Re: vncserver errors

2002-11-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Nov 17, 2002, Matt Price ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > hi, > > trying to run vncserver... I getthe following error on startup: > > vncserver > xauth: /home/matt/.Xauthority not writable, changes will be ignored > xauth: error in locking authority file /home/matt/.Xauthority What's owne

Re: accessing linux partitions from windows

2002-11-19 Thread Andrea Borgia
On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: SPD>i do not know if this is a security issue. but this is surprising. It isn't: with physical access to your machine, anyone could boot of a cd/floppy, mount your root partition, zero out your root password and be your master from then on ;-) SPD>

Re: accessing linux partitions from windows

2002-11-19 Thread nate
Sandip P Deshmukh said: > hello all > > i do not know if this is a security issue. but this is surprising. if you have console access to the machine, security is no longer a consideration really. it is easy to boot a cd or a floppy or even reconfigure lilo(maybe grub too, havent tried) to boot to

accessing linux partitions from windows

2002-11-19 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
hello all i do not know if this is a security issue. but this is surprising. there is a win9x application - e2fs that can explore linux partitions on dual boot machines. here is the homepage http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/ i have tried the program. basic procedure is boot the machine i

Laptops!

2002-11-19 Thread james leclair
Hello, Could someone be so kind as to recommend a model and brand name of laptop I should consider purchasing to run debian on? Thanks in advance, you guys have been real helpful!! James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PRO

Re: Fonts in netscape and acroread menus

2002-11-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Nov 06, 2002, Tim Dijkstra ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > Recently one of the users of my machine (running testing) has been > experiencing problems with fonts. Now I must say there have been some > changes regarding fonts, xfree had a update also I have thrown away some > non-free f

Soln: (was Re: CUPS/HP/lp printer errors)

2002-11-19 Thread Laura Rudmin
Laura Rudmin wrote: nate wrote: Laura Rudmin said: Hi, I have a Sid system with KDE 3.0, and CUPS with lp, tied to a HP Deskjet 1120C. when you print a test page from cups does it print out OK ? You can access the admin interface from http://localhost:631 Okay, the answer to this

Re: OT: keyboard deleting of thread Moz Mail?

2002-11-19 Thread Russell
Kent West wrote: I just discovered that Mozilla Mail can be viewed in "Thread Mode", which I like. However, In order to delete sub-messages in a thread I have to expand the thread and highlight each message. I did a web search and discovered that you can click on the little icon to the left of

Re: (semi-OT) JPG files -> Movie file

2002-11-19 Thread nate
sean finney said: > heya, > > On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 11:14:12AM -0800, nate wrote: >> thanks! yes I do believe it was a sizing issue, though at the time I >> didn't know of a way to resize at the command line(for automation), I >> think imagemagick can probably do this so I will try again, I do >

Re: Can't send email to users on same domain

2002-11-19 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 20 November 2002 12:18 am, Rohan Deshpande wrote: > Hi there, > > I was just wondering why I cannot send email to users on the same domain > as I. I get a returned mail error that there is an unknown local part, > so it must be an exim pr

Re: manual for vim

2002-11-19 Thread Richard Hector
On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 17:41, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > what is a dead-tree manual? sorry if it is a basic or off-topic question Paper :-) Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Visual notice for X

2002-11-19 Thread Gerald Livingston
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 23:41:01 -0500 Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Gerald Livingston said: > > What I am searching for is a way for my girlfriend to let me know > > she has arrived home from work without having to telephone me. It is > > a toll call for her t

Re: Ready to take the plunge...

2002-11-19 Thread Faheem Mitha
On 18 Nov 2002 21:48:36 -0600, ZephyrQ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've pretty much decided to take the Debian plunge, but now I need some > direction. > > Is it better to wipe my partition clean (it has SuSE 8 right now) and > then install? My /home partition is on another physical

Re: sqwebmail -- now what?

2002-11-19 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, will trillich said: > > okay, i've got sqwebmail installed: > > > > # apt-get install sqwebmail > > > > and i ran through the /usr/share/doc/sqwebmail info... > > > > so where do i look to find out how to get it to be my webmail > > (html) imap/pop3 interface? >

Re: text mode clone of gaim?

2002-11-19 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 10:05:26AM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 10:03:36AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > > Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > > > >hello all > > > > > >i have been using gaim - a good im package. > > > > > >is there a clone that runs on console? may be i can post

Re: sqwebmail -- now what?

2002-11-19 Thread will trillich
> -Original Message- > From: will trillich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Subject: sqwebmail -- now what? > > okay, i've got sqwebmail installed: > > # apt-get install sqwebmail > > and i ran through the /usr/share/doc/sqwebmail info... > > so where do i look to find out how to get

Re: Visual notice for X

2002-11-19 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Gerald Livingston said: > Actually, I'm using Gnome. But I like to have and use my entire screen. > My panels are set to autohide with a 1 pixel height as all that remains > showing.When I maximize an app it fills the entire screen. xsetroot to > change the background w

Re: manual for vim

2002-11-19 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 03:21:11PM -0500, N. Thomas wrote: > * Sandip P Deshmukh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-11-19 17:17:14 +0530]: > Your second option, if you don't find what you are looking for above, should > be the Usenet newsgroup comp.editors. There are many resident Vim > afficionados who pos

Re: manual for vim

2002-11-19 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 08:35:49AM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > -- Sandip P Deshmukh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > (on Tuesday, 19 November 2002, 05:17 PM +0530): > > i have recently shifted to vim and will like to have with me some good > > manual of vim with me. preferably single file, t

Re: manual for vim

2002-11-19 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 01:32:22PM +0100, Michael Naumann wrote: > On Tuesday 19 November 2002 12:47, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > moreover, are there any 'active' mailing lists for vim? > > I recommend the vim-mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] This list is > also read and commented by Bram Moolenaar

Re: manual for vim

2002-11-19 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 12:12:49PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 05:17:14PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > i have recently shifted to vim and will like to have with me some good > > manual of vim with me. preferably single file, text format (like mutt > > manual). > >

Re: Ready to take the plunge...

2002-11-19 Thread ZephyrQ
On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 19:13, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * ZephyrQ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021118 19:48]: > > I've pretty much decided to take the Debian plunge, but now I need some > > direction. > > Congratulations! =) Thanx. > > Yeah, I'd say wipe it. Back up anything valuable. It's good

Re: text mode clone of gaim?

2002-11-19 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 10:03:36AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > >hello all > > > >i have been using gaim - a good im package. > > > >is there a clone that runs on console? may be i can postpone starting x > >that much longer! :) > > > > > > > > You might try ari-yahoo o

Re: bug tracking

2002-11-19 Thread nate
Richard Hector said: > Other unixes seem to manage to dump to the swap partition - is there some > significant difference that make this impractical/more dangerous for > Linux? even better, I've had my solaris boxes able to panic and dump their "oops" messages to a syslog server before rebooting!

Re: bug tracking

2002-11-19 Thread Scott Henson
On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 22:17, Rob Weir wrote: > On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 03:03:59PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > > On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 21:36, Rob Weir wrote: > > > > > > When the kernel crashes, there's no way for it to be able to know that > > > it's state is consistent. Because of this, it's

Re: GeForce4 MX 440 & Woody

2002-11-19 Thread Edward Guldemond
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 08:25:36PM -0500, Mike Dresser wrote: > On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Edward Guldemond wrote: > > > This is wrong. It should read: > > > > Section "Device" > > Identifier "GeForce Card (Accelerated)" > > Driver "nvidia" > > EndSection > > > > That is, change t

Re: bug tracking

2002-11-19 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 03:03:59PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 21:36, Rob Weir wrote: > > > > When the kernel crashes, there's no way for it to be able to know that > > it's state is consistent. Because of this, it's not safe for it to try > > to write to disks (since it

Re: how to compare two macros in TeX?

2002-11-19 Thread David Z Maze
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > what's \edef compared to \def? \edef expands its argument before defining it: \def\foo{Foo} \def\bar{Bar} \def\baz{\foo\bar} \edef\quux{\foo\bar} \def\foo{fOO} \def\bar{bAR} \baz\quux\bye Should result in fOObARFooBar: \baz's value is still \foo\bar,

Re: [OT] Clearing a BIOS password

2002-11-19 Thread debian
On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Pigeon wrote: > On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 13:54:10 +1000, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > > > >>Anyone remember how to clear a password on a BIOS? I've got a box from a > >>client that has stopped booting from CD, and this client is ready to > >>move to

Re: segfaults w/ apropos

2002-11-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 06:44:04PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 10:00:48AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > I've noticed apropos segfaulting over the past few weeks on > > testing/unstable x86. Wondering if anyone's seeing anything similar. > > It's been filed in the BTS

Re: bug tracking

2002-11-19 Thread Richard Hector
On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 21:36, Rob Weir wrote: > > When the kernel crashes, there's no way for it to be able to know that > it's state is consistent. Because of this, it's not safe for it to try > to write to disks (since it could easily destroy everything on the > disks). > > The best it can mana

Re: [OT] Clearing a BIOS password

2002-11-19 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 19:31, Pigeon wrote: > On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 13:54:10 +1000, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > > > >>Anyone remember how to clear a password on a BIOS? I've got a box from a > >>client that has stopped booting from CD, and this client is ready to > >>m

Re: apache and php

2002-11-19 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Jeremy" == Jeremy Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jeremy> On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 08:40, Shyamal Prasad wrote: >> "Chris" == Chris Lale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Chris> I did get an alert during installation: [alert] apache: Chris> Could not determine the server's f

Re: how to compare two macros in TeX?

2002-11-19 Thread Rupert
On 20 Nov 2002 01:44:33 +0100 martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > also sprach Rupert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.11.19.1932 +0100]: > > This compares the complete expansions of whatever you throw at it: > > nice. i didn't even think that far... > > > \def\same#1#2{00\fi% > > \edef\tm

Re: Which ICQ Client is better?

2002-11-19 Thread Edward Guldemond
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 08:03:18PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > ;) no really though, thanks. give me text over gui any day! (dude, > whoever thought that phrase would pass my lips ...) > And should you need to move to X, I hear that 'screen' works well in xterm/kterm/gnome-terminal/eterm...

Re: GeForce4 MX 440 & Woody

2002-11-19 Thread Mike Dresser
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Edward Guldemond wrote: > This is wrong. It should read: > > Section "Device" > Identifier "GeForce Card (Accelerated)" > Driver "nvidia" > EndSection > > That is, change the driver from "nv" to "nvidia", and then remove the > option with the FBDev. > T

Re: Ready to take the plunge...

2002-11-19 Thread Vineet Kumar
* ZephyrQ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021118 19:48]: > I've pretty much decided to take the Debian plunge, but now I need some > direction. Congratulations! =) > Is it better to wipe my partition clean (it has SuSE 8 right now) and > then install? My /home partition is on another physical d

Re: getting an address from DHCP without an interface

2002-11-19 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Kai Großjohann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.11.19.1703 +0100]: > I think that the dhclient program does not do anything when it > receives a DHCP packet, except for invoking /etc/dhclient-script. > Therefore, if /etc/dhclient-script does not reconfigure the interface, > then dhclient won't

Re: Which ICQ Client is better?

2002-11-19 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Tue, 19 Nov 2002 02:28:58PM -0600, Michael Heironimus insinuated: > On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 02:24:26PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > now, after all of that, i have centericq v4.8.4 up and running, and > > it's still buggy. the AIM protocol hates me: > > > anyone have any suggestions? > > I

Re: how to compare two macros in TeX?

2002-11-19 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Rupert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.11.19.1932 +0100]: > This compares the complete expansions of whatever you throw at it: nice. i didn't even think that far... > \def\same#1#2{00\fi% > \edef\tmpone{#1}% > \edef\tmptwo{#2}% > \ifx\tmpone\tmptwo} > > \def\variable{somevalue} >

Re: Ready to take the plunge...

2002-11-19 Thread Faheem Mitha
On 18 Nov 2002 21:48:36 -0600, ZephyrQ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've pretty much decided to take the Debian plunge, but now I need some > direction. > > Is it better to wipe my partition clean (it has SuSE 8 right now) and > then install? My /home partition is on another physical

Re: [OT] Clearing a BIOS password

2002-11-19 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 13:54:10 +1000, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > >>Anyone remember how to clear a password on a BIOS? I've got a box from a >>client that has stopped booting from CD, and this client is ready to >>move to dual-booting but this is his main desktop box and

Can't send email to users on same domain

2002-11-19 Thread Rohan Deshpande
Hi there, I was just wondering why I cannot send email to users on the same domain as I. I get a returned mail error that there is an unknown local part, so it must be an exim problem. I set up using the smarthost option 2 in eximconfig, and besides my smtp server as smarthost I picked defaults.

Re: Mozilla suddenly dies

2002-11-19 Thread nate
Ross Vandegrift said: > Hello all, > > Today Mozilla completely stopped working on my box. Nothing at > all has changed on the machine; no hardware, no apt-getting. My sister > was logged in; at one point mozilla would happily start, the next it was > dead. > kill(4114, SIGRTMIN)

Re: getting an address from DHCP without an interface

2002-11-19 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Joyce, Matthew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.11.20.0115 +0100]: > Isn't this what reserved dynamoc addresses are for ? what are reserved dymanic addresses? > Reserving an address for a specific MAC address ? that's what the DHCP server does. I have no access or control to or over it. I'

Mozilla suddenly dies

2002-11-19 Thread Ross Vandegrift
Hello all, Today Mozilla completely stopped working on my box. Nothing at all has changed on the machine; no hardware, no apt-getting. My sister was logged in; at one point mozilla would happily start, the next it was dead. I've verified it isn't unique to her account - I am sim

RE: getting an address from DHCP without an interface

2002-11-19 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> -Original Message- > From: martin f krafft [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, 18 November 2002 8:29 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: getting an address from DHCP without an interface > > > also sprach Kai Großjohann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [2002.11.18.1001 +0100]: > >

Re: remove or install a broken package

2002-11-19 Thread Bill Moseley
At 02:17 PM 11/19/02 -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: >Haste make waste, as it always turns out. But cancelling a meeting often helps to resolve problems. A few modifications to the remove scripts and determined use of dkpg --purge solved the problem. -- Bill Moseley mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: remove or install a broken package

2002-11-19 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi, * Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [021120 10:25]: > Haste make waste, as it always turns out. > > I installed ipmasq and iptables. I then tried to remove both packages but > ipmasq choked: > > # apt-get remove ipmasq > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > The

Re: reportbug has a bug...

2002-11-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 17:58, Pierre THIERRY wrote: > I have sometimes this error with reportbug (haven't seen what happens > before it appears) : > > Please select a tag: [done] > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 1180, in ? > main() > File "/usr/bin/repo

reportbug has a bug...

2002-11-19 Thread Pierre THIERRY
I have sometimes this error with reportbug (haven't seen what happens before it appears) : Please select a tag: [done] Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 1180, in ? main() File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 876, in main report = open_write_safe(filename, 'w

Re: psaux.o not compiled as a module?!

2002-11-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
That's the only "mouse" module I had loaded so I figured it must be the one, but you're correct. Removing it does not affect my mouse operation. I guess that when I installed, something was sensed that triggered that module to be included. Digging a bit further, PS/2 mouse support IS built into

Re: downgrading libc6 ?

2002-11-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 10:21:28PM +, Pigeon wrote: > On Mon, 18 Nov 2002 15:58:18 -0800 (PST), "nate" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >if libc6 is the ONLY thing he installed it may be possible to force > >downgrade. one of my friends installed the unstable of libc6 version > >on a potato syste

Re: Procmail + debian +Qmail........and amavis

2002-11-19 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 04:41:12PM -0500, 'sean finney' wrote: > On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 07:53:08PM -, Mikael Jirari wrote: > > Thank you :) > > > > But you're not using qmail are you ? > > nope... i just assumed that qmail also paid attention to .forward > files. was i wrong with that assum

Re: getting an address from DHCP without an interface

2002-11-19 Thread Kevin Buhr
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > eth0:1 is a virtual interface of eth0, but it has the same MAC > address, so it will get the same IP assigned as eth0 did by the DHCP > server. Depending on the DHCP server at the other end, you may be able to use the ISC DHCP client (with an approp

Re: Procmail + debian +Qmail........and amavis

2002-11-19 Thread 'sean finney'
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 07:53:08PM -, Mikael Jirari wrote: > Thank you :) > > But you're not using qmail are you ? nope... i just assumed that qmail also paid attention to .forward files. was i wrong with that assumption? --sean msg14050/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: downgrading libc6 ?

2002-11-19 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 10:21:28PM +, Pigeon wrote: > On Mon, 18 Nov 2002 15:58:18 -0800 (PST), "nate" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Frisurf said: > >> A question for a friend of mine: is it possible to downgrade libc6. he > >> upgraded libc6 on his stable machine using the unstable's vers

Re: GeForce4 MX 440 & Woody

2002-11-19 Thread Edward Guldemond
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 09:37:15PM +0100, Aedificator wrote: > After a fresh install of Woody, X crashes with the message "no screens found". I >attach the relative log file and config file. > Section "Device" > Identifier "Generic Video Card" > Driver "nv" > Option "UseFBDev" "true" > EndSe

Re: boot on cd

2002-11-19 Thread Levi Waldron
On November 19, 2002 03:01 pm, mess-mate wrote: > Hi all, > I have an old P330 (IBM) installed as ISDN router. > Now I want to install other applications from a CD (bootable) > but the machine won't boot on the cd. > I did a try with several other bootable cd's without success :-( > What's wrong ab

[OT] Anyone using LaCie External IEEE1394 DVD-RW drive?

2002-11-19 Thread Ron Johnson
If so, which host adapter are you using with it? Also, which userland software? >From the i'net, I see that these packages must be installed. gscanbus libavc1394-0 libraw1394-5 (but is this needed since I use 2.4.18?) Am I missing anything? What about murasaki or hotplug? TIA, Ron -- +

Re: Apt-move question

2002-11-19 Thread Richard Hector
On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 06:50, Arthur H. Johnson II wrote: > > This package may work, however I only want to mirror the packages that are > installed on my server, nothing else. Have you looked at apt-proxy? Works very nicely here. Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: downgrading libc6 ?

2002-11-19 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, 18 Nov 2002 15:58:18 -0800 (PST), "nate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Frisurf said: >> A question for a friend of mine: is it possible to downgrade libc6. he >> upgraded libc6 on his stable machine using the unstable's version. He >> encountered some problems trying to downgrade (installing

Re: Computers

2002-11-19 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, 18 Nov 2002 16:50:30 -0800, Gene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Vikki Roemer wrote: >>On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 02:59:37PM -0600, Steve Waterman wrote: >> >>>Glenn: >>> >>>Are we going to purchase two computers for Kim Wallace and Jim Vanderslice? >>> >>>Steve >> >>I don't know, but while you're

Re: MP# (or OGG) -> WAV? How?

2002-11-19 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, 17 Nov 2002 20:58:48 -0500, Travis Crump <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Pigeon wrote: >> On Sun, 17 Nov 2002 12:28:14 -0500, sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >> >>>also, if you're debating whether or not you should go to ogg, i highly >>>reccommend it. first of all, it's a free

Re: Weird and insecure su problem: FIXED

2002-11-19 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, 17 Nov 2002 13:00:56 +0200, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hello, > >Am 17:44 2002-11-15 + hat Pigeon geschrieben: >> >>On Fri, 15 Nov 2002 01:05:11 +, Glyn Kennington >><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>couldn't run tar & gzip, I had to unpack it with WinZip on my Wind

remove or install a broken package

2002-11-19 Thread Bill Moseley
Haste make waste, as it always turns out. I installed ipmasq and iptables. I then tried to remove both packages but ipmasq choked: # apt-get remove ipmasq Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: ipmasq 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly

Re: odd behaviour with harddisk - ata100 vs rpm

2002-11-19 Thread Mike Dresser
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Alvin Oga wrote: > i expect that the disk running at 5400rpm that is rated at 100MB/sec > will perform equally well as a a disk spinning at 7200rpm > ( less platters ? ) Why would it have less platters? The 5400 could have 80 gig/platter platters like the new MaxLine's from

Re: Booting a full Debian system from floppy or CD

2002-11-19 Thread Jeff
Doug MacFarlane, 2002-Nov-19 19:10 +: > On 19 Nov 2002, 09:47:00, Jeff wrote: > > > > > > Doug MacFarlane, 2002-Nov-19 14:19 +: > > This looks to me like lilo did not get run. During install did you > > run the process called "Make system bootable"? That install lilo. > > You have a cho

Re: Procmail + debian +Qmail

2002-11-19 Thread Kevin Buhr
Mikael Jirari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I built the receipe > > :0 > * > $HOME/.Maildir/ > > and it works. Yes, this is the correct way to put all messages into a single maildir-format directory. Recompiling "procmail" is only necessary if you want to stop an empty "/var/spool/mail/mikae

Re: Debian reference - Three Cheers for Osamu

2002-11-19 Thread Benedict Verheyen
- Original Message - From: "John Griffiths" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 1:58 AM Subject: Debian reference - Three Cheers for Osamu > Just finished printing the Debian Reference to dead-tree > > (i'll need it most when the computers aren't

Re: odd behaviour with harddisk - ata100 vs rpm

2002-11-19 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya mike On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Mike Dresser wrote: > > I think I see the confusion. You're getting disk media speed, and > interface speed confused. > > I could have a udma-4 drive with low density platters, at 5400 rpm, > compared to a 7200 udma-4 with 80 gig platters. > > The interface is

Re: odd behaviour with harddisk - heads

2002-11-19 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya burkhard On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Burkhard Ritter wrote: > > > Model=Maxtor 6Y060L0, FwRev=YAR41VW0, SerialNo=Y2R7JV6E > > > Config={ Fixed } > > > RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=57 notice youo have 16 heads as shown in 16383/16/63 > fdisk: > Festplatte /dev/hdb: 255

Re: Disappearing DHCP Lease

2002-11-19 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Jim Bowering wrote: On November 19, 2002 10:53 am, Donald R. Spoon wrote: Jim Bowering wrote: I'm using Libranet Debian 2.0. This machine always gets a DHCP lease from my ISP when it boots, but they seem to have a short default lease period. After about 2 hours I lose my lease. This is j

Re: odd behaviour with harddisk

2002-11-19 Thread Mike Dresser
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Burkhard Ritter wrote: > no this seems to be right. > > df: > /dev/hdb1 60039660 16909188 40127928 30% /mnt > I think i know what it is now :) I got so sidetracked it wasn't funny Tell me what a df -i /dev/hdb1 looks like. I bet the third number is 0. Mike

Re: pptp vpn

2002-11-19 Thread Kevin Buhr
Patrick Hsieh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 1. Is pptp+mppe any insecure? Why? Since the pptpd server can force the > connection to use mppe encryption with the client. How come pptp+mppe is > insecure? Is it because the encryption algorithm or lack of the public key > infrastructure? For a

Re: odd behaviour with harddisk

2002-11-19 Thread Burkhard Ritter
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Alvin Oga wrote: > > hi ya burkhard > > On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Burkhard Ritter wrote: > > > On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Mike Dresser wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Burkhard Ritter wrote: > > > > > > > Hallo. > > > > > > > > I have installed a 60G harddisk (Maxtor DiamondMax Plus

Re: odd behaviour with harddisk

2002-11-19 Thread Burkhard Ritter
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Mike Dresser wrote: > On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Burkhard Ritter wrote: > > > spass:/home/buri# hdparm -i /dev/hdb > > > > /dev/hdb: > > > > Model=Maxtor 6Y060L0, FwRev=YAR41VW0, SerialNo=Y2R7JV6E > > Config={ Fixed } > > RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=57 > >

Re: psaux.o not compiled as a module?!

2002-11-19 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 08:55:59 -0800, Bob Nielsen wrote: >It shows up here as >/lib/modules/2.4.19-686/kernel/drivers/input/mousedev.o This is a different file, namely to support mice driven via the input device (read "USB mice.") -- L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ of a GNU

Re: odd behaviour with harddisk

2002-11-19 Thread Mike Dresser
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > -- any system ... no matter how fast/slow, is working well > > >if the ( buffered disk reads ) timing is at least 50% of the rated disk > > >speed of 66MB or 100MB or 133MB or rated sata 160MB or rated scsi > > >speeds > > > - have not s

Re: logrotate & his config file.

2002-11-19 Thread nate
Egor Tur said: > Hi folk. > I want that `last' does login on year but not month . > I think that I need rewrite /etc/logrotate.conf. But what have I write in > this file. `man' told me about only monthly, weekly & daily. > Thanx. your best bet may be to make a custom logrotate.conf file which rota

Re: CUPS/HP/lp printer errors

2002-11-19 Thread nate
Laura Rudmin said: >>what does /etc/printcap look like? >> >> > > lp|Generic dot-matrix printer entry:\ > :lp=/dev/lp0:\ > :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\ > :af=/var/log/lp-acct:\ > :lf=/var/log/lp-errs:\ > :pl#66 > :pw#80 > :pc#150:\ > :mx#0:\ > :sh: this is likely t

CUPS & Samba print server under Debian

2002-11-19 Thread Gary Hennigan
I'm in the process of setting up a Linux server for my Home LAN and have some questions regarding the setup. First question is in regards to CUPS. I see that under cupsomatic-ppd it says that you should try foomatic-bin and foomatic-db first. When I install the foomatic-* packages I only see a coup

Re: odd behaviour with harddisk

2002-11-19 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Mike Dresser wrote: > On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > -- any system ... no matter how fast/slow, is working well > >if the ( buffered disk reads ) timing is at least 50% of the rated disk > >speed of 66MB or 100MB or 133MB or rated sata 160MB or

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Re: CUPS/HP/lp printer errors

2002-11-19 Thread Laura Rudmin
nate wrote: Laura Rudmin said: Hi, I have a Sid system with KDE 3.0, and CUPS with lp, tied to a HP Deskjet 1120C. when you print a test page from cups does it print out OK ? You can access the admin interface from http://localhost:631 Okay, the answer to this is yes and no, and m

Re: odd behaviour with harddisk

2002-11-19 Thread Mike Dresser
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Alvin Oga wrote: > -- any system ... no matter how fast/slow, is working well >if the ( buffered disk reads ) timing is at least 50% of the rated disk >speed of 66MB or 100MB or 133MB or rated sata 160MB or rated scsi >speeds > - have not see any system ac

GeForce4 MX 440 & Woody

2002-11-19 Thread Aedificator
After a fresh install of Woody, X crashes with the message "no screens found". I attach the relative log file and config file.   Zee   log file: XFree86 Version 4.1.0.1 / X Window System(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6510)Release Date: 21 December 2001If the server is older

Re: odd behaviour with harddisk

2002-11-19 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya mike On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Mike Dresser wrote: > On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > it also says you're running in *mdma2 > > you should reset your disk to be ATA-100 ( hdparm -X69 ... ) > > Erm, on a "p130"?(i assume he meant either a p120 or 133) > > I wanna see a m

Debian woody and Epson iscan-1.4?

2002-11-19 Thread tjm3
Hello. Has anyone gotten the Epson iscan v1.4 running on debian woody? So far, I have had no luck getting this to run properly. I have an Epson 1250 Photo scanner. thanks for any suggestions, -- tony mollica [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

Re: Which ICQ Client is better?

2002-11-19 Thread Michael Heironimus
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 02:24:26PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > now, after all of that, i have centericq v4.8.4 up and running, and > it's still buggy. the AIM protocol hates me: > anyone have any suggestions? I suggest trying the current version (4.8.7) instead of that old one. There may or m

Re: manual for vim

2002-11-19 Thread N. Thomas
* Sandip P Deshmukh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-11-19 17:17:14 +0530]: > i have recently shifted to vim and will like to have with me some good > manual of vim with me. preferably single file, text format (like mutt > manual). something that is exhaustive. so that i can look it up before i > post a q

Re: Disappearing DHCP Lease

2002-11-19 Thread Jim Bowering
On November 19, 2002 10:53 am, Donald R. Spoon wrote: > Jim Bowering wrote: > > I'm using Libranet Debian 2.0. This machine always gets a DHCP lease > > from my ISP when it boots, but they seem to have a short default lease > > period. After about 2 hours I lose my lease. > This is just a guess,

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2002-11-19 Thread mess-mate
Hi all, I have an old P330 (IBM) installed as ISDN router. Now I want to install other applications from a CD (bootable) but the machine won't boot on the cd. I did a try with several other bootable cd's without success :-( What's wrong about it ? Thanks in advance mess-mate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: odd behaviour with harddisk

2002-11-19 Thread Mike Dresser
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Alvin Oga wrote: > it also says you're running in *mdma2 > you should reset your disk to be ATA-100 ( hdparm -X69 ... ) Erm, on a "p130"?(i assume he meant either a p120 or 133) I wanna see a machine that can handle ata-100, when the ram barely moves at 30 meg a

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade stopped working

2002-11-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 07:55:41PM +0100, P.C.J.G. Brunier wrote: > after that I changed /etc/apt/sources.list to use the unstable branche > > apt-get update > apt-get dist-upgrade > > The method I describe worked fine for me the last few months. Suddenly > something happened. I get dep errors ab

RE: Procmail + debian +Qmail........and amavis

2002-11-19 Thread Mikael Jirari
Title: RE: Procmail + debian +Qmailand amavis Thank you :) But you're not using qmail are you ? I've put that in my .qmail |/usr/sbin/qmail-procmail Also with what i have read i should need something like amavis which works with clamav the gpl antivirus scanner that i might use

logrotate & his config file.

2002-11-19 Thread Egor Tur
Hi folk. I want that `last' does login on year but not month . I think that I need rewrite /etc/logrotate.conf. But what have I write in this file. `man' told me about only monthly, weekly & daily. Thanx. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

RE: sqwebmail -- now what?

2002-11-19 Thread Mikael Jirari
Title: RE: sqwebmail -- now what? :) I had the same problem ... I you just want to test a webmail, try squirrelmail, it installed quite straightly. You have to implement an imap server thought. Bye -Original Message- From: will trillich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 19 No

Re: Ripping a DVD to Divx on linux

2002-11-19 Thread csj
On Mon, 18 Nov 2002 23:00:38 -0500, Travis Crump wrote: > > Din Tuck wrote: > > hello > > > > I was wondering how I could go about ripping a DVD to a Divx > > file under linux. I only found a few guides on google, and > > was hoping that one of you debian users might share some info > > on how t

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