Re: su won't work at the far end of the tunnel? - UNSUBSCRIBE

2002-03-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 03:20:38PM -0500, Jonathan Tabaco wrote: > UNSUBSCRIBE > > Sorry to all those who are inconvenienced by this but I have tried > multiple times to get removed from the mailing list. > > I even sent in the confirm "CONFIRM u03180819391769" > > PLEASE REMOVE ME MANUALLY, as

Re: Installation of JDK

2002-03-22 Thread timothy bauscher
> > This is probably a stupid question, but shouldn't libraries be built > > with backwards compatibility in mind? > > The world isn't perfect, and sometimes mistakes were made and need to > be > corrected. When the soname (the bit at the end of the library > filename) > is cha

Re: UNSUBSCRIBE

2002-03-22 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 03:07:45PM -0500, Jonathan Tabaco wrote: > Sorry to all those who are inconvenienced by this but I have tried > multiple times to get removed from the mailing list. > > I even sent in the confirm "CONFIRM u03180819391769" > > PLEASE REMOVE ME MANUALLY, as your automated s

FW: Help with firing up modules on demand

2002-03-22 Thread Panuganty, Ramesh
If you put anything in /etc/modutils/, "update-modules" will insert them into /etc/modules.conf. This is not what you want. What you may have to do is, call "insmod " in the startup script for your device. Like alsasound in /etc/init.d/. Don't create any links to this from /etc/rc?.d/ directories.

RE: What is the difference between Gnome and Ximian?

2002-03-22 Thread Panuganty, Ramesh
> I would just install the debian gnome packages if you are using woody. But I feel Nautilus in Ximian will add lot of good looks to the desktop, which does not come otherwise. Though it takes about 35MB of memory, I still like it. -Ramesh

Re: Installation notes - Debian 2.2

2002-03-22 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Angus D Madden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Peter Whysall, Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 05:33:35PM +: ... > > Networking configuration. Or the complete and utter absence thereof. For > > a distro that wants to install off the internet, not detecting, > > configuring and using an absolutely bo

attachment problem with mutt

2002-03-22 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hello, I am running woody and mutt. I have a problem with the attached files in mutt: mutt insists in put the attached file in the body of the message, either in the messages I send as well as the messages I receive with attached files. Does exist an option for fix this problem? Thank you! Ma

Re: network configuration??

2002-03-22 Thread Elizabeth Barham
The name of the program that is being run is netenv; it is there to aid laptop users who may change their network environment options regularly (example, one for home, one for the office, another for a remote location). You can just disable netenv from being run. Probably the easiest way is to edi

RE: What is the difference between Gnome and Ximian? - UNSUBSCRIBE

2002-03-22 Thread Jonathan Tabaco
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RE: promise 66 ide adapter cards

2002-03-22 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
| Potato had a special version for ide adpater cards. | It looks like woody does not yet. I get about | half way into the boot process and the woody | kernel stops just about where it is recognizing | the hard drives attached to the card. Looks ominous. | Is woody going to support these cards? I

RE: dosemu: com ports: /var/lock - UNSUBSCRIBE

2002-03-22 Thread Jonathan Tabaco
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RE: dosemu: com ports: /var/lock - UNSUBSCRIBE

2002-03-22 Thread Jonathan Tabaco
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RE: dosemu: com ports; /var/lock problem - UNSUBSCRIBE

2002-03-22 Thread Jonathan Tabaco
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RE: dosemu: com ports: /var/lock - UNSUBSCRIBE

2002-03-22 Thread Jonathan Tabaco
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RE: How to install Debian on NEC Versa 6030X with NO floppy, nor a CD-ROM drive? - UNSUBSCRIBE

2002-03-22 Thread Jonathan Tabaco
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RE: acentuacao.. - UNSUBSCRIBE

2002-03-22 Thread Jonathan Tabaco
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RE: xterm defaults - UNSUBSCRIBE

2002-03-22 Thread Jonathan Tabaco
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Re: Re: High powered Debian advocacy?

2002-03-22 Thread Noah Sombrero
On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 14:29:59 -0600, you wrote: >Apt installs there because that's where the FHS >(http://www.pathname.com/fhs/) says things should go. Was not disputing that there might be authority behind how it is done. >Rather than making it difficult to use extra hard drives, this easily >a

wrong permissions for /tmp/.X11-unix

2002-03-22 Thread Vincent Lefevre
The last few times I booted my PowerBook, I couldn't start X because of the following error: X: /tmp/.X11-unix has suspicious ownership (not root:root), aborting. I can fix the permissions manually, but why are the permissions wrong? How can I fix this permanently? -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL

Re: vim help file "Error detected while processing BufRead Auto Commands for "*.gz""

2002-03-22 Thread Glyn Millington
"John F Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have the latest vim. When I try to issue the :help command I get the > following > error: > > Error detected while processing BufRead Auto commands for "*.gz": > E21: Cannot make changes, 'modifiable' is off > E434: Can't find tag pattern > Hit ENTER

Re: Re: High powered Debian advocacy?

2002-03-22 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 10:34:31AM -0800, Noah Sombrero wrote: > On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 23:09:07 +1100, Gleason wrote: > > > >If I was you, I would concentrate on ease of upgrade (as mentioned before by > >someone, apt-get), > > Apt-get is a great tool, however it insists on installing everything

Re: vim help file "Error detected while processing BufRead Auto Commands for"*.gz""

2002-03-22 Thread Seneca Cunningham
John F Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have the latest vim. When I try to issue the :help command I get the > following > error: > > Error detected while processing BufRead Auto commands for "*.gz": > E21: Cannot make changes, 'modifiable' is off > E434: Can't find tag pattern > Hit ENTER or

Re: apt-get has stopped working on my machine

2002-03-22 Thread Jason Wood
On Thursday 21 March 2002 12:23 pm, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 11:19:30AM +, Jason Wood wrote: > > > > If anyone is interested, I've uploaded my current (broken) status file > > (gzipped) here : > > > > http://www.uchian.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/apt-problems/status.gz > > >

Re: mistake: apt-get and debian 2.2

2002-03-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 12:53:19PM -0600, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > I knew there was something strange about this! > I didn't register the 2.2; Herbert xu's email said on the bottom: > "debian 2.2 is out". Well it has been for quite some time, but I just > registered debian being out with a new versio

Re: High powered Debian advocacy?

2002-03-22 Thread Rich Puhek
Noah Sombrero wrote: > > On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 23:09:07 +1100, you wrote: > > >If I was you, I would concentrate on ease of upgrade (as mentioned before by > >someone, apt-get), > > Apt-get is a great tool, however it insists on installing everything in /usr. > Which means that it is > difficu

Purging /var/cache/apt/archive

2002-03-22 Thread Daniel Toffetti
Hi ! I would like to purge /var/cache/apt/archive so that only the last version of each package is preserved. I'm not sure whether replying "yes" when dselect asks to delete previously downloaded files will preserve the last ones, but I guess it will not. The only clue I've found is in "apt-get

Re: Tripwire won't install

2002-03-22 Thread Cam Ellison
* Juhan Kundla ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Heips! > > I had the following error while installing tripwire on my debian woody > box. I have never had any problems with apt-get or debian packages, so i > am kind of lost now. Is it a bug? What should i do to debug this error? > It's bug #135414. P

RE: mistake: apt-get and debian 2.2 - UNSUBSCRIBE

2002-03-22 Thread Jonathan Tabaco
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RE: Re: High powered Debian advocacy? - UNSUBSCRIBE

2002-03-22 Thread Jonathan Tabaco
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RE: su won't work at the far end of the tunnel? - UNSUBSCRIBE

2002-03-22 Thread Jonathan Tabaco
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RE: boot problem - UNSUBSCRIBE

2002-03-22 Thread Jonathan Tabaco
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Re: Installation of JDK

2002-03-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 02:57:08PM -0500, timothy bauscher wrote: > > > I had the same problem, so i linked > > > libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 -> > > > libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 > > > > While this may happen to work most of the time, it isn't reliable. I > > recommend not doing this when you can find t

Re: Re: High powered Debian advocacy?

2002-03-22 Thread Niall Brady
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 10:34:31AM -0800, Noah Sombrero wrote: > On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 23:09:07 +1100, you wrote: > > Apt-get is a great tool, however it insists on installing everything in /usr. > Which means that it is > difficult to make use of extra hard drives. ??? could you elaborate? --

Re: Tripwire won't install

2002-03-22 Thread Cam Ellison
* Juhan Kundla ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Heips! > > I had the following error while installing tripwire on my debian woody > box. I have never had any problems with apt-get or debian packages, so i > am kind of lost now. Is it a bug? What should i do to debug this error? > > Setting up tripwir

UNSUBSCRIBE

2002-03-22 Thread Jonathan Tabaco
Sorry to all those who are inconvenienced by this but I have tried multiple times to get removed from the mailing list. I even sent in the confirm "CONFIRM u03180819391769" PLEASE REMOVE ME MANUALLY, as your automated system doesn't work. I will unfortunately have to resort to "spamming" the De

Re: dosemu: com ports; /var/lock problem

2002-03-22 Thread stan
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 09:13:15AM -0600, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > I got an email from dosemu's maintainer, Herbert Xu, telling me to check the > permissions of /var/lock. when I do "ls -l" it says: "total 0" and still says > that when ai do "chmod 1777 /var/lock". However, if I do "ls -l /var" for

Re: network configuration??

2002-03-22 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 22-Mar-2002 Michael Griffis wrote: > I am new to linux and rather ambitiously installed Woody on my Fujitsu > laptop with good results. > > However every time I reboot I am asked to choose a network environment > and the only option is to set a new environment and enter a new IP. I > use DHCP

Re: Re: promise 66 ide adapter cards

2002-03-22 Thread Noah Sombrero
On 22 Mar 2002 19:43:28 +, you wrote: >On Fri, 2002-03-22 at 17:52, Noah Sombrero wrote: >> Potato had a special version for ide adpater cards. >> It looks like woody does not yet. I get about >> half way into the boot process and the woody >> kernel stops just about where it is recognizing >

Re: make: *** [kernel-image-deb] Error 1

2002-03-22 Thread Faheem Mitha
On 22 Mar 2002, justin cunningham wrote: > Hello, I am trying to compile a custom 2.4.18 kernel and keep getting > this error: > > make[2]: Leaving directory > `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18/arch/i386/boot' > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18' > touch stamp-build > need r

Re: Installation of JDK

2002-03-22 Thread timothy bauscher
> > as root: > > > > cd /usr/lib/ > > ls libstdc++* | grep so > > > > For me this brings up: > > > > libstdc++-3-libc6.1-2-2.10.0.so > > libstdc++-3-libc6.2-2-2.10.0.so > > libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 > > libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 > > libstdc++.so.3 > > libstdc++.so.3.0.2 > > > > I had the same pro

Re: network configuration??

2002-03-22 Thread Angus D Madden
Michael Griffis, Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 10:39:01AM -0700: > I am new to linux and rather ambitiously installed Woody on my Fujitsu > laptop with good results. > > However every time I reboot I am asked to choose a network environment > and the only option is to set a new environment and enter a new

Re: Installation Notes

2002-03-22 Thread Peter Whysall
Humble apologies for the double post. Fingers going faster than the brain - a not uncommon experience for me :( -- Peter Whysall [EMAIL PROTECTED] The TLD in my email address is sdrawkcab.

Re: Installation notes - Debian 2.2

2002-03-22 Thread Angus D Madden
Peter Whysall, Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 05:33:35PM +: > [Now that I'm subscribed on d-u, I'm reposting this as I'd really like > feedback that I can reply to - I might have made some bonehead remarks > here :-)] > > Symlinking /dev/mouse to /dev/psaux wouldn't hurt THAT much, would it? Depends o

Re: What is the difference between Gnome and Ximian?

2002-03-22 Thread Scott Henson
On Fri, 2002-03-22 at 09:45, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: > If I install Woody, it appears that I get an installation of Gnome. > > I am also not able to get Ximian Gnome to install on Woody. (Using > either of the two methods -- script and *.deb packages). > > What is the difference between the Wood

Re: dosemu: com ports: /var/lock

2002-03-22 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Oh yes, the com ports have worked running it as root all along.

Re: dosemu: com ports: /var/lock

2002-03-22 Thread Shri Shrikumar
On Fri, 2002-03-22 at 17:36, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > Ok, I restored everything as before as far as the partition permission and > /etc/fstab and rebooted to be sure, then used "chmod a+rw /var/lock". That > worked. The output of "ls -dl lock" is now > drwxrw-rw- 2 root root" etc. > I relogged in. >

Re: dosemu: com ports; /var/lock problem

2002-03-22 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Yes, I've changed the permissions now, because I compared to my other machine and it also said drwxrwxrwt. But I still can't access my comports in dosemu (sigh; _SCREAM!)

Re: dosemu: com ports: /var/lock

2002-03-22 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Cheryl Homiak ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Ok, I restored everything as before as far as the partition permission and > /etc/fstab and rebooted to be sure, then used "chmod a+rw /var/lock". That > worked. The output of "ls -dl lock" is now > drwxrw-rw- 2 root root" etc. > I relogged in. >

Re: How to install Debian on NEC Versa 6030X with NO floppy, nor a CD-ROM drive?

2002-03-22 Thread Mr. Jan Hearthstone
--- Crispin Wellington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2002-03-22 at 14:32, Mr. Jan Hearthstone > wrote: > > Sorry about the previous incomplete message! > > I understand that there is a way of installing > some > > files on the DOS partition, and that I could > install > > the rest with t

Re: acentuacao..

2002-03-22 Thread francisco m neto
Olás, > acentuar no console > acentuar no X > > how-to?? > > > ja sei, que preciso carregar uma fonte q suporte acentos, configurar > meu mapa de teclado.. > > Mas, onde eu configuro essa fonte, e qual fonte eu uso?? > o mapa de teclado onde eu configuro.. e qual o similar ao us+ > no

Re: xterm defaults

2002-03-22 Thread Andreas Hetzmannseder
On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 07:01:52PM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hello, > > how can I change the default colors for xterm?. I need that the command > "xterm" open a xterminal with the desired colors, instead using "xterm -bg > color", for example. I didn't find this information in the man

mistake: apt-get and debian 2.2

2002-03-22 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I knew there was something strange about this! I didn't register the 2.2; Herbert xu's email said on the bottom: "debian 2.2 is out". Well it has been for quite some time, but I just registered debian being out with a new version and jumped to the conclusion (quite a jump!) that 3.0 was out! Sorry!

Re: Re: High powered Debian advocacy?

2002-03-22 Thread Noah Sombrero
On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 23:09:07 +1100, you wrote: >If I was you, I would concentrate on ease of upgrade (as mentioned before by >someone, apt-get), Apt-get is a great tool, however it insists on installing everything in /usr. Which means that it is difficult to make use of extra hard drives. G

su won't work at the far end of the tunnel?

2002-03-22 Thread will trillich
some ssh settings must be off, here. i can't "su" to root when logged in via ssh on our private tunnel...? i've got two debian/potato firewalls running remote intranets -- one at home, say 1.2.3.4, and one at the office, say 2.4.6.8: at home i use 192.168.1.* for my intranet address space. at the

Re: boot problem

2002-03-22 Thread Russell Coker
On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 17:16, Michal Novotny wrote: > Something else, there is in /boot/config-2.4.17-386 line: > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SIS5513=y > that is my IDE controller > > but there is too: > CONFIG_IDE=m > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=m > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=m > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI=y You have two options.

vim help file "Error detected while processing BufRead Auto Commands for "*.gz""

2002-03-22 Thread John F Davis
Hello Debian Unstable intel I have the latest vim. When I try to issue the :help command I get the following error: Error detected while processing BufRead Auto commands for "*.gz": E21: Cannot make changes, 'modifiable' is off E434: Can't find tag pattern Hit ENTER or type command to continue

Re: 3D Modeller -- No Blender...

2002-03-22 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 22-Mar-2002 Rohan Deshpande wrote: > Hi again, > > I was just wondering if anyone had any recommendations for 3D modellers > in linux, since Blender is dead (hopefully GPL'd!). But, for the time > being, if anyone could suggest replacement programs in apt for Blender, that > would be nice for

Re: Are these machines up to it?

2002-03-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2002-03-22 at 08:39, Keith O'Connell wrote: > Hi, > > Over the comming months I am starting a "teach-your-self" program. I > am learning more of linux than just a desktop. I have a small lan at home > for my wife, daughters and myself. The three of them use WinXP, and I > have a desktop of

Re: moving from ext2 to reiserfs

2002-03-22 Thread Phillip Deackes
On 22 Mar 2002 15:38:16 +0800 Crispin Wellington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The easiest way would be to convert it to ext3 instead. > > Use kernel 2.4.17 > use tune2fs -j /deb/hdX to convert to ext3 > Much easier and IMHO (Ive used both reiserfs and ext3 extensively) > better. If anything goes

Installation Notes

2002-03-22 Thread Peter Whysall
[Now that I'm subscribed on d-u, I'm reposting this as I'd really like feedback that I can reply to - I might have made some bonehead remarks here :-)] I've installed Debian. Rescue + root, plus the base2_2.tgz on a CD. Not once, but twice. On the laptop, and on the desktop machine - and I'm cons

RE: Are these machines up to it?

2002-03-22 Thread dave mallery
On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Brooks R. Robinson wrote: > | 1: I have a 133MHz pentium, 1Gb disk and 32Mb ram. I want to use this > |as a firewall. > | > | 2: Also an 400MHz AMD K6-2, 6Gb disk and 80Mb ram. This is to be a > |name server and an email server > | > | Neither of them will have X on th

IBCS and Recent Debian Releases

2002-03-22 Thread Mike Barton
Has anyone got IBCS working with a recent Debian release & kernel 2.2.20? I've got 2.2r5 loaded and need this functionality for Informix databases. Seems like the deb is lost in space. I'd appreciate any pointers. Thanks.

promise 66 ide adapter cards

2002-03-22 Thread Noah Sombrero
Potato had a special version for ide adpater cards. It looks like woody does not yet. I get about half way into the boot process and the woody kernel stops just about where it is recognizing the hard drives attached to the card. Looks ominous. Is woody going to support these cards? Gleason

RE: Time Zone

2002-03-22 Thread Panuganty, Ramesh
Use tzconfig. If you still have a problem, you may have to run "hwclock --systohc" (use --utc option if required) -Ramesh -Original Message- From: Eduardo Gargiulo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 10:46 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Time Zone Hi a

RE: sound question

2002-03-22 Thread Panuganty, Ramesh
I documented my sound experiences with alsa here: http://panuganty.tripod.com/debiantips/sound.htm The AC97 Audio controller is pretty standard. It should be fairly easy to setup. -Ramesh -Original Message- From: Malte Thoma [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 12:5

network configuration??

2002-03-22 Thread Michael Griffis
I am new to linux and rather ambitiously installed Woody on my Fujitsu laptop with good results. However every time I reboot I am asked to choose a network environment and the only option is to set a new environment and enter a new IP. I use DHCP so I don't enter an IP and everything seems to wor

Installation notes - Debian 2.2

2002-03-22 Thread Peter Whysall
[Now that I'm subscribed on d-u, I'm reposting this as I'd really like feedback that I can reply to - I might have made some bonehead remarks here :-)] I've installed Debian. Rescue + root, plus the base2_2.tgz on a CD. Not once, but twice. On the laptop, and on the desktop machine - and I'm cons

RE: newbie iso question

2002-03-22 Thread Panuganty, Ramesh
http://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#record-unix You can do either on linux or windows. If Windows - rename the file as .iso and select the input from .iso image. The above FAQ should answer all your questions. Cheers, Ramesh -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Are these machines up to it?

2002-03-22 Thread Wayne Topa
Keith O'Connell([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hi, > > Over the comming months I am starting a "teach-your-self" program. I > am learning more of linux than just a desktop. I have a small lan at home > for my wife, daughters and myself. The three of them use WinXP, and I > have a d

Re: dosemu: com ports; /var/lock problem

2002-03-22 Thread Wayne Topa
Cheryl Homiak([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > I got an email from dosemu's maintainer, Herbert Xu, telling me to check the > permissions of /var/lock. when I do "ls -l" it says: "total 0" and still says > that when ai do "chmod 1777 /var/lock". However, if I do "ls -l /var" for > "l

dosemu: com ports: /var/lock

2002-03-22 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Ok, I restored everything as before as far as the partition permission and /etc/fstab and rebooted to be sure, then used "chmod a+rw /var/lock". That worked. The output of "ls -dl lock" is now drwxrw-rw- 2 root root" etc. I relogged in. Ran dosemu as me wit the debugging option. Still no com ports

Re: Are these machines up to it?

2002-03-22 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 02:39:21PM +, Keith O'Connell wrote: > 1: I have a 133MHz pentium, 1Gb disk and 32Mb ram. I want to use this >as a firewall. We have a similar box as a firewall (doing NAT), and there are 10 others behind it. No problem with it. It can easily do the task (really!)

Bastille, ssh bug?

2002-03-22 Thread Richard Weil
I ran Bastille and selected the option to disable rsh. I then tried ssh shortly afterward and had a problem; I got a "no permissions error". I looked at ssh and saw that no user or group had any permissions for ssh. Thinking it might have been related to the Bastille set-up, I looked and saw that r

Re: Window Manager Probs *sigh*

2002-03-22 Thread csj
On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 06:46:58 -0800 (PST) SJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm really not sure what I did wrong, but... > > After doing an apparently clean install of debian linux on a > new system, Gnome does not come up Window Maker does. I > know we installed Gnome but it's not even in the

Re: cdda2wav or cdparanoia ?

2002-03-22 Thread csj
On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 22:47:20 + Gerard Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > cdda2wav and cdparanoia both run fine to extract the tracks of a CD-audio > what is the advantage to use one rather than another ? > TIA for an advice. cdparanoia has more error-checking options

Re: apt-get and debian 2.2

2002-03-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 09:04:17AM -0600, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > Now that 2.2 is out, should we be changing our apt-get lines if we have been > running the testing version? I don't quite yet want to run sid. 2.2 has been out for over a year and a half. I doubt you need to change anything if it's b

Re: Are these machines up to it?

2002-03-22 Thread David Z Maze
Keith O'Connell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I now have come by two old machines that I want to employ, but > before I throw mt self at it, I want to know if they are up to the > task, and also if they are, will they likley remain suitable for the > tasks as new versions of software are released >

Maxtor Ultra ATA/133 PCI Adapter Card

2002-03-22 Thread Leonard Monk
Userhelpers, I am about to assemble a new PC with an ASUS P4T-E motherboard and a Maxtor 7200RPM 80GB ATA hard drive that came with a "free" Maxtor Ultra ATA/133 PCI Adapter Card (in addition to other, irrelevant goodies that I won't mention, as I don't want anyone to salivate), and I would like

Re: Kerberos

2002-03-22 Thread David Z Maze
dinni bartholomew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am trying to install MIT kerberos5 on potato... *prods around* Oh, that doesn't actually seem to be in non-US for stable; we just have a local build in these parts. Heimdal *does* appear to be in there, though, and should probably work for you fo

dosemu: com ports; /var/lock

2002-03-22 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Ok, I finally got the permissions for /var/lock to change; I did it by changing the permissions for the partition then rebooting then changing them for /var/lock. My other pardirectories in /var have stayed with the same partitions as they haed before. However, the number after the permission lette

Re: Are these machines up to it?

2002-03-22 Thread Shri Shrikumar
- Original Message - From: "Keith O'Connell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 2:39 PM Subject: Are these machines up to it? > Hi, > > Over the comming months I am starting a "teach-your-self" program. I > am learning more of linux than just a desktop. I have a small l

Re: Are these machines up to it?

2002-03-22 Thread Sebastiaan
High, On 22 Mar 2002, Keith O'Connell wrote: > Hi, > > Over the comming months I am starting a "teach-your-self" program. I > am learning more of linux than just a desktop. I have a small lan at home > for my wife, daughters and myself. The three of them use WinXP, and I > have a desktop of myown

Re: dosemu: com ports; /var/lock problem

2002-03-22 Thread Shri Shrikumar
- Original Message - From: "Cheryl Homiak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 3:13 PM Subject: dosemu: com ports; /var/lock problem > I got an email from dosemu's maintainer, Herbert Xu, telling me to check the > permissions of /var/lock. when I do "ls -l" it says: "tot

Re: Are these machines up to it?

2002-03-22 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 02:39:21PM +, Keith O'Connell wrote: > Neither of them will have X on them, so what I need to know is; > a: they are not up to the tasks > b: they are just up to the tasks > c: they are easily up to the tasks The lesser of the two machines is ea

3D Modeller -- No Blender...

2002-03-22 Thread Rohan Deshpande
Hi again, I was just wondering if anyone had any recommendations for 3D modellers in linux, since Blender is dead (hopefully GPL'd!). But, for the time being, if anyone could suggest replacement programs in apt for Blender, that would be nice for the time being :). Sincerely, Rohan

RE: Are these machines up to it?

2002-03-22 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
| 1: I have a 133MHz pentium, 1Gb disk and 32Mb ram. I want to use this |as a firewall. | | 2: Also an 400MHz AMD K6-2, 6Gb disk and 80Mb ram. This is to be a |name server and an email server | | Neither of them will have X on them, so what I need to know is; | a: they are not up to

permit_naked_ip_address dangerous! (was: spammers are killing me)

2002-03-22 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Ralf Hildebrandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.03.21.0743 +0100]: > postfix/smtpd[6023]: connect from host074125.arnet.net.ar [200.45.74.125] > postfix/smtpd[6023]: 6937F1673D: client host074125.arnet.net.ar[200.45.74.125] > postfix/cleanup[6024]: 6937F1673D: message-id=3D<[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xpm4g

2002-03-22 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Gerard Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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) $ apt-get install lyx That will download lyx, libforms0.89, etc...

Re: Are these machines up to it?

2002-03-22 Thread stan
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 02:39:21PM +, Keith O'Connell wrote: > Hi, > > Over the comming months I am starting a "teach-your-self" program. I > am learning more of linux than just a desktop. I have a small lan at home > for my wife, daughters and myself. The three of them use WinXP, and I > have

Re: Compacting evolution mail folders

2002-03-22 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
Mike, I have this problem also. I found that Evolution does not compact the files it uses for storage. I resorted to deleting some of the files and allowing Evolution to re-create them. I have attached a script that does this... Randy On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 23:33, Michael D. Crawford wrote:

Re: Sound works, but not for Gnome

2002-03-22 Thread Shri Shrikumar
- Original Message - From: "stan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian User List" Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 2:31 PM Subject: Re: Sound works, but not for Gnome > On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 01:28:25PM -, Shri Shrikumar wrote: > > Yes, if I run esd as root before loging in as a normal user

RE: Desperately trying to understand dselect (seeming inconsistency)

2002-03-22 Thread Michael Marziani
Many thanks for clearing that up. -Mike _ Michael D. Marziani Systems Administrator -Original Message- From: Colin Watson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 8:31 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Desperately trying to und

Re: Kerberos

2002-03-22 Thread dinni bartholomew
I am trying to install MIT kerberos5 on potato... The reason that i am trying to build it from source is because when i try to use apt-get to install it, it cries about a glibc dependancy... Big Picture... This machine needs to be a client to a Kerberos server that i already have. This kerberos se

Re: boot problem

2002-03-22 Thread Russell Coker
On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 14:22, Michal Novotny wrote: > I have a real problem booting my Debian. > I just upgraded all packages (running dselect). > Now what I get after reboot is (last lines): > > request_module[block-major-3]: Root fs not mounted > VFS: Cannot open root device "301" or 03:01 > Please

Re: DRI not enabled - Why?

2002-03-22 Thread jeff
2 things i just found out... 1) make sure (obviously) that DRI is compiled in your kernel... 2) and this was a REAL silly one on my part...DUH it was so easy...make sure that you're X server is using the newer version (XF86Config-4) config file! or else it will continue to use the old one (withou

dosemu: com ports; /var/lock problem

2002-03-22 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I got an email from dosemu's maintainer, Herbert Xu, telling me to check the permissions of /var/lock. when I do "ls -l" it says: "total 0" and still says that when ai do "chmod 1777 /var/lock". However, if I do "ls -l /var" for "lock" it says 'drwxr-xr-x". i have /var on a separate partition. Shou

Unable to use kpilot

2002-03-22 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
I tried this morning to sync my Palm Pilot (which I hard reset and plan to use with Linux) using kpilot on my KDE desktop. However, whenever I run hot sync, the palm waits and waits and then says it lost the connection with the desktop. But, when I do the same using gnome-pilot, the sync works wit

apt-get and debian 2.2

2002-03-22 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Now that 2.2 is out, should we be changing our apt-get lines if we have been running the testing version? I don't quite yet want to run sid.

Re: GMT-Bug solved ... BUT

2002-03-22 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 10:42:23AM +0100, Malte Thoma wrote: > It's not a GMT bug but a Bug in 'gv' > > gv -v > gv 3.5.8 (debian) > > ghostview shows the correct output. > > The same gv version (without the 'debian') on a SuSE Linux works correct > , any Ideas? No idea what's going on. But th

Re: How to install Debian on NEC Versa 6030X with NO floppy, nor a CD-ROM drive?

2002-03-22 Thread Shri Shrikumar
- Original Message - From: "Mr. Jan Hearthstone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 6:32 AM Subject: How to install Debian on NEC Versa 6030X with NO floppy, nor a CD-ROM drive? > Sorry about the previous incomplete message! > I understand that there is a way of ins

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