gnus losing mail?

2004-03-16 Thread Paul Johnson
gnus seems to have this odd habit of at least appearing not to handle incoming mail very well. It warns that the mailbox was changed on disk out from under emacs and asks if I really want to save my changes. If I say no, I can't leave the group. If I say yes, I have this unsure feeling that I c

Re: gnus: How to automagically handle GPG

2004-03-16 Thread Paul Johnson
Kirk Strauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 2004-03-16T18:56:55Z, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> OK, I can sign and view inline PGP-signed messages, but I see PGP/MIME as >> an attachment...blarg. And I don't seem to see it automatically in >> newsgroups. > > That's... unexpecte

Re:ide-scsi emulation not working

2004-03-16 Thread David Baron
Note that, as is posted on bootup, ide-scsi is deprecated in 2.6 kernels. They recomment ide-cd instead. I am not clear how to make the switch. However, ide-scsi is still around and does work. The mounting moints of the CDs has changed. In 2.4 kernel, they got to /dev/hd*, in 2.6 they get to /d

Re: Gnome completely broken: no characters appear!

2004-03-16 Thread Andy Ruddock
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christophe Combelles wrote: | Christophe Combelles wrote: | |> Since this morning, after a dist-upgrade on Sid, I cannot use Gnome |> anymore. |> Everything is OK while on gdm, but after Gnome is started, it cannot |> display ANY character in the UI. I

Re: Set title bar name

2004-03-16 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 11:18:13PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: } On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 01:42:46AM -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote: } > On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 10:16:37PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: } > [...] } > } It would be nice if I could restore the window name back to what it was. } > } I know I

Re: Set title bar name

2004-03-16 Thread Bill Moseley
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 01:42:46AM -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote: > On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 10:16:37PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > [...] > } It would be nice if I could restore the window name back to what it was. > } I know I can find the current title with xprop and a mouse click. Any > } way t

Re: apache restart fails but initial start is ok

2004-03-16 Thread Paul Johnson
"Benedict Verheyen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Any idea of what could be causing this? Apache is trying to start before the old apache has died? -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `- Debian. Because it *must* work. debi

Re: Next stable release: 13 CD's

2004-03-16 Thread Paul Johnson
Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The biggest difficulty I have with the postal service is living in a > place with a shared letterbox. Wait, you have a shared letterbox? Do you have roommates, or is this an apartment building or something? -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :

Re: First Time Install Problems

2004-03-16 Thread Paul Johnson
Tony Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm new to Linux and keen to experience the stability of Debian > particularly. Welcome to the brave GNU world, my friend! > I had a limited amount of experience of Red Hat 7 a couple > of years back and have recently installed Lindows 4.5 which I bele

Re: postgresql configuration and set-up

2004-03-16 Thread BillMoseley
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 09:30:27PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > I'm trying to get debian's postgresql server running on a machine. > But I'm stuck on what the passwords are for the users I create. > createdb foo > createuser foouser > works just fine. > But how do I log in to the database foo as

Re: Sharing sound between users

2004-03-16 Thread Paul Johnson
glenn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If someone logs into gnome -they own the esd and no one else can get in > and use sound, even after they log out, unless someone manually kills > esd deamon. If there are two X sessions running - only one can access > sound - Sound seems easier in kernel 2.6 so

Re: Next stable release: 13 CD's

2004-03-16 Thread Paul Johnson
Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "If you are about to post a whole bunch of leaflets through this door > - STOP! The skip is round the corner to the left. Please save me the > trouble." I had similar results in putting a sign on the inside door of my mailbox where the mailman would see it tha

Re: Set title bar name

2004-03-16 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 10:16:37PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: [...] } It would be nice if I could restore the window name back to what it was. } I know I can find the current title with xprop and a mouse click. Any } way to find if the program is running in a window and if so what the } current

Re: Next stable release: 13 CD's

2004-03-16 Thread Paul Johnson
Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Multiply that by the number of complexes in > any decent sized metro area and it comes out to at least a few > truckloads of crap every day that people never even look at yet have > to pay for the removal and storage/management of. And if you live in an ol

Re: community internet cafe with gnome

2004-03-16 Thread Andy M
I plan to put up a small webpage dedicated for this community effort. Is there a place to post 'linux success stories' somewhere? Andy Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Andy M wrote: Hi, I'm running a free community Internet cafe with a bunch of debian machines with gnome installed. Visitors log in to

Re: Installing from iso images.

2004-03-16 Thread Paul Johnson
bob parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When I use apt-get install whatever it comes back and asks for cdrom > #x to be inserted. What I want to know is there some way I can > divert this requirement to the corresponding iso image mounted on > /mnt via the loopback device? Should be able to. I

Re: Next stable release: 13 CD's

2004-03-16 Thread Paul Johnson
Richard Hoskins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Your logic fails when you consider postage as a penalty. Postage is > payment for a service. Pre-sorted bulk mail is cheaper to deliver > than first class, and the postage reflects that. But you know that. Commercial speech is not covered by the fi

Re: Set title bar name

2004-03-16 Thread Bill Moseley
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 06:10:22PM -0900, Ken Irving wrote: > Here's a shell script I've been using to set the window title... Thanks. Perl seemed like the easiest way to skip leading switches, although the "--" (no more switches) doesn't work: #!/usr/bin/perl -w for ( @ARGV ) { next if /^

Re: gnus: How to automagically handle GPG

2004-03-16 Thread Paul Johnson
Kirk Strauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 2004-03-16T18:56:55Z, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> OK, I can sign and view inline PGP-signed messages, but I see PGP/MIME as >> an attachment...blarg. And I don't seem to see it automatically in >> newsgroups. > > That's... unexpecte

gnus: mail aliases

2004-03-16 Thread Paul Johnson
Looking through the gnus manual, I cannot for the life of me find any information on whether or not gnus even has any method for saving and retrieving email addresses in any sort of sane manner. So, long story short, I really have to wonder how to make email aliases. I can't be the only person w

Re: Is Grub going to be official Sarge boot loader?

2004-03-16 Thread Gokul Poduval
Hello, Looks like grub is going to be the default. The beta 3 releast notes of the debian installer says The Debian Installer team is once again ready to announce a beta release of the Debian sarge installer. New features in beta 3 include: - new easy to use partitioner that supports automati

Re: ssh client and ssh server

2004-03-16 Thread Gokul Poduval
You can install putty, which is only a ssh client. $apt-get install putty This is what I get in unstable Package: putty Priority: optional Section: net Installed-Size: 624 Maintainer: Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: i386 Version: 0.54-2 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4), libglib1.2

eterm font brighter ?

2004-03-16 Thread Ross Tsolakidis
Hi all, I'm not sure whether this an eterm config or bash config. I have trouble reading the eterm font used, I can make it larger but it looks lousy, I just want it brighter. Does anyone know how to make the font brighter for eterm ? (and make it permanent) Cheers, -- Ross. DISCLAIMER: This

Is Grub going to be official Sarge boot loader?

2004-03-16 Thread Raiz-mpx
After reading Debian Weekly News for March 16th, it mentions that; "This release features the new partitioner that supports automatic partitioning and LVM and uses [43]grub as boot-loader on i386." So does this means that my favorite boot loader will be the official Debian boot l

Defoma and TT Font installation scripts

2004-03-16 Thread Doug Breshears
Hi all, I have searched high and low to no avail for a "simple" font installer to work with Defoma. After determining there was none (Is their??) I have built a set of perl scripts that will 1. create a hints file from a fonts.scale file (from ttmkfontdir). And assuming some ch

Re: nvidia and kernel-image-2.6.3-1-k7

2004-03-16 Thread Andrew Schulman
>> Will I have to build >> my custom kernel  to build nvidia driver as kernel module? >> http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debian-nVidia/installation.html points >> to a guide that suggests just this. > > No, that is yet another private "I have read some docs and show you how > to do it now" - howto

Re: firefox 0.8-3 to 0.8-4 failing

2004-03-16 Thread Chris Metzler
On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 12:30:07 +0800 Gokul Poduval <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, >I am using debian unstable, and when I tried apt-get upgrade today, I > > received the following error > > Updating mozilla-firefox chrome > registry.../usr/sbin/update-mozilla-firefox-chrome: line 58:

Re: mldonkey-server broken in Sid?

2004-03-16 Thread Lorenzo Prince
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thus spake Remi Vanicat: # Everything seem normal. Seems perfectly normal when I start the system service. No indication of any errors. No indication that anything at all may be wrong except that there is never a pid for mlnet or mldonkey_server.

firefox 0.8-3 to 0.8-4 failing

2004-03-16 Thread Gokul Poduval
Hello, I am using debian unstable, and when I tried apt-get upgrade today, I received the following error Updating mozilla-firefox chrome registry.../usr/sbin/update-mozilla-firefox-chrome: line 58: 1869 Segmentation fault regxpcom >/dev/null This is while upgrading from 0.8-3 to 0.8-4

Re: ide-scsi emulation not working

2004-03-16 Thread Kent West
Andreas Janssen wrote: Hello Kent West (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: I've gotten a new Dell with a cdburner; the burner works fine in WinXP (yech!), but I can't seem to get it working in Debian. I've found some hints here and there (the eroaster FAQ, google, etc), but the info hasn't helped. I

Re: postgresql configuration and set-up

2004-03-16 Thread glenn
I think the secrets in the /etc/postgresql/pg_hba.conf file. If your coming from a mysql background, this will seem quite different. So using your example... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:su - postgres [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ createdb foo CREATE DATABASE [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ createuser foouser Shall the new user

Re: K3b mkisofs failing under 2.6.4

2004-03-16 Thread Kevin Coyner
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 04:59:09PM -0700, CW Harris wrote.. > On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 06:05:53PM -0500, Curt Howland wrote: > > Hi. I just finished upgrading to 2.6.4 in Sid. K3b and its tools > > worked under 2.4.24 in Sid once I corrected permissions errors that > > seemed to be everywhere

Re: Installing from iso images.

2004-03-16 Thread bob parker
On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 07:44, Pigeon wrote: > On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 06:00:41AM +1100, bob parker wrote: > > Because I supply various Linuxes to members of my lug, I have quite a few > > iso images on hand including the 7 for Woody r2, and soon I will have the > > 13 for Sarge plus the dvd iso images

Re: Set title bar name

2004-03-16 Thread Ken Irving
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 04:59:45PM -0800, Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... Is there a program to set > the title bar name that I can use as a wrapper script for nano -- set it > to the file I'm editing, start nano, then on exit reset to "xterm". Here's a shell script I've been using

Re: s3, not s3virge

2004-03-16 Thread bob parker
On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 10:05, Ted Parks wrote: > I posted a query about the s3virge driver. After some responses and more > research, I need either an s3_svga or xf86-s3 driver. The card is an > s3trio64+. > > I am new to Debian. How do I apt-get what I need to run the s3_svga > driver, or, failing th

Re: Installing from iso images.

2004-03-16 Thread bob parker
On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 06:38, Brian Brazil wrote: > On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 06:00:41AM +1100, bob parker wrote: > > Because I supply various Linuxes to members of my lug, I have quite a few > > iso images on hand including the 7 for Woody r2, and soon I will have the > > 13 for Sarge plus the dvd iso

postgresql configuration and set-up

2004-03-16 Thread Tom Allison
I'm trying to get debian's postgresql server running on a machine. But I'm stuck on what the passwords are for the users I create. createdb foo createuser foouser works just fine. But how do I log in to the database foo as user foouser? It says I need a password in the docs, But I have no clue w

Re: What can't sudo do?

2004-03-16 Thread Gregory K. Johnson
On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 02:52:49PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: [snip] > If I use sudo (to > try and provide most admin functions) then I would worry because my > normal account then has more privileges that I'd want. Then someone only > need to gain access to my account instead of root. [snip] I a

Re: What's the tool to set /ect/rc.* links?

2004-03-16 Thread stan
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 12:31:06AM +, Tom Badran wrote: > stan wrote: > >I've forgoten what the tool to set the startup links in teh > >/etc/rc.* directories is. > > > >I was thinking it was update_rc, but that doesn't seem to exist. > >Can someone refersh my memory? man -k seesm to be failing

apache restart fails but initial start is ok

2004-03-16 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Hi, i'm using apache version 1.3.29 with openssl v0.9.7c. When i boot and access any of my sites or links (as in configures in httpd.conf), all works fine. But when i stop apache and restart it, no site works. I just get a message (via the browser) that the connection was disconnected. Weird as i

Re: Set title bar name

2004-03-16 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Once upon a time Bill Moseley said... > When I run vim from an xterm session it sets the name of the file I'm > editing. I'd like to do this with nano, too. Is there a program to set > the title bar name that I can use as a wrapper script for nano -- set it > to the file I'm editing, start nano,

Re: Set title bar name

2004-03-16 Thread forum
> When I run vim from an xterm session it sets the name of the file I'm > editing. I'd like to do this with nano, too. Is there a program to set > the title bar name that I can use as a wrapper script for nano -- set it > to the file I'm editing, start nano, then on exit reset to "xterm". Unless

Set title bar name

2004-03-16 Thread Bill Moseley
When I run vim from an xterm session it sets the name of the file I'm editing. I'd like to do this with nano, too. Is there a program to set the title bar name that I can use as a wrapper script for nano -- set it to the file I'm editing, start nano, then on exit reset to "xterm". -- Bill Mo

Re: PATH confusion in BASH

2004-03-16 Thread James Keasley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ramiro Aceves wrote: > >> Kent West escribió: >> >>> [KDE not honoring system or user PATH statements] >>> >> I had same problem as yours, I found that in my Debian system PATH >> was set at /etc/gdm/gdm.conf >

apt-get upgrade confusion.

2004-03-16 Thread Rolf
Hello Just when I thought I had my head around the apt-get mechanism when dealing with a mixing of stable and testing (and unstable) packages, this problem turns up. Sources list contains stable and testing and unstable references. /etc/apt/preferences contains 3 pins: Package: * Pin: release

Re: What's the tool to set /ect/rc.* links?

2004-03-16 Thread Travis Crump
stan wrote: I've forgoten what the tool to set the startup links in teh /etc/rc.* directories is. I was thinking it was update_rc, but that doesn't seem to exist. Can someone refersh my memory? man -k seesm to be failing me here. 'mv', though you can use update-rc.d for local scripts. signature

Re: What's the tool to set /ect/rc.* links?

2004-03-16 Thread Tom Badran
stan wrote: I've forgoten what the tool to set the startup links in teh /etc/rc.* directories is. I was thinking it was update_rc, but that doesn't seem to exist. Can someone refersh my memory? man -k seesm to be failing me here. Its update-rc.d Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

What's the tool to set /ect/rc.* links?

2004-03-16 Thread stan
I've forgoten what the tool to set the startup links in teh /etc/rc.* directories is. I was thinking it was update_rc, but that doesn't seem to exist. Can someone refersh my memory? man -k seesm to be failing me here. -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve ne

Re: printing problem (mozilla 100% CPU)

2004-03-16 Thread user list
Are you using CUPS? I am on all my Debian machines. Art On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 08:34:58AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Arthur H. Edwards wrote: > >Just FYI, Netscape does not have the same problem. This is surprising, > >as they come from the same code tree. Has there been any progress here?

Re: Next stable release: 13 CD's

2004-03-16 Thread Werner Mahr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Dienstag, 16. März 2004 08:01 schrieb Paul Johnson: > > in Example you need only to download one MTA, because of the conflicts. I > > think you can save at least 2 CDs if you download only one of every > > conflicting Package. > > And now you see e

Re: Next stable release: 13 CD's

2004-03-16 Thread Werner Mahr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Montag, 15. März 2004 23:26 schrieb Number Six: > On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 11:03:05PM +0100, Werner Mahr wrote: > > in Example you need only to download one MTA, because of the conflicts. I > > think you can save at least 2 CDs if you download only o

Re: K3b mkisofs failing under 2.6.4

2004-03-16 Thread CW Harris
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 06:05:53PM -0500, Curt Howland wrote: > Hi. I just finished upgrading to 2.6.4 in Sid. K3b and its tools worked > under 2.4.24 in Sid once I corrected permissions errors that seemed to > be everywhere. Could this be the same sort of thing? > > When writing a data cd now,

Re: debian newbie...

2004-03-16 Thread David
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 11:09:06AM +0200, Mixo Shiburi wrote: > Now that I am on the network, it seet that my machine cant access > externel ftp servers. > In fact, I cannot ping any machine outsing out network work, I get > ping: sendto: Network is unreachable > ping: wrote ftp.debian.org 64 c

K3b mkisofs failing under 2.6.4

2004-03-16 Thread Curt Howland
Hi. I just finished upgrading to 2.6.4 in Sid. K3b and its tools worked under 2.4.24 in Sid once I corrected permissions errors that seemed to be everywhere. Could this be the same sort of thing? When writing a data cd now, it fails saying that mkisofs is reporting "resource temporarily unavail

Re: First Time Install Problems

2004-03-16 Thread Chris Metzler
On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 22:35:47 + Tony Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On my first attempt to install 3.0 r2 'WOODY' from CD, i couldn't get > past installing the base kernel. I had a more joy second time round and > got as far as getting KDE to load through X. Unfortunately it appears as

Re: ide-scsi emulation not working

2004-03-16 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Kent West (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I've gotten a new Dell with a cdburner; the burner works fine in WinXP > (yech!), but I can't seem to get it working in Debian. > > I've found some hints here and there (the eroaster FAQ, google, etc), > but the info hasn't helped. > > I'm running

Re: PATH confusion in BASH

2004-03-16 Thread Kent West
Ramiro Aceves wrote: Kent West escribió: [KDE not honoring system or user PATH statements] I had same problem as yours, I found that in my Debian system PATH was set at /etc/gdm/gdm.conf Hope this helps. Indeed. In /etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc: # The PATH for the Session program. Default is # /bin:/

Re: PATH confusion in BASH

2004-03-16 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: Kent West wrote: According to "man bash", When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a non-inter- active shell with the --login option, it first reads and executes com- mands from the file /etc/profile, if that file exists. After reading

First Time Install Problems

2004-03-16 Thread Tony Anderson
Hi all, I'm new to Linux and keen to experience the stability of Debian particularly. I had a limited amount of experience of Red Hat 7 a couple of years back and have recently installed Lindows 4.5 which I beleive Is based on Debian but appears to be quite restrictive. On my first attempt to inst

Re: ide-scsi emulation not working

2004-03-16 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2004-03-16T21:56:50Z, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've gotten a new Dell with a cdburner; the burner works fine in WinXP > (yech!), but I can't seem to get it working in Debian. > When I run "sudo xcdroaster", it scans the bus and finds the ATAPI CD > Writer, and then later warns m

Re: ide-scsi emulation not working

2004-03-16 Thread Kevin Bailey
I too recently got my CRX216E working, although with 2.4. Forgive me if it's different. I have this in lilo.conf, note the ide- append="hdc=ide-scsi" By the looks of your lsmod, ide-cd grabbed the CD-ROM so hopefully this is your problem. I had the ignore in /etc/modules.conf but took i

Re: PATH confusion in BASH

2004-03-16 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: According to "man bash", When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a non-inter- active shell with the --login option, it first reads and executes com- mands from the file /etc/profile, if that file exists. After reading that file, it lo

Re: PATH confusion in BASH

2004-03-16 Thread Kent West
Werner Mahr wrote: Am Sonntag, 14. März 2004 21:10 schrieb Kent West: statements in my ~/.bash_profile are these: # set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists if [ -d ~/bin ] ; then PATH=~/bin:"${PATH}" fi which does not have my ~/bin If you don't have this dir

Re: PATH confusion in BASH

2004-03-16 Thread Kent West
Rodrigo Agerri wrote: Kent West wrote: In /etc/profile are these statements (they're the only path-related statements in this file): PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games" export PATH I do not have a ~/.bash_login nor a ~/.profile. There are no path-related s

Re: Installing Win4Lin On Sarge

2004-03-16 Thread glenn
I've got it running on sid, but running 2.4.18 (custom obviously) - from memory there's a section on the netraverse site for downloading kernel patches, which included some debian patches. I don't recall requiring alien to conver the rpm file. - Get back to me if you need me to ferret out more s

Sharing sound between users

2004-03-16 Thread glenn
Hi - hoping someone can set me straight here... I've been using linux since kernel 1.2 on pretty much a daily basis, though I haven't garnished lots of expertise as I've never had to get much beyond the 'keen user' level - either things just work, or I let them go. One thing I've _never_ got workin

ide-scsi emulation not working

2004-03-16 Thread Kent West
I've gotten a new Dell with a cdburner; the burner works fine in WinXP (yech!), but I can't seem to get it working in Debian. I've found some hints here and there (the eroaster FAQ, google, etc), but the info hasn't helped. I'm running sid, with a stock 2.6.3-1-686 kernel. lsmod reports: Modul

Re: Fwd: Re: ssh client and ssh server

2004-03-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 10:37:38PM +0100, Tom wrote: > Am Dienstag, 16. März 2004 21:28 schrieb Tom: > > * [16/03/2004 21:23] Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I don't know about Sarge or Sid, but if you use Woody you are only > > > asked if you want to run the ssh server. You cannot deins

Fwd: Re: ssh client and ssh server

2004-03-16 Thread Tom
- Forwarded message from Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 22:35:43 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.6 From: Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: ssh client and ssh server Hello Am Dienstag, 16. März 2004 21:28 schrieb Tom: > *

Downgrading a few testing packages on a stable system

2004-03-16 Thread Rich Stanton
Hi, I need some help sorting out a bit of a mess I've created. I have a stable (woody) system. I use cups with gimpprint to print, and wanted a driver for a newer printer which apparently is supported in newer versions of gimpprint. I therefore installed gimpprint from testing. That went fine,

Re: Plug and play USB mice in Unstabble.

2004-03-16 Thread glenn
I've just been through similar ordeal, I found that hotplug (apt-get install hotplug) automatically fixed my problem and I only had to edit XF86Config-4. I also found hotplug causes my system to reboot randomly, so to get my mouse working I had to: - modprobe usbcore - modprobe uhci-hcd - modprobe

font fuss with ghostscript

2004-03-16 Thread Tom Peters
I'd appreciate if someone knowledgeable in the Debian Font Manager system can give me some directions towards solving this problem: Background: I am writing a book in DocBook, but I have problems generating a good PDF file from it. The reason is, that I have to include EPS images that AcroRead do

Re: Can dselect display get shown on a serial console?

2004-03-16 Thread Shaul Karl
On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 05:12:30PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Shaul Karl ([EMAIL PROTECTED])[20040315 13:44]: > > 2. Actually, my setup is more complicated. I ssh from machine A to > >machine B. On machine B I run screen. In one window of screen I run > >minicom, which connect to machin

Re: my experience upgrading from exim3 to 4

2004-03-16 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-16, Andy Firman penned: > > I finally got motivated and upgraded to Exim4 as well but I did not go > to the effort of using a backup MX. From what I know, most good MTA's > are built with redundancy and will try for a couple of days before > they drop any mail. My concern was being dow

Re: AW: AW: AW: webmin-samba configuration problem

2004-03-16 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Simmel wrote: > bug report is okay, but place it where??? BTS?? NEver did a bug report > before, please enlighten me :-) > See http://bugs.debian.org/ There is full documentation there. Also install the reportbug package. It will automate the process of submitting a bug fo

Re: PPD files

2004-03-16 Thread Paul Yeatman
->>In response to your message<<- --received from [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Paul Yeatman wrote: > > > I'm trying to figure out exactly what the PPD file thing is about. > > Hi Paul, > > These files define the capabilities of a printer. You can download the > appropriate ppd fi

Re: Installing from iso images.

2004-03-16 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 06:00:41AM +1100, bob parker wrote: > Because I supply various Linuxes to members of my lug, I have quite a few iso > images on hand including the 7 for Woody r2, and soon I will have the 13 for > Sarge plus the dvd iso images. > > When I use apt-get install whatever it c

Re: Next stable release: 13 CD's

2004-03-16 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 01:34:37PM -0500, David P James wrote: > On March 16, 2004 13:04, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 11:16:25PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > > > | Further more, why am I penalized with a higher postage rate for not > > | spamming? > > > > I don't u

Re: Gnome completely broken: no characters appear!

2004-03-16 Thread Christophe Combelles
Christophe Combelles wrote: Since this morning, after a dist-upgrade on Sid, I cannot use Gnome anymore. Everything is OK while on gdm, but after Gnome is started, it cannot display ANY character in the UI. I see the icons, but NO TEXT. If I start KDE, I have no problem. If I start any gtk appli

Re: Next stable release: 13 CD's

2004-03-16 Thread Chris Metzler
On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 19:16:57 + Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The original mail contained the important condition "if you don't have > a flatrate". As far as woody goes, I have a lot of packages installed, > and there's several off each CD. That would have meant a lot of > downloading

Re: Vdr crashes with linux 2.6.3

2004-03-16 Thread Seppo Ingalsuo
ti, 2004-03-16 kello 20:15, Seppo Ingalsuo kirjoitti: > I have an EPIA 800 based PC with up-to-date Debian testing (sarge). Vdr > (video disk recorder) 1.3.6 application crashes always almost > immediately at start. Gdb (6.0 from unstable...) shows it happens in > libpthread.so Sorry for not bein

Re: PPD files

2004-03-16 Thread HdV
On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Paul Yeatman wrote: > I'm trying to figure out exactly what the PPD file thing is about. Hi Paul, These files define the capabilities of a printer. You can download the appropriate ppd file from linuxprinting.org or (sometimes) from the vendor's site. They are just plain tex

Toshiba 3500 Tablet PC

2004-03-16 Thread Arron Kau
Does anyone know of a good reference for installing linux on a tablet, esp. on a Toshiba 3500?   How about software under linux that provides tablet functionality: (inking, handwriting reco…)?   Thanks.  

Re: Next stable release: 13 CD's

2004-03-16 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 05:22:41PM -, Tim Gunning wrote: > > > > > How in God's name is it an obstacle? Who the hell needs all 13 CD's? > > > Are you planning on installing every single binary package there is? > > > > > > whoot, is it actually possible to install everything, > > does suc

Re: Next stable release: 13 CD's

2004-03-16 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 10:23:30AM +, Richard Kimber wrote: > On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 00:31:48 + > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Judging from what friends say about the US' mail system and what I know > > of other systems, the US' mail system is dreadful compared to that of > >

Re: Next stable release: 13 CD's

2004-03-16 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 10:30:26AM -0500, Chris Metzler wrote: > On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 15:49:10 +0100 > Kai Grossjohann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Beretta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > How in God's name is it an obstacle? Who the hell needs all 13 CD's? > > > Are you planning on inst

Re: ssh client and ssh server

2004-03-16 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Greg Bolshaw (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Lawrence Lee wrote: >> I want to install ssh on an old laptop that has a small hard drive. >> My problem is that I think the ssh server is huge, so I just want to >> install ssh client. I don't just want to disable the server, but i >> don't want

Re: ssh client and ssh server

2004-03-16 Thread Steve Lamb
Lawrence Lee wrote: I want to install ssh on an old laptop that has a small hard drive. My problem is that I think the ssh server is huge. Me thinks you think wrong. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~} ls -l `which sshd` -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 275288 2004-01-04 15:44 /usr/sbin/sshd [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: my experience upgrading from exim3 to 4

2004-03-16 Thread Andy Firman
On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 09:18:52AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On 2004-03-14, Vineet Kumar penned: > > > > That part about the process on port 25 is a bit strange, but having > > the init scripts in place shouldn't be a problem. Init scripts hang > > around when you remove (without purging)

Re: ssh client and ssh server

2004-03-16 Thread Greg Bolshaw
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lawrence Lee wrote: > I want to install ssh on an old laptop that has a small hard drive. > My problem is that I think the ssh server is huge, so I just want to > install ssh client. I don't just want to disable the server, but i > don't want it to ins

Re: Installing from iso images.

2004-03-16 Thread Johann Koenig
On Tuesday March 16 at 07:38pm Brian Brazil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In fact I then export this to all my other systems with samba. BTW: > you can't loopback from NTFS. Do you mean NFS? If so, have you looked at the option for /etc/exports 'nohide'? man exports -- -johann koenig Now Playing:

ssh client and ssh server

2004-03-16 Thread Lawrence Lee
I want to install ssh on an old laptop that has a small hard drive. My problem is that I think the ssh server is huge, so I just want to install ssh client. I don't just want to disable the server, but i don't want it to install ssh server, to save space. I tried googling, but nothing relavant cam

Gnome completely broken: no characters appear!

2004-03-16 Thread Christophe Combelles
Since this morning, after a dist-upgrade on Sid, I cannot use Gnome anymore. Everything is OK while on gdm, but after Gnome is started, it cannot display ANY character in the UI. I see the icons, but NO TEXT. If I start KDE, I have no problem. If I start any gtk application from KDE, no problem T

Re: gnus: How to automagically handle GPG

2004-03-16 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2004-03-16T18:27:00Z, Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > See > > http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl/GnusPGG What's the purpose of the section called "Automatic decryption/verification of gpg/pgp parts"? Does it do something fundamentally different than the (setq mm-verif

Re: Installing from iso images.

2004-03-16 Thread Brian Brazil
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 06:00:41AM +1100, bob parker wrote: > Because I supply various Linuxes to members of my lug, I have quite a few iso > images on hand including the 7 for Woody r2, and soon I will have the 13 for > Sarge plus the dvd iso images. > > When I use apt-get install whatever it c

Re: Next stable release: 13 CD's

2004-03-16 Thread bob parker
On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 01:49, Kai Grossjohann wrote: > Beretta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > How in God's name is it an obstacle? Who the hell needs all 13 CD's? > > Are you planning on installing every single binary package there is? > > I don't know about you, but the idea of > > - buy CD 1 via

PPD files

2004-03-16 Thread Paul Yeatman
Hi, I'm trying to figure out exactly what the PPD file thing is about. This is new to me. I remember way back when, either when upgrading to Woody or sometime thereafter, some software (my best guess is the defoma package) got installed that had a debconf window that explicitely encouraged someth

Re: Next stable release: 13 CD's

2004-03-16 Thread bob parker
On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 12:59, David wrote: > On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 04:57:30AM +1100, bob parker wrote: > > On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 21:31, Beretta wrote: > > > > Yeah and who can tie up their phone line 24 hours. I did d/l a full iso > > (Knoppix) on my dialup at 8/24 through the night only. It took a we

Re: gnus: How to automagically handle GPG

2004-03-16 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2004-03-16T18:56:55Z, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > OK, I can sign and view inline PGP-signed messages, but I see PGP/MIME as > an attachment...blarg. And I don't seem to see it automatically in > newsgroups. That's... unexpected. Maybe quit and reload Emacs? Regarding the rest

Re: Next stable release: 13 CD's

2004-03-16 Thread Steve Lamb
Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: The sender paid for the delivery. Unlike with email spam where the sender steals the resources for delivery. Notice that, before you implemented automatic throwing away of email, how you received vastly more email spam than you did postal mail (ads and real mail). Pu

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