Re: login as root to GUI

2003-04-02 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 02:19:02AM +0200, Yaron wrote: > Since I rebooted my machine in the 1st time I can't login as root > through the gui login screen. That's right. Log in as your normal user, open up your terminal of choice and type su -m at the

Re: login as root to GUI

2003-04-02 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 01:47:05AM +0200, Antonio Guti?rrez Mayoral wrote: > In GDM (Gnome Desktop Manager) you should to set this option before you > can login as root: > > ( /etc/gdm/gdm.conf ) > AllowRoot=true > > and next type /etc/init.d/gdm res

Re: login as root to GUI

2003-04-02 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Please turn your line wraps on to something more sensable like 72 columns per line instead of one paragraph per line. On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 04:50:59PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Being a newbie I had the same problem that you had I couldnt lo

Re: help!! my partition table is lost after a next reboot ...

2003-04-02 Thread Roman Joost
Firstly - thanks for the help. Secondly i fixed it with a bit luck. I found a printout from my partition table so i removed all the rescued, but wrong partitions and created all partitions myself. It worked fine with one exception: i created my boot partition with: mkpartfs logical ext2 XXX -

Re: cdrdao / ide-scsi problem

2003-04-02 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 03:32:43AM +1000, bob parker wrote: > I'm no expert really, and maybe there is some other permissions problem going > on, but I observe that with a default Debian Woody install that cdrecord is > setuid. Afaik that is because

USB camera mount

2003-04-02 Thread Tim
Hi, I've compiled my kernel, mass storage as a module, and all compact flash media options enabled. Yet I cannot determine what device this camera is set to, from which I can mount it. Does anyone have any clues? I've attached 'tail /var/log/messages'. TIA, Tim Apr 3 08:03:21 debian xfs: i

Re: Sawfish 1.3 + Gnome2 questions?

2003-04-02 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 10:04, Gary Hennigan wrote: > A couple of questions for those running sid with Gnome2 and > Sawfish. > > 1) I can't figure out how to turn edge-flipping on. That's the ability > to drag a window between workspaces. I use that feature quite heavily > and am loathe to use the

Re: ip_tables newbie needs help [was "test - please ignore"

2003-04-02 Thread Vineet Kumar
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030402 09:21 PST]: > Hugh Saunders wrote: > >[OFF-LIST] > > > >On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 01:47:20PM -0100, ernst wrote: > > > >>test - please ignore > > > > > >it is *never* necessary to post a t

Re: Use a Firewall, Go to Jail?

2003-04-02 Thread David Fokkema
Hi, Well, although I don't live in the US, their laws have surprised me from time to time. However, I read this as: 1) Don't spoof your IP address. 2) Don't sniff packets not belonging to you. With encrypted e-mail channels, communications are still between your ISP (if they store your e-mail)

Re: Shell based text editor for writing prose

2003-04-02 Thread Glenn English
On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 19:23, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > Honestly, I don't know that there is a good console "wordpad.exe" like editor. > nano is probably the closest to what you are looking for, with emacs being a > (much more complex but featureful) second. Pico? -- Glenn English [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-get

2003-04-02 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 05:57:11AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Do you have 127.0.0.1 listed in /etc/apt/sources.list? If so, it > shouldn't be in there. Remove it. That IP is used for YOUR box only. Its > the local IP (never changes. doesn't deal

Re: upgrading to unstable KDE

2003-04-02 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 08:49:37AM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200301/msg01644.html That's the one. I remember it spilling over into debian-user, though oddly enough it doesn't show that in the

Re: urgent Mail Server

2003-04-02 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 12:26:37PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > Please read section 5 of rfc 2821. > > "If no MX records are found, but an A RR is found, the A RR is > treated as if it was associated with an implicit MX RR, with a > preference

Re: buying a cd writer

2003-04-02 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 07:14:26AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > right? I have the impression that the "red" IDE connector is for > slow devices, while the blue connector is for bleeding-edge > devices, the numbers computer (re)sellers like to tack

Re: Use a Firewall, Go to Jail?

2003-04-02 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 11:33:54PM -0500, Peter Christensen wrote: > exceptions. If you send or receive your email via an encrypted connection, > you're in violation, because the 'To' and 'From' lines of the emails are > concealed from your ISP by en

Re: Shell based text editor for writing prose

2003-04-02 Thread John Griffiths
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Waters wrote: > > If you haven't already tried it, you might like fte/sfte. > > Michael > > cool, it looks feature rich, what do you like about it? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozi

Re: Shell based text editor for writing prose

2003-04-02 Thread Michael Waters
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 12:02 +1000, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > I tried many editors, I found them all crap. > > What I wanted was a port of Edit which came with MSDos6. Alas there is non. > > I did try using RHIDE, a programming IDE, for a while, ok as a text editor. > > These days I just use Tou

Re: help!! my partition table is lost after a next reboot ...

2003-04-02 Thread Jeetu Golani
Hello, Yup did that for a pal once i.e. recover the partition. So long as u don't play around too much, i.e. repartitioning or reinstalling, your data should be valid. Do you remember the approx sizes of all your partitions? Are the other partitions intact? Do you remember the partition schem

Re: KNOPPIX as an installer for Debian

2003-04-02 Thread bob parker
On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 11:14, csj wrote: > What mirror did you use? There is a list of rsync, ftp, http mirrors at the bottom of this link: http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html#order > I suppose you can't effectively rsync two > different iso images (say from version 3.1 to 3.2). I

Re: Problems with ddclient

2003-04-02 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 (Please reply to the list as others may run into this problem, too) On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 10:32:07PM -0500, Stephen Touset wrote: > Is that a limitation of ddclient? I've tried inputting the values > manually on their webpage, and it works perfectl

Re: Shell based text editor for writing prose

2003-04-02 Thread Joey Hess
John Griffiths wrote: > what I'm after is a recommendation from others who might have used > something like this to write 5,000 word plus english language documents. I've had no problems writing documents in that range with vim. Folding becomes fairly useful after a while, if it's all in one file.

Re: rpm -qi eqivalent?

2003-04-02 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Maria Rodriguez wrote: > I've got a few different Debian systems that I build random packages on. > I was just wondering if there was a way to determine the system that > built a specific package (like you can get from runnng "rpm -qa" on a RH > system). "dpkg -s" shows me the

Re: Shell based text editor for writing prose

2003-04-02 Thread David Z Maze
Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've never looked at Emacs (actually I have, but the guide I was looking > at was rather poor). Is it easy to re-program control keys? Yes (albeit in Lisp); my .emacs file has, for example (global-set-key "\C-xf" 'fixup-whitespace) to change what ha

searching for what package includes a given file

2003-04-02 Thread Benjamin Rutt
I just successfully used "Search the contents of packages" from http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages to determine what package in "stable" provides GL/glx.h. Is there a way to do that search via command-line tools without resorting to the web page? I know that dpkg -S will do that for packages

Re: Help getting squierrelmail going

2003-04-02 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Thomas Guettler wrote: > Squirrelmail needs IMAP. Install uw-imapd No install dovecot. We are at war with uw-imapd. We have always been at war with uw-imapd :-) -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> La Salle Debain - http://www.braincells.com/debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Help with USB

2003-04-02 Thread Scott Henson
On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 05:56, Petr Simon wrote: > Hi, > I never had problems with it. I need it for digital camera. I compiled > 2.4.20 set up nvidia (not easy though they have new installer :-( , and > then I found that there is no /proc/bus/usb! You should has something like this in your /etc/f

Use a Firewall, Go to Jail?

2003-04-02 Thread Peter Christensen
The reason I posted this here is because if you follow the link at the bottom, it says that most versions of Linux and recent versions of Windows would be in violation of laws that are being considered in several states. This sounds so crazy that it's hard to believe. Maybe the author is misi

Re: Shell based text editor for writing prose

2003-04-02 Thread JS Bangs
> Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > > vim, emacs, pico, nano, ... these are all text editors. How you format > > your text is up to you. (This was written in vim.) > > > > Yep, OK. > > what I'm after is a recommendation from others who might have used > something like this to write 5,000 word plus e

Re: Shell based text editor for writing prose

2003-04-02 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"John" == John Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John> Travis Crump wrote: >> Is this a troll? I prefer vim, a good number of people prefer >> emacs. Both will suit your needs. >> >> John> No, not a troll, I want to know if any of the editors are John> aim

Re: upgrading to unstable KDE

2003-04-02 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On April 2, 2003 03:33 am, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 07:06:58PM +0800, Arne Goetje wrote: > > when did you upgrade? I tried it on saturday with the deb from > > ftp.debian.org. 3.1.1-1 AFAIK... > > That's the version installed

Re: Euro-sign

2003-04-02 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Wed, 02 Apr 2003, Willem-Jan Meijer wrote: > Hello all, > > Is there a possibility to use the euro-sign? Of yes -> what do I have to > install? > Hi, install the three euro-support packages provided by debian and read the HOWTO. For console-euro use you also have depending on your configura

Re: no gnome-terminal package in sarge?

2003-04-02 Thread Travis Crump
Joe Buck wrote: Hi, I recently upgraded a woody box to sarge and found that there is no gnome-terminal package in testing, although there is one in unstable. What's the story here? As a stopgap I am setting things up to use multi-gnome-terminal, but this looks strange. The sid version is gnome2, a

Postscript question

2003-04-02 Thread Tom Allison
I have two postscript files that I created. The first, tabook.ps, was created from xpdf. The second, 025.filtered was created by pdq's filter process of tabook.ps Note the first line of each file. Is there anything wrong with respect to PostScript? ==> .printjobs/025.filtered <== %! %% %% %!PS-Adob

Re: Compiling xcircuit

2003-04-02 Thread David Z Maze
"Sridhar M.A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am trying to compile the latest version of xcircuit as the version in > the unstable is also a bit dated. Yeah, sorry. :-/ (I'm having some issues with the autoconfiscation, which aren't hard to work around, I just haven't had the time. I should s

Re: Shell based text editor for writing prose

2003-04-02 Thread John Griffiths
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roberto Sanchez wrote: > vim also has some neat search features, syntax highlighting (if your >> > prose happens to be C, Lisp, or some other code), online help, and a >> > bunch of others. >> > >> >> Thanks for that, I should clarify that the languag

Re: Problems with ddclient

2003-04-02 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 09:30:43PM -0500, Stephen Touset wrote: > What about using the IP address? Shouldn't that have worked? The DNS > alias though is neither a CNAME or an A record--it's an MX record in > that separate domain's records. Nope. I'

Re: Shell based text editor for writing prose

2003-04-02 Thread John Griffiths
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eric G. Miller wrote: > IMHO, it is better to write in plain text, focusing on *content* first, > and worry about *presentation* much, much later. I've seen people waste > enormous amounts of time formatting draft word processor documents over > and o

Re: Shell based text editor for writing prose

2003-04-02 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 20:32, John Griffiths wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > > > > > vim also has some neat search features, syntax highlighting (if your > > prose happens to be C, Lisp, or some other code), online help, and a > > bunch of oth

Re: Shell based text editor for writing prose

2003-04-02 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Wednesday 02 April 2003 10:23 pm, Tom Massey wrote: > * John Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-04-03 13:09]: > > what I'm after is a recommendation from others who might have used > > something like this to write 5,000 word plus english language > > documents. > > I've written a couple of 50,0

Help with USB

2003-04-02 Thread Petr Simon
Hi, I never had problems with it. I need it for digital camera. I compiled 2.4.20 set up nvidia (not easy though they have new installer :-( , and then I found that there is no /proc/bus/usb! this is my dmesg: bash-2.05b# dmesg Linux version 2.4.20.01 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.2.3 200303

Re: Shell based text editor for writing prose

2003-04-02 Thread Roberto Sanchez
nchez wrote: > > > vim also has some neat search features, syntax highlighting (if your > prose happens to be C, Lisp, or some other code), online help, and a > bunch of others. > Thanks for that, I should clarify that the language I want to write in is english (ok, australian english - close) and

Re: Shell based text editor for writing prose

2003-04-02 Thread John Griffiths
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks very much. Tom Massey wrote: > * John Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-04-03 13:09]: > >>what I'm after is a recommendation from others who might have used >>something like this to write 5,000 word plus english language documents. > > > I'v

Re: help!! my partition table is lost after a next reboot ...

2003-04-02 Thread ajlewis2
In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > > --u3/rZRmxL6MmkK24 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > I destroyed my partition table with parted. I tried the command mklabel >:( .. damn... > > I tried the rescue comma

Re: Shell based text editor for writing prose

2003-04-02 Thread Tom Massey
* John Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-04-03 13:09]: > what I'm after is a recommendation from others who might have used > something like this to write 5,000 word plus english language documents. I've written a couple of 50,000 word novels, a 10,000 word Honours thesis, and numerous short sto

Re: mounting USB Camera Pentax Optio 330

2003-04-02 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 15:03, Lukas Ruf wrote: > Dear all, > > being owner of a Pentax OPTIO for quite a while I would like to access > the data on my camera from Linux. *The manufacturer is not interested > in supporting me.* So, I contact you -- maybe anyone managed to > attach this "nice" came

Re: Shell based text editor for writing prose

2003-04-02 Thread Mark Ferlatte
John Griffiths said on Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 11:32:37AM +1000: > > vim also has some neat search features, syntax highlighting (if your > > prose happens to be C, Lisp, or some other code), online help, and a > > bunch of others. > > > > Thanks for that, I should clarify that the language I want to

Re: Shell based text editor for writing prose

2003-04-02 Thread John Griffiths
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Travis Crump wrote: > > Is this a troll? I prefer vim, a good number of people prefer emacs. > Both will suit your needs. > > No, not a troll, I want to know if any of the editors are aimed at writers rather than coders, maybe they aren't, maybe the

Compiling xcircuit

2003-04-02 Thread Sridhar M.A.
I am trying to compile the latest version of xcircuit as the version in the unstable is also a bit dated. I have detailed below the steps I took for the compilation: 1. ./configure --with-tcl=/usr/lib/tcl8.4 --with-tk=/usr/lib/tk8.4 Got the Makefile without any errors. config.log too does n

Re: 'apt-get upgrade' error this morning

2003-04-02 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 09:41:11AM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: > I've upgraded lots of packages to testing this morning (the libc6/php4 > problem evidently got fixed) and finally got the following error. > > How do I fix whatever went wrong? > > (Reading database ... 170160 files and directories c

RE: Shell based text editor for writing prose

2003-04-02 Thread Joyce, Matthew
I tried many editors, I found them all crap. What I wanted was a port of Edit which came with MSDos6. Alas there is non. I did try using RHIDE, a programming IDE, for a while, ok as a text editor. These days I just use Touch to create a file and then Midnight Commander's built in editor. Matt

Re: xlibs-dev package unresolvable conflict

2003-04-02 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 08:10:17AM -0500, Blitzen wrote: > Hi, I have the "xlibs" version 4.2.1-6 package installed, and am trying to Since you have xlibs 4.2.1-6 installed, you ought to have libc6>=2.3.1-1 installed also. So you are probably running some sort of woody/unstable hybrid. You might

Re: Shell based text editor for writing prose

2003-04-02 Thread John Griffiths
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > vim, emacs, pico, nano, ... these are all text editors. How you format > your text is up to you. (This was written in vim.) > Yep, OK. what I'm after is a recommendation from others who might have used something like

Re: login as root to GUI

2003-04-02 Thread Glenn English
On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 18:04, Yaron wrote: > gdm Oh, yeah. That's right. There are 3 of them, I think. Mine was wbm. gdm and kdm are (at least some of) the others. -- Glenn English [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Re: login as root to GUI

2003-04-02 Thread Glenn English
On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 17:19, Yaron wrote: > Hi, > Since I rebooted my machine in the 1st time I can't login as root through the gui > login screen. > I get error msg "system administrator can't login from this screen" > If I login as 'normal' user it's ok, and than I can use su and switch to root,

Debian Policy: 10.2.2 (was) Re: rsync: what userid to run it?

2003-04-02 Thread Abdul Latip
Hi: May I know where to get more detailed information about globally allocated UID and GID numbers ($10.2.2 of Debian Policy)? Should I send it to the "debian-policy" list? I am wondering if "rsync" should be run as user "backup" or just create a new local UID (> 100). regards, -- Abdul Latip

Re: Shell based text editor for writing prose

2003-04-02 Thread John Griffiths
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > > vim also has some neat search features, syntax highlighting (if your > prose happens to be C, Lisp, or some other code), online help, and a > bunch of others. > Thanks for that, I should clarify that the language I want to

Re: Why am I no longer receiving the digest?

2003-04-02 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 12:31:56PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 01:41:46PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > > Is there some problem with the list servers at the moment? I haven't > > received a debian-user-digest since March 31st. Yet on visiting > > > > Please CC me on replies to

Re: Shell based text editor for writing prose

2003-04-02 Thread Travis Crump
John Griffiths wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 G'day all. Due to a somewhat complicated set of circumstances I'm looking for a decent non graphical shell based text editor to write prose with. - - basically i want to be able to ssh onto my server and write from a number of rem

Re: Shell based text editor for writing prose

2003-04-02 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"John" == John Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John> G'day all. Due to a somewhat complicated set of John> circumstances I'm looking for a decent non graphical shell John> based text editor to write prose with. John> basically i want to be able to ssh onto my server and

Re: Shell based text editor for writing prose

2003-04-02 Thread Roberto Sanchez
- - basically i want to be able to ssh onto my server and write from a number of remote locations. I know Debian is blessed with a plethora of programs that can do this, what I'm after is a recommendation for something that feels good to write with. in a perfect world I'd like decent cut and paste

Re: Shell based text editor for writing prose

2003-04-02 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- John Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Thursday, 03 April 2003, 10:58 AM +1000): > Due to a somewhat complicated set of circumstances I'm looking for a > decent non graphical shell based text editor to write prose with. > > - - basically i want to be able to ssh onto my server and write f

no gnome-terminal package in sarge?

2003-04-02 Thread Joe Buck
Hi, I recently upgraded a woody box to sarge and found that there is no gnome-terminal package in testing, although there is one in unstable. What's the story here? As a stopgap I am setting things up to use multi-gnome-terminal, but this looks strange. The sid version is gnome2, and the rest of

Re: First Ever Debian Install: my notes

2003-04-02 Thread Brian Gonzales
I too did my first install a few weeks ago. My first install failed because I have an ATA100 drive and the default kernel wouldn't work. After sucessfully loading the 2.4 kernel with Woody, I decided to install everything, fart around see what stuff I liked. My 3rd and final install only has stuff

Re: Linux gateway + DHCP server setup?

2003-04-02 Thread Jeff
Subba Rao, 2003-Apr-02 18:43 -0500: > > Hi, > > My system is running Debian 3.0 (Woody) Linux. > > I use this Linux system as the gateway for my home LAN. It has 2 interfaces > eth0 and eth1. > eth0 - Uses DHCP to connect to the ISP > eth1 - Uses static IP address (10.10.10.10) > >

Re: /etc/network/interfaces problem

2003-04-02 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Thomas" == Thomas H George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Thomas> Both computers have Netgear MA311 Wireless PCI Thomas> cards. Perhaps there is a difference in the bootup Thomas> sequences, I'll print out the runlevel.conf files and Thomas> compare them. I've never used a non-P

Re: Sawfish 1.3 + Gnome2 questions?

2003-04-02 Thread Florentin Ionescu
Does sawfish work with gnome2 ? On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Gary Hennigan wrote : » Date: 02 Apr 2003 11:04:29 -0700 » From: Gary Hennigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> » To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] » Subject: Sawfish 1.3 + Gnome2 questions? » Resent-Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 12:04:50 -0600 (CST) » Resent-From: [EMAIL PRO

Backported openoffice and freetype

2003-04-02 Thread James D Strandboge
I am the maintainer of the gnome 2.2 backport for woody, and I have been getting a lot of questions regarding the semi-official backport of openoffice for woody. It depends on woody's libfreetype, whereas my gnome 2.2 backport needs freetype 2.1.3 (and xfree86 4.2 for that matter). I personally h

Shell based text editor for writing prose

2003-04-02 Thread John Griffiths
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 G'day all. Due to a somewhat complicated set of circumstances I'm looking for a decent non graphical shell based text editor to write prose with. - - basically i want to be able to ssh onto my server and write from a number of remote locations. I kn

Re: Why am I no longer receiving the digest?

2003-04-02 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 12:56:56AM +0100, Clive Standbridge wrote: > PS I hope this will thread correctly; I read the message in the web > archive and faked the In-reply-to header. yes mutt showed it as threaded normally -v clever of you:) hugh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: login as root to GUI

2003-04-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 01:23:02AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 02:19:02AM +0200, Yaron wrote: > > If I login as 'normal' user it's ok, and than I can use su and switch > > to root, but no matter what I tried, I can't login to the machine as > > root. (tried to delete all ot

Re: mount & umount as ordinary user

2003-04-02 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Once upon a time Lukas Ruf said... > * Lukas Ruf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-04-02 18:33]: > > * Kirk Strauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-04-02 18:28]: > > > At 2003-04-02T13:30:54Z, Lukas Ruf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > running Debian sid, I can mount arbitrary, in fstab-preconfigured

rpm -qi eqivalent?

2003-04-02 Thread Maria Rodriguez
I've got a few different Debian systems that I build random packages on. I was just wondering if there was a way to determine the system that built a specific package (like you can get from runnng "rpm -qa" on a RH system). "dpkg -s" shows me the maintainer, but not the build host. Thank you,

tasksel gnome not working

2003-04-02 Thread Xucaen
Hi all, I tried using tasksel to install gnome. I selected Gnome applications and utilities, Gnome basic desktop, Gnome games and then I selected the finish button. Then is exists saying "can't find package task-gnome-desktop" I really would like to install gnome. Could someone please help me? J

First Ever Debian Install: my notes

2003-04-02 Thread Bill Klintoe
Hi. I took some personal notes in a message format during my first Debian install. I'm posting them here in case they might help someone else. If I've said anything horribly wrong then sorry. I've only been using Debian for 3 days now. All these notes are my experience and opinion only. If I've vio

Re: Linux gateway + DHCP server setup?

2003-04-02 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Hi, My system is running Debian 3.0 (Woody) Linux. I use this Linux system as the gateway for my home LAN. It has 2 interfaces eth0 and eth1. eth0 - Uses DHCP to connect to the ISP eth1 - Uses static IP address (10.10.10.10) Now I want to switch the home LAN to DHCP environment. I have a fe

Re: login as root to GUI

2003-04-02 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 04:50:59PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [something that wasnt wrapped @~80cols] > Being a newbie I had the same problem that you had I couldnt log onto > X with the root account. This is actually meant to be that way. The > reason being is that if you want to do any syste

Re: Sawfish 1.3 + Gnome2 questions?

2003-04-02 Thread Michael Heironimus
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 11:04:29AM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote: > 1) I can't figure out how to turn edge-flipping on. That's the ability > to drag a window between workspaces. I use that feature quite heavily > and am loathe to use the little teeny things in the pager to try and > accomplish this. I

Re: login as root to GUI

2003-04-02 Thread Antonio Gutiérrez Mayoral
Now I can go too (02:21 In Spain) Regards! El jue, 03 de 04 de 2003 a las 03:14, Yaron escribió: > Thanks a lot, it worked ! > Now I can go to sleep (3:15 a.m here) > Yaron. > - Original Message - > From: "Antonio Gutiérrez Mayoral" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Yaron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >

Re: login as root to GUI

2003-04-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 02:19:02AM +0200, Yaron wrote: > Since I rebooted my machine in the 1st time I can't login as root > through the gui login screen. Don't do that. Running X as root - or, indeed, running more as root than you have to in general - is bad security practice. You should run as a

Re: login as root to GUI

2003-04-02 Thread Antonio Gutiérrez Mayoral
Ok, then you have to modify the file /etc/gdm/gdm.conf and enable the option AllowRoot=true Next, restart gdm with the command '/etc/init.d/gdm restart'. Regards El jue, 03 de 04 de 2003 a las 03:04, Yaron escribió: > gdm > - Original Message - > From: "Antonio Gutiérrez Mayoral" <[EMAI

Re: login as root to GUI

2003-04-02 Thread Yaron
Thanks a lot, it worked ! Now I can go to sleep (3:15 a.m here) Yaron. - Original Message - From: "Antonio Gutiérrez Mayoral" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Yaron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 2:10 AM Subject: Re: login as root to GUI -- To UNSUBS

Re: login as root to GUI

2003-04-02 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 02:19:02AM +0200, Yaron wrote: > Since I rebooted my machine in the 1st time I can't login as root through the gui > login screen. > I get error msg "system administrator can't login from this screen" i use xdm as my "gui login screen" and havent seen this message before. w

Installing and upgrading but not from the net.

2003-04-02 Thread Mirabella, Mathew J
Hi all. I am new to linux and debian and have a few questions on installing the distro. i have the 7 woody (stable) installation cds along with an eighth cd which seems to have some of the non-free stuff. i would like to get sid (unstable) or at least testing working on my box, but don't have

fwanalog ?

2003-04-02 Thread Dominique Fortier
Hello, My name is Dominique and I am a Linux user. hehe I already sent an email to the debian-firewall lists about this. No one replied. So far. I configured fwanalog to report to user root for which mail is then forwarded to me. I receive no log although the report gets properly created in

Re: Netsaint or Nagios?

2003-04-02 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
With minor changes to the debian/control file for the Nagios unstable source deb you can get it to compile fine for stable... As for the plugins... I am part of the nagios plugin development team and I've been discussing with Turbo to handle the nagios-plugins packaging... I don't have anyt

Re: login as root to GUI

2003-04-02 Thread Antonio Gutiérrez Mayoral
Ok, but what is your login manager? Gnome Login Manager (gdm), Gnome Login Manager (kdm)... ? It depends on the login manager you're using. Regards. El jue, 03 de 04 de 2003 a las 02:50, Yaron escribió: > It happens both with kde 3 and gnome 1.4 > - Original Message - > From: "Antonio G

Re: login as root to GUI

2003-04-02 Thread Yaron
gdm - Original Message - From: "Antonio Gutiérrez Mayoral" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Yaron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 2:00 AM Subject: Re: login as root to GUI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: login as root to GUI

2003-04-02 Thread Yaron
Yes, you are right, I did that, but su isn't like loginning with root, even when i'm checking with 'w' i get 'user' eventhough 'whoami' replays with 'root' and many options i'm trying to use keeps asking me for the root password...that's why i'm trying to 1st login as root... - Original Message

Re: Why am I no longer receiving the digest?

2003-04-02 Thread Clive Standbridge
> Is there some problem with the list servers at the moment? I haven't > received a debian-user-digest since March 31st. Yet on visiting > lists.debian.org I see there's been plenty of traffic. Has anybody > else not received the digest? [...] > I haven't changed anything in my mail setup, and ther

Re: login as root to GUI

2003-04-02 Thread castf
Hello: Being a newbie I had the same problem that you had I couldnt log onto X with the root account. This is actually meant to be that way. The reason being is that if you want to do any system administration you should log in with a regular account and use the "SU" command as you mentioned be

Re: upgrading to unstable KDE

2003-04-02 Thread Rob French
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Any thought of using the KDE3.1 for woody from KDE? apt-get sources.list line: deb http://download.us.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/latest/Debian/ woody main -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+i3fPajFD3wrWXs8RAvWVAJ4ykD

Re: login as root to GUI

2003-04-02 Thread Yaron
It happens both with kde 3 and gnome 1.4 - Original Message - From: "Antonio Gutiérrez Mayoral" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Yaron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 1:47 AM Subject: Re: login as root to GUI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: login as root to GUI

2003-04-02 Thread Antonio Gutiérrez Mayoral
What login manager's do you use? In GDM (Gnome Desktop Manager) you should to set this option before you can login as root: ( /etc/gdm/gdm.conf ) AllowRoot=true and next type /etc/init.d/gdm restart Then you should be able to login as root in gdm. Regards. El jue, 03 de 04 de 2003 a las 02:19

Linux gateway + DHCP server setup?

2003-04-02 Thread Subba Rao
Hi, My system is running Debian 3.0 (Woody) Linux. I use this Linux system as the gateway for my home LAN. It has 2 interfaces eth0 and eth1. eth0 - Uses DHCP to connect to the ISP eth1 - Uses static IP address (10.10.10.10) Now I want to switch the home LAN to DHCP environment

Re: NVidia latest update - do they solve performance problems?

2003-04-02 Thread Ed Cogburn
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 9:25 AM Subject: Re: NVidia latest update - do they solve performance problems? > On 02 Apr 2003 09:38:55 +0200 > Jerome "Lacoste (Frisurf)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am using

login as root to GUI

2003-04-02 Thread Yaron
Hi, Since I rebooted my machine in the 1st time I can't login as root through the gui login screen. I get error msg "system administrator can't login from this screen" If I login as 'normal' user it's ok, and than I can use su and switch to root, but no matter what I tried, I can't login to t

Re: cdrdao / ide-scsi problem

2003-04-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 05:17:45AM +1000, bob parker wrote: > On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 04:22, David Fokkema wrote: > > Well, you are right, so I tried, :-). It works, so there is reason to be > > glad. However, I'm still wondering how paranoid I must be to still want > > cdrdao to run without setuid. Fur

Re: mounting USB Camera Pentax Optio 330 -- solved

2003-04-02 Thread Craig Dickson
Lukas Ruf wrote: > A personal hint: Do not buy a camera not explicitely supported by > Linux (as I did) -- you can avoid a lot of frustration! My preference is to use a media reader (compact flash, smart media, or whatever is needed) that works with Linux. That way, I can choose a camera based so

Re: X screen shifts right !!.

2003-04-02 Thread Levi Bard
I have this behavior as well, with my compaq presario 1247 laptop, which uses a trident cyberblade/i7 vid card. I am very suspicious that this is an anomaly with the xf86 trident drivers, as I've had reports of similar behavior with other trident iN cards. I have also stfw thoroughly with no resu

Re: help!! my partition table is lost after a next reboot ...

2003-04-02 Thread ronin2
On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 19:59:44 +0200 Roman Joost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I destroyed my partition table with parted. I tried the command > mklabel:( .. damn... For today you're screwed. For tomorrow, whenever you set up your new partition table (and any time you make changes to it) save the d

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