Re: problem removing a file

2002-01-14 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 16:24:11 +1000, "Adrian Bolzan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a file that has been named "--absolute-paths" (no > quotes). It looks like it was created when one of our > sysadmins was testing a burt backup routine. > > It is about 650MB and I need to remove i

imp errors after minor postgres and postgres client update

2002-01-14 Thread Chuck Peters
Following a security update yesterday we have a small problem with imp. On the compose page of imp, we have the following errors: Warning: 5 is not a valid PostgreSQL link resource in /usr/share/horde/imp/lib/db.pgsql on line 113 Warning: 7 is not a valid PostgreSQL link resource in /usr/share/

Re: problem removing a file

2002-01-14 Thread Pete Ryland
rm -- --absolute-paths The rm man page says: To remove a file whose name starts with a `-', for example `-foo', use one of these commands: rm -- -foo rm ./-foo hth, Pete On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 04:24:11PM +1000, Adrian Bolzan wrote: > Hi, > > I have

Re: Gnome printing is broken in unstable

2002-01-14 Thread Adam Warner
On Tue, 2002-01-15 at 17:58, Adam Warner wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd suggest you don't upgrade unstable until GNOME printing is sorted > out. I upgraded a number of packages and all I get is blank text on > printing and in print preview in Gnome applications such as Evolution > and Gedit. > > I've

problem removing a file

2002-01-14 Thread Adrian Bolzan
Hi, I have a file that has been named "--absolute-paths" (no quotes). It looks like it was created when one of our sysadmins was testing a burt backup routine. It is about 650MB and I need to remove it. However, I cannot remove the file as the rm command thinks it is an option! nor can I ren

Re: 3c905c arp/configuration problems

2002-01-14 Thread crispin
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 12:00:03AM -0500, Angus D Madden wrote: > On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 10:08:04PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > > The 3c905c is not supported by the kernel available on the 2.2r2 > > install disks. You need a newer set of install disks, or a newer > > kernel. > > > > If I

Re: 3c905c arp/configuration problems

2002-01-14 Thread Angus D Madden
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 10:08:04PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > The 3c905c is not supported by the kernel available on the 2.2r2 > install disks. You need a newer set of install disks, or a newer > kernel. > > If I were you I'd compile a kernel on your other box and transfer it > over via sn

Gnome printing is broken in unstable

2002-01-14 Thread Adam Warner
Hi all, I'd suggest you don't upgrade unstable until GNOME printing is sorted out. I upgraded a number of packages and all I get is blank text on printing and in print preview in Gnome applications such as Evolution and Gedit. I've got one more computer to upgrade. I'll try and isolate which pack

Re: 3c905c arp/configuration problems

2002-01-14 Thread Greg C. Madden
On Mon, 2002-01-14 at 18:54, Angus D Madden wrote: > > I have a small (2 machine) home network. The gateway is > running 2.4.16 with Debian Woody. Both of the NICs on the gateway > are 3c905C's and are up and running with no problems. > > The client box also has a 3c905C. It was initially runni

Re: 3c905c arp/configuration problems

2002-01-14 Thread Angus D Madden
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 10:08:04PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > The 3c905c is not supported by the kernel available on the 2.2r2 > install disks. You need a newer set of install disks, or a newer > kernel. > > If I were you I'd compile a kernel on your other box and transfer it > over via sn

Re: I seem to be in a Kernel Warp

2002-01-14 Thread Xeno Campanoli
Xeno Campanoli wrote: > > I just successfully installed the 2.2.19 kernel. I just now checked, > and this is the latest available in the 2.2 sequence from my stable > package sites, but then in trying Rubini's example on page 14 of his > book at the insmod hellomodule.o step I get: > > # insmod

Re: SIGPIPE thrown from an MDA or a stream socket error

2002-01-14 Thread Ian Balchin
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 07:06:13PM -0500, Brenda J. Butler wrote: > On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 12:08:22AM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote: > > While using fetchmail all goes OK until reaching message 91 and then > > > > 'reading message No 91' > > SIGPIPE thrown from an MDA or a stream socket error > > fetc

Re: SIGPIPE thrown from an MDA or a stream socket error

2002-01-14 Thread Ian Balchin
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 06:25:26PM -0500, dman wrote: > On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 12:08:22AM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote: > | While using fetchmail all goes OK until reaching message 91 and then > | > | 'reading message No 91' > | SIGPIPE thrown from an MDA or a stream socket error > | fetchmail: socke

Re: 3c905c arp/configuration problems

2002-01-14 Thread Angus D Madden
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 12:26:44PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does the connect light come up on the NIC in the client? The NIC in the > gateway? > all lights are on, including the lights on the switch. > Thus traffic send from gateway to client doesnot get through. > yes. > Beca

Re: 3c905c arp/configuration problems

2002-01-14 Thread Angus D Madden
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 10:06:36PM -0600, Lonnie Mullenix wrote: > Just a shot in the dark, but have you had to change any on the wiring during > this process? It almost sounds like you may have a broken wire in one of the > patch cables. > > My first try would be to plug a different cable into

Re: base files for woody?

2002-01-14 Thread John Hasler
Paul E Condon writes: > If you are saying that the new install knows how to fetch the ppp > deb...well... how does it know how to fetch anything if the only access > to the web/internet is via ppp? This explanation does not satisfy me. It isn't an explanation. It is a description of the situatio

Re: 3c905c arp/configuration problems

2002-01-14 Thread crispin
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 10:54:38PM -0500, Angus D Madden wrote: > > I have a small (2 machine) home network. The gateway is > running 2.4.16 with Debian Woody. Both of the NICs on the gateway > are 3c905C's and are up and running with no problems. > > The client box also has a 3c905C. It was in

Re: 3c905c arp/configuration problems

2002-01-14 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 10:54:38PM -0500, Angus D Madden wrote: > The client box also has a 3c905C. It was initially running WindowsME > with dhcp used to configure the network interface. Everything was > working fine, network wise. > > Repeated problems with the Widnows and an eventual disk fail

Re: 3c905c arp/configuration problems

2002-01-14 Thread Lonnie Mullenix
Just a shot in the dark, but have you had to change any on the wiring during this process? It almost sounds like you may have a broken wire in one of the patch cables. My first try would be to plug a different cable into the NIC and see if you get the same results or not. Possibly just re-plug

Re: base files for woody?

2002-01-14 Thread Paul E Condon
John Hasler wrote: > > Paul E Condon writes: > > I was expecting to see, also, about eleven "base" floppy images. > > There no longer is a "base" tarball. Instead, the installer knows how to > fetch the debs containing stuff that used to be in base from an archive. > ppp is one of those debs. I

3c905c arp/configuration problems

2002-01-14 Thread Angus D Madden
I have a small (2 machine) home network. The gateway is running 2.4.16 with Debian Woody. Both of the NICs on the gateway are 3c905C's and are up and running with no problems. The client box also has a 3c905C. It was initially running WindowsME with dhcp used to configure the network interface.

Re: Procmail filtering on outgoing mail

2002-01-14 Thread dman
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 03:06:42AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: | also sprach Thorsten Haude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.15.0037 +0100]: | > >Any suggestions here would be greatly appreciated. | > My mailer does this for me, you might consider to use another one. | | i see. (thorsten, ignore my

Re: [OT] Suggestions for cheap laser printer supported by Linux

2002-01-14 Thread Bud Rogers
On Monday 14 January 2002 19:36 pm, dman wrote: > I haven't heard of GDI before. All the laser printers I've looked at > (mostly HPs) had PCL and Postscript built-in. I have a LJIIIp still > kicking here, and it is quite good. I'd go for a 5m or 6m or whatever > they call that line now (the 5l

Re: Potato 2.2r5 Question

2002-01-14 Thread crispin
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 05:26:20PM -0500, Jeff Flowers wrote: > I'm confused. > > I want to install Debian (Potato) 2.2r5. I drilled down to > /debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/, where I find the directories > "current" and "2.2.26-2001-06-14". Current is a link to "2.2.26-2001-06-14". > I then

Re: base files for woody?

2002-01-14 Thread Paul E Condon
John Hasler wrote: > Paul E Condon writes: > > I was expecting to see, also, about eleven "base" floppy images. > > There no longer is a "base" tarball. Instead, the installer knows how to > fetch the debs containing stuff that used to be in base from an archive. > ppp is one of those debs. I ha

Re: Woody saytime update broken

2002-01-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 12:46:06PM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: > saytime_1.0-10_i386.deb > > This package from testing has a problem. > > root-Deb-Woody:# saytime (voices "The Time is" then prints > shouldn't happen > > saytime_1.0-9_i386.deb works correctly. Please file a bug against saytime

Re: Unidentified subject!

2002-01-14 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Eric G. Miller [2002.01.15.0345 +0100]: > > > ...must've been too much LDS back at Berkeley in the '60s > > > > no karsten, you messed the order up again! > > Yea, doesn't LDS refer to mormons? not in this context. karsten has carefully and patiently taught me that i have no edu

Re: broken "man"

2002-01-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 01:38:11PM -0500, Jamie Oulman wrote: > i had this problem upgrading stable->testing > man-db gets removed and you have to install it > by hand afterwords. make sure you pay attention > to what apt-get says its going to remove with you > start

Re: trouble installing jpilot

2002-01-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 09:16:29PM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: > Im trying to install jpilot onto my computer. It keeps complaining > about unresolved dependancies. jpilot complains about pilot-link, and > libpisock4. I check my system and I have libpisock4, but it seems to be > from ximian(I ins

Unidentified subject!

2002-01-14 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 23:40:42 +0100, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > also sprach Karsten M. Self [2002.01.14.2300 +0100]: > > ...must've been too much LDS back at Berkeley in the '60s > > no karsten, you messed the order up again! Yea, doesn't LDS refer to mormons? -- Eric G.

Re: Procmail filtering on outgoing mail

2002-01-14 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.15.0307 +0100]: > good point. procmail actually cannot be configured as a filter. it's > last act will always be storing in a mailbox... well, doh. `procmail -m` -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo m

Re: What part of X causes major display problems?

2002-01-14 Thread Seneca Cunningham
ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 14 January 2002 04:56 pm, Seneca Cunningham wrote: > > The X3 xf86config program says _not_ to probe clocks, but > > X4 looks like it is probing clocks. > > > my understanding of clock probing is that the card is either physically > capable of standing the

trouble installing jpilot

2002-01-14 Thread Scott Henson
Im trying to install jpilot onto my computer. It keeps complaining about unresolved dependancies. jpilot complains about pilot-link, and libpisock4. I check my system and I have libpisock4, but it seems to be from ximian(I installed ximian gnome and it has been haunting me ever since). I tried

Re: /var/spool/mail and adduser

2002-01-14 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.15.0253 +0100]: > I noticed that there is a mail spool entry for the normal user created > during the debian installation process. However, when I run adduser to > create a new user, a mail file for that user is not created. Is this > supposed to be done

Re: persistent keyboard problems

2002-01-14 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach nori heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.15.0020 +0100]: > since upgrading to version 4 of X, my keyboard has been wildly > erratic. (only in x, not in terminal mode.) i stuck the lines > > /usr/bin/X11/xset r rate 255 80 & > xset r rate 255 80 why twice? > in my ~/.xsession fil

Re: Procmail filtering on outgoing mail

2002-01-14 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Jeremy L. Gaddis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.15.0216 +0100]: > I'm not sure that that can be done with procmail. > procmail is a local delivery agent, mainly used > for final delivery of mail into /var/mail/{username}. good point. procmail actually cannot be configured as a filter. it

Re: Procmail filtering on outgoing mail

2002-01-14 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Thorsten Haude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.15.0037 +0100]: > >Any suggestions here would be greatly appreciated. > My mailer does this for me, you might consider to use another one. i see. (thorsten, ignore my mail). he's probably using mutt, which has beautiful send-hooks. yes, you c

/var/spool/mail and adduser

2002-01-14 Thread Dan
Hello, I noticed that there is a mail spool entry for the normal user created during the debian installation process. However, when I run adduser to create a new user, a mail file for that user is not created. Is this supposed to be done manually? --iw0

Re: [OT] Suggestions for cheap laser printer supported by Linux

2002-01-14 Thread Andrew Perrin
I bought an HP 1200SE (ca. $400) and it's been working great. It's postscript and parallel or USB, so no filters needed in general. -- Andrew J Perrin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Socio

Re: base files for woody?

2002-01-14 Thread John Hasler
Paul E Condon writes: > I was expecting to see, also, about eleven "base" floppy images. There no longer is a "base" tarball. Instead, the installer knows how to fetch the debs containing stuff that used to be in base from an archive. ppp is one of those debs. I have no idea how (or if) the boot

Re: debian-friendly DSL/cable ISP in NYC area?

2002-01-14 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, dman wrote: > The suits are probably the only ones who would actually pay for > someone to tell them they don't know what they're doing :-). The rest > of us come here and get your support for free ;-). I was on the end of an escallations queue that the local cable companies

Re: [OT] Suggestions for cheap laser printer supported by Linux

2002-01-14 Thread Gary Turner
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 21:20:18 +0100, Coen De Roover wrote: >Hi, > >I'm looking for a cheap laser printer that works flawlessly under Linux. >I always thought this wouldn't be hard to find, but it turns out that >some problems may arise with GDI-based printers (who actually dominate >the lower-end m

Re: Mail <-> Palm sync

2002-01-14 Thread David B Harris
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 17:28:13 -0800 (PST) Paul 'Baloo' Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are there any jpilot conduits for syncing mail? What I'm looking for > is basically something to copy all my messages to the Palm in folders, > so I can read and respond when I'm at work, and sync it up when

Re: [OT] Suggestions for cheap laser printer supported by Linux

2002-01-14 Thread dman
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 09:20:18PM +0100, Coen De Roover wrote: | Hi, | | I'm looking for a cheap laser printer that works flawlessly under Linux. | I always thought this wouldn't be hard to find, but it turns out that | some problems may arise with GDI-based printers (who actually dominate | the

Mail <-> Palm sync

2002-01-14 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
Are there any jpilot conduits for syncing mail? What I'm looking for is basically something to copy all my messages to the Palm in folders, so I can read and respond when I'm at work, and sync it up when I get home. Does such a beast exist, or am I asking way too much? -- Baloo

Re: debian-friendly DSL/cable ISP in NYC area?

2002-01-14 Thread dman
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 04:22:28PM -0800, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: ... | [1] I am starting to doubt if there's anybody but suits in the bay area, | from the people that make it to Portland I meet, my trip to Redwood City | and my experiance taking tech support calls, this seems unlikely that |

Re: debian-friendly DSL/cable ISP in NYC area?

2002-01-14 Thread allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx
all: i heartly agree with noah. i too am a speakeasy customer after my former isp (verio) attempted to dump me onto earthlink.net (huh???). anyway, customer satisfaction has been nothing short of excellent. i am running two dns servers at home with the two ip's furnished by speakeasy. i am in t

RE: Procmail filtering on outgoing mail

2002-01-14 Thread Jeremy L. Gaddis
I'm not sure that that can be done with procmail. procmail is a local delivery agent, mainly used for final delivery of mail into /var/mail/{username}. j. -- Jeremy L. Gaddis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -Original Message- From: Jeremy Nickurak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January

Continuing ALSA suckage

2002-01-14 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
Dear God^Wall does anyone have a working alsa (Debian packages) in Woody with a recent kernel? Does anyone know how alsa is supposed to be set up in Woody? I've finally upgraded the kernel (to 2.4.17) and tried to use Debian ALSA packages (again). Not entirely unexpectedly, ALSA broke. Hmm, le

cat return code

2002-01-14 Thread Paul E Condon
I'm attempting to use the pseudo-image-kit. I get error messages from bash when I run it, so I'm attempting to debug the script. The error message indicates a problem with comparing the return code from an invocation of cat (concatenate and transfer). I look at the man page and the info for cat hop

Re: What part of X causes major display problems?

2002-01-14 Thread Seneca Cunningham
ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 13 January 2002 02:11 pm, Seneca Cunningham wrote: > [snip] > > > > > "X -configure" is... > > > > > > (==) CHIPS(0): Min pixel clock is 11.000MHz > > > (--) CHIPS(0): Max pixel clock is 56.000MHz > > > > > > ... and from the "xf86cfg -textmode" meth

视频会议

2002-01-14 Thread li

Re: base files for woody?

2002-01-14 Thread Paul E Condon
Daniel Freedman wrote: On Mon, Jan 14, 2002, Paul E Condon wrote: > I requested help at the time on this list. I got > > a number of private responses that indicated to me > > that other people had failed and given up. I think > > there is a problem here. Some people are lucky. > > Some people ar

Re: base files for woody?

2002-01-14 Thread John Hasler
Herbert Schmitz writes: > Last week I also try to install woody only with the disks and than with a > ppp-acount and ftp, but it does´nt work ... any idea? pppd is about 200k: too large for the root and rescue disks. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

Re: debian-friendly DSL/cable ISP in NYC area?

2002-01-14 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi, Here is an [EMAIL PROTECTED] customer who was moved to new ATTBI.COM > service in Northern California. New terms of service states additional > "no-Server" policy. Yuck !!. (I never signed it but sent to me when > change happened. So it is legally

Re: debian-friendly DSL/cable ISP in NYC area?

2002-01-14 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Adam Majer wrote: > Yes they do, _but_ it's not trully static and if you want trully static you > need > to play $60 for biz cable and $20 for static - that about US$50/mo. The point is it won't be changing often enough for it to not count as static, unless you live in Illin

Re: debian-friendly DSL/cable ISP in NYC area?

2002-01-14 Thread Adam Majer
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 03:41:36PM -0800, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > Cable setup is pretty straightforward. I used to do tech support for > @Home before I got laid off and got a better paying job as a security > guard. Other than the dying @Home network, I don't think there's a > cable network

Re: Kernel compiling problems with AMD Duron 900

2002-01-14 Thread Glyn Millington
Romuald DELAVERGNE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Le 2001.10.17 02:49, Glyn Millington a écrit : >> bash-2.03$ make-kpkg clean >> dpkg: warning, architecture `i386-none' not in remapping table > > 'make-kpkg' from potato have problem. > Use 'make-kpkg' from woody. Many thanks - that did the tric

Re: debian-friendly DSL/cable ISP in NYC area?

2002-01-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Here is an [EMAIL PROTECTED] customer who was moved to new ATTBI.COM service in Northern California. New terms of service states additional "no-Server" policy. Yuck !!. (I never signed it but sent to me when change happened. So it is legally not binding.) On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 03:41:36P

Re: base files for woody?

2002-01-14 Thread Herbert Schmitz
On Mon, 14. Januar 2002 19:23 Daniel Freedman wrote: > On Mon, Jan 14, 2002, Paul E Condon wrote: > > I requested help at the time on this list. I got > > > > a number of private responses that indicated to me > > > > that other people had failed and given up. I think > > > > there is a problem her

Re: Procmail filtering on outgoing mail

2002-01-14 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 14 January 2002 11:10 pm, Jeremy Nickurak wrote: > I've been looking through mailing lists and FAQ, but can't find an answer > to something I presume would be fairly simple, although I'm not really > familiar with exim at all. What I want to

Re: [OT] Suggestions for cheap laser printer supported by Linux

2002-01-14 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Karsten M. Self wrote: > HP's line works great, I'd try an HPLJ4 or later. Used market's a good > place to go shopping. We had an LJ III for a long time. Not the fastest and certainly not the smallest, but it was a tank. -- Baloo

Re: debian-friendly DSL/cable ISP in NYC area?

2002-01-14 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Jason M. Harvey wrote: > dsl - the local telco is verizon. if you get their residential package, > i'm pretty sure they use pppoe on adsl... At least in the Portland, Oregon area they do not use PPPoE (though even though they got the "don't use PPPoE" idea right, it doesn't s

Re: Procmail filtering on outgoing mail

2002-01-14 Thread Craig Dickson
Jeremy Nickurak wrote: > I've been looking through mailing lists and FAQ, but can't find an > answer to something I presume would be fairly simple, although I'm not > really familiar with exim at all. What I want to do is get exim to > pass _outgoing_ mail through certain procmail filters. Specifi

Re: potato->woody upgrade problems (mostly fixed)

2002-01-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 10:26:12PM -0500, John Dalbec wrote: > apt-get dist-upgrade died while configuring gcc-doc with the message > perl: libc6: version GLIBC_2.2 not found - needed by libdb.so.3. > attempting 'apt-get -f install' failed with the same message. > I installed libc6 from /var/cache

Re: Procmail filtering on outgoing mail

2002-01-14 Thread Thorsten Haude
Moin, * Jeremy Nickurak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02-01-15 00:10]: >Any suggestions here would be greatly appreciated. My mailer does this for me, you might consider to use another one. Thorsten -- When the government fears the people, it is liberty. When the people fear the government, it is tyranny

persistent keyboard problems

2002-01-14 Thread Nori Heikkinen
hi all, this got lost in a thread above, and i'm clueless. since upgrading to version 4 of X, my keyboard has been wildly erratic. (only in x, not in terminal mode.) i stuck the lines /usr/bin/X11/xset r rate 255 80 & xset r rate 255 80 in my ~/.xsession file, but they do absolutely no good,

Procmail filtering on outgoing mail

2002-01-14 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
I've been looking through mailing lists and FAQ, but can't find an answer to something I presume would be fairly simple, although I'm not really familiar with exim at all. What I want to do is get exim to pass _outgoing_ mail through certain procmail filters. Specifically, I want my From: addres

Re: gnome menu configuration

2002-01-14 Thread Adam Majer
On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 02:22:10PM +0800, Aldous B Bernardo wrote: > > > Greetings, > >How do I configure the Gnome menu on Potato? I can't seem to find where I > can configure the menu on the panel. Not sure but in unstable you just right click on the MainMenu symbol and then Edit Menu.

Re: Printing problems

2002-01-14 Thread Adam Majer
On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 09:07:01PM -0800, Jeff wrote: > > echo "test" > /dev/dsp > I'm confused...I thought /dev/dsp was a sound device. Opps :) I meant lp0 but was thinking of something else.. > And yes, the kernel is setup right. I posted the config in my > original post. I sure it's right be

Re: base files for woody?

2002-01-14 Thread Greg C. Madden
On Mon, 2002-01-14 at 08:12, Paul E Condon wrote: > "Greg C. Madden" wrote: > > > > > There is not a base.tgz package for woody. There has been a change from > > the way Potato did the install. > > > > I have been 'installing' Woody here on numerous boxes. I have used two > > methods, the two boo

Re: [OT] Suggestions for cheap laser printer supported by Linux

2002-01-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 09:20:18PM +0100, Coen De Roover ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for a cheap laser printer that works flawlessly under Linux. > I always thought this wouldn't be hard to find, but it turns out that > some problems may arise with GDI-based printers (who act

Re: Debian Vs RedHat

2002-01-14 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Karsten M. Self [2002.01.14.2300 +0100]: > ...must've been too much LDS back at Berkeley in the '60s no karsten, you messed the order up again! -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROTECTED] si

Re: Break-in? /usr/lib/telnetd, port 1037

2002-01-14 Thread Kent West
Dimitri Maziuk wrote: * Dimitri Maziuk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: What's in /etc/services for port 1037? D'oh! Make that /etc/inetd.conf. Dima No port numbers at all mentioned in /etc/inetd.conf (I think you were right the first time). The only reference to telnet in inetd.conf

Potato 2.2r5 Question

2002-01-14 Thread Jeff Flowers
I'm confused. I want to install Debian (Potato) 2.2r5. I drilled down to /debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/, where I find the directories "current" and "2.2.26-2001-06-14". Current is a link to "2.2.26-2001-06-14". I then continue into /debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44

Re: Break-in? /usr/lib/telnetd, port 1037

2002-01-14 Thread Matt Fair
Just do a simple check: telnet and you should get: telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused Matt On Mon, 2002-01-14 at 16:08, Kent West wrote: > Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > > > What's in /etc/services for port 1037? Who else has r00t on the > > box and are you sure they didn't do

mod_perl apache segement fault

2002-01-14 Thread Matt Fair
I did: apt-get source libapache-mod-perl apt-get source -b libapache-mod-perl got everything to compile and install, apache restarted fine, but I got an Apache seg fault: [notice] child pid 16539 exit signal Segmentation fault (11) I had to take out mod_perl from my httpd.conf file to allow apache

corrupt manflag

2002-01-14 Thread ben
got this while trying to upgrade: update-alternatives: internal error: /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/x-terminal-emulator corrupt: manflag the question is what's a manflag? and what can i do about this?

Re: Break-in? /usr/lib/telnetd, port 1037

2002-01-14 Thread Kent West
Dimitri Maziuk wrote: What's in /etc/services for port 1037? Who else has r00t on the box and are you sure they didn't do that? No reference whatsoever to 1037 in /etc/services. Just another clue that it is indeed a cracked box. Kent

Re: Break-in? /usr/lib/telnetd, port 1037

2002-01-14 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Dimitri Maziuk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > What's in /etc/services for port 1037? D'oh! Make that /etc/inetd.conf. Dima -- Well, lusers are technically human.-- Red Drag Diva

Re: lpr: unable to create temporary file.

2002-01-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 12:17:09PM -0800, Aidan OReilly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I recently installed and configured CUPS in order to get the proper > driver for my new Epson Stylus C60. I can print from the command line > with no problem, and lpstat -d -p shows my printer as the default. > Ho

Re: Debian Vs RedHat

2002-01-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 06:40:46PM +0100, martin f krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > also sprach Karsten M. Self [2002.01.12.2203 +0100]: > > LDS indicates /etc/{init,rc}.d, so RH is coming around to the standard. > > LDS? > LSB? > > i've not seen LDS, but LSB is the linux standard base, whic

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2002-01-14 Thread jeff
you know something? hee hee...i don't post to the list anymore because i can't find anything wrong with my nice debian box. :) happy h4><0ring you l33t mofos :) -jeff

Re: Break-in? /usr/lib/telnetd, port 1037

2002-01-14 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 02:49:36PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > I've got a Debian box (2.2.17, mostly woody) that I've just discovered > has a more-or-less hidden telnetd running on port 1037 as well as the > normal telnetd on port 23. I thought I had uninstalled telnetd (although > it's possible I

Re: Break-in? /usr/lib/telnetd, port 1037

2002-01-14 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Noah Meyerhans wrote: ... > >Having telnetd listening on port 1037, if in fact it is, is probably not > >a good thing. Have you actually tried telnetting to that port ('telnet > >localhost 1037')? > > Yes, and I'm able to login via that port. > > >

Re: Break-in? /usr/lib/telnetd, port 1037

2002-01-14 Thread Kent West
Noah Meyerhans wrote: On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 02:49:36PM -0600, Kent West wrote: I've got a Debian box (2.2.17, mostly woody) that I've just discovered has a more-or-less hidden telnetd running on port 1037 as well as the normal telnetd on port 23. I thought I had uninstalled telnetd (althoug

Re: Break-in? /usr/lib/telnetd, port 1037

2002-01-14 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 02:49:36PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > I've got a Debian box (2.2.17, mostly woody) that I've just discovered > has a more-or-less hidden telnetd running on port 1037 as well as the > normal telnetd on port 23. I thought I had uninstalled telnetd (although > it's possible I

Re: Break-in? /usr/lib/telnetd, port 1037

2002-01-14 Thread Robert Walker
> Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 14:49:36 -0600 > From: Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Break-in? /usr/lib/telnetd, port 1037 > Resent-Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 15:53:52 -0500 (EST) > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > I've

Break-in? /usr/lib/telnetd, port 1037

2002-01-14 Thread Kent West
I've got a Debian box (2.2.17, mostly woody) that I've just discovered has a more-or-less hidden telnetd running on port 1037 as well as the normal telnetd on port 23. I thought I had uninstalled telnetd (although it's possible I forgot to remove it). I'm thinking that somehow I've been broken

perl 5.6 and @inc

2002-01-14 Thread Matt Fair
I just installed perl 5.6, how can I get that into the @inc? My @inc is currently, but no 5.6: (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.005 /usr/local/lib/site_perl/i386-linux /usr/local/lib/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5 . /etc/apache/ /etc/apache/lib/perl) I am trying to get mod

Re: untarring tar file into specific directory

2002-01-14 Thread ben
On Monday 14 January 2002 10:44 am, MH wrote: > > "Elizabeth" == Elizabeth Barham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Elizabeth> you can also untar into a specific directory by going > Elizabeth> to the directory itself and untarring their, e.g. > > Elizabeth> tar xzf ../../oldtzs/xyz.t

Re: [OT] Suggestions for cheap laser printer supported by Linux

2002-01-14 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 14 January 2002 02:20 pm, Coen De Roover wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for a cheap laser printer that works flawlessly under Linux. > I always thought this wouldn't be hard to find, but it turns out that > some problems may arise with GDI-base

Re: Pentium 4 Processors & 2.2.20 Kernel

2002-01-14 Thread ben
On Monday 14 January 2002 07:13 am, Holger Rauch wrote: > Hi Karl! > > Thanks for your quick reply! > > On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > [...] > > Yep. I guess that you ask because it mentions i386. This i386 refers to > > the *architecture* i386 (i.e. to the i386 processor and its

[OT] Suggestions for cheap laser printer supported by Linux

2002-01-14 Thread Coen De Roover
Hi, I'm looking for a cheap laser printer that works flawlessly under Linux. I always thought this wouldn't be hard to find, but it turns out that some problems may arise with GDI-based printers (who actually dominate the lower-end market). All suggestions are welcome. Thanks in advance, Coen

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Re: Training

2002-01-14 Thread Lonnie Mullenix
Peter, A quick 'Linux Training' search on google will give you all the options that you want. 987,000 in .12 seconds. HTH Lonnie On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 18:28:07 +0100 "Krupp, Peter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > I´m looking for a tutor-led training/course for Debian System-Administratio

Re: list all packages that are installed

2002-01-14 Thread Lonnie Mullenix
Just gave this a try on my Debian 3.0 machine. Works in xterm Does not work in rxvt Does not work from cmd VERY handy for 'dpkg --configure . Don't have to guess at what the last few letters/numbers might be. Thanks, Lonnie On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 03:23:57 +0100 "J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: debian-friendly DSL/cable ISP in NYC area?

2002-01-14 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 10:25:54AM -0800, Kurt Lieber wrote: > I'm moving to NYC in the next couple of weeks to start a new job. Can anyone > provide recommendations for ISPs that will allow me to run a few debian boxes > (and one iMac) with a minimum of hassle? I'm looking to avoid ISPs that

Re: Tape devices

2002-01-14 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 06:45:59PM +0200, George Karaolides wrote: > > Can somebody tell me what the various tape devices are? I know that > /dev/st0 is the first SCSI tape drive and /dev/nst0 is the non-rewinding > version of this, but what are /dev/(st|nst)0a, -l and -m? These are actually doc

Re: OT: ordokrefic pidgin [was: Training]

2002-01-14 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach MH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.14.2029 +0100]: > Plattfuß, Plattfisch, Plattform ;-) one wouldn't think that german is my native language. oh dear. well, i got confused by influence of the english language. sorrysorrysorry. > > -- > (Dr.) Michael Hummel > mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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