Fixed: Mouse stops in xfree86 4.1.0

2002-01-26 Thread Dennis Krinke
On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 09:22:38 -0800 (PST) Dennis Krinke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a serious problem that I think is with xfree86 4.1.0. I boot into x-windows, KDE or gnome and can only use the mouse for about 1 minute before it stops. The mouse locks up as I move across window or applet b

moving from potato to woody (or sid)

2002-01-26 Thread camilo
Hi, I just wanted to know, as a "normal" user (as in, not completely new, but no guru either), how hard would it be to move to woody, or sid? Is it not that difficult? giving the fact that i have a fair knowledge of "moving" around in console, editing files, do some tweaking, etc... Thanks!

RE: announcing documentation on setting up exim with spamassasin

2002-01-26 Thread Jeremy L. Gaddis
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:pts/1:~]$ host -t a dman.ddts.net dman.ddts.net A 169.254.0.0 j. -- Jeremy L. Gaddis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -Original Message- From: D-Man [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of dman Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2002 4:53 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org

Re: wvdial & routing

2002-01-26 Thread ben
On Saturday 26 January 2002 07:55 pm, Adam Majer wrote: > Maybe try: > > cd /etc/init.d > grep dev/ttyS * > > what do you get? [I get nothing] of course you get nothing. what is it that you were trying to achieve?

Re: root password forgotten

2002-01-26 Thread Pete Ryland
On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 04:47:55AM +, Stig Brautaset wrote: > * Andreas Leitner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > > 1) Issue "linux init=/bin/sh" on the lilo promt > > 2) Use john to crack the root password > > The machine would have to be a monster if john where to use only minutes > to crack

Re: HOWTO->dd an MBR onto a HD

2002-01-26 Thread Pete Ryland
On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 01:02:10AM +1300, Cameron Kerr wrote: > On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, David B Harris wrote: > >> I assume that since I've copied all the filesystems from another > >> running HD onto a new HD, that if I copy over the MBR that then I'll > >> be able to boot and run the new HD as well.

Re: disk space blackhole?

2002-01-26 Thread Adam Majer
On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 10:27:09PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On 26/01/02 Adam Majer did speaketh: > > > On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 07:02:56PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > > > Umm...little help? > > > > > > rabbit:/home/msoulier# df . > > > Filesystem 1k-blocks Used

Re: wvdial & routing

2002-01-26 Thread Adam Majer
On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 05:00:56PM -0800, CogSci-Klaus wrote: > Adam Majer wrote: > > >On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 12:06:24PM -0800, CogSci-Klaus wrote: > > > >>Two problems: > >> > >>1) Still struggling with my internet connection when I'm not root. As > >>user, > >>wvdial compains about pemission d

Re: disk space blackhole?

2002-01-26 Thread Adam Majer
On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 07:02:41PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sat, 26 Jan 2002 19:02:56 -0500 "Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Umm...little help? > > > > rabbit:/home/msoulier# df . > > Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > > /dev/hda4

Re: adsl and xemacs (beginner)

2002-01-26 Thread Adam Majer
On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 07:53:25PM -0500, Noah Massey wrote: > --begin quoted message from Adam Majer, > > On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 03:34:35PM -0800, Kapil Khosla wrote: > > > > > > 2) I used apt-get install xemacs and got the editor but am not able > > > to open it from console (xemacs &),I get

Re: disk space blackhole?

2002-01-26 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 26/01/02 Ron Johnson did speaketh: > What does "df -i" show? There were plenty of inodes available. It seems my logfiles had gotten extremely large. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of n

Re: disk space blackhole?

2002-01-26 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 26/01/02 Adam Majer did speaketh: > On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 07:02:56PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > > Umm...little help? > > > > rabbit:/home/msoulier# df . > > Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > > /dev/hda4 831200811831 0 1

Help! NFS Wierdness...

2002-01-26 Thread Aaron Traas
I'm having a really strange problem with mounting NFS partitions on my Debian box. I have another box running an NFS server on the same network, and am trying to mount an NFS share on my client PC. I type: mount 10.1.1.40:/home/cvs -t nfs /home/cvs And the terminal in which I do this completely h

Re: run scp in background?

2002-01-26 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 01:28:54PM -0800, Stonelx wrote: > Hi, > I tried this command: > > scp /etc/file remotehost:/etc/file & > > but when scp asks for the password, I'm actually > back on the command line. (thus the scp command fails) > Is there anyway around this? I would love > to be able to

Re: root password forgotten

2002-01-26 Thread darrell
this technique ( init=/bin/sh, with a remount, edit passwd ) has worked for me in the past as well, also, dont forget to umount after you are done, and perhaps a sync this is a cool trick, that emphisises the importance of physical security darrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One thing you can

font servers: xfs vs. xfstt

2002-01-26 Thread Ron Johnson
Hi, If I use lots of tt fonts, should I use xfstt instead? Do I even need xfs* at all? The reason I ask is that I just brought over tt fonts from my licensed copy of windows. Then I ran mkttfontdir (well, apt-get ran it for me, when I installed it), and added the directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11

Re: adsl and xemacs (beginner)

2002-01-26 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
"Kapil Khosla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, I am a beginner and have 2 questions: > 1) I configured my DSL from Verizon from root, by using the Roariing > Penguin software but when I go to my user account I am not able > to connect as I dont have the adsl-start utility. > Will I need to redo

Re: IPmasquerading

2002-01-26 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 12:40:22AM +0100, Pieter De Troyer wrote: > I'm setting up a full nat for the first time. > went through the howto and executed the example firewall rules. > Alas... the script first checks the availability of the concerned > kernel-modules. They are found, but I get errors

Re: announcing documentation on setting up exim with spamassasin

2002-01-26 Thread dman
On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 12:55:01AM +, Alan Chandler wrote: | -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- | Hash: SHA1 | | On Saturday 26 January 2002 9:53 pm, dman wrote: | > I have just whipped up some documentation regarding setting up exim | > and spamassassin. Basically I just outlined my setup, w

Re: Again: Most programs don't run. Please help!

2002-01-26 Thread ben
On Saturday 26 January 2002 04:25 pm, Andreas Goesele wrote: [snip] > I was thinking of that. But to my uneducated eye entries in cron.d, > cron.daily, cron weekly and cron.monthly looked rather inoffensive. Or > is there something in the following lists which could be the offender? > Is there some

Can't startx due t fixed fonts

2002-01-26 Thread Jason Scheffler
Everytime I go to startx I get the error message that it can't find Fixed Fonts and x dies. Apparently this is a known problem and there is a fix for it. But after 2 hours of searching all I have is a headache. I've poked around in XF86Config but there was nothing there about fixed fonts either

Re: Again: Most programs don't run. Please help!

2002-01-26 Thread Andreas Goesele
Cameron Kerr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, if the error is indeterminate, then I would start to suspect your > hardware. Errors such as this often indicate bad memory, in my > experience. Getting segfaults all the time is a classic example of this. > > Get hold of memtest86 (http://www.tere

Unstable - apt-get, debconf, dpkg Stuck?

2002-01-26 Thread Tom M
Im running unstable with a self built 2.4.16 SMP kernel. A couple of weeks ago now, I ran apt-get install upgrade, which completed sucessfully, but didn't install all packages. I then ran apt-get upgrade again to get them, as per my normal practice (is this not recommended?). Some packages were

ssh problem

2002-01-26 Thread Javier Sieben
Hello All I'm with a strange problem. I have two Debian boxes (the first is called primer and the second is called segundo under anillo.org.ar domain). I can connect via ssh from primer to segundo, but can't from segundo to primer. The configs are the same in both boxes. The out

Re: adsl and xemacs (beginner)

2002-01-26 Thread David Z Maze
Adam Majer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 03:34:35PM -0800, Kapil Khosla wrote: >> 2) I used apt-get install xemacs and got the editor but am not able >> to open it from console (xemacs &),I get the follwing error >> Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server >> >>

Solved: not starting xdm or gdm by default :)

2002-01-26 Thread camilo
Hello, Thanks to all the helpful input i got, i finally managed to do not start at the graphical login prompt by default! :D I thought to send it to the list in case anyone else is having this problem, its pretty easy actually: as root, just go to /etc/rc2.d once there, just "mv S99xdm offS9

Re: disk space blackhole?

2002-01-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 26 Jan 2002 19:02:56 -0500 "Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Umm...little help? > > rabbit:/home/msoulier# df . > Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda4 831200811831 0 100% / > > This is my router/f

Re: wvdial & routing

2002-01-26 Thread CogSci-Klaus
Adam Majer wrote: On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 12:06:24PM -0800, CogSci-Klaus wrote: Two problems: 1) Still struggling with my internet connection when I'm not root. As user, wvdial compains about pemission denied for /dev/ttyS0. After every reboot the change of permission is reversed again. How c

Re: Virginia?

2002-01-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On 26 Jan 2002 17:24:48 -0500 Scott Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2002-01-26 at 14:48, Sarah wrote: > > I am looking for a Jeremy Whetzel who is from Virginia. Do you happen to be > > from Virginia? > > Im from VA. What is it that your looking for? Email addresses... -- +---

kernel upgrade; modules not loading

2002-01-26 Thread James Lindenschmidt
This is my first time doing a kernel upgrade The Debian Way(tm). I am running sid on a Celeron system and am trying to upgrade from a 2.2.18 kernel to a 2.4.17. I downloaded the 2.4.17 tarball from kernel.org, and did the following: make clean make xconfig make-kpkg kernel_image cd .. dpkg -i

Re: adsl and xemacs (beginner)

2002-01-26 Thread Noah Massey
--begin quoted message from Adam Majer, > On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 03:34:35PM -0800, Kapil Khosla wrote: > > 2) I used apt-get install xemacs and got the editor but am not able > > to open it from console (xemacs &),I get the follwing error > > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server

Re: announcing documentation on setting up exim with spamassasin

2002-01-26 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 26 January 2002 9:53 pm, dman wrote: > I have just whipped up some documentation regarding setting up exim > and spamassassin. Basically I just outlined my setup, which Works For > Me :-). > > Check it out if you are interested, > http

Re: disk space blackhole?

2002-01-26 Thread Adam Majer
On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 07:02:56PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Umm...little help? > > rabbit:/home/msoulier# df . > Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda4 831200811831 0 100% / > > This is my router/firewall at home.

Re: adsl and xemacs (beginner)

2002-01-26 Thread Adam Majer
On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 03:34:35PM -0800, Kapil Khosla wrote: > Hi, I am a beginner and have 2 questions: > 1) I configured my DSL from Verizon from root, by using the Roariing > Penguin software but when I go to my user account I am not able > to connect as I dont have the adsl-start utility. > W

Re: Again: Most programs don't run. Please help!

2002-01-26 Thread Andreas Goesele
ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Thanks. But would that explanation be compatible with the fact that my > > system most of the time functions all-right and then suddenly for some > > time (one day and then a few minutes) not? If libc.so.6 wasn't > > backwards compatible I would expect that the

disk space blackhole?

2002-01-26 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Umm...little help? rabbit:/home/msoulier# df . Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda4 831200811831 0 100% / This is my router/firewall at home. There's no blocks available, but there's a total of 831200 with 811831 in use? Th

Re: Again: Most programs don't run. Please help!

2002-01-26 Thread ben
On Saturday 26 January 2002 03:34 pm, Andreas Goesele wrote: [snip] > > >> foo: relocation error: /lib/libnss_compat.so.2: symbol rectory, > > >> version GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time > > >> reference > > > > OK, GLIBC_2.0 refers to glibc5 (or 4?). Anyway, the likely reason

Re: Again: Most programs don't run. Please help!

2002-01-26 Thread Cameron Kerr
On 27 Jan 2002, Andreas Goesele wrote: >Thanks. But would that explanation be compatible with the fact that my >system most of the time functions all-right and then suddenly for some >time (one day and then a few minutes) not? If libc.so.6 wasn't >backwards compatible I would expect that the probl

Re: debian-user I did not spam the list

2002-01-26 Thread Pollywog
I did not send that idiotic spam. Please list owner, clean out the spammers from the list.

Re: Again: Most programs don't run. Please help!

2002-01-26 Thread Andreas Goesele
Cameron Kerr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >* Andreas Goesele ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > >> Simple description: Suddenly most programs won't start anymore but will > >> give the error message: > >> > >> foo: relocation error: /lib/libnss_compat.so.2: symbol rectory, > >> version GLIBC_

adsl and xemacs (beginner)

2002-01-26 Thread Kapil Khosla
Hi, I am a beginner and have 2 questions: 1) I configured my DSL from Verizon from root, by using the Roariing Penguin software but when I go to my user account I am not able to connect as I dont have the adsl-start utility. Will I need to redo the process I did for root for every user account i c

Re: lm sensors and VIA chip set

2002-01-26 Thread Adam Majer
On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 10:47:24PM +0100, Paul Huygen wrote: > This week I lost a mobo/processor due to a broken fan :-(. Therefore, > I would like to monitor the processor temperature. Ti this end I tried > to install lm-sensors and i2c-source. After Make-ing i2c-sources, I > checked with sensors

Re: Again: Most programs don't run. Please help!

2002-01-26 Thread Andreas Goesele
Dimitri Maziuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd ask on the kernel mailing list and/or on comp.os.linux.system. Thanks. But where would I find comp.os.linux.system? My news-server doesn't provide it nor did I find it on googles groups. Andreas Goesele

debian-user

2002-01-26 Thread
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Re: Again: Most programs don't run. Please help!

2002-01-26 Thread Cameron Kerr
>* Andreas Goesele ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: >> Simple description: Suddenly most programs won't start anymore but will >> give the error message: >> >> foo: relocation error: /lib/libnss_compat.so.2: symbol rectory, >> version GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time >> refe

alsa woes: everythings loads, but no sound

2002-01-26 Thread Robert Waldner
Hi! I have a "TerraTec 512i digital" sound card, which, according to alsa-project, is supported via the fm801-module. So I did some RTFM, apt-got installed alsa-source, and built+installed the proper modules_image. So far, so good. Everything seems to load ok, alsplayer, -mixer, xmms (via

Re: remote mutt - printing local?

2002-01-26 Thread Cameron Kerr
On Sat, 26 Jan 2002, Brett Parker wrote: >On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 12:17:36AM -0500, dman wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 10:55:30PM +0100, Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote: >> >> | is it possible to start mutt remote, but to use a local printer? You can use the ansiprint program (not sure if this comes

Re: run scp in background?

2002-01-26 Thread Stonelx
> Try this : > > $ scp >/dev/null 2>&1 > > > $ bg > $ exit > This worked great!! Thanks Yeah, I didn't want to have to bother with ssh-keys and such. I have too many remote locations, and I'm too lazy to set up the authorized_keys files, so this came in handy. Actually, I think I was able to

Re: Quake III

2002-01-26 Thread Tony Green
* This one time, at band camp, ben said: > On Friday 25 January 2002 03:07 pm, Dave Carrigan wrote: > > Corey Halpin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > God, with wine? That'd be _glacial_. > > > > Out of curiosity, why would you say that? Have you had experience > > running anything under wine? I

Re: error running texdoc

2002-01-26 Thread Dave Price
On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 06:47:00PM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: > > what version of debian are you running? > I can't find a line like the one above in my version of texdoc. Woody on an intel pentium

Re: wvdial & routing

2002-01-26 Thread Adam Majer
On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 12:06:24PM -0800, CogSci-Klaus wrote: > Two problems: > > 1) Still struggling with my internet connection when I'm not root. As user, > wvdial compains about pemission denied for /dev/ttyS0. After every reboot the > change of permission is reversed again. How can I make it

Re: Quake III

2002-01-26 Thread Adam Majer
On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 06:32:50PM +0100, Mathias Gygax wrote: > On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 08:21:29PM -0600, Adam Majer wrote: > > > what about the FSF? > > > > Can I get Tribes 2 from them? :) > > sorry, i was dreaming. some of these games have of course contracts to > not releasing the source cod

Re: installing from floppies

2002-01-26 Thread Rudy Gevaert
On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 09:08:09AM -0600, Colin Watson wrote: > > b) why is it referring to 2.2.26 in that install screen, when its > > talking about 2.2.19 in thoses errors? > > 2.2.26 is the version of the boot-floppies, while 2.2.19 is the kernel > version. They're independent, it just happens

Re: run scp in background?

2002-01-26 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 01:28:54PM -0800, Stonelx wrote: > Is there anyway around this? Check out expect. > I basically want to remote shell into my server, > run a scp command that may take serveral hours, but > be able to let the scp take place while I exit the shell > and go for lunch. Also c

Re: Quake III

2002-01-26 Thread csj
On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 15:21:33 -0800 ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 25 January 2002 03:07 pm, Dave Carrigan wrote: > > Corey Halpin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > God, with wine? That'd be _glacial_. > > > > Out of curiosity, why would you say that? Have you had experience > > runn

Re: run scp in background?

2002-01-26 Thread Stan Kaufman
Stonelx wrote: > Hi, > I tried this command: > > scp /etc/file remotehost:/etc/file & > > but when scp asks for the password, I'm actually > back on the command line. (thus the scp command fails) > Is there anyway around this? I would love > to be able to run scp in the background. > I looked at t

Re: Virginia?

2002-01-26 Thread Scott Henson
On Sat, 2002-01-26 at 14:48, Sarah wrote: > I am looking for a Jeremy Whetzel who is from Virginia. Do you happen to be > from Virginia? Im from VA. What is it that your looking for? -- -Scott Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty: power is ever stealing from t

Re: Downloading huge files with Mozilla?

2002-01-26 Thread Sean
For what it's worth, using gtm with galeon seems to be the best of both worlds for me. Downloads can be resumed, there's a single window where I can see the progress of all my downloads, I can set a default location for downloads to be placed, and change it at download time if I please, etc. Perso

announcing documentation on setting up exim with spamassasin

2002-01-26 Thread dman
I have just whipped up some documentation regarding setting up exim and spamassassin. Basically I just outlined my setup, which Works For Me :-). Check it out if you are interested, http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/config_docs/exim_spamassassin.html and let me know what you think (if you want to).

Re: "RPM hell" question

2002-01-26 Thread camilo
> Now you see why apt is just so cool! There really is no other > solution, unless you can make a bot to search rpmfind.net for you. I > see another poster mentioned 'up2date'. I tried that a couple times, > but it wasn't very good. What about Red Carpet? - Camilux ---

lm sensors and VIA chip set

2002-01-26 Thread Paul Huygen
This week I lost a mobo/processor due to a broken fan :-(. Therefore, I would like to monitor the processor temperature. Ti this end I tried to install lm-sensors and i2c-source. After Make-ing i2c-sources, I checked with sensors detect what modules I need. Sensors detect tells me that I need i2e-v

Re: run scp in background?

2002-01-26 Thread dman
On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 01:28:54PM -0800, Stonelx wrote: | Hi, | I tried this command: | | scp /etc/file remotehost:/etc/file & | | but when scp asks for the password, I'm actually | back on the command line. (thus the scp command fails) | Is there anyway around this? I would love | to be able to

Re: Protect yourself from mobile/cell phone radiation

2002-01-26 Thread Adam Majer
On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 08:10:28AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Adam Majer wrote: > >>>| >ARE YOU BURNING YOUR BRAIN? GET THE PHONE DOME - ABSORBS 99% OF > >>>| >HARMFUL RADIATION > >>>| > >>>| I suppose there are enough people that will believe this BS > >>No, it only absorbs the "HARMFUL RADIATIO

RE:run scp in background?

2002-01-26 Thread Andrew Agno
% man ssh-agent % man ssh-add Just put your public key into authorized_keys (or authorized_keys2, depending on the version of sshd the remote side is running), and you're all set: % ssh-agent % # paste the output to your shell % ssh-add .ssh/identity % # or ssh-add .ssh/id_dsa or whatever your pr

Re: Downloading huge files with Mozilla?

2002-01-26 Thread Joey Hess
Eric G. Miller wrote: > There's a perfectly logical reason for doing that. Do you think some > user's might try to open the file before the download is complete? I find myself doing it all the time. Consider streaming media, plain text documents, etc. These days I find it easier to copy the link

Re: Downloading huge files with Mozilla?

2002-01-26 Thread David B Harris
On Sat, 26 Jan 2002 13:14:24 -0800 Eric G. Miller wrote: > Do you think some user's might try to open the file before the > > download is complete? Yes. Many people do. For good reason, usually. I mean, you can start reading a .txt before it's done downloading. You can extract any number of archi

run scp in background?

2002-01-26 Thread Stonelx
Hi, I tried this command: scp /etc/file remotehost:/etc/file & but when scp asks for the password, I'm actually back on the command line. (thus the scp command fails) Is there anyway around this? I would love to be able to run scp in the background. I looked at the man page, and see a flag -B , b

Re: Downloading huge files with Mozilla?

2002-01-26 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, 26 Jan 2002 02:16:51 -0500, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael D. Crawford wrote: > > Is there a way I can download a file with Mozilla in such a way that the > > download file, while in progress, is saved in my home directory and not in > > /tmp? > > Try setting TMPDIR or T

Spam mail on the list.

2002-01-26 Thread Nik Butler
Shouldn't the list admin be managing posts from possible unsolicited sources ? Theres been a few to many spam mails today..

Re: Urgent Investment

2002-01-26 Thread Gary Turner
My Dear Mrs.Abacha, How I sympathize with you on the loss of your husband at what I am sure was the height of vigor. Then for his enemies to attempt to keep from you the monies that are rightfully yours is a terrible burden. I am very happy to take up the cause for you. Your offer of 30% of th

Re: Problems with Intel Pro 100 NIC

2002-01-26 Thread Faheem Mitha
On 6 Jan 2002, Ernesto Gonzalez Gomez wrote: > Hi, > > I´m installing Debian (potato) on a Compaq Proliant ML 350 server, that > have a Intel Pro 100 NIC. I have the Red Hat drivers, but after used > Alien to imports this drivers, I get all Kind of error with "make > install", are there someone

Re: Epson printer stops printing but works on command line

2002-01-26 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 05:54:06AM +, Pollywog wrote: > My printer all of a sudden stopped printing from Gnome. It was working a > few weeks ago and I have not changed any configs and this is the error I > get from the printer. It prints this and then stops: > > Unable to open command line

Re: Virginia?

2002-01-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 26 Jan 2002 14:48:59 -0500 "Sarah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am looking for a Jeremy Whetzel who is from Virginia. Do you happen to be > from Virginia? I'm sure there's *someone* on this list from VA... -- ++ | Ron Johnson

wvdial & routing

2002-01-26 Thread CogSci-Klaus
Two problems: 1) Still struggling with my internet connection when I'm not root. As user, wvdial compains about pemission denied for /dev/ttyS0. After every reboot the change of permission is reversed again. How can I make it permanent? 2) Regarding routing (ipchains forwarding) I don't really kn

Re: I got an Email

2002-01-26 Thread DvB
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Wayne -- Thank you for the wonderful poem.  Looks like you have Tippy!!  I > told the other folks that I would appreciate them taking the other pup.  I > think they liked Tippy best, but said either was fine with them.  I'm so > glad it worked out so well.  Tippy is now

Re: I got an Email

2002-01-26 Thread MARJOS83
Wayne -- Thank you for the wonderful poem.  Looks like you have Tippy!!  I told the other folks that I would appreciate them taking the other pup.  I think they liked Tippy best, but said either was fine with them.  I'm so glad it worked out so well.  Tippy is now zonked out on the dog bed.  He had

Virginia?

2002-01-26 Thread Sarah
I am looking for a Jeremy Whetzel who is from Virginia. Do you happen to be from Virginia?

Re: simple kernel question

2002-01-26 Thread Eric C. Cooper
On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 03:07:18AM +0800, csj wrote: > In what file is the definitive documentation for ALL possible kernel > boot parameters located? Things like "hdc=ide-scsi" or "apm=on" which > you stick in your favorite bootloader. If you have a kernel source tree in /usr/src/linux, it's in /

Re: Hyperlink Howto?

2002-01-26 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
Hi Paul, what program / user interface are you talking about? Konqueror? KDE desktop? Gnome? ...? Regards, Joachim On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 08:14:03PM -0800, Paul Mackinney wrote: > I used to be able to ctrl-click a hyperlink to launch my browser & go > to the link, but this no longer works. I'

Re: error running texdoc

2002-01-26 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 06:47:00PM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 10:33:11PM -0700, Dave Price wrote: > > I have tetex-doc installed, but when i try to run texdoc i get: > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ texdoc geometry > > /usr/bin/texdoc: eval: line 1: syntax error near

Re: Can't write to /usr/share/doc

2002-01-26 Thread Rob Rati
Joey Hess wrote: Subject: Re: Can't write to /usr/share/doc From: Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 02:25:44 -0500 To: Rob Rati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org Rob Rati wrote: error creating directory `./usr/share/doc/winesetuptk': No such file or

Re: ADSL with woody or what is this newbie doing completly wrong?

2002-01-26 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Does the session drop immediately or does it seem to timeout? Also, could you try 'pppoe -d'? See the man page for pppoe for a full explanation. Perhaps this will provide more detailed information about what is causing the drop. There is also a debug option that can be passed to pppd. Maybe th

simple kernel question

2002-01-26 Thread csj
In what file is the definitive documentation for ALL possible kernel boot parameters located? Things like "hdc=ide-scsi" or "apm=on" which you stick in your favorite bootloader. -- Humanity's future is in the stars: support a manned mission to Mars! http://www.thinkmars.net/petition/addpetition.h

MICROSOFT® IS ATTEMPTING TO HIJACK YOUR TRAFFIC!

2002-01-26 Thread Guy Spencer
IMPORTANT NOTIFICATION! YOUR TRAFFIC IS AT RISK! HELP - SIGN THE PETITION! Their approach is simple; a customer surfs to your site. As your page is downloaded to your customer's browser, Microsoft® software, unbeknownst to you or the user, inserts their links onto Y

Re: LAMP Informationen und Unterstützung

2002-01-26 Thread ben
On Saturday 26 January 2002 09:53 am, Matthias Alliger wrote: > Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, > > ich bin Referendar am Ludwig-Erhard-Berufskolleg in Paderborn. Wuerde gerne > an unserer Schule LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL und Php) in den Unterricht > einbauen. Bin nun auf der Suche nach entsprechen

Re: debian mirror

2002-01-26 Thread Brian Nelson
Martin Wuertele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hi, > > On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 02:16:54PM -0500, John Cichy wrote: > > Can anyone tell me the aprox. size required to create a mirror with > > 'anomftpsync' if I were to exclude everything execpt the i386 stuff? > > according to http://www.debian.

Re: remapping keys

2002-01-26 Thread mark
On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 09:54:51AM -0800, Andrew Agno wrote: > Something like the following in a file: > ! Swap left control and caps lock keys > remove Lock = Caps_Lock > remove Control = Control_L > keysym Control_L = Caps_Lock > keysym Caps_Lock = Control_L > add Lock = Caps_Lock > add Control =

Re: Again: Most programs don't run. Please help!

2002-01-26 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Andreas Goesele ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Hi, > > my problem as described in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and with > some more details in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> returned, though > only for some minutes. > > Simple description: Suddenly most programs won't start anymore but will > give the error m

RE:remapping keys

2002-01-26 Thread Andrew Agno
Something like the following in a file: ! Swap left control and caps lock keys remove Lock = Caps_Lock remove Control = Control_L keysym Control_L = Caps_Lock keysym Caps_Lock = Control_L add Lock = Caps_Lock add Control = Control_L then just use xmodmap on that file. Andrew.

LAMP Informationen und Unterstützung

2002-01-26 Thread Matthias Alliger
Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, ich bin Referendar am Ludwig-Erhard-Berufskolleg in Paderborn. Wuerde gerne an unserer Schule LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL und Php) in den Unterricht einbauen. Bin nun auf der Suche nach entsprechenden Informationen und Unterstützungen. Bei den entsprechenden Klassen i

Re: error running texdoc

2002-01-26 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 10:33:11PM -0700, Dave Price wrote: > I have tetex-doc installed, but when i try to run texdoc i get: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ texdoc geometry > /usr/bin/texdoc: eval: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `&' > /usr/bin/texdoc: eval: line 1: `xdvi /tmp/texdoc16758

Re: Instalaçã o do Debian

2002-01-26 Thread Pete Ryland
Bom dia Elisângela, Este "mailing-list" é uma lista só Inglesa. Seria melhor para fazer a pergunta para debian-user-portuguese. Estou enviando este email para eles também. Eles são capaz de te ajudar para obter e instalar linux. Desculpe o meu português ruim. :) []s, Pete Ryland In English:

Re: ADSL with woody or what is this newbie doing completly wrong?

2002-01-26 Thread Stefan Ruecker
Hello Brian, Brian P. Flaherty wrote: Stefan Ruecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi, I've an ADSL(PPPoE) connection but unfortunatly I am not able to setup woody in a manner that this connection works. Here is a small extract from my syslog maybe a more expirienced one can help me out: He

Re: Quake III

2002-01-26 Thread Mathias Gygax
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 08:21:29PM -0600, Adam Majer wrote: > > what about the FSF? > > Can I get Tribes 2 from them? :) sorry, i was dreaming. some of these games have of course contracts to not releasing the source code for it. but the idea would be nice, if the FSF could provide free and qual

Re: rpm broken?

2002-01-26 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 02:31:53AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Jack Howarth wrote: > >Is anyone else seeing this for rpm 4.0.3-4 on any arch? On debian ppc > > sid I am seeing that rpm doesn't honor the --nodeps. If I build an srpm > > and then try to install the resulting .ppc.rpm with 'rpm --fo

Re: "RPM hell" question

2002-01-26 Thread Alan Shutko
dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now you see why apt is just so cool! There really is no other > solution, unless you can make a bot to search rpmfind.net for you. It's called "rpmfind" and is somewhere on rpmfind.net. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! Sex is dirt

Re: Can't write to /usr/share/doc

2002-01-26 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 11:48:28PM -0600, Rob Rati wrote: > When I try to create a file with vi and save it in this dir, > I get the same kind of error. Sounds like a permission problem. What does `ls -ld /usr/share/doc` say? -- When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorist

Re: Hyperlink Howto?

2002-01-26 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 08:14:03PM -0800, Paul Mackinney wrote: > I used to be able to ctrl-click a hyperlink to launch my browser & go > to the link, but this no longer works. I've looked in the FAQ & the list > archives. Can anyone tell me how (or where to RTFM)? In what program? > Also, is the

Re: ADSL with woody or what is this newbie doing completly wrong?

2002-01-26 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Stefan Ruecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I've an ADSL(PPPoE) connection but unfortunatly I am not able to setup > woody in a manner that this connection works. Here is a small extract > from my syslog maybe a more expirienced one can help me out: Hello, By checking on www.google.com

Re: OT: Rant

2002-01-26 Thread dman
On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 10:29:18PM -0600, Dan Griswold wrote: | dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | > The LaTeX "center" environment follows that style too (FWIW). (I | > don't believe it is possible to have only part of a line be in a | > center environment. Nope, I just tried it. \begin{cent

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