Re: IPv6 subnet?

2003-02-27 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 08:29:57AM -0500, Robert L. Harris wrote: > I ended up doing this: > > auto eth1 > iface eth1 inet static > address 192.168.0.1 > netmask 255.255.255.0 > # > up /sbin/ifconfig eth1 inet6 add 2001:470:1F00:465::1/64 > up /sbin/route -A inet6 a

Re: default permissions on /root

2003-02-28 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 01:39:51PM -0500, Jeremy Gaddis wrote: > i guess i wrongly assumed that a distribution that's usually > somewhat sane would have somewhat sane permissions on a directory > such as /root, which i consider "sensitive", so to speak. This topic comes up fairly regularly. On De

Re: Hyper Threading

2003-11-02 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 11:41:08AM +0100, Marco Cecconi wrote: > Hello, which woody kernel supports Hyper Threading? I've read somewhere > that 2.4+ kernels support this feature but how? Is a SMP build > sufficient? How does linux support HT, dual processor style (like e.g. > Win2000) or nativel

Re: Some myths regarding apt pinning

2003-01-24 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 09:23:26AM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > > The testing distribution has *exactly* the same problem, as the > > unstable libc is different from the testing libc. > > That's true currently, but it should be temporary, right? (Of course, > it's been temporary for some time now

Re: kernel-patch-freeswan & cryptoapi

2003-01-29 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 02:14:42PM +0100, Francois Chenais wrote: > I just have install the kernel-patch-freeswan but the building process > fails because it doesn't find linux/crypto.h. Hmm... How did you actually apply the patch? > The warning message says to install cryptoapi. I have run apt

Re: Ipsec under Linux

2003-01-29 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 02:04:45PM +0100, Francois Chenais wrote: > > What is the best way to create IPSec under Debian ? FreeS/WAN. Install the kernel-patch-freeswan and freeswan packages and read the docs. See www.freeswan.org for general docs on configuring freeswan. noah -- __

Re: [OT] SpamCop.net

2003-02-07 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 11:41:20AM -0900, Andy wrote: > I use SpamCop all the time (30 times a day + ) as a header analyzing engine. > It does a great job of tracking the message source. Saves me hours every day > so I don't have to manually track down the message source and upstream ISP. > I t

Re: IPv6 resolvers?i

2003-02-13 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 03:33:39PM -0500, Robert L. Harris wrote: > I'm trying to get IPv6 running on 2 of my systems. One is Unstable, > the other is Stable. On both of them I do a: > > host (ip6 addr for a known machine) and I get nothing. > > root@wally > {0}:/usr/share/doc/apache-common>ho

Re: IPv6 resolvers?i

2003-02-14 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 09:50:32PM -0500, Robert L. Harris wrote: > > Try 'host -t test-ip6.company.com'. > > > > Ok, that resolves. Now if I put: > > hosts: files dns > > I can ping6 a machine on my local lan. If I put dns first it doesn't > resolve properly. I think it must be some

Re: Teergrubing (Was: Bouncing emails via procmail)

2003-09-16 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 03:22:05AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Speaking of teergrubing has anyone come up with a method of doing so with > exiscan-acl in Exim4? Now that Andreas compiled it in I'm considering moving > SA processing from sa-exim to exiscan-acl. I can get the temp and permanent

Re: gdm - adding windowmanagers

2002-10-15 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 08:43:26PM +0200, Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen wrote: > Is it correct in that this enables me to change wich wm I start eg if I > type startx, or in my case gdm? wdm replaces gdm. Like gdm, it has a menu allowing you to select a window manager to start. The menu gets popula

Re: Microsoft's plans to kill open source: TCPA

2002-11-03 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 07:32:16PM +0200, Johan Ehnberg wrote: > Yes, you really sound like you've attended a Microsoft talk. :=). > Congratulations, you have been brain washed.

Re: where is the potato archive (specifically a potato compatable mozilla .deb package)?

2002-11-03 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 04:24:48AM +1100, brett hennig wrote: > anyway, i can't see potato at: > > http://archive.debian.org/debian-archive/dists/ It's still in the main archive. deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free > what i really want is a version of mozilla that >

Re: Microsoft's plans to kill open source: TCPA

2002-11-03 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
[ I've pruned the giant list of innappropriate and off-topic CCs ] On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 11:57:51PM +0100, Hauke Goos-Habermann wrote: > Microsoft plans to kill all OpenSource software on hardware level. This > technology is called TCPA. FUD! FUD FUD FUD FUD!!! This is completely all wrong. R

Re: TCPA

2002-11-03 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 02:00:39PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > I don't think that TCPA will kill open software. But I do think that > it's part of an ongoing effort to erode the freedoms which are behind > open software. Agreed 100%. I said previously in this thread that I don't care if content

Re: Installing new software

2002-11-03 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 05:40:55PM -0600, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > I actually believe that an upgrade to Woody will not upgrade your X > Server unless you ask for it (just like it will not upgrade your > kernel), but I cannot remember if that is a lie. It will upgrade it, but not accross major vers

Re: Weird problem with self-compiled kernel

2002-11-04 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 09:39:54PM +0100, Patrick Brunier wrote: > Everything works fine. But the problem is that I can't connect to > certain sites. Eg. When I type "lynx www.openoffice.org" he tries to > make a http connection but nothing happens. Also when I type "lynx > www.davitel.nl" it goe

Re: Problem with INET6

2002-11-05 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 05:53:53AM +0100, ?iga Dolher wrote: > I have an problem with the protocol IPv6. I can't install it. > I don't know, or I have the wrong rpm or I don't know. I really hope you don't have *any* rpm, as it's likely to be the wrong one. > The message that show's to me is: >

Re: phoenix + mozilla

2002-11-05 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 08:36:40AM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: > With Mozilla mail/news running, ALL of Mozilla is really running and > therefore not saving you anything in regards to memory footprint. That's certainly not true. Yes, there is a lot of code that is common between Mozilla mail/ne

Re: extra multimedia keys

2002-11-17 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 04:10:22PM -0500, Levi Waldron wrote: > Is there a way to configure the extra keys on my laptop - play, stop, FF, RW > - to work with a software CD player? > > I have found the funkey kernel patch - http://rick.vanrein.org/linux/funkey/ > - but is there a Debian way?

Re: OT: benefits of preloading libraries

2002-11-21 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 02:57:27PM -0800, nate wrote: > running a couple google searches I can't find anything useful, I > was wondering if anyone could explain what the advantage is to > preloading libraries on a linux system. I'm surprised there isn't anything on the web about this. I just sear

Re: can't cp files from dvd

2002-11-24 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 10:50:38PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > Just now, when I tried to cp the *.VOB files from a movie disk > mounted udf onto /dvd-rw, I got the same "Input/output error". Believe it or not, this is a function of the fact that the DVDs are encrypted. I don't remember what the h

Re: rescue disk for powerPC (beige G3)

2002-11-25 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 12:34:46PM -0800, Micha Feigin wrote: > I am trying to run a beige G3 mac (powerpc) with only linux on it (no > mac-os) which rools out bootX if I can. I actually don't think this is possible. The beige G3 seems to occupy some strange space between NewWorld and OldWorld, a

Re: Correction: ext2 vs ext3 vs xfs vs reiserfs

2002-11-25 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 10:18:28AM +1100, Cameron Hutchison wrote: > There is another tool called xfs_repair that is used to repair XFS > filesystems. The problem with xfs_repair is that it can't be used on a mounted filesystem (even mounted read-only). This means, of course, that if your root fi

exim filtering

2002-11-26 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
A particularly effective anti-spam tool that I've see in use is to block mail claiming to be from a webmail provider (e.g. hotmail) that never actually passed through a server controlled by that webmail provider. Has anybody written such a filter for exim that can be run system-wide? I want to do i

Re: CNAME in DNS: having a cname for a different domain than my domain...

2002-11-26 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 08:33:56AM -0800, Irvin Temp wrote: > home-woody.dm0nkz.net. A 192.168.0.1 > > vhosta.testing.org. CNAME hanz-woody > vhostbCNAME hanz-woody > cname for vhosta.testing.org? can i do this at all? or > i need to setup a > anot

Re: What should I do after a power failure?

2002-11-27 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 11:08:49AM -0800, Fred Sloniker wrote: > I know that powering the system off manually is a Bad Thing (tm), but > I live in Cowville, so a black-out is always a possibility. It's also > possible that my mom would turn the computer off out of ignorance, > despite my attempts

Re: ipsec (freeswan)

2002-12-02 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 10:09:39PM +0100, Ionel Mugurel Ciobica wrote: > I run stable, and I tried the freeswan 1.96, but when I go through the > documentations it says to run ipsec verify, which give me the error > that verify is not an option. I took the tar file from freeswan site > and I did ma

Re: ipsec (freeswan)

2002-12-03 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 10:32:50PM +0100, Ionel Mugurel Ciobica wrote: > > Have you patched and recompiled your kernel? You need to install the > > kernel-patch-freeswan package and go through the steps to build a kernel > > that includes it. The kernel-package package will help you patch and > >

Re: 2.5.50 kernel compilation problem

2002-12-03 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 11:01:26AM -0300, Miguel Griffa wrote: > I've been trying to compile the 2.5.50 kernel and after _many_ > configuration changes (to make it comilable) I've arrived to an error > which I have no clue about. > after compiling/intalling: request_module[ide-disk]: not ready I

Re: Window manager

2002-12-03 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 02:42:20PM -, news.ntlworld.com wrote: > What is the coolest window manager to use with knowe of KDE? > Enlightenment and Windomaker look really cool. Much better than W**dows. KDE has its own window manager (kwin) that is fairly cool. If you look at http://www.kdelook

Re: build an overloaded linux server

2002-12-09 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 07:53:50PM +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote: > For experimental requirement, I want to build an overloaded linux server in > which openssh is binding tcp port 22. The criteria is, when a ssh client is > connecting to the sshd on the overloaded one, the sshd will take more than 6

Re: exim filtering

2002-12-09 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 03:52:38PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > Another solution is to use spamassassin which does this amongst many > other tests. dman has a rather nice guide on his site, IIRC :) No, it does not achieve what I want. I do, of course, use spamassassin and find it extremely useful.

Re: exim filtering

2002-12-10 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 11:43:55PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > http://marc.merlins.org/linux/exim/sa.html That is going to warrant further investigation. Very cool. noah -- ___ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key:

Re: gpg implying potential tampering trouble...

2002-12-10 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 08:00:03PM -0800, alan brown wrote: > gpg: Warning: This key is not certified with a trusted signature. > > gpg: There is no indication that the signature belongs to the owner. You should probably read up on some of the concepts behind the "web of trust". The GNU Privacy

Re: perl 5.8 for stable?

2003-08-14 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 04:20:22PM -0700, Maria Rodriguez wrote: > I've checked apt-get.org (now that it's back up) ;-) and didn't see > anything, but I was just wondering if anyone knows of anywhere you can > add to your sources.list that has perl 5.8 backported for woody. I > didn't think that i

Re: Clipboard is bent

2003-08-14 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 09:16:29PM +1200, cr wrote: > (Next instalment in the fixing-my-desktop saga) > Not sure if I should be asking on this list or a Gnome list, > but can anyone tell me where to start investigating my clipboard? > (I'm running Woody, and Gnome 1.4.) I was really annoyed by th

Re: Kernel 2.5.69 compilation issue ...

2003-08-15 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 01:49:08PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: > > This is my first attempt on this kernel business, so be kind ... please ... > > I recently downloaded through dselect kernel-source-2.5.69. I followed the > > procedures from http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html.

Re: Raising Debian Awareness

2003-03-26 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 10:48:54AM +, debian parisc wrote: > I'm trying to get the corporate suits to look at debian for some of our > existing hp, sparc and intel platforms. What I need to understand is how it > is being used out there. You may find http://www.debian.org/users/ very helpful

Re: ACPI and sleep mode

2002-12-13 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 06:52:33PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > When I tell my laptop to go to sleep, the event is correctly forwarded > to /etc/acpi/default.sh, but it claims it doesn't know what to do to > put the laptop to sleep. Well, neither do I, APM is disabled. The ACPI implementation i

Re: hesiod

2002-12-16 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 10:01:14PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: > 'apt-cache show zephyr-server'; I assumed since your original question > was about zephyr you were trying to set it up... *prods* Oh, I see > now: the Cyrus IMAP server added support for sending notification via > zephyr a long long

Re: 2.5.50 on Woody

2002-12-16 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 10:18:34AM +0700, arief_mulya wrote: > But can somebody tells a little fairytale about the new 2.5 > kernels? Structures, layouts, newbie-readable-changelog? 2.5 is really not for newbies at all. It is the development kernel (i.e. unfinished, often broken, constantly chan

Re: hesiod

2002-12-17 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 09:42:11AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > have Zephyr or Hesiod installed. Perhaps a softer dependency like > > Suggests or Recommends would be more appropriate. I'm sure a large > > It would probably cause trouble with undefined symbols when running the >

Re: Eterm title magic?

2002-12-17 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 02:09:49PM -0500, Robert L. Harris wrote: > I know with "Eterm -T 'foo'" I can set the title for my Eterm, but is it > possible to have it set to whatever is going on in my Term? A co-worker > using xterm has it set up so the title changes if he ssh's to a > different box

Re: Debian 3.0 Updated R1 Problem!

2002-12-17 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 11:46:53AM -0800, Account for Debian group mail wrote: > "ps: error while loading shared libraries: libproc.so.2.0.6: cannot open > shared object file: No such file or directory" > > There is a "libproc.so.2.0.7" in the lib directory. This is an important > library - could

Re: hesiod

2002-12-18 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 08:58:17AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > I'm sure that if I were to enable notifyd and configure it to use zephyr > > notifications, I'd run in to problems. But otherwise, there's no reason > > Ok. After that one (read what you wrote), I will only believe y

Re: Alpha installation

2002-12-18 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 10:40:18AM -0700, Ocasio Anthony R Civ 746 TS/TGGIG wrote: > When I try to boot to either cd using 'boot dqb0 -flags 0' > it seems to start reading from the cd, but halts after about 40 seconds, > the screen changes color, and the last line written to the screen is: > SMC

Re: ALSA working with 2.5.52 and latest module-init-tools?

2002-12-25 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 02:59:24PM +0100, Alexander Koch wrote: > Is anyone running ALSA and has it working with the 2.5.52 > kernel (and obviously the latest modutils or it may not work > out anyway)? I would love to get it running. It seemed to almost work for me, except that none of the /dev en

Re: Debian and IPV6

2002-12-29 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 10:42:17PM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: > Debian's sshd, at least, is not compiled with IPv6 support. However, I can > use the ssh client to connect to other (FreeBSD) servers with IPv6-enabled > sshd's. That's not true. It is compiled with --ipv4-default, but it can still

Re: Problem

2003-01-01 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 07:40:46PM +0100, ?iga Dolher wrote: > woody:/home/zdolher# ifconfig eth0 inet6 add 2001:06b8::0400::::4e34 > >> /var/log/tb.log > No support for INET6 on this system. Try running 'modprobe ipv6' as root. Then try the above command (or better yet, lear

Re: Security Question

2003-01-02 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 03:39:22PM -0800, John Gedeon wrote: > I have Debian installed on my home computer (3.0 stable version) I want > to use it to remote login in to work, however the people in charge of the > remote logins (IT) at my work say that Debian has lots of security holes. It's un

Re: XP oerrating system

2003-01-03 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 05:31:03AM -0800, Beatrice I. Smith wrote: > I have the XP home operating system on my PC. Is it possible to > install the Debian Linux OS on this pc? Most likely. Linux supports all common hardware, so unless you've got some really weird stuff in your PC, it should not p

Re: how to maintain /var on a debian system

2003-01-15 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 11:06:42PM -0500, nick lidakis wrote: > I have tried googling and looking at ldp.org for this answer, but I > can't seem to find anything relevant. How does one maintain /var? > I'm trying to apt-get dist-upgrade my laptop and it's telling me I dont > have enough space to ho

Re: Netscape.ad ...

1999-06-07 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 6 Jun 1999, Hartmut Figge wrote: > ... should allow to customize communicator/netscape. > > a quick test in one of mine parallel-linuxes: > "Open Page..." -> "Open the Page..." (search and replace, 2 occurences) > gives the expected change in the File m

Re: libjpeg6a, libjpegg6a, kde

1999-06-09 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Anonymous Coward wrote: > ok i d/led the hamm version of kde from ftp.kde.org because the only > other was potato and i am running slink. so i try to install the > kdelibg thing or whatever and it complains about no libjpeg6a so i find > the

Re: ld/Xm/Xt question

1999-06-21 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 21 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > my test case that worked I had -lXm before -lXt, and the main app had -lXT > -lXm > on the compile line. Both cases compiled cleanly, without warnings > or errors, just the app with -lXt -lXm would seg fault and

pine 4.10 .deb

1999-06-21 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- A couple months ago somebody from this list got permission to distribute the modified Pine binary in .deb format. He made this file available for ftp. Does anybody know where I can get this file? I checked the list archives and found lots of discussion regardi

Re: pine 4.10 .deb

1999-06-22 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Brad wrote: > i don't know about a binary deb, but the source packages are available > from your favorite Debian mirror, in the debian/project/experimental > directory. Yes, I know how to build packages. But I didn't realize that pine vers

Re: TAR.GZ

1999-07-01 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Cuno Sonnemans wrote: > I've downloaded GUILGNL0.GZ (WP8 language module). > Now I want to try to extract it. > I've tried, tar -xzvf .., and gunzip . > In both cases I got the message: not a gzip format. > How is

Re: Hot-Mail clone

1999-07-16 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Roy Pluschke wrote: > I need to set up a hot-mail clone -- is there anything out there deb or > otherwise or do I have to roll my own solution. > I know of the following two packages: WebMail at http://webmail.wastl.net/ and @Mail at http

Re: Procmail and Pine

1999-07-16 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Mark Wagnon wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > generated |IFS=' ' && exec /usr/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 > #mwagnon1: > "IFS='" command not found for address_pipe transport All messages are bouncing. Try changing your .forward to lo

[OT] SCSI advice

1999-07-19 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hey all. I'm in the process of constructing a new workstation for myself, and I would like advice on SCSI hardware. I was looking at the Adaptec 2940UW controller, but I don't really know enough about SCSI to know if this is the right one for me. What really c

Re: bash scripting

1999-07-25 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 25 Jul 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there a way to put a 30 second pause in your bash script? > sleep 30 See man 1 sleep. noah PGP public key available at http://lynx.dac.neu.edu/home/httpd/n/nmeyerha/mail.html or by 'finger -l [EMAIL PR

Re: no NFS connection

1999-07-28 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, Wolfgang Hlawatsch wrote: > > I installed the NFS in the pentium. But when I try to use the pentium > (obelix.whlnet) as a server for installing the operating system to the > 486 (troubadix.whlnet) the troubadix gives me the message: "obeli

Re: .xsession not being read?

1999-07-29 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Carl Fink wrote: > > I know I am asking a stupid question, but is the file executable, as it > > should be? > > First thing I checked. Yes. > -- OK, yet another stupid question. THis may have already been anwered, but I didn't read the

Re: Linux freezing up

1999-08-03 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Wim Kerkhoff wrote: > The "three-fingered salute" mentioned by someone else did not work. > Basically, > the keyboard/mouse were dead. > A suggestion I have for situations like this is to have compiled in support for the "Magic SysRq" key

Re: stop bringing up X window when Linux booting

1999-08-06 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Daniel Yang wrote: > When my Linux boots, it starts X window automatically. I don't know how to > stop it. > Be sure the following packages are not installed on your system: xdm gdm wdm kdm There are probably others, but unless you spec

Klyx Debian package available

1998-08-13 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hey all. I just finished putting together a Debian package of the KDE based Klyx document processor. The file is currently available from ftp://spider.ddns.org Hopefully I'll find a better place for it soon, though, as my bandwidth is rather limited. Here's a

hamm wu-ftp package?

1998-08-21 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hey all. I just realized that the wu-ftp package was not upgraded when I moved from bo to hamm. I have not been able to find a hamm version of this package. It's relatively important that I do, as the bo version is corrupting my wtmp (and utmp?) file. Is ther

Re: Newbie and the custom Kernel!!!!!

1998-09-24 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 24 Sep 1998, Person, Rod wrote: > Secondly, if I do decide to hack around with the deb package will this > totally F*** my system leaving me to start from scratch -- I built my > Debian from total ftp downloads - no CDs! I spent a month finding and > dow

Re: KDE library problems

1998-09-25 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 24 Sep 1998, Richard Heller wrote: > I tried to download KDE version 1.0 and install it using the Debian > packages. However, when I install it it can't find its libraries. They > install in /usr/X11R6/lib just like they're supposed to, but it can't fi

Re: KDE library problems

1998-09-25 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 24 Sep 1998, Richard Heller wrote: > When I try to run kdm, it can't find libkdecore.so.1 and when I try to run > kwm it can't find libkfm.so.1. I installed kdebase, kdelibs0g, > kdemultimedia, kdegraphics, and kdeutils. They're all version > 980710-1.

Re: KDE man pages

1998-09-25 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Richard Heller wrote: > When I try to read any of the KDE man pages, the man page that comes up > says that the entry has no useful manpage. Is there something like > ldconfig that I have to do for man to work? There actually aren't any us

Re: Diamond 3D 2000 with S3V to display 24 bit color

1998-09-29 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Paul M. Foster wrote: > > I have a Diamond 3D 2000 video card. The chip is S3 Virge. The > > memory of the videocard is 4 meg. > > > I have an identical setup, and am running the XF86_SVGA server with 32 bit > color. I had some difficu

Re: A True newbie here

1998-10-01 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Christopher Jay Stevenson wrote: > I'm trying t figure out how I can install Debian Linux so that I can get > it to receive the IP address and all the other jass automatically (just > like Win95 does here [I have boot manager software] ) I'm

Re: Why I have probelm starting KDE??

1998-10-05 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Sun, 4 Oct 1998, Chan Min Wai wrote: > I have asked so many question and doing alot of change but... my kde > still not wrking I wonder if it is my system problem.. > > Can anyone help me... When I start the KDE I get this message... Try installing kdelibs0g-dev noah PGP public key

Re: oh... dhcpcd

1998-10-05 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Christopher Jay Stevenson wrote: > > Hmm... would the fact that I haven't installed a driver for my Card have > something to do with dhcpcd not working? Umm...It might. ;^) Run modconf as root, and see if you can find the module appropria

Re: kde problem and wmanager question

1998-10-06 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Jan Krupa wrote: > What happens ? After some time when I use kde (it works after > loading) I just > cannot start any program. I mean when choose something > from the the kde or debian menu. It sounds like kfm is dying. I don't know why it

Re: xWindows can't load

1998-05-12 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 11 May 1998, Keith Alen Vance wrote: > When I run startx I get the following: > > xauth: can't load library 'libXmu.so.6' > xinit: can't load library 'libXmu.so.6' This particular problem should disappear if you issue the following command before runni

Re: Netscape - can't locate libXt.so.6....

1998-05-14 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 14 May 1998, Kevin Traas wrote: > Anyway, install went okay, but when trying to start Netscape, I get the > error mentioned in the subject line and Netscape dies You could do: export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/X11R6/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" Or, what you re

Re: Folders in pine

1998-05-19 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 19 May 1998, Ana Graca Silva wrote: > I really don't know how to configure pine to select mails based on the > subject of the messages and to redirect them to different folders. > Can someone help me? > Pine does not do this by itself. The docs state

Re: redirecting display of program over telnet (with DISPLAY)

1998-05-19 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 19 May 1998, Shaleh wrote: > All this ASSUMES that you have given the other machine the permission to > talk to your X. This is not ON by default. So Step One becomes: type > `xhost +`. This lets other machines talk to X. > CAREFUL! xhost + lets AL

Re: Kernel reboots at startup

1998-05-20 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 20 May 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On my intel p100 when I try to boot the resq1440.bin I get a quick screen > of pci error messages and then an instant reboot. > > The motherboard is Intel-Triton TX. Award bios v.4.51PG The TX chipset is the ke

Re: PGP 262

1998-05-21 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 21 May 1998, The Gecko wrote: > Ok.. I'm trying to compile PGPv2.6.2 and I'm getting errors.. something about > P_SETP not being defined... where should I find this? > -- Is there a specific reason that you need to build

Re: libc5 applications (Netscape, StarOffice, WordPerfect) segfault

1998-06-02 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 2 Jun 1998, Tor Slettnes wrote: > > It seems that if I have /usr/X11R6/lib in my $LD_LIBRARY_PATH, > libc5 applications such as Netscape, StarOffice 4.0 and WordPerfect > causes segmentation fault right away. Here's my best attempt at an explanation of all

Re: Diamond Stealth 3D 3000 problems

1998-06-11 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > I reinstalled debian 1.3.1, using the XF86_S3V server. I am using xdm > to login. Every so many times the machine hangs when terminating the > xsession. The screen gets a single color, it seems to have a prefer

Re: serious picture and sound editing and drawing for linux?

1998-06-26 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Micha Feigin wrote: > Any serious picture editing and drawing tools in the grade of > photoshop or the likes of fractal painter? For image editing and manipulation, you want The GIMP. Go to www.gimp.org for info. It's available in .deb fo

Re: Linked against libc5 AND libc6?

1998-07-02 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 2 Jul 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote: > kepler:/usr/annex $ ldd erpcd > libdb.so.2 => /lib/libdb.so.2 (0x4000a000) > libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5 (0x40018000) > libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x400d6000) > ld-linux.so.2 => /lib

Re: last problem when upgrading to debian 2.0 beta

1998-07-13 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Paolo Sommaruga wrote: > Hi, > > I have upgradet to 2.0 Beta my Debian 1.1.3 system with autoup.sh adn I have > followed the hints in the README-autoup.sh regarding the fixing up wtmp and > utmp. Maybe you need to fix /var/log/lastlog as w

Re: Kpackage

1998-07-13 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, ... wrote: > No sorry for being unclear :> I meant KPackage as in the KDE > package management program. It is supposed to handle > installation, configuration, and removel of RPM's and DEB's > If all it does is install the .deb's t

Why does tty1 become the current VT on reboot/halt?

1998-07-14 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hey all. Why is it that when I reboot or halt my machine, I'm automatically switched to the first virtual console? I don't like this at all, because all of the messages coming from the rc scripts get sent whichever VC I was on when I typed the reboot/halt comma

Re: KDE in deb format?

1998-07-16 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Eugene Sevinian wrote: > > There are some wrong pointer to deb packages of KDE1.0 on www.kde.org. > Anybody tried to get it from somewere and install? Does it works good? > I've installed the .debs of KDE beta3 and beta4, which worked qu

Re: Complicated GTK situation

1999-02-10 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Daniel Elenius wrote: > I'm trying to install x11amp 0.9 (i.e. compile it myself). > This requires, among other things, GTK and GLIB >= 1.1.12. > So, I installed libgtk1.1.13 and libglib1.1.13 from potato. > But then ldconfig complains: I j

Re: NON-US means?

1999-02-10 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Eliezer Figueroa wrote: > Packeges in non-us means that they are not in english? > No, it means that export restrictions prevent them from being made available for download from a site in the USA. For example, there are laws in the US sta

MCA and Linux (was Re: debian-user-digest Digest V99 #255)

1999-02-11 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, John Bravacos wrote: > >The problem is that when I boot (using defualt settings) with the rescue > >disk, it can't detect my SCSI hard disk. I haven't tried to load Debian > >straight from hard disk, and don't I want to. The Debian instal

Re: KDE

1999-02-12 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- The KDE stuff is available in Debian package format from the KDE mirrors, though. The list of mirrors is available at: http://www.kde.org/mirrors.html You'll need to look around a bit for the packages, depending on what mirror you choose, but they'll be in some

Re: KDEDIR and Debian packages

1999-02-17 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Pollywog wrote: > What does one do about KDEDIR after installing the Debian KDE packages? > I want to install kxicq (from source) but it complains about not finding KDE. > I can even find KDE with the 'locate' command, and it is working. Th

Re: KDE

1999-02-17 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Cuno Sonnemans wrote: > KDE won't run > I'have installed: > > qt 1.42 > qt1g-dev (dselect, from contrib) > libjpegg-dev (dselect, from binary) > KDE (dselect, from contrib and non-free) What specific KDE packages do you hav

RE: 2 modems in one computer?

1999-02-19 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, Shaleh wrote: > There is a thing called multi link ppp -- two modems dial at once and you get > double the speed (in theory). It does work in Windows, I am not aware of > software support in Linux (or UNIX, or other OS's) > I could be wro

Re: KDE Configuration

1999-02-24 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven wrote: > I have downloaded the KDE-Base using DSelect. However, dselect can't > configure KDE because the file qt1g is missing. DSelect can't find the > qt1g file in the package file. Which version of the kdebase pac

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