X as non-root

2002-10-08 Thread Russell
Hi all, I installed X and used it as root until things were working. Now i want to add non-root users which means handling login and passwords etc. I've installed xdm, but the config looks complicated. Can someone please give a rough guide to follow in setting this up? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Java (JRE) support package for mozilla?

2002-10-08 Thread Oki DZ
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 12:10:41AM -0400, Phil Edwards wrote: > Is there such a package available for Mozilla 1.1? I've been scanning > through lists of packages but haven't found anything. I use Mozilla 1.0.0 and J2RE 1.4.1. All you need is to have a link of the libjavaplugin_oji.so in /usr/lib

Re: How to virus-check cyrus-imap mailboxes

2002-10-08 Thread Terje Fåberg
"D. J. Bolderman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev: > Has anybody tried clamscan yet ? After I installed > it, together with oavupdate, it doesn't seem to work. > oav-update retrieves the latest virus definitions > from the net, but clamscan doesn't > seem to like that file. For example, when I execute

Re: How to virus-check cyrus-imap mailboxes

2002-10-08 Thread Terje Fåberg
Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev: [how to make sure no virii/spam does get in] Been there, done that. There is no virus coming in anymore. But there MAY be infected mails lying inside the "fortress". That's the problem. Ragards, Terje _

Re: [GENERAL] odbc with debian woody/postgres

2002-10-08 Thread Michael Meskes
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 02:22:38AM -0400, Matt Price wrote: > localall trust > host all 127.0.0.1 255.0.0.0 ident Here you tell PostgreSQL to use ident. > ps: assuming I get thisworking, how do I add other database

Mozilla (Galeon) and gtk themes?

2002-10-08 Thread Magnus Therning
Is there any way of getting Mozilla to use the same gtk theme as the rest of my Gnome desktop? Currently my Galeon looks a little bit silly, since the web-page widget comes from Mozilla (which doesn't acknowledge my gtk theme) and the rest is from Galeon (which does acknowledge my gtk theme setti

Re: Java (JRE) support package for mozilla?

2002-10-08 Thread Malte Jarr
I don't know if there is a package, but you can download the plug-in and install for every browser you have... Malte If you think about being happy, you stop being it... On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 14:10, Phil Edwards wrote: > Hello. > > For earlier versions of Netscape, there was a netscape

Re: Mounting CD-R

2002-10-08 Thread Gerald Livingston
On Wed, 09 Oct 2002 08:13:59 +0200 DSC Siltec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I got a new IDE CD-R, and swapped out my old CD. As of this > point, I am having trouble mounting it from Linux (Win98 works). I > have Woody. > > In my box, I have on the first cable: > DEV HDA1: Win98 > DEV CD-R

odbc with debian woody/postgres

2002-10-08 Thread Matt Price
Hi there, I'm trying to get odbc to work on my machine. Here's the setup: Debian Woody with Postgresql 7.2; unixodbc and odbc-postgresql also installed. I followed the directionsi n the 'Debian HOWTO' that comes with the odbc-postgresql package, so my odbcinit.ini looks like this: [PostgreSQL]

Re: Mounting CD-R

2002-10-08 Thread John
DSC Siltec wrote: > Hi, I got a new IDE CD-R, and swapped out my old CD. As of this > point, I am having trouble mounting it from Linux (Win98 works). I > have Woody. > > In my box, I have on the first cable: > DEV HDA1: Win98 > DEV CD-R > On the second cable: > DEV HDC2: Linux boot (loadl

Mounting CD-R

2002-10-08 Thread DSC Siltec
Hi, I got a new IDE CD-R, and swapped out my old CD. As of this point, I am having trouble mounting it from Linux (Win98 works). I have Woody. In my box, I have on the first cable: DEV HDA1: Win98 DEV CD-R On the second cable: DEV HDC2: Linux boot (loadlin) DEV C1,C3-C5: Linux partitions

ATI Radeon 8500

2002-10-08 Thread lameth
As I type I'm listening to the fan on video card. If you're wondering it sounds like a rather large fly caught inside a glass. Anyway has anyone out there used the ATI Radeon 8500 with debian and what have your results been like? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Shutting down X

2002-10-08 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 00:46, lameth wrote: > How do you shut X-windows down and get to the command prompt? > Depending on the response I get from another post I'm thinking of > upgrading the drivers for my video card and I'm sure it wouldn't be a > bad idea to turn X off while I do so. > I'm s

Re: Automating IMAP email maintenance

2002-10-08 Thread Andy Saxena
On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 01:27:24AM -0400, Andy Saxena wrote: > Hi, > > I use Cyrus as my IMAP server. When I transfer email from my ISP to > Cyrus I use a procmail recipe. Before any of the procmail rules are > applies I backup all email into a backup folder. I would like to be able > to run a cr

Re: Nvidia-1.3123 drivers for the TNT2

2002-10-08 Thread Chris McCormick
At 01:43 9/10/2002 -0400, lameth wrote: >Has anyone upgraded their drivers for the Nvidia TNT2 card using the >latest drivers, Nvidia_kernel-1.0.3123.tar.gz and >Nvidia_glx-1.0.3123.tar.gz? And if so did you have any problems? I have a TNT2 Ultra and i'm running that version with no problems (X

Shutting down X

2002-10-08 Thread lameth
How do you shut X-windows down and get to the command prompt? Depending on the response I get from another post I'm thinking of upgrading the drivers for my video card and I'm sure it wouldn't be a bad idea to turn X off while I do so. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Nvidia-1.3123 drivers for the TNT2

2002-10-08 Thread lameth
Has anyone upgraded their drivers for the Nvidia TNT2 card using the latest drivers, Nvidia_kernel-1.0.3123.tar.gz and Nvidia_glx-1.0.3123.tar.gz? And if so did you have any problems? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTE

Re: trusted keys in gpg

2002-10-08 Thread Magnus Therning
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 10:07:16AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > Hi, > > I tried to send out an email using gpg (to other mine account), and in > the receiving end I had the following: > gpg: Signature made Wed Oct 9 10:03:59 2002 WIT using DSA key ID > 12ACBC0B > gpg: Good signature from "Oki DZ <[EMA

Current Exploits

2002-10-08 Thread ellipses
Dear listees :) I got some questions.. Does the lpd packaged with with 3.0r0 currently have any know exploits? Also, dies the statd, portmap, and other rpc services suffer such things.. Also, What's the bare minumum I need to run and nfs share, say for FAI or something? Thanks in ad

Re: Relation between Woody, Sid and Testing, Unstable, and stable

2002-10-08 Thread Corrin Lakeland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 woody -> stable sarge -> testing sid -> unstable On Wed, 09 Oct 2002 17:09, J.S.Sahambi wrote: > It might be a stupid question, but I want to know how one relates Woody, > Sid and Testing, Stable and unstable distributions? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATUR

Java (JRE) support package for mozilla?

2002-10-08 Thread Phil Edwards
Hello. For earlier versions of Netscape, there was a netscape-java-477 package, which provided the Java runtime for the browser. Is there such a package available for Mozilla 1.1? I've been scanning through lists of packages but haven't found anything. Thanks for your time, Phil -- I would

Relation between Woody, Sid and Testing, Unstable, and stable

2002-10-08 Thread J.S.Sahambi
It might be a stupid question, but I want to know how one relates Woody, Sid and Testing, Stable and unstable distributions? Another question: I wanted to install avidemux but my "apt-cache search avidemux" did not give me anything. My sourses.lst file is: deb http://202.141.80.72/debian tes

Re: GPS shopping tips?

2002-10-08 Thread nate
Michael Jinks said: > Hi all. > > As a motorcycle enthusiast, I've got an itch for a GPS unit that will > mount on my handlebars and save me from ever trying to fold a road map > again. Not to mention my propensity for getting lost. I use a Magellan GPS companion. its a springboard module for a

Re: browsing MIME type application/gzip files

2002-10-08 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Alan Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Wednesday, 09 October 2002, 12:58 PM +1000): > I am having trouble viewing gzipped files - typically those in > /usr/share/doc > (MIME type application/gzip files) > through either galeon or nautilus. > > Any hints on the correct setup would be appreci

Re: ifup, dhcp troubleshooting

2002-10-08 Thread paul
thanks, i enabled CONFIG_FILTER and the dhcp works fine. p. - Original Message - From: "Jeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 12:07 PM Subject: Re: ifup, dhcp troubleshooting > paul, 2002-Oct-08 00:17 -0400: > > I have 'network packet filteri

trusted keys in gpg

2002-10-08 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, I tried to send out an email using gpg (to other mine account), and in the receiving end I had the following: gpg: Signature made Wed Oct 9 10:03:59 2002 WIT using DSA key ID 12ACBC0B gpg: Good signature from "Oki DZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" gpg: WARNING: This key is not certified with a trusted

browsing MIME type application/gzip files

2002-10-08 Thread Alan Graham
Greetings, hopefully a quick & easy one. I am having trouble viewing gzipped files - typically those in /usr/share/doc (MIME type application/gzip files) through either galeon or nautilus. Any hints on the correct setup would be appreciated. I have not found any answers looking through the archi

Re: XML editor in debian?

2002-10-08 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Lars" == Lars Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Lars> Are any XML editors included in the debian dostribution? If Lars> not, are there any good freeware XML editors out there? If you can live with emacsen, (X)Emacs and the psgml package makes for an excellent XML editor. Cheers! S

files contained by a package that is not installed

2002-10-08 Thread Diego Biurrun
Hello! I would like to know what files a specific package contains. For an installed package this is easily achieved by dpkg -L But for a package that is not installed I have to go to http://packages.debian.org and "Search the contents of packages" for "all files in this package". The

Re: GPS shopping tips?

2002-10-08 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 08 October 2002 05:22 pm, Michael Jinks wrote: > Hi all. > > As a motorcycle enthusiast, I've got an itch for a GPS unit that will > mount on my handlebars and save me from ever trying to fold a road map > again. Not to mention my propensi

exim help (running)

2002-10-08 Thread louie miranda
euclid bin # ./exim -bd -C ../exim.conf 2002-10-09 10:18:17 spool_directory undefined: cannot proceed 2002-10-09 10:18:17 spool_directory undefined: cannot proceed exim: could not open panic log - aborting: original error above Hi, im trying to run exim, but it sends me error! -- thanks, loui

Re: GPS shopping tips?

2002-10-08 Thread Alan Shutko
Michael Jinks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd hate to buy a spiffy new GPS unit only to find that I've just > paid for a bunch of features that I'll only be able to use if I set > up a Winders box. What exactly do you want to do with the GPS unit? Currently, Linux applications are limited to

Re: Ext3 and Reiserfs

2002-10-08 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 19:53, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 09:53:08AM +0300, Chavdar Videff wrote: > > > Is there any problem giving it a go with debian and format all with > > ext 3. > > I don't have experience with ReiserFS, but have been using ext3 for > quite a while now

Re: Nothing prints anymore!

2002-10-08 Thread Marc Shapiro
> This one time, at band camp, Marc Shapiro said: > > No. No upgrades. I have powered down the system completely and > > restarted. Twice. The results are the same. lpq still says 'no server > > active'. lprng gets started when the system reboots and I didn't see > > any errors on boot. Wou

Re: Email virus scan questions

2002-10-08 Thread nate
Gerald Livingston said: > OK -- I'm about to start serving mail for my mom and brother from this > machine via IMAP. They may be using Outlook Express as their client. I > want to do all virus scanning on this side before they read the mail. > Maybe some spam filtering too since my brother was car

Re: Calendars

2002-10-08 Thread Shawn Lamson
--- Gary Hennigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Michael Montagne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I need a good calendar. Evolution is OK, but all I want is a > calendar, > > amd I want it to be speedy. Gnomecal is my current chice but I > can't > > figure out how to add holidays and other even

Re: reseting dpkg ?

2002-10-08 Thread David Dayan-Rosenman
For some reason the ':' command does not work for me (I installed dselect from unstable ) but typing 'G' had the desired effect, thank you David On Tuesday 08 October 2002 05:43 pm, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 05:35:11PM -0700, David Dayan-Rosenman wrote: > > Hello all, > >

Re: Ext3 and Reiserfs

2002-10-08 Thread Claudio Bley
On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 01:53, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 09:53:08AM +0300, Chavdar Videff wrote: > > > Is there any problem giving it a go with debian and format all with > > ext 3. > > I don't have experience with ReiserFS, but have been using ext3 for > quite a while now

Re: reseting dpkg ?

2002-10-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 05:35:11PM -0700, David Dayan-Rosenman wrote: > Hello all, > can anyone tell how to reset the state of the packages to reset what > the system to what it currently is ? > After selecting way to many packages (through deps) in dselect and > Ctr-C-ing, I don;t know how to ma

Re: reseting dpkg ?

2002-10-08 Thread David Dayan-Rosenman
> can anyone tell how to reset the state of the packages to reset what the > system to what it currently is ? That does not seem clear, I meant How to reset the packages' state in dpkg so that it reflects the current state of the system. sorry about that David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

reseting dpkg ?

2002-10-08 Thread David Dayan-Rosenman
Hello all, can anyone tell how to reset the state of the packages to reset what the system to what it currently is ? After selecting way to many packages (through deps) in dselect and Ctr-C-ing, I don;t know how to make dselect (in fact dpkg I think) forget about the choices I made and reflect

GPS shopping tips?

2002-10-08 Thread Michael Jinks
Hi all. As a motorcycle enthusiast, I've got an itch for a GPS unit that will mount on my handlebars and save me from ever trying to fold a road map again. Not to mention my propensity for getting lost. As a Free Software enthusiast, I'm wary of electronic doo-dads which won't talk to my Debian

Re: XML editor in debian?

2002-10-08 Thread Brian Nelson
Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Lars Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Are any XML editors included in the debian dostribution? If not, are >> there any good freeware XML editors out there? > > emacs + psgml Oh, I misread the subject as SGML. For XML, emacs + tdtd (an extension

Re: using locate properly

2002-10-08 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 03:15:19PM +0200, Robert Wilhelm Land wrote: ... > rland@MINI:~$ locate [Mm]uttrc > ... no reaction. > > Rereading the info gave me: ...snipped where you found out about metachars and quoting > .so I tried: > > rland@MINI:~$ locate '[Mm]uttrc' > rland@MINI:~$ locate

Re: XML editor in debian?

2002-10-08 Thread Brian Nelson
Lars Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Are any XML editors included in the debian dostribution? If not, are > there any good freeware XML editors out there? emacs + psgml -- People said I was dumb, but I proved them! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub

Re: strange apt-get upgrade issue

2002-10-08 Thread Chris McCormick
At 22:15 8/10/2002 +0800, Crispin Wellington wrote: >On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 14:59, Chris McCormick wrote: > > At 18:32 7/10/2002 +0800, Crispin Wellington wrote: > > > > >ls -alF /lib/libc[-.]* > > > > > >-rwxr-xr-x1 root root 888096 Sep 26 02:30 > > >/lib/libc-2.1.3.so* > > >lrwxrwxr

Re: X with NVidia: "(EE) No devices detected"

2002-10-08 Thread Jeff
Issac Trotts, 2002-Oct-08 16:36 -0700: > I recently upgraded my video card to a PNY Verto > sporting a GeForce Ti 4600 chipset. The first thing > I tried worked for a while: I downloaded the binary > kernel module and GLX server from nvidia.com and > followed the directions. startx worked fine a

Re: Ext3 and Reiserfs

2002-10-08 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 09:53:08AM +0300, Chavdar Videff wrote: > Is there any problem giving it a go with debian and format all with > ext 3. I don't have experience with ReiserFS, but have been using ext3 for quite a while now, on all my systems. I haven't had a single file system problem th

Re: runnind bind as non-root

2002-10-08 Thread Brian Nelson
Alexey Chetroi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dear List, > > I;m trying to setup bind9 on my woody box to run as non-root. > The problem I have is that non-root named cannot write to /var/run/named.pid > One solution I see is to make /var/run group writeable or to recompile named > to use pid=/va

RE: Debian Package Categories

2002-10-08 Thread Joyce, Matthew
I largely agree with this post. Would it be useful to simply create many more groups or categories and allow packages to associate with more than one group ? So, perhaps there could be a ConsoleApps and XServerApps and TextEditors, Nano would be part of ConsoleApps and TextEditors, whereas Kate

X with NVidia: "(EE) No devices detected"

2002-10-08 Thread Issac Trotts
I recently upgraded my video card to a PNY Verto sporting a GeForce Ti 4600 chipset. The first thing I tried worked for a while: I downloaded the binary kernel module and GLX server from nvidia.com and followed the directions. startx worked fine and I had nice, accelerated OpenGL. I even got so

Re: eliminate subwords in dpkg --search?

2002-10-08 Thread Claudio Bley
> "Marcel" == Marcel Fehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Marcel> At 15:41 08.10.2002, Claudio Bley wrote: >> On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 15:09, Marcel Fehr wrote: > And is it >> possible to shapen the scope so that it looks > into all >> available packages on the installation medium ra

procmail/postfix/tmda-filter

2002-10-08 Thread Tom Allison
I'm trying to get tmda-filter working with procmail & postfix and haven't had much luck to date. According to the docs, I have to put a .forward file in place that pipes to tmda-filter. I guess after that it gets piped into procmail for further processing. That's backwards to what I want. I

Re: How to virus-check cyrus-imap mailboxes

2002-10-08 Thread D. J. Bolderman
On Tue, 08 Oct 2002, Gerald Livingston wrote: > On Tue, 8 Oct 2002 20:59:47 +0200 (CEST) > Terje Fåberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I haven't investigated any further than checking "apt-cache show > clamav" but you may want to check it out. Says it scans archives etc. > for virii so I'm assumin

Re: Using Linux system as an X terminal

2002-10-08 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"David" == David Gaudine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: David> This seems to work. Is there anything "wrong" with doing David> it this way? Is it appropriate to use run level 5? Is David> there a list somewhere telling the difference between run David> levels 2, 3, 4, or 5?

Debian Package Categories

2002-10-08 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
Oh, it is so nice, from time to time, to peek into the Debian distribution package listings, and identify packages that look useful, or at least interesting, and apt-get them for a test drive. That said, has anyone looked in on the "X Window System Software" category recently? Would it be time to

Re: floppy sized packages

2002-10-08 Thread Claudio Bley
On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 15:23, Michael R wrote: > Does anyone know where to find floppy sized packages for Debian??? I need to > download them on my XP computer and then transfer them using floppies onto > my Debian box. Or if anyone happends to know of a file splitter for Windows > that will ma

Re: Ext3 and Reiserfs

2002-10-08 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Chavdar" == Chavdar Videff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Chavdar> Is there any problem giving it a go with debian and Chavdar> format all with ext 3. In the manuals the primary concern Chavdar> is the partitioning pattern not the choice of file Chavdar> systems. ext3 is well s

Re: ifup, dhcp troubleshooting

2002-10-08 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"paul" == paul miller writes: paul> yes the old kernel, 2.4.18bf2.4, gets an ip via dhcp. i use paul> make menuconfig to setup the kernel options, so i'll run paul> that again and add packet filtering, although the paul> description of packet filtering sounds geared towards

Re: XML editor in debian?

2002-10-08 Thread Thorsten Haude
Hi, * Lars Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02-10-09 00:28]: >Are any XML editors included in the debian dostribution? If not, are >there any good freeware XML editors out there? What features are you looking for? If I would have to edit XML, I would use my bread-and-butter editor NEdit. Thorsten -

XML editor in debian?

2002-10-08 Thread Lars Jensen
Are any XML editors included in the debian dostribution? If not, are there any good freeware XML editors out there? Thanks, Lars. -- Lars Jensen, Truckee Meadows Community College, Reno NV 89512-3999. Tel: 775.673.7113 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: "unhandled exception" running Wordperfect on Woody??

2002-10-08 Thread David P James
Bruce Best (CRO) was roused into action on 2002-10-08 16:18 and wrote: >>-Original Message- >>From: David P James [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > >>What does the XF86Config-4 file look like? Specifically the section >>dealing with fontpaths... do you have this line in there; >>Font

Re: Using Linux system as an X terminal

2002-10-08 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 15:33, David Gaudine wrote: > > I changed one of my systems to act as an X terminal by changing > one line of /etc/initab and adding another line as follows: > id:5:initdefault: > 7:5:respawn:/usr/X11R6/bin/X -query systemname > > This seems to work. Is there anything "wro

Re: zsh globbing

2002-10-08 Thread Thorsten Haude
Hi, * Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02-10-08 23:06]: >Traditional Bourne shell behavior specifies that if a globbing >expression matches no files, then the globbing expression itself is >passed to the program as an argument. Didn't know that. I still like zsh's behaviour for this very reason:

Re: zsh globbing

2002-10-08 Thread Claudio Bley
On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 22:01, Johann Spies wrote: > In bash I can do this: > > js-21:57:41-~$dpkg -l zsh* > In zsh: > > zsh % dpkg -l zsh* > zsh: no matches found: zsh* > > Why? In zsh: setopt NO_NOMATCH -- Claudio Bley ASCII ribbon campaign (") Debian GNU/Li

Re: zsh globbing

2002-10-08 Thread Thorsten Haude
Hi, * Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02-10-08 22:01]: >In bash I can do this: > >js-21:57:41-~$dpkg -l zsh* >Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold >| >Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed >|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: >

Re: dict dictionaries

2002-10-08 Thread Seneca
On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 04:36:48PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > How do I tell dict to use, for example, the english-french or > french-english dictionary? Where $DICTIONARY is as it appears within the square brackets before the definition: dict -d $DICTIONARY $WORD man dict for more details.

Re: floppy sized packages

2002-10-08 Thread Seneca
On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 06:23:44AM -0700, Michael R wrote: > Does anyone know where to find floppy sized packages for Debian??? I need > to download them on my XP computer and then transfer them using floppies > onto my Debian box. Or if anyone happends to know of a file splitter for > Windows

Re: zsh globbing

2002-10-08 Thread Paul Smith
%% Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: js> In bash I can do this: js> js-21:57:41-~$dpkg -l zsh* Traditional Bourne shell behavior specifies that if a globbing expression matches no files, then the globbing expression itself is passed to the program as an argument. So, assuming you hav

Re: Nothing prints anymore!

2002-10-08 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Marc Shapiro said: > No. No upgrades. I have powered down the system completely and > restarted. Twice. The results are the same. lpq still says 'no server > active'. lprng gets started when the system reboots and I didn't see > any errors on boot. Would the mes

Re: [despammed] Re: odd networking problem

2002-10-08 Thread Jeff
Ed McMan, 2002-Oct-08 15:21 -0400: > > > Tuesday, October 8, 2002, 12:00:40 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (debian-user) >wrote: > > Jeff> Ed McMan, 2002-Oct-07 20:37 -0400: > >> Argh. Now I'm just more confused. OK, tethereal picks up the pings > >> leaving the machine. So, that means there must be

Re: IPv6 DNS Queries

2002-10-08 Thread Frans Pop
Check the following recent threads. Looks like you may have the same problem I was having. - Local address lookup - Exim - DNS problem - Woody IPv6 problem finally, really, solved >From the last thread: [snip] Woody versions of some Debian packages, like telnet, and, it seems, exim, *require* I

Re: How to virus-check cyrus-imap mailboxes

2002-10-08 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya -- if you do NOT have root access to the pop mail server nor the smtp server ... feel free to ignore my rants - you're stuck with doing things after the fact but, assuming you have control of the smtp and pop mail server - it can be the same or different machines -- y

dict dictionaries

2002-10-08 Thread Rick Pasotto
How do I tell dict to use, for example, the english-french or french-english dictionary? -- "Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least." -- Robert Byrne Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

RE: "unhandled exception" running Wordperfect on Woody??

2002-10-08 Thread Bruce Best (CRO)
>-Original Message- >From: David P James [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >What does the XF86Config-4 file look like? Specifically the section >dealing with fontpaths... do you have this line in there; >FontPath "tcp/127.0.0.1:7102" Not unless it was added by the WPO 2000 installation.

zsh globbing

2002-10-08 Thread Johann Spies
In bash I can do this: js-21:57:41-~$dpkg -l zsh* Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name VersionDescription +++-=

Re: Email virus scan questions

2002-10-08 Thread Gerald Livingston
On Tue, 8 Oct 2002 21:54:02 +0200 martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > also sprach Gerald Livingston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.10.08.2149 > +0200]: > > I did an apt-cache search virus and it came back with quite a few > > choices that seem feasible. Any suggestions as to which may be best

RE: Email virus scan questions

2002-10-08 Thread Steve Barr
> I did an apt-cache search virus and it came back with quite a > few choices that seem feasible. Any suggestions as to which > may be best suited to my purpose? I use mailscanner from http://www.mailscanner.info. I believe there is a .deb for it, but it's an older version. Steve -- This m

Re: "unhandled exception" running Wordperfect on Woody??

2002-10-08 Thread David P James
Bruce Best (CRO) was roused into action on 2002-10-08 09:41 and wrote: > I am running Debian Woody (with a sprinkling of sid), w. XFree86 4.2, KE > 3.0.3, and am trying to get Wordperfect Office 2000 Deluxe for Linux > working. Whenvever I try to start one of the office apps (wordperfect, > quattr

Re: apt questions

2002-10-08 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Tuesday 08 October 2002 12:36, Bruce Park wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm a newbie in this debian world so please be patient with me. > I'm trying to undestand everything about debian before I can install them > and I was hoping that some one can answer my question. > It seems that debian has three

Re: Email virus scan questions

2002-10-08 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Gerald Livingston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.10.08.2149 +0200]: > I did an apt-cache search virus and it came back with quite a few > choices that seem feasible. Any suggestions as to which may be best > suited to my purpose? amavis-ng + f-prot or antivir (www.hbedv.com) (or clamav or

Re: Ughh. What happened to /bin/echo?

2002-10-08 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Colin Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 01:31:58PM -0600, Gary Hennigan wrote: > > It appears that /bin/echo is gone. In stable it was contained in > > shellutils and shellutils was replaced by coreutils, which doesn't > > include /bin/echo. > > Hm? > > $ dlocate /

Email virus scan questions

2002-10-08 Thread Gerald Livingston
OK -- I'm about to start serving mail for my mom and brother from this machine via IMAP. They may be using Outlook Express as their client. I want to do all virus scanning on this side before they read the mail. Maybe some spam filtering too since my brother was careless with his address at some p

Re: How to virus-check cyrus-imap mailboxes

2002-10-08 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 08 Oct 2002, Gerald Livingston wrote: > clamav" but you may want to check it out. Says it scans archives etc. > for virii so I'm assuming it is something you can run against the files > in a filesystem (maildir). I have courier imap set up here. If cyrus > buries its mail in a special form

Re: How to virus-check cyrus-imap mailboxes

2002-10-08 Thread Gerald Livingston
On Tue, 8 Oct 2002 20:59:47 +0200 (CEST) Terje Fåberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a nice eMail server here, which servers mail to > about ten users using cyrus-imapd. Amavis is scanning > all incoming and outgoing mail for over about a year > now. > > I've been quite happy

Re: Ughh. What happened to /bin/echo?

2002-10-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 01:31:58PM -0600, Gary Hennigan wrote: > It appears that /bin/echo is gone. In stable it was contained in > shellutils and shellutils was replaced by coreutils, which doesn't > include /bin/echo. Hm? $ dlocate /bin/echo coreutils: /bin/echo $ dpkg -l coreutils | gre

Re: Help need to use compiled source instead of deb package

2002-10-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 03:12:02PM -0400, Dave Falloon wrote: > I have compiled tcl/tk and want to use this version instead of > the package in woody. Put it in /usr/local and point your build scripts there only? > It is imperitive that every one of the developers at my office is > using t

apt questions

2002-10-08 Thread Bruce Park
Hello all, I'm a newbie in this debian world so please be patient with me. I'm trying to undestand everything about debian before I can install them and I was hoping that some one can answer my question. It seems that debian has three ways to install packages. 1) dpkg 2) apt 3) dselect My quest

Re: Help need to use compiled source instead of deb package

2002-10-08 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Dave Falloon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Tuesday, 08 October 2002, 03:12 PM -0400): > I have compiled tcl/tk and want to use this version instead of the package > in woody. It is imperitive that every one of the developers at my office is > using the same tcl/tk (for portability issues

Re: Nothing prints anymore!

2002-10-08 Thread Marc Shapiro
> This one time, at band camp, Marc Shapiro said: > > A few days ago my system just stopped printing anything. Nothing > > through Netscape. Nothing through WordPerfect. Nothing with 'lp > > filename'. Even if, as root, I do a 'cat filename > /dev/lp0', I get > > nothing. > > > > If I do 'lpq

Using Linux system as an X terminal

2002-10-08 Thread David Gaudine
I changed one of my systems to act as an X terminal by changing one line of /etc/initab and adding another line as follows: id:5:initdefault: 7:5:respawn:/usr/X11R6/bin/X -query systemname This seems to work. Is there anything "wrong" with doing it this way? Is it appropriate to use run level 5

Ughh. What happened to /bin/echo?

2002-10-08 Thread Gary Hennigan
It appears that /bin/echo is gone. In stable it was contained in shellutils and shellutils was replaced by coreutils, which doesn't include /bin/echo. I realize echo is a builtin in Bash, but my Makefiles don't seem to realize this and are now completely broken. Did echo move to a different packag

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Re[2]: [despammed] Re: odd networking problem

2002-10-08 Thread Ed McMan
Tuesday, October 8, 2002, 12:00:40 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (debian-user) wrote: Jeff> Ed McMan, 2002-Oct-07 20:37 -0400: >> Argh. Now I'm just more confused. OK, tethereal picks up the pings >> leaving the machine. So, that means there must be some kind of queue >> or rate limiter blocking it

Help need to use compiled source instead of deb package

2002-10-08 Thread Dave Falloon
Hi, I have compiled tcl/tk and want to use this version instead of the package in woody. It is imperitive that every one of the developers at my office is using the same tcl/tk (for portability issues, stupid solaris) so I wanted to make sure by removing the deb package from everyones mac

Re: getmail replacement

2002-10-08 Thread Claudio Bley
On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 16:51, Brooks R. Robinson wrote: > Greetings, > My I.T. cohort wants to switch our email system around (mostly to start > filtering spam). He's nervous about doing any kind of linux implementation > because he's mostly a Microsoft junky and feels "safe" with those sort

How to virus-check cyrus-imap mailboxes

2002-10-08 Thread Terje Fåberg
Hi, I have a nice eMail server here, which servers mail to about ten users using cyrus-imapd. Amavis is scanning all incoming and outgoing mail for over about a year now. I've been quite happy with this until yesterday, when one user encountered quite an old mail containing the famous love le

Re: how to use web based change LDAP password?

2002-10-08 Thread IOhannes zmoelnig
axacheng wrote: > how about "Poppass" or others? > this does work but i have turned it off for security reasons. mfg.ds.ar IOhannes > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

installation cds

2002-10-08 Thread Bruce Park
Hello, I was just wandering, it seems like the latest version has this thing called "flavors" where you decide what type of installation you want to do regarding your hardware. So, is it OK for me to JUST download disk 2 that contains the vanilla flavor? Will this include all the necessary ker

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