changed network config

2002-03-18 Thread Yang Shouxun
Dear Debian Users, I'm using Debian GNU/Linux unstable. Recently I move to a new place and the ethernet configuration changed as a result. I manually edited all the files. It works fine except that each time when pcmcia service starts, the IP address, network mask and other things are of the

Re: Cannot login using root password

2002-03-18 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Matthew Twomey wrote: > 1. Boot up from some other media that has it's own root partition and get > to a shell. I'm not sure what specifically Debian has for this, but > basically any Linux boot disk set will do. I think Debian's rescue disk will do this. If not, tomsrtbt wi

Re: Mutt displays my message index all wrong

2002-03-18 Thread Tom Cook
Pat Colbeck wrote: > > Hmm > > Try this : > > mutt -n -f ~/Mail/foobar > > where foobar is a mail spool > > This will bypass all the mutt config files un case they are causing the > problem. Does the index work then ? Nope. I gather the fact that I am using IMAP is significant... Tom -- To

Re: Mutt displays my message index all wrong

2002-03-18 Thread Tom Cook
Drew Raines wrote: > > Tom Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > I know this is probably not the place for this question, but there seem > > to be a lot of mutt users here. > > There's also a lot of mutt users on the mutt-users list. > > > I have made the plunge, ditched netscape as my MUA and have

Re: slightly OT: making donation to debian using paypal or such.

2002-03-18 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Shri Shrikumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.03.18.2214 +0100]: > just wondering if it was / would be possible to make donations to > debian using Paypal or something like that making it a lot easier > for people who are not US based to make donations. no, not yet. i think that paypal was

Re: Iptables keeps logging to console (eventhough of "dmesg -n 1")

2002-03-18 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 11:18, Karo Salminen wrote: > Greetings, > > I (and one other fellow too) have suffered of the problem which is iptables' > logging related. > Iptables keeps logging to the local console eventhough I have typed "dmesg -n > 1". Dmesg's manual says the following: > > "For ex

Re: Problems with gdmconf

2002-03-18 Thread Cam Ellison
* Simon Hepburn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > When you reinstalled gdm did you remove it or purge it beforehand ? You need > to purge to remove all the old configuration settings. Given that your kids > are running kde you might be better off installing kdm. If you get back to > where you were or

can't boot; was: Re: booting from PCI IDE card rather than SCSI

2002-03-18 Thread Matt Garman
On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 06:46:34AM +, Simon Hepburn wrote: > Matt Garman wrote: > > > The new problem, though, is now my SCSI CD-ROMs don't work. The hard > > drives work fine. The SCSI device driver *is* recognizing the SCSI > > CD-ROMs. However, I can't mount any /dev/scdx device. > > Do

Re: sources.list

2002-03-18 Thread timothy bauscher
>Dang is the list slow :) > > Thanks for the help. This list used to be very fast, usually 5 minutes or less. I still haven't heard any good explanations as to why it is taking up to 2 hours to deliver some emails. IIRC, i think that emails in Germany are taking up to 5 hours. (==timothy==)

Re: Internet access problem

2002-03-18 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 11:07, Darren Walker wrote: > > Hello Debian, > > I have recently installed Debian onto > an old P75 of mine and am using it as > an internet sharing server > > I am using a modem connection > and using firewalling with masquerading > > I am also running exim and squid >

Re: sources.list

2002-03-18 Thread Charles Baker
> --- Matthew Daubenspeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What should a standard testing machine's > > /etc/apt/sources.list file look > > like? I just upgraded from potato and am getting > > some errors on all of the > > "security" sources that are listed. > > > <> > > IIRC, the security source

Re: debianized vim

2002-03-18 Thread Seneca Cunningham
news [EMAIL PROTECTED]; on behalf of; Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Setup: Woody/testing > > After installing vim with apt-get, I find that the debianizations that So, vim 6. > have been done cause sections of my .vimrc, built up over time on > several different platforms to be unusable. [...]

Re: debianized vim

2002-03-18 Thread dman
On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 06:14:19PM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: | Setup: Woody/testing | | After installing vim with apt-get, I find that the debianizations that | have been done cause sections of my .vimrc, built up over time on | several different platforms to be unusable. | | I don't really know

Re: sources.list

2002-03-18 Thread timothy bauscher
> What should a standard testing machine's /etc/apt/sources.list file > look > like? I just upgraded from potato and am getting some errors on all of > the > "security" sources that are listed. deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ testing

Re: sources.list

2002-03-18 Thread Charles Baker
--- Matthew Daubenspeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What should a standard testing machine's > /etc/apt/sources.list file look > like? I just upgraded from potato and am getting > some errors on all of the > "security" sources that are listed. > <> IIRC, the security sources only apply to sta

Re: Debain backspace key maping unfriendly

2002-03-18 Thread timothy bauscher
> > > On every other machine, every time I log in? I think not. > > > > > > What I'm looking ofr is how to change this brain dead default on > the > > > Debian > > > machines, once and for all. > > > > uhh, couldn't you just put it in a shell script? > > You still don't understand. The rest of the

Re: High powered Debian advocacy?

2002-03-18 Thread timothy bauscher
>I know what sets Debian apart and why RPM > is > ineffective etc, etc. But, I am interested in finding industry > sources > and/or extremely technical/powerful write-ups on what sets Debian > apart, > and the inadequacies of the other distros. Linux Magazine ( http://www.linux-mag.com/ ) wrote a

Re: debianized vim

2002-03-18 Thread Ben Collins
> Conflicting code: > augroup gzip > " Remove all gzip autocommands > au! Remove all this junk, vim has this built-in now. -- .--===-=-==-=---==-=-. / Ben Collins--Debian GNU/Linux--WatchGuard.com \ ` [

Re: Debain backspace key maping unfriendly

2002-03-18 Thread Corey Halpin
> > stty erase > > > > On every other machine, every time I log in? .profile anyone?

Internet access problem

2002-03-18 Thread Darren Walker
Hello Debian, I have recently installed Debian onto an old P75 of mine and am using it as an internet sharing server I am using a modem connection and using firewalling with masquerading I am also running exim and squid the problem is that it connects and masquerades without any problems cli

Re: Small bug in dh-make-perl? [was dh-make-perl]

2002-03-18 Thread Petro
These days I'm completely behind on my email, so please excuse the late response. On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 06:34:52AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > At 07:43 PM 03/03/02 -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: > >I need some of the perl modules installed right now for a school > >project so am installing them di

Re: Problems with gdmconf

2002-03-18 Thread Simon Hepburn
When you reinstalled gdm did you remove it or purge it beforehand ? You need to purge to remove all the old configuration settings. Given that your kids are running kde you might be better off installing kdm. If you get back to where you were orginally i.e your only problem is kicker dying, debi

debianized vim

2002-03-18 Thread Harry Putnam
Setup: Woody/testing After installing vim with apt-get, I find that the debianizations that have been done cause sections of my .vimrc, built up over time on several different platforms to be unusable. I don't really know exactly what these do, some are borrowed from .vimrcs of others more knowle

sources.list

2002-03-18 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
What should a standard testing machine's /etc/apt/sources.list file look like? I just upgraded from potato and am getting some errors on all of the "security" sources that are listed.

Re: xpm4g

2002-03-18 Thread timothy bauscher
> hello, > dpkg -i libforms0_89.deb > give me the message: > libforms0_89 depends on xpm4g > can someone tell me where I can download xpm4g > (I try to install the package lyxdeb) > TIA > -- > Gerard http://packages.debian.org/stable/x11/xpm4g.html Google is your best friend (==timoth

Re: [OT] Redefinition of Black Market [was Re: Screen-free Linux?]

2002-03-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 16:24, Jean-Marc V. Liotier wrote: > On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 20:42, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Apparently so. It's been 60ish years since WW2, the economy still > > functions, and taxes aren't confiscatorialy high (yet), so for us, > > the underground (or black) market is in stole

Re: Glibc 2.2

2002-03-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 12:23:13PM -0500, Bodnyk, Bruce W wrote: > Does anyone know where I can get the latest version of glibc (2.2) which > apparently is needed for the latest version of XFree86? You should get the version of XFree86 4 which is built for Debian stable instead. You can find it at

Re: Need dpkg expert

2002-03-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 11:31:12AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > This problem goes back about 4 months; I've posted a few times and > gotten some valuable responses, but nothing that's helped. > > My problem is that once when trying to uinstall gdm the process was > halted mid-stream. Ever since the

Re: How to use SquirrelMail?

2002-03-18 Thread Ian Duggan
> Ah, it _just_ started working! but I'm afraid I didn't notice what I might > have done to fix it. It may have been as simple as renaming ~/maildir to > ~/Maildir. Yup. This is what did it. :) -- Ian ~~ Ian Duggan

Re: How to use SquirrelMail?

2002-03-18 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Ian Duggan wrote: > > > OK, I'm getting close. > > > > I now have fetchmail handing mail off to smail/procmail as before, but > > added a procmail rule for a particular account to go into a maildir format > > for courier-imap, which I now have installed. > > > > I think the on

Re: Need dpkg expert

2002-03-18 Thread Rogério Brito
On Mar 18 2002, Kent West wrote: > This did allow me to purge the offending packages. However, it has not > solved the problem. (...) The problem seems to be with the packaging infra-structure. Can you reinstall dpkg, apt, debconf, apt-utils etc? This might perhaps help yo

Re: command line php

2002-03-18 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 20:47:30 +0100 Erik van der Meulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Listpeople - I would like to execute a php script from crontab. > Some Suse users told me they have a /usr/bin/php which allows for > just that. > I have tried to find a package in Debian which brings this, but

Movies, MPEG, and DVDs

2002-03-18 Thread John Lynch
From: Pac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Scott Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: debian-user Subject: Re: Movies, MPEG, and DVDs Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 20:45:15 +0100 Le 18/03/02 à 12:31, Scott Henson a écrit: Scott> xine-ui The best I have seen yet for linux. In my opinion it is as Scott good as t

High powered Debian advocacy?

2002-03-18 Thread Michael Marziani
I recently started with a new company and they are using lots of Linux systems, mostly RedHat and SuSE. We are in the middle of upgrading a bunch of the machines and I very much want to figure out a way to present Debian to them as an option. From having used many Linux distributions extensively,

Problems with gdmconf

2002-03-18 Thread Cam Ellison
I have had my kids' box up and running for a while now (woody), but inexplicably have run into a problem with gdm. I have them set up to use KDE, but the Kicker panel inexplicably loads and then disappears. In attempting to fix this, I went into gdmconf. When fiddling around there, I turned

Re: svgatextmode and ATI rage 128 video cards

2002-03-18 Thread Curt Daugaard
On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 01:21:50PM +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > > Sorry I wasn't clearer. I don't want to give up accelerated video > > under X which I would have to do if I go the fb route, as I > > understand it. But maybe I'm missing something. > > If you think that using framebuffers for

xpm4g

2002-03-18 Thread Gerard Robin
hello, dpkg -i libforms0_89.deb give me the message: libforms0_89 depends on xpm4g can someone tell me where I can download xpm4g (I try to install the package lyxdeb) TIA -- Gerard

Re: Help!!!Can't get X running with Radeon7000pci or Voodoo3 200

2002-03-18 Thread Glen Snyder
On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, timothy bauscher wrote: > Try this as root: > > mv /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 /etc/X11/XF86Config.SAVE > cp -f /etc/X11/XF86Config /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 > > Hope that helps. > > (==timothy==) Thanks for the tip. Unfortunately it didn't work. I've tried several combinations, as

Re: PCMCIA, Token Ring and newer kernels

2002-03-18 Thread Mike Phillips
Bob, > For a number of other reasons I'd like to go to 2.4.10 ... any experience on > the TR PCMCIA out there ?? > > Than you. Bob Alexander > It all works fine using the token ring pcmcia drivers in the kernel. The latest drivers are in fact better as they do away with the need for the config.

Re: How to use SquirrelMail?

2002-03-18 Thread Ian Duggan
> OK, I'm getting close. > > I now have fetchmail handing mail off to smail/procmail as before, but > added a procmail rule for a particular account to go into a maildir format > for courier-imap, which I now have installed. > > I think the only think missing is how SquirrelMail and IMAP get con

Re: [OT] Redefinition of Black Market [was Re: Screen-free Linux?]

2002-03-18 Thread Jean-Marc V. Liotier
On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 20:42, Ron Johnson wrote: > Apparently so. It's been 60ish years since WW2, the economy still > functions, and taxes aren't confiscatorialy high (yet), so for us, > the underground (or black) market is in stolen property, etc. If you sell me a piece of kit you very legally

Re: command line php

2002-03-18 Thread Volker Schlecht
> Some Suse users told me they have a /usr/bin/php which allows for > just that. > I have tried to find a package in Debian which brings this, but > have not been able to locate it. > > Any ideas? Thanks a lot. php4-cgi is probably the package to go for, it contains /usr/bin/php4. regards, Volk

Re: Cannot login using root password

2002-03-18 Thread Geoff D
--- Kevin Strong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Folks, I have a problem. I cannot login to my debian > system using the root > password but I can login using other users logins. > Is there anything I can > do to regain the ability to login as root other than > rebuilding the > server.Thanks for the

Re: Help!!!Can't get X running with Radeon7000pci or Voodoo3 2000 agp

2002-03-18 Thread Simon Hepburn
Glen Snyder wrote: > (WW) TDFX: Chipset "Voodoo3" in Device section "Card0" isn't valid for > this driver Looking at your log file it seems X is grinding to a halt because it does not recognize the chipset "Voodoo3" in your Device Section. Try deleting this line so that X4 can probe for your ch

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Re: command line php

2002-03-18 Thread Angus D Madden
Erik van der Meulen, Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 08:47:30PM +0100: > Hi Listpeople - I would like to execute a php script from crontab. > Some Suse users told me they have a /usr/bin/php which allows for > just that. > I have tried to find a package in Debian which brings this, but > have not been able t

Re: Movies, MPEG, and DVDs

2002-03-18 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Pac wrote: > Le 18/03/02 à 12:31, Scott Henson a écrit: > > Scott> xine-ui The best I have seen yet for linux. In my opinion it is as > Scott> good as the Windows Media player. I havent used a Mac since middle > Scott> school so I dont know there(I am currently a c

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-18 Thread Matt Stump
You misunderstand my point. I really don't care if someone wished to read Mein Kampf, or any other trash for that matter. That isn't the point. My point is that I don't want *my* tax dollars to pay for it. I'm not saying, it's not your tax dollars it's OUR tax dollars. and just to let y

slightly OT: making donation to debian using paypal or such.

2002-03-18 Thread Shri Shrikumar
Hi All, just wondering if it was / would be possible to make donations to debian using Paypal or something like that making it a lot easier for people who are not US based to make donations. Regards, Shri Shri Sh

Bug in php4-cgi-mysql package?

2002-03-18 Thread Erik van der Meulen
Dear List - I tried to install (apt-get install) php4-cgi-mysql on my Woody system. I get the following errors: Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that the package is simply not installable and a bug report against that package should be filed. The followi

Re: How to use SquirrelMail?

2002-03-18 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Ian Duggan wrote: > > > I don't understand if IMAPs role is simply to serve up the mail to the > > remote client and allow deleting, moving to other folders, etc, or if it > > will want to replace my existing steps of fetchmail/procmail. > > Think of IMAP as like POP, but leav

Re: Debain backspace key maping unfriendly

2002-03-18 Thread stan
On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 06:32:27PM +, Martin Edward John Waller wrote: > stty erase > On every other machine, every time I log in? I think not. What I'm looking ofr is how to change this brain dead default on the Debian machines, once and for all. -- "They that would give up essential lib

Please add me to your mailing list

2002-03-18 Thread Peter Smith

Re: How to use SquirrelMail?

2002-03-18 Thread Ian Duggan
> I don't understand if IMAPs role is simply to serve up the mail to the > remote client and allow deleting, moving to other folders, etc, or if it > will want to replace my existing steps of fetchmail/procmail. Think of IMAP as like POP, but leaving everything on the server. IMAP is just for ser

Re: Dual head howto?

2002-03-18 Thread Simon Hepburn
It's just a simple typo. See my comments below. Post again if you still have problems. Paul Mackinney wrote: > My config file is below, comments very welcome. > > #XF86Config-4, Monitor, Device, Screen & Layout section, comments > #omitted. Note that I usually run my Art Media (Trinitron clone)

Re: Need dpkg expert

2002-03-18 Thread Kent West
Update: I'm confident the problem is not in the individual packages that won't install/uninstall. The problem must be in dpkg/debconf/apt/etc. Kent West wrote: Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: I'm down to looking at a rebuild, which I am really, really loathe to do, since that's the solution in th

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Re: Need dpkg expert

2002-03-18 Thread Kent West
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: I'm down to looking at a rebuild, which I am really, really loathe to do, since that's the solution in the Microsoft world and isn't supposed to be the solution for Linux, but unless one of you gurus can help me fix this, it's the only solution I have left. cd /v

Re: Trouble after installing

2002-03-18 Thread Simon Hepburn
Ronald Castillo wrote: > While choosing the modules, I accidently installed one for the S3 Virge > video card, when I really have a S3 Trio 64V + card. Does this affect > me much? It seems like it does with XFree because it won't run.. You don't state which version of X you are using but given

Re: Cannot login using root password

2002-03-18 Thread timothy bauscher
> Folks, I have a problem. I cannot login to my debian system using the > root > password but I can login using other users logins. Is there anything I > can > do to regain the ability to login as root other than rebuilding the > server.Thanks for the help in advance. http://qref.sourceforge.net/q

Re: Cannot login using root password

2002-03-18 Thread Matthew Twomey
Unless you've left some backdoor for yourself (which would have been a bad idea anyway), you're left with booting from cdrom, or a resuce disk set. The basic procedure is as follows: 1. Boot up from some other media that has it's own root partition and get to a shell. I'm not sure what specifical

command line php

2002-03-18 Thread Erik van der Meulen
Hi Listpeople - I would like to execute a php script from crontab. Some Suse users told me they have a /usr/bin/php which allows for just that. I have tried to find a package in Debian which brings this, but have not been able to locate it. Any ideas? Thanks a lot. -- Erik van der Meulen <[EMAI

Re: [OT] Redefinition of Black Market [was Re: Screen-free Linux?]

2002-03-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 12:01, csj wrote: > On 17 Mar 2002 14:21:32 -0600 > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, 2002-03-16 at 18:09, csj wrote: > > > On 16 Mar 2002 14:19:36 -0600 > > > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 18:58, csj wrote: > >

Address rewriting with exim as smarthost

2002-03-18 Thread Jonathan Matthews
Does this ring a bell with anyone? I've got my work box (bigdaddy) set up with exim as the mta, sending mail to my router/smarthost (kanyon). Exim seems to send all non-bigdaddy mail to kanyon, even that for my other local boxes (e.g. therock) - that's fine, and I'll solve the problem of mail to [

Re: Movies, MPEG, and DVDs

2002-03-18 Thread Pac
Le 18/03/02 à 12:31, Scott Henson a écrit: Scott> xine-ui The best I have seen yet for linux. In my opinion it is as Scott> good as the Windows Media player. I havent used a Mac since middle Scott> school so I dont know there(I am currently a college sophmore). I would Scott> definately go wit

Re: Glibc 2.2

2002-03-18 Thread Pac
You should install this package : libc6 apt-cache show libc6 --> [...] Version: 2.2.5-3 Provides: glibc-2.2.5-3 [...] See you -- R.Pac

Re: ascii

2002-03-18 Thread Marcelo Leal
perfect!! thanks, but i have one short picture, more or less 178 x 128 (in gimp information). And the resolution becomes fine with a ascii file too large... can i make (arguments) for aview produce a asci image equal the original one, and with the same widyh and height??? On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 2

Re: Best Email Web Application

2002-03-18 Thread Angus D Madden
Dave Scott, Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 09:12:44AM -0800: > Yeah, I definitely have Libc6 2.2.5-3 in my system somehow and my relese > is Potato, so I did a big no no I guess. And the part that sucks is > that I upgraded to get squirrelmail on. > I wonder if there is an exisitng document/policy any

Re: compiling slapd with tls SOLVED

2002-03-18 Thread Ramin Motakef
> Hi, > i need TLS with slapd, so i downloaded the debian source package, > changed debian/rules (--without-tls to --with-tls) and made binary > packages. > > They compiled fine, however they do not run: > > deb1:~# slapd -f /etc/ldap/slapd.conf -d 255 -h "ldap:/// ldaps:///" > @(#) $OpenLDAP: slap

Re: Cannot login using root password

2002-03-18 Thread Sam Varghese
On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 12:36:33PM -0600, Kevin Strong wrote: > Folks, I have a problem. I cannot login to my debian system using the root > password but I can login using other users logins. Is there anything I can > do to regain the ability to login as root other than rebuilding the > server.Than

Re: Debain backspace key maping unfriendly

2002-03-18 Thread Paul Mackinney
stan declaimed: > I'm puting a few Debian machine into systems with lot's of ther *NIX boxes. > All the oothers have the backspace jey maped to ^H, but Debian seems to > have choosen to map it to soehting else (delete ?). > > How can I fix my Debian machines to be more friendly twoard thee neighbo

Re: exim getting the from addresses right

2002-03-18 Thread Harry Putnam
Matijs van Zuijlen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > One thing you might look into is not writing [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the > rwriting rule, but instead [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your mail program > will put that in the From: header, whereas fetchmail will put > [EMAIL PROTECTED], avoiding the rewrite (

Help!!!Can't get X running with Radeon7000pci or Voodoo3 2000 agp

2002-03-18 Thread Glen Snyder
I'm still trying to get X-Free86 running on a woody box with either a Voodoo 2000 agp or a Radion7000pci. I am running Woody with XFree86-4. I've tried recompiling kernel 2.4.18 using make-kpkg and have versions without agp support, without agp or DRI support and with both installed or as modules.

kdm and X-terminals

2002-03-18 Thread Michel Loos
I used to have X-terminals connected to a xdm server. In order to achieve this I had to edit /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers, /etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess and /etc/xdm/xdm-config With kdm I found the files /etc/kde2/kdm/Xaccess /etc/kde2/kdm/Xservers and I suppose that the equivalent of xdm-config is kdmrc but I ha

Cannot login using root password

2002-03-18 Thread Kevin Strong
Folks, I have a problem. I cannot login to my debian system using the root password but I can login using other users logins. Is there anything I can do to regain the ability to login as root other than rebuilding the server.Thanks for the help in advance. Kevin Strong,BSBA User Support Coordinato

Re: Dual head howto?

2002-03-18 Thread Paul Mackinney
Thanks very much, this really helped. You had some things that were not in shown in the example in my XF86Config-4 file. Best effort so far: My main monitor runs X, the cursor goes off the screen to the left where I said the other monitor was, but the secondary monitor shows blank/garbage. The goo

Re: Debain backspace key maping unfriendly

2002-03-18 Thread Martin Edward John Waller
stty erase ? Martin stan wrote: > On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 12:29:21AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > > > On 18-Mar-2002 stan wrote: > > > I'm puting a few Debian machine into systems with lot's of ther *NIX > > > boxes. > > > All the oothers have the backspace jey maped to ^H, but Debia

Re: Need dpkg expert

2002-03-18 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > I'm down to looking at a rebuild, which I am really, really loathe to > do, since that's the solution in the Microsoft world and isn't supposed > to be the solution for Linux, but unless one of you gurus can help me > fix this, it's the only solution I have left. > cd /var/lib/dpkg/info.

Re: Introduction to Debian Packaging Paper

2002-03-18 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 10:39:02AM -0500, John F Davis wrote: > I wrote a Introduction to Debian Packaging Paper (html) for my local > linux users group. Nothing fancy, but its a quick intro to the packaging > on debian. How to use apt, dpkg, dselect, and even how to build > a package - quick sum

Re: Mutt displays my message index all wrong

2002-03-18 Thread Drew Raines
Tom Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I know this is probably not the place for this question, but there seem > to be a lot of mutt users here. There's also a lot of mutt users on the mutt-users list. > I have made the plunge, ditched netscape as my MUA and have moved to > mutt. It looks pretty nice

[OT] Redefinition of Black Market [was Re: Screen-free Linux?]

2002-03-18 Thread csj
On 17 Mar 2002 14:21:32 -0600 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2002-03-16 at 18:09, csj wrote: > > On 16 Mar 2002 14:19:36 -0600 > > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 18:58, csj wrote: > > > [snip] > > > > sound-card plus speaker/headset setup"

Re: unsubscribe accts@tlmbangladesh.org

2002-03-18 Thread Paul F. Pearson
On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 07:55:26AM +, Patrick Kirk wrote: > > Its guys like this that led me to add this to my .forward. > > > > # NUISANCE POSTS TO DEBIAN USER > > if ${lc:$h_to:} matches "debian-user" > > and $h_subject contains "subscribe" > > t

Re: Trouble after installing

2002-03-18 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 05:28:29PM +0100, Ronald Castillo wrote: > And.. Another question.. Is there any way I can shut down temporarily > my LAN connection and later turn it back on again? I read about using > Ifconfig, but it seems like it is o longer available for download.. If you have a w

Re: unsubscribe accts@tlmbangladesh.org

2002-03-18 Thread Paul F. Pearson
On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 07:55:26AM +, Patrick Kirk wrote: > Its guys like this that led me to add this to my .forward. > > # NUISANCE POSTS TO DEBIAN USER > if ${lc:$h_to:} matches "debian-user" > and $h_subject contains "subscribe" > then add 100 to n1 endif What's this do? -- Paul F. Pe

Re: Trouble after installing

2002-03-18 Thread timothy bauscher
> While choosing the modules, I accidently installed one for the S3 > Virge > video card, when I really have a S3 Trio 64V + card. Does this affect > me much? It seems like it does with XFree because it won't run.. You can always change your xf86 configuration to use the other card, not a proble

Re: Debain backspace key maping unfriendly

2002-03-18 Thread stan
On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 12:29:21AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > On 18-Mar-2002 stan wrote: > > I'm puting a few Debian machine into systems with lot's of ther *NIX boxes. > > All the oothers have the backspace jey maped to ^H, but Debian seems to > > have choosen to map it to soehting els

Need dpkg expert

2002-03-18 Thread Kent West
This problem goes back about 4 months; I've posted a few times and gotten some valuable responses, but nothing that's helped. My problem is that once when trying to uinstall gdm the process was halted mid-stream. Ever since then, several packages refuse to install or uninstall, such as: Sett

Re: Movies, MPEG, and DVDs

2002-03-18 Thread Scott Henson
On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 09:51, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: > I am interesting in learning what programs there are running on Linux to > work with digital video recorders to create personal movies burned onto > DVDs. (MPEG-2 encoding, DVD burning, etc.) > > I am trying to determine if Linux, Windows, or

Glibc 2.2

2002-03-18 Thread Bodnyk, Bruce W
Does anyone know where I can get the latest version of glibc (2.2) which apparently is needed for the latest version of XFree86? I downloaded the glibc source but can't get it to compile cleanly. It appears the version of glibc in the stable Debian site is 2.1.13 or there abouts. Thanks! Bruce Br

Re: USB Mouse potato

2002-03-18 Thread Wesley Hart
Twas brillig, and Matthew Linden scrobe: > X fails because I cannot configure the mouse. A USB wheel > mouse. Unfortunately my machine has four USB ports, no PS/2 or serial > ports, so using a different mouse type is out of the question. > > Debian version is potato. I would like to avoid having to

unsubscribe

2002-03-18 Thread Denni Schnapp
-- The University of Stirling is a university established in Scotland by charter at Stirling, FK9 4LA. Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message. If you are not the addressee indicated in this message (or responsible for delivery of the message to such person), you ma

Iptables keeps logging to console (eventhough of "dmesg -n 1")

2002-03-18 Thread Karo Salminen
Greetings, I (and one other fellow too) have suffered of the problem which is iptables' logging related. Iptables keeps logging to the local console eventhough I have typed "dmesg -n 1". Dmesg's manual says the following: "For example, -n 1 prevents all messages, expect panic messages, fro

RE: Best Email Web Application

2002-03-18 Thread Dave Scott
Yeah, I definitely have Libc6 2.2.5-3 in my system somehow and my relese is Potato, so I did a big no no I guess. And the part that sucks is that I upgraded to get squirrelmail on. Might be best just to leave it be, since everything appears to work at present? Sucks, for a newb like me, ther

Re: XFree86 and NVidia GeForce 2 MX 400

2002-03-18 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
Anna Lindgren wrote: > >Hi, > I'm a totally fresh user to Debian, have tried Red Hat before, but > wanted to try out Debian instead, but I seem not to be able to install > the Xserver. I have a NVidia GeForce 2 MX graphics card, which is not > supported in Xfree86-3.3.6 that is included in my

Re: Movies, MPEG, and DVDs

2002-03-18 Thread timothy bauscher
> I am interesting in learning what programs there are running on Linux > to > work with digital video recorders to create personal movies burned > onto > DVDs. (MPEG-2 encoding, DVD burning, etc.) > > I am trying to determine if Linux, Windows, or the Mac is the better > environment for this work.

Re: unsubscribe accts@tlmbangladesh.org

2002-03-18 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 07:55:26AM +, Patrick Kirk wrote: > Its guys like this that led me to add this to my .forward. > > # NUISANCE POSTS TO DEBIAN USER > if ${lc:$h_to:} matches "debian-user" > and $h_subject contains "subscribe" > then add 100 to n1 endif Damn, this is a great list! I'd

Re: Losing time !

2002-03-18 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 11:03:17PM -0500, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: > I have no idea about why your computer would be losing time. You could set up > a > Network Time Protocol daemon (for example: nptd) to syncronize your clock > with internet time servers. You probably have to reset your clock firs

Re: XFree86 and NVidia GeForce 2 MX 400

2002-03-18 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 04:08:44PM +0100, Anna Lindgren wrote: > Hi, > I¹m a totally fresh user to Debian, have tried Red Hat before, but wanted to > try out Debian instead, but I seem not to be able to install the Xserver. I > have a NVidia GeForce 2 MX graphics card, which is not supported in

Re: Slow mailing list (41 min. for internal process)

2002-03-18 Thread timothy bauscher
> Typical !! I just got this back in minutes, guess somebody fixed > something > last night... > > Simon Hepburn wrote: > > > You are doing well, I'm getting a lag of about 3 hours here in the > UK. It > > used to take minutes. I don't think this difference can be accounted > for by > > the recent

Trouble after installing

2002-03-18 Thread Ronald Castillo
Hello.. I finally made the install using the ISO method. Everything went fine except for a few things: While choosing the modules, I accidently installed one for the S3 Virge video card, when I really have a S3 Trio 64V + card. Does this affect me much? It seems like it does with XFree because

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