Re: Turn on the service

2003-08-18 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Colin Watson wrote: On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 10:14:05AM +0200, Jon Haugsand wrote: * Mike Mueller On Friday 15 August 2003 13:31, Victory wrote: How to install and turn on/off rsh, telnet and ftp server/service for Debian 3.0r1??? I am new to Debian any reason not to choose

Re: Printing help, please.

2003-08-18 Thread Dave Thayer
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 11:05:17PM -0400, Kevin McKinley wrote: > I spent more than 12 hours today and yesterday trying to get CUPS working > with a Samsung ML-1210 laser printer, and reluctantly concluded it wasn't > possible using only stable packages. > > I got it running using a bunch of unst

Re: rms on debian

2003-08-18 Thread David Fokkema
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 12:38:57AM +0200, Diego Calleja García wrote: > El 18 Aug 2003 10:12:13 +0800 Isaac To <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > we're not a 100% GPL distro > but well That is _exactly_ his point! David -- Happy Birthday, Debian! August 16, 1993 http://www.linuxplanet.com/

Re: SCO identifies code?

2003-08-18 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 08:56:47PM -0500, Alan Shutko wrote: > Believe it or not, I don't think they'd care. I haven't been hired > by the FSF, but I've signed the standard copyright assignment they > require to put your changes in their tree, and it

Re: rms on debian [And all that OT stuff + happy birthday]

2003-08-18 Thread Jacob Anawalt
What a fun thread! :) Over 70 posts in a couple of days. I learned about spelling (whinging, whining, loser), grammar (right, correct) and debian policies for contrib and non-free. What links may or may not be on gnu.org, some thought out and some quick responses on what Debian is and what it

Re: rms on debian

2003-08-18 Thread David Fokkema
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 07:01:07PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > David Fokkema wrote: > > What about freedoom.sourceforge.net? > > Promising but incomplete. With the 0.1 release it may actually be to the > point where it's playable. If someone packaged it doom might be able to > move out of contrib.

Re: Help needed with ethernet configuration - dhclient seems to ignore DHCPOFFER

2003-08-18 Thread David Fokkema
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 10:20:19PM +0200, Komáromi Eszter wrote: > Thanks for the help, David, > > I managed to find your thread in the archives. I get some weird packets > indeed, not arp though. Here's tcpdump's output (tcpdump -s 2000 -nXe -i > eth0): > 16:20:58.686564 0:0:77:94:e1:a 0:e0:29

Re: Linux defragmenter?

2003-08-18 Thread John Foster
Mike Dresser wrote: On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: Like a moron, I requested a read-receipt with the last message I sent. Sorry! However, I did come across a 'defrag' command by doing this: apt-cache show defrag See if that will fix your problems or not. I've never used it, bu

Re: exim does not add domain to outgoing addresses...

2003-08-18 Thread David Fokkema
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 09:52:10PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > Just let you know the solution: > > kmail stored the domain separately from exim...and kmail added silverboxy, > only. Changed it there and it works... The MUA? I should've thought of that... You might want to check the default set

latest gcc

2003-08-18 Thread Mihalis I. Tsoukalos
Dear list, I have the following questions: Does the latest gcc/g++ (I think 3.3) exists for Debian woody? If yes, where can I find the deb files? Is the C++ support better in the latest gcc/g++? TIA, Mihalis -- :wq -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: serial ATA

2003-08-18 Thread David selby
Mark Barnes wrote: I'm trying to install stable on a system with an Asus A7V600 motherboard, which supports serial ATA with a VIA VT8237 chipset. I've googled around for installation information on serial ATA support generally, and not found much that's on point. I'm not sure if serial ATA is sup

Re: SCO identifies code?

2003-08-18 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 07:51:00PM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: > (Thankfully it was all a dirty hack so I don't > have to worry about ever writing something that bad again. :) The willingness to make closed source crap due to lack of accountability

new kernel won't boot - operator error 101

2003-08-18 Thread Rodney D. Myers
I thought I knew what I was doing. I finally compiled a new kernel, and copied it into my /boot partition, and edit my /etc/lilo.conf, to point to the new kernel, but left the working one, just in case. My problem? The new compiled kernel never brings the system up. The system was a Knoppix insta

Re: placement of partitions on hard drive

2003-08-18 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 08:04:52AM +0930, tim truman wrote: > /mp3 loads of mb > /moo_vloads of mb These two more properly belong in your ~ - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `-

NVIDIA driver (nvidia-kernel-source) :-(

2003-08-18 Thread Michael Bonert
Sridhar: >This may not be relevant but i believe you also should have a > > Load"glx" That is okay. >> When I 'startx' I get a blank screen with a square cursor at the top left. > >I'm not sure what is happening at this point. When you get this screen, >can you switch to another console term

Re: SCO identifies code?

2003-08-18 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 23:19, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 10:21:37PM -0400, Paul Smith wrote: --snip-- > > I think you're missing Alex's point. He was not saying it was bad that > > he couldn't take the code he wrote for some company and do anything he > > wanted with it (at le

Re: Re: Q3Demo Segfault

2003-08-18 Thread Lucas J Barbuto
Hi Alex, Thanks for your prompt reply. On Monday 18 Aug 2003 23:19:26 -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: > I don't have the demo, but I just tried running the full version of q3a > and it started up just fine. Yeah, there's a point release for Q3A full version which apparently fixes some bugs, perhap

Re: startx doesn't work

2003-08-18 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 23:22, Leandro Patrón Rizzo wrote: > Sorry. > I forget the log. > cheers It looks like it might be a problem with the framebuffer device. Try setting: Option "UseFBDev" "false" in the Device section of your XF86Config-4. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete yo

startx doesn't work

2003-08-18 Thread Leandro Patrón Rizzo
Sorry. I forget the log. cheers XFree86.0.log Description: application/unknown-content-type-ultraedit.log

Re: SCO identifies code?

2003-08-18 Thread Bijan Soleymani
--qMm9M+Fa2AknHoGS Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 10:21:37PM -0400, Paul Smith wrote: > %% Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >=20 > bs> This makes a lot of sense. I mean if the

startx doesn't work

2003-08-18 Thread Leandro Patrón Rizzo
Hi. I installed debian for first time. After configured it, I typed "startx" and I had a fatal error. (attached) How can I do for fix it? Thanks a lot Leandro -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SCO identifies code?

2003-08-18 Thread Paul Smith
%% John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: jh> Bill Moseley writes: >> What bugs me about SCO's claims is that, at the OS level, there may >> not be that many different ways to do things -- especially when >> talking to hardware. jh> If there is only one way to do it code that does so

Re: Q3Demo Segfault

2003-08-18 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 22:20, Lucas J Barbuto wrote: > Hi List, > > Obviously not a big deal, but I'd really like to run q3demo. It's been > working OK previously (a couple of weeks ago), but recently it's been > segfaulting. I suspect some package was upgraded (I dist-upgrade almost > every day)

Re: SCO identifies code?

2003-08-18 Thread Paul Smith
%% Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: bs> From what I've read on the FSF website their position is that they won't bs> accept any submissions unless they are: bs> a) public domain bs> b) copyright released to the FSF You mean either (a) or (b), of course. That's correct. bs>

Re: OT: Re: rms on debian : background noise

2003-08-18 Thread robert
Ethics. how many of us have ethics? It's funny how people are so into killing our idols when they "betray us". interesting thread. happy birthday debian. I am free. >>He clearly states his principles, and as far as I know he lives by them. That's better than most people can say (including me)

Re: php on command line package?

2003-08-18 Thread Louie Miranda
ah, yeah found it. thanks a lot! --- - Thanks, Louie Miranda - Original Message - From: "Bijan Soleymani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Louie Miranda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Debian-User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 11:47 AM Subject: Re: php on command line package

Re: php on command line package?

2003-08-18 Thread Bijan Soleymani
--vGgW1X5XWziG23Ko Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 09:58:25AM +0800, Louie Miranda wrote: > Do we have a php command line deb package? I believe that is the php-cgi (or is it php4-cgi) package. There's a flag to stop it from spewing

Re: SCO identifies code?

2003-08-18 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 08:56:47PM -0500, Alan Shutko wrote: > Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > This makes a lot of sense. I mean if the FSF hired you to write a > > GPL program, they wouldn't want you to release a proprietary version of > > it after you quit working for them. >

RE: Linux defragmenter?

2003-08-18 Thread Mike Dresser
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: > Like a moron, I requested a read-receipt with the last message I sent. > Sorry! > > However, I did come across a 'defrag' command by doing this: apt-cache > show defrag > > See if that will fix your problems or not. I've never used it, but it > sup

Again with the nvidia...

2003-08-18 Thread Bradley Alexander
Running sid on a 1GHz Athlon-C, 768MB RAM, MSI GeForce4MX, kernel 2.4.21 (self compiled), nvidia-glx/glx-dev version1.0.4349-1, nvidia-kernel version 1.0.4349-3. Previously, I had a GeForce2, and didn't have problems like this, but with the GF4, I do. At the same time, its only occurring with Gnom

Q3Demo Segfault

2003-08-18 Thread Lucas J Barbuto
Hi List, Obviously not a big deal, but I'd really like to run q3demo. It's been working OK previously (a couple of weeks ago), but recently it's been segfaulting. I suspect some package was upgraded (I dist-upgrade almost every day) that's broken it, but I can't (don't know how to) figure out wh

Re: Inspiron laptop, framebuffer console

2003-08-18 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 23:05:34 -0400 Aaron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That sounds like a BIOS problem. I saw it on an Inspiron 8000, when the > > BIOS was upgraded past A17. Reverting to A17 fixed the problem. > > It stopped happening after I switched my BIOS not to do anything when > I close t

Re: OT: Re: rms on debian : background noise

2003-08-18 Thread ben
Ron Johnson wrote: On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 10:40, ben wrote: Rob VanFleet wrote: On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 08:19:37PM -0400, J.F.Gratton wrote: On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 22:07, ben wrote: be fair. if it wasn't for rms, there might very well not be a linux, much less a debian. A zealot is a zealot i

Re: cloning Debian?

2003-08-18 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 14:12:17 -0500 Gregory Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a working system, and want to clone it to a bigger, newer, faster > one, keeping the old one as a backup... > > I looked at a lot of options, (Dolly, G4u, ...) including Cloneit, and > Partimage, but have tro

Re: Inspiron laptop, framebuffer console

2003-08-18 Thread Aaron
On -3181-Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 11:08:00AM -0400, Kevin McKinley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus, > On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 09:42:56 -0400 > Aaron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hey folks- > > > > I finally got a framebuffer console to actually WORK on my Inspiron > > 4100 with its GeForce2 GO under

Re: Printing help, please.

2003-08-18 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 09:20:24 -0500 "Wathen, Metherion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > I am having trouble getting my printer to function under Debian. > First off, my printer is a Lexmark 1020 color inkjet. > I installed Cupsys, cupsys-bsd, and a few other cupsys related packages. > I inst

Re: Newbie Hardware Question

2003-08-18 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 07:23:03 -0400 Hershel Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am about to purchase a new machine on which I hope to install Debian. I > was told by someone that I should insure that the new hardware will be > Linux compatible. I thought that one of Debian's claims to fame is t

Re: Fetchmail stuck on bad messages

2003-08-18 Thread Bijan Soleymani
--VS++wcV0S1rZb1Fb Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 03:22:33AM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 12:12:28AM -0500, Michael D Schleif wrote: > > ...Of course, I need some

Re: rms on debian

2003-08-18 Thread Paul E Condon
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 04:55:36PM +1000, Darryl Barlow wrote: > Obvously we all owe a lot to RMS, but this does not of course mean that we > must agree with him. He is an idealist, and his solution to the problems > raised by "non-free" software are in my view at one extreme of the spectrum.

Re: Building Ati Radeon 9000 module for Debian bf24 Kernel

2003-08-18 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 17:55:23 -0400 lameth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well I actually got the make file pointed to all the right directories, > kernel-headers-2.4.18bf2.4 and the correct drm firectory in > kernel-source-2.4.18. Ran the make.sh script and ended up with this error: > firegl_publi

Re: US crypto export regs

2003-08-18 Thread John Hasler
Karsten M. Self writes: > For "publicly available" encryption source code, the requirement is > notification of intent to export. For software in Debian/main that notification has already been filed and need not be filed again. You can legally export computers with Debian installed on them. -- J

Re: SCO identifies code?

2003-08-18 Thread John Hasler
Bill Moseley writes: > What bugs me about SCO's claims is that, at the OS level, there may not > be that many different ways to do things -- especially when talking to > hardware. If there is only one way to do it code that does so does not get copyright protection. If there are only a few ways t

Re: rms on debian

2003-08-18 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 13:41:30 +0100 Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html > > The disturbing thing, as one of my friends commented recently, is: while > it seems ridiculous on the surface, every time I look at it (once a year > or so) it seems

Re: OT: Re: rms on debian : background noise

2003-08-18 Thread ben
Colin Watson wrote: On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 07:12:01AM -0500, Rob VanFleet wrote: On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 08:19:37PM -0400, J.F.Gratton wrote: A zealot is a zealot is a zealot. He might have been usefull, but past a certain point, constant whining Congratulations, you just joined the 10% of th

Re: OT: Re: rms on debian : background noise

2003-08-18 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 14:03:02 + "Jeff Gratton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > said that RMS is indeed a loser), I'm just saying that RMS shouldn't be > taken at face value anymore, that is all :) I respectfully disagree -- RMS is one of the few people I'm aware of who *should* be taken at face

Re: Linux defragmenter?

2003-08-18 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 08:49:02PM -0500, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: > Like a moron, I requested a read-receipt with the last message I sent. > Sorry! > > However, I did come across a 'defrag' command by doing this: apt-cache > show defrag > > See if that will fix your problems or not. I've never

Re: Problem with X

2003-08-18 Thread Hooman
--- Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > Hooman (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > --- Glenn Howell Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Heya, so here are my default ball park guesses > about > >> your problem. > >> > >> A) Look in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and see if the > >>

Re: Woody & M$ dhcp

2003-08-18 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 11:15:11PM +0100, Mark wrote: > On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 07:17:36PM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi all, > > Got this debian beast running **illegally** on the company network. My > > It would be a good use of your time to get to know the net admins very > well, and g

Re: SCO identifies code?

2003-08-18 Thread Paul Smith
%% Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: bs> This makes a lot of sense. I mean if the FSF hired you to write a bs> GPL program, they wouldn't want you to release a proprietary bs> version of it after you quit working for them. Actually this would not be a problem since the FSF never "

Re: SCO identifies code?

2003-08-18 Thread Alan Shutko
Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This makes a lot of sense. I mean if the FSF hired you to write a > GPL program, they wouldn't want you to release a proprietary version of > it after you quit working for them. Believe it or not, I don't think they'd care. I haven't been hired by th

US crypto export regs (was Re: Use of Debian For Non-Profits)

2003-08-18 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 07:13:34AM -0400, James M. Nugent ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, > > I work with a non-profit in N. Virginia (Computer CORE) that provides > refurbished computers to low-income adults and other non-profits that > use them for various applications. We're currently worki

need djb dnscache init script

2003-08-18 Thread Tom Vier
i've googgled a bunch, but all i've come up w/ are redhat scripts. anyone happen to have a debian version? -- Tom Vier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DSA Key ID 0xE6CB97DA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

php on command line package?

2003-08-18 Thread Louie Miranda
Do we have a php command line deb package? --- - Thanks, Louie Miranda -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SCO identifies code?

2003-08-18 Thread Bill Moseley
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 09:33:03PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > What's more extreme is the view that *any code* you write while being > employed by them is their property. Even code you write in your spare > time. I mean I think to some extent this can be defended especially if > it's in the

RE: Linux defragmenter?

2003-08-18 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
Like a moron, I requested a read-receipt with the last message I sent. Sorry! However, I did come across a 'defrag' command by doing this: apt-cache show defrag See if that will fix your problems or not. I've never used it, but it supposedly works with ext2, minix, and xiafs. -Original Mess

Re: Linux defragmenter?

2003-08-18 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
http://www.suse.co.il/sdb/en/html/ext2frag.html The last sentence from this article pretty much says it all: "Defragmentation is a waste of time" http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-partitiontip.html I also got this quote from IBM developer works: "OK, you may ask, what's the big

Re: Fetchmail stuck on bad messages

2003-08-18 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 12:12:28AM -0500, Michael D Schleif wrote: > ...Of course, I need something to act as MTA; but, what I am > unclear about is that which exim contributes as LDA that cannot -- > readily -- be accomplished via procmail. What are reasons to continue > to use exim -- or equival

SCO System V for Linux WTF!!!

2003-08-18 Thread Bijan Soleymani
--xXmbgvnjoT4axfJE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Hi List, SCO is FUD'ing like a MUD'er: http://www.caldera.com/products/ssvl/ssvl_faq.html "1. Why is SCO creating the SCO System V for Linux product? SCO has a large amount of intellectual property i

Re: SCO identifies code?

2003-08-18 Thread Bijan Soleymani
--cWoXeonUoKmBZSoM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 07:51:00PM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 19:36, Bill Moseley wrote: > --snip > > I assume most here agree it's absu

Re: SCO identifies code? - dont sign it

2003-08-18 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 07:51:00PM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > > > Welcome to the wonderful world of 'intellectual property' in the US. > > As an example here: > > > > My previous employer had a contract provision that stated that any and > >

Re: Linux defragmenter?

2003-08-18 Thread Steve Lamb
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 20:23:04 -0500 (CDT) Joel Konkle-Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just realized that I've never heard of a hard drive defragmenter for Linux > (ext2/ext3). Do I really live under a rock, or are they really not used? If > not, why? Google holds the answer. Short form:

Linux defragmenter?

2003-08-18 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
I just realized that I've never heard of a hard drive defragmenter for Linux (ext2/ext3). Do I really live under a rock, or are they really not used? If not, why? -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone [662-518-1636] E-mail[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

alsa: only one process at a time?

2003-08-18 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
I switched from the kernel's built-in OSS sound driver to the ALSA driver in hopes that I can not worry about which process has the sound device open and also not have the overhead of esd or arts. (when trying to play a movie, the combination of the slow video card and the not-fast-by-todays-stand

RE: Joining a windows domain from behind a debian NAT box

2003-08-18 Thread debianlists
Well, no - the debian machine is hooked directly up to the external network. (It's on the same network as the Windows Domain Controller.) Thanks. -- Anand -Original Message- From: John M. Purser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 6:47 PM To: Anand Atreya; [EMAIL PROT

Re: SCO identifies code?

2003-08-18 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 07:51:00PM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > Welcome to the wonderful world of 'intellectual property' in the US. > As an example here: > > My previous employer had a contract provision that stated that any and > all code I write while employed there was owned by the corpo

Re: SCO identifies code?

2003-08-18 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 19:36, Bill Moseley wrote: --snip > I assume most here agree it's absurd to think you can't have "free" > software? Isn't that what SCO is now claiming, that US copyright law > "supercedes(sic) the GPL" -- so you can't write "free" software? Welcome to the wonderful world

Re: rms on debian

2003-08-18 Thread Carl Fink
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 12:38:57AM +0200, Diego Calleja Garc?a wrote: > I don't care about what RMS thinks/uses. But not trying to "ignore" it just > because it has non-free software is.silly? He's not ignoring it, he's disapproving of it. To RMS it's a moral issue, and by distributing non-

SCO identifies code?

2003-08-18 Thread Bill Moseley
I've been off the news for a while, and I was wondering if SCO has provided any details yet of exactly what was supposedly copied into Linux from Unix System V. I then read this: http://www.crn.com/sections/BreakingNews/dailyarchives.asp?ArticleID=43982 -- quote -- The cameras flashed when SCO

Re: Problem with X

2003-08-18 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Hooman (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > --- Glenn Howell Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Heya, so here are my default ball park guesses about >> your problem. >> >> A) Look in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and see if the >> driver for your video >> card is nvidia > > The driver that I selecte

Re: snort on router - risks?

2003-08-18 Thread Marcus Schopen
Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: Quoting Marcus Schopen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi, on my DSL-router (masqurading) at home I'd like to install snort to see who attacks me from the internet side. I know that one should install snort on a seperate hosts before and behind the firewall to get the best resul

Re: placement of partitions on hard drive

2003-08-18 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya "placement" of the partitions is a 25 yr debate .. do you put certain partitions in certain portions of the disk or not ... i like your partition scheme .. but i'd put swap away from / ... and make swap 512MB or 1GB since you have "loads of mp3" swap should be near /mp3 in this ca

Re: cloning Debian?

2003-08-18 Thread Manolis Tzanidakis
[20030818] Gregory Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > I have a working system, and want to clone it to a bigger, newer, faster > one, keeping the old one as a backup... [/snip] [snip] > Any ideas on remedies, or other /better ways to do a remote clone? > I've

Re: Problem with X

2003-08-18 Thread Hooman
--- Glenn Howell Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Heya, so here are my default ball park guesses about > your problem. > > A) Look in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and see if the > driver for your video > card is nvidia The driver that I selected during installation was "nv" which I hope is the same a

KDE 3.1 on Debian: XFree86 Crash (or kdm?) after Logging out with"Login as different User"

2003-08-18 Thread Grand Apeiron
Hi all, i have a weird behaviour i couldnt find any solution for. What i have is KDE 3.1 installed using apt (see below list for deb versions) on a fresh netinstalled debian system. The XFree86 Server Version is 4.2.1 and also installed by apt. I am using kdm for the graphical System Login. kdm ve

Re: /var/lib/dpkg/available a day behind apt

2003-08-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 02:48:58PM +, Lou Losee wrote: > I have seen you 'suggest' this a couple of times now. Would you give a > reference to something that explains why? Thanks. No reference really, but I can explain it to you right now: 'dselect update' runs 'apt-get update' and then upda

placement of partitions on hard drive

2003-08-18 Thread tim truman
hi all, i have a new 80Gb hard drive that i am going to do a fresh install on with seperate partitions for the following: / 250mb /swap 128mb /usr2500mb /var500mb /tmp100mb /home 5000mb and another two dedicated to files called /mp3loads of mb /moo_v loads of mb any s

Re: rms on debian

2003-08-18 Thread Joey Hess
David Fokkema wrote: > What about freedoom.sourceforge.net? Promising but incomplete. With the 0.1 release it may actually be to the point where it's playable. If someone packaged it doom might be able to move out of contrib. -- see shy jo pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

RE: Joining a windows domain from behind a debian NAT box

2003-08-18 Thread John M. Purser
I'd like some more details. Are you connecting to the windows domain via vpn? John Purser -Original Message- From: Anand Atreya [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 3:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Joining a windows domain from behind a debian NAT box Hi, I ha

RE: Samba running under inetd and init.d

2003-08-18 Thread John M. Purser
Thank you. I was going to take a manual approach but yours is certainly the Debian solution so I'll use it. But I'd still like to know HOW it got set up this way. I'm certain I didn't change the start configurations, I simply downloaded the .deb from stable. But I think if it did this to everyon

Re: rms on debian

2003-08-18 Thread Diego Calleja García
El 18 Aug 2003 10:12:13 +0800 Isaac To <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Different people have different opinions, and the fact that www.gnu.org > decided not to have a link to Debian means that the crews in www.gnu.org > agreed to RMS about not having Debian listed is a good idea, even though GNU

Re: cloning Debian?

2003-08-18 Thread Damien Solley
On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 05:12, Gregory Guthrie wrote: > I have a working system, and want to clone it to a bigger, newer, faster > one, keeping the old one as a backup... > > I looked at a lot of options, (Dolly, G4u, ...) including Cloneit, and > Partimage, but have trouble with both. > > Clonei

Re: Woody & M$ dhcp

2003-08-18 Thread Mark
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 07:17:36PM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > Got this debian beast running **illegally** on the company network. My It would be a good use of your time to get to know the net admins very well, and get some more formal agreement that you can have the machine there.

Help: procmail ignoring .procmailrc files in user dirs

2003-08-18 Thread Brad Wright
Hello. I'm running procmail v3.22 with postfix on Debian. My problem: The recipes in the main /etc/procmailrc file work fine but I also have some .procmailrc files in individual user directories (for invoking spamassassin, etc). As far as I can tell, procmail is ignoring these files. No procmai

Re: No sound under Flash

2003-08-18 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 01:53:00PM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > > Please specify which browser you are using. If you > > are using mozilla > > then you get to choose how sound will be handled > > during configuration. > > > > dpkg-reconfigure mozilla > > > > should ask you which program you want

Re: mbox--> maildir with getmail, procmail,mutt

2003-08-18 Thread Allan Wind
On 2003-08-18 16:22:35, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > I have this in my ~/.muttrc > > set folder=~/Maildir/ > mailboxes + +.lists +.lists.debian +.lists.hurd +.lists.icebike +.lists.mlug +.spam > set mask="" And if you store things based on sender address, then you only need to maintain .procmailrc.

Re: Building Ati Radeon 9000 module for Debian bf24 Kernel

2003-08-18 Thread lameth
Well I actually got the make file pointed to all the right directories, kernel-headers-2.4.18bf2.4 and the correct drm firectory in kernel-source-2.4.18. Ran the make.sh script and ended up with this error: firegl_public.c:694: redefinition of `__cmpxchg' patch/drivers/char/drm/drmP.h:276: `__cmp

Bizarre one-way network disconnection

2003-08-18 Thread Mark Roach
I have a very strange issue with a samba server running Woody. The server has run just fine for the past 8 months, this just started today. All of a sudden, the server will reject all network communication on eth0, won't respond to pings, no ssh, no samba. (ssh gives the message : No route to host

Joining a windows domain from behind a debian NAT box

2003-08-18 Thread Anand Atreya
Hi, I have a computer running Debian 3.0r1 and doing iptables NAT, serving a Windows XP Pro computer on the internal network? Could someone tell me if its possible for this windows computer to join a windows domain on the external network? If so, do you know what configuration is required on the

80211 question

2003-08-18 Thread Glenn Howell Evans
Hi, i am curious if anyone out there has done much stuff with 80211 packet parsing and knows anything about where this struct may be defined. mod80211hdr_t i got an very cryptic e-mail concerning it and i was wondering if anyone happened to know anything about it. I have failed google thus far an

Re: No sound under Flash

2003-08-18 Thread Marc Shapiro
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 14:55:49 -0400 Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > Please specify which browser you are using. If you > are using mozilla > then you get to choose how sound will be handled > during configuration. > > dpkg-reconfigure mozilla > > should ask you which program you want to handle > soun

Re: Debian Samba Documentation

2003-08-18 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 01:19:35PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I cannot seem to find on debian.org specific documentation, and the LDP > has Samba docs, but I'm looking for specific Debian related materials. The LDP Samba docs are the Debian-spe

Re: Kopete: How to use more like ayttm

2003-08-18 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 10:02:18PM +0200, Nicos Gollan wrote: > On Monday 18 August 2003 20:58, Paul Johnson wrote: > > I'm curious if there's a way to assign more than one account per > > contact in Kopete (http://kopete.kde.org/) as is the norm in Ay

dri with xfree86 4.3 and ati rage mobility M1

2003-08-18 Thread Micha Feigin
Anyone have managed to enable dri with Ati rage mobility M1 or similar (its a rage 128). I loaded the dri module under X and have mtrr, drm, agpart in the kernel but keep getting the message Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0". I load the following modules under X: Load

Re: raid question

2003-08-18 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya rudy On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, Rudy Gevaert wrote: > > I do not want to boot of it. okay... another step in raid-land for a later day to setup > > and more importantly partition type should be F3 ( linux-raid ) insted of > > ext2 or ext3 > > I had already made 3 partions (not in use) on

Re: mbox--> maildir with getmail, procmail,mutt

2003-08-18 Thread Bijan Soleymani
--45Z9DzgjV8m4Oswq Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 04:22:10PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: > On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 06:40:30PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > > You need to set DEFAULT=3

smtp with ssl with balsa

2003-08-18 Thread Micha Feigin
Is it posible to use ssl with balsa? thanx -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: exim does not add domain to outgoing addresses...

2003-08-18 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Just let you know the solution: kmail stored the domain separately from exim...and kmail added silverboxy, only. Changed it there and it works... Thanks, Rainer Am Freitag, 15. August 2003 23:41 schrieb Sven Clasen - Hacki: > On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 11:02:35PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > H

Re: mbox--> maildir with getmail, procmail,mutt

2003-08-18 Thread Matt Price
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 06:40:30PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > You need to set DEFAULT=$HOME/Maildir in .procmailrc. thanks for the hint -- did that. So, I converted everything over and it seems to have mostly gone well, except that mutt seems to be poorly configured now. I can't s

Re: Kopete: How to use more like ayttm

2003-08-18 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Monday 18 August 2003 20:58, Paul Johnson wrote: > I'm curious if there's a way to assign more than one account per > contact in Kopete (http://kopete.kde.org/) as is the norm in Ayttm > (http://ayttm.sourceforge.net/). Anybody succeed in doing this? In a contact's context menu, you can add it

Re: emacs & spell checking broke

2003-08-18 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 23:09:52 -0700 Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Since aspell, evidently supersedes ispell, now emacs does not spell > > check, complaining about not finding ispell. > > Aspell should coexist nicely with ispell. It doesn't supersede it in > any way (except perhaps i

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