Re: Sendmail, TLS, and incorrect hostname

2003-03-16 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 04:14:22PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 01:57:19PM -0600, Rich Puhek wrote: Hi, > > I've started digging through the OpenSSL docs. Looks like all I need to > > do is regenerate the certificate interactively, and specify the desired > > hostname, overr

Re: Convincing someone to switch to Linux

2003-03-16 Thread Geordie Birch
said Pigeon (on 2003-03-16), > relative positions and work the same way. If you were to make a car > with even slightly different controls - like a different gearshift > pattern - nobody would buy it. No? What about the three-on-the-tree manual transmission shifter? Plenty of those were shipped

Re: Download accelerator

2003-03-16 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 00:47, Roman Joost wrote: > On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 11:19:41PM -0500, Trey Sizemore wrote: > > Looking for a good download accelerator (similar to...Download > > Accelerator...). What are some of the favorites out there. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Trey > I know "axel". Similar

Re: Convincing someone to switch to Linux

2003-03-16 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 06:23:04PM +, Pigeon wrote: > with even slightly different controls - like a different gearshift > pattern - nobody would buy it. Explain Volkswagen's shifting pattern through the 1970s, where shifting to reverse was the sa

Re: Fluxbox with and without Debian menus

2003-03-16 Thread Gianfranco Berardi
Rob Weir wrote: That is odd, I'm certain that fluxbox has integrated into the Debian menu system for me in the past. See, what is really odd is that fluxbox installed all sorts of default files, like keys, init, and menu, into ~/.fluxbox/ and /etc/X11/fluxbox/ on my laptop. On my desktop, those

Re: Source for 2.2.20 kernel

2003-03-16 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 04:42:38PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > No, they're not. Well, the 2.4 ones aren't, at least. Debian needs to > supply (at least) the patches *somewhere* to comply with the GPL. apt-get source kernel-source-$KVERS should get you

Re: Download accelerator

2003-03-16 Thread Roman Joost
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 11:19:41PM -0500, Trey Sizemore wrote: > Looking for a good download accelerator (similar to...Download > Accelerator...). What are some of the favorites out there. > > Thanks, > > Trey I know "axel". Similar to wget and works great, but mostly i use the old wget. Greeti

Re: Difficulty configuring exim for use with fetchmail and as external MTA.

2003-03-16 Thread ktb
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 12:59:39AM -0500, Chris Metzler wrote: > > Hi. I'm a new-ish Debian home user, and exim was the default > SMTP handler at installation time. I have a problem with exim > that I've put up with for quite some time; but enough is enough, > and I'm trying to solve it now, and

Re: programm to controll runlevel and services

2003-03-16 Thread Roman Joost
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 11:27:02PM +0100, Matthias Hentges wrote: > Maybe ksysv is what you are looking for. Depends on KDE. > Hm.. i tested it before, but it worked not correctly for me. Maybe i should have a look at this tool again. Roman -- www: http://www.romanofski.de email: [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Removing CRONTAB jobs

2003-03-16 Thread ktb
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 01:06:38AM -0500, sean finney wrote: > On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 06:33:50AM +0100, n/a wrote: > > I've just set up a firewall for some students, now it's late and i'm still awake > > and > > > > this machine is making a lot of noise. Are there any crontab jobs i surely

gtk-gnutella: Odd syslog entries

2003-03-16 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 When running gtk-gnutella, every few minutes I see this appear in the syslog again...what does this mean? Mar 16 11:02:22 ursine kernel: KERNEL: assertion (newsk->state != TCP_SYN_RECV) failed at tcp.c(2229) Mar 16 11:02:22 ursine kernel: KERNEL: ass

Re: CVS over ssh hanging on testing

2003-03-16 Thread Bill Wohler
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 08:01:16AM -0800, Bill Wohler wrote: >> Note that while the cvs process hangs, I am able to successfully log >> in with ssh. > > What are the versions of cvs on the client and the server? 1.11.1p1 on the client which is run

Re: Removing CRONTAB jobs

2003-03-16 Thread sean finney
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 06:33:50AM +0100, n/a wrote: > I've just set up a firewall for some students, now it's late and i'm still awake and > > > this machine is making a lot of noise. Are there any crontab jobs i surely should > NOT remove ? in general, i think most the crontabs are there

Difficulty configuring exim for use with fetchmail and as external MTA.

2003-03-16 Thread Chris Metzler
Hi. I'm a new-ish Debian home user, and exim was the default SMTP handler at installation time. I have a problem with exim that I've put up with for quite some time; but enough is enough, and I'm trying to solve it now, and hope someone can help. I don't use exim to listen on port 25; no incomi

Re: Download accelerator

2003-03-16 Thread sean finney
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 08:44:07PM -0800, nate wrote: > Trey Sizemore said: > > Looking for a good download accelerator (similar to...Download > > Accelerator...). What are some of the favorites out there. > > is download accelerator one of those tools that tricks users into > thinking their conn

Re: Official Exim 4 package

2003-03-16 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 09:41:02AM +0100, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: > On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 08:05:38 + (GMT), Rus Foster wrote: > > >I'm trying to find an exim 4 package for woody. Googling turned up > > Fetch yourself the source of one of the Exim 4.x packages from here: > > >http://packages.de

Re: Source for 2.2.20 kernel

2003-03-16 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 09:41:38AM -0600, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: > Quoting Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Are the Debian 2.2.20 images absolutely vanilla kernels? So what I'd > get from a Debian mirror is identical to what I'd get from > www.kernel.org? No, they're not. Well, the 2.4 o

Re: alsa modules plus kernel?

2003-03-16 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 11:48:25AM +0100, teco wrote: > hallo > > i would like to install a kernel plus the apropriet alsa (0.9) modules, when > i search with apt-cache search i find only > > alsa-modules-2.4.19... > > and the kernel images are only for: > > kernel-image-2.4.18 > kernel-image

Re: Fluxbox with and without Debian menus

2003-03-16 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 07:22:07AM -0600, Gianfranco Berardi wrote: > Joey Hess wrote: > >Gianfranco Berardi wrote: > > > >>Now I know I installed the Debian menu packages (and KDE 2 is using the > >>Debian menu mixed into the KDE menu), and there isn't anything installed > >>on my laptop that is

Re: Backing up multisession Blue Book CDs

2003-03-16 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 04:33:48PM -0800, nate wrote: > Michael Hackett said: > > I've looked high and low and can't seem to find any info on this, so I > > hope someone here can help. > > > > I would like to make complete backups of some of my music CDs, but I > > haven't figured out how to get im

Re: jack: coding failed, error#32512

2003-03-16 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 02:29:08AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 02:50:38PM -0500, Thomas H. George,,, wrote: > > I want to try mp3. I used apt-get to install jack. From the > > description I expected to work with its standard .jackrc file. It > > started smoothly usi

Re: help with SSL

2003-03-16 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 10:40:00AM -0600, linux stuff wrote: > ssl question: i have a debian box w/apache, mysql, php, etc, running just > fine ... now a client requires secure sockets ... one place i read > (aboutdebian.com) made it sound impossibly difficult to set up ... is that > true? or is t

Re: Sendmail, TLS, and incorrect hostname

2003-03-16 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 01:57:19PM -0600, Rich Puhek wrote: > I recently added SASL and TLS support to my SMTP server. Looks to be > working great, with one exception. My certificate was generated with the > local hostname, instead of the proper FQDN (hostname was the common name > of the machin

Re: New Install || weirdness || blue-ish text

2003-03-16 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 06:31:59PM -0500, Metnetsky wrote: > I realize that the subject is a horrible description, but it takes some > explaining. I've just done a base install of Debian on my Dell 8200 > laptop which previously has Red Hat installed. In Red Hat, console or X > mode, everything l

Re: problem with freenet-unstable package

2003-03-16 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 12:07:00AM +0100, Matias Hermanrud Fjeld wrote: > Hello. > > When i try to install freenet-unstable on my machine running Debian unstable, > the post-inst script goes into an infinite loop saying: > "The port must be a number between 1 and 65535 inclusive. Please try ag

Removing CRONTAB jobs

2003-03-16 Thread n/a
I've just set up a firewall for some students, now it's late and i'm still awake and   this machine is making a lot of noise. Are there any crontab jobs i surely should NOT remove ?   I've got crontabs for   ipac ipac-ng (both will be removed)   calendard find (noisy) logrotate man-db mo

Re: making nvidia drivers

2003-03-16 Thread Travis Crump
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK. The light *finally* dawns. There's no way to build the glx with make-kpkg, since nvidia-kernel must be *installed* before glx will build. And THAT'S why nvidia-glx doesn't get copied into /usr/src/modules. So I guess I've gone as far as I can. There is no way to buil

Re: How to read an XML data file?

2003-03-16 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 09:53:56PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | I'll receive many XML files containing data to be loaded into a DB. | What could I use to have a look at them via, e.g., mozilla or whatever else? | (Of course, I'm not referring to the plain XML text itself but to the organize

Re: odd compiler behaviour?

2003-03-16 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 04:45:31AM +, Colin Watson wrote: | On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 08:06:33PM +, Bruynooghe Floris wrote: | > But using `//' is also a C++ism no? | | Certainly traditionally yes, although I don't remember right now whether | C99 allows them The '//' comments are part of

Re: Download accelerator

2003-03-16 Thread nate
Trey Sizemore said: > Looking for a good download accelerator (similar to...Download > Accelerator...). What are some of the favorites out there. is download accelerator one of those tools that tricks users into thinking their connection is faster? I use wget for most of my downloading needs, ru

Re: make menuconfig fails

2003-03-16 Thread Russell Shaw
Bob Proulx wrote: Russell Shaw wrote: In the kernel source, when i do "make menuconfig" i get the error: Common problem. But most people just have not installed it yet. You look to have a corrupted library or something. Thanks. It must have got uninstalled when i was fixing broken package prob

Re: Realplayer seg.fault

2003-03-16 Thread Russell Shaw
Brian Potkin wrote: On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 12:24:00PM +1100, Russell Shaw wrote: Hi all, I downloaded and ran the realplayer binary: rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs2.bin. It gets thru the installation and registration process, runs for a second, then seg.faults: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ./rp8_linux20_libc6

RE: 'apt-cache search' question

2003-03-16 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> > > From the man page. > > "Seperate arguments can be used to specified multi­ple > search patterns > > that are and'd together." > > > > 'apt-cache search server' and 'apt-cache search server ftp' produce > > quite different amounts of hits, the space does not 'stop' it. > > OK, I may not

Download accelerator

2003-03-16 Thread Trey Sizemore
Looking for a good download accelerator (similar to...Download Accelerator...). What are some of the favorites out there. Thanks, Trey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 'apt-cache search' question

2003-03-16 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 22:04:40 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 02:20:21 + (UTC) > Faheem Mitha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > the gimp. Using 'apt-cache search gimp gif' did not return the >> > correct answer. The man page for apt-cache says: >> > >

Re: Firewall/init scripts problem

2003-03-16 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 01:21:08AM +0100, Aaron Isotton wrote: > On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 16:03, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > > > Ditch the idea of iptable-save and iptables-restore. Create your > > script in such a way that it flushes all existing rules on startup > > and then builds all needed rules.

Re: Selection with mouse is bodged up on one machine

2003-03-16 Thread Russell Shaw
Alan E. Davis wrote: I am stumped on this one: X selection (cut and pasting with the mouse) has been working, so that I can select a URL from an email, and middle click on galeon to follow the url. But on one machine, this isn't working, on any account. This is a sid machine, up to date, and

Re: woody debian

2003-03-16 Thread Bob Proulx
Michael Gillard wrote: > i downloaded the mini iso debian 3.o and installed the thing up and running > with everything working but when i try to shut down it won't go. there is no > shut down option on the logout? > can you help? The normal way to shutdown a system is with shutdown. Here is a typ

Re: 'apt-cache search' question

2003-03-16 Thread ronin2
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 14:25:49 +1100 "Joyce, Matthew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From the man page. > "Seperate arguments can be used to specified multi­ple search patterns > that are and'd together." > > 'apt-cache search server' and 'apt-cache search server ftp' produce > quite different amount

Re: make menuconfig fails

2003-03-16 Thread Bob Proulx
Russell Shaw wrote: > In the kernel source, when i do "make menuconfig" i get the error: Common problem. But most people just have not installed it yet. You look to have a corrupted library or something. > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lncurses Check that you have the following on your system.

Re: make menuconfig fails

2003-03-16 Thread ronin2
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 14:14:47 +1100 Russell Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lncurses > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > > >> Unable to find the Ncurses libraries. > >> > >> You must have Ncurses installed in order > >> to use 'make menuconfig' > > make[1]: ***

Re: nvidia follow-up and new question

2003-03-16 Thread sean finney
heya, On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 06:49:21PM -0800, John F. wrote: > Okay, I got the driver to work through some secret methods (downloading > a tar file and compiling), but now I need to know how to change the PAM > settings, because when I try to run something like "tuxracer", I get the > followi

Re: Selection with mouse is bodged up on one machine

2003-03-16 Thread ronin2
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 10:06:07 +1000 "Alan E. Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am stumped on this one: > > X selection (cut and pasting with the mouse) has been working, so > that I can select a URL from an email, and middle click on galeon to > follow the url. But on one machine, this

Re: make menuconfig fails

2003-03-16 Thread sean finney
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 02:14:47PM +1100, Russell Shaw wrote: > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lncurses > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status apt-get install libncurses5-dev (iirc) and while you're at it, apt-get install kernel-package man make-kpkg (this is a really, really cool utility for makin

Re: nvidia follow-up and new question

2003-03-16 Thread Bob Proulx
John F. wrote: > settings, because when I try to run something like "tuxracer", I get the > following: > > Error: Could not open /dev/nvidiactl because the permissions > are too resticitive. You need to be in the 'video' group. You probably already went through this with the audio group. > The

Re: CUPS Update failed

2003-03-16 Thread ronin2
On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 18:48:11 -0800 debian_newbie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > my sig, I AM a certified Debianese newbie. I did try aptitude. The one > thing I didn't like about ti was that it didn't show me how big the > packages are before I download them. I like to know this because I > have a d

Re: 'apt-cache search' question

2003-03-16 Thread ronin2
On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 22:04:40 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > the phrase "gimp gif" is not a regular expression. What happened here > is that apt-cache searched for the pattern "gimp" and stopped after it > saw the space. It didn't even see "gif". Further, it looked for the pattern g-i-m-p, so it

Re: nvidia follow-up and new question

2003-03-16 Thread nate
John F. said: > Okay, I got the driver to work through some secret methods (downloading a > tar file and compiling), but now I need to know how to change the PAM > settings, because when I try to run something like "tuxracer", I get the > following: this is my system: crw-rw1 root vi

RE: 'apt-cache search' question

2003-03-16 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> > > > the gimp. Using 'apt-cache search gimp gif' did not return the > > > correct answer. The man page for apt-cache says: > > > > > > search search performs a full text search on all available > > > package > > > files for the regex pattern given. It searchs the package > > >

Re: Gnucash errors in unstable

2003-03-16 Thread Jim
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 06:09:03PM +0100, Thomas Weinbrenner wrote: > Jim wrote: > > I am getting the following errors when trying to run gnucash: > > > > ERROR: In procedure dynamic-link: > > ERROR: file: "libgw-wct", message: "libgw-wct.so: cannot open shared > > object file: No such file or dir

make menuconfig fails

2003-03-16 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi all, In the kernel source, when i do "make menuconfig" i get the error: rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) make -C scripts/lxdialog all make[1]: Entering directory `/home/russell/Kernels/2.4.20-win4lin-ipmasq/linux-2.4.20/scripts/lxdialog' /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lncurses

woody debian

2003-03-16 Thread Michael Gillard
i downloaded the mini iso debian 3.o and installed the thing up and running with everything working but when i try to shut down it won't go. there is no shut down option on the logout? can you help? michael ant [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Selection with mouse is bodged up on one machine

2003-03-16 Thread Alan E. Davis
I am stumped on this one: X selection (cut and pasting with the mouse) has been working, so that I can select a URL from an email, and middle click on galeon to follow the url. But on one machine, this isn't working, on any account. This is a sid machine, up to date, and updates haven't he

Re: 'apt-cache search' question

2003-03-16 Thread ronin2
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 02:20:21 + (UTC) Faheem Mitha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > the gimp. Using 'apt-cache search gimp gif' did not return the > > correct answer. The man page for apt-cache says: > > > > search search performs a full text search on all available > > package > > fi

Re: 'apt-cache search' question

2003-03-16 Thread Russell Shaw
Faheem Mitha wrote: On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 10:46:46 -0500, Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There was recently a question about which .deb added GIF capability to the gimp. Using 'apt-cache search gimp gif' did not return the correct answer. The man page for apt-cache says: search search perf

nvidia follow-up and new question

2003-03-16 Thread John F.
Okay, I got the driver to work through some secret methods (downloading a tar file and compiling), but now I need to know how to change the PAM settings, because when I try to run something like "tuxracer", I get the following: Error: Could not open /dev/nvidiactl because the permissions are to

Re: CUPS Update failed

2003-03-16 Thread debian_newbie
On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 20:58:02 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] sat at his keyboard and wrote: > As a general rule, it isn't safe to force things. That's why it must > be specified as an argument. > > In THIS case, it's safe, and we can be pretty certain of that: > 1. Apt's error message tells you the prob

Re: 'apt-cache search' question

2003-03-16 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 10:46:46 -0500, Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There was recently a question about which .deb added GIF capability to > the gimp. Using 'apt-cache search gimp gif' did not return the correct > answer. The man page for apt-cache says: > > search search performs a f

Re: How do I get the install disks to recognize my network?

2003-03-16 Thread ronin2
First, Welcome to Debian! If this is your first installation, you may not be aware of the option to install with a 2.4 kernel. To do this, type "bf24" at the first prompt. And I'd recommend using Reiserfs or ext3 for the root partition. Since the motherboard is Intel, it's a good bet nigh unto ce

Re: Realplayer seg.fault

2003-03-16 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 05:43:20PM -0800, nate wrote: > what version of debian? Realplayer 8 works fine for me on 2 different > woody machines. > > perhaps its a new glibc/new gcc issue causing the problems... With the new glibc on the testing distribution Realplayer 8 works ok for me so this ma

Re: Realplayer seg.fault

2003-03-16 Thread Brian Potkin
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 12:24:00PM +1100, Russell Shaw wrote: > Hi all, > > I downloaded and ran the realplayer binary: rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs2.bin. > It gets thru the installation and registration process, runs for a second, > then seg.faults: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ./rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_

Re: CUPS Update failed

2003-03-16 Thread ronin2
On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 15:09:56 -0800 debian_newbie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Read man dpkg, especially the section about --force. Focus on > > "overwrite". > > > > This sounds like a bug in the packaging. > > "IF" there is a bug in the packaging, is it still safe to force the > install? As a

Re: Realplayer seg.fault

2003-03-16 Thread nate
Russell Shaw said: > Hi all, > > I downloaded and ran the realplayer binary: > rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs2.bin. It gets thru the installation and > registration process, runs for a second, then seg.faults: what version of debian? Realplayer 8 works fine for me on 2 different woody machines. perhap

Re: making nvidia drivers

2003-03-16 Thread ronin2
On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 16:25:33 -0600 "Kevin C. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1. apt-get install nvidia-kernel-src nvidia-glx-src > 2. make-kpkg modules_image > 3. dpkg -i nvidia-kernel*.deb > 4. cd nvidia-glx-x.x. > 5. dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc > 6. cd /usr/src > 7. dpkg -i nvidia-glx*.

Re: How do I get the install disks to recognize my network?

2003-03-16 Thread Kent West
John Fisher wrote: On Sunday, March 16, 2003, at 06:42PM, sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote(heavy snippage): Due to lack of funds and lack of access to CD-burner, I was hoping to use the Floppies / net install option to install to my new comp ( Intel D845GBV moterboard with onboard LAN ).

Realplayer seg.fault

2003-03-16 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi all, I downloaded and ran the realplayer binary: rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs2.bin. It gets thru the installation and registration process, runs for a second, then seg.faults: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ./rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs2.bin Segmentation fault I am in the audio group. What sound infrastructure

Re: How do I get the install disks to recognize my network?

2003-03-16 Thread Bob Proulx
John Fisher wrote: > Good afternoon. I am having a problem installing Debian (my first > install of any Linux, actually) and was hoping someone might be able > to render assistance. Don't hesitate to ask questions. > Due to lack of funds and lack of access to CD-burner, I was hoping > to use the

Re: Configuring mutt to view and quote html

2003-03-16 Thread George Georgalis
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 03:28:22PM -0800, Shaun Crossley wrote: >Eventually I tracked the solution down in the following mutt mailing list >posting by Gero Treuner, judiciously edited here for brevity: > >http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mutt-users&m=95563623916928 > >[snip] > >>In muttrc you need

Re: How do I get the install disks to recognize my network?

2003-03-16 Thread John Fisher
On Sunday, March 16, 2003, at 06:42PM, sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote(heavy snippage): >> Due to lack of funds and lack of access to CD-burner, I was hoping to use the >> Floppies / net install option to install to my new comp ( Intel D845GBV moterboard >> with onboard LAN ). >do you

Re: Firewall/init scripts problem

2003-03-16 Thread Aaron Isotton
On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 16:03, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 03:05:07PM +0100, Aaron Isotton wrote: > > > I use a shell script in /etc/init.d to configure my firewall > > (iptables). Currently, it works as follows: > > > > - if it is called with "start", it checks for the exis

Re: GIF driver for Gimp ?

2003-03-16 Thread Joseph A Nagy Jr
Bob Proulx wrote: I am using gimp quite heavily, I need to save files in .GIF format but it appears not to be supported. I too am in need of such a plugin, but it was my understanding that the patent held by Unisys has expired. Negative. At least not yet[1]. The patent does not expire until at l

Re: Firewall/init scripts problem

2003-03-16 Thread Aaron Isotton
On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 16:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 16 Mar 2003 15:05:07 +0100 > Aaron Isotton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > My problem is: where should $STORAGE_FILE go? > > I vote for a directory called /etc/iptables. No, that's a bad idea. Only configuration files should go

Re: Configuring mutt to view and quote html

2003-03-16 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 03:28:22PM -0800, Shaun Crossley wrote: > >In muttrc you need > > auto_view text/html > >and in mailcap > > text/html; lynx -force_html %s > > text/html; lynx -force_html -dump %s; copiousoutput > >The first entry is for interactive use from an attachment listing, > >the

Re: GIF driver for Gimp ?

2003-03-16 Thread John Hasler
toncho/~ apt-cache show gimp1.2-nonfree Package: gimp1.2-nonfree Priority: optional Section: non-free/graphics Installed-Size: 49 Maintainer: Ben Gertzfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: i386 Source: gimp1.2 Version: 1.2.3-2.3 Replaces: gimp1.1-nonfree Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.5-13), libgimp1.2 (

Re: DSL issue

2003-03-16 Thread Paul Lewis
On 2003.03.16 23:13 Craig Mead wrote: Trying to get iiNet DSL working on my Debian box Very confused as to whats happening. I've googled the error, a few others have posted about it, but there are 0 replies. Most sites just say, install Roaring Penguin, install, run adsl-setup and then adsl-start.

Re: CUPS Update failed

2003-03-16 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 03:09:56PM -0800, debian_newbie wrote: > On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 16:27:43 -0500 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] sat at his keyboard and wrote: > > > On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 09:47:59 -0800 > > debian_newbie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > trying to overwrite `/usr/sbin/lpinfo', which is

Re: GIF driver for Gimp ?

2003-03-16 Thread Bob Proulx
> >>>I am using gimp quite heavily, I need to save files in .GIF format but it > >>>appears not to be supported. > >>I too am in need of such a plugin, but it was my understanding that the > >>patent held by Unisys has expired. Negative. At least not yet[1]. The patent does not expire until at l

Re: (OT) low-power home server

2003-03-16 Thread Dave Thayer
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 12:20:22PM +0100, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > For a long time now I've been using an old Pentium 75 as the > "headless mail server/firewall/gateway" (running Woody) in my > home, and it works very well. > > The only problem is that it is old and I wonder what to replace it

Re: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ltcl

2003-03-16 Thread nate
Patrick Wiseman said: > Hi, all: > > I'm trying to compile a program - not mine, I'm not a C programmer - which > wants tcl. At first, it couldn't find tcl.h, but I supplied the full path > (I know, that's not really kosher) and it got past that error. Now, I get > the subject error. In context,

Re: How do I get the install disks to recognize my network?

2003-03-16 Thread sean finney
hiya, On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 06:13:52PM -0500, John Fisher wrote: > Good afternoon. I am having a problem installing Debian (my first install of any > Linux, actually) and was hoping someone might be able to render assistance. congrats, and good luck, hope you enjoy the ride :) > Due to lack

Configuring mutt to view and quote html

2003-03-16 Thread Shaun Crossley
Originally, this email was going to be a request for help. However, during the process of drafting the email, I was forced to do a little bit more research and ended up solving my problem. In the spirit of sharing, I'm posting this anyways in case anyone else might benefit from the info. - -

RE: Installed iptraf ... lost XWindows

2003-03-16 Thread nate
Stephen and Claudia Handley said: > Hi Nate, > > I think you're spot on in your assesment. > > It does have 'stable' entries. > > My Debian version was 2.2. I thought when I researched IPTraf that it > worked for Debian 2.2 and above. > > The output from ls -l /lib/libc.so.6* > > shows me > > libc.

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ltcl

2003-03-16 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hi, all: I'm trying to compile a program - not mine, I'm not a C programmer - which wants tcl. At first, it couldn't find tcl.h, but I supplied the full path (I know, that's not really kosher) and it got past that error. Now, I get the subject error. In context, it looks so: # make gcc tcldtk.

How do I get the install disks to recognize my network?

2003-03-16 Thread John Fisher
Good afternoon. I am having a problem installing Debian (my first install of any Linux, actually) and was hoping someone might be able to render assistance. Due to lack of funds and lack of access to CD-burner, I was hoping to use the Floppies / net install option to install to my new comp ( In

DSL issue

2003-03-16 Thread Craig Mead
Trying to get iiNet DSL working on my Debian box Very confused as to whats happening. I've googled the error, a few others have posted about it, but there are 0 replies. Most sites just say, install Roaring Penguin, install, run adsl-setup and then adsl-start. And it will work. Any assistance in

iirc server

2003-03-16 Thread Ernst-Magne Vindal
Hi does any of you know of an easy to set up and good irc server for debian. mabye som pointers? /ernst -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: CUPS Update failed

2003-03-16 Thread debian_newbie
On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 16:27:43 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] sat at his keyboard and wrote: > On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 09:47:59 -0800 > debian_newbie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > trying to overwrite `/usr/sbin/lpinfo', which is also in package > > cupsys-client > > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by si

bug apt-get dist-upgrade

2003-03-16 Thread hina
Hi, I have a little problem with my debian, because of the apt-get dist-upgrade. I have dist-upgrated my system. And when I have rebooted the computer, xchat could't be use. So I attempt to remove the upgrade but it's was no possible. So, I tried to install, a new time xchat. No too. Some errors

Re: GIF driver for Gimp ?

2003-03-16 Thread Joseph A Nagy Jr
dave selby wrote: On Sunday 16 March 2003 15:29, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: dave selby wrote: I am using gimp quite heavily, I need to save files in .GIF format but it appears not to be supported. I have been on the Gimp mailing list, they suggest I may need a .deb file to enable it because it is su

Re: odd compiler behaviour?

2003-03-16 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 10:06:01PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > I stand corrected, then. Although 'info libc' does say that (void) is OK > for main() in ISO C. Correct. Two ISO C forms of main are: int main (void) { ... } /* identical to: int main () { ... } */ or int main (int argc,

RE: Installed iptraf ... lost XWindows

2003-03-16 Thread Stephen and Claudia Handley
Hi Nate, I think you're spot on in your assesment. It does have 'stable' entries. My Debian version was 2.2. I thought when I researched IPTraf that it worked for Debian 2.2 and above. The output from ls -l /lib/libc.so.6* shows me libc.so.6 -> libc.2.2.5.so So any ideas of how I might fix t

Re: Xserver fails after upgrading to testing/unstable

2003-03-16 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 06:18:15PM +0100, Willem-Jan Meijer wrote: > Hello, > > Last week I upgraded my debian system to testing/unstable. Then I turned off > my computer and didn't use it for two days. Today I wanted to use it again, > but now I only see a grey screen w/o the cross in the middle.

Re: font viewer ... recommendations ?

2003-03-16 Thread Jörg Roßdeutscher
Hi, Am Don, 2003-03-13 um 11.46 schrieb dave selby: > Any ideas, I would idealy like to scroll through all my avalible fonts seeing > what they look like without having to click each one in turn ! Look at my signature. :-) "fontlinge" creates previews, let you browse them with i.e. Mozilla or a

Re: programm to controll runlevel and services

2003-03-16 Thread Matthias Hentges
Am Sam, 2003-03-15 um 12.49 schrieb Roman Joost: > Is there a better way under debian to control the services. I managed them > manually or by webmin. But what i'm missing is a better way to manage them. > The rcconf won't work correctly, but i looked for a good slim and fast program - > grafically

Re: making nvidia drivers

2003-03-16 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 04:20:23PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 11:13:35 -0800 > "John F." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I looked at that, but the part with "make-kpkg modules_image" seems > > like it is starting to compile a new kernel. I don't know, but most > > of t

Re: odd compiler behaviour?

2003-03-16 Thread Bruynooghe Floris
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 04:45:31AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > [BTW, your Mail-Followup-To: is broken. I guess you need to tell your > mailer what your real address is rather than just "floris".] Hmm, thanks for telling me. I'ts quiet hard though, my alternates where set and now I've also set m

Re: cups installation: Unable to read configuration file '/etc/cups/cupsd.conf' - exiting

2003-03-16 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 07:04:46PM +0100, iks_kzm wrote: > > > On Sat, 15 Mar 2003, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: > > > > > Is the version of HP_Laserjet_1200.ppd the same as other ppd's that > > come with the cupsys package? > I did NOT have any ppd files in the cupsys for HP Laserjet 1200 series >

Re: CVS over ssh hanging on testing

2003-03-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 08:01:16AM -0800, Bill Wohler wrote: > One other clue, with the upgrade I've noticed these in > /var/log/auth.log whenever I use ssh into my box: > > Mar 15 22:03:27 gbr pam_limits[15052]: setrlimit limit #6 to soft=-1, > hard=-1 failed: Operation not permitted;

Re: odd compiler behaviour?

2003-03-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 10:17:52AM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: > On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 12:40:52PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 04:56:53PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 04:00:22PM +, Bruynooghe Floris wrote: > > > > int main() > > > > > > An a

Re: Unstable/Java/Mozilla

2003-03-16 Thread Christian Schoenebeck
On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 11:54:42 -0800 (PST) Florentin Ionescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is blackdown java compiled with gcc3.2 - but there is no debian > package AFAIK and that should solve the problem. > > ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.blackdown.org/java-linux/ > JDK-1.4.1/i386/01/j2re-

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