Re: 2.2 vs 2.4 kernels

2002-06-24 Thread nate
> Can someone explain (or supply a pointer to an > explanation of) what is wrong with the 2.4 > kernel, that debian plans to continue offering the > 2.2 kernel with woody? > Several other distros have been shipping with > 2.4 exclusively for over a year, surely most > of the bugs have been shaken

Re: backup all the changes I made to the "virgin debian system"

2002-06-24 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On Monday 24 June 2002 18:03, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 11:25:33AM -0400, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > > On Sunday 23 June 2002 23:40, Dan Jacobson wrote: > > > Thanks Brian for the CVS tips. But even if I were to go that route I > > > must still locate all the files except for in /

Re: OT: Odd Perl (rm?) behavior

2002-06-24 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 23:20, Hubert Chan wrote: > > "Alex" == Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > > Alex> However, if I expand the idea a bit and do: > > Alex> rm -v `ls /mydir |spcgobble.pl` > > It works if you use xargs instead. > > # ls /mydir | spcgobble.pl | xargs

Re: AWK: adds "^M" at the end of line?

2002-06-24 Thread Ramesh Pathak
One more thing can be tried if its a pb with DOS files. Use dos2unix to convert the dos files to unix and then try this awk !! RCP Chris Kenrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 06/25/2002 07:47:54 AM

Re: OT: Odd Perl (rm?) behavior

2002-06-24 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 23:07, Alex Malinovich wrote: > However, if I expand the idea a bit and do: > > rm -v `ls /mydir |spcgobble.pl` > > I get error messages for files "the" and "party.txt", even though "rm -v > the\ party.txt" works just fine. Whoops. The error messages are for files "the\\"

Re: OT: Odd Perl (rm?) behavior

2002-06-24 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Alex" == Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Alex> However, if I expand the idea a bit and do: Alex> rm -v `ls /mydir |spcgobble.pl` It works if you use xargs instead. # ls /mydir | spcgobble.pl | xargs rm -v I guess that the backtick operator doesn't grok escaping and qu

Re: 2.2 vs 2.4 kernels (OT)

2002-06-24 Thread Larry Smith
I think it works out well the way Debian presents it. Individuals are free to install the 2.4 version, and in so doing help to "stablize" it. I would think that business would likely run the stable version, to minimize chances of failure. --- Reid Gilman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think Debi

Re: AWK: adds "^M" at the end of line?

2002-06-24 Thread Paul E Condon
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 12:08:34PM +1000, Matthew Dalton wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 05:10:15AM -0400, Abdul Latip wrote: > > > > What file are you trying to read. If it is mail coming from fetchmail, > > > > there were some change which causes ^M in mail file. > > > > > > It is ftp://ftp.i

Re: Subject Prefix -> Procmail Hacks

2002-06-24 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 05:27:51PM -0400, Thomas Good wrote: | On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: | | > > The subject prefix is widely used by sites running majordomo. | > > One example is PostgreSQL. I've been on several lists there for | > > years and never heard anyone complain abou

RE: Unix 101: ls with file count

2002-06-24 Thread Wienand Ian
>Chain commands in an alias: >alias dols="ls; echo `ls -l | grep ^d | wc -l` directories; echo `ls -l | grep ^- | wc -l` files" >customize as needed If you're wondering why you copied and pasted this in it didn't work but just constantly showed you the stats for the directory you were in when you

Re: Strange mail behaviour

2002-06-24 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 10:29:33PM -0100, andrej hocevar wrote: | Lately I've been playing a little with sending mail to myself | (great fun, that!:)). I'm using postfix and it works perfectly. | I've found out that if I send mail using "sendmail -f foo -F bar | root" to rewrite headers there's an

MC file manager question.

2002-06-24 Thread Larry Smith
MC is a handy file manager. But I've noticed that after deleting numerous unused files (of large size), the df display doesn't seem to reflect additional disc space. I also notice that mc has an "undelete" function. Is all this saying that deleting with mc moves files to some "trash" directory o

OT: Odd Perl (rm?) behavior

2002-06-24 Thread Alex Malinovich
I've been pounding my head against the wall for the past hour or so trying to get this figured out to no avail. I wrote a simple Perl script to convert filenames with spaces into either filenames with spaces escaped or quoted filenames. While STDOUT produces the expected results, when the output is

Re: exim doesn't deliver to maildirs

2002-06-24 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 03:45:51PM -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote: | Christian Schoenebeck declaimed: | > Es geschah am Montag, 24. Juni 2002 22:26 als Paul Mackinney schrieb: | > So, no matter of your .forward file, does Maildir at least work or are all | > messages saved in mbox? | | Maildir works.

Re: ssh update or upgrade required? which is it? [now restricting ssh]

2002-06-24 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 07:32:45PM -0700, justin cunningham wrote: > If I wanted to restrict ssh to only listen for my office's ip until it > gets patched how do I do this? I tried editing sshd_config and putting > my office ip as the listenaddress but it didn't work. What did I do > incorrectly?

Re: exim doesn't deliver to maildirs

2002-06-24 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 04:51:09PM -0400, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: | | > > | Well this doesn't hurt at any rate, the old system of having the primary | > > | deliver go to | > > | | > > | file = /var/spool/mail/${localpart} | > > | > > | > > Do note that you must use the "directory ="

Re: How stable is dual head, twin view feature ?

2002-06-24 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 06:16:27PM -0400, tvn1981 wrote: > I just got the Matrox g400 32MB one and replaced my Geforce2 Quadro. > I use the Matrox's driver. It seems solid, no X crashed or freeze, yet! > I do not use Xinerama but using 2 screens instead. Good for you. Whoever came up with the id

Re: Unix 101: ls with file count

2002-06-24 Thread Robert L. Harris
Chain commands in an alias: alias dols="ls; echo `ls -l | grep ^d | wc -l` directories; echo `ls -l | grep ^- | wc -l` files" customize as needed Thus spake Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 22:41:48 -0500 > From: Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Debian-User List >

Re: Unix 101: ls with file count

2002-06-24 Thread Chris Kenrick
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 10:41:48PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > Okay, back to Unix 101 for me. > > How do I produce a directory listing followed by a count of files and > directories? > > ls | wc > > only produces a count without listing the files, and it doesn't > distinguish between files and d

Re: AWK: adds "^M" at the end of line?

2002-06-24 Thread Abdul Latip
On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Matthew Dalton wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 05:10:15AM -0400, Abdul Latip wrote: >>> It is ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc-index.txt >>> I believe that that file does not have ^Ms. >>> Basically, what I am doing (once in a while), to get >>> a recent rfc-index file, and me

Re: DEPMOD messages at boot time

2002-06-24 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On Monday 24 June 2002 18:31, Larry Smith wrote: > Since building my kernel, when booting a screen or two > of depmod warnings (or errors?) flash by so fast I > can't read them. It happens during boot right after > the message "Checking Dependencies" comes up. > > After booting is complete, dmesg

Re: ssh update or upgrade required? which is it? [now restricting ssh]

2002-06-24 Thread Chris Kenrick
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 07:32:45PM -0700, justin cunningham wrote: > If I wanted to restrict ssh to only listen for my office's ip until it > gets patched how do I do this? I tried editing sshd_config and putting > my office ip as the listenaddress but it didn't work. What did I do > incorrectly?

Unix 101: ls with file count

2002-06-24 Thread Kent West
Okay, back to Unix 101 for me. How do I produce a directory listing followed by a count of files and directories? ls | wc only produces a count without listing the files, and it doesn't distinguish between files and directories. What I'd like is something like this: westk03[westk]:/home/w

Re: creating .deb from .dsc and .tar.gz

2002-06-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 04:48:21PM -0700, Paul Yeatman wrote: > > > How do I create a debian package out of the following? > > It's in the Debian FAQ: > > http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-pkg_basics.html#s-sourcebuild > Ah, an FAQ no doubt. I thought I'd done more research than that. Also by th

Re: Centralized /etc/passwd ?

2002-06-24 Thread David Z Maze
Paladin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 24 Jun 2002 15:01:47 -0500 > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I've heard that NIS isn't very robust. Might LDAP be a better >> choice? Or is there an important integration between NIS & NFS? > > Funny... I think I've heard something about NFS

RE: ssh update or upgrade required? which is it? [now restricting ssh]

2002-06-24 Thread justin cunningham
If I wanted to restrict ssh to only listen for my office's ip until it gets patched how do I do this? I tried editing sshd_config and putting my office ip as the listenaddress but it didn't work. What did I do incorrectly? Thanks, Justin ps: please reply to email address as well as deb list.

Re: ssh update or upgrade required? which is it?

2002-06-24 Thread Bud Rogers
On Monday 24 June 2002 20:51 pm, John Hasler wrote: > Chris writes: > > I presume potato is still being security patched, at least until a > > bit after Woody is released. > > There is a fix coming for Potato. It is considerably more difficult. > The security team only had four hours notice. Aft

Re: 2.2 vs 2.4 kernels (OT)

2002-06-24 Thread Reid Gilman
I think Debian calls one release stable because although the newer kernels and packages may be fairly stable, anything in a stable release should be crash-proof.  No security holes should be present and it should be usable on mission critical systems.  I wouldn't want my system running on a For

Re: 2.2 vs 2.4 kernels (OT)

2002-06-24 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
Thus spake Mark Roach last Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 07:52:15PM -0400: > On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 17:20, Reid Gilman wrote: > > The Debian stable release is that, stable. It is not supposed to have > > the latest and greatest features, if you want to get the 2.4.x kernels > > (which in my experience are p

Re: AWK: adds "^M" at the end of line?

2002-06-24 Thread Chris Kenrick
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 12:08:34PM +1000, Matthew Dalton wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 05:10:15AM -0400, Abdul Latip wrote: > > > > What file are you trying to read. If it is mail coming from fetchmail, > > > > there were some change which causes ^M in mail file. > > > > > > It is ftp://ftp.i

RE: g++ 2.96 on debian?

2002-06-24 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 25-Jun-2002 Arun Madhurmohan wrote: > Hi, > > I use debian linux at home and redhat linux (unfortunately) at work. > Redhat comes with g++ 2.96 and that's what I use at work. I can't find an > equivalent version of g++ on debian. I would prefer to work with the same > version of g++ at home an

Re: AWK: adds "^M" at the end of line?

2002-06-24 Thread Matthew Dalton
> On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 05:10:15AM -0400, Abdul Latip wrote: > > > What file are you trying to read. If it is mail coming from fetchmail, > > > there were some change which causes ^M in mail file. > > > > It is ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc-index.txt > > I believe that that file does not have ^

Re: creating .deb from .dsc and .tar.gz

2002-06-24 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
Thus spake Paul Yeatman last Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 04:03:59PM -0700: > Hi, due to the recent ssh security message, I'm in a new position > as far as compiling and creating a debian package out of source > code. Given the location of the source code on the security > server, I don't see how I can li

g++ 2.96 on debian?

2002-06-24 Thread Arun Madhurmohan
Hi, I use debian linux at home and redhat linux (unfortunately) at work. Redhat comes with g++ 2.96 and that's what I use at work. I can't find an equivalent version of g++ on debian. I would prefer to work with the same version of g++ at home and work. Could someone point me to a g++ 2.96 (x86) p

Re: ssh update or upgrade required? which is it?

2002-06-24 Thread John Hasler
Chris writes: > I presume potato is still being security patched, at least until a bit > after Woody is released. There is a fix coming for Potato. It is considerably more difficult. The security team only had four hours notice. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill

Re: ncftp with ssh

2002-06-24 Thread G. L. `Griz' Inabnit
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Monday 24 June 2002 05:13 pm, behapy wrote: > Hi, all? > > I'd like to transfer files from M$windows to Unix-clone system through > ssh by ncftp. > Is it possible that I use ncftp with ssh on Windows? I know that there are > ssh solutions > for M$windows

Re: [ Debian Users ] Subject Prefix ?

2002-06-24 Thread Bob Proulx
> I subscribe to three lists that use this protocol and I can tell you > that "intrusive" is not nearly a strong enough word. There is little > enough space for the $subject without wasting it on null values. Agreed totally. No one mentioned the problem of handling the subject line for replies.

Re: Subject Prefix -> Procmail Hacks

2002-06-24 Thread Bob Proulx
> But supposing I like it...is there a procmail hack to prepend to the > subject header? I could do it in perl but if procmail can do it, > why reinvent the wheel? (I'd rather be sipping a pint... ;-) You will get 10 postings of how to do this. So perhaps I can only add a pointer to a reference

Re: ssh update or upgrade required? which is it?

2002-06-24 Thread Chris Kenrick
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 06:14:18PM -0700, justin cunningham wrote: > Hi list, can you please clarify something for me-- this should be pretty > straight forward so sorry if the question seems a bit lame. Can you > please reply to the email in addition to the list since I'm not > currently subscrib

Re: 2.2 vs 2.4 kernels (OT)

2002-06-24 Thread Mark Roach
On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 17:20, Reid Gilman wrote: > The Debian stable release is that, stable. It is not supposed to have > the latest and greatest features, if you want to get the 2.4.x kernels > (which in my experience are perfectly stable) you can, or you can get > the testing or unstable distro.

ssh update or upgrade required? which is it?

2002-06-24 Thread justin cunningham
Hi list, can you please clarify something for me-- this should be pretty straight forward so sorry if the question seems a bit lame. Can you please reply to the email in addition to the list since I'm not currently subscribed. I read this release http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-134 and it

Re: eepic.sty amssymb.sty?

2002-06-24 Thread Luiz Gadelha Jr.
Hi, I'm also running woody. I've removed and reinstalled all tetex packages with: dpkg --purge tetex-extra dpkg --purge tetex-bin dpkg --purge tetex-base apt-get install tetex-base tetex-bin tetex-extra It's still not installing the mentioned .sty files. The output of 'texconfig conf | grep TEX

ncftp with ssh

2002-06-24 Thread behapy
Hi, all? I'd like to transfer files from M$windows to Unix-clone system through ssh by ncftp. Is it possible that I use ncftp with ssh on Windows? I know that there are ssh solutions for M$windows. Those are putty.exe and psftp.exe. Please let me know about the documents for that. Ma

Re: [ Debian Users ] Subject Prefix ?

2002-06-24 Thread Gary Turner
On Mon, 24 Jun 2002 15:55:18 -0400 (EDT), Thomas Good wrote: >On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Marc Wilson wrote: > >> On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 12:30:27PM -0400, Thomas Good wrote: >> > Why have we no subject prefix on postings, ala "[Debian Users]" >> > to use for sorting... ??? >> >> Because it's (a) intrusi

Did my image burn fail?

2002-06-24 Thread debian . org
I burned the three CDs for potato and on CD1, I noticed that my /doc/install directory had the correct file listing, but all files were zero length (including the fdisk.txt and cfdisk.txt files I was orginally seeking). I just wanted to confirm that I should have seen another directory structure i

Re: creating .deb from .dsc and .tar.gz

2002-06-24 Thread Paul Yeatman
->>In response to your message<<- --received from Colin Watson-- > > On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 04:12:43PM -0700, Paul Yeatman wrote: > > How do I create a debian package out of the following? > > > > openssh_3.3p1-0.0woody1.diff.gz openssh_3.3p1.orig.tar.gz > > > > Or where is this described

RE: Problem connecting app to X display server

2002-06-24 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 24-Jun-2002 Sivea Key wrote: > HI, > I'm new to Debian and LINUX so any help would be greatly appreciated. > > I am trying to run a simulation program on Debian. It compiles fine (now) but > whenever I try to launch the gui it tells me it can't connect to the display > and that I need to run:

Re: [ Debian Users ] Subject Prefix ?

2002-06-24 Thread CaT
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 01:04:58AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Patrick Wiseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.06.24.2321 +0200]: > > > > Well, all I can say is, when I opened my email and saw a bunch of messages > > with "[ Debian Users ]" in the Subject line, I thought, "Oh, no, what's

Re: How stable is dual head, twin view feature ?

2002-06-24 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
I have an AGP Radeon VE dual-head card running in my workstation with the XF4.2 pre-release packages and it works fine in xinerama mode. Of course it still exhibits the "mirror" effect in console mode but XF4.2 display is in 2048x768 desktop resolution. Jeremy T. Bouse On Sat, Jun

Re: creating .deb from .dsc and .tar.gz

2002-06-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 04:12:43PM -0700, Paul Yeatman wrote: > How do I create a debian package out of the following? > > openssh_3.3p1-0.0woody1.diff.gz openssh_3.3p1.orig.tar.gz > > Or where is this described? It's in the Debian FAQ: http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-pkg_basics.html#

ssh security update and libpam-tmpdir

2002-06-24 Thread Colin Watson
If you have libpam-tmpdir installed, be careful when installing the recent security update for OpenSSH; libpam-tmpdir will stop working afterwards and cause ssh logins to be dropped (I've just filed a bug report). Since you almost certainly want to install the security update if you're running an

Re: creating .deb from .dsc and .tar.gz

2002-06-24 Thread Paul Yeatman
Correction: How do I create a debian package out of the following? openssh_3.3p1-0.0woody1.diff.gz openssh_3.3p1.orig.tar.gz Or where is this described? Thanks. -- Paul Yeatman (858) 534-9896[EMAIL PROTECTED] ==

Re: automatic poweroff - PROBLEM SOLVED

2002-06-24 Thread Patrick M
Aw right... Here it is: I patched the 2.4.18 kernel with the latest acpi driver found at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/acpi/ . Just for the record... I have a Asus CUV4x VT694Z motherboard with bios revision 1010 beta 002. Thanks a lot!! PM, 22 ps. Anyone with the same board could chip

Re: Install to HDD only system?

2002-06-24 Thread Dave Price
On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 08:59:09PM -0400, Barry Michels wrote: > > > >I have a Fujitsu Point 510 with only the internal hard drive. How >would I write a bootloader to the harddrive on another system with >network drivers so I could get debian installed? > I have had suc

Problem connecting app to X display server

2002-06-24 Thread Sivea Key
HI, I'm new to Debian and LINUX so any help would be greatly appreciated.   I am trying to run a simulation program on Debian. It compiles fine (now) but whenever I try to launch the gui it tells me it can't connect to the display and that I need to run:  export DISPLAY=:0   [or setenv--I'm

creating .deb from .dsc and .tar.gz

2002-06-24 Thread Paul Yeatman
Hi, due to the recent ssh security message, I'm in a new position as far as compiling and creating a debian package out of source code. Given the location of the source code on the security server, I don't see how I can list it as a deb-src in my sources.list file. I can however download the sour

Re: [ Debian Users ] Subject Prefix ?

2002-06-24 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Patrick Wiseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.06.24.2321 +0200]: > > Well, all I can say is, when I opened my email and saw a bunch of messages > with "[ Debian Users ]" in the Subject line, I thought, "Oh, no, what's > possessed them to do that?" There's little enough real estate in the

Re: Centralized /etc/passwd ?

2002-06-24 Thread Paladin
On 24 Jun 2002 15:01:47 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've heard that NIS isn't very robust. Might LDAP be a better > choice? Or is there an important integration between NIS & NFS? Funny... I think I've heard something about NFS being kind of "old"... I may be wrong though!

Re: ide-scsi puzzle (for me, anyway)

2002-06-24 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I recently migrated from 2.2.x to 2.4.18 kernel. I'm running Woody. I have a CD reader and a separate CD reader/burner. The both were working before the migration. After the migration the CD reader would not mount known good CDs. I fixed this by changing

Re: exim doesn't deliver to maildirs

2002-06-24 Thread Paul Mackinney
Christian Schoenebeck declaimed: > Es geschah am Montag, 24. Juni 2002 22:26 als Paul Mackinney schrieb: > So, no matter of your .forward file, does Maildir at least work or are all > messages saved in mbox? > Maildir works. After changing local_delivery to directory = ${home}/Maildir/ mail

DEPMOD messages at boot time

2002-06-24 Thread Larry Smith
Since building my kernel, when booting a screen or two of depmod warnings (or errors?) flash by so fast I can't read them. It happens during boot right after the message "Checking Dependencies" comes up. After booting is complete, dmesg lists no such errors, or any errors for that matter. Exami

Support for Big Commerical Applications

2002-06-24 Thread Tom Parker
Hi, We are currently in the process of migrating from Redhat 6.1 to a more modern distribution in order to upgrade from Oracle 8i to 9i. Our problem is that while Woody works, it is not officially supported by Oracle. We also use BMC Patrol, which is not supported on Woody either. It would seem th

Re: How stable is dual head, twin view feature ?

2002-06-24 Thread tvn1981
I just got the Matrox g400 32MB one and replaced my Geforce2 Quadro. I use the Matrox's driver. It seems solid, no X crashed or freeze, yet! I do not use Xinerama but using 2 screens instead. However I notice that my monitors (LCD's) console tty screen is off, the text moved too far to the left.

Re: installing libgd-perl

2002-06-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 12:28:56AM +0300, Imre Oolberg wrote: > I would like to use GD library thru perl routines and could as easily > install it as it is but i still wonder why the poor thing depends on > xfree86-common. It needs the X libraries (xlibs) to generate XPM files, and xlibs depends o

Re: Alpha GNU software

2002-06-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 08:29:07PM +0200, Andre Canis wrote: > Is there a policy in Debian on packaging "alpha" GNU software? > Officially (ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/README), distributing it is > discouraged, but some GNU software seems to be released even less often > than Debian distributions. ;-P

Re: backup all the changes I made to the "virgin debian system"

2002-06-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 11:25:33AM -0400, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > On Sunday 23 June 2002 23:40, Dan Jacobson wrote: > > Thanks Brian for the CVS tips. But even if I were to go that route I > > must still locate all the files except for in /home that I have > > changed from the virgin debian system

DHCP client stopped getting responses from ATTBI server

2002-06-24 Thread Alex Roitman
Hello, I had my home system on a cable modem with AT&T Broadband as a provider for about a year. Everything worked perfectly well, until about a week ago they must have switched the DHCP server. Now my dhclient gets no DHCPOFFERS at all!!! I also happen to have a working WinNT installation on

Re: wheel mouse wheel not working

2002-06-24 Thread Helgi Örn
On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 23:47, Vikki Roemer wrote: > Hi! > I've been using Debian for about a week now, and during that time I've > been trying to get my mouse to work properly, but I can't. > > I have a PS/2 Microsoft Wheel Mouse. Since it's possible to click with > the wheel button as well as sc

Re: Subject Prefix -> Procmail Hacks

2002-06-24 Thread Thomas Good
On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > The subject prefix is widely used by sites running majordomo. > > One example is PostgreSQL. I've been on several lists there for > > years and never heard anyone complain about the [SQL] subject > > prefix (or any other.) Odd. > > Until you find

Re: wheel mouse wheel not working

2002-06-24 Thread Jeremy Turner
On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 16:47, Vikki Roemer wrote: > Hi! > I've been using Debian for about a week now, and during that time I've > been trying to get my mouse to work properly, but I can't. > > I have a PS/2 Microsoft Wheel Mouse. Since it's possible to click with > the wheel button as well as sc

Re: Strange mail behaviour

2002-06-24 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
> man sendmail and check the -F option: > > -F full_name > Set the sender full name. This is used only with > messages that have no From: message header. Oops... That make sno sense! It says From:, not To: Sorry! Anyway, I can reproduce it here. Not sure wh

Re: exim doesn't deliver to maildirs

2002-06-24 Thread Christian Schoenebeck
Es geschah am Montag, 24. Juni 2002 22:51 als Matthew Daubenspeck schrieb: > > Yes, I'm now using > > > >directory = ${home}/Maildir/ > > I always use: > > directory = /home/$local_part/Maildir That shouldn't be the problem. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: Strange mail behaviour

2002-06-24 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
> sendmail -f "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -F foo root gives: > > >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jun 24 22:27:43 2002 > Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 22:27:42 -0100 (GMT+1) > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (foo) > To: undisclosed-recipients:; > > > What's that doing there? man sendmail and

installing libgd-perl

2002-06-24 Thread Imre Oolberg
Hi! I would like to use GD library thru perl routines and could as easily install it as it is but i still wonder why the poor thing depends on xfree86-common. http://packages.debian.org/testing/x11/xfree86-common.html says: xfree86-common contains the filesystem infrastructure required for furth

Re: dns setup with domain name

2002-06-24 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 04:21:13AM -0400, Debian User wrote: > On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 09:06:11PM +0100, Matthew Sackman wrote: > > BIND doesn't care less whether you own the domain name or not. Just so > > long as it's not going to come across another DNS server that thinks > > someone else other

Re: Sound Blaster Live Problems

2002-06-24 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Sun, 23 Jun 2002, Reid Gilman wrote: > I tried that but it still gives me the same error (init_module: no such > device). Try compiling the soundcore support into the kernel, and the emu10k1 as a module. This is how I have it and it works, with 2.4.17. I agree it should not be necessary to d

Re: 2.2 vs 2.4 kernels

2002-06-24 Thread Reid Gilman
The Debian stable release is that, stable.  It is not supposed to have the latest and greatest features, if you want to get the 2.4.x kernels (which in my experience are perfectly stable) you can, or you can get the testing or unstable distro.  But that's why Debian has three distros. On Mon

Re: [ Debian Users ] Subject Prefix ?

2002-06-24 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Thomas Good wrote: > But "Intrusive" ? - that may be slightly melodramatic. Well, all I can say is, when I opened my email and saw a bunch of messages with "[ Debian Users ]" in the Subject line, I thought, "Oh, no, what's possessed them to do that?" There's little enough r

Re: [ Debian Users ] Subject Prefix ?

2002-06-24 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 03:55:18PM -0400, Thomas Good wrote: > On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Marc Wilson wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 12:30:27PM -0400, Thomas Good wrote: > > > Why have we no subject prefix on postings, ala "[Debian Users]" > > > to use for sorting... ??? > > > > Because it's (a) i

Re: wheel mouse wheel not working

2002-06-24 Thread Vikki Roemer
In XF86Setup, the settings are: mouse protocol: IntelliMouse (that was what IMWheel said to set it for; I had it set for PS/2 originally, but the mouse acted like it was on drugs. Both the IntelliMouse and the Microsoft protocols work); device: /dev/gpmdata (also according to the IMW instruction

Re: init_module can't find device

2002-06-24 Thread Reid Gilman
I got it.  I'm not sure what was changed but I think it could be in regards to my new kernel, I didn't compile the emu10k1 driver into the kernel but installed it afterwards.  Well,  that was annoying for a while.  Thanks for the help on this list. On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 16:48, Ron Johnson wr

Re: 2.2 vs 2.4 kernels

2002-06-24 Thread Mark Janssen
On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 23:03, Nick Jacobs wrote: > Can someone explain (or supply a pointer to an > explanation of) what is wrong with the 2.4 > kernel, that debian plans to continue offering the > 2.2 kernel with woody? > Several other distros have been shipping with > 2.4 exclusively for over a ye

Re: can't acces https with mozilla

2002-06-24 Thread Ernst-Magne Vindal
On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 23:01, Charles Baker wrote: I experienced the same today, and a quick debug told me to install psm wich solved the problem. > > --- Ben Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am unable to connect to secure websites using > > mozilla on my debian system.

2.2 vs 2.4 kernels

2002-06-24 Thread Nick Jacobs
Can someone explain (or supply a pointer to an explanation of) what is wrong with the 2.4 kernel, that debian plans to continue offering the 2.2 kernel with woody? Several other distros have been shipping with 2.4 exclusively for over a year, surely most of the bugs have been shaken out?

Re: can't acces https with mozilla

2002-06-24 Thread Charles Baker
--- Ben Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I am unable to connect to secure websites using > mozilla on my debian system. > All other browsing seems to work fine, but when I > try a secure site, it just > freezes and times out. I have got mozilla-psm > installed and I regularly >

Re: exim doesn't deliver to maildirs

2002-06-24 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
> > | Well this doesn't hurt at any rate, the old system of having the primary > > | deliver go to > > | > > | file = /var/spool/mail/${localpart} > > > > > > Do note that you must use the "directory =" option, not the "file =" > > option in conjunction with "maildir_format". > > > Yes,

Re: init_module can't find device

2002-06-24 Thread Ron Johnson
It would help to put something in the Subject line. Most people ignore posts with no subject... On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 15:05, Reid Gilman wrote: > Does anyone know how to resolve an "init_module: no such device" > error when trying to load a module? I am trying to load modules > for my soundcar

Re: wheel mouse wheel not working

2002-06-24 Thread Ernst-Magne Vindal
On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 23:47, Vikki Roemer wrote: It would be much easier to help if you also told what you have in XFConfig-x. If you use the settings Ps/2, mabye you schould try ImPs/2. I have with several pc's used different mouses, optic and ordinary with skroll, and it is allways working both

Re: Help w/ attbi.com & linksys BEFSR41

2002-06-24 Thread Reid Gilman
I use the same router and same ISP as you.  Do you have the newest firmware?  Also, I assume you had to get a new router, correct?  If you did you need to tell AT&T your new MAC address, if you haven't already.  Do the other computers get IP's properly or do none of them work?  If none of them

wheel mouse wheel not working

2002-06-24 Thread Vikki Roemer
Hi! I've been using Debian for about a week now, and during that time I've been trying to get my mouse to work properly, but I can't. I have a PS/2 Microsoft Wheel Mouse. Since it's possible to click with the wheel button as well as scroll, I was hoping I could use it as a third button as well a

Re: can't acces https with mozilla

2002-06-24 Thread DvB
Ben Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Monday 24 June 2002 6:38 pm, Juergen Fiedler wrote: > > On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 13:27, Ben Thompson wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I am unable to connect to secure websites using mozilla on my debian > > > system. > > > > Try installing mozilla-psm. PSM

Re: automatic poweroff

2002-06-24 Thread Patrick M
First of all, sorry to keep annoying you on this topic, and your help is greatly appreciated. As I was experimenting with ACPI, I noticed that on several occasions, the machine DID poweroff cleanly. After a few kernel compilations and many poweroffs, I realized that quickly pushing the power butto

Re: can't acces https with mozilla

2002-06-24 Thread Ben Thompson
On Monday 24 June 2002 6:38 pm, Juergen Fiedler wrote: > On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 13:27, Ben Thompson wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am unable to connect to secure websites using mozilla on my debian > > system. > > Try installing mozilla-psm. PSM stands for Personal Security Manager and > is the part of

Strange mail behaviour

2002-06-24 Thread andrej hocevar
Lately I've been playing a little with sending mail to myself (great fun, that!:)). I'm using postfix and it works perfectly. I've found out that if I send mail using "sendmail -f foo -F bar root" to rewrite headers there's an effect I didn't plan: Here a sample header. sendmail -f "[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: exim doesn't deliver to maildirs

2002-06-24 Thread Paul Mackinney
Derrick 'dman' Hudson declaimed: > On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 07:29:16PM -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote: > | Christian Schoenebeck declaimed: > | > > I've been trying to switch from mbox to maildir, but exim won't deliver > | > > to my maildirs. Here's the relevant section of my exim.conf: > | > > | > I

Re: Unidentified subject!

2002-06-24 Thread Kent West
Noble Obi wrote: help! my debian is overwritten by win 2000, and i dont have any boot diskettes to revive it. can anyone out there help me? istvan I assume you mean that your boot loader (lilo, grub) was overwritten, not the entire Debian system. In such a case, you'll need some method

Re: [ Debian Users ] Subject Prefix ?

2002-06-24 Thread Thomas Good
On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 12:30:27PM -0400, Thomas Good wrote: > > Why have we no subject prefix on postings, ala "[Debian Users]" > > to use for sorting... ??? > > Because it's (a) intrusive, (b) annoying, and (c) not necessary. Here's a I don't want to s

[no subject]

2002-06-24 Thread Reid Gilman
Does anyone know how to resolve an "init_module: no such device" error when trying to load a module?  I am trying to load modules for my soundcard (emu10k1) and when I try to load it, modprobe or not, it gives the "init_module: no such device" error.  Any help? signature.asc Description: Th

Re: Centralized /etc/passwd ?

2002-06-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 13:47, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Paladin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020624 11:38]: > > Is it possible to have a centralized /etc/passwd (plus all necessary > > MD5 password files) as well as the home directories in a network? > > What you're looking for is NIS. Start out by reading t

Re: AWK: adds "^M" at the end of line?

2002-06-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
Well dos2unix command should strip these ^M :) On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 05:10:15AM -0400, Abdul Latip wrote: > On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 03:57:17AM -0400, Abdul Latip wrote: > > > I am having problems with my AWK script. It used to work a > > > couple of

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