Make applications remember their positions and sizes

2002-10-10 Thread Lacoste (Frisurf)
I am tired of having to redimension abiword Xemacs and the like each time I run them. I know I can specify the applications to start maximized using Window Maker but that is not enough flexible for me. I used to modify the .XResources, but I was wondering if there was some kind of easier way buil

Troubleshooting Mozilla

2002-10-10 Thread Mark Seven Smith
I accidentally visited a website that gave a bunch of pop-ups (I typed in the wrong URL), and blew Mozilla away. when I re-loaded, I wanted to delete any cookies it left, but I cannot access the "Preferences" under the "Edit" menu. Any suggestions? I can access the mail client, and the "Mail

Re: Can't access 1 IP address on Lan

2002-10-10 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya curtis do my silly question is.. where is the machine called 10.0.1.1 that does not reply to pings ?? - if you know where 10.0.1.1 is... do the same set of commands again ( route -nv, ifconfig -v, ipchains -L, etc - the 10.0.1.1 machine should be able to ping itse

Re: tape scsi install prob on woody

2002-10-10 Thread Paul Lewis
1) Are you sure you do not have a tape already in the drive? 2) Look at the drive manual, flashing lights usually signal something. Possibly in this case, you need to run a tape cleaner through your tape drive On 2002.10.11 07:23 RICHARD Herve wrote: > hello to all > > i've got a probleme for

Re: New Debian User - Totally Impressed

2002-10-10 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Chip Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.10.11.0144 +0200]: > I just switched to deb3.0 from Mandrake8.0. I am beyond ecstatic with > it. Welcome! This ecstasy shall not die - I am still ecstatic after several years... ;^> > UP and I lost everything! Yaaagh!! The list just goes on

Re: postfix: very long startup time (few minutes)

2002-10-10 Thread Erik Steffl
Kourosh wrote: > Could it be that somewhere in the script is a FQDN, > possibly that of your machine, and that the delay > is a DNS lookup that times out? Do you have localhost > and your machines domain name in the hosts file to avoid > unneccesary DNS lookups? yes, the name is in /etc/host

tape scsi install prob on woody

2002-10-10 Thread RICHARD Herve
hello to all i've got a probleme for installing my hp c1536-00480 scsi tape (DDS1). i don't know how to configure it; and when my pc run ; there is a orange diode flashing on the tape. the other diode does not flash, and i can't put a DDS1 HP cartridge in it. Someone could help me? Thanks

Re: 2 NIC, 2 Gateway

2002-10-10 Thread david hong
what nate said is closest to what i am asking for. my network is a bit tricky. the linux box eth0 is connecting to internet. the eth1 is connecting to one of the VLan. what i am trying to achive is to do a portforwarding for smtp to a different lan which is not the 192.168.0.0 network. i hv

Re: Can't access 1 IP address on Lan

2002-10-10 Thread Curtis
> hi ya curtis > > what is the output of > > root# route -nv Debian3800:~# route -nv Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 10.0.1.00.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth0 0.0.0.0 10.0.1.254 0.

Re: make menuconfig

2002-10-10 Thread Cristi Banciu
On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 19:41, Scott Henson wrote: > I recently reinstalled my debian unstable system and I wanted to compile > a new kernel, but to my suprise make menuconfig would no longer work. > It craps out with an error about not being able to find an ncurses > library. I have libncurses5-d

postfix + cyrus-sasl2 smtpd auth failed!!!

2002-10-10 Thread asho
hi...every debian users Some days ago , I set up my mail server with postfix + sasl2. I can easily use them with the sasldb methond. Yet now I want to use the other method such as the getpwent or shadow. So I edited the /etc/default/saslauthd with the strings START=yes MECHANISMS=getpwent an

Re: New Debian User - Totally Impressed

2002-10-10 Thread Mike Egglestone
Welcome to Debian!! Mike Quoting Chip Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Greetings, > > I just switched to deb3.0 from Mandrake8.0. I am beyond ecstatic with > it. The install was easy (used 7cds from Linux Central), user-friendly, > the defaults were acceptable even for a total beginner. I don't

Re: 2 NIC, 2 Gateway

2002-10-10 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 12:56, nate wrote: > Elizabeth Barham said: > > "nate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> david hong said: > > > So, if there is a host 192.168.0.11, and David attempts to ping it, the > > packet may *not* go out eth1 (in this example)? > > it might go out eth1, I am not

RE: Default gateway

2002-10-10 Thread Joyce, Matthew
Ah, interesting stuff. Many thanks. Matthew Joyce -Original Message- From: Crispin Wellington [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 11 October 2002 3:01 PM To: Debian Users Subject: Re: Default gateway On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 12:49, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > > My adsl connection get

Re: Default gateway

2002-10-10 Thread nate
Joyce, Matthew said: > > My adsl connection gets a different ip address each time it connects, > this makes setting up routes tricky. > > Is there anyway to setup routes using MAC addresses or even eth1 instead > of using the ipaddress ? I do not believe so, thats a different layer of networking(

Re: Default gateway

2002-10-10 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 12:49, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > > My adsl connection gets a different ip address each time it connects, this > makes setting up routes tricky. > > Is there anyway to setup routes using MAC addresses or even eth1 instead of > using the ipaddress ? You can setup ppp to setup

Re: "apt-get install gnome2 gdm2" and typo errors ...

2002-10-10 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Dan Hunt said: > Hello Ladies and Gentlemen of the Debian list! > > I chose to follow the directions on: > http://people.debian.org/~walters/gnome2.html > For my woody installation. I love gnome so I thought I would give gnome2 a go. > > Here is what I got: > 17 pac

Re: 2 NIC, 2 Gateway

2002-10-10 Thread nate
Elizabeth Barham said: > "nate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> david hong said: > So, if there is a host 192.168.0.11, and David attempts to ping it, the > packet may *not* go out eth1 (in this example)? it might go out eth1, I am not certain. but 192.168.0.11 is a locally connected system whi

RE: IMP / Horde / php / Pear / MySQL

2002-10-10 Thread Joyce, Matthew
Yes, apt-get install imp would be great. I think I will use quirrelmail until then, I really did not have any fun with imp before. Matthew Joyce -Original Message- From: Alvaro Figueroa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 11 October 2002 1:53 AM To: 'Debian User List' Subject: R

Default gateway

2002-10-10 Thread Joyce, Matthew
My adsl connection gets a different ip address each time it connects, this makes setting up routes tricky. Is there anyway to setup routes using MAC addresses or even eth1 instead of using the ipaddress ? Thanks Matthew Joyce Children's Cancer Institute Australia http://www.ccia.org.au --

Re: NVIDIA_kernel-1.0.3123 install fails

2002-10-10 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 07:52, lameth wrote: > Okay I installed kernel-package and did make-kpgk. The response I > recieved a message about not being in a top level directory ( I was at a > /) or make-kpgk was totally out of date. So I downloaded > kernel-headers-2.4.18-bf2.4. After that was ins

Re: 2 NIC, 2 Gateway

2002-10-10 Thread Elizabeth Barham
"nate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > david hong said: > > > > eth0: > > 210.182.232.22 > > gw: 210.182.232.1 > > > > and > > eth1: > > 192.168.0.12 > > gw: 192.168.0.1 > > > > if i insert the setting into ifcfg-eth0 & ifcfg-eth1, > > will i able to ping 2 different subnet ip? > > I hate to disag

Re: 2 NIC, 2 Gateway

2002-10-10 Thread nate
david hong said: > > eth0: > 210.182.232.22 > gw: 210.182.232.1 > > and > eth1: > 192.168.0.12 > gw: 192.168.0.1 > > if i insert the setting into ifcfg-eth0 & ifcfg-eth1, > will i able to ping 2 different subnet ip? I hate to disagree with someone else on the list but my experience would tell me

Re: 2 NIC, 2 Gateway

2002-10-10 Thread Elizabeth Barham
"david hong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > eth0: > 210.182.232.22 > gw: 210.182.232.1 > > and > eth1: > 192.168.0.12 > gw: 192.168.0.1 > > if i insert the setting into ifcfg-eth0 & ifcfg-eth1, > will i able to ping 2 different subnet ip? Yes, your box will see that you are closer to certain n

2 NIC, 2 Gateway

2002-10-10 Thread david hong
eth0: 210.182.232.22 gw: 210.182.232.1 and eth1: 192.168.0.12 gw: 192.168.0.1 if i insert the setting into ifcfg-eth0 & ifcfg-eth1, will i able to ping 2 different subnet ip? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: printer

2002-10-10 Thread David Sanders
On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 20:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My printer will not print it is a epson stylus C4OUX . if you have any idea > why please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] It would be hard to determine without more info. Look at http://www.linuxprinting.org Your printer will print great with

OT: changing colours in midnight commander

2002-10-10 Thread Russell
Hi all, None of the command-line options of midnight commander (mc --help-colors) seems to have an effect. Is there something i'm missing? I really want to change the colours of mc in an xterm because somehow they change from the normal console colors. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: ISPs are blocking port 445?

2002-10-10 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Gerald Livingston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Thursday, 10 October 2002, 04:35 PM -0500): > On 10 Oct 2002 11:24:36 -0500 > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 14:22, Tim Dijkstra wrote: > > > On Wed, 9 Oct 2002 18:13:42 +0200 > > > Tim Dijkstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New Debian User - Totally Impressed

2002-10-10 Thread Derek Gladding
On Thursday 10 October 2002 04:44 pm, Chip Rose wrote: > Greetings, > > I just switched to deb3.0 from Mandrake8.0. [snip] > LINUX IS UNBELIEVABLY POWERFUL AND STABLE! > Debian Linux that is! > "Gabba gabba, we accept you, we accept you, one of us !" - Derek > Thanks again for listening, >

Re: ISPs are blocking port 445? - att

2002-10-10 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya attbi is trying to prevent users from running servers at home ( think its a hopeless problem but they can keep trying i say, sooner or later, tv signals from lot more tv viewers will pay the price since they all share the same cable... ( another il-concieved idea?? - good enough for now

Re: cdparanoia & cdrom as user

2002-10-10 Thread Dale Hair
On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 22:50, Hubert Chan wrote: > > "Dale" == Dale Hair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Dale> I forgot to list that one. > > Dale> dale@meridian:~$ ls -l /dev/sg0 > Dale> crwxrwxrwx 1 root cdrom 21, 0 Mar 14 2002 /dev/sg0 > > Hmm. OK, you say that cdparanoia works as root,

Re: ISPs are blocking port 445?

2002-10-10 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 04:35:36PM -0500, Gerald Livingston wrote: > Time Warner blocked 80 here but they are polite enough to scan 25 for > open relays. From the rejected messages in Exim it appears that if they > find one they will at least inform you before locking it down. (Messages > deleted

Re: afio und CD-R

2002-10-10 Thread Micha Wiedenmann
* On 2002-10-02 Christoph Claus wrote: >On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 08:13:58PM +0200, Micha Wiedenmann wrote: >> * On 2002-10-01 Christoph Claus wrote: >> >mkisofs ist nicht zwingend nötig, da man die afio-Datei einfach roh >> >auf die CD brennen kann, und dann mit "afio -[i|t|r|p] >> >/dev/cdrom" z

Ist das OK so?

2002-10-10 Thread silviaseidel
Jemand der Dich sehr gut kennt wuerde gern ein Treffen mit Dir haben. Die Person traut sich jedoch nicht Dich direkt anzusprechen. Sie hat deshalb unseren Service in Anspruch genommen und bei uns eine persoenliche Anzeige hinterlassen. Wenn Du wissen willst wer Dich treffen moechte gehe auf die

Re: The only thing I miss about Windows

2002-10-10 Thread Jeff Maxson
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 10:19:45AM -0700, Issac Trotts happened to mention: > ... is being able to capture the contents of a window with something > like Ctrl+PrtScn and then paste it into a Word document. It was a > nice way to keep track of changes to some graphics software I was > working on.

Re: NVIDIA_kernel-1.0.3123 install fails

2002-10-10 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 07:52:23PM -0400, lameth wrote: > Okay I installed kernel-package and did make-kpgk. The response I > recieved a message about not being in a top level directory ( I was at a > /) or make-kpgk was totally out of date. So I downloaded > kernel-headers-2.4.18-bf2.4. After

printer

2002-10-10 Thread camc352
My printer will not print it is a epson stylus C4OUX .  if you have any idea why please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New Debian User - Totally Impressed

2002-10-10 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 10 October 2002 04:44 pm, Chip Rose wrote: > Greetings, Salutations! > I just switched to deb3.0 from Mandrake8.0. I am beyond ecstatic with > it. The install was easy (used 7cds from Linux Central), user-friendly, > the defaults were

Re: The only thing I miss about Windows

2002-10-10 Thread Barney Wrightson
nate wrote: > Kirk Strauser said: > >>At 2002-10-10T17:58:56Z, "nate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> >>>ACK. I *HATED* when people did this. Taking a screenshot, a perfectly >>>normal graphics file and shoving it into a word document! >> >>What if the purpose of the screenshot was to illustrat

Re: NVIDIA_kernel-1.0.3123 install fails

2002-10-10 Thread Cam Ellison
Start with apt-get kernel-package. That will ensure you get all the apps on which it depends. Read the kernel-package docs (in /usr/share/doc/kernel-package). They're very straightforward. * lameth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Aaaa I'm kind of a newbie, I tried make-kpkg, got the response

Re: Unsubscribe DOES NOT work!

2002-10-10 Thread Barney Wrightson
>>Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 11:06:19 -0400 >>From: Kurt Meyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: Unsubscribe DOES NOT work! >>Resent-Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 10:06:45 -0500 (CDT) >>Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> >>Why is it impossible to unsub

Re: Terminal type

2002-10-10 Thread Russell
Thanks all; i've been trying to understand the key mappings and terminal control code things. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Changing size of XEmacs font on the fly.

2002-10-10 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Alex" == Alex Polite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alex> Font size in XEmacs can be controlled with settings in Alex> .Xdefaults. But for every change you have to run xrdb and Alex> restart XEmacs. Alex> Is there any way of changing the font size on the fly? What is it you wa

Re: Mutt help, please

2002-10-10 Thread p
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 04:32:15PM -0700, Donald MacDougall wrote: > On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 11:13:55PM +, p wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 03:46:53PM -0700, Lonnie Sutton wrote: > > > Although I have RTFM and looked at example .muttrc's, I am obviously > > > missing something since I can

Re: NVIDIA_kernel-1.0.3123 install fails

2002-10-10 Thread lameth
Okay I installed kernel-package and did make-kpgk. The response I recieved a message about not being in a top level directory ( I was at a /) or make-kpgk was totally out of date. So I downloaded kernel-headers-2.4.18-bf2.4. After that was installed I tried to make install the nvidia driver a

Re: Weird(?) process " -:0 "?

2002-10-10 Thread Andre Berger
--GvXjxJ+pjyke8COw Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2002-10-10 19:19 -0400: > Hi, > =20 > Do somebody know what process named " -:0 " do? > I was running ps -aux, when i spo

New Debian User - Totally Impressed

2002-10-10 Thread Chip Rose
Greetings, I just switched to deb3.0 from Mandrake8.0. I am beyond ecstatic with it. The install was easy (used 7cds from Linux Central), user-friendly, the defaults were acceptable even for a total beginner. I don't know a whole lot about Linux even after my past several years of constant use

12 main items ( CCC-1 )

2002-10-10 Thread csszcodx
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Re: Mutt help, please

2002-10-10 Thread Donald MacDougall
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 11:13:55PM +, p wrote: > On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 03:46:53PM -0700, Lonnie Sutton wrote: > > Although I have RTFM and looked at example .muttrc's, I am obviously > > missing something since I can't get Mutt to send mail outside my > > system. I am using woody, and as y

Re: Mutt help, please

2002-10-10 Thread Thorsten Haude
Hi, * Lonnie Sutton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02-10-11 00:46]: >I am using woody, and as you can see from this mailing, I can send >mail from Balsa, no problem. How do you send mail with Balsa? Do you use your MTA or any function from within Balsa? >When I fetchmail, if comes in OK, and of course I

Re: Mutt help, please

2002-10-10 Thread p
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 03:46:53PM -0700, Lonnie Sutton wrote: > Although I have RTFM and looked at example .muttrc's, I am obviously > missing something since I can't get Mutt to send mail outside my > system. I am using woody, and as you can see from this mailing, I can > send mail from Balsa

Re: Unable to use network card with 2.4.19

2002-10-10 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Darryl" == Darryl L Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Darryl> I rebooted and did an lsmod and saw af_packet was Darryl> installed. I typed ifconfig and it only listed the Darryl> loopback interface. I did "ifup eth0" and it said the Darryl> connection was already configured

Re: NVIDIA_kernel-1.0.3123 install fails

2002-10-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 06:59:55PM -0400, lameth wrote: > Aaaa I'm kind of a newbie, I tried make-kpkg, got the response > command not found. should it be apt-make-kpkg? No. Install the package called 'kernel-package', which gives you make-kpkg. Cheers, -- Colin Watson

Help with amavis-ng_exim installation?

2002-10-10 Thread Gerald Livingston
This is in my sent box but I never saw it hit the list from this end. One more try. G Installed amavis-ng and did the configs for exim. Everything works fine (using ~/.procmailrc for final delivery) with the amavis stuff commented out. Everything gets properly delivered to /var/mail/usernam

Re: CD-R not mounting

2002-10-10 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"lists" == lists writes: lists> Running Debian 3.0 I've added the appropriate lists> "hdc=ide-scsi" option to grub.conf, but the CD drive still lists> won't mount. It seems that setup did not add ide-scsi to lists> the modules? Or are they in the kernel already? lists>

Re: NVIDIA_kernel-1.0.3123 install fails

2002-10-10 Thread lameth
Aaaa I'm kind of a newbie, I tried make-kpkg, got the response command not found. should it be apt-make-kpkg? Also I'm using the bf24 kernel on a pentium III 500mHz desktop system. When I did apt-cache search kernel-headers I got a list of headers kernel-header.2.4.16 and kernel-header.2

Re: kwintv?

2002-10-10 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 18:09, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.10.10.2008 +0200]: > > It's been packaged here for a while: > > > > http://arachni.kiwi.uni-hamburg.de/~harlekin/binary-i386/ > > > > Last I heard, it was still way too buggy to go into Debi

Re: The only thing I miss about Windows

2002-10-10 Thread Bijan Soleymani
David Pastern wrote: > >If a .jpeg file image is what I want all is fine. If not i'll use a program >called xnview (freely available from www.xnview.com) to convert the image. > >Dave > > > The gimp also saves to many other formats. There are also free software programs available in Debian t

Re: ntpdate no longer works with domain converted to W2K

2002-10-10 Thread nate
Kent West said: > I don't know. My Windows System Admin says that Active Directory uses > ntp (and he questions whether Linux uses that or some other protocol), > but since my Debian box stopped working with it, I was just wondering if > Microsoft's ntp is just a tad tainted, like so many of thei

Mutt help, please

2002-10-10 Thread Lonnie Sutton
Although I have RTFM and looked at example .muttrc's, I am obviously missing something since I can't get Mutt to send mail outside my system. I am using woody, and as you can see from this mailing, I can send mail from Balsa, no problem. When I fetchmail, if comes in OK, and of course I can re

the picture collapse when booting.

2002-10-10 Thread Wu XiaoGuang
Hi, all: I'm using woody. After booting more than half (boot into text login), the small penguin picture(top left) becomes collapse. My vedia card is RIVA128. Thank you. __ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos &

Re: The only thing I miss about Windows

2002-10-10 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 13:19, Issac Trotts wrote: > ... is being able to capture the contents of a window with something > like Ctrl+PrtScn and then paste it into a Word document. It was a > nice way to keep track of changes to some graphics software I was > working on. I wonder if there's a way

Re: Anyone??? HP USB DVD+RW for Woody

2002-10-10 Thread Dave Thayer
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 06:54:58AM -0700, Jack Pistachio wrote: > I need to get an HP DVD+RW USB drive working under debian > for research (we write tons of data to DVD disks). Haven't > had any luck yet (or any response from the forum). My USB, > SCSI emu, and CD_ROM setup is fine since I have

UPDATE: Relaying restrictions cont.

2002-10-10 Thread Curtis Vaughan
In addition to what I have written below: It turns out I was wrong about those changes. In fact, it was still relaying. Since then I made the following changes and now it seems to be working more or less. Changes: smtpd_client_restrictions = check_relay_domains, reject_unknown_client relay_

Re: Finding files to back up

2002-10-10 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Mark Carroll ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021009 10:37]: > Being of the belief that a fresh reinstall can help to spring-clean my > machine, my usual approach to backups is to preserve my package selections Leave that belief behind. You're using debian now! =) A good backup strategy is always importa

Re: kwintv?

2002-10-10 Thread nate
martin f krafft said: > But kwintv was packaged at one point. It's still on one of my > computers that were installed when woody was in the very early days of > testing. perhaps back in the KDE 1.x days? I used to be a kwintv user a couple years ago and remember reading on the website how the or

Re: ntpdate no longer works with domain converted to W2K

2002-10-10 Thread Kent West
Jeremy Turner wrote: > On Mon, 2002-09-09 at 17:34, Kent West wrote: > >>I've been using ntpdate to set the clock on my Woody box for some time, >>but recently our MS-oriented Administrator updated our PDC and BDC >>domain controllers to Windows 2000 in order to implement Active >>Directory. T

Re: make menuconfig

2002-10-10 Thread Jason Wojciechowski
Hello Robin, On Oct 10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robin Cosby) wrote: | > library. I have libncurses5-dev and all of its friends installed. ^^^ | I had the same problem. Try installing the package "libncurses5-dev". Would an apt-get

RE: The only thing I miss about Windows

2002-10-10 Thread David Pastern
Isaac, I had this issue a week ago and a friend on irc kindly told me about xwd. The easiest way of doing it is to run the command: xwd > /path/filename.xwd Then go and open that .xwd file with the gimp: gimp /path/filename.xwd & Edit as appropriate (canvas size etc) then select file > save

Re: make menuconfig

2002-10-10 Thread Robin Cosby
In message <1034268077.5905.4.camel@GreyGhost> Scott Henson writes: > I recently reinstalled my debian unstable system and I wanted to compile > a new kernel, but to my suprise make menuconfig would no longer work. > It craps out with an error about not being able to find an ncurses > library. I

Re: kwintv?

2002-10-10 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.10.10.2008 +0200]: > It's been packaged here for a while: > > http://arachni.kiwi.uni-hamburg.de/~harlekin/binary-i386/ > > Last I heard, it was still way too buggy to go into Debian. Funny how some will use the absence of a package as a disad

Re: Looking for a special type of editor

2002-10-10 Thread Kent West
Frank Gevaerts wrote: > On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 02:23:32PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > >> >>A sysadmin friend of mine asks the following: >> >>Well I need an editor that will add a time stamp at the beginning of each >>line. > > I guess both vi and emacs are capable of doing this with some macro.

Re: Strange behaviour with accented characters

2002-10-10 Thread Jorge Santos
Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This one time, at band camp, Jorge Santos said: > > Hello, when I do a 'su -' to root I get '?' instead of accented > > characters when doing, for example an 'ls'. This only happens with > > 'su -', not with regular logins nor with 'su' (without the '-'

XF86 4.2.1 + Radeon == No valid mode found for this DFP/LCD

2002-10-10 Thread martin f krafft
[debian-x says it's about packaging... so I am posting here...] I've been experiencing major problems with X ever since the 4.2.1 upgrade. This particular problem is on a laptop with a Radeon Mobility M6 LY Video card running a custom 2.4.19+grsecurity kernel with the 'radeon' kernel module loade

Re: GPS shopping tips?

2002-10-10 Thread Dave Thayer
FWIW, Garmin mapsource, the program used to upload maps to garmin gps receivers, crashes under wine version 20020904. dt -- Dave Thayer | If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about Denver, Colorado USA | cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: MUA that supports MH-folders?

2002-10-10 Thread Gerald Livingston
On 10 Oct 2002 08:21:59 +0200 Jens Grivolla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gerald Livingston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > My gripe is that you cannot associate an account to a specific > > folder. > > You can, with the freshly released sylpheed-claws 0.8.5 :-) > > Ciao, >Jens I didn't

Re: ISPs are blocking port 445?

2002-10-10 Thread Gerald Livingston
On 10 Oct 2002 11:24:36 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 14:22, Tim Dijkstra wrote: > > On Wed, 9 Oct 2002 18:13:42 +0200 > > Tim Dijkstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I know it's rather silly to reply on your on post, but I did some > > more research...

using external VGA as separate display

2002-10-10 Thread martin f krafft
hi, WinXP of all things allows you to control a laptop's external VGA connector as a separate display, totally independent of the internal LCD. Can this be done in XF86 (4.2.1 here, thanks Branden + XFTF!)? The reason I ask is because I have an LCD that does 1400x1050 and any lower resolution is

Re: Anyone??? HP USB DVD+RW for Woody

2002-10-10 Thread Petro
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 03:51:32PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > USB2 definitely isn't in the stock 2.4 kernels (yet, if ever). > I think I saw, though, that it was in 2.4.20-ac?? > RH may also have backported USB2 to their latest kernels. > What, if any, are the ramifications of running a RH kernel

Re: Idled + SSH.

2002-10-10 Thread Petro
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 12:05:15PM -0700, Petro wrote: > I've got 2 border machines running Debian Potato, and I recently (2 > days ago) did a security update on it for the first time in 4 or 5 > months. > On one of these machines, I also upgraded SSH. > Then Idled stopped wo

Re: Anyone??? HP USB DVD+RW for Woody

2002-10-10 Thread Jack Pistachio
Right. The drive should work with USB 1.1, although with reduced performance. Any help on setting this up as a prelim setup? I'm running 2.4.19, but will maybe go for something with USB 2.0 support after I know I can get the drive to work. --- Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Subject: R

Re: Anyone??? HP USB DVD+RW for Woody

2002-10-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 08:54, Jack Pistachio wrote: > I need to get an HP DVD+RW USB drive working under debian > for research (we write tons of data to DVD disks). Haven't > had any luck yet (or any response from the forum). My USB, > SCSI emu, and CD_ROM setup is fine since I have a working > U

Re: I accidentally deleted the root superuser How to reinstall

2002-10-10 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 10:07:25AM -0500, John Foster wrote: > On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 17:29, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > > > Seriously, if you have another means of booting, mounting, and editing > > the password file (which you demonstrated that you do) just do it again > > and add the following line

RE: Windows Domains? (was: getting a 3C905B network card

2002-10-10 Thread deFreese, Barry
Erik, In Windows, do an "ipconfig /all" and one of the options should say DHCP Enabled (Yes/No). Barry deFreese NTS Technology Services Manager Nike Team Sports (949)-616-4005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Technology doesn't make you less stupid; it just makes you stupid faster." Jerry Gregoire - Former

Re: Installing From Unstable (was: Dr. Scheme)

2002-10-10 Thread Corrin Lakeland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 11 Oct 2002 09:36, Oleg wrote: > What's a good /etc/apt/sources.list for someone who occasionally wants to > install from Testing and Unstable, while keeping the rest of the > distribution Stable? Goodness, there was a thread on exactly this

Installing From Unstable (was: Dr. Scheme)

2002-10-10 Thread Oleg
On Thursday 10 October 2002 04:22 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > David, > > I don't know 'bout this package in particular, but I run a slew of unstable > packages on my Woody box and rarely experience difficulties. You can always > check the bug reports on the Debian package page. > > gb What's a

RE: Windows Domains? (was: getting a 3C905B network card

2002-10-10 Thread Price, Erik
> -Original Message- > > So then, what should I do from there? That's exactly what I did > > (except the /release /renew part) in the first place, but when I > > statically assigned myself that IP in Linux by writing it to > > /etc/network/interfaces, I had the problem. > > > The "ip

Re: Dr. Scheme

2002-10-10 Thread burningclown
David, I don't know 'bout this package in particular, but I run a slew of unstable packages on my Woody box and rarely experience difficulties. You can always check the bug reports on the Debian package page. gb On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, David Teague wrote: > > Hi > > I need the Dr. Scheme pa

Dr. Scheme

2002-10-10 Thread David Teague
Hi I need the Dr. Scheme package for my teaching. I run Woody, but notice that the only Dr. Scheme package (the latest, 2.02) is in Unstable. Just how unstable is DrScheme 2.02? Can I safely install it from Sid's package into my Woody, or am I asking for trouble? Should I get the original

Re: WindowMaker Menu Crazies

2002-10-10 Thread Claudio Bley
On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 19:08, D. wrote: > Hi all, > I'm running unstable with the 2.4.19 kernel using > Window Maker. > I've installed the mplayer-686.deb and when I select > the Mplayer from the menu is does not open. If I open > a terminal and type mplayer in the terminal Mplayer > will ope

Re: Trouble installing Xwindows on debian 3.0 (woody)

2002-10-10 Thread nate
Srini Vasan said: > Hi, > > I am a debian newbie ( coming from the mandrake world)... > I am having trouble getting XFree86 to work correctly on my > machine...When I run startx .. it crashes and xfree86config suggests > running "SuperProbe" to get the right characteristics for my video card > bef

Re: Athlon MP boards that work with woody

2002-10-10 Thread Mark Carroll
On Wed 09 Oct 2002 10:07:22 -0700 Derek Gladding wrote: > I'm running dual MP1800s on a Tyan Tiger MP S2460. Me too, but MP2000s. Works like a dream, and kernel config was easy too. The Tiger MP even came with a nice manual, though on the board itself some of the capacitors got in my way when I

Trouble installing Xwindows on debian 3.0 (woody)

2002-10-10 Thread Srini Vasan
Title: Trouble installing Xwindows on debian 3.0 (woody) Hi, I am a debian newbie ( coming from the mandrake world)... I am having trouble getting XFree86 to work correctly on my machine...When I run startx .. it crashes and xfree86config suggests running "SuperProbe" to get the right charac

Re: WindowMaker Menu Crazies

2002-10-10 Thread Klaus Imgrund
On Thu, 10 Oct 2002 10:08:08 -0700 "D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > I'm running unstable with the 2.4.19 kernel using > Window Maker. > I've installed the mplayer-686.deb and when I select > the Mplayer from the menu is does not open. If I open > a terminal and type mplayer in th

Transparent access to DVD-RAM archives

2002-10-10 Thread Mark Carroll
On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, nate wrote: (snip) > I think debsums is what you want(its a package). though last I heard > not every debian package came with md5sums on the files, so it may > not be 100%. (snip) Thanks very much, Nate - that's perfect. (-: I can now generate a good exclude list with a simpl

Re: The only thing I miss about Windows

2002-10-10 Thread nate
Kirk Strauser said: > > At 2002-10-10T17:58:56Z, "nate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> ACK. I *HATED* when people did this. Taking a screenshot, a perfectly >> normal graphics file and shoving it into a word document! > > What if the purpose of the screenshot was to illustrate a piece of text >

Idled + SSH.

2002-10-10 Thread Petro
I've got 2 border machines running Debian Potato, and I recently (2 days ago) did a security update on it for the first time in 4 or 5 months. On one of these machines, I also upgraded SSH. Then Idled stopped working on that machine. So I have 2 machines that are eff

Re: The only thing I miss about Windows

2002-10-10 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2002-10-10T17:58:56Z, "nate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ACK. I *HATED* when people did this. Taking a screenshot, a perfectly > normal graphics file and shoving it into a word document! What if the purpose of the screenshot was to illustrate a piece of text that you're concurrently workin

Re: Happy Hacking + Emacs keybindings have changed in the last week

2002-10-10 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2002-10-10T17:20:16Z, "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > sounds like the X 4.2 ate my meta key problem. See the X changelog. > Search for 'meta'. Thanks for the pointer. For others with the same problem, I changed XF86Config-4 as follows, restarted my X session, and had my

Re: Toshiba 2405-S201 cannot configure xserver card S3 SuperSavage/IXC1179

2002-10-10 Thread Jeff
Andres Toussaint, 2002-Oct-10 12:17 -0500: > I have installed Woody into my Toshiba 2405-S201 laptop and want to > start xserver-xfree86 but when i give STARTX i receive the error: > > Fatal Server Error: > no screens found > > I first tried configuring (using dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86)

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