New user with X-Windows problem

2002-09-22 Thread lameth
Recently I installed the latest version of Debian (Woody). After the base system was installed and I selected my packages were installed I went through the x-window configuration. When that process was completed the operating system attempted to start X-Windows. X failed to started and I recei

Re: make-kpkg 2.4.19 kernel: Module /usr/src/modules/pcmcia-cs failed.

2002-09-22 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Karsten M. Self wrote on Sun Sep 22, 2002 um 09:26:33PM: > Kernel configuration options: > Kernel-tree PCMCIA support is enabled. What about RTFM?! Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Re: what's the correct way to delete at queue?

2002-09-22 Thread Jesus Climent
On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 11:26:43AM +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote: > Hello list, > > I used "at" to insert a job in the at queue, reading the at man pages > but couldn't find any way to delete that job from the queue. Hence I > delete files under /var/spool/cron/atjobs and type atq to make sure > no

what's the correct way to delete at queue?

2002-09-22 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello list, I used "at" to insert a job in the at queue, reading the at man pages but couldn't find any way to delete that job from the queue. Hence I delete files under /var/spool/cron/atjobs and type atq to make sure nothing in the queue still. Is it correct? Any formal way to remove at queue

No brains at this hour in the morning

2002-09-22 Thread Jesus Climent
Sorry for the massive subscribe cross-posting. My mailserver is bouncing some mails and SmartList keeps on desubscribing me from all my loved debian lists. And trying to subscribe at this hour in the morning might not be such good idea. J -- Jesus Climent | Unix System Admin | Helsinki, Finlan

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2002-09-22 Thread Jesus Climent
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Re: IDE master to slave conversion

2002-09-22 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 00:56, Neal Pollock wrote: > ie. root=/dev/hda6 becomes root=/dev/hdb6 in lilo.conf. First, please set your mail client to wrap lines, preferably somewhere around 80 characters. Second, the only things that I can think of that you'd need to modify to get a clean boot would

Re: IDE master to slave conversion

2002-09-22 Thread nate
Neal Pollock said: > I'm changing the position of my IDE drives and subsequently need to set > my debian disk as a slave. What configuration files do i need to edit to > ensure a clean boot with all services running properly? ie. > root=/dev/hda6 becomes root=/dev/hdb6 in lilo.conf. also fstab,

IDE master to slave conversion

2002-09-22 Thread Neal Pollock
I'm changing the position of my IDE drives and subsequently need to set my debian disk as a slave. What configuration files do i need to edit to ensure a clean boot with all services running properly?  ie. root=/dev/hda6 becomes root=/dev/hdb6 in lilo.conf.   cheers.

Re: Concerning Upgrade to Woody: Couldn't configure a pre-depend

2002-09-22 Thread Brenda J. Butler
Sorry for the late reply. On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 07:48:37PM +0200, Andreas Hetzmannseder wrote: > Brenda J. Butler wrote on Monday, September 16th 2002 at 22.55 h > > I didn't have trouble with apt-cdrom to add the cd's as sources (going > > from Potato stable to Woody stable), but now I have t

Re: IMAP is a memory hog

2002-09-22 Thread nate
Brendan J Simon said: > > I've noticed that the IMAP daemon is very memory hungry. I've noticed > our server slowing down and swapping and top reports that imap is taking > 50-70MB of memory. Why so high ??? I use cyrus which is very very light on resources, looks like it takes 2MB of memory fo

Re: Packages to install to program in java

2002-09-22 Thread Edward Guldemond
On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 08:53:09PM -0700, Irvin Temp wrote: > What are the packages that i need to install so that > can > be able to program in java? I already deed an > > apt-cache search java -- no results > > TIA > > irvin Download the RPM packages from java.sun.com, use alien to convert

make-kpkg 2.4.19 kernel: Module /usr/src/modules/pcmcia-cs failed.

2002-09-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
I'm getting a build error when trying to update to a 2.4.19 kernel, in pcmcia-cs. I've found a few posts pointing to similar issues through Google, but no solid suggestions that are fixing this problem. Anyone have pointers? Full build output follows. Peace. --

Re: IMAP is a memory hog

2002-09-22 Thread Brendan J Simon
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: >On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Brendan J Simon wrote: > > >>I've noticed that the IMAP daemon is very memory hungry. I've noticed >>our server slowing down and swapping and top reports that imap is taking >>50-70MB of memory. Why so high ??? >> >> > >Do you hav

gcdmaster 1.1.6 When?

2002-09-22 Thread DvB
The current version of gcdmaster in stable/testing/unstable has a bug http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=2171&atid=102171&func=detail&aid=566948 that breaks copying cds with only one drive available. Does anyone have any idea as to when version 1.1.6 will make it into Debian? -- To UNS

Re: Packages to install to program in java

2002-09-22 Thread Corrin Lakeland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 16:03, Matthias Szupryczynski wrote: > On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 13:53, Irvin Temp wrote: > > apt-cache search java -- no results Java's licence prevents it being included in debian. > AFAIK, you have to bypass the package system f

Re: Packages to install to program in java

2002-09-22 Thread Matthias Szupryczynski
On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 13:53, Irvin Temp wrote: > What are the packages that i need to install so that > can > be able to program in java? I already deed an > > apt-cache search java -- no results AFAIK, you have to bypass the package system for this and download the Java JRE / SDK directly fro

Packages to install to program in java

2002-09-22 Thread Irvin Temp
What are the packages that i need to install so that can be able to program in java? I already deed an apt-cache search java -- no results TIA irvin __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes http://finance.yahoo.com -- To

Re: IMAP is a memory hog

2002-09-22 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Brendan J Simon wrote: > I've noticed that the IMAP daemon is very memory hungry. I've noticed > our server slowing down and swapping and top reports that imap is taking > 50-70MB of memory. Why so high ??? Do you have some annoyingly huge emails, per chance? > Is there

Re: They system wont Power down the mother board

2002-09-22 Thread Jeff Cours
J.S.Sahambi wrote: > I have a PIV on ASUS mother borad. When I shutdown the machine in > windows, it power downs the mother board. But if I shutdown the system > in Debian, the system does the usuall work, prints out: > > ... > . > Power down. > > > and then stays there only. I have to ma

[FIXED] Metacity and Sticky apps

2002-09-22 Thread christophe barbe
On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 10:41:15PM -0400, Hubert Chan wrote: > BTW, gkrellm2 (which hit unstable recently) seems to work better with > Metacity, and has configuration options to (among other things) show up > on all workspaces. Thanks for the great tip. This is exactly what I was looking for. Ch

Re: Re. CUPS in Woody 3.0 unstable.

2002-09-22 Thread Adam Bogacki
> Have you read the Debian Readme in /usr/share/doc/cupsys, there is a sneaky > Debian gotcha in there . > Yep - I take it you refer to the provision to register individual users to the CUPS install. I can't find any provision for this on the web site and can't see how to do that. On the other

demand dialing with pppconfig

2002-09-22 Thread John Schmidt
Hi, I use pppconfig to set up my modem for dialout. Everything works well if I use pon/poff from the command line. However, I would like to use demand dialing. I turned on demand dialing via pppconfig and also did a pon to start up pppd. I looked at /var/log/syslog to verify that pppd wa

IMAP is a memory hog

2002-09-22 Thread Brendan J Simon
I've noticed that the IMAP daemon is very memory hungry. I've noticed our server slowing down and swapping and top reports that imap is taking 50-70MB of memory. Why so high ??? Is there a bug or is it just the way the IMAP protocol works (can't see how). I've tried 2 IMAP servers with sim

Re: nautilus-mozilla

2002-09-22 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Lauren" == Lauren Matheson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> #apt-cache search nautilus |grep mozilla >> nautilus1.1-mozilla - Nautilus component for use with Mozilla >> (GNOME2) >> nautilus2-mozilla - Nautilus component for use with Mozilla (GNOME2) >> >> >> something is missing in your so

Pre-release Woody 3.0: 'Man' & Gnome Terminal not working.

2002-09-22 Thread Adam Bogacki
> Do change unstable to stabel but do a reinstall of stable not a > dist-upgrade (as it would be a disty-downgrade). Otherwise you will get > into a lot of problems. A dist-upgrade after changing 'unstable' to 'stable' in /etc/apt/sources.list told me that zero packages were to be upgraded ... a

Installation directories

2002-09-22 Thread Russell
Hi, If i install a non-debian program from source, how can i find all the directories where stuff is installed (2 months after i've installed it)? How is stuff 'usually' un-installed on a linux (non-debian) system? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Metacity and Sticky apps

2002-09-22 Thread Hubert Chan
> "christophe" == christophe barbé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: christophe> I forgot to say that on the left button of the window, in christophe> the menu there is a "Put on all workplace". But gkrellm has christophe> fortunately no decoration. Also metacity doesn't memorize christophe> this

Re: Installing non-debian source

2002-09-22 Thread Russell
Russell wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a source tree that is installed by > running "make install" within it. Is there > a Debian way that somehow includes this into > the installation system ? (iirc, alien only > works with binaries) I found the answer at: http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-compat.

Installing non-debian source

2002-09-22 Thread Russell
Hi, I have a source tree that is installed by running "make install" within it. Is there a Debian way that somehow includes this into the installation system ? (iirc, alien only works with binaries) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Re: Reset root password

2002-09-22 Thread John Manko
Tom Cook wrote: >On 0, nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Matthew Daubenspeck said: >> >> >>>I have acquired a "hand me down" debian potato box that I need to do some >>>serious overhaul work on, but the old admin doesn't remember the root >>>password. >>> >>>Does anyone have a quick an

Re: Mesa bug?

2002-09-22 Thread John Manko
> > > I think the statements about minimum state >required to implement features that are scattered through the spec are >aimed more at people implementing the spec than people using an >implementation, but I may be very wrong about that. > >Tom > > No, you are correct, but knowing about the

import Maildir mails to mailman archive?

2002-09-22 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello list, I installed mailman can created a brand-new mailing list. Now I'd like to import some mails in my Maiildir folder to mailman archive. Is there any import tool or utility to achive this? BTW, If I want to backup mailmain archive as well as all configuration, what directories should I

Re: i810 and X (and automatic power-down)

2002-09-22 Thread Jeff Cours
Success! Thanks to everyone for all your excellent help. For the archives, here is what it took to get the system to power-off at shutdown and to get X working. In /etc/lilo.conf, I added this line to the section that boots Linux: append="mem=511M apm=on" The "apm=on" turns on power ma

Re: Reset root password

2002-09-22 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matthew Daubenspeck said: > > I have acquired a "hand me down" debian potato box that I need to do some > > serious overhaul work on, but the old admin doesn't remember the root > > password. > > > > Does anyone have a quick and dirty FAQ or doc on how to r

init.d script error reporting (or lack thereof)

2002-09-22 Thread Lucas Barbuto
Hi List, Just a quick question: I really enjoy using the scripts in /etc/init.d for starting, stopping and restarting services because it makes me feel like I'm safe doing it the Debian way. I have one gripe however --- when they don't work, they don't tell you. I have seen very few /etc/init.

Re: Strange X behaviour after woody instalation (?!)

2002-09-22 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Zbigniew Perski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, Two weeks ago I decided to move from WinNT to Debian woody. I am > new in Linux so I decided first to instal woody as a 2nd > system. Installation was correct (bf2.4 on ext3) but problems starts > when I tried to turn on X windows. After star

Re: Mesa bug?

2002-09-22 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, John Manko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > Also, according to 1.4 specs: > > The state required for clipping is at least 6 sets of plane equations > (each consisting of four double-percision floating-point coefficients) > and at least 6 corresponding bits indicating which of these >

Re: netmasks

2002-09-22 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Martin Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > a question i was asked recently on a topic that I thought > i understood untill i was asked > > Given the hypothetical subnet 136.206.16.128 and netmask 255.255.255.128, > state the valid range of IP addresses that could be assigned to hosts o

Re: Connecting urlview & Mozilla, via w3m ?

2002-09-22 Thread Adam Bogacki
Yay ! It works ! Thanks, Adam Bogacki, [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 10:33:44AM +0200 or thereabouts, Preben Randhol wrote: > Adam Bogacki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 22/09/2002 (09:59) : > > On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 03:50:00PM +0200 or thereabouts, Preben Randhol wrote: > > > > T

Re: Mesa bug?

2002-09-22 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, "Eric G. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 04:11:44PM +0930, Tom Cook wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > This may be a mesa bug or it may be a manifestation of my ignorance of > > opengl. If the latter then I apologise for OT posting. > > > > I am playing with clipping

Re: Reset root password

2002-09-22 Thread nate
Matthew Daubenspeck said: > I have acquired a "hand me down" debian potato box that I need to do some > serious overhaul work on, but the old admin doesn't remember the root > password. > > Does anyone have a quick and dirty FAQ or doc on how to reset/change the > root password? if its using lilo

Reset root password

2002-09-22 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
I have acquired a "hand me down" debian potato box that I need to do some serious overhaul work on, but the old admin doesn't remember the root password. Does anyone have a quick and dirty FAQ or doc on how to reset/change the root password? Thanks for the help. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Konqueror and file associatin

2002-09-22 Thread Robert L. Harris
Has anyone set up a file association in Konqueror to kick off CX Office for viewing .xls files? Just reinstalled CXO and don't have my logs of having it working last time. CXOffice will manually open the files great with "$Home: excel file.xls" but Konqueror says it can't import the file of

RE: two CST timezones

2002-09-22 Thread Yu Guanghui
Hi Sun's Solaris has the same style. I don't know what the standard is too. Yu Guanghui > -Original Message- > From: Dan Jacobson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 1:26 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sub

Re: Lost Mozilla

2002-09-22 Thread David B Harris
On 22 Sep 2002 14:41:36 +0100 Brian Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Help,Debian Newbie.Have installed Debian 3.0 OK. Problem, Mozilla was > working OK. Now I cannot launch it, I get message 'No such file etc'. > Tried apt-get to install &/or remove it, but can neither install or > remove it.I'm

Re: netmasks

2002-09-22 Thread David B Harris
On Sat, 21 Sep 2002 14:33:06 + Martin Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > a question i was asked recently on a topic that I thought > i understood untill i was asked > > Given the hypothetical subnet 136.206.16.128 and netmask > 255.255.255.128, state the valid range of IP addresses that

Re: cdrecord -scanbus examples, please.

2002-09-22 Thread Carlos Sousa
> > Jesus Climent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Thus I would like some people to send me some "cdrecord -scanbus" > > > outputs where they have grep'ed the writer and reader entries. > > 0,0,0 0) 'YAMAHA ' 'CRW8424S' '1.0g' Removable CD-ROM 0,0,0 0) 'YAMAHA ' 'CRW8424E

Re: apt-get upgrade from testing broke aptitude, kpackage

2002-09-22 Thread Leo Spalteholz
Leo Spalteholz wrote: > Bob Nielsen wrote: > >> On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 11:37:50AM -0700, Leo Spalteholz wrote: >> >>> I did a routine apt-get upgrade today from testing. There were a ton >>> of updated packages including libc, rpm etc. However now when I try >>> to run aptitude it says loadi

Re: Question on File Permissions

2002-09-22 Thread Debian User
Well, basically what I learned today, is that web file permissions are usually handled by the FTP client, which I am finding out is a problem with certain FTP utils like Dreamweaver for instance, because for some reason you have to download the Exchange Utilties which cost more $$ to get the f

Re: aliases or functions--which to use?

2002-09-22 Thread Michael Heironimus
On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 09:42:51PM -0400, alex wrote: > But, can someone explain why 'functions' should be used instead of > 'aliases' ? Well, there are a few reasons related to the rules on exactly when alias definitions are evaluated and when substitution is done, but the only real-world sit

Re: apt-get upgrade from testing broke aptitude, kpackage

2002-09-22 Thread Leo Spalteholz
Bob Nielsen wrote: > On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 11:37:50AM -0700, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > >>I did a routine apt-get upgrade today from testing. There were a >>ton of updated packages including libc, rpm etc. However now >>when I try to run aptitude it says loading cache and locks up. >>For kpac

Re: need advice on building packages from source

2002-09-22 Thread Marc Wilson
On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 09:02:20PM -0400, Andy Saxena wrote: > ...and then use a bootup script to execute hdparm? At least I found that > necessary. If after configuring your proper IDE controller, configuring it for DMA, and configuring DMA by default, the kernel still doesn't do it by defaul

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Re: mutt + Maildir

2002-09-22 Thread Christoph Claus
On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 10:27:20AM +0200, Jens Benecke wrote: > Hallo, Hallo > > > - Gibt es irgendwie eine Möglichkeit, mutt dazu zu bringen, selber > geschriebene Mails in der _momentanen_ Mailbox zu speichern, also nach > dem Motto "set record=$PWD" oder sowas? Dem kann geholfen werden..

Re: PGP key signing parties

2002-09-22 Thread Time
On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 01:04:41PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > i find myself often explaining GPG, the web of trust, and public key > cryptography as people rarely know the details and they aren't all > that complicated. Darxus usually just points people to -> http://www.phillylinux.org/keys/

OT: M$ Proxy Server

2002-09-22 Thread martin f krafft
So my brother, a just-convert from XP to Debian, is attending a boarding school here in Germany which is apparently a so-called Micro$oft Project School, meaning that it's all Micro$oft (it even smells there). Now Micro$oft apparently found out that my brother has installed Linux and that many of

Re: Question on File Permissions

2002-09-22 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Debian User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Question, is there any way to set a default file permission on a certain >user folder inside the /var/www/ folder. > >I want to setup accounts for users to upload web files, but the problem >is that whenever I upload files,

Re: cdrecord -scanbus examples, please.

2002-09-22 Thread Alan D. Salewski
On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 01:03:01PM -0500, DvB spake thus: > Jesus Climent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi > > > > I am packaging a tool (phaser) to use cdrecord from the conseole. I want > > to show the user list of different scsi devices (through ide-scsi) to > > select the one for writer

Re: cdrecord -scanbus examples, please.

2002-09-22 Thread Gerard Robin
On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 02:30:20PM +0200, Jesus Climent wrote: ... > Thus I would like some people to send me some "cdrecord -scanbus" ... Linux sg driver version: 3.1.22 Cdrecord 1.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg Schilling Using libscg version 'schily-0.5' scsibus0: 0

Re: aliases or functions--which to use?

2002-09-22 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.09.23.0342 +0200]: > In spite of the fact that these aliases work, I'm told by experts > that I shouldn't use aliases but do the same job by using > ' functions '. I've tried this and it does work but I can't see any > difference . functions take a tiny

Re: Question on File Permissions

2002-09-22 Thread Gottfried Szing
Am Son, 2002-09-22 um 22.36 schrieb Colin Watson: > > i explictly grant permissions on demand and after some checks. i dont > > give everyone access to a specific resource. so for security reasons the > > exe-permissions should used really carefully. its like a opt-in into my > > "security realm"

Re: Question on File Permissions

2002-09-22 Thread Gottfried Szing
Am Son, 2002-09-22 um 22.36 schrieb Debian User: > Ok, I am learning this umask util. I'm confused, if you set the umask, > is that for any new file created on the linux system, or just the files > in the paticular directory that the umask command was run in? > > This isn't listed on the man

Re: awk segfault on make menuconfig to build kernel

2002-09-22 Thread David De Graff
This problem persists on multiple attempts, each time starting from a clean unpack of kernel-source-2.4.19.tar.bz2. I've tried it after upgrading the following packages to the testing versions: dpkg dpkg-dev debianutils make libncurses5-dev kernel-package Tried again after upgrading fileutils to

Re: ssh `known_hosts' worry

2002-09-22 Thread Jim McCloskey
|> You may want to check your logs and look for information about |> where the connection was to. Perhaps that will tell you more. Thanks for your response. The first thing I did was to trawl the logs looking for unusual things. But an entry in known_hosts would have been created by an *outgoin

Re: Question on File Permissions

2002-09-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 01:36:17PM -0700, Debian User wrote: > Ok, I am learning this umask util. I'm confused, if you set the umask, > is that for any new file created on the linux system, or just the files > in the paticular directory that the umask command was run in? umask affects only the

aliases or functions--which to use?

2002-09-22 Thread alex
I've been using aliases to access other partitions on my two hard drives, ranging from hda1 to hdb9 and don't have any problem that I can detect. I have other Linux's scattered throughout the two hard drives. Windows 98 is on hda1, as usual. Debian's / is on hdb5 For example, In Debian,

Re: Question on File Permissions

2002-09-22 Thread Debian User
Gottfried Szing wrote: >Am Son, 2002-09-22 um 22.05 schrieb Colin Watson: > > >>On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 09:54:14PM +0200, Gottfried Szing wrote: >> >> >>>and for setting default permissions you can also consult the umask >>>functionallity. but i think this is very dangerous to turn x on by

Re: Question on File Permissions

2002-09-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 10:26:42PM +0200, Gottfried Szing wrote: > Am Son, 2002-09-22 um 22.05 schrieb Colin Watson: > > I can't think of a situation where it's dangerous to grant execute > > permission, unless the executable is set-id. If you can read the file > > then you can always copy it off

Re: apt-get upgrade from testing broke aptitude, kpackage

2002-09-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 11:37:50AM -0700, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > I did a routine apt-get upgrade today from testing. There were a > ton of updated packages including libc, rpm etc. However now > when I try to run aptitude it says loading cache and locks up. > For kpackage it says > kpackage:

Re: Question on File Permissions

2002-09-22 Thread Gottfried Szing
Am Son, 2002-09-22 um 22.05 schrieb Colin Watson: > On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 09:54:14PM +0200, Gottfried Szing wrote: > > and for setting default permissions you can also consult the umask > > functionallity. but i think this is very dangerous to turn x on by > > default. > > I can't think of a si

Re: [OT] punctuation (was Re: Configuring w3m for Mozilla)

2002-09-22 Thread Bob Proulx
Preben Randhol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-22 10:10:49 +0200]: > By the way there is a shell called bush which can be interesting (at > least for scripting) : http://www.pegasoft.ca/bush.html Interesting! Thanks for sharing that. Bob msg03060/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Question on File Permissions

2002-09-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 09:54:14PM +0200, Gottfried Szing wrote: > and for setting default permissions you can also consult the umask > functionallity. but i think this is very dangerous to turn x on by > default. I can't think of a situation where it's dangerous to grant execute permission, unle

Re: CUPS - unable to print postscript file

2002-09-22 Thread Andy Saxena
On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 09:58:59PM -0500, Donald R. Spoon wrote: > > Dunno if this will help or not, but I initially had the same problem & > stumbled upon an answer for me. > > First, I use the "Printing Manager" in KDE to set up CUPS. All of the > rest is in reference to this utility. > >

Re: Question on File Permissions

2002-09-22 Thread Gottfried Szing
Am Son, 2002-09-22 um 21.34 schrieb Debian User: > I set up a Web Server here on my Debian Box. > > Question, is there any way to set a default file permission on a certain > user folder inside the /var/www/ folder. > > I want to setup accounts for users to upload web files, but the problem >

Re: Exim & Cyrus

2002-09-22 Thread Andy Saxena
On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 06:02:00PM +0100, sdownes wrote: > I've had exim working well for some time & am now trying to add cyrus > imap. I'm getting the following error having modified exim.conf in line > with the exim book as follows:- > > > local_delivery_cyrus: > driver

Question on File Permissions

2002-09-22 Thread Debian User
I set up a Web Server here on my Debian Box. Question, is there any way to set a default file permission on a certain user folder inside the /var/www/ folder. I want to setup accounts for users to upload web files, but the problem is that whenever I upload files, the files always default to re

Re: Bogus spaces inserted when pasting to VIM

2002-09-22 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tim Dijkstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Does anybody have seen this before and, more importantly, does anybody >know a fix for this? It's auto-indent, and it's annoying. Put this file in your homedirectory as ".vimrc" to turn off all that nonsense (you really o

Re: Strange problem with directories containing spaces afterupgrade to testing...

2002-09-22 Thread Mattias Eriksson
Arrrggghhh. Ok, I did check for an alias, but not for bash functions replacing cd with some "ninja on seteroid"-version of cd that does some other stuff too... AND that does that in a bad way(without "" around it's argument.) Any way, problem solved, I guess bash has done som minor changes

Re: zsh completion

2002-09-22 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Jason Lunz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.09.22.1928 +0200]: > run compinstall. fishbowl:~> compinstall zsh: command not found: compinstall -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; net@madduck the only real advantag

Re: Permission question

2002-09-22 Thread Bob Proulx
Hal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-16 16:15:46 -0400]: > When permissions on a link and a linked to library differ, which > permissions control usage? None of mode, user, or group of a symlink have any significance whatsoever for symlinks. They are only there because all files have those. But th

Re: awk segfault on make menuconfig to build kernel

2002-09-22 Thread David De Graff
- Original Message - From: "Osamu Aoki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "David De Graff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Debian User List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2002 3:03 AM Subject: Re: awk segfault when try make menuconfig to build kernel > On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 12:20:45AM

Re: Streng vertraulich

2002-09-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 08:57:38PM +0300, Amir Tal wrote: > ahhmenglish ?? It's spam, ignore it. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Strange problem with directories containing spaces after upgrade to testing...

2002-09-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 01:57:48PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: > Mattias Eriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Do you have a shell alias set up for cd, perhaps? > > > > No, I don't... and it started to bother me after the update, so > > something have changed in some way... > > Could you run

Re: What's wrong with tasksel?

2002-09-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 10:58:31AM -0700, Bill Wagner wrote: > On Sun, 2002-09-22 at 04:18, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 01:40:30AM -0700, Bill Wagner wrote: > > > When I run tasksel (this is on testing/unstable) as root, I get this: > > > > > > juan:~# tasksel > > > No tasks f

Re: illegal hardware instruction

2002-09-22 Thread Jason Wojciechowski
On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 12:35:20AM +0300, Ymir wrote: | If you are running sid, you might be interested in reading this: | http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=161717 Ah, such is the life of sid. A new libssl0.6.9 was installed by apt-get dist-upgrade today and we're rolling again.

Re: unsubscribe

2002-09-22 Thread Amir Tal
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apt-get upgrade from testing broke aptitude, kpackage

2002-09-22 Thread Leo Spalteholz
I did a routine apt-get upgrade today from testing. There were a ton of updated packages including libc, rpm etc. However now when I try to run aptitude it says loading cache and locks up. For kpackage it says kpackage: error while loading shared libraries: librpmdb-4.0.3.so: cannot open sha

Re: jigdo checksum error

2002-09-22 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 12:04:38PM -0700, Terry Hancock wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying out jigdo to retrieve a Debian 3.0r0 CD image > set, and after quite a long download, I get a checksum > error. Is there any way to fix this short of starting > the whole process from scratch? (I really hope so).

Re: cdrecord -scanbus examples, please.

2002-09-22 Thread Victor Julien
0,1,0 1) 'SONY' 'CD-RW CRX140E ' '1.0n' Removable CD-ROM On Sun, 2002-09-22 at 20:03, DvB wrote: > Jesus Climent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi > > > > I am packaging a tool (phaser) to use cdrecord from the conseole. I want > > to show the user list of different scsi devices (t

Re: What's wrong with tasksel?

2002-09-22 Thread Bill Wagner
On Sun, 2002-09-22 at 04:18, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 01:40:30AM -0700, Bill Wagner wrote: > > When I run tasksel (this is on testing/unstable) as root, I get this: > > > > juan:~# tasksel > > No tasks found on this system. > > Did you update your available file? > > Running

Re: cdrecord -scanbus examples, please.

2002-09-22 Thread DvB
Jesus Climent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi > > I am packaging a tool (phaser) to use cdrecord from the conseole. I want > to show the user list of different scsi devices (through ide-scsi) to > select the one for writer and one for reader. > > I would like to default the selection to the on

Re: Strange problem with directories containing spaces after upgradeto testing...

2002-09-22 Thread Alan Shutko
Mattias Eriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Do you have a shell alias set up for cd, perhaps? > > No, I don't... and it started to bother me after the update, so > something have changed in some way... Could you run type alias just to make sure? Maybe on the upgrade, somehow you got an a

Re: Bogus spaces inserted when pasting to VIM

2002-09-22 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 07:51:25PM +0200, Tim Dijkstra wrote: > Hi, > > I have this annoying problem when using VIM. If I select in one instance of VIM >(using the mouse) some text that starts with some spaces, like: > > local_folder_delivery: > driver = appendfile > group = mail > mode =

Re: Where is 'startx'?

2002-09-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 10:34:15AM -0700, Bill Wagner wrote: > So when I installed the xserver-svga package, it ran me through this > little "wizard" (for the lack of a better term) that I'm presuming > changed some symlinks and whatnot. How can I run this again to > re-configure this box to use

Re: Streng vertraulich

2002-09-22 Thread Amir Tal
On Sunday 22 September 2002 17:35, Andreas Fliege wrote: ahhmenglish ?? > Hi, > > haben uns gestern im Chat leider verloren :( Wollte dir doch noch meine > Homepage-URL geben. Die Adresse ist: http://www.jwinter.hotpage.net Hoffe, > du besuchst die Seite mal.. :) > Schreibst du mir zurück?

Re: Lost Mozilla

2002-09-22 Thread Amir Tal
On Sunday 22 September 2002 18:07, Brian Webb wrote: brian, you might want to set your mail client to add quote marks (or whatever) to text from previous messages... its rather confusing to read a message such as the one bellow, when you cant figure out who wrote what... tal. > Kent, thank

Re: Bogus spaces inserted when pasting to VIM

2002-09-22 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi, try :set noautoindent Regards,Paulo Henrique On Sun, 22 Sep 2002 19:51:25 +0200 Tim Dijkstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have this annoying problem when using VIM. If I select in one instance of VIM >(using the mouse) some text th

Bogus spaces inserted when pasting to VIM

2002-09-22 Thread Tim Dijkstra
Hi, I have this annoying problem when using VIM. If I select in one instance of VIM (using the mouse) some text that starts with some spaces, like: local_folder_delivery: driver = appendfile group = mail mode = 0660 mode_fail_narrower = false envelope_to_add = true directory = ${hom

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