Re: im doing a research

2000-07-17 Thread I. Tura
At 20.16 17/7/00 +0800, LêíGh ha escrit: Hello Lêigh, I'd think that you'll find much more structured information regarding your research than our answers if you go to the main Debian page http://www.debian.org . Then you can go to the Free Software Foundation, http://www.fsf.

Re: Cloning an installation

2000-07-17 Thread Arnaud Espanel
On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 03:09:19PM -0700, Pascal Martin wrote: > I want to clone the same list of installed software, but the base > installation may differ slightly because the two computers do not > have the same hardware: different disk capacity and video card. They > also will have different I

broken mouse in x session

2000-07-17 Thread Aaron Maxwell
Hi. I'm experiencing technical difficulties, if you can help I'll love you forever... I'm running what was CorelOS, pretty much converted to woody (remove all the packages with "corel" in them, edit sources.list, then apt-get update && apt-get upgrade). My mouse doesn't work in X, much as if I

init.d stuff

2000-07-17 Thread Ethan Pierce
Hi, Im hoping to set off oss at boot. when I used mandrake I just edited /etc/rc.d/rc.local . The structure seems a bit diff in debian. I booting to runlevel2 so do I make some kind of link in /etc/rc2.d? The program to execute at startup is /usr/lib/oss/soundon Thanks for any suggestions -Eth

Re: broken mouse in x session

2000-07-17 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
Once upon a time, I heard Aaron Maxwell say > > I'm running what was CorelOS, pretty much converted to woody (remove > all the packages with "corel" in them, edit sources.list, then apt-get > update && apt-get upgrade). The correct way to go. > My mouse doesn't work in X, much as if I had > th

Re: PLEASE FORWARD THIS E-MAIL TO THE VP-CUSTOMER SERVICE

2000-07-17 Thread Pat Mahoney
On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 03:58:56AM -0500, Brian E. Ermovick wrote: > Why are these lists suddenly getting a lot of crap mail? > > just curious... > I was under the impression that one could advertise on the list for a donation (I forgot the exact price, something like $1000 American). I hope de

broken mouse in x session (CORRECTION)

2000-07-17 Thread Aaron Maxwell
My bad, I meant "with and without gdm", as in "GNOME display manager". gpm (the console mouse server) was always running. > > btw, this seems independent of WM (tested with twm; and enlightenment, > > both with and without gpm). > > Are you sure about thi

Re: broken mouse in x session

2000-07-17 Thread Ron Rademaker
What if you stop gpm, and try again. (Start a x session, go back to console and do /etc/init.dgpm stop as root, or stop gpm first and then start an x session). Ron Rademaker On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Aaron Maxwell wrote: > Hi. I'm experiencing technical difficulties, > if you can help I'll love yo

Dialpad - debian firewall

2000-07-17 Thread Chris Mason
I'm using Debian 2.2.15 as a firewall, configuring IPCqHAINS with PMfirewall. I would like to be able to use Dialpad from my windows machines but after reading all the info I could find I cannot get it to work. Anyone ever succeed? Any expert on the subject available to help? Chris Mason Box 340,

Re: broken mouse in x session -- FIXED!

2000-07-17 Thread Aaron Maxwell
That worked, Chanop. Thanks! btw, Ron, I also tried stopping and re-starting /etc/init.d/gpm, but it didn't help. Thanks, though. Aaron the happy debian-user Quoth Chanop... > From your description I think you turned on gpm repeater mode, I guess. > rerun gpmconfig again and turn it off with "

modem dialin init string

2000-07-17 Thread A. M. Varon
Hi, Anybody has a good init string for a v.90 rockwell based modem(dlink dfm-56E)? this will be used for dialin purposes. regards, = == Andre M. Varon - Technical Head = = == Lasaltech, Inc. - http://andre.lasaltech.com = === = = = = If I cannot bend Heaven

Re: init.d stuff

2000-07-17 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 09:21:22PM -0500, Ethan Pierce wrote: > Hi, Im hoping to set off oss at boot. when I used mandrake I just edited > /etc/rc.d/rc.local . The structure seems a bit diff in debian. I booting to > runlevel2 so do I make some kind of link in /etc/rc2.d? > > The program to exe

Re: PLEASE FORWARD THIS E-MAIL TO THE VP-CUSTOMER SERVICE

2000-07-17 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 03:58:56AM -0500, Brian E. Ermovick wrote: > > Why are these lists suddenly getting a lot of crap mail? > > > > just curious... > > > > I was under the impression that one could advertise on the list for a > do

Re: Getting apache, PHP3, and PostgreSQL working together.

2000-07-17 Thread Remco Rijnders
On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 03:14:05PM -0400, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > > Yes, it is called php3-pgsql if I am not mistaken. I have also checked > > to see that the file pgsql.so is in /usr/lib/php3/apache/ as where it > > should belong if I am not mistaken. I turned it on in php3.ini (see my > > origin

simple grep command twister

2000-07-17 Thread john smith
Hi! mind twister break? how to use grep to show all the paladrome words in the linux dictionary? grep '\(.\)\(.\)\(.\)\3\2\1' \usr\dict\words partly works? thanks Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://ww

Re: init.d stuff

2000-07-17 Thread Michael Soulier
On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Bob Nielsen wrote: > You could create a script in /etc/init.d/local and run 'update-rc.d > local defaults' to create the necessary symlinks. /etc/init.d/skeleton > is a good place to start. This kind of thing is often put into the S runlevel too, /etc/rcS.d.

follow-up to grep command

2000-07-17 Thread john smith
What I meant to say was use grep to show palindrome words. thanks Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com

[Q] virus susceptibility data

2000-07-17 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Dear Debians, I'm looking for any kind of info on vulnerability to viruses on Debian and/or Linux. Pointers to anti-virus programs are also very welcome. If I can't convince some people here at work, I'm about to be told to disconnect from the net or use (heaven forbid!) Windows for any kind of

installation startup problems...

2000-07-17 Thread Screwy Squirrel
Howdy all! I'm trying to get Debian installed on my new system. It is an 800Mhz Athlon on an Asus motherboard. Anyways, when I try to boot off of the CD(I have Debian 2.1 CDs from LSL, and a 2.1 CD from the Sams book), the boot up never finishes. The line where it stops reads: md driver 0.36.3

Re: network/ethernet card configuration problem?

2000-07-17 Thread John Pearson
On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 02:55:54PM -0300, James Polson wrote > Hi, > > I'm completely new to Linux, so the solution to my problem > may be trivial to all of you experienced Debian Linux users > (so I hope!). > > I'm trying to install Debian Linux (mostly with success), but > I think that I'm hav

Re: telnet vs ssl

2000-07-17 Thread John Pearson
On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 02:09:03PM -0400, Ethan Pierce wrote > Hi, im wondering about the security of telnet - people say its really > unsecure...does this mean that someone would need to be running a network > sniffer on my ip to catch the data? > > I telnet to my ISP from work, (only telnet avai

Re: Cloning an installation

2000-07-17 Thread Daniel Free
Just copy the disks. cp -ax / /mnt/ i think its ax anyhow. i should be more certain considering how many times i have done this, you will need to copy partition by partition, eg if you have /home on a different partition you will have to make a seperate partition on the second drive and mount

Re: Getting apache, PHP3, and PostgreSQL working together.

2000-07-17 Thread Remco Rijnders
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alberto Brealey wrote: >> > > Fatal error: Call to unsupported or undefined function pg_connect() in >> > > lib.inc.php on line 90 > >did you try > >dl("pgsql.so"); > >before using any pgsql functions? (you have to do this 'cuz pgsql is loaded >as a module, not comp

difference between running perl from command line and web

2000-07-17 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, I am using the latest perl in potato. Can anyone help me with this problem? Thanks. Shao. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shao Zhang) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl.misc Subject: difference between running perl from command line and web Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use

Re: PLEASE FORWARD THIS E-MAIL TO THE VP-CUSTOMER SERVICE

2000-07-17 Thread brian moore
On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 07:47:47PM -0500, Pat Mahoney wrote: > I was under the impression that one could advertise on the list for a > donation (I forgot the exact price, something like $1000 American). And you think the spammers are paying that? > I hope debian doesn't lose money by me saying th

vmlinuz-2.2.12scsimod

2000-07-17 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi Does anyone know where I can get a copy of the above kernel, if it exists? I'm trying to build boot disks for my Debian laptop, which only seems to boot off the Tecra kernel image , of which I have v2.0.36, but that kernel version doesn't load any PCMCIA drivers (ie. it can't find /var/lib/mod

Re: [Q] virus susceptibility data

2000-07-17 Thread William T Wilson
On 18 Jul 2000, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > I'm looking for any kind of info on vulnerability to viruses on Debian > and/or Linux. Pointers to anti-virus programs are also very welcome. There are no anti-virus programs because there are no viruses. There are a variety of security holes that crop u

"" is busy

2000-07-17 Thread David Densmore
I was editing a text file with vi when I accidently hit some unknown key combination which caused a single line of text to fill the entire screen. I couldn't figure out how to exit vi from that state so I logged on to another terminal and killed vi. But when I tried to re-open the file I was work

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