Re: GNOME MORE PROBLEMS

2001-04-20 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 09:02:49PM -0700, Anthony wrote: > Hey, I finally figured out how to get GNOME to work. I installed Red > Hat!!! S much easier. Plus the third button on my mouse even > works!!! It is quite true RedHat has very good installer/config tools. But upgrading is not as eas

Re: mailboxes?

2001-04-20 Thread John R Lenton
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 11:08:39PM -0400, Roderick Cummings wrote: > I'm getting an error when checking my mail with mail. After reading the > mail, and exiting, it does not delete the mail, it prints out: > > Unable to lock mailbox: Permission denied > > Now if I use mutt, I can delete the mess

Re: How to move Netscape for Win local mail folders to imap

2001-04-20 Thread John R Lenton
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 04:24:34PM -0500, hanasaki wrote: > I tried adding an imap server to NS and using netscape to copy all my > folders. Ns bombed! even when copying one folder at a time. perl. bash, even. Copy the NS folder over to a unix/linux box and just move it in. -- John Lenton ([EMA

Re: inetd discard/udp: help with interpretation

2001-04-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 07:42:49PM -0700, serge rey wrote: > i am trying to diagnose the following log entry (with little luck thus > far): > > Apr 20 18:54:35 gnubox inetd[254]: discard/udp: bind: Address already in > use > > i've looked through output of netstat and don't see anything that seem

Re: debian 2.2r3 ?

2001-04-20 Thread CaT
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 10:49:47PM -0500, Brian Nelson wrote: > On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 12:21:07PM +1000, CaT wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 09:14:28PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > > > CaT writes: > > > > Is it [Gnus] text based... > > > > > > It's better than that. It's Emacs based. > > > >

Re: remove from all lists

2001-04-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 01:16:22PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 01:55:50PM -0300, Jair Szapiro - > www.tecnomidia.com.br ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > somebody registered us in all newsletters > > please remove [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Note that Debian uses opt-in subscri

Re: getting mutt, procmail or whoever to filter mail

2001-04-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 01:50:34PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > # debian user mailing list > :0: > * ^X-Mailing-List: > debian-user If you subscribe to more than a few debian lists, try this: :0 * ^X-Mailing-List: .*[<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] * ^X-Mailing-List: .*[<] *\/[^ [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: linux crash

2001-04-20 Thread John R Lenton
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 12:52:07PM -0500, Bradley James Reid wrote: > i've got a problem at boot. > my debian system crashes. it's using kernel 2.0.36. > the error follows the check of the hardware. > and the error is: > unable to open initial console You compiled your own kernel? you've probab

Re: Moving to a new hd

2001-04-20 Thread John R Lenton
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 12:06:53PM -0500, Jason Pepas wrote: > i seem to remember reading that you have to use tar in order to get a > complete copy of a filesystem. unfortunately i dont remember the > details. GNU cp has the "-a" option. I've copied my hd several times now using cp -vax / /

Re: links for devfs

2001-04-20 Thread Brian May
> "Mark" == Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mark> How do you tell devfsd to make a link to a device? For Mark> example, I want there to be a link from /dev/mouse to Mark> /dev/misc/psaux Mark> I tried putting the following line in /etc/modules.conf Mark> alias /dev/mous

Re: RAM economy tips

2001-04-20 Thread John R Lenton
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 05:11:14PM +0200, Robert Voigt wrote: > In theory, this is fine. But on my system (512 MB RAM) it's not always like > that. After a few hours of work with a lot of opening apps and documents and > images, it dips into swap, and it does that even when I close most apps. So

interfaces swapped

2001-04-20 Thread Mark S
Here's something weird. I have a dual nic setup here at home, and I rebooted, but couldn't get the net back up. While looking at dmesg, I saw that the nics were switched. eth0 was my 3com card, but read as a linksys. eth1 was my linksys card, but read as a 3com. So I swapped the cables, and carrie

GNOME MORE PROBLEMS

2001-04-20 Thread Anthony
Hey, I finally figured out how to get GNOME to work. I installed Red Hat!!! S much easier. Plus the third button on my mouse even works!!! Just a personal expression of enlightenment. Thanks to those who have helped. I do appreciate it. -- Anthony

Re: preventing console blanking

2001-04-20 Thread ktb
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 05:44:14PM -0400, M. Jackson Wilkinson wrote: > > Basically, the topic says it all... > > how to I prevent the console from blanking after a period of time... my > system has been incredibly unstable lately, and when it stalls and the > screen blanks, I have no hope of any

Re: debian 2.2r3 ?

2001-04-20 Thread Brian Nelson
On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 12:21:07PM +1000, CaT wrote: > On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 09:14:28PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > > CaT writes: > > > Is it [Gnus] text based... > > > > It's better than that. It's Emacs based. > > Ahhh. Not for me then. I find having to run emacs to read my mail overkill. N

preventing console blanking

2001-04-20 Thread M. Jackson Wilkinson
Basically, the topic says it all... how to I prevent the console from blanking after a period of time... my system has been incredibly unstable lately, and when it stalls and the screen blanks, I have no hope of any panic outputs or anything. Jack -- M. Jackson Wilkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Jo

links for devfs

2001-04-20 Thread Mark
How do you tell devfsd to make a link to a device? For example, I want there to be a link from /dev/mouse to /dev/misc/psaux I tried putting the following line in /etc/modules.conf alias /dev/mouse /dev/misc/psaux (Nb. I did this by putting it in /etc/modutils/myaliases and then ru

apt-get dist-upgrade broke X ?

2001-04-20 Thread Hall Stevenson
A few days ago, following the advice of someone here on this list, it was mentioned that "apt-get upgrade" shouldn't be used, but "apt-get dist-upgrade" should be instead. Well, I decided to try it... and now regret it... Following the dist-upgrade, I'm getting the quite common error "Fatal serv

mailboxes?

2001-04-20 Thread Roderick Cummings
I'm getting an error when checking my mail with mail. After reading the mail, and exiting, it does not delete the mail, it prints out: Unable to lock mailbox: Permission denied Now if I use mutt, I can delete the message, but what is wrong with mail/mailx? the permission's on /var/mail/myuse

Status of Ximian GNOME + debian

2001-04-20 Thread Ross Boylan
Here's the response I got from Ximian (aka Helix) on the recent problems I and others have experienced with doing upgrades. Note that, contrary to what others have reported, Ximian does claim to support woody (but not unstable aka sid). They attribute the problems to problems introduced by the mi

inetd discard/udp: help with interpretation

2001-04-20 Thread serge rey
i am trying to diagnose the following log entry (with little luck thus far): Apr 20 18:54:35 gnubox inetd[254]: discard/udp: bind: Address already in use i've looked through output of netstat and don't see anything that seems to be related to this. this is after a fresh install of 2.2r2. any in

Re: debian 2.2r3 ?

2001-04-20 Thread CaT
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 09:14:28PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > CaT writes: > > Is it [Gnus] text based... > > It's better than that. It's Emacs based. Ahhh. Not for me then. I find having to run emacs to read my mail overkill. -- CaT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) *** Jenna has joined the channel

Re: GNOME problems

2001-04-20 Thread Anthony
Okay Stephen, Where exactly would I find the .xinitrc file? Or is there a way to start GNOME from within the X Window? > From: "Stephen E. Hargrove" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 18:53:55 -0500 (CDT) > To: Anthony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: debian-Help > Subject: Re: GNOME proble

Re: debian 2.2r3 ?

2001-04-20 Thread John Hasler
CaT writes: > Is it [Gnus] text based... It's better than that. It's Emacs based. > ...and have the features of mutt? It has all the features of everything. It's Emacs based. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: X configuration problems

2001-04-20 Thread Stephen Boulet
On Wednesday 18 April 2001 11:50 pm, Adam Bender wrote: > I just installed and configured X Windows on my system. I seem to have > done it incorrectly, since when it loads, it's a mostly white screen with > black dots on it. What makes it worse is that it now loads on startup, > even before I log

gnus and mutt (was: Re: debian 2.2r3 ?)

2001-04-20 Thread CaT
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 05:35:49PM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > I was planning to check out Gnus myself, but I find that mutt > and procmail do the job nicely. I'd love to use procmail to split things up but well... mutt does not have the best multi-mailbox handling... I've tried it an

Re: debian 2.2r3 ?

2001-04-20 Thread CaT
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 12:41:51PM -0500, Jorge Santos wrote: > > I have. Looks like the announcement got lost in the 600 msgs I wake up > > to every morning. Need better colour coding. > > You, my friend, need Gnus, look at this: > > [ Gnus -- 7163 ] > [ Debian -- 1758 ] [snip] > This way you

Re: Linux Books

2001-04-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 04:22:15PM -0500, George M. Butler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi all, > > I have been asking questions on this list and received lots of help. I > am new to Linux but have some limited experiece with Unix in the past. I > have just discovered that my employer will let m

Testing - ignore

2001-04-20 Thread Barry Mathieu
Ignore - testing displayed mail info. Thanks.

Re: Unsubscribing issues (was Re: )

2001-04-20 Thread JC Portlock
Thank you Karsten for straightening me out. I have seen other lists where, at the bottom (like this one) there is something like the following: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- I have seen folks misinterpret t

Re: pcmcia startup order: was Re: /etc/network/interfaces

2001-04-20 Thread Eric Richardson
The Nose Who Knows wrote: > > Eric Richardson wrote: > > More than one person is having problems with the startup sequence with > > pcmcia. Is this a problem with the distribution? I searched open and > > closed bugs for [EMAIL PROTECTED] and could not find anything reported > > about this. > > >

Re: Why do testin have Apache 1.3.9

2001-04-20 Thread Colin Watson
Raffaele Sandrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Why do testin have Apache 1.3.9 included and not 1.3.19 >i mean even when potato was released the 1.3.9 version was obsolete. > >I saw that unstable has the newest version. That only got in recently. http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/ has the reason

Re: Linux Books

2001-04-20 Thread Eric Richardson
"George M. Butler" wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have been asking questions on this list and received lots of help. I > am new to > Linux but have some > limited experiece with Unix in the past. I have just > discovered that my employer will let me have $400 to buy books related > to my job. > I am a

Why do testin have Apache 1.3.9

2001-04-20 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
Hi Why do testin have Apache 1.3.9 included and not 1.3.19 i mean even when potato was released the 1.3.9 version was obsolete. I saw that unstable has the newest version. cheers, Raffaele -- Raffaele Sandrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For encrypted Mail get my Public Key from "search.keyserver.net"

Re: Correct permissions for lpd spool dir?

2001-04-20 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 03:19:17PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > I suspect that these are not the correct permissions. Can anyone verify > > or deny my suspicions, and if I'm right, can anyone provide me with the > > correct permissions? > > checkpc -f will check and correct such things. >

Re: debian 2.2r3 ?

2001-04-20 Thread Eric Richardson
Ethan Benson wrote: > > install the 2.2.19 version of pcmcia modules. i don't know the exact > package name, i have no hardware with pcmcia. The only version in stable is pcmcia-modules-2.2.19pre17 and so I get the following Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: pcmcia-mo

Re: GNOME problems

2001-04-20 Thread Anthony
> All you really need is: > #!/bin/bash --login The file the book (Learning Debian GNU/Linux) is telling me to edit is /etc/X11/Xsession Are saying that the Xsession file should just say #!/bin/bash --login gnome session ?? > From: James Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 19:

Re: Getting Online with DSL Ethernet

2001-04-20 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Anthony wrote: > Actually I downloaded it on a mac and burned it as a ISO-9660 than tried to > open it on the linux box. > I was able to mount to the cd but than I'm not sure how to open the file. > There are instructions on the roaring penguin site: > The recommended installa

Re: How to move from Netscape localmail to maildir's?

2001-04-20 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I am in the process of moving my mbox files, used in Netscape for Win > local storage, to Maildir format. > > Any ideas? thoughts? Connect NS to a Maildir-aware imap server > I tried using

Re: OpenSSH: How to do RhostsRSAAuthentication?

2001-04-20 Thread Mario Vukelic
On 20 Apr 2001 14:02:05 -0600, John Galt wrote: > On 20 Apr 2001, Mario Vukelic wrote: > >I've generated the host keys with > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/ssh# ssh-keygen -t dsa -f ssh_host_dsa_key (with empty > >passphrase) > >(now send ONE's /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key.pub to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > >[EM

Re: GNOME problems

2001-04-20 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Anthony wrote: > Hello again, > I'm trying to configure the Xsession file for GNOME > I've tried a bunch of different ways and still can't get it to work. i might be confused, but if you're just wanting gnome to start when you boot or enter startx, just put the following in

Upgrade: strange problem

2001-04-20 Thread joshnarins
What an OS! Debian is awesome. XFree86 is amazing, also. Blackbox is a really nice, lightweight wm. I put gnome on the box, just so I could show somebody that it could act like Windows, if necessary. I started XWindows after the upgrade, and it works! Well, blackbox starts, then Gnome starts

How to move from Netscape localmail to maildir's?

2001-04-20 Thread hanasaki
I am in the process of moving my mbox files, used in Netscape for Win local storage, to Maildir format. Any ideas? thoughts? I tried using NS to copy all the local folders to the imap server but NS keeps crashing.

Re: Getting Online with DSL Ethernet

2001-04-20 Thread Anthony
Actually I downloaded it on a mac and burned it as a ISO-9660 than tried to open it on the linux box. I was able to mount to the cd but than I'm not sure how to open the file. There are instructions on the roaring penguin site: The recommended installation procedure for NetBSD users is as follows:

GNOME problems

2001-04-20 Thread Anthony
Hello again, I'm trying to configure the Xsession file for GNOME I've tried a bunch of different ways and still can't get it to work. It says the file should begin with #!/bin/bash xterm & gmc & window-manager & (here I tried Enlightenment,FVWM and I also tried it with the path instead of the nam

Re: Correct permissions for lpd spool dir?

2001-04-20 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 04:37:42PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > I've just looked at the permissions of my printer spool directory (I'm > using LPRng) and found the following: > > /var/spool/lpd is > drwxr-xr-x3 root root 1024 Apr 20 16:26 lpd > > /var/spool/lpd/lp is > drwx--

Re: Linux Books

2001-04-20 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Bud Rogers wrote: > Someone has already suggested the Camel book, Programming Perl. That's a > good suggestion, but I would recommend the O'Reilly Perl CD Bookshelf > instead. For about the price of two of their excellent Perl books, you get > ALL their Perl books on a CD i

Re: Getting Online with DSL Ethernet

2001-04-20 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 02:19:19PM -0700, Anthony wrote: > Okay, I've downloaded the PPPoE tar file. > I burned it to a cd and put it in my cdrom drive. > I'm assuming this is the best way? I bet you are in dualboot and downloaded these using windows. Why not write it to harddisk in windows and r

Re: Multiple Network Interfaces per host -- possible?

2001-04-20 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Multiple Network Interfaces per host -- possible? Date: Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 11:15:48AM +0200 In reply to:Lukas Ruf Quoting Lukas Ruf([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Dear all, > > I installed a second network interface into my host. The problem that > arises: only the old one ge

Re: debian 2.2r3 ?

2001-04-20 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 03:51:31PM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: > fine but couldn't find > /var/modules/2.2.19/pcmcia > I searched the directories and couldn't find the cardbus modules at all. > What should I do now? > > I can still boot the old kernel just fine thanks to your help. install the

Re: mp3 encoder Deb

2001-04-20 Thread John Galt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It compressed Holst's Mars (7 minutes by the liner) to about 8.5M, and I have no issues with quality... On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Gordon Hart wrote: >> There ain't none. mp3 encoders are all patent encumbered, so Debian >> distributes none. It's been a

Re: Backups and the distribution

2001-04-20 Thread Willi Dyck
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 12:59:08PM -0700, Alex Swavely wrote: > What file(s) would I need to backup to get a complete snapshot of all > installed packages from the distribution I'm using in order to be able to > recover a system to it's previous state? What about this: (as root of course) ~# dpkg

Re: debian 2.2r3 ?

2001-04-20 Thread Eric Richardson
Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 04:42:26PM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: > > > apt-get update > > > apt-get dist-upgrade > > > apt-get install kernel-image-2.2.19 > > > > If I do the last step, will my current kernel be left in place and be > > bootable if I have problems with the

Re: mp3 encoder Deb

2001-04-20 Thread csj
On Friday 20 April 2001 21:31, Ilya Martynov wrote: > WB> HI, > WB> Ive been looking for an mp3 encoder in a deb package, anyone > found one? I WB> have installed Grip and CDParanoia. > > No, there is no such. As I understand there is some license issues > with mp3. But you can use instead vorbis-t

Lost focus

2001-04-20 Thread David Jardine
I've just started using jikes+kaffe instead of Sun's jdk and I'm having a problem with focus for keyboard input that I don't remember with the jdk - too late to check - and that I don't have with Internet Explorer or Netscape under Win95. I have fvwm as a window manager, and when I move off the ru

Re: Linux Books

2001-04-20 Thread Rich Puhek
Number one is to get what you find interesting. I'd find a Barnes and Noble or similar bookstore to do some of your selection. I like to wander through the computer books section and page through some of what catches my eye. Often I find that a book that looked real interesting is actually very sha

Re: Linux Books

2001-04-20 Thread Bud Rogers
On Friday 20 April 2001 16:22, George M. Butler wrote: > Hi all, > > I have been asking questions on this list and received lots of help. I > am new to > Linux but have some > limited experiece with Unix in the past. I have just > discovered that my employer will let me have $400 to buy books rela

Re: pppd and root

2001-04-20 Thread John Hasler
Andreas Tscharner writes: > As seen, I use the "name" option, what causes pppd to say that only root > can establish such a connection. Yes, because you are passing it 'name' (a privileged option) on the command line. > But I know that it is possible to have more than one configuration and > star

Re: NB : unsubscribing

2001-04-20 Thread R. Wood
Hi, I am in the same situation actually - unable to successfully unsubscribe. The listserv software seems to be confused as to whether I am [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] In fact I am both (both addresses are functionally equivalent). I have written to the 'listmaster' twice now

Cron error message

2001-04-20 Thread Eileen Orbell
Hi, I keep getting this error message emailed to me Can anyone tell me how to fix this or remove it completely. I do not run a new sever so I would be happy to disable it all together /bin/sh: rnews: command not found Eileen Orbell Software & Internet Applications Capitol College mailto:[E

Re: how to set correct time?

2001-04-20 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 10:58:21AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > I installed ntpdate and can get the time when I query, but any time I > try to set the time I get the error > 20 Apr 10:45:07 ntpdate[13883]: no server suitable for synchronization > found > > Does anyone have any suggestions how to ge

Re: Linux Books

2001-04-20 Thread D-Man
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 04:22:15PM -0500, George M. Butler wrote: | Hi all, | | I have been asking questions on this list and received lots of help. I | am new to | Linux but have some | limited experiece with Unix in the past. I have just | discovered that my employer will let me have $400 to bu

pppd and root

2001-04-20 Thread Andreas Tscharner
Hello World, I have, according to the PPP-HOWTO, 3 scriptfiles created. The only difference to the howto is in ppp-on. I have added: case "$1" in diAx|diax|Diax) TELEPHONE=01511 PROV_USERNAME= ;; SPIN|spin|Spin) T

Re: RAM economy tips

2001-04-20 Thread debuser
It sounds as though you do indeed have a memory leak somewhere rather than just a misunderstanding of the memory statistic numbers. However, I'm quite certain that the problem has nothing to do with the kernel, but rather a leak in one of the apps you are running. If you say that even after shuttin

Re: Correct permissions for lpd spool dir?

2001-04-20 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Kent West wrote: > I've just looked at the permissions of my printer spool directory (I'm > using LPRng) and found the following: > > /var/spool/lpd is > drwxr-xr-x3 root root 1024 Apr 20 16:26 lpd drwxrwsr-x4 lp lp 4096 Apr 20 15:00 lpd > > /

Re: Getting Online with DSL Ethernet

2001-04-20 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Anthony wrote: > mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/hdx /cdrom > I get this error: > "special device /dev/hdx does not exist" does /dev/hdx exist? see what ls -al /dev/cdrom tells you. most likely its something like /dev/hdc, etc. -- steve * linux : http://exitwound.org moza

Re: Getting Online with DSL Ethernet

2001-04-20 Thread Anthony
Oh - Duh! Sorry. > From: "Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 15:33:59 -0600 (MDT) > To: Anthony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: debian-Help > Subject: Re: Getting Online with DSL Ethernet > > On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Anthony wrote: > >> Okay, I've downloaded the PPPoE

Correct permissions for lpd spool dir?

2001-04-20 Thread Kent West
I've just looked at the permissions of my printer spool directory (I'm using LPRng) and found the following: /var/spool/lpd is drwxr-xr-x3 root root 1024 Apr 20 16:26 lpd /var/spool/lpd/lp is drwx--2 daemon lp 1024 Apr 20 16:28 lp I suspect that these are no

Re: Getting Online with DSL Ethernet

2001-04-20 Thread Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Anthony wrote: > Okay, I've downloaded the PPPoE tar file. > I burned it to a cd and put it in my cdrom drive. > I'm assuming this is the best way? > The problem is I can't find my cdrom drive when I open X windows (I'm not > sure where to look) > and if I try to mount it out

Re: debian 2.2r3 ?

2001-04-20 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 12:41:51PM -0500, Jorge Santos wrote: > You, my friend, need Gnus, look at this: > > [ Gnus -- 7163 ] > [ Debian -- 1758 ] > *0: nnml:debian-announce > *0: nnml:debian-news > 1754: nnml:debian-user > 4: nnml:debian-security > [ PostgreSQL

Re: Linux Books

2001-04-20 Thread Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, George M. Butler wrote: > Hi all, > > I have been asking questions on this list and received lots of help. I > am new to > Linux but have some > limited experiece with Unix in the past. I have just > discovered that my employer will let me have $400 to buy books related > to

How to move Netscape for Win local mail folders to imap

2001-04-20 Thread hanasaki
I tried adding an imap server to NS and using netscape to copy all my folders. Ns bombed! even when copying one folder at a time. Any ideas? Thank you

Re: user=halt=halt, user=reboot=halt?

2001-04-20 Thread Osamu Aoki
I do not get exactly why he is doing this but ... I played as follows without answer. (No reboot, of course) He seems to set login shell through /etc/passwd entry as some command. So I checked how login interprets them if it is softlink to some other command by using shell script with $0. It pr

Linux Books

2001-04-20 Thread George M. Butler
Hi all, I have been asking questions on this list and received lots of help. I am new to Linux but have some limited experiece with Unix in the past. I have just discovered that my employer will let me have $400 to buy books related to my job. I am a member of a mathematics faculty so naturally L

Re: Getting Online with DSL Ethernet

2001-04-20 Thread Anthony
Okay, I've downloaded the PPPoE tar file. I burned it to a cd and put it in my cdrom drive. I'm assuming this is the best way? The problem is I can't find my cdrom drive when I open X windows (I'm not sure where to look) and if I try to mount it out of X windows using mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/hd

Re: how to set correct time?

2001-04-20 Thread Ross Boylan
I installed ntpdate and can get the time when I query, but any time I try to set the time I get the error 20 Apr 10:45:07 ntpdate[13883]: no server suitable for synchronization found Does anyone have any suggestions how to get this to work? Possibly relevant facts: Debian woody, 2.4.2 kernel, ipt

ATAPI seagate STT8000A Tape drive

2001-04-20 Thread jereme
Hi All, I just aquired a Seagate ATAPI STT8000A tape drive and would like to make it work on a debian 2.2 system running 2.2.14, (was a 2.1, haven't gotten around to setting up new kernel). dmesg shows: hdd: Seagate STT8000A, ATAPI TAPE drive and then, at the very end: hdd:

IRC .deb dalnet server

2001-04-20 Thread hanasaki
Is there a place to download a tarball or .deb of the newest dalnet server? R3's server is from spring 2000. TIA

Packages to run kernel 2.4.x on potato (release 10)

2001-04-20 Thread Adrian Bunk
I have prepared the packages needed to run kernels up to 2.4.3 on a Debian 2.2r3 (potato) system. Please read [1] for more information. Changes since the last release: + added: ifupdown + added: net-tools + updated: initrd-tools (0.1.5 -> 0.1.7) cu Adrian [1] htt

Re: newbie fighting with Helix Gnome

2001-04-20 Thread Ross Boylan
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 01:40:47AM +0200, Frank Preut wrote: > On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 11:12:09AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > > At 12:27 AM 4/18/01 -0400, joeytsai wrote: > > Also, I noticed some other threads referred to ximian for stable; that's > > certainly a change. I remember when I got Hel

Re: Backups and the distribution

2001-04-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 12:59:08PM -0700, Alex Swavely ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > What file(s) would I need to backup to get a complete snapshot of all > installed packages from the distribution I'm using in order to be able to > recover a system to it's previous state? To see what packages you

Re: NB : unsubscribing

2001-04-20 Thread Colin Watson
"Karsten M. Self" wrote: >on Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 10:58:00AM +0100, Colin Watson >([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> Try mailing [EMAIL PROTECTED] and asking what's wrong? > >I've seen several posts regarding unsubscribing lately and am getting >the impression that the listmaster address isn't being cl

Re: getting mutt, procmail or whoever to filter mail

2001-04-20 Thread straylite
At Fri, 20 Apr 2001 12:50:48 -0700 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Install procmail and put this recipe in ~/.procmailrc ... it should do the >job... > ># debian user mailing list >:0: >* ^X-Mailing-List: > Oops, again ... there should be a name of a file to place the matched e-mail in, like ...

Re: apache startup script

2001-04-20 Thread peanut butter
Yes, I certainly had tried re-installing it a few times and after having tried to purge everything by creating the dummy script. Can't explain why it wouldn't recreate it but Ernest Johanson's idea of extracting the apache deb file to a temporary directory helped me get back. Thanks to both of you

acroread

2001-04-20 Thread Lance Heller
Hello all, When running acroread 4.0 (x86 linux stout0124 Jan24 2000 15:00:03) on my 2.2r2 x86 system running a 2.2.18 kernel, acroread commonly gobbles up all available system memory causing the system to hang. This happens on three different but similarly configured systems. Is thi

Re: StarOffice 5.2

2001-04-20 Thread Bud Rogers
On Friday 20 April 2001 06:32, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > Hi, > > I have some problems with so52. > I have downloadet the bin from sun. > Now i want t install it. > 1. SO can't find my java installation and even if i give the path it says > that i couldn't find java... I have both java packages (jd

RE: iptables and domain services

2001-04-20 Thread Janet Post
Jason, Thank you very much for your help. I appreciate the time you have taken to help me out with my domain problem. I will most definitely check out the BoingWorld tutorial. I understand what you are saying about UDP being a connectionless protocol. That being the case, my rule a

Re: remove from all lists

2001-04-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 01:55:50PM -0300, Jair Szapiro - www.tecnomidia.com.br ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > somebody registered us in all newsletters > please remove [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note that Debian uses opt-in subscriptions -- a confirmation message is sent out that must be responded to. If y

Unsubscribing issues (was Re: )

2001-04-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 08:07:30AM -0700, JC Portlock ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Friday 20 April 2001 02:03 am, Felicity wrote: > > unsubscribe > Try again with "unsubscribe" in the subject line. Nope. Standard unsubscription: Send a message 'unsubscribe' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or, as

Re: debian 2.2r3 ?

2001-04-20 Thread John Galt
upgrade only upgrades what you already have and won't delete any packages, dist-upgrade will add new packages that got added into the requirements and delete new conflicts. Use upgrade regularly, and use dist-upgrade only when you have a real need and are willing to deal with the consequences (on

Re: NB : unsubscribing

2001-04-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 10:58:00AM +0100, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Joris Lambrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Since this must be the first time i unsubscribe from debian-user (change o > >jobs) i post a newbie question. > > For native English speakers, "NB" is short for the La

Backups and the distribution

2001-04-20 Thread Alex Swavely
What file(s) would I need to backup to get a complete snapshot of all installed packages from the distribution I'm using in order to be able to recover a system to it's previous state?

Re: user=halt=halt, user=reboot=halt?

2001-04-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 04:15:33PM +0400, Ilya Martynov ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > LH> Hello, > LH> I added users to halt and reboot, respectively, by making the formers > login > LH> shell /sbin/halt and the latter's /sbin/reboot. > > LH> If I login as the halt user, the system shuts down

Re: OpenSSH: How to do RhostsRSAAuthentication?

2001-04-20 Thread John Galt
I read your procedure and it sounds right. Here's mine: this is all from one, and I don't really care what method ssh uses, so long as it does what I asked, so am not specifying DSA 1) ssh-keygen (hit for the passphrase, ie none, then repeat) 2) scp ~/.ssh/identity.pub [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/.ssh

Re: mp3 encoder Deb

2001-04-20 Thread Gordon Hart
> There ain't none. mp3 encoders are all patent encumbered, so Debian > distributes none. It's been an ongoing discussion on -legal for years > now. My suggestion is to go ogg/vorbis or build lame from source. www.debianplanet.org has a few unofficial apt sources, and I am pretty sure there is

Re: getting mutt, procmail or whoever to filter mail

2001-04-20 Thread straylite
At Fri, 20 Apr 2001 16:10:04 -0300 , Mike G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I just subscribed to the list, I'd really need some help for >separating mail from lists, as you might easily guess. Install procmail and put this recipe in ~/.procmailrc ... it should do the job... # debian user mailing l

Re: converting pdf to html?

2001-04-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 04:17:40PM -0400, Alan Shutko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Forrest English <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > i've got a book that someone has asked me to convert to html. it's > > got tons of images, and other things to complicate things... > > It would be easiest and lea

Re: 2.4 kernel how good is it?

2001-04-20 Thread Scott_Patterson
>>>2) Will i need to re-do my modules? Particularly with the >>>machine thats got the IDE cd writer i had to do some module >>>voodoo, that i was uncomfortable with, to make it work. or >>>will the upgrade handle that kind of thing? (I'm a >>>cargo-cultist when it comes to modules) >> >>Yes...n

Re: getting mutt, procmail or whoever to filter mail

2001-04-20 Thread Gordon Hart
> I just subscribed to the list, I'd really need some help for > separating mail from lists, as you might easily guess. > This is my cfg: mutt/exim/potato > Any help (and receipe better yet!) will be higly appreciated Have a look at www.procmail.org and in particular (the ones that made it click

Re: Marking bad blocks

2001-04-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 09:29:07PM +0200, Enrico Zini ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello! > > Using badblocks I've found some bad blocks on one of my hard disks, and > I'd like to mark them bad so that Linux will avoid to use them. > > The number of bad blocks I've found is low, but they are scat

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