Re: The right way to power off a computer as non-root

2002-01-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 08:45:43PM -0500, P Prince ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Well, what about su? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] su > [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] shutdown -h now > > > I had two ideas of making this possible. The one is to make it sudo-able and > > the other is to

Re: Solved: Re: gv: various font errors, "code 1 in findfont"

2002-01-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 04:23:07AM -0800, Eric G. Miller (egm2@jps.net) wrote: > On Wed, 2 Jan 2002 12:00:00 -0800, "Karsten M. Self" > wrote: > > > on Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 09:03:18AM -0800, Craig Dickson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > > > > I'm finding gv

Re: how to get rid of sendmail X-Authentication-Warning?

2002-01-03 Thread Andy Spiegl
> > O PrivacyOptions=needmailhelo,novrfy,noexpn,noreceipts,noverb > > > > But it still generates these lines. > > Are you sure that sendmail is reading /etc/mail/trusted-users.db? Did > you rebuild trusted-users.db after edited /etc/mail/trusted-users? Hm, actually I thought that it's trusted-

Re: OT: Language War (Re: "C" Manual)

2002-01-03 Thread Erik Steffl
Richard Cobbe wrote: > > Lo, on Thursday, January 3, Erik Steffl did write: > > > what's the difference? the point is you can assign almost anything to > > anything, and yet there is no segfault - i.e. the strength of types has > > nothing (sort of) to do with segfaults... the resource allocation

Re: NIST time

2002-01-03 Thread John Hasler
Gary Turner writes: > As a matter of possible general interest, NIST makes available source and > binaries (Mac & Win) on their site. >From nistime.man: Description This program connects to the daytime service on the NIST time server time_a.timefreq.bldrdoc.gov using tcp/ip port 13.

Re: ssh2 denials

2002-01-03 Thread Petre Daniel
perhaps you should put something from /lib/security .. At 10:13 PM 1/3/02 -0600, shock wrote: * nate ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > > I'm using ssh2 (www.ssh.com), and I'm trying to login to my home > > machine from the office. After entering "ssh home", I'm presented > > with the passw

Re: ssh2 denials

2002-01-03 Thread shock
* nate ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > > I'm using ssh2 (www.ssh.com), and I'm trying to login to my home > > machine from the office. After entering "ssh home", I'm presented > > with the password prompt. I enter my password, and am presented > > with the > > is ssh2 from www.ssh.com on

Re: NIST time

2002-01-03 Thread Gary Turner
On Thu, 03 Jan 2002 10:47:21 -0800, Paul E Condon wrote: >I want to automate the time/date setting on my computer( Potato ). >I suppose there is a program that accesses NIST time server and >allows me to update. > >What is the name of the debian package to do this? > >Paul As a matter of possible

Opera and anti-aliasing fonts

2002-01-03 Thread shock
i've finally become enamored with KDE's anti-aliasing fonts. they look great in konqueror. opera, however, seems to use it's own font scheme. does anyone know what needs to be done to make opera use the anti-aliasing fonts? -- ) ,_),_) (-(__ |_ _ _ |/ ) | |(_)(_ |\ (

iptables redir of 80 to 8080

2002-01-03 Thread Petre Daniel
how can i redirect the 80 port to 8080,like i want all clients that try to browse web pages to collect data from my squid.. instead of direct access..? thx.. Petre L. Daniel,System Administrator Canad Systems Pitesti Romania, http://www.cyber.ro email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] tel:+4048220044 +40482062

Re: problems with php4 in woody....

2002-01-03 Thread Alexander Wallace
Thanks nate Well, I'm not trying to use virtual hosts... I'm trying to run php from users directories (ie ~username), and instead of executing the php files, the browser asks what to do with the files and let's you download them... This same files work fine with apache and php4 under potato, bu

Re: Samba printing problem

2002-01-03 Thread dman
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 10:07:48PM -0500, Jeff Self wrote: | On Thu, 2002-01-03 at 13:03, dman wrote: [bunch of stuff] | Thanks for the info. I tried what you recommended and the Windows | machine doesn't even see a printer now. That's no good. Here's parts of my smb.conf : [global] printin

Re: OT: Language War (Re: "C" Manual)

2002-01-03 Thread Gary Turner
On Thu, 03 Jan 2002 17:34:00 -0600 (CST), Richard Cobbe wrote: > >Lo, on Thursday, January 3, Erik Steffl did write: > >> what's the difference? the point is you can assign almost anything to >> anything, and yet there is no segfault - i.e. the strength of types has >> nothing (sort of) to do with

Re: problems with php4 in woody....

2002-01-03 Thread nate
> Hello there! I'm having problems getting php4 to work in woody... > It all installs good, the httpd.conf file has the line to load the > module, etc... But php files don't run, thet get downloaded when > looked at with a browser... Mime types has an entry for php, so... > Can anyone help me here

Re: ssh2 denials

2002-01-03 Thread nate
> I'm using ssh2 (www.ssh.com), and I'm trying to login to my home > machine from the office. After entering "ssh home", I'm presented > with the password prompt. I enter my password, and am presented > with the is ssh2 from www.ssh.com on the server or on the client? if its on the server be su

Re: OT: Language War (Re: "C" Manual)

2002-01-03 Thread Erik Steffl
Phil Beder wrote: ... > I wish I was a good enough programmer to contribute to this great project. > Maybe one day when I understand more about Linux I could write a more user > friendly help interface with clear syntax, option, and flag usage. by that time you'll swear by man pages! :-))

Re: Samba printing problem

2002-01-03 Thread Jeff Self
On Thu, 2002-01-03 at 13:03, dman wrote: > On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 12:34:51PM -0500, Jeff Self wrote: > | I'm having a heckuva time getting a Win 2K machine to print. On my > | debian system, I have CUPS installed and its working. I've got an Epson > | Stylus Color 600 connected to /dev/lp0 and I'm

problems with php4 in woody....

2002-01-03 Thread Alexander Wallace
Hello there! I'm having problems getting php4 to work in woody... It all installs good, the httpd.conf file has the line to load the module, etc... But php files don't run, thet get downloaded when looked at with a browser... Mime types has an entry for php, so... Can anyone help me here??? Thanks

Re: OT: Language War (Re: "C" Manual)

2002-01-03 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002, Phil Beder wrote: > Thank you!! > > The diversity of point of view and depth of knowledge of the participants > of this group is truly phenomenal. A simple question (in essence "where > should I start") yielded me not only an interesting variety of response to > that questio

Re: location of mysql files?

2002-01-03 Thread Craig Holyoak
Jason M. Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i would like to know as well... how to back-up a mysql database. Try mysqldump: $ mysqldump nuke >nuke.sql HTH, Craig -- Craig Holyoak [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.uq.net.au/craigh/

Re: location of mysql files?

2002-01-03 Thread Jason M. Harvey
hello, i would like to know as well... how to back-up a mysql database. i have php-nuke installed it comes with a .sql file. you first create the new database, then mysql nuke < nuke.sql i'm hoping there's some way to do the opposite... to create an .sql file to be later re-imported to anoth

DWN:Pinnign Unstable and APT::Default-Release.

2002-01-03 Thread Shaul Karl
Last issue of DWN had a piece which included a suggestion about using apt to follow testing (or stable) but still have some packages from unstable (testing). In short, it was suggested to have the following in /etc/apt/prefernces: Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 50 When I tried

ssh2 denials

2002-01-03 Thread shock
I'm using ssh2 (www.ssh.com), and I'm trying to login to my home machine from the office. After entering "ssh home", I'm presented with the password prompt. I enter my password, and am presented with the password prompt again. This occurs three times, then the connection is broken. Following is

Re: Linux Networking Books

2002-01-03 Thread dman
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 12:31:47PM +1000, Penguin wrote: | I would like to do these things: | | - Setup a 128K ISDN multilink PPP connection | - Build a firewall with ipchains or iptables | - Run a web server and an FTP server | - Run a private service on port 666 | - Log all traffic going in and

Re: OT: Language War (Re: "C" Manual)

2002-01-03 Thread Phil Beder
Thank you!! The diversity of point of view and depth of knowledge of the participants of this group is truly phenomenal. A simple question (in essence "where should I start") yielded me not only an interesting variety of response to that question, but a road map, complete with pitfalls and milest

Re: emergency shutdown?

2002-01-03 Thread P Prince
I, like at least 75% of people, don't run telnetd. _Tech On 2 Jan 2002, Brian Nelson wrote: > "Karsten M. Self" writes: > > > on Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 12:38:34PM +, Simon R Tod ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > > Don't cross-post. Reply sent to debian-user only. > > > > > My laptop's be

Re: emergency shutdown?

2002-01-03 Thread P Prince
Simon, rescue.bin is the size of an *unformatted* floppy. -Tech On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Simon R Tod wrote: > That should be perfectly straightforward... but while a floppy has > 1457664 bytes on it, rescue.bin is 1474560 bytes, so won't fit! The > rescue.bin file on http:///images-1.20/ will fi

Re: emergency shutdown?

2002-01-03 Thread P Prince
Simon, Is this thing still on, while you wait to see what to do with it? Just reboot it. It's not a problem. If it turns out to be a problem (5% chance), you can download a rescue floppy image from the internet and create a rescue disk with a Windows machine. If you have any Debian install cd'

Re: The right way to power off a computer as non-root

2002-01-03 Thread P Prince
> Hello, Hello, > I use my computer as a workstation and thus I think it would be a good idea > to be able to switch it of as user without being root. Well, what about su? [EMAIL PROTECTED] su [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: [EMAIL PROTECTED] shutdown -h now > I had two ideas of making this poss

Re: make-kpkg exists, right?

2002-01-03 Thread Bud Rogers
On Thursday 03 January 2002 19:03 pm, Seneca Cunningham wrote: > icosagon:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.16# ls /usr/bin/perl > ls: /usr/bin/perl: No such file or directory There's your problem. > icosagon:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.16# ls /usr/bin/perl* > /usr/bin/perl-5.6 /usr/bin/perl5.6.1 /u

Re: dpkg files list errors

2002-01-03 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 05:18:10PM -0800, ben wrote: > On Thursday 03 January 2002 05:02 pm, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 04:36:05PM -0800, ben wrote: > > > where does dpkg read its files lists from? i'm getting empty files list > > > errors when i attempt to use dpkg in almost a

FW: ATI Radeon 32MB AGP 3D-Card DDR

2002-01-03 Thread justin cunningham
-Original Message- From: justin cunningham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 5:07 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: ATI Radeon 32MB AGP 3D-Card DDR Ati's site said linux= denied. So try http://lhd.zdnet.com/db/dispproduct.php3?DISP?2650 -Original Mes

Re: make-kpkg exists, right?

2002-01-03 Thread Seneca Cunningham
D-Man [EMAIL PROTECTED]; on behalf of; dman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I think you can just hardlink /usr/bin/perl5.6.1 (or > /usr/bin/perl-5.6) to /usr/bin/perl. > > # ln /usr/bin/perl5.6.1 /usr/bin/perl I did it, and it works now. Thanks. Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dpkg files list errors

2002-01-03 Thread ben
On Thursday 03 January 2002 05:02 pm, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 04:36:05PM -0800, ben wrote: > > where does dpkg read its files lists from? i'm getting empty files list > > errors when i attempt to use dpkg in almost any form, specifically for > > files that are installed and fu

Linux Networking Books

2002-01-03 Thread Penguin
I would like to do these things: - Setup a 128K ISDN multilink PPP connection - Build a firewall with ipchains or iptables - Run a web server and an FTP server - Run a private service on port 666 - Log all traffic going in and out (the data part of TCP and UDP packets) of my ISDN modem connection

Re: ATI Radeon 32MB AGP 3D-Card DDR

2002-01-03 Thread dman
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 11:56:40AM +1000, Penguin wrote: | Can I use this video card with Potato, on a Potato 2.2r4 CD set without | having to download any extra software for it? You can use nearly any card in SVGA mode (they're all still backwards compatible, right?) or the framebuffer is a grea

Re: make-kpkg exists, right?

2002-01-03 Thread dman
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 08:03:14PM -0500, Seneca Cunningham wrote: | Steve Mayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > make-kpkg is a perl script. Make sure that you have perl installed in | > the location specified on the first line of the make-kpkg script. | | icosagon:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.16# w

Re: make-kpkg exists, right?

2002-01-03 Thread Seneca Cunningham
Sorry about the delay, but I left the computers for a moment, and everyone wanted me to have a byte to eat. So in the order that I received the questions and responses, I have my response and/or output. J.A.Serralheiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > just compile the kernel the generalw way. make-kp

Re: dpkg files list errors

2002-01-03 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 04:36:05PM -0800, ben wrote: > where does dpkg read its files lists from? i'm getting empty files list > errors when i attempt to use dpkg in almost any form, specifically for files > that are installed and functional. Sounds like /var/lib/dpkg/info/.list is corrupted. -

RE: Debian Lists, USENET & Spam

2002-01-03 Thread justin cunningham
Something interesting I read that might interest you too http://www.webtechniques.com/archives/2001/08/champeon/ -Original Message- From: Joey Hess [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joey Hess Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 4:37 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Debian

shell-init: could not get current directory: getcwd: cannot access....

2002-01-03 Thread Alexander Wallace
Hello there! I just installed woody on one of my servers, and everytime i do something like with apt-get or restarting a service or almost any other thing i get the following message: shell-init: could not get current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory

ATI Radeon 32MB AGP 3D-Card DDR

2002-01-03 Thread Penguin
Can I use this video card with Potato, on a Potato 2.2r4 CD set without having to download any extra software for it? Is it listed in the list of video cards when I use `XF86Setup?' What about the PCI version, ATI Radeon 32MB PCI 3D Card (with video out) SDR? What is DDR and SDR? Which is the be

x authority problems

2002-01-03 Thread Greg Fischer
Given root access on a remote machine, I'd like to be able to execute an x application on the remote machine's local desktop. For example, if I secure shelled into a remote machine as "user" and "user" happened to be logged onto X, I'd like to be able to execute "export DISPLAY=:0" from my secur

dpkg files list errors

2002-01-03 Thread ben
where does dpkg read its files lists from? i'm getting empty files list errors when i attempt to use dpkg in almost any form, specifically for files that are installed and functional.

Re: Debian Lists, USENET & Spam

2002-01-03 Thread Joey Hess
John Hasler wrote: > I'd rank the Web equal to or above Usenet. I receive a substantial amount > of spam at my debian.org address, and it can only be obtained via the Web. Well, or on cd. -- see shy jo, who sees a new market for debian source cd's :-)

RE: /var/log/messages notifyd on MUA server

2002-01-03 Thread justin cunningham
Excerpt from: http://www.dartmouth.edu/pages/softdev/blitz.html Mailing List There is a mailing list for discussion of BlitzMail system administration. To join the list send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "subscribe" in the body of the message. To send mail to the list send it to [E

Re: Debian Lists, USENET & Spam

2002-01-03 Thread Wendell Cochran
Alec writes: >> Debian mailing lists are mirrored on (interfaced to) USENET under >> linux.debian.*, and our email addresses aren't even scrambled! >> Debian mailing lists are archived on the Web and our email addresses aren't >>even scrambled! John writes: > USENET is probably the number one sour

Re: how to get rid of sendmail X-Authentication-Warning?

2002-01-03 Thread Mark Ferlatte
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 04:23:26PM -0500, Andy Spiegl wrote (1.00): > > my sendmail configs use these privacy options: > > O PrivacyOptions=novrfy,noexpn > And mine - as I already wrote :-) > # privacy flags > O PrivacyOptions=needmailhelo,novrfy,noexpn,noreceipts,noverb > > But it still generat

Re: make-kpkg exists, right?

2002-01-03 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, dman wrote: > On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 06:23:43PM -0500, Seneca Cunningham wrote: > | Right now my system is half-working and is a combination of potato and > | woody. I am trying to compile a new kernel after having a number of problems > | with my system. The instructions for

guppi package

2002-01-03 Thread David Wright
Are there any plans to make a stand-alone guppi package (currently only libguppi exists, essentially for invocation by gnumeric and gnucash)? As a sysadmin for a scientific lab, it would be a nice tool for my users, but given the hell that is compiling bonobo applications, I won't realisticall

PCMCIA: MegaHertz modem and init/getty

2002-01-03 Thread Calyth
I got this MegaHertz XJ2288 modem, and when i insert it to see if it could detect the card, it fires off a bunch of message about the usage of getty, then it says init: ID "S" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes. It seems that cardmgr can recognize the card, but how can I get this thing to

Re: NIST time

2002-01-03 Thread John Hasler
Paul E Condon writes: > I guess it is not NTP... It is NTP. > ...since that requires that the other host is running NTP deamon. It does. Chronyd is both an NTP server and an NTP client. > What method does it use. NTP. > Maybe it should be substituted for NTP. For most purposes chrony is an

Re: make-kpkg exists, right?

2002-01-03 Thread dman
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 06:23:43PM -0500, Seneca Cunningham wrote: | Right now my system is half-working and is a combination of potato and | woody. I am trying to compile a new kernel after having a number of problems | with my system. The instructions for compiling a new kernel say to enter in |

Re: make-kpkg exists, right?

2002-01-03 Thread J.A.Serralheiro
just compile the kernel the generalw way. make-kpkg will create a package that u install as if some some software package. cd to /usr/src/linux and read README file. There u will find all the instructions u need to compile the kernel without relying on the debian weay On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Seneca C

Re: iptables ruleset

2002-01-03 Thread Walter Hofmann
On Thu, 03 Jan 2002, Martin A. Hansen wrote: > any suggestions on how to set up a strong firewall rule set will be > appreciated! I don't believe the standard ipmasq setup provides any form of firewalling. I have attached the script that I'm currently using. Feel free to use it if it suits you.

screen capture

2002-01-03 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Thu, 03 Jan 2002 12:53:36PM -0800, Chad Morgan insinuated: > I know there is a way to capture the screen, I just don't know how > to do it. use xv, the "grab" option. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>-- -http://www.sccs.swarthmore.ed

Re: OT: Language War (Re: "C" Manual)

2002-01-03 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Thursday, January 3, Erik Steffl did write: > what's the difference? the point is you can assign almost anything to > anything, and yet there is no segfault - i.e. the strength of types has > nothing (sort of) to do with segfaults... the resource allocation is > crucial... Type safety (plu

Re: ftp.uk.debian.org down?

2002-01-03 Thread Brian Potkin
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 11:54:13AM +0100, Franois Chenais wrote: > Happy new year ! > > the ftp.uk.debian.org seems to be down. any idea ? www.uk.debian.org was also poorly earlier today. Both seem ok at the moment. Brian.

make-kpkg exists, right?

2002-01-03 Thread Seneca Cunningham
Right now my system is half-working and is a combination of potato and woody. I am trying to compile a new kernel after having a number of problems with my system. The instructions for compiling a new kernel say to enter in "make-kpkg clean", but that doesn't work on my system. icosagon:/usr/src/k

FW: (Fwd) Re: Lost in apt-get

2002-01-03 Thread justin cunningham
...forgot to post to list -Original Message- From: justin cunningham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 2:39 PM To: 'Hélio Perroni Filho' Subject: RE: (Fwd) Re: Lost in apt-get http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/apt-get-intro.html -Original Message-

Re: Xfree 4.1 Sig 11 (woody)

2002-01-03 Thread Christoph Simon
On Thu, 3 Jan 2002 14:25:46 -0800 (PST) "nate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Just guessing: Maybe a hardware error? Maybe something related to > > java threads? > > i suppose its possible its a hardware error..(hope not!!) > i don't think i had anything java related running. i was > using

SOLVED Can't access aliased ip address

2002-01-03 Thread Chad Morgan
It turns out it was in fact a firewall problem. I discovered that I wasn't resetting the firewall to no restrictions right. I thought that resetting the policy would reset all of the rules and didn't realize I needed to do a flush first. Now that I think about it makes good sense to do it this way.

anyone have experience with portslave ?

2002-01-03 Thread nate
i'm looking to build a dialup server using debian, and would like radius/radius accounting support, from the looks of it, 'portslave' can do this. sourceforge says the status is pre alpha ..and there are no bugs filed against it in the debian buglist.. has anyone used it? is there a better way ?

Re: OT: Language War (Re: "C" Manual)

2002-01-03 Thread Erik Steffl
Richard Cobbe wrote: > > Lo, on Thursday, January 3, William T Wilson did write: > > > On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Richard Cobbe wrote: > > > > > I'll agree that the two are related; in fact, I'd go so far as to say > > > that if a language supports dynamic memory allocation and type-safety, > > > it *ha

Re: APT failing installing kdebase-crypto on Woody

2002-01-03 Thread Pontus Edvardsson
OK, I will try to do that in the future. Thanks for answering anyway! Pontus On Thu, 3 Jan 2002 23:12:57 +0100 martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > also sprach Pontus Edvardsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [2002.01.03.2235 +0100]:> I'm trying to install and enable SSL on my > Woody (2.4.17) wi

Re: Xfree 4.1 Sig 11 (woody)

2002-01-03 Thread nate
> > Just guessing: Maybe a hardware error? Maybe something related to > java threads? i suppose its possible its a hardware error..(hope not!!) i don't think i had anything java related running. i was using a www-based program called DEMARC(demarc.org) its fully server-side though ..i was doing s

Howto print from Opera using CUPS?

2002-01-03 Thread Pontus Edvardsson
I have just found the excellent browser Opera 6.0 (TP2), but cannot seem to print. Has anyone configured this to work with CUPS installed? Thanks, Pontus

Re: NVidia GeForce MX problems - "no screens found"

2002-01-03 Thread Gregory Soyez
>Current (as of today) Woody system, NVidia GeForce MX AGP card, >Debian packaged nv driver. XF86cfg starts fine and allows me to build >the XF86Config file, but when I try to start the server I get the "no >screens found" error. /var/log/XFree86.0.log is below. Hi Michael don't know if this ca

Re: pine?

2002-01-03 Thread Michael Jinks
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 01:12:31PM -0600, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 11:43:59AM -0600, Michael Jinks wrote: > > The "./debian/rules" command fails; the first error I notice is: > > > > cc -O2 -g -DLNX -DSYSTYPE=\"LNX\" -DMOUSE -c -o addrbook.o addrbook.c > > make[1]: cc: Com

Re: NIST time

2002-01-03 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Paul E Condon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Craig Dickson wrote: > > > Sam Varghese wrote: > > > > > i used ntpdate initially but have now swicthed to chrony. the same > > > guy who wrote pppconfig has written this utility and like pppconfig > > > it is simple and works well. > > > > Is ntpdate

scam warning (FW: IMPORTANT)

2002-01-03 Thread dman
I just got this message. Looks like the scammers are getting smarter -- sent directly to me with no trail in the Received: headers (all the received headers are my school accounts forwarding to other school accounts and eventually to my house). Just beware :-). Funny, as I snipped out most of t

Re: Pause

2002-01-03 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 01:48:44PM -0800, L Vogtmann wrote: > On Wednesday 02 January 2002 09:09 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 07:26:13PM -0800, Paul A. Thomas > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Searching reveals ways to pause help files if you don't wish to use a > > >

Re: OT: Language War (Re: "C" Manual)

2002-01-03 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Thursday, January 3, William T Wilson did write: > On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Richard Cobbe wrote: > > > I'll agree that the two are related; in fact, I'd go so far as to say > > that if a language supports dynamic memory allocation and type-safety, > > it *has* to have some sort of automatic sto

Re: APT failing installing kdebase-crypto on Woody

2002-01-03 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Pontus Edvardsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.03.2235 +0100]: > I'm trying to install and enable SSL on my Woody (2.4.17) without luck. > I've tried a few times now, and everytime the following error occurs... I > installed OpenSSL wich went fine, thinking that would help, but didn't.

Re: Pause

2002-01-03 Thread L Vogtmann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 02 January 2002 09:09 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 07:26:13PM -0800, Paul A. Thomas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Searching reveals ways to pause help files if you don't wish to use a > > pipe command... is there

Re: LNX-BBC (was Re: emergency shutdown?)

2002-01-03 Thread L Vogtmann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 03 January 2002 04:30 am, dman wrote: > On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 06:50:30PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > | (and the compressed loopback filesystem means I can't see what's > | actually there). > > Couldn't you use dd to dump it to a file,

Re: Can't access aliased ip address

2002-01-03 Thread L Vogtmann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 02 January 2002 07:02 pm, Jason M. Harvey wrote: > yes, ipmasqadm should work for the port forwarding. actually, i know > someone else who uses ipmasqadm to forward telnet traffic from his > external ip to another pc with a private ip. > h

Re: Can I set up a kde desktop background with xearth and xfishtank

2002-01-03 Thread L Vogtmann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 02 January 2002 03:51 pm, Alan Chandler wrote: > I would like to set up my kde desktop (all of them?) with xearth (as the > desktop background) and xfishtank as either a background on top of xearth > or as a screensaver. Failing all of t

Re: Debian and ture64 alpha compatibility

2002-01-03 Thread dman
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 03:50:26PM -0500, Torovezky, Gili wrote: | Hi | | Does Debian "stable" for Intel | compatible with Alpha True64 No. Intel makes the x86 architecture processors, which are different from the DEC (now Compaq) Alpha. The alpha port of Debian (stable or otherwise) should

Re: Pakage debian

2002-01-03 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
[I don't actually speak Italian, so count yourself lucky if this makes sense] On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 20:33:38 +0100, Denis wrote: > 1 Il nome di un programma per gestire la posta elettronica simile > all'Outlook che trovo all'interno della distribuzione Debian. Evolution (http://www.ximian

Re: how to print to a printer connected to win2000prof

2002-01-03 Thread Rick Macdonald
Kent - I may have had a similar problem such as the "cat" errors and stair-stepping. At one time I think I found that it was the last line of the magicfilter driver (the default) that was the problem (when printing plain text). I think I found that I could cat a file directly to smbclient using t

Re: NIST time

2002-01-03 Thread Paul E Condon
Craig Dickson wrote: > Sam Varghese wrote: > > > i used ntpdate initially but have now swicthed to chrony. the same > > guy who wrote pppconfig has written this utility and like pppconfig > > it is simple and works well. > > Is ntpdate not simple, or does it not work well? What caused you to want

Re: How can I get the Euro symbol?

2002-01-03 Thread dman
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 09:06:08PM +0100, Roberto Diaz wrote: | > > It is 'language-env'. According to 'apt-cache policy' I don't think | > > it is in potato. (potato is _really_ _really_ old) | > Many thanks, dman. What you have written makes sense to me - I shall read | > it over the next day o

APT failing installing kdebase-crypto on Woody

2002-01-03 Thread Pontus Edvardsson
Hi, I'm trying to install and enable SSL on my Woody (2.4.17) without luck. I've tried a few times now, and everytime the following error occurs... I installed OpenSSL wich went fine, thinking that would help, but didn't. Please tell me what can be done? How do I fix it or where can I find info ab

Re: Is http://www.linuxdoc.org up?

2002-01-03 Thread Osamu Aoki
It does load now. But I had some problem recently :) On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 12:46:23AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 09:10:25PM -0500, Seneca Cunningham ([EMAIL > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Is http://www.linuxdoc.org up? I've tried to get through, but each > > time I've tr

Re: Signatures

2002-01-03 Thread Osamu Aoki
I had same question here and someone pointed out keyserver.net had been moved to proprietary service. wwwkey.pgp.net service is still OK. (I am based on my memory) MIT site loses packet from me. PING is erratic. May be you have same problem. Good luck. On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 02:17:12AM -040

Re: NIST time

2002-01-03 Thread John Hasler
Sam Varghese writes: > i used ntpdate initially but have now swicthed to chrony. the same guy > who wrote pppconfig has written this utility and like pppconfig it is > simple and works well. Thank you, but I did not write chrony. Richard Curnow is the author. I am merely the maintainer of the De

Re: how to get rid of sendmail X-Authentication-Warning?

2002-01-03 Thread Andy Spiegl
> the fastest way would be to edit sendmail.cf and > change > O PrivacyOptions=authwarnings > to > O PrivacyOptions= > or maybe > #O PrivacyOptions=authwarnings > > my sendmail configs use these privacy options: > O PrivacyOptions=novrfy,noexpn And mine - as I already wrote :-) # privacy flags O

Re: smbclient -P

2002-01-03 Thread Oleksandr Moskalenko
Well, $smbclient --help gives the following answer: "-Pconnect to service as a printer" Alex. --- Oleksandr Moskalenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- pub 1024D/6C5F196B 2001-08-17 /* http://www.tagancha.org/pgp */ Oleksandr V. Moskalenko (Alex)

RE: What is option "-P" to smbclient?

2002-01-03 Thread Greg Berenfield
Per "smbclient --help", -P connect to service as a printer. Regards, Greg -Original Message- From: Kent West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 3:30 PM To: debian-user Subject: What is option "-P" to smbclient? In trying to print to a printer hanging off a Windo

Re: how to print to a printer connected to win2000prof

2002-01-03 Thread Oleksandr Moskalenko
* Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hans Steinraht wrote: > > >hi all, > > > >The thing I try to figure out is how I can print from my Debian sid to a > >printer that's connected to a windows 2000 proffesional machine. > > > > I'm not using CUPS (just lprng and samba), and have been trying f

Re: how to print to a printer connected to win2000prof

2002-01-03 Thread dman
Hi Kent. On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 02:28:07PM -0600, Kent West wrote: | I'm not using CUPS (just lprng and samba), and have been trying for a | year and a half (off-and-on of course) to print from a Linux box to a | printer hanging off a Windows box. I suggest you try CUPS then. It is as simp

Re: What is option "-P" to smbclient?

2002-01-03 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Kent West wrote: > In trying to print to a printer hanging off a Windows box, I find that > the smbprint script has this line: > > echo "print -" > cat > ) | smbclient "$server\\$service" -U $password -N -P >> $logfile > > I have been unable to find any

Re: What is option "-P" to smbclient?

2002-01-03 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In trying to print to a printer hanging off a Windows box, I find that > the smbprint script has this line: > > > echo "print -" > cat > ) | smbclient "$server\\$service" -U $password -N -P >> $logfile > > I have been unable to find

Re: Can't access aliased ip address

2002-01-03 Thread Chad Morgan
On 2002.01.02 22:19 Jor-el wrote: > The hostnames in your prev. post were truncated and it was hard to guess > how the routing was setup. > Here is an easier to read routing table: Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 216.86.213.93

Re: ISDN on Potato

2002-01-03 Thread Eamon Roque
Am Don, 2002-01-03 um 01.02 schrieb Penguin: > Does it work? I would like to hook up a PCI ISDN-S card for a 128k dialup > ISDN connection. I will be using Potato 2.2r4. > > Cheers > James Hi! With a Fritz! PCI card I've not had any problems. You need to have task-isdn-dialup,isdnutils and pref

Debian and ture64 alpha compatibility

2002-01-03 Thread Torovezky, Gili
Hi Does Debian "stable" for Intel compatible with Alpha True64 Regards Gili

Re: What is option "-P" to smbclient?

2002-01-03 Thread Andrew Perrin
In older (pre-2.0) samba versions, -P flagged the connection as a printer (as opposed to disk) share. According to man smbclient, -P This option is no longer used. The code in Samba2.0 now lets the server decide the device type, so no printer specific flag

Re: Xfree 4.1 Sig 11 (woody)

2002-01-03 Thread dman
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 06:24:56PM -0200, Christoph Simon wrote: | On Thu, 3 Jan 2002 12:04:53 -0800 (PST) | "nate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | | > this is odd. its NEVER happened before. i was doing | > normal stuff in X and all of a sudden X crashed. ... | | > Fatal server error: | > Caught si

Re: NIST time

2002-01-03 Thread Craig Dickson
Sam Varghese wrote: > i used ntpdate initially but have now swicthed to chrony. the same > guy who wrote pppconfig has written this utility and like pppconfig > it is simple and works well. Is ntpdate not simple, or does it not work well? What caused you to want to switch? I use ntpdate and it s

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