LVM & fsck

2002-10-29 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, How do you fsck a logical volume? By fsck'ing the underlying partition(s) as usual? Thanks in advance, Oki -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Secure site browser access

2002-10-29 Thread John Batistic
Following a new woody-XFS install I am unable to access _some_ secure sites, two in particular. The same situation exists for Mozilla, Konqueror and Opera and it happens before I get to password entry, just loading the site. One site is a credit card site, the other is a bank. However, an old ins

Re: portfw timeout

2002-10-29 Thread Thomas Halahan
I tried connecting from the outside, but my browser just keeps on trying to load, then a timeout. Anyone know how I can start forwarding in debug mode to get extra logging? On Tuesday 29 October 2002 12:39 am, nate wrote: > Thomas Halahan said: > > Suggestions welcome and very appreciated... >

Re: what is failing? fetchmail or exim?

2002-10-29 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Sandip P Deshmukh said: > hello all Hello again > so far, i have set up exim properly. it is able to send messages. i also > used fetchmailconf and it created a .fetchmailrc file in ~. i have > checked and there is no .procmailrc or .forward file in ~. > > .fetchma

Re: installing a printer

2002-10-29 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Sandip P Deshmukh said: > hello all! > > this is a question that comes from a windows user shifting to linux. > > i have debian 3.0 installed, up and running. > > i recently have attached an hp710c printer to the lpt1 port. and i do > not have any set-up cds, floppie

Please HELP: def gateway problem on eth0 and eth1

2002-10-29 Thread José
hello people, I'm using debian potato 2.2r5 on compaq proliant server with kernel 2.4.19 compiled by hand. all runs fine until i added a second ethernet controller to address 2 different networks. both controllers are Intel 100 Mb ( eepro100 as a module) the 2 controllers are found by the kerne

xmms doesn't work well with alsa

2002-10-29 Thread Stephan Seitz
Hi! I have a Soundblaster Live and didn't have any problems with alsa until rc3. I'm using xmms with the xmms-alsa output plugin. Since rc3 xmms segfaults sometimes with the message: ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:292:(snd_pcm_hw_hw_params) SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_HW_PARAMS failed: Nicht genügend Hauptspeicher verfü

Re: Please Help

2002-10-29 Thread ben
On Monday 28 October 2002 12:39 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am new to this all and i am having trouble making a boot disk to do an > initial install > of debian on a laptop (Compaq armada m700 w/ floppy drive) > please write or call me i need help > 310-792-1934 wanna elaborate on the problem

Re: Need help installing network driver

2002-10-29 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Andris Kalnozols wrote: > -SNIP- < My initial description was rather vague. I have burned the first three CDs and the Debian installer dutifully asks if I would like to read them and index the available packages. It does this and puts the appropriate entries for the CDs into /etc/apt/sources.lis

Re: what is failing? fetchmail or exim?

2002-10-29 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
Stephen Gran wrote: This one time, at band camp, Sandip P Deshmukh said: 2002-10-29 12:15:13 verify failed for SMTP recipient deshmukh@localhost from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> H=localhost [127.0.0.1] U=sandip exim is saying it couldn't verify who deshmukh@localhost is. thanx stephen. why do

RE: cyrus imap does not work after upgrade II

2002-10-29 Thread Daniel Fabian
> Subject: cyrus imap does not work after upgrade II Today in the night there was an update and with the new sasl2 package (2.1.9-4 I think) thing work just fine. Thanks, Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

LED and lasers supply

2002-10-29 Thread peter
Would you please transmit this email to your pruchase department? I will highly appreciate your kind help. I learn about your company by yahoo searching engine because one of my clients is also involved with camping instruments. I browse your website and I am glad to know you also adopt LED te

Re: Maximum partition size

2002-10-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 12:01:28AM -0500, Levi Waldron wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > In future please use something like install-doc for these. I'll reassign > > this one. > > Sorry about that, and thanks for the advice. I just used "reportbug" and > didn't see an appropriate choice given.

Re: what is failing? fetchmail or exim?

2002-10-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 02:10:31PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > why does exim look for deshmukh@loaclhost? why not sandip@localhost?? > > how do i make exim look for sandip@localhost and *not* deshmukh@localhost? You've said: user 'deshmukh' there with password 'xxx' is 'deshmukh' her

paint

2002-10-29 Thread zzm
Dear debian-user: Chongqing Zhanyang Chemical Industry CO., LTD "YaQi"Brand High Grade Water Based Metal Paint&Coating Products Brief Introduction Chongqing Zhanyang Chemical Co.,Ltd. is a high technology private enterprise mainly engage in researching,producing and selling environmental high

KDE wont start on unstable after upgrade

2002-10-29 Thread David Goodenough
I recently upgraded a machine which had been installed as unstable but had not been upgraded for a few weeks. Everything has upgraded cleanly, and the machine used to work quite satisfactorily. Now when I boot the machine it starts KDM quite happily, but then when I login using kdm it clears the

Re: no cd-sound but es1370 works

2002-10-29 Thread Eduard Bloch
Moin Christian! Christian Mascher schrieb am Sunday, den 27. October 2002: > I think the problem is not the drive and not the cd (can listen to it > under win98) but somewhere in the sound-system. > > I like working in console, so it would be cool to get this working. > Where could I look next?

Re: dual-booting with debian

2002-10-29 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Charles Thomas Harris [Sun, Oct 27 2002, 01:28:24PM]: > like to dual boot the machine with debian. The linux boxes I > maintain are devoted to linux, so I'm not too familiar with dual > booting. Where can I find the necessary documentation for this task? > > I appreciate any help you

Re: /etc/init.d services start/stop question

2002-10-29 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 08:46, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > Hi, > > i just installed shorewall and it made 2 links in /etc/rc2.d > K99shorewall and S99shorewall. I can see why the S99 > would have to be there. Is the reason of K99 to prevent > net access for instance when one goes "telinit S"? > > Wh

way indulgent on my part--was Re: paint

2002-10-29 Thread ben
[big f*kin' snip] yeah, cheap paint on a cd. i knew that cup holder had to be more useful. on the other hand, isn't there more that can be done to spare us all from this crap? if the f*ckin' big interrogators and the corporate insulation association can develop a means of tracking potentially i

Re: way indulgent on my part--was Re: paint

2002-10-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 01:00:23AM -0800, ben wrote: > on the other hand, isn't there more that can be done to spare us all from > this crap? if the f*ckin' big interrogators and the corporate insulation > association can develop a means of tracking potentially injurious content, > why can't we

Using LP as LP

2002-10-29 Thread DSC Siltec
Hi -- I have a line printer, set up as a line printer on COM Parallel port 1. The printer is an HP DJ1120c, which can interpret plain text as plain text and print it out. Is there a way to easily send the text to the printer? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

server layout on LAN [OT]

2002-10-29 Thread Kevin Coyner
Objective: need to layout a small LAN using 2 servers and 6 workstns Equipment available: Server #1: Sun Sparcstation 20 with 2G HD, 256M RAM running Debian Server #2: PIII with RAID 1 (2x9G) and one 20G IDE HD, 512 RAM running Debian Services I want the servers to be running and availabl

Re: Using LP as LP

2002-10-29 Thread Johan Ehnberg
Yes. Simply copy the plain text to your printer port entry in /dev. The standard Parallel port (first) is /dev/lp0 Make sure you have the right modules installed (lp, if I remember it correctly). Some printers need an EOF sent to the printer to start printing. Hope this helps! DSC Siltec wrote:

Re: way indulgent on my part--was Re: paint

2002-10-29 Thread ben
On Tuesday 29 October 2002 02:32 am, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 01:00:23AM -0800, ben wrote: > > on the other hand, isn't there more that can be done to spare us all from > > this crap? if the f*ckin' big interrogators and the corporate insulation > > association can develop a me

Re: Using LP as LP

2002-10-29 Thread ben
On Tuesday 29 October 2002 03:29 am, DSC Siltec wrote: > Hi -- > > I have a line printer, set up as a line printer on COM Parallel port > 1. > The printer is an HP DJ1120c, which can interpret plain text as > plain text and print it out. Is there a way to easily send the text to > the prin

Re: port 16001 and 111

2002-10-29 Thread ben
On Tuesday 29 October 2002 02:31 am, Jean Christophe ANDRÉ wrote: > Hi Ben, > > ben écrivait : > > you're missing the point. running a portmap daemon is the only > > vulnerability that the 111 port scans are attempting to exploit. > > We are not looking for vulnerability. > We are looking for what

Re: /dev/dsp problem

2002-10-29 Thread Seneca
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 08:10:42AM +0200, Martin Batermann wrote: > On Mon, 28 Oct 2002 17:06:48 -0500 > Seneca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > soundcore is the only one from that list that has to do > > with sound. The > > question is, which sound driver should you load? What is > > your soundcard

Re: way indulgent on my part--was Re: paint

2002-10-29 Thread ben
first off, i don't understand your point. second, please keep it on the list, simply because it's a list issue, that's best resolved by the most people having the opportunity to respond. i'm top-posting so that others have the chance to review and perhaps make sense of what i concede i don't un

Re: P4 with 1GB RAM, swap required?

2002-10-29 Thread Jason Pepas
On Monday 28 October 2002 03:24 am, Lukas Ruf wrote: > Dear all, > > is there any sense in putting a swap partition on a P4 with 1GB RAM? > > What would be the advantage if using swapd? > > Or can I do without swap partitions at all? > > Thanks for any opinions, > > Lukas > PS: I have debian unstab

Re: strange behaviour ripping an audio cd on a dvd drive

2002-10-29 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 08:23:59AM -0800, Steve Juranich wrote: > One thing to be aware of is that most new CD's come with extra garbage > on the disc specifically to confuse programs like grip. > > Thankfully, cdparanoia is a much "dumber" program and isn't confused by > most of the extra garba

Re: kde2 and Xresources

2002-10-29 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 05:49:44PM +0100, Olivier Esser wrote: > kde2 (in debian woody) seems to overrides some of the resources I have put in > .Xresources. The particular resources > > xterm*Font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed-*-*-120-*-*-c-*-iso8859-15 > > is overriden by > > xterm*Fo

Re: Playing sound over the network

2002-10-29 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 08:03:45PM +, Jonathan Matthews wrote: > On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 09:32:55PM +0100, Michael Schulze wrote: > > > So, is there a way of getting /dev/dsp (or whatever) to be forwarded > > > over the network, so that I can play stuff locally with apps not > > > having to k

Re: successful server installation, iptables question

2002-10-29 Thread Rob Weir
Firstly: iptables is the firewalling system built into the 2.4 kernel. ipchains is the system from 2.2 (and an unsupported legacy option in 2.4). iptables is better in nearly every way, so use it if you can. On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 07:18:39PM +, Alan Chandler wrote: > On Monday 28 October 200

Re: Installation problem.

2002-10-29 Thread Rob Weir
Please start a new thread for new questions, instead of tacking it on the end of an existing thread. Also, splitting things into paragraphs makes it easier to read for us, and more likely that you'll get answers. On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 09:03:38PM +0100, Erik Pols wrote: > Hello, > > This is wha

Re: Why debian sucks.

2002-10-29 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 07:57:45PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 05:31:54PM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: > > Unfortunately this doesn't seem to work:( > > The otherday I tried to unsubscribe from debian-ipv6 to find out that > > I subscribed under a different name, so I trie

Re: P4 with 1GB RAM, swap required?

2002-10-29 Thread Lukas Ruf
* Jason Pepas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-10-29 13:03]: > > To create a swap file (64MB in this example), instead of a partition, > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/swap bs=1M count=64 > mkswap /swap > > edit /etc/fstab: > /swap noneswapsw 0 0 > > swapon -a > cat /proc/swa

Re: server layout on LAN [OT]

2002-10-29 Thread Kevin Coyner
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 12:42:56PM +0100, Nicos Gollan wrote.. > On Tuesday 29 October 2002 12:18, Kevin Coyner wrote: > > > > So the question is ... on which of the two servers should I deploy > > these programs? Everything on the PIII? > > Do you want one of the two computers act as a gate

Re: server layout on LAN [OT]

2002-10-29 Thread Nicos Gollan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 29 October 2002 12:18, Kevin Coyner wrote: > Objective: need to layout a small LAN using 2 servers and 6 workstns > > > Equipment available: > > Server #1: Sun Sparcstation 20 with 2G HD, 256M RAM running Debian > > Server #2: PIII with R

Printing with the Gimp 1.2.3

2002-10-29 Thread Vittorio
It all works but I don't understand.. Under debian woody I have the gimp 1.2 and gimp-print. I've set my Epson 640 printer as my default printer by means of magicfilter according to the following scheme: 1) lp is 360 dpi 2) lp720 is 720x720 dpi 3) lp1440 is 1440x720 dpi Now, using the print

nfs lock problems (I/O error)

2002-10-29 Thread Robert Kellner
Hello, I have some problems with file-locking over nfs. Not only is mail giving me input/output error when trying to lock a mailbox, I also have problems using dbm-files with perl (same thing, input/output errors) Does anybody know something about the locking-problem? Greetings, Robert -- T

Re: Recording on SB Live

2002-10-29 Thread sdownes
I'm using emu10k1 with the sound card with sound, soundcore, & ac97_codec. Reading between the lines on your email would suggest this is not enough. The sound-HOWTOs seem to suggest that this should work but don't offer much help. I have had a brief look at alsa & again it seems a bit vague on

Re: nfs lock problems (I/O error)

2002-10-29 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 13:32:48 +0100, Robert Kellner wrote: > I have some problems with file-locking over nfs. > > Not only is mail giving me input/output error when trying to lock > a mailbox, I also have problems using dbm-files with perl (same > thing, input/output errors) > > Does anybody k

KDE still won't load completly

2002-10-29 Thread Daniel Fabian
Hi List, Sorry if I'm a pain in the neck, but on my laptop, KDE still won't load completly. I have removed the .kde directory and tried to login both as root and as not priviledged user, but it just won't work. Whenever it's at the keyboard symbol of the splash screen, it returns back to the login

Printer frustrations

2002-10-29 Thread DSC Siltec
Hmmm ... I started looking more into printers, in the hope that I could get a real print system going with my DJ1120c. First, I saw how the HOWTO advised pdq. Installed that -- didn't see support for the DJ1120c, and started to look more. Then I noticed that some parts said that this was huge

Re: exim reject most of a domain

2002-10-29 Thread Michael West
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 08:11:35PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 11:21:00AM -0800, Michael West wrote: > > sender_reject ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] : aol.com > > You want an MDA like procmail to do this after it reaches the MTA but > before the MUA. I do not want to filt

Re: server layout on LAN [OT]

2002-10-29 Thread Robert Ian Smit
* Kevin Coyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [29-10-2002 13:15]: > I have a standalone commerical SOHO router (SMC7008ABR) that should do > for the firewalling and IP masquerading (at least I hope so. pls tell > me if these are insufficent relative to a good Linux box). I was > actually wondering if I real

Re: fetchmail configuration

2002-10-29 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Sandip" == Sandip P Deshmukh writes: Sandip> where will this message go?? i thought fetchmail will get Sandip> it in /var/mail/sandip!! Fetchmail will give it to exim, which will deliver it to /var/mail/sandip as long as fetchmail delivered the mail to 'sandip' and no forwarding or

java 1.3 and glibc 2.3.1

2002-10-29 Thread Richard Gellert Roman
hi, I am not sure, if it's right to post sid-related mails here, sorry for the inconvenience. I recently updated my testing/unstable Debian, and had to recognize, that java 1.3.1 from Sun did not run any more: gellert@ritch:~$ javac Error occurred during initialization of VM Unable to load nativ

Re: mail in linux

2002-10-29 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Sandip" == Sandip P Deshmukh writes: >> While doing some admin box on a debian machine at work I found >> a pop3browser package and the description matches what you >> want. >> Sandip> yes. thanx for pointing me to it. so, now my setup will be Sandip> exim + pop3brow

Re: what is failing? fetchmail or exim?

2002-10-29 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Sandip" == Sandip P Deshmukh writes: Sandip> user 'deshmukh' there with password 'xxx' is 'deshmukh' here No, no, no! :-) It should be "user 'deshmukh' there with password 'xxx' is 'sandip here" at least based on your earlier posts on this question. Your user id on the Debian box ("h

Re: PHP module for Apache - FIXED FIXED FIXED!!

2002-10-29 Thread Wayne Topa
Chip Rose([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Sunday 27 October 2002 06:54 pm, Wayne Topa wrote: > > Chip Rose([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > I'm in the same boat - the default configuration used when installing > > > debs, doesn't work. > > > > Strong statement.

Re: way indulgent on my part--was Re: paint

2002-10-29 Thread David Teague
On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, ben wrote: > Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 02:59:26 -0800 > From: ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Craig Genner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: way indulgent on my part--was Re: paint > Resent-Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 05:55:39 -0600 (CST) > Resent-From: [EMAIL P

Re: KDE still won't load completly

2002-10-29 Thread Kent West
Daniel Fabian wrote: Hi List, Sorry if I'm a pain in the neck, but on my laptop, KDE still won't load completly. I have removed the .kde directory and tried to login both as root and as not priviledged user, but it just won't work. Whenever it's at the keyboard symbol of the splash screen, it re

alsa-source compile errors

2002-10-29 Thread ThomasRatliffDDS
Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? Thanks sarge Opt soundalsa-source 0.9.0rc3-0. 0.9.0rc3-0. ALSA driver source kernel-source-2.4.19 Following with make-kpkg modules_image (also true when running debian/rules) ../alsa-kernel/isa/als100.c:154: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type ../alsa-k

Re: wget logging

2002-10-29 Thread Andre Berger
* Claudio Bley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2002-10-22 08:50 -0400: > On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 01:20, Andre Berger wrote: > > * Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2002-10-21 09:51 -0400: > > > Andre Berger wrote: > > > >* Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2002-10-21 09:31 -0400: > > > >>On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at

Re: way indulgent on my part--was Re: paint

2002-10-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Tuesday 29 October 2002 02:29, ben wrote: > > colin, thanks for the response, but given that a huge majority of the spam > that makes its way through the list filters emanates from .cn, .tw, and .kr > domains, where there are obviously huge relay holes, what does it take to > have the list's spa

Re: KDE still won't load completly

2002-10-29 Thread Dale Hair
On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 07:04, Daniel Fabian wrote: > Hi List, > > Sorry if I'm a pain in the neck, but on my laptop, KDE still won't load > completly. I have removed the .kde directory and tried to login both as root > and as not priviledged user, but it just won't work. Whenever it's at the > keyb

Re: dual boot debian on a 6100/60 mac

2002-10-29 Thread Amal Phadke
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 09:20:21PM -0800, ben wrote: > yo list, > > i've got 48 hours to mess with someone else's 6100/60 mac box and need to > know if debian can be dual-booted on that arch, running mac os8.1. i've only > used dual-boots on pc's up to now. 4 hours of googling isn't getting me

Re: exim reject most of a domain

2002-10-29 Thread Steve Haslam
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 11:21:00AM -0800, Michael West wrote: > How would I configure exim to reject most of a domain? > > I have read the exim spec on host_reject, sender_reject, > host_reject_recipients etc, but am not sure. > > If I want to reject all mail from aol except f

Re: dual-booting with debian

2002-10-29 Thread Rhodri
--- Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > #include > * Charles Thomas Harris [Sun, Oct 27 2002, > 01:28:24PM]: > > like to dual boot the machine with debian. The > linux boxes I > > maintain are devoted to linux, so I'm not too > familiar with dual > > booting. Where can I find the necessar

Re: dual boot debian on a 6100/60 mac

2002-10-29 Thread ben
On Tuesday 29 October 2002 06:44 am, Amal Phadke wrote: > On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 09:20:21PM -0800, ben wrote: > > yo list, > > > > i've got 48 hours to mess with someone else's 6100/60 mac box and need to > > know if debian can be dual-booted on that arch, running mac os8.1. i've > > only used dua

Audio CD playing problem solved

2002-10-29 Thread Christian Mascher
> On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 07:27:31PM +0100, Christian Mascher wrote: > John Keniry wrote: > > Some versions of Windows play the CD by reading the data through the > > IDE channel, rather than using the soundcard->CDrom cable. I don't > > know whether this is true of Win98 but you could check the

Courier Imap

2002-10-29 Thread Mikael Jirari
Title: Courier Imap Hi, I've got problems condiguring courier-imap properly -I've created dbusers (sample) mikael  home=/home/mikael|mail=/home/mikael/.Maildir|imappw=my_pass|uid=1000|gid=1000 - My mails are stored in /home/mikael/.Maildir - userdb -show mikael home=/home/mikael mail=

Snort+PostgreSQL won't work?

2002-10-29 Thread Roman Joost
I tried to play a little bit with snort and postgres, but i can't get them to work. I installed snort-pgsql and created the tables as described in the little howto: http://www.kellys.net/snort/. After a restart of the snort system, it fails to output the data to the database: Oct 29 16:01:47 geck

Re: fetchmail or exim - what is failing?

2002-10-29 Thread Gerald Livingston
On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:35:42 +0530 Sandip P Deshmukh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hello all > > so far, i have set up exim properly. it is able to send messages. i > also used fetchmailconf and it created a .fetchmailrc file in ~. i > have checked and there is no .procmailrc or .forward file i

IIS worms and apache

2002-10-29 Thread Paul Johnson
Is there some apache module that will notice various IIS exploits in real time, look up the proper contacts and report it to the corresponding abuse contacts automagically? -- .''`. Baloo Ursidae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have b

Q: Debian, fvwm, virtual desktops and howto place specific programs at startup

2002-10-29 Thread Lukas Ruf
Dear all, I make use of fvwm on Debian unstable and start fvwm with startx. I have seveal virtual desktops. On some, the first thing I do after starting fvwm is placing the same programs every time, e.g. jpilot on the first virtual desktop. My question: Is there a way to specify for startup of

Re: How do I prevent DHCP'd interfaces from coming up automatically on boot?

2002-10-29 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 06:02:43PM -0800, Joe Emenaker wrote: | I've got a built-in ethernet jack on my laptop. Being a laptop... this jack | is often not plugged into anything (aka: I don't want it coming up | automatically on boot). However, being a laptop, when it *is* plugged in, it | gets plug

Re: IIS worms and apache

2002-10-29 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 07:49:58AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: | Is there some apache module that will notice various IIS exploits in | real time, look up the proper contacts and report it to the | corresponding abuse contacts automagically? An incomplete answer follows. /etc/apache/httpd.conf : ~

xv?

2002-10-29 Thread Gregory Seidman
Is there a policy reason why there is no xv package, or is it just that no one has bothered to package it? --Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: installing a printer

2002-10-29 Thread Travis Crump
Stephen Gran wrote: i recently have attached an hp710c printer to the lpt1 port. and i do not have any set-up cds, floppies, etc. Be aware that lpt1 = lp0 in linux. Real geeks begin couning at zero (^8. You shouldn't need any drivers for this printer. I think lpr, lprng, and CUPS all have go

Re: xv?

2002-10-29 Thread Gottfried Szing
Gregory Seidman wrote: Is there a policy reason why there is no xv package, or is it just that no one has bothered to package it? do you mean xview? i think xv is the old name. cu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: xv?

2002-10-29 Thread Robert L. Harris
I believe it's non-free... Thus spake Gregory Seidman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 11:11:55 -0500 > From: Gregory Seidman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Debian users list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: xv? > X-Mailing-List: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archive/latest/242226 > > Is there a p

Re: xv?

2002-10-29 Thread Mark Janssen
On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 17:11, Gregory Seidman wrote: > Is there a policy reason why there is no xv package, or is it just that no > one has bothered to package it? AFAIK it's non free, (shareware) and not allowing modification and/or binary distribution. -- Mark Janssen -- maniac(at)maniac.nl --

dselect and apt-get error messages

2002-10-29 Thread Simon Pepping
Hi, I am trying to upgrade from potato to woody. I get the following error messages: - When I use dselect: Couldn't perform immediate configuration - When I use apt-get install dpkg apt debconf: Couldn't configure a pre-depend I am running woody, with these versions: ii apt0.3.19

Re: xv?

2002-10-29 Thread sean finney
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 05:18:13PM +0100, Gottfried Szing wrote: > Gregory Seidman wrote: > > >Is there a policy reason why there is no xv package, or is it just that no > >one has bothered to package it? > > > > > > do you mean xview? i think xv is the old name. xv and xview are different pro

Re: `gnome-approved' dark-background theme for gnome 2?

2002-10-29 Thread Colin Walters
[ Not sure if you're on -user or -gtk-gnome, so I'll CC you ] On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 22:14, Miles Bader wrote: > Gnome 2.0 has hit unstable, and all my carefully crafted settings blew > up (it mumbled something about converting them, but the conversion > failed; it'd be nice if it told you why...)

Re: xv?

2002-10-29 Thread Michael West
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 11:11:55AM -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote: > Is there a policy reason why there is no xv package, or is it just that no > one has bothered to package it? > > --Greg > I prefer xzgv from http://xzgv.browser.org/ : xzgv differs from other picture viewers for X in that it use

Re: Q: Debian, fvwm, virtual desktops and howto place specific programs at startup

2002-10-29 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Lukas Ruf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Tuesday, 29 October 2002, 04:51 PM +0100): > I make use of fvwm on Debian unstable and start fvwm with startx. I > have seveal virtual desktops. On some, the first thing I do after > starting fvwm is placing the same programs every time, e.g. jpilot on >

Re: xv?

2002-10-29 Thread David Z Maze
"Robert L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I believe it's non-free... ...and more to the point, I believe it's non-free to the point of being non-distributable. Googling for 'debian xv license' brings some useful hits; one of these is http://www.fifi.org/doc/xv-doc/html/availability.html, w

Help with system recovery

2002-10-29 Thread Brad Cramer
I am running Debian Sid with an AMD Athlon 1400 512 DDR 2100 Crucial ram 2-40 gig 7200 WD hard drives and GeForce Ti 200 video card. I am having a terrible problem with the system crashing (hard, keyboard is dead only way to reboot is power button) this is while X is running and I have the newest N

Scrolling in Netscape 4.x, .Xdefaults.

2002-10-29 Thread ThanhVu Nguyen
Hello, I remember I used to be able to put something in .Xdefaults and scroll in Netscape 4.x . I forget what it is. Someone still have those setting on NS 4.x , can you show them to me .. Thanks. I use Galeon mainly but my online class has this quiz taking script that only works with IE and

Not a question---case of the missing /home partition data

2002-10-29 Thread alex
When I installed Debian (Progeny), I used hda6 for /home and hdb5 for / and later, a directory /da6 under /mnt Everything seemed to work very nicely but I was puzzled why I couldn't see /home's data when I went directly to hda6. All I saw was ./ ../ So, I ran the following to see what h

Re: Q: Debian, fvwm, virtual desktops and howto place specific programs at startup

2002-10-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Tuesday 29 October 2002 08:39, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > > In blackbox, there's two tools, bblaunch and bbappconf, that can > configure which workspace (note: *not* virtual desktop) a program starts > on. A patch for bbappconf, located at > http://xor.orodu.netbb/bbappconf.move_resize

Re: KDE wont start on unstable after upgrade

2002-10-29 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, David Goodenough said: > I recently upgraded a machine which had been installed as unstable but had > not been upgraded for a few weeks. Everything has upgraded cleanly, and the > machine used to work quite satisfactorily. Now when I boot the machine it > starts KDM q

RE: KDE still won't load completly

2002-10-29 Thread Daniel Fabian
> It may be a problem with X instead of with KDE. If there are any other > wm's listed in the KDM menus, such as ICEWM or WindowMaker, try one of > those. Also, take KDM out of the picture. Ctrl-Alt-F1 to switch to the > first virtual terminal, create the files .xinitrc and .xsession, with > the si

Re: Mutt and mailboxes

2002-10-29 Thread Siraj 'Sid' Rakhada
--On Monday, October 14, 2002 10:33:22 -0500 "Keith G. Murphy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I just noticed that it looks like the POP3 functionality has been integrated into the latest squirrelmail (that is why one of the plugins is marked "obsolete"), but the documentation on that is extremely

Re: Q: Debian, fvwm, virtual desktops and howto place specific programs at startup

2002-10-29 Thread Michael Naumann
On Tuesday 29 October 2002 16:51, Lukas Ruf wrote: > Dear all, > > I make use of fvwm on Debian unstable and start fvwm with startx. I > have seveal virtual desktops. On some, the first thing I do after > starting fvwm is placing the same programs every time, e.g. jpilot on > the first virtual de

Help! KDE 3.0.4, Qt & PostgreSQL

2002-10-29 Thread Setyo Nugroho
Hi, 1. Just upgraded my KDE from 3.0.3 to 3.0.4. Qt is automatically upgraded to 3.0.5. Now I cannot connect QPSQL7 & QMYSQL3 to QtDesigner. The error message is "Could not connect to database. ... Driver not loaded." FYI drivers have been activated, using '#/etc/init.d/postgresql restart' for pos

Re: IIS worms and apache

2002-10-29 Thread Craig Dickson
Paul Johnson wrote: > Is there some apache module that will notice various IIS exploits in > real time, look up the proper contacts and report it to the > corresponding abuse contacts automagically? In some circles, that would be too easily mistaken for a DDOS attack tool. Craig -- To UNSUBSC

Re: java 1.3 and glibc 2.3.1

2002-10-29 Thread Craig Dickson
Richard Gellert Roman wrote: > I am not sure, if it's right to post sid-related mails here, sorry for > the inconvenience. Yes, this is the right place to post questions about any Debian setup. > I recently updated my testing/unstable Debian, and had to recognize, > that java 1.3.1 from Sun did

sometimes the lilo boot menu does not show up unless one hits shift or something

2002-10-29 Thread Walter Tautz
basically it doesn't show the graphical menu of my kernels...it just boots into the first image listed how can I make it show the menu without coaxing it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: IIS worms and apache

2002-10-29 Thread Gottfried Szing
Craig Dickson wrote: Is there some apache module that will notice various IIS exploits in real time, look up the proper contacts and report it to the corresponding abuse contacts automagically? In some circles, that would be too easily mistaken for a DDOS attack tool. assuming that the

3.0: Booting From CD

2002-10-29 Thread geno
Is there a way to boot an installed system from one of the Debian installation CDs? Thanks. geno -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: java 1.3 and glibc 2.3.1

2002-10-29 Thread Gottfried Szing
Craig Dickson wrote: I don't know what PSE Pro is; does it really work only on 1.3? You can't use 1.4.1? What I've done for a few things is use 1.4.1 with the j2ee.jar from 1.3 (since AFAIK there is still no jdk1.4-ee). I haven't found this to cause any problems. i have the same problem. but

Re: xv?

2002-10-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 11:11:55AM -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote: > Is there a policy reason why there is no xv package, or is it just that no > one has bothered to package it? It was removed some time ago because its licence doesn't allow us to distribute binaries built from modified source. The x

Re: 3.0: Booting From CD

2002-10-29 Thread Michelle Storm
> Is there a way to boot an installed system from one of the Debian > installation CDs? If you're asking what I believe you're asking. I had the same problem. I damaged my system somehow so it wouldn't boot on it's own, and had to figure a way to start the system from a cd. try booting from the

Re: Partition Resizing/Re-arranging *complete*

2002-10-29 Thread Michelle Storm
Ok, Sorry for the LONG reply back on the status of this. 1) I had to reformat, I damaged it to the point it wouldn't start for nothing. 2) I ended up learning a lot, (was down for 4 - 5 days though) When I followed the suggestions given.. It all seemed to work fine.. until I rebooted my computer

Re: Recording on SB Live

2002-10-29 Thread Burkhard Ritter
On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, sdownes wrote: > I'm using the emu10k1 driver & I've been trying a few bits of software > over the last few weeks to no effect. (Most recently wavp & wavr) Reading > the how to gives very little info & seems to think it should just work. > > Reading your reply I have had a lo

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