Re: FTP trought firewall (inverse)

2000-08-23 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 09:03:59PM -0700, Nate Amsden wrote: > ftp is a horrible protocol to try to firewall because of all the ports > it uses, i suggest using the package 'iptraf' to see what ports are > being used when you connect to it. there are 2 modes of ftp, passive and > active. Switch you

Re: ISP server assigned nameserver addressing - how?

2000-08-23 Thread Nate Amsden
in 99.9% of cases you do not have to use your ISP's DNS. you can use any DNS(use mine if you want 209.102.24.193 & 194) to find an ISP's numeric DNS i would suggest using WHOIS, or dig. dig domainname.com whois domainname.com both will give u numeric DNS settings for the domain. nate Phillip De

Re: apt-get won't play

2000-08-23 Thread Nate Amsden
just a FYI, about a week or 2 ago, the stable branch changed to 2.2 so you were actually trying to go from 2.0 -> 2.2. nate Nick Cook wrote: > > FWIW, I fixed my apt-get problem by following the old adage: when in > doubt, blow it out. > > I purged apt from my system, manually ftp'ed (if that's

Re: Upgrade from potato to woody?

2000-08-23 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
montefin wrote: > I avoided some problems by doing: > apt-get --simulate dist-upgrade > Can U please elaborate on this ? Can U pipe this to get some sort of a log ? Tnx for this nifty point..real good !! -- ragOO, VU2RGU Keeping the Air-Waves FREE.Amateur Radio Keeping the W W W FREE

Re: xfree86 development package

2000-08-23 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
"John L. Fjellstad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 03:11:18AM -0600, Bruce Sass wrote: > > > > I'm trying to compile and install knapster. Unfortunately, it needs > > > the xfree86 header files. Anyone know which package these files are in? > > > > xlib6g-dev > > Are you

Re: ISP server assigned nameserver addressing - how?

2000-08-23 Thread Robert Waldner
On Tue, 22 Aug 2000 22:23:02 PDT, Nate Amsden writes: >in 99.9% of cases you do not have to use your ISP's DNS. you can use any >DNS(use mine if you want 209.102.24.193 & 194) to find an ISP's numeric >DNS i would suggest using WHOIS, or dig. But using "further" away DNS´s _will_ affect your brows

Re: We really need a FAQ!

2000-08-23 Thread Will Trillich
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 07:46:11PM -0600, s. keeling wrote: > On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 05:16:08PM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 09:51:45PM -0600, s. keeling wrote: > > > Here's my first cut of questions that ought to be in a debian-users FAQ: > > > > if only someone had th

Re: tetex slink -> potato

2000-08-23 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 22 Aug 2000, paul tanner wrote: > After the upgrade I can't use the extra > stuff that I had in > /usr/local/lib/texmf. After examining a > copy of my old slink installation I > found the ``local'' link in texmf/ and > in /usr/share/texmf I added: > ln -s /usr/local/share/texmf local > and moved

net install of staroffice 5.2

2000-08-23 Thread marco frattola
hi all, this is not debian specific, but maybe somebody can help me. i'm trying to install staroffice 5.2 using the 'net' switch, so every user doesn't need to install his/her own copy of staroffice. i already did it successfully with so 5.1, but i'm unable to do that with 5.2. sun gives you a who

Re: xfree86 development package

2000-08-23 Thread Nate Amsden
"John L. Fjellstad" wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 12:39:14PM -0600, Bruce Sass wrote: > > > ~$ dpkg -S /usr/X11R6/include/X11/X.h > > xlib6g-dev: /usr/X11R6/include/X11/X.h > > > > You were just looking in the wrong place. > > You know what? My bad. You wrote xlib6g-dev, and I read it as >

Re: Win98 won't shutdown after Linux install

2000-08-23 Thread Nate Amsden
When i get something like that, and it pisses me off for long enough i reinstall win98. note i ditched win9* a long time ago, because of such errors :) haven't had to reinstall a linux box(ever). win9x had me reinstalling 3-4 times a year minimum. nate Jonathan Neufeld wrote: > > I'm a casual u

Re: SpeedStream 4060 DSL "modem"

2000-08-23 Thread Nate Amsden
Doesn't look like it's supported, at least not officially yet: http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/showdevices.php3?id=14 nate David Karlin wrote: > > Hello, > I'm converting a win98 system into a potato masq-box for > a small office. It is connected to the Internet via DSL > with a SpeedStream 406

Re: Problems installing

2000-08-23 Thread Nate Amsden
Yes, i usually choose NO when prompted to set up X during installation that is something i usually do after installation is complete. Debian 2.2 has this really neat tool called anXious, part of the 'xvidetect' package. it works quite well for modern video cards. You can also use xf86config, or X

gnome install

2000-08-23 Thread SOETE Joël
Hi all, I address the following questions to this mailing list because I do not know yet if they are specific to Debian implementation I finally reach to install gnome with Enlightenment as wm with the last distribution package (2.2 rev0) on my linux box with a Intel pentium III and 128Mb ram. I

Re: Linux Mail Client (was: Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error))

2000-08-23 Thread Steve Lamb
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 09:53:43PM -0700, brian moore wrote: > Huh? From a single source? Yes, a single source. Fetchmail. > Note that in my example (if you had bothered to read it), you would have > seen that ~/.procmailrc was irrelevant. Each pop3 mailbox had its own > (optional) procmai

Re: FTP trought firewall (inverse)

2000-08-23 Thread Nate Amsden
Ethan Benson wrote: > heh, i have gotten into a flamewar several times with someone i know > in irc conversations about the merits of scp over ftp, the problem is > he is a MacOS user who maintaines web sites, he uses a MacOS ftp > program called Anarchie to upload the site. he refuses to conside

Re: gnome install

2000-08-23 Thread Nate Amsden
> I finally reach to install gnome with Enlightenment as wm with the last > distribution package (2.2 rev0) on my linux box with a Intel pentium III and > 128Mb ram. > I met two different kind of problems: > > first with gnome-moz?-remote ... which failed because: > /dev/dsp no such device

Re: 1/2 ifconfig

2000-08-23 Thread Vitux
cls-colo spgs wrote: > > debs, > > update: > > ifconfig -a gives me not only "lp" and "ppp0," but it also give me "eth0." > for now > i'd like to not have "eth0." how do i not have it in the picture? > > ia, t. > > bentley taylor > (potato on 2.2.16) > man ifconfig hth Vitux -- "I'm

Re: WOOHOO - the Potato is installed!

2000-08-23 Thread kmself
On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 09:27:54AM +1000, John Griffiths wrote: > At 04:19 PM 8/22/2000 -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > >> a) change the colour depth. do i need to re-run XF86Setup? or is there a > >> better way? > > > >$ startx -- -bpp > > > >...where color depth is 1, 8, 16, 24 (general

Mouse Doesn't Work with X

2000-08-23 Thread Peter Kim
Greetings all, I just installed my first copy of Linux. Problem: X starts fine. I can use ALT key combinations to get a pop up menu and select menu items. However, I can't use my mouse. That is, neither clicking nor moving the mouse has any effect. What I did: I confirmed that my mouse is, i

Re: Mouse Doesn't Work with X

2000-08-23 Thread John Griffiths
this is the question i know the answer to! ps2 mice are at device psaux when you do the xf86setup you need to change /dev/mouse to /dev psaux then hit "a" for apply... i imagine a symlink between /dev/mouse and /dev/psaux might do the trick too? At 04:35 PM 8/23/2000 +0900, Peter Kim wrote: >G

HELP !

2000-08-23 Thread Carlos ILLA CASANOVA
  You can help me?     In the Real one Player always the error leaves:     The requested decodificador is not valid     and I cannot do anything.     Thanks, a greeting.     Carlos   --     -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.     CARLOS ILLA CASA

Re: Linux Mail Client

2000-08-23 Thread Steve Lamb
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 09:56:11PM -0700, Seth Cohn wrote: > The first one is acmemail (and it's not what we are talking about here). My apologies. Ever since I started the project several months ago it was the first listed project. I had assumed it was still the case as it was the last time

Perl/Gtk/Gnome Linux Mail Client deb Package

2000-08-23 Thread jens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi there Can someone help me with creating a debianized package of my Perl/Gtk/Gnome Mail Client? http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=6607 - -- with friendly regards jens luedicke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Linux Mail Client (was: Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error))

2000-08-23 Thread John Pearson
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 09:36:14AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote > On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 07:21:38PM +0930, John Pearson wrote: > > .forward file allows you to filter your mail into any number of > > separate mailfolders at delivery time, based on a wide range of > > criteria including the contents of t

Re: Potato vs Realtek8029PCI NIC

2000-08-23 Thread Alexey Vyskubov
> No signs of nic when booting, insmod ne2k-pci.o gives me "unresolved > symbols"-error, and ifconfig -yadayada gives me error to the effect > that there's no hardware to configure. I have no idea why kmod doesn't insmod your modules automagically. But ne2k-pci depends on 8390 module; so try modpr

Re: Linux Mail Client (was: Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error))

2000-08-23 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 12:34:17AM -0700, brian moore wrote: > And I fail to see how a single fetchmail process reading from n servers, > with m mailboxes on each, and delivering each remote mailbox to some > number greater than m boxes on your machine is anything but what you > asked for. I f

Re: WOOHOO - the Potato is installed!

2000-08-23 Thread Vitux
John Griffiths wrote: > > At 07:56 PM 8/22/2000 -0600, montefin wrote: > >ATTN: John Griffiths, > > > >You must report to Penn State immediately. > > > >By Penn State we do not mean Penn State, the honorable state university. > >We mean the Pennsylvania State Penitentiary. > > > >There, you must i

Printer Lexmark optra E310

2000-08-23 Thread Goeman Stefan
Hello, I have been reading a lot of messages about printers lately. I am wondering what filter I should use for a Lexmark optra E310 printer. This is a postscript printer with 1 Mb of memory (I think). Greetings, Stefan Goeman

Re: Linux Mail Client

2000-08-23 Thread kmself
On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 12:38:41AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > This list does matter. Every time someone says, "I want something like > this" you know what the immediate knee-jerk reaction is? "You don't want > that. What you want to do is this." That is utter bullshit and you know it. /me

Re: Exploring the possibilities of cron

2000-08-23 Thread kmself
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 07:21:01PM -0500, Brent Harding wrote: > How would cron do something such as, emailing a file once and awhile, > make > the file empty, and wait until the next run, but not mail anything if it's > empty. I've never done much with emailing besides piping echo to mail

Re: Exploring the possibilities of cron

2000-08-23 Thread kmself
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 09:37:05PM -0400, Mike Werner wrote: > Brent Harding wrote: > > How would cron do something such as, emailing a file once and awhile, > > make > > the file empty, and wait until the next run, but not mail anything if it's > > empty. I've never done much with emailing

color in Emacs

2000-08-23 Thread Goeman Stefan
Hello, Putting something like this emacs*background:white emacs*foreground:black in the .Xdefault file is nice. But, does there exist a list of colors to choose from. For example, as background I used grey but I find it still to dark. Is there a way to get it brighter (without using background

Re: Linux Mail Client (was: Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error))

2000-08-23 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 09:21:58AM +0930, John Pearson wrote: > Well, that certainly indicates one reason why I'm having difficulty coming > to grips with your requirement; we have a problem over terminology. Actually, we don't. The problem is that people aren't willing to look past the termi

screensaver not working in gnome/enlightenment

2000-08-23 Thread Dave Bresson
Hi, i'm running off a new install of Potato, with GNOME and E all happily working. However, their is one problem. The various utilities in all the GNOME menus for screensavers don't work. In other words, i can't get the screensaver to kick in at all after it's initial idle time (or for that ma

Mutt: Mail-Follow-Up header incorrect

2000-08-23 Thread kmself
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 05:25:36PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > BTW your Mail-Follow-Up header is broken, mutt ends up trying to send > mail to user `karston' which does not exist on my system obviously. Well, first off, my mailer *does* know how to spell my name correctly... Still, my external

Re: Potato keeps waking up?!

2000-08-23 Thread Vitux
David Vrabel wrote: > > On 22 Aug 2000, Vitux wrote: > > > What puzzles me most is: I just can't figure out what keeps spinning > > the disk?! > > I can't find any ref's to it in the logs or in cron-whatever... > > If necessary I could post some of my log-files?! > > atime updates I'd guess. Th

Re: Utility for multiple floppies

2000-08-23 Thread kmself
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 06:50:41PM -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote: > On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 05:25:36PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > are gnu tar, gzip and friends available for windows > > wastelands^Wenvironments? > > > > Yep, well I don't know about tar, but cpio, gzip and several others are

old versions

2000-08-23 Thread Gregg C
Where can I find older versions of packages that did not make it into stable? I installed unstable (2.2) on a box a way back before it was frozen, and toyed with it for a while, then left it aside until now. I think I removed most of /usr/share and some other locations (it has only a 100meg har

Re: color in Emacs

2000-08-23 Thread Tal Danzig
Try a program like gcolorsel. Very handy. Also remember that if you want the resources to be read automatically when you login Debian uses .Xresources rather then .Xdefaults. At least this is the way /etx/X11/Xsession seems setup to behave. Tal On Wed, 23 Aug 2000 10:42:38 +0200, Goeman Stefan

Re: Linux Mail Client

2000-08-23 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 01:29:32AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > There area great many things that people suggest as "features" or "why > doesn't it work this way", which have been tried, and either don't work, > produce security holes, or introduce (generally unnecessary) complexity > into

Re: Linux Mail Client (was: Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error))

2000-08-23 Thread brian moore
On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 01:04:31AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 12:34:17AM -0700, brian moore wrote: > > And I fail to see how a single fetchmail process reading from n servers, > > with m mailboxes on each, and delivering each remote mailbox to some > > number greater than m

Re: tetex slink -> potato

2000-08-23 Thread Christoph Martin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (paul tanner) writes: > > After the upgrade I can't use the extra > stuff that I had in > /usr/local/lib/texmf. After examining a > copy of my old slink installation I > found the ``local'' link in texmf/ and > in /usr/share/texmf I added: > ln -s /usr/local/share/texmf local >

Re: net install of staroffice 5.2

2000-08-23 Thread Morten Liebach
On 23, aug, 2000 at 09:02:18 +0200, marco frattola wrote: > hi all, > this is not debian specific, but maybe somebody can help me. i'm trying to > install staroffice 5.2 using > the 'net' switch, so every user doesn't need to install his/her own copy of > staroffice. > i already did it successfull

Re: Linux Mail Client (was: Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error))

2000-08-23 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 02:05:35AM -0700, brian moore wrote: > You're the one that keeps bringing up 'accounts'. I keep asking what the > concept of an 'account' has to do with mailboxes. Mail account. > Again, Steve, I have accounts on machines with no mailboxes. I have > mailboxes on mach

Re: Potato vs Realtek8029PCI NIC

2000-08-23 Thread Vitux
Troy Telford wrote: > > Actually, I have no problems with a realtek 8029 card; however, I always > re-compile the > kernel after I get the thing on; that usually gets rid of the unresolved > symbols > problem... In fact, with all the kernel module(s) I've used, re-compiling > the kernel > from

wrong version in version.h in the potato?

2000-08-23 Thread Gudleik Rasch-Halvorsen
Hello! How come the file /usr/include/linux/version.h says: #define UTS_RELEASE "2.2.15"? I'm not exactly sure what UTS_RELEASE means, but... when I tried to compile the NVidia GeForce kernel driver (0.9.4), I was told that the driver was build for 2.2.15, while I was running 2.2.17 (which is d

Re: q ad security.debian.org

2000-08-23 Thread Preben Randhol
Olaf Meeuwissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 23/08/2000 (08:25) : > What about security updates for non-US? I don't know. -- Preben Randhol - Ph. D student - http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/ "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent", Isaac Asimov

Re: net install of staroffice 5.2

2000-08-23 Thread marco frattola
hi, and thanks for your answer .. > On 23, aug, 2000 at 09:02:18 +0200, marco frattola wrote: > > hi all, > > this is not debian specific, but maybe somebody can help > me. i'm trying to > > install staroffice 5.2 using > > the 'net' switch, so every user doesn't need to install > his/

Re: Potato vs Realtek8029PCI NIC

2000-08-23 Thread Vitux
More stuff: I did a # modprobe ne2k-pci and I get this: ne2k-pci..: PCI NE2000 clone 'Realtek RTL-8029* at I/O 0x20a0, IRQ 9. eth0: RealTek RTL-8029 found at 0x20a0, IRQ 9, 00:00:B4:B8:94:CC # I suppose this means that the modular driver has been installed in the kernel and detected my NIC. So far

Re: color in Emacs

2000-08-23 Thread Morten Liebach
On 23, aug, 2000 at 01:53:59 -0700, Tal Danzig wrote: > Try a program like gcolorsel. > Very handy. Or if you doesn't want to use GNOME; 'xcolorsel', or look at /usr/lib/X11/rgb.txt, though that's a bit harder to use. I actually like xcolorsel better than the latest Helix-GNOME gcolorsel, YMMV. Y

Re: installing Netscape Navigator 4.75

2000-08-23 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Do they have strong encryption yet? Yes, they have, according to www.fortify.net. Greetings, joachim

Re: Potato vs Realtek8029PCI NIC

2000-08-23 Thread John Pearson
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 09:33:45PM +0200, Vitux wrote > Trying to build a tiny lan here... > Recompile fresh 2.2.16 with the ne2k-pci driver as module. > No signs of nic when booting, insmod ne2k-pci.o gives me "unresolved > symbols"-error, and ifconfig -yadayada gives me error to the effect > that

Re: postfix problem

2000-08-23 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 10:58:35PM -0500, Pat Mahoney wrote: > On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 08:30:47PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > You'd need to find out what criteria the mail server is using to > > restrict sent mail. Generally, it should just look at the address of > > your system, but apparently

Re: Potato vs Realtek8029PCI NIC

2000-08-23 Thread John Pearson
On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 11:53:18AM +0200, Vitux wrote > More stuff: > I did a > # modprobe ne2k-pci > and I get this: > ne2k-pci..: PCI NE2000 clone 'Realtek RTL-8029* at I/O 0x20a0, IRQ > 9. > eth0: RealTek RTL-8029 found at 0x20a0, IRQ 9, 00:00:B4:B8:94:CC > # > I suppose this means that the mod

Sync mail with palm

2000-08-23 Thread Michael Meskes
Anyone's able to sync a lokal mailbox/maildir with some mail software on a palmpilot? Ideally I would like to sync to my local IMAP server, but without using a modem connection. I'm pretty new to the palm, so I hope others have had the same problem before. Michael P.S.: Please CC me on replies.

Re: YEAH: Potato vs Realtek8029PCI NIC

2000-08-23 Thread Vitux
John Pearson wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 11:53:18AM +0200, Vitux wrote > > More stuff: > > I did a > > # modprobe ne2k-pci > > and I get this: > > ne2k-pci..: PCI NE2000 clone 'Realtek RTL-8029* at I/O 0x20a0, IRQ > > 9. > > eth0: RealTek RTL-8029 found at 0x20a0, IRQ 9, 00:00:B4:B8:94:CC >

humm....out of date deb's

2000-08-23 Thread Gregg C
Sorry for posting this a 2nd time, but damned hotmail treats the debian lists as spam by default, and until I noticed that and turned off all blocking it was trashing all list traffic. If anyone replied could you try once again. I got the signup, confirmation emails, and my original post but noth

Re: Sync mail with palm

2000-08-23 Thread Robert Norris
> Anyone's able to sync a lokal mailbox/maildir with some mail software on a > palmpilot? Ideally I would like to sync to my local IMAP server, but without > using a modem connection. I've written a small coldsync conduit that sort of does what you want. It will grab a single folder from an IMAP s

Re: Linux Mail Client (was: Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error))

2000-08-23 Thread Cory Snavely
Steve Lamb wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 12:02:00PM -0500, Mark Schiltz wrote: > > > > After hashing through all your comments, I believe I know what you want. > > > > An email client that has a folder for [EMAIL PROTECTED] & [EMAIL PROTECTED], > > etc. (but dosn't call it a folder) with sub-

Exim Error: Sender Domain must Exist

2000-08-23 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
Hi: I am using Debian Potato from home and connect by modem to my university network using exim. The connection uses DHCP. My machine is named sebastian. I can collect, using fetchmail, my mail coming to the university post office server, but when I send mail to the university or ou

Re: net install of staroffice 5.2

2000-08-23 Thread Russ Pitman
On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 09:02:18AM +0200, marco frattola wrote: > hi all, _SNIP_ I forget what I actually did to get a net install but I think that the option was offered during the install process. Just a thought- Sun has a pdf file of the all the install details on their web site. --

Re: Kernel parameter (hisax) lets kernel hang

2000-08-23 Thread Florian Friesdorf
On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 12:12:25AM +0200, Matthias Jordan wrote: > Hi, folks. > > I have a self-compiled kernel (2.2.15 or 2.2.16 doesn´t matter) with > HiSax support for Teles-S0-16 ISDN cards enabled. When I call the > kernel from LILO with the parameter "hisax=1,2,11,0xd,0xf80" > the ker

FindUtil 4.1-40.diff

2000-08-23 Thread IS-Yuval Ben-Mordechai
Hi, I want to install the diff file on a Solaris machine. How can I patched Findutil.4.1 with FindUtil 4.1-40.diff

Re: color in Emacs

2000-08-23 Thread Patrick Dahiroc
try xcolorsel On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 10:42:38AM +0200, Goeman Stefan wrote: > Hello, > > Putting something like this > > emacs*background:white > emacs*foreground:black > > in the .Xdefault file is nice. > > But, does there exist a list of colors to choose from. > For example, as background

Re: trouble with fetchmail via exim

2000-08-23 Thread Michael Banck
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 07:21:37PM +0200, Andreas Hetzmannseder wrote: > So I reconfigured exim. Now it says: > The following domain(s) will be recognized as referring to this > system: woof, netway.at > with 'netway.at' being the second part of my e-mail address. The problem > rema

Re: screensaver not working in gnome/enlightenment

2000-08-23 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 04:44:23AM -0400, Dave Bresson wrote: > > > Hi, i'm running off a new install of Potato, with GNOME and E all happily > working. However, their is one problem. The various utilities in all the > GNOME menus for screensavers don't work. In other words, i can't get the >

R: net install of staroffice 5.2

2000-08-23 Thread marco frattola
> -Messaggio originale- > Da: Russ Pitman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Inviato: mercoledì 23 agosto 2000 14.09 > A: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Oggetto: Re: net install of staroffice 5.2 > I forget what I actually did to get a net install but I think > that the option was offered duri

Re: q ad security.debian.org

2000-08-23 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 11:50:50AM +0200, Preben Randhol wrote: > Olaf Meeuwissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 23/08/2000 (08:25) : > > What about security updates for non-US? > > I don't know. deb http://security.debian.org/debian-non-US/ potato/non-US main contrib deb-src http://security.debian

Re: Win98 won't shutdown after Linux install

2000-08-23 Thread USM Bish
I had a similar problem last year, but that was when my boot sector was on Lilo, and I had virus scanners installed. MS-DO$ and MS- Window$ is rather posessive about the boot sector, and several software inclusive of NDD, scandisk and related software start giving warnings. Virus scanners scan the

Re: a vueltas con las X

2000-08-23 Thread Jose Angel Fdez Luengo
Hell-o! >>- ¿Como puedo desabilitar/habilitar en cualquier momento el ratón y el >> teclado? > El ratón, quizá con un 'chmod 0 /dev/mouse', aunque dado que las X andan > como root, no sé si funcionará. Desactivar el teclado lo veo más difícil. > En el contador del ciber, me aproximé a al

Re: wrong version in version.h in the potato?

2000-08-23 Thread Moritz Schulte
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 09:24:46AM +0200, Gudleik Rasch-Halvorsen wrote: > How come the file /usr/include/linux/version.h says: > #define UTS_RELEASE "2.2.15"? see /usr/share/kernel-package/README.headers and /usr/share/doc/libc6/README.Debian.gz ... moritz

Re: Exim and multiple domains

2000-08-23 Thread John Pearson
On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 07:03:17PM -0500, Will Trillich wrote > > > i'm still hoping to find the king james version of the > exim manual (the original greek is beyond me)... > > this flashed by a few days ago, and i thought i'd be able > to apply it to my own situation; alas... > > On Thu, Aug

Re: trouble with fetchmail via exim

2000-08-23 Thread Phillip Deackes
Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Don't know if this is applyable here, just pointing out a potential > problem. Actually, I don't really have a domain name for my local > "network" (i.e. my desktp and my notebook) I just use hostnames. How > do > I set up a domain name in Debian? OK.

Re: I am now totally confused about modules

2000-08-23 Thread Christophe Broult
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Christophe Broult <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In short the alsa modules uses the OSS sound modules to provide sound > > for your system. > > I don't have alsa on my system. I did try it once but removed the package. By any chance, do you still have a file named /e

Re: apt-get won't play

2000-08-23 Thread Jay Barbee
On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 08:27:11PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thank you. > > Apt-get, which worked so well when I went from 2.0 -> 2.1, is being a royal > grade "A" bastard (pardon my French!) now. Maybe I'm missing something > obvious: > > - The sources file is set up for > deb h

Re: Linux Mail Client (was: Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error))

2000-08-23 Thread David Zoll
Steve Lamb wrote: > On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 06:33:48PM -0400, David Zoll wrote: [snip] > > 1) Fetchmail, which will grab the mail from separate accounts, and > > stuff it through... > > Requires filtering to separate out accounts which should be separate in > the first place. The way I see

Lexmark printer...

2000-08-23 Thread Mark Janssen
> I have been reading a lot of messages about printers lately. > > I am wondering what filter I should use for a Lexmark optra E310 > printer. > This is a postscript printer with 1 Mb of memory (I think). I have this very same printer... since it's postscript you don't need any filters at all..

semaphores and shared memory kernel parameters

2000-08-23 Thread Jaume Teixi
how to know from a running binary kernel the parameters for semaphores and shared memory? how to know parameters who have default kernels ? thanks, jaume

apt-cdrom finds too many "Packages"

2000-08-23 Thread Enzo Dari
Hi, I had the bad idea of putting extra software in the 4th CD of my own unofficial Potato distribution. It happens that somewhere in the directory tree of this extra software there exists a *directory* called "Packages" apt-cdrom tries to read debian packages from it and fails, making all the pack

Re: color in Emacs

2000-08-23 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Goeman Stefan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: gs> Putting something like this gs> emacs*background:white gs> emacs*foreground:black This is not the right way to do this. Use class names, not instance names: Emacs*background: white Emacs*foreground: black --

Re: Linux Mail Client (was: Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error))

2000-08-23 Thread David Zoll
Steve Lamb wrote: [snip] > I have been specific. I have even given examples! PMMail and The Bat! > Screen shots alone for those two products speak volumes! OK, I've gone and looked at the websites for those two products. I can't really test either effectively in the real world since: * both

Re: Linux Mail Client

2000-08-23 Thread David Zoll
Steve Lamb wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 06:47:49PM -0700, Seth Cohn wrote: > > So go ahead, start a sourceforge project page, and write a damn clone. > > Go look on Sourceforge in the email clients and notice what the first one > /is/. It's acmemail (https://sourceforge.net/projects/

Re: Linux Mail Client (was: Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error))

2000-08-23 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 07:50:27AM -0400, Cory Snavely wrote: > If that's the case, how far is Netscape Communicator from doing what you > want (using IMAP)? Have as many IMAP accounts as you want (Netscape > doesn't seem to consider them folders), plus a folder structure for > each, distinct Inbox

Re: Linux Mail Client

2000-08-23 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 10:04:38AM -0400, David Zoll wrote: > > Go look on Sourceforge in the email clients and notice what the first > > one /is/. > It's acmemail (https://sourceforge.net/projects/acmemail/). It's a > webmail program that sounds nothing like what you were describing. A

Re: Sync mail with palm

2000-08-23 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 01:14:41PM -0700, Michael Meskes wrote: > Anyone's able to sync a lokal mailbox/maildir with some mail software on a > palmpilot? Ideally I would like to sync to my local IMAP server, but without > using a modem connection. You might try pilot-mail. -- Mark Brown mailto:

Re: Linux Mail Client (was: Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error))

2000-08-23 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 10:00:54AM -0400, David Zoll wrote: > OK, I've gone and looked at the websites for those two products. I > can't really test either effectively in the real world since: > * both cost money I'm not willing to spend on this, and; The Bat! has a 30 day trial period, PMM

Re: Linux Mail Client

2000-08-23 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 05:05:56PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 08:44:08PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > ;-) . Having used Outlook, which seems to be the example people are > > quoting of something that supports this I actually prefer the separate > *cough* I have stated

Re: Linux Mail Client (was: Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error))

2000-08-23 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 09:27:40AM -0400, David Zoll wrote: > there is a third choice (and I don't mean something that filters but > calls it something else), I'd love to hear about it. Simply stated, one program that has two instances in itself. Like an editor which can edit two buffers at t

tasksel problems

2000-08-23 Thread Renai
Hi, I've just moved to debian from redhat, and I've become aware of the excellent package tasksel. I know that tasksel has the ability to install tasks like c++ dev etc, these I saw when I first installed debian. However, I am pretty sure it also has others which aren't listed when I load it up -

brace expansion in ash?

2000-08-23 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I was doing this in a Makfile: install -m 644 debian/{0*,READ*,c*,gri*,watch} gri-2.6.0/debian and it turns out the brace expansion is a bashism, as ash doesn't support it. Is there a sh-compliant way of doing this? I looked at the ash man page but didn't see anything obvious. e.g. > ash

Re: Linux Mail Client

2000-08-23 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 03:25:02PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > I've never used either of those. How do they look from a user interface > point of view? I'm thinking of things like starting a new mail and > deciding which personality it's going to use. There is no concept of "personalities".

Re: Linux Mail Client

2000-08-23 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 09:56:11PM -0700, Seth Cohn wrote: > Brian and I said the same thing, and you complained in the answer to him > that GNU/Linux isn't just about coding. You are right, it's also about > particpating in the process. This means doing things like using betas and "Free softwa

Re: Linux Mail Client

2000-08-23 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 03:44:12PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > "Free software: contribute nothing, expect nothing" As members of the Debian project are sure to tell you there are more ways to contribute than just code. Documentation and testing are two examples that I see recurring all the tim

Re: Linux Mail Client

2000-08-23 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> It's acmemail (https://sourceforge.net/projects/acmemail/). It's a >> webmail program that sounds nothing like what you were describing. sl> Acmemail is the first in email, not email clients. Note above I sl> said email clients and not email

Re: Linux Mail Client

2000-08-23 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 10:52:43AM -0400, Paul D. Smith wrote: > sl> Acmemail is the first in email, not email clients. Note above I > sl> said email clients and not email. Would you kindly check again in > sl> the right area and tell me what the first project is? > ALM? Doesn't look lik

Re: Baking my own bootable potato using mkisofs

2000-08-23 Thread David Z Maze
csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: csj> I would like to know how to make my own bootable Debian csj> installation CD, WITHOUT the use of those humongous *.iso csj> files. For some reason my ISP frequently turns in abysmal ftp csj> transfer rates. I plan to use a web grabber, pavuk, to snarf the csj>

Re: Exim Error: Sender Domain must Exist

2000-08-23 Thread Pat Mahoney
On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 07:59:21AM -0400, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: > Hi: > >I am using Debian Potato from home and connect by modem to my >university network using exim. The connection uses DHCP. My machine >is named sebastian. I can collect, using fetchmail, my mail >coming to

Re: Linux Mail Client

2000-08-23 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Steve Lamb wrote: > It is AIMS > Prototype. While there is not a lot there what is there is part of what was > asked for. >the description states, "See the forum for more details." Given that > the project is still in the plan

Re: Linux Mail Client

2000-08-23 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Regarding Re: Linux Mail Client; you wrote: sl> On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 10:52:43AM -0400, Paul D. Smith wrote: sl> Acmemail is the first in email, not email clients. Note above I sl> said email clients and not email. Would you kindly check again in sl> the right area and tell me what

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