update-inetd problem

2000-10-14 Thread Dwight Johnson
# update-inetd --add telnet The entry definition does not contain any whitespace characters! What does this message mean? What am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance, Dwight -- Dwight Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DNS problem

2000-10-14 Thread George Bonser
Been reading RFC2317, eh? It might be freaking out because if the CNAME domain. Try this and see if it fixes it: perens.108.15.216.in-addr.arpa. IN NS NS2.perens.com. 186.108.15.216.in-addr.arpa.IN CNAME 186.perens.108.15.216.in-addr.arpa. Then you master perens.108.15.216.in-addr.arpa. an

OT: WD-40

2000-10-14 Thread Christopher Mosley
I've been having terrible problems with xwindow crashes, screen distortion, ibm mouse port and serial ports. In desperation I squirted a little WD-40 on the cpu fan, well all the problems went away. I'm using a cyrix 686 233 MII, seems quite sensitive to a slight decrease in fan speed (increase

Re: OT: WD-40

2000-10-14 Thread George Bonser
I think I remember that there was a set6x86 package that set some CPU registers on the Cyrix processors and made them run cooler. On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, Christopher Mosley wrote: > > > I've been having terrible problems with xwindow crashes, screen > distortion, ibm mouse port and serial ports.

task-x-window-system list of packages

2000-10-14 Thread Dwight Johnson
I need to get the list of packages installed by 'task-x-window-system', so that I can uninstall the ones I do not want. But # dpkg --listfiles task-x-window-system does not give it and /user/share/doc/task-x-window-system/README.debian does not show it. Thanks in advance, Dwight -- Dwight Joh

Win 95 like GUI

2000-10-14 Thread Jatin Golani
Hi all, i'm using Debian 2.2.havent been able to get a GUI that I like...also not sure about the fonts,etcso i need to test it with a GUI that I'm familiar withthe Win 95 GUI.I have once seen a linux box which had a GUI exactly like Win 95...i mean like exactly like it..wa

Filtering mail in Mutt

2000-10-14 Thread RenX99
I am relatively new to debian and currently I have Mutt set up to recieve my email. The MTA I have running is exim and I am fetching mail with fetchmail. Here's my problem, I get a lot of mail and need to filter it into different folders but I am having problems figuring it out. Someone sugge

Re: OT: WD-40

2000-10-14 Thread C. Falconer
At 02:09 AM 10/14/00 -0400, you wrote: I've been having terrible problems with xwindow crashes, screen distortion, ibm mouse port and serial ports. In desperation I squirted a little WD-40 on the cpu fan, well all the problems went away. I'm using a cyrix 686 233 MII, seems quite sensitive to a s

Nither telnet nor ftp are found on my menu?

2000-10-14 Thread Shaul Karl
I can't see a ftp or telnet entries in my menu. Am I the only one? How does the relevant files in /usr/lib/menu looks like? What pacakges should be responsible for these menu entries? Thank you.

Re: OT: WD-40

2000-10-14 Thread Pollywog
>> I've been having terrible problems with xwindow crashes, screen >> distortion, ibm mouse port and serial ports. In desperation I squirted >> a little WD-40 on the cpu fan, well all the problems went away. >> I'm using a cyrix 686 233 MII, seems quite sensitive to a slight >> decrease in fan sp

Re: ran out of input data (wtf?)

2000-10-14 Thread Martin Fluch
On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, volunteer1 wrote: > i config'd stock 2.2.17, rebooted the new kernel, and got a 4-line boot > halt: > > lilo loading linux... > uncompressing linux... > ran out of input data > -- system halted > > am i toast? > > ...suggestions? Have you rerun lilo after installing the ke

Re: Supressing the "front page"

2000-10-14 Thread Kari Ruohonen
On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Mário Jorge Nunes Filipe wrote: > Hi > > In our department we have a HP LaseJet 4000T with a JetDirect board. > > Our Windows colleagues send things to the printer and it only comes out > what they send. The linux guy's print things and there is always a "front > page" wit

Re: ran out of input data (wtf?)

2000-10-14 Thread Ville Harju
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 07:25:10PM -0600, volunteer1 wrote: > debs, > > i config'd stock 2.2.17, rebooted the new kernel, and got a 4-line boot > halt: > > lilo loading linux... > uncompressing linux... > ran out of input data > -- system halted > > am i toast? > > ...suggestions? > > plz cc m

Re: which software for professional Mailling? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA

2000-10-14 Thread Matthias Mann
I´m very sorry! In germany, my home country, it is entirely legal to send others letters with advertising material into their letterboxes. The same is valid for emails. Have a nice day! - Original Message - From: C. Falconer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Matthias Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc:

Re: BitchX auto accept DCC

2000-10-14 Thread Timmy Douglas
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 07:53:03PM -0400, Joel Dinel wrote: > By default, BitchX auto accepts DCC transfers. I'm reading the (long) man > pages right now, but it doesn't mention anything about DCC settings. > > How do I disable that ? try: /set option value /set -- will give a list of options

Re: Win 95 like GUI

2000-10-14 Thread Dwight Johnson
On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Jatin Golani wrote: > > Hi all, > > i'm using Debian 2.2.havent been able to get a GUI > that I like...also not sure about the fonts,etcso > i need to test it with a GUI that I'm familiar > withthe Win 95 GUI.I have once seen a linux > box which had a GUI exa

Re: task-x-window-system list of packages

2000-10-14 Thread Michael Janssen \(CS/MATH stud.\)
In Dwight Johnson's email, 13-10-2000: > I need to get the list of packages installed by 'task-x-window-system', so > that I can uninstall the ones I do not want. But > > # dpkg --listfiles task-x-window-system > > does not give it and > > /user/share/doc/task-x-window-system/README.debian > >

Re: which software for professional Mailling? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA

2000-10-14 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, Matthias Mann wrote: > I´m very sorry! > > In germany, my home country, it is entirely legal to send others letters > with advertising material into their letterboxes. The same is valid for > emails. It is also legal in Brazil, which doesn't mean that you would not: 1. Be

Re: Win 95 like GUI

2000-10-14 Thread John Travis
On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, Jatin Golani wrote: > Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 01:41:01 -0500 > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > From: Jatin Golani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Win 95 like GUI > > > Hi all, > > i'm using Debian 2.2.havent been able to get a GUI > that I like...also not sure about t

Re: Filtering mail in Mutt

2000-10-14 Thread Moritz Schulte
RenX99 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Here's my problem, I get a lot of mail and need to filter it > into different folders but I am having problems figuring it out. > Someone suggesting procmail but I have no clue where to start, any > have suggestions or ideas? See the manpages for procmail, p

Re: OT: WD-40

2000-10-14 Thread oneiros
Thus spake Christopher Mosley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Any suggestions for a good cpu fan ,other cooling methods or any tips. any > comparable cpu's compatible with a bios from a couple of years ago, PC power and cooling manufacture some of the best power supplies

Re: Win 95 like GUI

2000-10-14 Thread kmself
On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 12:10:47AM -0700, Dwight Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Jatin Golani wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > i'm using Debian 2.2.havent been able to get a GUI > > that I like...also not sure about the fonts,etcso > > i need to test it with a

Re: Nither telnet nor ftp are found on my menu?

2000-10-14 Thread kmself
On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 08:47:13AM +0200, Shaul Karl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I can't see a ftp or telnet entries in my menu. > Am I the only one? > How does the relevant files in /usr/lib/menu looks like? > What pacakges should be responsible for these menu entries? What are you trying to do?

Re: Nither telnet nor ftp are found on my menu?

2000-10-14 Thread kmself
On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 08:47:13AM +0200, Shaul Karl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I can't see a ftp or telnet entries in my menu. > Am I the only one? > How does the relevant files in /usr/lib/menu looks like? > What pacakges should be responsible for these menu entries? ...if the executables aren

Re: Filtering mail in Mutt

2000-10-14 Thread kmself
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 11:47:48PM -0700, RenX99 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I am relatively new to debian and currently I have Mutt > set up to recieve my email. The MTA I have running is exim > and I am fetching mail with fetchmail. > > Here's my problem, I get a lot of mail and need to f

Re: Win 95 like GUI

2000-10-14 Thread kmself
On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 01:29:34AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 12:10:47AM -0700, Dwight Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Jatin Golani wrote: > KDE is now part of Woody, so if you don't mind a slightly unstable K

Re: Help Again moving /cdrom to /mnt/cdrom for apt-get

2000-10-14 Thread Andre Berger
Chris Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 09:41:22AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > > I used apt-cdrom briefly a few weeks ago and noted that it appears to be > > hardcoded to use /cdrom as a mountpoint. There must be a /cdrom > > directory, and an /etc/fstab ent

Re: Vim vs Elvis -- was "Mutt's Editor"

2000-10-14 Thread Andre Berger
will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > emacs fans, please turn the other cheek-- > > how does vim compare to elvis? which is the resource hog? > which does better syntax highlighting? which makes your teeth > whiter? Is there anything like reftex for vim? -- Andre

Re: zgv and dvisvga/tmview problem on potato

2000-10-14 Thread Johann Spies
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 11:21:27AM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > > In reply to:Johann Spies > > > All I get is a blank screen with nothing readable at all. > > I have zgv Version: 3.3-2 installed on potato and it works the same as > it did on slink. > ... > apt-cache show tmview > and > dpkg -S

Re: A conio for Borland C under Linux

2000-10-14 Thread Johann Spies
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 01:24:01PM -0400, David Teague wrote: > Dan > > I promised to try to find Linux conio for Borland. I found it in my > archives. It is a 1996 reimplementation of conio for Linux, for >From a Freshmeat newsletter: subject: UConio 1.0.7 added by: Pablo

Re: xclients through ssh and docking in windowmaker

2000-10-14 Thread Brad
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 12:54:05PM +0200, Florian Friesdorf wrote: > I'm trying to start xclients on my router (potato) through a ssh connection > and docking those to windowmaker dock. > > I'm executing 'ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/bin/X11/wterm' in a terminal on > my > machine. Then I dock th

libc6 -- down to potato?

2000-10-14 Thread Andre Berger
I made a mistake when I upgraded my xemacs21-nomule from the woody packages -- libc6 was replaced on my potato box. Am I damned to use woody forever? Seriously, I want the stable version! Any help will be appreciated. -- Andre

Re: BitchX auto accept DCC

2000-10-14 Thread Rino Mardo
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 07:33:24PM -0500 or thereabouts, Timmy Douglas wrote: > On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 07:53:03PM -0400, Joel Dinel wrote: > > By default, BitchX auto accepts DCC transfers. I'm reading the (long) man > > pages right now, but it doesn't mention anything about DCC settings. > > >

Re: Vim vs Elvis -- was "Mutt's Editor"

2000-10-14 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Pann McCuaig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I still use nvi on occasion 'cause it will show me ^M's in a file and >it's easier to `nvi file` than to look up how to get vim to do it. ;-> vim -b file (binary mode). Also handy to edit binaries to change hardcoded string

Re: ypbind problem

2000-10-14 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nate Amsden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Douglas Eck wrote: >> >> Anyone know if it's normal for ypbind to spawn four daemons that >> eat up 16Mb of memory? It works fine... but seems like a lot >> of overhead. I'm running woody... >> >> >From memstat: >>4180k:

FYI: Apt move /cdrom to /mnt/cdrom solved

2000-10-14 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, Thanks for all those who put in their 2 cents worth on moving the default /cdrom to /mnt/cdrom and getting apt-get to work. I read the three msgs (response was controlled but quality and not quantity is what matters), and the man pages, and it finally came down to typing assorted commands and

Re: Symlinking /tmp to /var...

2000-10-14 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ethan Vaughn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Andreas Hetzmannseder wrote: >> >> Dear debian-users, >> >> The disk space for my root-partition is 40 MB, while I supplied 80 MB >> for my /var-partition. I would like to make a symbolic link from /tmp, >> which resides in

LCP timout

2000-10-14 Thread Rino Mardo
Hi. I'm back in my Debian now and am using mutt. Feels so good! Now on to the problem. I'm trying to dial-in to our Cisco 3640 RAS from home and I'm not able to do it. Yesterday, I did some tracing of what the Cisco box is sending me and what my Debian box is sending to the Cisco box. What I

Re: Symlinking /tmp to /var...

2000-10-14 Thread Bud Rogers
On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > Alternatively symlink /tmp to the existing /var/tmp That would have been my suggestion. Anything wrong with that? -- Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Filtering mail in Mutt

2000-10-14 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 11:47:48PM -0700, RenX99 wrote: > > I am relatively new to debian and currently I have Mutt > set up to recieve my email. The MTA I have running is exim > and I am fetching mail with fetchmail. > > Here's my problem, I get a lot of mail and need to filter it > into dif

Re: Symlinking /tmp to /var...

2000-10-14 Thread kmself
On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 05:45:26AM -0500, Bud Rogers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > > > Alternatively symlink /tmp to the existing /var/tmp > > That would have been my suggestion. Anything wrong with that? Check your init scripts. /tmp is wipe

Re: Vim vs Elvis -- was "Mutt's Editor"

2000-10-14 Thread will trillich
On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 10:10:35AM +0200, Andre Berger wrote: > will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > emacs fans, please turn the other cheek-- > > > > how does vim compare to elvis? which is the resource hog? > > which does better syntax highlighting? which makes your teeth > > whiter?

Re: Vim vs Elvis -- was "Mutt's Editor"

2000-10-14 Thread will trillich
On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 09:25:53AM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Pann McCuaig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I still use nvi on occasion 'cause it will show me ^M's in a file and > >it's easier to `nvi file` than to look up how to get vim to do it. ;-> >

Re: hostname/netname

2000-10-14 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 12:44:47AM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: > thanks for your info! now i've got some fine-tune questions-- > > On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 11:21:40PM -0400, Gregg C wrote: > > If you want people to be able to surf www.dontuthink.com, email > > [EMAIL PROTECTED], telnet to server.d

Potato -newcomerI

2000-10-14 Thread guran remberg
Hi I have done a new installation of Potato, and have taken away xdm from all rcx.d and was happy - thanks for the help. My way of using the windowmanager is to have many desktops up with specific programs running concurrently. So I tried to install Helix Gnome with apt-get. There was a hell of

Re: PHP joy at last!

2000-10-14 Thread Steve Simons
After careful consideration, I decided you're right. After all - the package management capability is what I switched to Debian for in the first place! And guess what - I works just fine now! >-\ PHP4, mysql and apache are all installed and running from the .deb packages. Can someone now kin

Re: going full duplex

2000-10-14 Thread Igor Mozetic
> Most of the time the ethernet card can detect full duplex vs half duplex > on the fly. You only need to fuss with the nic driver if the switch > you're using can't autodetect properly (cisco switches, for example). > > > If anybody has a good way of going about this please let me know. I fear >

Re: need quick pointer for sound config

2000-10-14 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, I don't know what it is, but I've never goten these cards to work on Debian when built as modules (even when they worked with the same module and setting in a different distro, this is particularly weird because I rebuilt the kernel sever times under each distro with the same results). So, co

Re: Potato -newcomerI

2000-10-14 Thread Moritz Schulte
guran remberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My way of using the windowmanager is to have many desktops up with > specific programs running concurrently. So I tried to install Helix > Gnome with apt-get. Yes.. > There was a hell of a lot of warnings during installation -> what is > the Which war

Re: libc6 -- down to potato?

2000-10-14 Thread Moritz Schulte
Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I made a mistake when I upgraded my xemacs21-nomule from the woody > packages -- libc6 was replaced on my potato box. Am I damned to use > woody forever? Seriously, I want the stable version! Is the system usable? Why not kicking out woody-entrys in sour

Re: OT: WD-40

2000-10-14 Thread mike
On Sat, 14 Oct 2000 02:09:11 -0400 (EDT), Christopher Mosley said: > > > I've been having terrible problems with xwindow crashes, screen > distortion, ibm mouse port and serial ports. In desperation I squirted > a little WD-40 on the cpu fan, well all the problems went away. > I'm using

Re: Win 95 like GUI

2000-10-14 Thread mike
On Fri, 13 Oct 2000 23:40:06 -0700 (PDT), Jatin Golani said: > > Hi all, > > i'm using Debian 2.2.havent been able to get a GUI > that I like...also not sure about the fonts,etcso > i need to test it with a GUI that I'm familiar > withthe Win 95 GUI.I have once seen a linu

Re: Potato -newcomerI

2000-10-14 Thread guran remberg
Moritz Schulte wrote: > guran remberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > My way of using the windowmanager is to have many desktops up with > > specific programs running concurrently. So I tried to install Helix > > Gnome with apt-get. > > Yes.. > > > There was a hell of a lot of warnings during in

Re: which software for professional Mailling? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA

2000-10-14 Thread John Hasler
Matthias Mann writes: > In germany, my home country, it is entirely legal to send others letters > with advertising material into their letterboxes. The same is valid for > emails. What has "legal" got to do with it? Do you labor under the delusion that everything that is legal is right? -- John

Re: going full duplex

2000-10-14 Thread Rino Mardo
On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 02:27:44PM +0200 or thereabouts, Igor Mozetic wrote: > > The best is to buy a NIC that can autonegotiate with the switch (eg, Cisco > and Intel EtherExpress Pro100). Will this really work? I mean I know about the workaround for the Vortex cards as we are also experiencing

Re: Software-RAID and partitioning

2000-10-14 Thread Cory Snavely
> Christian Pernegger wrote: > > > > I have 3 18GB SCSI disks I want to use in a "new-style" Soft-RAID-5 > > configuration. At the moment I have > > > > 1. partitionsd.4swap > > 2. partitionsd.3ext2(for squid) > > 3. partitionsd.1raid-auto > > > > This of course

Re: Bring Out Yer' Dead... Dead Sparcs That Is.

2000-10-14 Thread Cory Snavely
Check your keyboard connections, both at the motherboard and at the keyboard. If the keyboard is connected, you should hear a beep (from the keyboard) at power-on. It is possible that's what's causing it not to boot is that it's in diag mode. Without console output from the PROM, you're not going

Potato - newcomerII

2000-10-14 Thread guran remberg
Hi I have tried the 'dselect' for the first time, and I was overwhelmed, more than SuSe - I could not believe my eyes. I found LyX, albeit an old one and nedit and gnat so I am very interested. Therefor I have decided to do a new installation and not include Gnome, in the original one, but let t

Recent Woody update - alsa broke gnome?

2000-10-14 Thread Lee Elliott
After updating to the latest woody, something, I think alsa, broke gnome. Both of these groups of packages were updated. The problem occurs when trying to log into a Sawfish-Gnome session from gdm - the login window disappears but no Gnome session starts. Logging into a console and running top s

Re: Win 95 like GUI

2000-10-14 Thread cjm2
I'm running potato and kde 1.x. I added the kde.tdyc.com site to /etc/apt/sources.list and started loading deb packages earlier this week. So far, so good. Later, Colin kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 12:10:47AM -0700, Dwight Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > On

Re: Borland C specific libraries in Linux

2000-10-14 Thread Sean Furey
Hi Dan! > Do you know if there are C libraries who mimic Borland Turbo C > specific libraries (conio, etc.) in Linux (a Debian package will be > better :-). > At school my daughter use Borland C and I don't want to install > Windows on my computer only for that. Beside emacs is a better tools > fo

Re: Nither telnet nor ftp are found on my menu?

2000-10-14 Thread Shaul Karl
> > --+sHJum3is6Tsg7/J > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 08:47:13AM +0200, Shaul Karl ([EMAIL PROTECTED])= > wrote: > > I can't see a ftp or telnet entries in my menu. > > Am I the

Re: Recent Woody update - alsa broke gnome?

2000-10-14 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 02:49:43PM +0100, Lee Elliott wrote: > After updating to the latest woody, something, I think alsa, broke > gnome. Both of these groups of packages were updated. > > The problem occurs when trying to log into a Sawfish-Gnome session from > gdm - the login window disappears

Re: update-inetd problem

2000-10-14 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 10:55:35PM -0700, Dwight Johnson wrote: > # update-inetd --add telnet > The entry definition does not contain any whitespace characters! > > What does this message mean? What am I doing wrong? > > Thanks in advance, > Dwight Wow. I didn't even know there was an update

Re: Filtering mail in Mutt

2000-10-14 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 01:38:09AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > I use procmail, along with Lars Wirzenius's procmail spam filters. You > can get both with: > > apt-get install spamfilter > > Note that Lars's filters are extremely fascistic, and you can generate > bounces (and annoyi

Re: Vim vs Elvis -- was "Mutt's Editor"

2000-10-14 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 06:16:48AM -0500, will trillich wrote: > > > > Is there anything like reftex for vim? > > i haven't the faintest idea. not much of a tex person, here. I do a lot of LaTeX in Vim. What's reftex? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is

Re: which software for professional Mailling? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA

2000-10-14 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 08:50:51AM +0200, Matthias Mann wrote: > I´m very sorry! > > In germany, my home country, it is entirely legal to send others letters > with advertising material into their letterboxes. The same is valid for > emails. Who cares if it's legal? Do they want them? Why do

Re: which software for professional Mailling? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA

2000-10-14 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 05:34:00AM -0200, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > You want to send spam because "it is legal"? Fine, do it. But do it in the > open as the law (probably -- after all, I don't know german law) requires, > using your real email address. Just don't expect people to like it.

Re: Nither telnet nor ftp are found on my menu?

2000-10-14 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 04:36:21PM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: > I haven't clarified myself properly: > I was not reffering to the executables. I was reffering to the menu entries, > the ones that you get when you use your left mouse button in the root of the > X > windows system. > Assuming that

Re: Bring Out Yer' Dead... Dead Sparcs That Is.

2000-10-14 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 09:10:38AM -0400, Cory Snavely wrote: > Check your keyboard connections, both at the motherboard and at the > keyboard. If the keyboard is connected, you should hear a beep (from the > keyboard) at power-on. > > It is possible that's what's causing it not to boot is that it

RE: libc6 -- down to potato?

2000-10-14 Thread Pollywog
On 14-Oct-2000 Andre Berger wrote: > I made a mistake when I upgraded my xemacs21-nomule from the woody > packages -- libc6 was replaced on my potato box. Am I damned to use > woody forever? Seriously, I want the stable version! I have downgraded my libc6 with no problems. Woody's libc6-dev has

Re: printtool

2000-10-14 Thread Joe Bouchard
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 05:11:57AM -0700, Dale Morris wrote: > I'm trying to get my printer working after an upgrade. I've posted > several other messages to the list, so I won't repeat them now. My > question is this.. > When I try to configure printtool for my Epson StylusColor 600 printer, > the

Re: Filtering mail in Mutt

2000-10-14 Thread Colin Watson
RenX99 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am relatively new to debian and currently I have Mutt >set up to recieve my email. The MTA I have running is exim >and I am fetching mail with fetchmail. > >Here's my problem, I get a lot of mail and need to filter it >into different folders but I am having

Re: ran out of input data (wtf?)

2000-10-14 Thread volunteer1
Martin Fluch wrote: > On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, volunteer1 wrote: > > > i config'd stock 2.2.17, rebooted the new kernel, and got a 4-line boot > > halt: > > > > lilo loading linux... > > uncompressing linux... > > ran out of input data > > -- system halted > > > > am i toast? > > > > ...suggestions?

Re: update-inetd problem

2000-10-14 Thread Shaul Karl
> # update-inetd --add telnet > The entry definition does not contain any whitespace characters! > > What does this message mean? What am I doing wrong? > I do not understand you well, can you write the context of what you are doing? Anyway, if you are just trying to run update-inetd and are ge

Problems compiling drivers.

2000-10-14 Thread Pablo Zurita
I am a newbie to the Debian world. I have a problem, I need to compile the drivers for my ethernet card and my video card(GeForce DDR). When I try to compile, the compiler says that it can't find linux/modversion.h now checking the source I see many #includes to files that should be in the /lin

Netscape 4.75 with 128 bit encryption?

2000-10-14 Thread Andreas Goesele
Hi, so far I use an "alien" rpm package of netscape with 128 bit encryption. I would like to switch to a secure (that is version 4.75) deb package. Are the netscape version under www.debian.org/security/2000/2901 128 bit? If not, is there a place to find 128 bit debian packages? By the way:

Re: which software for professional Mailling? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA

2000-10-14 Thread Matthias Mann
Matthias Mann writes: > In germany, my home country, it is entirely legal to send others letters > with advertising material into their letterboxes. The same is valid for > emails. John Hasler: > What has "legal" got to do with it? Do you labor under the delusion that > everything that is legal i

Re: which software for professional Mailling? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA

2000-10-14 Thread Matthias Mann
- Original Message - From: Henrique M Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Matthias Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2000 9:34 AM Subject: Re: which software for professional Mailling? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA Huui! This discussion becomes a content that now has nothing to du w

Re: update-inetd problem

2000-10-14 Thread Dwight Johnson
On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 10:55:35PM -0700, Dwight Johnson wrote: > > # update-inetd --add telnet > > The entry definition does not contain any whitespace characters! > > > > What does this message mean? What am I doing wrong? > > Wow. I didn't

Re: which software for professional Mailling? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA

2000-10-14 Thread Tyrin Price
* Matthias Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [14Oct00 16:38 +0200]: > No! Nevertheless this is the only way for me to advertise for my new > buisnes, cause i have not enought budget to pay for other possibilitys. And > i think i have the right to get my existence. And isn´t it all the same if > you see publ

Ghostscript

2000-10-14 Thread Dan Griswold
I noticed that the version of GS in Woody is 5.10, while the newest stable release listed on the ghostscript home page is 6.01. I'm curious: why is that? Many thanks, Dan -- -- Dan Griswold [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2004 Greenview Drive Carrollton, TX 75010 (972) 394-2800 --

Re: ran out of input data (wtf?)

2000-10-14 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 09:54:23AM -0600, volunteer1 wrote: > > debs, > > i got to bash with my rescue disk. (glad to see my files are still there.) > i ran lilo and got scary results: > > /target/sbin/lilo: error in loading shared libraries > /target/lib/libc.so.6: undefined symbol: _dl_initi

Re: which software for professional Mailling? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA

2000-10-14 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 04:38:42PM +0200, Matthias Mann wrote: > No! Nevertheless this is the only way for me to advertise for my new > buisnes, cause i have not enought budget to pay for other possibilitys. And > i think i have the right to get my existence. And isn´t it all the same if > you see

Re: which software for professional Mailling? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA

2000-10-14 Thread Pollywog
On 14-Oct-2000 Matthias Mann wrote: > > No! Nevertheless this is the only way for me to advertise for my new > buisnes, cause i have not enought budget to pay for other possibilitys. And > i think i have the right to get my existence. And isn´t it all the same if > you see publicity on busstops,

Re: which software for professional Mailling? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA

2000-10-14 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 06:13:26PM +0200, Matthias Mann wrote: > > My experience with buisnes in web is not very big. Do you have some idears > what i can do to reach more hundrets of people per day over the internet, > whithot paying more than the online time? It is very important for me to > rea

Re: update-inetd problem

2000-10-14 Thread Dwight Johnson
On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, Shaul Karl wrote: > > # update-inetd --add telnet > > The entry definition does not contain any whitespace characters! > > > > What does this message mean? What am I doing wrong? > > > I do not understand you well, can you write the context of what you are doing? > Anyway, i

Re: update-inetd problem

2000-10-14 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 09:26:57AM -0700, Dwight Johnson wrote: > > That's what I have always done on my Red Hat and SuSE installations. But > on Debian 2.2, my inetd.conf file does not have a telnet entry to uncomment > and the inetd.conf file begins with a commented caution to not change it > ex

Re: which software for professional Mailling? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA

2000-10-14 Thread Dwight Johnson
On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, Matthias Mann wrote: > That spamming is not very liked by much people is a part of my project, that > i had not considered. I have seen it now on the reactions of newsgroup > members. And it seems to be good, that you wrote me your warning. > > My experience with buisnes in

Re: Vim vs Elvis -- was "Mutt's Editor"

2000-10-14 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 06:44:26PM +0200, Paul Seelig wrote: > RefTeX is besides AUCTeX the second best reason to use any kind of > Emacsen for one's LaTeX editing. The first best reason for it is > AUCTeX... ;-) > > I've learned LaTeX a few years ago with vim actually but after having > become

Re: Vim vs Elvis -- was "Mutt's Editor"

2000-10-14 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 23:56, will trillich wrote: > On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 12:51:24PM -0500, Jeff Howie wrote: > > I cut my teeth on vim (4.x or so). and haven't looked back. > > > > On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 11:59:06AM -0500, will trillich wrote: > > > emacs fans, please turn the other cheek-- >

Re: PHP joy at last!

2000-10-14 Thread Chris Gray
On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 01:25:40PM +, Steve Simons wrote: > After careful consideration, I decided you're right. After all - the > package management capability is what I switched to Debian for in the > first place! > > And guess what - I works just fine now! >-\ > > PHP4, mysql and apache

mutt+sendmail: don't want local ip in headers

2000-10-14 Thread Krzys Majewski
[For the impatient: I want mail to either be sent from my school's smtp server, or to look like it's been sent from my school's smtp server. I don't want people to see things like my home IP in my mail headers. I'm using mutt, which doesn't have a built-in MTA.] Normally I send mail t

Open Office binaries - problem running on Debian

2000-10-14 Thread Phillip Deackes
After reading about the new Star Office 6 (now known as Open Office) on Linux Today, I decided to download the binaries to see how it looked. My main reason for doing this is that they have done away with the awful copy of the Windows desktop - although the whole package still opens all at once, as

Re: mutt+sendmail: don't want local ip in headers

2000-10-14 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 10:08:22AM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: > I want people to think my mail is coming from cs.ubc.ca. Not a problem. I want people to think my mail is coming from storm.ca, so this goes in my /etc/mail/sendmail.mc FEATURE(masquerade_envelope)dnl MASQUERADE_AS(storm.ca)d

Re: I have apt on RH, now i want dselect (or capt or sth. like that)

2000-10-14 Thread Piotr Krukowiecki
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 11:07:57AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 01:27:40PM -0400, David Z. Maze ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > Karsten M Self writes: > > KMS> On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 05:42:41PM +0200, Piotr Krukowiecki ([EMAIL > > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > PK> I h

Re: Filtering mail in Mutt

2000-10-14 Thread Glyn Millington
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 11:47:48PM -0700, thus spake RenX99: > > I am relatively new to debian and currently I have Mutt > set up to recieve my email. The MTA I have running is exim > and I am fetching mail with fetchmail. > > Here's my problem, I get a lot of mail and need to filter it > int

Re: Netscape 4.75 with 128 bit encryption?

2000-10-14 Thread Brad
On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 06:12:43PM +0200, Andreas Goesele wrote: > Hi, > > so far I use an "alien" rpm package of netscape with 128 bit > encryption. I would like to switch to a secure (that is version 4.75) > deb package. > > Are the netscape version under www.debian.org/security/2000/2901 >

Re: PHP joy at last!

2000-10-14 Thread Steve Simons
On Sat, 14 Oct 2000 17:02:12 Chris Gray wrote: > If it's a well-made package, there is usually an uninstall rule in the > Makefile. Just "make uninstall" and you're on your way. Unfortunately there isn't one - I'd already tried it :( Does anyone have a map of the dirs/files created so I can

Re: update-inetd problem

2000-10-14 Thread Dwight Johnson
On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 09:26:57AM -0700, Dwight Johnson wrote: > > > > That's what I have always done on my Red Hat and SuSE installations. But > > on Debian 2.2, my inetd.conf file does not have a telnet entry to uncomment > > and the inetd.conf

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