Re: Debian newbie wants to know if this is a good place to ask questions?

2002-03-15 Thread Gary Turner
On Sat, 16 Mar 2002 05:08:02 -0500, Hugh wrote: >I just switched from Red Hat and I wonder if this list is the right one >to ask simple questions in? >If not sorry for wasting your time Absolutely! This is the place. One caveat, though; be sure to do your homework before asking, be specific in

Re: VERY OT: On Censorship.

2002-03-15 Thread Gary Turner
On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 20:19:51 -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: >begin Gary Turner quotation: > >> Well, Satanism is also a religion > >In fact, it is Christianity; a Satanist is simply a Christian who has >decided to be one of the "bad guys". Which explains why Satanists are >generally such juvenile t

Debian newbie wants to know if this is a good place to ask questions?

2002-03-15 Thread Hugh
I just switched from Red Hat and I wonder if this list is the right one to ask simple questions in? If not sorry for wasting your time

Re: Mail server for local lan

2002-03-15 Thread Harry Putnam
Many thanks to all posters! Everyone suggests imap, and I am aware of its advantages. Probably will use imap at some point. All users are accustomed to POP3 at this point (Wife Daughter me). And since this is just a first run at getting it working, I'm going to try to setup popa3d as server.

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-15 Thread Scott Dier
* user list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020315 00:42]: > Let's just say that this is a free-speech issue. The point is that free-speech Lets just say this isn't a free speech issue and worry about policies that restrict the sort of 'speech' that a maintainer could become liable for. I don't want to see

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-15 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Scott" == Scott Dier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Scott> Perhaps you should try and work this out into policy if you Scott> feel so strongly about it instead of feeding a war on -devel? Nope. Debian policy is really technical policy. Non technical issues can't be foisted onto the proj

RE: booting from PCI IDE card rather than SCSI

2002-03-15 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Just a shot in the dark here since you didn't mention which SCSI controller you are using, BUT you "should" have a SCSI setup to configure its BIOS somewhere. It is NOT the one you have been using in the KT7's BIOS setup program, although some MBs have an integrated SCSI and its SCSI setup can

Re: VERY OT: On Censorship.

2002-03-15 Thread Craig Dickson
begin Gary Turner quotation: > Well, Satanism is also a religion In fact, it is Christianity; a Satanist is simply a Christian who has decided to be one of the "bad guys". Which explains why Satanists are generally such juvenile twits. Craig

OT: BIG drives in old P90 ??

2002-03-15 Thread ye416
Hi, I've an old Pentium 90MHz. The CPU is probably about the only notable component with a brandname on it. I want to put another drive in it, but am wondering about the ability of this old machine to handle the huge hard drives that are on the market. Specifically, 1)

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-15 Thread Scott Dier
* Lazarus Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020313 13:24]: > > > Yo family's so black, when they hold hands, it looks like a > > > stretch limo. > > > There's no excuse for racism in Debian. > Again, there is no excuse for racism in Debian. Other packages have > elided the inappropriate material in t

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-15 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Jaldhar" == Jaldhar H Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jaldhar> Censorship is suppression of an idea based on its' content. I didn't Jaldhar> quote that from a dictionary but would you agree that's a reasonable Jaldhar> definition? Not quite. You are missing the significance of the

Re: How do remove frozen messages from Exim Queue?

2002-03-15 Thread Frank Copeland
On 14 Mar 02 20:58:12 GMT, Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 07:55:24PM +0100, Troels Petersen wrote: >> How do I remove frozen messages from the exim queue, messages like : >> >> (output from 'exim -bp') >> >> 14d 1.7K 16gLfk-0001Ka-00 <> *** frozen *** >>

booting from PCI IDE card rather than SCSI

2002-03-15 Thread Matt Garman
Okay---at this point I've rebooted my computer probably 50 times over the last three days. I'm trying to install a new IDE hard drive and have it run off of an IDE PCI controller. Everything that could go wrong has, short of data loss (so I'm fuming, not crying :) Anyway, sparing you my long st

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-15 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"user" == user list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: user> Let's just say that this is a free-speech issue. The point is user> that free-speech does not reach into institutions. Depends on the institution. Something like Debian, which revolves around principles of freedom, may care

Re: Best Email Web Application

2002-03-15 Thread Joey Hess
Dave Scott wrote: > Anyone have any ideas on what is the best Web Based email application. mutt in mindterm? -- see shy jo

Re: Best Email Web Application

2002-03-15 Thread Jason Healy
At 1016235863s since epoch (03/15/02 18:44:23 -0500 UTC), Angus D Madden wrote: > Dave Scott, Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 12:45:18PM -0800: > > Anyone have any ideas on what is the best Web Based email application. > > > > I was using Neomail, but it's just too plain, is there anything with > > more opt

Re: uw-imapd won't start

2002-03-15 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Thomas Shemanske wrote: > The problem seems to be the tcp daemon tcpd. The logs are full of the > following message: > > Mar 14 16:59:40 buzoe tcpd[6026]: connect from unknown > Mar 14 16:59:40 buzoe tcpd[6026]: warning: can't get client address: > Socket operation on non-soc

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-15 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Yes. Upstream seems to have admitted that this particular > case was an oversight. > > Jaldhar> So the censorship has already occurred. > > Look at the definition of the word. Censorship is suppression of an idea based on its' content.

Re: VERY OT: On Censorship.

2002-03-15 Thread Gary Turner
On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 12:24:49 -0600, Timothy R. Butler wrote: >Hello, > I want to clear up a bit of confusion about my statements. > The double >> stuff is mine--to properly attribute. >> So you're going to dictate how tax money is spent, based on your >> minuscule contribution to the whole? My t

Re: Woody ISO's ?

2002-03-15 Thread Greg C. Madden
On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 14:47, stan wrote: > Since I can't seem to get the Woody floppies to offer me the choice of > resierfs, I thoght I'd try a CD install. > > Where can I find an ISO? http://www.debian.org/CD -- Greg C. Madden Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 signature.asc Description: This is a digit

Re: Latest Woody boot floppies & reiserfs

2002-03-15 Thread stan
On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 03:57:44PM -0900, Greg C. Madden wrote: > On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 14:13, stan wrote: > > Sorry if this is a repost, I did not see my original message show up in the > > list. > > > > I'm trying to install a new machien this weekend, so I grabed the latest > > boot floppies fr

Re: VERY OT: On Censorship.

2002-03-15 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Manoj Srivastava ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: [ argument snipped ] You know Manoj, I've come to believe that "moral majority" people, even if they look decent and clueful otherwise, are simply incapable of understanding this kind of argument. Or any other kind, for that matter. Must be som

Re: Mail server for local lan

2002-03-15 Thread Jeff
Harry Putnam, 2002-Mar-15 14:49 -0800: > 1) What daeman do I need to have running (pop3d Imapd...). I intend >to have other household machines retreive via pop3 from this >server. I suggest imapd, so you'd have the option to retain mail on this system and view either with a webmail packag

Re: VERY OT: On Censorship.

2002-03-15 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
For gods sake please drop it. This has NOTHING to do with debian in any sense, so please take it else where. At 06:54 PM 3/15/2002, you wrote: >>"Timothy" == Timothy R Butler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Timothy> Hello, Timothy> I want to clear up a bit of confusion about my statements.

Re: Mail server for local lan

2002-03-15 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 02:49:30PM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: ... > The things I'm really unsure about are: > > 1) What daeman do I need to have running (pop3d Imapd...). I intend >to have other household machines retreive via pop3 from this >server. Well, you'll first have to decide whe

Re: Latest Woody boot floppies & reiserfs

2002-03-15 Thread Greg C. Madden
On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 14:13, stan wrote: > Sorry if this is a repost, I did not see my original message show up in the > list. > > I'm trying to install a new machien this weekend, so I grabed the latest > boot floppies from woody. However, nowehre along the road do I seem to be > offered the choi

Re: Mail server for local lan

2002-03-15 Thread Jeremy Gaddis
On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Harry Putnam wrote: > The things I'm really unsure about are: > > 1) What daeman do I need to have running (pop3d Imapd...). I intend >to have other household machines retreive via pop3 from this >server. Although I prefer IMAP, you can use any POP3 daemon that you l

Is the list broken?

2002-03-15 Thread stan
I've posted 3 messages today, and have yet to see any of them come back. If anyone sees this, could they email me? Thanks. -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Frankli

very slow list

2002-03-15 Thread timothy bauscher
It used to take less than 5 minutes before emails were delivered to debian-user. Now, delivery seems to take an hour. This is causing problems with thread replies. Is there anything we can do to help? Has anyone looked into this? (==timothy==)

Gnome app problems

2002-03-15 Thread Jonathan Ard
Ok, I am responding to my own e-mail here. Sorry about that, but I fixed it, and my original message hasn't even hit the group yet. But check this, because this is the weirdest thing. I'm running sid, like I said in the previous e-mail. I have a cable modem and have been using dhcpcd as my d

Re: Slow list?

2002-03-15 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 11:40:07AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: ... > http://murphy.debian.org/mrtg/ Nice graph you're refering to, but I don't know how to interpretate it. Could you share us your insights as to why it tells us conspiracy theories are out? > Look ma! No conspiracy theories! -- gro

Re: Flash and Konqueror

2002-03-15 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 04:18:58PM +, Pat Colbeck wrote: > The thing that really drives me mad with Galeon and Mozilla > though is the file dialogue. If you want to save to anything other than > the directory it pops up with when you do file save it looses the > filename and yo

Re: ext3 not mounting (ghost mounts created)

2002-03-15 Thread Wayne Topa
Thedore Knab([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > What did I do wrong to prevent the proper mounting of multiple /var/* > directories ? > > How can I prevent ghost mounts from occurring in the future ? > <--snip--> > > # /etc/fstab: static file system information. > # > # > #

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-15 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Jaldhar" == Jaldhar H Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jaldhar> Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> And it is my right to fight tooth and nail to prevent debian >> from sliding into censorship, since that makes debian worse. >> Jaldhar> While all this bickering was going on, the maintainer did

Gnome problems

2002-03-15 Thread ard
Is anyone else having problems with any of their Gnome apps? If I try to run Galeon, Evolution, or Gabber, they all just hang. Nothing shows up, no error messages, nothing. And if I try to log into a gnome-session, it just hangs as well. I'm using sid, so maybe the problem is a new package t

Re: VERY OT: On Censorship.

2002-03-15 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Timothy" == Timothy R Butler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Timothy> Hello, Timothy> I want to clear up a bit of confusion about my statements. >> So you're going to dictate how tax money is spent, based on your >> minuscule contribution to the whole? My tax dollar is in there, too. >> Yo

Woody ISO's ?

2002-03-15 Thread stan
Since I can't seem to get the Woody floppies to offer me the choice of resierfs, I thoght I'd try a CD install. Where can I find an ISO? -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benja

Re: Best Email Web Application

2002-03-15 Thread Angus D Madden
Dave Scott, Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 12:45:18PM -0800: > Anyone have any ideas on what is the best Web Based email application. > > I was using Neomail, but it's just too plain, is there anything with > more options, etc, something more like Outlook Web Access 2000 in an > open source alternative. >

RE: ping puzzler

2002-03-15 Thread justin cunningham
tracert from dos not traceroute bash on the ip in question. If it's a machine it'll return with the hostname. I don't use nt4 for dhcp but I'd bet there's a route table to reference? Also what does nmap say on the ip(s)? justin -Original Message- From: Nigel Pauli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTE

Re: ext3 not mounting (ghost mounts created)

2002-03-15 Thread Rich Puhek
Thedore Knab wrote: > > What did I do wrong to prevent the proper mounting of multiple /var/* > directories ? > # /etc/fstab: static file system information. > # > # > /dev/hda2 / ext3defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 > /dev/hda3 noneswapsw

Latest Woody boot floppies & reiserfs

2002-03-15 Thread stan
Sorry if this is a repost, I did not see my original message show up in the list. I'm trying to install a new machien this weekend, so I grabed the latest boot floppies from woody. However, nowehre along the road do I seem to be offered the choice of using reiserfs for any partition. I have severa

Re: /etc/issue

2002-03-15 Thread Tony Crawford
Michael Kines wrote (on 15 Mar 2002 at 10:43): > I accidentally erased my /etc/issue . > Now, when I switch alt-ctrl f1, there is no > indication of what tty I am on. Where can > I get that back again? Thanks. And read "ISSUE ESCAPES" in man getty(8). T. -- -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Mail server for local lan

2002-03-15 Thread Harry Putnam
Setup: Woody/testing noX Several home machines on a home network Behind a hardware firewall (netgear FR314) Running exim/procmail Back in action.. Being the oldest perl student at ucsb was kind of fun. Final now over. Time to play. I wanted to see a general outline of how

tcpd hemorrhage

2002-03-15 Thread Thomas Shemanske
A colleague did a clean install of woody yesterday. Everything seemed pretty normal, but he could not get uw-imap to start. It would not start because tcp wrappers seems to be going crazy (uw-imapd starts via inetd and the line /usb/bin/tcpd /usr/sbin/imapd) He has many MB of log entries of

Re: sair do login via gdm

2002-03-15 Thread francisco m neto
Olás, » Assim falou Flávio Alberto Lopes Soares em Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 05:26:55PM -0300: > Olá pessoal, gostaria de saber como faço para desabilitar o login > gráfico (via gdm) e voltar a dar login via texto. Hmm, o que vc está dizendo é meio vago, mas eu vou dar algumas opções

Re: uw-imapd won't start

2002-03-15 Thread Thomas Shemanske
The problem seems to be the tcp daemon tcpd. The logs are full of the following message: Mar 14 16:59:40 buzoe tcpd[6026]: connect from unknown Mar 14 16:59:40 buzoe tcpd[6026]: warning: can't get client address: Socket operation on non-socket Looks like we are missing a package. Any ideas?

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-03-15 Thread Petro
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 08:37:06PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > begin Alan James quotation: > > > I'd like to give maildir a go, so how do I convert MH to MailDir ? > > If you use procmail, just set up new empty maildir folders corresponding > to each of your old MH folders, edit .procmailrc t

Re: 3c5x9setup: EEPROM rewritting

2002-03-15 Thread Jason M. Harvey
hello, i can't remember what exact options i used, but i was able to use that utility to change the irq. try: 3x5x9setup --help i think i used a -w at the end to actually "write". good luck, jason On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 12:01:55PM +0100, Rudolf Divicin wrote: | Hello GNU users. | | (I am sor

Re: Best Email Web Application

2002-03-15 Thread timothy bauscher
> Anyone have any ideas on what is the best Web Based email application. I like SquirrelMail. It has lots of extra features. (==timothy==)

Woody install from latest flippies, and reiserfs

2002-03-15 Thread stan
I'm trying to install woody on a new system today, so I grabed the latest floppy images from woody. But I don't seem to be offered the choice of using reiserfs. Am I overlooking something? -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

Re: web-based email for debian?

2002-03-15 Thread David Bell
I've been using SquirrelMail for the past couple days and like it quite a bit. OT: I've had one annoying problem, though. I believe it's an Apache-SSL/PHP issue, however. I have several different addresses for my webserver -- The public domains point to the IP of my firewall, and the firewall f

apache restart

2002-03-15 Thread timothy bauscher
Strange apache behavior: I modified the DirectoryIndex variable to include index.php and index.cgi. Then i entered "apache restart" at the command line. It seemed to restart, but the change didn't take affect. I also tried using "apache stop; apache start". I ended up having to reboot the server

Re: Best Email Web Application

2002-03-15 Thread Kurt Lieber
On Friday 15 March 2002 03:45 pm, Dave Scott wrote: > Anyone have any ideas on what is the best Web Based email application. Check out squirrelmail (squirrelmail.org) It's very stable and I consider it to be feature-rich. Additionally, it has a plugin interface with several third-party plugin

Re: php4 session problems

2002-03-15 Thread Kurt Lieber
On Friday 15 March 2002 03:10 pm, Kurc, Marcin A. wrote: > it appears that for some reason php4-4.1.2-1 doesn't keep session > variables or does not start session (session_start()). > Is it known problem or am I missing something? It works fine on my system. Check your php.ini file and make sure

Re: ascii

2002-03-15 Thread Andras BALI
On 15 Mar 2002, Marcelo Leal wrote: > hello, anybody knows one software to convert gif images to ascii images > (art ascii) ??? the gimp script fu don't work Try aview [1] (apt-get install aview) from the AA-Project [2]. You have to convert the GIF image to PNM first, or run asciiview which d

MTA for virtual domains and virus scan

2002-03-15 Thread Ramon
Hi all! I'm currently running exim 3.33 with mailscan which run quite well. Now I need to manage some domains on the same machine. I've been reading about how to have different queues for different domais with exim and about using /etc/passwd.$domain instead of /etc/passwd for the users of a domai

Re: ascii

2002-03-15 Thread Derek Loree
Marcelo Leal wrote: > hello, anybody knows one software to convert gif images to ascii images > (art ascii) ??? the gimp script fu don't work > Pic2Text might do the job for you. Good Luck Derek Loree

SiS VGA drivers - once again

2002-03-15 Thread Thomas Winischhofer
Hello, since I do only get very few testing results recently, I would all people reading this and using machines with SiS VGA devices (especially laptops) kindly ask to test the current versions of the X driver as well as the kernel framebuffer driver available at http://www.webit.com/tw/linuxsis

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-15 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
[portions of previous messages snipped and rearranged for didactic purposes] Vineet Kumar said: > Vineet> The beauty of our system is that it is run by the > Vineet> community, and that it is free to be changed. He did what he > Vineet> could to improve Debian rather than just walking away fro

Re: SSH 2 slower than 1?

2002-03-15 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 15-Mar-2002 Jonathan Matthews wrote: > Does anyone have idea why, after dist-upgrading my 486/25 router from > stable -> testing, ssh'ing in takes massively longer than before? > ssh2 is more computationally intensive.

Re: SSH 2 slower than 1?

2002-03-15 Thread Christian Jaeger
I'm wondering too why ssh2 takes much longer to build a connection. On recent machines it takes only about 2-3 seconds, but that's still slow, esp. for things like tkcvs, and slow connections make it worse. chj.

RE: SSH 2 slower than 1?

2002-03-15 Thread Costa, Todd \(DMH\)
Title: RE: SSH 2 slower than 1? JC, If you don't get a reasonable answer here. Maybe trying the OpenSSH list might help. Might be a good place to ask there too. From what I see from posts there they answer fairly quickly like debian-user does. Later, Todd > -Original Message- >

php4 session_start cont.

2002-03-15 Thread Kurc, Marcin A.
it looks like php is starting the session, although somehow the file /tmp/sess_$PHPSESSID gets cleared here is a little test I start with running the following: $test_var"); print (""); print ($PHPSESSID); print (""); $sess_reg=session_is_registered("test_var"); print ($sess_reg); ?> the output:

Best Email Web Application

2002-03-15 Thread Dave Scott
Title: Best Email Web Application Anyone have any ideas on what is the best Web Based email application. I was using Neomail, but it’s just too plain, is there anything with more options, etc, something more like Outlook Web Access 2000 in an open source alternative. Thanks -Dave

Mailman move.

2002-03-15 Thread Dave Scott
Title: Mailman move. Anyone know what I need to move to get all the listservs off one Debian box onto another Debain box. I will be going from Mailman 1.1 to Mailman 2.0.8 Also changing from Sendmail on the old box to Postfix on the new box. Do I need to alter any config files, etc? Than

Re: web-based email for debian?

2002-03-15 Thread Tim Moss
Apparently, on Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 11:11:19AM -0600, will trillich wrote: > the question remains -- > > is there a DEBIAN/POTATO PACKAGE to install a webmail > server? (we like the looks of acmemail/sparkle, as it works > with MOD_PERL/APACHE...) > On my sid system, a quick "ap

ext3 not mounting (ghost mounts created)

2002-03-15 Thread Thedore Knab
What did I do wrong to prevent the proper mounting of multiple /var/* directories ? How can I prevent ghost mounts from occurring in the future ? I created a machine with the following partition schema: /dev/hda1 on /boot type ext3 /dev/hda2 on / type ext3 /dev/hda5 on /home type ext3 /dev/hd

php4 session problems

2002-03-15 Thread Kurc, Marcin A.
Hi, it appears that for some reason php4-4.1.2-1 doesn't keep session variables or does not start session (session_start()). Is it known problem or am I missing something? Marcin Kurc CAD Systems Administrator Cooper-Standard Automotive

ascii

2002-03-15 Thread Marcelo Leal
hello, anybody knows one software to convert gif images to ascii images (art ascii) ??? the gimp script fu don't work thanks

Re: uw-imapd won't start

2002-03-15 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Thomas Shemanske wrote: > I have a colleague who just did a clean install of woody and once again > wanted to setup his imap server. He installed uw-imapd, but the daemon > won't start. > * Use lsof to check if there isn't anything else listening to port 143. * Telnet to por

Re: directPC vs Starband (slightly off topic)

2002-03-15 Thread David Teague
Dave Mallery writes: > i will be forced to go to one of the satellite providers shortly. > > if you are using either or the above (or some other service) > i would greatly appreciate some feedback. i am in a totally remote > location. is there a problem with directpc's usb ethernet connection?

Re: Screen-free Linux?

2002-03-15 Thread jerry
On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 23:58:10 +0800 csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What I'm looking for is a species of Linux that lets users interact > with the computer without the use of a monitor. And I'm not thinking > of servers and render farms. What I have in mind is a Linux that can > be operated by th

Re: Package database corrupted

2002-03-15 Thread Andras BALI
On 14 Mar 2002, Dave Sherohman wrote: > I've gotten mail from cron the last three days about bad lines in > /var/lib/dpkg/status on one of my machines; Try restoring the file from /var/backups -- the backup can be out of date, though (ie. it may not reflect some recent changes of package states).

power off on shutdown

2002-03-15 Thread Paul Fischer
Hi all, I'm a Debian newbie running potato 2.2.r3 booting from floppy, what makes my computer to turn the power off automagically on shutdown -halt now? Paul .~. Fischer /V\ /( )\ ^^-^^ [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.fischerpaul.com

Re: OT: Microtel computer PCI modem

2002-03-15 Thread dsr
On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 11:55:48AM -0500, alex wrote: > > I'm interested in the Walmart/Microtel computers that come without > software but I'm wondering about their PCI modem. > > I understand that some PCI modems can be adapted for use in Linux but > what I'd like to know is > if once the PCI

SSH 2 slower than 1?

2002-03-15 Thread Jonathan Matthews
Does anyone have idea why, after dist-upgrading my 486/25 router from stable -> testing, ssh'ing in takes massively longer than before? A "ssh -v kanyon exit" reveals that the slow point is immediately after debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_INIT sent debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REPLY .. bu

Re: /etc/issue

2002-03-15 Thread Robin Putters
On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 16:43, Michael Kines wrote: > I accidentally erased my /etc/issue . > Now, when I switch alt-ctrl f1, there is no > indication of what tty I am on. Where can > I get that back again? Thanks. > bash-2.05a$ dpkg -S /etc/issue base-files: /etc/issue So an apt-get install --rei

Re: Change from SuSE to Debian

2002-03-15 Thread pete atkinson
Just a brief note of thanks to those of you who replied either direct or to the list. I am working my way through the Dwarf guide at the moment after having read up on APT in particular and am beginning to 'see the light' Thanks again and hope to be able to make a contribution to the list in my

power off on shutdown

2002-03-15 Thread Paul Fischer
Hi all, I'm a Debian newbie running potato 2.2.r3 booting from floppy, what makes my computer to turn the power off automagically on shutdown -halt now? Paul .~. Fischer /V\ /( )\ ^^-^^ [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.fischerpaul.com

VERY OT: On Censorship.

2002-03-15 Thread Timothy R. Butler
Hello, I want to clear up a bit of confusion about my statements. > So you're going to dictate how tax money is spent, based on your > minuscule contribution to the whole? My tax dollar is in there, too. > You want to deny me the benefits of my contribution? No. Let me put it another way, pe

anyone successfully install debian on hp rx4610 (lion server?)

2002-03-15 Thread Walter Tautz
what method did you use and how well does it work. Just trying to get some feedback. -walter

Re: /etc/issue

2002-03-15 Thread csj
On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 10:43:47 -0500 Michael Kines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I accidentally erased my /etc/issue . > Now, when I switch alt-ctrl f1, there is no > indication of what tty I am on. Where can > I get that back again? Thanks. more /etc/issue Debian GNU/\s 3.0 \n \l

Re: /etc/issue

2002-03-15 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 10:43:47AM -0500, Michael Kines wrote: > I accidentally erased my /etc/issue . > Now, when I switch alt-ctrl f1, there is no > indication of what tty I am on. Where can > I get that back again? Thanks. > My /etc/issue reads: Debian GNU/\s 3.0 \n \l Create the text file

Re: XFree vs ATI All-in-wonder

2002-03-15 Thread Lorenzo Mattei
On 14 Mar 2002 07:42:06 -0500, Bill Triplett wrote: >On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 08:44, Lorenzo Mattei wrote: >>I'm now trying to setup my ATI AIW video card on a new woody box. >>I find the same problem I had with potato... >>lspci now say my chip is a ATI Rage 128 pro TF <- > >Rockin :) > >>The ati

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-15 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Vineet" == Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Vineet> * David D.W. Downey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020314 20:45]: >> Your use of a distribution does NOT NOT NOT preclude YOU YOU YOU from being >> socially an parentially responsible for ensuring your daughter does not see, >> hear, or beco

Re: /etc/issue

2002-03-15 Thread YUFUFI
On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 17:43, Michael Kines wrote: > I accidentally erased my /etc/issue . > Now, when I switch alt-ctrl f1, there is no > indication of what tty I am on. Where can > I get that back again? Thanks. > > > -- > I Want To Believe > http://lrcressy.com/~mike/ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCR

kernel boot problem

2002-03-15 Thread pev
I can't boot my new kernel 2.4.10, the boot process looks like : LILO Loading Linux ... Uncompressing Linux ... Ok booting the kernel and then nothing else ! thanks for help.

Re: Screen-free Linux?

2002-03-15 Thread John Hasler
csj writes: > What I'm looking for is a species of Linux that lets users interact with > the computer without the use of a monitor. No need for a special Linux distribution. Just get yourself a printing terminal. I recommend a Teletype Model 40. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hi

Re: uw-imapd won't start

2002-03-15 Thread Chris Hilts
On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 11:00:56AM -0500, Thomas Shemanske wrote: > There is the appropriate entry in /etc/inetd.conf (which starts the > daemon through tcpd). One can start the daemon manually with > /usr/sbin/imapd, but we can't figure out why the daemon doesn't start > with the rest of the s

Re: web-based email for debian?

2002-03-15 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 06:13:53AM -0600, will trillich wrote: > i saw in an old post (from alvin oga -- thanks alvin) > that there are several options available for those of > us who are thinking of offering online (http) access > to our email servers: > > http://www.Linux-Consulting.com/Ma

Re: /etc/issue

2002-03-15 Thread Sean Quinlan
--- Michael Kines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2002-03-15 16:40): > I accidentally erased my /etc/issue . > Now, when I switch alt-ctrl f1, there is no > indication of what tty I am on. Where can > I get that back again? Thanks. If you're interested in geting a file back, do "dpkg -S $file" (in your case

directPC vs Starband (slightly off topic)

2002-03-15 Thread dave mallery
hi i will be forced to go to one of the satellite providers shortly. if you are using either or the above (or some other service) i would greatly appreciate some feedback. i am in a totally remote location. is there a problem with directpc's usb ethernet connection? thanks much dave -- Dav

OT: Microtel computer PCI modem

2002-03-15 Thread alex
I'm interested in the Walmart/Microtel computers that come without software but I'm wondering about their PCI modem. I understand that some PCI modems can be adapted for use in Linux but what I'd like to know is if once the PCI modem is adapted for Linux, can it still be used in other operat

Re: /etc/issue

2002-03-15 Thread dave mallery
On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Michael Kines wrote: > I accidentally erased my /etc/issue . > Now, when I switch alt-ctrl f1, there is no > indication of what tty I am on. Where can > I get that back again? Thanks. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /etc/issue Debian GNU/\s 2.2 \n \l > > > -- Dave Mallery, K

RE:/etc/issue

2002-03-15 Thread Andrew Agno
Well, my version says: Debian GNU/\s 3.0 \n \l Andrew.

Re: Slow list?

2002-03-15 Thread Joey Hess
user list wrote: > I've also noticed that everything in news/mail is slower. In > my paranoid fashion I'm guessing that the US government is > doing a lot of email filtering. There is a lot of foreign traffic on this > site (one of its advantages) but probably an attraction for surveillance. http:

Re: /etc/issue

2002-03-15 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 15:43, Michael Kines wrote: > I accidentally erased my /etc/issue . > Now, when I switch alt-ctrl f1, there is no > indication of what tty I am on. Where can > I get that back again? Thanks. Attached -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of

Re: [OT] Stressing hardware under windows

2002-03-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 10:34:10PM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: > On Thu, 2002-03-14 at 16:58, Faheem Mitha wrote: > > This is a offtopic question, but is related to Linux in that I need to do > > something in Windows I can easily do in Linux, and I wondered if someone > > could help me. > > > > I'm

Re: Flash and Konqueror

2002-03-15 Thread Pat Colbeck
> konqueror, but some sites just wouldn't load right. If you must use > flash, I am having good results with mozilla/galeon. KDE 3 may have > some improvements though too... Much the same experience here. Galeon renders web pages much better and faster than Konq and the pluggins work better too.

Re: [OT] Stressing hardware under windows

2002-03-15 Thread Kent West
On Thu, 2002-03-14 at 16:58, Faheem Mitha wrote: Dear People, This is a offtopic question, but is related to Linux in that I need to do something in Windows I can easily do in Linux, and I wondered if someone could help me. I'm about to purchase a machine to install Debian on, but the people I

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