Re: Color black not defined

On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 09:20:14PM -0700, John Galt wrote: > Hi, > When I run xemacs , i get an warning message > "color black not defined" and in the text of emacs, my > cursor is not visible which I assume is due the > warning message. Do you have a customized .Xresources? I've found trailing

Re: Color black not defined

On 0, John Galt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > When I run xemacs , i get an warning message > "color black not defined" and in the text of emacs, my > cursor is not visible which I assume is due the > warning message. > > How can I fix this and what other information should I > give ..I use

Re: how does root run a graphical prog

* Peter Hicks ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Just put this in your .bashrc file > > XAUTHORITY=$HOME/.Xauthority > > export XAUTHORITY Thanks for the help. It has solved my problem. Actually I expect to have a nice and clean solution like yours, but turns out there are so many solutions for my prob

Color black not defined

Hi, When I run xemacs , i get an warning message "color black not defined" and in the text of emacs, my cursor is not visible which I assume is due the warning message. How can I fix this and what other information should I give ..I use Gnome Sawfish window manager and use Woody , Xfree86 server,

CD install disk

About a month ago I created a CD image for a 2.4.x installation, which image I created using jigdo. Regardless,… today, I attempted to do an installation from the CD, which started out fine, but then when I got to the part, I think it was, “install modules and drivers,” it asked me for access to

Re: Help me install debian in the vmware

Squirrel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I want to install debian into my i386 machine.After I boot the > installing from the image rescue.bin,it prompts that "Insert root floppy > disk to be loaded into RAM disk and press ENTER".Then I switched the > image onto boot.bin.But it prompted "end_request

Re: Passing io/eth params to 8319too driver

Jonathan Matthews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -SNIP- < I'm guessing that, under 2.4 a) I have to use 8139too Not necessarily... see below. Since the hang occurs at boot immediately after "Configuring network interfaces: " with no errors reported: b) it's the driver's probing of other io

Re: okidata OL410e: yea or nay?

> On Mon, 20 May 2002, "BigBobFromLittleRhody" == Bob Bernstein wrote: BigBobFromLittleRhody> Has anyone been successful using this printer with BigBobFromLittleRhody> Linux (or any other) cups? I have the recommended BigBobFromLittleRhody> ljet4 ppd selected... Stop right there Bob.

Mutt broken?

I just changed out my firewall. The boxes are build just about identicle except for hardware. They have the same configuation and the same verion of mutt. (Even did an md5 sum on binary) When I run "mutt" as myself I get a message that my mailbox is readonly. Root can read and write to my mai

recompile 2.2.19idepci w/2.2.19 & modules stop working

Hello debian users! I just used the debian boot floppy to install pototoe 2.2.19 idepci. Then to use it as a firewall I recompiled the kernel with kernel-source 2.2.19. Doing so I lost all my modules including the NE module for my nic card. I tried insmod -f ne io=0x300 but it complains abou

Fetchmail problem

Hello, When I run my slackware distro, I'm used to using fetchmail get mail with the command: fetchmail -k --protocol POP3 -u cpw pop.rahul.net Fetchmail then asks me for a password, and gets the mail. I read it using mailx. However, when I try this from my newly installed Debian Woody distro

Help me install debian in the vmware

I want to install debian into my i386 machine.After I boot the installing from the image rescue.bin,it prompts that "Insert root floppy disk to be loaded into RAM disk and press ENTER".Then I switched the image onto boot.bin.But it prompted "end_request:I/O error, dev 02:00(floopy),sector 0" .what'

Re: latex->xpdf

On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 11:16, Tom Cook wrote: > Thanks to all who responded. pdflatex is a tool which someone told me > about, but which I couldn't find (I was looking for latexpdf or > latex2pdf or something of the like, since that is the way all the > other converters are named). Changing /etc

Re: Recommended tape backup software - disk failures

On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 02:25:59AM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > hi ya > a nice picture of what causes a system to fail... disks or ??? > http://www.Linux-1U.net/Disks/Disk_Failure.gif > ( its from an IDC survey ) > ( the picture stolen/copied from > http://safersite.net/NSS15AFaultToleran

Re: Recommended tape backup software - tape vs disk

On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 12:10:34AM -0700, Peter Whysall wrote: > On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 06:22, Alvin Oga wrote: > > --- if the disks is raid5'd ... give one disk > > --- to each of the CEO/CFO/CTO/foo/bar and no one user > > --- has all the data... no way for stea

Re: Recommended tape backup software - tape vs disk

On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 05:24:55PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > 160GB ide disks is $150-$200 range... cheap... > - 1Terabyte of backup in one 1u chassis.. no problem... > and i do compressed backups of up to 3 or 6 months... dpeending > on diskspace they willing ot buy and user data

Re: OT: regexp spam filter

On Mon, 20 May 2002 14:19:28 -0700, Alan Su wrote: >the following regexp *should work: > > 217\.78\.(6(4|5|6|7|8|9)|7(0|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9))\.[0-9]+ > snip >Gary Turner wrote (Mon, 20 May 2002 16:11:00 -0500 ): >|> I want >|>to block a Nigerian domain (I wonder why?) whose IP block is 217.78.64.0

Re: plptools and Diamond Mako

Oh. Thanks. Is there a way to find out all programs that are included in a .deb pkg? If I do man plpftp, the "See Also" section shows ncpd and plpftp. Not plpbackup, etc. Course, the problem goes beyond plptools. Brian csj wrote: On Mon, 20 May 2002 08:30:11 -0700 Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Identical installations on several machines

On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 06:09:03PM -0700, Petr Vanek wrote: > On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 03:47:06PM -0700, David Wright wrote: > > > > A# dpkg --get-selections > selections > > A# scp selections B: > > A# ssh B > > B# dpkg --set-selections < selections > > B# dselect install remove > > > > Keep in m

Re: wrapping [was: Re: disable paragraph flows in mozilla?]

On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 08:34:20PM -0700, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sat, 18 May 2002, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > > > Although I actually have a terminal (can't say I use it much though), > > I sometimes wonder if email conventions should be de

Re: font troubles in sid

On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 05:04:06PM -0400, Hubert Chan wrote: > > "James" == James Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > James> Hi, A while ago, after doing an upgrade, I noticed that fonts in > James> galeon where displaying as rectangles. ... > > This is probably because gtk is trying to us

Re: Same bookmark file for Galeon and Mozilla?

On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 12:32:37PM +0200, Balazs Javor wrote: > Hi, > > Is it possible to use the same bookmark file for both Galeon and Mozilla? > > I often find it difficult to decide which one I should use. > Galeon seems to be the better choice, but it also tends to crash more often :( > The

Re: latex->xpdf

Thanks to all who responded. pdflatex is a tool which someone told me about, but which I couldn't find (I was looking for latexpdf or latex2pdf or something of the like, since that is the way all the other converters are named). Changing /etc/texmf/dvips/updmap to type1_default=true also fixed th

Re: wrapping [was: Re: disable paragraph flows in mozilla?]

On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 06:47:25PM -0500, Richard Cobbe wrote: > Lo, on Saturday, May 18, Hans Ekbrand did write: > > On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 03:40:47PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > True; it's long been understood in the professional typesetting > community that lines which are too long are difficu

Problem With vsftpd - "tunable_ftp_username" ???

I just replaced the ordinary ftpd as supplied with my Debian Woody/Pre system by the vsftpd deb in Testing, but now can't actually run any FTP sessions because vsftpd dies every time I connect, as follows : # ftp django Connected to django.mydomain.org. 500 OOPS: vsftpd: cannot locate user specifi

Re: latex->xpdf

>Hmm. I just ran xpdf on an old pdf file that was created using TeX, and >it says: > Error: This document uses Type 3 fonts - some text may not be correctly displayed >and gives the same kind of display as what you describe, so this may be >your problem. xpdf doesn't understand Type 3 fonts. (Ty

Re: latex->xpdf

Tom Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When I use latex to convert a source file into a dvi, the dvi looks > great. Then when I use either dvips->gs or dvipdf to convert the dvi > into a pdf, the pdf looks OK in acroread but unintelligable in xpdf. What version of gs are you using? Versions bef

Re: latex->xpdf

> Hi all, > > I am fairly new to latex, so this could easily be something I am doing > wierd, but... > > When I use latex to convert a source file into a dvi, the dvi looks > great. Then when I use either dvips->gs or dvipdf to convert the dvi > into a pdf, the pdf looks OK in acroread but unint

Re: latex->xpdf

> "Tom" == Tom Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tom> When I use latex to convert a source file into a dvi, the dvi looks Tom> great. Then when I use either dvips->gs or dvipdf to convert the Tom> dvi into a pdf, the pdf looks OK in acroread but unintelligable in Tom> xpdf. I don't use xpdf m

Re: latex->xpdf

* Tom Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020521 02:36]: > When I use latex to convert a source file into a dvi, the dvi looks > great. Then when I use either dvips->gs or dvipdf to convert the dvi > into a pdf, the pdf looks OK in acroread but unintelligable in xpdf. I think, that pdf's look quite better

Re: Auto-ripping music CDs

Looking at vold might be a place to start. I'm not sure how it would handle audio CDs, but I bet it would know about media changes, etc. - Original Message - From: "Andrew Pritchard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian User List" Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 5:26 PM Subject: Auto-ripping music

latex->xpdf

Hi all, I am fairly new to latex, so this could easily be something I am doing wierd, but... When I use latex to convert a source file into a dvi, the dvi looks great. Then when I use either dvips->gs or dvipdf to convert the dvi into a pdf, the pdf looks OK in acroread but unintelligable in xpd

Re: Soundblaster Live! Card Not Working

I compile support for the sblive directly into the kernel and it works grand. --Patrick On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 15:48, Benjamin Pharr wrote: > No, the card doesn't show up when I do a "lspci". Does that mean I've > got a bad card? > > Thanks, > Ben > > > On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 09:15:08AM -040

Re: Passing io/eth params to 8319too driver

Not sure on the passing parameters, but I have four such cards. DLink DFE-530TX+, 2 of them work fine with 2.4.x kernels, but the two newer ones will not. And the factory supplied driver source will not compile with 2.4.x kernels. Perhaps you are caught with something like this. Actually there are

Your mail was filtered

Your mail was filtered Regarding mail sent To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: debian-user-digest Digest V2002 #231 Re: font troubles in sid font troubles in sid Re: OT: regexp spam filter Auto-ripping music CDs Re: font troubles in sid Re: Fonts and XFree86 SOLVED Re: Lexmark Z32 on Woody [solved]

How difficult is it to package Binary-only software as .deb?

I've got a GVX1 card wich is only supported, software-wise under Xfree864.2.0 and for hardware accelleration, I have to use Accelerated-X. For the moment, I'm using XFree864.2.0 compiled from source for most of my work and the demo X-Server from XIG when I need hardware acceleration. As the XIG

Re: Soundblaster Live! Card Not Working

No, the card doesn't show up when I do a "lspci". Does that mean I've got a bad card? Thanks, Ben On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 09:15:08AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On 13/05/02 Benjamin Pharr did speaketh: > > > I just bought a Soundblaster Live! soundcard, and I can't get it to > > work. I'

Re: OT: regexp spam filter

On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 02:19:28PM -0700, Alan Su wrote: > the following regexp *should work: > > 217\.78\.(6(4|5|6|7|8|9)|7(0|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9))\.[0-9]+ > > it's not really obscure, but it's not really all that clever either. > =) i'm sure there are more "compact" solutions out there! Slight

Re: Telnet weirdness

Carl Weidling, 2002-May-20 12:55 -0700: > but if I try to telnet, I get: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ telnet ragwind > Trying 192.168.0.2... > Connected to ragwind.loc.net. > Escape character is '^]'. > > and that's it, it hangs until I quit out. ssh also hangs. > (However, ftp see

Re: mounting audio CD

Kristian Rink, 2002-May-20 21:52 +0200: > On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 12:53:58PM -0700, Jeff wrote: > > Paul Fischer, 2002-May-20 21:23 +0200: > > > > You can't mount an audio cd. AFAIK it doesn't have a typical > > data-style filesystem. You can only read from it using an application > > designed f

Re: Unidentified subject!

Hi Debian and all the other distributions like RedHat and SuSe is os's with consoles(if you can put it like that). It is only the underlying system on which you work. The graphical interface you are refering to is a program like the old win 3x. For a beginner I would advise that you selected X

Passing io/eth params to 8319too driver

I've got a known-good (well, known-crap-but-known-to-work) Realtek 8139 based NIC that is absolutely fine under kernel 2.2, with the rtl8139 driver, but hangs the box solid if 8139too is used, under 2.2 /or/ 2.4. Not a problem under 2.2, as I've just been using rtl8139, but that driver doesn't se

Re: Is it perfectly to pass argv[] this way to function ?

Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > He didn't write "**argv != NULL", he wrote "*argv != NULL" -- in other > words, not "last argument is a null string", but "the last pointer in > the argv array is a NULL". Which is a common behavior (both gcc 2.95 and > Microsoft Visual C++ do it, at lea

Re: Root SSH permitted by default (was: how does root run a graphical prog)

On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 15:37, Jamin W.Collins wrote: > On Mon, 20 May 2002 20:26:11 +0100 > "Colin Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Like the document says, regularly su'ing to root from an account makes > > compromising that account essentially equivalent to compromising root > > anyway. I

Re: Print font in mozilla

Anyone know where the "system" css file(s) for mozilla are? E.g., is there a "system" css file somewhere that a userContent.css file in ~/.mozilla/default/Chrome will override? If I can find such a file, seems like it would show me what all the possible things I can do in my userContent.css file

Re: Lexmark Z32 on Woody [solved]

On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 18:52, Steffen Evers wrote: > I am trying to get a Lexmark Z32 printer working. > > Has anyone succeed on this printer and how? > > I have spent a day on this and it still does not work ... Found this stuff: http://www.linuxprinting.org/download/printing/lexmark-foomatic-

Re: Fonts and XFree86 SOLVED

On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 16:13, Nicos Gollan wrote: > On Monday 20 May 2002 19:31, Daniel D Jones wrote: > > > > > It appears that the problem isn't with XFree86 but perhaps with KDE? > > > > > > Does xfontsel display the truetype fonts? What does xlsfonts say? (Please > > > for the love of God and m

Re: font troubles in sid

Well, the "fonts-as-boxes" problem is well documented in the X FAQ, but basically it boils down to GTK fonts incompletely specifying the font they want, and then not being able to deal properly with what the X server gives them in answer to their request. Notice that every problem application desc

Auto-ripping music CDs

I've been using the rather excellent abcde cd ripping software for some time in one of my servers at home. I've got it setup now so that it hardly ever requires any intervention from a user - apart from logging in and starting the script off and that's a step I'd like to get round if I can. I w

Re: OT: regexp spam filter

the following regexp *should work: 217\.78\.(6(4|5|6|7|8|9)|7(0|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9))\.[0-9]+ it's not really obscure, but it's not really all that clever either. =) i'm sure there are more "compact" solutions out there! -alan Gary Turner wrote (Mon, 20 May 2002 16:11:00 -0500 ): |>I am not pra

Re: font troubles in sid

James, I had fonts which actually were looking like bar codes... I got the following advice and it worked: Add in the section Device of the /etc/X11/XF86Config file, the following: Option "NoAccel" It seems to be related to the xserver not properly managing the accelerated fonts You may want to giv

OT: regexp spam filter

I am not practiced in the use of regexp's, and need some help. I want to block a Nigerian domain (I wonder why?) whose IP block is 217.78.64.0 - 217.78.79.255. For unknown reasons (ignorance?), my various incantations and curses have failed the test. If the cognoscenti among you would post examp

Re: font troubles in sid

> "James" == James Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: James> Hi, A while ago, after doing an upgrade, I noticed that fonts in James> galeon where displaying as rectangles. ... This is probably because gtk is trying to use the Unicode codepage. Try changing it to another codepage, like iso885

Re: how does root run a graphical prog

On Tue, 21 May 2002 08:24, Nicos Gollan wrote: > On Monday 20 May 2002 19:37, Dave Sherohman wrote: > > On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 06:49:19PM +0200, Nicos Gollan wrote: > > > You could try using ssh with X forwarding for that. Just "ssh > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]" should do the trick. It's not the best w

nntpcache 3.0.1

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Re: Is it perfectly to pass argv[] this way to function ?

Elizabeth Barham wrote: > The only thing that is troubling is the (**argv != NULL) which assumes > that the last string is a NULL string (the first character is NULL), > as opposed to using the count (argc), which may not be the case (it's > not here). He didn't write "**argv != NULL", he wrote "

Re: Is it perfectly to pass argv[] this way to function ?

Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think the convention that argv[argc] == NULL is common enough that > this should be acceptable in practice, but I'm not sure it's actually in > the C89 standard, FWIW, it is. Section 5.1.2.2.1. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of f

Re: how does root run a graphical prog

On Monday 20 May 2002 19:37, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 06:49:19PM +0200, Nicos Gollan wrote: > > You could try using ssh with X forwarding for that. Just "ssh > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]" should do the trick. It's not the best way, but it works. > > ...unless you're on a system whic

Re: how does root run a graphical prog

On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 12:36:06PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 06:39:22PM +0200, Kristian Rink wrote: > > If you MUST use xhost, use 'xhost + localhost'. But using xauth or > XAUTHORITY is the Right Way To Do It. > Hm... by now I indeed pretty much was using xhost

Re: Fonts and XFree86

On Monday 20 May 2002 19:31, Daniel D Jones wrote: > > > It appears that the problem isn't with XFree86 but perhaps with KDE? > > > > Does xfontsel display the truetype fonts? What does xlsfonts say? (Please > > for the love of God and my mailbox, don't attach the xlsfonts output ;-) > > ) > > Why

Re: how does root run a graphical prog

On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 18:45, Willy S wrote: > hi, > > How come root can not run a graphical program under other user > session. Let say, I do 'su' and I try to launch gkrellm. Xterm will > produce this message: > > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: Client is not authorized to c

Re: mounting audio CD

On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 12:53:58PM -0700, Jeff wrote: > Paul Fischer, 2002-May-20 21:23 +0200: > > You can't mount an audio cd. AFAIK it doesn't have a typical > data-style filesystem. You can only read from it using an application > designed for it, such as a cd-player or a music ripping progra

Re: Is it perfectly to pass argv[] this way to function ?

Hi Deepak, "Deepak Kotian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > Please check the code segment. > /*code start / > #include > int func1(char **a_argv){ > while (*a_argv!=3DNULL) > printf("\n%s", *a_argv++); > return(0); > } > > int main(int argc, char *argv[]){ > func1(&arg

Telnet weirdness

Hi, I have two computers, one is running a slack 8.0 distro, the other I am trying to migrate from slack to debian woody (Actually, Debian Woody unofficial, purchased from Edmunds Enterprises). They are connected by a single ethernet cable with a crossover network with static IP addresses in /etc

Re: mounting audio CD

Paul Fischer, 2002-May-20 21:23 +0200: > Hello, > I am trying to mount an audio CD, but the problem > is that it just won't mount. > I tried to mount it with an audio CD in the drive. > And it gave me this error: > $ mount /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom -t iso9660 > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad su

Re: mounting audio CD

"Paul Fischer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to mount an audio CD, Why? Just put the audio CD in the drive and start a cd player. You only need to mount a cd if you want to access its content as files. [...] > $ mount /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom -t iso9660 > mount: wrong fs type, bad opti

Re: Is it perfectly to pass argv[] this way to function ?

Deepak Kotian wrote: > Please check the code segment. > /*code start / > #include > int func1(char **a_argv){ > while (*a_argv!=NULL) > printf("\n%s", *a_argv++); > return(0); > } > > int main(int argc, char *argv[]){ > func1(&argv[0]); > } > /*code end / > >

Re: Root SSH permitted by default (was: how does root run a graphical prog)

On Mon, 20 May 2002 20:26:11 +0100 "Colin Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Like the document says, regularly su'ing to root from an account makes > compromising that account essentially equivalent to compromising root > anyway. I don't see a problem with the default configuration, and nor do >

Re: Calendar/scheduling softwae fro debain?

> Actually, I'm thninking that's serious overkill for what I want. Isn't it > the grand swiss army knife, scheduler, email client, tea maker :-) > > I'm looking for a simply little schedule keeper. Well, if you're looking to go "old-school", there's always 'ical'. ---

Re: Root SSH permitted by default (was: how does root run a graphical prog)

On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 01:37:49PM -0500, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Mon, 20 May 2002 19:01:50 +0100 > "Colin Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Not in woody and sid, at least. See the paragraphs in > > /usr/share/doc/ssh/README.Debian headed "PermitRootLogin set to yes". > > Man, talk about

mounting audio CD

Hello, I am trying to mount an audio CD, but the problem is that it just won't mount. I tried to mount it with an audio CD in the drive. And it gave me this error: $ mount /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom -t iso9660 mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc, or too many mounted file syste

Re: Can a Package be installed that only effects 1 user account?

On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 11:27:22AM -0700, John Richardson wrote: > Can a Package be installed that only effects 1 user account? Just unpack it (using 'dpkg -x' if you like) in that user's home directory, and adjust that user's $PATH to use it. -- Colin Watson [EM

okidata OL410e: yea or nay?

Has anyone been successful using this printer with Linux (or any other) cups? I have the recommended ljet4 ppd selected, and always seem on the verge of success just before the printer pops up its "PAG BUF OVERFLOW" message. Making the suggested adjustments to the printer's internal settings (RE

Re: how does root run a graphical prog

On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 11:29:14AM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Dave Sherohman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020520 10:49]: > > On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 06:39:22PM +0200, Kristian Rink wrote: > > > > Thankfully, debian's X config has by default an option (and I won't tell > you which if you don't know, b

Re: Accounting/Payroll software

On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 12:29, No Realm wrote: > > Does anyone know of a GNU replacememt for RealWorld > accounting software (RealWorld is DOS based and is produced > by Great Plains, which is owned by MS)? Methinks a drop-in replacement would be impossible. http://www.google.com/search?

Unidentified subject!

I have finish installeing the debian version of linux. Good the prompt as the quickstart.pdf manual said. so what is next. Apart from deslect what other commands are there.? Is Debian linux a graphic base interface like windows desktop or even redhat (that is one linux I never got to be able to ins

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Root SSH permitted by default (was: how does root run a graphical prog)

On Mon, 20 May 2002 19:01:50 +0100 "Colin Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 12:37:28PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > > ...unless you're on a system which is configured to disallow remote > > root logins via ssh. (Such as, say, the default Debian > > configuration.) >

Re: Network problem/question.

Ron Johnson wrote: > So the rest of the company needs to see win2000server? Yes. I was issued this box, instructed to plug it in and then don't touch it. This should get interesting as a windows setup administered from the Company side. It has one shared directory with some database files tha

Is it perfectly to pass argv[] this way to function ?

Hi,   Please check the code segment. /*code start / #include int func1(char **a_argv){ while (*a_argv!=NULL) printf("\n%s", *a_argv++); return(0);}   int main(int argc, char *argv[]){ func1(&argv[0]);} /*code end /   This func1 function prints all the arguments

Re: how does root run a graphical prog

* Dave Sherohman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020520 10:49]: > On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 06:39:22PM +0200, Kristian Rink wrote: > > Something like 'xhost +' basically should > > allow anyone (on your system) to connect to X hence to display any > > graphical output. > > Bzzt! 'xhost +' allows anyone (on an

Can a Package be installed that only effects 1 user account?

Hello, Can a Package be installed that only effects 1 user account? One user needs an old egcs compiler. The rest of the users need the gcc 2.95 or gcc 3 compiler when upgraded. Can dpkg be used to install the .deb file so that it applies to just 1 user's account? The man dpkg, man dselect page

Calendar/scheduling softwae fro debain?

Can anyone recomend a nice time schedulign software application that's in Debain Woody's archive? A Gnome interface would be a plus. -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin

Re: how does root run a graphical prog

On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 12:37:28PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 06:49:19PM +0200, Nicos Gollan wrote: > > You could try using ssh with X forwarding for that. Just "ssh > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]" should do the trick. It's not the best way, but it > > works. > > ...unless you'r

Re: Install Debian for desktop

On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 03:29:20PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 08:59, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 02:33:21PM +0200, Robert Ian Smit wrote: > [snip] > > > I know Debian is more difficult to install, but I hope I will benefit by > > > learning a l

Re: C64 emulator

Hi, I like vice a lot. It has worked without any problems with every game I have tried with it. It has a fullscreen mode and joystick support as well. Paul On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 06:04:34PM +0200, Balazs Javor wrote: > Hi, > > What is the best C64 emulator for Linux? > After doing a search o

Re: how does root run a graphical prog

On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 06:49:19PM +0200, Nicos Gollan wrote: > You could try using ssh with X forwarding for that. Just "ssh [EMAIL > PROTECTED]" > should do the trick. It's not the best way, but it works. ...unless you're on a system which is configured to disallow remote root logins via ssh.

Re: how does root run a graphical prog

On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 06:39:22PM +0200, Kristian Rink wrote: > Something like 'xhost +' basically should > allow anyone (on your system) to connect to X hence to display any > graphical output. Bzzt! 'xhost +' allows anyone (on any system capable of contacting your system) to connect to X and d

Re: Fonts and XFree86

On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 12:44, Nicos Gollan wrote: > On Monday 20 May 2002 16:28, Daniel D Jones wrote: > > > But I've now discovered that something funky is going on. > > > > Under Openoffice, the truetype fonts are available. They aren't > > available anywhere else I've found. I'm running KDE 2.

Accounting/Payroll software

Does anyone know of a GNU replacememt for RealWorld accounting software (RealWorld is DOS based and is produced by Great Plains, which is owned by MS)? -- Powered by Outblaze -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTE

Re: att and cable modem

Ron Johnson, 2002-May-18 21:29 -0500: > On Sat, 2002-05-18 at 21:04, Deva Seetharam wrote: > > hi all > > i run debian kernel 2.4.18 on a ibm t22 notebook. i am trying > > to connect to att cable-modem using the intel ethernet card. > > > > i have pump as the dhcp client. i dont hav

Re: Install Debian for desktop

On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 10:37:26AM +0100, Peter Whysall wrote: > on Mon, May 20, 2002, Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > > on Sun, May 19, 2002, Jamin W. Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On Sun, 19 May 2002 14:33:21 +0200 > > > "Robert Ian Smit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >

Re: Locale setting on my console to see Japanese character

Deepak Kotian, 2002-May-19 00:24 +0530: >Hi, > >I have all the locales on my machine. locale -a shows it. >I have set the LANG as japanese, but when I do "ls -l" at command prompt >on >a directory. I do not proper Japanese character in the >time stamp column of the outp

Re: how does root run a graphical prog

On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 11:45:31PM +0700, Willy S wrote: >hi, > >How come root can not run a graphical program under other user >session. Let say, I do 'su' and I try to launch gkrellm. Xterm will >produce this message: > >Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server >Xlib: Client is not authorized

Re: how does root run a graphical prog

On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 11:45:31PM +0700, Willy S wrote: > How come root can not run a graphical program under other user > session. Let say, I do 'su' and I try to launch gkrellm. Xterm will > produce this message: > > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: Client is not authorized

Re: help

(this mailing list is for development of the installation system, not for support of it. moving to debian-user) On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 11:33:29AM -0500, GARY P LARGESS wrote: > Then "VFS: Insert root floppy disk to be loaded into RAM disk and press > ENTER" > > This is where I'm stuck. > I ha

Re: how does root run a graphical prog

Willy S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hi, > > How come root can not run a graphical program under other user > session. Let say, I do 'su' and I try to launch gkrellm. Xterm will > produce this message: > > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect

Re: how does root run a graphical prog

I recommend xhost local:+ over the more general xhost + -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Lexmark Z32 on Woody?

Hi! I am trying to get a Lexmark Z32 printer working. Has anyone succeed on this printer and how? I have spent a day on this and it still does not work ... Steffen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

sensors problem

Recently, my sensors module seems to be failing. I see this in the log: May 20 09:25:49 wheat kernel: i2c-amd756.o: SMBus collision! May 20 09:25:50 wheat kernel: i2c-amd756.o: Busy wait timeout! (0800) May 20 09:26:00 wheat last message repeated 10 times I have a 2.4.18 kernel, built locally, wi

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