Re: [OT] LaTeX and Zapf Chancery fonts

2001-11-22 Thread joel_mayes
> on Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 10:01:53PM -0500, Alan Shutko wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > Can some one please send my an example on how to specify the pzc or the uzc > > fonts in a default Debian teTeX install, I can't figure it out and it's > > driving my Mad. > > \fontfamily{pzc}\fontsha

Re: ISP asking about switching to Debian from OpenBSD

2001-11-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 02:12:17AM -0800, Petro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 11:04:32PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 01:38:11PM -0800, Mark Ferlatte > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > My own experience running GNU/Linux and OpenBSD (2.7) side-by

Re: Newbie comments & queries

2001-11-22 Thread Brenda J. Butler
> No.1. > > In the /etc/profile file the line > > eval $(dircolors /etc/DIR_COLORS -b) > > gives an error because of the lack of the file > DIR_COLORS. I have just put this in as > > eval $(dircolors -b) and it seems to go fine. Ok... you could man dircolors to see what is supposed to be in D

Re: changing default editor

2001-11-22 Thread Brian Nelson
John Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all > > tryng to change the default editor on a potato 2.2.r4 system so users > who're not comfortable with vi can use mutt to send messages > > I tried: > > EDITOR=jed; export EDITOR > > which works until the user logs out > > any thoughts on m

Re: eth0 <-> eth1

2001-11-22 Thread Brian Nelson
Sean Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Also, I can't for the life of me see why a cable company would lock on to > a MAC address. Roadrunner doesn't do this, and it would be really Roadrunner in Eastern Mass. does do this. They're so kind as to even put the mac address as the hostname, like

Re: ISP asking about switching to Debian from OpenBSD

2001-11-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 10:45:48AM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Karsten M. Self wrote: > >Most of these boil down to the TCP/IP stack. The *BSD stack is damned > >good, and the rest of the world drools after it. Linus himself admit

ObElitist (was Re: Virus incident)

2001-11-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 09:37:59AM +1100, John Griffiths ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >My point wasn't that people who use a .*Microsoft email client are > >"lesser beings" because they can't make Debian work; I mean that they > >most likely aren't trying hard enough. Debian isn't about holding >

Re: Virus incident

2001-11-22 Thread Paul E Condon
I am a newbie to Debian. One of the things I look forward to is receiving intelligent polite answers to my stupid newbie questions. I have experienced newbie-only lists on other distributions. They are depressing. Thanks to all you experienced Debian users who are welcoming and helpful. Paul ai

Re: Virus incident

2001-11-22 Thread DvB
Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Robert L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hmm, when did this become an elitist, better than you mailing list? Is this > > debian-users or debian-I-am-God-worship-me? > > Is this debian-user, or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian's always > been eliti

changing default editor

2001-11-22 Thread John Griffiths
Hi all tryng to change the default editor on a potato 2.2.r4 system so users who're not comfortable with vi can use mutt to send messages I tried: EDITOR=jed; export EDITOR which works until the user logs out any thoughts on making it stick? regs, John

Re: Virus incident

2001-11-22 Thread Gary Turner
On Thu, 22 Nov 2001 14:31:15 -0800, you wrote: >Linda Laubenheimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Brian Nelson wrote: >> > >> > "Robert L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > >> > > Hmm, when did this become an elitist, better than you mailing list? Is >> > > this >> > > debian-users or

Re: Virus incident

2001-11-22 Thread Brian Nelson
Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Brian Nelson wrote: > > > Debian isn't about holding newbies' hands. > > What do you want them to use, Red Hat? Heaven forbid. > > > There isn't a mailing list dedicated to newbies > > installing debian. The information is out there; it's up to them

Re: lots of outgoing mail

2001-11-22 Thread Marc-Adrian Napoli
hi, At 12:37 PM 11/23/01 +1100, Marc-Adrian Napoli wrote: >hi, > >looking for an MTA that will deliver lots of outgoing mail nice and fast. >currently we have one mail server doing in/out (qmail) but would like to >split outgoing onto a seperate mail server because our outgoing mail is >going to

Re: eth0 <-> eth1

2001-11-22 Thread Sean Morgan
On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 10:44:19 -0500 dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 08:13:53AM +0100, Eric Smith wrote: > | According to dman on Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 08:14:49PM -0500: > | > On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 07:10:19PM +0100, Eric Smith wrote: > | > | Its been quite a saga - I have

Re: tty1-6 screwed up

2001-11-22 Thread Shaya Potter
On Thu, 2001-11-22 at 23:06, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 01:53:50PM +0200, Shaul Karl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > > I just finished playing xmame in full screen mode, and coming out of > > > full screen mode messed something up. X died, and gdm was respawned. > > > > >

Re: tty1-6 screwed up

2001-11-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 01:53:50PM +0200, Shaul Karl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I just finished playing xmame in full screen mode, and coming out of > > full screen mode messed something up. X died, and gdm was respawned. > > > > However, interestingly, the virtual consoles 1-6 are now screwe

debian: bugzilla for next release

2001-11-22 Thread Brendan J Simon
Does anyone know if bugzilla going to be in the next release of Debian ?? I see it's in unstable but hasn't even made it to testing yet. It's been in unstable for a little while now. I'd really like to see it in stable for the next relese. Thanks for any info, Brendan Simon.

Re: Radeon 7500 XFree86 support.

2001-11-22 Thread Dmitriy
On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 06:31:11PM -0500, Diarmuid Drew wrote: > I'm new to 3D, just upgraded my tseng ET6000 to a Radeon 7500. > > I'd like to get XFree86 4.1.0 to work, 2D would be nice, 3D would be "better > than a best thing on a Best tour of Best land" :) > > Trying to get the radeon drive

usb mass storage problem

2001-11-22 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello list, I have a usb external storage device within IBM 2.5" 6GB IDE. I'd like my linux 2.4.13 to recognize it. So I compile kernel with USB support as well as: 1. Preliminary USB device filesystem 2. UHCI support 3. USB Mass Storage support 4. USB Human Interface Device support I've read t

Re: mozilla 0.9.5 on sid[Re:pkginfo]

2001-11-22 Thread Mike McNally
Check this out: # to save a list of deb packages installed# # and how to use it on the next install # on the existing installation dpkg --get-selections \* > ~mike/notes/selections # the \* involves packages removed # on the new box dpkg --set-selections < selections apt-get

Re: Virus incident

2001-11-22 Thread Jesse Goerz
On Thursday 22 November 2001 14:46, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > * Jesse Goerz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > On Wednesday 21 November 2001 20:11, Josh Everist wrote: > > > Well I can take responsibility for the messages from > > > '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', however if the Debian User > > > mailing lis

Re: Woody Upgrade Question

2001-11-22 Thread Brian May
> "Patrick" == Patrick Dahiroc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Patrick> are the packages sysvinit and linux-util suppose to be Patrick> removed when upgrading from potato to woody? Patrick> apt-get gave me the warning: Patrick> WARNING: The following essential packages will be re

Installing applications from CD-rom?

2001-11-22 Thread Abner Gershon
I am trying to install Potatoe 2.2r3 from CD-rom. First I booted to CD then after initial partitioning, initiallizing, etc. I rebooted using a boot floppy. I gave the machine a name. Then when it was time to install applications through apt-get my CD-rom was not auto-detected. I was asked to enter

Re: Evolution 0.99-2 broken ?

2001-11-22 Thread Simon Wong
On Fri, 2001-11-23 at 09:12, hmike wrote: > Try killing oafd gconfd-1 bonobo-moniker-xmldb and wombat. I've almost > always had to kill them when evolution is updated. Then restart > evolution. Worked for me too. -- ** * Simon Wong * **

Woody Upgrade Question

2001-11-22 Thread Patrick Dahiroc
are the packages sysvinit and linux-util suppose to be removed when upgrading from potato to woody? apt-get gave me the warning: WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing! sysvinit util-linux (due to sysvinit)

Re: Debian GUI?

2001-11-22 Thread Oki DZ
On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Chris Savoie wrote: > i install Linux and im stuck at a screen saying > <:Chris~# > or sompthing, i need to get past that, into the Shell, is there not one Well, that is the shell. > present or sompthing? if you cant tell this is my first time with linux and > no friends that

Re: quick ghoscript font question

2001-11-22 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 10:07:04AM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: > > > > Not to be picky or anything, but whether or not a font is available to > X has *absolutely no bearing* as to whether Ghostscript likes it or > not. Ghostscript won't magically recognize X fonts; the various > Postscript previ

Re: lots of outgoing mail

2001-11-22 Thread John Griffiths
At 12:37 PM 11/23/01 +1100, Marc-Adrian Napoli wrote: >hi, > >looking for an MTA that will deliver lots of outgoing mail nice and fast. >currently we have one mail server doing in/out (qmail) but would like to >split outgoing onto a seperate mail server because our outgoing mail is >going to inc

lots of outgoing mail

2001-11-22 Thread Marc-Adrian Napoli
hi, looking for an MTA that will deliver lots of outgoing mail nice and fast. currently we have one mail server doing in/out (qmail) but would like to split outgoing onto a seperate mail server because our outgoing mail is going to increase. someone suggested postfix as the best solution. ca

Wireless .... Please Help - me !!!!!

2001-11-22 Thread Gustavo V. Goulart
I'm installing a server for conections. This conections will be used with tecnology wirelees. I'm configure the file /etc/pcmcia/config.opts. In this file I disable all modules, and leave just de module: # Wavelan Lucent Ad-hoc wvlan_cs opts network_name ... and put the parameters for net files

Re: Best choice for video card

2001-11-22 Thread Marc Wilson
On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 12:34:17PM -0800, Chris Majewski wrote: > Again, I recommend Matrox, specifically the g450, which any recent > linux supports pretty much out of the box. Watch out for the g550 though, I'm > not sure if it's supported yet. Probably will be any day now. Matrox supports

Re: Auto starting iptables

2001-11-22 Thread Lance Levsen
make an iptables script in /etc/init.d/iptables chmod 755 this file run $ update-rc.d iptables defaults 10 (not sure about this syntax, read the manpage.) Cheers, -- Lance Levsen, Systems Administrator, PWGroup - Saskatoon

Re: Potato->Woody Upgrade: Removed Package

2001-11-22 Thread Bob Underwood
On Thursday 22 November 2001 04:54 pm, Serge Rey wrote: > i did the upgrade yesterday, and along the lines of brian's suggestion, > this worked for me: > > 1) change apt sources to point to woody > 2) apt-get update > 3) apt-get -u install apt apt-utils dpkg debconf perl > 4) apt-get -u dist-upgrad

Re: Woody kernel?

2001-11-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 06:07:12PM -0500, Greg Fischer wrote: > when will Woody be frozen to the point that new kernels (2.4) can not > come in? The boot-floppies people have already decided that the default kernel for i386 will still be 2.2. Other architectures will be using 2.4 depending on its

Re: Virus incident

2001-11-22 Thread Andy Davidson
On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 02:31:15PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: > Linda Laubenheimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Are you deliberately acting like a poorly reared, snotty pre-teen, or > > is it a genetic fault? > > Mostly the former, since this is infinitely more amusing than being > with the re

Radeon 7500 XFree86 support.

2001-11-22 Thread Diarmuid Drew
I'm new to 3D, just upgraded my tseng ET6000 to a Radeon 7500. I'd like to get XFree86 4.1.0 to work, 2D would be nice, 3D would be "better than a best thing on a Best tour of Best land" :) Trying to get the radeon driver loaded gives the error "(EE) No devices detected" and the Fatal error "n

Radeon 7500 XFree86 support.

2001-11-22 Thread Diarmuid Drew
I'm new to 3D, just upgraded my tseng ET6000 to a Radeon 7500. I'd like to get XFree86 4.1.0 to work, 2D would be nice, 3D would be "better than a best thing on a Best tour of Best land" :) Trying to get the radeon driver loaded gives the error "(EE) No devices detected" and the Fatal error "n

Radeon 7500 XFree86 support.

2001-11-22 Thread Diarmuid Drew
I'm new to 3D, just upgraded my tseng ET6000 to a Radeon 7500. I'd like to get XFree86 4.1.0 to work, 2D would be nice, 3D would be "better than a best thing on a Best tour of Best land" :) Trying to get the radeon driver loaded gives the error "(EE) No devices detected" and the Fatal error "n

[Markus Grunwald ] S: Sound editor

2001-11-22 Thread Chris Majewski
The main problem with sound software for linux is there is too much of it. Here are some keywords: ecasound, ardour, snd. See also Dave Phillips' famous linux audio page, and the linux-audio-user mailing list. Now that computer music professors have had to throw out their old NeXt cubes

Re: Virus incident

2001-11-22 Thread John Hasler
Alan Shutko writes: > Anyone who has had any contact with any sort of mass media in the last > year should know by now not to open executables. Anyone who has paid attention in the last year should know by now that there is no reason to believe that not opening executables is sufficient protection

Re: quick ghoscript font question

2001-11-22 Thread Steve Kieu
> > if it works... add that path to your > /etc/X11/XF86Config God, This font already works for X11, I put it in /usr/lib/X11/fonts/tcvn and add this to the XFree config file, run xfontsel is ok, netscape or even staroffice can display the page using that font correctly, but when I print to ps f

Woody kernel?

2001-11-22 Thread Greg Fischer
when will Woody be frozen to the point that new kernels (2.4) can not come in? Is there an official freeze schedule anywhere? thanks. --Greg

SIS620 and XFree 4.0.1

2001-11-22 Thread Ivens Porto
Hello, I'm trying to use XFree86 4.0.1 with a SIS620 but i'm having some problems. First I had to use the options "NoAccel" and "FastVRam" to make the X server start. After I make "startx" the X server starts but the screen is all black (sometimes the mouse cursor appears). The strange part is t

Re: S3 Savage4

2001-11-22 Thread nate
Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira said: > > Hi all, > I installed Debian Potato in a AMD Duron 800 Mhz and xserver-svga > and related packages. I did a SuperProbe command and the following > returned: > > First video: Super-VGA > Chipset: S3 Savage4 (PCI Probed) X4

Re: Virus incident

2001-11-22 Thread Craig Dickson
Brian Nelson wrote: > Debian isn't about holding newbies' hands. What do you want them to use, Red Hat? Heaven forbid. > There isn't a mailing list dedicated to newbies > installing debian. The information is out there; it's up to them to > find it, understand it, and apply it. It's like a ri

Re: Procmail question (was Re: Virus incident)

2001-11-22 Thread Craig Dickson
Richard Cobbe wrote: > I understood all of the rules that were posted except for one thing. > Just out of curiosity, what does the 1^0 above do? The procmail > manpages weren't much help. Try "man procmailsc" and read up on scoring. Craig

Procmail question (was Re: Virus incident)

2001-11-22 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Thursday, November 22, Linda Laubenheimer did write: > Craig Dickson wrote: > > > * 1^0 ^From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > * 1^0 ^From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > /dev/null > > Add >* 1^0 ^From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > to that last one... > I understood all of the rules that were posted except for o

Re: Virus incident

2001-11-22 Thread John Griffiths
>My point wasn't that people who use a .*Microsoft email client are >"lesser beings" because they can't make Debian work; I mean that they >most likely aren't trying hard enough. Debian isn't about holding >newbies' hands. There isn't a mailing list dedicated to newbies >installing debian. The i

Re: Virus incident

2001-11-22 Thread Brian Nelson
Linda Laubenheimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Brian Nelson wrote: > > > > "Robert L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Hmm, when did this become an elitist, better than you mailing list? Is > > > this > > > debian-users or debian-I-am-God-worship-me? > > > > Is this debian-user

Re: Virus incident

2001-11-22 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 11:56:07AM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: > Is this debian-user, or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian's always > been elitist. That's why it's so much fun. I think you're confused. This is debian-user. You're looking for debian-jackasses. You need to unsubscribe from this one and

Re: Virus incident

2001-11-22 Thread Shaya Potter
actually debian hasn't been elitest. Debian has been willing to accept teenagers to be maintainers of packages, giving those teenagers a valuable learning experience. I should know, I was one of the first 5 + years ago. shaya On Thu, 2001-11-22 at 14:56, Brian Nelson wrote: > "Robert L. Harri

Re: Evolution 0.99-2 broken ?

2001-11-22 Thread hmike
On Thu, 2001-11-22 at 15:01, Michel Loos wrote: > Since I upgraded evolution to the 0.99 series I am getting this sort of > messages: > > evolution-shell-WARNING **: Cannot activate Evolution component -- > OAFIID:GNOME_Evolution_Addressbook_ShellComponent > evolution-shell-WARNING **: Could not

Re: Potato->Woody Upgrade: Removed Package

2001-11-22 Thread Serge Rey
On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 01:06:38PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: -snip- > > <-- dist-upgrade OUTPUT --> > > Reading Package Lists... > > Building Dependency Tree... > > The following packages will be REMOVED: > > data-dumper gnucash kbd modconf modutils perl-5.005 > > sysvinit util-linux > > xco

Re: apt-get bugzilla/sid ....Preconfiguring packages....

2001-11-22 Thread R?mi Perrot
On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 06:31:09AM -0800, Charles Baker wrote: > Here is a snippet of the output of the command: > debconf (developer): --> 0 ok > debconf (developer): <-- GET > bugzilla/bugzilla_admin_name > debconf (developer): --> 0 > debconf (developer): <-- FGET > bugzilla/bugzilla_admin_pw

Re: Virus incident

2001-11-22 Thread csj
On Friday 23 November 2001 03:21, Robert L. Harris wrote: > Hmm, when did this become an elitist, better than you mailing list? >  Is this debian-users or debian-I-am-God-worship-me? > > And the language isn't needed either.  There are children who read > this. Hmm, prodigies will probably underst

Re: Java fü r Konqueror, evt. Mozilla und Opera mit SSL!

2001-11-22 Thread Stephen Rueger
On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 10:00:40PM +0100, Jan Torben Heuer wrote: > Ich suche eine Java Distribution, für mindestens o.g. Browser. Im moment > nutze ich eine Version von blackdown.org, jedoch scheint es damit nicht > möglich zu sein auf HTTPS Server zu connecten. > > Brauche ich eine andere Distr

Re: Virus incident

2001-11-22 Thread Alan Shutko
Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My guess is that the antivirus thing thinks it's processing mail that is > addressed to one of its local users. So it assumes the To: line is one of > those local users, and sends the notice to that address. Which is sort of > stupid. I doubt it. I'm s

Re: Virus incident

2001-11-22 Thread Alan Shutko
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Not to new users using Windows from work or to ask for help getting on the > Net with Debian. Filtering .exe's from this list would be a kindness. Anyone who has had any contact with any sort of mass media in the last year should know by now not to open

Re: Virus incident

2001-11-22 Thread Mike Pfleger
* Brian Nelson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > But setting up DHCP is covered in the installation manual. Is it > really worthwhile helping people that are too lazy to read and > understand material that's readily available? Including the kernel mods req'd to get dhcp-client to work with a tweaked

Evolution 0.99-2 broken ?

2001-11-22 Thread Michel Loos
Since I upgraded evolution to the 0.99 series I am getting this sort of messages: evolution-shell-WARNING **: Cannot activate Evolution component -- OAFIID:GNOME_Evolution_Addressbook_ShellComponent evolution-shell-WARNING **: Could not start up component for OAFIID:GNOME_Evolution_Mail_ShellCo

Re: Potato->Woody Upgrade: Removed Package

2001-11-22 Thread Brian Nelson
Patrick Dahiroc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hi all > > i'm considering upgrading my potato box to woody over > the holidays. i've changed /etc/apt/sources.list to > point to woody and commented out security. i then ran > apt-get update and apt-get --simulate dist-upgrade. > the output of dis

Java für Konqueror, evt. Mozilla und Opera mit SSL!

2001-11-22 Thread Jan Torben Heuer
Ich suche eine Java Distribution, für mindestens o.g. Browser. Im moment nutze ich eine Version von blackdown.org, jedoch scheint es damit nicht möglich zu sein auf HTTPS Server zu connecten. Brauche ich eine andere Distribution, oder ist bei mir ein Fehler? Der Konquerer hat ansonsten keine Pr

Re: Matrox G-450 Under X Vers. 3.3.6

2001-11-22 Thread Chris Majewski
"Rafe B." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Related question: Does it make any sense to try grafting > X version 4.1 on top of this "potato" version That's what I do. Some purists will tell you not to, of course. One gotcha with "grafting" stuff on top of debian is that if you do a dist-upgrade, t

Re: Can i do?

2001-11-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 09:01:24PM +0100, Denis wrote: > Magellano:/bin# so-5_2-ga-bin-linux-it.bin /n > error: wrong glibc version, you need 2.1.1 > Magellano:/bin# > > Magellano:/# vi /etc/debian_version > 2.1 > > "glibc" there isn't in my Debian cd. Upgrade to Debian 2.2, which contains gli

Re: Virus incident

2001-11-22 Thread Linda Laubenheimer
Brian Nelson wrote: > > "Robert L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hmm, when did this become an elitist, better than you mailing list? Is this > > debian-users or debian-I-am-God-worship-me? > > Is this debian-user, or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian's always > been elitist. That's why i

Re: X-Authentification with XFree 4?

2001-11-22 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 09:01:11PM +0100, Debian User wrote: > Hi folks! > > Last week I tried to get a debian-derived CD-booting linux online. > (It's called "knoppix". It seems to derive from woody, but has a pretty > good hw-detection (sound, gfx, mouse, ... in less than 30s on a PIII 400). > B

Re: Best choice for video card

2001-11-22 Thread Chris Majewski
David Teague <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Patrick McFarland wrote: > > > It isnt up to the distro or desktop enviroment to what video > > card you choice. Its up to the windowing manager. The window manager, eh.. I'd be curious to learn how the choice of window manager

Re: ADSL & USB

2001-11-22 Thread Nick Sanders
On Thursday 22 November 2001 1:34 pm, Vittorio wrote: > I'd like to use an ADSL modem via USB. > > Is there anyone out there having experience of such ADSL modems under > woody? > > Suggestions about particular makes? > > Thanks > Vittorio Hi, I'm connecting using ADSL and a Alcatel Speedtouch US

Potato->Woody Upgrade: Removed Package

2001-11-22 Thread Patrick Dahiroc
hi all i'm considering upgrading my potato box to woody over the holidays. i've changed /etc/apt/sources.list to point to woody and commented out security. i then ran apt-get update and apt-get --simulate dist-upgrade. the output of dist-upgrade was a little troubling. <-- dist-upgrade OUTPUT

passwd using pam_ldap problem

2001-11-22 Thread Jorge Santos
Hello, I have just migrated our authentication in the local network to ldap using pam_ldap from padl.com, but I'm facing a problem with passwd. The problem is that when trying to change some user's password with passwd, it ask for the said user's _old_ password, which is certainly not what is exp

Can i do?

2001-11-22 Thread Denis
Magellano:/bin# so-5_2-ga-bin-linux-it.bin /n error: wrong glibc version, you need 2.1.1 Magellano:/bin# Magellano:/# vi /etc/debian_version 2.1 "glibc" there isn't in my Debian cd.

X-Authentification with XFree 4?

2001-11-22 Thread Debian User
Hi folks! Last week I tried to get a debian-derived CD-booting linux online. (It's called "knoppix". It seems to derive from woody, but has a pretty good hw-detection (sound, gfx, mouse, ... in less than 30s on a PIII 400). Bringing the system online was the easy part (wvdial-conf worked great). I

Re: Virus incident

2001-11-22 Thread Brian Nelson
"Robert L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hmm, when did this become an elitist, better than you mailing list? Is this > debian-users or debian-I-am-God-worship-me? Is this debian-user, or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian's always been elitist. That's why it's so much fun. -- Brian Nelson <[EM

Re: Thoghts on a computer as a stero component?

2001-11-22 Thread Chris Majewski
Aniartia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > quiet & everything is supported in linux. I'm using it to write this email. > This thing runs 24/7 with a half speed P-III 866 (no need for fan on > the HS), Can you tell me more about this? What's a "half speed" processor? Why does it not need a fan? > N

Installation problem "mount failed"

2001-11-22 Thread Abner Gershon
I am trying to install Potato 2.2r3 from CD-rom onto a system with Gigabyte GA-7DXR main board, 1.4 Athalon processor, two 20 GB hard drives, and Plextor PlexWriter 12/10/32 CD-RW drive. The hard drives are master and slave on the primary ide controller. The PlexWriter is on the secondary ide contr

Re: Virus incident

2001-11-22 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Jesse Goerz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > On Wednesday 21 November 2001 20:11, Josh Everist wrote: > > Well I can take responsibility for the messages from > > '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', however if the Debian User mailing > > list didn't send out viruses in the first place, there > > wouldn't be

Re: TV Tuner

2001-11-22 Thread Chris Majewski
Try "modprobe bttv". If you have a precompiled stock kernel (eg redhat) chances are the module is already there. Otherwise, you'll have to reconfigure your kernel to support it. If you have an old kernel and don't want to upgrade, get the latest bttv source from bytesex.org. chris Reza <[E

Re: Stable IM client in debian

2001-11-22 Thread relux
On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Ross Burton wrote: > Apologies for the quoting style, I'm stuck in Outlook at the moment... > > jabber.com run a status page on support.jabber.com. > > AIM: AOL have explicity blocked all clients except their own most recent. > This way the get to advertise in your client.

Re: Python and python-base dependency problems

2001-11-22 Thread Guy Geens
> "Sean" == Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sean> On 22-Nov-2001 Daniel Toffetti wrote: Daniel> Since yesterday I'm having dependency problems with python and Daniel> python-base. Dselect wants me to remove Koffice. Can somebody Daniel> give me a clue ?? Put the python-base p

Re: Virus incident

2001-11-22 Thread Robert L. Harris
Hmm, when did this become an elitist, better than you mailing list? Is this debian-users or debian-I-am-God-worship-me? And the language isn't needed either. There are children who read this. Thus spake Brian Nelson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Bria

Re: Debian GUI?

2001-11-22 Thread David P James
On Thursday 22 November 2001 13:08, Chris Savoie wrote: > i install Linux Welcome! So far so good... > and im stuck at a screen saying > <:Chris~# > or sompthing, i need to get past that, into the Shell, is there not one > present or sompthing? if you cant tell this is my first time with linux an

xscanimage can't find device...

2001-11-22 Thread Johnny Ernst Nielsen
Both xscanimage and xsane say they can not find a device. Am I missing some setup? Debian 2.2r3 Mustek MFS-6000CX on an AHA1542 SCSI controller. find-scanner finds the scanner on /dev/sg1 and on /dev/scanner /etc/sane.d/mustek.conf looks like this: #--- Global options --- option strip-height 1 #-

Re: Virus incident

2001-11-22 Thread John Hasler
Brian Nelson writes: > Yeah, fuck em. You might be happier using FreeBSD. > If they can't figure out which module to load for their network card, > they can do a google or mailing list search,... And get thousands of hits on confusing, poorly written HOW-TO's that assume that they are using Red

Re: an automated web browser

2001-11-22 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 06:38:43PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > hi, > i use this internet service that *requires* you to log in once a day, > or they close your account after three days of inactivity. it's > absolutely bloody ridiculous, but i have to live with it, for i do > need the service (a

Debian GUI?

2001-11-22 Thread Chris Savoie
i install Linux and im stuck at a screen saying <:Chris~# or sompthing, i need to get past that, into the Shell, is there not one present or sompthing? if you cant tell this is my first time with linux and no friends that know much about it either. please help

Re: Virus incident

2001-11-22 Thread Brian Nelson
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Brian Nelson writes: > > If you're gonna post to debian-user, I would hope you'd be *using > > Debian*... > > So you figure that new users who are having trouble getting Debian to work > should not ask for help using their legacy OS? Yeah, fuck em. If t

Re: Virus incident

2001-11-22 Thread Linda Laubenheimer
Craig Dickson wrote: > > Linda Laubenheimer wrote: > > > Michael Heldebrant wrote: > > > > > > Actually, I wish [EMAIL PROTECTED] would fix his machine. > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] too... Grrr! > > In the meantime, I suggest you filter it yourself. If you're using > procmail, the following reci

Re: Virus incident

2001-11-22 Thread Craig Dickson
Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In fact I do not understand how it could ever send the message back > to the list. That address is only in the To: header. My guess is that the antivirus thing thinks it's processing mail that is addressed to one of its local users. So it assumes the To: line is on

Re: CDRW with TEac 54E

2001-11-22 Thread Hanasaki JiJi
Yup I have a "hdd=ide-scsi" Actually its hdc. Mybe I just need to learn more bout the tools that drive the RW. :( csj wrote: On Thursday 22 November 2001 16:11, Hanasaki JiJi wrote: Is there a way to get my teac to burn? it is a 54E CDRW but shows the following: Cdrecord 1.10 (i686-pc-linu

Re: Antigen found W32/Aliz@MM (McAfee4) virus

2001-11-22 Thread Linda Laubenheimer
Nigel Pauli wrote: > > I've just logged on to find that my site seems to be involved i.e. > there is a load of these emails from [EMAIL PROTECTED] I did > find 12 emails in my inbox from [EMAIL PROTECTED] each with a copy > of whatever.exe attached. This purports to be an audio-x/wav. Actually,

RE: an automated web browser

2001-11-22 Thread Frederico . S . Muñoz
> > hi, > i use this internet service that *requires* you to log in once a day, > or they close your account after three days of inactivity. it's > absolutely bloody ridiculous, but i have to live with it, for i do > need the service (and there is no other like that one) about once a > month. sinc

Re: CDRW with TEac 54E

2001-11-22 Thread csj
On Thursday 22 November 2001 16:11, Hanasaki JiJi wrote: > Is there a way to get my teac to burn? it is a 54E CDRW but shows the > following: > > Cdrecord 1.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg > Schilling Using libscg version 'schily-0.5' > scsibus0: > 0,0,0 0) 'TEAC'

an automated web browser

2001-11-22 Thread martin f krafft
hi, i use this internet service that *requires* you to log in once a day, or they close your account after three days of inactivity. it's absolutely bloody ridiculous, but i have to live with it, for i do need the service (and there is no other like that one) about once a month. since i can't possi

Re: info i found !!

2001-11-22 Thread Timo Boewing
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: peace anyone a win virus scanner? is this a virus spam? help, not here! Timo

Auto starting iptables

2001-11-22 Thread John Mautz
Hi, I've read 95% of the HOWTO's for iptables and I've done a limited search of the archives, but I don't see what I'm looking for. How do I start my rc.firewall script at boot time. I notices a S10ipchains, but there is no S10iptables. Has anyone modified S10ipchains to support iptables? or wh

Re: eth0: abnormal interupt, status 0x00....

2001-11-22 Thread Timo Boewing
Rehi, for thos interested: I temp. fixed the error by upgrading to a 2.4.13, but one day later the problem arraised again. I tried to manually force the slots to specific interrupts, but no mater how i did it, my AGP card and the NIC shared the same IRQ. So the solution was quite easy: i put t

Re: card with IRQ0?

2001-11-22 Thread Timo Boewing
mike wrote: Is your BIOS "helpfully" breaking PnP for a windows style OS? There should be an option to turn it to other or none instead of windows somewhere. --mike Hello Mike, Thanxs for the reply. In the deeps of the www i found that from Award BIOS' higher than version 6.0 (the ASUS ha

Re: Python and python-base dependency problems

2001-11-22 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 22-Nov-2001 Daniel Toffetti wrote: > Hi All ! > > Since yesterday I'm having dependency problems with python and > python-base. Dselect wants me to remove Koffice. Can somebody give me a > clue ?? python-base (which was python 1.5) went away. Debian still has python 1.5 hwoever the defau

Re: BLOCK THIS EMAIL!!!!

2001-11-22 Thread csj
On Thursday 22 November 2001 08:40, John Griffiths wrote: > At 06:10 PM 11/21/01 -0600, DvB wrote: > >Matt Fair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> can this list block the email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ??? > >> all they are sending is viruses. > >> Matt > > > >I finally got around to looking up how the gnus

Python and python-base dependency problems

2001-11-22 Thread Daniel Toffetti
Hi All ! Since yesterday I'm having dependency problems with python and python-base. Dselect wants me to remove Koffice. Can somebody give me a clue ?? Thanks all ! Daniel -- "There is no spoon..." - The Matrix

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