Re: garbled chars in mutt

2002-02-17 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 01:30:13PM +0800, Michael C. Alonzo wrote: > i have mutt sort my mails by threads, the arrow (--->) now appears > to be garbled(squares, unknown chars)... what should i do? Use a different font for your terminal (want one with graphic characters, like the default X fixed fo

Re: garbled chars in mutt

2002-02-17 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 2002-02-16 22:11:04, Eric G. Miller wrote: > Use a different font for your terminal (want one with graphic > characters, like the default X fixed font). I switched to -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-*-140-*-*-c-*-iso10646-1 and unchecked the "Enable multibyte support" in gnome-terminal which gave

Re: customized debian installer

2002-02-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 07:27:27PM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 09:39:16PM +0800, Michael C. Alonzo wrote: > > hi! a friend of mine is asking me if i can "make" a debian installer > > specific for KDE only. is there an available installer for woody > > already? how should i do

Re: Suggestion for next Debian release

2002-02-17 Thread ben
On Saturday 16 February 2002 06:52 pm, Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 06:37:23PM -0800, ben wrote: > > On Saturday 16 February 2002 06:33 pm, you wrote: > > > On Saturday 16 February 2002 11:41 am, MH wrote: > > > [snip] > > > > > > > and here is really no interest in ridiculing a

Re: OT: kvm alternatives? (was: booting with no keyboard or moue)

2002-02-17 Thread Elizabeth Barham
Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Pardon me for a hideously off-topic question here, but does anyone > know of any cheap alternatives to getting a KVM for home use? I've > got 3 PC's tucked away under my desk, as well as a Sega Dreamcast > that I connect my monitor and my keyboard to,

Re: booting with no keyboard or moue

2002-02-17 Thread Elizabeth Barham
Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 2) Bring a keyboard, plug it in, boot, remove the keyboard (but > > >hopefully you have a UPS). > > > I heard on this list that this may cause hardware damage. I had > several accident of unplugging KB and no problem afterward. (I was > not on Com

Re: garbled chars in mutt

2002-02-17 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 01:23:33AM -0500, Allan M. Wind wrote: > On 2002-02-16 22:11:04, Eric G. Miller wrote: > > Use a different font for your terminal (want one with graphic > > characters, like the default X fixed font). > > I switched to -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-*-140-*-*-c-*-iso10646-1

Re: OT: kvm alternatives? (was: booting with no keyboard or moue)

2002-02-17 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sat, 2002-02-16 at 22:56, Cameron Kerr wrote: > What function is your DreamCast playing (Games? Or have you hacked it to > do something else?) As new Dreamcast games are rather scarce these days, it has been given the great honor of running Potato. :) I've been thinking about setting up Apache

[glynis: Re: digital camera reccomendations for debian]

2002-02-17 Thread glynis
not often can i participate in these conversations, but i have to tell you, the hp photosmart 315 is damn cool! i'm borrowing it from a friend, and all i had to do is plug it into the usb, mount up /dev/sda1, copy the jpegs off, and i was done. wonderful! -- }John Flinchbaugh

Re: Routing problems in stable

2002-02-17 Thread Elizabeth Barham
Cameron Kerr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I installed Stable, got the interfaces up and running, both interfaces > work fine. I enable /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward (via > /etc/network/options, and manually), in order to enable routing of the two > subnets. What's Stable? > Heres the topology

Re: booting with no keyboard or moue

2002-02-17 Thread ben
On Saturday 16 February 2002 10:45 pm, Elizabeth Barham wrote: > Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > 2) Bring a keyboard, plug it in, boot, remove the keyboard (but > > > >hopefully you have a UPS). > > > > I heard on this list that this may cause hardware damage. I had > > several

Re: OT: kvm alternatives? (was: booting with no keyboard or moue)

2002-02-17 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 00:41, Elizabeth Barham wrote: > Do you use X? Yes, but not in a way that would be particularly beneficial. For my laptop it's pointless to use my desktop as a server, for my mail server I really don't need a GUI and I really DO need the free space, and for the Dreamcast I s

Re: OT: kvm alternatives? (was: booting with no keyboard or moue)

2002-02-17 Thread Elizabeth Barham
> The only reason thata I'd have for using X remotely would be if I > could somehow figure out a way to get the Windows 2000 Advanced > Server Administration Tools to behave as X clients so I wouldn't > have to boot into Windows to manage the DC. I don't know what DC means but VNC has a (free) sof

Re: [glynis: Re: digital camera reccomendations for debian]

2002-02-17 Thread Craig Dickson
begin [EMAIL PROTECTED] quotation: > not often can i participate in these conversations, but i have to tell > you, the hp photosmart 315 is damn cool! i'm borrowing it from a > friend, and all i had to do is plug it into the usb, mount up > /dev/sda1, copy the jpegs off, and i was done. wonder

troubles with afterstep 1.8 on woody

2002-02-17 Thread nate
hello i've been using afterstep for a long time..probably 3 years now. on one of my machines(IBM Thinkpad T20), my afterstep has gone sort of down hill in recent months. Specifically, i use afterstep 1.6 from potato(compiled on woody) and when it loads it stalls for a REAL long time while the pag

Re: Suggestion for next Debian release

2002-02-17 Thread MH
> "ben" == ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ben> On Saturday 16 February 2002 06:52 pm, Carel Fellinger wrote: >> On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 06:37:23PM -0800, ben wrote: >> > On Saturday 16 February 2002 06:33 pm, you wrote: >> > > On Saturday 16 February 2002 11:41 am, MH wrote:

Re: Proprietry Software - The Pain!

2002-02-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 06:49:10PM -0600, Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > [ a rather painful option ] > > Install RedHat in a chroot and run the redhat-needing app there. ...or UML: http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/ /me catches up on three weeks of list mail, sorta. Pea

pid of a script?

2002-02-17 Thread ah.
I was wondering how to find out the pid of a (bash) script. Suppose it's called SCRIPT. Issuing pidof SCRIPT echoes nothing, yet ps x shows the pid of it something like /bin/bash ./SCRIPT. But then pidof "/bin/bash ./SCRIP" again does nothing. Simply saying pidof bash gives the (probably) right re

Re: potato web browsers

2002-02-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 11:05:52PM -0600, will trillich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > i know that somewhere out there someone has concocted a list of > potato-friendly x-window-system web browsers. nice comparison > table. relative functionality and speed. utility. bugginess. I've reviewed browser

Re: Backup of debian

2002-02-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 06:05:19PM -0500, Jens Gecius ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'd like to get some input on an idea I had to backup a pure debian > system. > > I like my backups on cd-r, so my current system backup eats roughly 10 > cd-r. For me, this seems a little too much, b

Re: Backup of debian

2002-02-17 Thread John Griffiths
>> idea for a backup with such requirements (fast, small, home-env)? > >General discussion (I'd prefer tape to CD-R), including directory >suggestions are at: > >http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/backups.html > >Peace. > Oooh I've got a story here, One upon a time we needed to restore

Re: garbled chars in mutt

2002-02-17 Thread Michael C. Alonzo
On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 10:54:52PM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: > On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 01:23:33AM -0500, Allan M. Wind wrote: > > On 2002-02-16 22:11:04, Eric G. Miller wrote: > > > Use a different font for your terminal (want one with graphic > > > characters, like the default X fixed font). >

Re: pid of a script?

2002-02-17 Thread Cameron Kerr
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, ah. wrote: >I was wondering how to find out the pid of a (bash) script. Use the special parameter $$ for the PID, and $PPID for the parent process ID man bash Cameron Kerr -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~cameronk/

Re: to woody from potato, some advices...

2002-02-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 09:53:16AM -0200, Marcelo Chiapparini ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi! > > after a couple of days fighting with the upgrading to woody from potato here > are my advices if anyone wants to do the same. The advices from this list > were > of fundamental importance! > > 1

Re: garbled chars in mutt

2002-02-17 Thread Tommi Komulainen
On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 01:23:33AM -0500, Allan M. Wind wrote: > On 2002-02-16 22:11:04, Eric G. Miller wrote: > > Use a different font for your terminal (want one with graphic > > characters, like the default X fixed font). > > I switched to -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-*-140-*-*-c-*-iso10646-1

Running INN on a port other than 119

2002-02-17 Thread Jurgen de Wijs
I want to combine nntpcache and inn on one machine. The nntpcache documentation suggests to run INN on port 120 instead of 119. When I change the "port" setting in inn.conf to 120 i get an error message stating that INN could not use a privileged port because it has not enough permissions. >From

3c905c-TX-M hangs with much traffic

2002-02-17 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, I have a computer (P133) with a 3c905c bootable NIC, but it stops working when a lot of data is received (or send). I have to ifconfig the card down and up before it works again. It happens when I, for example, get a huge file by FTP from another computer on the LAN or, when running diskless,

Re: Trend VirusWall

2002-02-17 Thread François
On Fri, 15 Feb 2002 12:59:30 -0500 Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > François Chenais wrote: > > I just try to run rpm -i vmware.rpm and I have the same error. > > > > error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - No such file or directory (2) > > error: cannot open Packages database in /va

Re: 3c905c-TX-M hangs with much traffic

2002-02-17 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Sebastiaan wrote: > So what is the real problem here? Kernel bug, most probably. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot

Re: iptables port fowarding?

2002-02-17 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 12:37:08AM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: > How do I port forward with iptables? With ipchains the command was: > > ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L $extip $port -R $intip $port > What I have in my firewall rules script built with Firewall Builder 1.0.0 (fwbuilder) to do

Re: Thanks for the Pedigree's

2002-02-17 Thread saradac65
Wayne, I am asking 500 for the pup he is also guaranteed on hips,eyes ,heart defects,epilepsy etc. I have monday off just let me know. I got the pedigrees thank you, very nice. Hope to here from you soon. Ed - Original Message - From: Wayne Topa <[EMAIL P

Re: booting with no keyboard or moue

2002-02-17 Thread John Hasler
Elizabeth Barham writes: > I don't understand how it could possibly cause hardware damage. He means that unplugging the keyboard with the power on can cause damage. He's right, though I have never personally seen it happen. > The only problem is if the power goes off and you're not around; if the

Re: iptables port fowarding?

2002-02-17 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Rick Pasotto ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020216 21:40]: > How do I port forward with iptables? With ipchains the command was: > > ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L $extip $port -R $intip $port Try this: iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -d $extip --dport $port \ -j DNAT --to-destination $intip Chec

Re: booting with no keyboard or moue

2002-02-17 Thread John Cichy
You might want to take a look in the bios settings, usally the advanced settings, I know some IBM systems offer a way to allow you to boot without kbd/monitor (I have 4 that allow this). John On Saturday 16 February 2002 23:06, Alvin Oga wrote: > hi ya Mike > > to boot w/o kb is tricky mou

python-gtk in woody

2002-02-17 Thread Rick Pasotto
Any chance of installing python-gtk in woody? It depends on python-base (>= 1.5) but it is not installable. -- Our adversaries believe that an activity that is neither subsidized nor regulated is abolished. We believe the contrary. Their faith is in the legislator, not in mankind. Ours is in man

Re: OT: kvm alternatives? (was: booting with no keyboard or moue)

2002-02-17 Thread John Cichy
You might look on ebay or something like that, I was lucky, a friend decided he was going to upgrade his and gave me a 6 port KVM. To help you find one here is the info: BELKIN Omni View (model F1D065) This is an AT/Serial type KVM but adaptors can be purchased for a couple of dollars to plug

Re: postgres upgrade for dummies?

2002-02-17 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 01:38:52 +0100, Andreas Goesele wrote: > I now did a new try, again without any success. The automatic > upgrading process first looks promising but than ends with the > following error message: > You are now connected to database template1 as user user. > create database u

A question about LCD flat panel displays

2002-02-17 Thread stan
I'm contemplating purchasing an LCD flat panel disply for use on the new Debain woody workstation I am building for my wife. Having never used one of these before, and since they are failry expensive, I thought I would ask some advice of this list. We do a lot of work in console mode, in addition

486SX success whit slink.

2002-02-17 Thread Gerard Robin
Hello, Slink runs fine now on my old 486SX :hdd=89 Mb; CPU=25 Mz; RAM=16Mb I try to post this mail with it. Thanks. But I have a question off topic: Is it possible to clean the MBR of my hard disk after that I have put lilo into ? (I read that it was impossible but perhaps there is a trick ...?)

Re: 486SX success whit slink.

2002-02-17 Thread Mark Janssen
On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 16:51, Gerard Robin wrote: > Is it possible to clean the MBR of my hard disk after that I have put > lilo into ? > (I read that it was impossible but perhaps there is a trick ...?) It's not really possible to 'clean' the MBR... But you can just install some other MBR over it

Re: booting with no keyboard or moue

2002-02-17 Thread Mike Millner
Thanks to everyone who replied. My bios doesn't have an option to boot without these devices. I'll probably be going with the cheap keyboard and mouse option. Thanks again, Mike - Original Message - From: "John Cichy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2002 6:22 AM Subjec

Re: Thanks for the Pedigree's

2002-02-17 Thread Wayne Topa
> > Wayne, > I am asking 500 for the pup he is also guaranteed on hips,eyes ,heart > defects,epilepsy etc. I have monday off just let me know. I got the > pedigrees thank you, very nice. Hope to here from you soon. Ed > - Original Message - > From: Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Ed K

Re: pid of a script?

2002-02-17 Thread Alex Malinovich
I _HAD_ a great idea for this, but this solution is much more elgeant and straightforward than mine. :) (I was going to suggest opening a FIFO and using an EOF from it as a signal that your script completed.) -Alex On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 04:11, Cameron Kerr wrote: > On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, ah. wrote:

Re: potato web browsers

2002-02-17 Thread Alex Malinovich
Galeon should work with no problems on a Potato system. I had it running for a couple of weeks on my desktop before I upgraded to sid. I've run it on a P133 with 40 megs of RAM with no major problems. And Galeon is, by far, the most superior browser I've had the pleasure of EVER using. There are re

Re: troubles with afterstep 1.8 on woody

2002-02-17 Thread Alex Malinovich
At first glance it sounds like a video card issue. My experience with X in general has thus far dictated that if you don't see a desktop before the crash, it's a video problem. But that's just a vaguely educated guess. :) -Alex On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 01:59, nate wrote: > hello > > i've been using

Re: Suggestion for next Debian release

2002-02-17 Thread Wendell Cochran
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 03:52:42 +0100 Carel Fellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : > > > > and here is really no interest in ridiculing anyone and less someone > > > > who would formulate constructively his criticism and suggestions ... >> i really really don't want you to construe this

Re: OT: kvm alternatives? (was: booting with no keyboard or moue)

2002-02-17 Thread Alex Malinovich
WOW! This is EXACTLY what I have been looking for! I can't thank you enough! Thanks!!! :) -Alex p.s. DC = Domain Controller On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 01:23, Elizabeth Barham wrote: > > The only reason thata I'd have for using X remotely would be if I > > could somehow figure out a way to get the Win

Re: ppp problems with strange log diagnostics

2002-02-17 Thread Wendell Cochran
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 21:24:26 -0600 From: Gary Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [BIG SNIP] >>> Noise on the line could also explain the "Modem hangup" errors. >>This diagnostic is very convincing to me since this is >>compatible with the very chaotic behaviour of my connection. >>(Similarl

A question about LCD flat panel displays

2002-02-17 Thread stan
I'm contemplating purchasing an LCD flat panel disply for use on the new Debain woody workstation I am building for my wife. Having never used one of these before, and since they are failry expensive, I thought I would ask some advice of this list. We do a lot of work in console mode, in additio

Re: OT: kvm alternatives? (was: booting with no keyboard or moue)

2002-02-17 Thread Alex Malinovich
Hadn't noticed any major network usage. Then again, I have a dedicated 100base line running from my desktop to the DC so it's not really an issue. :) Can I expect any real improvements for this type of a setting? -Alex On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 10:08, Jeff J. wrote: > Not sure if you have noticed how

Re: OT: kvm alternatives? (was: booting with no keyboard or moue)

2002-02-17 Thread Jeff J.
Okay, it may not make a difference (I think it may have some other features as well..check the site). I am an efficiency nut nonetheless :-) Jeff J. - Original Message - From: "Alex Malinovich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Cc: "Jeff J." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2002 11:

Re: Trend VirusWall

2002-02-17 Thread Joey Hess
François Chenais wrote: > Seems that a vmware config script isn't launch after install so that vmware > doesn't work ! It looks for datas in /etc/vmware/locations which are not > set ! I tryed to run vmware-config.pl but nothing works !:-| > > In fact, I think the rpm launch a config script af

Re: Proprietry Software - The Pain!

2002-02-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 01:28:46AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: ... > ...or UML: http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/ > > /me catches up on three weeks of list mail, sorta. Welcome back. Have you used it? Is it as easy as setting up chroot environment? -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~

Potato -> Woody

2002-02-17 Thread Alex Malinovich
I've been seeing a lot of discussions in various places about a rocky Potato -> Woody upgrade path. I've upgraded 3 systems from Potato to Woody (and subsequently upgraded 2 of those to sid) and have yet to have any major problem. Using the precompiled 2.4.14 kernel made one of my systems unbootabl

Re: Proprietry Software - The Pain!

2002-02-17 Thread John
On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 01:28:46AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 06:49:10PM -0600, Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > > > [ a rather painful option ] > > > > Install RedHat in a chroot and run the redhat-needing app there. > > ...or UML: http://user-mod

Re: garbled chars in mutt

2002-02-17 Thread dman
On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 01:30:13PM +0800, Michael C. Alonzo wrote: | i have mutt sort my mails by threads, the arrow (--->) now appears | to be garbled(squares, unknown chars)... what should i do? Some comments and observations : gnome-terminal (in fact, GTK+ itself (ver. 1.2)) doesn't suppor

Re: python-gtk in woody

2002-02-17 Thread dman
On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 08:36:37AM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: | Any chance of installing python-gtk in woody? It depends on | python-base (>= 1.5) but it is not installable. A snippet of 'apt-cache show python-gtk' : Version: 0.6.8-14 Depends: python (>= 2.1), python (<< 2.2) The current versi

Re: python-gtk in woody

2002-02-17 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 11:55:42AM -0500, dman wrote: > On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 08:36:37AM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: > | Any chance of installing python-gtk in woody? It depends on > | python-base (>= 1.5) but it is not installable. > > A snippet of 'apt-cache show python-gtk' : > > Version: 0

Re: spamassassin. CAREFUL ON UPGRADE

2002-02-17 Thread David Roundy
On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 09:01:52PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: > On Sat, 16 Feb 2002 08:07:49 -0800, Cam Ellison wrote: > > See auto-fill in help. My .emacs file contains: > > (add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-fill) > > "M-x auto-fill" toggles in and out of the mode. You can specify the >

Re: postgres upgrade for dummies?

2002-02-17 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 14:20, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 01:38:52 +0100, Andreas Goesele wrote: > > So I did read README.Debian.migration.gz and then run postgresql-dump > > with the options in the README. This is what I got: > > > > Stopping and restarting the postmaster

Re: python-gtk in woody

2002-02-17 Thread dman
On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 12:00:18PM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: | On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 11:55:42AM -0500, dman wrote: | > On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 08:36:37AM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: | > | Any chance of installing python-gtk in woody? It depends on | > | python-base (>= 1.5) but it is not install

Re: Help with Expect & Xterm

2002-02-17 Thread darrell dupas
so the last attempt was a learning process, if you tried it you may have had *very* hit and miss success, plus general weirdness, the script i have attached is a little better, i woke up this morning thinking, hmm, i should not learn at other peoples expence and perhaps i should give a second e

Re: potato web browsers

2002-02-17 Thread will trillich
On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 09:35:01AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > Galeon should work with no problems on a Potato system. I had it running > for a couple of weeks on my desktop before I upgraded to sid. I've run > it on a P133 with 40 megs of RAM with no major problems. And Galeon is, > by far, th

Re: Potato -> Woody

2002-02-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
I call Debian guilty of 2 counts :-) 1) Too easy user interface for the upgrade and maintenance. 2) Too stable for "testing" distribution. Read on to find out why: On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 10:20:04AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > I've been seeing a lot of discussions in various places about

ftp and telnet between computers

2002-02-17 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I am working on a computer for friends and want to be able to login to it once they take it home so i can fix things at a distance if they have a problem. I haven't found a howto that covers this, but if there is one please steer me to it and I will read it. My questions involve: 1. differences bet

Re: ftp and telnet between computers

2002-02-17 Thread Patrick Kirk
>1. differences between telnet and ftp servers--right now I have ftpd and >telnetd-ssl installed on both boxes. Telnet is th espawn of Satan - use ssh to communicate. ftp stands for file transfer program. ITs a program for transferring files. >2. ip address to use: I have a cable connection to th

Re: cdrecord can't find scsi modules

2002-02-17 Thread James Hughes
Adam Majer wrote: On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 09:27:08PM -0500, James Hughes wrote: Kernel command line: Shouldn't the value of append show up there? My next course of action, (and I'm running out of courses [:)] , is to recompile the kernel without IDE/ATAPI support. Any other ideas? YEs,

Re: ftp and telnet between computers

2002-02-17 Thread Sebastiaan
High, On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > I am working on a computer for friends and want to be able to login to it > once they take it home so i can fix things at a distance if they have a > problem. I haven't found a howto that covers this, but if there is one > please steer me to it and

Re: ftp and telnet between computers

2002-02-17 Thread Martin Wuertele
Hi Cheryl! On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > I am working on a computer for friends and want to be able to login to it > once they take it home so i can fix things at a distance if they have a > problem. I haven't found a howto that covers this, but if there is one > please steer me to i

Re: ftp and telnet between computers

2002-02-17 Thread dman
On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 12:37:53PM -0600, Cheryl Homiak wrote: | I am working on a computer for friends and want to be able to login to it | once they take it home so i can fix things at a distance if they have a | problem. I haven't found a howto that covers this, but if there is one | please stee

Re: garbled chars in mutt

2002-02-17 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 2002-02-17 11:52:52, dman wrote: > mutt can use the line drawing characters (nicer) or it can revert > to similar characters from the US-ASCII charset ~/.muttrc: set ascii_chars = yes /Allan -- Allan M. Wind P.O. Box 2022 Woburn, MA 01888-0022 USA pgpsmCqgyM6qh.pgp Description:

Re: ftp and telnet between computers

2002-02-17 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Thanks for the info. Actually, I worded it poorly; of course i know the difference between ftpd and telnetd; I meant the difference between different server packages in these two categories. At least for ftp servers, there are several. I guess it's time to learn about communicating with ssh. --

Re: postgres upgrade for dummies?

2002-02-17 Thread Andreas Goesele
"J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Switch back to the pg_hba.conf file you used with 6.5. 7.1 has a new > authentication method "peer" which 6.5 doesn't understand and which 7.1's > default configuration employs IIRC. This helped. Thanks. But now I have a new problem: The encodin

Re: A question about LCD flat panel displays

2002-02-17 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* stan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > I'm contemplating purchasing an LCD flat panel disply for use on the new > Debain woody workstation I am building for my wife. ITYM TFT. > Having never used one of these before, and since they are failry expensive, > I thought I would ask some advice of

Re: ftp and telnet between computers

2002-02-17 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 19:37, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > I am working on a computer for friends and want to be able to login to it > once they take it home so i can fix things at a distance if they have a > problem. I haven't found a howto that covers this, but if there is one > please steer me to it an

Re: hdis: was; ftp and telnet between computers

2002-02-17 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Well, actually, apt-get install dhis didn't get me anything. Neither did a package search at www.debian.org; neither did a search of my /var/lib/dpkg/availble file. The website, however, does exist! -- Cheryl

Re: ftp and telnet between computers

2002-02-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 01:09:03PM -0600, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > Thanks for the info. Actually, I worded it poorly; of course i know the > difference between ftpd and telnetd; I meant the difference between > different server packages in these two categories. At least for ftp > servers, there are s

Re: ftp and telnet between computers

2002-02-17 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 20:14, Mario Vukelic wrote: Correcting myself, oh well > Does the remote (friends') box have a dynamically assigned IP (probably, > when it's on PPP)? Then you need a way to find out the current IP when > you want to log in. I.e., you call your friends and you want them to >

Re: ftp and telnet between computers

2002-02-17 Thread Martin Wuertele
Hi Osamu! On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Osamu Aoki wrote: > For ssh use package name "ssh" (openSSH version). > > For ftp, use wu-ftp or pro-ftp if you do not know too much like me. > There is more users for these. But merely transferring files, there is > a command called "scp" in ssh package. and ev

slrn + slrnpull

2002-02-17 Thread Ian Balchin
Hi, I installed slrn and slrnpull for offline mail reading. There is no way that the default installation works even when debconf has asked all the relevant questions. Sorry for the bitch, but a whole Sunday has evaporated. An install for a dialup offline newsreader should be something that the in

Re: ftp and telnet between computers

2002-02-17 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Thanks to everybody for warning me about the dangers of telnet and ftp; I did sort of know this, but wasn't sure what to do about it. -- Cheryl

Problem with postfix relaying

2002-02-17 Thread Jor-el
Hi, In my current setup, my MUA talks directly to the smtp server of my ISP to send mail. I wanted to change that to where it would send mail to an smtp server running on my machine (postfix) which would then relay it to my ISP's smtp server. Unfortunately, for some reason, postfix seems t

Re: Problem with postfix relaying

2002-02-17 Thread Sebastiaan
High, On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Jor-el wrote: > Hi, > > In my current setup, my MUA talks directly to the smtp server of > my ISP to send mail. I wanted to change that to where it would send mail > to an smtp server running on my machine (postfix) which would then relay > it to my ISP's smtp ser

Re: ftp and telnet between computers

2002-02-17 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 20:26, Martin Wuertele wrote: > and even sftp which works as a command line ftp program but uses the ssh > tunnel I believe gftp (ftp client for gtk) also supports sftp -- I did not vote for the Austrian government

D-Link DWL-520 Wireless?

2002-02-17 Thread Norman Walsh
Does anyone know if there are drivers for the D-Link DWL-520 Wireless PCI Adapter? A quick Google didn't turn up anything useful...alas. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Someone has changed

potato version of galeon?

2002-02-17 Thread will trillich
what's the potato-friendly way to get galeon installed? (basically same inquiry as before, but with a more pertinent subject line and a bit more elaboration on the details:) i've got potato(stable) set up including deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non

Help! I have deleted my "startx"-File!

2002-02-17 Thread Andreas Maresch
Hi! Today I have made a _BIG_, thumb newbie-error: I have deleted my "startx" -file! I have potato 2.2.19pre9 with kde 2.0.1, no modifications. My X-server is XF86_SVGA. Is there a fast method to regain the deleted file? Or can anybody post it for me? Thank you in advance Andreas PS: Please do

screen real estate [was Re: A question about LCD flat panel displays]

2002-02-17 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 01:13:11PM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > I have a 15" and 17" TFTs at work. For me 15" is not enough scren real > estate to use X, so that box runs in 1024x768 framebuffer console. The > only problem with that is that it's noticeably slow in high-colour > (> 256) modes; on

Re: error during testing upgrade destroyed partition

2002-02-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 10:21:04PM +0100, Harald Schmid wrote: > Hi debian developpers, Well, this should have been to debian-user@lists.debian.org Let's move to there. (Sounds like pcmcia-cs issues discussed in debian-user@lists.debian.org recently.) > during an upgrade of testing I had kernel

Re: potato web browsers

2002-02-17 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Sunday, February 17, will trillich did write: > On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 09:35:01AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > Galeon should work with no problems on a Potato system. I had it running > > for a couple of weeks on my desktop before I upgraded to sid. I've run > > it on a P133 with 40 m

libmng dependency tangle

2002-02-17 Thread Rich Johnson
I tried installing mozilla with disastrous results. It refused to install because of the libmng dependency shown below. Now KDE refuses to start up due to Why won't apt-get/dpkg acknowlege the already installedpackage libmng1 (v 1.0.3-3)? Why won't "dpkg --purge libmng" remove an uninstalled p

Gnome reconfiguration question

2002-02-17 Thread stan
I'm setting up a woody machien for my wife. She's going to use Gnome, and I had sent a fair amount of time configuring her desktop for her. Today she aske me to make things bigger (fonts ets.) and the best way I and the best way I could figure out to do that, was o lower the resolutin. So I cahn

Re: potato version of galeon?

2002-02-17 Thread Martin Wuertele
Hi will! On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, will trillich wrote: > what's the potato-friendly way to get galeon installed? > (basically same inquiry as before, but with a more pertinent > subject line and a bit more elaboration on the details:) > > i've got potato(stable) set up including > > deb http:

Re: Help! I have deleted my "startx"-File!

2002-02-17 Thread Martin Wuertele
Hi Andreas! On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Andreas Maresch wrote: > Today I have made a _BIG_, thumb newbie-error: I have deleted my "startx" > -file! > I have potato 2.2.19pre9 with kde 2.0.1, no modifications. > My X-server is XF86_SVGA. > > Is there a fast method to regain the deleted file? > Or can a

Re: libmng dependency tangle

2002-02-17 Thread Martin Wuertele
Hi Rich! On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Rich Johnson wrote: > (Reading database ... 22636 files and directories currently installed.) > Unpacking libmng (from .../libmng_0.9.3-0.potato.3_powerpc.deb) ... > dpkg: error processing > /var/cache/apt/archives/libmng_0.9.3-0.potato.3_powerpc.deb (--unpack): > t

Re: Help! I have deleted my "startx"-File!

2002-02-17 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 22:31:23 +0100 Andreas Maresch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > Today I have made a _BIG_, thumb newbie-error: I have deleted my "startx" > -file! I have potato 2.2.19pre9 with kde 2.0.1, no modifications. > My X-server is XF86_SVGA. > > Is there a fast method to regain t

Re: cdrecord can't find scsi modules

2002-02-17 Thread csj
On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 01:46:43PM -0500, James Hughes wrote: [sssnip] > Well, recompiling the kernel without ide/atapi support did the trick. > And adding hdb=ide-scsi (as well as hdc=ide-sci) to the kernel command > line. And moving the /dev/cdrom simlink to /dev/scd8. Also, linking > /dev/cdr

Re: Help! I have deleted my "startx"-File!

2002-02-17 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Andreas Maresch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi! Today I have made a _BIG_, thumb newbie-error: I have deleted my "startx" -file! I have potato 2.2.19pre9 with kde 2.0.1, no modifications. My X-server is XF86_SVGA. Is there a fast method to regain the deleted file? Or can anybody post it for me?

Re: postgres upgrade for dummies? [solved]

2002-02-17 Thread Andreas Goesele
Andreas Goesele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Switch back to the pg_hba.conf file you used with 6.5. 7.1 has a new > > authentication method "peer" which 6.5 doesn't understand and which 7.1's > > default configuration employs IIRC. > > Thi

Re: potato version of galeon?

2002-02-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 03:31:06PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > what's the potato-friendly way to get galeon installed? > i've got potato(stable) set up including >deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free > (all one line) in my /etc/apt/sources.list but of cou

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