Does Debian put the 'kbd' file in /etc/X11? Is
it even needed under Debian or is some other
mechanism used to do keyboard mapping?
If it turns out that I need the file, what package
contains it?
I have been informed that I need this file to
solve an application problem (described below)
but befo
Hi All-
I just started working with the demo version of
XML Spy and it's pretty darned cool. Trouble
is, it's Windows-only and I'm trying to ultimately
eliminate the back-and-forthness of my desktop
environment.
Can anyone recommend an equivalent (more or
less) package for Debian? It doesn't ha
On Thursday, December 20, 2001 2:19 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> it should be :-) Well, it is an x-less station and but to go shure i
> also put the symlinks to runlevels 4,5 and 6 too.
I just checked a Potato and it defaults to RL 2 .
-g
On Thursday, December 20, 2001 2:06 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Then, i placed a symlink called S99myscript pointing to the script under
> /etc/rc3.d, however, it does not get stalled. The symlink and the script
> [...]
> When running the script manually as user root, it succeedes, but it is
>
On Tuesday, December 18, 2001 6:48 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> How it is possible to enable/disable Ultra DMA for selected ATA drives?
Use hdparm. A while back someone posted a link to
a decent hdparm introduction. Check subject
headers for "hdparm".
> Is UDMA enabled by default in Woody?
On Sunday, December 16, 2001 11:52 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > each thread uses up one available process in the
> So the "bad" thing about this is that you need one PID for each
> thread? What's the advantage of lightweight threads compared to
> intra-process threads.
I think you mean to compare l
On Sunday, December 16, 2001 8:52 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.jboss.org/online-manual/HTML/ch10s02.html
> I read that Linux allegedly does not support "real threads". My questions
> on this issue are:
Linux is obviously multi-threaded but I think they
are referring to so-called "lightwei
On Thursday, December 13, 2001 1:58 PM, dman wrote:
> The only problem left (for me) is : how can it automatically
> determine whether or not to use DHCP (that is, is the link from home
> or not). I don't think that can be automated (GPS ;-)?). What I
> really need to do is configure dhcpd at h
On Thursday, December 13, 2001 2:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I print out some of the HOWTOs for reading.
>
> say ...
>
> $ zless /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/Net-HOWTO.txt.gz | pr -o4 | lpr
>
> After a few pages the printing suddenly slips down the page and is then
across
> the tear l
On Thursday, December 13, 2001 12:26 PM, dman wrote:
> Usually this means your network interface isn't up. (like if I turn
> on the laptop, but forget to "sudo ifup eth0" first)
In case you're interested, here's a strategy to configure laptop
ethernics automatically--even if you have a hardware
On Thursday, December 13, 2001 12:23 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> the problem is that despite the fact I have the
> correct order in /etc/host.conf (host,bind) and all the entries in
> /etc/hosts properly configured in every machine on my network tin tries to
> query the dns for my local nntp se
Ach. Looks like I'm not the only one.
I gather that the linker is is now less forgiving.
-g
- Original Message -
From: "Greg Wiley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 9:34 AM
Subject: kernel suddenly not linking
> Hi all-
>
>
Hi all-
I have successfully built the 2.4.16 kernel several
times but suddenly cannot. I am running an up-to-
date Woody and am wondering if some recent package
update(s) might be the problem. Does anyone have
any idea what would cause the linker output in the
attached text?
TIA,
-=greg
ld
on Friday, December 07, 2001 4:57 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> does any script exist, which creates 30 users automaticaly,
> with the list of 30 persons containing their name, christian name, etc...
> instead of using 30 times "adduser" ?
It's been a number of hours so you've probably entered
t
On Wednesday, December 05, 2001 8:59 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> login. netstat shows xdmcp only listening over udp.
>
> service1:/home/jvincent# netstat -l | grep xdm
> udp0 0 *:xdmcp *:*
Actually, that is only telling you that *something* is
listening on the x
Aw, nuts. Brain finally kicked in. The bit I needed
is the setgid bit, not the sticky. Sorry for the noise.
-=greg
Good day-
IIRC, on another Unix, I was able to use the
sticky bit on a directory to cause new entries
in that directory to inherit ownership and
permissions. In Debian, the semantics of the
directory sticky bit are to add additional re-
strictions on modifying the directory's entries.
Q: is ther
On Monday, December 03, 2001 11:29 AM, dman wrote:
> Say, does exim allow sourcing other filter files, like INCLUDERC in
> procmail?
Nope. Annoyingly, it doesn't do alot of things. Someday
I'm going to get annoyed enough to learn procmail. :)
-=greg
On Monday, December 03, 2001 8:40 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I recently did a large mail upgrade and installed a new mail server that
> incorporates mail hashing (i.e /var/spool/u/s/user). As expected, my
> finger command on any user now reports that the user has no mail. Is this
> an actu
On Saturday, December 01, 2001 6:30 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> What do I need for exim
> to run only as an mda? It will be run by sendmail via my .forward
> file as procmail is currently run.
You will have to set up mailspool and queue directories, I
think. Exim, like sendmail, delivers a
On Sunday, December 02, 2001 1:37 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Second how can I set up Apache to allow use
> of this this script & the data files for it?
Debian puts cgi programs into /usr/lib/cgi-bin.
Whatever goes in there becomes part of the
server namespace as /cgi-bin/pick_cgi (if
pick_cgi is t
According to /., wu-ftp has a vulnerability that
allows root access to files. Check out:
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/242750
Debian 2.2 is on the list.
Apologies if this has been discussed already.
-=greg
Good day!
I need to set up an organizational web site that will have
some characteristics of a weblog (for editorial and news)
and some of a group site ( shared calendar and contacts,
etc.) . I will need to develop some specialized applications
over time. This is for a church so it will have som
Hi all-
A while ago, I asked how to configure the ethernet
interfaces on a laptop such that if the system was
docked in its ether-enabled station, it should config
that interface and ignore any PCMCIA ethernet. But
if out of its dock, it should check for the PCMCIA
ethercard and use DHCP to bring
On Wednesday, November 14, 2001 9:12 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
> I have a bit of a problem. Every time I work with big files (movies,
> converting mp3s to wavs for ripping), my system slows down to a crawl for
> some time, while it is emptying the buffers
I had a similar problem the first time
Good day!
I am wondering if there is a correct place to put
X session shutdown code now that .../Xsession.d
is used. Kind of like S vs. K in /etc/init.d . After
studying all the scripts in the lifecycle of an X
session, I don't see any such mechanism. That
doesn't mean there isn't one, tho.
If
I like Mozilla a bunch but it has an annoying behavior
that deserves a wishlist bug unless it's due to my own
stupidity:
It doesn't remember the last page position when
returning via "back". That is, it always returns to
the top of the previous page whenever I hit the
"back" button rather than r
On Saturday, October 27, 2001 4:16 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > I gave removing
> > ldso a shot on a non-critical testing machine.
> > [...]
> > Today's upgrade put ldso right back on.
> > [...]
> > Now orphaner says, again, that nothing
> > depends on ldso and that it may be safely
> > removed.
> T
As suggested by orphaner, I gave removing
ldso a shot on a non-critical testing machine.
No adverse affects as far as I could tell.
Today's upgrade put ldso right back on.
Now orphaner says, again, that nothing
depends on ldso and that it may be safely
removed.
Is this a bug? If so, against wha
Just slightly confused here. I tried the deborphan package on
a testing machine today and was given a list of packages to
remove. They included ldso. Now, I was pretty sure ldso
is an important package so I checked using dselect. Hey, ldso
is in opt/oldlibs.
So I go ahead and try the removal b
On Tuesday, October 23, 2001 1:50 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Lately in my log file for exim I see a bunch of messages that certain mail
> messages are being frozen.
> Where should I look to see the reason for this nd how do I unfreeze them?
Mail that can neither be delivered nor returned is frozen
b
Good day!
I know I can hack this together but I am looking
for the right (meaning balance of elegant, simple,
friendly to upgrades, etc.) way to do this:
I have a portable that can have 0, 1, or 2 NICs
installed depending on whether or not the PCMCIA
card is inserted and whether or not it is dock
On Tuesday, October 23, 2001 9:33 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Everytime I enter something wrong into bash it sounds "beep" out of my
> computer.
> Can i remove that?
Check out "info rluserman" .
You can set the bell of readline to audible, visible,
or off completely by creating a ~/.inputrc file wi
On Friday, October 19, 2001 1:50 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> When i run the man command I get this error back:
>
> "bash: man: command not found"
>
> However, I do have directories in /usr/man/...?
I had a Woody upgrade that silently removed man
support from my box. apt-get install man-db d
On Friday, October 19, 2001 1:42 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> When I startx the mouse jumps around wildly. It works for some seconds,
> then it hops around, also pressing buttons. This makes working impossible,
> of course :(
I don't know, some days I think random input is as good
as any I can
On Thursday, October 18, 2001 8:12 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The problem that sometimes arises is that with a mainly default
> install, exim simply queues messages for delivery but doesn't actually
> deliver them until a cron job runs and tells it to.
>
> My question is : is there a way to (
On Friday, October 19, 2001 8:22 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> How can I stop XDM from starting on
> bootup?
Easiest, IMO, is to just remove xdm:
apt-get remove xdm
But if you still want the package, you
could use update-rc.d to disable the
xdm startup script.
Best,
-=greg
On Thursday, October 18, 2001 10:52 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> If the attacker knows the algorithm (although not the prime number) this
is
> unfortunately trivial to crack: they just have to guess the time that is
> encoded by the timestamp. :(
You're right. I solved it as if the timestamp was
un
On Thursday, October 18, 2001 4:58 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> goal: a 4-16 byte 7-bit character value that somehow encodes the time
> of creation such that it can be extracted if the encoding scheme/seed
> is known. the encoded value should be such that it is mostly
> impossible to change i
Since last night's Woody upgrade, startx no longer
works as before. Now, it completely ignores
~/.xsession and does not even create a default session
if .xsession does not exist which leads me to believe
that Xsession is never sourced. This means that
the X server quits as soon as it's started.
On Tuesday, October 16, 2001 2:20 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> It sounds like you are going to have to use method 2.
> edit /var/lib/dpkg/status to trick dpkg into thinking modutils are not
installed.
> Get a hold of modutils 2.4.8.1 from somewhere.
> Install this manually with dpkg -i
> When yo
On Tuesday, October 16, 2001 10:28 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On 16-Oct-2001 joe golden wrote:
> > I am running the testing version of debian and have recently installed
> > povray, zed, circlepack and cooledit among others. None of these
recently
> > installed programs appear on my desktop.
On Tuesday, October 16, 2001 4:30 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Typespeed is a good typing tutoring program.
> Any cleaned up versions of this good program available?
You can edit the word files themselves in
/usr/share/games/typespeed
According to README.Debian for typespeed
your changes will
Argh.
I have a Woody machine that attempted
to go through an upgrade last night and
is now in dpkg jail.
ppp tries to upgrade but bails with:
Unpacking replacement ppp ...
depmod: Unexpected value (20) in '/lib/modules/2.4.9-686/kern
el/drivers/ieee1394/sbp2.o' for ieee1394_device_si
On Sunday, October 14, 2001 7:23 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I've installed and compiled the pcmcia source coming with Bunk's stuff
> under potato and kernel 2.4.9 (of course enabling pcmcia in the
> kernel). Then I've installed pcmcia-cs.
>
> Now when I start pcmcia service with two cards ins
On Thursday, October 11, 2001 9:56 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> After making choices (series of questions),
> I'm told that I've reached the moment of truth.
> Excited, I follow the instruction to reboot and
> find myself back at the welcome screen which
> leads nowhere except through the same
On Wednesday, October 10, 2001 12:28 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Instead, I get mostly dashed-rectangular boxes
> Check out http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2001/23/ on "Fonts missing
after
> upgrade."
Thanks Ray, that was it exactly. It looks like the upgrade
didn't restart the xfs daem
On Wednesday, October 10, 2001 8:16 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> [...]
> Mozilla will not display any characters in the
> rendered-page area.
> [...]
A clue! neither xscreensaver prefs nor demo will
show characters in their dialogs. Now, how do
I find out what fonts they are looking for?
-g
Hi All-
I just upgraded another potato to woody and
ran across this weirdness.
Mozilla will not display any characters in the
rendered-page area. All Mozilla menus,
buttons, labels, etc. are fine. But no characters
from HTML pages show up. Instead, I get
mostly dashed-rectangular boxes but som
On Monday, October 08, 2001 8:49 PM, egm2@jps.net wrote:
> On Mon, 08 Oct 2001 23:27:49 -0400 (EDT), Alexander N Gould
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 8 Oct 2001, Eric G. Miller wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, 08 Oct 2001 23:03:58 -0400 (EDT), Alexander N Gould
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
On: Monday, October 08, 2001 1:55 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> But there is nothing in the /usr/src directory since I installed from the
> net, and I guess I didn't install any sources...
> Coan someone tell me what I need to apt-get
apt-get install kernel-source-
Where is the, well, versio
On Wednesday, October 03, 2001 11:32 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> certain programs, like "plan", "dia",
> display text as dotted rectangles, and not even one per letter.
In some programs, that means appropriately-sized
screen fonts are not available.
-=greg
This message appears when I run Woody's nslookup:
Note: nslookup is deprecated and may be removed from future releases.
consider using the 'dig' or 'host' programs instead. Run nslookup with
the '-si[lent]' option to prevent this message from appearing.
Has nslookup really fallen out of fa
Thanks to those who pointed to resources. They
gave me a great start and I have solved some of
the problems I had resigned myself to live with
since switching to IDE. I am now investigating
the kernel's support for my particular chipset and
think I can get an additional siginificant bump
in susta
Good day all.
Is anyone aware of a document or set of ducuments
that describe Linux (E)IDE support? It seems to me
that some sort of primer on tuning IDE and demysti-
fying the newer technologies such as ATA and
UDMA would be a significant HOWTO asset.
This is prompted by the recent discussion o
On Thursday, September 27, 2001 5:34 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Is it possible to get some sort of driver to allow
> debian to auto power-off the machine like windows does?
What's cool is that the driver is in the kernel already!
You just have to turn it on. Append the string,
"apm=on", to
On Tuesday, September 25, 2001 1:17 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
> BTW: what is the difference between $KDEDIR and
> ${KDEDIR}? When is wich used?
They refer to the same data. The braces form is to
seprate the variable from the context. For example:
rename $fname $fnamebackup # is ambiguous,
On Tuesday, September 25, 2001 11:48 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am unable to determine how to HUP a daemon
Your doc is telling you that you can send the process a signal--in
this case a hangup or HUP--to ask it to reload its configuration.
The signal-sending program in unix is 'kill'. So
On Tuesday, September 25, 2001 11:24 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[...] there is a file "conf_kdelibs"
> the file contais that line:
> ./confugure --prefix=/opt/kde --enable-final ...
> Now i want to set for the prefix /opt/kde the $KDEDIR variable.
> This "conf_kdelibs" file is called by my compile
On Tuesday, September 25, 2001 5:33 AM, Wyatt Rowe - O.S.N. wrote:
> [...] please advise on a good package / solution to monitor
> and track a Mail / Internet server that runs on Debian 2.1.
What do you mean by "monitor and track?" Do you want
an application or system monitor to assist with te
On Friday, September 21, 2001 10:17 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>[...] I offered to give everyone on the box aliases through
> /etc/aliases but I get an error in testing.
>
> In aliases -
>
> localemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> When I send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] exim freezes the
> message wi
On Friday, September 21, 2001 7:25 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> ok. Just to make things easy I only upgraded from 2.2.29pre-17-compact
> to 2.2.19. Everything was painless except that on boot up the drivers
> for my 3com nic cards don't automatically load as they did with
> ...pre17-compact. I
On Friday, September 21, 2001 6:56 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> [...] I have tried to partition my new 40GB drive using fdisk in DOS,
> [...]
> With fdisk I can create a primary DOS partition, and a number of further
> extended and logical partitions, that, when formatted in DOS produce disk
>
On Thursday, September 20, 2001 3:10 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>also sprach John Patton (on Thu, 20 Sep 2001 02:14:26PM -0500):
>> The config file does not come with the package (although perhaps it
>> should). It is generated by make config... but of course you will
>> have to go through every
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 2:48 PM, Duncan Smith wrote:
> As a new Linux enthusiast, I am trying to configure
> and install Debian Linux on my PC, and I am having
> problems partitioning my new hard drive for this. I
> would be reallly grateful for some advice. The new
> disk is approx 40
On: Thursday, September 20, 2001 2:09 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > the worm wouldn't even know the difference, to it it looks like it
would
> > > hit microsofts site from your url if it tries those extentions.
> > Not correct, it gets a Redirect as the response, and it's its
> > responsibility to f
On Thursday, September 20, 2001 10:42 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have downloaded the kernel-source-2.4.9 and I couldn't find the debain
> .config file for this version of the kernel. Is debian giving the
configure
> options used in the kernel-compilation ?
If the kernel-source is a Debian
On Wednesday, September 19, 2001 11:55 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Nicholas Petreley had this suggestion for redirecting
> nimda probes using Apache:
> RedirectMatch ^.*\.(exe|dll).* http://support.microsoft.com
Heh. I wonder if nimda actually responds to redirects.
-=greg
On Wednesday, September 19, 2001 11:58 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> nasty auto-running email -- look out, those of you who read using
> microsoft email readers: i strongly recommend that if you get a
> message entitled "PRINT Summary Report" from SOMEONE YOU DO NOT
> KNOW, delete it instead of v
On Tuesday, September 18, 2001 2:33 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 11:25:45AM -0700, Lazar Fleysher wrote:
> > As far as I understand a regular 25 pin serial port has 2 serial ports
> > built-in on one chip.
> Uhm, i dont know what kind of computer you're using, but last i
On Tuesday, September 18, 2001 12:44 PM, Greg Wiley wrote:
> This new W32.nimda thing hits my box with 9 seperate
> URLs for each attempt.
Whoops, no, it's 16 per attempt. Will MS ever have to answer
for this waste?
-g
Aren't you glad you use Debian?
This new W32.nimda thing hits my box with 9 seperate
URLs for each attempt.
-=greg
On Tuesday, September 18, 2001 10:27 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I can't figure out what change has to be made...I tried
> RTFM, but didn't see anything that seemed relevant
Yeah, I'm not sure why,but neither 'man chmod' nor
'info chmod' answer that question.
For suid, you set the (user) s
On Thursday, September 13, 2001 10:34 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> What is tgz and how do you decompress it ?
short for tar.gz. just gunzip it and it will
become tar
-=greg
On Wednesday, September 12, 2001 4:25 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
> Mike Egglestone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I would like to write a script that would
> > output to the screen the latest contents of a log,
> > and continue to do so until I abort the script.
> No need to write it yourself --
I don't use apcupsd but in order to get
the machine to respond to poweroff,
I must append "apm=on" to the kernel
params on startup. The kernel turns
off power management by default even
though it is compiled in.
-=greg
- Original Message -
From: "Dean A. Roman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To
Hi all-
Just some notes on a recent upgrade from stable to
testing on a box with the Ivan Moore II KDE packages.
Since the packages are not a part of the official Potato
version, I was unsure of how the upgrade would
proceed.
---
The machine is
Good day all-
On a Debian Potato, I am using KDE 2.1 packages that
are, obviously, not part of Potato but are from a fairly
common source.
Since KDE 2.2 is slated for inclusion in the upcoming
Debian release, what is the best way to prepare for the
upgrade? I cannot assume that the new packages
On Friday, August 31, 2001 9:00 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
> > > I don't know if the windows 2000 boot loader is different than windows
9x,
> > > but when I used to use windows 98, I had in /etc/lilo.conf:
> > > other=/dev/hda1
> > >label=win
> >
> > Works just fine for w2k.
> >
> I am no
On Thursday, August 30, 2001 4:40 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 05:56:39PM +, Giri X wrote:
> > | I recently installed Debian on a ayatem that had Win2k on it b4. I
made 2
> > | [...]
> > | thing). There was no Windows image. So now i can boot only into Debian
but
> >
On Friday, August 24, 2001 1:39 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
> I can more easily revert back to my old kernel without a .deb, because
> the old kernel is still there, ready to be used. Whenever I build a
> kernel, I keep the old one around for a while
>
> Lastly, and most importantly, the resultin
Hi all-
I have the feeling I am missing something obvious:
If I install one of the pre-compiled kernel packages
from stable, is a copy of the configuration file used
for its build stored somewhere on my system?
Thanks,
-=greg
On Tuesday, August 21, 2001 10:37 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'd like to revert back to logging into a command
> prompt and starting X from there.
apt-get remove xdm
Best,
-=greg
On Monday, August 20, 2001 2:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> silly me filled up my current directory with a file called
"--remove-files".
> my question is: how the heck to i get rid of this beast
>
> i've tried
Here is a C program that will do it:
#include
int main() {
char *fname = "-
1) I used dselect to request a new kernel version from
stable. It has some obvious configuration differences
from the former version. Is the kernel configuration
file used for the build also stored somewhere on my
machine? I want to compile a slightly modified version
but maintain Potato compati
To anyone with LCD expertise: Does
this config look reasonable? I don't
know if LCD's are susceptible to the
same overdriving problems as CRT's.
Thanks,
-=greg
- Original Message -
From: "Greg Wiley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Sunday, August 19, 200
On Sunday, August 19, 2001 2:55 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> My ATI Radeon 32DDR video card is not on the
> list, and I'm not sure what kind of default to use for this.
While I have not tried X with the Radeon, I have
found that the current svga server works like magic
with ATI hardware. Get t
Does anyone have a working X config file
for the Dell Inspiron 5000 with the
1400x1050 panel? I can't get this bugger
to work in anything other than 640x480.
The Rage Mobility is correctly identified
by the SVGA server and the panel and its
resolution is also detected. However,
I cannot seem to
On Saturday, August 18, 2001 12:28 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> I would like to report a bug on the install disks
>> for the "testing" [...]
> BTW, which bug did you discover? Any problems with
> PCMCIA hardware installation?
Yep. The running log on one of the consoles claims
that some files
I would like to report a bug on
the install disks for the "testing"
distribution. My inclination is
to file against "installation" but
I am not sure. How does one
report a possible defect in the
installation disks?
Thanks,
-=greg
On Monday, August 06, 2001 9:18 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> well, Exchange supports POP3 and IMAP -- if those are enabled and
> configured on your server, you could use something like fetchmail for
> that.
Right, unfortunately, those services are disabled. I was
hoping that whatever protocol
Good day!
Does anyone know of a package that will let me
fetch email from MS Exchange? I have just been
notified that I will have to use a central Exchange
server for a certain class of email. I would like
to have a Debian mail server grab that mail and
deliver it to my normal mailbox.
Any ide
On Thursday, August 02, 2001 5:28 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] pondered:
> [...] I'm just not sure what 2 % 7 equals.
for m,n integers with m>=0, n > 0 , m < n:
( m modulo n ) = m
so, yes, 2 % 7 is 2 .
Best,
-=greg
On Wednesday, July 18, 2001 1:07 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have Debian 1.2. root can start X and other users can't.
> How to give non-root user the right to start X?
I don't think anything prevents a normal
user from running 'startx'.
Just to test, I just now shut down kdm on a
Debian box
On Wednesday, July 18, 2001 8:21 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm running an ATi AGP Rage (pro?) card with a proview monitor, and X
3.3.6.
> Under X my mouse point, rather than being a normally arrow, is now a white
> long and thin rectangular box with a couple of vertical transparent lines
> pa
On Tuesday, July 17, 2001 1:04 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
Subject: Re: .bashrc
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 08:00:16AM -0700 or thereabouts, Greg Wiley wrote:
> > The problem with ~/.xsession for kdm is that
> > you lose the session selection capability of
> >
On Friday, July 13, 2001 1:54 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> If you use xdm, the trick is [...]
> Since programs in your x session are usually descendants of ~/.xsession,
> they will automatically be run with the right environment settings.
Right, just make sure your bash-specific com-
mands (like
On Thursday, July 12, 2001 8:51 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke:
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 10:20:52AM -0500, Larry W. Irwin Sr. wrote:
> > [...] having a problem with .bashrc. It works fine as
> > root but does not get executed when I log in as a
> > user.
> maybe you have a .bash_profile file
Why do certain peoples' posts to this
list show up as attached text files in
my mail client (OE)? I get a blank
message with two attachments:
.txt and .dat. The text file contains
the actual message.
-=greg
On Tuesday, July 03, 2001 1:14 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wroted:
> I'm trying to get exim to [...]
> do something along the lines of :
>
> if $h_from: contains ""
> then
> freeze text "Hello big boy"
> endif
A couple of ideers:
If the file doesn't change much (and isn't
large), maybe write an m4-or-
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