KDE 3.2 - Where is the previus "The Matrix" Screensaver ?

2004-03-10 Thread Hervé Piedvache
Hi, Why in the v3.2.1 of KDE in Debian, we have lost the "The Matrix" screensaver we had before ... this version can't be configured and seems to be just a fixed animation ... ?? Where can I find the original version ?? Thanks and regards, -- Bill Footcow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: newbie to Linux (Debian).

2004-03-10 Thread Adam Funk
On Thursday 11 March 2004 04:20, Frank J Bivings wrote: > Linux 3.0 and, during the install I included XFree86. > > Upon booting it I get an error stating that: > > "I cannot start the Xserver (your graphical interface), it is > likely that it is not setup correctly. Would you like to view > the

Re: cyrus authentication WITHOUT /etc/passwd

2004-03-10 Thread Kai Grossjohann
Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > maybe SASL is what i'm looking for? not sure... (i installed > libsasl7 but there are dozens of other sasl packages to choose > from as well...?) Found it. It's the settings sasl_pwcheck_method and sasl_auxprop_plugin in /etc/imapd.conf if you're runni

Re: cyrus authentication WITHOUT /etc/passwd

2004-03-10 Thread Kai Grossjohann
Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > maybe SASL is what i'm looking for? not sure... (i installed > libsasl7 but there are dozens of other sasl packages to choose > from as well...?) Yes, you need to tell Cyrus to authenticate against sasl. IIRC, this is automatic for the Cyrus 2 Debian p

iptables script absent in Sarge?

2004-03-10 Thread H. S.
I installed Sarge using the new installer (the new install is a *much much* better version now:) I was setting up my home network on Debian and noticed that there is not /etc/init.d/rc.iptables or some similar script (that used to there when I had installed Woody and dist-upgraded to Sarge a f

Re: clamav backport install

2004-03-10 Thread Joost De Cock
On Wednesday 10 March 2004 17:35, Rick Weinbender shoved this in my mailbox: > Hi, > I recently installed clam anti-virus from the backport > at www.backports.org. > Has anyone gone thru this backport install and lived to tell > about it? :-) I must be missing something? (brains perhaps) > If so,

Re: newbie to Linux (Debian).

2004-03-10 Thread Mike M
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 09:24:29PM -0700, Lucas Albers wrote: > > Frank J Bivings said: > > I am a complete newbie to Linux (Debian). I thought it would be a > > good way to get around the glut of Windows. > > > > I am having problems with the graphics card. I installed Debian > > Linux 3.0 and, d

Re: After XFree/KDE upgrades fonts shrunk about 5 points

2004-03-10 Thread Brad Sims
On Wednesday 10 March 2004 11:24 pm, Brad Sims wrote: > I did this: > DisplaySize     382 279 > (my screen is 15" horz x 11" vert > but nothing... > Am I doing it wrong? Got it I wanted DisplaySize 260 195 1024 /100 dpi is 10.24" or 260 mm So just for the archives the formula for screen size

Re: After XFree/KDE upgrades fonts shrunk about 5 points

2004-03-10 Thread Brad Sims
On Wednesday 10 March 2004 8:09 pm, Josh Metzler wrote: > I recommend > setting the DisplaySize parameter in the Monitor section in your > XF86Config-4.  This will result in X setting the true dpi of your monitor. > I did this: DisplaySize 382 279 (my screen is 15" horz x 11" vert but nothin

Perl interface to APT

2004-03-10 Thread Rajkumar S
Hi, I want to write a program that will make a web page with a list of all packages that needs to be updated on a particular debian box. I do apt-get update every night from cron, and wants to have access to the apt-get -u upgrade from a web page, for all my servers, in a single page. I am laz

Re: problem with apt-get and 2.4.18 kernel upgrade

2004-03-10 Thread Nelson E. Castillo
Hi. On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 08:24:18PM -0800, Billy Pilgrim wrote: ... > vmlinux-2.4.18-newpmac ... > Package: kernel-patch-2.4.18-powerpc As you can see, the packages names differ. Maybe you don't have a default kernel installed but one you (or someone else) compiled. That's w

problem with apt-get and 2.4.18 kernel upgrade

2004-03-10 Thread Billy Pilgrim
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi all. Last January I received the security announcement that follows. When I tried to use apt-get update and upgrade as always, this was not downloaded. Has anyone else had this problem? I'm pretty sure that I downloaded a kernel security upgrade last Sept. w/o any problems

Re: newbie to Linux (Debian).

2004-03-10 Thread Lucas Albers
Frank J Bivings said: > I am a complete newbie to Linux (Debian). I thought it would be a > good way to get around the glut of Windows. > > I am having problems with the graphics card. I installed Debian > Linux 3.0 and, during the install I included XFree86. > > Upon booting it I get an error sta

Re: Speeding apt by multiple connections

2004-03-10 Thread Lucas Albers
setup a local apt-cacher repository. This drastically speeds up downloads, as it only gets new package lists once per day (per configuration). It saves all previously downloaded apt files to the cache. This is good because: Downloads are a lot faster. You save bandwidth for everyone involved. GCS

newbie to Linux (Debian).

2004-03-10 Thread Frank J Bivings
I hope this is the correct place to state my problem. I have tried the newsgroups but received no response. I am a complete newbie to Linux (Debian). I thought it would be a good way to get around the glut of Windows. I am having problems with the graphics card. I installed Debian Linux 3.0 and,

Re: Network setup problems

2004-03-10 Thread Ken Januski
Thanks Pigeon, I think it will be the trial and error method for ethernet irq over next couple of days. But since I'm not used to running modprobe I want to do a little reading before I start experimenting with this. Ken Pigeon wrote: On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 09:40:06AM -0500, Ken Januski wrot

Re: sound card

2004-03-10 Thread Katipo
Wayne Sitton wrote: I'm looking to buy a high end sound card to do alot of audio editing and such. The Creative SB Audigy2 ZS Platinum Pro seems to have everything I want. I googled to see if there was any mention of wheather or not it will work under linux. If anybody know if this will successf

ut2004demo and OpenAL

2004-03-10 Thread Thomas G
Well as I now see after working on getting unreal2004 working ive run into two problems. One of which I fixed (it being in the center of the two monitors) and the other I did not (not having any sound). I am going to assume it has something to do with that ut2004 uses OpenAL. I use artsd in KDE

konsole not sourcing profile

2004-03-10 Thread developer
when I run konsole in kde it does not use my profile when it starts so like all my aliases are ignored and stuff like that. THe command I am running is: konsole --ls %i %mi -caption "%c" I thought the --ls option solved this but apparently not. ANy thoughts? -thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

udev, scanner and memory stick

2004-03-10 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Installed udev and lost my mouse, stick and scanner. I found the mouse when I started looking around and placed "misc" between /dev and /psaux. But I haven't figured out yet where the stick and the scanner could possibly be. Another question: /etc/fstab doesn't seem to be of much help now. All the

dhcp, dhclient, and g4u

2004-03-10 Thread Mark Gillingham
This is not strictly a Debian question, but I'm not sure what to do and appreciate your advice. I've been using g4u, which boots netBSD and using a dhcp server to connect. I have a bunch of old boxes that have been getting a new image without any problem. I have a bunch of other computers, whic

Re: After XFree/KDE upgrades fonts shrunk about 5 points

2004-03-10 Thread Josh Metzler
On Wednesday 10 March 2004 07:43 pm, Brad Sims wrote: > Any ideas? Gnome fonts share in the shrinkage > > Everything looks normal in /etc... (ie I didn't change anything) KDM no longer includes the -dpi 100 argument in /etc/kde3/kdm/Xservers. So, if you are starting things from KDM, that may be

Re: Re: Xlib: Maximum number of clients reached

2004-03-10 Thread Lucas J Barbuto
In-Reply-To=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Lucas J Barbuto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sender: Lucas J Barbuto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Return-path: Lucas J Barbuto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Again, I've still not solved the problem, it's not just the browser, I encounter the same issue ju

After XFree/KDE upgrades fonts shrunk about 5 points

2004-03-10 Thread Brad Sims
Any ideas? Gnome fonts share in the shrinkage Everything looks normal in /etc... (ie I didn't change anything) -- "Next week, a doctor with a flashlight shows us where sales projections come from." - Dogbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Playing music cds in xmms

2004-03-10 Thread Thomas G
I have the CD player plugin working and I can add cd tracks to the list but when they play they do not send any output. It gets all the track information though. If it helps im using the artsd plugin. Thanks Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

sound card

2004-03-10 Thread Wayne Sitton
I'm looking to buy a high end sound card to do alot of audio editing and such. The Creative SB Audigy2 ZS Platinum Pro seems to have everything I want. I googled to see if there was any mention of wheather or not it will work under linux. If anybody know if this will successfully run under linux

Dell true mobile

2004-03-10 Thread Matthew Joyce
I have a unused Dell Truemobile adaptor (usb). It works on my windows laptop, no problem. Is it possible to get this working with woody do you think ? Matt Children's Cancer Institute Australia http://www.ccia.org.au -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Gnome Crash

2004-03-10 Thread adcarlson
It seems that I have caused Gnome to crash permanently. I had inadvertently dragged a copy of an item from the menu, and put it into the TRASH and then emptied it. At that point Gnome crashed. Any reattepts to login to a Gnome (2.4) setup bringing up a Gnome-panel crash. I've had to resort to K

Mouse lost, solved. Was (Re: udev questions (and answers))

2004-03-10 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 05:57:58PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 03:01:46PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > Thanks to Derrick 'dman' Hudson, I'm now the proud admin of a > > udev-enabled machine. This has raised a few questions over the last few > > days which I have m

Re: setting up virtual IPs 3.0 woody (fixed by 2.4 kernel)

2004-03-10 Thread silver
s> This is my first post to the list and you guessed it, I have a s> question. s> I have debian 3.0 "woody" installed and working but I cannot get s> virtual IPs setup. s> uname -a gives s> Linux adebbox 2.2.20-idepci #1 Sat Apr 20 12:45:19 EST 2002 i686 unknown s> I have tried adding

Re: udev questions (and answers)

2004-03-10 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 03:01:46PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > Thanks to Derrick 'dman' Hudson, I'm now the proud admin of a > udev-enabled machine. This has raised a few questions over the last few > days which I have mostly fixed, with a couple of exceptions. For those > things that I've alre

Re: Disfunctional Mouse in the Non-X Environment

2004-03-10 Thread messmate
On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 01:51:51 -0800 "Clyde Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |After installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 rev 1 "woody" I have not been able to get my mouse to function in the non-X environment (alt-F1). Is there something I did wrong on the install? | |Thanks for your time. | gpm insta

Re: (SOLVED) phpmyadmin: help!

2004-03-10 Thread Joseph
All it was needed was one one in /etc/apache/httpd.conf Include /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf -- Joseph On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 14:46, Joseph wrote: > I'm following this discussion regarding phpmyadmin as I have the same > problem on Debian. I can make it go go. > > Though, it seems to me the prob

Re: Disfunctional Mouse in the Non-X Environment

2004-03-10 Thread Kent West
Clyde Wilson wrote: After installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 rev 1 "woody" I have not been able to get my mouse to function in the non-X environment (alt-F1). Is there something I did wrong on the install? Thanks for your time. You'll need to install gpm, configure it to repeat as "ms3", then "

cyrus authentication WITHOUT /etc/passwd

2004-03-10 Thread Will Trillich
is there a newbie-level HOWTO explaining how to get cyrus to authenticate independently of /etc/passwd? i've got cyrus operating, with imap and pop and webmail (squirrelmail). don't yet have security, except for webmail, and i'd like to keep email users separate from shell logins... there's severa

Re: kernel 2.6.3

2004-03-10 Thread Roy Pluschke
On March 10, 2004 12:56 pm, Niels L. Ellegaard wrote: > la2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I compiled subject. Now i cannot install and compile NVIDIA > > drivers 1.5336, it says: "I cannot find nvidia.ko". Also I > > cannot compile alsa-drivers for my AC'97 codec (I always use > > Intel810): at f

Re: make-kpkg problem

2004-03-10 Thread Steve Mayer
Ritesh, I believe that all this info is held in the stamp-* files in the root of the kernel source. When you do a make-kpkg clean do these files get removed? If not, remove them and try your command again. Steve On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 03:28:21AM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > -BE

Re: make-kpkg problem

2004-03-10 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks for your reply. It was really helpful. One more stupid question. I hit `make-kpkg kernel_image --initrd` later if I hit `make-kpkg kernel_image --initrd - --append_to_version=compact` or anything meaningful I get errors like this: "The changelog

List 'linux-dvb' closed to public posts

2004-03-10 Thread linuxtv-listserver
Sorry, this is a closed list. To subscribe please mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with subject "subscribe linux-dvb". If you get this message even if you _are_ on the list your actual identity differs from the email address you subscribed with. So you have to change one of them, either by adjusting

Disfunctional Mouse in the Non-X Environment

2004-03-10 Thread Clyde Wilson
After installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 rev 1 "woody" I have not been able to get my mouse to function in the non-X environment (alt-F1).  Is there something I did wrong on the install?   Thanks for your time.

Gnome Menu Inconsistency

2004-03-10 Thread Ed Lawson
I have installed unstable on several machines used for desktop units and for some reason on some machines the menu options vary under applications on the top tool bar. Most notable is that on some machines the Debian menu selection at the bottom is empty. the basic install process was essential

Re: Network setup problems

2004-03-10 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 09:40:06AM -0500, Ken Januski wrote: > Pigeon, > > Thanks again for all your work on this. I'm still not successful but > will keep investigating it later today when I get back from work. As > noted below all attempts to change irq of modem with setserial ended up > wit

Re: phpmyadmin: help!

2004-03-10 Thread Joseph
I'm following this discussion regarding phpmyadmin as I have the same problem on Debian. I can make it go go. Though, it seems to me the problem is with the setup. On Mandrake when I installed phpmyadmin all the configuration and setup files were copied to "web root" directory /var/www/admin/ph

newbie: net install via wireless PC card?

2004-03-10 Thread Webster Kelsey
I am trying to install Debian (woody) on an old Thinkpad 560. I have created the rescue, boot and drivers1-4 floppies. My only means of loading stuff on to the laptop are the floppy drive and wireless card. I would like to do a network install. The problem is I can't get the system to recognize

Re: kernel 2.6.3

2004-03-10 Thread Niels L. Ellegaard
la2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I compiled subject. Now i cannot install and compile NVIDIA > drivers 1.5336, it says: "I cannot find nvidia.ko". Also I > cannot compile alsa-drivers for my AC'97 codec (I always use > Intel810): at first I configure them, the write make install > and the compile

prevent um-imapd writing folders to $HOME?

2004-03-10 Thread Benjamin Rutt
I'm running debian unstable, and uw-imapd. Is there any way to prevent uw-imapd from writing its mail folders to $HOME, which clutters up things in the $HOME directory terribly? I'd really like it to put the folders in $HOME/imap-folders etc. I tried reading some notes under /usr/share/doc/libc-

Re: LAN down after installing kernel 2.4.24-1-k7

2004-03-10 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Marc Shapiro (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I am running Sarge, and have been using kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4. I want > to install a newer kernel and decided on 2.4.24-1-k7 (my box has an > Athlon 2000+). After the install, however, I am unable to access the > other box on my home LAN. The re

Re: make-kpkg problem

2004-03-10 Thread Steve Mayer
Ritesh, Edit your /etc/kernel-pkg.conf file and add the following: do_clean:=No Steve On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 01:16:50AM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > Hello all, > One generic problem. I use make-kpkg to recompile kernels and get my kernel > images in .deb . Now everytime the ker

udev questions (and answers)

2004-03-10 Thread Alex Malinovich
Thanks to Derrick 'dman' Hudson, I'm now the proud admin of a udev-enabled machine. This has raised a few questions over the last few days which I have mostly fixed, with a couple of exceptions. For those things that I've already solved, I'll include both the question and the answer for the benefit

Re: ut2004demo

2004-03-10 Thread Thomas G
John Stevenson wrote: All the information you need you already have, but here is a summary of what to do. The following tasks should be done as the root account 1) Shutdown X (gdm,xdm,kdm). 2) Issue the command: nvidia-installer --uninstall The drivers and install files will all be removed fo

Re: clamav backport install

2004-03-10 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 10:35:40AM -0600, Rick Weinbender wrote: > Hi, > I recently installed clam anti-virus from the backport > at www.backports.org. > (system is debian stable running qmail) > Modified my sources.list file to point to backports.org, > then ran 'apt-get install clamav'. > The ins

Re: Computer shut down unexpectedly while unattended.

2004-03-10 Thread Kevin Buhr
Adam Funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > When I got up this morning I found that my computer had > mysteriously powered down overnight around 02:50. There's nothing the least bit suspicious in the logs you gave. It was probably just a power outage. Do you have any reason to believe it was some

Re: Disappearing files ...

2004-03-10 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 10:00:02PM +0200, wrote: > I recently noticed I've got a serious case of missing files on my > gateway/firewall/webserver. Running debsums indicates it is only files > in the /usr/share/doc/ tree that are missing. I've tracked this to [03/Dec/2003:07:58:35 +0200] looking a

OT: Slashdot [Was: installation, Linux source code]

2004-03-10 Thread Kent West
Colin Watson wrote: On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 10:46:12AM -0600, Kent West wrote: Don't you read Slashdot? Good grief, what's the point of reading Slashdot? :) It's such a cesspit, articles and comments both ... Because you get all the viewpoints (even the tin-foil-hat variety) in the com

Disappearing files ...

2004-03-10 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
I recently noticed I've got a serious case of missing files on my gateway/firewall/webserver. Running debsums indicates it is only files in the /usr/share/doc/ tree that are missing. What could have caused all these files to disappear? I remember hearing something about a broken tar in unstable, b

Re: Maintain usb-storage device entries

2004-03-10 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 21:27, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 08:50:21PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > | Is there any way to make usb-storage maintain device names? > > udev. > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev_vs_devfs > > 3) This is

LAN down after installing kernel 2.4.24-1-k7

2004-03-10 Thread Marc Shapiro
I am running Sarge, and have been using kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4. I want to install a newer kernel and decided on 2.4.24-1-k7 (my box has an Athlon 2000+). After the install, however, I am unable to access the other box on my home LAN. The relevent errors at boot (as far as I can tell) are: Confi

Re: XFree86 4.3.0 for woody?

2004-03-10 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from matt zagrabelny: > On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 09:06, Eva Myers wrote: > > I am having difficulties upgrading XFree86 to fix the latest security > > problem on some of my woody machines. The machines I am having > > problems with are running a backport of XFree86 4.3.0, obtained from Is i

setting up virtual IPs 3.0 woody

2004-03-10 Thread silver
Hi, This is my first post to the list and you guessed it, I have a question. I have debian 3.0 "woody" installed and working but I cannot get virtual IPs setup. uname -a gives Linux adebbox 2.2.20-idepci #1 Sat Apr 20 12:45:19 EST 2002 i686 unknown I have tried adding the following to

Re: LDAP tutorial?

2004-03-10 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
I did check out this URL as well as the two that Nelson had mention'd in his reply to your posting. These instructions are for the primary purpose of authentication rather than addressbook features although if done properly both can be accomplished in one step. It's just a matter of making

Re: xmms and sound card configuration

2004-03-10 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 04:33:20PM -0500, Thomas G wrote: > Well my attemps at finding the address of my soundcard (if thats what > its called) are not going as I have planned. > > Sound works within X and with mpg321 how do i find out where my > soundcard is ie. /dev/whateve ... or something li

Re: dpkg: Killed

2004-03-10 Thread Ketil Froyn
On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 13:46, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 01:01:30PM +, Ketil Froyn wrote: > > > > o "apt-get upgrade" worked fine > > o "apt-get install gaim" downloaded packages, but then complained that > >a subprocess was killed unexpectedly > > o "dpkg -i gaim-.deb

Re: spamassassin ?

2004-03-10 Thread S.D.A.
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 12:35:01PM -0600 or thereabouts, John Hasler wrote: > S.D.A. wrote: > > Now, when I'm training SA, I've been using 'sa-learn' as the user that > > reads the mail. However since Exim is run as mail user, should I be > > running 'sa-learn' as mail user? > > Yes. Note that yo

kernel 2.6.3 problem

2004-03-10 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Hi, I'm using Debian sarge. Installing the latest kernel-2.6.3 image from Debian's repository, I get the following annoying messages flooded over my console. It, AFAIK, doesn't harm, but flood the complete screen. Mar 11 01:17:48 server kernel: printk: 3031 messages suppressed. Neighbour table o

Re: Troubleshooting 802.11b wireless

2004-03-10 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Quoting Jonathan Brandmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [snip] > ifup wlan0 reports this: > Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" (8B1A) : > SET failed on device wlan0 ; Operation not supported. > Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) : > SET failed on device wlan0 ; Operation not suppor

Re: Help!!! Woody with PPP 2.4.2 and SASL2 ???

2004-03-10 Thread Darik Horn
Check http://www.backports.org/ and http://www.apt-get.org/ for woody packages with MPPE and SASL2 support. If you wish to teach yourself how to backport packages, then start with the PPP package. It is trivial to make the source package work with the woody debhelpers. Alternatively, it is al

make-kpkg problem

2004-03-10 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Hello all, One generic problem. I use make-kpkg to recompile kernels and get my kernel images in .deb . Now everytime the kernel image is created, make-kpkg seems to clean up the build directory. If I missed something, I'm supposed to start of from the very beginning. Is there any option

Re: ps - complete username

2004-03-10 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from VEGH Karoly: > > pls CC: me, I'm currently offlist. Check the archives then. > atsrvlx03:/opt/dev/tomcat# COLUMNS=76 ps aux | grep ^tom > tomcat- 14137 0.2 0.9 236668 30688 pts/0 S14:37 0:04 /opt/java/cur > > I would like to see the complete username in the ps output. L

Re: OT: Praise of KDE3.2 and Sid's X

2004-03-10 Thread Cristian Gutierrez
Kent West wrote: [...] > Ah-h. In the world of Debian, upgrades just make things better. So > much better than those upgrades in the world of *. So much > better. You were doing so well until... you named it. Ha! -- Cristian Gutierrez http://www.dcc.uchile.cl/~crgu

Help!!! Woody with PPP 2.4.2 and SASL2 ???

2004-03-10 Thread Stefan Drees
Hello, i need some help/ hints with backporting some packages from sid to woody. Primary i want ppp 2.4.2 to test pptp with mppe and sasl2 to test smtp auth. If it works as expected i want to upgrade some debian woody server with these packages/ features. I tried to download the source from unstabl

Computer shut down unexpectedly while unattended.

2004-03-10 Thread Adam Funk
When I got up this morning I found that my computer had mysteriously powered down overnight around 02:50. Here are are the last log entries before it happened. /var/log/syslog Mar 10 02:30:01 garcia /USR/SBIN/CRON[23159]: (root) CMD (test -x /usr/lib/atsar/atsa1 && /usr/lib/atsar/atsa1) Mar 10 0

Re: LDAP tutorial?

2004-03-10 Thread Nelson E. Castillo
Hi. Yesterday I was reading the "LDAP Implementation Cookbook", a "red book" by IBM (available online). I've been reading about LDAP for a few days because I have to decide whether we will use LDAP or not at work. I think it's kinda hard to deploy LDAP because all the background infor

problem with security upgrade on kernel 2.4.18

2004-03-10 Thread Billy Pilgrim
Hi all. Last January I received the security announcement that follows. When I tried to use apt-get update and upgrade as always, this was not downloaded. Has anyone else had this problem? I'm pretty sure that I downloaded a kernel security upgrade last Sept. w/o any problems. Here's what I have i

Re: installation, Linux source code

2004-03-10 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Kent West wrote: jack kinnon wrote: hi folks, Thanks for the info on installation. Am considering using the 'minimal CD' option. It still requires 100+ MB of download. Seems rather big. What's in there? From http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-i386/current/doc/INST

Re: woody synaptic prob

2004-03-10 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi! I have been using synaptic 0.16 with woody. Suddenly, since yesterday, it hangs while "Building dependency tree". All the other apt functions still seem to be working. I find no bugs to this effect. Anybody have a clue? Thanks! Hugo. Apparently nobody using woody has

Re: spamassassin ?

2004-03-10 Thread John Hasler
S.D.A. wrote: > Now, when I'm training SA, I've been using 'sa-learn' as the user that > reads the mail. However since Exim is run as mail user, should I be > running 'sa-learn' as mail user? Yes. Note that you will have to make sure that "mail-user" has permission to read the mail. -- John Hasl

Re: 2.6 on_ac_power anacron APM fix

2004-03-10 Thread Thomas Hood
> I attempted to search the Debian bugs database for this, > and maybe enter this as a bug (with fix), but couldn't get > it to recognize the package name. The on_ac_power script is in the powermgmt-base package. The bug you found has already been fixed in the latest version (1.17) of powermgmt-ba

Re: spamassassin ?

2004-03-10 Thread Sis
On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, S.D.A. wrote: > On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 09:40:36AM -0800 or thereabouts, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 01:19:11PM -0500, S.D.A. wrote: > > > I have Exim running, with spamc activated via Exim (not procmail). > > > > > > Now, when I'm training SA, I've been us

Re: installation, Linux source code

2004-03-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 10:46:12AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Don't you read Slashdot? Good grief, what's the point of reading Slashdot? :) It's such a cesspit, articles and comments both ... -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Troubleshooting 802.11b wireless

2004-03-10 Thread Jonathan Brandmeyer
On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 03:59, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: > Quoting Jonathan Brandmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 00:48, Joe Carey wrote: > > > It's the wrong driver. You're using the driver for an > > > Agere/Proxim/Orinoco card, i.e. "Hermes" on a card built with the > > > Pri

Re: "Yahoo briefcase"-like app?

2004-03-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 09:50:44AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 12:27:21PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > I've set up DAV before; it's inappropriate for this particular usage > > just because of client-side UI. (Most web browsers don't include > > PUT functionality). > > S

XFree86: unresolved symbols in LibGLCore.a

2004-03-10 Thread Rob VanFleet
One of my machines running woody has developed a notion that it should no longer be capable of starting the X server. I made no changes to it, the first report of it came after a user logged out from a successful X session, after which KDM tried to start several times, finally falling back to the

Re: exim - automatic signature

2004-03-10 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 03:20:18PM +, Antony Gelberg wrote: > I'm deploying exim for a customer. Is there any way to automatically > add a signature to all outgoing mail? I've read the docs but as usual, > can't make head nor tail of them. Find

Re: LDAP tutorial?

2004-03-10 Thread S.D.A.
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 03:54:05PM + or thereabouts, Martin Wood wrote: > > i've just been digging into LDAP myself > > try : > > http://aqua.subnet.at/~max/ldap/ > > for a guide to LDAP (and Samba) on woody > > also check out the external resources section on that page for some > other u

Debian auf der CeBit

2004-03-10 Thread Alexander Schmehl
You are visiting the CeBit in Hannover? Then come to hall 6, block B52, Booth 469! Like last year, the Debian Project will be hosted by LinuxLand International GmbH during the CeBit. We will answer questions, help with problems and sign gpg-keys. Beside that, there will be some interesting tal

Re: LDAP tutorial?

2004-03-10 Thread Martin Ellis
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 04:43:45PM +0100, Nicos Gollan wrote: > > Is there any good tutorial on how to set up a very basic LDAP > > server for simple things like keeping an address book? I know On Wednesday 10 March 2004 17:13, Jeremy T. Bouse wrote: > I've been working with LDAP to handle the cen

Re: spamassassin ?

2004-03-10 Thread S.D.A.
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 09:40:36AM -0800 or thereabouts, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 01:19:11PM -0500, S.D.A. wrote: > > I have Exim running, with spamc activated via Exim (not procmail). > > > > Now, when I'm training SA, I've been using 'sa-learn' as the user that reads > > the

Re: Debian and the Desktop use I seem to not be able to find help

2004-03-10 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 08:05:44PM -0500, Thomas G wrote: > I am a windows user attempting to migrate to linux... I love to game... http://www.transgaming.com/ > I know my computer "stuff" but configuring linux programs isnt the > easiest thing...

Re: Keeping unconnected systems updated

2004-03-10 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Kenneth Power (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Note: I am not subscribed. If possible, CC to this address > > Recently I lost my home connection to the Internet, leaving my three > SID machines stranded. At work I have access to an OK connection, and > am allowed to use it for personal use a

Re: "Yahoo briefcase"-like app?

2004-03-10 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 12:27:21PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > I've set up DAV before; it's inappropriate for this > particular usage just because of client-side UI. (Most web > browsers don't include PUT functionality). Since when? All that I've s

Re: "Yahoo briefcase"-like app?

2004-03-10 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 03:52:16PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > Does anyone know of a web application that provides "Yahoo > Briefcase"-like functionality for authenticated users? > Basically, this is a general-purpose storage space to allow > putting

Re: Curious about AOL users and this list

2004-03-10 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 04:07:15PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Kent writes: > > I stand corrected. And surprised. I really thought they were all > > auto-gens. > > I guess they passed the inverse Turing test. - From experience, it seems like everyone

Re: Curious about AOL users and this list

2004-03-10 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 05:12:00PM -0500, Edward Chase wrote: > Anyone got a good guess why many AOL users end up asking non-Debian > questions on this list? I do realize that most AOL users are far from > Internet savy, but how do they end up here?

Re: xmms and sound card configuration

2004-03-10 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 04:33:20PM -0500, Thomas G wrote: > Well my attemps at finding the address of my soundcard (if thats what > its called) are not going as I have planned. > > Sound works within X and with mpg321 how do i find out where my > so

Re: user management

2004-03-10 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 07:22:23PM +0100, Nejc Novak wrote: > I am looking for a user managment tool. I need the following features: > - easy user adding and removing > - first default password option and reset option > - template/mail creation with us

Re: spamassassin ?

2004-03-10 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 08:02:53AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > Perhaps this is drawing a red herring across the trail, but I can't help > wondering why more people don't use spamprobe in preference to > spamassassin. IME spamprobe is easier to set

Re: LDAP tutorial?

2004-03-10 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
I've been working with LDAP to handle the centralized authentication of my home network, and now implimenting at work. While going through the learning curve I found there was really not a lot of good solid documentation on the subject. That's changed a lil as of late, but not by much. I've

Re: spamassassin ?

2004-03-10 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 01:19:11PM -0500, S.D.A. wrote: > I have Exim running, with spamc activated via Exim (not procmail). > > Now, when I'm training SA, I've been using 'sa-learn' as the user that reads > the mail. However since Exim is run as mail

Re: XFree86 4.3.0 for woody?

2004-03-10 Thread tony mollica
You can also check www.apt-get.org. I used one from there, but I can't remember which one. tony On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 07:06, Eva Myers wrote: > I am having difficulties upgrading XFree86 to fix the latest security > problem on some of my woody machines. The machines I am having > problems wit

Re: make-kpkg and signing program

2004-03-10 Thread matt zagrabelny
On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 23:19, Jonathan Brandmeyer wrote: > On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 23:51, matt zagrabelny wrote: > > hello, > > > > ive just make a kernel package and nvidia module package via > > > > $ fakeroot make-kpkg --append-to-version kernel_image modules > > > > i get an error afterwords: >

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