apt-get source vs. binary

2002-03-11 Thread James Leigh
When I install via apt-get source and compile the package, then install. apt-get -u upgrade wants to replace my compiled version with the binary package from debian servers, of the same version. Ever time I install a package from apt-get source, apt-get wants to replace it with the binary version

TrueType

2002-03-11 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, It seems that TrueType fonts are always displayed more jagged compared to X fonts. Is that the case? Or, something is definitely missing on me. TIA, Oki

Re: Wine

2002-03-11 Thread Tom Cook
Tom Cook wrote: > > Hi, > > Does anyone know how to make windoze programs I run under Wine stick to > one desktop? I can figure it out, and it doesn't seem to be > WM-specific. I am using IceWM. Ooops! I _can't_ figure it out! Which is why I'm asking the question... Tom

Re: Performance Issues with Spamassassin

2002-03-11 Thread Anthony and Mary Ann Tantillo
Actually, I just realized that if I comment out the exim line in inetd.conf the exim daemon will be started in /etx/init.d/exim. Tony On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 12:17:33AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Fri, Mar 08, 2002, Anthony and Mary Ann Tantillo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I have begun

Re: why can I upgrade SSH via SSH?

2002-03-11 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 07:50:28PM -0500, Kurt Lieber wrote: > I was ssh'd in to a remote machine doing an apt-get upgrade and watched > patiently as it upgraded ssh to the latest patched version. > > I also watched as it restarted the sshd daemon without terminating my > existing ssh connection

Backup server

2002-03-11 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
I am currently in the process of making a mail/web server for a mid-sized corporation. What is the best way to create a backup server that will be automatically synchronized (users, home directories, settings, etc) in event of a primary failure? Rsync-Mirroring? [http://sunsite.dk/info/guides/

Re: Performance Issues with Spamassassin

2002-03-11 Thread Anthony and Mary Ann Tantillo
Enabling the spamassassin daemon and checking mail for spam in daemon mode has made a huge difference. The exim change is interesting. This would involve changing the exim line in inet.d to /usr/sbin/exim exim -bd -q3min , changin the smtp_accept_queue_per_connection line to 50 in /etc/exim/ex

Re: compiling tcl: "atexit" error

2002-03-11 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 06:10:22PM -0600, Charles Blair wrote: >I tried downloading the current version of tcl (8.3.4) > from their web site and compiling it on my year-old > "potato" debian. I typed ./configure and "make", and > at some point got this error: > > > /ceblair/incoming/tcl8.3.4

Wine

2002-03-11 Thread Tom Cook
Hi, Does anyone know how to make windoze programs I run under Wine stick to one desktop? I can figure it out, and it doesn't seem to be WM-specific. I am using IceWM. Thanks, Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide "That you're not paranoid does not mean th

Re: why can I upgrade SSH via SSH?

2002-03-11 Thread Tom Cook
Kurt Lieber wrote: > > I was ssh'd in to a remote machine doing an apt-get upgrade and watched > patiently as it upgraded ssh to the latest patched version. > > I also watched as it restarted the sshd daemon without terminating my > existing ssh connection. How is that possible? Wouldn't restar

Menu and color bugginess in KDE

2002-03-11 Thread Jeremy Whetzel
Hi, I'm having two problems in KDE 2.2.2 in unstable. First is, my /etc/menu items that I customized are not showing in my kde menus. (They work just fine in normal WMs such as Fluxbox, Windowmaker, etc...) Is there a special precaution that needs to be made or format that needs to be followed i

Re: SoundCards and Midi Input

2002-03-11 Thread David Bellows
On Monday 11 March 2002 06:16 pm, Donald R. Spoon wrote: > "Charlie Grosvenor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi > > I have given up with the soundblaster 128. What i want to do is > > use music software like NoteEdit and brahms, and plug in a midi > > keyboard into my soundcard and create midi

Re: CVS and SSH

2002-03-11 Thread Joey Hess
Sven Gaerner wrote: > I've got a (hopefully) little proble.m. I want to grant some people > CVS access to my machine. They should connect by using SSH but I don't > want to give them a shell. They should be able to use CVS with SSH but > without logging in to my machine. > > Does anyone have an id

Re: fatal server error: no screens found (closer)

2002-03-11 Thread timothy bauscher
I copied the file to the /etc/X11/ directory, renamed it, and made gdm my default display manager by running: dpkg-reconfigure gdm Now, X starts via gdm. I had xdm as the default dm but it kept booting kde. Small problem: X is running at 640x480, I can't CNTRL+ALT+[+], and the /etc/X11/XF86Confi

woody upgrade bugs

2002-03-11 Thread John Griffiths
hi guys... i've just upgraded a machine from potato to woody as practice for the "Great Leap Forward" to come. i've got couple of things that while fixable, were certainly suboptimal... should I submit them as bugs? for example, apache access.conf was standard potato install but wouldn't upgra

What's worng with ALSA???

2002-03-11 Thread Max Koszela
Hi everyone! I'm posting this in pure desperation. I've got this Clevo/Kapok 2700T Laptop (sold under a different brandname, but that's no important) with the SiS 630 motherboard. I've installed woody, even made a couple of custom kernels to get DRI and hardware acceleration working (thanks to Th

Can't reboot or halt from gdm

2002-03-11 Thread Todd Myhre
I've set up gdm on a new laptop but the System menu does not seem to work correctly. When I try to halt the system, it simply reloads gdm and the following error messages appear in my syslog: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0 gdm_child_action: Reboot or Halt request wh

Re: need advice on IRC client choice

2002-03-11 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
My vote is X-Chat. It has quite a comfortable interface. On Sat, 2002-03-09 at 15:33, Gary Turner wrote: > It's hard to believe, but I haven't done chat (and I've been 'online' > since Genie in '90 or '91). I don't even have a chat client installed > on any of my machines. > > So, I figure --

Re: the quest for a *stable* browser

2002-03-11 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
I can second Galeon. Its quite stable. On Sat, 2002-03-09 at 01:05, Ovidiu Damian wrote: > I am running galeon from unstable and it has not crashed on me once. > > * timothy bauscher ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I downloaded Mozilla via apt-get. It crashes > > often. I would like a stable ope

why can I upgrade SSH via SSH?

2002-03-11 Thread Kurt Lieber
I was ssh'd in to a remote machine doing an apt-get upgrade and watched patiently as it upgraded ssh to the latest patched version. I also watched as it restarted the sshd daemon without terminating my existing ssh connection. How is that possible? Wouldn't restarting the daemon kill all exis

Re: Change from SuSE to Debian

2002-03-11 Thread Tony Crawford
pete atkinson wrote (on 11 Mar 2002 at 19:36): > Are there any hints/tips/watch-out-fors that you could offer, > principally, I am a bit confused over the non-RPMness of packages and > the lack of the config suites such as YAST/YAST2 that SusE employs. Hi Pete! Make project lists. Pull out a co

Re: ? about C++

2002-03-11 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Thursday, March 7, Dimitri Maziuk did write: > * Craig Dickson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > begin Dimitri Maziuk quotation: > > > > > Does anyone know about a school that teaches people to use > > > vector<>, auto_ptr<>, basic_string and references? > > > > I have no idea what

compiling tcl: "atexit" error

2002-03-11 Thread Charles Blair
I tried downloading the current version of tcl (8.3.4) from their web site and compiling it on my year-old "potato" debian. I typed ./configure and "make", and at some point got this error: /ceblair/incoming/tcl8.3.4/unix/libtcl8.3.so: undefined reference to `atexit' collect2: ld returned 1 e

wmaker config scaled backgrounds

2002-03-11 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
Anyone know 1) The config file in ~/GNUStep 2) Command to put in the config file to make sure all of my background images are scaled by default. I have tried to scale them using Wmakerconf and then saving the session they some still endup tiled and not scaled. I though that putting something lik

Segfaults in kpasswd and kadmin

2002-03-11 Thread Keith G. Murphy
I've downloaded libkrb53 and krb5-user from testing. I immediately get segfaults upon running either kpasswd and kadmin. Is there some known problem here? Has anyone else tried to use these? There's a very good chance I don't know what I'm doing...

[DONE] Re: latest Nvidia drivers

2002-03-11 Thread Daniel Toffetti
On Monday 11 March 2002 15:03, Florian Struck wrote: > Unstable (SID) here ... same procedure. > With a custom kernel it works as described in > /usr/share/doc/nvidia-kernel Well, I felt sort of impatient and proceeded. The drivers are working OK, I tested them with the game chromium, it runs ver

converting cyrus mailboxes to mbox format

2002-03-11 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
Has anybody written a script that can convert a cyrus mailbox into a mbox mailbox? Lance -- Lance Hoffmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Fear of serious injury cann

Re: SoundCards and Midi Input

2002-03-11 Thread Donald R. Spoon
"Charlie Grosvenor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi I have given up with the soundblaster 128. What i want to do is use music software like NoteEdit and brahms, and plug in a midi keyboard into my soundcard and create midi files, when use the software to edit them. The trouble is i am not sure

Re: truncate utility (not split)

2002-03-11 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 03:59:07AM +0800, csj wrote: > Is there a utility to truncate files such that a single smaller piece or > no more than two pieces are produced? Something like: > > (1) original_file -> small_chunk (bigger_2nd_chunk discarded) > (2) original_file -> (smaller_1st_chunk discar

Re Root symlink to /boot/vmlinuz

2002-03-11 Thread Paul Wright
On Mon, 03 Mar 2002 at 23:25:30, k l u r t wrote: > On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 23:29, Craig Dickson wrote: > > Dumb question: why does Debian like to have a symlink, /vmlinuz, > > pointing to the kernel image in /boot? Does some program depend on being > > able to find the kernel at /vmlinuz? Would some

Re: latest Nvidia drivers

2002-03-11 Thread Daniel Toffetti
On Monday 11 March 2002 15:03, Florian Struck wrote: > Unstable (SID) here ... same procedure. > With a custom kernel it works as described in > /usr/share/doc/nvidia-kernel > > If you dont have a custom kernel you might need some extra crunching. > Without the custom kernel i got it working (on 2.

Re: latest Nvidia drivers

2002-03-11 Thread Daniel Toffetti
On Sunday 10 March 2002 19:23, Phillip Deackes wrote: > Roy Pluschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Has anybody else found that the latest Nvidia drivers "1.0-2802" > > don't work! I have a tnt2 running on a 2.4 kernel in "testing". > > No - they work fine here - Riva TNT2, Debian Unstable, kernel

Re: kernel compile problem -- unresolved symbols

2002-03-11 Thread Christopher M. Jones
I'm compiling for a K7/Athlon/Duron system. As far as I can tell, -all- modules come up with unresolved symbols. In other words, any module I try to load comes up with unresolved symbols, whether part of the kernel, or standalone. Clearly, I am doing something very wrong, though I haven't chang

Re: Debian on a Walmart Microtel???

2002-03-11 Thread Timothy R. Butler
Hi, > The impression I got was that since video wasn't mentioned, there > was some sort of on-mobo shared memory setup. Can anyone verify > that? It actually does say that on the site. I can remember off the top of my head what brand of chip it is, but it does work with XFree86 with 8 megs of

Re: Philips rhythmic edge PSC703 sound card

2002-03-11 Thread Eric Richardson
Nikolai Hlubek wrote: Hi there, I have the Philips rhythmic edge PSC703 sound card and just wanted to ask if someone here has experience with this thing? Any idea which drivers I should use? Nikolai Searched on google. According to philips, no. http://www.pcsound.philips.com/faq_rhyt

Re: How to specify default WM (woody)?

2002-03-11 Thread Eric Richardson
I think you should install gdm or xdm to get the default login box. There may be other ways but I'm no expert. I use the gdm since I am using gnome. The other box I have has neither and I have to type startx after console login. Eric Martin Edward John Waller wrote: Hello, I just upgraded t

portsentry: port 162 attack

2002-03-11 Thread Thomas Shemanske
I have a sid system and installed portsentry on it (and several other woody machines in the department). I left it in log-only mode, but immediately after starting it up, I discovered that a machine of a colleague of mine is banging away (every three minutes exactly) on port 162 (snmp-trap) on

Re: CVS and SSH

2002-03-11 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 09:02:15PM +0100, Sven Gaerner wrote: > Hi, > > I've got a (hopefully) little proble.m. I want to grant some people > CVS access to my machine. They should connect by using SSH but I don't > want to give them a shell. They should be able to use CVS with SSH but > without lo

Re: Change from SuSE to Debian

2002-03-11 Thread Chris Hilts
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 07:36:05PM +, pete atkinson wrote: > Are there any hints/tips/watch-out-fors that you could offer, principally, I > am a bit confused over the non-RPMness of packages and the lack of the config > suites such as YAST/YAST2 that SusE employs. Get to know apt and dpkg.

RE: Debian on a Walmart Microtel???

2002-03-11 Thread Sam Stern
> -Original Message- > From: Ron Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 02:51 PM > To: Debian-User > Subject: Re: Debian on a Walmart Microtel??? > > > On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 11:41, Timothy R. Butler wrote: > > I don't know of anyone running Debian on a Microte

Re: truncate utility (not split)

2002-03-11 Thread Caleb Shay
Seems to me that you should be able to do this with dd. Caleb On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 11:59, csj wrote: > Is there a utility to truncate files such that a single smaller piece or > no more than two pieces are produced? Something like: > > (1) original_file -> small_chunk (bigger_2nd_chunk discarde

Re: power off problem

2002-03-11 Thread christophe barbé
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 02:43:58PM +0100, Christian Schoenebeck wrote: > Hi! > > Since I moved from 2.2.19pre17 to 2.4.17 Kernel a while ago, my machine > reboots instead of powering off when I booted windows before. I tried the > 'use real mode APM BIOS call to power off' kernel option, but that

Re: Nice Fonts

2002-03-11 Thread christophe barbé
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 02:55:39PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 14:01:14 +0100, R.Pac wrote: > > in my XF86Config file this line > > report an error during initialisation : > > FontPath"unix/:7100"# local font server > > > > how can I fix th

Re: DVD players under Linux (was: Re: 2.4 kernels with potato and Movie players)

2002-03-11 Thread christophe barbé
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 08:33:08AM -0800, Jim Gettys wrote: > I'm a happy camper with current Xine, on a display running the Xvideo > extension, on a 600mhz pentium III. Pretty much doesn't drop frames. > > The other tip is to kill esd if it is running. That lame audio server > is hopeless on be

Re: The future of Debian install??

2002-03-11 Thread Patrick Kirk
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 11:37:08AM -0800, Bedford, Donald T. wrote: >Yes, if I may pipe-in on this one... I am a Debian newbie from the RH world >a few years back. Yes, my first install on a x86 box as anything but easy as >I build my own box. But, I now know more about my system than I ever did w/

Re: fatal server error: no screens found

2002-03-11 Thread Patrick Kirk
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 01:23:31PM -0500, timothy bauscher wrote: >x-window-system and gnome-session are installed. xdm is the default display >manager. I am using the nv driver for my RIVA TNT2, and have just completed a >fresh install of unstable. > >When xdm (or gdm) are launched, they display

Using Alt in xterm

2002-03-11 Thread Mark J. Tilford
One program I use (frotz) runs in an xterm and uses Alt-(various keys). The program ran fine on my old redhat system, but on this setup, Alt-U (or other key) simply registers as U. It works fine in character mode, though. Any ideas how to get it to work in X? (from my ~/.Xdefaults file) *eight

Re: Setting up an ASCII terminal as a Console

2002-03-11 Thread Alan James
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 02:04:33PM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: > On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 12:30:09PM -0500, Kurc, Marcin A. wrote: > > add the following to your lilo.conf > > append = "console=ttyS0,9600" > > or whatever port you connecting to > > then just run minicom > > Why would you run minico

Re: latest Nvidia drivers

2002-03-11 Thread Phillip Deackes
On 11 Mar 2002 10:37:57 -0600 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Roy is describing build 1.0-2802, wherease in contrib is: >nvidia-glx-src_1.0.2313-2_i386.deb >nvidia-kernel-src_1.0.2314-2_i386.deb > > Have you gotten 1.0-2802 working in woody? I am using unstable and dpkg -l nvid

SoundCards and Midi Input

2002-03-11 Thread Charlie Grosvenor
Hi I have given up with the soundblaster 128. What i want to do is use music software like NoteEdit and brahms, and plug in a midi keyboard into my soundcard and create midi files, when use the software to edit them. The trouble is i am not sure what sound cards linux supports for doing this. I

Re: fatal server error: no screens found

2002-03-11 Thread Alan James
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 01:23:31PM -0500, timothy bauscher wrote: > > I have run xf86config and xf86cfg with different resolutions and color > depths, but I still end up with the same error. > > Any help would be appreciated, I have run out of ideas. > Make sure you have xserver-xfree86 insta

Re: latest Nvidia drivers

2002-03-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 12:03, Florian Struck wrote: > Unstable (SID) here ... same procedure. > With a custom kernel it works as described in /usr/share/doc/nvidia-kernel Thanks. I do have a custom kernel, so I'll try it. > If you dont have a custom kernel you might need some extra crunching. > W

CVS over SSL wont authenticate. Plain CVS is fine

2002-03-11 Thread hanasaki
CVS over SSL wont authenticate. Plain CVS is fine. Any thoughts on what is going on here and how to fix it? Thank you. -- = = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = = Spam : Unhealthy and High in Sodium a

CVS and SSH

2002-03-11 Thread Sven Gaerner
Hi, I've got a (hopefully) little proble.m. I want to grant some people CVS access to my machine. They should connect by using SSH but I don't want to give them a shell. They should be able to use CVS with SSH but without logging in to my machine. Does anyone have an idea how to get this working?

Change from SuSE to Debian

2002-03-11 Thread pete atkinson
I would appreciate some tips... I have been running SuSE in various releases for the last 3 years and like(d) to think I had a good grasp of what was going on. In an effort to expand my knowledge, I have commandeered a spare box that I have and have chosen 'Potato' as my first Debian distributi

Re: Debian on a Walmart Microtel???

2002-03-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 11:41, Timothy R. Butler wrote: > I don't know of anyone running Debian on a Microtel, but I know a friend who > successfully installed SuSE 7.3 on one, so I would assume you should be able > to get Debian going. It's worth pointing out the two flaws he found: > >1.) Th

truncate utility (not split)

2002-03-11 Thread csj
Is there a utility to truncate files such that a single smaller piece or no more than two pieces are produced? Something like: (1) original_file -> small_chunk (bigger_2nd_chunk discarded) (2) original_file -> (smaller_1st_chunk discarded) big_chunk (3) original_file -> small_chunk + big_chunk sp

Re: Adding new kernel modules

2002-03-11 Thread Guy Geens
> "Patrick" == Patrick Dahiroc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Patrick> hi i've been running kernel 2.4.17 for a week now and things Patrick> are great even sound is working as a module. what i want to Patrick> do now is to have reiserfs as a module. is it possible to Patrick> just build the desir

RE: The future of Debian install??

2002-03-11 Thread Bedford, Donald T.
Yes, if I may pipe-in on this one... I am a Debian newbie from the RH world a few years back. Yes, my first install on a x86 box as anything but easy as I build my own box. But, I now know more about my system than I ever did w/ RH. This is why I chose the Debian path instead of re-installing RH on

RE: Setting up an ASCII terminal as a Console

2002-03-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 11:30, Kurc, Marcin A. wrote: > add the following to your lilo.conf > append = "console=ttyS0,9600" > or whatever port you connecting to > then just run minicom I presume that you mean to run minicom on the "other" system. In his case, would he need to run minicom, since he

Re: latest Nvidia drivers

2002-03-11 Thread Caleb Shay
Well, that depends on your definition of "work". On my GeForce 4 I can get 2D, and 3D for about 30 seconds at a time between segfaults Caleb On Sun, 2002-03-10 at 13:53, Roy Pluschke wrote: > Has anybody else found that the latest Nvidia drivers "1.0-2802" don't > work! I have a tnt2 runnin

Re: new installation from /var/cache/apt/archives

2002-03-11 Thread Sebastiaan
High, On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Fran?ois Chenais wrote: please repeat subject line, it makes the message better to read: New installation from /var/cache/apt/archives > May I do that ? > huh, what do you mean? If you do an apt-get (dist-)upgrade or similar, the packages will be downloaded to /var/

Re: Setting up an ASCII terminal as a Console

2002-03-11 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 12:30:09PM -0500, Kurc, Marcin A. wrote: > add the following to your lilo.conf > append = "console=ttyS0,9600" > or whatever port you connecting to > then just run minicom Why would you run minicom? *How* would you run minicom if you weren't already at a command line prom

Can http. CanNOT http via squid . Can telnet on tcp 80

2002-03-11 Thread hanasaki
Below is the output of traceroute -I www.wdc.com Telnet on port 80 times out http browsing on a NAT'ed internal address works http browsing via squid fails Squid Cache: Version 2.4.STABLE4 Another person on squid reports they can get to the site fine. Could someone check out these hosts

Re: CVS Server on SSL?

2002-03-11 Thread David Hart
> How is ssh-agent different from just running ssh-keygen to create a > key pair with an empty passphrase and putting the public key into > ~/.ssh./authorized_keys on the cvs machine? It just means that your private key isn't lying around on your disk unencrypted. -- David Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: CVS Server on SSL?

2002-03-11 Thread Craig Dickson
begin Ben Collins quotation: > > Is tehre a way to do SSH CVS from Win? WinCVS? > > Not sure. Sure, use Cygwin's ssh and cvs. I use those every day. If you want to use a GUI like WinCVS, get ssh working from the command line first, then configure WinCVS to use it. Craig pgpQcMnjctFFn.pgp D

Re: CVS Server on SSL?

2002-03-11 Thread Andrew Agno
hanasaki writes: > Is tehre a way to do SSH CVS from Win? WinCVS? To the first, you can use cygwin (http://sources.redhat.com) and use the SSH from there. I believe that cvs should also be available on cygwin. If you want to use WinCVS, check out: http://www.wincvs.org/ssh.html Andrew.

Re: dh-client setup problems

2002-03-11 Thread Stephen Nosal
Marcin - I didn't have any other box connected, and I did a full power recycle with reset on the modem (the process works when I test on another machine) - Steve On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 11:17:42AM -0500, Kurc, Marcin A. wrote: > Did you have any other box connected to your cable modem before yo

german apt-gettable ximian mirror!

2002-03-11 Thread Oliver Doepner
Hi, i am happy to tell you that ximian has ad-APT-ed their ftp server to make the mirrors apt-gettable! (a few weeks ago this wasn't the case.) So for example the following is now possible in /etc/apt/sources.list: #deb http://red-carpet.ximian.com/debian stable main deb ftp://ftp-stud.fht-essli

Re: CVS Server on SSL?

2002-03-11 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Craig Dickson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > begin Ben Collins quotation: > > > I strongly suggest using CVS over SSH. It's easy to setup. Just make > > sure the server that your CVS repo is on has sshd installed. Then on the > > client do: > > > > export CVS_RSH=ssh > > > > cvs -d :ext

Re: Vim in mutt (was: Re: Compiling from source)

2002-03-11 Thread Andraz Sraka
On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 10:47:01PM +, Patrick Kirk wrote: > PS - off topic here but vim is not text wrapping within mutt. sorry > its all over the place - would someone using vim with mutt please be > so kind as to send me the relevant line from .muttrc to get the tw > correct. put something

set permissions on uploads

2002-03-11 Thread techlists
I'm running proftp on Debian woody. How do I set it to have all uploadded files to default to permission 664 and directories to 775? Jack

Re: e2fsck

2002-03-11 Thread Axel Boyrie
On Mon, 11 Mar 2002 18:03:05 +0100 "R.Pac" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > which options should I use to check my ide hard disk when at startup > e2fsck tell me that I've got a bad superblock ? e2fsck --help affiche toutes les options ou man e2fsck > > thanks > > Pac > > > -- > To

fatal server error: no screens found

2002-03-11 Thread timothy bauscher
x-window-system and gnome-session are installed. xdm is the default display manager. I am using the nv driver for my RIVA TNT2, and have just completed a fresh install of unstable. When xdm (or gdm) are launched, they display a black screen 3 times and then fail. When startx is launched it also

Re: latest Nvidia drivers

2002-03-11 Thread Florian Struck
Unstable (SID) here ... same procedure. With a custom kernel it works as described in /usr/share/doc/nvidia-kernel If you dont have a custom kernel you might need some extra crunching. Without the custom kernel i got it working (on 2.4.18-k7 precompiled) with following method : install apropriate

Re: Setting up an ASCII terminal as a Console

2002-03-11 Thread David Hart
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 11:28:18AM -0500, Bodnyk, Bruce W wrote: > I installed Debian Linux 2.2 on a machine at home that I want to configure > as a firewall. I don't have a monitor for this machine so I've been swapping > my monitor between this machine and my NT workstation. I do have an old > A

Re: Setting up an ASCII terminal as a Console

2002-03-11 Thread Alan James
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 11:28:18AM -0500, Bodnyk, Bruce W wrote: > I installed Debian Linux 2.2 on a machine at home that I want to configure > as a firewall. I don't have a monitor for this machine so I've been swapping > my monitor between this machine and my NT workstation. I do have an old > AS

Re: Debian on a Walmart Microtel???

2002-03-11 Thread Timothy R. Butler
I don't know of anyone running Debian on a Microtel, but I know a friend who successfully installed SuSE 7.3 on one, so I would assume you should be able to get Debian going. It's worth pointing out the two flaws he found: 1.) The CD-ROM was on cable select, and confused Linux (post-install).

Re: Perl package

2002-03-11 Thread Andrew Pritchard
> > Hello, > > > > I looking 4 debian perl package including LWP::Parallel modules. > > I'm using a Woody distro. > > > > > > I'have installed thoses packages but don't have LWP::Parallel. > > > > > > > > -- >

RE: Setting up an ASCII terminal as a Console

2002-03-11 Thread Kurc, Marcin A.
add the following to your lilo.conf append = "console=ttyS0,9600" or whatever port you connecting to then just run minicom Marcin Kurc CAD Systems Administrator Cooper-Standard Automotive -Original Message- From: Bodnyk, Bruce W [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 11

Re: CVS Server on SSL?

2002-03-11 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 09:48:01AM -0600, hanasaki wrote: > I have heard that pserver is not secure. Is this due to plaintext > passwd on the net or exploits? How can it be secured? How can the > client and server be configured to run over SSL (Win and Lin)? Use ssh: Use ext instead of pserve

Re: CVS Server on SSL?

2002-03-11 Thread Craig Dickson
begin Ben Collins quotation: > I strongly suggest using CVS over SSH. It's easy to setup. Just make > sure the server that your CVS repo is on has sshd installed. Then on the > client do: > > export CVS_RSH=ssh > > cvs -d :ext:@cvs.server.com:/repo co myproj Yes, I use cvs with ssh this way.

RE: the quest for a *stable* browser

2002-03-11 Thread Panuganty, Ramesh
I had read a review in news.com recently that opera is the most stable and fastest (in terms of page display) on linux. Try it out (free version comes with a small advt banner logo). -Ramesh -Original Message- From: Dave Sherohman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 9:

Re: home gateway

2002-03-11 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, James Bruce wrote: > i need to set up a gateway for my home computer and id like to do with > debian . the machine i have is: > > pII 450 8mb gfx card, 10gb disk. > > i would like it set up as a firewall initially, and eventually a web > server and samba etc, incluyding basic

e2fsck

2002-03-11 Thread R . Pac
Hi, which options should I use to check my ide hard disk when at startup e2fsck tell me that I've got a bad superblock ? thanks Pac

Re: Truly stupid menu seting

2002-03-11 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Matijs van Zuijlen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020311 01:40]: > On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 12:56:08AM +0100, Bjarne S. N?ss wrote: > > > also, xhost + is probably not the safest thing to do if untrusted machines > > > have network access to your machine > > > > xhost +localhost is better. > > > > But if

Re: Adding /dev/hdXX nodes

2002-03-11 Thread Alexander Húska
see /usr/src/kernel*/Documentation/devices.txt Dne 2002.03.11 03:57 napsal Christopher S. Swingley: Jerome, > > The kernel detects and identifies the geometry on the drives > > (hda, c, e, g, i, k, m, o, q, s), but the device nodes in > > /dev only go up to hdh. > Hi Chris, I think you can

Re: CVS Server on SSL?

2002-03-11 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 10:42:15AM -0600, hanasaki wrote: > I think you are saying that nothing needs to be done, on the server > side, to support ssh? Same port for tcp and ssh? Right. Server side doesn't need anything special. > Is tehre a way to do SSH CVS from Win? WinCVS? Not sure. --

new installation from /var/cache/apt/archives

2002-03-11 Thread François
May I do that ? François -- Woody 3.0 Linux tanna 2.4.14 #3 SMP Thu Dec 6 14:04:03 CET 2001 i686 unknown

OpenGL Development

2002-03-11 Thread R . Pac
Hi, I've just installed the Nvidia drivers but which package should I install to compile my own openGL applications ? How can I be sure that my openGL applications will use the Nvidia driver ? Thanks -- R.Pac

Re: CVS Server on SSL?

2002-03-11 Thread hanasaki
I think you are saying that nothing needs to be done, on the server side, to support ssh? Same port for tcp and ssh? Is tehre a way to do SSH CVS from Win? WinCVS? Ben Collins wrote: On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 09:48:01AM -0600, hanasaki wrote: I have heard that pserver is not secure. Is this

Re: latest Nvidia drivers

2002-03-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2002-03-10 at 16:23, Phillip Deackes wrote: > On Sun, 10 Mar 2002 13:53:01 -0800 > Roy Pluschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Has anybody else found that the latest Nvidia drivers "1.0-2802" don't > > work! I have a tnt2 running on a 2.4 kernel in "testing". > > No - they work fine he

Re: DVD players under Linux (was: Re: 2.4 kernels with potato and Movie players)

2002-03-11 Thread Jim Gettys
I'm a happy camper with current Xine, on a display running the Xvideo extension, on a 600mhz pentium III. Pretty much doesn't drop frames. The other tip is to kill esd if it is running. That lame audio server is hopeless on being able to keep audio and video synced up.

ZA2 Soundcard

2002-03-11 Thread John Shepherd
Hi, I have a Zefiro ZA2 soundcard I would love to use with my Debian machine. I see the ZA2 is listed in the Linux Hardware HOWTO as "supported", but it is also says "NOT RECOMMENDED" It's the only entry marked that way and there is no explanation as to why. The manufacturer has no inf

Re: Mutt Configuration

2002-03-11 Thread Alan James
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 10:20:28AM -0500, Bannerman, Israel wrote: > To all: > > I recently just installed Mutt 1.3.27-4 and I want pull my email off of an > Exchange server with IMAP enabled. How would I configure Mutt for this and > what would be the proper steps or procedures in configuring Mut

Setting up an ASCII terminal as a Console

2002-03-11 Thread Bodnyk, Bruce W
I installed Debian Linux 2.2 on a machine at home that I want to configure as a firewall. I don't have a monitor for this machine so I've been swapping my monitor between this machine and my NT workstation. I do have an old ASCII terminal from years back and it occurred to me that I should be able

RE: "dpkg -l" redirection

2002-03-11 Thread Panuganty, Ramesh
dpkg-awk "Status: .* installed$" -- Package | cut -d: -f2. -Ramesh -Original Message- From: Jim Woodruff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2002 1:27 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: "dpkg -l" redirection Does anyone have a way of redirecting the standard out

Re: CVS Server on SSL?

2002-03-11 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 09:48:01AM -0600, hanasaki wrote: > I have heard that pserver is not secure. Is this due to plaintext > passwd on the net or exploits? How can it be secured? How can the > client and server be configured to run over SSL (Win and Lin)? It is because of plain text passwo

kernel compile problem -- unresolved symbols

2002-03-11 Thread Christopher M. Jones
I am having a problem compiling from source 2.4.17 packaged for Debian. Using make-kpkg kernel_image in the source dir, all my modules come up with unresolved symbols. What causes this? What am I doing wrong? What should I do to fix it? Using gcc 2.95.4

about load LANCE model to AMD PCNET 32 in VMware

2002-03-11 Thread debian2002
HI: Wheni install potato2.2r5 on VMware. I choose the LANCE model for the net. but it said the device is busy and fail to load this model. I tried other model,,still does not work. any idea>? thanks From: Ming Wu

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