Emacs mode line in alternate frames on Potato

2000-11-15 Thread Daniel P. Katz
Hi. I am using Emacs 20.3 (default install from Potato -- white background, black foreground) and have noticed that whenever I create a new frame, the mode line in that frame is not the traditional reverse video (white on black in my case) but is rather in the same color style as the rest

network configuration scripts

2000-11-15 Thread Keegan Prendergast
I have my debian linux box setup as a masqing gateway for the rest of the computers in the house. The problem is, I did it by hand and have not rebooted since, because i could not figure out where i should put the commands =). Should they go in /etc/init.d/networking, or some local init file.

installing netscape

2000-11-15 Thread kbrede
I've searched for "netscape" and "install netscape" in the archives and I'm not coming up with anything that will help me. I also looked for "netscape 6.0." I installed a package called "netscape-base" that I can't find any docs for and don't know what it does. I tried useing the install program

Re: installing netscape

2000-11-15 Thread Hubert Chan
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've searched for "netscape" and "install netscape" in the archives and > I'm not coming up with anything that will help me. I also looked for > "netscape 6.0." I installed a package called "netscape-base" that I can't > find any docs for and don't know what it does

Re: apacheconfig

2000-11-15 Thread John Griffiths
I'm having this problem too At 02:39 PM 11/15/2000 +, Christopher Clark wrote: >How do i run apacheconfig to load modules? >the --force-modules dosen't seem to work and it always comments out the php4 >module. I uncommented it and restarted apache but it will only run php code >if the file

Re: mouse problems in 'X'

2000-11-15 Thread Virginie-ML
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 01:31:51PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I looked in the archives and couldn't find the answer to my question. It > is probably there but I just can't get the search string right. Anyway > I've just installed Potato. The mouse works with gpm. The mouse doesn't > work

Re: NEWBIE: unable to read mail

2000-11-15 Thread Virginie-ML
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 11:43:36AM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: > Hello, > I guess this is something elementairy, but after some installs and > different configurations of my mailerdaemon (Postfix), I discovered that I > am unable to read mail with pine (the Inbox keeps standing at 0 messages). > Even

xlibs 4.0.1-4 version wont install

2000-11-15 Thread Victor Torrico
Hi all, Upgraded to the 4.0.1-4 upgrade of X today. xlibs will not install. X Still works OK with 4.0.1-3 version of xlibs and the 4.0.1-4 versions of the other X packages. Here is error message: # apt-get install xlibs Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 1 packa

Re: update packages without confusing apt

2000-11-15 Thread Silver
If you are just in the process of upgrading the kernel to 2.4 (which is still in pre-test version btw), I would advice you to get the kernel sources (from the unstable source dist), make your own kernel fitted to your needs (make menuconfig) and build a custom kernel package (make-kpkg -rev Custom.

Re: apacheconfig

2000-11-15 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 09:00:29AM +1100, John Griffiths wrote: > WARNING - > This email is confidential and may contain copyright material. > If you are not the intended recipient of Capital Monitor's original e-mail, > please notify me by return e-mail, delete your copy of the message, and > ac

Re: network configuration scripts

2000-11-15 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 03:27:14PM -0600, Keegan Prendergast wrote: >I have my debian linux box setup as a masqing gateway for the rest of > the computers in the house. The problem is, I did it by hand and have not > rebooted since, because i could not figure out where i should put the > comma

Re: is_a_bug? Re:final help for build php4 with oci8 on debian

2000-11-15 Thread Silver
First making those links is not really clean, you'd better add a line in /etc/ld.so.conf pointing to your directory with the libs in it - if you really need to. (and then run ldconfig -v) Anyway those libs are just needed by Oracle, and the php module, so : just tweak configure and the Makefile fo

Re: network configuration scripts

2000-11-15 Thread Silver
> the debian way is now to edit /etc/network/interfaces > this is mine (there are 2 network cards in my box) : > > <-- cut here --> > # /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8) > > # The loopback interface > auto lo > iface lo inet loopback > > # ADSL interface > auto et

Re: Version Naming Convention

2000-11-15 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 11:59:09AM -0800, Jonathan Jefferies wrote: > > I am currently running slink, 2.1? I've noted > that there is a 2.2 version out. What is its > designation? Are there any notes/faqs regarding > the differences and whether is worth upgrading. see http://www.debian.

How can I force the removal of a package?

2000-11-15 Thread Phillip Deackes
I am following unstable and currently have a problem with 9menu_1.4-10_i386.deb. It will neither upgrade with apt nor allow itself to be removed with either apt or dpkg. I get this message: dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute old pre-removal script: Exec format error dpkg: warning - old pre-remo

Re: apacheconfig

2000-11-15 Thread John Griffiths
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ack apologies to all i hereby any use of this disclaimer made to date on this list and apologise unreservedly John At 05:01 PM 11/15/2000 -0600, will trillich wrote: >On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 09:00:29AM +1100, John Griffiths wrote: >> WARNING - >>

Re: email

2000-11-15 Thread Chris Gray
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 09:20:47PM -0800, Francesco Bochicchio wrote: > to have the HOWTOs (BTW, all documentation in debian is in /usr/doc, > in the process of migrating to /usr/local/doc ). You of course mean /usr/share/doc which is now the correct place for documenation to reside. Documentatio

Re: Sudden instability: can a faulty mouse cause this?

2000-11-15 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Johann Spies wrote: > On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 10:19:11AM -0200, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > > On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Johann Spies wrote: > > > I have a ps/2 mouse which I have used without problems for about a > > > year now. Can a hardware problem on the mouse or the ps/2 por

Re: xlibs 4.0.1-4 version wont install

2000-11-15 Thread Corey Popelier
I've found that for most of the 4.0.1 upgrades, I've had to remove groff + man-db and install them again afterwards because of xlibs. Perhaps a force of some kind would work, I'm not overly concerned by bandwidth hence I do it this way. Cheers, Corey J. Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~

Multiple OS'es- Yes.

2000-11-15 Thread Moses Wildermuth
Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED], >From the desk of Moses Wildermuth. Money Talks Enterprises, http://moneytalks.giftworldnet.com/ On 15-Nov-00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the following in an email regarding Re: Okay who's this >BTW how many of you on this list use multiple oses on your desktop and which

Re: X 4.0.1 fixed font problem

2000-11-15 Thread Gregory T. Norris
Do you have xutils installed? If not, you may need to install it and run mkfontdir manually in each font directory (or "dpkg-reconfigure xfonts-100dpi ..."). > I just did a new woody install and tried installing X 4.0.1 on it. > When I run startx, X starts up but then crashes with the message: >

Re: ppp, must dial 0 before number, how?

2000-11-15 Thread Moses Wildermuth
Hello A.E., >From the desk of Moses Wildermuth. Money Talks Enterprises, http://moneytalks.giftworldnet.com/ On 15-Nov-00, A.E. wrote the following in an email regarding ppp, must dial 0 before number, how?--- > I need to dial 0 to phone out of the building, how to I set up ppp to wait > for a

Re: X 4.0.1 fixed font problem

2000-11-15 Thread Corey Popelier
I've found with my friends fresh X4 that still isnt working yet that startx will only run as root, and report this fixed font error as a user. I then assume that xhost + will probably solve this, but until I can figure out a way to make fonts readable I'm just logging in as root. Cheers, Corey J

Re: Getting a list of installed packages

2000-11-15 Thread John Carline
Robert Guthrie wrote: > On Wednesday 15 November 2000 11:43, Moritz Schulte wrote: > > Robert Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'm using this command: > > > dpkg -l * | egrep "^ii" | grep -i kde > > > > What I'm trying to get is the full version information. I only care > > > about that

Re: TNT2 - VIRUS WARNING

2000-11-15 Thread John Galt
I addresed this on vuln-dev a while ago. Look at securityfocus for the message. Basically, a malicious person can use the antivirus programs to smurf an email attack. They're not just annoying, they're dangerous. On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, John wrote: > Frankly i think the bl**dy antivirus messages

Re: xfree 4: "unknown reason for exeption"; clock problems

2000-11-15 Thread John Galt
You probably wanted [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Who is John Galt? Failure is not an option. It comes bundled with your Microsoft product. -- Ferenc Mantfeld

Re: Getting a list of installed packages

2000-11-15 Thread Colin Watson
John Carline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Robert Guthrie wrote: >> On Wednesday 15 November 2000 11:43, Moritz Schulte wrote: >> > Robert Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > > dpkg -l * | egrep "^ii" | grep -i kde >> > >> > You can do it with awk: dpkg -l | awk '{ print $2 " " $3 }' >> >> That

Re: Debian and stormix

2000-11-15 Thread John Galt
If you wish your boxes to converge, sure. Stormix and Debian use different repositories, but the same syntax in sources.list. That, and Stormix uses different distribution names (hail, rain, etc. vice potato, woody, etc.). Basically, if you put Debian sources.list lines in a Stormix box's sourc

Re: Postscript printers

2000-11-15 Thread Cory Snavely
When I researched all this several years ago, I found it's not HP's development, it's a PostScript interpreter/raster image processor (RIP) that's OEMed from a company that used to be named Xionics and appears to now be named Oak Technology Products (www.oaktech.com). On their web site you can see

Re: installing netscape

2000-11-15 Thread John Galt
1) mozilla is virtually indistinguishable from netscape 6 (in fact, early versions of netscape6 installed as mozilla plus a link to the name netscape 2) Netscape 4 is referred to by its minor number--I did a dpkg -l|grep netscape and got ii netscape 4.75-2 Meta package that depend

Re: Okay who's this "H.C.Hsiang" ?

2000-11-15 Thread Peter Good
Hmm yeah. I could try VMware, have done in the past. But, I have a machine with 64mb ram only, Tie that up with Vmware and flash 5, and things sloow dramatically. Before you say upgrade, think of the cost here, We're technologically disadvantaged in AU hehe. Plus, for some strange reason, even

Re: How can I force the removal of a package?

2000-11-15 Thread Colin Watson
Phillip Deackes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am following unstable and currently have a problem with >9menu_1.4-10_i386.deb. It will neither upgrade with apt nor allow itself >to be removed with either apt or dpkg. > >I get this message: > >dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute old pre-removal scri

apt-get upgrade (potato) depmod trouble?

2000-11-15 Thread will trillich
wow. % apt-get update % apt-get -u upgrade The following packages will be upgraded base-config base-passwd bind debconf-tiny dnsutils doc-debian dpkg dpkg-dev make makedev modutils mutt php3-doc php4 procmail talk tcsh tcsh-i18n telnet telnetd xfree86-common xlib6g 22 packages upgraded, 0 ne

Re: Okay who's this "H.C.Hsiang" ?

2000-11-15 Thread Quietman
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 02:58:28AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > BTW how many of you on this list use multiple oses on your desktop and which > ones do you use and for what purposes. That should be an interesting one...:) Well, due to limited resources I still dual-boot this machine, though I

Dual serial ports on a laptop?

2000-11-15 Thread John Conover
Anyone using a laptop with a dual serial port PCMCIA? I need a brand that works. Thanks, John -- John ConoverTel. 408.370.2688 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 631 Lamont Ct. Cel. 408.772.7733 http://www.johncon.com/ Campbell, CA 95008 Fax. 408.379.9602

Gnome Web Links

2000-11-15 Thread Jeff Hornsberger
Hi, I used to use RedHat and Helix Gnome before switching to Debian. In my RH/Helix environment I could drag a web link from mozilla or netscape onto the desktop to create a handy internet link that would bring up netscape when I double-clicked on it and load the referenced page. Since switchin

Re: Getting a list of installed packages

2000-11-15 Thread Quietman
On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 12:23:07AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > He means that he sees the following: > > ii ksirc 2.0-final-0.po IRC Client based on QT and KDE > ii ksirtet2.0-final-0.po Tetris and Puyo-Puyo games for KDE > > ... instead of versions 2.0-final-0.potato.3 and 2.

Re: Windowmaker and sound

2000-11-15 Thread Mike
David A. Rogers wrote: > > Does the current version of WindowMaker do sound events? I know earlier > versions did with wmsound. But that was many versions ago and wmsound seems > to be dead. If it does sound now, how do you set it up? There's a package wsoundserver that works for this. I have

Re: Getting a list of installed packages

2000-11-15 Thread John Carline
Colin Watson wrote: > John Carline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Robert Guthrie wrote: > >> On Wednesday 15 November 2000 11:43, Moritz Schulte wrote: > >> > Robert Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > > dpkg -l * | egrep "^ii" | grep -i kde > >> > > >> > You can do it with awk: dpkg -l | aw

Re: Who is this virus sender????

2000-11-15 Thread Dean
Come on, lets cut H. C. a little slack. He already e-mailed an explanation and apology. Dean Ray Percival wrote: > > He is stupid but most likely not out to get anyone. This is a melissa variant > basically reads a MicroShaft address book and mails itself out over and over > again. > > ---

Squid authentication

2000-11-15 Thread plutoplanet
Hi, I'm trying configure squid to make users authenticate if they try getting to any other sites that I have not specified as ok for all users. But when it goes to authenticate it regects the user name and password and I get the folling error come up in the /var/log/syslog file proxy squid[1284

Re: Getting a list of installed packages

2000-11-15 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 03:16:47AM +, John Carline wrote: > > > >> > Robert Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> > > dpkg -l * | egrep "^ii" | grep -i kde I'd like to point out here also, that when I tried to uninstall a package, but it failed due to a dependency problem, the first

a little too noisy, bye bye

2000-11-15 Thread Moses Wildermuth
Hello %folks, Sorry, this list has a lot of traffic, and most of it is above my head or only for i386 and X4, so I am dropping and just sticking with 68k list. Thanks for your time and hope ya liked my sig at least. I will soon add a pc on a siamese network, but won't be using linux on it. :-{

Tools available for..

2000-11-15 Thread Jeff Davis
I am trying to set up a server, and I would like to know about some of the tools I should be using for the following tasks: Bandwidth monitoring/restriction on a per-user basis Traffic (total data transfered per time unit) monitoring/restriction on a per-user basis CPU & RAM would also be nice,

Re: mouse problems in 'X'

2000-11-15 Thread Ray Percival
What kind of mouse is it? Is it by chance an Intellimouse? -- Original Message -- From: Virginie-ML <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 23:04:31 +0100 >On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 01:31:51PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I looked in the archives and

Dependency problems

2000-11-15 Thread Casey Henderson
Hi all, I'm having a problem upgrading a couple packages on my system. I am trying to do a dist-upgrade to my Debian box (running woody). The packages in question are libgnomeprint-bin_0.25-0.1_i386.deb libgnomeprint-data_0.25-0.1_all.deb When I try to do the upgrade I get the following erro

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