Re: potato installs and the aftermath

2001-12-17 Thread David J. Roundy
On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 09:37:04AM -0800, brian r wrote: > > cdrom and audio: > > I want one of my workstations to be an MP3 server. It is a Pentium 150, > 48 MB of RAM, and 15 GB HD. I installed Afterstep, and a bunch of > cd/audio/mp3 software from the potato cd. My problem is cdrom won't rea

Re: apt-get: precedence of apt_sources ?

2001-11-07 Thread David J. Roundy
On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 02:10:59PM -0800, tom schuetz wrote: > My apt_source has both ftp sites and cds listed on it. > > How does apt determine which source to try first? Do I need to take the > cd's off of the source document if I want to get debs from the ftp sites? Apt pays attention to the

Re: Navigating IMAP in Mutt

2001-10-25 Thread David J. Roundy
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 10:32:01AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > I'm using Mutt 1.3.12i on Potato against Cyrus IMAP. I can browse my > IMAP folders fine using 'c'. Question is, how can I see the *messages* > in a subfolder once I've navigated to it? Using TAB to get the message > view only ta

Re: using bootcd with usb cdrw drive

2001-10-23 Thread David J. Roundy
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 10:43:33PM +0200, Debian User Jean-Baptiste Note wrote: > Just to know, have you devfs compiled in the kernel and mounted at boot ? > are you sure the entry /dev/scd0 exists at boot-time ? > what is the error message ? (i guess it's can't mount root fs on device > XX:XX ->

Re: a challenge

2001-10-18 Thread David J. Roundy
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 09:11:05AM -0700, Greg Wiley wrote: > This is just a general idea: > > I'm assuming a 32-bit timestamp. > > You want to encode that value somewhat securely > with an invertable hash into 16 * 7 = 112 bits > (less if you can't use control chars). It has to be > somewhat re

Re: Hard drive repartitioning..

2001-10-18 Thread David J. Roundy
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 03:47:26AM +0200, Petre Daniel wrote: > Well,i have a pc without a floppy disk,with only cdrom and a 3 gb hard > drive. > I've put a first 1,8 gb windows partition and a 1,2 gb debian > partition.Now,since i'm not using any X thingie,i'd like to know > an easy way to reparti

Re: OT:mutt: skipping deleted messages

2001-09-26 Thread David J. Roundy
On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 05:32:49PM +0200, Frederik Vanrenterghem wrote: > * David Roundy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010926 17:04]: > > > > With my (I think default) bindings, the left and right arrow keys allow you > > to select deleted messages, while the up and down arrows skip them. > > Left and rig

Re: ssh and X forwarding

2001-08-23 Thread David J. Roundy
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 10:48:59AM -0700, Jason Majors wrote: > I recently upgraded my boxes at home to the latest ssh from sid. Before the > upgrade, I'd have the DISPLAY variable set to $HOSTNAME:10.0 and be able to > run > X apps across the connection. My box at work does not have this problem.

Re: where does 'cat' get it's info?

2001-08-10 Thread David J. Roundy
On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 10:10:35PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > dman writes: > > I just checked it on my system using both cat and vim and they give the > > identical contents of '1' as well. Must be emacs isn't right ;-). > > cat, cp, and vim show '0' (correct for this box) but emacs, ae, and nvi

Re: mysql debs (aaaackkkkk!)

2001-08-09 Thread David J. Roundy
On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 02:32:05PM +0200, Sebastiaan wrote: > I have no experience with mysql debs... > If you like some, you can install it with: > apt-get install mysql-common mysql-client php4-mysql > > it is possible that more packages will be installed to saticfy > dependencies. Actually,

Re: what is a framebuffer?

2001-08-09 Thread David J. Roundy
On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 01:51:55PM +0200, JM Bourdaret wrote: > > setting your kernel/modules to use the framebuffer of your videocard will > permit you to set the resolution of your screen, like 1024x768 16 million > colors at 85kHz refresh ... from there, you can use those high > resolution to

Re: How secure am I?

2001-08-05 Thread David J. Roundy
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 10:29:13PM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: > > I need ftp. update-rc.d -f proftpd remove takes it out of the live config. > ssh in, /etc/init.d/proftpd start and I can do my backips/restores, etc then > close it again. scp would be much neater.. But dselect scp gets nothing >

Re: tasksel & selecting tasks

2001-07-26 Thread David J. Roundy
On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 09:08:46AM +0300, Tuomas Pellonpera wrote: > Hi! > > Last weekend I installed Debian 2.2r on my computer. As I want to do > programming in C, C++ and Objective-C, when running tasksel, do I have to > select BOTH "C Devel," "C++ Devel," AND "Objective-C Devel" tasks? > (Sorr

Re: Can run testing with slow net connect?

2001-07-22 Thread David J. Roundy
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 02:54:11PM -0500, David A. Rogers wrote: > I've got a 56k modem on my home machine. Is it feasible/reasonable for me > to run testing on this machine? I've got 2.2r2 CDs. Any guesstimates as to > how long it will take for the initial upgrade to testing? I would say it de

Re: openssh

2001-07-20 Thread David J. Roundy
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 03:06:44PM -0600, Phil Reardon wrote: > What package holds the deb for openssh? Does anything need to go into > /etc/apt/sources.list to get this for potato? ssh. You will need a sources.list line for non-us. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/

Re: How to give non-root user the right to start X

2001-07-19 Thread David J. Roundy
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 09:17:13PM -0400, Ari Pollak wrote: > In /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config (if one exists), you want the first line to > say: > allowed_users=console Thanks! I had the same problem (I just used kdm to get around it), but this fixed it. :) -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/

Re: Sendmail newbie question

2001-07-18 Thread David J. Roundy
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 01:35:50PM -0500, Jay Latham wrote: > I have three computers in my home. I use one as a router to masq > the other two to the internet. I would also like to use this one > as the mail hub. There is only one user for the three boxes. > What I would like to do is to be able to

Re: Converting SuSE to Debian

2001-07-18 Thread David J. Roundy
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 02:27:02PM +0200, Lukas Ruf wrote: > On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Steve Kieu wrote: > > > > So, my question: > > > - I would like to some programs (like dpkg/dselect > > > and the like) to my > > > running SuSE linux and then start a program that > > > (like dselect) which > > >

Re: missing consoles

2001-07-14 Thread David J. Roundy
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 09:29:18PM -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote: > Obviously kdm is not detaching as a background process. Perhaps it > doesn't fork? Anyway, you can try the --background argument to > start-stop-daemon and see if that helps. Note: you can't rely on the > exit status of start-stop

Re: several questios

2001-07-14 Thread David J. Roundy
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 05:15:46PM +0200, Martin Bretschneider wrote: > > 1. I want to update gpgme (libgpgme0) that I need for gnupg-support for my > mua. In my distrubution the version 0.21 is integrated but it doesn't seem > to have a gpgme.config my mua looks for. So I thought i update to 0.22

Re: missing consoles

2001-07-13 Thread David J. Roundy
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 07:58:59PM -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote: > On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 07:16:33PM -0700, David J. Roundy wrote: > [snip] > > I took a look at this, where the virtual consoles are created, and see now > > how both my problem were caused. Somehow one of the

Re: missing consoles

2001-07-13 Thread David J. Roundy
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 07:14:53PM -0400, Jeld The Dark Elf wrote: > On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 11:31:08AM -0700, David J. Roundy wrote: > > Hello all. I recently ran into a strange (to me, at least) problem on my > > debian computer at home. All of the virtual consoles are here.

missing consoles

2001-07-12 Thread David J. Roundy
Hello all. I recently ran into a strange (to me, at least) problem on my debian computer at home. All of the virtual consoles are here. I can still use ctrl-alt-[1-7], but there are no login prompts (although gpm still works fine, and I can type), and now X is on console 2 rather than console 7.

Re: Email client and conversion from Netscape Mail on win32

2001-03-08 Thread David J. Roundy
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 04:22:59PM -0500, Josh Huber wrote: > > What format does netscape use to store mail? Is it mbox-like, or > something else? Netscape uses the mbox format. I made the switch from netscape to mutt just last year, and it goes pretty smoothly. You can pretty easily just use