Re: One time user access

2002-01-16 Thread john
Scott Henson wrote: > I was wondering if there was anyway to create a user that could only > login once and then was invalid. See the thing is that I have to use > telnet to login from a windows machine to do some work with the gcc. I > dont want to have to expose my machine to unnecessary secur

Re: One time user access

2002-01-16 Thread Caleb Shay
Why not just use ssh and a windows ssh client like putty? http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ Cheers, Caleb Shay On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 21:08, Scott Henson wrote: > I was wondering if there was anyway to create a user that could only > login once and then was invalid. See the thin

One time user access

2002-01-16 Thread Scott Henson
I was wondering if there was anyway to create a user that could only login once and then was invalid. See the thing is that I have to use telnet to login from a windows machine to do some work with the gcc. I dont want to have to expose my machine to unnecessary security risks, so I was wondering

Re: OT: Rant

2002-01-16 Thread Douglas Hespe
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 04:55:05PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > > I really miss WordPerfect! And I wish there were some open-source > software that did what it does. > Kent, Here in Australia you can pick up remaindered copies of _WordPerfect_for_Linux_ for about AU$20 (~US$10). This has th

Re: Debian, FHS & /floppy

2002-01-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 16 Jan 2002 23:34:01 -0500 Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul E Condon wrote: > > As an example: before I read the FHS, I set up a local mirror of the > > Debian packages using apt-move. I decided to create a root level > > directory /mirror and to put in it a directory /mirror/deb

Re: Debian, FHS & /floppy

2002-01-16 Thread Joey Hess
Paul E Condon wrote: > As an example: before I read the FHS, I set up a local mirror of the > Debian packages using apt-move. I decided to create a root level > directory /mirror and to put in it a directory /mirror/debian, but when > I read FHS, I started wondering if I might be creating problems

Re: postfix log files

2002-01-16 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 2002-01-16 02:38:05, martin f krafft wrote: > will someone explain to me, how postfix's mail.log (well, it's syslogd's > actually) gets rotated? logrotate.d or logrotate.conf have no entries, > and `grep -r mail\.log /etc` gives no results. /etc/cron.weekly/syslogd /Allan -- Allan M. Wind P.

Re: wrestling with dselect

2002-01-16 Thread Craig Dickson
darrell wrote: > in the past i tried to learn lyx and latex, was interested, so thought i > would try again ( after reading some thread from debian list on word > perfect, if i may say so, i have known many many people to be very > attached to that program too! ) > > > lyx depenends on libfor

Re: XFree 4.1 for Potato questions

2002-01-16 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
Today, I wrote : >Just recently installed XFree 4.1 debs for Potato (using C.P. Botha's >unofficial debs). Some questions: >* After installing the unofficial debs, I didn't get the /etc/X11/X file. Is >it a config file or a directory, or a symlink to /usr/bin/X11/XFree (which also >didn't exist

Re: using gcc/g++ 3.0 without uninstalling 2.95?

2002-01-16 Thread Adam Majer
On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 10:51:35PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > I'm not a C programmer, so I need some advice. I am trying to compile a > package (Cinelerra) which requires GCC 3.x. However, I get the impression > from reading this list that I don't want to simply make that version the > default on

list of all installed packages

2002-01-16 Thread Ron Johnson
After the recent conversation regarding this, and since I'm a Debian- newbie, and want to keep a history of ~when I installed packages, I created this little bash script that I run each time I install or remove packages: x=`date +%y%m%d.%H%M` COLUMNS=120 dpkg -l > ~/dpkg.installed.$x ln -sf ~

roff / tex comparison (was Re: OT: Rant)

2002-01-16 Thread dman
On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 07:25:32PM +, Ted Harding wrote: | I'd like to suggest giving 'groff' a try. | I reckon it's well up with TeX, and better in some respects. Can you provide a list of the tradeoffs between [gnt]roff and (La)TeX? I've started with LaTeX; read lshort and now have Lamp

using gcc/g++ 3.0 without uninstalling 2.95?

2002-01-16 Thread Carl Fink
I'm not a C programmer, so I need some advice. I am trying to compile a package (Cinelerra) which requires GCC 3.x. However, I get the impression from reading this list that I don't want to simply make that version the default on my system, because the bugs aren't worked out. Now, my Testing sys

Re: revision updates

2002-01-16 Thread David Z Maze
Curtis Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think it was just recently that rev. 5 of 2.2 came out. If I > perform apt-get update and upgrade, does that mean I am at rev. 5? > Or, is there some more complex configuration involved? You might do 'apt-get dist-upgrade' instead of just 'upgrade'.

Re: revision updates

2002-01-16 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 06:04:40PM -0800, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > A really stupid question: > > I think it was just recently that rev. 5 of 2.2 came out. If I perform > apt-get update and upgrade, does that mean I am at rev. 5? Or, is there some > more complex configuration involved? > > I am

wrestling with dselect

2002-01-16 Thread darrell
in the past i tried to learn lyx and latex, was interested, so thought i would try again ( after reading some thread from debian list on word perfect, if i may say so, i have known many many people to be very attached to that program too! ) lyx depenends on libforms libforms dep xpm4g xpm4g c

Problems with kscreensaver

2002-01-16 Thread Brian Schramm
I am using kde 2.2.2 woody version. A lot of the screen savers do not work. Is this normal or is there something wrong with my install? Along the same line, the screensaver program crashes if I try to run it from the mainmenu (K-menu>preferences>screensaver) but it runs if I run it from the cont

Sound

2002-01-16 Thread Michael Montz
Hello all, I did a dist-upgrade to woody and now alsa is acting flacky. /etc/init.d/alsa start does not work. Loading the modules by hand will allow me to get sound working, but my microphone no longer works. I get the following errors when trying to use the alsa mixers: alsamixer: failed to

Re: What part of X causes major display problems?

2002-01-16 Thread Seneca Cunningham
ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 16 January 2002 03:28 pm, Seneca Cunningham wrote: > > ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wednesday 16 January 2002 01:49 pm, Seneca Cunningham wrote: > > > [snip] > > > > > > > My hardware isn't too old... it's only 7 years old (I think (and that'

Re: Adaptec 2940u2w SCSI problems

2002-01-16 Thread Adam Majer
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 04:06:51AM +0200, JM Vainio wrote: > Some weeks ago I tried to install Debian with SCSI support, but I did not > succeed. I had the Adaptec 2940u2w SCSI The new kernels have both, a new and an old Adaptec driver.. The old one seem support this card. I think that Linux mig

Adaptec 2940u2w SCSI problems

2002-01-16 Thread JM Vainio
Some weeks ago I tried to install Debian with SCSI support, but I did not succeed. I had the Adaptec 2940u2w SCSI controller card, and the first problem to overcome was that the SCSI bus did not stop resetting even if I tried to give the boot argument "aic7xxx=no_reset" (as someone on this m

revision updates

2002-01-16 Thread Curtis Vaughan
A really stupid question: I think it was just recently that rev. 5 of 2.2 came out. If I perform apt-get update and upgrade, does that mean I am at rev. 5? Or, is there some more complex configuration involved? I am apt to think that I am not at 2.2 r5 because when I log in, Linux 2.2.17 is

XFree 4.1 for Potato questions

2002-01-16 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
Just recently installed XFree 4.1 debs for Potato (using C.P. Botha's unofficial debs). Some questions: * After installing the unofficial debs, I didn't get the /etc/X11/X file. Is it a config file or a directory, or a symlink to /usr/bin/X11/XFree (which also didn't exist after the install). What

Re: init 5 ?

2002-01-16 Thread darrell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 01:30:35 +0100 Miquel van Smoorenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: According to Ron Johnson: On Wed, 16 Jan 2002 11:48:51 + (UTC) Miquel van Smoorenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Theo Bierman <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: OT: Rant

2002-01-16 Thread Ron Johnson
The 2 of you install ssh. Then, scp is your friend. Of course, both of you better be on high-speed connections! On Wed, 16 Jan 2002 16:59:09 -0800 (PST) "D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I will go WAY out on the LIMB here and say, I have a > WordPerfect8.tar.bz2 that I will share with anyone

Re: WindowMaker is ugly!!

2002-01-16 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach darrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.17.0237 +0100]: > workspace -> appearance -> themes -> debian oh, that's right... > from the debian menu's, just a footnote, these menus provided > for windowmaker under debian seem to be uneditable from the > windowmaker control panel, also true.

Re: What part of X causes major display problems?

2002-01-16 Thread ben
On Wednesday 16 January 2002 03:28 pm, Seneca Cunningham wrote: > ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wednesday 16 January 2002 01:49 pm, Seneca Cunningham wrote: > > [snip] > > > > > My hardware isn't too old... it's only 7 years old (I think (and that's > > the > > > > newest stuff I'm allowed

Re: WindowMaker is ugly!!

2002-01-16 Thread darrell
workspace -> appearance -> themes -> debian from the debian menu's, just a footnote, these menus provided for windowmaker under debian seem to be uneditable from the windowmaker control panel, is it the deregular to post pictures of our desktop - that is good fun - madduck is weird, i wis

Re: GUI mail readers

2002-01-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On 17 Jan 2002 00:24:08 + Geoff Beaumont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 23:13, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Thanks to all. Last night I found Sylpheed, and do like it, since > > I use Outlook at work. The boss will, too. > > As a replacement for Outlook (as opposed to Outlook E

Re: OT: Rant

2002-01-16 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake D.: > I will go WAY out on the LIMB here and say, I have a > WordPerfect8.tar.bz2 that I will share with anyone > that wants it... If that's legal... I believe that I > downloaded it from the Peanut Linux web page. I have > not installed it on Debian so I can not say that it > will work

RE: SB AUDIGY Player supported by Linux?

2002-01-16 Thread Jeff Bonner
-Original Message- From: Harris, Jason [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 1:55 PM To: 'Stephen Gran' Cc: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' Subject: RE: SB AUDIGY Player supported by Linux? > I've been thinking of getting it when it becomes available - it\ is an > a

Re: Problem with email

2002-01-16 Thread ben
On Wednesday 16 January 2002 11:53 am, Brian Schramm wrote: [snip] first off--and i'm guilty of this myself on occasion--you don't need to cc: everyone who responds. we're all reading the same list you post to. > I have tryed several email clients to get the mail > from this box using pop3 or ima

Re: Way OT Re: john is weird!

2002-01-16 Thread ben
On Wednesday 16 January 2002 04:28 pm, john wrote: > martin f krafft wrote: > > also sprach john <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.16.2359 +0100]: > > > > > > > > > > I feel like taking the subject of this thread personally. > > > > i was afraid someone would. i am sure you actually *are* weird too. ho

Re: multiple mails

2002-01-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 16 Jan 2002 13:41:27 -0500 dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 10:07:06AM -0800, ben wrote: > | yo list, > | > | i've had a complaint from one subscriber that he's receiving my list posts > in > | multiples of up to eight for the same single email, and, apparently,

Re: eth0

2002-01-16 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Joe Wise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.16.1148 +0100]: > When I installed Debian, my 3comm ethernet card did not get detected. > How do I go about getting the driver installed? joe, you are not getting my emails, something's wrong. i am checking my logs now (with this message) to make s

Re: OT: Rant

2002-01-16 Thread D.
I will go WAY out on the LIMB here and say, I have a WordPerfect8.tar.bz2 that I will share with anyone that wants it... If that's legal... I believe that I downloaded it from the Peanut Linux web page. I have not installed it on Debian so I can not say that it will work.. My delima is how do I ge

RE: netinst

2002-01-16 Thread Jeff Bonner
-Original Message- From: Richard Atterer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 5:44 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org; debian-cd@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: netinst [edited for brevity] Sorry for the cross-posting, I just thought I'd add my $0.02... > http://pe

Re: Debian, FHS & /floppy

2002-01-16 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* martin f krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > also sprach Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.17.0056 +0100]: ... Where should "real work" stuff go within the FHS? I wonder... > > /home. you should not use anything else for work. everything else is > system administration, and maint

Re: init 5 ?

2002-01-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 01:30:35 +0100 Miquel van Smoorenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > According to Ron Johnson: > > On Wed, 16 Jan 2002 11:48:51 + (UTC) Miquel van Smoorenburg <[EMAIL > > PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > > Theo Bierman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: Way OT Re: john is weird!

2002-01-16 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach john <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.17.0128 +0100]: > In my youth I played in a Rock and Roll band. I was known as Weird > John Strange > > But how did you know? scientists study your brain to learn more about your distant cousin, man! nah, i have electrodes in each and every subsc

Re: CD-ROM stopped working

2002-01-16 Thread Adam Majer
Yes, it appears the CD is going 6 feet under.. Just in case, try another kernel... If the same thing happens, then it is the drive... - Adam On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 07:19:41PM -0500, Marc Shapiro wrote: > My cd-rom drive has suddenly stopped working. Whenever I try to mount a > CD I get one of t

Re: WindowMaker is ugly!!

2002-01-16 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach nori heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.17.0119 +0100]: > things progress fine until i attempt to change the background, or add > more desktops than just one, or make some moderately large change to > the appearance of X. Before, it was fine, with grey menus and red top > bars, jus

Re: init 5 ?

2002-01-16 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to Ron Johnson: > On Wed, 16 Jan 2002 11:48:51 + (UTC) Miquel van Smoorenburg <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > Theo Bierman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >When starting the machine up my default init level is X and not level 3. > > >I thought per

Way OT Re: john is weird!

2002-01-16 Thread john
martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach john <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.16.2359 +0100]: > > > > > > > I feel like taking the subject of this thread personally. > > i was afraid someone would. i am sure you actually *are* weird too. how > boring of a person would you be if you weren't. > > for what

Re: Complete KDE install

2002-01-16 Thread Pontus Edvardsson
On Wednesday 16 January 2002 23.05, Pontus Edvardsson wrote: > Hi, > is there a way to install the _complete_ KDE environment with APT. Up until > now I have started with kdebase and the X-server and then installed the > rest as found useful... But I always seem to miss something! This time (at > l

Re: Size of i386 mirror?

2002-01-16 Thread Adam Majer
On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 06:12:29PM -0500, Andy Spiegl wrote: > Hi! > > Anyone out there who can tell me the size needed to create a local debian > mirror (only i386 packages of woody)? > > I'm currently using this Skript > http://www.debian.org/mirror/anonftpsync > and it's still downloading pac

WindowMaker is ugly!!

2002-01-16 Thread Nori Heikkinen
i'm playing with my configuration files for version 4 of X, using WindowMaker, having somehow erased my old settings -- about 5 days *after* i switched versions. whatever; i don't care anymore why this happened, but i'd like to be able to get things back to where they were. things progress fine

Re: list all packages that are installed

2002-01-16 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Wednesday, January 16, dman did write: > On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 10:31:47AM -0600, Richard Cobbe wrote: > | Lo, on Friday, January 11, Craig Dickson did write: > | > | > Richard Cobbe wrote: > | > > | > > (Just out of curiosity, is the COLUMNS trick documented anywhere? I > | > > couldn'

CD-ROM stopped working

2002-01-16 Thread Marc Shapiro
My cd-rom drive has suddenly stopped working. Whenever I try to mount a CD I get one of the following errors: $ mount /cdrom mount: No medium found $ or $ mount /cdrom hdd:cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 {DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdd:cdrom_decode_status: error=0x31 $ Most of the time

Re: GUI mail readers

2002-01-16 Thread Geoff Beaumont
On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 23:13, Ron Johnson wrote: > Thanks to all. Last night I found Sylpheed, and do like it, since > I use Outlook at work. The boss will, too. As a replacement for Outlook (as opposed to Outlook Express), you might want to look at Evolution, which offers much the same facilitie

Re: Debian, FHS & /floppy

2002-01-16 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.17.0056 +0100]: > As an example: before I read the FHS, I set up a local mirror of the > Debian packages using apt-move. I decided to create a root level > directory /mirror and to put in it a directory /mirror/debian, but when > I read FHS, I

Re: Complete KDE install

2002-01-16 Thread Brian Nelson
Pontus Edvardsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > is there a way to install the _complete_ KDE environment with APT. Up until > now I have started with kdebase and the X-server and then installed the rest > as found useful... But I always seem to miss something! Always use dselect rather t

Re: Debian, FHS & /floppy

2002-01-16 Thread Paul E Condon
Craig Dickson wrote: > > martin f krafft wrote: > > > as others have said and suggested, i also rarely use /mnt. if i need a > > mount point, i'll quickly create one on the fly. i believe there are > > even versions of mount out there that don't need an existing directory. > > i just wrapped moun

Re: init 5 ?

2002-01-16 Thread David Z Maze
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 16 Jan 2002 11:48:51 + (UTC) Miquel van Smoorenburg > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> X and runlevels don't have anything to do with eachother in Debian. >> The default runlevel is 2, and all services run in runlevel 2. > > What if you change to

smbprint script problem

2002-01-16 Thread Kent West
I'm trying to print to a printer hanging off a WinNT box using smbprint. Here's the relevant code of /etc/samba/smbprint: == # # Some debugging help, change the >> to > if you want to save space. # echo "SERVER = $server" >> $logfile echo "SERVICE = $service" >

Re: john is weird!

2002-01-16 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach John Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.17.0021 +0100]: > me too great. send mail with subject "subscribe" to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] you will be automatically added to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list. -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mai

Re: Changing a software license

2002-01-16 Thread John Hasler
Matt Yanchyshyn writes: > Say I write some origianl code (that does not use any external libraries, > programs or otherwise) and license it under the GPL or BSD license. As > the original author of that code, can I change its license later on or it > it legally locked to its original public design

Re: Library Dependencies

2002-01-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 10:51:39AM -0800, Jatin Golani wrote: > I'm using Debian 2.2 and a few of the packages I want to install > require libraries that are too new and are sometimes part of the > unstable suite of Debian. Applications from unstable will require libraries from unstable, that's tr

Re: john is weird!

2002-01-16 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach john <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.16.2359 +0100]: > > > > I feel like taking the subject of this thread personally. i was afraid someone would. i am sure you actually *are* weird too. how boring of a person would you be if you weren't. for what it's worth, i am bloody weird... --

Re: What part of X causes major display problems?

2002-01-16 Thread Seneca Cunningham
ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 16 January 2002 01:49 pm, Seneca Cunningham wrote: > [snip] > > My hardware isn't too old... it's only 7 years old (I think (and that's the > > newest stuff I'm allowed to customise)). Anyway, all that I have been able > > to find out about the video se

Re: john is weird!

2002-01-16 Thread John Griffiths
At 08:59 AM 1/17/02 +1000, john wrote: >martin f krafft wrote: > >> > >I feel like taking the subject of this thread personally. > me too

Re: Complete KDE install

2002-01-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 11:05:53PM +0100, Pontus Edvardsson wrote: > is there a way to install the _complete_ KDE environment with APT. There will be when the 'kde' meta-package manages to make it into woody. There are ... um ... "a few" problems keeping it out at the moment. -- Colin Watson

Size of i386 mirror?

2002-01-16 Thread Andy Spiegl
Hi! Anyone out there who can tell me the size needed to create a local debian mirror (only i386 packages of woody)? I'm currently using this Skript http://www.debian.org/mirror/anonftpsync and it's still downloading packages (~100kbs). I started Saturday! How much more do I have to expect? :-)

Re: init 5 ?

2002-01-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 16 Jan 2002 11:48:51 + (UTC) Miquel van Smoorenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Theo Bierman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >When starting the machine up my default init level is X and not level 3. > >I thought perhaps it would be a setting in /etc/ini

Re: GUI mail readers

2002-01-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 16 Jan 2002 18:30:25 +0100 Sven Hoexter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 09:23:17AM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > > Looking for mail programs for my wife that can import Outlook Express > > > data. I know of: > > > KMail (can import fr

Re: OT: Rant

2002-01-16 Thread Michael A. Miller
> "Kent" == Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [...] it's just that WP's method was so easy. Type your > text, hit Ctrl-F7, type the centered text, hit Alt-F7, type > the rightmost text, and you're done. It's easy in LaTeX too ... man(1) \hfill Manual pager utils \hfill ma

Re: What part of X causes major display problems?

2002-01-16 Thread ben
On Wednesday 16 January 2002 01:49 pm, Seneca Cunningham wrote: [snip] > My hardware isn't too old... it's only 7 years old (I think (and that's the > newest stuff I'm allowed to customise)). Anyway, all that I have been able > to find out about the video setup is that it has a Chips and Technologi

Re: Debian "kernel-reboot"(?)

2002-01-16 Thread W. Paul Mills
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tobias Bengtsson) writes: > W. Paul Mills went something in the lines of: > > Are you starting "X" with "startx" or with a display manager? > > If starting with startx, do you have an idle time limit on your > > console idle time? > > Yes, I am starting with "startx" and I have

Re: john is weird!

2002-01-16 Thread john
martin f krafft wrote: > I feel like taking the subject of this thread personally.

Re: Large file sizes (2+Gb)

2002-01-16 Thread Elizabeth Barham
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > oh well, she's not coming back anyway it seems. better that way i > guess. > > she'd be the kinda person though to spread bad words about debian > now... and i hate that. It sounded, though, as she was frustrated by her current problem. Considering

Re: Large file sizes (2+Gb)

2002-01-16 Thread ben
On Wednesday 16 January 2002 02:33 pm, martin f krafft wrote: > she'd be the kinda person though to spread bad words about debian now... > and i hate that. i wouldn't worry about it, since she'll probably go about that the same way and run out of an audience really fast.

Re: netinst

2002-01-16 Thread Richard Atterer
[I'm only subscribed to debian-cd - CC replies that only go to debian-user] On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 03:01:21PM -0800, David Wright wrote: > The revised Debian CD pages (http://www.debian.org/CD/) are very > frustrating. Click on "Download a minimal bootable CD image" and > what do you get? A page

Re: Debian, FHS & /floppy

2002-01-16 Thread Craig Dickson
martin f krafft wrote: > as others have said and suggested, i also rarely use /mnt. if i need a > mount point, i'll quickly create one on the fly. i believe there are > even versions of mount out there that don't need an existing directory. > i just wrapped mount and umount it in scripts that crea

RE: --MARK-- (was "Sound [ES1371], Power down...")

2002-01-16 Thread Jeff Bonner
-Original Message- From: [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 10:17 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Sound (ES1371), Power down, --MARK-- >> My third problem is that "--MARK--" appears contineously >> in "/var/log/messages". A friend of mine used to h

Re: xserver

2002-01-16 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hi, On Wednesday 16 January 2002 02:35 pm, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > what xserver should I install for the 3dfx Voodoo3 PCI chipset? And how can > I install that xserver? What version of X are you using? If it's 4.x.x than you don't ever install servers at all, but if it is 3.3.x then you wi

Re: Large file sizes (2+Gb)

2002-01-16 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach John Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.16.2230 +0100]: > >cassandra: you are welcome to come back to the forum and ask your > >questions in a reasonable form and manner. if we aren't offended by you, > >we are more than happy to do our best at helping you! > > I'm guessing she has

Re: NO ANSWER, trying again...annoying console message: lp0: compatibility mode

2002-01-16 Thread glynis
On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 10:25:37AM -0500, James D. Freels wrote: > The present kernel (2.4.17) prints an annoying message to the console each > time my parallel port printer is used: > > lp0: compatibility mode > > I have found where it is printed in drivers/char/lp.c and I suppose I could > comm

Re: mailfilter rule for matching address ANYWHERE in header

2002-01-16 Thread Dougie Nisbet
On Wednesday 16 January 2002 4:03 pm, Sven Hoexter wrote: > > You have to Escape the dots (.) with a backslash (\) > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I'll give that a try but I'm not sure that's the problem. It had seemed to be working fine, but now the mails are getting through. I had a look at the log, a

Re: Debian, FHS & /floppy

2002-01-16 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.16.2306 +0100]: > if you have more then one temporarily mounted filesystem, where do you > mount it? It does not make sense to have a mount point for one > filesystem but not for few of them. as others have said and suggested, i also rarely us

Complete KDE install

2002-01-16 Thread Pontus Edvardsson
Hi, is there a way to install the _complete_ KDE environment with APT. Up until now I have started with kdebase and the X-server and then installed the rest as found useful... But I always seem to miss something! This time (at least) the Desktop module under 'Look & Feel'. It should as far as I

Re: Debian, FHS & /floppy

2002-01-16 Thread Erik Steffl
martin f krafft wrote: > > also sprach Romuald DELAVERGNE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.16.1837 +0100]: > > Le 2002.01.16 16:17, martin f krafft a écrit : > > > exaclty. but say you have /mnt/cdrom and /mnt/floppy, and both mounted, > > > and now you want to make proper use of what /mnt is, and you

Re: 2.2r4 install peculiarity

2002-01-16 Thread Paul Tansom
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 06:42:55PM -0600, Ron Johnson typed the following... > Paul Tansom wrote: > > >I'm just installing 2.2r4 from ISOs I pulled down a while ago (typical really > >as 2.2r5 is just out!). The ISO are from linuxiso.org iirc, although I am > >using the non-US one, so I think CD

Re: Freezing with Sound

2002-01-16 Thread Erik Steffl
Stephen Gran wrote: > > Thus spake Aldous B Bernardo: > > I recently installed ALSA (0.5.12) on my Potato. When I play something > > with freeamp or xmms my desktop freezes. The funny thing is that I notice > > freeamp or xmms still functions well, there is still sound but all the > > othe

Re: What part of X causes major display problems?

2002-01-16 Thread Seneca Cunningham
ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 15 January 2002 03:38 pm, Seneca Cunningham wrote: > > > > > (EE) Error from xf86HandleConfigFile() > > > > > > > > Fatal server error: > > > > no screens found > > this is basically telling you that none of the values that might r

Re: funny bug in vim 6

2002-01-16 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.16.1948 +0100]: > textwidth -- > > Maximum width of text that is being inserted. A longer line will be > broken after white space to get this width. A zero value disables > this. > > If you have 'tw' set to 0 then no wrapp

xserver

2002-01-16 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hi!, what xserver should I install for the 3dfx Voodoo3 PCI chipset? And how can I install that xserver? TIA Marcelo -- Marcelo Chiapparini DFT-IF/UERJ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Large file sizes (2+Gb)

2002-01-16 Thread John Griffiths
> >that being said, and acknowledging that we aren't really nice now >either, > >cassandra: you are welcome to come back to the forum and ask your >questions in a reasonable form and manner. if we aren't offended by you, >we are more than happy to do our best at helping you! I'm guessing she hasn'

Re: Large file sizes (2+Gb)

2002-01-16 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.16.1939 +0100]: > > for this particular user, i'd consider it all but threatening. it would > > be a relief! > > poor cassandra is at that threshold point of conceding that she herself is > the source of her own ignorance. who knows? maybe she'll make

Re: eth0

2002-01-16 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Joe Wise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.16.1148 +0100]: > When I installed Debian, my 3comm ethernet card did not get detected. How do > I > go about getting the driver installed? i'll take a good bet. try the following as root: modprobe 3c59x ifconfig eth0 what do you get? (and

Re: kernel-package and moving the old vmlinuz

2002-01-16 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Paul" == Paul Mackinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Paul> I've successfully installed several kernel's in the past using your Paul> (excellent) README file, but I've just spent 3 days unsuccessfully Paul> trying to boot from a newly compiled kernel package. Turns out that I Paul> had to ad

Re[2]: eth0

2002-01-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello Michael, Wednesday, January 16, 2002, 9:59:16 PM, you wrote: MPS> On 16/01/02 Joe Wise did speaketh: >> When I installed Debian, my 3comm ethernet card did not get detected. How >> do I go about getting the driver installed? MPS> Start by finding out the exact model of card you have.

gnome-session fails

2002-01-16 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hi! I've just installed potato 2.2r4 in a new system. After installed the gnome stuff (task-gnome-desktop) and after created a /etc/X11/XF86Config file with anXious, I can't load the gnome desktop. I get: ~$ gnome-session /dev/dsp: Permission denied Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: SESSION

Re: eth0

2002-01-16 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 16/01/02 Joe Wise did speaketh: > When I installed Debian, my 3comm ethernet card did not get detected. How > do I go about getting the driver installed? Start by finding out the exact model of card you have. Then you'll know what driver to use. What chipset is your card? Mike -- M

Re: multiple mails

2002-01-16 Thread ben
On Wednesday 16 January 2002 11:42 am, dman wrote: [snip] > > One message alone might not give enough clues. Seeing what is the > same and what is different between 2 or more might. > > | i take it from your reply that you haven't been receiving multiples > | of my posts--or am i wrong? > > Just t

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Re: netinst

2002-01-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This is a forwarded message From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Wednesday, January 16, 2002, 9:31:52 PM Subject: netinst Wednesday, January 16, 2002, 12:01:21 AM, you wrote: DW> The revised Debian CD pages (http://w

Re: netinst

2002-01-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello David, Wednesday, January 16, 2002, 12:01:21 AM, you wrote: DW> The revised Debian CD pages (http://www.debian.org/CD/) are very DW> frustrating. Click on "Download a minimal bootable CD image" and what do DW> you get? A page telling you about how much better it is to use a minimal DW>

Re: OT: Rant

2002-01-16 Thread Ted Harding
On 16-Jan-02 Kent West wrote: >>>On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 04:55:05PM -0600, Kent West wrote: >>> And being able to have Left Justified, Center Justified, and Right Justified text all on the same line, so you don't have to throw in a bunch of spaces to get everything to (maybe) line up.

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

2002-01-16 Thread dman
On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 09:55:44PM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote: [quoted out of order, FYI] To answer the easy question first : | [ Brenda & Dman.. I get lots of duplicates from you. howcome? I have | set subscribe for the list, and this is supposed to set a | mail-followup-to header that prevents

Re: Changing a software license

2002-01-16 Thread Rob Weir
Howdy. IANAL, but... On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 03:20:08PM -0400, Matt Yanchyshyn wrote: > Say I write some origianl code (that does not use any external > libraries, programs or otherwise) and license it under the GPL or BSD > license. As the original author of that code, can I change its license >

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