Re: How to auto start Firestarter?

2006-04-22 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 11:27:42PM -0700, Andy Gower wrote: > Check your /etc/init.d/ folder, is there a file called Firestarter in > there? He said he was running /etc/init.d/firestarter directly in his post, so it seems likely it exists. > There should be a file in there that will automaticall

Re: How to auto start Firestarter?

2006-04-22 Thread Andy Gower
> From: lmyho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > How can I make it auto start at system boot, or the start of GNOME? > What have I done wrong? Check your /etc/init.d/ folder, is there a file called Firestarter in there? There should be a file in there that will automatically start Firestarter everytime you st

Re: would someone shed me light on how to remove a debian pakcage?

2006-04-22 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 11:16:00PM -0700, formless void wrote: > Internal Fact Sheet is the one I can view from Xandros > Network. When are you going to accept that Debian is not Xandros? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PRO

Re: would someone shed me light on how to remove a debian pakcage?

2006-04-22 Thread formless void
Internal Fact Sheet is the one I can view from Xandros Network. At the moment, my XN is not working and I couldn't give you the example. If you have the Xandros installed on your PC, you should be able to get this kind of internal Fact Sheet --- "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: How to auto start Firestarter?

2006-04-22 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 06:37:21PM -0700, lmyho wrote: > I have firestarter installed. However it doesn't automatically start at > system > boot until I manually start it as root after login as reguler user. Is there a symlink to /etc/init.d/firestarter in any of your /etc/rc*.d directories?

Re: distributions: UBUNTU vs DEBIAN

2006-04-22 Thread Steve Lamb
Steve Lamb wrote: > No. I am not advocating that Debian do anything legal. But there is a Of course I meant illegal here, not legal. Oh for the ability to stop sending upon seeing errors like this a split second after hitting send. :) -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your prie

Re: distributions: UBUNTU vs DEBIAN

2006-04-22 Thread Steve Lamb
Joey Hess wrote: > Er, my point is that whinging about Debian's policy not allowing it to > support installing to hardware that needs non-free drivers is pointless > when there are examples of hardware that needs non-free drivers which > Debian has been made to install to just fine. Most of this th

Re: wine installation help needed

2006-04-22 Thread Xplicit Language
--- Kelly Clowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/22/06, Xplicit Language > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i am in need of someone that has installed wine > > before, i also have the choice of using xwine, i > have > > synaptic package manager prepared for the newest > > version of wine, also

Re: distributions: UBUNTU vs DEBIAN

2006-04-22 Thread Steve Lamb
Kent West wrote: > I believe you misunderstand Joey's post. He's not asking for any help. > He's just pointing out to Steve Lamb that Steve has ignored his previous > post, which follows this timeline (as I recall it). I haven't ignored it. I am just not prone to "me too" posts. If I agree w

Re: three questions about debian

2006-04-22 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 11:18:48AM +1000, Star King of the Grape Trees wrote: > It is much, much better to use native programs, then if you can't find > native programs for linux, you may give wine a go. Some people must use > emulators (ie, VMWare), and some (like me) are forever doomed to >

Re: three questions about debian

2006-04-22 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 06:29:08PM -0700, Xplicit Language wrote: > thank you roberto and i did not know that i was being > rude, i will try to remember to bottom post. I think it's a bit extreme to say top posting is ``rude,'' but I would certainly agree that it makes reading posts a bit more di

Re: distributions: UBUNTU vs DEBIAN

2006-04-22 Thread Steve Lamb
Christopher Nelson wrote: > Did you buy it knowing you were going to use it under linux? If so, > it's you problem. If not, the answer's simple--don't give them any more > money and tell us, so we don't give them money until they rectify the > situation. I bought it based on recommendations

Re: distributions: UBUNTU vs DEBIAN

2006-04-22 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 10:08:12PM -0600, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > On 2006-04-22, Steve Lamb penned: > > > > Funny, the #1 point for most people is apt, not the social > > contract. #1 for *you* maybe. > > Who are these most people, and why should it matter to the developers > what "mos

Re: good anti-virus software to use?

2006-04-22 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Michael M. wrote: > > Honestly, Roberto, while I wouldn't dispute the basic contention that > Linux and any other UNIX-based OS's are more secure by design than > flavors of Windows, there is a smugness in the tone of your reply that > bothers me. Most Windows malware that affects desktop users e

RE: newbie gateway question

2006-04-22 Thread David Christensen
Rather than "roll your own", you could use one of the purpose-built firewall/ router Linux distributions. (Such may also exist for (Free|Net|Open)BSD.) I've used both IpCop and Smoothwall; both support various kinds of WAN links, including USB modems: http://www.ipcop.org/ http://smoothw

Re: wine installation help needed

2006-04-22 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 4/22/06, Xplicit Language <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i am in need of someone that has installed wine > before, i also have the choice of using xwine, i have > synaptic package manager prepared for the newest > version of wine, also once it is installed, how will i > install the .exe files? In

Re: distributions: UBUNTU vs DEBIAN

2006-04-22 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2006-04-22, Steve Lamb penned: > > Funny, the #1 point for most people is apt, not the social > contract. #1 for *you* maybe. Who are these most people, and why should it matter to the developers what "most people" want when they're not paying customers? -- monique Help us help you:

Re: good anti-virus software to use?

2006-04-22 Thread Michael M.
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: On Friday 21 April 2006 04:19, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Also linux viruses occur only very seldom -- probably because of linux's different security approach. Could it be because there are less number of desktop users using

Re: distributions: UBUNTU vs DEBIAN

2006-04-22 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2006-04-22, Steve Lamb penned: > > Same drivers installed on Mepis, one mouseclick, not even 5 > minutes. And Mepis is Debian based so there's nothing there > that Debian couldn't do if it wanted to be more than a badge of > pride and actually attempt to address t he userbase ev

Re: distributions: UBUNTU vs DEBIAN

2006-04-22 Thread charles norwood
On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 22:13 -0500, Kent West wrote: > Christopher Nelson wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 07:31:56PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > > >> Christopher Nelson wrote: > >> Major snips > > -- > Kent Thanks Kent. I was lost, and you gave me some light. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: distributions: UBUNTU vs DEBIAN

2006-04-22 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2006-04-23, Christopher Nelson penned: > On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 07:31:56PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: >> Christopher Nelson wrote: >> > I have no idea what post you're talking about since you didn't >> > quote it. >> >> I was referring to my only other post to this thread, namely >> <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: would someone shed me light on how to remove a debian pakcage?

2006-04-22 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
formless void wrote: > --- Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>"Trust the Source, Luke!" >> >> > > > How can I trust it without reason but with so many > doubts? > > For example the internal fact sheet of desktop-base > (0.3.15) doesn't have depends details and make one > wondering if it is au

Re: would someone shed me light on how to remove a debian pakcage?

2006-04-22 Thread formless void
--- Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Trust the Source, Luke!" > > How can I trust it without reason but with so many doubts? For example the internal fact sheet of desktop-base (0.3.15) doesn't have depends details and make one wondering if it is authentic or pathetic. However, the exter

Re: distributions: UBUNTU vs DEBIAN

2006-04-22 Thread Joey Hess
Christopher Nelson wrote: > Okay, after some searching I found it (at: > http://people.debian.org/~terpstra/message/20060421.170836.4a9c52cc.en.html > for the interested) and I'm afraid I cannot comment too much on it. I > also don't know how much useful response you would get here, even if the >

Re: distributions: UBUNTU vs DEBIAN

2006-04-22 Thread Kent West
Christopher Nelson wrote: > On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 07:31:56PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > >> Christopher Nelson wrote: >> >>> I have no idea what post you're talking about since you didn't quote it. >>> >> I was referring to my only other post to this thread, namely >> <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: rpm file

2006-04-22 Thread Joey Hess
Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much) wrote: > From the alien man-page (on Sarge): > > >WARNING > > Despite the high version number, alien is still (and will probably > > always be) rather experimental software. It's been under > > development > > for many years now, but th

Firestarter: how to auto start it?

2006-04-22 Thread lmyho
Can anyone help me how to auto start the firestarter? The firestarter doesn't automatically start at system boot until I manually start it as root after login as reguler user. Following the instruction in FAQ, I modified the sudoers file, and added this line (for regular user jack) into it:

Re: distributions: UBUNTU vs DEBIAN

2006-04-22 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 07:31:56PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Christopher Nelson wrote: > > I have no idea what post you're talking about since you didn't quote it. > > I was referring to my only other post to this thread, namely > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Okay, after some searching I found it (at: ht

Re: would someone shed me light on how to remove a debian pakcage?

2006-04-22 Thread Marty
formless void wrote: Some of the debian packages are not quite sincere and I need to remove them before I can trust them. "Trust the Source, Luke!" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Postfix migration and Kolab?

2006-04-22 Thread Allan Wind
On 2006-04-22T19:07:02-0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Saturday 22 April 2006 14:35, Allan Wind wrote: > > On 2006-04-22T13:32:13-0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > Can it do per-user spamc configs (like dman's old spamassasin setup)? > > > > This would be a spamassasin configuration item for you to lo

Re: would someone shed me light on how to remove a debian pakcage?

2006-04-22 Thread formless void
Thanks Carl for the reply. Some of the debian packages are not quite sincere and I need to remove them before I can trust them. --- Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 07:09:39PM -0700, formless > void wrote: > > from the system? > > I tend to use "apt-get remove ".

wine installation help needed

2006-04-22 Thread Xplicit Language
i am in need of someone that has installed wine before, i also have the choice of using xwine, i have synaptic package manager prepared for the newest version of wine, also once it is installed, how will i install the .exe files? i get this error message for almost everything, with slight differen

Re: Postfix migration and Kolab?

2006-04-22 Thread Paul Johnson
On Saturday 22 April 2006 14:35, Allan Wind wrote: > On 2006-04-22T13:32:13-0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Can it do per-user spamc configs (like dman's old spamassasin setup)? > > This would be a spamassasin configuration item for you to look into, I > don't know off hand. Well, the MTA needs to r

Re: would someone shed me light on how to remove a debian pakcage?

2006-04-22 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 07:09:39PM -0700, formless void wrote: > from the system? I tend to use "apt-get remove ". If you also want to remove configuration files you use "apt-get remove --purge ". If you use aptitude or dselect or some other apt front-end, you'd do it differently. In the end th

Re: Xorg upgrade: xdm fails, xterm can't change fonts?

2006-04-22 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 07:56:39PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > I actually did that before reading your message. I used "dpkg -i > --force-confmiss" because uninstalling x11-common would require removing > every single X program ... cannot allocate color gray50". I tried rxvt, > but it says 'rxvt:

would someone shed me light on how to remove a debian pakcage?

2006-04-22 Thread formless void
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How to auto start Firestarter?

2006-04-22 Thread lmyho
Hello, I have firestarter installed. However it doesn't automatically start at system boot until I manually start it as root after login as reguler user. Following the instruction in FAQ, I modified the sudoers file, and added this line (for regular user jack) into it: jack ALL=NOPASSWD: /us

Re: distributions: UBUNTU vs DEBIAN

2006-04-22 Thread Joey Hess
Christopher Nelson wrote: > I have no idea what post you're talking about since you didn't quote it. I was referring to my only other post to this thread, namely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Onboard Modem

2006-04-22 Thread Fernando Augusto Bender
On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 20:44 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 09:12:46AM -0300, Fernando Augusto Bender wrote: > > On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 09:27 +0100, Chris Lale wrote: > > Hmmm... > > > > That's a good idea. > > I'll consider it as well, so I know there is a way out. :) > >

Re: three questions about debian

2006-04-22 Thread Xplicit Language
--- "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Xplicit Language wrote: > > i was wondering, if i remove or completely remove > > something from synaptic is that uninstalling the > > program or just deleteing the package, and if it > does > > only remove the package, how do i uninstall thi

Re: three questions about debian

2006-04-22 Thread Star King of the Grape Trees
Xplicit Language wrote: i was wondering, if i remove or completely remove something from synaptic is that uninstalling the program or just deleteing the package, and if it does only remove the package, how do i uninstall things like a older version of wine? this help page says that it is best to

Re: three questions about debian

2006-04-22 Thread Star King of the Grape Trees
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Miles Bader wrote: Doofus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: How mature is wine these days? The last time I looked at it (admittedly a long time ago) it was still a windows 3.1 emulator (when 32 bit windows had long been released). It wasn't particularly stable eithe

Re: three questions about debian

2006-04-22 Thread Miles Bader
"Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Out of curiousity, does it still choke on those braindead 16-bit > installers? I recall a couple of years ago trying to install programs > that used a 16-bit installer and having the install utterly fail. No idea, sorry. I've never had problems

Re: Color printers

2006-04-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 00:46 +0100, Doofus wrote: > Tony Godshall wrote: > > >A recent study found that wikipedia's accuracy is almost as > >good as Encyclopedia Britannica. > > > > Doesn't look nearly as fine and dandy on my bookshelves or in my lap > though. ;O) And children can't get lured

Re: three questions about debian

2006-04-22 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Xplicit Language wrote: > i was wondering, if i remove or completely remove > something from synaptic is that uninstalling the > program or just deleteing the package, and if it does > only remove the package, how do i uninstall things > like a older version of wine? this help page says that > it i

Re: three questions about debian

2006-04-22 Thread Xplicit Language
i was wondering, if i remove or completely remove something from synaptic is that uninstalling the program or just deleteing the package, and if it does only remove the package, how do i uninstall things like a older version of wine? this help page says that it is best to uninstall it, lol i'm star

Re: three questions about debian

2006-04-22 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Miles Bader wrote: > Doofus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>How mature is wine these days? The last time I looked at it >>(admittedly a long time ago) it was still a windows 3.1 emulator (when >>32 bit windows had long been released). It wasn't particularly stable >>either. > > > 5 years ago win

Re: Supported Video Cards under Free Software

2006-04-22 Thread Miles Bader
Christopher Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> So... what's the "interesting" stuff in the driver that they're trying >> to protect? Texture management? > > I think the 'interesting' stuff is the nuts and botls of sending data, > because I think they're afraid someone will reverse-engineer thei

Re: Supported Video Cards under Free Software

2006-04-22 Thread John Hasler
Miles writes: > So... what's the "interesting" stuff in the driver that they're trying to > protect? Texture management? Several different things. They often don't own the copyrights to everything in the driver: they license some of it from other companies. They also often license parts of the d

Re: three questions about debian

2006-04-22 Thread Xplicit Language
thats the same reason i want to use wine Christopher Nelson, but to play medal of honor with or without gamespy, i am a little addicted to the game, but to answer, i chose to switch to linux, after years of hating constantly unstable windows os, winxp has had the same error twice in a month after g

Re: three questions about debian

2006-04-22 Thread Miles Bader
Doofus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How mature is wine these days? The last time I looked at it > (admittedly a long time ago) it was still a windows 3.1 emulator (when > 32 bit windows had long been released). It wasn't particularly stable > either. 5 years ago wine was pretty flaky. These days

Re: three questions about debian

2006-04-22 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 00:56:27 +0100, Doofus wrote: [...] > How mature is wine these days? The last time I looked at it (admittedly > a long time ago) it was still a windows 3.1 emulator (when 32 bit > windows had long been released). It wasn't particularly stable either. > I've never really

Re: Xorg upgrade: xdm fails, xterm can't change fonts?

2006-04-22 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 01:36:52AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > Try to reinstall the x11-common package, maybe even purge it first and > reinstall it. I have the suspicion that the rest of your problems are > caused by your missing /etc/X11/Xsession, and maybe other files in > /etc/X11. I actua

Re: Thought on receiving two answers...

2006-04-22 Thread Miles Bader
Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Your argument assumes bandwidth is universally cheap and receiving two copies > of an email doesn't waste twice the space in their mail spool or cost them > twice as much to receive. Such duplicate CCs are almost certainly a small fraction of one's tota

Re: Xorg upgrade: xdm fails, xterm can't change fonts?

2006-04-22 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 17:58:07 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > I finally bit the bullet and upgraded my desktop (etch) machine this > morning. > > After much fiddling and reading of old messages to this list, I'm typing > this from within Xorg, but I had to uninstall --purge xlibs, > x-window-system, x

Re: Supported Video Cards under Free Software

2006-04-22 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 08:06:01AM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > "Manaen Schlabach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > It seems like everyone agrees that Video card manufacturers really > > don't want to give up their 3d stuff and that seems to be the primary > > reason we can't get a "good" open source

Re: three questions about debian

2006-04-22 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 4/22/06, Doofus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Christopher Nelson wrote: > > >On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 03:00:54PM -0700, Xplicit Language wrote: > > > > > > > >>also is > >>anyone familiar with wine? > >> > >> > > > >As a user. What's your question? If it's generally how to use it, 'wine > >'. N

Re: Supported Video Cards under Free Software

2006-04-22 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Miles Bader wrote: > "Manaen Schlabach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>It seems like everyone agrees that Video card manufacturers really >>don't want to give up their 3d stuff and that seems to be the primary >>reason we can't get a "good" open source driver. > > > S, sowhat exactly is in the

Re: rpm file

2006-04-22 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much) wrote: > Joey Hess wrote: > >> >> Alien is program that runs rpm2cpio on a rpm file and generates a deb >> file from it. > > > I know. > >> Suggesting that it would somehow be safer to to this by > >> hand makes no sense at all. > > > Yes it does. If I d

Re: three questions about debian

2006-04-22 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 12:56:27AM +0100, Doofus wrote: > Christopher Nelson wrote: > > >On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 03:00:54PM -0700, Xplicit Language wrote: > > > >>also is > >>anyone familiar with wine? > > > >As a user. What's your question? If it's generally how to use it, 'wine > >'. Not all

Re: Supported Video Cards under Free Software

2006-04-22 Thread Miles Bader
"Manaen Schlabach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It seems like everyone agrees that Video card manufacturers really > don't want to give up their 3d stuff and that seems to be the primary > reason we can't get a "good" open source driver. S, sowhat exactly is in the video card drivers they're so p

Re: rpm file

2006-04-22 Thread Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much)
Joey Hess wrote: Alien is program that runs rpm2cpio on a rpm file and generates a deb file from it. I know. > Suggesting that it would somehow be safer to to this by hand makes no sense at all. Yes it does. If I did it by hand, I know that the right thing got put in the right place. Eit

Re: Packages.gz

2006-04-22 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Evgeniy Sudyr wrote: > > Hi all, > > how make own deb reprositary on CD with own packages (for using in > sources.list) - how right make Packages.gz file ? > > - --- > best regards Evgeniy > Check out my howto on creating a Debian repository: http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto/how

Packages.gz

2006-04-22 Thread Evgeniy Sudyr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: MD5 - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: MD5 Hi all, how make own deb reprositary on CD with own packages (for using in sources.list) - how right make Packages.gz file ? - - --- best regards Evgeniy - -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Vers

Re: Fonts changed after X upgrade in unstable

2006-04-22 Thread Nate Eldredge
On Sat, 22 Apr 2006, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 16:21:11 -0700, Nate Eldredge wrote: On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Florian Kulzer wrote: Your problem might be due to changes in your X server's resolution settings, which influence the size of the fonts on the screen. You can check thi

Re: PAM DB, vsFTPd virtual users

2006-04-22 Thread James Westby
On (23/04/06 00:42), Øyvind Lode wrote: > Hi all > > I trying to create a PAM db to authenticate virtual users in vsFTPd. > > I have read /usr/share/doc/vsftpd/EXAMPLE/VIRTUAL_USERS/README but I get > problems on Step 1... > > Here is what the readme file says: > [snip] > > I cannot even loca

Re: three questions about debian

2006-04-22 Thread Doofus
Christopher Nelson wrote: On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 03:00:54PM -0700, Xplicit Language wrote: also is anyone familiar with wine? As a user. What's your question? If it's generally how to use it, 'wine '. Not all windows programs work under wine, and some require tinkering. How m

Re: Color printers

2006-04-22 Thread Doofus
Tony Godshall wrote: A recent study found that wikipedia's accuracy is almost as good as Encyclopedia Britannica. Doesn't look nearly as fine and dandy on my bookshelves or in my lap though. ;O) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Re: three questions about debian

2006-04-22 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 03:00:54PM -0700, Xplicit Language wrote: > which program is used to compile Several. gcc for C code. There are others for C and other languages. > and how do you > compile a program, Depends on how it was set up and where you got it. Often as simple as 'make' 'make in

PAM DB, vsFTPd virtual users

2006-04-22 Thread Øyvind Lode
Hi all I trying to create a PAM db to authenticate virtual users in vsFTPd. I have read /usr/share/doc/vsftpd/EXAMPLE/VIRTUAL_USERS/README but I get problems on Step 1... Here is what the readme file says: # START # Step 1) Create the virtual users database. We are going to use pam_

Re: google_desktop_tool

2006-04-22 Thread Juraj Fedel
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 11:35:17AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Saturday 22 April 2006 09:08, Juraj Fedel wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 05:31:39PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > On Friday 21 April 2006 12:09, steef wrote: > > > The functionality that you're panicking about is disabled by

Re: rpm file

2006-04-22 Thread Joey Hess
Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: > As far as I can see, the rpm file does not have to be converted. Simply > install the 'rpm' package (e.g. with Synaptic) and let the W4L installer > install the rpm file. Using two package manages (dpkg and rpm) on one system is a horribly bad idea. They won't know about e

Re: Recording on Debian/GNOME (Sid)

2006-04-22 Thread Pascal Bonesh
On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 22:37 +0100, Magnus Therning wrote: > I have sound output (alsa), but I can't seem to get sound input (alsa as > well) to work properly, at least not so that the Sound Recorder can be > used. I do have some blinking lights in the Recording Level Monitor, so > I guess something

Re: rpm file

2006-04-22 Thread Joey Hess
Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much) wrote: > You could install the rpm package and use rpm2cpio to convert the .rpm > file into a cpio file. From there, you could extract the files from the > cpio file and copy them into the correct locations for a Debian system. > > Another option, which I con

Re: distributions: UBUNTU vs DEBIAN

2006-04-22 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 06:13:42PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Congrats on ignoring my message to this thread and contining with > semi-uselesss discussions on issues that were addressed in it, rather > than doing anything useful or interesting.. If you didn't get an answer to a question, care to br

Re: Color printers

2006-04-22 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Miles Bader, > Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Ron, there's a really neat site called the Wikipedia > > (www.wikipedia.org). It's almost like an encyclopedia, but it has > > entries for a lot of fictional characters, TV shows, and such. > > Indeed, some say it contains

Re: google_desktop_tool

2006-04-22 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Paul Johnson, > On Saturday 22 April 2006 09:08, Juraj Fedel wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 05:31:39PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > On Friday 21 April 2006 12:09, steef wrote: > > > The functionality that you're panicking about is disabled by default. > > > You have to go out

Re: distributions: UBUNTU vs DEBIAN

2006-04-22 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 02:30:34PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > > First, there isn't an Ethernet card Linux can't find these days, so that's > > kind of an empty argument. > > Bull, Paul. Want me to mail you the one that's useless for me since it > wasn't detected and the

Re: distributions: UBUNTU vs DEBIAN

2006-04-22 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 01:34:51PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Saturday 22 April 2006 13:04, Steve Lamb wrote: > > Paul Johnson wrote: > > > There's nothing stopping you from installing nonfree software on your > > > system. You just probably won't be able to apt-get it. Case in point: > > >

Re: distributions: UBUNTU vs DEBIAN

2006-04-22 Thread Kent West
Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > On Saturday 22 April 2006 14:14, Steve Lamb wrote: > >> Monique Y. Mudama wrote: >> >>> Well, debian is pretty obvious about its purpose. It's a link right >>> from the front page. Maybe people should be choosing other distros if >>> they don't like bullet ite

Re: Re: Problems installing Win4Lin

2006-04-22 Thread gianni
-- I just reed your answer to Adam.I tryed to do the same,but...Ican not convert rpm file.can you help me?

Re: distributions: UBUNTU vs DEBIAN

2006-04-22 Thread Joey Hess
Congrats on ignoring my message to this thread and contining with semi-uselesss discussions on issues that were addressed in it, rather than doing anything useful or interesting.. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: three questions about debian

2006-04-22 Thread Doofus
Xplicit Language wrote: which program is used to compile gcc and how do you compile a program, According to the helpful instructions always provided with the source code (/usr/share/doc/{package_name}). and how do i run apt get, apt-get {package_name} But since you're asking these

Re: three questions about debian

2006-04-22 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Xplicit Language wrote: > which program is used to compile and how do you > compile a program, and how do i run apt get, also is > anyone familiar with wine? To compile you use a compiler. The most common one is gcc, though there are others distributed with Debian. Of course, it depends on what

three questions about debian

2006-04-22 Thread Xplicit Language
which program is used to compile and how do you compile a program, and how do i run apt get, also is anyone familiar with wine? __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSC

Xorg upgrade: xdm fails, xterm can't change fonts?

2006-04-22 Thread Carl Fink
I finally bit the bullet and upgraded my desktop (etch) machine this morning. After much fiddling and reading of old messages to this list, I'm typing this from within Xorg, but I had to uninstall --purge xlibs, x-window-system, xbase-clients, and xserver-xorg and then reinstall, and the current s

Re: How do you grow brocolli?

2006-04-22 Thread steef
On Saturday 22 April 2006 22:15, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 17:34 +0200, steef wrote: > > On Saturday 22 April 2006 13:17, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 09:46 +0200, steef wrote: > > > > On Saturday 22 April 2006 08:52, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 2006-04-2

Re: Onboard Modem

2006-04-22 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 20:44 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > never as good as a proper serial modem. Only if you're dealing with > a laptop, where you can't throw away the modem inside and newer laptops > don't have serial ports, should you consider software modems. All IMHO For what it's worth,

Re: debian installer and automatic partition option

2006-04-22 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 11:50:46AM +0200, Go do wrote: > > > What debian installer are you using? sarge? testing? if testing what > > date? cd or dvd or floppies? or the experimental gui installer? > > > > Thanks in advance. > > When my system boots, I can see this message: > > This is a d

Recording on Debian/GNOME (Sid)

2006-04-22 Thread Magnus Therning
I have sound output (alsa), but I can't seem to get sound input (alsa as well) to work properly, at least not so that the Sound Recorder can be used. I do have some blinking lights in the Recording Level Monitor, so I guess something is going right. Any tips/pointers? /M -- Magnus Therning

Re: Postfix migration and Kolab?

2006-04-22 Thread Allan Wind
On 2006-04-22T13:32:13-0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > Can it do per-user spamc configs (like dman's old spamassasin setup)? This would be a spamassasin configuration item for you to look into, I don't know off hand. Performance wise, you are better off running spamassasin daemons rather than spamc,

Re: distributions: UBUNTU vs DEBIAN

2006-04-22 Thread Steve Lamb
Paul Johnson wrote: > First, there isn't an Ethernet card Linux can't find these days, so that's > kind of an empty argument. Bull, Paul. Want me to mail you the one that's useless for me since it wasn't detected and the documentation to get it going was beyond confusing? It's best use right

Re: lightweight mta / mailing list manager

2006-04-22 Thread Eliteforce
On Sat, 22 Apr 2006 14:57:02 -0500, "Ron Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 20:00 +0200, Eliteforce wrote: > > Hello, > > > > i am looking for a lightweight (and easy configurable ;) mta and mailing > > list manager. > > > > I have exim4 installed on my server but its conf

Re: Installation DVDs - Questions

2006-04-22 Thread Bruno Buys
You must answer the questions the installer will ask, during base-install. Sources.list can be easily changed. Here's mine, with brazilian sources, for your reference. The core sources are security, pucpr and, for multimedia software, marillat. The rest can be ignored, if you wish. ***

Re: lightweight mta / mailing list manager

2006-04-22 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 08:00:32PM +0200, Eliteforce wrote: > i am looking for a lightweight (and easy configurable ;) mta and mailing > list manager. I think qmail and ezmlm are pretty nice, but ... > I'm open for every suggestion, as long as it is free software :P ... they are not Free Softwar

Re: Onboard Modem

2006-04-22 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 09:12:46AM -0300, Fernando Augusto Bender wrote: > On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 09:27 +0100, Chris Lale wrote: > Hmmm... > > That's a good idea. > I'll consider it as well, so I know there is a way out. :) > > Thank you for your suggestion. > -- Open the computer case - throw aw

Re: distributions: UBUNTU vs DEBIAN

2006-04-22 Thread Paul Johnson
On Saturday 22 April 2006 13:04, Steve Lamb wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > > There's nothing stopping you from installing nonfree software on your > > system. You just probably won't be able to apt-get it. Case in point: > > You can get games for Linux at WalMart for around $20 per title. > >

Postfix migration and Kolab?

2006-04-22 Thread Paul Johnson
On Saturday 22 April 2006 12:57, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 20:00 +0200, Eliteforce wrote: > > Hello, > > > > i am looking for a lightweight (and easy configurable ;) mta and mailing > > list manager. > > > > I have exim4 installed on my server but its configuration files are too >

Re: lightweight mta / mailing list manager

2006-04-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 16:16 -0400, Allan Wind wrote: > I will second the postfix suggestion. > > You may want to check out enemies-of-carlotta for the mailing list > server if you still require it. Seemed neat when I evaluated it. > > Lots of places use mailman, but it scares me Why? > We used

Re: Thanks! Re: good anti-virus software to use?

2006-04-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 09:42 -0600, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > On 2006-04-22, Ron Johnson penned: > > > > Unless you write with a secure language like COBOL. > > I'm sure it's possible to write an insecure program in COBOL. It would be darned hard. Strings are fixed length, the RTL chops off stri

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