Re: Minimized windows do not display icons under Sawfish

2001-10-30 Thread Marc Wilson
On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 09:13:55PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Since changing from WindowMaker to Sawfish, minimized > windows do not display icons. Good... then sawfish is working properly. > Are others showing icons properly? Is this one of this, slip a line into > the rc file things?

Re: IMAP...

2001-10-30 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On 29 Oct 2001, Brian Nelson wrote: > Alexander Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi there.. I have task-imap installed using apt-get... Is there > > anything I need to do to be able to use it? I'm trying to get my email > > using evolution from another machine, and nothing happens, not ev

Re: IMAP...

2001-10-30 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Kurt Lieber wrote: > On Monday 29 October 2001 11:19 am, Alexander Wallace wrote: > > > I understand Imap encripts passwords right? and I should use it instead of > > pop? > > IMAP does NOT encrypt passwords. It has one (minor) security advantage over > POP3 in that it only s

Re: allowing root X apps

2001-10-30 Thread Marc Wilson
On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 07:24:21PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > If root has to run the GUI file a bug against it. Well, cdroast itself has to run as root or with root privs... just giving the user access to the device isn't enough as cdroast complains about system calls it can't use. OTOH, xcdroa

Patches applied to stock kernel to make deb kernel image

2001-10-30 Thread Timothy Webster
What is procedure is used to make an "official" 2.4 deb kernel image? Such as are avialable in unstable. What additional patches are required, if any. Thanks, maybe with this information I can get my much simpiler custom kernel image to find root and boot. -Tim -- Original Message -

Re: apt-get & firewall

2001-10-30 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
[Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 06:02:09PM +0100] Davi Leal : > What ports must be opened in the firewall so that the machine behind it > is able to use "apt-get" to realize an 'dist-upgrade'?. That depends on the apt-get method you have specified inside your /etc/apt/sources.list. Ports to let th

Re: Creating new kernel with initrd?

2001-10-30 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
[Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 09:10:13AM +0100] Eduard Bloch : > if you take official Linus' sources, don't use them. They don't > support for many filesystems on initrd, including cramfs needed by our > mkinitrd. Use the kernel-source-2.4.13 package from Sid. This is very useful info. How does o

Re: The linux and Debian operating systems

2001-10-30 Thread Eloy Aguirre
On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 10:33:47PM +0100, Tarjei Huse wrote: > 2. www.linuxnewbie.com > They also got some stuff that's worthwhile to read. I'm pretty sure you mean www.linuxnewbie.org, linuxnewbie.com is a lame rip-off of Linuxnewbie.org. Which is an excellent site by the way. pgpMWqgGQLi6Y.pg

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Re: Mutt: '+' prepended to wrapped lines

2001-10-30 Thread Craig Dickson
Karsten M. Self wrote: > set markers=no# *** no '+' *** Ah, I knew there was a variable for that. Just forgot which one. That does the trick. Thanks. > Incidentally, I tried justifying *why* the frequently-cited standard of > 65-75 characters, most frequently 72, what I've come u

Re: just deleted 11 144 files!

2001-10-30 Thread Timothy Webster
First question is this a home system? Anyway what did you lose? You can edit /var/lib/dpkg/STATUS to force apt to reinstall deb packages you wacked. I currently us this trick along with aide to get apt to reinstall any packages I see corrupted. -Tim. -- Original Message --

Re: 2nd core pointer speed settings in XFree4

2001-10-30 Thread Richard Hector
Timo \"Blazko\" Boewing wrote: > > Hello, > > Today I installed an USB graphic tablet under Sid w/ XF86 v4. I > installed the tablet as second USB mouse device and it works well in X > so far (okay, with no pressure sensitivity, but anyhow...). The problem > ist that the pen is slightly too fast.

Web/Mail/File Server Promotion

2001-10-30 Thread Key Communications
This package provides you a fast and reliable connection to the internet, and perfectly suits your e-Commerce application and corporate internet usage. The highly secure platform also reduces your chance of being attacked by destructive vi

Re: New ssh v2 and authentication

2001-10-30 Thread Bill Wohler
"Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm a bit confused by the fact that OpenSSH now defaults to using > version 2. How do I use ssh-agent as I have in the past to do > password-less logins? I posted a bug about the inconsistency, but apparently the "upstream authors" are dead set a

Re: Shell Scripting Question

2001-10-30 Thread Mark Ferlatte
On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 06:48:42PM -0500, Sunny Dubey wrote: > for $fruit in `cat /usr/fruits.txt` ; > do > echo -n "Do you like $fruit" > read ANS > if [ -z $ANS ] ; then > # NEED HELP WITH CODE HERE > fi > done >

Re: Shell Scripting Question

2001-10-30 Thread Jonathan B. Leffert
On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 06:48:42PM -0500, Sunny Dubey wrote: > for $fruit in `cat /usr/fruits.txt` ; > do > echo -n "Do you like $fruit" > read ANS > if [ -z $ANS ] ; then > # NEED HELP WITH CODE HERE > fi > done >

Shell Scripting Question

2001-10-30 Thread Sunny Dubey
hey, Say i'm doing a loop in which I ask someone a question ... for $fruit in `cat /usr/fruits.txt` ; do echo -n "Do you like $fruit" read ANS if [ -z $ANS ] ; then # NEED HELP WITH CODE HERE fi done

Re: Mutt: '+' prepended to wrapped lines

2001-10-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 05:03:43PM -0800, Craig Dickson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Since we seem to be talking about Mutt a lot today, there's one thing > I haven't found the time to track down an answer to, so perhaps > Karsten or someone else knows. > > When I get mail from someone who uses o

Re: Power off at Shutdown

2001-10-30 Thread dman
On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 05:30:20PM -0800, allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx wrote: | my machine does allow for power down by the kernel and the bios is set to | take care of that. i know this as i have a earlier version of the kernel that | was pre-compiled. that kernel will power down th

Re: New ssh v2 and authentication

2001-10-30 Thread Oleksandr Moskalenko
* Gary Hennigan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm a bit confused by the fact that OpenSSH now defaults to using > version 2. How do I use ssh-agent as I have in the past to do > password-less logins? > > In the past I'd do this once with my pass phrase: > > % ssh-keygen > > > and copy the conte

Re: Power off at Shutdown

2001-10-30 Thread allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx
my machine does allow for power down by the kernel and the bios is set to take care of that. i know this as i have a earlier version of the kernel that was pre-compiled. that kernel will power down the machine. i went looking at the .config file for that kernel to come up with the items i'd ment

Re: allowing root X apps

2001-10-30 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > Not at all. Such [X] applications are not secure enough to be run as > root. Hans Ekbrand writes: > What about xcdroast? What about it? Why anyone would want a GUI for such a thing is something I'll never understand. > As far as I remember, root had to run it once and set it up befo

Re: program to display graphically postgres relations?

2001-10-30 Thread Gerhard Kroder
Bruno Boettcher wrote: > > Hello, > i was wondering if there was some tool to display graphically SQL > tables and relations between them ... especially in the case of a > postgres database... there are some solutions... one i know to work is installing odbc and use staroffice, it's db-mod

Re: changing to Debian from Mandrake

2001-10-30 Thread DvB
> > * Apt + dselect seem very powerful, efficient if you use them together > >correctly. From the mailing lists, though, "correctly" seems to be > >a matter of confusion (or perhaps just preference). RPMs don't cut > >it for bleeding edge multiple-dependency upgrades (as you all kno

Mutt: '+' prepended to wrapped lines

2001-10-30 Thread Craig Dickson
Since we seem to be talking about Mutt a lot today, there's one thing I haven't found the time to track down an answer to, so perhaps Karsten or someone else knows. When I get mail from someone who uses one of those nasty email clients that doesn't wrap lines (or wraps them too long), Mutt's pager

Re: Network config tool

2001-10-30 Thread Will Newton
On Tuesday 30 Oct 2001 7:20 pm, D. wrote: > you need to answer is what is your Hostname? Then it > will ask you if you want the program to set up your > network automatically, saying yes will do this and if > the program is successful it will say congratulations > your network is set up. > What

Re: Power off at Shutdown

2001-10-30 Thread Craig Dickson
Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > Fiddle with your BIOS settings to make it work. Good point; APM may be disabled in the BIOS. Craig

Re: Power off at Shutdown

2001-10-30 Thread Craig Dickson
allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx wrote: > i am trying to understand which option(s) to select (or deselect) when i > build a new kernel (2.4.12) to have the system power off when i do a > "shutdown -h now". i have set the following with no luck: > > # General setup > > CONFIG_PM=y > CON

Returning system to vanilla Woody

2001-10-30 Thread Geoff Beaumont
Is there any way to downgrade packages to those provided by the archives in /etc/apt/sources.list? The reason I'm asking is that I recently added Ximian Gnome to my sources.list and installed it on my Woody system, but it proving very unreliable. I suspect this may be because I upgraded a number o

Re: Netgear FA311

2001-10-30 Thread Donna.
On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 12:27:31PM -0500, Banshee wrote: > How do I get the module for debian? I downloaded a module from > somewhere that was for 2.2.19-1 and 19-2 but they didn't work. Right > now the only thing I can do is get the debian installer for woody > working, I can't easily install

Re: Power off at Shutdown

2001-10-30 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx wrote: > > hello: > > i am trying to understand which option(s) to select (or deselect) when i > build a new kernel (2.4.12). i have set the following with no luck: > > # General setup > > CONFIG_PM=y > CONFIG_APM=y > CONFIG_APM_REAL_

Re: Mutt tip: dealing with HTML mail

2001-10-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 04:18:21PM -0800, Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > A few lines from my ~/.muttrc to deal with HTML email. > # Highlight HTML-encoded messages: > color index yellow black '~h "^Content-Type: text/html$" color index yellow black '~h "^Content-

RE: Slow inital connect to WU-FTP, SAMBA, TELNET

2001-10-30 Thread Craig Coles
SSL is on one of the servers, but is not an issue here. The problem can be duplicated on several boxes without any SSL involvement. I'm starting to wonder if there is a reverse DNS lookup happening that is waiting for a timeout before continuing. The source address is listed in my /etc/hosts fil

Power off at Shutdown

2001-10-30 Thread allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx
hello: pardon my thinking without writing. so let me try again. i am trying to understand which option(s) to select (or deselect) when i build a new kernel (2.4.12) to have the system power off when i do a "shutdown -h now". i have set the following with no luck: # General setup CONFIG_PM=

Power off at Shutdown

2001-10-30 Thread allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx
hello: i am trying to understand which option(s) to select (or deselect) when i build a new kernel (2.4.12). i have set the following with no luck: # General setup CONFIG_PM=y CONFIG_APM=y CONFIG_APM_REAL_MODE_POWER_OFF=y CONFIG_APM_ALLOW_INTS=y CONFIG_APM_RTC_IS_GMT=y # Kernel hacking CONFIG

Re: [OT] Mutt Configuration

2001-10-30 Thread Duncan Findlay
On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 09:22:47AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm trying to make mutt so that it would use a particular "from:" e-mail > address, and I've looked it up on the man pages and it told me to set > from="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" in the .muttrc file; however, mutt ignores it... > Can s

Re: Latest GnuCash for potato?

2001-10-30 Thread Brian Nelson
"Stan Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Are ther any .debs avaialable for the latest version of GnuCash, for a > potato based system? Why even bother to run potato if you want to install a whole load of unstable (in the literal sense, not as in sid) libraries with shaky dependencies? -- Bria

Mutt tip: dealing with HTML mail

2001-10-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
A few lines from my ~/.muttrc to deal with HTML email. Goals: - Identify HTML mail up front. - Don't render HTML by default. - Provide means to peek at the HTML content if absolutely necessary. Note that my preferred route is to delete such posts, occasionally posting a rant to the sender

Re: changing to Debian from Mandrake

2001-10-30 Thread Craig Dickson
Ross Burton wrote: > >Example: gnucash. > > That is the only example of a package which is not the latest release in > unstable I can think of. Personally I don't know why it is so delayed, > maybe the maintainer is on a break Honeymoon, we've been told. > As far as I recall, I've never be

Re: Slow inital connect to WU-FTP, SAMBA, TELNET

2001-10-30 Thread John Griffiths
At 04:19 PM 10/30/01 -0700, Craig Coles wrote: >I've got a server at home (unstable) with a second NIC for connection to a >192.168 network via a small hub. Whenever I try to telnet or ftp to the >server from the 192.168 network (my laptop connection) it takes mulitple >attempts to establish the f

Re: The linux and Debian operating systems

2001-10-30 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 10:33:47PM +0100, Tarjei Huse wrote: > > 4. Use a separate harddisk. > I realy think it's a good idea to try seting up linux with a separate hd the > first time. (if someone disagrees, I'll listen). > The original poster said that the (big) HD was already partioned, then

Re: allowing root X apps

2001-10-30 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 10:00:16PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Justin R. Miller wrote: > > What is the best, most secure way to allow root to run X-based apps > > while I'm logged in as my non-privileged user? > > Not at all. Such applications are not secure enough to be run as root. > What abou

modconf

2001-10-30 Thread Gerard Robin
Hello, I ran modconf, I gave it a non valid option and the installation of the module (sb) failed. How can I delete the previous option with modconf ? i.e. without editing /etc/modutils/sb and /etc/modules.conf ? TIA -- Gerard

Slow inital connect to WU-FTP, SAMBA, TELNET

2001-10-30 Thread Craig Coles
I've got a server at home (unstable) with a second NIC for connection to a 192.168 network via a small hub. Whenever I try to telnet or ftp to the server from the 192.168 network (my laptop connection) it takes mulitple attempts to establish the first connection, and then I can open a second and t

New ssh v2 and authentication

2001-10-30 Thread Gary Hennigan
I'm a bit confused by the fact that OpenSSH now defaults to using version 2. How do I use ssh-agent as I have in the past to do password-less logins? In the past I'd do this once with my pass phrase: % ssh-keygen and copy the contents ~/.ssh/identity.pub to the remote machine ~/.ssh/authorized

Re: X4 freezing

2001-10-30 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Rikki Hall: > I believe that Ctrl-Alt-Backspace in X is supposed to shut down the X > server, but it's not working that way. Where is this behavior defined? > > The bigger problem is the way it is working. If I start X, I can switch > back-and-forth from console to X window with Ctrl-

Re: changing to Debian from Mandrake

2001-10-30 Thread Ross Burton
On Tue, 2001-10-30 at 18:50, Michael Kaminsky wrote: > I'm been using Mandrake for the past couple of years, and now I'm > considering switching to Debian; but, I have some concerns. I > consider myself a fairly experienced Linux user and use Linux for all > my computing needs (devel, digital came

Re: Minimized windows do not display icons under Sawfish

2001-10-30 Thread Craig Dickson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Since changing from WindowMaker to Sawfish, minimized > windows do not display icons. Are others showing icons > properly? Is this one of this, slip a line into the rc > file things? I don't think Sawfish does desktop icons. It's a pretty minimalistic window manager

Latest GnuCash for potato?

2001-10-30 Thread Stan Brown
Are ther any .debs avaialable for the latest version of GnuCash, for a potato based system? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a

Re: Minimized windows do not display icons under Sawfish

2001-10-30 Thread dman
On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 09:13:55PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Hi, | | Since changing from WindowMaker to Sawfish, minimized | windows do not display icons. Are others showing icons | properly? Is this one of this, slip a line into the rc | file things? Are you using GNOME (or KDE) too,

Japanese input method without Japanese interface?

2001-10-30 Thread Tatsuya Kinoshita
On 30 Oct 2001 00:14:46 -0800, Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To get the interface back to English, I then modified .xsession > so that LANG is unset after the kinput2 daemon is started. > Unfortunately, this also had the effect of disabling Japanese > input; shift+space doesn't do anythin

Re: Two-button mice and pasting in X

2001-10-30 Thread Mark Carroll
On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 11:28:17AM -0500, Mark Carroll ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > I want to be able to paste in X from its clipboard with my two-button > > mouse. However, I want to be able to do so just by clicking the right > > button, instead

Re: changing to Debian from Mandrake

2001-10-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 01:50:08PM -0500, Michael Kaminsky ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm been using Mandrake for the past couple of years, and now I'm > considering switching to Debian; but, I have some concerns. I > consider myself a fairly experienced Linux user and use Linux for all > my c

Re: 3 buttons from a 2 button mouse, how?

2001-10-30 Thread Bud Rogers
On Tuesday 30 October 2001 14:48 pm, Paul Huygen wrote: > Jeremiah Mahler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked: > > > I want to use an application which requires the use of a middle mouse > > button of a three button mouse but my mouse only has two buttons. > > How do I get around this? > > Usually by press

Re: HP CD Writer 7200 broken since kernel 2.4

2001-10-30 Thread DvB
Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am using ide-scsi, etc., everything used to work correctly, but these > days, cdparanoia will read the first track, then pause, then come SCSI > errors and timeouts, and finally a complete system crash. > > I think this started happening around the time I w

Re: Segmentation fault

2001-10-30 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
> Hi Raffaele, > > If you tell me the version number of the man-db package you have > installed, I'll try to debug this. > > Thanks, I have version 2.3.20-6 of man-db installed. cheers, Raffaele -- Raffaele Sandrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For encrypted Mail get my Public Key from "search.keyserver

Re: HP CD Writer 7200 broken since kernel 2.4

2001-10-30 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Britton wrote on Tue Oct 30, 2001 um 09:47:31AM: HP-7200? IIRC is an relabeled Philips device. One of this series which used to die short time after the warranty period is over due to technical problems. Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- Der menschliche Starrsinn ist unaufhaltsam.

program to display graphically postgres relations?

2001-10-30 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello, i was wondering if there was some tool to display graphically SQL tables and relations between them ... especially in the case of a postgres database... -- ciao bboett == [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://inforezo.u-strasbg.fr/~bboet

Re: a very big problem

2001-10-30 Thread nate
nitrogen ... said: > about a problem im having with my nix box. > ok.. well i got a chrooted env setup for users and also for most of > my daemons that run .. but i cant seem to get outgoing net access > in the chrooted env.. got any ideas?. maybe..what are you trying to run? chroot ha

Re: Custom kernel: Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 21:05

2001-10-30 Thread nate
Ohlemeyer Matthias said: > * in toplevel kernel-source directory > export PATCH_THE_KERNEL=YES > make-kpkg clean > make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image > > Everything seems to work fine - the kernel gets patched and after > answering a few questions the compile-process starts

Re: The linux and Debian operating systems

2001-10-30 Thread Tarjei Huse
Hi there ;) As this is your first foray into linux, I'll give you a few guiding ideas on where to start: linuxdistro: Linux is not a monolithic unity like f.x. windows XP. Instead Linux consists of many thousand programes that are developed separately but with some common frameworks. In the core

RE: changing to Debian from Mandrake

2001-10-30 Thread Timothy Webster
Debian has got a lot better, in the way it handles network configuration. Currently pretty much everything you need is in the /etc/network directory. Just add interfaces to the interfaces file. If you have any questions in particular I would be glad to help. -Tim. >* Mandrake has very decent s

Re: just deleted 11 144 files!

2001-10-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 01:48:41PM -0500, ae roy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Just noticed that I'm missing quit a lot of files.. Actually 11 144 of > them! Must have done one of those famous 'rm -rf *' which I > indiscriminatly do all the time (not anymoe) in the wrong place. <... > Any tips?

pppd connect problems (was Re: Going down the Rabbit Hole...)

2001-10-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 10:06:42AM -0800, Hamma Scott ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > --- William De Cat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Personnaly, I install the base system from an old CD, then edit > > /etc/apt/sources.list to point to the distribution I want and then > > do an "apt-get dist- upg

Re: Two-button mice and pasting in X

2001-10-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 11:28:17AM -0500, Mark Carroll ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I want to be able to paste in X from its clipboard with my two-button > mouse. However, I want to be able to do so just by clicking the right > button, instead of both, leaving the buttons' functions unchanged for

apt_preferences

2001-10-30 Thread Stephen Brown
Hi All,   I do not know if I am just lazy or whatever, but the apt_preferences man page makes no sense to me.   How do I get a stable distrribution of debian except for the latest unstable version of gnucash?    Thanks for yopur help.   Cheers, Stephen Grant Brown  

Re: PATH variable--where is it?

2001-10-30 Thread Gary Turner
Tnx to MarkL for the reminder to keep scope restricted, and how-to. Kudos to MarkC for the why-you-do-it-that-way. Each of you who responded to my query has contributed to a better understanding than have 7 or 8 books, each promising guru-hood. On Tue, 30 Oct 2001 08:13:56 -0500 (EST), you wrote:

Re: changing to Debian from Mandrake

2001-10-30 Thread nate
Michael Kaminsky said: > of Debian seems sorely lacking. Mandrake seems to put out RPMs > within 1-2 days of the upstream developers. There are still no > Debian packages for software I use regularly that's been out for > > 1 month (according to the debian web page package search form).

Re: [OT] Mutt Configuration

2001-10-30 Thread dman
On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 06:14:18PM +, Matthew Sackman wrote: | On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 11:54:55AM -0600, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: | > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) babbled: | > > I'm trying to make mutt so that it would use a particular "from:" e-mail address, and I've looked it up

Minimized windows do not display icons under Sawfish

2001-10-30 Thread descdata
Hi, Since changing from WindowMaker to Sawfish, minimized windows do not display icons. Are others showing icons properly? Is this one of this, slip a line into the rc file things? Thanks for any suggestions, Gary

Re: accessing Ms Access(*.mdb) files... Stopgap solution

2001-10-30 Thread Shriram Shrikumar
If anybody's interested - found a mdb reading & exporting tools. In early development and showing promise. sourceforge.net/projects/mdbtools --- "Keith G. Murphy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Shri Shrikumar wrote: > > > > Hi All, > > > > As the title suggests, are there any linux packages that

Re: newline in terminal??

2001-10-30 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Simon Law wrote: > On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Rohan Deshpande wrote: > > > Hey again, > > > > ASDF JLK; > > > > This bug is really annoying me. I use the terminal just like everyone > > else and having my text be rewritten over as I type is just plain > > annoying. Anyone

[DEB] syslogd console message ???

2001-10-30 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Anybody seen this repeated on their console: syslogd: unknown priority name "" I cannot find it in any file under /var/log. It looks like some application is not behaving properly when communicating with syslogd. How can I find the offending little bugger? What do you think? -- Bes

Re: 3 buttons from a 2 button mouse, how?

2001-10-30 Thread Paul Huygen
Jeremiah Mahler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked: > I want to use an application which requires the use of a middle mouse > button of a three button mouse but my mouse only has two buttons. > How do I get around this? Usually by pressing the two buttons simultaneously. Paul Huygen

Re: changing to Debian from Mandrake

2001-10-30 Thread Craig Dickson
Michael Kaminsky wrote: > * One reason I moved to Mandrake from Redhat (from Slackware) is that >the packages are extremely up-to-date. Even the unstable version of >Debian seems sorely lacking. Mandrake seems to put out RPMs within >1-2 days of the upstream developers. There are s

Re: changing to Debian from Mandrake

2001-10-30 Thread Erik Steffl
Michael Kaminsky wrote: > > I'm been using Mandrake for the past couple of years, and now I'm > considering switching to Debian; but, I have some concerns. I > consider myself a fairly experienced Linux user and use Linux for all > my computing needs (devel, digital camera stuff, laptop stuff ,te

Re: changing to Debian from Mandrake

2001-10-30 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Michael Kaminsky wrote: > I'm been using Mandrake for the past couple of years, and now I'm > considering switching to Debian; but, I have some concerns. I > consider myself a fairly experienced Linux user and use Linux for all > my computing needs (devel, digital camera st

Re: newline in terminal??

2001-10-30 Thread Rohan Deshpande
Hey again, Oh I see what you mean, hehe, I was kind of confused by if I was to trail my text everytime with those codes or change my prompt. All is well now; I had a typo in my bash prompt that was causing the problem. Thanks for hte help :) Rohan * Simon Law ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon

RE: apt-get & firewall

2001-10-30 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Frederico.S.Muñoz wrote: > AFAIK either the HTTP, the FTP, or both; it depends on what you define in > your sources.line. > > If you only define http sites you would only need the http port open, the > same with the ftp. 2 things: 1) If you're blocking connections anal reten

Video probs with Xpert98, Apple M1823, and Tyan S1854 Trinity 400

2001-10-30 Thread Frank Murphy
I've been having a frustrating problem with Linux and my video hardware. Namely, the video has giant "margins" on both sides of the display area -- between 2-3 cm. It's not so severe at the top and bottom. I don't think this is an X problem, because it seems that the video has the same problems

'xset -r keycode' doesn't work

2001-10-30 Thread John Smith
While xset -r xset r xset r on/off works on my machine (Potato, generic keyboard), e.g. xset -r 38 doesn't work. (keycode 38 = 'a'). Wondering if it's my problem or bug in xset? Thanks __ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo!

RE: changing to Debian from Mandrake

2001-10-30 Thread Kris Huber
> Apt + dselect seem very powerful... Have the > people who wrote these systems outlined their correct usage in a > FAQ/manpage/etc.? I'm less familiar with Linux than you, but I can tell you based on recent Debian experience that there's a How-To document for apt at http://www.debian.org/doc/manua

Re: changing to Debian from Mandrake

2001-10-30 Thread Justin R. Miller
Thus spake Michael Kaminsky ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > * One reason I moved to Mandrake from Redhat (from Slackware) is that >the packages are extremely up-to-date. Even the unstable version of >Debian seems sorely lacking. Mandrake seems to put out RPMs within >1-2 days of the upstream

anyone get gnomemeeting to work properly?

2001-10-30 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
I installed gnomemeeting on a few machines, but it doesn't exactly work properly. I can get some sound transmission if I make a horrible noise with the microphone on one end, but no sound, horrible or otherwise, can go the other direction, and normal speaking doesn't work at all. I fiddled with t

The linux and Debian operating systems

2001-10-30 Thread Stuart Smith
Hello my name is Stuart,   Today I went to Dixons to ask the how much the new XP operating system cost, and after some discussion I was told that I could download an free Operating system called Linux. I have looked on the internet for the Linux Operating system and have come across several s

Re: OT: IPtables maillinglist

2001-10-30 Thread Justin R. Miller
Thus spake Tarjei Huse ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Does anyone know of a good firewall maillinglist and faq? The Firestarter list is quite good, though typically discussions are based off of firewalls that are created by Firestarter. However, threads occasionally meander about to general firewall con

RE: cproto.deb for potato not available?

2001-10-30 Thread Kris Huber
Here's what I found (thanks to those who replied): It seems the /etc/apt/preferences file is a feature not yet in the stable release of apt-get (version 0.3.19). I found some information about the preferences file in a how-to document based on version 0.5.3 (chapter 3 of http://www.debian.org/doc

Re: Apt dependency problem

2001-10-30 Thread Hamma Scott
--- Erik van der Meulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After the process finished, I figured to redo: > > apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade > > and be okay again. Not! It results in: > > libsdl1.2debian: Depends: libsdl1.2debian-all (= > 1.2.2-3.2) but it is > not going to be installed

HP CD Writer 7200 broken since kernel 2.4

2001-10-30 Thread Britton
I am using ide-scsi, etc., everything used to work correctly, but these days, cdparanoia will read the first track, then pause, then come SCSI errors and timeouts, and finally a complete system crash. I think this started happening around the time I went to 2.4. Has anyone else run into/beaten a

Re: Network config tool

2001-10-30 Thread D.
If memory serves me correctly, during the installation of Potato at the point of inserting/selecting modules, if your nic card is on the list and you select it, when you exit that portation of the install it will ask you if you want to configure your network. Saying yes will start the process and

Re: rtc module with 2.4.12-ac3

2001-10-30 Thread DvB
Simon Law <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, DvB wrote: > > > When configuring 2.4.12-ac3, I couldn't find an option for real time > > clock... I decided not to worry about it and got an error while booting > > about not being able to find char-major-10-135 which, according to > >

Re: [OT] Mutt Configuration

2001-10-30 Thread Brian Nelson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I'm trying to make mutt so that it would use a particular "from:" > e-mail address, and I've looked it up on the man pages and it told me > to set from="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" in the .muttrc file; however, mutt > ignores it... Can someone help? Comment out the following l

just deleted 11 144 files!

2001-10-30 Thread ae roy
Just noticed that I'm missing quit a lot of files.. Actually 11 144 of them! Must have done one of those famous 'rm -rf *' which I indiscriminatly do all the time (not anymoe) in the wrong place. Managed to find out with the program 'recover', tip from linux journal sept. issue that this happen

changing to Debian from Mandrake

2001-10-30 Thread Michael Kaminsky
I'm been using Mandrake for the past couple of years, and now I'm considering switching to Debian; but, I have some concerns. I consider myself a fairly experienced Linux user and use Linux for all my computing needs (devel, digital camera stuff, laptop stuff ,text processing, networking, etc.).

just deleted 11 144 files!

2001-10-30 Thread ae roy
Just noticed that I'm missing quit a lot of files.. Actually 11 144 of them! Must have done one of those famous 'rm -rf *' which I indiscriminatly do all the time (not anymoe) in the wrong place. Managed to find out with the program 'recover', tip from linux journal sept. issue that this happ

Re: qmail -- supervise: fatal: unable to obtain lock

2001-10-30 Thread Ben Hartshorne
my resolution: apt-get --purge --force-yes remove qmail* ucspi-tcp* dot-forward fast-forward apt-get install postfix vi /etc/postfix/main.cf postfix reload -ben On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 09:20:29AM -0700, Ben Hartshorne wrote: > Hi everyone, > I am experiencing a problem mentioned many many times

Re: [OT] Mutt Configuration

2001-10-30 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 11:54:55AM -0600, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) babbled: > > I'm trying to make mutt so that it would use a particular "from:" e-mail > > address, and I've looked it up on the man pages and it told me to set > > from="[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: best ac kernel for ext3

2001-10-30 Thread Shaya Potter
if you are using a laptop, it seems recent ac kernels have been hanging if you go standby or suspend (this has hit me) shaya On Tue, 2001-10-30 at 10:56, David Roundy wrote: > On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 11:56:30AM -0600, DvB wrote: > > I'm thinking about just downloading and compiling an ac kernel t

Re: screen on sid doesn't work for non root :(

2001-10-30 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 04:05:15 -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: > Yesterday, I apt-get upgraded my sid instilation, and now when I login as > any non root from within an xterm I get "Must be connected to a terminal". This is caused by the latest libc6, and details of the problem have already been report

RE: Going down the Rabbit Hole (was: apt-get sources.list question)

2001-10-30 Thread Hamma Scott
--- William De Cat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Personnaly, I install the base system from an old > CD, then edit /etc/apt/sources.list to point to the > distribution I want and then do an "apt-get dist- > upgrade". I have done that, and have finally upgraded to Woody. Right now I'm having a bi

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