Implementing and mounting USB external HD on Deb 3

2003-03-23 Thread Brian Durant
Hi again, How do I implement and mount a USB external FAT formatted hard drive on a Debian 3 compatible system (Libranet 2.7) with KDE 3.x? I need to get some log files off the box and onto the USB hard drive, so that I can transfer them to my main computer and eventually post them. Once I can

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-23 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 11:37:09PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > His sig was, and I quote: > > Let me meddle not in the affairs of Linuxen > For I'm an idiot and will toast my boxen > > I uh, don't know what else to say ... that speaks volumes

PHP4 conflicts with libc6

2003-03-23 Thread Daniel Meier
I have a problem with the current "testing" release php4 conflicts with libc6, can someone let me know if there is a workaround. kind regards daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: X11 server connection

2003-03-23 Thread nate
Karsten M. Self said: >> #export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 >> $xhost +localhost > > Very bad idea. This opens your X session to any user. If you're using a > truly brain-dead configuration, this means any host which can see yours on > the network can read or write your X connection. I don't underst

Re: X

2003-03-23 Thread nate
Karsten M. Self said: > more consistent than Red Hat (which sticks X display manager startup into > /etc/inittab for some strange reason), and provides generaly the one thing I do like about this setup is init itself.. if X is hosed and [gdkw]dm is in a loop, init will kill it automatically after

Re: joysticks and xfree 4.x

2003-03-23 Thread briand
> "Paul" == Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Paul> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul> On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 01:36:42PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Paul> wrote: >> There seems to be a total lack of information as to how to get >> the joystick to work under X.

RE: opera browser

2003-03-23 Thread Alex Togstad
You can get the second preview of Opera 7 for Linux here: http://snapshot.opera.com/unix/intel-linux/365-20030307-7.0.0-P2/ I have not tired this yet, as I'm eager to see the results of someone try it first. :-) Let me know how it goes, if you do install it. :0) Take care! Alex Togstad We

Re: Mouse Configuration

2003-03-23 Thread nate
Francisco Castellon said: > Hello: > > I have a Cordless PS/2 Logitech 3-button wheel mouse and I can't seem to > get X to work when I scroll with the mouse wheel. My current > configuration in the /etc/X11/X86Config-4 is as follows: > > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Configured M

Re: Expunge OpenOffice.org?

2003-03-23 Thread Brian Durant
Brian Potkin wrote: On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 06:37:14PM +0700, Brian Durant wrote: Sorry, I guess I should add that I am a newbie to Debian systems and Linux in general, but have some experience with RPM based systems. I understand some of the basics of the Debian package system, but want to

Mouse Configuration

2003-03-23 Thread Francisco Castellon
Hello:   I have a Cordless PS/2 Logitech 3-button wheel mouse and I can’t seem to get X to work when I scroll with the mouse wheel. My current configuration in the /etc/X11/X86Config-4 is as follows:   Section "InputDevice"     Identifier  "Configured Mouse"     Driver

Re: Root login to Windows X

2003-03-23 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 03:30:33PM -0700, Francisco Castellon wrote: > >Hello list: > > >I just finished installing my first Debian system and I seem to not be >able to log on to Windows X using the root account, I can easily log >in with any other account though. I have tried ch

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-23 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 07:26:51PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 07:19:32PM -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > I think he showed up late last year, yes? > > Late last month. I think he posted twice out of a few dozen times > that he demonstrated he had a clue. I think his b

Re: opera browser

2003-03-23 Thread Travis Crump
Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: Does anyone know when the debian package for Opera 7 is going to be released? I just tried to update and it says that 6.03 is the latest. thanks :) emma never, Debian doesn't package opera because it is non-free. If you mean when will a .deb become available, well, you'd

Re: opera browser

2003-03-23 Thread Blake Covarrubias
On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 21:02, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > Does anyone know when the debian package for Opera 7 is going to be > released? I just tried to update and it says that 6.03 is the latest. > > thanks :) > > emma > > -- > Emma Jane Hogbin > [[ 416 417 2868 ][ www.xtrinsic.com ]] > If you

Re: public_html permisions in /etc/skel

2003-03-23 Thread Blake Covarrubias
On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 19:52, Dwayne Hunter wrote: > How can I create a public_html directory in /etc/skel that when created will have > the proper permisions for users personel web sites? > mkdir public_html When the information is copied from /etc/skel to the user's home dir, they become the o

Re: PDF presentation from LaTeX: TexPower? Prosper?

2003-03-23 Thread Hubert Chan
> "David" == David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: David> Glen Snyder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> 2. Can anyone strongly recommend another latex package (Prosper?) >> supplied by debian that would allow me to insert a bunch of EPS >> figures and math formulas, and produce an electronic p

opera browser

2003-03-23 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
Does anyone know when the debian package for Opera 7 is going to be released? I just tried to update and it says that 6.03 is the latest. thanks :) emma -- Emma Jane Hogbin [[ 416 417 2868 ][ www.xtrinsic.com ]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

RE: PCI ATA card support

2003-03-23 Thread Lindsay Yardley
G'day Alvin/All, | - why do you want raid??? I'm setting up a file/print server. | | - sometimes you cannot boot off hde/hdg | - did you test that you cn boot off hde/hdg don't want to boot from it. hda1 - /boot hda2 - / hda3 - swap hde/g raid set - /var hde/g raid set - /home that's why

Re: Can't find NIC module

2003-03-23 Thread Klaus Imgrund
Jason Kaza wrote: it successfully detected my sis900 network card, but 'modprobe -v sis900' returned 'cannot find module sis900'. Thanks, J. Been there. It only loads with insmod sis900. But dhcp probably won't work. Klaus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-23 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 07:19:32PM -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > I think he showed up late last year, yes? Late last month. I think he posted twice out of a few dozen times that he demonstrated he had a clue. I think his brain's signal to noise ra

Re: joysticks and xfree 4.x

2003-03-23 Thread briand
I actually want to use it as the pointer device, or at least allow it's input as a pointer device - in place of, or (preferably) in addition to the mouse. Getting more than one pointer device to work is not a problem. I just need to get the joystick to be recognized as a pointer device. Brian

Re: PDF presentation from LaTeX: TexPower? Prosper?

2003-03-23 Thread David Z Maze
Glen Snyder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 2. Can anyone strongly recommend another latex package (Prosper?) > supplied by debian that would allow me to insert a bunch of EPS figures > and math formulas, and produce an electronic presentation that can run > on Acrobat Reader. I taught a short Jav

Re: joysticks and xfree 4.x

2003-03-23 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 01:36:42PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > There seems to be a total lack of information as to how to get the > joystick to work under X. X doesn't care about your joystick. If it works on the console, it works in X, too. -

Re: public_html permisions in /etc/skel

2003-03-23 Thread nate
Dwayne Hunter said: > How can I create a public_html directory in /etc/skel that when created > will have the proper permisions for users personel web sites? mkdir /etc/skel/public_html chmod 755 /etc/skel/public_html nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "uns

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-23 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 05:53:54PM -0500, JOSEPH A NAGY JR wrote: > I am sick and... ... > ... BYE! I think he showed up late last year, yes? Still one neuron short of a functional synapse... Kenward -- In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be _teachers_ and the res

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-23 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-03-23T22:53:54Z, "JOSEPH A NAGY JR" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am sick and god d* f** TIRED of all the S*** I have to put up > with just to get a system up and working. "Install x to get A affect, but > x won't install unless you have w, y, and z, and w, y, and z WILL NOT BE >

Re: [OT] user psychology

2003-03-23 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-03-23T22:27:37Z, Raju Kurunkad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For laughs, you can read thru the "Bastard operator from hell" archives at > > http://bofh.ntk.net/Bastard.html That was written as *humor*? I'd thought it was a training manual. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non e

public_html permisions in /etc/skel

2003-03-23 Thread Dwayne Hunter
How can I create a public_html directory in /etc/skel that when created will have the proper permisions for users personel web sites? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: No "File -> Save" in gimp

2003-03-23 Thread Barak Korren
Joey Hess wrote: This is a really amusing thread. Try the following: Pop up the context menu of a drawing (or use the triangle upper-left). Now, pin it up by clicking on the dashed line. Now you have a "context" menu that is pinned. Close the image window it came from. Open up several others. Try

Re: X

2003-03-23 Thread nate
nate said: > variants of linux and unix I find debian's init structure fine..the ones I > dislike the most are the *BSD variants, the (seemingly) inability to forgot about AIX .. earlier versions of AIX if you wanted something to start on boot you had to put it in /etc/inittab ! wtf is up with t

Re: No "File -> Save" in gimp

2003-03-23 Thread Joey Hess
This is a really amusing thread. Try the following: Pop up the context menu of a drawing (or use the triangle upper-left). Now, pin it up by clicking on the dashed line. Now you have a "context" menu that is pinned. Close the image window it came from. Open up several others. Try using the pinned w

Re: X

2003-03-23 Thread Jack Pistachio
Uninstall xdm, the x display manager which simply causes X to startup with a logon screen at boot. --- Glenn English <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, many thanks to those who helped me get X running on > my Dell > Latitude Laptop. > > Now I need help getting it to stop. > > I'm using wmaker

Re: Expunge OpenOffice.org?

2003-03-23 Thread Jack Pistachio
--- Sharninder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Sorry, I guess I should add that I am a newbie to > Debian systems > > and Linux in general, but have some experience with > RPM based > > systems. I understand some of the basics of the Debian > package > > system, but want to make sure that all

Re: help with playing a midi file

2003-03-23 Thread Paul Scott
Robert Storey wrote: On Sat, 2003-03-22 at 22:18, Paul Scott wrote: My sound card works. I am using KDE on the 2.4.20-k6 kernel. I have a number of midi players installed - kmid, rosegarden. They all look like they are playing midi files but I get no sound. Silly as this might sound,

PDF presentation from LaTeX: TexPower? Prosper?

2003-03-23 Thread Glen Snyder
Hi all. I'm using Sarge, and need to put together a presentation that will be burnt on a CD, and taken to a conference where it will be loaded in Acrobat and projected on a screen. The samples in TexPower (already PDFs) look pretty cool, but if I try running the sample tex file, and then viewing wi

Re: X

2003-03-23 Thread nate
Glenn English said: > After spending the afternoon in the Debian /etc directory, I'm inclined to > agree with Evi Nemeth et al who claim Debian's init process leaves a > little something to be desired, readability-wise. It's such a mess that > I'd volunteer to fix it if I thought I knew enough. w

Re: X

2003-03-23 Thread Glenn English
On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 14:54, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > Sorry this won't help you but I've always wondered why debian does > this. You install xdm and the defualt is to boot straight into a > graphical login. Why?? At the very least it should ask you when > installing if you want to start up in

RE: PCI ATA card support

2003-03-23 Thread Alvin Oga
hi lindsay On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Lindsay Yardley wrote: > G'day Daniel/All, > The HowTo at http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/ATA-RAID-HOWTO/index.html was very > helpful. I can now see hde & hdg and format them as fd from the debian > installer BUT (yes another one) How do I make a raid set of these and

Re: help with playing a midi file

2003-03-23 Thread Robert Storey
On Sat, 2003-03-22 at 22:18, Paul Scott wrote: > My sound card works. I am using KDE on the 2.4.20-k6 kernel. I have a > number of midi players installed - kmid, rosegarden. They all look like > they are playing midi files but I get no sound. Silly as this might sound, before you go any furt

Re: When will Sarge become Stable ?

2003-03-23 Thread Brian Nelson
"B. L. Jilek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Paul! > > On Sun, 23 Mar 2003, Paul Johnson wrote: > >> On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 12:35:16AM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: >> > I've said this way more than enough times, but MORE THAN A YEAR for >> > another stable release? This isn't a bad joke? >> >> Fas

Re: getting rid of flash

2003-03-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 10:52:31PM +0100, Hans Wilmer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi! > > How can I get rid of the annoying messages from Mozilla that tell me > to download a plugin whenever a webpage contains one of those obsolete > 'flash' things? I definitely do not want all that 'flash' rubbi

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-23 Thread nate
JOSEPH A NAGY JR said: > I am sick and god damned fucking TIRED of all the SHIT I have to put up > with just to get a system up and working. "Install x to get A > affect, but x won't install unless you have w, y, and z, and w, y, and z > WILL NOT BE INSTALLED NO MATTER WHAT THE GODDAMNED FUCK YOU

RE: PCI ATA card support

2003-03-23 Thread Lindsay Yardley
G'day Daniel/All, The HowTo at http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/ATA-RAID-HOWTO/index.html was very helpful. I can now see hde & hdg and format them as fd from the debian installer BUT (yes another one) How do I make a raid set of these and format/mount them? I just can't see how/where this is done. tia Li

Re: joysticks and xfree 4.x

2003-03-23 Thread David Z Maze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I've got all of the linux drivers installed and everything works fine > from the OS point of view (thanks to the joystick package). > > There seems to be a total lack of information as to how to get the > joystick to work under X. > > Can anyone point me to some docs on

RE: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-23 Thread Jeremy Gaddis
> -Original Message- > From: JOSEPH A NAGY JR [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2003 5:54 PM > To: LUNA Mailing List; Debian User > Subject: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks > > > I am sick and god damned fucking TIRED of all the SHIT I have to put > up with just to get a syst

Re: Woody to sid to Woody Dependency Hell

2003-03-23 Thread nate
JOSEPH A NAGY JR said: > This is why I HATE using binaries. Dependency hell. I've had much better > luck installing from source (at least on my RH system). First (and last) > time I tried installing from source on my deb system was a failure as > well. there is no dependency hell if the binar

Re: Woody to sid to Woody Dependency Hell

2003-03-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 05:28:25PM -0500, JOSEPH A NAGY JR wrote: > On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 05:17:36 -0800 > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Don't fear the penguin! Your best bet is to work out the > >dependancies going to sid. Figure out what the replacements for > >things are along the

Re: getting rid of flash

2003-03-23 Thread Shaun ONeil
On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 16:52, Hans Wilmer wrote: > Hi! > > How can I get rid of the annoying messages from Mozilla that tell me > to download a plugin whenever a webpage contains one of those obsolete > 'flash' things? I definitely do not want all that 'flash' rubbish --- > it only wastes bandwidth

[OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-23 Thread JOSEPH A NAGY JR
I am sick and god damned fucking TIRED of all the SHIT I have to put up with just to get a system up and working. "Install x to get A affect, but x won't install unless you have w, y, and z, and w, y, and z WILL NOT BE INSTALLED NO MATTER WHAT THE GODDAMNED FUCK YOU DO!" You can take your peice

Re: Woody to sid to Woody Dependency Hell

2003-03-23 Thread JOSEPH A NAGY JR
On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 05:17:36 -0800 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 11:15:45PM -0500, JOSEPH A NAGY JR wrote: --Hey guys, I'm writing this from within lynx because I tried upgrading to sid via your suggestions, but I met

Re: [OT] user psychology

2003-03-23 Thread Raju Kurunkad
* ktb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-03-23 13:43]: > I've been searching around the web for some documentation on how to deal > with users from the perspective of a systems administrator. I'm finding > a lot on account management and user policies but not much by way of > dealing with people. I'm inte

Re: getting rid of flash

2003-03-23 Thread Travis Crump
Hans Wilmer wrote: Hi! How can I get rid of the annoying messages from Mozilla that tell me to download a plugin whenever a webpage contains one of those obsolete It would suffice if I could tell Mozilla to just ignore 'flashes' instead of popping up a message, and not to download them. delete lib

getting rid of flash

2003-03-23 Thread Hans Wilmer
Hi! How can I get rid of the annoying messages from Mozilla that tell me to download a plugin whenever a webpage contains one of those obsolete 'flash' things? I definitely do not want all that 'flash' rubbish --- it only wastes bandwidth and supposedly provides no information at all ... Unfortun

Re: X

2003-03-23 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On March 23, 2003 01:03 pm, Glenn English wrote: > Well, many thanks to those who helped me get X running on my Dell > Latitude Laptop. > > Now I need help getting it to stop. > > I'm using wmaker, and when the system boots, it comes up with an X > login. I don't want it to do that, and when I hit

Logging from Shorewall to syslog-ng

2003-03-23 Thread Kurt Petersen
Hi Could someone please help me clarify the logging mechanism between Shorewall and syslog-ng? Both are installed "out-of-the-box". In Shorewall, logging is set to: LOGFILE="/var/log/messages" Well, NO logging is done in that file by Shorewall. All logging is done on the console! I've trie

Re: X

2003-03-23 Thread Seneca
On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 02:03:19PM -0700, Glenn English wrote: > > I'm using wmaker, and when the system boots, it comes up with an X > login. I don't want it to do that, and when I hit ctl-alt-bs, I get the > Creeping White Screen Of Death (CWSOD) and I have to reboot. After > login, selecting Wi

Re: X

2003-03-23 Thread Kent West
Glenn English wrote: I've never seen the CWSOD anywhere but here on Debian. Anybody know what causes that? Why does the system come up with an X login? I never (Intentionally) asked it to. I'm sorry I can't help with your CWSOD, but as to the X login, this is happening because you're running a

joysticks and xfree 4.x

2003-03-23 Thread briand
I've got all of the linux drivers installed and everything works fine from the OS point of view (thanks to the joystick package). There seems to be a total lack of information as to how to get the joystick to work under X. Can anyone point me to some docs on how to do this or share their xfconfi

Re: help: startx causes system crash

2003-03-23 Thread nate
Charlie Taylor said: > I can't understand the first part of this problem, "X: cannot execute > binary file". sounds like X is not linked to the right file try: ls -l /etc/X11/X and ls -l /usr/X11R6/bin/X on my system: lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 20 Jan 28 19:20 /etc/X11/X -> /usr

Re: Transferring Digital Camera Images

2003-03-23 Thread Dave
On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 11:36, nate wrote: > otherwise, your best option may be to get one of them USB > card readers that can read the media type that your camera uses, > hopefully it's not a memory stick camera, I have yet to see any > that support that tech myself(though I haven't looked). Be sur

X

2003-03-23 Thread Glenn English
Well, many thanks to those who helped me get X running on my Dell Latitude Laptop. Now I need help getting it to stop. I'm using wmaker, and when the system boots, it comes up with an X login. I don't want it to do that, and when I hit ctl-alt-bs, I get the Creeping White Screen Of Death (CWSOD

help: startx causes system crash

2003-03-23 Thread Charlie Taylor
I can't start a GUI and am lost so any help would be appreciated. The problem: Installed fine, then came to the command line and typed startx - a few lines of information was printed to the screen before the screen went blank. I couldn't reboot by ctrl-alt-del/bkspace, I couldn't do anything but s

Re: help with playing a midi file

2003-03-23 Thread Paul Scott
Mark L. Kahnt wrote: On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 05:19, Paul Scott wrote: My sound card works. I am using KDE on the 2.4.20-k6 kernel. I have a number of midi players installed - kmid, rosegarden. They all look like they are playing midi files but I get no sound. Understood.

Re: [OT] Anything simpler than emacspeak?

2003-03-23 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 12:15:15PM -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > Hello, all: > > I'm trying to set up a Debian laptop (so this is not _completely_ offtopic > :) for my Dad, whose sight has almost failed. I have bought Fonix's > DECtalk software, and it works quite nicely on the command line (i.

Re: Can't find NIC module

2003-03-23 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 23 March 2003 09:21 am, Jason Kaza wrote: > I downloaded the sarge-i386-netinst.iso dated March 22 and attempted an > install with it. While setting up network hardware, it successfully > detected my sis900 network card, but 'modprobe -v sis9

Re: dpkg-reconfigure: command not found

2003-03-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 09:57:12AM -0800, Debian User wrote: > I just installed the vanilla install of Debian. I'd like to > reconfigure several things, but when I do dpkg-reconfigure, I get > "dpkg-reconfigure: command not found". Is this still how I'm supposed > to reconfigure packages? It is

libquicktime1, libvorbis0 and xawtv

2003-03-23 Thread Roman Joost
For dependency reasons, i deinstalled xawtv and cannot reinstall the packages. Unfortunately the libquicktime depends on libvorbis0 and that package can not be installed. I looked at the bugs page of the package and find out, that a newer version of libquicktime1 will be available. Are there any pa

Re: Transferring Digital Camera Images

2003-03-23 Thread nate
Thomas H. George said: > I have a Sony DSC-S75 digital camera which has a usb port. The manual > states the images are stored in JPEG format and the accompanying > software for Windows installs the camera as an additional hard drive so > the images may be copied to the computer's hard drive. I do

Re: dpkg-reconfigure: command not found

2003-03-23 Thread Greg Norris
You can search for packages which contain specified files at "http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages";. In this case, it would have told you that dpkg-reconfigure is part of the debconf package. On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 09:57:12AM -0800, Debian User wrote: > Hi, > > I just installed the vanilla

Re: [OT] user psychology

2003-03-23 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 10:38, ktb wrote: > I've been searching around the web for some documentation on how to deal > with users from the perspective of a systems administrator. I'm finding > a lot on account management and user policies but not much by way of > dealing with people. I'm interested

Re: Unknown ports?

2003-03-23 Thread nate
lucas said: > Hey there all, > I just scanned my system and found this: > > > 32771/tcp opensometimes-rpc5 > 32776/tcp opensometimes-rpc15 as someone else pointed out you can use netstat. But a more precise way may be 'fuser'. fuser -n tcp 32771 will show the PID(s) of anything

Can't find NIC module

2003-03-23 Thread Jason Kaza
I downloaded the sarge-i386-netinst.iso dated March 22 and attempted an install with it. While setting up network hardware, it successfully detected my sis900 network card, but 'modprobe -v sis900' returned 'cannot find module sis900'. Is there a place where I can add a copy of sis900.o to t

dpkg-reconfigure: command not found

2003-03-23 Thread Debian User
Hi, I just installed the vanilla install of Debian. I'd like to reconfigure several things, but when I do dpkg-reconfigure, I get "dpkg-reconfigure: command not found". Is this still how I'm supposed to reconfigure packages? (I don't see a --reconfigure option for dpkg.) thanks Melissa __

Re: /var Permissions

2003-03-23 Thread Kenneth Dombrowski
Barak Korren wrote: I've recently attempted to move my /var directory form the root filesystem to a new filesystem I created on my hardrive, unfortunately I neglected to command "cp" to preserve the files' ownerships while copying the files form the old /var directory. While most things seem to

Re: Expunge OpenOffice.org?

2003-03-23 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Sunday 23 March 2003 10:48, Brian Durant wrote: > How do I expunge OpenOffice.org totally from my system? I want to > install Star Office 6, which I have on CD. I am using Libranet 2.7, > which I believe is 100% compatible with Debian 3. Normally, 'apt-get --purge remove openoffice.org' should

Re: [OT] user psychology

2003-03-23 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 11:38, ktb wrote: > I've been searching around the web for some documentation on how to deal > with users from the perspective of a systems administrator. I'm finding > a lot on account management and user policies but not much by way of > dealing with people. I'm interested

Re: Log with iptables

2003-03-23 Thread Martin Kacerovsky
Hi, On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 01:46:48PM +0100, Paul Cazottes wrote: > I would like to make logs of my internet traffic > I've a firewall with NetFilter in a Private Network > > > Can someone help me? Thanks > Use LOG target. See 'man iptables'. And don't forget to compile it (CONFIG_IP

[OT] Anything simpler than emacspeak?

2003-03-23 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hello, all: I'm trying to set up a Debian laptop (so this is not _completely_ offtopic :) for my Dad, whose sight has almost failed. I have bought Fonix's DECtalk software, and it works quite nicely on the command line (i.e. it "speaks" what I type), but the only application I can find which uses

timeout

2003-03-23 Thread Christof Hurschler
is there a way to set the default timeout for connecting to a host? when my modem connects, it takes too long and I always get a "host not found" message and have to try again, by which time the modem has usualy connected. This happens with every program that trys to access the internet. Thanks

Re: Expunge OpenOffice.org?

2003-03-23 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 06:37:14PM +0700, Brian Durant wrote: > Sorry, I guess I should add that I am a newbie to Debian systems and > Linux in general, but have some experience with RPM based systems. I > understand some of the basics of the Debian package system, but want to > make sure that

Re: Transferring Digital Camera Images

2003-03-23 Thread daniel huhardeaux
Thomas H. George wrote: I have a Sony DSC-S75 digital camera which has a usb port. The manual states the images are stored in JPEG format and the accompanying software for Windows installs the camera as an additional hard drive so the images may be copied to the computer's hard drive. I'm usin

Re: help with playing a midi file

2003-03-23 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 05:19, Paul Scott wrote: > Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > > >On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 00:43, Paul Scott wrote: > > > > > >>Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>>On Sat, 2003-03-22 at 22:18, Paul Scott wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > My sound card works. I am using

[OT] user psychology

2003-03-23 Thread ktb
I've been searching around the web for some documentation on how to deal with users from the perspective of a systems administrator. I'm finding a lot on account management and user policies but not much by way of dealing with people. I'm interested in educating myself about the different approac

Re: algorithm for correct sources.list lines?

2003-03-23 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 11:00:49AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > David Z Maze wrote: > >Syntactically, it's correct, sure; whether that particular resource > >happens to exist or not is outside of APT's control. > >/etc/apt/sources.list on my laptop has > > > >deb http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/deve

Re: Expunge OpenOffice.org?

2003-03-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 07:54:03AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Sharninder writes: > > try dpkg -L .. this will give u a list of all the files > > installed by the package. then remove the package using apt-get remove > > package. > > Use 'apt-get purge ' to remove all files. That should be 'apt-

Re: When will Sarge become Stable ?

2003-03-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 12:35:16AM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > I've said this way more than enough times, but MORE THAN A YEAR for > another stable release? This isn't a bad joke? Many vendors and distributors downstream of Debian, together with large sites, actually prefer our longer release cycle

Re: Official Exim 4 package

2003-03-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 04:15:23AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 11:47:58PM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > > Just a quick interjection - the situation would appear comparable to > > that of Bind (version 8) and Bind9 (not version 8) - a relatively clear > > and apparently broa

Re: Transferring Digital Camera Images

2003-03-23 Thread Joseph Barillari
> "THG" == Thomas H George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: THG> I have a Sony DSC-S75 digital camera which has a usb port. The manual THG> states the images are stored in JPEG format and the accompanying THG> software for Windows installs the camera as an additional hard drive so

Re: Is kmail (sid) already able to use the integrated GnuPG & OpenPGP support?

2003-03-23 Thread Gavrila
On Friday 21 March 2003 12:42, Gavrila wrote: > I'm not an expert and I have to learn a lot of things about gpg but it > seems to me that encryption and signing are ok. I correct my self: when it asks me for the passphrase it always tell me it's wrong. The same passphrase works fine with gpa

Log with iptables

2003-03-23 Thread Paul Cazottes
I would like to make logs of my internet traffic I've a firewall with NetFilter in a Private Network Can someone help me? Thanks Paul Cazottes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: When will Sarge become Stable ?

2003-03-23 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * nate [Sat, Mar 22 2003, 09:06:57AM]: > probably one of the best measures of when it will become stable > is keep tabs on the status of the new debian installer and boot > floppies. That's traditionally been the holdup. And if you have > resources, help em test/file bugs that will get i

Re: Expunge OpenOffice.org?

2003-03-23 Thread John Hasler
Sharninder writes: > try dpkg -L .. this will give u a list of all the files > installed by the package. then remove the package using apt-get remove > package. Use 'apt-get purge ' to remove all files. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBS

Re: When will Sarge become Stable ?

2003-03-23 Thread B. L. Jilek
Hi Paul! On Sun, 23 Mar 2003, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 12:35:16AM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > > I've said this way more than enough times, but MORE THAN A YEAR for > > another stable release? This isn't a bad joke? > > Fast or right: Pick one. If you don't like right, switc

Re: Expunge OpenOffice.org?

2003-03-23 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 06:37:14PM +0700, Brian Durant wrote: > Sorry, I guess I should add that I am a newbie to Debian systems and > Linux in general, but have some experience with RPM based systems. Actually, this isn't information we need. User

incoming hangs?

2003-03-23 Thread J. Woch
Hi, just curious: is incoming.debian.org hanging since a few days? It's getting big and bigger and apt-get upgrade says I should relax a little ;-) Cheers, Jens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Transferring Digital Camera Images

2003-03-23 Thread Thomas H. George
I have a Sony DSC-S75 digital camera which has a usb port. The manual states the images are stored in JPEG format and the accompanying software for Windows installs the camera as an additional hard drive so the images may be copied to the computer's hard drive. Naturally, I would prefer to do thi

Re: Woody to sid to Woody Dependency Hell

2003-03-23 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 11:15:45PM -0500, JOSEPH A NAGY JR wrote: > --Hey guys, I'm writing this from within lynx because I tried > upgrading to sid via your suggestions, but I met dependency hell and > couldn't restart X. So I tried going back to wo

Re: Unknown ports?

2003-03-23 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 11:46:49PM +1100, lucas wrote: > 32771/tcp opensometimes-rpc5 > 32776/tcp opensometimes-rpc15 > > I was just wondering if someone could tell me what this is. I have never > seen this before, and I have not ins

Re: Root login to Windows X

2003-03-23 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 03:30:33PM -0700, Francisco Castellon wrote: > I just finished installing my first Debian system and I seem to not be > able to log on to Windows X using the root account, I can easily log in > with any other account though. I h

output of a2ps

2003-03-23 Thread martin f krafft
sometimes, a2ps will output to stdout, other times it will send the output directly to the default printer (even without -d). how can i control this. i'd like to make a2ps send to stdout at all times, unless, of course, the -d option is given. -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read

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