Re: No keyboard or mouse in X

2001-07-07 Thread Geoffrey Romer
> 'usbmouse' myself just to let you know. My mouse is the same as the one > you have. So, you'll need to make sure you have those modules in your > kernel config. Here's my relevent modules listing for you... > > lsmod > > mousedev > hid > input > usb-uhci > usbcore Your solution worked (thanks

Re: debian vs suse

2001-07-07 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 10:59:46PM -0400, Peter Kok wrote: > What is the different between debian and suse? > How are the security and stable? Security is more dependant on the administrator of the system. I've heard it said that security is 99% system administration and 1% software. If you don'

Re: [OT] Harassment of open source developer !

2001-07-07 Thread Erik Steffl
John Hasler wrote: > > Erik Steffl wrote: > > they should rename KIllustrator to: Adobe Illustrator Replacement > > > > that should be covered by fair use (it only refers to adobe > > illustrator which is allowed) > > "Fair use" is a term in copyright law. It has no meaningful application > that

Re: xv alternatives

2001-07-07 Thread Carl Johnson
Joe Bouchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't know if it is quite the same, but I use "display" and "convert" > that comes in the "imagemagick" package. imagemagick is free as long as > you use the libmagick4g library instead of the libmagick4g-lzw (which > comes from non-free). I didn't ma

debian vs suse

2001-07-07 Thread Peter Kok
Hi all What is the different between debian and suse? How are the security and stable? Tks Regards Peter

Re: [OT] Harassment of open source developer !

2001-07-07 Thread John Hasler
Erik Steffl wrote: > they should rename KIllustrator to: Adobe Illustrator Replacement > > that should be covered by fair use (it only refers to adobe > illustrator which is allowed) "Fair use" is a term in copyright law. It has no meaningful application that I know of to trademarks. Aaron Bras

Re: TTF fonts

2001-07-07 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach Paul D. Smith (on Sat, 07 Jul 2001 09:25:41PM -0400): > All the TrueType capabilities in both the xfs and builtin solutions are > free software, developed "natively" on Linux (most of them). i hate portmap and consequently, i don't use any Xservers. now, unless i go for XFree 4 which i

Re: TTF fonts

2001-07-07 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% "Martin F. Krafft" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: mfk> also sprach Paul D. Smith (on Sat, 07 Jul 2001 06:07:40PM -0400): >> You don't have a fonts.scale or fonts.dir file in your fonts >> directory; I'm pretty sure you need to. mfk> first, i translate to Type-1, got to stay native, you k

Re: xv alternatives

2001-07-07 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 10:41:51AM +0100, Phillip Deackes wrote: > > I second that. I love the way xloadimage turns the cursor into a double > arrow where the image is larger than the screen and lets you move the > image around so you can see all parts of it more easily. Much nicer than > the way

Re: Deleting locales?

2001-07-07 Thread Martin Maciaszek
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 03:45:56PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: [snip] > > I also noted a huge (50M) store of fonts and other stuff in the > /usr/share/texmf > folder. Is that stuff needed only for X programs? /usr/share/texmf/ is used by TeX and LaTeX. The directory has nothing to do with X. If

Re: TTF fonts

2001-07-07 Thread Martin Maciaszek
On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 01:31:43AM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote: [snip] > > first, i translate to Type-1, got to stay native, you know: > for i in *.ttf; do ttf2pt1 -b $i ${i%%.ttf}; done > > then, i create the font.scale file with the script at > http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.pht

Re: [OT] Harassment of open source developer !

2001-07-07 Thread Aaron Brashears
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 12:52:48PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > they should rename KIllustrator to: Adobe Illustrator Replacement > > that should be covered by fair use (it only refers to adobe > illustrator which is allowed) How about one better: Free Adobe Illustrator Replacement aka: FAIR

Re: [users] Harddrives not mounting properly

2001-07-07 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 01:35:44AM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote: > also sprach Bart Szyszka (on Sat, 07 Jul 2001 07:28:50PM -0500): > > On my computer I have root of course and then a normal user. If I go to > > /wind as a normal user and try to delete a file, it gives me a permission > > denied e

aptitude and apt-get dist-upgrade do different things?

2001-07-07 Thread Erik Steffl
I thought that basically all front-ends for pacakge system would work same way, or at least similarly. However aptitude and apt-get dist-upgrade seem to differ a lot. Why is that? And why are they trying to remove various packages from the system? e.g. I don't want the kde-designer to be removed,

Re: [users] Re: /var being eaten

2001-07-07 Thread Brian Nelson
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 01:53:55PM -0700, Kevin wrote: > i just tar'd the dir, blew away the partition and recreated it. still > dunno what caused it but oh well. > > > From: Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sat, 07 Jul 2001 13:27:55 -0700 > To: "Martin F. Krafft" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject:

Re: [users] Harddrives not mounting properly

2001-07-07 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach Bart Szyszka (on Sat, 07 Jul 2001 07:28:50PM -0500): > On my computer I have root of course and then a normal user. If I go to > /wind as a normal user and try to delete a file, it gives me a permission > denied error. If I try creating a file, I get an error too. Given the above > lin

Re: TTF fonts

2001-07-07 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach Paul D. Smith (on Sat, 07 Jul 2001 06:07:40PM -0400): > You don't have a fonts.scale or fonts.dir file in your fonts directory; > I'm pretty sure you need to. thanks, that was it. i got it to work now: first, i translate to Type-1, got to stay native, you know: for i in *.ttf; do tt

Harddrives not mounting properly

2001-07-07 Thread Bart Szyszka
Hi, I'm having complete trouble with mounting things and permissions in general. Here are two lines from my /etc/fstab /dev/hda5 /wind vfatdefaults,rw,user,auto,exec 0 2 /dev/hda3 /winc vfatdefaults,rw,user,auto,exec 0 2 On my compu

Re: using send-hook in mutt

2001-07-07 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
I have my send-hooks to turn on and off PGP/GPG signatures and/or changing my from address... However I have not tried having it work off the alias in mutt and just have them for the mailing list addresses themselves or specific people (as anyone using Outlook or Outlook Express can't read

using send-hook in mutt

2001-07-07 Thread Martin F. Krafft
hi all, has anyone managed to configure mutt to GPG sign a message based on the recipient? using the line send-hook '~C debian.*' "set pgp_autosign" i can get mutt to do it when i start it as 'mutt debian' (debian is an entry in my aliases file), but not when i simply enter 'debian' in the to l

Re: modem diagnostic?

2001-07-07 Thread J.A.Serralheiro
well, I had notice of some modems that were capable of silent dialing. My one is, I think. I have a supra 33.6 diamond, isa. Its possible that there is an option to enable/disable that. im not sure On Sat, 7 Jul 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm wondering if there is a way to perfor

Re: Not Debian related. wvdial

2001-07-07 Thread Kent West
Wayne wrote: Hi, I'm having a-heck-of-time trying to get my modem to work on a new install of redhat 7.1. I did write to redhat with my problem, but I have not received any answers yet. I also tried to sign-on to wvdial sig. Again ,I have not gotten any responds. Can anyone tell me how to get a

Re: testing packages not consistent?

2001-07-07 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) writes: cw> testing ignores the Recommends: (it's installable without it), and cw> resolves the Conflicts: by assuming that you can remove debhelper cw> in order to install the package. It's not optimal in this case, cw> but is necessary in others. OK.

Re: TTF fonts

2001-07-07 Thread Paul D. Smith
You don't have a fonts.scale or fonts.dir file in your fonts directory; I'm pretty sure you need to. If you are using XFree86 4.x and a "testing" distribution of Debian, you can use my doc to very easily install TrueType fonts, and you don't need a font server to do it (XFree86 4 has built-in supp

Re: [users] Not Debian related. wvdial

2001-07-07 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach Wayne (on Sat, 07 Jul 2001 05:05:25PM -0400): > I'm having a-heck-of-time trying to get my modem > to work on a new install of redhat 7.1. I did write to > redhat with my problem, but I have not received any > answers yet. big surprise. let me guess, you aren't responsible for five dig

fetchmail: socket error while fetching

2001-07-07 Thread Robert Cymbala
How to use fetchmail to connect to IMAP on a remote host while going through a SOCKS proxy server (proxy.lafn.org:1080). There were no matches in the Debian Mailing List Archive Search for: "socket error while fetching" Looking at the FAQ: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/fetchmail/fetchmail-FAQ.h

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade -f giving some odd error when trying to remove gdm

2001-07-07 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 11:06:15PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: > On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 02:25:55PM +1200, bewm wrote: > > hi, > > > > i typed in, apt-get dist-upgrade -f > > it downloads all the files like normal, > > but for them to install it had to remove a package called gdm... > > this is what

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade -f giving some odd error when trying to remove gdm

2001-07-07 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 02:25:55PM +1200, bewm wrote: > hi, > > i typed in, apt-get dist-upgrade -f > it downloads all the files like normal, > but for them to install it had to remove a package called gdm... > this is what it said when it tried to remove it: > > Removing gdm ... > dpkg: error pr

Re: [users] Re: /var being eaten

2001-07-07 Thread Kevin
i just tar'd the dir, blew away the partition and recreated it. still dunno what caused it but oh well. -Original Message- From: Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sat, 07 Jul 2001 13:27:55 -0700 To: "Martin F. Krafft" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [users] Re: /var being eaten its a 200

Re: [users] Re: Time to fight for our beloved DEB format!

2001-07-07 Thread hzi
> Apt-get, while developed for Debian, is already used on several > RPM-based distributions (Conectiva, Mandrake) as well, so it is not > really a packaging format issue. ... although I miss it every single > second when maintaining any Red Hat server at work... apt-get doesn't function well o

Not Debian related. wvdial

2001-07-07 Thread Wayne
Hi, I'm having a-heck-of-time trying to get my modem to work on a new install of redhat 7.1. I did write to redhat with my problem, but I have not received any answers yet. I also tried to sign-on to wvdial sig. Again ,I have not gotten any responds. Can anyone tell me how to get a message to the

Re: Would like to ask for some information regarding about debian's installation

2001-07-07 Thread D-Man
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 02:59:54PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: | D-Man wrote: | > I guess you mean that you are in 10th grade (or your local equivalent) | > because middle school is really young to be understanding how Unix (or | > computers in general) work. | | OTOH, we've had debian developers who

Re: TTF fonts

2001-07-07 Thread Martin F. Krafft
cool, i followed ray's advice, and now i seem to be able to translate fonts. so i placed them into ~/lib/fonts: fishbowl:~/lib/fonts> ls -l total 32 -rw---1 madduck users 13264 Jul 7 22:05 internal.afm -rw---1 madduck users2356 Jul 7 22:05 internal.enc -

Re: How do I clear out a list

2001-07-07 Thread Joost Kooij
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 02:32:23PM -0400, Brian Schramm wrote: > I did a apt-get update. Acually I followed the instructions on > www.progeny.com web site. For your instructions, would that install them > or remove them? It should reinstall all packages with a ximian version, replacing them wi

Re: [users] Re: /var being eaten

2001-07-07 Thread Kevin
its a 200 meg partition. i ran du -sh as root. -Original Message- From: "Martin F. Krafft" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 22:25:36 +0200 To: Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [users] Re: /var being eaten also sprach Kevin (on Sat, 07 Jul 2001 01:10:47PM -0700): > cant wr

Re: [users] Re: /var being eaten

2001-07-07 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach Kevin (on Sat, 07 Jul 2001 01:10:47PM -0700): > cant write to it. ive moved /var/lib and /var/ache to a different > partition and symlinked them. so i have about 8 meg free again. > > using woody/2.4.5 and erm whatever rev setup makes it if you say you > dont want 2.0 compat. did

Re: creating a local mirror

2001-07-07 Thread Michael B. Taylor
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 09:06:51PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote: > we are using a local debian mirror for several reasons. we let rsync > run on one of the official servers once a week over the weekend, and > still have security.debian.org in the sources.list files on all > workstations. however,

why are packages deleted?

2001-07-07 Thread Erik Steffl
I just ran aptitude and it wants to remove package: id libical 4:2.1-20014:2.1-2001 is there any way to find the reason why this package is removed? There are some new packages installed but I don't see any that would replace libical (implement

Re: [users] Re: /var being eaten

2001-07-07 Thread Kevin
cant write to it. ive moved /var/lib and /var/ache to a different partition and symlinked them. so i have about 8 meg free again. using woody/2.4.5 and erm whatever rev setup makes it if you say you dont want 2.0 compat. -Original Message- From: "Martin F. Krafft" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

aptitude: why there are so many packages on hold?

2001-07-07 Thread Erik Steffl
since certain time (few months) aptitude puts a huge number of packages on hold - this time it's about 100. I can still hit '+' and they are installed without any problems - there are no conflicts (most of them, some packages are on hold for a reason). why is it happening? TIA erik

Re: [users] Re: /var being eaten

2001-07-07 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach Kevin (on Sat, 07 Jul 2001 12:52:23PM -0700): > ok now im completely out of space > i rebooted and nothing was freed up but can you write to /var, or is it only the df output which reports 100% usage? which debian? which kernel? which e2fs? martin; (greetings from the h

Re: /var being eaten

2001-07-07 Thread Kevin
ok now im completely out of space i rebooted and nothing was freed up -- Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -Original Message- From: Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sat, 07 Jul 2001 12:04:58 -0700 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: /var being eaten something seems to be eating up space

Re: /var being eaten

2001-07-07 Thread Christian Jaeger
At 21:19 Uhr +0200 7.7.2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: does anyone know a way to find what's doing it? man lsof :-) chj

Re: Gnome1.4 question! OOOPS!!

2001-07-07 Thread Mario Vukelic
On 07 Jul 2001 19:18:10 +, Timeboy wrote: > My mistake! I read this manpage. But i was very tidy at this moment and my > mother language is german. I think i had a heavy blackout. Cause my english > is not very bad. :o)=) Happens. Wia kennan a deitsch redn :) -- I did not vote for the Austr

Re: /var being eaten

2001-07-07 Thread glynis
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 12:04:58PM -0700, Kevin wrote: > something seems to be eating up space in /var. however i don't see > anything taking up that much space. what could be taking space that > wouldnt get counted in du, or be shown with find /var -pring |xargs ls > -l? Thanks. i've had progr

creating a local mirror

2001-07-07 Thread Martin F. Krafft
we are using a local debian mirror for several reasons. we let rsync run on one of the official servers once a week over the weekend, and still have security.debian.org in the sources.list files on all workstations. however, due to the nature of rsync, whenever packages on the server are updated, t

/var being eaten

2001-07-07 Thread Kevin
something seems to be eating up space in /var. however i don't see anything taking up that much space. what could be taking space that wouldnt get counted in du, or be shown with find /var -pring |xargs ls -l? Thanks. -- Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- /dev/sda5 182M 164M 9.3M 95%

Re: Would like to ask for some information regarding about debian's installation

2001-07-07 Thread Joey Hess
D-Man wrote: > I guess you mean that you are in 10th grade (or your local equivalent) > because middle school is really young to be understanding how Unix (or > computers in general) work. OTOH, we've had debian developers who joined while in middle school (though I think all of them are in high s

Getting dselect and apt-* to work from a local file system

2001-07-07 Thread Tommy McDaniel
I have been trying to get package management going since I installed Debian a couple of weeks ago, but have had great difficulties. I am unable to connect to the Internet from my Linux partition, so I decided to set up apt-setup to use a file system and get everything set up so that I would onl

Re: TTF fonts

2001-07-07 Thread ray p
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/Font-HOWTO.html http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/other-formats/html_single/FDU.html http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/other-formats/html_single/TT-Debian.html http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/doc

TTF fonts

2001-07-07 Thread Martin F. Krafft
unfortunately, i *have* to use a font made available to me in TTF (windoze) format. is there a way to convert it to a postscript or type-1 font? or, i guess, how could i use ttf fonts in my X installation (easily)? martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !

Re: Again: shutdown as user

2001-07-07 Thread der.hans
Am 07. Jul, 2001 schwäzte Timeboy so: > how can i use the command shutdown -h now as user. Like to use it in a > shell script. No #su, password, etc. please! Set it up in sudo using the NOPASSWD option. I have that on my laptop. I then stuck it in a script ( alias would work as well ). Now as a n

Re: Gnome1.4 question! OOOPS!!

2001-07-07 Thread Timeboy
On 07 Jul 2001 14:37:31 +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote: > **On 07 Jul 2001 14:26:51 +, Timeboy wrote: > ** > > ** > On 07 Jul 2001 13:32:02 +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote: > ** > > ** man save-session > ** > > ** > Thanx! save-session was a help for me! > ** > > ** > This saves my session

Again: shutdown as user

2001-07-07 Thread Timeboy
On Sat, 07 Jul 2001 14:31:21 +0200, i wrote: > ** > ** Hi! > ** > ** What can i do to use shutdown as normal user? > ** > ** Timo > ** Now i write: how can i use the command shutdown -h now as user. Like to use it in a shell script. No #su, password, etc. please! Timo

Re: Package installation error -- What is going on?

2001-07-07 Thread Timeboy
On Sat, 7 Jul 2001 08:37:08 -0400, David H . Silber wrote: > **When I recently tried out aptitude, apt-get replaced apt 0.3.19 with apt > ** 0.5.3. On the very next install (docbook-doc), I had problems. I don't > ** know if it was a problem with the docbook-doc package or of the new apt > ** p

Re: shutdown as user

2001-07-07 Thread Timeboy
On 07 Jul 2001 14:34:34 +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote: > ** On 07 Jul 2001 14:31:21 +, Timeboy wrote: > ** > > ** > Hi! > ** > > ** > What can i do to use shutdown as normal user? > ** > ** From Gnome or from console? Conslole! Or: A shell script, that i can run without root permission.

Re: Birth of KDE

2001-07-07 Thread Joris Lambrecht
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 06:02:19AM +0800, csj wrote: > On Friday 06 July 2001 02:30, Lambrecht Joris wrote: > > While digging thru a google queryresult on Mailclients i stumbled > > across this archived mail . . . the birth of KDE ? It's pretty old > > Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 15:19:00 +0100 (MET) >

Re: [users] Re: shutdown as user

2001-07-07 Thread Martin F. Krafft
> | What can i do to use shutdown as normal user? install appropriate entries into /etc/sudoers (assuming that 'sudo' is installed: User_Alias SHUTDOWNERS = Cmnd_Alias SHUTDOWN = /sbin/shutdown /sbin/halt /sbin/reboot SHUTDOWNERS ALL = NOPASSWD: SHUTDOWN martin; (gr

Re: [users] SSH

2001-07-07 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach Nick Furman (on Sat, 07 Jul 2001 12:11:29PM -0400): > I prefer not to use NIS to share the password file between two servers so > I wrote a script to push /etc/passwd to another server so they both have > duplicate copies when a user is added onto our system. > > Of course I am using s

Re: modem diagnostic?

2001-07-07 Thread John Hasler
Glenn Becker writes: > I've installed ppp and pppconfig from my potato CDs,... Actually, you already had them installed. > ...and was following instructions I found in -Running Linux-,... A mistake. > "The remote system is required to authenticate itself but I couldn't find > any suitable secre

Re: Swapping /usr and /

2001-07-07 Thread Dave Carrigan
Andrew Overholt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > After install potato on my laptop, I realize that I would like to swap the > partitions for /usr and / .. any idea how I can do this safely? I managed > to swap /home and /usr with little hassle but I'm kinda more concerned > about / and /usr. If / c

Re: shutdown as user

2001-07-07 Thread D-Man
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 02:31:21PM +0200, Timeboy wrote: | | Hi! | | What can i do to use shutdown as normal user? I use sudo from the console. I usually have gdm running now and by changinge the line SystemMenu=0 to SystemMenu=1 in /etc/gdm/gdm.conf (as the comment above it says) will

Re: modem diagnostic?

2001-07-07 Thread D-Man
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 11:09:03AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | Hi, | | I'm wondering if there is a way to perform a hardware check on my internal | modem under Debian. | | I first started having trouble with it when I was still running Windoze, | but suspected it was a crummy cable. Righ

SSH

2001-07-07 Thread Nick Furman
I have a quick question regarding the secure server package and scp. I prefer not to use NIS to share the password file between two servers so I wrote a script to push /etc/passwd to another server so they both have duplicate copies when a user is added onto our system. Of course I am using scp t

Re: [users] Re: Time to fight for our beloved DEB format!

2001-07-07 Thread D-Man
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 12:20:54AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: | | I believe that any attempt to assign standardized meanings to | runlevels falls into this category: It makes it easier to setup a | system that does normal things in a normal configuration and easier | for third parties to set up

modem diagnostic?

2001-07-07 Thread burningclown
Hi, I'm wondering if there is a way to perform a hardware check on my internal modem under Debian. I first started having trouble with it when I was still running Windoze, but suspected it was a crummy cable. Right arond the time I installed Debian I got DSL, so didn't install any dialup capabil

postfix install: /etc/aliases.db: Invalid argument (???)

2001-07-07 Thread Christopher M. Jones
When attempting to install postfix I get the following error: postalias: fatal: open database /etc/aliases.db: Invalid argument dpkg: error processing postfix (--install): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: postfix The err

Re: Security manager (mozilla M18), trying to run as normal user

2001-07-07 Thread Michael B. Taylor
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 11:17:36AM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > And is there any way to get Mozilla to stop offering me an unwanted > "Netscape Search" pane when I type a URL into the address bar? Even with > "smart" URLs turned off, it still slows typing down so much it's very > irritating. > Yes.

Re: X with dvorak

2001-07-07 Thread joeytsai
> I have the dvorak keymap loaded for myy everyday use in consoles, but > after upgrading to X-4 it insists on using a qwerty layout. How do I > set up X to use the dvorak keyboard layout? > Put this in your .xinitrc: setxkbmap dvorak // joey tsai

Re: [users] SNNS and Debian

2001-07-07 Thread Bud Rogers
On Saturday 07 July 2001 09:22 am, Martin F. Krafft wrote: > also sprach Bud Rogers (on Sat, 07 Jul 2001 09:18:32AM -0500): > > Anyone have SNNS working with Debian? I can't get it to compile. > have a look at the SNNS page - specifically at the bugs and bugfixes. > this is a common problem, whic

Re: Security manager (mozilla M18), trying to run as normal user

2001-07-07 Thread Craig Dickson
And speaking of Mozilla, how does one change the style or size of the font that it uses for drawing menus, dialog box text, etc.? I've heard there is a GTK version of Mozilla, but the mozilla-browser package in unstable doesn't seem to be it. At least, it certainly pays no attention whatsoever to

Re: Security manager (mozilla M18), trying to run as normal user

2001-07-07 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 10:35:14AM -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > I've been using Mozilla as my primary browser for close to a year at > this point, and with the current 0.9.x releases it absolutely blows > Netscape 4 away in terms of performance, stability, and features. Really? I find it abou

Re: networking windows and linux

2001-07-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 03:49:40AM -0500, Jeremy Gaddis wrote: > And let's not forget, "How to get your ass fired > real quick when the suits *DO* notice." Please cite an actual occurrence of this. -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better Micromuse Ltd. | t

Re: xv alternatives

2001-07-07 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 09:44:24AM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > Plus the fact that you have to give an option to tell it to shutup about > what it's doing. That doesn't bother me, but "alias" is your friend. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] I-Con's Science and Technology Programming

Re: Security manager (mozilla M18), trying to run as normal user

2001-07-07 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 09:10:23PM +1000, Davor Balder wrote: > I installed security manager for mozilla (Mozilla M18 under Potato, > normal direct modem connection-no proxies) a few days ago and am still > trying to run it as normal user. I have no problems running it as root, > but when I try

Re: [users] SNNS and Debian

2001-07-07 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach Bud Rogers (on Sat, 07 Jul 2001 09:18:32AM -0500): > Anyone have SNNS working with Debian? I can't get it to compile. > > First I had to manually define MAXFLOAT, which I think should have been > defined in /usr/include/math.h.Then it fails with the following error. > > make[1

SNNS and Debian

2001-07-07 Thread Bud Rogers
Anyone have SNNS working with Debian? I can't get it to compile. First I had to manually define MAXFLOAT, which I think should have been defined in /usr/include/math.h.Then it fails with the following error. make[1]: Entering directory `/home/budr/src/snns-4.2/xgui/sources' gcc -I../.. -

Re: xv alternatives

2001-07-07 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 08:09:52PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > I like xloadimage (xview), although xv is certainly nice. I tried that and didn't like it. For a series of pictures it destroys and creates the window for each one instead of just resizing the window. All that flashing is very annoying.

Re: References to the mailing list archives

2001-07-07 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 07 Jul 2001, Pedro Zorzenon Neto wrote: >I'd like to make references in some changelog to a message in debian > mailing list archives. [...] >Can I put this as reference? >How can I get the message in the archive with this reference? Go to http://lists.debian.org, find the me

Re: fetchmail at boot

2001-07-07 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
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Re: shutdown as user

2001-07-07 Thread Jimmy Richards
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 02:31:21PM +0200, Timeboy wrote: > > Hi! > > What can i do to use shutdown as normal user? > > Timo > Hello Timo, I do it like this... su root halt HTH, Jim Richards > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: shutdown as user

2001-07-07 Thread Joe Bouchard
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 02:31:21PM +0200, Timeboy wrote: > > Hi! > > What can i do to use shutdown as normal user? There are different ways... One way is to use "sudo". Some people like it, others are scared of it. Read the acrhives and you decide for yourself. Refer to the current thread ab

References to the mailing list archives

2001-07-07 Thread Pedro Zorzenon Neto
Please CC copies of replies to me as I'm not a subscriber of debian-user. Hi, I'd like to make references in some changelog to a message in debian mailing list archives. In the header of the message I have: X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/91560 Can I put this as reference? How

Re: fetchmail at boot

2001-07-07 Thread Brian Nelson
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 10:56:43AM +0100, Phillip Deackes wrote: > On Sat, 7 Jul 2001 01:59:06 -0500 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > currently I have fetchmail being run at login from ~/.bash_profile. > > this is fine for myself at login, however, I would like to have > > fetchmail run as a daemo

Re: Cannot connect to certain web sites

2001-07-07 Thread dude
> > Does anyone know why I wouldn't be able to connect to certain web > pages while i'm in linux? I can connect to almost any webpage but > the following (at this is all i've found so far) > Do these pages require Jave? Require ssl?

Re: Cannot connect to certain web sites

2001-07-07 Thread Mario Vukelic
On 07 Jul 2001 08:53:52 -0400, Kyle Girard wrote: > here's another problem does anyone know > how to configure firestarter do > not reject packets with ECN enabled ? Sorry, I don't use it -- I did not vote for the Austrian government

Re: stable packages without priorities

2001-07-07 Thread Joe Bouchard
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 02:15:24PM +0100, Philip Martin wrote: > Hi > > On my potato system I see: > > $ apt-cache check > Bad prio eximon,3.12-10.1 == 0 > Bad prio elvis-tiny,1.4-10 == 0 > Bad prio cfingerd,1.4.1-1.1 == 0 > Bad prio rxvt,1:2.6.2-2.1 == 0 > Bad prio joe,2.8-15.3 == 0 > Bad prio n

Re: Keyboard Prob

2001-07-07 Thread Keri
It looks like SI 3410 KS As far as the keyboard is concerned, I've never counted the keys, but for a lark, we ocutned them and I have 107 keys), now my keyboard is set up using 101 keys. Should I go into mc and edited it? Don't even know what ones I should include really. It's basically a UK keybo

Re: Package installation error -- What is going on?

2001-07-07 Thread Colin Watson
"David H . Silber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >When I recently tried out aptitude, apt-get replaced apt 0.3.19 with apt >0.5.3. On the very next install (docbook-doc), I had problems. I don't >know if it was a problem with the docbook-doc package or of the new apt >package. In the meanwhile, I'm

Re: how stable is the testing branch?

2001-07-07 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 04:51:25PM +, joe golden wrote: > Debian has koffice in the testing branch>> > this may be the answer to my need for a stable word processor and graphing > spreadsheet for our small school network of 10 machines. > > Will the testing branch be so unstable as to crash r

Re: Cannot connect to certain web sites

2001-07-07 Thread Kyle Girard
Sweet, echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn fixed my problem but here's another problem does anyone know how to configure firestarter do not reject packets with ECN enabled ? Kyle On 07 Jul 2001 14:28:39 +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote: > On 07 Jul 2001 08:07:16 -0400, Kyle Girard wrote

Re: xv alternatives

2001-07-07 Thread Joe Bouchard
Hi, I don't know if it is quite the same, but I use "display" and "convert" that comes in the "imagemagick" package. imagemagick is free as long as you use the libmagick4g library instead of the libmagick4g-lzw (which comes from non-free). I didn't make a concious effort to choose the free versi

Re: Cannot connect to certain web sites

2001-07-07 Thread Jimmy Richards
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 08:07:16AM -0400, Kyle Girard wrote: > Hello, > > Does anyone know why I wouldn't be able to connect to certain web > pages while i'm in linux? I can connect to almost any webpage but > the following (at this is all i've found so far) > > http://java.sun.c

Package installation error -- What is going on?

2001-07-07 Thread David H . Silber
When I recently tried out aptitude, apt-get replaced apt 0.3.19 with apt 0.5.3. On the very next install (docbook-doc), I had problems. I don't know if it was a problem with the docbook-doc package or of the new apt package. In the meanwhile, I'm afraid of installing more packages lest I compoun

Re: Gnome1.4 question!

2001-07-07 Thread Mario Vukelic
On 07 Jul 2001 14:26:51 +, Timeboy wrote: > > On 07 Jul 2001 13:32:02 +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote: > > ** man save-session > > Thanx! save-session was a help for me! > > This saves my session > But how can i logout, to start something like kde? Hm, I meant you shoud /read/ the save-s

Radius error on a ppp server

2001-07-07 Thread Mário Henrique Cruz Tôrres
Good morning. I have a ppp server on my house but I'm receivind an error message from RADIUS: PAM authentication not available Anyone know what is this ? Thanks a lot. Mario H.C.T. my system : radius + portslave + multiserial cyclades

Re: shutdown as user

2001-07-07 Thread Mario Vukelic
On 07 Jul 2001 14:31:21 +, Timeboy wrote: > > Hi! > > What can i do to use shutdown as normal user? >From Gnome or from console? -- I did not vote for the Austrian government

Re: Gnome1.4 question!

2001-07-07 Thread Mario Vukelic
On 07 Jul 2001 12:57:18 +, Timeboy wrote: > Does anybody know which > kommand i have to use for this? ^^^ I thing kommands work only in KDE, try a gommand ;o) -- I did not vote for the Austrian government

Re: Gnome1.4 question!

2001-07-07 Thread Timeboy
On 07 Jul 2001 13:32:02 +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote: > ** On 07 Jul 2001 12:57:18 +, Timeboy wrote: > ** > > ** > I have installed Gnome1.4 and like to logout of gnome-session with an > shell > ** > script instead of the logout button on panel. Does anybody know which > ** > kommand i have t

shutdown as user

2001-07-07 Thread Timeboy
Hi! What can i do to use shutdown as normal user? Timo

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