Re: Which ICQ Client is better?

2002-11-12 Thread hiranokazunari
Thanks for your kindness. (B (BK.H. (B (BJeremy Nickurak wrote: (B (B>http://www.jabber.org/user/publicservers.php (B> (B>There's several in that list, if you weren't aware of it by now. (B> (B>That said, it's relatively easy to operate your own server, although (B>you'll need a fully qu

Re: Which ICQ Client is better?

2002-11-12 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
http://www.jabber.org/user/publicservers.php There's several in that list, if you weren't aware of it by now. That said, it's relatively easy to operate your own server, although you'll need a fully qualified domain name if you want your server to be able to talk to other servers. On Tue, 2002-

Re: Which ICQ Client is better?

2002-11-12 Thread hiranokazunari
> (B> (B>Have you found a decent, free jabber server out there that supports MSN (B>and ICQ properly? The ones I've tried all seem to have either flakey (B>(at best) ICQ support or no MSN support (yes, some of my friends are (B>lame;). (B> (B> (BNot yet. Please tell me what it is and a U

Re: OpenOffice.org new unstable packages available for testing

2002-11-12 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 11:03:55AM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > can't use it. If anything, I would have thought that having the same > name as a Free office suite would be _good publicity_ (especially since > the office suite is evidently far better known than they are), but I > guess their legal depa

Re: repost - import a csv file as addressbook for mutt (abook)

2002-11-12 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 08:43:23PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 10:21:43AM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > hello all! > > > > i could convert my outlook contact folder information into a csv file. > > it has several fields that are uncommon - spouse's name, etc. > > > > no

BIND vulns (good doc on how to secure bind)

2002-11-12 Thread nate
I don't want to get into a flamewar on whats the best DNS package to use, but because of this recent vulnerability I decided to re-evaluate my BIND setup, spent a couple hours researching, testing and cleaning it up to make it more secure. A good document I found that helped me was this: http://ww

Re: address book for mutt

2002-11-12 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 10:49:52AM +0100, Vinai Kopp wrote: > On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 05:36:59PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 02:24:05PM +0100, Vinai Kopp wrote: > > > > > > Write a small shell (or perl or php or something) script to do it. > > > If you need help sen

Re: Knoppix-Piggy and Debian installer

2002-11-12 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 10:09:43AM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > Y'know, now that you mention that, it sounds like the only *logical* > answer, and I have been calling on the larger sites on the mirror list, > such as PlanetMirror and Leo.org - if any are to be proxy'd, those are > obvious candidat

Re: Which ICQ Client is better?

2002-11-12 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 02:11:32PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 07:52:30PM +0100, Pontus Edvardsson wrote: > > > What is the best/most useful ICQ client in your opinion? I've checked out > > gaim, licq & kicq2. Is there any better ones, with closer resemblance the > >

Re: [OT] Moving away from KDE to what?

2002-11-12 Thread Rob Weir
How about sawfish? On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 10:08:05AM +0100, Alex Polite wrote: > Here are the requirements: > > 1) Must be able to "maximize window to available space" a la >enlightenment. Oh yeah. Lisp scriptable so it can maximise the window to the size of your coffee cup if you felt lik

Re: repost - printing - help please

2002-11-12 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 06:51:15PM +, Avtar Marwaha wrote: > On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 14:48, Avtar Marwaha wrote: > > On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 04:44, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > You will need the cupsys-server, cupsys-client, foomatic-db, pnm2ppa packages and >all of > > the necessary dependencies

avi2mpeg tool in linux

2002-11-12 Thread John Joe
do you know any avi2mpeg tool in Linux? or even avi2realmedia? __ Do you Yahoo!? U2 on LAUNCH - Exclusive greatest hits videos http://launch.yahoo.com/u2 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: Unsuscribe

2002-11-12 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Rob Weir wrote: > It certainly is annoying, but I'd bet that most > are just random acts of mistyping rather than concerted conspiracies of > stupidity. I think it is an international conspiracy of stupidy that tries to destroy us ... maybe they are even sent from an alien pl

Re: FHS, Policy, /var/local, places to put multiple CVS repositories

2002-11-12 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.11.12.1835 -0500]: > building from the previous post, i'd suggest saving the keystrokes > and putting them into subdirectories in /cvs. you could then symlink > /var/lib/cvs to /cvs/firstgroup, and then you don't even the folks > who've already bee

Re: repost - printing - help please

2002-11-12 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 01:47:10AM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: > Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > >On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 01:08:17AM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: > > > >>On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 00:54, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > >> > >>>On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 12:28:38AM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: > >>> > >>>

Re: HotSync Hangs: Binding to path /dev/ttyUSB0

2002-11-12 Thread Dave Thayer
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 12:39:52AM +1000, Jules wrote: [...] > The hotsync to my m515 was working 2 weeks ago, but has now mysteriously > stopped. The syslog indicates that the visor drivers are being installed > ok. [...] The problem might not be with your PC. If you have a friend or cow orker

Re: natsemi driver with 2.2.20 vs 2.4.18 kernel?

2002-11-12 Thread Everett Anderson
Hi! SOLVED! I tried several suggestions, but nothing seemed to work until I added "Socket filtering" in network options. Yay! Thanks for the help, everyone, esp. Greg Madden! - Everett __ Do you Yahoo!? U2 on LAUNCH - Exclusive greatest hits

Re: Exim configuration for Laptop

2002-11-12 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Jamin" == Jamin W Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jamin, I actually do not use exim much on my laptop, but these hints might help since I looked into this when I first got it some 2 years ago. However, as things turned out, I rarely, if ever, send mail from it so I can't say I have any r

Re: [OT] Moving away from KDE to what?

2002-11-12 Thread Alex Polite
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 10:18:03PM +, Jonathan Matthews wrote: > 1) Try "Full Maximisation" or "Maximise over slit" in the config menu. >Can you describe a situation that would explain this better, if I've >misunderstood? In Enlightenment "maximize to available space" will let the w

Re: processes under keventd

2002-11-12 Thread nate
Oki DZ said: > I'd add a bit... > I guess, the problem lies on Linux; why can't it kill the processes? We're > root anyway... I believe they are only virtual processes, if you were to kill the kernel you would kill the system. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Re: OpenOffice.org new unstable packages available for testing

2002-11-12 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 12:20:42PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > Chris Halls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Prerelease packages for OpenOffice.org are now available from the unstable > > section of our mirrors (http://www.linux-debian.de/openoffice/mirrors.html). > > Can someone tell me _why_ this

Re: obtaining debian woody latest

2002-11-12 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 09:26:23PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I want to download the latest woody [no pun intended], I dont have a > cd burner, but I have the bandwidth, could someone tell me about net > based install or floppy based, the online installation manual points > to one place and

Re: Unsuscribe

2002-11-12 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 07:49:01PM +0100, Oliver Fuchs wrote: > You cannot read ... and you even cannot write. > > So why I am writing this? > Because every time I get one of this dump "ususcribe" messages I have to > pay money for it ...and I have to delete you from my folder ... what can > be do

Re: DCOP problems... Kicker won't start at kdelaunch

2002-11-12 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 07:14:37PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I booted the 2.2.19 kernel installed during installation with the same > results. Logging on as root works fine, so it would seem like some > kind of permission related problem - my only user suddenly lacks some > kind of permissi

Re: ipchains and kernel 2.2.20-idepci

2002-11-12 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 10:25:08AM -0500, Geoffrey Deasey wrote: > mail:/proc/net# ipchains -A inout -s 205.139.153.202 -d 0/0 -p tcp -y -j > ACCEPT > ipchains: Protocol not available I'm not sure, but I doubt the stock boot floppy kernel has ipchains built in. apt-get install kernel-image-2.2.2

Re: maxtrox fb issue

2002-11-12 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 01:44:34AM -0500, Tom Vier wrote: > i have a REALLY weird fb issue. tty2 (or vc2, whatever you want to > call it) is screwed up. 1, 3, 4, etc. all work. but, when i switch to 2, my > monitor says invalid sync. this is from a fresh boot, before running x11. my Are you runnin

Re: true-type and wine

2002-11-12 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 10:29:13AM +, Chris Lale wrote: > In previous posts, some have said that you do not need to install xfstt > fontserver. However, no one has said that they have been successful with > this approach. I know that xfstt works for me in the Gimp, > OpenOffice.org, etc. (I

Re: unclean netsaint removal

2002-11-12 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 01:07:42AM +0100, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > Hi, > > i installed and afterwards purged netsaint/unstable. However, it > didn't want to go cleanly :-) A lot of files related to this package > remain on the system. For instance there's a aolserver thingie that > gets installe

Re: Broken Webmin

2002-11-12 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 03:20:31PM -0600, Dan Gapinski wrote: > Hello, > > I am a total noob, but am I the only one who breaks webmin every time they > run apt-get? It appears that the current package only works for me if I > untar v.1.030 and run the setup.sh script. I also seem to have broken th

unsubscribe

2002-11-12 Thread Juncheol Bae
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/var/lib/dpkg/alternatives

2002-11-12 Thread Pigeon
Well I've got round my ldconfig problems. Eventually I found base2_1.tgz on my Debian CD, unzipped it on my Windoze box, wrote it to a CD, and copied stuff in using the rescue disk. With the addition of some of the rescue disk itself (fsck) I got an ldconfig, and got it to boot again, after several

gdm & kerberos

2002-11-12 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, Would it be possible to have gdm authenticates to a kerberos server while still have the chance to auth. to a local pam when the server is down? TIA, Oki -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: processes under keventd

2002-11-12 Thread Oki DZ
I'd add a bit... I guess, the problem lies on Linux; why can't it kill the processes? We're root anyway... Oki -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problems Starting X - no server "X" in path /usr/X11R6/bin

2002-11-12 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Ben" == Ben Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ben> Hi, I have set up Debian 3.0 rev0 and apt'd Gnome 2 onto Ben> it. It has set everything up, but when gdm tries to run it Ben> complains. I have tried a manual "startx", but then I get an Ben> error message: Ben> xinit:

Re: repost - printing - help please

2002-11-12 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 06:02:09PM +, Rupert wrote: > On 12 Nov 2002 07:27:27 +0100 Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 01:08:17AM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: > > > On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 00:54, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > > > what to do now? > > > > > > > try to print somethi

Re: gpg: Can't check signature - is something wrong?

2002-11-12 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 08:48:59PM -0800, Jeff wrote: > Sandip P Deshmukh, 2002-Nov-12 09:38 +0530: > > hello all! > > > > i often get messages from the list which say begin gpg signature. > > > > invariably, the second line says can not verify signature. > > > > is something wrong with my set-u

Re: recompiling alsa

2002-11-12 Thread Jack O'Quin
Rus Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've just done my first debian install and its working fine but ATM I'm > trying to get alsa working right. I've installed it and go into debconf > and configured the i810 driver. However I'm not sure that it compiled as > when I ran /etc/init.d/also modpro

Re: [debian-user] Which ICQ Client is better?

2002-11-12 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Tue, 12 Nov 2002 10:25:30PM +0100, Rüdiger Kuhlmann insinuated: > For a terminal ICQ, try mICQ (the cvs version even has support for > UTF8 messages, the first OSS ICQ client doing so). Or centericq if > you depend on multiple protocols. heh. i got centericq because i wanted ICQ and AIM in one

Re: Modem connection.

2002-11-12 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 20:58, John Hasler wrote: > Mark L. Kahnt writes: > > That was what I meant by "having access to the modem",... > > Members of the dip group do not have access to the modem. For that they > would need to be members of the dialout group. Members of dip just have > rights to

Re: alsa: no device

2002-11-12 Thread Jack O'Quin
> Am Fre, 2002-11-08 um 17.43 schrieb Jack O'Quin: > > What happens if you run (as root) "modprobe snd-cmipci"? Thaden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > aha! there seems to be some relevant information here, although i don't > know what to do with it: > > "modprobe snd-cmipci" answers "/lib/modules/

Re: broadcom netXtreme gigabit ethernet module

2002-11-12 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 08:14:33PM +0100, Roland Penning wrote: > broadcom gigabit ethernet driver only available as sourcecode not as > binary, which I find a bit strange because it's also in stable only > available in source form. It's in main; it's probably just that nobody cares enough to bu

Re: exim, delivery to /home/user instead of /var/mail/user

2002-11-12 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 01:54:11AM +0100, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > However, the mails still end up in /var/spool/exim/input > How can i change this and split the mails to /home/user1 > and /home/user2 ? Have you told fetchmail where the mail should go? It should look something like this: poll m

Re: Easy way to modify Knoppix?

2002-11-12 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 11:34:12AM -0200, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 05:18:31PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > > Can you see what it's pausing on? > > Aha. > > ll $MOUNTDIR/lib/modules/2.4.19-xfs/kernel/fs/ > > Stalls. And this seems to be where cp and tar stall too. > Funny.

Re: Manual ldconfig required HELP!!!

2002-11-12 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 04:03:14AM +, Pigeon wrote: > Nonono you didn't read my post! I'm trying to do exactly what this > page suggests. ar still works, so I can get to the control & data > .tar.gz stage. But tar/gzip don't work. So I have to copy the .tar.gzs > onto my DOS partition, reboot i

Re: processes under keventd

2002-11-12 Thread Oki DZ
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 01:14:14AM -0800, nate wrote: > I believe that is kernel level stuff. It's been a while since I > played with openafs but I seem to remember it had kernel modules, It does. > perhaps if you unload all the modules it will go away? No. It makes me wonder, what are the benef

Re: blackbox startup

2002-11-12 Thread iain d broadfoot
iain d broadfoot wrote: k, installed blackbox, purged gnome2, how do i get bb to run bbkeys/time/date etc in the slit at login? wdm seems to skip my .xsession entirely... iain answer seems to be not to use wdm... xdm works fine. ;-) iain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: Need help ?

2002-11-12 Thread Robert L. Harris
dpkg -i wvdial~1.deb Thus spake Cyberthor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 18:15:48 -0800 > From: Cyberthor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Need help ? > X-Mailing-List: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archive/latest/244950 > > Hello > > How do I open a .deb f

Re: Modem connection.

2002-11-12 Thread Eric G. Miller
Fix your dang clock already! I'm quite sure this month is November not January ;-) -- static const char signature[] = "Copyright (c) 2002 Eric G. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"; -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROT

blackbox startup

2002-11-12 Thread iain d broadfoot
k, installed blackbox, purged gnome2, how do i get bb to run bbkeys/time/date etc in the slit at login? wdm seems to skip my .xsession entirely... iain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: KDE 3.0.4 update & various errors struck....

2002-11-12 Thread Haralambos Geortgilakis
Hi All & Bruce & Colin, thanx guys-I've got it up now :-) I've got XFree86-4.2.xx too. Now I just need to figure out how to edit my config file, to get my Radeon 9000 Pro up & swap out the "ancient" Radeon 7000 VE. Greek Geek :-) Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion o

ISDN - ML-PPP Help?

2002-11-12 Thread tlwood
Hi, I am unable to get broadband adn have a pair-gained line which limits me to a V34+ connection at 31.2kb/s. I can get ISDN which will involve a telco supplied modem. This allows two phone lines and connection at either 64kb/s or 128kb/s using the A & B Channels. The software offered is all Win

Need help ?

2002-11-12 Thread Cyberthor
Hello How do I open a .deb file in Debian Linux of wvdial~ 1.deb ? thank , Cyber -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Modem connection.

2002-11-12 Thread John Hasler
Mark L. Kahnt writes: > That was what I meant by "having access to the modem",... Members of the dip group do not have access to the modem. For that they would need to be members of the dialout group. Members of dip just have rights to pppd and the relevant ppp files. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROT

Re: X file explorer

2002-11-12 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 10:22:10AM +1100, Russell wrote: > Hi all, > > What file system viewers are there for X? I've been using > midnight commander which is ok, except that when i view a > file, i want to be able to copy text to the X clipboard. > I'm using fvwm2. fsviewer tkdesk In midnight

Re: Modem connection.

2002-11-12 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 19:12, John Hasler wrote: > Mark L. Kahnt writes: > > If you have free local calling and unlimited access with your > > ISP/upstream, diald can be wonderful - essentially on-demand dialup when > > you are accessing the Internet, and governed disconnection when you are > > idle

a new fix for an archived bug

2002-11-12 Thread Levi Waldron
I had a problem with kmail which was similar to an archived bug, which had been supposedly solved without modification to the package (bug #116184). The advice given didn't help at all for me, but I found another way to fix it. How should I report this to the Debian bug tracking process? Wi

Re: [OT] Moving away from KDE to what?

2002-11-12 Thread Benedict Verheyen
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 05:45:23PM -0500, Alan Shutko wrote: > > Jonathan Matthews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Try fluxbox, for a different take on the blackbox idea. I prefer it > > > solely as it has a a better name. > > > > The version in Sid is a bit buggy when it comes to resizing

Re: Newbie: where to place src files for compilation

2002-11-12 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Holger" == Holger Wiechert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Holger> I just need a tip about where to place source files. I Holger> downloaded the kernel sources (kernel-source-2.4.18) and Holger> the kernel-headers (kernel-headers-2.4.18-bf.2.4) via Holger> dselect. So they are n

Re: woody to testing

2002-11-12 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"mtsouk" == mtsouk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: mtsouk> I am considering of moving to testing as well. I want to mtsouk> ask a few questions before doing this: mtsouk> 1. What are the major benefits of testing? You get newer software. mtsouk> 2. What are the major problems

Re: Tripp Lite UPS and Debian

2002-11-12 Thread Shaul Karl
http://www.exploits.org/nut _might_ work with your UPS. There is also a deb. I hope you will find it interesting. On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 10:46:14AM -0600, Amal Phadke wrote: > Hi all, > > Has anyone successfully used Tripp Lite's PowerAlert software (ver 11) > in Debian Unstable? I just bo

Re: exim, delivery to /home/user instead of /var/mail/user

2002-11-12 Thread Benedict Verheyen
- Original Message - From: "Gerald Livingston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 3:32 PM Subject: Re: exim, delivery to /home/user instead of /var/mail/user > On Tue 12 Nov 2002 13:40:33 +0100 > "Benedict Verheyen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >

Re: PROBLEMS WITH MOUSE'POINTER: the pointer dont select just put it on

2002-11-12 Thread Levi Waldron
On November 12, 2002 11:40 am, Jesus Rios wrote: > I have running debian 3.0 with  KDE. > Whem i am a user , for select or expand the menu( in kmail,in the > startaplication.) i have to click on it . I cant select it with the > pointer without click on it. > But when i am root, i can select

Re: PROBLEMS WITH MOUSE'POINTER: the pointer dont select just put it on

2002-11-12 Thread Levi Waldron
On November 12, 2002 11:40 am, Jesus Rios wrote: > I have running debian 3.0 with  KDE. > Whem i am a user , for select or expand the menu( in kmail,in the > startaplication.) i have to click on it . I cant select it with the > pointer without click on it. > But when i am root, i can select

THANKS! I've made my choice... was [Re: Which ICQ Client is better?]

2002-11-12 Thread Pontus Edvardsson
Thanks everyone that responded! I've looked at the ones I did'nt know about and despite all, my choice fell on gaim since it's greater capabilities, ie multiple protocols and such. Pontus On Tuesday 12 November 2002 19.52, Pontus Edvardsson wrote: > Hi all, > > What is the best/most useful ICQ

Re: Problems Starting X - no server "X" in path /usr/X11R6/bin

2002-11-12 Thread Seneca
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 10:09:34PM +, Ben Hill wrote: > I have set up Debian 3.0 rev0 and apt'd Gnome 2 onto it. It has set > everything up, but when gdm tries to run it complains. I have tried a > manual "startx", but then I get an error message: > > > xinit: no server "X" in path > > >

Re: Modem connection.

2002-11-12 Thread John Hasler
Mark L. Kahnt writes: > If you have free local calling and unlimited access with your > ISP/upstream, diald can be wonderful - essentially on-demand dialup when > you are accessing the Internet, and governed disconnection when you are > idle for a sysadmin-defined stretch. You don't need diald for

Re: dhcp-dns problem

2002-11-12 Thread Craig Genner
The reason that your static IP machines are being given a dynamic IP address is that the pool of IP address that is being allocated also includes the static IP address. Example: Static IP Address - 192.168.1.10 Dynamic Pool - 192.168.1.8 - 192.168.1.100 The PC realises that is has one static addre

Re: [OT] Practical differences between Netgear models

2002-11-12 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Jeff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021112 15:08]: > Jonathan Matthews, 2002-Nov-12 17:44 +: > > Evening all - > > > > I'm looking to take my home network up to 100Mbps, > > and I wondered if anyone could give me a clue > > as to the difference between a couple of netgear > > models that I've seen adv

Re: CHM and WMV files on debian ? Thank you

2002-11-12 Thread B T
Thank you. I deeply appreciate all your replies. extract_chmlib works great. Wonder if the links (2.1) developers would be interested to incorporate this into their already awesome graphic browser. sincerely b thomas On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 09:18:15AM -0800, tony mollica wrote: > Hello. Here is

Re: Upgrading to XFree 4.2.1-3

2002-11-12 Thread David Luff
On 11/12/02 at 11:01 PM Colin Watson wrote: >> My question is which package to specify to basically install XFree86 and >> its dependencies? > >x-window-system is there for that purpose. If you just want the bare >bones so that you can replace the components of x-window-system with >alternatives, y

Re: Modem connection.

2002-11-12 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 15:16, Chris Lale wrote: > > > infotechsys wrote: > > Hi, I decided to take Nate's suggest and try to update my system > > print package from the net. What do most people use to get a dial-up > > connection working? Will wvdial be a good choice? wayne > > > ppp is easily

Re: doubleclick in Gnome-filemanager doesn't work

2002-11-12 Thread Shawn Lamson
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I've just installed Woody from scratch, and am finding that changes > to the > File Type handlers section of the Gnome Control Center (e.g. setting > up > jpeg files to be opened up in GIMP by default) don't seem to flow > through > to the Gnome file manager

Re: clam or amavis

2002-11-12 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 05:40:29PM -0500, Kevin Coyner wrote: > > I'm setting up a box to act as a mail server for a small LAN and will > have it filter for spam using spamassassin. I'd also like it to filter > for viruses since a few of the users on the LAN are Windows based > (probably a good i

Re: FHS, Policy, /var/local, places to put multiple CVS repositories

2002-11-12 Thread sean finney
hiya, building from the previous post, i'd suggest saving the keystrokes and putting them into subdirectories in /cvs. you could then symlink /var/lib/cvs to /cvs/firstgroup, and then you don't even the folks who've already been using your cvs server! --sean msg12609/pgp0.pgp Description:

Re: users still logged in

2002-11-12 Thread Vineet Kumar
* nate ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021108 20:09]: > Matthew Daubenspeck said: > > After having a mess of connection problems that caused my ssh sessions to > > drop, I noticed that the 'w' command still thinks there are users logged > > in that I know are not. > check the process table to see if shells f

Re: [OT] Moving away from KDE to what?

2002-11-12 Thread Harvey Kelly
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 05:45:23PM -0500, Alan Shutko wrote: > Jonathan Matthews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Try fluxbox, for a different take on the blackbox idea. I prefer it > > solely as it has a a better name. > > The version in Sid is a bit buggy when it comes to resizing Emacs. > D

Re: depmod and multi kernel systems

2002-11-12 Thread Jeff
Alan Shutko, 2002-Nov-12 18:05 -0500: > Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 2) Ext3 on a laptop may not be desireable...the journalling tends to > >keep the drive from spinning down for power management (noflushd). > > OTOH, ext3 on a laptop may be more desirable, since it's more likely a

X file explorer

2002-11-12 Thread Russell
Hi all, What file system viewers are there for X? I've been using midnight commander which is ok, except that when i view a file, i want to be able to copy text to the X clipboard. I'm using fvwm2. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [

Re: debian+applix

2002-11-12 Thread Kerstin Hoef-Emden
Hi, On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Claus Christian larsen wrote: > How do i install applixware5.0 on debian 3.0? > > debian:/cdrom# cd > debian:~# cd /cdrom > debian:/cdrom# ./setup > Initializing installation. Please wait... > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: No protocol specified >

Re: depmod and multi kernel systems

2002-11-12 Thread Alan Shutko
Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 2) Ext3 on a laptop may not be desireable...the journalling tends to >keep the drive from spinning down for power management (noflushd). OTOH, ext3 on a laptop may be more desirable, since it's more likely a laptop will go down, because of power or APM bugs.

Re: Upgrading to XFree 4.2.1-3

2002-11-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 10:31:12PM +, David Luff wrote: > There seem to be dozens of X related packages, and I'm a bit confused over > which to apt-get. I'm mostly on Woody but planning to pull in XFree86 4.2 > using apt-get -t testing install ?.deb > > My question is which package to specify

SB 5.1

2002-11-12 Thread Debian
hi I have a sound blaster!live card 5.1 . Kernel is 2.4.19 ; running a SID. i would like to know if the digital output works ... if yes how ? thks a lot ! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Practical differences between Netgear models

2002-11-12 Thread Jeff
Jonathan Matthews, 2002-Nov-12 17:44 +: > Evening all - > > I'm looking to take my home network up to 100Mbps, > and I wondered if anyone could give me a clue > as to the difference between a couple of netgear > models that I've seen advertised at a fairly decent > price (~35UKP+tax, I think)

Re: [OT] Moving away from KDE to what?

2002-11-12 Thread Alan Shutko
Jonathan Matthews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Try fluxbox, for a different take on the blackbox idea. I prefer it > solely as it has a a better name. The version in Sid is a bit buggy when it comes to resizing Emacs. Don't know why, but blackbox works fine. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: depmod and multi kernel systems

2002-11-12 Thread Jeff
Johan Ehnberg, 2002-Nov-12 19:39 +0200: > > >And a second question. Is there any arguments for using ext2 > >instead of ext3? Cause I can't find any that would make anyone > >choose ext2 instead of ext3, and still Debian 3.0 installs on ext2. > > I guess ext3 is getting mature in 2.4 kernels. A

Re: FHS, Policy, /var/local, places to put multiple CVS repositories

2002-11-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 03:34:14PM -0600, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > By default the cvs package places a repository in /var/lib/cvs. Great, > I'm using it. Now I want to provide a completely different CVS > repository to a workgroup here. Where should I put it? I'd put it somewhere in /home - /home/c

clam or amavis

2002-11-12 Thread Kevin Coyner
I'm setting up a box to act as a mail server for a small LAN and will have it filter for spam using spamassassin. I'd also like it to filter for viruses since a few of the users on the LAN are Windows based (probably a good idea anyway regardless of OS). So the question is ... what's the pro/con

Re: Upgrading to XFree 4.2.1-3

2002-11-12 Thread David Luff
On 11/12/02 at 9:17 PM Rob Weir wrote: >On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 04:19:17PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> Well, I'm scared, since I don't want to trash X Windows. Other >> than saving copies of /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and /etc/X11/fs/config, >> are there any other preparations that I should make bef

Re: KDE 3.0.4 update & various errors struck....

2002-11-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 12:36:42PM -0700, Bruce Sass wrote: > On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Haralambos Geortgilakis wrote: > > Selecting previously deselected package libkgantt0. > > Unpacking libkgantt0 (from .../libkgantt0_4%3a3.0.4-1_i386.deb) ... > > dpkg: error processing > > /var/cache/apt/archives/li

unstabe to testing [was: Re: woody to testing]

2002-11-12 Thread Gerald Livingston
On a related note so I'm stealing the thread. On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 11:10:17 -0500 David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 3. Can I go back to woody after moving to testing? > > Not easily. Package downgrades aren't well supported. A couple of > people have tried to go back with varying degr

Re: debian+applix

2002-11-12 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Claus Christian larsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Tuesday, 12 November 2002, 10:27 PM +0100): > How do i install applixware5.0 on debian 3.0? > > debian:/cdrom# cd > debian:~# cd /cdrom > debian:/cdrom# ./setup > Initializing installation. Please wait... > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused

recompiling alsa

2002-11-12 Thread Rus Foster
Hi All, I've just done my first debian install and its working fine but ATM I'm trying to get alsa working right. I've installed it and go into debconf and configured the i810 driver. However I'm not sure that it compiled as when I ran /etc/init.d/also modprobe said no module found. Can someone giv

Re: [OT] Moving away from KDE to what?

2002-11-12 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 10:26:25PM +0100, Alex Polite wrote: > > > Here are the requirements: > > > > 1) Must be able to "maximize window to available space" a la > >enlightenment. > > 2) Must support multiple sequence key bindings a la emacs. > > 3) Must be fast. > > 4) Must be faster. > >

Re: [OT] Compiling From source. Thanks

2002-11-12 Thread Shri Shrikumar
Just wanted to say thanks to all that replied. I probably wont compile from source unless I find myself very bored(and with plenty disk space) On Sun, 2002-11-10 at 12:25, Shri Shrikumar wrote: > Hi All, > > Firstly, let me apologize for the off-topic post. > > I am considering compiling some so

Problems Starting X - no server "X" in path /usr/X11R6/bin

2002-11-12 Thread Ben Hill
Hi, I have set up Debian 3.0 rev0 and apt'd Gnome 2 onto it. It has set everything up, but when gdm tries to run it complains. I have tried a manual "startx", but then I get an error message: xinit: no server "X" in path and instructs me to make sure /usr/X11R6/bin is on the path. When I ty

RE: debian+applix

2002-11-12 Thread Vince Hillier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Copy the ~/.XAuhority file to roots home. If you are running as user vince, # cp ~vince/.XAuthority ~/ Vince Hillier [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://plutonium.homeunix.com - -Original Message- From: Claus Christian larsen [mailto:tip@;tophygiej

Re: Newbie: where to place src files for compilation

2002-11-12 Thread David Z Maze
"Holger Wiechert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just need a tip about where to place source files. > I downloaded the kernel sources (kernel-source-2.4.18) > and the kernel-headers (kernel-headers-2.4.18-bf.2.4) via dselect. > So they are now in /usr/src. I read somewhere that it's not a good > i

Re: debian+applix

2002-11-12 Thread Kent West
Claus Christian larsen wrote: How do i install applixware5.0 on debian 3.0? debian:/cdrom# cd debian:~# cd /cdrom debian:/cdrom# ./setup Initializing installation. Please wait... Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0

about quotas?

2002-11-12 Thread Curtis Vaughan
I have a question, which really doesn't concern quotas as far as I understand them. Over the weekend, I needed to perform a task whereby a file was written from an NT 4 server to a samba share on a Debian server. The file was about 3.5 gig. At 3.2 I received an error to the effect that there w

Re: dhcp-dns problem

2002-11-12 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Tuesday 12 November 2002 6:40 am, Alex Malinovich wrote: > Unfortunately, I'm not very familiar with what BOOTP is. > All I know is that it allows a computer to get an IP address and some > basic network information. in my understanding, bootp is mostly usefull for giving a machine an ip addres

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