Re: Unidentified subject!

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 11:02:12PM -0700, V Veankatesh wrote: > i want player free as cddb program in winamp apt-cache search is your friend. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `-

sympa: can't create new users

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I can't seem to create new users or change passwords in sympa. Or login. Here's the log entries from attempting to have wwsympa send me a password... Oct 1 23:51:50 ursine wwsympa[13759]: [client ursine.ca] do_sendpasswd([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Oct 1

Abiword

Hi, I have updated Abiword to 2.0.x; the print to file feature doesn't work. Is this the case? (I mean, it is not working yet.) Thanks in advance, Oki -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt question: exclude certain packages from upgrading?

At 01 Oct 2003 14:47:58 +0200, JG wrote: > > Hi, > Put the package on "hold". Select your package on dselect or aptitude > and press "=" to put it on hold. Or > > $ echo pptp-client hold | dpkg --set-selections > > This will keep the package at the current version (unless you > intentionally ins

Re: Anyone else notice that Swen is slowing down?

ScruLoose wrote: On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 07:56:07PM -0500, Michael D Schleif wrote: What I am saying is -- IMHO -- especially in light of the problems that I have experienced with Swen, auto-executing virus/worms are only *part* of the problem. Social engineering is often scoffed at as a real

Re: Updating Woody-Prerelease to Woody

--- Johann Hartwig Hauschild <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. > I've got the following Problem: > When Woody was Prereleased, I installed it, and > added the > Woody-Discs to the sources.list as soon as they were > availible > (and delivered). Now I quite frequently experience > problems when > co

RE; ORDER

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rpm packages - alien

I have to install am rpm-package (Radeon driver) in Woody. Newbie as I am, I found alien to use rpms. But an apt-get install alien gets me Package alien has no available version, but exists in the database. This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and never uploaded, has

Re: fetching older packages?

Just like to say thanks for this, I am an apt-get commandline user, and was thinking it would be nice to have old libraries sorted out at the same time when upgrading libs and packages.:) I will be having a closer look at it in the future. rohan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: NVIDIA drivers

Sean Harshbarger wrote: > On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 18:19, Gerard Ceraso wrote: >> I use the nvidia driver from the nvidia website, the .run file. All it >> does is compiles and installs the driver. > > Just make sure you have the same gcc version that was used to compile > the kernel else it will no

Re: Updating Woody-Prerelease to Woody

On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 06:32:05AM +0200, Johann Hartwig Hauschild wrote: > I've got the following Problem: > When Woody was Prereleased, I installed it, and added the Woody-Discs > to the sources.list as soon as they were availible (and delivered). > Now I quite frequently experience problems when

Re: user-level logrotate?

"Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a few applications that create log files in my home directory. Is > there a (simple) way to use logrotate as a normal user? I see no reason that logrotate should require special privileges for any but reading and writing it's state file, so

Re: rpm packages - alien

Hi, * Uwe Dippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031002 17:24]: > I have to install am rpm-package (Radeon driver) in Woody. > Newbie as I am, I found alien to use rpms. > But an apt-get install alien gets me > Package alien has no available version, but exists in the database. > This typically means that th

apt-proxy

Hi group (or list & group), I use apt-proxy on unstable here, and the clients use it just fine - *the first time*. The next morning, they see no new packages on the proxy machine, even not after updating/upgrading the proxy, not after apt-proxy-import, not after setiing the sources.list of the pr

Re: Hardware Compatability

Hi, IIRC VirtualPC emulates a PCI video card, namely some old S3 Trio64. But I am not sure about this, I have only used VirtualPC once on my Macintosh. On topic: Debian will probably not run either. Apparantly, neither Mandrake nor Redhat are compatible to the VirtualPC-emulated hardware. I have

Re: X On Woody With nVidia GeForce4 Fails After Upgrade

Hi, I don't know about XFree 4.2 but there is a XFree 4.3 backport. You can find the information (amnong lots of other backports) here: http://www.debianforum.de/wiki/WoodyBackports I would recommend to install the nvidia drivers too, they're faster than the XFree4 nv drivers. MJ On Thu, 20

Re: 19 and 22 september - did anything unusual happened?

Yes, starting 09/19 I have received 9421 (nine thousand four hundred twenty one) W32/Gibe-F aka Swen messages. I guess that qualifies as "unusual traffic", doesn't it? ;) On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 23:20, Grzesiek Sedek wrote: > Hello, > Just wanted to know if anyone of you experienced any unusual tr

Re: 19 and 22 september - did anything unusual happened?

Oh my 28,301 Swen messages? Got me, I only got 9,421. Where can I sign up to get more? AOL-Forums? *scnr* MJ On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 01:24, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 17:20, Grzesiek Sedek wrote: > > Hello, > > Just wanted to know if anyone of you experienced any unusual traf

Re: Debian Desktop for a Joe Average

Edward Murrell wrote: > [Debian as a Windoze replacement] Hi Ed (and Joe of course :-P), as a replacement for Win, you should try Knoppix. Really. It runs straight from CD, and it has a very good hardware detection. You can get it at http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/ After installing it to disk

RE: rpm packages - alien

I installed the drivers for a Radeon 9000 on my laptop an Acer Aspire 1600. I got the information from this site http://1601lc.tuxfamily.org/english.html Here is how I did it. Woody comes with Xfree86 version 4.1.x so i downloaded fglrx-glc22-4.1.0-3.2.5.i586.rpm from the ati site. # alien -d f

Do we really need to worry about viruses (was Re: Anyone else notice that Swen is slowing down?)

On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 23:17, ScruLoose wrote: > On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 07:56:07PM -0500, Michael D Schleif wrote: > > "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003:10:02:00:37:35+0100] scribed: [snip] > > That kind of executable -- one that entices a user to click on it -- is > > just as real a thre

Re: sympa: can't create new users

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 11:58:26PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > I can't seem to create new users or change passwords in sympa. Or > login. > > Here's the log entries from attempting to have wwsympa send me a > password... Never mind..damn cgi script

establishing ppp connection as non-root

Hi all, I configured ppp successfully using pppconfig and make use of pon/poff commands to bring up and bring down the link respectively. However, pon only works when ran as root and refuses otherwise. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ pon please configure /etc/ppp/peers/provider or use a command line argum

Re: Anyone else notice that Swen is slowing down?

Well, to respond to the subject first: No, Swen is definately not slowing down here... And my attempt to install amavis/clamav was a bit of a failure, so I'm seeing a lot of crap... On Thursday 02 October 2003 06:17, ScruLoose wrote: > Most non-MS users are not likely to be logged in as root wh

Re: dpkg slightly bent

On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 21:53, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 09:26:14PM +1200, cr wrote: > > I had a crash while using Kpackage last night (nothing to do with > > software, it's a hardware fault). I'm up and running again after much > > fscking, but now Kpackage (or rather, dpkg which

Re: Base system

> On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 01:56:22PM -0500, John Foster wrote: > > Note: The first package that you should install from areas that are not > > "reqiured" ; even if you are trying to maintain a small file system is > > 'mc' (midnight commander) it will be your friend :-) > 8-) I re-installed Deb

magicdev working fine with CD-ROM, not DVD-ROM though

Hi, Here's the deal: I installed magicdev on my Debian unstable, GNome 2.2 and set it up so that everytime I put in a CD, it should automount and start the file manager to display its contents. And to my surprise, it's working just fine - with my CD-RW. I have two drives, an ATAPI CD-RW that is r

Re: rpm packages - alien

Hi, "apt-get update" should do the trick and do not forget to add the Debian FTP-Server (or any mirror nearby) to your /etc/apt/sources.list. MJ On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 10:13, Uwe Dippel wrote: > I have to install am rpm-package (Radeon driver) in Woody. > Newbie as I am, I found alien to use rpm

Re: freeswan @#$@#$

On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 06:22:53PM -0400, Mark Roach wrote: > Does anyone know the status of the freeswan packages in unstable? I have > tried them against both the debian and pristine versions of 2.4.21 and > 2.4.22 with no success. Has anyone gotten this to work properly? I like > to keep my kern

Re: establishing ppp connection as non-root

Hello Alphonse Ogulla (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Is it possible to run pon as non root? Tried changing some parameters > in /etc/ppp/options and /etc/ppp/peers/provider with little or no > success. Anyway, if it is possible then how does one go about it. Add your user account to the "dip" gr

Re: establishing ppp connection as non-root

--- Alphonse Ogulla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > I configured ppp successfully using pppconfig and > make use of pon/poff > commands to bring up and bring down the link > respectively. However, pon only > works when ran as root and refuses otherwise. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ pon > >

Re: Updating Woody-Prerelease to Woody

Moin, Simon. > > Hi. > You still have the Woody pre-release cd's in your > sources.list? Remove them. They are long gone from there. > Just point the sources.list to a current Woody ftp > site and away you go with apt-get > That's what I would do, if I had something bigger than a 56k Modem. Apt

Re: Updating Woody-Prerelease to Woody

Moin, Colin. > On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 06:32:05AM +0200, Johann Hartwig Hauschild wrote: > > I've got the following Problem: > > When Woody was Prereleased, I installed it, and added the Woody-Discs > > to the sources.list as soon as they were availible (and delivered). > > Now I quite frequently e

Re: establishing ppp connection as non-root

That remarkable Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 12:36, Alphonse Ogulla wrote: > Hi all, > I configured ppp successfully using pppconfig and make use of pon/poff > commands to bring up and bring down the link respectively. However, pon only > works when ran as root and refuses otherwise. run pppconfig, choo

New OpenSSL installed -- recompilation required?

Dear all, after I have installed the latest libssl, do I need to re-compile anything that makes use of libssl? Concrete examples for me are: - OpenSSH - Mod_SSL The reason I am asking for, on my server I have OpenSSH and Apache "hand-tailored" to fit our needs. However, for compile-options, I m

Printing to an Oki C5100n

Hi all, I have just purchased an Oki C5100n, a color laser printer with network capabilities, I'm able to access the ipp server of the printer from my cups server without any problem, but it seems like the C5100n model only accept GDI (windows) raster files inside a HJF (HP Job File) one, the C53

gv segfaulting

I am currently running sarge. When I wanted to view a ps file using gv, it segfaulted. Then I ran gv without any filename and got this message: $ gv Warning: Representation size 2 must match superclass's to override internalWidth Segmentation fault Has anyone else noticed this? Any suggestion to

Re: rpm packages - alien

Rui Nóbrega wrote: # alien -d fglrx-glc22-4.2.0-2.9.13.i586.rpm # dpkg -i --force-overwrite fglrx-glc22_4.2.0-3.9_i386.deb Don't forget: # cd /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod # ./make.sh # cd .. # ./make_install.sh Backup your current XF86Config-4 file just to be on the safe side. Then run the confi

Re: apt-proxy

Wolfgang Lonien wrote: Hi group (or list & group), I use apt-proxy on unstable here, and the clients use it just fine - *the first time*. The next morning, they see no new packages on the proxy machine, even not after updating/upgrading the proxy, not after apt-proxy-import, not after setiing the

Re: gv segfaulting

> Sridhar M.A. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-10-02 14:27]: > > I am currently running sarge. When I wanted to view a ps file using gv, > it segfaulted. Then I ran gv without any filename and got this message: > > $ gv > Warning: Representation size 2 must match superclass's to override > internalWidt

Re: Updating Woody-Prerelease to Woody

On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 12:29:08PM +0200, Johann Hartwig Hauschild wrote: > Moin, Colin. > > On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 06:32:05AM +0200, Johann Hartwig Hauschild wrote: > > > I've got the following Problem: > > > When Woody was Prereleased, I installed it, and added the Woody-Discs > > > to the sourc

Re: Anyone else notice that Swen is slowing down?

Kjetil writes: > Scenario: A perl script deleting all the files in the homedir of infected > users, spreading to all the contacts that is in user's addressbooks. This > would likely include all the homedirs of all the users in an > organization... Unless the admins were sensible and had mounted /h

does debian xfree support my video?

Greetings all. I have acquired a new motherboard. It's an Intel D865GBF. The onboard video controller is Intel Extreme Graphics 2, 82865G Graphics and Memory Controller Hub, 865G chipset. Is this supported under the Xfree that comes with Woody? Or am I going to be having to do lots of build

Re: 802.11(b|a|g) cards in Linux

On Wednesday 01 October 2003 23:50, Alex Malinovich wrote: > I've been looking more at getting a wireless card for my laptop lately > as my university is now nearly 100% covered with wifi access. I know > that there is already good support for 802.11b cards available, but I'd > prefer to go with so

Re: Debian Desktop for a Joe Average

On Thursday 02 October 2003 04:03, Wolfgang Lonien wrote: > Edward Murrell wrote: > > [Debian as a Windoze replacement] > > Hi Ed (and Joe of course :-P), > > as a replacement for Win, you should try Knoppix. Really. It runs straight > from CD, and it has a very good hardware detection. You can get

Why does modem light keep on flashing

Hello I'm new to networking and so far, with the help of the excellent tutorials and HOWTOs, I've set up my network on a box with Mandrake 9.1 as firewall/internet gateway with iptables/masquerading and the stronger firewall from TrinityOS. I then have my main Debian box and a Win XP box. Eve

Re: Anyone else notice that Swen is slowing down?

On Thursday 02 October 2003 15:02, John Hasler wrote: > Unless the admins were sensible and had mounted /home noexec on all > company machines. True. But you run the risk of making a lot of unpriviliged power users very angry if you do that. There are ways to solve it, but it can get rather mess

Re: Anyone else notice that Swen is slowing down?

On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 08:02:00AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Kjetil writes: > > Scenario: A perl script deleting all the files in the homedir of > > infected users, spreading to all the contacts that is in user's > > addressbooks. This would likely include all the homedirs of all the > > users in

Re: gv segfaulting

On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 02:33:04PM +0200, Lukas Ruf wrote: > > Sridhar M.A. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-10-02 14:27]: > > I am currently running sarge. When I wanted to view a ps file using gv, > > it segfaulted. [...] > search the archives. This has been handled several times already. Where? I

Re: Why does modem light keep on flashing

Ray Curd wrote: The lights on the switch indicate that the activity is on the link to the Windows box Windows likes to periodically announce itself to the network at large, as samba does. Now I would like to monitor this activity to see what it is, AND I want to do this from the relative safet

Re: gv segfaulting

> Asbj?rn S?b? <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-10-02 16:03]: > > On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 02:33:04PM +0200, Lukas Ruf wrote: > > > Sridhar M.A. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-10-02 14:27]: > > > > I am currently running sarge. When I wanted to view a ps file using gv, > > > it segfaulted. [...] > > > search

Re: Why does modem light keep on flashing

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 02:28:13PM +0100, Ray Curd wrote: > In the meantime I have noticed on several occasions the lights on my > modem and on my network switch flashing, for a period of many minutes, > when I am not carrying out any net activity ap

Re: e1000 cannot bring up intel pro/1000 MT interface

Praveen Kallakuri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i have a dell precision 360 with an Intel® PRO/1000 MT Gigabit6 > Ethernet LOM. i learned that e1000 is the driver and got it by > compiling kernel 2.4.22. i inserted aprop entries in > /etc/network/interfaces and in modutils/ and updated > modules.c

Re: Debian Desktop for a Joe Average

BruceG wrote: Is there a FAQ on how to change the /etc/apt/sources.list to unstable? Just edit it with your favorite editor (I use nano); you'll probably have about three lines in it, like so: deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-n

Re: Re: Maildir with uw-imapd

>> Shane Hickey wrote: >>Ok, now to my question. I can't seem to find anywhere in the docs how >>to change uw-imapd to deliver to ~/Maildir. It's delivering mail just >>fine at this point to ~/mbox, but I'm accessing my mail from multiple >>clients, and if I leave a client open, I get mailbox loc

Re: Anyone else notice that Swen is slowing down?

On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 08:02, John Hasler wrote: > Kjetil writes: > > Scenario: A perl script deleting all the files in the homedir of infected > > users, spreading to all the contacts that is in user's addressbooks. This > > would likely include all the homedirs of all the users in an > > organizat

Re: build drm modules for X 4.3 fails on kernel 2.4.23-pre5

On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 22:44, Micha Feigin wrote: > I tried to build the latest drm modules from mach64 dri cvs using > make-kpkg. It worked for kernel 2.4.23-pre4 but for kernel 2.4.23-pre5 I > got the folowing error: > > dh_gencontrol > dpkg-gencontrol: error: source paragraph in control info fil

Re: Debian Desktop for a Joe Average

On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 08:24, BruceG wrote: > On Thursday 02 October 2003 04:03, Wolfgang Lonien wrote: > > Edward Murrell wrote: > > > [Debian as a Windoze replacement] > > > > Hi Ed (and Joe of course :-P), [snip] > Thanks for the tips. I consider myself Joe Average. I've run Mandrake and SuSE >

Re: GCC 3.3 Questions: Should I Install? Should I install with ProPolice?

Dan Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am trying to figure out Linux with the help of O'Reilly's /Running > Linux/. It recommends that I do not install new versions of compilers > unless absolutely necessary just in case things get broken by the new > version of the compiler. That sounds

Re: Diff btw GeForce4 and RIVA TNT2?

Hi all! Thanks for those answers! So... apt-getted xscreensaver-gl. gears -fps -delay 0 indeed is the most straightforward app. to show the difference. Left monitor, with the GeForce4: 155 fps. Right monitor, with RIVA TNT2: 50 fps. Quod erat demonstrandum! Hugo _

Re: establishing ppp connection as non-root [solved]

On Thursday 02 October 2003 12:36, Alphonse Ogulla wrote: > Hi all, > I configured ppp successfully using pppconfig and make use of pon/poff > commands to bring up and bring down the link respectively. However, pon > only works when ran as root and refuses otherwise. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ pon >

Re: Anyone else notice that Swen is slowing down?

Colin Watson writes: > What's the point of noexec? You can say '/lib/ld-linux.so.2 myprogram' > even if it isn't a script that you can just run using the scripting > language's interpreter. The sort of user most likely to be taken in by something like Swen is also the sort least likely to be able

Re: dpkg slightly bent

On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 11:23:51PM +1200, cr wrote: > On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 21:53, Colin Watson wrote: > > 'dselect update' will refetch it. > > Thanks! Worked perfectly! Good stuff. Hello to you a day in the future, by the way ;) -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTE

seeking mailing list from SQL

I am looking for a mailing list manager that can pull a single list's membership list from a configurable SQL datasource. Nothing like sympa, which can either completely live in a SQL database, or not at all. No, I want to be able to say: the subscriberlist for mylist is obtained by "select emai

/etc/group changes don't take effect immediately

Hi all, In an effort to run ppp as non root, I had to include my normal user id in the group 'dip' by directly editing /etc/group using vi. However, on saving and exiting /etc/group, I still could *not* access files owned by user root and available to users in group dip whilst using my normal ui

Re: gv segfaulting

On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 04:07:25PM +0200, Lukas Ruf wrote: > > Asbj?rn S?b? <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-10-02 16:03]: > > > > > On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 02:33:04PM +0200, Lukas Ruf wrote: > > > > Sridhar M.A. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-10-02 14:27]: > > > > > > I am currently run

Re: Anyone else notice that Swen is slowing down?

Kjetil writes: > But you run the risk of making a lot of unpriviliged power users very > angry if you do that. Such power users should be able to have the noexec removed on request. Of course, they will be given a lecture and if they screw up will get no sympathy. > But I think I'll run home to

yahoo wants to save cookies at /

Unable to open mail.yahoo.com in konqueror as non root for the simple fact that yahoo wants to dump some cookies at / (root) directory for which I have no permissions. Anybody experience this strange behaviour? Alphonse Ogulla Nairobi, Kenya -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Diff btw GeForce4 and RIVA TNT2?

On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 08:59, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi all! > > Thanks for those answers! > > So... apt-getted xscreensaver-gl. gears -fps -delay 0 > indeed is the most straightforward app. to show the > difference. > > Left monitor, with the GeForce4: 155 fps. > Right monitor, with RIVA TNT2:

Re: gv segfaulting

On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 04:07:25PM +0200, Lukas Ruf wrote: > > Asbj?rn S?b? <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-10-02 16:03]: > > > > > On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 02:33:04PM +0200, Lukas Ruf wrote: > > > > Sridhar M.A. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-10-02 14:27]: > > > > > > I am currently running sarge. When I wa

Re: Re: Maildir with uw-imapd

On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Shane Hickey wrote: > Well, I removed the ~/mbox file, and now all the mail goes to > /var/mail/username, which is to be expected, however I can't get it to > deliver to ~/Maildir. Is there a config file for uw-imapd that I need > to edit, to tell it to deliver to Maildir? >

Re: Re: Maildir with uw-imapd

On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 09:34:20AM -0500, Shane Hickey wrote: > > Well, I removed the ~/mbox file, and now all the mail goes to > /var/mail/username, which is to be expected, however I can't get it to > deliver to ~/Maildir. Is there a config file for uw-imapd that I need > to edit, to tell it to

Re: Debian Desktop for a Joe Average

On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 09:43:26AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 08:24, BruceG wrote: > > On Thursday 02 October 2003 04:03, Wolfgang Lonien wrote: > > > Edward Murrell wrote: > > > > [Debian as a Windoze replacement] > > > > > > Hi Ed (and Joe of course :-P), > [snip] > > Thank

Expect Script Loop issue

I'm not currently subscribed, so please respond directly. This is a little OT, but I'm in a bind. I'm trying to write an Expect script that loops from 0 to 50, incrimenting the value of i until the condition {i < 51} breaks the loop. I can't seem to get this to work. This section of the script

Re: user-level logrotate?

On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 10:25:24AM +0200, Henrik Christian Grove wrote: | "Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | > I have a few applications that create log files in my home directory. Is | > there a (simple) way to use logrotate as a normal user? | | I see no reason that logrotate s

Xmms was working now its not - how do I fix/find the problem

Hi everybody, Three days ago I had a working xmms installation, last night i wanted to listen to some music mp3's on a cd and poof no sound, no error message pop-ups (is there a log I can check?), nothing. the song i selected went into the playlist but after that nothing happened. This is odd becau

Re: gv segfaulting

On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 04:07:25PM +0200, Lukas Ruf wrote: > > However, it helped upgrading, at least for me (don't remember which > package but assuming 'gv'). > Looked at the bts for gv. Found that xaw3dg has to be upgraded to the version in unstable. Did that and gv is working fine

Re: gv segfaulting

On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 02:33:04PM +0200, Lukas Ruf wrote: | > Sridhar M.A. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-10-02 14:27]: | > $ gv | > Warning: Representation size 2 must match superclass's to override | > internalWidth | > Segmentation fault | search the archives. This has been handled several times

Re: pppd daemon dies is a permissions problem? failure

On Thursday 02 October 2003 17:57, you wrote: > On Thursday 02 October 2003 16:57, you wrote: > > I never dreamed that this would be such a difficult problem.I added > > myself to the dip group (perhaps I was already there because the number > > beside my user name (in /etc/group)was 1000. Anyway I

Re: /etc/group changes don't take effect immediately

Alphonse Ogulla wrote: Hi all, In an effort to run ppp as non root, I had to include my normal user id in the group 'dip' by directly editing /etc/group using vi. However, on saving and exiting /etc/group, I still could *not* access files owned by user root and available to users in group dip wh

Re: /etc/group changes don't take effect immediately

Alphonse Ogulla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In an effort to run ppp as non root, I had to include my normal user > id in the group 'dip' by directly editing /etc/group using > vi. However, on saving and exiting /etc/group, I still could *not* > access files owned by user root and available to us

Font problems (ISO8859) after upgrading

I am using Debian Sarge, and after an upgrade some days ago (monday 29.), I have got a font problem. When starting Emacs, it comes up with only empty rectangles, instead of normal characters. I also get the error message: Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-cou

Re: FW: pppd daemon dies is a permissions problem? failure

On Thursday 02 October 2003 16:57, you wrote: > I never dreamed that this would be such a difficult problem.I added > myself to the dip group (perhaps I was already there because the number > beside my user name (in /etc/group)was 1000. Anyway I added myself to > pppusers and dialout too. And the v

Re: Debian Desktop for a Joe Average

On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 09:58, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 09:43:26AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 08:24, BruceG wrote: > > > On Thursday 02 October 2003 04:03, Wolfgang Lonien wrote: > > > > Edward Murrell wrote: > > > > > [Debian as a Windoze replacement] >

Re: does debian xfree support my video?

On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 07:08:23AM -0600, skippi wrote: > Greetings all. > > I have acquired a new motherboard. It's an Intel D865GBF. The onboard video > controller is Intel Extreme Graphics 2, 82865G Graphics and Memory Controller > Hub, 865G chipset. Is this supported under the Xfree that

defalt nfs mount options

Hi, I do some mounts from an nfs server, and I get a few mount options that I did not specify myself: huis:/files/samba on /home/samba type nfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) How can I change these settings? I would like to remove the noexec bit for example. Thank you, Arjen. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Get my audio to work

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Re: Xmms was working now its not - how do I fix/find the problem

Wathen, Metherion wrote: Hi everybody, Three days ago I had a working xmms installation, last night i wanted to listen to some music mp3's on a cd and poof no sound, no error message pop-ups (is there a log I can check?), nothing. the song i selected went into the playlist but after that nothing h

Re: Anyone else notice that Swen is slowing down?

On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 00:17:23 -0400, ScruLoose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned: > Of course, there's also the fact that since they run Windows, they are of > necessity logged in with admin privileges *all* the time, so it only takes > one click to install an executable that then has full access to the sy

Re: /etc/group changes don't take effect immediately

On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 05:21:47PM +0300, Alphonse Ogulla wrote: > How does one explain this? > Is the file /etc/group cached somewhere and updated > only so often? at login and at "set user id" and at "set group id" time. > How can the changes be forced to take effect immediately > without

Re: Mutt + Vim tricks (replace Nano)

At Wed, 1 Oct 2003 15:51:42 + (UTC), Monique Y. Herman wrote: [...] > I've tried opera, though not recently ... my preferred choice > is still mozilla (love the tabs!) Try w3m. It has the visual equivalent of tabs. You can use your favorite editor (mine's emacs) to fill forms.. -- To UN

Re: How Do You Know If It Works In Linux?

At Wed, 1 Oct 2003 05:09:56 +0100, Pigeon wrote: [...] > > How would Linux recognize it? What would be the modem port? > > ISTR from http://www.ftdi.com - who make USB-to-some-easier-format > conversion chips - the answer is 'something straightforward'. Long > time since I looked at the site th

segfault while loading perl script on irssi.

I took a look on bugs.debian.org but i didn't find any bug report about this one. I'm on a testing/unstable debian with a 2.4.21 kernel taken from the kernel source pacakges and irssi segfault while i want to load perl scripts. In /etc/apt/source.list i got :

Re: Maildir with uw-imapd

Frank Gevaerts wrote: > On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 09:34:20AM -0500, Shane Hickey wrote: >> >> Well, I removed the ~/mbox file, and now all the mail goes to >> /var/mail/username, which is to be expected, however I can't get it to >> deliver to ~/Maildir. Is there a config file for uw-imapd that I n

Re: Starting Emacs: "Loading 40mule-ucs (source)..." takes a while.

Tatsuya Kinoshita wrote: > Debian mule-ucs package enables Mule-UCS Unicode (loading > /usr/share//site-lisp/mule-ucs/un-define.elc) by default > in the startup file `/etc/emacs/site-start.d/40mule-ucs.el'. > > Loading un-define.elc might take several seconds. If you want to > disable Mule-UCS

Re: Re: Debian Desktop for a Joe Average

> > From: Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2003/10/02 Thu AM 10:58:25 EDT > To: Debian-User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Debian Desktop for a Joe Average > > On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 09:43:26AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 08:24, BruceG wrote: > > > On Thursda

Re: Xmms was working now its not - how do I fix/find the problem

On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 10:20:39AM -0500, Wathen, Metherion wrote: > Three days ago I had a working xmms installation, > last night i wanted to listen to some music mp3's on a cd > and poof no sound, no error message pop-ups (is there a log I > can check?), nothing. the song i selected went into t

Re: segfault while loading perl script on irssi.

On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 06:05:25PM +0200, flibus wrote: > >I took a look on bugs.debian.org but i didn't find any bug >report about this one. I'm on a testing/unstable debian with a >2.4.21 kernel taken from the kernel source pacakges and >irssi segfault while i wan

Re: printer icon

Sebastian Kapfer had the gall to say: > On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 04:30:15 +0200, Zeeblanc wrote: > > > I have a Lexmark z 11 printer.Until I was connected to aol 9.0 optimized > > it worked fine the icon was on my task bar. > > Can anyone enlighten me why _Windows_ users keep posting their [CENSORED]

Sarge update: parse errors

I just updated Sarge and got the following error: Preconfiguring packages ... parse error reading X server string `unknown' parse error reading X server string `unknown' What emitted these messages? Is this a problem? -- Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.newt.com/wohler/

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