Re: test if cron is running?

2002-09-12 Thread Christoph Claus
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 12:29:47AM +0200, Roman Joost wrote: > Is anacron started by cron? Because anacron is working... > > I recently have the problem, that my cron won't start anything which i entering > in the crontab. A Linux without cron is really bad :(( > It's the other way round -- an

Canon LBP-660

2002-09-12 Thread debianuser
Hey! Do somebody have expience about Canon LBP-660 printer on a Woody Debian System? How can I install it? Thanks, in advance! _ Kuukausimaksuton nettiyhteys: http://www.suomi24.fi/liittyma/ Yli 12000 logoa ja soittoääntä: http://sm

Re: Canon LBP-660

2002-09-12 Thread Christoph Claus
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 10:33:35AM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How can I install it? Consult /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-{txt,html}/Printing-HOWTO and .../Printing-Usage-HOWTO Christoph -- Stilblüten aus Schreiben von Versicherungsnehmern: Als ich an die Kreuzung kam, erhob sich ein Zaun, um

Re: Simple bandwidth limiting examples?

2002-09-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 09:40:37AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 11:35:45AM -0500, Michael Jinks wrote: > > Can anyone recommend a site that covers traffic control from a more > > down-to-earth perspective? Or is anyone running a server that limits > > its own bandwidth, and will

Multiple Mixers - selecting primary one

2002-09-12 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
It took me nine months to sort out what was configured wrong, but I finally sorted out how to get my TV tuner card (a none-too-fancy Hauppage low-end model) to work on my system, and it is quite nice... But not fully nice. Bt878 shows up as the primary mixer, while my Creative SBLive is the secon

Re: avview

2002-09-12 Thread Christoph Claus
On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 11:38:32AM -0400, stan wrote: > Interesting, I have this line in /etc/apt/sources.list: > > deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free > > Wonder why it's not geting updated? > Did you run "apt-get update" and "apt-get upgrade"??? Christoph -

Re: downgrading from unstable to testing

2002-09-12 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 02:51, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > --Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > (on Wednesday, 11 September 2002, 03:53 PM +0200): [...] > > As downgrades are often not properly supported, you'll probably want to > > do the same (or remove unstable

Re: download

2002-09-12 Thread Claudio Bley
On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 13:36, New Star Service Company wrote: > I recently subscribe this mailing list and also newbie in Debian. > I would like to download previous all mail from Debian website such > as July/August-2002 all mail. > How I do this ? Just send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

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Re: Restricting IP to shell users

2002-09-12 Thread Dathi Oxencroft
The immediate goal is to bind user X's processes to Y IP. Additionally allowing user X to only login via Y IP would be an advantage, but not an issue at this stage. Traffic analysis by IP I believe I have under control :) Jason Healy wrote: > > I've recently setup a new server with woody but thi

Re: Debian 3.0 and AIRONET PCI4800 (Aironet PCI350) ?

2002-09-12 Thread Pat Colbeck
Hi I would check the modules availabe for yout kernel. I am not sure if the 2.2.x kernels in Woody have support for this card. I am sure I saw it in the list of modules for my 2.4.x kernel though. Try modconf and browse the modules. Pat On Thursday 12 September 2002 7:40 am, Ignacio Solis wro

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spamassassin white-lists

2002-09-12 Thread Tom Allison
I've found two things on the spamassassin package that I am unable to determine how to configure or manage. (My setup is postfix|procmail|spamassassin) spamd.conf: There is, on one machine, a line "DROPPRIVS=yes". But it doesn't show up anywhere else. What is this line used for? What does it

integrity checkers

2002-09-12 Thread martin f krafft
tripwire's only in unstable right now, which is enough to make me want to finally ditch it and go for one of the other integrity checkers: aide, samhain, integrit the question is, which one? can you provide some information or tell me about your experiences, or maybe give me the reasons that l

About spamassassin

2002-09-12 Thread DEFFONTAINES Vincent
For those running spamassassin and caring about performance, there is another solution than running spamd daemon and running spamc for each email to analyse. There is a perl dameon called spampd that uses spamassassin Perl modules to do the job, and it talks SMTP. This way no process needs to be

libc 2.13 to libc 2.2.5 and socket error

2002-09-12 Thread Francois Chenais
Hello, One of my previous mail was talking about socket error between a RH 7.2 and a sun solaris 6. In fact, I have rebuilt the binaries on my notebook with Debian sarge but i have the same error ! So, I wonder if the error occurs because of the difference between the libc6 versions ! It's s

Set group seting to multiple files

2002-09-12 Thread Pierre Dupuis
Good afternoon everyone :) I expected a little problem, i have got a lot of files (Mp3s) organized in rep with sub rep, and i want to set a exec authorisation for a user. I know how to set it to a unique file, but there are more than one thousand files, so i wanted to do for each Mp3s (and to

reinitializing a crashed SCSI CD-ROM drive without rebooting?

2002-09-12 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello! have a problem, i have a long running simulation running, and i crashed X whilst burning a data backup... X restarted, the machine otherwise is unharmed, but the CD-ROM drive refuses to spit out the broken CD, looking at syslog i see lots of SCSI errors concerning that drive... now i nee

Re: user not root cause problem

2002-09-12 Thread ernst
Hi The user must be a member of audio group # adduser your_username audo and check the permision on dsp # ls -la /dev/dsp crw-rw-rw-1 root audio 14, 3 Nov 4 2001 /dev/dsp (this is how mine look like) /ernst On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Pierre Dupuis wrote: > Good evening everyone :)

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Re: user not root cause problem

2002-09-12 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On 12 Sep 2002 00:20:43 -0400 Scott Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also if xmms is the only program having a problem, then you should make > sure xmms has write access to the directory where the mp3's are... in my > experience xmms needs this for some reason. I dont really know why > though.

Re: About spamassassin

2002-09-12 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach DEFFONTAINES Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.09.12.1311 +0200]: > spampd can be found at this address : > http://www.worlddesign.com/index.cfm/rd/mta/spampd.htm It looks nice. I would be happy to package it. However, glancing over it, it doesn't seem very good for the productive en

RE: user not root cause problem

2002-09-12 Thread DEFFONTAINES Vincent
> # ls -la /dev/dsp > crw-rw-rw-1 root audio 14, 3 Nov 4 2001 /dev/dsp > (this is how mine look like) /dev/dsp should be : crw-rw 1 root audio ... If all users have read/write access, there is no need for an audio group! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Set group seting to multiple files

2002-09-12 Thread Pierre Dupuis
OK ! I'm sorry to be a newbie :// I need more explanation.. I will be more explicit I've got some files owned by root and part as root group. First i want to made them audio group. Then i want to set a read permission for group audio on these files. I have look at the man chmod but it is no

Re: Set group seting to multiple files

2002-09-12 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Pierre Dupuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.09.12.1319 +0200]: > I expected a little problem, i have got a lot of files (Mp3s) organized > in rep with sub rep, and i want to set a exec authorisation for a user. > I know how to set it to a unique file, but there are more than one > thous

Re: downgrading from unstable to testing

2002-09-12 Thread Kevin Coyner
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 10:26:45AM +0200, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote.. > > My preferences file is: > === > Package: * > Pin: release l=Debian-Security > Pin-Priority: 750 > > Package: * > Pin: release a=testing > Pin-Priority: 700 > > Package: * > Pin: release a=stable >

Re: user not root cause problem

2002-09-12 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach ernst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.09.12.1332 +0200]: > The user must be a member of audio group > # adduser your_username audo what does this do? add the user to the group audio? no! just edit /etc/group and put the username behind the colon on the line of the group audio. > and check

Re: user not root cause problem

2002-09-12 Thread Pierre Dupuis
Well ! U will joking me but the explanation for my xmms problem was that the files was only readable by root !!! Sorry to disturb u, it was very instructive :))) Pierre Dupuis [EMAIL PROTECTED] DEFFONTAINES Vincent wrote: >># ls -la /dev/dsp >>crw-rw-rw-1 root audio 14,

Re: Set group seting to multiple files

2002-09-12 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.09.12.1333 +0200]: > chmod -R o=rwX,g=rX,o= /music/mp3 ^ u=rwX -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; net@madduck micro$oft dns servi

Re: Kernel Panic with 2.4.19-686

2002-09-12 Thread Vittorio
Oliver Fuchs [debian-user] <11/09/02 05:44 +0200>: > On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, J.S.Sahambi wrote: > > > Well, thanks for the replies about kernel upgrading :) > > > > Based on these replies I just installed Kernel 2.4.19-686 with > > apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.19-686 > > > > Then I changed the

Re: About spamassassin

2002-09-12 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.09.12.1329 +0200]: > > spampd can be found at this address : > > http://www.worlddesign.com/index.cfm/rd/mta/spampd.htm > > Anyway, I'll package it but rely on your input to make it better > suited for actual use since I am not going to employ

install error

2002-09-12 Thread Pavel A. Korshunov
Help me, please, installation Debian 3.0:   Kernel panic: ccio-dma.c: ccio_alloc_range() I/O MMU is out of mapping resources.In interrupt handler - not syncing   My hardware: HP9000, model D250, single processor, 64Mb Memory, Fast - SCSI Drive 2Gb, Video - none (console) -

Re: user not root cause problem

2002-09-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 01:36:08PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach ernst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.09.12.1332 +0200]: > > The user must be a member of audio group > > # adduser your_username audo > > what does this do? add the user to the group audio? > no! Yes, actually. Assuming yo

Re: 2.4.18 doesn't find my root device.

2002-09-12 Thread Jim Lynch
Well it seems that supporting IDE devices isn't the default at 2.4.18. I had to turn them on, as Jerome suggested. Strange system. scsi emulation still doesn't work. It can't find the cdrom driver. Of course it can't you fool. I compiled it into the kernel. What a piece of trash. Thanks,

RE: About spamassassin

2002-09-12 Thread DEFFONTAINES Vincent
I have a quite similar message here when starting it with --debug, but its starts fine... (last line I get is "debug: is spam? score=-3.8 required=5") The only real difference in my setup here is that I pass it "--user" and "--group" arguments... It might be a perl version problem... I run spamas

Re: About spamassassin

2002-09-12 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach DEFFONTAINES Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.09.12.1418 +0200]: > I have a quite similar message here when starting it with --debug, but its > starts fine... > (last line I get is "debug: is spam? score=-3.8 required=5") > The only real difference in my setup here is that I pass it

Re: user not root cause problem

2002-09-12 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.09.12.1412 +0200]: > > what does this do? add the user to the group audio? > > no! > > Yes, actually. Assuming you spell "audio" correctly. > > adduser --help woops. sorry for claiming to know something. -- martin; (greetings f

Re: Network error between linux kernel 2.4.7-10 and Sun solaris 6

2002-09-12 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 12:47:03PM +0200, Francois Chenais wrote: > It seems to be a TCP (linux ?) problem that's why I asked to this list :-) The only related thing I can think of is ECN. Try running 'cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn'. If it comes up as '1', it might be your problem. You can 'e

Re: Canon LBP-660

2002-09-12 Thread Frederik Dannemare
On Thursday 12 September 2002 09:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hey! > > Do somebody have expience about Canon LBP-660 printer > on a Woody Debian System? > > How can I install it? I think my parents have one of these, and unless my memory is off, the lbp-660 is a windows printer that uses the w

New project, new problem :)

2002-09-12 Thread Pierre Dupuis
Re all :)) Welli want to use my debian station to be an Internet gateway for another pc on win2K which is on lan with the station... Can anyone refer me to some doc or help me configuring this thing :)) Thanks Pierre PS : Now i log on not root :) -- Pierre Dupuis [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Writing GIFs

2002-09-12 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
--Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Wednesday, 11 September 2002, 09:16 PM -0600): > Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-11 10:55:37 -0700]: > > I realize I am a terrible person for wanting to violate Unisys's > > patents, but I'm working on a web site that I think will often be > >

Re: Network error between linux kernel 2.4.7-10 and Sun solaris 6

2002-09-12 Thread Francois Chenais
It's already off :-| But I think it's a libc version problem because the error occurs on my Debian sarge. see my mail 'libc 2.13 to libc 2.2.5 and socket error' Thanks François On Thu, 12 Sep 2002 22:38:28 +1000, Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Wed, Sep 11, 2002

RE: New project, new problem :)

2002-09-12 Thread DEFFONTAINES Vincent
http://www.netfilter.org if you run a 2.4 kernel. > -Original Message- > From: Pierre Dupuis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday 12 September 2002 14:41 > To: debian-user > Subject: New project, new problem :) > > > Re all :)) > > Welli want to use my debian station to be

Dselect wont show installed programs

2002-09-12 Thread Armenteros Roberto
This is my first time using dselect to install debian. I did install X and all the necesary components, but it went horrible and it didnt work, so I decided to install it by hand. When I went to dselect to unistall the software I never saw any of the X components I had installed so I could mark th

Re: Canon LBP-660

2002-09-12 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Frederik Dannemare wrote: > On Thursday 12 September 2002 09:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>Hey! >> >>Do somebody have expience about Canon LBP-660 printer >>on a Woody Debian System? >> >>How can I install it? > > > I think my parents have one of these, and unless my memory is off, the lbp-6

Re: Dselect wont show installed programs

2002-09-12 Thread Pierre Dupuis
Lo Roberto :) If u did not see startx or xf86setup (for example) it is cause they are package part...And in dselect you only see package name, not the files they contains... Personally i use dselect and/or dpkg manually and all is good (but i'm just a newbie :))) ). In fact dslect help u to s

No menus and weird field size in Openoffice

2002-09-12 Thread Jean-Marc V. Liotier
When I launch Openoffice, wether spreadsheet or word processor, the menu bar is not visible and all fields have really weird sizes (either so tiny one does not see what is in the field, or so big it takes most of the screen). Document opened with it are displayed and it responds to keyboard shortc

idebus=xx and lilo

2002-09-12 Thread Bob Underwood
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi all, i have a new mainboard running woody with kernel 2.4.19-k7. during bootup, i get the following message: ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx. lspci -v shows (in part) Flags: bus master, 66MHz, med

Re: Gnome 2.0

2002-09-12 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Marcelo Ramos said: > El(On) Thu, 12 Sep 2002 01:33:18 +0200 > "Pierre Dupuis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió(wrote): > > > Good evening again everyone... > > > > So..I just update gnome 1.4 to 2.0 via apt (dselect interface), all package > > seems to be install but i

connect 2 computers with USB

2002-09-12 Thread Olivier Esser
Is it possible to connect two computers with a USB cable? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PPP Problem: Couldn't set tty to PPP discipline

2002-09-12 Thread Edward Guldemond
On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 09:58:25PM -0400, Denver Coneybeare wrote: > When I use KPPP to connect to my ISP I get the error: >"Couldn't set tty to PPP discipline: Invalid argument" > > Here is the output of pppd: > > Sep 11 21:19:02 denver pppd[1978]: Couldn't set tty to PPP discipline: > Inval

Re: Dselect wont show installed programs

2002-09-12 Thread Robert Ian Smit
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 05:54:54AM -0700, Armenteros Roberto wrote: > This is my first time using dselect to install debian. > I did install X and all the necesary components, but > it went horrible and it didnt work, so I decided to > install it by hand. I only use dselect when installing the sy

Re: idebus=xx and lilo

2002-09-12 Thread Robert Ian Smit
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 09:09:39AM -0400, Bob Underwood wrote: > i have a new mainboard running woody with kernel 2.4.19-k7. during > bootup, i get the following message: > > ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with > idebus=xx. > > lspci -v shows (in part) Flags: b

Re: Restricting IP to shell users

2002-09-12 Thread Jason Healy
At 1031875063s since epoch (09/12/02 04:57:43 -0400 UTC), Dathi Oxencroft wrote: > The immediate goal is to bind user X's processes to Y IP. Additionally > allowing user X to only login via Y IP would be an advantage, but not an > issue at this stage. It sounds like you want the ipt_owner module

Re: connect 2 computers with USB

2002-09-12 Thread Robert Ian Smit
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 03:17:00PM +0200, Olivier Esser wrote: > Is it possible to connect two computers with a USB cable? Yes, but it won't get you a network if that is what you want. Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: 2.4.18 doesn't find my root device.

2002-09-12 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Thu, 12 Sep 2002 08:17:19 -0400 Jim Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well it seems that supporting IDE devices isn't the default at 2.4.18. > I had to turn them on, as Jerome suggested. Strange system. scsi > emulation still doesn't work. It can't find the cdrom driver. Of > course it c

diald dsl connect problem

2002-09-12 Thread Martin Bruns
Hi, I want to use diald with dsl, but diald cannot connect and report the following error in syslog. I configured diald with the installation script. Sep 12 15:31:38 matti diald[1450]: Diald initial setup completed. Sep 12 15:31:42 matti diald[1450]: filter accepted rule 27 proto 134624192 len 5

Re: idebus=xx and lilo

2002-09-12 Thread Bob Underwood
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 12 September 2002 09:25, Robert Ian Smit wrote: > On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 09:09:39AM -0400, Bob Underwood wrote: > > i have a new mainboard running woody with kernel 2.4.19-k7. > > during bootup, i get the following message: > > > > ide:

Re: idebus=xx and lilo

2002-09-12 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Bob Underwood said: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > hi all, > > i have a new mainboard running woody with kernel 2.4.19-k7. during > bootup, i get the following message: > > ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with

Re: downgrading from unstable to testing

2002-09-12 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 07:49:08AM -0400, Kevin Coyner wrote: > > If I want to live my debian life in the middle with 'testing', should I > create a preferences file? If I don't, and just put entries for testing > at the top of my sources list, does that mean the apt-get function w

connect two computers with USB

2002-09-12 Thread Olivier Esser
To be more precize, I would like to be able to transfer files from one computers to another using a USB cable. I have no idea how to configure this. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Changing appearance of (x-)terminal

2002-09-12 Thread Robert Ian Smit
I know what I don't want to do, but don't know what other options I have. I regularly log in to four or five different systems. An oops on a couple of those systems would ill-serve me and a couple of other people. How can I change the appearance of a session to a host, using host based configura

Re: reinitializing a crashed SCSI CD-ROM drive without rebooting?

2002-09-12 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Thursday 12 September 2002 13:26, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > so is there a way to let the CD-ROM drive reinitialize hard without > stopping the machine? > the SCSI controller is an Adaptec 2940 IIRC, we had something similar on this list some time ago. Have a look at the "Resetting SCSI CD-RW b

Re: No menus and weird field size in Openoffice

2002-09-12 Thread Jean-Marc V. Liotier
On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 15:05, Jean-Marc V. Liotier wrote: > When I launch Openoffice, wether spreadsheet or word processor, the menu > bar is not visible and all fields have really weird sizes (either so > tiny one does not see what is in the field, or so big it takes most of > the screen). Documen

Re: connect two computers with USB

2002-09-12 Thread Claudio Bley
On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 16:23, Olivier Esser wrote: > To be more precize, I would like to be able to transfer files from one computers > to another using a USB cable. I have no idea how to configure this. You probably should have a look at http://www.linux-usb.org/usbnet/ -- Claudio Bley

Re: No menus and weird field size in Openoffice

2002-09-12 Thread Jean-Marc V. Liotier
On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 15:05, Jean-Marc V. Liotier wrote: > When I launch Openoffice, wether spreadsheet or word processor, the menu > bar is not visible and all fields have really weird sizes (either so > tiny one does not see what is in the field, or so big it takes most of > the screen). Documen

Re: [debian-user] RE: Most stable MSN and ICQ support?

2002-09-12 Thread Rüdiger Kuhlmann
>--[Alex Malinovich]--<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 23:13, Josh Rehman wrote: > > I think the best bet for a stable client is to run a good Windows client > > like Trillian under Wine. In fact, Wine seems perfect for this purpose, > > since the windows stuff has better protocol supp

Re: Changing appearance of (x-)terminal

2002-09-12 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Thu, 12 Sep 2002 16:26:26 +0200 Robert Ian Smit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Colours would be great, having a background image on the terminal > (if terminal support is available, otherwise ignore) would be > heaven. Any other obvious visual clues available? If you are using bash, take a look

question about amanda's backup user

2002-09-12 Thread Susan Kleinmann
Hello, Is the following a reasonable invocation of adduser for adding a user named 'backup' on: the amanda-client host? the amanda-server host? adduser --system --ingroup nogroup --home /var/run/backup \ --shell /bin/sh --disabled-password backup >/dev/null 2>&1 || true Are there any s

Re: Set group seting to multiple files

2002-09-12 Thread Travis Crump
martin f krafft wrote: > one warning: > > NEVER, i repeat *N*E*V*E*R* use the -R flag to chmod/chgrp/chown if > the final argument is not a directory. for instance > > chown -R pierre /music/mp3/* > > will eventually change *your entire filesystem* to be owned by > pierre! > Can s

Re: Changing appearance of (x-)terminal

2002-09-12 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Robert Ian Smit said: > I know what I don't want to do, but don't know what other options I > have. > > I regularly log in to four or five different systems. An oops on a > couple of those systems would ill-serve me and a couple of other > people. > > How can I chang

quick one about which realease I got

2002-09-12 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi, Just wondering if there's a quick way to know which release I have running? I know I can use "uname" but doesn't tell my Debian release. or I could just telnet localhost and see what comes up. but is there a quick fast way or command to see what I'm running? Thanks Mike ---

Re: vi saved file message from root

2002-09-12 Thread Bob Proulx
> >saved for recovery. You can recover most, if not all, of the > >changes to this file using the -r option to vi: > > > > vi -r /tmp/vi.7faEP4 Richard Otte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-11 21:23:12 -0700]: > For almost a year a person with an account on my machine has been > getting email fro

Re: quick one about which realease I got

2002-09-12 Thread Tom Massey
* Mike Egglestone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-13 01:42]: > but is there a quick fast way or command to see what I'm running? cat /etc/debian_version -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Set group seting to multiple files

2002-09-12 Thread Bob Proulx
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-12 13:33:35 +0200]: > these two can be combined: > > chown -R pierre.music /music/mp3 A very, very small point. The '.' is deprecated in favor of the ':' and so this is preferably: chown -R pierre:music /music/mp3 The ':' is not a valid u

Re: Set group seting to multiple files

2002-09-12 Thread Keith Robinson
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 01:49:33PM +0200, Pierre Dupuis wrote: > OK ! > > I'm sorry to be a newbie :// I need more explanation.. I will be > more explicit > > I've got some files owned by root and part as root group. > First i want to made them audio group. > Then i want to set a rea

Re: Sid & Openoffice (user interface font not working)

2002-09-12 Thread Chris Halls
Hi Michael! On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 05:09:34PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > I just upgraded my testing machine to unstable and installed KDE3.0.3. > All worked well except that openoffice no longer shows a single > character. That is there is no longer any character in the menues, > windows, et

Re: quick one about which realease I got

2002-09-12 Thread James Troup
Mike Egglestone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > but is there a quick fast way or command to see what I'm running? cat /etc/debian_version -- James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Set group seting to multiple files

2002-09-12 Thread Ken Irving
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 11:28:00AM -0400, Travis Crump wrote: > martin f krafft wrote: > >one warning: > > > > NEVER, i repeat *N*E*V*E*R* use the -R flag to chmod/chgrp/chown if > > the final argument is not a directory. for instance > > > >chown -R pierre /music/mp3/* > > > > will eventua

Re: Set group seting to multiple files

2002-09-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 11:28:00AM -0400, Travis Crump wrote: > martin f krafft wrote: > >one warning: > > > > NEVER, i repeat *N*E*V*E*R* use the -R flag to chmod/chgrp/chown if > > the final argument is not a directory. for instance > > > >chown -R pierre /music/mp3/* > > > > will eventua

Re: Sid & Openoffice (user interface font not working)

2002-09-12 Thread marshal
> "Chris" == Chris Halls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Michael! > On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 05:09:34PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: >> I just upgraded my testing machine to unstable and installed >> KDE3.0.3. All worked well except that openoffice no longer >> shows a si

Re: Set group seting to multiple files

2002-09-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 08:07:24AM -0800, Ken Irving wrote: > I did this once, then panicked and halted the process when I heard > a lot of disk activity. The problem is (I think) that the wildcard > matches the .. file and the process recurses back into the parent > directory, etc. '*' doesn't

Re: Sid & Openoffice (user interface font not working)

2002-09-12 Thread Jean-Marc V. Liotier
On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 18:03, Chris Halls wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 05:09:34PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > > I just upgraded my testing machine to unstable and installed KDE3.0.3. > > All worked well except that openoffice no longer shows a single > > character. That is there is no lon

debian hints server, a debian quote of the day that gives help?

2002-09-12 Thread Walter Tautz
just curious if such a beast could be created or exists already. People could subscribe to it or perhaps it could be a packages on their local system that would periodically mail them little hints on how better to use a particular piece of software. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Linux in Universities

2002-09-12 Thread Dan Kegel
Hi all, not quite who to contact to get input from the Debian project on this -- apologies if "debian-user" isn't the right place. I've put together a resource page re "Linux in Universities" at http://www.kegel.com/linux/edu/ My goal is to encourage universities to support Linux and free softwar

Re: updatedb oddity

2002-09-12 Thread valerian
On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 10:55:13PM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: > Ever since I first set up my box updatedb has always run on a > semi-regular basis and kept the locate db updated. Recently, it appears > to have stopped doing this. Every 8 days or so when I try to "locate" > something, I get a wa

Re: Set group seting to multiple files

2002-09-12 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Travis Crump <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.09.12.1728 +0200]: > >one warning: > > > > NEVER, i repeat *N*E*V*E*R* use the -R flag to chmod/chgrp/chown if > > the final argument is not a directory. for instance > > > >chown -R pierre /music/mp3/* > > > > will eventually change *your

Re: Set group seting to multiple files

2002-09-12 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.09.12.1809 +0200]: > It doesn't make any sense to me either. You can see what chown is doing > by adding the -v flag, and: > > [cjwatson@riva ~/tmp]$ sudo chown -v -R www-data svn-dump.* > changed ownership of `svn-dump.142' to www-data > c

Re: Linux in Universities

2002-09-12 Thread Mike Egglestone
Good work!, One small suggestion, (if possible) add one big bold link to debian.org Cheers, Mike Quoting Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi all, > not quite who to contact to get input from the Debian project > on this -- apologies if "debian-user" isn't the right place. > > I've put together

Re: Dselect wont show installed programs

2002-09-12 Thread Brian Nelson
Robert Ian Smit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 05:54:54AM -0700, Armenteros Roberto wrote: >> This is my first time using dselect to install debian. >> I did install X and all the necesary components, but >> it went horrible and it didnt work, so I decided to >> install it

Re: integrity checkers

2002-09-12 Thread Geek Assault
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 12:52:23PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > tripwire's only in unstable right now, which is enough to make me want > to finally ditch it and go for one of the other integrity checkers: > > aide, samhain, integrit > > the question is, which one? can you provide some infor

Re: Linux in Universities

2002-09-12 Thread martin f krafft
> Hi all, > not quite who to contact to get input from the Debian project > on this -- apologies if "debian-user" isn't the right place. Well, since one of your selling arguments is the low-cost, you could make Debian stand out on this page because it's the only really free Linux operating system

Re: merging two ps files

2002-09-12 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Oki DZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.09.12.0430 +0200]: > gs -r300x300 -dNOCACHE -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dBATCH > -sOutputFile=test3.pdf test1.ps test2.ps > > You can change the -sDevice to pswrite if you want ps output. doing this still causes the .ps file to be one

Re: connect 2 computers with USB

2002-09-12 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 03:28:45PM +0200, Robert Ian Smit wrote: | On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 03:17:00PM +0200, Olivier Esser wrote: | > Is it possible to connect two computers with a USB cable? | | Yes, but it won't get you a network if that is what you | want. Sure it will. Ok, the network will

Re: integrity checkers

2002-09-12 Thread martin f krafft
thanks for the information. 1:0:0:0 for aide it is. i'd be interested in people with samhain and integrit experience. -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; net@madduck joan of arc heard voices too. msg02019/pgp0.p

Re: NTP not syncronising

2002-09-12 Thread Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen
On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 03:35, David Cureton wrote: > Hi all, > Anyone else had trouble with ntp lately. I have two hosts that used to > syncronise fine, however now they will not hold sync to remote time servers. > I don't see anything abnormal with there configuration or operation of NTP.

Re: Set group seting to multiple files

2002-09-12 Thread Ken Irving
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 05:20:48PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 08:07:24AM -0800, Ken Irving wrote: > > I did this once, then panicked and halted the process when I heard > > a lot of disk activity. The problem is (I think) that the wildcard > > matches the .. file and th

Re: Changing appearance of (x-)terminal

2002-09-12 Thread Time
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 04:26:26PM +0200, Robert Ian Smit wrote: > Colours would be great, having a background image on the terminal > (if terminal support is available, otherwise ignore) would be > heaven. Any other obvious visual clues available? Within X using Eterm you can specify the backgro

not mailing output of cronjobs

2002-09-12 Thread Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen
Hi all. I tried to read man but with no success. How do i avoid to get a report by mail of a specific cronjob? I run it hourly and I do not want to receive mail about it. Kenneth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: not mailing output of cronjobs

2002-09-12 Thread Mike Dresser
On 12 Sep 2002, Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen wrote: > Hi all. > I tried to read man but with no success. > How do i avoid to get a report by mail of a specific cronjob? > I run it hourly and I do not want to receive mail about it. > > Kenneth put a >/dev/null 2>&1 at the end of your crontab entry.

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