Re: switching between keymaps in X

2002-10-23 Thread Robert Kratky
hi, (nazdar) 'XkbOptions' is what you want. for example 'XkbOptions "grp:shift_toggle"' -- switches keyboard layout by pressing both shift-keys run 'xf86config' for more options. robert Hello I need to configure my X 4.1.0-16 in woody on x86 PC to switch between different keyboard maps. I

Re: Exim configuration

2002-10-23 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, R Ransbottom wrote: > > I receive mail with fetchmail which works fine. > My system receives mail as [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Local mail works fine. > > I send mail with exim which works except in my ISP's domain. > > When I send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] it is > seen as loc

Re: XFree 4.2.x question

2002-10-23 Thread ThanhVu Nguyen
I use sid and just apt-get dist-upgrade to Xfree 4.2.x My card is a Quadro2 MXR, when using the older version of XFree 4.x , it randomly crashes when switching screen. This problem hasn't happened eversince I get 4.2.x ... it has been solid for me. On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 12:01:02 -0400 "Justin

Re: Spontaneous Rebooting while in X

2002-10-23 Thread Robert Kratky
Hi, This has happened to me a few times before, in 2.2 kernels and 2.4 kernels. I'm not sure where I should start looking first, but I have a feeling that the X server could be a factor. The last few times it has happened it was while I was in Mozilla and clicking quickly on the horozontal scr

RE: How to pronounce "Debian"?

2002-10-23 Thread Joyce, Matthew
I recently read that Brits tend to put emphisis in the leading sylables and the Americans on the trailing sylables. ...um..i don't really have a point to make. Matt -Original Message- From: Paul Johnson [mailto:baloo@;ursine.dyndns.org] Sent: Thursday, 24 October 2002 4:08 PM To: duser

Re: How to pronounce "Debian"?

2002-10-23 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 12:02:16AM +0100, jerry k wrote: > It's a toss-up for americans. No-one from the UK would ever say 'Deebian' I think Commonwealth English influence from western Canada and it's physical, economic and political ties to the PacNW is probably what causes us to reflexively pro

Re: .forward

2002-10-23 Thread Steve Juranich
> Is there a way to set up the .forward file to forward mail to more than > one user? You can set up procmail to do such things. Set your .forward to be "|/path/to/procmail" and read the procmail docs. Have fun. -- Stephen W.

Re: .forward

2002-10-23 Thread sean finney
hey steve if you have procmail installed you can do something like :0 * ^[EMAIL PROTECTED] { :0 c ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] :0 ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] } in your .procmailrc file. if you don't have procmail as your default delivery agent, you need to put this in your .forw

Re: Debian way for adding 3rd party fonts?

2002-10-23 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Arne" == Arne Goetje <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Arne> Hi list, is there a Debian way for adding 3rd party (TrueType) Arne> fonts when there is no hint file available? >> I assume that when you say "hint file", you are talking about defoma >> hint files. In that case, you can create your

Re: which half are you in?

2002-10-23 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 12:54:54PM +1000, bob parker wrote: > On Mon, 21 Oct 2002 07:29, dave mallery wrote: > > hi list! > > > > there's a saying that all people are in two groups: > > > > those who have done an rm -R * in root > > and those who have not done it yet. > Many years ago I did manage

.forward

2002-10-23 Thread steve
Is there a way to set up the .forward file to forward mail to more than one user? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problems with internet browsing

2002-10-23 Thread Tom
checked resolv.conf? dns might not be resolving its a simple solution but its the simple solutions that you think of last Tom - Original Message - From: "Ole Gammelsæter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 3:35 PM Subject: Problems with internet b

Problems with internet browsing

2002-10-23 Thread Ole Gammelsæter
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 02:33:46PM +0200, Ole Gammels?ter wrote: > I have problems connecting the machines to the internet, or more > precisely, they connect fine to the ISP but when I point my browser > to any site nothing happens. Do you have the ipmasq package installed? Yes, the ipmasq packa

Re: sending email w/perl

2002-10-23 Thread Gerald Livingston
On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 21:26:32 -0500 Lance Hoffmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a script where I am searching ebay > to get results and email these to myself. > The filehandle is FILE but everytime I > try to insert FILE into the $smtp it > prints "FILE" and not the contents of file. > Wha

Re: upgrade kernel from 2.2 to 2.4

2002-10-23 Thread Arash Bijanzadeh
I know this man! I did all but there is something in init script I guess. Don't you get warnings about readonly root while booting? I do get a lot and I wanna get rid of 'em. And the errors is understandable. the old 2.2 mounts /dev/hdax as root and could write te log files on it, but the 2.4 mo

Re: Replace MS Exchange

2002-10-23 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 02:05:26PM +1000, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > > Hi, > > Has anyone done any research into completely replacing an existing MS > Exchange email setup ? > I have Exchange 5.5 with PC and Mac clients, they use a mixture of Eudora or > Outlook. > > We are about to expand some, an

Re: Exim configuration

2002-10-23 Thread R Ransbottom
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 09:11:24PM -0500, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > > R> I send mail with exim which works except in my ISP's domain. > > R> When I send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] it is seen as local > R> mail to an unknown user. > > R> How should I make this work? > > My guess is

Re: Debian Gamers/Developers

2002-10-23 Thread Tom
i know there are a couple guys based in melbourne that play games on mainly debian boxes but there are some redhat users. url is http://linuxgamers.net although that site is rarely updated if you have any problems you could drop them a line in regards to having any issues with linux based games or

Replace MS Exchange

2002-10-23 Thread Joyce, Matthew
Hi, Has anyone done any research into completely replacing an existing MS Exchange email setup ? I have Exchange 5.5 with PC and Mac clients, they use a mixture of Eudora or Outlook. We are about to expand some, and I will have to replace the current server wityha bigger one, and buy a heap of l

RE: Making one machine an "apt server" for others....

2002-10-23 Thread Joyce, Matthew
Title: Message Possibly apt-proxy or apt-move   I have not done this myself, but I am mildly interested.     Package: apt-movePriority: optionalSection: adminInstalled-Size: 164Maintainer: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Architecture: i386Version: 4.1.21Depends: awk, bc (>= 1.05a-6), dpkg-dev (

Re: local Mail: naive question

2002-10-23 Thread Jeff
Auke Jilderda, 2002-Oct-23 20:47 +0200: > Ofcourse you can go fo either the most simple setup or a more flexible > one. > > Jeff is looking for a simple setup which would, in my humble opinion, > probably be some MUA (e.g. Mozilla) fetch mails directly from your POP3 > and IMAP accounts and sendin

Re: Debian Gamers/Developers

2002-10-23 Thread Gianfranco Berardi
I submitted a bug report stating that some of us would like a debian-gamedev or debian-devel-games mailing list created. We'll see how it turns out. B-) Gianfranco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Still having trouble with ripping/burning CDs

2002-10-23 Thread Steve Juranich
> In most cases it should. Have you tried disconnecting the DVD drive and > connecting the CD-RW drive as the only device on the second controller? Okay, I've done that now. As proof: coffee (foo)$ cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord 1.11a34 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling Lin

Re: XFree 4.2.x question

2002-10-23 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 11:03:12AM +1000, Rob Weir wrote: > On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 02:28:11PM -0500, Nick Traxler wrote: > > Just one thing--back up /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 before you install 4.2. > > I've apt-gotten 2 revisions from unstable, and it overwrote my > > XF86Config both times. Pretty an

Re: [OT] - Interesting politics and the GPL

2002-10-23 Thread Craig Dickson
Jamin W. Collins wrote: > I understand the concept of the BSD style license(s) (I think), but fail > to see why it would be acceptable as a license for anything federally > funded. With a BSD style license, anyone is free to take the result (at > any stage) and create a closed (possibly enhanced)

Re: Making one machine an "apt server" for others....

2002-10-23 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 23:05, Joe Emenaker wrote: > Some of my coworkers want to dabble in grid computing, so they got themselves about >7 old PC's and they wanted to set them up. > > I put Debian on all of them, but I wanted to be able to keep them up-to-date without >having all 7 hit the packag

Xserver mysteriously dieing

2002-10-23 Thread Scott Henson
Recently my X server has been dying unexpectedly and unpredictably. I was wondering if anyone could help me diagnose this problem. I am running Unstable with Xfree86 4.2.1 and Gnome2 packages from experimental. This seems to occur when my computer is idle or possibly when I lock the screen(using

Re: Debian way for adding 3rd party fonts?

2002-10-23 Thread Arne Goetje
> Arne> Hi list, is there a Debian way for adding 3rd party (TrueType) > Arne> fonts when there is no hint file available? > > I assume that when you say "hint file", you are talking about defoma > hint files. In that case, you can create your own hint file with > defoma-hints. exactly... the pro

Making one machine an "apt server" for others....

2002-10-23 Thread Joe Emenaker
Some of my coworkers want to dabble in grid computing, so they got themselves about 7 old PC's and they wanted to set them up.   I put Debian on all of them, but I wanted to be able to keep them up-to-date without having all 7 hit the package servers. Since they are all configured the same,

Re: which half are you in?

2002-10-23 Thread bob parker
On Mon, 21 Oct 2002 07:29, dave mallery wrote: > hi list! > > there's a saying that all people are in two groups: > > those who have done an rm -R * in root > and those who have not done it yet. > > last evening, i joined the former group after six years of linux and a > lifetime of computing. > >

Re: From Modem to DSL or Sask-Tel Enhanced High Speed Internet

2002-10-23 Thread Dan.Hunt
I love my Debian GNU Linux, thank you everyone. On 23 Oct 2002 at 13:59, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 09:48, Dan.Hunt wrote: > > Hello Debian Users > > I am migrating my Woody firewall machine from dial up modem to > > static IP DSL. In Saskatchewan Canada that's Sask-Tel Enhanc

Re: Real-time window manager switching

2002-10-23 Thread Geordie Birch
said csj (on 2002-10-24), > I managed to find out Ion's "restart_other" option, but with Ratpoison I > appear to be trapped. I need to log-out of my XSession before I can > change WM. CTRL-t : newwm afterstep -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

wxpython 2.3

2002-10-23 Thread Petr Vanek
hi, does enybody have a deb package of subj for woody? i am trying to compile it by myself, but i do not have a luck and i am not really expirienced in that...i am trying to get boa constructor working on woody... thanks very much -- bye Vanous ---

sending email w/perl

2002-10-23 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
I have a script where I am searching ebay to get results and email these to myself. The filehandle is FILE but everytime I try to insert FILE into the $smtp it prints "FILE" and not the contents of file. What is the fix for this? use WWW::Search; open(FILE,">eltonjohn.txt"); print FILE "Results

Re: Spontaneous Rebooting while in X

2002-10-23 Thread Gerald Livingston
On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 16:36:17 -0700 Mike Fedyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > This has happened to me a few times before, in 2.2 kernels and 2.4 > kernels. I'm not sure where I should start looking first, but I have a > feeling that the X server could be a factor. > > The last few times it

Re: Exim configuration

2002-10-23 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"R" == R Ransbottom writes: R> I send mail with exim which works except in my ISP's domain. R> When I send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] it is seen as local R> mail to an unknown user. R> How should I make this work? My guess is you have attbi.com listed in local_domains in ex

Re: Where to put .Xmodmap ?

2002-10-23 Thread Russell
John Keniry wrote: > > I would like xmodmap .Xmodmap to run every time I startx. I did think > that simply placing the .Xmodmap in my $HOME would be enough but the X > scripts don't use it. > > I also tried creating a $HOME/.xsessions file but even if this is empty > it causes X to fail to start

X 4.1.0 - is there gatos code?

2002-10-23 Thread Neal Lippman
I was wondering if any knows of the "official" XF 4.1.0 debs in woody include any gatos code? I am planning to hook up an ati radeon 7500 dual port (DVI-I and VGA) card, and have been advised that the drivers modified with "gatos" project code do not work properly. Thanks. nl -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: [OT] - Interesting politics and the GPL

2002-10-23 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 03:36:05PM -0700, Craig Dickson wrote: > government funding. That's a legitimate issue. Software developed by the > government, or under government contract, ideally should be considered > to be in the public domain; the government, representing the people, > paid for its d

Re: Knoppix: Was: The *ONLY* real problem with Debian...

2002-10-23 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > Unless the machine is low on RAM (32MB for non-GUI mode I believe; 96 or > so for KDE mode), forcing Knoppix to use the hard drive for swap > space, the hard drives are mounted read-only in my experience. Once in, > you can remount them rw.

refreshing wmaker screen

2002-10-23 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
I am grabbing images from NWS and putting them on my desktop background. Is there a command I can insert in .xinitrc or somewhere else that will refresh (restart in the menu) the screen so that it will update the images every 30 minutes or so? Lance I am using wmaker as my window manager --

Re: XFree 4.2.x question

2002-10-23 Thread bob
>I see that XFree 4.2.1 has made it into unstable a few weeks ago. I > am curious, has anyone tried to install it? How has that gone? Would you > say it's better to install from the unstable .debs or manually using the > XFree installer? Don't if it was the specific problem, but I had random,

Re: Real-time window manager switching

2002-10-23 Thread Kevin Coyner
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 05:22:21AM +0800, csj wrote.. > I managed to find out Ion's "restart_other" option, but with Ratpoison I > appear to be trapped. I need to log-out of my XSession before I can > change WM. I just started using Ion and quite like it, but haven't yet discovered the "

Re: How to pronounce "Debian"?

2002-10-23 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > all that remains is determining the 'right' sylLAble (and finding > the etymological heritage of each and every word). :) You have hit the nail right, squarely on the head here. A word's pronunciation depends entirely on its history. Since

Re: exim troubles - is there an end to this?

2002-10-23 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Sandip" == Sandip P Deshmukh writes: Sandip> - what is wrong with my exim.conf? If that is the *entire* exim.conf that you posted then you have many, many things missing. Start over. Run eximconfig, choose smart host, give the NT smart host IP address for the smart host. Edit the create

Re: setting up static IP

2002-10-23 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Richard" == Richard Kimber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Richard> How do I go about telling my router on my home network Richard> that I want to use a fixed IP address on my Debian box? Richard> It needs to be fixed so that the other PC on the system Richard> can retrieve mail f

Re: Software RAID in Woody --- General Issues

2002-10-23 Thread Lucas Barbuto
Hi List, Thanks nate and Alvin for your helpful advice. On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 08:24:43PM -0700, nate wrote: > depends on the setup. I usually do this where possible. I haven't > read the HOWTO but it's not the easiest thing to do. I've done it on > both SCSI and IDE systems. It involved(for me)

Re: 386 or 486 machine

2002-10-23 Thread Mike Thompson
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 11:41:31PM +0100, Rupert wrote: > On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 20:24:01 +0400 > Andrei Smirnov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > is it possible to put Debian on a 386 or 486? > > I put Debian Woody on a 486sx/25 with 8mb ram. Actually I cheated: I > installed by attaching the hard d

Re: [OT] - Interesting politics and the GPL

2002-10-23 Thread Barney Wrightson
Craig Dickson wrote: As to the present topic, the NewsForge/Slashdot headlines about a congressman wanting to "outlaw the GPL" are misleading and inflammatory -- dishonest journalism at its worst. As far as I can tell, this has nothing to do with outlawing the GPL. The issue is deciding on a lice

Re: XFree 4.2.x question

2002-10-23 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 02:28:11PM -0500, Nick Traxler wrote: > Just one thing--back up /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 before you install 4.2. > I've apt-gotten 2 revisions from unstable, and it overwrote my > XF86Config both times. Pretty annoying. You once told debconf to manage your XF86Config-4. Run `

Re: exim with both smarthost and direct send

2002-10-23 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Sandip" == Sandip P Deshmukh writes: Sandip> Patrik Modesto wrote: >> Hi, First: I'm using Debian testing, daily updated as my home >> PC, exim is setup to send outgoing mail directly to MX record. >> Sandip> how did you do this? what is your setup? i had been Sandi

Re: 386 or 486 machine

2002-10-23 Thread Tom
i recall a fairly large isp, can't remember which one, running their mailserver on a 486 DX. cant remember what distro it was could have even been a BSD but im not entirely sure i dont see why you couldnt do it though Tom "if you want an image of the future, just picture a boot stamping on the h

Re: bind9 and ipv6

2002-10-23 Thread Tom
i recall a fairly large isp, can't remember which one, running their mailserver on a 486 DX. cant remember what distro it was could have even been a BSD but im not entirely sure i dont see why you couldnt do it though Tom "if you want an image of the future, just picture a boot stamping on the h

Exim configuration

2002-10-23 Thread R Ransbottom
I receive mail with fetchmail which works fine. My system receives mail as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Local mail works fine. I send mail with exim which works except in my ISP's domain. When I send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] it is seen as local mail to an unknown user. How should I make this work? Pref

Re: kernel patch howto

2002-10-23 Thread Geoff Crompton
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 03:54:18PM -0700, np rpr wrote: > > > > Secondly, how do I build this new kernel with the > > patches for Freeswan? > > I'm hunting thru the docs as I send the email. After copying your config file over, you can: % cd /usr/src/linux (or wherever you extract the kernel

Re: Where to put .Xmodmap ?

2002-10-23 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 00:09:00 +0100, John Keniry wrote: > I would like xmodmap .Xmodmap to run every time I startx. I did think > that simply placing the .Xmodmap in my $HOME would be enough but the X > scripts don't use it. I run it from my .xinitrc: [ -e $HOME/.xmodmaprc ] && xmodmap $HOME/.

Re: 386 or 486 machine

2002-10-23 Thread Elizabeth Barham
"Joyce, Matthew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was able to install woody v3 on a 486/16mb/500mb the other day. I'm of the impression that 16MB is required for the Woody install. The machine I installed (and... am... installing...) has only 8MB. Here is a general question though and hopefully

Re: exim with both smarthost and direct send

2002-10-23 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Patrik" == Patrik Modesto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Patrik> Hi, First: I'm using Debian testing, daily updated as my Patrik> home PC, exim is setup to send outgoing mail directly to Patrik> MX record. Second: Now I need to setup exim to send all Patrik> mail for some domai

Re: msttcorefonts

2002-10-23 Thread nate
Ben Thompson said: > I've installed the msttcorefonts package on my sarge system, but I can't > get it to work. I've used this package before on other systems, and it > works fine normally, but not on this system. The installer works fine, it > downloads the packages and says ther are no problems,

Re: Logging a serial connection on both sides

2002-10-23 Thread nate
Mike Fedyk said: > How can I read-only log both sides with a program available in debian > (from debian-sid is ok, if required)? I'm sure it's overkill but I use minicom for logging, fire it up in screen, turn on the buffer logging and detach .. never tried doing exactly what your trying though

Re: How to pronounce "Debian"?

2002-10-23 Thread Oki DZ
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 09:12:12AM -0700, Wendell Cochran wrote: > Back to `Debian'. Both de- & -ian are common in English, & it's > a tossup whether a reader chancing upon `Debian' for the first time will > favor `De-' or `-ian'. Hence ehb vs eeb. ...common... first time... I think the ones who

Re: Real-time window manager switching

2002-10-23 Thread Lance Simmons
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 05:22:21AM +0800, csj wrote: > > So, is there a shell command sequence which I can type into an xterm to > replace Ratpoison with another WM, while keeping my other X clients > still running? I need the equivalent of a re-startx. This isn't a direct answer to your question

re:cannot ping other host

2002-10-23 Thread Joey Quevedo
hi, i can now ping other host by enabling ip forwarding as mentioned by colleague Alvin. many thanks! joey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: treason uncloaked!

2002-10-23 Thread Seneca
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 12:22:18AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > just found this message in my kernel logs. can anyone decipher it for > me? what's treason wrt the TCP/IP stack? > > kernel: TCP: Treason uncloaked! Peer 140.198.4.56:1511/80 shrinks > window 1904581317:1904582069. Repaired. I

Re: [OT] - Interesting politics and the GPL

2002-10-23 Thread Jamin W. Collins
n Wed, 23 Oct 2002 13:29:13 -0700 "deFreese, Barry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have you folks seen this "debate"? > > http://newsvac.newsforge.com/newsvac/02/10/23/1247236.shtml?tid=4 Yes, I did. However, I fail to understand why federally funded projects should be allowed to be privately lic

Spontaneous Rebooting while in X

2002-10-23 Thread Mike Fedyk
Hi, This has happened to me a few times before, in 2.2 kernels and 2.4 kernels. I'm not sure where I should start looking first, but I have a feeling that the X server could be a factor. The last few times it has happened it was while I was in Mozilla and clicking quickly on the horozontal scroll

Re: bind9 and ipv6

2002-10-23 Thread Craig Dickson
nate wrote: > Also I reccomend of course > running BIND as a non-root uid/gid and in chroot(). This may require > some additional setup especially for the chroot(). Or better still, use another DNS that does this automatically. I use maradns, which by default runs as a non-privileged user in a ch

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Re: treason uncloaked!

2002-10-23 Thread nate
martin f krafft said: > just found this message in my kernel logs. can anyone decipher it for me? > what's treason wrt the TCP/IP stack? > > kernel: TCP: Treason uncloaked! Peer 140.198.4.56:1511/80 shrinks window > 1904581317:1904582069. Repaired. > http://216.239.53.100/search?q=cache:7IXYuJyoc

Re: Real-time window manager switching

2002-10-23 Thread Craig Dickson
nate wrote: > what about just killing the pid of the WM and loading a new WM? > > e.g. > > kill `pidof ratpoison` && afterstep & ... which will kill your entire X session if you happen to be running under a .xsession script that ends with "exec ratpoison". Hence Sean's suggestion to have an xt

Re: treason uncloaked!

2002-10-23 Thread ben
On Wednesday 23 October 2002 03:22 pm, martin f krafft wrote: > just found this message in my kernel logs. can anyone decipher it for > me? what's treason wrt the TCP/IP stack? > > kernel: TCP: Treason uncloaked! Peer 140.198.4.56:1511/80 shrinks > window 1904581317:1904582069. Repaired. > acc

Re: How to pronounce "Debian"?

2002-10-23 Thread jerry k
Wendell Cochran wrote: > Back to `Debian'. Both de- & -ian are common in English, & it's > a tossup whether a reader chancing upon `Debian' for the first time will > favor `De-' or `-ian'. Hence ehb vs eeb. > It's a toss-up for americans. No-one from the UK would ever say 'Deebian' -- T

msttcorefonts

2002-10-23 Thread Ben Thompson
I've installed the msttcorefonts package on my sarge system, but I can't get it to work. I've used this package before on other systems, and it works fine normally, but not on this system. The installer works fine, it downloads the packages and says ther are no problems, but I don't see any fonts i

Logging a serial connection on both sides

2002-10-23 Thread Mike Fedyk
Hi, I have a null serial cable between two debian linux systems. Niether side has a serial login setup on the serial port. I want to be able to catch an oops on either computer with the other still-working system, and log it to a file. Now, I've tried using ttylog, and found a nice bug (see the

Where to put .Xmodmap ?

2002-10-23 Thread John Keniry
I would like xmodmap .Xmodmap to run every time I startx. I did think that simply placing the .Xmodmap in my $HOME would be enough but the X scripts don't use it. I also tried creating a $HOME/.xsessions file but even if this is empty it causes X to fail to start (but leaves no traces in the log).

RE: Imap issue

2002-10-23 Thread Joyce, Matthew
Just for the archives sake, the problem I was having was causes because, the router's acl was blocking port 143. Matt -Original Message- From: nate [mailto:debian-user@;aphroland.org] Sent: Friday, 18 October 2002 2:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Imap issue Joyce, Matthew sa

More info from apt-cache show?

2002-10-23 Thread Steve Juranich
Is there any way to get more info from a package other than the description that is shown by apt-cache show? What I'd like to see is that something like apt-cache changelog foo that shows: foo v 1.2.3-4 This fixes the nasty little bug that some people were experiencing with the 1.2.3-3 packag

RE: 386 or 486 machine

2002-10-23 Thread Joyce, Matthew
I was able to install woody v3 on a 486/16mb/500mb the other day. I don't really have any need for it, I just did it to see what would happen. Matt -Original Message- From: Elizabeth Barham [mailto:soggytrousers@;yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, 24 October 2002 3:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Unsubscribe

2002-10-23 Thread Joyce, Matthew
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Re: treason uncloaked!

2002-10-23 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, martin f krafft wrote: > just found this message in my kernel logs. can anyone decipher it for > me? what's treason wrt the TCP/IP stack? Your peer was screewing up, and the TCP/IP stack detected the bogons and killed them. For a more in depth explanation, search the linux-ke

galeon + search on google == leak ??

2002-10-23 Thread Jc
when i search stuff on google sometimes galeon starts using tremendous amounts of memory ( 80 Mo Res) and Xfree does the same. i don't have this problem on every search, where can this leak come from ? font rendering ?? any ideas on how to track this bug ? the software : debian sid ii xserver-

Re: kernel patch howto

2002-10-23 Thread np rpr
--- Mike Egglestone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I interested in setting up ipsec/l2tp on my woody > box. > I'm unsure how to patch my kernel. Here's what I've > done so far: > > Installed woody with kernel 2.2 > apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18 > Rebooted back into my new stock 2.4 ker

Re: how to check md5sums of official debian discs

2002-10-23 Thread Geoff Crompton
How about: $ cd /cdrom $ md5sum -c md5sum.txt Assuming you aren't burning a cdrw at the same time. And if that locks up your computer, something is wrong. Mind you, it will take awhile. If you want to be sure that it is still running, use the -v switch, so that it outputs the f

Re: 386 or 486 machine

2002-10-23 Thread Rupert
On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 20:24:01 +0400 Andrei Smirnov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is it possible to put Debian on a 386 or 486? I put Debian Woody on a 486sx/25 with 8mb ram. Actually I cheated: I installed by attaching the hard disk to a more powerful motherboard, and then attached it to the older

Re: [OT] - Interesting politics and the GPL

2002-10-23 Thread Craig Dickson
Barry deFreese wrote: > Have you folks seen this "debate"? > > http://newsvac.newsforge.com/newsvac/02/10/23/1247236.shtml?tid=4 While I'm generally quite pro-GPL, I accept (and I believe RMS does as well) that sometimes another license such as BSD or MIT/X is appropriate. For example, the Ogg V

Re: bind9 and ipv6

2002-10-23 Thread nate
Kevin Coyner said: > > named[2387]: IPv6 structures in kernel and user space do not match > named[2387]: IPv6 support is disabled > named[2387]: no IPv6 interfaces found > > I have the IPv6 module compiled in my kernel, and I'm using 2.2.20. > > Are these startup references to IPv6 simply safe to

treason uncloaked!

2002-10-23 Thread martin f krafft
just found this message in my kernel logs. can anyone decipher it for me? what's treason wrt the TCP/IP stack? kernel: TCP: Treason uncloaked! Peer 140.198.4.56:1511/80 shrinks window 1904581317:1904582069. Repaired. thanks! -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \

Re: Real-time window manager switching

2002-10-23 Thread nate
csj said: > So, is there a shell command sequence which I can type into an xterm to > replace Ratpoison with another WM, while keeping my other X clients still > running? I need the equivalent of a re-startx. what about just killing the pid of the WM and loading a new WM? e.g. kill `pidof ratpo

Re: setting up static IP

2002-10-23 Thread nate
Richard Kimber said: > How do I go about telling my router on my home network that I want to use > a fixed IP address on my Debian box? It needs to be fixed so that the > other PC on the system can retrieve mail from it. At the moment the > router seems to allocate 192.168.0.2 and 192.168.0.3 to

Re: Knoppix: Was: The *ONLY* real problem with Debian...

2002-10-23 Thread Kent West
Levi Waldron wrote: So, preinstall PCs for people, use Knoppix, or create Live CDs with BootCD (such as http://asgardsrealm.net/linux/livec1vn) How safe do you think Knoppix is? I would make a pretty bad impression of Linux to my friends if I gave them the demo CD to show them its virtues and

Re: Still having trouble with ripping/burning CDs

2002-10-23 Thread Steve Juranich
> In most cases it should. Have you tried disconnecting the DVD drive and > connecting the CD-RW drive as the only device on the second controller? Well, you're the second person to suggest such a thing (I ran this by a friend after starting this thread). I'll give that a try (if not tonight,

Re: setting up static IP

2002-10-23 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 21:49:43 +0100, Richard Kimber wrote: > How do I go about telling my router on my home network that I want to use > a fixed IP address on my Debian box? Telnet your router and configure it, but concerning that, this is not related to Debian. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PRO

Re: Real-time window manager switching

2002-10-23 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Wednesday 23 October 2002 14:22, csj wrote: > > So, is there a shell command sequence which I can type into an xterm to > replace Ratpoison with another WM, while keeping my other X clients > still running? I need the equivalent of a re-startx. while I hack on blackbox what I usually do is star

Re: setting up static IP

2002-10-23 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Richard Kimber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.10.23.2249 +0200]: > How do I go about telling my router on my home network that I want to use > a fixed IP address on my Debian box? It needs to be fixed so that the > other PC on the system can retrieve mail from it. At the moment the > route

Re: muttprint problem: base.def missing

2002-10-23 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.10.23.2308 +0200]: > ($mail_charset is the charset that muttprint finds in the mail, if it > finds one, get_charset returns the charset in a form suitable for > LaTeX.) aha, mine is ISO-8859-15, so therefore... I'll experiment with this the next t

switching between keymaps in X

2002-10-23 Thread debian mailing lists
Hello I need to configure my X 4.1.0-16 in woody on x86 PC to switch between different keyboard maps. I need standard us/uk keymap and cz_qwerty keymap. So I change /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 as follows: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Keyboard" Driver "keyboard"

Re: libpng3-dev: where can I get it

2002-10-23 Thread Seneca
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 03:28:28PM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > Stephen Gran wrote: > > steve:~$ apt-cache search libpng3 > > libpng-dev - PNG library - development > > libpng3 - PNG library - runtime > > libpng3-dev - PNG library - development > > My box updates to testing and it gets only

Real-time window manager switching

2002-10-23 Thread csj
I treat window managers like themes or skins. Depending on the mood and need I run WindowMaker, Fluxbox, IceWM, Ion and (because of a recent thread) Ratpoison. With mouse-centric WM's like WidowMaker, I can change WM's simply by pointing to the corresponding "Window Manager" menu entry. With keybo

setting up static IP

2002-10-23 Thread Richard Kimber
How do I go about telling my router on my home network that I want to use a fixed IP address on my Debian box? It needs to be fixed so that the other PC on the system can retrieve mail from it. At the moment the router seems to allocate 192.168.0.2 and 192.168.0.3 to both machines at varying time

building xf4.2 deb on Woody: out of disk space!

2002-10-23 Thread Oleg
Hi I did "apt-get -t sid source xserver-xfree86", and tried building it with dpkg-buildpackage overnight. I had 1GB free on "/" partition where the action was taking place, but as it turned out, I ran out of disk space there. My questions are: 1) Is this normal? Should it really take over 1GB

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