Re: Amazing init problem

2002-06-25 Thread Andy Saxena
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 02:49:37AM +0200, Hern?n Cervantes wrote: > I having a amazing problem with the init program > (/sbin/init). I'm using the Woody (almost upgrade) > Debian version, I compiled the Linux kernel version > 2.4.18 with APM support, ACPI support and Wireless > support (three indep

Re: erratic mouse with xfree86 4.1.0?

2002-06-25 Thread Andy Saxena
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 05:21:18PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 12:13:16PM -0500, Michael A. Miller wrote: > | > "Derrick" == Derrick 'dman' Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | > | > Is gpm running? If so, that is going to cause problems. > | > | Ah ha

[SOLVED] Re: mutt and maildir(?)

2002-06-25 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Tom Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying something New and Different with my mail configuration. > Until fairly recently I have used mutt to access an IMAP server. Now > I have decided I want procmail, so I am using fetchmail to get the > mail, which forwards it to exim

Re: Group

2002-06-25 Thread Paul Mackinney
Carlos Sousa declaimed: > On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 16:58:03 +0200 Jimmy Vil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > If i add a user to a group in /etc/group, what shall i do to make my > > changes work? > > I don?t think a have to reboot every time i change that file... :-) > > > > / Jimmy >

Re: usbdrive etc.

2002-06-25 Thread James D Strandboge
On Tue, 2002-06-25 at 21:49, Andrew Perrin wrote: > In case anyone's interested, I've got this working fine (and it wasn't > hard). I've posted tips for it on my computer tips page, > http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin/tips > > ap > I bought a Trek thumbdrive from compusa, and it works fine too. The

Re: sounding system bell in a shell script run from toolbar icon

2002-06-25 Thread James Hook
G'Day, On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Shawn Lamson wrote: > > here's my question: > > xterm in X. But when i execute it via the menu/toolbar icon it won't > > sound the system bell ( i assume it has something to do with echo ) > now i am echoing a CTRL-G to a /tmp/sound$$ file and then catting it - > it wo

Re: combining POP mail and mail file with local "repeating" and combining POP server?

2002-06-25 Thread Daniel Barclay
> From: Hans Ekbrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ... > On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 11:31:06PM -0400, Daniel Barclay wrote: ... > > I'd like to have a local POP server that, when queried, queries another > > POP server and looks at a local mail file, and then serves the combined > > set of messages to the P

Re: qt3 and open gl ?

2002-06-25 Thread Brian Nelson
Late reply, trying to catch up on the list... Markus Grunwald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi ! > > If I want to compile one of the qt3 examples, I get the error: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > make > Some of the required modules (opengl) are not available. > Skipped. [snip] That message is hard-code

Re: umount

2002-06-25 Thread Christian Jaeger
Something like apt-get install lsof lsof +D /cdrom will show you the processes holding the device busy. The following will kill all those processes (for which you have the permission): kill `lsof +D /cdrom -t`; kill -HUP `lsof +D /cdrom -t`; sleep 10; kill -9 `lsof +D /cdrom -t` (Not teste

libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl problem?

2002-06-25 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Hello, I just installed libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl from testing and the xls2csv.pl in the /usr/share/doc/libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl/examples/xls2csv.pl gives me an error when I try to run it. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ~/bin/xls2csv.pl ps.xls 1-A1:C3 Can't call method "Value" on an undefined va

Re: Debian Project Manager

2002-06-25 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On Tuesday 25 June 2002 20:34, Hubert Chan wrote: > > "Ian" == Ian D Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Ian> The summary on freshmeat said this was a Gnome project manager (I > Ian> use KDE for my desktop environment). I suppose they're worth > Ian> another look. Maybe if it's not too ti

Re: apache + apache-ssl

2002-06-25 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On Tuesday 25 June 2002 16:56, j2 wrote: > > > Have you tried installing libapache-mod-ssl? As I understand it, this, > > in > > > > conjunction with apache, provides the same functionality as apache-ssl > > but > > > as > > > > > a loadable module (what Apache calls a DSO) instead of compiled > >

Re: usbdrive etc.

2002-06-25 Thread Andrew Perrin
In case anyone's interested, I've got this working fine (and it wasn't hard). I've posted tips for it on my computer tips page, http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin/tips ap -- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Profe

umount problem

2002-06-25 Thread macio
I received a lot of quick feedback on this problem that really helped. I had too many processes open that I had not accounted for. On both tty1 and tty2 I repeatedly entered the command "exit" until I was able to identify jobs that had been stopped. After terminating these I was able to umount

Re: make-kpkg problem

2002-06-25 Thread Joel
Colin Watson wrote: That looks like gcc isn't installed. $ gcc --version 3.0.2 thanks anyway. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: An Internal Modem - Configuration

2002-06-25 Thread Helgi Örn
On Wed, 2002-06-26 at 00:12, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 10:56:36PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > How would you configure an Internal Modem ? > > You don't. Go get an external modem. > This is not right, some internal modems are fully configurable in Linux. There are even

Re: make-kpkg problem

2002-06-25 Thread Joel
Ulf Rompe wrote: Your architecture seems to be misrecognized. do you have any idea how do I correct this? $ dpkg --print-architecture i386 If you aren't able to figure out why, you may want to force a correct name by setting it yourself: make-kpkg --arch i386 clean [x] ulf ok. but

Startup sequence problem

2002-06-25 Thread Andrew Perrin
This is an old issue, but it's started to bug me again. On my home machine (used to be potato 2.2.19pre17, it's now woody 2.4.18), ipmasq and openafs-client don't start up correctly from /etc/init.d. The scripts are there, and appear to be linked correctly, but the following happens: - With ipma

Re: Debian Project Manager

2002-06-25 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Ian" == Ian D Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ian> The summary on freshmeat said this was a Gnome project manager (I Ian> use KDE for my desktop environment). I suppose they're worth Ian> another look. Maybe if it's not too tightly bound to Gnome it will Ian> still be usable. AFAIK,

Re: umount

2002-06-25 Thread G. L. `Griz' Inabnit
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tuesday 25 June 2002 05:15 pm, Matthew Dalton wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I can't get umount to unmount my cdrom or floppy drive (at least not in a > > reliable way). So far I have had one horrific crash as a result of this > > problem :-( . I have

Re: umount

2002-06-25 Thread Matthew Dalton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I can't get umount to unmount my cdrom or floppy drive (at least not in a > reliable way). So far I have had one horrific crash as a result of this > problem :-( . I have tried a lot of different options and read a lot but > have seen no solution to "device busy" etc.

umount

2002-06-25 Thread macio
I can't get umount to unmount my cdrom or floppy drive (at least not in a reliable way). So far I have had one horrific crash as a result of this problem :-( . I have tried a lot of different options and read a lot but have seen no solution to "device busy" etc. I am going to leave my system o

Re: can't upgrade apache -- apt-get problem? - SOLVED

2002-06-25 Thread Jakob Fix
Colin, thank you very much. your analysis of my system was correct. your advice regarding woody v. potato was the answer to my problem. I just changed potato to woody, and three minutes later ... thanks also to everybody else who contributed to solve this problem. cheers, Jakob. On Wed, 20

Re: can't upgrade apache -- apt-get problem?

2002-06-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 12:16:52AM +0200, Jakob Fix wrote: > deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free > deb http://security.debian.org/ potato/updates main contrib non-free > deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free Those are all duplicates. R

Re: [he's got psm] Re: can't acces https with mozilla

2002-06-25 Thread Ben Thompson
On Tuesday 25 June 2002 8:48 pm, you wrote: > On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 06:04:02PM +0100, Ben Thompson wrote: > > I have found that it does work with some sites. > > I tried installing netscape 4.77, but that gives identical results. > > I have a redhat installation on a different partition which wor

Epson Stylus Color 760 not recognized

2002-06-25 Thread Prescott Smith
Although the Epson SC 760 works OK with NT, my new installation of potato fails to find it on the first parallel port. Boot script notes 760 recognized at 378 and at parport0, but using lptest or lpr or cat with ascii file redirected to /dev/lp0 results in nothing--no printing, no err

Re: can't upgrade apache -- apt-get problem?

2002-06-25 Thread Jakob Fix
Hi Vineet, thanks, but unfortunately that didn't help either. For the moment my /etc/apt/sources.list is simply (this list is recommended on http://www.debian.org/security): --- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/apt$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://security.d

Re: ATI Rage 128 and XFree 4.1

2002-06-25 Thread Michael Jinks
On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 07:35:01PM +0200, Ernst-Magne Vindal wrote: > > I don't know if you are running laptop or not, but I have two different > laptops (an old compac armada and a new ibm thinkpadx20) with ati rage > mobility and x4.1 and -2 with no problems. I also have a stationary, but > as "

Re: can't upgrade apache -- apt-get problem?

2002-06-25 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Jakob Fix ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020625 15:18]: > Hi, I am relatively new to debian ... > > I would like to upgrade my apache server to 1.3.26. > > I do: > - > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade apache That's not the right way. You want 'apt-get update' followed by either 'apt-get in

Re: ATI Rage 128 and XFree 4.1

2002-06-25 Thread Michael Jinks
On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 05:41:43PM +0200, Helgi ?rn wrote: > > > Is this on a laptop too? In Michaels case I think it was a laptop. FYI no, it's a Dell Optiplex GX240. Mini desktop, video on the motherboard. -mrj -- # Michael Jinks, IB # JFI/MRSEC/EFI Computing # University of Chicago #

Re: Problem connecting app to X display server--more failed efforts

2002-06-25 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Sivea Key ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020625 11:42]: > Now, how do I set the DISPLAY (and other variables I had to set for this > program) permanently? And do I set them as root, su, or my normal user > account? Put them in your ~/.bashrc . Although this will make the apps display on the other machine

Re: missing security packages

2002-06-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 01:02:18PM -0700, nate wrote: > > >Has the path to the security packages for potato changed? > > > > Failed to fetch > > > http://security.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists/potato/non-US/main/binary-i386/Packages> > 404 Not Found > > Failed to fetch > > i think your pos

Re: usleep

2002-06-25 Thread Larry Smith
I'd think that in a shell script, you could use "sleep" instead, unlikely that you need better resolution than that. Should you, usleep is availabe in the c library and you would write a small routine that called it, and refer to it in a script. --- Hans Bausewein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > H

Re: mutt and maildir(?)

2002-06-25 Thread Chris Kenrick
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 05:49:04PM +0930, Tom Cook wrote: > Thanks for the reply, but none of those things help. See below... > > On 0, Chris Kenrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 04:48:30PM +0930, Tom Cook wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I'm trying something New and D

Re: can't upgrade apache -- apt-get problem?

2002-06-25 Thread Jakob Fix
Baloo, thanks for your reply. I am refering to this security alert: http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-131 As I said, I just followed the instructions on http://www.debian.org/security/, regarding the way to automatically get security updates for my system. However, when running apt-get

Re: X performance tuning(lots of X apps at the same time)

2002-06-25 Thread nate
> hi > > I wanted to know if someone could provide me with some > insight on how i could go about tuning X to run a large number > of apps at once(mostly terminals). Back when running debian potato under > Xfree 3.3.6 X could do this pretty easily, i would have > maybe 75-100 terminals/application

Re: can't upgrade apache -- apt-get problem?

2002-06-25 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 12:16:52AM +0200, Jakob Fix wrote: > I would like to upgrade my apache server to 1.3.26. This version is not in stable or testing. - -- Baloo -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9GO2cNtWk

can't upgrade apache -- apt-get problem?

2002-06-25 Thread Jakob Fix
Hi, I am relatively new to debian ... I would like to upgrade my apache server to 1.3.26. I do: - [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade apache Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. My apach

Re: An Internal Modem - Configuration

2002-06-25 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 10:56:36PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How would you configure an Internal Modem ? You don't. Go get an external modem. - -- Baloo -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9GOrLNtWkM9N

Re: xmms segfaults

2002-06-25 Thread Michal Zachar
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 09:32:11AM +0200, Stephan Seitz wrote: > Hi! > > On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 06:01:26AM +0200, Michal Zachar wrote: > > Running xmms ver 1.2.7 shows error on xconsole: > > Init failed //Common/rmacore.so.6.2: cannot open shared object file:No > > such file or directory. > > Hm

Re: Debian+PPP+IPMasq+AutoDial

2002-06-25 Thread G. L. `Griz' Inabnit
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tuesday 25 June 2002 12:51 pm, John Hasler wrote: > Jeremy writes: > > I've read up on the Linux Documentation Project's articles on PPP and > > IPMasq, but neither of them talk about the autodial section. Any other > > references or ideas? > > Run pppconfig,

Re: xdm serving x-terminal: success?

2002-06-25 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Denny Priebe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, is anyone on this list successfully using xdm from xfree86 4.1 (current woody) to manage X terminals? For me it works with servers running xfree86 3.3.6 but not with servers running xfree 4.1. The server is running a recent woody (about one week o

Inbound mail not received by mail server which is ..

2002-06-25 Thread Piet Knoester
.. behind a second firewall. The route from the internet to the mail server is as follows: internet - smoothwall (gpl version from www.smoothwall.org) with 192.168.125.2 at the green nic (is DMZ side - but no orange nic !!) - firewall # 2 with 192.168.125.7 at the DMZ side and 192.168.25.9 at t

Re: apache + apache-ssl

2002-06-25 Thread Geoff Ludwiczak
Well, just looking through, there's a libapache-mod-ssl-doc package, after installing, look in /usr/share/doc/libapache-mod-ssl-doc On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 10:56:19PM +0200, j2 wrote: > > > > > Have you tried installing libapache-mod-ssl? As I understand it, this, > in > > > conjunction with a

Re: OpenOffice

2002-06-25 Thread Jan-Hendrik Palic
Hi .. On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 07:50:54PM +0200, Chris Halls wrote: >> libfreetype6 >> libgcc1 >These two libs are the problem - if you build on sid, the dependencies >generated mean you have to get the sid versions of these packages. Now, I >have copied these two .debs in to the openoffice mirro

Re: apache + apache-ssl

2002-06-25 Thread j2
> > Have you tried installing libapache-mod-ssl? As I understand it, this, in > > conjunction with apache, provides the same functionality as apache-ssl but > as > > a loadable module (what Apache calls a DSO) instead of compiled directly > into > > the executable. > > Aha! I will definitely giv

Re: Debian Project Manager

2002-06-25 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On Tuesday 25 June 2002 16:12, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 10:11:29 -0400, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > > Can anybody recomend a good X11/KDE project manager for Debian, along the > > lines of MS Project? A cursory search of both apt-cache and freshmeat > > failed to turn up an

Re: Debian Project Manager

2002-06-25 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 10:11:29 -0400, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > Can anybody recomend a good X11/KDE project manager for Debian, along the > lines of MS Project? A cursory search of both apt-cache and freshmeat > failed to turn up anything particularly promising. mrproject (http://mrproject.codefa

Re: missing security packages

2002-06-25 Thread nate
>Hey people. > >Has the path to the security packages for potato changed? > > Failed to fetch > http://security.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists/potato/non-US/main/binary-i386/Packages> 404 Not Found > Failed to fetch i think your post is similar to someone else's recently about this, be

Re: phpgroupware and php4

2002-06-25 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 03:17:57PM -0400, Erik Mathisen wrote: > Try apt-get install 4> > > I think I tried this a while back and it worked. > > Erik > > -- > Erik Mathisen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://erik.mathisen.us > > On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 08:15:03PM +, Jonathan Matthews wrote: >

Re: mutt's thread editing (was Re: Thread stealing )

2002-06-25 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 09:32:15AM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: | * Hans Ekbrand ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020625 05:03]: | > On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 07:41:42AM -0400, christophe barbé wrote: | > > Could you avoid posting to a mailing list by doing a reply to a current | > > thread and changing the subjec

Re: Debian+PPP+IPMasq+AutoDial

2002-06-25 Thread John Hasler
Jeremy writes: > I've read up on the Linux Documentation Project's articles on PPP and > IPMasq, but neither of them talk about the autodial section. Any other > references or ideas? Run pppconfig, configure your connection, select 'Advanced' in the 'Properties' menu, select 'Demand', and enable

missing security packages

2002-06-25 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hey people. Has the path to the security packages for potato changed? Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists/potato/non-US/main/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists/potato/non-US/contrib/binary-i386/Pa

Re: mutt and maildir(?)

2002-06-25 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 04:48:30PM +0930, Tom Cook wrote: | I'm trying something New and Different with my mail configuration. | Until fairly recently I have used mutt to access an IMAP server. Now | I have decided I want procmail, so I am using fetchmail to get the | mail, which forwards it to e

Re: Question on dependencies

2002-06-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 03:11:24PM -0400, Mike Dresser wrote: > On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Colin Watson wrote: > > So ... what does 'apt-get -f install' say? > > And I replied to a thread that isn't mine anymore =) > > pellusbackup:~# apt-get -f install > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Depend

Re: PAM not working reliably

2002-06-25 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 01:39:24AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: | So why is it if I have /etc/shadow owned by root:shadow, group has read | access, and mail in the shadow group, exim can't authenticate through | PAM. If I chown /etc/shadow to root:mail, it works...WTF? I haven't checked it, but m

Re: An Internal Modem - Configuration

2002-06-25 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 10:56:36PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | How would you configure an Internal Modem ? If it works, the same way you would configure an external one. (eg it will be /dev/ttyS0, so just go ahead and use minicom and chat, etc) -D -- "Don't use C; In my opinion, C is

Re: apache + apache-ssl

2002-06-25 Thread j2
> Have you tried installing libapache-mod-ssl? As I understand it, this, in > conjunction with apache, provides the same functionality as apache-ssl but as > a loadable module (what Apache calls a DSO) instead of compiled directly into > the executable. Aha! I will definitely give that a go tomor

Re: usleep

2002-06-25 Thread Geoff Ludwiczak
I don't think so, but making a program that uses the usleep(3) call is fairly trivial :-) On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 09:18:19PM +0200, Hans Bausewein wrote: > Hello, > > I've read in a 'Bash-Scripting Guide' about a 'usleep' (microseconds sleep) > command, but I cannot find it on either my Debian

Re: Debian+PPP+IPMasq+AutoDial

2002-06-25 Thread G. L. `Griz' Inabnit
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tuesday 25 June 2002 11:40 am, Jeremy Turner wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm putting together a machine for a school project using Debian Sid. I > basically want the machine to be able to route packets to ppp0 and > autodial when necessary from a NAT LAN. I've got

usleep

2002-06-25 Thread Hans Bausewein
Hello, I've read in a 'Bash-Scripting Guide' about a 'usleep' (microseconds sleep) command, but I cannot find it on either my Debian system or in the package search system on http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages/ . RH has it in an initscripts package. Do I need to change to RH now? (I use it at

Re: phpgroupware and php4

2002-06-25 Thread Erik Mathisen
Try apt-get install I think I tried this a while back and it worked. Erik -- Erik Mathisen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://erik.mathisen.us Could this be the best day of my life? -- Homer Simpson Homer the Heretic On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 08:15:03PM +, Jon

Re: An Internal Modem - Configuration

2002-06-25 Thread Gregor Szyrach
On Tue, 2002-06-25 .18.26 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How would you configure an Internal Modem ? I'd give http://www.linmodems.org/ a try. hth Gregor -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

phpgroupware and php4

2002-06-25 Thread Jonathan Matthews
Does anyone know how to convince an "apt-get install phpgroupware" not to remove php4, php4-pgsql and phppgadmin and install them with php3 based packages? Here's the apt-get log: Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... The following extra packages will be installed: libc-client200

Re: Question on dependencies

2002-06-25 Thread Mike Dresser
On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Colin Watson wrote: > So ... what does 'apt-get -f install' say? > > -- > Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] And I replied to a thread that isn't mine anymore =) pellusbackup:~# apt-get -f install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependen

Re: Question on dependencies

2002-06-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 02:02:35PM -0400, Reid Gilman wrote: > The exact error message is: (I think you appended this to the wrong thread, but anyway.) > apt-get install x > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > You might want to run 'apt-

Re: urgent response is needed

2002-06-25 Thread Dr . Who
Well another try Joseph Edward, did your last e-mail account got canceled after mail.com got notified that your nothing but a Nigerian-419 scam-artist? and now you're a woman? "SANDRA SAVIMBI" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Dear Friend, > This letter may come to you as a surprise due to the

Re: ssh 3.3p1-0.0potato2 not in potato?

2002-06-25 Thread nate
> Hi list, Please respond to the email address in addition to the list. > > I just pulled this package down via apt-get upgrade on a testing machine > though, on the stable boxes, after dselect update, dselect shows the > 1.2.3 version for openssh as the most current. packages.debian.org seems >

RE: first installation,cannot find default font

2002-06-25 Thread Wilfried Mestdagh
Francisco, thank you for reply ! question: when I run apt-get install (is it package ?) do I do then not a double installation ? Or does the OS just let me reconfigure it ? thanks, Wilfried > -Original Message- > From: Francisco Fialho [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: dinsdag 25 jun

Re: Unix 101: ls with file count

2002-06-25 Thread Damian Sweeney
Kent West wrote: > Wienand Ian wrote: > >>> 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 wo

Re: ssh 3.3p1-0.0potato2 not in potato?

2002-06-25 Thread Vineet Kumar
* justin cunningham ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020625 11:31]: > Hi list, Please respond to the email address in addition to the list. > > I just pulled this package down via apt-get upgrade on a testing machine > though, on the stable boxes, after dselect update, dselect shows the > 1.2.3 version for op

Re: Problem connecting app to X display server--more failed efforts

2002-06-25 Thread Sivea Key
>- Original Message - >From: "Vineet Kumar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: >Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 11:04 AM >Subject: Re: Problem connecting app to X display server--more failed efforts >* Sivea Key ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020625 09:45]: >> [additional efforts] >> I did some further researc

Debian+PPP+IPMasq+AutoDial

2002-06-25 Thread Jeremy Turner
Hi all, I'm putting together a machine for a school project using Debian Sid. I basically want the machine to be able to route packets to ppp0 and autodial when necessary from a NAT LAN. I've got the machine to do this, except for the autodialing part. I have to ssh into the box and dial a conn

SOLVED: exim doesn't deliver to maildirs

2002-06-25 Thread Paul Mackinney
Thanks to everyone for your advice. I solved this by re-running eximconfig, modifying it by using the examples people sent, and refering to /usr/doc/exim/spec.txt. For those who want to convert from mbox to Maildir, here's what I had to do: 1. exim.conf changes: local_delivery: driver = append

Re: An Internal Modem - Configuration

2002-06-25 Thread Shaul Karl
> How would you configure an Internal Modem ? > > Thanks, > Shyam > > The LDP's Modem-HOWTO might be a good starting point: section 1.8 is a `Quick Install'. -- Shaul Karl, [EMAIL PROTECTED] e t -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: Centralized /etc/passwd ?

2002-06-25 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Paladin" == Paladin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Paladin> can the root account be centralized too? I don't know if it can or not, but it is probably not a good idea. Consider what happens if your LDAP server goes down for some reason. So you say to yourself, "OK, I'll just log in a

ssh 3.3p1-0.0potato2 not in potato?

2002-06-25 Thread justin cunningham
Hi list, Please respond to the email address in addition to the list. I just pulled this package down via apt-get upgrade on a testing machine though, on the stable boxes, after dselect update, dselect shows the 1.2.3 version for openssh as the most current. packages.debian.org seems to be a vers

Debian Project Manager

2002-06-25 Thread Ian D. Stewart
Howdy, Can anybody recomend a good X11/KDE project manager for Debian, along the lines of MS Project? A cursory search of both apt-cache and freshmeat failed to turn up anything particularly promising. TIA, Ian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: wheel mouse wheel not working

2002-06-25 Thread Vikki Roemer
When I went into XF86Setup, it said I was using /dev/gpmdata , but when I opened XF86Config, it said I'm using /dev/mouse . I would've checked XF86Config last night, but at first it couldn't find it, and once it finally did find it, it wouldn't let me open it. BTW, that version number is corr

Re: OT: Odd Perl (rm?) behavior

2002-06-25 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Alex" == Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alex> Using xargs works for me if I use the --quote option for the Alex> script. But the default behavior still produces \\ instead of a Alex> single \. Though, as I've said, just letting the script print to Alex> screen shows only a sing

X performance tuning(lots of X apps at the same time)

2002-06-25 Thread nate
hi I wanted to know if someone could provide me with some insight on how i could go about tuning X to run a large number of apps at once(mostly terminals). Back when running debian potato under Xfree 3.3.6 X could do this pretty easily, i would have maybe 75-100 terminals/applications open at once

Re: Question on dependencies

2002-06-25 Thread Reid Gilman
The exact error message is: apt-get install x Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these: (I've tried it) Sorry, but the following packages have unment dependencies:    zl

re-examine ssh vuln once details are released?

2002-06-25 Thread nate
hi. first I want to say that the security team does a great job. second i am kind of worried. I ran apt-get update/upgrade on a stable system just now and found it upgraded to openssh 3.3, i'm aware of the vuln that is comming out. but i was curious if the security team(or others) would re-exami

Re: An Internal Modem - Configuration

2002-06-25 Thread Helgi Örn
On Tue, 2002-06-25 at 19:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How would you configure an Internal Modem ? > First of all I would try to find out what sort of modem it is, no use to send this sort of question to the list otherwise...:-) Then I would open a browser with google.com and search for: Linux

Re: OpenOffice

2002-06-25 Thread Chris Halls
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 09:11:24AM -0700, David Richmond wrote: > Sorry to jump in, but I'm a bit confused. The OpenOffice.org packages > current on http://www.linux-debian.de/openoffice installed fine on my woody > systemalthough I may have grabbed some packages from sid as necessary. > T

Re: Question on dependencies

2002-06-25 Thread Colin Watson
[No need to cc me, I read the list.] On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 01:28:34PM -0400, Mike Dresser wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > Um, that looks risky. Wouldn't it be safer to rebuild the lilo package > > from woody on a potato system so that it will actually have satisfied > > dependencies? > > Yes.

Re: wheel mouse wheel not working

2002-06-25 Thread Helgi Örn
On Tue, 2002-06-25 at 19:31, Helgi Örn wrote: > On Tue, 2002-06-25 at 19:44, Vikki Roemer wrote: > > My version of XFree86 is 3.3.5 . > > > > From my /etc/X11/XF86Config file: > > > > Section "Pointer" > >Protocol"IntelliMouse" > >Device "/dev/mouse" > >BaudRate

Re: 2.2 vs 2.4 kernels

2002-06-25 Thread Reid Gilman
On Tue, 2002-06-25 at 13:19, nate wrote: > I take it you don't have USB then. That is one of the most useful > things that the 2.4.x kernels gave us, USB. I have actually got a USB > Handspring Visor syncing with my Debian (Woody) 2.4.18 system. I'm > working on my mp3 player. I

An Internal Modem - Configuration

2002-06-25 Thread shyamk
How would you configure an Internal Modem ? Thanks, Shyam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Trouble make SSH connection with OpenSSH_3.0.2p1 on Debian Woody

2002-06-25 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
Greg, Thank you for the tip. I changed the /etc/hosts.deny to now not include ALL:PARANOID and then it all started to work. I very much appreciate the help! Regards, Randy On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 05:04, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 04:05:30AM -0700, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: >

[woody] xdm serving x-terminal: success?

2002-06-25 Thread Denny Priebe
Hi, is anyone on this list successfully using xdm from xfree86 4.1 (current woody) to manage X terminals? For me it works with servers running xfree86 3.3.6 but not with servers running xfree 4.1. The server is running a recent woody (about one week old). xdm manages the local display and is co

Re: Question on dependencies

2002-06-25 Thread Mike Dresser
> Um, that looks risky. Wouldn't it be safer to rebuild the lilo package > from woody on a potato system so that it will actually have satisfied > dependencies? Yes. This was done to fix a problem with drives over 32gb on an older machine that accepted it in the bios, but lilo didn't work on. >

Re: wheel mouse wheel not working

2002-06-25 Thread Helgi Örn
On Tue, 2002-06-25 at 19:44, Vikki Roemer wrote: > My version of XFree86 is 3.3.5 . > > From my /etc/X11/XF86Config file: > > Section "Pointer" >Protocol"IntelliMouse" >Device "/dev/mouse" >BaudRate1200 >Emulate3Timeout 50 >Resolution 200 > EndSe

Re: 2.2 vs 2.4 kernels

2002-06-25 Thread nate
> I take it you don't have USB then. That is one of the most useful > things that the 2.4.x kernels gave us, USB. I have actually got a USB > Handspring Visor syncing with my Debian (Woody) 2.4.18 system. I'm > working on my mp3 player. I remember being forced to dual boot just so I > co

Re: Unix 101: ls with file count

2002-06-25 Thread Kent West
Vineet Kumar wrote: alias dolsa='ls -la --color | more ; echo ---; echo `ls -la | grep ^d | wc -l` Directories; echo `ls -la | grep ^- | wc -l` "File(s)" ; echo `ls -la | grep ^l | wc -l` "Symbolic Link(s)"; echo 1 Byte Count ; echo `ls -la | wc -l` Total Items' Glad you

Re: [he's got psm] Re: can't acces https with mozilla

2002-06-25 Thread Ben Thompson
On Tuesday 25 June 2002 2:42 pm, DvB wrote: > And I quote: > > I've got mozilla-psm installed OK, thats why I can't figure it out. > > > > I tried uninstalling mozilla-psm, and when I tried secure sites after > > that I got the message from mozilla telling me to install psm. > > So I reinstalled ps

debian-user@lists.debian.org

2002-06-25 Thread Dan Jacobson
Excuse me but isn't /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/exim suppose to finish (i.e. fork and get out of the way) quickly like all pppd scripts are? I'm putting a & at the end of this line /usr/sbin/exim -qf & otherwise half the phone call is wasted waiting for exim to finish. -- http://jidanni.org/ Taiwan(04)258

Re: Problem connecting app to X display server--more failed efforts

2002-06-25 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Sivea Key ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020625 09:45]: > [additional efforts] > I did some further research and typed: set DISPLAY :0.0; export > DISPLAY That looks like a mixture of csh-style and sh-style syntax. try isntead DISPLAY=:0 export DISPLAY That's the matter of syntax. As for the matter of s

Re: SSH stuff... (from slashdot)

2002-06-25 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 08:34:12AM -0400, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > Is this true? According to Wichert Akkerman on debian-security: "Actually our package contains a patch from Solar Designer to make privsep work on 2.2 kernels. It might still be broken on 2.0 kernels th

Re: wheel mouse wheel not working

2002-06-25 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Vikki Roemer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020625 09:37]: > My version of XFree86 is 3.3.5 . > > From my /etc/X11/XF86Config file: > > Section "Pointer" > Protocol"IntelliMouse" > Device "/dev/mouse" > BaudRate1200 > Emulate3Timeout 50 > Resolution 200 > EndSectio

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