Re: logcheck problems in sid

2003-01-02 Thread Nick
On 2003-01-02 23:27, Paul Johnson wrote: > Running sid, why has logcheck started producing this? [...] > /usr/sbin/logcheck: line 107: /bin/egrep: No such file or directory [...] There is some devel discussion about it here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200301/msg00064.ht

sound possible on Epox 8kha+ motherboard?

2003-01-02 Thread Dan Jacobson
Did anybody ever get sound to work on your EPOX 8kha+ board? I have 10/10/02 sid cds. I tried everything. I can make the console beep out of the speaker only. Alsaconf doesn't have the card. http://jidanni.org/comp/system.txt is my sorry system. I can use kernel -18 or -19. -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: starting X

2003-01-02 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Thu, 02 Jan 2003 07:40:21PM -0500, sean finney insinuated: > hey nori, > > hope your computer has thawed off a bit :) nope, i'm giving it up for good, i think ... the old hard drive, that is. :( > anyways, iirc this is provided by xserver-xfree86. the easy way to > make sure you have everyth

hello

2003-01-02 Thread holly
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Re: Anti-aliasing

2003-01-02 Thread Jason Pepas
On Tuesday 31 December 2002 05:16 am, Rus Foster wrote: > Hi All, > I've just managed to get anti aliasing working with qt apps. > However I would also like to get xterms,window maker and gtk based apps > working. For the gtk apps would I be correct in thinking that I will have > to upgrade to the

logcheck problems in sid

2003-01-02 Thread Paul Johnson
Running sid, why has logcheck started producing this? - Forwarded message from Cron Daemon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Received: from root by ursine.dyndns.org with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 18ULqE-0004O0-00 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Thu, 02 Jan 2003 23:02:02 -0800 From: [

Strange ssh/tty behaviour

2003-01-02 Thread Johann Spies
I have Debian unstable on "vreemdeling" and Redhat 7.3 on "archive". When I try to sshto archive from tty8 on vreemdeling the following happens: - 03-01-03 9:03:13 js@vreemdeling ~ zsh % ssh root@archive Permission denied, please try again. Permission denied, please try aga

Re: kernel recompile

2003-01-02 Thread Paul Scott
Jason Pepas wrote: On Thursday 02 January 2003 11:41 pm, Robert Storey wrote: Everything seemed to go well. There were no error messages, and I found myself with a newly compiled kernel named vmlinuz-2.4.18 in my /boot directory. But on attempting to boot, the kernel would instantly crash and

Re: Windows Telnet

2003-01-02 Thread Jason Pepas
> I've actually had a little bit of a bad experience trying to do this. > I have Deep XResources Magic that causes fonts to come up at the > reported resolution of the display and to prefer scalable fonts, > rather than using fixed 75 or 100dpi fonts. My normal xterm font is > 11pt Courier; trying

Bug#175141: checkinstall: man page contains unescaped dot at start of line

2003-01-02 Thread Colin Watson
Package: checkinstall Version: 1.5.3-1 Severity: normal On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 12:26:01AM -0600, Jason Pepas wrote: > On Thursday 02 January 2003 10:47 pm, Colin Watson wrote: > > Fine; I'd still like to know what's on and around line 106 of that man > > page. > > (pts/2)jason@marsala:/tmp$ zcat

Re: cannot open dislpay: debian:0.0

2003-01-02 Thread Jason Pepas
On Wednesday 01 January 2003 01:35 am, Kevin wrote: > Please can you help with this error? > Below is the log, env and .bashrc > > DISPLAY=debian:0.0;export DISPLAY try this: export DISPLAY=:0.0 export XAUTHORITY=/home/user/.Xauthority -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: CMI 9738 sound driver

2003-01-02 Thread Davor Balder
don't know if this applies to your chipset, but you might for the module i810_audio or i810_codec or something like that. This supports several AC97 compatible chipsets (I am using the sis7... something or other and it works, but only at 48khz). -jason pepas Thanks Jason, I did not try your sol

checkinstall man page [was Re: Unidentified subject!]

2003-01-02 Thread Jason Pepas
On Thursday 02 January 2003 10:47 pm, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 02:03:53PM -0600, Jason Pepas wrote: > > > What's -mand? Perhaps you mean -mandoc. > > > > hmm, looks like I didn't copy / paste that correctly. lets try that > > again: > > > > (pts/3)jason@marsala:~$ zcat /usr/sh

Re: Security Question

2003-01-02 Thread Rob VanFleet
> John Gedeon wrote: > > > I have Debian installed on my home computer (3.0 stable version) I want > > to use it to remote login in to work, however the people in charge of the > > remote logins (IT) at my work say that Debian has lots of security holes. I > > was wondering what security holes

Re: irssi-text not working

2003-01-02 Thread Jason Pepas
hmm, I sent this 5 hours ago and it still has not appeared. here it is again: On Thursday 02 January 2003 03:28 pm, Jason Pepas wrote: > irssi-text doesn't seem to be working for me. > > issuing the command irssi from the command line simply does nothing. > > ii irssi-text 0.8.5-2tex

Re: Audio Video digital capture / playback

2003-01-02 Thread Jason Pepas
On Thursday 02 January 2003 01:40 pm, Hanasaki JiJi wrote: > Any recommendations on Audio Video digital capture / playback hardware > and software woking on Woody / Sarge? mplayer / mencoder seem to be the most flexible (most codecs, most input/output methods, etc) tools available. -jason pepas

Re: starting X

2003-01-02 Thread Jason Pepas
On Thursday 02 January 2003 06:40 pm, sean finney wrote: > hey nori, > > hope your computer has thawed off a bit :) > > anyways, iirc this is provided by xserver-xfree86. the easy way to > make sure you have everything installed that you need for x is to > run tasksel and check the box for x windo

Re: kernel recompile

2003-01-02 Thread Jason Pepas
On Thursday 02 January 2003 11:41 pm, Robert Storey wrote: > In the continuing saga of my kernel recompile, I did this: > > make xconfig > make-kpkg clean > make-kpkg kernel_image > dpkg -i kernel-image-2.4.18_10.00.Custom_i386.deb > > Everything seemed to go well. There were no error messa

Re: CMI 9738 sound driver

2003-01-02 Thread Jason Pepas
On Thursday 02 January 2003 10:33 pm, Davor Balder wrote: > Hi All, > > I am trying to configure (onboard) CMI 9738 sound chip on SiS650/961 board > supporting PIV. I am still configuring the rest of the stuff such as PPP > etc. CMI 9738 appears not to be supported by 2.4.18 kernel. Any idea if > t

Re: xdm locks up keyboard and hogs cpu

2003-01-02 Thread Donald Spoon
Aravind Gottipati wrote: Hi Don, I finally figured out why xdm did not work for me. It took me about 2 years.. but I finally found it! I always used seven terminals (virtual) on the console, ALT F1 through F7, and the X server for xdm is hardcoded to start on the seventh terminal. Since the

kernel recompile

2003-01-02 Thread Robert Storey
In the continuing saga of my kernel recompile, I did this: make xconfig make-kpkg clean make-kpkg kernel_image dpkg -i kernel-image-2.4.18_10.00.Custom_i386.deb Everything seemed to go well. There were no error messages, and I found myself with a newly compiled kernel named vmlinuz-2.4.18

Re: burning divx to play on dvd player

2003-01-02 Thread John Griffiths
wow, lots of work to get all the bits i need, thanks for that I'll have another shot next week. At 04:46 AM 1/3/03 +, Travis Crump wrote: >John Griffiths wrote: >> hullo all. >> >> I've got a divx file (not a copyrighted one, it's from >> http://www.crewoftwo.com/movie/index.html and they ma

Re: Nvidia compile error

2003-01-02 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 11:21:56AM -0500, John Mitchell wrote: > Let me ask a stupid question, when you installed your running kernel's > corrisponding kernel-source package did you untar/bz2 it? If not then you > need to do that, cd into kernel-source-2.x.xx and run make oldconfig && make > de

Re: Security Question

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

Re: Nvidia compile error

2003-01-02 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 08:40:56AM -0600, Henry Hollenberg wrote: > tar xfv /usr/src/nvidia-kernel-src.tar > > then perform the symbolic link: > > ln -s /usr/src/nvidia-kernel-src /usr/src/linux > > do all as root. No! /usr/src/linux is the kernel source. If you're using the Debian distro of

Re: Preferred procedure for getting extra php4 functionality?

2003-01-02 Thread Lloyd Zusman
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 11:43:42AM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote: >> I noticed that the standard debian php4 package doesn't seem to be built >> with the "--enable-mime-magic" option, and therefore, it doesn't provide >> the capability to use the mime_content

Re: procmail recipe to remove list-name from subject

2003-01-02 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 07:53:18PM -0600, Greg Norris wrote: | Anyone have a procmail recipe you'd be willing to share, for sanitizing | mailing-list subjects? Basically, I'd like to take | |Re: Re: Re: [list-name] blah blah | | and turn it into | |Re: blah blah | | I figure that I co

Re: fetchmail can't send to exim

2003-01-02 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 05:04:06PM -0700, J. Scott Edwards wrote: For logs, look in /var/log/exim. | That got it, it works great now! Thanks! | | Now of course I can't send mail out :< That means exim isn't configured quite right. (or perhaps your mail client isn't, but I can't tell what it i

Re: Which 2.4 kernel image for a P1 MMX?

2003-01-02 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 07:29:58PM -0500, David P James wrote: | I just finished installing Debian 3.0r1 on a P1 200 MMX computer that | So far I have tried kernel images 2.4.18-586tsc and 2.4.16-586, using The -586 should work. If all else fails, just use the -386 kernel. | grub as a boot lo

Re: Did I get right source to update GNOME on new Debian 3.0 system(w/o an internet connection)?

2003-01-02 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 12:58:33AM +, Scott wrote: | I am setting up a new desk and am ready to throw Debian Woody onto my 4 GB [...] | However, I want GNOME 2 on this machine, and I want to be able to download | the means to do this and burn it to a disk here at work. Gnome 2 is in sid (aka

Re: kde still sucks and gnome2 rocks why?

2003-01-02 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 18:39, Rob VanFleet wrote: > On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 10:30:26AM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > > That means twm may be the cat's meow for some, while someone else wants > > Gnome on KDE with XPWE. Me, I run Gnome2 rather than KDE simply because > > I prefer the look and feel, a

sound blaster live 5.1 does not work with gaim

2003-01-02 Thread Petr Vanek
hi all, has enyone expirienced that sb5.1 does not play any sounds from gaim messanger? i installed sb5.1 recently, i am using testing: Linux oentar 2.4.19-386 #1 Mon Nov 18 21:50:03 EST 2002 i586 Pentium MMX GenuineIntel GNU/Linux modul emu10k1 from packaged kernel mp3 (ogg) play alright, i do

Re: irssi-text not working

2003-01-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 03:36:44PM -0600, Jason Pepas wrote: > On Thursday 02 January 2003 03:28 pm, Jason Pepas wrote: > > irssi-text doesn't seem to be working for me. > > > > issuing the command irssi from the command line simply does nothing. > > > > ii irssi-text 0.8.5-2text-mode

Re: cannot open dislpay: debian:0.0

2003-01-02 Thread Kent West
Yes I was login directly as root To what? Rather more important than what you're running is *how* you're running. None of us here can peek over your shoulder to see what's on your screen. You have to provide that information. You've been less than helpful, log on as root on t

Re: Unidentified subject!

2003-01-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 02:03:53PM -0600, Jason Pepas wrote: > > What's -mand? Perhaps you mean -mandoc. > > hmm, looks like I didn't copy / paste that correctly. lets try that again: > > (pts/3)jason@marsala:~$ zcat /usr/share/man/man1/checkinstall.1.gz | groff > -mandoc - | gv > :106: warning

Re: burning divx to play on dvd player

2003-01-02 Thread Travis Crump
John Griffiths wrote: hullo all. I've got a divx file (not a copyrighted one, it's from http://www.crewoftwo.com/movie/index.html and they made it themselves) that i'd like to play on a dvd player. my flatmate burns them under windows all the time but i don't ahve a windows cd bruner and figure

Re: Security Question

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

Re: which files can be safely deleted?

2003-01-02 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 07:54:53AM -0800, nate wrote: > Sandip P Deshmukh said: > > > i was wondering if there are any other redundant log files etc that i can > > delete to make more space available. i for instance know that exim keeps a > > log and it can be safely deleted. any other files? > >

Re: cannot open dislpay: debian:0.0

2003-01-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 11:56:13PM +, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 03:15:08PM -0800, Kevin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [snip 108 lines of quoted text, including stray signatures] > > log on as root on the system it self. > > That's not an answer. Absolutely true, although

CMI 9738 sound driver

2003-01-02 Thread Davor Balder
Hi All,   I am trying to configure (onboard) CMI 9738 sound chip on SiS650/961 board supporting PIV. I am still configuring the rest of the stuff such as PPP etc. CMI 9738 appears not to be supported by 2.4.18 kernel. Any idea if this driver is under development and if there is any other way

Re: Does a Maxtor 5000 LE USB Drive Work under Linux?

2003-01-02 Thread Martin McCormick
I want to thank all those who have offered suggestions. I have a classic good news/bad news progress report. The good news is that the drive will work under Linux. It appears to come with a Windows file system, but fdisk and mkfs took care of that. My problem was that I ended up

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Re: man pages as user

2003-01-02 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Fri, 03 Jan 2003 12:25:40AM +, Karsten M. Self insinuated: > on Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 06:35:48PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) >wrote: > > on the system i'm bringing up, i can read manpages as root, but > > not as myself. when i try, i get the following two errors: > > > > mikan

Re: WindowMaker without icons. How?

2003-01-02 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 01:08:43AM +0200, Egor Tur wrote: > Hi folk. > How can I get rid of icons in WindowMaker. No icons, no backgraund - only menu and >root window from X. > Many thanks. > Start /usr/bin/WPrefs to configure many of the options. Or use editor to edit various configuration file

Anyone Here Know How to Access Demudi?

2003-01-02 Thread Hal Vaughan
I posted this to the DeMuDi mailing lists, but since that list has almost no traffic (and the demudi.org and agnula.org sites are down -- again!), I thought I might actually get a response if I posted it on this list: I added the lines to /etc/apt/sources.list that the Demudi site specifies to

Re: PCAnywhere and IPCHAINS

2003-01-02 Thread Simon Tneoh Chee-Boon
Hello nate, Thanks for your reply. I saw some examples using both portfw and autofw, that's why I was trying both. I've removed autofw but it still failed. My machine details: server FW (IP: x.x.x.a interfaces: x.x.x.x/29 and 192.168.1.0/24 ipchains running on it) pc C (IP: x.x.x.b PCAn

Re: Windows Telnet

2003-01-02 Thread Alan Shutko
Gregory Seidman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > } Of course, configuring xterms can be annoying > > ...unless you bother to learn about Xt resources. No, Xt resources are annoying. I'll grant powerful, but definately annoying. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! My

Happy New Year! 2003 Advertising

2003-01-02 Thread Joshua Harris
Happy New Year! Hope all is well. We never put anything together in '02, but I still have your contact info on file. Let's work towards something in '03 with ultra targeted banner and search engine clicks, lead generation, co-regs, stand-alone emails or other online marketing platforms that we

burning divx to play on dvd player

2003-01-02 Thread John Griffiths
hullo all. I've got a divx file (not a copyrighted one, it's from http://www.crewoftwo.com/movie/index.html and they made it themselves) that i'd like to play on a dvd player. my flatmate burns them under windows all the time but i don't ahve a windows cd bruner and figure it shouldn't me too har

XEphem broken in testing -- any workaround?

2003-01-02 Thread Michael Milligan
Please refer to bug #152025 for more information. When starting XEphem (going back I don't know how many versions) I have observed the following error messages: $ xephem Warning: Cannot convert string "*-lucidatypewriter*medium*-12-*" to type FontStruct Tips: no fixed font ?!? Note that lucidat

Did I get right source to update GNOME on new Debian 3.0 system(w/o an internet connection)?

2003-01-02 Thread Scott
Hi, I am setting up a new desk and am ready to throw Debian Woody onto my 4 GB HD, I have printed all sorts of crap, ranging from the official install guide, to the Linux Cookbook, to the guide by Dwarf. Even found one called "The Very Verbose Installation Guide to Debian". So, I SHOULD be okay

Re: real player plugin only as root

2003-01-02 Thread Fraser Campbell
On January 2, 2003 05:59 pm, the fabulous Aryan Ameri wrote: > I Guess you are luckier than me. I have both files in the plugins > directory, but still nothing is working. I'm actually a bit suprised, as I > previously did setup realplayer plugin for mozilla on RedHat, SuSE, and > even on Lycoris

Re: starting X

2003-01-02 Thread sean finney
hey nori, hope your computer has thawed off a bit :) anyways, iirc this is provided by xserver-xfree86. the easy way to make sure you have everything installed that you need for x is to run tasksel and check the box for x windows. sean On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 06:01:17PM -0500, Nori He

Re: real player plugin only as root

2003-01-02 Thread sean finney
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 07:07:15PM +0100, ernst wrote: > > you scould check the rights > > (chmod a+rw /dev/dsp) > > # ls -la /dev/dsp > crw-rw-rw-1 root audio 14, 3 Nov 4 2001 /dev/dsp > # i think the better solution is to add yourself to the audio group as opposed to giving ev

Re: Security Question

2003-01-02 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya john On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > While this message screams troll, there's the possiblity your question > is legit. yuppers.. > On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 03:39:22PM -0800, John Gedeon wrote: > > > I have Debian installed on my home computer (3.0 stable version) I > > wa

Re: man pages as user

2003-01-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 06:35:48PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > on the system i'm bringing up, i can read manpages as root, but not as > myself. when i try, i get the following two errors: > > mikan~> man man > (null): can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are cor

Re: [OT] Cleaning up the output of a multiple file rename (bash)

2003-01-02 Thread sean finney
hiya gerald, On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 05:11:02AM -0600, Gerald Livingston wrote: > OK, I asked about timing my script because I'm renaming multiple files > using "date +%s" as the base for the new name. I was using a "sleep 1" > in the script to keep the filenames unique because it runs through the

Re: Windows Telnet

2003-01-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 05:48:01PM -0500, Gregory Seidman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Alan Shutko sez: > } Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > } > Fonts in xterms are just plain hard to read. > } > } Not if you have the right font. xterm has even had Xft support > } longer than KDE or GNO

Re: fetchmail can't send to exim

2003-01-02 Thread J. Scott Edwards
That got it, it works great now! Thanks! Now of course I can't send mail out :< Can anyone suggest a mail client that can send it via IMAP (M$ Exchange)? Thanks again -Scott On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, James Tappin wrote: > On Thu, 2 Jan 2003 15:36:56 -0700 (MST) > "J. Scott Edwards" <[EMAIL PROT

Re: pdf2ps Segmentation fault

2003-01-02 Thread Jason Pepas
On Thursday 02 January 2003 01:37 pm, Sven Heinicke wrote: > On some pdf files pdf2ps Segmentation faults on stable Debian. While on > Red Hat 8.0 the don't. I see that the testing version has a closer > version to that of Red Hat. Anybody have luck with running testing > gs-common and/or gs deb

Re: Security Question

2003-01-02 Thread Jamin W. Collins
While this message screams troll, there's the possiblity your question is legit. On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 03:39:22PM -0800, John Gedeon wrote: > I have Debian installed on my home computer (3.0 stable version) I > want to use it to remote login in to work, however the people in > charge of the rem

Can't Record from Microphone

2003-01-02 Thread Mike Fontenot
I'm able to record from line input, but I don't get anything when I try to record from microphone. I vaguely recall reading long ago about a security feature that prevents a hacker somewhere from turning on my microphone remotely. I'm wondering if I need to disable some feature like that somehow

Re: cannot open dislpay: debian:0.0

2003-01-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 03:15:08PM -0800, Kevin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 12:15 PM > Subject: Re: cannot open dislpay: debian:0.0 > > > > on Thu, Jan 02, 2

Re: Security Question

2003-01-02 Thread Craig Dickson
John Gedeon wrote: > I have Debian installed on my home computer (3.0 stable version) I want > to use it to remote login in to work, however the people in charge of the > remote logins (IT) at my work say that Debian has lots of security holes. I > was wondering what security holes Debian may

Re: Kernel 2.4.18 image unbootable, source uncompilable [SOLVED]

2003-01-02 Thread Tim
Hi, Just like that, many thanks to Jerome-the altered grub sequence did the trick. Tim grub> root (hd0,0) grub> kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 grub> initrd /initrd.img grub> boot -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTE

Security Question

2003-01-02 Thread John Gedeon
Hi all, I have Debian installed on my home computer (3.0 stable version) I want to use it to remote login in to work, however the people in charge of the remote logins (IT) at my work say that Debian has lots of security holes. I was wondering what security holes Debian may have (especially in

Re: kde still sucks and gnome2 rocks why?

2003-01-02 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 10:30:26AM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > That means twm may be the cat's meow for some, while someone else wants > Gnome on KDE with XPWE. Me, I run Gnome2 rather than KDE simply because > I prefer the look and feel, and the ability to load up panels with > applets - and sin

man pages as user

2003-01-02 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on the system i'm bringing up, i can read manpages as root, but not as myself. when i try, i get the following two errors: mikan~> man man (null): can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct man: can't create a temporary filename: Permission denied perl is also giving me errors a

AUDIT: Thu Jan 2 22:42:20 2003: 1101 X: client 1 rejected from localhost

2003-01-02 Thread haralambos
Hi Yall, & help AUDIT: Thu Jan 2 22:42:20 2003: 1101 X: client 1 rejected from local host Auth name: XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 ID: -1 I get the above error after upgrading my vid server to "xserver-xfree86-dri-trunk" for my wee Radeon 9000 pro. What is displayed, is a grey background & a wo

Re: debian on openbrick

2003-01-02 Thread Bao C. Ha
On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 02:09:38PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Hi Joey, > That's why I keep my whole root filesystem mounted read-only. My compact > flash is only written to on clean shutdowns (rare..) when I rsync > /var/log and other persistent state back to it, and when I upgrade or do > some sysa

Re: cannot open dislpay: debian:0.0

2003-01-02 Thread Kevin
- Original Message - From: "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 12:15 PM Subject: Re: cannot open dislpay: debian:0.0 > on Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 12:52:25AM -0800, Kevin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > - Original Message

Re: Windows Telnet

2003-01-02 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Once upon a time Gregory Seidman said... > > } Of course, configuring xterms can be annoying > > ...unless you bother to learn about Xt resources. Xterm is nearly > infinitely configurable. And dont forget about the control sequences documented in /usr/share/doc/xterm/ctlseqs.txt.gz. With

Re: kde still sucks and gnome2 rocks why?

2003-01-02 Thread Michael Heironimus
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 07:11:39AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > However, one thing that tweaks me about both DEs, still, is that they > go out and clone xterm. Uuh, why? And why make it as ugly and only I've said the same kind of thing for years, glad to see I'm not alone. At least both GNOME an

Re: Kernel 2.4.18 image unbootable, source uncompilable

2003-01-02 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 10:18:08PM +, Tim wrote: > Hi, > > I have a new computer on which I am trying to use kernel 2.4.18, so far > without success. I can use 2.2.20-idepci without problems. I am using > Debian Woody rev 0, on an AMD Athlon XP 2200+, with ASUS A7N266-VM > motherboard, which

WindowMaker without icons. How?

2003-01-02 Thread Egor Tur
Hi folk. How can I get rid of icons in WindowMaker. No icons, no backgraund - only menu and root window from X. Many thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gqview and pgm

2003-01-02 Thread Michael Naumann
Thanx everybody. I'll add my versions, in case someone wants to further investigate. Works for Ron not for Lourens not for me (woody) not for me (Knoppix) works for me (Knoppix on Laptop) gqview 1.0.2 1.0.2-1 1.0.2-1 1.0.2

starting X

2003-01-02 Thread Nori Heikkinen
first, thanks to all for your patience with my questions as i'm bringing up my box. i really appreciate it. right now, i'm trying to get X set up. i've downloaded and installed xdm, wmaker, and xbase-clients, which is all i seem to need to get a GUI up and going. on the hard drive which i'm rep

has my root partition gone??!?!?!

2003-01-02 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all, I have an woody debian server with php and apache installed (ext3 partitions). Yesterday there was a light failure and when it comes back it presents the following error: partition check: sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sdb: sdb1 EXT2-FS error (device sd(8,2)): EXT2_CHECK_DES

Re: real player plugin only as root

2003-01-02 Thread Aryan Ameri
On Friday 03 January 2003 00:13, John Kerr Anderson wrote: > Thank you Aryan! I didn't do a thing. did I? > I changed the permissions and it seems to be working more or less... > > One thing I read was sometimes the files and must > be manually installed in the netscape or mozilla plugins direc

Re: fetchmail can't send to exim

2003-01-02 Thread James Tappin
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003 15:36:56 -0700 (MST) "J. Scott Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > I installed Debian on this machine several months ago and at the time it > did not need to do any email so I didn't configure it during the > install. > > But now our network has been reconfigur

Re: Windows Telnet

2003-01-02 Thread Gregory Seidman
Alan Shutko sez: } Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: } > Fonts in xterms are just plain hard to read. } } Not if you have the right font. xterm has even had Xft support } longer than KDE or GNOME's terminals. There are a few "features" that various other terminal programs (GNOME, KDE, rxvt

fetchmail can't send to exim

2003-01-02 Thread J. Scott Edwards
Hello, I installed Debian on this machine several months ago and at the time it did not need to do any email so I didn't configure it during the install. But now our network has been reconfigured and I need to use it to fetch my mail. I used the default exim configuration file and installed fet

Kernel 2.4.18 image unbootable, source uncompilable

2003-01-02 Thread Tim
Hi, I have a new computer on which I am trying to use kernel 2.4.18, so far without success. I can use 2.2.20-idepci without problems. I am using Debian Woody rev 0, on an AMD Athlon XP 2200+, with ASUS A7N266-VM motherboard, which has nVidia nForce chipset-that requires 2.4.18 kernel. I have t

Re: Windows Telnet

2003-01-02 Thread Alan Shutko
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Fonts in xterms are just plain hard to read. Not if you have the right font. xterm has even had Xft support longer than KDE or GNOME's terminals. Of course, configuring xterms can be annoying -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of fl

Re: adding ssl to apache1.3?

2003-01-02 Thread Jacob S .
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003 14:21:58 -0500 "Robert L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've got an apache1.3 server up and running. I've been thinking for > a > while of adding ssl for the heck of it (nothing important on it, just > something I've wanted to to do). I added libapache-mod-ssl

Windows Telnet

2003-01-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 09:11, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 09:24:10AM -0500, Walter Tautz [MFCF] wrote: [snip] > However, one thing that tweaks me about both DEs, still, is that they > go out and clone xterm. Uuh, why? And why make it as ugly and only > slightly more useful than W

Re: irssi-text not working

2003-01-02 Thread Jeff
Jason Pepas, 2003-Jan-02 15:28 -0600: > irssi-text doesn't seem to be working for me. > > issuing the command irssi from the command line simply does nothing. > > ii irssi-text 0.8.5-2text-mode version of the irssi IRC client > > any ideas? perhaps some sort of perl module dependen

Re: KDE weirdness

2003-01-02 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 02 Jan 2003 11:13 pm, Deryk Barker wrote: > I wonder if somebody can help with this odd problem... > > When I log in under KDE sound stops working. TO be precise, any > applicatino that tries to send sound (to /dev/dsp?) hangs - it looks >

Re: irssi-text not working

2003-01-02 Thread Jason Pepas
On Thursday 02 January 2003 03:28 pm, Jason Pepas wrote: > irssi-text doesn't seem to be working for me. > > issuing the command irssi from the command line simply does nothing. > > ii irssi-text 0.8.5-2text-mode version of the irssi IRC client > > any ideas? perhaps some sort of perl

Re: Timing a program run?

2003-01-02 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 08:21:17PM +, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 02:46:19AM -0800, Eric G. Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 04:31:39AM -0600, Gerald Livingston wrote: > > <...> > > > > AHHH -- there it is, in "man bash" buried in "SHELL GRAMM

Re: irssi-text not working

2003-01-02 Thread Jason Pepas
On Thursday 02 January 2003 03:28 pm, Jason Pepas wrote: > irssi-text doesn't seem to be working for me. > > issuing the command irssi from the command line simply does nothing. > > ii irssi-text 0.8.5-2text-mode version of the irssi IRC client > > any ideas? perhaps some sort of perl

irssi-text not working

2003-01-02 Thread Jason Pepas
irssi-text doesn't seem to be working for me. issuing the command irssi from the command line simply does nothing. ii irssi-text 0.8.5-2text-mode version of the irssi IRC client any ideas? perhaps some sort of perl module dependency problem? -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: gqview and pgm

2003-01-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 09:58, Lourens Steenkamp wrote: > Lourens replying to Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 2003-01-01 at 19:17, Dave W wrote: > > > On Wed, 2003-01-01 at 18:27, Michael Naumann wrote: > > > > > > > Is this reproducable elsewhere or

Re: real player plugin only as root

2003-01-02 Thread Aryan Ameri
On Thursday 02 January 2003 23:27, David Raeker-Jordan wrote: > Are you a member of the audio group? Added, but still mozilla asks me wether to save the .ram program or to open it using a program, and when I instruct it to open it using realplayer, the problem described in my previous email (bel

Re: real player plugin only as root

2003-01-02 Thread John Kerr Anderson
Thank you Aryan! I changed the permissions and it seems to be working more or less... One thing I read was sometimes the files and must be manually installed in the netscape or mozilla plugins directory. Maybe that is the problem with your setup. But, you did mention that it is loaded. I wou

unsubscribe

2003-01-02 Thread Clay Trotter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Subject: > > debian-user-digest Digest Volume 2003 : Issue 16 > > Today's Topics: > Re: Programs Won't Run -- Can't find [ Nicos Gollan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ] > Unidentified subject! [ Jason Pepas <[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] >

Re: Timing a program run?

2003-01-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 02:46:19AM -0800, Eric G. Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 04:31:39AM -0600, Gerald Livingston wrote: <...> > > AHHH -- there it is, in "man bash" buried in "SHELL GRAMMAR --> > > Pipelines", where it doesn't stand out at all. > > No. You proba

KDE weirdness

2003-01-02 Thread Deryk Barker
I wonder if somebody can help with this odd problem... Just installed my new system (unstable) and most things are working satisfactorily, except... When I log in under KDE sound stops working. TO be precise, any applicatino that tries to send sound (to /dev/dsp?) hangs - it looks very much as i

Re: cannot open dislpay: debian:0.0

2003-01-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 12:52:25AM -0800, Kevin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 11:59 PM > Subject: Re: cannot open dislpay: debian:0.0 <...> The following is l

Re: Unidentified subject!

2003-01-02 Thread Jason Pepas
> What's -mand? Perhaps you mean -mandoc. hmm, looks like I didn't copy / paste that correctly. lets try that again: (pts/3)jason@marsala:~$ zcat /usr/share/man/man1/checkinstall.1.gz | groff -mandoc - | gv :106: warning: `spec' not defined (probable missing space after `sp') gv displays noth

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