Spammer by incompetence, RBL may be an option

2000-09-20 Thread Osamu Aoki
I hate stupid MTA causing this problem. I like idea to kick out my.netvigator.com (looks like chinese free e-mail account. I can not read chinese) from internet mail system. I understand debian ML can not do that. It may be best to report this domain as spammer to RBL (they are spammer by imcom

time and timezones

2000-09-20 Thread Andreas Palsson
Hello. Here's a simple question. I've not been able to set my systems time correctly. I've used 'hwclock' and set the hardware clock, and I guess it should be set to GMT. But what do I do after that? If I use 'hwclock --hctosys' the system-time will be the same as GMT and not Swedish time. And b

Do you recomend to upgrade to Woody?

2000-09-20 Thread Rogelio E. Castillo Haro
Someone there would recommend to use Woody on my Linux-box in home? I'm using Potato Regards Rogelio E. Castillo

About Nestcape 4.75

2000-09-20 Thread Rogelio E. Castillo Haro
To install netscape 4.75 on Potato, my sources.list must link to stable o unstable version? Regards. Rogelio E. Castillo

Re: time and timezones

2000-09-20 Thread Bruce Sass
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Andreas Palsson wrote: > Here's a simple question. > I've not been able to set my systems time correctly. > > I've used 'hwclock' and set the hardware clock, and I guess it should be > set to GMT. > But what do I do after that? > > If I use 'hwclock --hctosys' the system-time

X

2000-09-20 Thread Charles
After I did the config. I must have done something wrong. As I get the error messages that I can't connect to the X Server??? Is there an easy way to back out and reconfig the Server??? On Tue, 19 Sep 2000 21:12:59 -0700, Nate Amsden wrote: >Charles wrote: >> >> I have just completed my in

Missing modules - system still silent

2000-09-20 Thread Glyn Millington
Many thanks for the help thus far - I was clearly mixing two methods of kernel compilation! Now, I've compiled the kernel yet again (8th try I think) and STILL the system can't find the modules - that is I get lots of "can't find module" at boot up time. More symptoms... 1. In /lib/mo

Re: file ownership

2000-09-20 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 09:44:45PM +0100, john gennard wrote: > > In Potato, I'm installing qt-2.0.1 from a tar.gz. After uncompressing, > > unpacking and re-naming the directory 'qt', I checked its permissions > > and found owner and group given as '508

Re: Do you recomend to upgrade to Woody?

2000-09-20 Thread Aaron Maxwell
This kind of question is pretty hard to answer, since it depends very intimately on your situation, what you use it for, your skill and comfort level, etc. Probably the answer is, it isn't a big deal either way. Maybe the best thing is to just try it; you can just downgrade back to potato if the

Re: About Nestcape 4.75

2000-09-20 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 01:10:00AM -0500, Rogelio E. Castillo Haro wrote: > To install netscape 4.75 on Potato, my sources.list must link to stable > o unstable version? no, just add security to your /etc/apt/sources.list, here are the lines to add: ## security updates deb http://security.debian.

Re: mail sorting

2000-09-20 Thread Billet Olivier
I tried procmail and it seems pretty powerfull. It makes it easy to sort the mails... Thanks to everyone, Olivier.

Re: How can I put a package on hold without using Dselect?

2000-09-20 Thread Frederik
On a related issue: I've put kernel-image-2.2.17 on hold, because i've build my own kernel. I'd like to know if it's possible to make sure kernel-image isn't upgraded from the debian ftp's (my name: kernel-image-2.2.17_maui.1.2, which seems to be inferior to the version-number on the ftp) apt-get r

Configuring KDE- Dial Up PPP

2000-09-20 Thread Jacob Hunter
When i run Dial Up Networking on KDE a box comes up saying pppd died unexpectedly... I have my connection configured properly to work with my ISP, but it still says that... i even tried a different ISP... anyone have any ideas? jacob

Re: Internet Cafe

2000-09-20 Thread Andre Berger
ChrisHellberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Does this really make sense? You would have to put in your floppy before you log in. What you really need is something like autofs that (theoretically) umounts drives in customizable intervals. This doesn't always work in my exerience. Be sure to combine a

Re: X launchbar?

2000-09-20 Thread kmself
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 04:24:11PM -0700, Steve Lamb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 04:13:05PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > However I much prefer a small button bar to constantly typing in things > like the following. > > rxvt -bg black -fg white -cr cyan -sl 150

Re: Do you recomend to upgrade to Woody?

2000-09-20 Thread Andre Berger
Aaron Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This kind of question is pretty hard to answer, since it depends very > intimately on your situation, what you use it for, your skill and comfort > level, etc. Probably the answer is, it isn't a big deal either way. > Maybe the best thing is to just tr

Re: About Nestcape 4.75

2000-09-20 Thread Johann Spies
On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 01:10:00AM -0500, Rogelio E. Castillo Haro wrote: > To install netscape 4.75 on Potato, my sources.list must link to stable > o unstable version? deb http://security.debian.org/ potato/updates main contrib non-free enabled me to upgrade from 4.72 to 4.75. Johann -- J.H.

Re: Recommended Partitioning

2000-09-20 Thread kmself
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 03:36:10PM +0200, Julio Merino ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 08:32:48PM -0400, Rob wrote: > > > Hey, im about to install deb2.2, can anyone recommend a specific > > partitioning scheme? > > > > Like if im willing to allocate 20 gigs. I figured id j

Re: How can I put a package on hold without using Dselect?

2000-09-20 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 09:33:20AM +0200, Frederik wrote: > On a related issue: > I've put kernel-image-2.2.17 on hold, because i've build my own > kernel. I'd like to know if it's possible to make sure kernel-image isn't > upgraded from the debian ftp's (my name: kernel-image-2.2.17_maui.1.2, > wh

system v

2000-09-20 Thread Manfred Kissel
hi, is there a tool in the debian distribution like "ntsysv" in red-hat which i can manage my init scripts to start and stop in different runlevels. --  Manfred Kissel Solution - The Computer People mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.solution.de  

Re: INI like package

2000-09-20 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 09:39:23AM +0200, François Chenais wrote: > Hello > > Is there any perl package for using windows ini files ? > have a look at these modules: http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/modules/by-module/Win32/ especially the module "Win32::Tie::Ini". I've never used it, but

Which bug reporting tool ?

2000-09-20 Thread Jérôme Lacoste
Hello debian users, I am interested in Setting up a bug reporting tool for our internal projects in my company. What would you use for a bug reporting system? I have seen several possibilities, among which: + debbugs + GNATS + Bugzilla but I do not have the time to study them all. Especially wh

Which bug reporting tool ?

2000-09-20 Thread Jérôme Lacoste
Hello debian users, I am interested in Setting up a bug reporting tool for our internal projects in my company. What would you use for a bug reporting system? I have seen several possibilities, among which: + debbugs + GNATS + Bugzilla but I do not have the time to study them all. Especially wh

Re: [ot] grub is great!

2000-09-20 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Bob" == Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> man kernel-img.conf. Bob> Hmm, I don't seem to have /etc/kernel-img.conf, but in Bob> /etc/kernel-pkg.conf: Oops. I should have mentioned that kernel-img.conf is an enhancement for woody kernel-package. Bob> image_in_boot:= 1

Re: xinetd/tcp wrappers problem

2000-09-20 Thread Matus \"fantomas\" Uhlar
solved I have to allow "ident" in hosts.allow because the service is "ident" -> I run xinetd and I found that compiled-in tcp wrappers don't work... -> -> hosts.allow: -> -> identd : ALL : severity daemon.info : allow -> proftpd : ALL : severity daemon.info : allow -> -> ALL : ALL : severi

Re: apt-get problems

2000-09-20 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Neil" == Neil L Roeth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Neil> Is there any way to add something to kernel-pkg.conf to achieve this? Neil> I know I'll forget to use the --revision option someday. look into /ect/kernel-pkg.conf # This is the debian revision number (defaulted to 1.0 in debia

Re: Configuring KDE- Dial Up PPP

2000-09-20 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 12:39:40AM -0700, Jacob Hunter wrote: -|When i run Dial Up Networking on KDE a box comes up saying pppd died unexpectedly... I have my connection configured properly to work with my ISP, but it still says that... i even tried a different ISP... -|anyone have any ideas? -|

Re: Begone, vile emacs!

2000-09-20 Thread Jonathan Markevich
Well, for those following the thread, emacs is now gone. I installed emacs19 and purged it. It was only a 6MB download over a 56k dial-up of a package that I didn't want, but hey! Thanks for all your help. -- Jonathan Markevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.geocities.com/jmarkevich == It's VI

Re: INI like package

2000-09-20 Thread Colin Watson
Erdmut Pfeifer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 09:39:23AM +0200, François Chenais wrote: >> Is there any perl package for using windows ini files ? > >have a look at these modules: > > http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/modules/by-module/Win32/ > >especially the module "Win32:

Re: system v

2000-09-20 Thread Colin Watson
Manfred Kissel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >is there a tool in the debian distribution like "ntsysv" in red-hat >which i can manage my init scripts to start and stop in different >runlevels. Yes: it's called update-rc.d. You'll already have it installed, as it's part of the dpkg package. (Admitted

Re: Internet Cafe

2000-09-20 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
ChrisHellberg<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Would they then get back to the fancy graphical login screen.. Yes. >then when > they login again, everything is remounted I spose? Not if not using autofs, which never works really well in my exp

Re: Printing--what am I missing? -- solved!

2000-09-20 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 08:47:56PM -0400, Thomas J. Hamman wrote: > Disregard my last post on this subject--I rebooted my machine and now I > can print ps files just fine! :) > > Michael, thank you again for all your responses, I appreciate it > immensely. :) > > Finally, I can write my English e

Re: X

2000-09-20 Thread David Boisvert
To choose and to configure your X server use: xf86config To install gnome: lynx http://www.go-gnome.com | sh   - Original Message - From: Charles To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 7:38 AM Subject: X After I did the con

Re: Netscape errors??

2000-09-20 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 11:13:52PM -0400, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: > Question for you. I just installed, using apt-get, Communicator 4.73 > from my Official CD's. When I fire up Netscape I get the following > errors printed out. Anyone know why?? > > ls: /usr/lib/netscape/473/wrapper.d: No

Re: Netscape errors??

2000-09-20 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 09:06:20PM -0700, Nate Amsden wrote: > > ls: /usr/lib/netscape/473/communicator/wrapper.d: No such file or directory > > that is normal, safe to ignore, shouldn't cause any problems Something should probably still be done about that though. Training users to ignore er

mtu/mru ISDN dialup.

2000-09-20 Thread Leen Besselink
Hi folks, When I run tcpdump on my ippp0 connection to my ISP, I get a lot of packets like this: tcpdump: listening on ippp0 truncated-ip - 46 bytes missing!0.40.224.225 > 64.0.127.6: (frag 26486:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) [tos 0x17] [ttl 0] truncated-ip - 28 bytes missing!0.58.208.128 > 0.0.64.17: (fra

Re: X

2000-09-20 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 11:38:46PM -0700, Charles wrote: > Looking up 'www.storm.ca' first > >After I did the config. I must have done something wrong. >As I get the error messages that I can't connect to the X Server??? >Is there an easy way to back out and reconfig the Server???

Re: mail sorting

2000-09-20 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 09:22:30AM +0200, Billet Olivier wrote: > I tried procmail and it seems pretty powerfull. It makes it easy to sort > the mails... It's very powerful, but I find the recipes a headache. Since I'm a bit of a Perl fanatic, I took my mail filter from the last issue of TPJ,

Re: Netscape errors??

2000-09-20 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 08:22:20AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Something should probably still be done about that though. Training users > to ignore errors is not a good thing. its fixed in the netscape 475 packages, which everyone should run anyway since older versions are full of sec

Mangled text in X

2000-09-20 Thread Jimmy O'Regan
I recently installed 2.2 on a machine, and X works fine, except the text is mangled. I installed task-gnome-desktop and gdm, switched to X, and everything was garbled, so then I installed xfs, xfonts-100dpi to see if that'd help. Same deal. Anyone got any ideas? -- "The Information Superhighway m

Re: Samba via inetd, not a good idea?

2000-09-20 Thread Matus \"fantomas\" Uhlar
-> I set up Samba to run via inetd (and through tcpd) so I coud easily -> control host access (default deny-all policy). This is not correct way to control access to your samba - due to the way how samba works. Use -> So I figured I'd better run as daemons instead of from `inetd' and added -> so

Re: X launchbar?

2000-09-20 Thread judd
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 08:29:15AM -0700, Steve Lamb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Does anyone know of a basic X launchbar? Basic as in doesn't > depend on too many libraries to run. Gets to be a pain to launch > programs from dif

apt-get questions ?????

2000-09-20 Thread Saran
Hi there people, Okay I took the plunge to update my Debian Slink with some of the latest updates. I installed linuxconf with apt-get and now my lynx, slrn and debconf is dead. Dead Dead !!! I dunno what other packages are affected, it'll probably take time to figure that out... when I need to

Re: Do you recomend to upgrade to Woody?

2000-09-20 Thread Scott_Patterson
>Someone there would recommend to use Woody on my Linux-box in home? >I'm using Potato > >Regards > >Rogelio E. Castillo Sure. If it's just for personal use (non-critical), I don't see any problem. As a matter of fact, I just upgraded to woody last night over a 56k dialup. I choose

What to apt-get for KDE and GNOME

2000-09-20 Thread Scott_Patterson
I'm interested in following the latest KDE2 and GNOME packages but I can't seem to find any easy way to select them ALL. It appears there are many packages/tasks I'd need to select to get them ALL. I'd rather not select them one by one, so, anyone know of a good way to apt-get

Re: apt-get questions ?????

2000-09-20 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 08:49:25PM +0800, Saran wrote: > Hi there people, > > Okay I took the plunge to update my Debian Slink with some of the latest > updates. I installed linuxconf with apt-get and now my lynx, slrn and > debconf is dead. Dead Dead !!! I dunno what other packages are affecte

RE: Spammer by incompetence, RBL may be an option

2000-09-20 Thread Pollywog
I just filter [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s messages and I never see them. Before you complain to RBL, try a complaint to the contact for netvigator.com. Perhaps they will do something about this. -- Andrew On 20-Sep-2000 Osamu Aoki wrote: > I hate stupid MTA causing this problem. I like idea to kick out

RE: apt-get questions ?????

2000-09-20 Thread Saran
Actually I done that... here's the output of apt-get check Tatooine:/home/saran# apt-get check Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done W: Couldn't stat source package list 'http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US Packages' (/var/state/apt/lists/non-us.debian.org_debian-non-US

Re: Printing--what am I missing?

2000-09-20 Thread Stephan Kulka
> On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 10:23:11PM +0200, Vee-Eye wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/test$ lpr test.ps > > > lpr: connect: No such file or directory > > > jobs queued, but cannot start daemon. > >^^^ > > Oddly, according to "ps ax | grep lpd" I already had lp

RE: apt-get questions ?????

2000-09-20 Thread Alberto Pereira
Trie a simple command dpkg --configure -a Like dselect does.. On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Saran wrote: Actually I done that... here's the output of apt-get check Tatooine:/home/saran# apt-get check Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done W: Couldn't stat source package list 'htt

Unidentified subject!

2000-09-20 Thread Manfred Schuster
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Re: Configuring KDE- Dial Up PPP

2000-09-20 Thread Thomas Halahan
I asked had this problem a week ago. Many people kindly replied, and I sorted it out. It is the 'auth' option in /etc/ppp/options. I have forwarded the emails to your email address so as not to clutter here. Tom On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: > On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 12:3

RE: apt-get questions ?????

2000-09-20 Thread Saran
Sorry, I don't get what you mean. I typed the command at the prompt, but it gives me nothing. Cheers, Saranjit. -Original Message- From: Alberto Pereira [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 9:54 PM To: Saran Cc: Michael P. Soulier; debian-user@lists.debian.org Su

ESS1868

2000-09-20 Thread Tommy Wu
Hi! I've a ESS1868 sound card on my box. But I can install the driver for this. It's always show something failed. Here is my syslog for isapnp and sb. === cut start === isapnp: Scanning for Pnp cards... isapnp: Card 'ESS ES1868 Plug and Play AudioDrive' isapnp: 1 Plug & Play card detec

Re: Do you recomend to upgrade to Woody?

2000-09-20 Thread dochawk
> Has anyone used woody for mission critical stuff? I know some people run > woody-based web servers, eg, but I haven't. I used to run the unstable branches. Prior to 1.1, this was kind of necessary :) However, somewhere arround 98, iirc, it became impractical. With regular updated, I coul

Re: X launchbar?

2000-09-20 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 12:46:23AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > Suggestions: X Window Resources, aliases, shell scripts, .profile or > .login scripts. All of which require me to leave a login on the machine. I fail to see why it is hard to sympathize. I can launch commands on one ma

Re: Spammer by incompetence, RBL may be an option

2000-09-20 Thread Robert Waldner
The RBL is for spammers, that is, UCE (Unsolicited Commercial Email), UBE (Unsolicited Bulk Email), also, fraud (mailbombing etc) is sometimes considered spam. It is *not* intended for misconfigured/-programmed mailers, nor a list of open relays (ORBS http://www.orbs.org/ is doing that). Re

RE: apt-get questions ?????

2000-09-20 Thread Alberto Pereira
If give to you nothing, try dpkg --pending --configure Or try to do update by dselect dselect Update On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Saran wrote: Sorry, I don't get what you mean. I typed the command at the prompt, but it gives me nothing. Cheers, Saranjit. -Original Message- From: Alberto Per

nis and netbase

2000-09-20 Thread Douglas Eck
I just did an apt-get dist-upgrade to woody from potato It seems that today at least, the existing version of nis (nis_3.6-2.deb) won't play nicely with the latest netbase (netbase4.0.5). netbase says it won't deal with any nis <=3.6-2. >From dselect when I try to install nis; netbase conflicts

X-Window Configuration

2000-09-20 Thread Stephan Kulka
I had some difficulties starting the X-server, but now I just do not know where to start with installing windowmanager. I am interested in using GNOME. Could any one of you point out where I can start reading. BTW: Where can I get information about the Linux-filesystem? Stephan

Re: Spammer by incompetence, RBL may be an option

2000-09-20 Thread Dave Sherohman
Pollywog said: > I just filter [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s messages and I never see them. > Before you complain to RBL, try a complaint to the contact for netvigator.com. > Perhaps they will do something about this. I sent a complaint to [EMAIL PROTECTED] about this and stating the name of the user with a

Re: Message saying this lists's mailbox is full

2000-09-20 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 03:05:17AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > except this broken MTA helpfully neglects to mention WHO the user is > that has a full mailbox. so there is no way to know who to > unsubscribe. The Debian mailing lists use a VERP-like (it might actually be VERP, I can't remember

Re: ESS1868

2000-09-20 Thread Herbert Ho
i have a ess1888 and i've had nothing but bad luck with it. i can get my to install properly but it would always dma/io timeout. not even the driver authors were sure what was wrong so i eventually gave up (after about 1 yr and two kernel version, 2.0 and 2.2) and bought a cheap, but real, sb16. s

vim expandtab

2000-09-20 Thread Parrish M Myers
Hi, I installed vim on my potato box. It seems to be a great vi replacement. But, is there any way to make vim to insert spaces when the tab button is presses. I think I have to set the expandtab setting by the command: :set et But this doesn't seem to always work. Most notably when I use th

Re: How can I put a package on hold without using Dselect?

2000-09-20 Thread Brad
On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 09:33:20AM +0200, Frederik wrote: > On a related issue: > I've put kernel-image-2.2.17 on hold, because i've build my own > kernel. I'd like to know if it's possible to make sure kernel-image isn't > upgraded from the debian ftp's (my name: kernel-image-2.2.17_maui.1.2, > wh

Problem compiling kernel

2000-09-20 Thread Georg Werthner
hi, i installed debian v2.2rc0. i have a problem compiling the kernel 2.2.17: the makefile in /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot wants to call as86 with options -0 -a and ld86. but as doesnt recognize the option -0 . funny thing is that bulding kernel 2.4.0test8 works. i also tried 2.2.15 but i had th

Re: Printing--what am I missing? -- solved!

2000-09-20 Thread Vee-Eye
> No problem. It isn't for me either ... >Now if only I can figure out why my printer daemon is just > sitting there ignoring printjobs. ;-) I suppose you are aware of the thread, hence you know what has been tried and I suppose it didn't work for you ;-) If you could describe your problem mo

Broken kde?

2000-09-20 Thread root
I'm getting this with my new woody. And what a woody it is. >startx starts startkde. Kde2 dies. If I look on console 1 at the output I see: /usr/lib/libkdeui.so.3 undefined symbol: Event__9QLineEditP6QEvent I think I've got just about every kde2 package loaded. No complaints from kdebase when

Re: vim expandtab

2000-09-20 Thread William Jensen
I like my tabs to insert 3 spaces so I use: set softtabstop=3 Luck, Bill On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 08:36:12AM -0700, Parrish M Myers wrote: > Hi, > > I installed vim on my potato box. It seems to be a great vi > replacement. But, is there any way to make vim to insert spaces when > the tab but

Re: time and timezones

2000-09-20 Thread John Anderson
Try the command which will ask you to enter your local time zone and set it accordingly. I hope this helps. John Kerr Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Andreas Palsson w

Re: ESS1868

2000-09-20 Thread Michael Smith
Try sndconfig--it's pretty easy to do any sound card. I put my boss's 1688(?) on it with little to no effort. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/sound/sndconfig.html

Question about updates

2000-09-20 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
I have sources.list set to the following: # See sources.list(5) for more information, especialy # Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs # CDROMs are managed through the apt-cdrom tool. #deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free #deb http://non-us.debian.org/

Re: Question about updates

2000-09-20 Thread Robert Waldner
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000 13:03:10 EDT, Harry Henry Gebel writes: >I have sources.list set to the following: >#deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free That´s why it´s called "security".debian.org ;-) I use the following, and I´m getting all the proposed security-fixes ann

Re: X-Window Configuration

2000-09-20 Thread Pat Mahoney
On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 05:10:43PM +0200, Stephan Kulka wrote: > I had some difficulties starting the X-server, but now I just do not know > where to start with installing windowmanager. I am interested in using > GNOME. > Could any one of you point out where I can start reading. If you use dselec

How to split up a multipart mail

2000-09-20 Thread Sergio Da Silva
Hi, When I transfer my mail onto my Palm device (using pilot-mail) I can only transfer "single" mail messages. In fact all the debian-user-digest mails remain on my desktop. I think that pilot-mail only transfers "single" mail messages but I may be wrong ... Here are my questions: 1) Does any

How to split up a mailbox

2000-09-20 Thread Sergio Da Silva
Hi, When I transfer my mail onto my Palm device (using pilot-mail) I can only transfer "single" mail messages. In fact all the debian-user-digest mails remain on my desktop. I think that pilot-mail only transfers "single" mail messages but I may be wrong ... Here are my questions: 1) Does any

Re: Question about updates

2000-09-20 Thread Hubert Chan
Harry Henry Gebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > #deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free You should uncomment this line Hubert

rsa and ssh

2000-09-20 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all, I tried as man ssh saied to login with ssh without password as: ssh-genkey as remote host scp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:$HOME/.ssh/identity.pub $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys and tried ssh remote and was prompted with a password What is wrong? Tha

Re: Which IMAP and POP3 servers ?

2000-09-20 Thread Adam Shand
> I do have a question. What is a good POP server to use with maildir > mailboxes? I have few users who want to use POP instead of imap. > Any suggestions? there are only a couple of options. qmail's popper (no a debian package i believe) or solid-pop3. cyrus has a pop/imap server but i don

Re: rsa and ssh

2000-09-20 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Hi all, > I tried as man ssh saied to login with ssh without password as: > ssh-genkey as remote host > scp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:$HOME/.ssh/identity.pub $HOME/.ssh/autho

html2ps

2000-09-20 Thread nw x
Hi, Debians: I have a question about html2ps that is I just install it under my usr/local directory and then I use the command html2ps filename.html > filename.ps however, it report the following warning message: can not find the file and /usr/local/lib/html2ps/html2psrc and then it just convert

RE: ESS1868

2000-09-20 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 20-Sep-2000 Tommy Wu wrote: > Hi! > >I've a ESS1868 sound card on my box. >But I can install the driver for this. It's always show something > failed. > >Here is my syslog for isapnp and sb. > > === cut start === > isapnp: Scanning for Pnp cards... > isapnp: Card 'ESS ES1868 Plug

Re: Which IMAP and POP3 servers ?

2000-09-20 Thread Pollywog
On 20-Sep-2000 Adam Shand wrote: > >> I do have a question. What is a good POP server to use with maildir >> mailboxes? I have few users who want to use POP instead of imap. >> Any suggestions? > > there are only a couple of options. qmail's popper (no a debian package > i believe) or solid

Can't get rid of kde...

2000-09-20 Thread Johan Dewaele
Hi, Got a problem removing kdebase. I installed some kde 1.1.1 debs some time ago and since I don't use kde anymore, I decided to remove it. I "purged" all kde packages with dselect but I get following error-message : (here repeated with dpkg) [Mon Sep 18][20:39:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:dewaele# dpkg

Re: X launchbar?

2000-09-20 Thread kmself
On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 07:11:15AM -0700, Steve Lamb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 12:46:23AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > Suggestions: X Window Resources, aliases, shell scripts, .profile or > > .login scripts. > > All of which require me to leave a login on

mySQL errors

2000-09-20 Thread Account for Debian group mail
New mySQL install (3.22.32-3) on Debian 2.2 (kernel 2.2.17). I can easily issue a /etc/init.d/mysql start|reload|stop okay, but once it's running I try a simple "mysqladmin version" and the tty hangs. This is what I see in mysql.err: mysqld started on Tue Sep 19 14:02:07 PDT 2000 /usr/sbin/my

Re: Can't get rid of kde...

2000-09-20 Thread Bob Nielsen
You might be able to find the problem by taking a look at /var/lib/dpkg/info/kdebase.postrm (or even running this by hand). I've had success in similar situations by removing /var/lib/dpkg/info/* and editing /var/lib/dpkg/info/status to show that package as: Status: purge ok not-installed It's m

Re: Spammer by incompetence, RBL may be an option

2000-09-20 Thread kmself
On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 04:21:42PM +0200, Robert Waldner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > The RBL is for spammers, that is, UCE (Unsolicited Commercial Email), > UBE (Unsolicited Bulk Email), also, fraud (mailbombing etc) is > sometimes considered spam. > > It is *not* intended for misconfigured/

Re: How to split up a multipart mail

2000-09-20 Thread kmself
On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 08:27:08PM +0200, Sergio Da Silva ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > When I transfer my mail onto my Palm device (using pilot-mail) I can only > transfer "single" mail messages. In fact all the debian-user-digest mails > remain on my desktop. I think that pilot-mail on

Re: Which bug reporting tool ?

2000-09-20 Thread kmself
On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 11:18:26AM +0200, Jérôme Lacoste ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello debian users, > > I am interested in Setting up a bug reporting tool for our internal projects > in my company. > > What would you use for a bug reporting system? > > I have seen several possibilities, a

Re: mozila eats memory - additional question

2000-09-20 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
In addition to the above post : I have a single Mozilla windows, started recently, but if I do a 'ps' I get 6 'processes' running ./mozilla.bin : are they threads or what ? Ciao -- FB

Re: Do you recomend to upgrade to Woody?

2000-09-20 Thread Aaron Maxwell
> What's the best way to downgrade from woody to potato? I've never done it, but I think just editing /etc/apt/sources.list to point to 'potato' instead of 'woody', then 'apt-get dist-upgrade', will do it. apt-get & friends just know that woody and potato are different distributions; they don't k

Re: Debian 2.2

2000-09-20 Thread Chris Gray
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 08:36:23PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Ask book store for replacement or use it as coffee coaster. I've found that CDs unfortunately don't make good coasters. Now I have a CD shaped stain on my table. It's easier just to throw them out. Though I have heard that microwaving

Re: Can't get rid of kde...

2000-09-20 Thread Bruce Sass
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Bob Nielsen wrote: > You might be able to find the problem by taking a look at > /var/lib/dpkg/info/kdebase.postrm (or even running this by hand). > > I've had success in similar situations by removing > /var/lib/dpkg/info/* If it is not too late... You may want to look in /v

Re: About Nestcape 4.75

2000-09-20 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Johann Spies wrote: > On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 01:10:00AM -0500, Rogelio E. Castillo Haro wrote: > > To install netscape 4.75 on Potato, my sources.list must link to stable > > o unstable version? > > deb http://security.debian.org/ potato/updates main contrib non-free > > en

Re: rsa and ssh

2000-09-20 Thread Hubert Chan
Phil Brutsche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > Hi all, > > I tried as man ssh saied to login with ssh without password as: > > ssh-genkey as remote host > > scp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:$HOME/.ssh/identity.pub $HOME/.ssh/autho

Re: ESS1868

2000-09-20 Thread Michael Smith
Lehel Bernadt wrote: > I have an ESS1868 too, and it's working. > I don't use isapnp, since I'm using the default card > config. > My sb options are the following: > esstype=1868 io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=-1 > To check these, just run the config program of the card from DOS. > What looks strange

Re: Spammer by incompetence, RBL may be an option

2000-09-20 Thread kmself
list reinstated. On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 03:28:50PM -0400, Andrew Sullivan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 12:19:58PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > > I'm finding myself with less sympathy for this argument. Broken mailers > > pollute the environment, and should b

Re: Missing modules - system still silent

2000-09-20 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 08:47:46AM +0100, Glyn Millington wrote: > > Many thanks for the help thus far - I was clearly mixing two > methods of kernel compilation! Now, I've compiled the kernel > yet again (8th try I think) and STILL the system can't find the > modules - that is I get lots of "ca

Re: Spammer by incompetence, RBL may be an option

2000-09-20 Thread Bruce Sass
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Robert Waldner wrote: > The RBL is for spammers, that is, UCE (Unsolicited Commercial Email), > UBE (Unsolicited Bulk Email), also, fraud (mailbombing etc) is > sometimes considered spam. They are sending unsolicited and inappropriate messages to anyone who posts on debian

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