Re: mp3 ---> wav

At 12:03 AM 9/22/01 -0400, Dan Born wrote: >By default mpg123 plays the mp3. Use the -s option to have it send its data >to stdout. See the manpage for more info. > found a somewhat ugly way to fake it, seems to be working though with -w the -s option talks about headerless data in the man pag

Re: mp3 ---> wav

By default mpg123 plays the mp3. Use the -s option to have it send its data to stdout. See the manpage for more info. On Saturday 22 September 2001 09:53 am, John Griffiths wrote: > At 08:37 PM 9/21/01 -0700, Craig Dickson wrote: > >John Griffiths wrote: > >> does anyone know a good tool for co

Re: mp3 ---> wav

At 08:37 PM 9/21/01 -0700, Craig Dickson wrote: >John Griffiths wrote: > >> does anyone know a good tool for converting mp3's back to .wav for >> burning to audio cd? > >Sure. mpg321 -w. XMMS will do it too, I think, if you specify the Disk >Output plugin. > >Craig ok i think u were referring to m

Re: mp3 ---> wav

On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 12:57:11PM +, John Griffiths wrote: | does anyone know a good tool for converting mp3's back to .wav for burning to audio cd? | | (no mp3 player in the car) If you have some spare dough, the Rio Car looks quite interesting. Runs Debian too. -D

Re: mp3 ---> wav

John Griffiths wrote: > does anyone know a good tool for converting mp3's back to .wav for > burning to audio cd? Sure. mpg321 -w. XMMS will do it too, I think, if you specify the Disk Output plugin. Craig

Re: nimda probes

On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 09:29:11AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote: | DvB wrote: ... | > You could always set up a tarpit: | > | > http://www.hackbusters.net/LaBrea/ | > | How is this different from, or better than, CodeRedneck? If you read the page, it says that LaBrea is the next generation of Co

mp3 ---> wav

does anyone know a good tool for converting mp3's back to .wav for burning to audio cd? (no mp3 player in the car) TIA John

Re: GTK Fonts

On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Charles Baker wrote: > I did an `apt-get update` and `apt-get upgrade` > the other night and ever since the fonts on any of my > gtk apps ( everybuddy, gftp, gnumeric, etc. ) have > been showing as little blocks. I've been doing a > little searching on debian-users but can't r

Re: Daemontools

On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 10:03:19PM -0400, Bob Hughes wrote: > > Is there a document on how to safely remove Daemontools? > > Bob Hughes > Please refrain from using HTML in this list. -- GPG key-id: 1024D/5BE3DCFD Dmitriy CCAB 5F17 A099 9E43 1DBE 295C 9A21 2F

Re: text in menu bars has turned to hash marked boxes

Yes, see bugs 109480 and 109611 in the BTS. Annoying, isn't it? - Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.moonkingdom.net/mwilson/ - Original Message - From: "joe golden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 6:28 PM Subject: text in menu bars

Daemontools

Is there a document on how to safely remove Daemontools?   Bob Hughes  

Re: floppy - permissions? Can't write to floppy!

I just wish there would be a way for those who do not want to learn programming, and any other technical stuff, but just to USE a computer for whatever, to learn to use LINUX. I have been trying to learn LINUX for ages, and it is not getting easier, and I am not a complete idiot either, - I know

Re: question about ReiserFS

on Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 02:54:09PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Dear Debusers! > > I'm currently facing a maybe minor problem connected with the necessity of a > journaling FS. And -due to my lazyness- what I am searching for, is a sleek > solution. Please set your ma

Re: question about ReiserFS

On Fri, 2001-09-21 at 09:13, Gerald Richter wrote: > Dear Debusers! > > I'm currently facing a maybe minor problem connected with the necessity of a > journaling FS. And -due to my lazyness- what I am searching for, is a sleek > solution. ext3 would probably be more 'sleek' than reiserfs, becau

Re: Changing default console keymap

on Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 08:39:19PM +0200, Timeboy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Friday Sep 21 11:56 Sven Garbade wrote: > > > ** Hi all, > > ** > > ** how do I change the default console keymap? > > /etc/console-tools/config OK, my turn. How do you make it ***stay*** changed. I've got to

Re: informacion

On Friday 21 September 2001 15:58, Adam McDaniel wrote: > On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 12:26:52AM -0500, colegio el pacifico wrote: > > me gustaria saber como y que es la configuracion de red punto a > > punto > > usted puede ser que desee mirar > > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/translatio

Re: floppy - permissions? Can't write to floppy!

on Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 05:28:53PM -0700, Mr. Jan Hearthstone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >I ran the line, all I get is "Permission denied". > I ran "/etc/fstab" all I get (for all entries) is - > "Permission denied". I always run everything as the > "root", if this should make any difference

Re: [Fwd: Re: Newer Mozilla for Potato(2.2)]

On Sat, 2001-09-22 at 08:36, Timo "Blazko" Boewing wrote: > -Forwarded Message- > From: "Timo Blazko Boewing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Eric Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Newer Mozilla for Potato(2.2) > > > Hi, > > I am using Moz 0.94 on woody and sid. Cos there is only M

Re: mortals may not run X?

On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 01:26:50AM +0200, A.R. (Tom) Peters ([EMAIL > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I installed Progeny, and got rid of that obnoxious gdm. However, when as > > a mortal I do "startx" I am told that the user is not allowed to run the > > X s

Re: floppy - permissions? Can't write to floppy!

I ran the line, all I get is "Permission denied". I ran "/etc/fstab" all I get (for all entries) is - "Permission denied". I always run everything as the "root", if this should make any difference. Thanks, Hearthstone. --- "Karsten M. Self" wrote: > Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 01:07:59 -0700 > F

Re: Quick pon question

On Sat, 2001-09-22 at 06:38, Brian Potkin wrote: > On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 05:40:10AM +0800, csj wrote: > > > Three replies so far but nobody wants to reveal the dark secret. All I > > want is a one/two-word option to stick into /etc/ppp/peers/foovider. Do > > I have to (re)write my own chatscript

Re: Odd placement of windows(GNOME/woody)

Lars Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Lars> I just installed woody, and I gnome from the tasksel. Everything seems Lars> to work OK, except that every time I open an application or any window Lars> for that matter, the window is placed in the upper left hand corner of Lars> my screen. I can't dra

Re: GTK fonts

Thus spake Charles Baker: > No, I hadn't come across these ideas. Also, how can I > tell for sure if XFree 4.x or 3.x is running? Does 4.x > only use XF86Config-4? > > Guess I need to do a little more reading on X configs. > It's always been a week point in my Linux knowledge, > even after 5 yrs.,

Re: dpkg -l does not report all packages?

On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 03:53:35PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > > > On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 12:23:19AM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > > > dpkg and grep-available only report kernel-source packages up to 2.4.5 > > > (which is what I have installed), even though I just did apt-

Re: fetchmail or ipopd messed up my emails?

Gerhard Kroder wrote: > one attached. subjects, sender, dates bodies, just all mixed up. more precisely: sometimes sender, sometimes bodies, somtimes combinations, ect > btw: where does "From > [EMAIL PROTECTED] " come > from? Seems to be on all messed up mails. Ah , found it as "Return-Pa

Re: dpkg -l does not report all packages?

Thus spake Erik Steffl: > Colin Watson wrote: > > > > On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 12:23:19AM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > > > dpkg and grep-available only report kernel-source packages up to 2.4.5 > > > (which is what I have installed), even though I just did apt-get update: > > > > 'apt-get update'

Re: System hang via SSH/scp and NFS]

Did not want to post anonymous here, just saw my entry and corrected it in my mua.thus... Timo

Re: INIT:Entering runlevel:2 failed

Thus spake Michael Heldebrant: > On Thu, 2001-09-20 at 20:09, Robin Gerard wrote: > > hello, > > I run potato 2.2r2 and have upgraded partially > > with woody. > > All ran fine, but after my system crashed, linux > > boot correctly until: > > ttyS00 . > > ttyS01 > > > > after a while >

Re: Netscape & download

Vittorio wrote: > I've tried to find the downloaded file under > /.netscape and $HOME to no avail. > > Any help? usually download goes to where you started netscape, i.e. working dir from where you called the command. don't know what it does when started from a window manager, but i guess it shou

fetchmail or ipopd messed up my emails?

hi, usualy i get lots of emails from mailinglist, and netscrape -messenger is quite blocked untill all mails are downloaded. so i installed current ipopd, fetched my mail with "fetchmail $PROVIDER" from provider to local mda (exim). now i tried (actually i did...) to retrive emails from local ipop

Re: dri after upgrade to Xfree 4.1.0 doesn't work

Thus spake Peter De Wachter: > > (EE) MGA(0): [dri] MGADRIScreenInit failed because of a version > > mismatch. > > [dri] mga.o kernel module version is 2.0.1 but version 3.0.x is needed. > > [dri] Disabling DRI. > > > > Seems I've got the wrong mga.o. But why? > > I had the same problem. Compili

Re: dpkg -l does not report all packages?

Colin Watson wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 12:23:19AM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > > dpkg and grep-available only report kernel-source packages up to 2.4.5 > > (which is what I have installed), even though I just did apt-get update: > > 'apt-get update' doesn't update dpkg's available file.

Re: printers

Thus spake root: > I guess that I have to recompile the kernel. Which HOW TO do I read for > that? Also, I don't seem to have the lp module on my system at all. I > used the idepci kernel in the beginning. Perhaps I should go back and > use the compact kernel or one of the others. The idepci w

Re: Quick pon question

On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 05:40:10AM +0800, csj wrote: > On Sat, 2001-09-22 at 02:43, Wayne Topa wrote: > > csj([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > I'm feeling a bit lazy today to RTFM. I set pon for persist. But it only > > > redials every 30 seconds after failing. How can I make pon

Odd placement of windows(GNOME/woody)

I just installed woody, and I gnome from the tasksel. Everything seems to work OK, except that every time I open an application or any window for that matter, the window is placed in the upper left hand corner of my screen. I can't drag the windows away from there, so all my windows overlap. I am r

Re: Quick pon question

On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 05:40:10AM +0800, csj wrote: > Three replies so far but nobody wants to reveal the dark secret. All I > want is a one/two-word option to stick into /etc/ppp/peers/foovider. Do > I have to (re)write my own chatscript? One of the replies does have the magical one word option

[Fwd: Re: Newer Mozilla for Potato(2.2)]

-Forwarded Message- From: "Timo Blazko Boewing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Eric Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Newer Mozilla for Potato(2.2) Hi, I am using Moz 0.94 on woody and sid. Cos there is only Milestone 18 as .deb, I installed Mozilla online via Mozillas online installe

Re: offtopic: which text language to use?

Julio Merino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JM> SOORY, this is completly offtopic... JM> JM> Well, I've to write a large, large document. I've think to use LaTeX, but JM> I don't think it will be a good choice, because it's html output is JM> really poor (am I wrong?). JM> JM> I'm looking for some l

Re: java with Konqueror in KDE (woody)

On Friday Sep 21 14:58 Alejandro Diego Garin wrote: > ** Hello Linuxfriends: > ** > ** I have installed KDE on woody and I would like to use Konqueror as my web > ** browser so I enabled Java globally because I need it, but It doesn't work. > (i > ** have installed jdk of course) > ** Do you h

Re: glimmer compile error

On Saturday Sep 22 01:17 Rajesh Fowkar wrote: > ** Where can I get the debs for the lastest version of gnome-print (>= 0.25) > ** which are required by glimmer. The package name has changed. Now it is libgnomeprint15. In Woody this is version 0.29 of gnome-print. Timo -- Nothing is impossible!

Any good DVD rippers apart from DRIP?

Hi, I was just wondering if anyone has found a good DVD-ripper/ DivX MPEG4 encoder combination. I was playing around with DRIP for a while but I couldn't get it running. It just keeps crashing, freezing and segfaulting... Any ideas? I'm not against command-line tools, but I would prefer not havin

Re: Quick pon question

On Sat, 2001-09-22 at 02:43, Wayne Topa wrote: > csj([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > I'm feeling a bit lazy today to RTFM. I set pon for persist. But it only > > redials every 30 seconds after failing. How can I make pon redial, say, > > every 5 seconds? > > > > I'll get to readi

iMac XF86Config-4 sample

Howdy, I've been using sid on an iMac. Unfortunately, I've been unable to configure X correctly. Could someone who has succeeded please send me a copy of their /etc/X11/XF86Config-4? Matt

System hang via SSH/scp and NFS

Greetings. I have a strange problem in network: when copying files via NFS or scp from OpenSSH, the sending machine hangs randomly. It has woody (actual version) installed. I had the same thing on the same machine but with FreeBSD 4.1 some time ago. As far as I can say, the hang occurs when copyin

Re: PRoblems with apache and VirtualHosts

"Jan Gehring" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i have a problem with virtualhosts and the apache server. > > my debian is: 2.2r0 > > the problem is: > i can only put 2 virtualhost in the configuration file (httpd.conf) because > with more virtualhosts the apacheserver did not start ! It does work

Re: Iniciando com o DEBIAN-Linux

On Tuesday 18 September 2001 18:26, TRF TRF wrote: > Olá, Meu nome é Thiago Rodrigues, tenho 21 anos e escrevo de Cuiabá > MT, Hi Thiago, this an English mailing list, there is another list for Portuguese-speaking people. Hola Thiago, esta es una lista de correo en inglés, hay otra lista para qu

Re: glimmer compile error

On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 11:17:09PM +, Rajesh Fowkar wrote: | Hi, | | I am trying to compile glimmer. However ./configure gives me the following | error : | | --- | checking for GnomePrint libraries >= 0.25... configure: error: You

Re: What can the following mean (I tried to rpm -ivh _____.rpm)

shyamk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: shyamk> I tried to install gcc -2.96-54 with rpm 4.0 (no problems from shyamk> rpm) . But the following things are demanded ... Could shyamk> somebody please tell me what this means and what I should do ? Why are you using gcc-2.96 (the special Red Hat "let's p

more network problems

Hello everybody earlier today Ihave posted a message about problems configuring network card. Basically the situation is that the computer does not see the network however, if someone pings my computer I see number of receive errors increase as reported by ifconfig If I try to ping other compute

Re: bind9-chroot (was: questions on ITP)

also sprach Henrique de Moraes Holschuh (on Fri, 21 Sep 2001 05:56:36PM -0300): > That's your fault for listing the postfix jail lib/ and etc/ dir for > tripwire to keep track of, I think. well, i do want to know if someone were to mess with them... they are, after all, essential files... martin;

Re: glimmer compile error

On Fri, 2001-09-21 at 18:17, Rajesh Fowkar wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to compile glimmer. However ./configure gives me the following > error : > > --- > checking for GnomePrint libraries >= 0.25... configure: error: You need at > lea

Re: bind9-chroot (was: questions on ITP)

On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Martin F Krafft wrote: > i don't like the way that postfix is done because tripwire chokes > everytime postfix is restarted... That's your fault for listing the postfix jail lib/ and etc/ dir for tripwire to keep track of, I think. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk t

HOWTO install Linux Terminal Server on testing (a step-by-step guide)

Hello Debian-User! I would like to share my experiences of the debianized version of "Linux Terminal Server Project" (ltsp). I have successfully installed it on my computer at home and other family members now use old 486sx machines with 8 Mb RAM and no harddisks as X-terminals. I run testing so I

Newer Mozilla for Potato(2.2)

Hi, I was wondering if there is Mozilla package somewhere that is newer than the Debian M18 that is in the standard mirror locations. I want to try multizilla which would like 0.92 or 0.94. Thanks, Eric

Re: bind9-chroot (was: questions on ITP)

also sprach Henrique de Moraes Holschuh (on Fri, 21 Sep 2001 04:44:41PM -0300): > > how about this: i'll make the package (which will basically be a > > postinst/prerm pair and nothing else, and then we can always integrate > > IMHO it would be better if you did it the way it is done in the postfi

Re: GTK fonts

No, I hadn't come across these ideas. Also, how can I tell for sure if XFree 4.x or 3.x is running? Does 4.x only use XF86Config-4? Guess I need to do a little more reading on X configs. It's always been a week point in my Linux knowledge, even after 5 yrs., guess I'm more of a CLI junky. :-) ---

Re: Quick pon question

* csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > I'm feeling a bit lazy today to RTFM. I set pon for persist. But it only > redials every 30 seconds after failing. How can I make pon redial, say, > every 5 seconds? You may want to read your carrier's AUP first. IIRC Telstra (.au) has a clause or two abo

Re: tiger reports

Hall Stevenson wrote: > Check the archives of this list for a discussion of this topic > from about 2-3 months ago (not sure of the date really > though...). One of the package maintainers brought this up and > it turned into quite an active thread as I recall. I couldn't find anything in debian-

HOWTO install Linux Terminal Server on testing

Hello Debian-User! I would like to share my experiences of the debianized version of "Linux Terminal Server Project" (ltsp). I have successfully installed it on my computer at home and other family members now use old 486sx machines with 8 Mb RAM and no harddisks as X-terminals. I run testing so I

FIXED: courier-imap: cannot bind (potato)

also sprach Damon Muller (on Wed, 19 Sep 2001 08:54:34AM +1000): > > well, i know this. courier-imap (without ssl) in my config would bind > > to 127.0.0.1:143 only. however, this is *right after* bootup and > > netstat *does not* report anything bound to port 143 when it reaches > > init.d/courier

Re: POP3 Server

> Try "qpopper" i highly recommend the courier series, you get pop3 and imap with ssl support. it's complete in woody, potato only sports imap afaik. martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 1-800-psych hel

Re: an urgent harware question

also sprach virtanen (on Fri, 21 Sep 2001 05:13:54PM +0300): > They are complaining about the drivers. > Where can find the right kind of drivers, if they are at all available? i think that Donald Beckers Vortex module will also handle these cards. Vortex is part of 2.4.x if i am not mistaken, b

Re: tiger reports

* Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > Dave Sherohman wrote: > > > > How can anonymous FTP be enabled when I have no FTP server installed? > > > > Is a config file present in /etc? > > What would it be called? There are no files matching the glob "/etc/ftp*". try /etc/*ftp* I have /

Re: What can the following mean (I tried to rpm -ivh _____.rpm)

I believe that you are trying to install a package as a user, you need to be root to add packages, that is the db2 error. Don --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I tried to install gcc -2.96-54 with rpm 4.0 (no > problems from rpm) . But the > following things are demanded ... > Could somebody please te

Re: Snort with postgres logging

servus, > I want to install snort an my firewall, but didn't want the logging to be > done on that box but on an box with postgres installed (7.1 on potato). > And i don't want both db on that machine (political reason :). by the changelog on woody, mfr added that support on 2000-07-06: * Ne

Re: bridges and routers

also sprach Andres Seco Hernandez (on Fri, 21 Sep 2001 11:53:14AM +0200): > Thanks for that big explanation. no prob. it was about time i did some research again to freshen up my own perception of the concepts... :) > As i said in the project web page, "interface between IP services and GSM > mes

Re: apt-get & packages marked as rc

also sprach Rajesh Fowkar (on Fri, 21 Sep 2001 07:58:24PM +): > When we do apt-get remove the configuration files are retained. Now say I > want to remove all these packges permenantly along with the configuration > files, How to do that ? At present I am doing dpkg --purge packages>. Is there

RE: Potato & KDE 2.2

>I've got Debian Potato 2.2r3 and I was wondering whether it > would be possible to install KDE 2.2 (compiling the source code) > over this system. > >Would I have to upgrade my system to Woody first? Try adding this to your /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://kde.debian.net potato main cry

Re: Modelines in Xfree 4.0.3

Sven Garbade([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hi all, > > I've calculated a modeline 1024x768x16 with a refresh rate at 100Hz, but > don't know where to put it in XF86Config-4. I've got only a standard > VESA Mode (1280x1024 or so at 86Hz). Some parts of my config file: > > Section

Re: exim and aliases

Aaron Brashears([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > I have a computer with multiple domains which point to it. One of the > domains is dedicated to a group of friends that will use it for email, > web stuff, etc. I offered to give everyone on the box aliases through > /etc/aliases but I

Re: Quick pon question

csj([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > I'm feeling a bit lazy today to RTFM. I set pon for persist. But it only > redials every 30 seconds after failing. How can I make pon redial, say, > every 5 seconds? > I'll get to reading the required docs, for you, as soon as I can fit it into m

Re: informacion

On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 12:26:52AM -0500, colegio el pacifico wrote: > me gustaria saber como y que es la configuracion de red punto a punto > usted puede ser que desee mirar http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/translations/es/PPP-Como.gz para el PPP --- i love babelfish :) -- Adam M

Re: Changing default console keymap

On Friday Sep 21 11:56 Sven Garbade wrote: > ** Hi all, > ** > ** how do I change the default console keymap? /etc/console-tools/config Timo -- Nothing is impossible! You only need to know the way. :-)

text in menu bars has turned to hash marked boxes

text in menu bars has turned to hash marked boxes in the following programs: abiword, netscape, skipstone, gaby, the gimp, etc. I recently changed permissions (chmod 777) on my .netscape/bookmarks.html file after getting "error saving bookmark file" messages. This seems to have caused this er

Re: bash prompt

Timothy and Paul: Thanks so very much for this thread. There is so much to learn and so little time; it's always a pleasure to find little gems like this as they float by on the list. My terms now have hostname-empowered titlebars :) Cheers, Mike Pfleger There's seventy brilliant people on ear

informacion

me gustaria saber como y que es la configuracion de red punto a punto

Re: an urgent harware question (fwd)

Thanks for all who have answered to my question. I think that the problem lies in the buggy drivers as some people told. I will try to use this suggestion below first. (The machine is in a workshop and tomorrow is saturday and the guys in the workshop will not work tomorrow, but I'll try myse

Re: BIND9 on Debian

I too am running smp with a 2.2.19 kernel. The biggest difference is that I'm not using the package. I built it from source. I'm specifying -n 2 on the command line as well so that it uses both CPUs and in the log it says it's using 2 cpus. So I would probably say try building it from source li

Re: amaya crashes and has a bug in filebrowser

Timeboy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wednesday Sep 19 19:44 Jan Ulrich Hasecke wrote: > > Try bluefish. Nice tool. But then I would prefer emacs with psgml. ;-) I really like the wysiwyg-way of amaya for some tasks. It's a pity that amaya isn't more stable. Ciao! juh -- Big Time! http:/

Re: Netscape & download

On Fri, 2001-09-21 at 21:20, Vittorio wrote: > Sometimes when I download a file from a site under Netscape 4.77 it > happens that the browser doesn't show the usual download box with the > downloading file but just I see that it is (down)loading the file > as it were a web page. I've tried to find

Re: tiger reports

> So should I set the shell to /bin/false for all accounts > that shouldn't allow a tty or console login? That would > include postgres, mail, www-data, daemon, bin, sys, > man, games, lp, uucp, backup, operator, nobody... > For that matter, can some of these be safely deleted? Check the archive

Re: Quick pon question

On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 12:57:31AM +0800, csj wrote: > I'm feeling a bit lazy today to RTFM. I set pon for persist. But it only > redials every 30 seconds after failing. How can I make pon redial, say, > every 5 seconds? Not the attitude expected of a Debian user! It's well worth looking at man

glimmer compile error

Hi, I am trying to compile glimmer. However ./configure gives me the following error : --- checking for GnomePrint libraries >= 0.25... configure: error: You need at least GNOME print 0.25 for this version of glimmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

Re: an urgent harware question

* virtanen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010921 07:14]: > > Hi, > > my local workshop is trying to install a network card of the type: > > 3com 3C905C-TXM This is a very well-supported card. > > Into my computer running > > Debian GNU/linux stable version. The kernel is 2.2.17. > > They are comp

seeing umlauts in xchat?

Hello! despite my system is running fine in german, having even German chars on the shell if needed, xchat seems ot have a big problem with them... whenever a umlaut comes through a channel, the sign is interpreted somehow and gives more or less unpredictable results# and myself am unable to

Re: tiger reports

Dave Sherohman wrote: > > How can anonymous FTP be enabled when I have no FTP server installed? > > Is a config file present in /etc? What would it be called? There are no files matching the glob "/etc/ftp*". > It can potentially make superuser access easier to crack unless both > accounts have

Re: exim and aliases

On Friday, September 21, 2001 10:17 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >[...] I offered to give everyone on the box aliases through > /etc/aliases but I get an error in testing. > > In aliases - > > localemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > When I send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] exim freezes the > message wi

Re: Woody Difficulty

Alan McConnell([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Greetings! > > I have just installed Woody, from four CDs made by a friend. In > trying to set up my printing, I discovered that "apsfilter" wants > a ghostscript of 5.5 or greater, while Woody gives only 5.1. So > I had to go out and

Re: Changing default console keymap

Sven Garbade([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hi all, > > how do I change the default console keymap? > There was a nice article in an early issue of the Linux Gazette (1-9) that gives very good examples of how to do this. :-) HTH, YMMV, HAND :-) --

Re: LS-120 grub boot with 1.44MB but not 120MB floppy: "Geom Error"

Yo. I've got one of these fun little things too. One of these days I'll get grub up and running, maybe, but at present I'm sticking with lilo. I've got a LS-120 boot disk to run lilo, but it needed some extra parameter. I had to add the following to lilo.conf: disk=/dev/hdb bios=0x

Re: apt-get & packages marked as rc

* Rajesh Fowkar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010921 07:23]: > Hi, > > Is there any way to remove all the packages at a stretch using apt or dpkg > ? > > When we do apt-get remove the configuration files are retained. Now say I > want to remove all these packges permenantly along with the configuration >

Re: What process started/owns another process?

> "Peter" == Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Peter> I have a lot of these processes on my system: ... Peter> How do I determine what process started them? pstree. it's in the psmisc package. or you could figure it out the hard way by asking 'ps' for the parent PID. the '-f'

Re: tiger reports

On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 10:05:20AM -0700, Craig Dickson wrote: > If /etc/fstab is not world-readable, will users still be able to mount > things? Without having to supply all the details of what to mount where, > using what filesystem? Users can't mount things by supplying all details of from wher

Quick pon question

I'm feeling a bit lazy today to RTFM. I set pon for persist. But it only redials every 30 seconds after failing. How can I make pon redial, say, every 5 seconds?

What can the following mean (I tried to rpm -ivh _____.rpm)

I tried to install gcc -2.96-54 with rpm 4.0 (no problems from rpm) . But the following things are demanded ... Could somebody please tell me what this means and what I should do ? Thanks, ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Shyam [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]rpm -ivh gcc -2.96-54 dbiSetConfig : unrecognised "db" opt

tiger reports

Is anyone else using the 'tiger' security-checking tool? Mine is giving me some reports that I'm not sure how to deal with. Here they are: # Performing check of system file permissions... --FAIL-- [perm007f] /etc/aliases should not have group read. --WARN-- [perm003w] /etc/fstab should not h

exim and aliases

I have a computer with multiple domains which point to it. One of the domains is dedicated to a group of friends that will use it for email, web stuff, etc. I offered to give everyone on the box aliases through /etc/aliases but I get an error in testing. In aliases - localemail: [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: GTK Fonts

On Thursday Sep 20 23:08 Charles Baker wrote: > ** I did an `apt-get update` and `apt-get upgrade` > ** the other night and ever since the fonts on any of my > ** gtk apps ( everybuddy, gftp, gnumeric, etc. ) have > ** been showing as little blocks. I've been doing a > ** little searching on debia

apt-get install --reinstall FIXED!

Well I figured out my problem and am posting it here just in case someone else may want to use this to. First I used this to find all installed packages. dpkg -l '*'| grep '^i'| cut -f 3 -d ' ' >| installed.packages Then I ran apt like this. apt-get install --reinstall `cat /home/josh/installed

Re: kde font problem

On Thursday Sep 20 05:30 Jason Pepas wrote: > ** I seem to be having a problem with fonts in kde. > ** > ** I had a certain selection of fonts available in kde. > ** > ** then i installed a package of fonts with apt. > ** > ** then I saw a completely different set of available fonts in kde - >

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