUI Interfaces

2001-04-11 Thread csj
On Thursday 12 April 2001 07:44, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 05:05:21PM +0200, Joris Lambrecht ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > hmmm, i don't think you're missing anything, X does indeed > > provide a graphicall shell to run a gui on, i'll have to rephrase > > my question to, do

Re: water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.

2001-04-11 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 07:23:06AM +0800, csj wrote: > On Wednesday 11 April 2001 16:06, Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 10:52:54PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > now MacOS X, which is housetrained Unix, [...] > > > > thats not what i would call it. i would call it a neutered

Re: xcdroast and devfs

2001-04-11 Thread Christoph Simon
On 12 Apr 2001 10:05:40 +1000 Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > xcdroast from unstable might fix this(?), but I can't even get it to > run. (it warns that certain executables aren't setgid, even when run > as root, and that cdrecord is either too old or too new). xcdroast on unstable seems

Re: Linux fpr HP Apollo 715/50

2001-04-11 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001, Andreas Bartsch wrote: > where can I get Linux for this hardware on a bootable cd? > > Thanks in advance > Andreas Hi Andreas, I don't think you can get Linux support for HP PA Risc at the same level of maturity as that for most other platforms that Linux runs on. But check

videoconferencing

2001-04-11 Thread Dan Berdine
Hi, I'v been searching through the debian-user archives for information on how to set up my camera to do videoconferencing (or anything to start with really) and have gleaned some useful information, but I was wondering if anyone could tell me where I should look for general documentation on the

Re: Help!

2001-04-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 11:59:21PM -, david llanos ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: DON'T send HTML email to list. DO use a meaningful subject line. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-syst

Re: xcdroast and devfs

2001-04-11 Thread Brian May
> "Ethan" == Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ethan> it wants /dev/sg[0-16] these are the scsi generic devices. Ethan> which im sure devfs renamed to something rediculously long Ethan> and ugly. Looks fine to me: [503] [pluto:bam] ~ >ls -l /dev/sg* lr-xr-xr-x1 root

Help!

2001-04-11 Thread david llanos
Hello! About  DEBIAN. I have problems to configure my PC to make conexion PPP, like USER i have no problems but "like a SERVER it doesn't work". Could you help me, sending to me what files i have to configure? Thanks!   David Llanos  Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.h

Problems building gmmusic on stable

2001-04-11 Thread Stan Brown
I'm trying to build the nice looking music library application gmmusic on my stable machien. Unfortunately I'm having problems with the perl modules. It comes with a script that is supposed to download from CPAN, and install the correct modules. Unfortunatley after it claims to succed in doing t

Duda!

2001-04-11 Thread david llanos
Hola! Sobre DEBIAN. Tengo problemas al configurar mi maquina para que haga conexiones PPP, como usuario me puedo conectar sin problemas .pero como SERVIDOR no funciona, la llamada llega al modem pero luego no hay respuesta de mi servidor. Me podrían ayudar mandandome cómo y qué archivos

Re: FW: OT : GUI Interfaces

2001-04-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 05:05:21PM +0200, Joris Lambrecht ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > hmmm, i don't think you're missing anything, X does indeed provide a > graphicall shell to run a gui on, i'll have to rephrase my question > to, does anyone know a GOOD desktop that doesn't weigh a TON on an

Funny Story

2001-04-11 Thread Steve Witt
I don't know if this story is true or not, but I hope it is. A guy who is our sys admin said he read on a sys admin type mailing list that the crew of the International Space Station are having some computer problems just like a lot us down here on earth. It seems that the U.S. provided computers r

Linux fpr HP Apollo 715/50

2001-04-11 Thread Andreas Bartsch
where can I get Linux for this hardware on a bootable cd? Thanks in advance Andreas

Re: ssh problems

2001-04-11 Thread Tomaas Ortega
no im trying to ssh to a machine on the network, but those are the errors i am getting im assuming it is sshd although im not entirely certain what could be causing the error but ill try what you said adios

Re: water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.

2001-04-11 Thread csj
On Wednesday 11 April 2001 16:06, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 10:52:54PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > now MacOS X, which is housetrained Unix, [...] > > thats not what i would call it. i would call it a neutered Unix > thats been run over by a truck. Strong words. What mak

Re: combo GUI/text mail client

2001-04-11 Thread Joseph Dane
> "Brandon" == Brandon High <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> * netscape and pine don't (can't?) share addressbooks, so they >> either get out of sync, or require more attention than one would >> like to offer them Brandon> Probably the ugliest point. You could over engineer it and Brandon>

Re: ssh problems

2001-04-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 02:19:43PM +1000, Tomaas Ortega ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > hey guys > im getting these errors when running ssh i was wondering if anyone could help > me > > > debug1: sshd version OpenSSH_2.5.2p2 > debug1: load_private_key_autodetect: type 0 RSA1 > Disabling protocol

portmap: too small RPC?

2001-04-11 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
Anybody have any thoughts on what's causing the following message and how to correct it? portmap: too small RPC reply size (0 bytes) portmap: too small RPC reply size (0 bytes) lockd_up: makesock failed, error=-5 portmap: too small RPC reply size (0 bytes) lockd_up: no pid, 2 users?? portmap: too

iptables logging?

2001-04-11 Thread Adam James
Hi all, This is just something that's getting slightly annoying - iptables is refusing to log to /var/log/*. Runnning dmesg I can see all the iptables reports, so its logging to the kernel, just syslog is ignoring it (?). My /var/log/messages entry in /etc/syslog.conf is as follows: *.=info;*.=n

Re: water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.

2001-04-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 05:46:05PM -0400, Glenn Becker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I have followed this discussion with great interest. It's been really > lively! :-) Yathink? > But the soul of the experience (if I can use that crappy tattered > word) is experiment: of trying things out and

Re: Should dumb, lazy people be encouraged to use Linux?

2001-04-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 01:30:21PM -0500, will trillich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 10:36:25AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 09:25:16AM -0400, Kevin Stokes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > > GNU/Linux is a grown-up's operating system. You'

Re: vim intro (was water, water everywhere...)

2001-04-11 Thread Romain Lerallut
On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, D-Man wrote: > > | wanna write up a vim intro at sourceForge.net/projects/newbiedoc/? > I wrote a short 'vi' intro for 'newbiedoc'. Feel free to add any '(g)vim' extension you can think of. The html vi doc: http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/proposed-update.rom1/newbiedoc/vi.h

Re: newbiedoc, vim and latex

2001-04-11 Thread D-Man
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 03:47:10PM -0500, will trillich wrote: | On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 04:18:08PM -0400, D-Man wrote: | > On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 01:59:02PM -0500, will trillich wrote: | > | i think vim is abominable, deplorable and inconsiderate. it uses | > | modes for this, modes for that... a

Re: OT : GUI Interfaces

2001-04-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 09:42:30PM +0200, Joris Lambrecht ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > -Original Message- > From: Karsten M. Self [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: woensdag 11 april 2001 20:31 > To: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' > Subject: Re: OT : GUI Interfaces > > > > > > on Wed, Apr

Re: Passive mode FTP?

2001-04-11 Thread Adam James
On Wed, 11 Apr 2001 18:24:00 -0400 (EDT), Stan Brown said: > Whats the magic environment variable to get ftp to use FTP mode? Possibly a stupid answer, but use pftp rather than ftp. -- An honest tale speeds best being plainly told. -- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI"

Re: Fw: su in X

2001-04-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 11:05:16AM +0100, Dave Whiteley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On 11-Apr-2001 Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 10:49:18AM +0100, Dave Whiteley > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >> I had a similar problem a bit ago. I seem to recall that I fixed > >> it > >> b

Passive mode FTP?

2001-04-11 Thread Stan Brown
Whats the magic environment variable to get ftp to use FTP mode? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bi

Re: gtcd/sound problems

2001-04-11 Thread Eric Richardson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello, > > When trying to play gtcd I get "error playing cd"...but it's an audio cd (an > introduction to classical music)..what is wrong here? > > Also, when I try to play login.wav (gnome's file) no sound is coming out...I > have unmuted the mixer via gamix, mixe

Re: water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.

2001-04-11 Thread John Hasler
Kevin Stokes writes: > There are people who care deeply about Linux and Free Software. I am not > one of them. Then why should those people care about you? > I wish Linux the best, but I'm not ready to invest hours of my time > writing doc. Then invest your money. There are plenty of consultan

folder highlightning in Pine ?

2001-04-11 Thread Allan Andersen
Hi, I'm a new user with pine email (Have allways used a graphical program), but was impressed to see the program 'simplicity' and speed, so I desided to try it out my self. I've set up some filters in Pine to control the incoming mails into the right folders. But as soon as I got more than a coup

Re: water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.

2001-04-11 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hello Glenn and All, I just wanted to say "Ditto, couldn't have said it better myself." I don't touch Windows at all anymore myself. It'd be way to boring for me now. I don't know what I'd do without all the exciting, fun,(and to me, important) concepts that I have learned by using Linux. I was

Re: Fw: su in X

2001-04-11 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Wednesday, April 11, Erik van der Meulen did write: > Dear list, this should be easy, but I have not managed yet... > I run Gnome desktop as a 'regular' user. If I need to do systemsmanagment, I > do 'su -' in a terminal to get root access. Only if I need to start an X app > (just installed

amd and nis

2001-04-11 Thread Andrew D Dixon
Hi All, I've got a small network of linux boxen here (the server is Red Hat 7 and my client is Debian woody) and I'm trying to configure them so that you can login to your account from any machine on the network. I've got NIS up and running so that you can login from anywhere but I need some way f

Re: water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.

2001-04-11 Thread Glenn Becker
I have followed this discussion with great interest. It's been really lively! :-) I hardly consider myself to have achieved 'power user' status. I started with Slackware Linux in late 1998. At this time I never touch Windows and do not miss it. My initial reaction to what was -- I do not argue -

Re: water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.

2001-04-11 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 05:00:24PM -0400, Kevin Stokes wrote: > >> imagine how much hair-pulling you'll save the next poor soul if > > you document what you learned... hmm?< > > > > Ahh, but I'm not a Linux or Free-Software devotee. > > This is where you lose the sympathy of a lot of people. You'

Re: OT : RE: water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.

2001-04-11 Thread Alan Shutko
D-Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Would anyone like to provide a comparison of LaTeX and Docbook? > (without a flamewar of course). LaTeX: * Been around longer * Stable, ie changes little over the years * Extremely easy to set up (significantly because of above) * Well documented if you lik

Setting up server

2001-04-11 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, My friend and I decided to set up a little web-hosting company, but neither one of us knows exactly how to do this. I figure we'll need to have apache, DNS, etc. But the main thing that's stopping us up right now, is that we don't know how to set up the internet on his computer (he has

/etc/network/if-up.d

2001-04-11 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
Hi all, am I correct in assuming that my iptables script should go into /etc/network/if-up.d? Or should I put it in init.d? TIA Dima -- E-mail dmaziuk at bmrb dot wisc dot edu (@work) or at crosswinds dot net (@home) http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu/descript/gpgkey.dmaziuk.ascii -- GnuPG 1.0.4 public ke

Re: water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.

2001-04-11 Thread Kevin Stokes
>> imagine how much hair-pulling you'll save the next poor soul if > you document what you learned... hmm?< > > Ahh, but I'm not a Linux or Free-Software devotee. This is where you lose the sympathy of a lot of people. You've identified a problem and you want other people to spend their time and

Re: No chance to get my IntellyMouse working under X

2001-04-11 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 08:58:24PM +0200, Thomas Wegner wrote: > > I think you should change some settings: > Option "Device""/dev/psaux" > Option "Protocol" "IntelliMosue" I don't think she should. The IntelliMouse protocol is for the serial version of that mouse, according t

Re: How do you broadcast a message?

2001-04-11 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 11:05:24AM -0700, Known Human Nick Rusnov wrote: > > that is done with the command 'wall'. Interesting. I get an error, as root or any other user. wall: /dev/:0: No such file or directory Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "With sufficient thrust,

Re: combo GUI/text mail client

2001-04-11 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 13:16, Brandon High wrote: > Joseph Dane wrote: > > * netscape and pine don't (can't?) share addressbooks, so they either > >get out of sync, or require more attention than one would like to > >offer them > > Probably the ugliest point. You could over engineer it a

Re: OT : RE: water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.

2001-04-11 Thread D-Man
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 04:18:08PM -0400, D-Man wrote: | On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 01:59:02PM -0500, will trillich wrote: | | | wanna write up a vim intro at sourceForge.net/projects/newbiedoc/? | | Can I write it in LaTeX? I want to learn to use latex effectively. I just took a quick look, and I

newbiedoc, vim and latex

2001-04-11 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 04:18:08PM -0400, D-Man wrote: > On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 01:59:02PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > | i think vim is abominable, deplorable and inconsiderate. it uses > | modes for this, modes for that... and i wouldn't ever consider > | using anything else. > > Come to think

RE: Printing

2001-04-11 Thread Lewis, James M.
> -Original Message- > From: Stephen E. Hargrove [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 4:15 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Printing > > > Nevermind, I figured it out, and I'm (finally) printing > again. One more > question, though. I keep g

RE: Printing

2001-04-11 Thread Lewis, James M.
> -Original Message- > From: Stephen E. Hargrove [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 3:59 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Printing > > > I'm having problems getting my printer going. It was > working, then I had > to reinstall, and now I can't

Re: Woody nukes Gnome

2001-04-11 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Glen Snyder wrote: > If I purge all of the ximian and helix files, that's practically every > application I use99 packages not to mention the others that will > probably be removed because of dependency problems. Debian Woody sets up > gnome 1.0.56 Ximian "Woody" has

Re: GNULpr on Debian?

2001-04-11 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Holger Rauch wrote: > Hi! > > I found out that HP is sponsoring an open-source printing project called > GNULpr (or GLPR for short). However, I found out that only RPMS are > offered (for Mandrake, Turbo Linux, and RedHat). And they're working on a Debian setup. See lpr.sour

network printing (again)

2001-04-11 Thread Johannes Jörg
Hello List I still have no idea how to enable access to my local printer from a remote host (in my local network) These are the files I consider important: Server-printcap: lp|lq850|Epson LQ 850:\ :lp=/dev/lp0:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lq850:\ :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\ :if=/

network printing (again)

2001-04-11 Thread Johannes Jörg
Hello List I still have no idea how to enable access to my local printer from a remote host (in my local network) These are the files I consider important: Server-printcap: lp|lq850|Epson LQ 850:\ :lp=/dev/lp0:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lq850:\ :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\ :if=/

Re: OT : RE: water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.

2001-04-11 Thread D-Man
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 01:59:02PM -0500, will trillich wrote: | On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 01:07:02PM -0400, D-Man wrote: | > I think that an introduction that is easy for inexperienced people to | > start with would be a good thing. It should include references to | > more detailed/advanced documen

Re: combo GUI/text mail client

2001-04-11 Thread Brandon High
Joseph Dane wrote: Here's what I'd like to have: a mail client that I can access via a nice, flashy GUI when I'm sitting at my desk, or via a simple text-mode interface when I'm connecting remotely. I do something similar to what you plan on: Mozilla mail for the desktop, and pine for remote

Re: Printing

2001-04-11 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
Nevermind, I figured it out, and I'm (finally) printing again. One more question, though. I keep getting the following after /every/ job prints: User: stephen Host: firestarter Class: firestarter Job: stdin How do I shut this off? I've got :sh: and :tr: in my printcap, but it just keeps printi

Re: NIC problem

2001-04-11 Thread D-Man
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 12:02:52PM -0700, Craig Jones wrote: | I have an old 386 on which I am trying to do an FTP install of potato. | The NIC inside is a Western Digital and seems to be functioning all right | (I got linux going from one of those floppy distributions, set everything | up and was

Re: OT : GUI Interfaces

2001-04-11 Thread Alan Shutko
Joris Lambrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It [X] IS a fantastic system, indeed, but it weighs on your > computers resources. X has run on machines so small and slow they haven't been sold in over a decade. X also runs now on machines which can fit in the palm of your hand. > Also, what's th

Re: 8-bit characters

2001-04-11 Thread will trillich
PROBLEM: 8-bit characters (such as those in 'man latin1') show as chinese in krxvt, and as pseudo-greek on console (alt-ctl-f1). SOLVED -- yippee! CONSOLE: consolechars -f where is any item mentioned (sans '.psf.gz' extension) in the /usr/share/consolefonts/ directory -- e.g.:

Printing

2001-04-11 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
I'm having problems getting my printer going. It was working, then I had to reinstall, and now I can't get it back up. Following is a sequence of events that seem fairly typical: # ps ax | grep lpd 1864 ? S0:00 /usr/sbin/lpd 1865 ? S0:00 /usr/sbin/lpd # lpr -Plp deleteme.txt lpr

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