Re: gcc3 and gcc 2.95

2002-02-14 Thread dman
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 09:04:30PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: | Hi, | | Is there a HOWTO regarding installing gcc-3.0 in parallel to the | standard gcc-2.95? man apt-get :-) ('apt-get install gcc-3.0') The package puts gcc 3.0 as /usr/bin/gcc-3.0 and gcc 2.95 as /usr/bin/gcc-2.95. /usr/bin/gcc

Re: offline news reader

2002-02-14 Thread Carl Johnson
Glyn Millington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ian Balchin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > If I am offline then I need to spool the news, and slrn with > > slrnpull looks like a likely choice. > > If you don't want Gnus and (X)Emacs, then the above is a good choice - or > slrn with leafn

Re: QMail,Vpopmail,Courier-IMAP

2002-02-14 Thread john
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I've installed QMail,Vpopmail and Courier-IMAP (.deb Packages) on my > "woody" System. > > POP Mail download works fine: > user: "username%domain.com" > pass: "xyz" > > IMAP Mail download doesn't work with "username%domain.de" (username) > and "xyz" (password). W

Re: CUPS

2002-02-14 Thread Tom Cook
You need to turn on CR->CR|LF translation (or is it LF->CR|LF translation?) Don't know how it's done, sorry. Tom "Robert L. Harris" wrote: > > Ok, I have it installed and configured. HPDJ882C. It's stair > stepping... > > I've tried the foomatic+hpdj, foomatic+dj882c, etc. > > Help? > > Th

Re: pam on debian. /etc/pam.d

2002-02-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 15 Feb 2002 09:30:46 +0800 "louie miranda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Any ideas how can i remove the pam authentication > on debian? Out of dump curiosity, "Why?". -- ++ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gcc3 and gcc 2.95

2002-02-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 15 Feb 2002 02:00:50 -0200 Gustavo Noronha Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 14 Feb 2002 21:04:30 -0600 > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Is there a HOWTO regarding installing gcc-3.0 in parallel to the > > standard gcc-2.95? > no need for a howto, they

Re: CUPS

2002-02-14 Thread Robert L. Harris
Ok, I have it installed and configured. HPDJ882C. It's stair stepping... I've tried the foomatic+hpdj, foomatic+dj882c, etc. Help? Thus spake Dimitri Maziuk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > * Robert L. Harris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > > > I'm trying to do a first time cups install f

Re: gcc3 and gcc 2.95

2002-02-14 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002 21:04:30 -0600 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a HOWTO regarding installing gcc-3.0 in parallel to the > standard gcc-2.95? no need for a howto, they *are* installable parallely... you just have to change symlinks or use the different binary names [

Re: gcc3 and gcc 2.95

2002-02-14 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 09:04:30PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a HOWTO regarding installing gcc-3.0 in parallel to the > standard gcc-2.95? Don't need one. Just install it. By default "gcc" will point to gcc-2.95, while you'll have to explicitly use gcc-3.0, if you want it. Big

gcc3 and gcc 2.95

2002-02-14 Thread Ron Johnson
Hi, Is there a HOWTO regarding installing gcc-3.0 in parallel to the standard gcc-2.95? TIA, Ron -- ++ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | Jefferson, LA USA http://ronandheather.dhs.org:81| |

Re: shutdown/halt as user

2002-02-14 Thread David Wright
Stuff like this doesn't belong in sysvinit. It belongs in an optional package that can call shutdown, not in shutdown itself. Let alone in the halt binary! Fine, I wouldn't object. But I would point out that (1) you don't loose any modularity with a pam layer, since you can configure pam to

Re: shutdown/halt as user

2002-02-14 Thread David Wright
Now, would you like /sbin/halt to also show a "Are you really really sure (Abort/Ignore/Retry/Fail)?" dialog a few times and then count to 10 (so we could press ^C) before doing "telinit 0"? If the sysadmin wants his users to go through this: yes, that's exactly what I want. If he wants his u

Re: to woody from potato, some advices...

2002-02-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 04:16:04PM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: > On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 13:17, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 09:53:16AM -0200, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > > > 1) Upgrade to woody via apt > > > > Definitely upgrade using woody's apt, not potato's - that is, upgrade

Re: maximum nuber of messages in mutt?

2002-02-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 02:21:21PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: > dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 12:25:29PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: > > | More powerful mail readers (/me ducks) cache messages much more > > | efficiently than mutt. > > | > > | Emacs gnus, for example,

Re: kde on debian.

2002-02-14 Thread David Frey
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 08:42:39AM +0800, louie miranda wrote: > will debian add KDE on its xwindows/desktop? > thnx. > KDE is in the Testing (Woody) and Unstable (Sid) branches. I wouldn't use Potato on a desktop system anyway since it is so out of date. -Dave

Re: maximum nuber of messages in mutt?

2002-02-14 Thread christophe barbé
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 03:43:19PM -0500, dman wrote: > Mmm, how does it know which message(s) are unread until it reads > through the (mbox) file? How does it know where each message starts > and ends (to perform seek()s) without reading through the file looking > for a "From " line? If it has s

Re: HP Photosmart 715 (215) USB digital camera

2002-02-14 Thread christophe barbé
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 04:36:58PM -0500, Jason M. Harvey wrote: > hello, > > i have an update! afaik, the camera doesn't have any other usb > settings... i was able to mount it, tho, with: > > mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/cam -t usbdevfs Oops, you need some help. usbdevfs is a filesystem used to provi

pam on debian. /etc/pam.d

2002-02-14 Thread louie miranda
Any ideas how can i remove the pam authentication on debian? thnx. louie miranda (axis0.ath.cx) -- Security Is A Series Of Well-Defined Steps chmod -R 0 / ; and smile :)

Re: kdm and sourcing rc files

2002-02-14 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 02:49:18PM -0700, Jason Majors wrote: > I started using kdm to control my login and have two problems. > When I logged in on the console and ran startx, it would source my > .bash_profile at login, and my .xinitrc during startx. > Now neither is sourced. I copied the content

Re: Partitioning a working NTFS drive

2002-02-14 Thread Jim Roy
> > Patrick Kirk wrote: > > > > I want to install on a laptop that has one 7 Gig ntfs partition. I do not > > want to reinstall win2k or its apps. > > As an alternative to buying Partition Magic, try Bootit NG. You can make > the floppy disk, boot from it, cancel it's Setup, and then use the >

Re: shutdown/halt as user

2002-02-14 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >* David Wright ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020214 13:58]: >> >> > How can I let a normal user use the "halt" or "shutdown" command? >> >> All the responses to this query have been ugly hacks. The right way to do >> this this (put

Re: Partitioning a working NTFS drive

2002-02-14 Thread Kurt Lieber
On Thursday 14 February 2002 08:09 pm, D. wrote: > I was in the same position except I had WINME on the > drive. Do a search on www.google.com and search for > FIPS . That is a non-distructive partitioner. Unless FIPS has changed very recently, it doesn't support NTFS. Neither does GNU Parted,

Re: Partitioning a working NTFS drive

2002-02-14 Thread D.
I was in the same position except I had WINME on the drive. Do a search on www.google.com and search for FIPS . That is a non-distructive partitioner. If memory serves me correctly there is a lot of good information on the web page that you download FIPD from. After you do the partition you can do

From Testing back to Potato - or something!

2002-02-14 Thread Vaughan, Curtis
Read the bottom part to gain a little history as to why I did the following actions: Basically, what happened is I installed GAIM per the instructions at the bottom. Afterwards, however, I couldn't find even any file or directory starting with gaim*. So, I re-entered the ftp source for testing f

Re: can't connect to samba shares from 'doze

2002-02-14 Thread Tom Cook
Thanks again for all your help, but this problem was resolved by a chance meeting with one of the networking guys from upstairs. In short, all routers within our organisation are configured to drop WINS packets. This of course means that, even if I try to become a domain master, my samba server a

Re: Printing - HP Office Jet T45

2002-02-14 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Jay Mallar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Guys - I need some help here. ... > Linux printing is a complete and utter mess. Yes (s/Linux/unix/). ... Should I try CUPS instead? Yes. ... Will it even work with my system or do I have to get woody? Well, I don't see why they'd be mutu

Re: is there a nice frontend to procmail for creating some recipes?

2002-02-14 Thread csj
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 12:42:24PM -0500, Stuart Krivis wrote: > There is dot-procmail. I don't know if that's simple enough though... :-) > > --On Thursday, February 14, 2002 10:54:31 -0500 Walter Tautz > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I am thinking of some console or gui driven tool that coul

kde on debian.

2002-02-14 Thread louie miranda
will debian add KDE on its xwindows/desktop? thnx. louie miranda (axis0.ath.cx) -- Security Is A Series Of Well-Defined Steps chmod -R 0 / ; and smile :)

Re: NVIDIA driver

2002-02-14 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 01:22:23PM -0800, Caleb Shay wrote: > I think I've got this one... > > /etc/X11/XF86Config ? That's for XF86-3, the nvidia driver is for > XFree-4 only. Either upgrade to woody or hunt around for potato > packages for XFree-4, I know they exist somewhere. Here they are:

Re: shutdown/halt as user

2002-02-14 Thread Bob Thibodeau
Quoting Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I have ctrl-alt-del set up for shutdown (reboot) and ctrl-alt-end for halt I think that's done in /etc/inittab When I get home I'll cut it out and send it if no one lese has It's more secure than suid, but anyone with physical access to the machine can s

Re: can't connect to samba shares from 'doze

2002-02-14 Thread Michel Loos
Em Qui, 2002-02-14 às 22:15, Tom Cook escreveu: > Michel Loos wrote: > > > > Em Qui, 2002-02-14 às 05:24, stonelx escreveu: > > > Hi Tom, > > > Check that you have encrypted passwords set to yes. > > > > > > testparm |grep encrypt > > > > > > > > > hth, > > > > > > Mike > > > > And don t forget

Re: Browsers won't connect to modem

2002-02-14 Thread John Hasler
Keith writes: > Pppconfig autodetects the modem on /dev/ttyS2, and the pppconfig file has > been set to accept demand dialing; > wvdial actually works and connects the modem to the net, although PAP > authentication seems to have trouble with the secrets file; What do you by 'trouble'? It is not

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RE: full mirror of a potato server?

2002-02-14 Thread Philip Iezzi
> Let me explain: If you're using the term "server" in the sense of "a > computer I have complete access to that we have assigned to the > function of an (FTP | HTTP | NAME) Server" then yes. I'm talking about a "computer I have complete access to that we have assigned to the function of an FTP,HT

Re: to woody from potato, some advices...

2002-02-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 04:16:04PM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: > On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 13:17, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 09:53:16AM -0200, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > > > 1) Upgrade to woody via apt > > > > Definitely upgrade using woody's apt, not potato's - that is, upgrade

Re: Mutt Procmail ...and Debian

2002-02-14 Thread dman
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 07:01:10PM -0500, Chris Hilts wrote: | On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 12:57:53AM +0100, R. Pac wrote: | > By the way how may I configure Mutt to take mail directly from a pop | > server without using fetchmail ? | | You don't. The closest you can come to this is probably IMAP,

Re: shutdown/halt as user

2002-02-14 Thread Vineet Kumar
* David Wright ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020214 13:58]: > > > How can I let a normal user use the "halt" or "shutdown" command? > > All the responses to this query have been ugly hacks. The right way to do > this this (put on flame-retardant suit here) is the way RedHat does: make > the halt binary

Re: can't connect to samba shares from 'doze

2002-02-14 Thread Tom Cook
Michel Loos wrote: > > Em Qui, 2002-02-14 às 05:24, stonelx escreveu: > > Hi Tom, > > Check that you have encrypted passwords set to yes. > > > > testparm |grep encrypt > > > > > > hth, > > > > Mike > > And don t forget the obvious: all users that want to access their > directories must have bee

Re: full mirror of a potato server?

2002-02-14 Thread Elizabeth Barham
"Philip Iezzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd like to mirror a whole server with the whole configuration and > all data. Is there some tool to do this? Yes and no. If you're speaking of, say, simply grabbing files off of another machine and mirroring that data, yes, absolutly - this is commo

Printing - HP Office Jet T45

2002-02-14 Thread Jay Mallar
Guys - I need some help here. I have my printing system so goofed up I don't know what end is up anymore, but I've never been able to get anything other than "echo file > /dev/lp0" to work. I have: Debian 2.2r5 (potato) Kernel v2.2.19 KDE 2.1.2 HP Office Jet T45 GNU GhostScript 6.52 (precompile

Re: Mutt Procmail ...and Debian

2002-02-14 Thread Chris Hilts
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 12:57:53AM +0100, R. Pac wrote: > I would like to know which software are better to use with Mutt. Depends on your needs. > By the way how may I configure Mutt to take mail directly from a pop > server without using fetchmail ? You don't. The closest you can come to this

Mutt Procmail ...and Debian

2002-02-14 Thread R . Pac
Hello, I would like to know which software are better to use with Mutt. Exim with Procmail and Fetchmail or another configuration ? By the way how may I configure Mutt to take mail directly from a pop server without using fetchmail ? Thanks Best regards Pac

Building ldapsearch with Kerberos support?

2002-02-14 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Does anyone have a clue how to build the ldap-utils (particularly ldapsearch) in testing with Kerberos support? What libraries would I need to download, how to point ldap-utils to it ... Mainly, has anyone here done it? TIA.

RE: full mirror of a potato server?

2002-02-14 Thread Philip Iezzi
> 2) rsync won't take the file access rights from the remote machine. It > changes all files to the user I'm running rsync with on the local > machine. How can I do a 1:1 sync? Ok, sorry, got it: rsync -a (archive mode)

Re: Apache loading

2002-02-14 Thread Chris Hilts
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 05:42:24PM -0600, William Lacy wrote: > My problem is that I can ping myself, I see ifconfig has lo configured > and route has me routed and hostname returns my hostname but Apache says > it can't determine the hostname and tells me to configure it with the > ServerName

Cannot install Woody on /dev/hdg

2002-02-14 Thread ddc prueba
Hello. I cannot install Woody on /dev/hdg1. I have 4 hard drives and 2 CDs, but when I try to install from CD (kernel in CD 5 'reiserfs') it only let me choose hda and hdb to initialize a partition or install in an initialized one. My drives are: /dev/hda --> Hard drive /dev/hdb --> Hard drive /d

RE: full mirror of a potato server?

2002-02-14 Thread Philip Iezzi
> rsync can do this, though i would not reccomend mirroring > /proc as its maintained by the kernel. > > i backup tons with rsync its pretty easy. though i don't do > full mirrors, only specific dirs rsync... great! Just two more questions for now: 1) Why I am getting the following errors first

Re: Partitioning a working NTFS drive

2002-02-14 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Patrick Kirk wrote: > > Hi all, > > I want to install on a laptop that has one 7 Gig ntfs partition. I do not > want to reinstall win2k or its apps. > > Can this be done? > > -- > Best regards, > > Patrick Kirk As an alternative to buying Partition Magic, try Bootit NG. You can make the flop

Apache loading

2002-02-14 Thread William Lacy
I installed Potato on a PC at the house (it is not on the net) and I opted out of network support. I configured the network files in etc- I don't recall them all right now but I got them out of an old book and they always worked before. I just want 127.0.0.1 to work. I have just been turning

kernel: TNG

2002-02-14 Thread Bob Thibodeau
After spending a couple of hours tweaking my initrd image and Google searching, I discovered that make oldconfig, while presenting me with enough options to lull me into security, was quietly leaving all of my IDE options unset. Here's the new problem: the root mounts but during the boot I get km

Re: mouse freezing

2002-02-14 Thread Rudy Gevaert
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 03:35:18PM -0700, Jason Majors wrote: > > Who should I report this to? And what information should I provide? > > I'm also looking to try an other mouse (mayby it's the optical thing > > thats buggy?) > It's not an optical issue. I have the same problem with a PS/2 ball-st

Re: Sound

2002-02-14 Thread Tom Cook
Alan Shrimpton wrote: > > Terribly sorry! I just found the cable into the speaker was in the sub out > and not the line in. Wife wont admit it but I don't know how it changed. I > checked they were in but not that they were in the wrong place. > > Can someone tell me though, is it normal to ge

Re: Help with Expect & Xterm

2002-02-14 Thread Jay Mallar
On Wednesday 13 February 2002 9:46 pm, Cameron Kerr wrote: > On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Jay Mallar wrote: > >spawn telnet > >sleep 5 > >send "login " > >sleep 5 > >send "" > > Look at the docs (man expect) for log_user, and interact > > >Starting up three xterms isn't a problem, but automating the logi

Re: AntiVirus 4 Linux

2002-02-14 Thread Ian Balchin
I was updating the other day on M$ box and saw that f-prot had a linux version. Maybe no charge for private use? ftp.complex.is (from memory) Ian On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 10:23:07PM +0200, Game Wizard wrote: > Hi all! > > I have a question for all of you. I need to setup a service that uses >

Re: shutdown/halt as user

2002-02-14 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* David Wright ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > > How can I let a normal user use the "halt" or "shutdown" command? > > All the responses to this query have been ugly hacks. The right way to do > this this (put on flame-retardant suit here) is the way RedHat does: make > the halt binary ca

ppp problems with strange log diagnostics

2002-02-14 Thread Laurent EVAIN
Hi, I run Debian 2.2 release 3 (stable) and I use the script ``pon'' to connect to my IP. Sometimes I get a connection, sometimes the connection stops and/or I can't connect. Since I have 2 providers, I suppose that the problem comes from my side. The analysis in /var/log/syslog of the problem

UPS Fiskars (LanSafe)

2002-02-14 Thread Al Nikolov
Is anyone knows where i can get the software for this monster?

Re: full mirror of a potato server?

2002-02-14 Thread nate
> I'd like to mirror a whole server with the whole configuration and > all data. > Is there some tool to do this? > There's not the exact same hardware in both of boxes but this > shouldn't make a huge difference? rsync can do this, though i would not reccomend mirroring /proc as its maintained b

Re: Partitioning a working NTFS drive

2002-02-14 Thread nate
> > Hi all, > > I want to install on a laptop that has one 7 Gig ntfs partition. I > do not want to reinstall win2k or its apps. > > Can this be done? go buy the latest version of partition magic and resize the drive and re partition . nate

Re: shutdown/halt as user

2002-02-14 Thread Shawn Lamson
--- David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > How can I let a normal user use the "halt" or "shutdown" command? > > All the responses to this query have been ugly hacks. The right way > to do > this this (put on flame-retardant suit here) is the way RedHat does: > make > the halt binary ca

Re: offline news reader

2002-02-14 Thread Al Nikolov
I use leafnode + tin (rtin, to be accurate).

Re: mouse freezing

2002-02-14 Thread Jason Majors
> Who should I report this to? And what information should I provide? > I'm also looking to try an other mouse (mayby it's the optical thing > thats buggy?) It's not an optical issue. I have the same problem with a PS/2 ball-style mouse. As long as the mouse sends the right signals, how it genera

Re: mouse freezing

2002-02-14 Thread Rudy Gevaert
On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 09:35:21PM -0500, christophe barb? wrote: > > and my transfer rates went from 2.44 to 19.69 and my problems were over. > > Perhaps that will help you, as well. > > You no more see the problem but it's still there. > There's no valid reason why X forget the mouse and worst

apt-get dist-upgrade problems

2002-02-14 Thread Jason Majors
I'm trying to do apt-get dist-upgrade with the following sources.list: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian sid main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US sid/non-US main contrib non-free I get the error: Setting up libc6 (2.2.5-3) ... dpkg: error processing libc6 (--configur

Browsers won't connect to modem

2002-02-14 Thread keithandcecile
I just reinstalled Debian 2.2.r3 from disk, and now I can't get any internet programs to connect to the modem (which was working fine before). Mozilla gives " can't be found" error message and Lynx gives "unable to connect to remote host" error message. Modem never dials. - Pppconfig autodetect

Re: maximum nuber of messages in mutt?

2002-02-14 Thread Brian Nelson
dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 12:25:29PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: > | Ian Balchin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | > | > Hi, > | > > | > My debian-list folder in mutt has over 5000 messages in it despite > | > some weeding out. Pretty soon I shall have to go and ma

Re: mozilla-browser 0.9.8-1 help

2002-02-14 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 12:01:35PM -0900, Greg C. Madden wrote: > On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 10:32, Kevin C. Smith wrote: > > Running SID. Did apt-get upgrade on 2/10 and mozilla failed to upgrade. > > Not sure if this is a packaging problem or my system got hosed in some > > way. Now I am unable to ins

full mirror of a potato server?

2002-02-14 Thread Philip Iezzi
I'd like to mirror a whole server with the whole configuration and all data. Is there some tool to do this? There's not the exact same hardware in both of boxes but this shouldn't make a huge difference? thanx phil

procmail rules

2002-02-14 Thread debian
This isn't working for me: (from /etc/procmailrc) :0: * (change|update|new|different).*(e-?mail|address) /var/mail/addresschanged :0: * autoforward|autoresponder /var/mail/addresschanged :0 * auto.?reply|out of( the)? office|auto.?

Re: Partitioning a working NTFS drive

2002-02-14 Thread Jason Majors
> I want to install on a laptop that has one 7 Gig ntfs partition. I do not > want to reinstall win2k or its apps. > > Can this be done? I've heard that if you defrag the partition immediately before resizing it, you won't lose any data. If you're of a commercial bent, you could get a copy of par

Re: Partitioning a working NTFS drive

2002-02-14 Thread Game Wizard
use partition magic to resize primary partition without loosing any data and then install linux on available space. - Original Message - From: "Patrick Kirk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian User" Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 7:23 AM Subject: Partitioning a working NTFS drive > > Hi a

kdm and sourcing rc files

2002-02-14 Thread Jason Majors
I started using kdm to control my login and have two problems. When I logged in on the console and ran startx, it would source my .bash_profile at login, and my .xinitrc during startx. Now neither is sourced. I copied the contents of .xinitrc to .Xsession, but the two commands in there are not acti

Making install disks

2002-02-14 Thread Scott Henson
Due to alot of my mistakes my woody system is aproaching unusability. I kind of want to reinstall everything and start over. Also I want to use my 2.4.17 kernel from the start and maybe use a journaling file system. I like ext3 for its purported stability and riserfs for its advanced features, b

Re: mozilla-browser 0.9.8-1 help

2002-02-14 Thread Craig Dickson
begin Greg C. Madden quotation: > This won't help your current predicament but I use 'mozilla' instead of > 'mozilla-browser'. This upgrades nine packages, Galeon, mail-news, > browser, -psm,.. & libs. I don't know about Kevin, but I intentionally do _not_ use the 'mozilla' package because I do

Re: Exim Cron problem

2002-02-14 Thread David Frey
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 02:06:37PM -0200, Michel Loos wrote: > your /etc/cron.daily/exim file is not adapted to your way of logging > exim. > > You possibly answered N, while upgrading exim, for the replacement of > this file. I fthis is the case you should have a > /etc/cron.daily/exim.dpkg* fil

Re: HP Photosmart 715 (215) USB digital camera

2002-02-14 Thread Jason M. Harvey
hello, i have an update! afaik, the camera doesn't have any other usb settings... i was able to mount it, tho, with: mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/cam -t usbdevfs and then cam had three dir's, 001/, device/, and drivers/. 001/ contains three "files", numbered, but not in sequence. i first thought these

Re: shutdown/halt as user

2002-02-14 Thread David Wright
> How can I let a normal user use the "halt" or "shutdown" command? All the responses to this query have been ugly hacks. The right way to do this this (put on flame-retardant suit here) is the way RedHat does: make the halt binary call up pam for authenticaton and authorization and allow the

Re: offline news reader

2002-02-14 Thread Glyn Millington
Ian Balchin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > If I am offline then I need to spool the news, and slrn with > slrnpull looks like a likely choice. If you don't want Gnus and (X)Emacs, then the above is a good choice - or slrn with leafnode works well. Leafnode is designed for a small set-up and ce

Re: NVIDIA driver

2002-02-14 Thread Caleb Shay
I think I've got this one... /etc/X11/XF86Config ? That's for XF86-3, the nvidia driver is for XFree-4 only. Either upgrade to woody or hunt around for potato packages for XFree-4, I know they exist somewhere. Caleb n Thu, 2002-02-14 at 12:14, Christian Schoenebeck wrote: > > Is the driver act

Re: offline news reader

2002-02-14 Thread Martin Wuertele
Hi Ian! On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Ian Balchin wrote: > Hi, > > Time to get news going on my machine. I want an offline mail > reading system that can dial in via my isp to collect news from > local server (news.saix.net i think). > > I have been looking thru dselect for in packages opt-news and see

Re: Network card problem

2002-02-14 Thread Martin Wuertele
Hi Dimi! On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Dimi wrote: > I tried to install the Debian > Woody . The > installation was succesfull. But I cannot install my network card . It > is not in the list where you can choose the network card. And I tried > also som

Partitioning a working NTFS drive

2002-02-14 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hi all, I want to install on a laptop that has one 7 Gig ntfs partition. I do not want to reinstall win2k or its apps. Can this be done? -- Best regards, Patrick Kirk Telephone: 0870 011 8494 GSM: 07876 560 646 Web site: www.kirks.net

QMail,Vpopmail,Courier-IMAP

2002-02-14 Thread debian
Hi, I've installed QMail,Vpopmail and Courier-IMAP (.deb Packages) on my "woody" System. POP Mail download works fine: user: "username%domain.com" pass: "xyz" IMAP Mail download doesn't work with "username%domain.de" (username) and "xyz" (password). What username should be used to download Ma

Re: to woody from potato, some advices...

2002-02-14 Thread Scott Henson
On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 13:17, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 09:53:16AM -0200, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > > 1) Upgrade to woody via apt > > Definitely upgrade using woody's apt, not potato's - that is, upgrade > the packaging tools first. This has been the advice for upgrading from

Re: Compilation error

2002-02-14 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 21:45:24 +0100, Pierre EVENOU wrote: > g++ Intermediate/init_display.o -o init_display -lclanCore -lclanApp > -lclanDisplay > /usr/bin/ld: can't find -lclanCore > The clanLib is install in /usr/local/lib, Add "-v" to the g++ line and you'll see that that directory is not

Re: mozilla-browser 0.9.8-1 help

2002-02-14 Thread Greg C. Madden
On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 10:32, Kevin C. Smith wrote: > Running SID. Did apt-get upgrade on 2/10 and mozilla failed to upgrade. > Not sure if this is a packaging problem or my system got hosed in some > way. Now I am unable to install it or remove it. This won't help your current predicament but I u

Re: mozilla-browser 0.9.8-1 help

2002-02-14 Thread Craig Dickson
begin Kevin C. Smith quotation: > Running SID. Did apt-get upgrade on 2/10 and mozilla failed to upgrade. > Not sure if this is a packaging problem or my system got hosed in some > way. Now I am unable to install it or remove it. > > #INSTALL ATTEMPT > debian:/home/kevin# apt-get install mozil

Re: 486 SX (masquerading DSL connection)

2002-02-14 Thread John Cichy
Actually a switch first broadcasts a request and see's 'who' answers, then the next time a request for the same ip is made, it directs the request to the previously answered port. Some switches can divide to subnets as extra functionality (generally more expensive) but to be a switch, it does no

Re: maximum nuber of messages in mutt?

2002-02-14 Thread Morten Bo Johansen
Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: BN> More powerful mail readers (/me ducks) cache messages much more BN> efficiently than mutt. BN> Emacs gnus, for example, only fetches/displays unread messages unless BN> you tell it otherwise, which makes it far faster to open and read BN> folders. You

Compilation error

2002-02-14 Thread Pierre EVENOU
I'm trying to compile examples of the source tree of clanlib-0.5.4 on Debian (potato) and I always get the same message : .I am going to compile the following binaries for you: initdisplay g++ Intermediate/init_display.o -o init_display -lclanCore -lclanApp -lclanDisplay /usr/bin/ld: can't fin

Re: AntiVirus 4 Linux

2002-02-14 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya game wiz... the rest of the collection of (free) antivirus stuff http://www.Linux-Sec.net/Mail/#AntiVirus have fun linuxing alvin On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Game Wizard wrote: > Hi all! > > I have a question for all of you. I need to setup a service that uses > antivirus on linux to scan i

Debian Tomcat+Apache, failures after upgrade.. (PoolTcpEndpoint) ([jk_uri_worker_map)

2002-02-14 Thread Gregory Guthrie
I have a problem with Apache(1.3.22)+Tomcat(3.3) after a recent update: I have a working Linux (Debian 2.2.17) system, and am running Apache+Tomcat. Having not used it for awhile, or updated in 4-6 months, I did an "apt-get install" of tomcat and Apache, to get the most current versions. It did

Re: AntiVirus 4 Linux

2002-02-14 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Game Wizard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a question for all of you. I need to setup a service that > uses antivirus on linux to scan incoming mail (ie POP3). I already > tried TrendMicro viruswall, and now d/l sophos. Are there any other > good (and relatively cheap, NOT 1$ mcaffee) p

Re: AntiVirus 4 Linux

2002-02-14 Thread John Cichy
On Thursday 14 February 2002 15:23, Game Wizard wrote: > Hi all! > > I have a question for all of you. I need to setup a service that uses > antivirus on linux to scan incoming mail (ie POP3). I already tried > TrendMicro viruswall, and now d/l sophos. Are there any other good (and > relatively che

Re: maximum nuber of messages in mutt?

2002-02-14 Thread dman
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 12:25:29PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: | Ian Balchin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | > Hi, | > | > My debian-list folder in mutt has over 5000 messages in it despite | > some weeding out. Pretty soon I shall have to go and make a coffee | > while waiting for it to open. |

Re: AntiVirus 4 Linux

2002-02-14 Thread Liam Black
Bitdefender (www.bitdefender.com) is currently seeking Beta Testers for a Linux A/V product. Look under products/beta. It's not Free as in Speech, but it is Free as in Beer. (The Beta version at least. Would imagine they'll charge for the Ship ;) ) They're well-priced, and I find their products

Re: 486 SX (masquerading DSL connection)

2002-02-14 Thread dman
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 10:16:47PM +0200, Game Wizard wrote: | umm, perhaps i am wrong as i don't know what kind of switch do u have but | isn't switch's purphose is to divide the network into subnets ??! A router would do that. A switch is a link-layer device. It is the same as a hub, but inste

Re: NVIDIA driver

2002-02-14 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Christian Schoenebeck wrote: > > Also make sure you comment out the Load "dri" and Load "GLCore" lines. > > There wasn't one in my XF86Config. > > > For starters, you can check that the driver is there. If the nvidia-glx > > package (the one you built) is installed, you can

Re: maximum nuber of messages in mutt?

2002-02-14 Thread Brian Nelson
Ian Balchin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > My debian-list folder in mutt has over 5000 messages in it despite > some weeding out. Pretty soon I shall have to go and make a coffee > while waiting for it to open. More powerful mail readers (/me ducks) cache messages much more efficiently t

AntiVirus 4 Linux

2002-02-14 Thread Game Wizard
Hi all!   I have a question for all of you. I need to setup a service that uses antivirus on linux to scan incoming mail (ie POP3). I already tried TrendMicro viruswall, and now d/l sophos. Are there any other good (and relatively cheap, NOT 1$ mcaffee) products that will help me acomplis

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