Disabling access to SSH

2004-11-15 Thread Mark Maas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi All, I'm trying to restrict access to my ssh server from the outside to allow only two IP adresses and the internal lan ofcourse. And deny access to everyone else. People are trying the guess a username and password tactic a little too much to my lik

Where can I find the program supervgatextmode

2004-11-15 Thread Sean
The subject line says it all, I did apt-get install supervgatextmode, nothing. Then I did apt-cache search supervgatextmode, nothing. I found nothing on google except references to it on email lists and no links to source, debs, docs, etc with further info on this program. Thanks Sean --

testing to sarge

2004-11-15 Thread RituRaj
How to avoid problems when "testing" becomes "sarge" when using apt-get? Someone suggested using "sarge" instead of "tesing" in sources.list. It dows not work! Please do let me know deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main deb ftp://ftp.iitm.ac.in/debian/ testing main deb-src ftp://ft

Re: Antivirus/Antispyware/Antiadware for linux?

2004-11-15 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Juha Siltala wrote: > On 2004-11-16, Shawn McCuan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Are there any good open source AntiVirus, Spyware, Adware programs for > > linux? I have just recentley decided to make a total switch to Linux. I Yes. http://www.clamav.net (packaged in sarge

Re: Will Debian grow and stay?

2004-11-15 Thread James Foster
> 1. The volunteers decided that there should be some financial reward for > their work. They could accept an offer by a well established enterprise to > 'buy' over their work or they could collectively decide to form a > corporation. This can't happen on most packages (the exception is "non-free

Re: Will Debian grow and stay?

2004-11-15 Thread Brian Nelson
On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 07:41:04AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > I believe that the only things left in non-us are programs that infringe US > patents. No, software that cannot be distributed because of patents (e.g. lame) is not included in Debian. AFAIK, non-us is not used for anything anymore.

Re: boot failure

2004-11-15 Thread Dan Davison
On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Kent West wrote: My / is on hda5 and /boot is on hda3 (another ext2 partition). I still can't get the boot partition to mount in such a way that lilo can open/write stuff to it. So I've taken your option of pasting file contents and the results of some commands. etc/lilo.conf

Re: Will Debian grow and stay?

2004-11-15 Thread cr
On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 02:41, John Hasler wrote: > cr writes: > > In very general terms - as I understand it the restriction is the US ban > > on the export of 'encryption software'. > > That was dropped years ago. > > > How Micro$oft get around it I don't know, maybe they've just got big > > lawyers

Re: Multiple Hard Drives

2004-11-15 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 01:12:55 -0500 Shawn McCuan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: normal output.. is this already formatted? If it is, do you want to keep the information on it. If it's not formatted, the you will need to format, using fdisk Hit "m" to get to the menu, and select "p" to see how it curre

DHCP to multiple virtual interfaces on one network interface

2004-11-15 Thread Werner Otto
Hi All, I have a project, whereby I need to test multiple connections to a wireless access point. The AP redirects the client request back to another DHCP server via DHCP-Relay. Enough background. I need to issue multiple requests from my wireless interface to a single AP. The AP will then get th

Re: Antivirus/Antispyware/Antiadware for linux?

2004-11-15 Thread Juha Siltala
On 2004-11-16, Shawn McCuan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are there any good open source AntiVirus, Spyware, Adware programs for > linux? I have just recentley decided to make a total switch to Linux. I > want to make sure that i keep my system free of these types of "annoyances." Linux doesn't s

Re: Multiple Hard Drives

2004-11-15 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 00:46:01 -0500 Shawn McCuan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Debian does show your second hard drive, look for; > hdb: MAXTOR 6L040J2, ATA DISK drive below. in a shell type -> sudo fdisk /dev/hdb and see what it states. Is this formatted for linux or windos? > I typed in dmesg in

Re: Multiple Hard Drives

2004-11-15 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 00:25:36 -0500 Shawn McCuan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yet another question from me. I have two maxtor hardrives, but, debian > isnt even showing that I have a second hard drive. I want to format > the second hardrive to EXT3 so its compatible with the OS, but, if its > not s

Re: Configuring X/Xfree86 for higher resolution....

2004-11-15 Thread Salvatore Bonaccorso
Hi On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 11:11:16PM -0500, Shawn McCuan wrote: > Hi; > I cannot remember what to type in my shell to bring up the xfree86 > configuration tool so I can set my resolution higher than the current > 800x600 that is driving me insane. Ive tried > > xfree86 --config > xfree86config

Re: Debian and spam

2004-11-15 Thread Johan Kullstam
Joao Clemente <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > William Ballard wrote: > > Including "nospam" in your email name helps a lot. > > And how do you subscribe to the list with "nospam" in the e-mail > address?!? You'll never receive an e-mail to that address! You could make a username with "nospam" in i

Multiple Hard Drives

2004-11-15 Thread Shawn McCuan
Yet another question from me. I have two maxtor hardrives, but, debian isnt even showing that I have a second hard drive. I want to format the second hardrive to EXT3 so its compatible with the OS, but, if its not showing up anywhere that I can see, what should I do? Thanks; Shawn McCuan A linu

konqueror and supported protocols

2004-11-15 Thread John L Fjellstad
Is there a way to list which protocols are supported by konqueror and what the keywords are? For instance, I was trying to figure out what the keyword for ssh browsing in konqueror was (fish, for those who would be interested), and couldn't figure it out. None of the help pages said anything. Fi

Antivirus/Antispyware/Antiadware for linux?

2004-11-15 Thread Shawn McCuan
Are there any good open source AntiVirus, Spyware, Adware programs for linux? I have just recentley decided to make a total switch to Linux. I want to make sure that i keep my system free of these types of "annoyances." Thanks, Shawn McCuan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Re: boot failure

2004-11-15 Thread Kent West
Dan Davison wrote: OK thanks a lot for helpful advice (Kent and other two repliers). Knoppix is downloaded and running. One current problem: I haven't got to run lilo under knoppix, because it won't recognise the location of the boot partition (specified as /dev/hda3 in lilo.conf). I have mounted a

Re: binding 2 or more IP addresses to one interface?

2004-11-15 Thread Jacob S
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 15:32:22 +1100 Ivan Wills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > I want to set up apache with some virtual hosts with different IP > addresses and only have one NIC in the machine. Does any know how to > bind more than one IP address to a NIC? It's pretty easy, actually. Assuming

Re: binding 2 or more IP addresses to one interface?

2004-11-15 Thread Mark Lanett
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/IP-Alias/ Mark L. Ivan Wills wrote: :: Hi :: I want to set up apache with some virtual hosts with different IP :: addresses and only have one NIC in the machine. Does any know how to :: bind more than one IP address to a NIC? :: :: Thanks :: Ivan :: :: -- :: ,

udev not working properly anymore (?)

2004-11-15 Thread H. S.
I have a rules files for udev on updated Sarge and Sid systems. When I inserted my USB stick into the port or each computer, the icon did not appear on desktop. In Sarge, I had to mount the stick manually using the mount command and Sid just hanged. This problem came completely out of the blue.

binding 2 or more IP addresses to one interface?

2004-11-15 Thread Ivan Wills
Hi I want to set up apache with some virtual hosts with different IP addresses and only have one NIC in the machine. Does any know how to bind more than one IP address to a NIC? Thanks Ivan -- ,###' *##/ Ivan Wills ,*##' Home Page : .*##)Email : [EMAIL PROTECTE

Sarge Base install not chipper

2004-11-15 Thread Eric Scott
Yo; I just downloaded disc 1 of Sarge (Kernal 2.4.27) the other day and went through the base system installation. I went into the bootloader (GRUB from my dual-booted SuSE 9.1 installation), selected Debian (Set to boot from /vmlinuz on the debian partition), and hit enter... the screen goes

Re: Configuring X/Xfree86 for higher resolution....

2004-11-15 Thread Allan Wind
On 2004-11-15T23:11:16-0500, Shawn McCuan wrote: > I cannot remember what to type in my shell to bring up the xfree86 > configuration tool so I can set my resolution higher than the current > 800x600 that is driving me insane. Ive tried > > xfree86 --config > xfree86config xf86config, or you ca

Unidentified subject!

2004-11-15 Thread j64669
On (15/11/04 21:05), roby wrote: > Subject: Re: linux-wlan-ng on kernel 2.6? > Friedemann Schorer wrote: > > > ... it contains a prism2 chipset and needs > > linux-wlan-ng to work properly. ... the build fails > > continually ... > > Is there somenone who can help me in this? > > > I had the same

Configuring X/Xfree86 for higher resolution....

2004-11-15 Thread Shawn McCuan
Hi; I cannot remember what to type in my shell to bring up the xfree86 configuration tool so I can set my resolution higher than the current 800x600 that is driving me insane. Ive tried xfree86 --config xfree86config And I belive it is something similar to those, but, im not sure which! Help ple

Re: Icwem

2004-11-15 Thread Erik Jakobsen
Robert Storey wrote: Glad the problem was solved, but another neat trick for getting bigger fonts in your application menus is to start X like this: startx -- -dpi 100 I like it so much that I even made this an alias in my .bashrc and .bash_profile: alias startx='startx -- -dpi 100' You don't h

Re: [OT] Printing hardcopy from an application

2004-11-15 Thread Brad Sims
On Sunday 14 November 2004 3:43 pm, David wrote: > That would work quite nicely, but I would like to do a wee bit of text > formatting.  I would like to change my font sizes in a place or two, > and, just guessing, you couldn't do that with a2ps, could you?  (I've > never used it to know.) You can

Simplest possible accept Outlook appointments client

2004-11-15 Thread William Ballard
I know that the "accept" and "deny" replies for Outlook appointments are just specially formatted regular email messages, so I could probably accept an Outlook appointment from Mutt. But is there a program in Debian that can help me? I will install evolution and/or korganizer for now but I don

Re: Firewall on DSL router - good enough?

2004-11-15 Thread Micha Feigin
At Tue, 16 Nov 2004 12:39:04 +1100, Davor_Balder/FOAMS/PACBRANDS/[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have recently acquired a router/dsl modem with built-in firewall > (according to manufacturers technical documentation) and am planning to use > it with my Debian box. > > I have noticed t

Re: linux-wlan-ng on kernel 2.6?

2004-11-15 Thread roby
Friedemann Schorer wrote: > HI :-) > Recently I bought me an USB WLAN device which was reported to work under > Linux - now I found out that it contains a prism2 chipset and needs > linux-wlan-ng to work properly. OK, I thought and installed > linux-wlan-ng-doc. Alas, although I followed the instr

Re: Firewall on DSL router - good enough?

2004-11-15 Thread Jacob S
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 12:39:04 +1100 Davor_Balder/FOAMS/PACBRANDS/[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > > I have recently acquired a router/dsl modem with built-in firewall > (according to manufacturers technical documentation) and am planning > to use it with my Debian box. > > I have noticed ther

Re: Firewall on DSL router - good enough?

2004-11-15 Thread Robert Vangel
Davor_Balder/FOAMS/PACBRANDS/[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have recently acquired a router/dsl modem with built-in firewall (according to manufacturers technical documentation) and am planning to use it with my Debian box. I have noticed there is a firewall built in as well as NAT and a few ot

Firewall on DSL router - good enough?

2004-11-15 Thread Davor_Balder/FOAMS/PACBRANDS/PACDUN
Hi all, I have recently acquired a router/dsl modem with built-in firewall (according to manufacturers technical documentation) and am planning to use it with my Debian box. I have noticed there is a firewall built in as well as NAT and a few other bits and pieces. Google search revealed there a

Re: Flash key question.

2004-11-15 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 06:47:25PM -0600, Jeremy Turner wrote: > On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 03:56:12PM -0700, Walt L. Williams wrote: > > The 2.6.8 kernel. At least I thing its the .8 edition of the > > 2.6 version. > > Try http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Flash-Memory-HOWTO/linux-2.6.html

Re: Firefox 1.0-2 crashes

2004-11-15 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 10:46:10PM +0100, Marc Reich wrote: > > I'm running debian testing and just installed mozilla-firefox-1.0-2 from > the unstable branch. The problem now is that firefox reproducibly > crashes when reading some sites - this is a behaviour version 0.9.3 also > s

bootup question

2004-11-15 Thread Kevin Mark
Hi Folks, I am using sid, 2.6.8, and Windowmaker. I am trying to find out where wmaker stores its startup configs -- the icon prefs, the programs it starts, the preferncs for the windows -- window size, placement, maximize. Does anyone know about this? Also, where can I read about the files that a

Re: Flash key question.

2004-11-15 Thread Walt L. Williams
Oh Cool!! I don't recall seeing this howto before. I supose I should have looked here before I aksed the group. (I supose some saying "Ya Aha, see!") On Monday November 15 2004 5:47 pm, Jeremy Turner wrote: > On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 03:56:12PM -0700, Walt L. Williams wrote: > > The 2.6.8 kernel

Re: Flash key question.

2004-11-15 Thread Jeremy Turner
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 03:56:12PM -0700, Walt L. Williams wrote: > The 2.6.8 kernel. At least I thing its the .8 edition of the > 2.6 version. Try http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Flash-Memory-HOWTO/linux-2.6.html It worked great for me. Jeremy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: boot failure

2004-11-15 Thread Dan Davison
On Sun, 14 Nov 2004, Kent West wrote: > Dan Davison wrote: > > >Any help with the following would be much appreciated: I was attempting to > >update a kernel from 2.2.20 to 2.6.8 and it seems now that neither of the > >kernel links in the lilo menu will boot. Both exit with the same kernel > >pan

Re: DHCP on two interfaces

2004-11-15 Thread Rob Sims
On Saturday 13 November 2004 05:49 am, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: > I have to local interfaces, eth0 (192.168.1.1) and wlan0 > (192.168.2.1). There's also an isdn interface (ippp0) connected to > the outside world. > > I want DHCP to serve IPs and stuff on the two local interfaces. The > problem now

Re: OT usb-mass-storage WAS Re: why debian

2004-11-15 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 20:10:08 +0100, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > ide: primary master = /dev/hdascsi: 1st scsi drive = /dev/sda > ide: primary slave= /dev/hdbscsi: 2nd scsi drive = /dev/sdb > ide: secondary master = /dev/hdcscsi: 3rd scsi drive = /dev/sdc > ide: secondary slave = /dev

Re: Firefox 1.0-2 crashes

2004-11-15 Thread Marc Reich
Andrea, thank you for your fast reply. Andrea Vettorello wrote: On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 22:46:10 +0100, Marc Reich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [..] Have you tried what is suggested in the Debian Firefox documentation? Practically, if you used a previous version, try moving out your ~/.mozilla/firefox se

Re: Flash key question.

2004-11-15 Thread Walt L. Williams
The 2.6.8 kernel. At least I thing its the .8 edition of the 2.6 version. On Monday November 15 2004 2:56 pm, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 02:48:05PM -0700, Walt L. Williams wrote: > > Hopefully this will be a simple question. > > > > How can I configure my debian system to

Re: linux-wlan-ng on kernel 2.6?

2004-11-15 Thread David Goodenough
On Monday 15 November 2004 22:14, Friedemann Schorer wrote: > HI :-) > Recently I bought me an USB WLAN device which was reported to work under > Linux - now I found out that it contains a prism2 chipset and needs > linux-wlan-ng to work properly. OK, I thought and installed > linux-wlan-ng-doc. Al

Re: automatic printer recognition

2004-11-15 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 03:48:33PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > Marc Wilson wrote: > >Ah, you run CUPS. As long as the Mac is running OS X 10.3.something, tell > >the Mac to share its printer(s). Your copy of CUPS on your laptop will > >pick up the shared printers from the Mac. > > this assumes th

Re: exim4-daemon-heavy, fetctmail and infected emails

2004-11-15 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jerome BENOIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>I have similar configuration data files: >>>What does happen to the infected email ? >> Just like the site describes, exim rejects it with a 5xx. > > Ok ! > > so what does fetchmail do with thsi infected ma

Re: Search Algorithm

2004-11-15 Thread Sergio Basurto Juarez
--- Eric Gaumer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 12:09 -0800, Sergio Basurto > Juarez wrote: > > First of all thanks for the note, I think I will > use a > > Hashing Table as some one suggest here, becuase in > > this case seems to be more suitable for the > problem, > > why am

Re: Firefox 1.0-2 crashes

2004-11-15 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 10:46:10PM +0100, Marc Reich wrote: > munmap(0xb1829000, 65456) = 0 > open("/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ssee1257.fon", O_RDONLY) = 45 When did something with a .fon extension become a TrueType font? -- Marc Wilson | Delta: We never make the same mistake t

Re: advice on updating kernel image

2004-11-15 Thread Randall Smith
Justin Guerin wrote: On Wednesday 10 November 2004 11:20, Randall Smith wrote: Hi, I need some advice on updating my kernel. I currently have kernel 2.4.25-1 installed from the initial sarge installation and would like to upgrade to the current kernel version (2.4.27). The machine is a DELL POWER

linux-wlan-ng on kernel 2.6?

2004-11-15 Thread Friedemann Schorer
HI :-) Recently I bought me an USB WLAN device which was reported to work under Linux - now I found out that it contains a prism2 chipset and needs linux-wlan-ng to work properly. OK, I thought and installed linux-wlan-ng-doc. Alas, although I followed the instrutions in /usr/share/doc/linux-wlna-n

Re: Firefox 1.0-2 crashes

2004-11-15 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 22:46:10 +0100, Marc Reich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear all, > > I'm running debian testing and just installed mozilla-firefox-1.0-2 from > the unstable branch. The problem now is that firefox reproducibly > crashes when reading some sites - this is a behaviour version 0.9

Re: why debian

2004-11-15 Thread Brian Pack
On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 17:51 +, Matt Johnson wrote: > --- Mark Crean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Steve Lamb wrote: > > [snip] > > > Still, as I've just wiped off Debian in favour of > > SuSe 9.2, at least for > > the time being, I've no longer a place here so am > > signing off. > > > >

Re: Search Algorithm

2004-11-15 Thread Eric Gaumer
On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 12:09 -0800, Sergio Basurto Juarez wrote: > First of all thanks for the note, I think I will use a > Hashing Table as some one suggest here, becuase in > this case seems to be more suitable for the problem, > why am so worry about speed, is becuase is a web > application in ph

Re: apt .v. aptitude (was Re: how to remove exim4 without removing mysql-server?)

2004-11-15 Thread Wayne Topa
Steve Lamb([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Marc Wilson wrote: > >Try it... put a package on hold with the normal tools (dpkg, dselect), then > > Hrm, works fine here. Of course it helps to note that my "normal > tools" is aptitude. If one is using aptitude why would one b

Firefox 1.0-2 crashes

2004-11-15 Thread Marc Reich
Dear all, I'm running debian testing and just installed mozilla-firefox-1.0-2 from the unstable branch. The problem now is that firefox reproducibly crashes when reading some sites - this is a behaviour version 0.9.3 also showed and that leads to the conclusion that something could be wrong with my

Re: Flash key question.

2004-11-15 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 02:48:05PM -0700, Walt L. Williams wrote: > Hopefully this will be a simple question. > > How can I configure my debian system to > read my USB flash key (drive)? > > Under SuSE, the system saw the device > as a SCSI device and worked quite > well. > > I am using a very r

Re: apt .v. aptitude (was Re: how to remove exim4 without removing mysql-server?)

2004-11-15 Thread Brian Nelson
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 11:26:07AM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 11:14:54AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > So, is the consensus to stick with 'apt'? Or at least to choose one and > > stick with that and not to mix apt and aptitude (it sounds to me as though > > Marc is sa

Re: Flash key question.

2004-11-15 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Walt L. Williams_, on 15/11/04 16:48,typed: Hopefully this will be a simple question. How can I configure my debian system to read my USB flash key (drive)? Under SuSE, the system saw the device as a SCSI device and worked quite well. I am using a very recently downloaded version of S

Flash key question.

2004-11-15 Thread Walt L. Williams
Hopefully this will be a simple question. How can I configure my debian system to read my USB flash key (drive)? Under SuSE, the system saw the device as a SCSI device and worked quite well. I am using a very recently downloaded version of Sarge testing on an AMD based PC. I can provide more s

Scrolling chirps while playing sound!

2004-11-15 Thread Adam Funk
Whenever I'm playing sound files (using xmms, grip and other applications), the computer adds very short interruptions to the sound when lines scroll on any visible application. So if I have something spewing a lot of output to an xterm, it chirps a lot if the whole xterm is visible; not at all if

change of hostname and fqdn

2004-11-15 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
What configuration files need to be changed when performing a change of hostname and fqdn in a basically setup debian box? Problem: I am planning to get a debian dedicated hosting service, they make a basic woody installation, but probably they will call it debian following the default name. For th

Re: apt .v. aptitude (was Re: how to remove exim4 without removing mysql-server?)

2004-11-15 Thread Brian Nelson
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 11:52:19AM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 07:21:34PM +, Chris Lale wrote: > > On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 16:00, Jon Dowland wrote: > > > On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 14:21:54 + (GMT), Thomas Adam > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > I can see no adv

Re: why debian

2004-11-15 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Chris Lale wrote: On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 15:44, Freddy Freeloader wrote: William Ballard wrote: I'd have to say that anyone who says this distro isn't user friendly enough for just about anyone to use is wrong. I built a Debian box for a friend of mine who is about as computer illitera

Re: automatic printer recognition

2004-11-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 15:48 -0500, Matt Price wrote: > Marc Wilson wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 02:51:28PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: [snip] > > ... so... maybe my problem is solved. but is there any possiblity at > all of a package that scans (usb| parport) & tries to match the printers >

Re: apt .v. aptitude (was Re: how to remove exim4 without removing mysql-server?)

2004-11-15 Thread Chris Lale
On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 20:04, Wim De Smet wrote: > On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 11:26:07 -0800, Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 11:14:54AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > What *dpkg* does is the standard. If aptitude doesn't honor it, it's > > broken. If aptitude

Re: Debain woody install with a Megaraid 320-2

2004-11-15 Thread Sergio Basurto Juarez
--- Brian Schrock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > > > I have a Supermicro server with an LSI Megaraid > 320-2 that I am trying to > install Debian Woody on. The standard boot images > are not able to recognize > the Megaraid SCSI controller so I am unable to > install debian on it. >

Re: automatic printer recognition

2004-11-15 Thread Matt Price
Marc Wilson wrote: On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 02:51:28PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: I would like to be able to just plug in the printer on my USB port & print; I don't have any other reliable way of getting data into the printer (no cd-burner, mac's have no disk drives). Macs have disk drives. Zip dri

Re: Sendmail Help..

2004-11-15 Thread Martin Mewes
Hi Sven, Sven Göran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : > I need some help with sendmail.. I am trying to make it write out > some type of information in the message to who the message is for. > I thought I could use the "for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" part in the > message.. There is no "for" part in SMTP af

Sendmail Help..

2004-11-15 Thread Sven Göran
Hello, I need some help with sendmail.. I am trying to make it write out some type of information in the message to who the message is for. I thought I could use the "for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" part in the message.. But it seems that it ignores to write this out if there is more then one recipien

Re: automatic printer recognition

2004-11-15 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 02:51:28PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > I would like to be able to just plug in the printer on > my USB port & print; I don't have any other reliable way of getting > data into the printer (no cd-burner, mac's have no disk drives). Macs have disk drives. Zip drives, floppy d

Re: Icwem

2004-11-15 Thread Robert Storey
Glad the problem was solved, but another neat trick for getting bigger fonts in your application menus is to start X like this: startx -- -dpi 100 I like it so much that I even made this an alias in my .bashrc and .bash_profile: alias startx='startx -- -dpi 100' You don't have to use a dp

Re: apt .v. aptitude (was Re: how to remove exim4 without removing mysql-server?)

2004-11-15 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 09:04:34PM +0100, Wim De Smet wrote: > This is true, but if you only use aptitude it's a minor problem (eg. > you can probably not even set a package on hold without the curses > interface). Oh? Try reading aptitude's man page. The question isn't whether aptitude is featu

firefox printouts have added space after special characters, why?

2004-11-15 Thread andrej hocevar
Hello, I don't know how to solve this annoying problem: when viewing pages with certain characters, such as s or z with carons, they look fine. But when I print them, those characters are added some space on the right (for at least another character's width). Does anyone know how to solve it? Tha

Re: Search Algorithm

2004-11-15 Thread Niels L Ellegaard
On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 10:52:22 -0800 (PST) Sergio Basurto Juarez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To find a key k in an array v with indexes from 0 to > n-1, begin with x0 = 0, x1 = n-1, and i = 1. Compute > the next position with > xi+1 = xi - (v[xi]-k) * (xi - xi-1)/(v[xi] - v[xi-1]). > If this lies o

Debain woody install with a Megaraid 320-2

2004-11-15 Thread Brian Schrock
Hello,   I have a Supermicro server with an LSI Megaraid 320-2 that I am trying to install Debian Woody on. The standard boot images are not able to recognize the Megaraid SCSI controller so I am unable to install debian on it.   Through Google I found the Dell web pages that show some

Re: apt .v. aptitude (was Re: how to remove exim4 without removing mysql-server?)

2004-11-15 Thread Steve Lamb
Wim De Smet wrote: This is true, but if you only use aptitude it's a minor problem (eg. you can probably not even set a package on hold without the curses interface). [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~} aptitude --help aptitude 0.2.15.8 Usage: aptitude [-S fname] [-u|-i] aptitude [options] ... Actions (

Re: apt .v. aptitude (was Re: how to remove exim4 without removing mysql-server?)

2004-11-15 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 21:04 +0100, Wim De Smet wrote: --snip-- > I tried it with dselect, but the first thing dselect did was select a > bunch of packages I didn't want. Does dselect have yet another status > list? In any case, I had the same behaviour (about). Somebody should > patch this one day.

automatic printer recognition

2004-11-15 Thread Matt Price
hi folks, I am going off to a conference where I will have to print a copy of my talk from my laptop (aging i386 debian/sid) to a friend's printer (no idea what the printer model is & no way to find out, attached to a mac running os X). I would like to be able to just plug in the printer on my US

Re: Search Algorithm

2004-11-15 Thread Sergio Basurto Juarez
--- Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 10:25 -0800, Sergio Basurto > Juarez wrote: > > First of all, I want to leave clear that I know > that > > the question that I am asking for, does not have > to do > > with this list, but I dare to ask this question > here > > bec

Re: apt .v. aptitude (was Re: how to remove exim4 without removing mysql-server?)

2004-11-15 Thread Wim De Smet
On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 11:26:07 -0800, Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 11:14:54AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > So, is the consensus to stick with 'apt'? Or at least to choose one and > > stick with that and not to mix apt and aptitude (it sounds to me as though

Re: how to remove exim4 without removing mysql-server?

2004-11-15 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 11:49:33AM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > And no, most of what it can do, you can do from the command line or the > ncurses interface. s/or the ncurses interface// That's what I get for not re-reading before saving. -- Marc Wilson | Paranoids are people, too; they hav

Re: Search Algorithm

2004-11-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 10:25 -0800, Sergio Basurto Juarez wrote: > First of all, I want to leave clear that I know that > the question that I am asking for, does not have to do > with this list, but I dare to ask this question here > because I am sure that here are a lot of good > programming and sc

module system documentation

2004-11-15 Thread Christian Convey
Hey guys, Can anyone recommend a good intro to how the OVERALL scheme of modules works in 2.6 under Debian Sarge? I.e., I'm trying to understand: - the roles and proper use of all of the module-related files under /etc - the mod-related programs - how and when modules get automatically loaded -

Re: apt .v. aptitude (was Re: how to remove exim4 without removing mysql-server?)

2004-11-15 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 07:21:34PM +, Chris Lale wrote: > On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 16:00, Jon Dowland wrote: > > On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 14:21:54 + (GMT), Thomas Adam > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I can see no advantages to using aptitude over apt-get. > > > > If I'm not mistaken, d-i

Re: apt .v. aptitude (was Re: how to remove exim4 without removing mysql-server?)

2004-11-15 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 11:29 -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Marc Wilson wrote: > > Try it... put a package on hold with the normal tools (dpkg, dselect), then > > Hrm, works fine here. Of course it helps to note that my "normal tools" > is aptitude. If one is using aptitude why would one be usi

Re: how to remove exim4 without removing mysql-server?

2004-11-15 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 11:37:58PM +, Brian Nelson wrote: > On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 10:33:32PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > > It ignores the status file in favor of its own re-implementation of it. > > That's not really a problem, other than #137771, which I assume will be > fixed some day. Fi

Re: ctrl-a in firefox

2004-11-15 Thread Matt Price
Simon Huggins wrote: On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 02:26:13PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Create a file named .gtkrc-2.0 in your home directory that reads gtk-key-theme-name = "Emacs" Worked for me, anyway. thanks or the tip. after writing the email I found this on the web,

Re: cd burning problem

2004-11-15 Thread Joris Huizer
Alan Chandler wrote: On Sunday 14 November 2004 15:13, Joris Huizer wrote: I tried kernel 2.6.8 and it worked fine -- but I got myself into a cd burning problem. The first time under kernel 2.6.8 , cdrecord did work, but because of too much business in the computer (other programs running, and the

Re: Java

2004-11-15 Thread Tom Allison
Derek "The Monkey" Wueppelmann wrote: On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 10:12, Tom Allison wrote: I'm trying to get Java running with the firefox browser. I can't seem to find anything under the blackdown packages that will actually work. Seems there are some gcc version problems. I also am not sure what I'

Re: why debian

2004-11-15 Thread Chris Lale
On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 15:44, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > William Ballard wrote: > I'd have to say that anyone who says this distro isn't user friendly > enough for just about anyone to use is wrong. I built a Debian box for > a friend of mine who is about as computer illiterate as anyone I've ev

Re: apt .v. aptitude (was Re: how to remove exim4 without removing mysql-server?)

2004-11-15 Thread Steve Lamb
Marc Wilson wrote: Try it... put a package on hold with the normal tools (dpkg, dselect), then Hrm, works fine here. Of course it helps to note that my "normal tools" is aptitude. If one is using aptitude why would one be using dselect? dpkg I can see when installing third party applicatio

[gknab@asamnet.de: autofs: /etc/init.d/autofs now writes pidfiles

2004-11-15 Thread Günter Knab
Hi there! May be my solution is useful for others ... gk - Forwarded message to Debian Bug Tracking System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Sieve: cmu-sieve 2.0 From: "GXnter Knab" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: aut

Re: apt .v. aptitude (was Re: how to remove exim4 without removing mysql-server?)

2004-11-15 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 11:14:54AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > So, is the consensus to stick with 'apt'? Or at least to choose one and > stick with that and not to mix apt and aptitude (it sounds to me as though > Marc is saying if you mix you'll end up with 2 out of date lists of what > has/

Re: apt .v. aptitude (was Re: how to remove exim4 without removing mysql-server?)

2004-11-15 Thread Chris Lale
On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 16:00, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 14:21:54 + (GMT), Thomas Adam > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I can see no advantages to using aptitude over apt-get. > > If I'm not mistaken, d-i uses aptitude (or maybe its a cut-down fork > or something). If a user in

OT usb-mass-storage WAS Re: why debian

2004-11-15 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
> And this is my favorite. Trying to mount a USB key. There is no usb > key device, like there is one for cdrom. It gets mapped to a scsi > device (for some reason), the first one, because I don't actually have > another scsi on my computer. /dev/sda1, not /dev/sda. Terrific. Except > on my new co

Re: Search Algorithm

2004-11-15 Thread Sergio Basurto Juarez
--- Bojan Baros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sergio Basurto Juarez said: > > First of all, I want to leave clear that I know > that > > the question that I am asking for, does not have > to do > > with this list, but I dare to ask this question > here > > because I am sure that here are a lot of

Re: exim4-daemon-heavy, fetctmail and infected emails

2004-11-15 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Paul Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Not sure about French, but English is read top-down. http://ursine.dyndns.org/Top_Posting Jerome BENOIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I have similar configuration data files: What does happen to the infected email ? Just like the si

Re: why debian

2004-11-15 Thread Alexandru Cabuz
> Just my 2 cents, but trying to make everything relative won't do. There > are plenty of standards by which things can be judged (whether > anti-aliasing, interface design or meringues smothered in strawberry > sauce) though whether someone likes them or not is merely a question of > taste. Some o

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