Re: Phoenix with java ..

2003-02-28 Thread Nathan Poznick
Thus spake Sandip P Deshmukh: > well, i use it only for viewing some sites. i see that several sites use > java for tickers, etc. so i need a lightweight browser with java > support. phoenix fits the bill, hence phoenix. Are you using a copy of phoenix from the phoenix project page on mozilla.org,

Re: repost -- phoenix, java and other plug-ins. are there any .debs?

2003-02-28 Thread Todd Pytel
I noticed this thread yesterday, and played around with Phoenix/Java last night. I got Phoenix (2/21 nightly binary) and Sun JRE working fine - installed to /usr/local/phoenix and /usr/local/j2re1.4.1_02. Only snag I found was that the Java plugin links to the libstdc++-glibc2.1 package, which I ha

Re: ICQ behind router/firewall [SOLVED]

2003-02-28 Thread ScruLoose
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 02:34:12PM -0500, Scruloose wrote: > Hey all, > > Using Trillian under windo~1 ... flawless ICQ > connectivity... not using any port-forwarding or any such. Under debian, I > can't seem to get a client to work. > > GnomeICU will send and receive messages, initiate/accep

Re: Phoenix with java ..

2003-02-28 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 09:35:02PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 07:03:17PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: >> >> i wish so could i :) >> > You will. Since I got it working here, you too must be able to do the > same :-) Maybe, a couple of more mails. than

Re: How to play custom sound on mail alert in Moz Mail?

2003-02-28 Thread Travis Crump
Bob Proulx wrote: Kent West wrote: Anyone know how to configure Mozilla Mail on Debian to play a custom sound when new mail arrives? Yes. First off don't try to do it with Mozilla. Do it with procmail as the mail is processed on your machine. Procmail will put it in your mailbox to be read b

repost -- phoenix, java and other plug-ins. are there any .debs?

2003-02-28 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
hello all this is my last attempt before i shift to some bloated browser. i have tried installing phoenix and make java run on it umpteen number of times. it *never* worked. phoenix installation is perfect. java is not. so, finally, i have decided to try installing from .debs. i run debian stabl

Re: Newbie bull brings own china shop.

2003-02-28 Thread sean finney
On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 12:07:55PM +0700, Brian Durant wrote: > If it is OK with you, I would rather not interleave my responses. I just > got over some serious eye problems and find that spending too much time > editing and working with the dim Debian text output on my daughter's > computer, ma

Re: Dummy

2003-02-28 Thread Travis Crump
Kent West wrote: Teilhard Knight wrote: Kent West wrote: But natively, Debian doesn't use the .rpm format (although it can in many cases with the "alien" package). Thanks a lot, Kent. A friend of mine told me Debian takes Red Hat drivers and to install it as simply as: rpm -ivh package_name.

Re: Newbie bull brings own china shop.

2003-02-28 Thread Gary Turner
A: See for yourself Brian Durant wrote: >If it is OK with you, I would rather not interleave my responses. I just >got over some serious eye problems and find that spending too much time >editing and working with the dim Debian text output on my daughter's >computer, makes my eyes complain a

defoma-hints broken?

2003-02-28 Thread Arne Goetje
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi list, I have the following problem with defoma-hints: when trying to generate a hints file for a truetype font, I just get a screen running constantly with this error message: Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at /usr/share/defo

xmms, realplayer, and plugger

2003-02-28 Thread Bill Moseley
I'm using plugger with galeon. Few questions: - When I click on an audio file the entire file is downloaded before xmms begins to play. Is there a way to get xmms to start playing before the download is complete (stream)? (I noticed on a friends machine running Windows that their player is sma

Re: Dummy

2003-02-28 Thread Greg Madden
On Friday 28 February 2003 08:07 pm, Kent West wrote: > Teilhard Knight wrote: > >>Kent West wrote: > >> > >>But > >>natively, Debian doesn't use the .rpm format > >>(although it can in many cases with the "alien" package). > > > >Thanks a lot, Kent. A friend of mine told me Debian takes Red Hat >

Re: Note

2003-02-28 Thread Barry deFreese
Teilhard Knight wrote: Just to let you know that I do not seem to be able to get through the list my replies to the people who is helping me. Only fresh posts show. ??? Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial Who ate my sandwich? I have that same problem with my home account??? -- Barry deFreese

Note

2003-02-28 Thread Teilhard Knight
Just to let you know that I do not seem to be able to get through the list my replies to the people who is helping me. Only fresh posts show. ??? Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial Who ate my sandwich? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Re: Newbie bull brings own china shop.

2003-02-28 Thread Brian Durant
If it is OK with you, I would rather not interleave my responses. I just got over some serious eye problems and find that spending too much time editing and working with the dim Debian text output on my daughter's computer, makes my eyes complain a lot. I am trying to keep the eye strain at a t

Re: Dummy

2003-02-28 Thread Kent West
Teilhard Knight wrote: Kent West wrote: But natively, Debian doesn't use the .rpm format (although it can in many cases with the "alien" package). Thanks a lot, Kent. A friend of mine told me Debian takes Red Hat drivers and to install it as simply as: rpm -ivh package_name. This must be ne

Re: Setting hdparm parameters on boot

2003-02-28 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Friday 28 February 2003 6:38 pm, Stephen Cormier wrote: Try looking at the bottom of the /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh file the hdparm command should already be there commented out just uncomment and save the file. At least this is what I had to do on my system (woody). If it is not there then just ad

Re: Setting hdparm parameters on boot

2003-02-28 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Friday 28 February 2003 11:29 pm, Donald Spoon wrote: Did you make your "hdparm" script an executable shell script? No, I didn't and do I feel dumb :) Thanks for the heads-up and pointer to hwtools. Jeff Elkins http://www.elkins.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

RE: Laptop (PCMCIA) NIC Suggestions for Woody Stable

2003-02-28 Thread M. Kirchhoff
Well, I picked up a card for free from a friend. It is the following, and I cannot get it to work under Woody: Compaq Netelligent 10/100 PC Card P/N: 335507-001 I did some searching and found several posts that said these cards are actually Thunder LAN cards, but trying to install the tlan.o mod

Re: Chinese input [100% SOLVED!]

2003-02-28 Thread Robert Storey
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003 22:24:23 +0800 Arne Goetje <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Attached is my xcinrc (/etc/), it has root-over-the-spot only by default. Dear Arne, Hi, after this post, we should probably take this discussion off-list because maybe the general Debian users might not be interested

recurring error in exim's log

2003-02-28 Thread ScruLoose
Hi everybody, I have this little issue with exim. My setup is that I'm retrieving mail from several POP accounts (for one local user) with fetchmail, which hands off to exim. Currently I have exim filtering and delivering (maybe I'll get into procmail someday soon, but not yet). Now, my mail seem

Couple of more questions.

2003-02-28 Thread Teilhard Knight
First, I have been told that some Win Modems can be made to work under Debian. I have a plain Lucent Win Modem. Can you help me to try to install it? Second. My ISP is a log on ASDL provider. That means I have to use my Ethernet card and log with a username and a password. I do not have a static I

Re: Setting hdparm parameters on boot

2003-02-28 Thread Stephen Cormier
Try looking at the bottom of the /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh file the hdparm command should already be there commented out just uncomment and save the file. At least this is what I had to do on my system (woody). If it is not there then just add it. On March 1, 2003 04:22 am, Jeff Elkins wrote: > I

Re: ATA raid install

2003-02-28 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya if you're using the fastrack raid pci card ... it needs the promise series drivers if you're using the onboard raid ( bios-based ) controller .. dont bother ... unless you have lots of time and "hair" and/or you could get lucky with that version of the bios - be sure that the partitions

Re: conversion tool for avi to (s)vcd

2003-02-28 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 21:50, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 01:28:24PM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > > Mencoder, of the mplayer package, can convert avi to mpeg, which you > > then put to a vcd with the programs of either vcdimager or vcdtools. > > I do it with transcode myself, but

Re: Setting hdparm parameters on boot

2003-02-28 Thread Donald Spoon
Jeff Elkins wrote: I'm trying to set the parameter: 'hdparm -d 1 /dev/hdc' upon boot. I created a script 'hdcparm' in init.d and attempted using update-rc.d to create a S99hdcparm script in my runlevels, and while it creates the link, it doesn't seem to 'take.' I still have to apply it manuall

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2003 #721

2003-02-28 Thread Daniel Santamaria
vi /etc/init.d/hdparm.sh #!/bin/bash hdparm -d 1 /dev/hdc :wq chmod a+x /etc/init.d/hdparm.sh ln -s /etc/init.d/hdparm.sh /etc/rc2.d/S90hdparm That is assuming your default runlevel is 2. Dan Subject: Setting hdparm parameters on boot From: Jeff Elkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 28 Feb

Re: ipchains not logging to syslog

2003-02-28 Thread Jeffrey L . Taylor
I saw this when I first installed Debian 3.0r0. I did find out how to stop the logging to the 1st VT. Edit /etc/init.d/klogd. On line 13 is an assignment to KLOGD. Put "-c 4" in the quotes. This logs only info and above to the console. I don't know what I did that started logging to syslog.

Re: Laptop's power button made to suspend?

2003-02-28 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Hall Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Friday, 28 February 2003, 10:28 PM -0500): > * Matthew Weier O'Phinney ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030228 21:15]: > > -- Eduardo Duenez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > (on Friday, 28 February 2003, 06:48 PM -0500): > > > Is it possible to configure my Woody la

ATA raid install

2003-02-28 Thread ktb
I've been wading though the various howtos and list archives and could use some advice. I have a GA-7VAXP Gigabyte motherboard with on-board ATA raid. I've got the disks set up with MBFastrack 2+0 stripe. Should I be attempting this with stable/testing/unstable? Does anyone have a floppy set up

Re: VCDs (was Newbie Functioning In Debian)

2003-02-28 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 12:18:44PM +1100, Graeme Merrall wrote: > I've spent the last few days playing with this myself. I've not got > anything down on paper but if you're interested, mail me and I'll try > and fill you in. OK, what's the deal? - --

Re: Subdomain - node ?

2003-02-28 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 02:47:59PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > Works just fine, you do need a seperate IP address per vhost though. No, you don't, it's just slightly easier if you do. I used to do this myself, though I don't anymore and it's been a long time. You're still screwed with

Re: debian on laptop w/ limited ram/speed/HD

2003-02-28 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Friday, 28 February 2003, 10:05 PM -0500): > A middle-aged (~4 years old -- so, not old, not new) laptop is about > to become available to me, and I'd like to install debian on it. > The system is an HP Omnibook A4100, > P-II 300 > 96 meg ram > 20 gig har

RE: Laptop's power button made to suspend?

2003-02-28 Thread David Turetsky
-Original Message- From: CaT [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 9:59 PM To: Eduardo Duenez Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Laptop's power button made to suspend? On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 06:48:26PM -0500, Eduardo Duenez wrote: > Is it possible to configure my Wo

Re: How to play custom sound on mail alert in Moz Mail? - sound

2003-02-28 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Bob Proulx wrote: > Yes. First off don't try to do it with Mozilla. Do it with procmail > as the mail is processed on your machine. Procmail will put it in > your mailbox to be read by Mozilla. or config xbiff too .. but i can just imagine in the office of 20-100

Re: Laptop's power button made to suspend?

2003-02-28 Thread Hall Stevenson
* Matthew Weier O'Phinney ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030228 21:15]: > -- Eduardo Duenez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > (on Friday, 28 February 2003, 06:48 PM -0500): > > Is it possible to configure my Woody laptop so if the power button is > > pressed (say, by mistake) then the laptop only goes into suspend

Re: (Newbie) Functioning In Debian

2003-02-28 Thread Donald Spoon
Marc Wilson wrote: On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 01:35:08AM -0600, Donald Spoon wrote: As I mentioned, the only problem I had initially was with sound on QuickTime, and that was fixed when I copied over the QT stuff from my previous experiments to the /usr/lib/win31/ directory. This might be fixed in t

GNOME 1.4 Time

2003-02-28 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
When I installed Woody, I set up the hardware clock to GMT, then specified US/Eastern as my time zone. The GNOME 1.4 time applet, though, shows a time of 4:52 pm, when the actual local time is 9:52 pm. 'hwclock' shows 16:52. What gives? - Joel smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signatu

Re: debian on laptop w/ limited ram/speed/HD

2003-02-28 Thread Russell Shaw
Matt Price wrote: Hi everyone, A middle-aged (~4 years old -- so, not old, not new) laptop is about to become available to me, and I'd like to install debian on it. The system is an HP Omnibook A4100, P-II 300 96 meg ram 20 gig hard drive I'd like to take the machine on a month-long trip, where I'

Setting hdparm parameters on boot

2003-02-28 Thread Jeff Elkins
I'm trying to set the parameter: 'hdparm -d 1 /dev/hdc' upon boot. I created a script 'hdcparm' in init.d and attempted using update-rc.d to create a S99hdcparm script in my runlevels, and while it creates the link, it doesn't seem to 'take.' I still have to apply it manually for the setting t

Re: crontab just wont stop mailing ... !

2003-02-28 Thread Bob Proulx
Dave Selby wrote: > > Every so oftern it decides to mail its output, it does not know where it is > supposed to mail, starts a ppp link and talks to the web. > Jan 30 07:24:01 debian anacron[249]: Job `cron.weekly' terminated (mailing > output) > Jan 30 07:24:01 debian pppd[189]: Starting link

Re: crontab just wont stop mailing ... !

2003-02-28 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Sat, 01 Mar 2003 01:30:31AM +, Dave Selby insinuated: > This is a re-posting for a very frustrating problem. I have dial on > demand via pppd, works like a dream. However I have problems with > crontab. > > Every so oftern it decides to mail its output, it does not know > where it is suppo

Re: How to play custom sound on mail alert in Moz Mail?

2003-02-28 Thread Bob Proulx
Kent West wrote: > Anyone know how to configure Mozilla Mail on Debian to play a custom > sound when new mail arrives? Yes. First off don't try to do it with Mozilla. Do it with procmail as the mail is processed on your machine. Procmail will put it in your mailbox to be read by Mozilla. Here

Re: Laptop's power button made to suspend?

2003-02-28 Thread CaT
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 06:48:26PM -0500, Eduardo Duenez wrote: > Is it possible to configure my Woody laptop so if the power button is > pressed (say, by mistake) then the laptop only goes into suspend mode rather > than just turning immediately and forcefully? Or at least to make it > shutdown c

Re: conversion tool for avi to (s)vcd

2003-02-28 Thread Marc Wilson
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 01:28:24PM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > Mencoder, of the mplayer package, can convert avi to mpeg, which you > then put to a vcd with the programs of either vcdimager or vcdtools. I do it with transcode myself, but the idea is the same. I find mencoder great for taking *i

Re: crontab just wont stop mailing ... !

2003-02-28 Thread John Hasler
Send a test message to root and report the results. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

debian on laptop w/ limited ram/speed/HD

2003-02-28 Thread Matt Price
Hi everyone, A middle-aged (~4 years old -- so, not old, not new) laptop is about to become available to me, and I'd like to install debian on it. The system is an HP Omnibook A4100, P-II 300 96 meg ram 20 gig hard drive I'd like to take the machine on a month-long trip, where I'd use it mmostly

Re: [OT] Complaint

2003-02-28 Thread Manoj Srivastava
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Joseph A Nagy Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Nick Hastings wrote: snip> >> Hmm? I agree that "reply to" should reply back to the origin of >> the email. However the list is _not_ the origin of the email! The >> original sender is the origin by definitio

Re: [OT] Complaint

2003-02-28 Thread Manoj Srivastava
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Joseph A Nagy Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> --text follows this line-- >> >>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Joseph A Nagy Jr >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > Actually, that Reply-to-list functionality can be i

Re: (Newbie) Functioning In Debian

2003-02-28 Thread Marc Wilson
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 01:35:08AM -0600, Donald Spoon wrote: > As I mentioned, the only problem I had initially was with sound on > QuickTime, and that was fixed when I copied over the QT stuff from my > previous experiments to the /usr/lib/win31/ directory. This might be > fixed in the marilatt

Curious question with building source package - where are the gccparameters are stored?

2003-02-28 Thread calyth
I was messing around the system earlier, and thought, wouldn't it be better if I compiled some of the debian packages myself because then I could enable some specific compile time optimization. So I downloaed a source package, and started reading the unarchived directories. I know the parameters

Re: VCDs (was Newbie Functioning In Debian)

2003-02-28 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Graeme Merrall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Saturday, 01 March 2003, 12:18 PM +1100): > On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 08:57:37PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 08:19:50PM -0800, nate wrote: > > > You'll probably need vcdtools, or vcdimager. Or look for tools that > > > can cre

Re: Laptop's power button made to suspend?

2003-02-28 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Eduardo Duenez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Friday, 28 February 2003, 06:48 PM -0500): > Is it possible to configure my Woody laptop so if the power button is > pressed (say, by mistake) then the laptop only goes into suspend mode rather > than just turning immediately and forcefully? Or at le

Font antialiasing on Phoenix

2003-02-28 Thread Bruno Diniz de Paula
Hi, I have tried Phoenix and found it pretty fast and interesting browser. The only concern is the fact that I can't get antialiased fonts. However in both Mozilla and Galeon, installed in the same box, I have antialiasing working. Does anybody know (if possible) how to turn on font antialiasing o

crontab just wont stop mailing ... !

2003-02-28 Thread Dave Selby
This is a re-posting for a very frustrating problem. I have dial on demand via pppd, works like a dream. However I have problems with crontab. Every so oftern it decides to mail its output, it does not know where it is supposed to mail, starts a ppp link and talks to the web. I have set MAILT

Re: adding eth1

2003-02-28 Thread Russell Shaw
Nathan E Norman wrote: On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 09:06:03PM +0100, Ina&Frank wrote: Debian Folks I have a next question. ... I have no idea what /etc/ifstate is, but I'm pretty sure you don't need to edit it. /etc/network/ifstate It's just a status file. I think it's auto-generated by /etc/init.d/n

Re: VCDs (was Newbie Functioning In Debian)

2003-02-28 Thread Graeme Merrall
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 08:57:37PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 08:19:50PM -0800, nate wrote: > > You'll probably need vcdtools, or vcdimager. Or look for tools that > > can create/burn .bin/.cue files, this format is what a VCD would > > come in. the .bin contains the raw d

Re: Ogle

2003-02-28 Thread David Zuccaro
On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 10:17, Jeff Elkins wrote: > I'm attempting to view some DVDs under Sid and Ogle gives me the following > error appended below. I previously had Ogle working fine from RPMs on a RH > 7.2 install, so I know it's possible on this box. > > Thanks for any assistance. Have you

Re: Ogle

2003-02-28 Thread Greg Madden
On Friday 28 February 2003 02:41 pm, nate wrote: > Jeff Elkins said: > > I'm attempting to view some DVDs under Sid and Ogle gives me the > > following error appended below. I previously had Ogle working fine > > from RPMs on a RH 7.2 install, so I know it's possible on this box. > > are you in th

Re: Safe to make long jump from potato to sarge/sid?

2003-02-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 01:56:31PM -0700, Rick Macdonald wrote: > Is it OK to run apt-get dist-upgrade to update a potato install to sid, or > would it be safer just upgrading to woody first, the to sid? It might work, but on your own head be it. :) Personally I would not be comfortable with attem

Laptop's power button made to suspend?

2003-02-28 Thread Eduardo Duenez
Is it possible to configure my Woody laptop so if the power button is pressed (say, by mistake) then the laptop only goes into suspend mode rather than just turning immediately and forcefully? Or at least to make it shutdown cleanly? I've played with other people's laptops (running Windoze) and i

Re: Ogle

2003-02-28 Thread nate
Jeff Elkins said: > I'm attempting to view some DVDs under Sid and Ogle gives me the following > error appended below. I previously had Ogle working fine from RPMs on a > RH 7.2 install, so I know it's possible on this box. > are you in the disk group? on my debian box /dev/hdc is owned by root.

(Free Pascal) fp-units-api unstable?

2003-02-28 Thread Eduardo Duenez
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm trying to install Free Pascal on my Debian i386 laptop. However, I want to install the latest version (unstable = 1.0.6-1) and realized that the package fp-units-api is not yet available(the latest version of fp-units-api available is 1.0.4-2). I

Re: Public wireless access and basic security.

2003-02-28 Thread Nick Lidakis
Narins, Josh wrote: It sure is cold outside. Where are you using public wireless? -Josh Narins NY, NY I'm a New York City Paramedic, and with downtime between calls, I can surf from my ambulance. I usually sit at one of the public WAP's, like New World Coffee at 84 street and Lexington

Ogle

2003-02-28 Thread Jeff Elkins
I'm attempting to view some DVDs under Sid and Ogle gives me the following error appended below. I previously had Ogle working fine from RPMs on a RH 7.2 install, so I know it's possible on this box. Thanks for any assistance. Jeff Elkins http://www.elkins.org === lrwxrwxrwx1

Re: [OT] Complaint - spam-spam-spam ( monty python )

2003-02-28 Thread Cobb
Alvin Oga wrote: On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Nathan E Norman wrote: Also, see http://incanus.net/~nnorman/sound/spam.au and the rest of the spam sounds http://www.Linux-Sec.net/Mail/spam.sounds/ mpeg samples for testing your sound/video/ra players http://www.Linux-Video.net/Samples c ya alvi

Re: leafnode not posting articles

2003-02-28 Thread iain d broadfoot
* Shaul Karl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: well, all fixed now. the permissions on /var/spool/news/ were evilly wrong, fixed now. thanks to everyone who tried to help, iain -- wh33, y1p33 3tc. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EM

mail problem in unstable solved: time to hand out this week's dumbdumbaward!!!

2003-02-28 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I have /var on a separate partition; the partition was full because somebody hadn't checked it and cleaned it out. Somebody, meaning me!!! What more can I say?! Thanks. Cheryl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

How to play custom sound on mail alert in Moz Mail?

2003-02-28 Thread Kent West
Anyone know how to configure Mozilla Mail on Debian to play a custom sound when new mail arrives? Thanks! Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to find out apt-get's reasoning

2003-02-28 Thread Travis Crump
Colin Watson wrote: On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 03:05:36PM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: The more likely cause of this behavior is the "Replaces" field of kdelibs-data. I think apt-get will automatically try to install on dist-upgrade any package that claims to replace an installed package. I reall

Re: man -k apropos --> nothing apropiate

2003-02-28 Thread Dragón
Thank you very much. Anacron solved it. Regards. ___ Yahoo! Móviles Personaliza tu móvil con tu logo y melodía favorito en http://moviles.yahoo.es -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Re: VCDs (was Newbie Functioning In Debian)

2003-02-28 Thread csj
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 21:24:45 -0800 (PST), nate wrote: > > Paul Johnson said: > > > Can you use one of those tools that convert bin/cue to get a > > disk image and expect it to work right? Well bin/cues are for cdrdao. And I know of only two free linux that make them: cdrdao and vcdimager. So I d

Re: New Kernel - No Network

2003-02-28 Thread Gary Hennigan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I just compiled and installed linux-2.4.20. I had been running > linux-2.2.22 without network problems. The new kernel does not > configure the network. At startup, the new kernel says it can't find > module 3c59x, the driver for the 3COM network card (it also says it

Re: VCDs (was Newbie Functioning In Debian)

2003-02-28 Thread csj
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 20:57:37 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > [1 ] > On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 08:19:50PM -0800, nate wrote: > > You'll probably need vcdtools, or vcdimager. Or look for tools that > > can create/burn .bin/.cue files, this format is what a VCD would > > come in. the .bin contains the

New Kernel - No Network

2003-02-28 Thread Vince Turzo
I just compiled and installed linux-2.4.20. I had been running linux-2.2.22 without network problems. The new kernel does not configure the network. At startup, the new kernel says it can't find module 3c59x, the driver for the 3COM network card (it also says it can't find the unix module). If I

Re: Using one mailbox at ISP for many people

2003-02-28 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 09:09:30PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Frank Gevaerts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >fetchmail can separate them, _if_ the ISP doesn't strip out envelope > >addresses from the Received: headers. Look for 'multidrop' in the > >docu

Re: switching between CUPS and PLIP?

2003-02-28 Thread Levi Waldron
On February 28, 2003 03:04 am, ScruLoose wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm interested in installing woody on this hand-me-down P133 laptop that a > friend's mom is no longer using, and it has neither CD-ROM drive nor NIC, > so I'm thinking I'll try the install-over-plip thing. Now, most of the > process is

Re: conversion tool for avi to (s)vcd

2003-02-28 Thread J. Woch
Mark L. Kahnt wrote at Friday 28 February 2003 19:50: > On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 09:25, J. Woch wrote: >> Hi list, >> is there a package/tool around which converts avi into (s)vcd? >> > Mencoder, of the mplayer package, can convert avi to mpeg, which you > then put to a vcd with the programs of eithe

Re: adding eth1

2003-02-28 Thread Elizabeth Barham
Frank writes: > Is modifying /etc/interfaces and /etc/ifstate sufficient? If the cards are PCI cards, it should be sufficient. > Where do I tell the system what IRQ to use. For ISA cards, one generally passes in the parameters when loading the module (if the drivers have been compiled as a

Re: adding eth1

2003-02-28 Thread nate
Ina&Frank said: > Is modifying /etc/interfaces and /etc/ifstate sufficient? Where do I tell > the system what IRQ to use. And does that have to be another IRQ as eth0? > Or can they share it? realtek 8139 cards are genreally PCI, at least all of mine are, for me that means no specifying irq's a

Re: adding eth1

2003-02-28 Thread Wilfried Essig
Am Fre, 2003-02-28 um 21.06 schrieb Ina&Frank: > Debian Folks > > I have a next question. > > I wandered through the manpages and internet for a few hours but can't > seem to find a satisfactory answer for this one. > > I have an up and running IBM PC with Debian kernel 2.2.19 at the moment. >

Safe to make long jump from potato to sarge/sid?

2003-02-28 Thread Rick Macdonald
Is it OK to run apt-get dist-upgrade to update a potato install to sid, or would it be safer just upgrading to woody first, the to sid? ...RickM... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: adding eth1

2003-02-28 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 09:06:03PM +0100, Ina&Frank wrote: > Debian Folks > > I have a next question. > > I wandered through the manpages and internet for a few hours but can't > seem to find a satisfactory answer for this one. > > I have an up and running IBM PC with Debian kernel 2.2.19 at th

RE: Testing the functionality of a parallel port...

2003-02-28 Thread Michael Kahle
> > I have greped for things that I thought would be relevant > in /var/log > > and could not find anything out of the ordinary. Any ideas? > > by default linux doesn't put the parallel port in interrupt > mode, most parallel ports default to using IRQ 7. On my > systems I force enable the pa

Re: howto select webmail ???

2003-02-28 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Michael D. Schleif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Friday, 28 February 2003, 12:06 PM -0600): > No ideas? > > Also sprach Michael D. Schleif (Wed 26 Feb 02003 at 08:07:48PM -0600): > > I am looking for a webmail client. > > > > Yes, I have done these: > > > > apt-cache search mail | grep -i

Re: leafnode not posting articles

2003-02-28 Thread iain d broadfoot
* Shaul Karl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > newsq shows them. > > > > $fetchnews -P - > > > > says 0 articles posted. > > > > nothing in /var/log/news/ to indicate a problem. > > > > what do i need to do to force leafnode to push my articles upstream?? > > > > iain > > > > > Aren

Connect with another user in Konsole

2003-02-28 Thread Rodrigo Sobrinho
Hi all In Shell-konsole - connected with non super-user, when I type [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ login appear this error message, why? No utmp entry. You must exec "login" from the lowest level "sh" When I am root, works fine I had a look in man login, nologin, but couldn't see anything How to con

%U parameter for ksysguard

2003-02-28 Thread Rodrigo Sobrinho
Hi all in KDE3, Edit K Menu > System > KDE System Guard appears in Command field: ksysguard %U what's %U means? Where this is documented? thanks -- Sobrinho (51) 3212-7239 / (51) 9842-4438 Use Software Livre! http://planeta.terra.com.br/negocios/softwarelivre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: How to find out apt-get's reasoning

2003-02-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 03:05:36PM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: > The more likely cause of this behavior is the "Replaces" field of > kdelibs-data. I think apt-get will automatically try to install on > dist-upgrade any package that claims to replace an installed package. I really hope not. That

KDE System Guard - how open only with Process Table?

2003-02-28 Thread Rodrigo Sobrinho
Hi all I already search this answer in The KSysguard Handbook but nothing was found. In KDE3, when I type + start "KDE System Guard", without "system load" tab. When I start in K > System > KDE System Guard it show me two tabs: "system load" and "process table". How I can create a "link to app

Re: java plugin for mozilla?

2003-02-28 Thread Warren Crossing
after i stuck /usr/local/mozilla in the PATH it stopped crashing also try LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/java/jre/lib ldconfig etc.. etc.. also try adding JAVA_HOME to the path -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to find out apt-get's reasoning

2003-02-28 Thread Travis Crump
Jonathan Matthews wrote: Having just installed the Gnome 2.2 backport, I'm trying to drop kde from my box totally. Never liked the "underline the desktop icons" thing anyway[1] :-) I thought I'd got it all out, but witness the following: bigdaddy:/home/jaycee# apt-get dist-upgrade -u [snip] Th

Re: secondary root account

2003-02-28 Thread AaronCohen
> Errol Neal wrote: > > I would like to know how to setup a secondary account on a Linux system > that would have the same abilities and privledges as the "root" user, say > an account such as "root2". I do not want to use sudo, because the people I > work for do not want to use "sudo" before e

adding eth1

2003-02-28 Thread
Debian Folks I have a next question. I wandered through the manpages and internet for a few hours but can't seem to find a satisfactory answer for this one. I have an up and running IBM PC with Debian kernel 2.2.19 at the moment. It has one NIC (rtl8139) which works fine. I want to add a secon

Re: Beginner help

2003-02-28 Thread Johan Ehnberg
I have downloaded Debian and want to set up an old PC as a server which will initially serve a PC and an X-box. Will it be the gateway for these also? To connect to the internet I'll be using an Alcatel Speedtouch USB modem. My question is this, how do I set up Debian?!? OK, that's a big question

Re: Debian security support for older versions

2003-02-28 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Johann Spies wrote: > The article "New Linux support policies are ominous" by Jon Lasser, > Security Focus Online at > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/61/29330.html is disturbing. It not a issue at all ... one usually doesnt pay redhat's $50K/yr support or $300

Re: default permissions on /root

2003-02-28 Thread Craig Dickson
Jeremy Gaddis wrote: > On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Bob Proulx wrote: > > > There is no sensitive files installed in /root. There really is no > > reason not to make it 755. Everyone knows what is in /root. It is > > not a secret. > > oh? what do i have in my /root directories then? If your implica

Re: autologin in console mode

2003-02-28 Thread Levi Waldron
On February 27, 2003 10:12 pm, sean finney wrote: > i just got something kind of like that to work.  install the rungetty > package, and then open up /etc/inittab.  change the line that says: > > 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1 > > to > > 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/rungetty -u username --autologin

Re: Testing the functionality of a parallel port...

2003-02-28 Thread nate
Michael Kahle said: > I have greped for things that I thought would be relevant in /var/log and > could not find anything out of the ordinary. Any ideas? by default linux doesn't put the parallel port in interrupt mode, most parallel ports default to using IRQ 7. On my systems I force enable the

Re: default permissions on /root

2003-02-28 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 01:39:51PM -0500, Jeremy Gaddis wrote: > i guess i wrongly assumed that a distribution that's usually > somewhat sane would have somewhat sane permissions on a directory > such as /root, which i consider "sensitive", so to speak. This topic comes up fairly regularly. On De

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