Re: debian hints server, a debian quote of the day that gives help?

2002-09-13 Thread Mike Dresser
On 12 Sep 2002, Jeremy Turner wrote: > Well, you could have the debian logo animate into a paperclip ;) > > Jeremy How about we have the debian logo animate itself into wrapping around the paperclip, and choking it to death? Sorry, another bad day with Word :) Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Gnome and printing and CUPS

2002-09-13 Thread Pat Colbeck
Hi Does anyone know if there are any plans to add a module like the KDE print module to Gnome so that Gnome apps can get the same kind of integration with CUPs that KDE can ? I really like the way in KDE you get the print dialoge and can cjoose paper size, resolution etc it seems a great step

Re: tracing PAM?

2002-09-13 Thread Tim Dijkstra
On Fri, 13 Sep 2002 13:46:06 +0200 Christian Hammers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > Has anybody a good idea how to trace/debug PAM? I use postfix and > courier pop3/imapd as well as in future passwd to authenticate user > agains an LDAP database and use PAM for this. Sadly everything betwee

Re: About spamassassin

2002-09-13 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach DEFFONTAINES Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.09.13.1129 +0200]: > Which version of spamassassin do you have there? > Author emailed me SA 2.31 was reported to have problems with spampd when > network tests are enabled. yup. sarge features 2.31-2. i'll hold off the packaging until t

Re: Writing a kernel building walkthrough - proofreaders wanted

2002-09-13 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2002-09-13T05:33:11Z, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Have you looked at /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/README.gz and > /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/Problems.gz ? Yes, I have. Those (particularly README.gz) and 'man make-kpkg' gave me enough information to get the job done, b

koffice 1.2 for woody

2002-09-13 Thread Benoit Mortier
hi all, i just finished compiling koffice for woody the packages are on deb http://www.opensides.be/kde3/ ./ full instruction in in http://www.opensides.be, menu debian have fun -- Opensides sprl Benoit Mortier - Linux Engineer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: debian hints server, a debian quote of the day that gives help?

2002-09-13 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Jeremy Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.09.13.0231 +0200]: > Well, you could have the debian logo animate into a paperclip ;) ... or implement it into the emacs operating system. i hear they already got a psychiatrist there. -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the s

RE: [OFF TOPIC] majordomo and exim

2002-09-13 Thread Haines, Charles Allen
For the WPI GDC we use to use mailman because of the nice web interface (and that is what the previous sys admin before used). However mailman kept breaking (like every other day) and would take days sometime weeks to fix. This just wasn't a solution because we needed out mailing lists. We have

Re: Dselect wont show installed programs

2002-09-13 Thread Robert Ian Smit
On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 01:46:22AM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: > .. Some packages are rather > crippled if you don't install their Recommended: packages, and it's > usually not at all obvious why some functionality is missing. In most > cases, you really want to install all Recommended: packag

tracing PAM?

2002-09-13 Thread Christian Hammers
Hi Has anybody a good idea how to trace/debug PAM? I use postfix and courier pop3/imapd as well as in future passwd to authenticate user agains an LDAP database and use PAM for this. Sadly everything between passing the credentials to PAM and getting a return value is one big black box :-( bye,

Re: openssl-dev anywhere?

2002-09-13 Thread Robert Waldner
On Fri, 13 Sep 2002 13:24:41 +0200, "Heilig (Cece) Szabolcs" writes: >I need to compile bsdftpd-ssl on a Debian GNU/Liux box. >After configuring and running make, it drops error: <...> >I have openssl package installed, but i think, that compile >needed openssl headers. I think the place of that

openssl-dev anywhere?

2002-09-13 Thread Heilig (Cece) Szabolcs
Hello! I need to compile bsdftpd-ssl on a Debian GNU/Liux box. After configuring and running make, it drops error: make[1]: Entering directory `/home/c/cece/bsdftpd-6.0-ssl-0.5.4/ftpd' cc -Wall -O2 -Wno-unused -Wno-uninitialized -I../port -DVIRTUAL_HOSTING -DLINUX -DUSE_SSL -I../ssl -DINTERNAL_

gdm2 - font problem

2002-09-13 Thread negon
Hi, I just upgraded to gnome2 and gdm2, everything is working fine except from the graphical gdm login, apperently I have changed some font-settings somewhere someday(!), so the font in the login is a stupid "western-saloon kind of style" the font also appeared in the left side of any nautilus

Re: [OFF TOPIC] majordomo and exim

2002-09-13 Thread Keith Robinson
On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 11:47:11AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 11:33:43AM +0100, Keith Robinson wrote: > > On a side matter, why is majordomo not part of the debian distro? > > It had to be removed: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce-00/msg7

Re: [OFF TOPIC] majordomo and exim

2002-09-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 11:33:43AM +0100, Keith Robinson wrote: > On a side matter, why is majordomo not part of the debian distro? It had to be removed: http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce-00/msg7.html Majordomo 2 could probably be packaged (apparently it shares no code with

Re: [OFF TOPIC] majordomo and exim

2002-09-13 Thread Keith Robinson
On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 12:31:44AM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 06:19:24PM +0100, Keith Robinson wrote: > > | I am trying to set up majordomo alongside exim, but everytime I mail > | majordomo (majordomo@my_domian), the mail is frozen and remains > | undelive

Re: Ongoing saga of upgrading my old Woody

2002-09-13 Thread Colin Watson
[By the way, no need to cc me on mailing list posts.] On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 11:09:31PM -0400, David Teague wrote: > David wrote: > > > I ran dpkg -l, dpkg --audit, got a bus error > > On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, Colin Watson wrote: > > > I'd be rather concerned about that last one. Are you sure yo

boot procedure hangs with: enable_irq(18) unbalanced from c01fe311

2002-09-13 Thread Sistemi Informativi2
Title: boot procedure hangs with: enable_irq(18) unbalanced from c01fe311 Hi, I've been trying to install woody kernel 2.4.18, on the following machine: - Abit BP6 (dual celeron 500) - hda = Quantum Fireball 20GB - hdb = Maxtor 80GB - hdc/hdd = CDR + DVD - hde = Quantum Fireball 20GB   (with

List of suggested packages

2002-09-13 Thread David Goodenough
Is there a way to get a list of all the packages that are suggested by the packages that I have installed, but that I have not installed? I ask because apt-get is quite silent about such things, and if you do not read the change logs sometimes the suggestion list changes, and I would like to see

Re: vi saved file message from root

2002-09-13 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 06:45:56PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: [snip,snip,snip] > Perhaps someone will suggest a package that cleans /tmp and /var/tmp > in Debian? yes (for /tmp): tmpreaper Note that /var/tmp is meant to be more permanent (or less temporary, depending on how you look at it) than

Have to start "dctrl" twice

2002-09-13 Thread Roettker (ext) Hermann-Josef
Hallo, I am new to Linux (but not new to computers) and have installed Woody. I setup my internet connection (modem) with "pppconfig" and everything seems to work. I can successfully connect to my ISP with e.g. "pon" or "wvdial". Then I wanted to use "dctrl" (with kde) that is installed by defau

Re: packages installed today/yesterday

2002-09-13 Thread Tim Dijkstra
On Thu, 12 Sep 2002 22:57:06 +0200 martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is it possible to get a list of packages that were installed today, or > yesterday? > > i remember this vaguely, but it's not happening... > I asked the same thing a few weeks ago. The answer then was: no. Some solu

RE: About spamassassin

2002-09-13 Thread DEFFONTAINES Vincent
Wow Which version of spamassassin do you have there? Author emailed me SA 2.31 was reported to have problems with spampd when network tests are enabled. (I run 2.20 here) Vincent > -Original Message- > From: martin f krafft [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday 12 September 2002 14

Se ha detectado un virus en su correo

2002-09-13 Thread NOTES45
Por favor póngase en contacto con su administrador The scanned document was QUARANTINED. Virus Information: The attachment picacu.exe contained the virus W32.Klez.H@mm and could NOT be repaired. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Slow internal 250 ZIP

2002-09-13 Thread Preben Randhol
I have a Dell Inspiron 2500 with an internal 250 ZIP. First I used the ATAPI FLOPPY driver in the kernal, but this is hoplessly slow. My external parallell port 100 ZIP is much faster on my old 166MHz. Copying 80Mb took about 1 hour I think. Now I read somewhere on the net that I should use the

Re: debian3.0 (Woody) login interface - How?

2002-09-13 Thread Peter Sharp
--- Frederik Dannemare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 13 September 2002 07:08, Oliver Fuchs > wrote: > > On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, damar thapa wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I installed Debian3.0, during which I chose KDE > as my > > > default X Window. Everything works fine, and I > like > > >

Re: Dselect wont show installed programs

2002-09-13 Thread Brian Nelson
Robert Ian Smit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 12:06:12AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: >> > What is wrong with that? >> >> The chief problem with apt-get is that it doesn't show Recommends: and >> Suggests: (and isn't designed to do so - it was originally just a test >> prog

Re: Linux in Universities

2002-09-13 Thread Peter Sharp
Hi, Cambridge University in England now has dual-boot Linux on all of it's pulic computers (PWF - Personal Workstation Facility): http://www-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk/pwf-linux/ I don't know if this page counts as support: http://www.cam.ac.uk/cs/docs/unix.html There is more support, but much of i

Re: debian3.0 (Woody) login interface - How?

2002-09-13 Thread Frederik Dannemare
On Friday 13 September 2002 07:08, Oliver Fuchs wrote: > On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, damar thapa wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I installed Debian3.0, during which I chose KDE as my > > default X Window. Everything works fine, and I like > > the login interface, from which I could (i)login as > > root (or any u

Connection to webmin server is refused

2002-09-13 Thread Tjip Meijer
Hi I am trying to use some webmin applications, but I got the error message " the connection was refused when attempting to contact localhost:1 " from mozilla. I use debian woody with the the unstable version of mozilla to allow htps connections. please give any advise. regards, Tjip --