Re: Pump and Dhclient

2002-03-13 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
Martin Wuertele posts : > modify /etc/network/interfaces and add the auto line This is already there in my /etc/network/interfaces file. It fails to work. Only if I run udhcpc as root, does the eth0 device come up. How does one bring up the eth0 interface automatically upon boot ? -- /(__ _

A couple of general Debian questions

2002-03-13 Thread Paul F. Pearson
1) when using Dselect, I sometimes select packages, and find out that I don't have the space to actually install them. How can I "unselelect all"? 2) I want to install Woody on my PC at home (I currently have Potato at home, Woody for PPC at work). My home computer's access to the net is at ap

Re: floppy disk multitasking problems

2002-03-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 15:06, KTI Networks/Carlos Miller wrote: > You know if you had a Pen Drive you may want to forget about the floppies. > www.ktinet.com/pendrive the answer! > > give me a call 800-275-6387 > > Best Regards, > > Carlos Miller > Account Manager > KTI Networks, Inc., USA > Voi

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-13 Thread Alan James
This bug is fixed. This is no longer an issue. Please dont reply to this thread, or at least dont CC every other list about it.. Yes, I was foolish enough to group reply already, sorry. You can get the get the details of this mess from : http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?archive=no\&

easy? exim problem

2002-03-13 Thread Cam
Hey, I'm having a little problem w/ exim... I've set it up many times in the past successfully, but this time I cannot seem to do it. I have it so that it delivers 'local mail only' but that doesn't work at all for some reason (shouldn't local mail only always work??). Anyway, if i try to send m

Re: Spamassassin: how to "whitelist" a subject?

2002-03-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 10:28:04AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I get replies from a form on my website; they arrive with a subject > line: WWW Submission. > > These get detected as spam by Spamassassin. Is there any way to tell it > that they are not? Whitelist just seems to filter addresses

Re: configuring ext3 (was Re: new twist on shutting down and restricting ssh users)

2002-03-13 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 09:13:08AM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020306 19:12]: > > I've got 2.4.17 on all my systems. (2.4.18 is out now, but not > > packaged last I checked) Are there any tricks or gotchas to setting > > it up? Here's what I know (I did include suppo

Procmail setup

2002-03-13 Thread Ryan J Goss
I recently joined this mailing list and enjoy the good discussions, but I am trying to figure out how to set up procmail so that all debian related messages get forwarded to a debian folder and not into my inbox. I don't know what I am doing wrong. Here is what .procmailrc looks like: MAILDIR=$HO

Re: Emacs question

2002-03-13 Thread Dan Griswold
Try putting the following in your .Xdefaults file: Emacs*menubar*Background: #9F9FB5 Emacs*menubar*Foreground: DarkBlue HTH, Dan

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-13 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If an individual developer feels it's warranted, then by all means, they > can do so. But making it a Debian motto to do such is a bad idea. Oh, certainly. I don't think we should have *any* kind of Debian policy on such things.

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-13 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 03:58:12PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Changing some working simply because you are offended by it is just > > plain wrong. You are making a decision based solely on your own personal > > criteria, rather than that of s

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-13 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Changing some working simply because you are offended by it is just > plain wrong. You are making a decision based solely on your own personal > criteria, rather than that of sound technical advice. I think a Debian developer has a perfectly legitimate ri

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-13 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 03:42:16PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I think it is unreasonable. That's like saying that the library has a > > right to burn books that it finds filthy or innappropriate. If you > > modify source code simply to remove

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-13 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think it is unreasonable. That's like saying that the library has a > right to burn books that it finds filthy or innappropriate. If you > modify source code simply to remove the authors remarks, your are > censoring, and are no better than a book-burner

Re: Interfaces configuration and tap0

2002-03-13 Thread Philippe Raxhon
Subject: Re: Interfaces configuration and tap0 From: Martin Wuertele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 10:27:58 +0100 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Hi Philippe! On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Philippe Raxhon wr

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-13 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 03:25:45PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Don't start a trend that we cannot stick to. Unless you really feel like > > perusing the sources of everything (grep -ir fuck in the kernel source), > > you should drop this now.

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-13 Thread Duncan Findlay
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 09:09:45PM +0100, Robert van der Meulen wrote: > > Quoting Lazarus Long ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Again, there is no excuse for racism in Debian. Other packages have > > elided the inappropriate material in the past, as they should. An IRC > > client has no business being

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-13 Thread Alan James
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 02:36:28PM -0500, Chris wrote: > You are kidding right? IRC is extremely inappropriate for a child to > use, period. You are way off base, your perspective is badly skewed > and I fear for the safety of your daughter online. I wish her the > best of luck with such poor g

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-13 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Don't start a trend that we cannot stick to. Unless you really feel like > perusing the sources of everything (grep -ir fuck in the kernel source), > you should drop this now. Yes it sucks. Yes, a lot of people disagree > with such remarks, but freedom com

Re: xfce

2002-03-13 Thread Charles Baker
--- "Kevin C. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 09:23:24PM -0800, Craig > wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 09:25:52PM -0600, Kevin C. > Smith wrote: > > > Anyone running XFce and Unstable. > > > Recent upgrade of XFce has removed the Debian > menu (xfmenu). > > > Anyone

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-13 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
Do not feed the troll. -- Surely there is a polite way to say FOAD.-- Shmuel Metz "Fornicate Off And Decease". -- Rik Steenwinkel

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-13 Thread Kurt Lieber
Lazarus Long said: > Again, there is no excuse for racism in Debian. Other packages have > elided the inappropriate material in the past, as they should. No, they shouldn't. Debian is not about censorship. I personally find the quoted joke offensive, but I'm not about to say he doesn't have a

Re: cdrw and cdrom: do ide and master/slave matter?

2002-03-13 Thread Greg Murphy
Greetings, The cd-r can be on any drive, master or slave. Mine is set up as following: cdrom: /dev/hdc (secondary master) cdr: /dev/hdd ( secondary slave) and I've had no problems. I'm not sure about whether lite-on will work or not. My drive was not listed on the cd-r but it works, so there could

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-13 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 09:09:45PM +0100, Robert van der Meulen wrote: > Then don't install it on the box your daughter uses. Debian is about > freedom, not censorship. Shielding from 'sensitive' material is a decision > every parent can make by themselves, and it is _not_ the responsability of > a

Re: Emacs question

2002-03-13 Thread Glyn Millington
R.Pac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, > > how can I change the background of the menubar under emacs (version > 20.x) ? In .Xdefaults or .Xsession, with xresources setting Emacs*menubar*Foreground:Red Emacs*menubar*Background:Gold for example - except that these may not b

Re: Problems with Email Format

2002-03-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 20:31, Wayne Topa wrote: > Ron Johnson([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 15:46, Costa, Todd (DMH) wrote: > > > Hi Deb-Users, > > > > > > I hope I corrected my email format to text. I can't seem to get my > > > email client to send text o

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-13 Thread Petro
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 10:04:14AM -0800, Lazarus Long wrote: > On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 12:47:25AM -0700, Adam Conrad wrote: > > > -Original Message- > > > From: Lazarus Long [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 5:55 PM > > > Yo family's so black, when they hol

FreeType Patent Issues and Debian

2002-03-13 Thread Timothy R. Butler
Hi everyone, My recent experiment trying to get Debian to install on a certain laptop led to my installing Mandrake on that laptop (I couldn't ever get Debian to load pcmcia-cs). I then ran into problems with the fonts in Mandrake 8.2 RC1, fonts looked absolutely horrible (when using AA). N

Re: PS1

2002-03-13 Thread Sean Quinlan
--- Marcelo Leal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2002-03-13 19:30): > why my PS1 variable is [EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w\$ in console (not X). And in X > (eterm) > is \s-\v\$ ??? > i wanna the first way... in the second only bash version appears. The prompt which contains only the shell and version number (the

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-13 Thread Warren Stramiello
On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 14:36, Chris wrote: > You are kidding right? IRC is extremely inappropriate for a child to > use, period. You are way off base, your perspective is badly skewed > and I fear for the safety of your daughter online. I wish her the > best of luck with such poor guidance to gro

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-13 Thread Warren Stramiello
On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 14:43, Robert L. Harris wrote: > > > Question. Who determins what should and shouldn't be? Who is "right"? > If I don't find something offensive should everyone just ignore it? If > someone else finds it offensive am I wrong? Maybe I'm not sensitive > enough, maybe they'

PPPOE and ip-up

2002-03-13 Thread Tony Schonfeld
Hello everybody, i'm using potato with pppoe 3.3 and i can't execute a script in ip-up.d directory when my link is up for a new connect. Can you help me please, many thanks per advance, Tony Ps: reply to my email because i don't brownse the list at this time. -- Tony Schonfeld * F5GIT *

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-13 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 13-Mar-2002 Chris wrote: > You are kidding right? IRC is extremely inappropriate for a child to > use, period. You are way off base, your perspective is badly skewed > and I fear for the safety of your daughter online. I wish her the > best of luck with such poor guidance to grow with. > A

RE: best way to install non debian package

2002-03-13 Thread Panuganty, Ramesh
Good that this discussion came up. I lost my checkinstall file which I downloaded earlier and can't reach this site now (always inaccessible?). Can somebody give me a copy of this checkinstall package? Thanks, Ramesh -Original Message- From: Sridhar M.A. Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 8:

Re: Pump and Dhclient

2002-03-13 Thread Elizabeth Barham
"Sridhar M.A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > All these are there [/etc/networking/interfaces]. But, when I give > the command: > > /etc/init.d/networking start|restart > > nothing happens. ~~~ ~~~ In /etc/init.d/networking, you'll see: if ! [ -x /sbin/ifup ]; then exit 0 fi -

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-13 Thread Craig Dickson
begin Lazarus Long quotation: > Again, there is no excuse for racism in Debian. [...] Why are you bringing this from debian-devel to debian-user without telling us what it's all about? I have no idea what package you're talking about, or what you find objectionable about it. If you're going to

floppy disk multitasking problems

2002-03-13 Thread KTI Networks/Carlos Miller
You know if you had a Pen Drive you may want to forget about the floppies. www.ktinet.com/pendrive the answer!   give me a call 800-275-6387 Best Regards,   Carlos MillerAccount ManagerKTI Networks, Inc., USAVoice 713-266-3891Toll Free 800-275-6387Fax 713-266-3893Internet: http://www.ktinet.

Re: Wine

2002-03-13 Thread Robert Rakowicz
Tom Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi, > Thanks lots everyone who replied - perhaps an RTFM might have been more > appropriate :-( > > winesetuptk looks good but is not on potato :-( > Why not ? I'm using last 5-6 months wine on my potato box and it's work fine for me. I need wine because I mus

NFS: right-problem

2002-03-13 Thread Markus Grunwald
Hello ! I have two computers here, eddie and marvin: Linux Marvin 2.2.18pre21 #14 Wed Oct 17 20:20:24 CEST 2001 i586 unknown Linux Eddie 2.4.17 #1 Sam Feb 16 14:06:40 CET 2002 i686 unknown >From marvin, I export a directory with some data to eddie. Unfortunately, I can't create files as user ma

Re: Promise ATA/133

2002-03-13 Thread raw-sewa
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 09:42:42PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > I am considering using a Promise ATA/133 drive controller and some ATA/133 > > drives. Is anyone currently using such a setup? > > > you need to download and apply the ata/133 patches to the kernel... > > http://www.1U-Raid5.ne

Re: trouble installing the latest ssh from woody

2002-03-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 11:36:09AM -0500, Tim Olsen wrote: > I'm having trouble installing the latest ssh from woody: [..] > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/ssh_1%3a3.0.2p1-8_i386.deb > (--install): > subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 10 Exit code 10 is

Re: PS1

2002-03-13 Thread Jeff
Marcelo Leal, 2002-Mar-13 14:57 +: > hi folks, > why my PS1 variable is [EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w\$ in console (not X). And in X > (eterm) > is \s-\v\$ ??? > i wanna the first way... in the second only bash version appears. > thanks! I control my prompts from my ~/.bashrc with this: if [

Re: Wrong behavoir of APT (was: strange problem with apt/dselect)

2002-03-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 08:36:00PM +0100, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > Can two Debian 3 systems with the exact same sources.list file have diferent > packages avalible lists? I have on some packages diffrent version numbers and > some packages are missing... Perhaps you're updating with 'apt-get u

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-13 Thread Ben Collins
> > Again, there is no excuse for racism in Debian. Other packages have > elided the inappropriate material in the past, as they should. An IRC > client has no business being racist. Debian is a distribution that > specifically caters to children; note the debian-junior project. As it > stand

Re: Locales missing?

2002-03-13 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 18:16:33 +0100, John Lord wrote: > *dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `locales' missing, * > *assuming package has no files currently installed.* > > Anyone advice why this is now being reported? Information in the /var/lib/dpkg/ hierarchy which dpkg uses

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-13 Thread Robert van der Meulen
Quoting Lazarus Long ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Again, there is no excuse for racism in Debian. Other packages have > elided the inappropriate material in the past, as they should. An IRC > client has no business being racist. Debian is a distribution that > specifically caters to children; note t

[eich@XFree86.Org: [Xpert]Trident 9397 Color Distortion Problem]

2002-03-13 Thread Branden Robinson
Hi folks, friendly neighborhood X maintainer here. Egbert Eich and Alan Hourihane are chipset driver authors for XFree86. Help them help you! - Forwarded message from Egbert Eich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Egbert Eich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: xpert@xfree86.org Subject: [Xpert]Trident 93

Re: the quest for a *stable* browser

2002-03-13 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 09:53:56PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 04:26:57PM -0500, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > > > Have you moved you mozilla directory out of the way and tried with a > > freshly created one? > > Only when upgrading, but I've upgraded three times and still see thi

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-13 Thread Robert L. Harris
Question. Who determins what should and shouldn't be? Who is "right"? If I don't find something offensive should everyone just ignore it? If someone else finds it offensive am I wrong? Maybe I'm not sensitive enough, maybe they're too sensitive, maybe it's not worth worryiing about. Maybe yo

Re: Strange messages on all terminals

2002-03-13 Thread Tim Dijkstra
On 12 Mar 2002 12:31:48 -0500 "Scott Henson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am having a problem with all my virtual terminals(ctr-alt-F<1-6>) For > some reason a constant stream of information is sent to all of them. It > seems to be something to do with my internet connection, because its > spe

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-13 Thread Chris
You are kidding right? IRC is extremely inappropriate for a child to use, period. You are way off base, your perspective is badly skewed and I fear for the safety of your daughter online. I wish her the best of luck with such poor guidance to grow with. * Lazarus Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02031

Wrong behavoir of APT (was: strange problem with apt/dselect)

2002-03-13 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
Hi Now in a easyer way: Can two Debian 3 systems with the exact same sources.list file have diferent packages avalible lists? I have on some packages diffrent version numbers and some packages are missing... cheers, Raffaele -- Raffaele Sandrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For encrypted Mail get my P

Re: slrn + leafnode = heavy load

2002-03-13 Thread Ian Balchin
Hi, answering my own post I made a setting in .slrnrc % If 0, save all groups when writing newsrc file % if 1, do not save any unsubscribed groups % if 2, do not save any unread-unsubscribed groups set write_newsrc_flags 1 which has dramatically improved matters. My .jnewsrc now only shows the gr

Woody net install CD's

2002-03-13 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
I've downloaded and burned the woody net install cd's [http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~sdier/debian/woody-netinst-test/] and tried the installation three times and it is not working properly. I can step through all of the setup options as well as configure my network card. It then downloads all th

Locales missing?

2002-03-13 Thread John Lord
Hi, Recently after the last 2 upgrades I have been getting the following error message, also when installing individual files. *dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `locales' missing, * *assuming package has no files currently installed.* Anyone advice why this is now being report

Re: Freeswan package on woody?

2002-03-13 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 02:51:14PM +, Martin Edward John Waller wrote: > I'd like to install freeswan on a woody machine, > but a package search for it cam up with nothing. It was recently removed from woody due to an outstanding release critical bug. The bug turned out to not be freeswan's f

Re: Spamassassin: how to "whitelist" a subject?

2002-03-13 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 13 Mar 2002, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > on Wed, 13 Mar 2002 01:27:25PM -0800, Shri Shrikumar insinuated: > > > I get replies from a form on my website; they arrive with a > > > subject line: WWW Submission. > > > > > > These get detected as spam by Spamassassin. Is there any way to > > > tell it th

Re: enlightenment...

2002-03-13 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On 13 Mar 2002 10:56:21 + Marcelo Leal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi everybody, hello Marcelo > my name is marcelo, i'm brazilian, so sorry by the english. why not use debian-user-portuguese, then? > fine... when i go to another area, the screen produce a strange > effect... when i move th

Unidentified subject!

2002-03-13 Thread osenhor
hi, i had installed a potato in my machine working fine... i upgrade to unstable, because my configurations file of enlightenment, dont work in enlightenment version that came with potato. I had already did that, and did work... but this time, my screen give me strange effects...when i move

Unidentified subject!

2002-03-13 Thread osenhor
hi folks, why my PS1 variable is [EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w\$ in console (not X). And in X (eterm) is \s-\v\$ ??? i wanna the first way... in the second only bash version appears. thanks! --- Debian ---

inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-13 Thread Lazarus Long
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 12:47:25AM -0700, Adam Conrad wrote: > > > -Original Message- > > From: Lazarus Long [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 5:55 PM > > > > Yo family's so black, when they hold hands, it looks like a > > stretch limo. > > > > There'

PS1

2002-03-13 Thread Marcelo Leal
hi folks, why my PS1 variable is [EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w\$ in console (not X). And in X (eterm) is \s-\v\$ ??? i wanna the first way... in the second only bash version appears. thanks!

Re: problem with dialup connection

2002-03-13 Thread Siward de Groot
Hallo Sebastiaan, thanks for taking the trouble to react :-) . Sebastiaan wrote: > > High, > On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Siward de Groot wrote: > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > I have a problem getting my dial-up internet connection to work. > > Your help would be appreciated. > > > > > Si:/

Re: the quest for a *stable* browser

2002-03-13 Thread Matt Stump
i am am using the newest build from the mozilla website for win32 and linux and i have very few problems with it. the only thing that bothers me is sometimes keyboard input stops working all of the sudden, but you just open up a new window and it works. --Matt -- "D

Courier IMAP authentication

2002-03-13 Thread Pat Colbeck
Hi I think I must be missing something obviose here but here goes:- I have installed courier-imap (this is on Woody) and then point an IMAP client at localhost (in this case Evolution) when it pops up asking for a username and password I type them in and then I fail authentication. The follwoing

Emacs question

2002-03-13 Thread R . Pac
Hi all, how can I change the background of the menubar under emacs (version 20.x) ? thanks -- R Pac

RE: Reconfigure IP address

2002-03-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 06:04, Nicholas Imfeld wrote: > I don't seem to have dhcp folder let alone dhclient.leases. Additional > info - my ISP IP address has not changed however I have a router between > the computer and the ISP. When I look into the router's DHCP Client > tables it does not show u

Re: Spamassassin: how to "whitelist" a subject?

2002-03-13 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Nori Heikkinen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020313 09:11]: > on Wed, 13 Mar 2002 01:27:25PM -0800, Shri Shrikumar insinuated: > > > I get replies from a form on my website; they arrive with a > > > subject line: WWW Submission. > > > > > > These get detected as spam by Spamassassin. Is there any way to >

Re: power off problem

2002-03-13 Thread Alan James
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 05:16:14PM +0100, Christian Schoenebeck wrote: > I already tried APM, then APM with 'use real mode APM BIOS call to power off' > option and finally I tried ACPI instead of APM - didn't make any change. > > Does anybody have an idea? Sorry if this is a stupid question..

Re: configuring ext3 (was Re: new twist on shutting down and restricting ssh users)

2002-03-13 Thread Vineet Kumar
* dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020306 19:12]: > I've got 2.4.17 on all my systems. (2.4.18 is out now, but not > packaged last I checked) Are there any tricks or gotchas to setting > it up? Here's what I know (I did include support in the kernel) : > o /etc/fstab -- s/ext2/ext3/ try this ins

Re: Nvidia Debian Kernel

2002-03-13 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Jonathan Ard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020312 08:38]: > Hi, Kai, > > > > I apt-get source kernel-source-2.4.18 > > Actually, I think you want to use "apt-get install > kernel-source-2.4.18". You are downloading the source to the kernel > source package, which, as you say later, gives you files you

Re: in what config file should I place 'setserial /dev/ttyS3 IRQ 5", and pon ?

2002-03-13 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Vineet Kumar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020312 13:05]: > one of the package-provided initscripts. For setserial, you should be > able to 'dpkg-reconfigure setserial' (as root) and have it "autosave > once". This means that any changes you make to /etc/serial.conf this > time will be saved when the syst

GatewayLaptop-Solo9550

2002-03-13 Thread ThomasRatliffDDS
Anyone give me install instructions or a Woody install URL on this? I'm trying to move from RedHat to Debian and figured I'd start with the laptop before playing with the Server and workstations. No peripherals seem to be recognized, X doesn't work and of course config files are in vastly differ

Re: two ethernet cards without routing

2002-03-13 Thread Vineet Kumar
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020313 02:30]: > Hi folk's: > > I've installed two ethernet cards to my debian server and they work fine. > I want to give some services to one IP and other services to the other, so: > How can I deactivate the routing option betwen cards? > > There have t

mailto: in konqueror

2002-03-13 Thread Tim Dijkstra
Hi, Does anybody know how I can make my favorite mail agent pop-up when I press klik on a mailto: link in konqueror? Thanks, Tim

Re: Pump and Dhclient

2002-03-13 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 10:23:48AM +0100, Martin Wuertele wrote: > > modify /etc/network/interfaces and add the auto line: > > eg > auto eth0 > > will when booting fire up eth0. and if your configuration is something > like > eth0 inet dhcp > it will when booting a

Re: Xfree 4.1 on potato

2002-03-13 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
> I'm trying to install Xfree 4.10-14 onto an otherwise > (reasonably) stock potato machine but am having a problem with a > dependancy. you can find XFree86 4.x debs compiled for potato here: http://people.debian.org/%7Ecpbotha/ i installed them yesterday, it worked quite well. follow the instr

Re: Problems with Email Format

2002-03-13 Thread Wayne Topa
Ron Johnson([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 15:46, Costa, Todd (DMH) wrote: > > Hi Deb-Users, > > > > I hope I corrected my email format to text. I can't seem to get my > > email client to send text only. Please reply if its readable. Thanks. > > Umm, Todd

Type 1 fonts

2002-03-13 Thread Rick Pasotto
This morning I upgraded AbiWord (in testing) and there was a dialog telling me to make sure that 'Load "type1"' was in the modules section of my XF86Config-4. It wasn't so I added it and now web pages in Mozilla 0.9.9 look *terrible*. Also, in checking around it appears that there are duplicate ty

trouble installing the latest ssh from woody

2002-03-13 Thread Tim Olsen
I'm having trouble installing the latest ssh from woody: danjah:~# dpkg -D3773 -i /var/cache/apt/archives/ssh_1%3a3.0.2p1-8_i386.deb D10: ensure_pathname_nonexisting `/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci' (Reading database ... 63983 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking ssh (from .../ssh_1%3a

Re: Spamassassin: how to "whitelist" a subject?

2002-03-13 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Wed, 13 Mar 2002 01:27:25PM -0800, Shri Shrikumar insinuated: > > I get replies from a form on my website; they arrive with a > > subject line: WWW Submission. > > > > These get detected as spam by Spamassassin. Is there any way to > > tell it that they are not? Whitelist just seems to filter >

Re: two ethernet cards without routing

2002-03-13 Thread George Karaolides
On Wed, 13 Mar 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi folk's: > > I've installed two ethernet cards to my debian server and they work fine. > I want to give some services to one IP and other services to the other, so: > How can I deactivate the routing option betwen cards? > > There have to be some

File permissions on nfs mounted directory (Woody)

2002-03-13 Thread Alexis Kotte
Hi, On my Woody box I mount /var/mail through nfs from a file server. However, I can not get hold of my mail using Emacs (21.1). When I call /usr/lib/emacs/21.1/i386-debian-linux-gnu/movemail -p /var/mail/kotte /tmp/dest the response is movemail: Permission denied for /var/mail/kotte

strange problem with apt/dselect

2002-03-13 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
Hi I try to install webmin on one of my systems. All Systems uses the same Debian version (woody). If want to install "webmin" packages on one of them. If i search them i only find webmin-ssl all other packages are not avalible. On all my other Systems they are avaloble. Every system was update

Re: power off problem

2002-03-13 Thread Christian Schoenebeck
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 16:15:06 -0500, christophe barbe wrote: >> Since I moved from 2.2.19pre17 to 2.4.17 Kernel a while ago, my machine >> reboots instead of powering off when I booted windows before. I tried the >> 'use real mode APM BIOS call to power off' kernel option, but that didn't >> h

Setting Port and Baud_Rate/Base

2002-03-13 Thread Schoppitsch Dieter
Hi, connecting my HP48gx to my PC works fine with DO$ (kermit). All I have to do is "set port 1" and "set baud 9600". "Receive" receives all files I send from my HP. Unfortunately this procedure doesn't work so simple from linux (or I'm to dumb) - using gkermit (or lrzsz). Gkermit doesn't suppor

RE: Freeswan package on woody?

2002-03-13 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
| On my favorite woody machine... | | cyberanarchy:~$ apt-cache search freeswan | freeswan - IPSEC utilities for FreeSWan | kernel-patch-freeswan - IPSEC kernel support for FreeSwan Oops, I forgot that I have a touch of sid in this box... It is in unstable only, or so it seems. Sorry, Brooks

Re: 2 CUPS machines _way_ too chatty

2002-03-13 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 07:54:14PM -0500, stan wrote: > Ivestigation (with etherape, and ethereal) revelaed that these 2 machine > were saturating the local net with CUPS/IPP trafic! No print jobs are qued > up. > > Any sugestiosn as to how to troubleshoot this? Turn off browsing in your CUPS con

RE: Freeswan package on woody?

2002-03-13 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
| Hello, | | I'd like to install freeswan on a woody machine, | but a package search for it cam up with nothing. | | Is there a freeswan package at all? | Do I need a 2.4 kernel? (if so, any issues | upgrading from a 2.2 kernel to a 2.4 kernel on | woody?) | Is there a noddy guide to isntalling it

Re: Freeswan package on woody?

2002-03-13 Thread Martin Wuertele
Hi Martin! On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Martin Edward John Waller wrote: > I'd like to install freeswan on a woody machine, > but a package search for it cam up with nothing. > > Is there a freeswan package at all? > Do I need a 2.4 kernel? (if so, any issues > upgrading from a 2.2 kernel to a 2.4 kern

upgrade 2.4.17 -> 2.4.18 and DRI vanished!

2002-03-13 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, I have an ATI radeon card and have been using DRI for many months. I use the stock Debian kernel packages. When I recently installed the 2.4.18 kernel, DRI stopped working! Today I noticed that the "radeon" module has changed locations: [EMAIL PROTECTED] radeon.o /lib/modules/2.4.17-686

Freeswan package on woody?

2002-03-13 Thread Martin Edward John Waller
Hello, I'd like to install freeswan on a woody machine, but a package search for it cam up with nothing. Is there a freeswan package at all? Do I need a 2.4 kernel? (if so, any issues upgrading from a 2.2 kernel to a 2.4 kernel on woody?) Is there a noddy guide to isntalling it on woody? Martin

Re: best way to install non debian package

2002-03-13 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 10:15:00AM +0100, Fran?ois Chenais wrote: > > > > If you want install non-debian software, i.e., after compiling a > > compressed tarball, I would suggest that you give checkinstall a try. It > > creates a deb package, which installs the binaries in /usr/local.

Xfree 4.1 on potato

2002-03-13 Thread Craig Sampson
I'm trying to install Xfree 4.10-14 onto an otherwise (reasonably) stock potato machine but am having a problem with a dependancy. It appears that this build, found in testing, requires debconf >= 0.5, but, strangely, this version seems not to exist in testing but rather its in unstable (??!!)

Re: Promise ATA/133

2002-03-13 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
Thanks for the info and the help. If I do use an onboard ATA100 controller, is that supported in the standard potato release's kernel, without any changes? At 06:22 AM 3/13/2002 -0800, you wrote: Yes, though it was a little bit of a pain. The controller is supported in the ac series, but not

RE: two ethernet cards without routing

2002-03-13 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
| I've installed two ethernet cards to my debian server and they work fine. | I want to give some services to one IP and other services to the | other, so: | How can I deactivate the routing option betwen cards? | | There have to be some kind of routing now because I can connect | to my apache | ty

Re: Promise ATA/133

2002-03-13 Thread Richard Weil
Yes, though it was a little bit of a pain. The controller is supported in the ac series, but not yet in the main kernel (though I think it is in the 2.4.19 pre series). What I had to do to get it to work is: 1. Attach drive to motherboard IDE controller. 2. Install system, get kernel source, appl

enlightenment...

2002-03-13 Thread Marcelo Leal
hi everybody, my name is marcelo, i'm brazilian, so sorry by the english. i'm using unstable version of Debian, and the problems with instability of evolution has gone. but my window manager (enlightenment), is not fine... when i go to another area, the screen produce a strange effect... when i mov

Re: xfce

2002-03-13 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 09:23:24PM -0800, Craig wrote: > On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 09:25:52PM -0600, Kevin C. Smith wrote: > > Anyone running XFce and Unstable. > > Recent upgrade of XFce has removed the Debian menu (xfmenu). > > Anyone know how to get this back? > > > > > maybe "update-menus" > tr

Re: XFree vs ATI All-in-wonder

2002-03-13 Thread Lorenzo Mattei
On Wed, 13 Feb 2002 06:24:12 -0500, Bill Triplett wrote: >On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 09:14:25AM +0100, Lorenzo Mattei wrote: >>Hi, >>I'm trying to set up an ATI all-in-wonder 128 pro video card on my >>linux box. I'm working with debian potato and XFree-4.1.0 (CPBotha >>packages). Modprobe for r128.

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