Re: Unresolved symbol umoddi3 in sendmail

2003-02-17 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 07:20:23PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 07:09:03PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 09:51:25AM -0800, Bruce Pinsky wrote: > > > I've recently installed Debian 3.0 on my SPARC. Initial install went fine >

Re: Removing Package Dependencies

2003-02-18 Thread Colin Watson
ork in emacsen-common to be installed correctly. emacsen-common consumes a whole 78K of disk space once installed. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Reply To Field in emails

2003-02-18 Thread Colin Watson
s is discussed about twice a week, and it's not going to be changed; please ask the Squirrelmail people to provide a reply-to-list function, if their current release doesn't do so. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Need help for my server

2003-02-18 Thread Colin Watson
achine: if so, boot with the init=/bin/sh parameter (e.g. if the normal LILO image name is 'linux' then tell LILO 'linux init=/bin/sh') and change the password. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: Removing Package Dependencies

2003-02-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 12:18:58PM +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote: > * Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-02-18 11:57]: > > Now, actually the changelog is not all that verbose here, but the gist > > of it appears to be that cxref contains .el files which need the > > framew

Re: Removing Package Dependencies

2003-02-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 01:04:30PM +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote: > * Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-02-18 13:00]: > > Oh, I seem to be one version behind. See #180876. You might want to > > consider filing a bug; if all else fails the .el stuff may have to be > > sp

Re: apt sources

2003-02-18 Thread Colin Watson
-US stable/non-US main contrib > non-free ^-- / or space ? > > > deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main > contrib non-free ^-- / or space? All correct. > # deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/upd

Re: Removing Package Dependencies

2003-02-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 03:09:46PM +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote: > * Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-02-18 14:03]: > > http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting > > thanks. "bug" submitted. Cool (although actually you sent a followup to an existing bug). Try t

Re: Installing Opera

2003-02-18 Thread Colin Watson
How do I proceed? You can install a .deb you've downloaded using 'dpkg -i whatever.deb'. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Group ID

2003-02-19 Thread Colin Watson
27;s in /etc) or owned by you (if it's in your home directory)? That's what most configuration files are. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What disks are what?

2003-02-19 Thread Colin Watson
t CD down to just that and leaves you to download even the base system from the net), everything else is just more packages. If you have a permanent net connection then you can just as easily let apt download individual packages as and when they're needed. -- Colin Watson

Re: use of spamassassin and razor

2003-02-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 06:34:26PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > frankly, i do not understand how to use spamassassin and razor. > > or how exactly does it do the job. i just want the spam to be marked and > pushed to a specific mutt folder. SpamAssassin just tags the mail. You need to use pr

Re: postfix problem

2003-02-19 Thread Colin Watson
send. > > How do I delete this message out of the queue? I looked it up and came > to postsuper but that requires an id. To me, your description sounds as if the problem is with the editor (perhaps nvi), not postfix ... -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Loging to Debian Linux via SSH

2003-02-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 03:20:26PM +0100, alef-forum wrote: > I have a server runnig on Debian Linux. > When I'm trying to login via SSH it takes a lot of time. What architecture? -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: postfix problem

2003-02-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 05:26:04PM +0100, Rudy Gevaert wrote: > On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 02:07:40PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > To me, your description sounds as if the problem is with the editor > > (perhaps nvi), not postfix ... > > Ah you are right. I thought it was

Re: XFree 4.2.1-5 ATI Rage 128 missing symbols

2003-02-19 Thread Colin Watson
scheme. Don't install it. File a bug instead (if there isn't one there already) asking for the fix you need. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Can't launch Tuxracer since dist-upgrade a while back

2003-02-19 Thread Colin Watson
racer (for the last two and a half years - it's not a recent change). It's possible that that fell out of your $PATH somehow. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: nparted? gzigzag?

2003-02-19 Thread Colin Watson
stream, buggy. -- ===== -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: *tex: personal ls-R being owned by root

2003-02-19 Thread Colin Watson
t; homedirectory? root should have no idea about ~/etc/texmf, and > I surely can't create files owned by root. What the heck is going on? > Anyone? Something's clearly setuid root. Figure out what it is and file a bug for not dropping privileges appropriately. -- Colin Watson

Re: debconf and dpkg-reconfigure behavior

2003-02-20 Thread Colin Watson
debconf will, > however, force it to ask questions. Your command is identical to his, unless he has a really old version of debconf. It might be worth setting DEBCONF_DEBUG=developer or something to see what gets printed ... -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

Re: File systems -- reiser vs. ext3

2003-02-20 Thread Colin Watson
; ... > > > > Is anyone else having trouble accessing that page (unknown host)? > > Yeah, it's zip.com.au, not zip.au. (Australian domains are still > third-level only, as used to be the case with British and Canadian > domains...Austrialia's keeping with best pr

Re: Package Depedency Problems/Conficts

2003-02-20 Thread Colin Watson
o get out to the new mirrors. Actually, unstable updates at 19:52 UTC (or 20:52 UTC if auric is on daylight savings time). -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Safety of Upgrading Unstable

2003-02-20 Thread Colin Watson
7;ll still be installable. Otherwise it's not: apt needs to make the g++ 3.2 transition first. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Kmail(kde 3.1) dependency problems

2003-02-20 Thread Colin Watson
by mistake, but anyway). Unstable is like this sometimes. Wait a few days. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Replicating a system... sort of

2003-02-20 Thread Colin Watson
ctions'; if you want to completely replace a system's package list then you want yours. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SSH and Restart problems

2003-02-20 Thread Colin Watson
7;ls -l /dev/null' at various stages in the shutdown and boot processes ... if you figure it out, please tell us. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Package Depedency Problems/Conficts

2003-02-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 11:19:34PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 11:54:09AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > Actually, unstable updates at 19:52 UTC (or 20:52 UTC if auric is on > > daylight savings time). > > UTC does not observe DST, hence Pacific Time

Re: /etc/modules, /etc/modules.conf and others

2003-02-21 Thread Colin Watson
Thx for the answer ! > > So you're telling me that I should run update-modules whenever I modify > /etc/modules ? No, this is unnecessary. You need to run update-modules after modifying anything in /etc/modutils, but /etc/modules is *not* used to create /etc/modules.conf.

Re: procmail dilemma ?!?!

2003-02-21 Thread Colin Watson
ceeded > by a colon, so this may be a bad assumption on my part. Try removing > the colon after the "From" in the rule/expression I provided. "From " and "From:" are two different headers. "From " is basically a fake header inserted based on the env

Re: DHCP/DNS assistance

2003-02-21 Thread Colin Watson
's good advice, but /etc/default files are provided for convenience to make the job of merging changes to /etc/init.d scripts easier. They are emphatically *not* an excuse for upgrades to overwrite changes made directly in /etc/init.d, and if people want to do the latter then they're quite

Re: wine and IE

2003-02-21 Thread Colin Watson
are missing the point of the web. Will your pixel-perfect design look the way you intended it to look on my PDA? The standards emphasize semantic markup, not physical markup, and leave the details of rendering up to the browser where they belong. CSS merely provides hints. -- Colin Watson

Re: regexp---remove comments---simplification

2003-02-21 Thread Colin Watson
x27; some.conf > condensed.file or: egrep -v '^( *#| $)' some.conf > condensed.file The spaces don't need to be escaped in either case; (|) need to be escaped for basic grep but not for egrep. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

Re: Jargon File - where is tuxedo.org?

2003-02-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 02:04:56PM +, Keith O'Connell wrote: > I wanted to get a reference from the jargon file so I went to > www.tuxedo.org, but was instead taken to the Free Software Foundation! Replace www.tuxedo.org with www.catb.org. -- C

Re: spamassassin - three basic questions

2003-02-21 Thread Colin Watson
fang_mime. > 3.how do i tell spamassassin, here, if the message is from a > certain sender, it is not spam - irrespctive of what you think and if a > message is from some other sender, it is spam - irrespctive of what you > think? See Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf(3pm). Use whitelis

Re: regexp---remove comments---simplification

2003-02-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 04:51:28PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 01:50:31PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > You'll want something like this: > > > > grep -v '^\( *#\| $\)' some.conf > condensed.file > > > > or: > &g

Re: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names

2003-02-21 Thread Colin Watson
it just coincidence? No coincidence. See: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/project-history/ch-releases.html -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: wine and IE

2003-02-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 11:04:15AM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > >Not everybody developing for the web is a shopkeeper (thank God). If I'm > >not trying to sell something and therefore achieve Perfect Marketing Zen > >in the quest to do so, I ho

Re: Odd "which" behaviour - not finding shell script

2003-02-21 Thread Colin Watson
ycee@bigdaddy:~$ echo $PATH > ~/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games You'll probably find that using $HOME/bin in $PATH (letting the shell expand $HOME to your home directory) is more reliable than using ~. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [[EM

Re: DHCP/DNS assistance

2003-02-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 01:34:32PM -0800, Russell Zauner wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > |On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 09:40:05AM -0300, Francisco M Neto > |wrote: > |>No!! Don't do that. If you do an apt-get upgrade later > |> it will most likely replace the /etc/i

Re: spamassassin - three basic questions

2003-02-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 11:12:16AM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 02:34:16PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 06:59:45PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > > 1.how to i tell spamassassin *not to* process some messages?

Re: trimming ~/.maillog

2003-02-22 Thread Colin Watson
y crontab contains: 1 4 * * * (echo; date; mailstat ~/mail/procmail.log) >> ~/mail/procmail.stats Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Odd 'which' behaviour - not finding shell script [SOLVED]

2003-02-22 Thread Colin Watson
> barfing? Yes, it would, or you could vary your old setting slightly like this: PATH=~/bin:"${PATH}" woody's skeleton .bash_profile does this. See http://bugs.debian.org/67714 and the changelog entry for bash 2.04-7. Cheers, -- Colin Watson

Re: Package Depedency Problems/Conficts

2003-02-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 04:12:24AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 08:53:42AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > Indeed; however, cron jobs operate according to local time. > > I don't believe this to be the case. I think it operates at whatever > timezon

Re: Debian-user as mbox format available?

2003-02-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 05:05:16PM +0100, Svenn Are Bjerkem wrote: > Hi, > > anybody having the debian-user mailinglist as mbox format file? This is bug #161440/#172658 against listarchives. Regards, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UN

Re: lots (ok, a few) of packages with -woody and -sarge versions

2003-02-22 Thread Colin Watson
comparison algorithm which everything uses. I'm not sure what you're talking about here; an example might help. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: lots (ok, a few) of packages with -woody and -sarge versions

2003-02-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 08:10:18PM +, iain d broadfoot wrote: > * Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 06:51:01PM +, iain d broadfoot wrote: > > > packages whose version ends with woody or sarge take precedence over the > > > _re

Re: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names

2003-02-23 Thread Colin Watson
ng > forked off the unstable branch, The still-in-development backronym has been around for a good bit longer than testing, if memory serves. "sid" used to be the name assigned to the part of the archive containing non-release-candidate architectures. Cheers, -- Colin Watson

Re: Fonts; iso10646-1

2003-02-23 Thread Colin Watson
unteering to test software that doesn't support it yet ... the state of the distribution isn't completely appalling here, but bits of it are a little ropey. (He says, uploading a hopefully less broken version of groff ...) -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Woody ISO

2003-02-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 09:32:43AM +, Keith O'Connell wrote: > ##~##~~2~ What's up with your mail? You've apparently tried to ask something several times, but with only things like the above in the body of your mails ... -- Colin Watson

Re: Two keyboard layouts qwerty and russian ??

2003-02-24 Thread Colin Watson
s. Dunno about this one ... Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: what is libgcc1 for?

2003-02-24 Thread Colin Watson
tions used for particular machines or particular languages, notably C++, for programs built with gcc 3. Yes, it is really needed. If you build with gcc 2.95 it won't be used. BTW, the package description describes what libgcc1 is for, too. Regards, -- Colin Watson

Re: Iptables: not recommended by Debian?

2003-02-24 Thread Colin Watson
ner doesn't give any other > suggesting than the init.d script. That seems a little unfair. Have you read /usr/share/doc/iptables/README.Debian.gz? Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OS X Games

2003-02-24 Thread Colin Watson
x27;s a different Unix-like operating system, essentially BSD. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OS X Games

2003-02-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 10:31:34AM -0500, sean finney wrote: > On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 02:32:21PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > They're not sufficiently similar for that to work, no. Apart from > > anything else, unless you're running Linux on PowerPC then it&#x

Re: How do I do a sid upgrade and not get the gcc 3.2 stuff?

2003-02-24 Thread Colin Watson
27;t want to take any chances. It will not delete the 2.95 compiler unless you tell it to. It's designed not to do that. /usr/bin/gcc will start being /usr/bin/gcc-3.2, but you can always use gcc-2.95 explicitly. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: man -k apropos --> nothing apropiate

2003-02-24 Thread Colin Watson
man-db whereby this wouldn't happen on fresh installations, and the fix didn't make it into woody. When the nightly cron job /etc/cron.daily/man-db runs it should deal with this. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: man -k apropos --> nothing apropiate

2003-02-24 Thread Colin Watson
can speed up reading man pages (although pre-formatting *all* of them takes up a lot of disk space for arguably little gain) but these are not necessary to make apropos work. mandb builds a database independent of cat pages which apropos later reads. -- Colin Watson

Re: mount changes permissions of directory?

2003-02-25 Thread Colin Watson
n the mount point itself (the first). Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dpkg and config files

2003-02-25 Thread Colin Watson
d discussion - but at the very least those should all have a note at the top saying that they're generated.) -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: man -k apropos --> nothing apropiate

2003-02-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 08:05:17PM +0100, Drag?n wrote: > Thanks I've just run /etc/cron.daily/man-db and apropos works. > > But I don't know why I had to run it by hand. Like I say, it was a bug. Should be fixed in later versions of man-db. -- Colin Watson

Re: man -k apropos --> nothing apropiate

2003-02-25 Thread Colin Watson
), but if cron wasn't working then that wouldn't have helped. If your machine isn't up at the appropriate times to run nightly cron jobs then I recommend installing anacron. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Upgrading from Stable to Testing

2003-02-25 Thread Colin Watson
ek, and bring a huge > flood of packages along with it. It'll be a little longer. :( 2.3.1-14 will apparently be needed to fix mips build problems. But I'm hoping that *that* one should make it in ... -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To

Re: Mozilla and libnspr

2003-02-26 Thread Colin Watson
ebian/pool/main/m/mozilla/. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: strange problem with at jobs

2003-02-26 Thread Colin Watson
t ${USER} !=\ \'root\'\;\ then; export if test ${USER} ! > HOME=/home/lex; export HOME [...] Somehow, you've ended up with an environment variable called: "if test ${USER} !" which is set to: " 'root'; then" I&#

Re: where is libMP3.so

2003-02-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 02:30:57PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 23:18:53 +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > > Debian contains no MP3 encoders due to patent issues, > > Not even in non-us? The patent is not US-specific. -- Colin Watson

Re: where is libMP3.so

2003-02-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 03:44:34PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 14:00:18 +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 02:30:57PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 23:18:53 +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > > > > D

Re: vim and gqip spaces after periods

2003-02-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 12:37:00PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Can someone tell me how to make vim, when reformatting > text that includes periods with gqip, not put two spaces > after the period? Put 'set nojoinspaces' in ~/.vimrc. Cheers

Re: Very few packages selected during install

2003-02-26 Thread Colin Watson
rity packages" when the -s flag is given? That way people would have a mental hook they can grab hold of for what's going on, and a quick look at the man page later will show them the flag they need. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBS

Re: Newbie administrator

2003-02-26 Thread Colin Watson
e restrictive permissions to subdirectories too, because once execute permission is withheld on a parent directory you can't get to the subdirectories anyway. Mike's suggestion should be quite sufficient. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: (Newbie) Functioning In Debian

2003-02-27 Thread Colin Watson
#x27;d figure it out, but there's really so little incentive to do so ... -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Newbie administrator

2003-02-27 Thread Colin Watson
know what this means, and obviously "man {} \;" isn't > going to help. Can anyone reveal for thick-headed "programmers" like > me what that does? That's actually a question about 'find'. If you look for "-exec" in the find(1) man p

Re: getting bash back on a system

2003-02-27 Thread Colin Watson
ifferent virtual console to find out. However, rebooting probably won't work too well without bash. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Specifications for username

2003-02-27 Thread Colin Watson
adname is used. The second is the strict format, which you should definitely stick to for new login names. (Yes, this could all do with being better-documented.) -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Browser string of Mozilla?

2003-02-27 Thread Colin Watson
r (http://www.xulplanet.com/downloads/prefbar/). It has a User-Agent spoofing option which sounds like what you're after. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Complaint

2003-02-27 Thread Colin Watson
d of meat. Unsolicited commercial e-mail is uncapitalized, simply "spam". Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian security support for older versions

2003-02-28 Thread Colin Watson
e the opinions of users of this list about the issue? It would probably have been a good idea for people with opinions to reply to the security survey ... Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Re: libc-client2002 and php4-imap

2003-02-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 12:57:59PM +0100, Markus Wolf wrote: > There is an unresolved package dependencie when installing php4-imap > module. http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting (but note that bugs are filed about this already) -- Colin Watson

Re: How to find out apt-get's reasoning

2003-02-28 Thread Colin Watson
s *depend* on > kdelibs-data. How's this? grep-status -FStatus ' installed' | \ grep-dctrl -nsPackage -FPre-Depends,Depends kdelibs-data Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: How to find out apt-get's reasoning

2003-02-28 Thread Colin Watson
I really hope not. That would be a misinterpretation of Replaces, which on its own simply means that some files from the named package(s) have moved to the package containing the Replaces field. Replaces in combination with Conflicts or maybe Provides, possibly ..

Re: Safe to make long jump from potato to sarge/sid?

2003-02-28 Thread Colin Watson
e with attempting that and would upgrade via woody. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ghemical rendering problem

2003-03-01 Thread Colin Watson
ppen after geometry optimization. > Tested with xfree4, also downgrading to xfree3 (svga server), with > utah-glx driver. The problem is still the same. Sounds like http://bugs.debian.org/137844. If not, please see http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting for how to report bugs properly.

Re: Dummy

2003-03-01 Thread Colin Watson
o get it to work, don't expect your system to stay unbroken for long. > > So you're saying that if you have an .rpm, you should not try to install > it via rpm, but rather convert it to a .deb using alien (which uses rpm > in the background), and then install the resulti

Re: libpng version confusion

2003-03-02 Thread Colin Watson
out which programs and libraries are at fault and fix them; looking for things you've installed that aren't in woody would be a good start. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /var/cache/apt/archives directory

2003-03-02 Thread Colin Watson
t; ever. 'man apt-get' and search for 'clean'. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installing second gcc

2003-03-03 Thread Colin Watson
e's no alternatives. Deliberately so, yes. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installing second gcc

2003-03-03 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 02:19:22AM +1100, Russell Shaw wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > >On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 11:18:45PM +1100, Russell Shaw wrote: > >>Is there a debian way to make the system use 3.2, or do i just > >>rename gcc-3.2 to gcc and apt-remove the old gcc

Re: Xfs problem (actually X crashes after 1 second)

2003-03-04 Thread Colin Watson
please try to trim quoted text that isn't relevant to your reply. :) -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Linux Ergonomics

2003-03-04 Thread Colin Watson
the computer. Is there anything like that for Linux? xwrits. You can configure it to lock the screen during breaks. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Win Modem

2003-03-04 Thread Colin Watson
it work. Am I doing all > right? No, that's just for apt. You should 'mount /cdrom' to start looking at the contents of the CD and 'umount /cdrom' afterwards. For floppy drives, replace '/cdrom' with '/floppy'. See /etc/fstab. Cheers, -- Colin Watson

Re: Patched sendmail? testing?

2003-03-04 Thread Colin Watson
7;s the story? http://www.debian.org/security/faq#testing -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Patched sendmail? testing?

2003-03-04 Thread Colin Watson
a hopeless exaggeration; I run stable happily on my home server. Anyway, if you run testing you need to manage the security yourself by backporting patches. I don't believe anyone will ever have told you otherwise. (It's not an ideal situation, true. However, it's reality.) -- Colin

Re: Patched sendmail? testing?

2003-03-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 02:04:48PM -0500, stan wrote: > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 05:02:10PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > That's a hopeless exaggeration; I run stable happily on my home server. > > Anyway, if you run testing you need to manage the security yourself by > &

Re: Patched sendmail? testing?

2003-03-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 04:11:02PM -0500, stan wrote: > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 07:30:05PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 02:04:48PM -0500, stan wrote: > > > Not idael at all. As a matter of fact, it makes the whole concept of a > > > tes

Re: Setting up a "reverse proxy"

2003-03-04 Thread Colin Watson
plishing this? Sounds like you want a virtual private network, or VPN ... there are a number of packages in Debian for this. I don't know which to recommend as I use one that isn't in Debian (secnet), but other people will probably have ideas. -- Colin Watson

Re: Patched sendmail? testing?

2003-03-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 09:53:18PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 04:11:02PM -0500, stan wrote: > > Well, then shouldn't it allow "stable" to be released often enough that it > > acn be used in production> For instance how old are the

Re: Patched sendmail? testing?

2003-03-05 Thread Colin Watson
pecially since uptime is 99% kernel; the rest of the distribution doesn't matter unless you *really* screw it up. We could release any old pile of rubbish if this was the only criterion. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: X doesn't seem to load app-defaults using gdm

2003-03-05 Thread Colin Watson
at class name rxvt actually uses, > > but a preusal of the documentation will tell you. > > Most terminal emulators accept class name XTerm, I guess, pterm won't, certainly; it documents its own. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: strange problem

2003-03-05 Thread Colin Watson
kUpYourDataBeforeIt'sTooLate PrayToGod } % Good luck ... -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Patched sendmail? testing?

2003-03-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 05:05:05PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > the new safe signals implementation has caused some problems which mean > > that the next upstream release will allow them to be turned off. > > Argh. > Do you know if that is a compile-t

Re: Debian, Putty and home and end keys

2003-03-06 Thread Colin Watson
ile ago in connection with pterm, which is just PuTTY's terminal engine ripped out and ported to Unix. It's on the PuTTY wishlist: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/xterm-keyboard.html Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROT

  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   >