Re: water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.

2001-04-11 Thread Brian Nelson
> The concept that seems to be eluding you is that YOU are as much a part of > the group as Linus Torvalds himself. There is no coordinator or central > body who says we're going to spend x amount of time on this or that. > People who are involved in Linux do so either because it amuses them or to

Alsa's sequencer?

2001-04-11 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi everyone, How do I test if the alsa sequencer (also the oss emution sequencer) works? Edwin Lau ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: combo GUI/text mail client

2001-04-11 Thread D-Man
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 04:58:46PM -1000, Joseph Dane wrote: | | Here's what I'd like to have: a mail client that I can access via a | nice, flashy GUI when I'm sitting at my desk, or via a simple | text-mode interface when I'm connecting remotely. | | Actually, it's my wife I'm primarily thinkin

Re: module sound with potato 2.2 r2

2001-04-11 Thread Patrick Colbeck
This raises a point that has been puzzling me for a while. I sthere a list anywhere of all the groups in debian, what they are for and when users should be added to each group ? I tend to do it by "cat group" to see what groups there are then guessing but maybe it is documented somewhere ? Pat

Re: water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.

2001-04-11 Thread Michael A. Miller
> "Kevin" == Kevin Stokes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Once again I find myself helpless. As unreliable and as > frustrating as Windows is, in Linux it seems like you can't > do anything without asking for help. > I wanted to remotely login from a Windows machine to my

Re: water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.

2001-04-11 Thread Andre Berger
* Kevin Stokes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2001-04-11 18:15 +0200: [...] > I am one of them. I resurrected an older machine and plopped a cheap HD > from Ebay in it. I wanted to install Linux on it and then apache, and try > running a little web server with my cable modem. I did not want to become

Re: update kernel 2.4

2001-04-11 Thread Alain Blanchetot
I am very new in the linux and Debian field but I am trying to learn and make errors Ihave attempted to upgrade from kernel 2.2.17 to to 2.4 using apt get deb http://people.debian.org/~bunk/debian potato main This fails, and I lost etho connection I go the following message running apt-get up

printer and masqmail (potato r2)

2001-04-11 Thread robin
hello, I have still two problems after that I have installed potato r2. Pb1: Printer. (I use lpr and apsfilter) If I am printing a mail with netscape or a file with lyx (.ps .lyx) it's all right. With Gnotepad+ or in terminal it's ok if I put "lpr -Plp3.(lpr alone gives nothing) If I want to pr

Re: Using gmc (was: su in X )

2001-04-11 Thread Hall Stevenson
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 11:05:16AM +0100, Dave Whiteley > wrote: > > I presume that this is a one off fix. You need to do it each > > time you su? > > > > On 11-Apr-2001 Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > Instead, as root: > > > > > > $ xauth -merge ~$user/.xauthority > > > > > > ...for appropria

Re: OT : RE: water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.

2001-04-11 Thread D-Man
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 03:27:04PM +0200, Joris Lambrecht wrote: | I personally think that this has to do with Debian more then with Linux | itself. Other linuxdistro's like RedHat, Mandrake, Corel are focusing on the | usability. Debian is more like a sysadmin tool. Maybe it simply lacks an | intr

Re: xfree 4.0.3-pre1v2 broken

2001-04-11 Thread Kai Weber
+ Thomas Deselaers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > after updating to this I get gdm loginscreen but I am not able to > login or start a x server as a user. Anybody else having that problem > and perhaps knowing what to do. > > I am using debian sid and updated just 2 hours ago. Same problem here. The fi

Re: printer and masqmail (potato r2)

2001-04-11 Thread Andre Berger
* robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2001-04-11 19:02 +0200: > hello, > I have still two problems after that I have installed potato r2. > > Pb1: Printer. (I use lpr and apsfilter) > > If I am printing a mail with netscape or a file with lyx (.ps .lyx) > it's all right. > With Gnotepad+ or in terminal i

Re: DHCP Server Config Question

2001-04-11 Thread Dave Bacon
OK, I just figured this one out. (With the help of the list archives at www.isc.org) Each router on the other subnets must contain an "ip helper-address xxx.xxx.xxx.xx" statement on their ethernet port which points back to my new backup Debian DHCP Server. Thank you for your help Dave Bacon - O

Re: water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.

2001-04-11 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
On Tuesday 10 April 2001 20:37, Kevin Stokes wrote: > Now I can explain the title of my post. Don't need to. My trucks AC system caused a fire, hot fire, big scary fire! I was only a few hundred meters from the pacific ocean, it was just down that cliff! All that water . . . :) > Why th

Re: Why isn't kernel-source-2.4.3 in unstable yet?

2001-04-11 Thread Colin Watson
Stephen Boulet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Tuesday 10 April 2001 07:01 am, Colin Watson wrote: >> Stephen Boulet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >Why isn't kernel-source-2.4.3 in unstable yet? >> >> kernel-source-2.4.3 |2.4.3-1 | unstable | all, source >> >> It seems to be in the archiv

Re: xfree 4.0.3-pre1v2 broken

2001-04-11 Thread Colin Watson
Kai Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >+ Thomas Deselaers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> after updating to this I get gdm loginscreen but I am not able to >> login or start a x server as a user. Anybody else having that problem >> and perhaps knowing what to do. >> >> I am using debian sid and updated ju

Re: perl modules in general

2001-04-11 Thread Colin Watson
"Stan Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I was looking around in dselct, and I did not see much in the way of perl >modules (no cpan.pm for instance). > >Since I would really like to use "the Debina wya" to insatll as much as >possible, I thought that I would ask about thsi, before just rushing of

Should dumb, lazy people be encouraged to use Linux?

2001-04-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 09:25:16AM -0400, Kevin Stokes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > GNU/Linux is a grown-up's operating system. You're expected to know > > your way around, or be able to figure it out. > > I'm sorry, but the 'You're dumb or lazy or both' argument will not fly. > There is an

How do you broadcast a message?

2001-04-11 Thread William Jensen
Greetings, When you issue the reboot command the system does a system wide message saying the machine is rebooting NOW. How would I send a message to all the people that are on the system? I assume this would need to be done as root? Thanks, Bill

Re: How do you broadcast a message?

2001-04-11 Thread Known Human Nick Rusnov
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>it was written: >Greetings, > >When you issue the reboot command the system does a system wide message >saying the machine is rebooting NOW. How would I send a message to all >the people that are on the system? I assume this would need to be done >as root? that is d

Re: How do you broadcast a message?

2001-04-11 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 01:05:28PM -0500, William Jensen wrote: > When you issue the reboot command the system does a system wide message > saying the machine is rebooting NOW. How would I send a message to all > the people that are on the system? I assume this would need to be done > as root? m

Re: How do you broadcast a message?

2001-04-11 Thread Mike Dresser
William Jensen wrote: > Greetings, > > When you issue the reboot command the system does a system wide message > saying the machine is rebooting NOW. How would I send a message to all > the people that are on the system? I assume this would need to be done > as root? you want 'wall' either wal

Re: perl modules in general

2001-04-11 Thread Stan Brown
On Wed Apr 11 13:36:46 2001 Colin Watson wrote... > >"Stan Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>I was looking around in dselct, and I did not see much in the way of perl >>modules (no cpan.pm for instance). >> >>Since I would really like to use "the Debina wya" to insatll as much as >>possible, I t

Re: /etc/network/interfaces help please

2001-04-11 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 09:22:01AM +0100, Barbara and Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > On 9/4/01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > I'm confused about what I should be writing in the interfaces file. > .. > > > iface eth0 inet static address 194.159.148.141 netmask 255.255.255.0 > > > need to break t

Re: Should dumb, lazy people be encouraged to use Linux?

2001-04-11 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 10:36:25AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 09:25:16AM -0400, Kevin Stokes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > > GNU/Linux is a grown-up's operating system. You're expected to know > > > your way around, or be able to figure it out. > > > > I'm sorry

Re: OT : GUI Interfaces

2001-04-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 04:20:45PM +0200, Joris Lambrecht ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Does anyone know of a non X GUI interface wich has a number of applications > ported to it ? I keep wondering if X is the answer to Gui's for linux, it is > after all a hefty piece of software to run ... This qu

Re: How do you broadcast a message?

2001-04-11 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 01:05:28PM -0500, William Jensen wrote: > When you issue the reboot command the system does a system wide message > saying the machine is rebooting NOW. How would I send a message to all > the people that are on the system? I assume this would need to be done > as root? o

Re: perl modules in general

2001-04-11 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 02:16:26PM -0400, Stan Brown wrote: > However, dselect tells me that I have both perl-5.005, and > perl-5.005-base installed, and the installer script still says it can't > find the needed modules. The it tries to install (or maybe configure) > cpan.p

can't install gnome-help?

2001-04-11 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi everyone, I don't know if it is just me or what? I can't really install gnome-help in unstable. dpkg said postinst is a directory and can't install it.. anyone? Edwin Lau ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: No chance to get my IntellyMouse working under X

2001-04-11 Thread Thomas Wegner
Hi Andrea! On 09-Apr-2001 Andrea Vettorello wrote: > Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > >> Hi all I need some help. I tried now everithing to get my >> IntelliMouse >> Morking under X 4.0.2. Not succsesfull until today.I have gpm >> disabled >> to do not confuse X. I tried every protocol X serves on the

Re: OT : RE: water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.

2001-04-11 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 01:07:02PM -0400, D-Man wrote: > I think that an introduction that is easy for inexperienced people to > start with would be a good thing. It should include references to > more detailed/advanced documentation and also mention the common > pitfalls or things to look out for

RE: Err: Cannot open display

2001-04-11 Thread Thomas Wegner
Hi Marcel! On 11-Apr-2001 MaRCeL FiGUeRoLa EsTRaDa wrote: > Hi there! > > I'm new to debian and I've just installed Debian Linux 2.2 r2 > "Potato". > During installation Anxious couldn't find a suitable grafic card and > so it's > not yet configured properly. When I try to go to the X-Windows the

NIC problem

2001-04-11 Thread Craig Jones
I have an old 386 on which I am trying to do an FTP install of potato. The NIC inside is a Western Digital and seems to be functioning all right (I got linux going from one of those floppy distributions, set everything up and was able to ping everywhere and log in to a computer at work. So the NIC

Re: water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.

2001-04-11 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 10:02:34AM -0400, Kevin Stokes wrote: > I thank you and the others who have helped me, for friendly well-written > explanations. I have saved these messages in my Linux-help mail folder, > but I pity the next poor guy who just wants to login remotely to his newly > install

outgoing mail header address qyestion

2001-04-11 Thread jdls
Hi, Currently, I am using mutt to access my schools imap server. it's been working great now I have another email account (pop3) and I use fetchmail to retrive it. My problem is that whenever I reply my outgoing email address is always the one with the imap server. (i.e. .edu) what I would

Re: water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.

2001-04-11 Thread Roberto Diaz
> >PS - People take all their accumulated windows knowledge for > granted. Years and years and years of it, and then expect that > they can learn a new OS over night. Simply rediculous.< This is absolutly true.. I personally have found a lot of computer newbies really lost with their brand new w

Re: >2Gb files

2001-04-11 Thread Josh McKinney
Don't know if this helps too much either, but I am running unstable(sid) and >2GB files work just fine. On approximately Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 04:21:03PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 08:13:11AM -0300, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > > Maybe you've received better

Re: water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.

2001-04-11 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 07:44:52AM -0400, Kevin Stokes wrote: > >PS - People take all their accumulated windows knowledge for > granted. Years and years and years of it, and then expect that > they can learn a new OS over night. Simply rediculous.< > > The truth is that I have *never* purchase

Re: latex *pk files in /var?

2001-04-11 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Thank you for your answer Alan! On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 04:58:32PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: > Marcelo Chiapparini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > after running xdvi I noted that several *pk files appeared in > > /var/spool/texmf/pk/ljfour/public/cm. Why this? > > The Computer Modern fonts (

Re: NIC problem

2001-04-11 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 12:02:52PM -0700, Craig Jones wrote: > I have an old 386 on which I am trying to do an FTP install of potato. > The NIC inside is a Western Digital and seems to be functioning all right > (I got linux going from one of those floppy distributions, set everything > up and was

Re: water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.

2001-04-11 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 11:36:25AM -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Kevin Stokes wrote: > > and have spent far to much time on postings about this anyway. I > > realize that my words aren't going to turn the lights on by themselves. But > > perhaps over time as more newbies v

Re: >2Gb files

2001-04-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 06:06:36PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, I'm looking for hints on using > 2GB files > > I'm using a 2.4.3 kernel-image compiled from debian kernel-source > package. After installing the corresponding kernel-headers deb I > created, I have re

RE: OT : GUI Interfaces

2001-04-11 Thread Joris Lambrecht
Although i must admit to have written a somewhat technically confusing mail i thought my point would come across, since i was referring to AtheOS wich does NOT use X to build it's interface. Didn't know that did ya ! Should you have known this you wouldn't bother pointing out someones apparent ign

Re: water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.

2001-04-11 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 07:44:52AM -0400, Kevin Stokes wrote: > >PS - People take all their accumulated windows knowledge for > granted. Years and years and years of it, and then expect that > they can learn a new OS over night. Simply rediculous.< > > The truth is that I have *never* purchase

Printing

2001-04-11 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
I'm having problems getting my printer going. It was working, then I had to reinstall, and now I can't get it back up. Following is a sequence of events that seem fairly typical: # ps ax | grep lpd 1864 ? S0:00 /usr/sbin/lpd 1865 ? S0:00 /usr/sbin/lpd # lpr -Plp deleteme.txt lpr

Re: 8-bit characters

2001-04-11 Thread will trillich
PROBLEM: 8-bit characters (such as those in 'man latin1') show as chinese in krxvt, and as pseudo-greek on console (alt-ctl-f1). SOLVED -- yippee! CONSOLE: consolechars -f where is any item mentioned (sans '.psf.gz' extension) in the /usr/share/consolefonts/ directory -- e.g.:

Re: OT : GUI Interfaces

2001-04-11 Thread Alan Shutko
Joris Lambrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It [X] IS a fantastic system, indeed, but it weighs on your > computers resources. X has run on machines so small and slow they haven't been sold in over a decade. X also runs now on machines which can fit in the palm of your hand. > Also, what's th

Re: NIC problem

2001-04-11 Thread D-Man
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 12:02:52PM -0700, Craig Jones wrote: | I have an old 386 on which I am trying to do an FTP install of potato. | The NIC inside is a Western Digital and seems to be functioning all right | (I got linux going from one of those floppy distributions, set everything | up and was

Re: Printing

2001-04-11 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
Nevermind, I figured it out, and I'm (finally) printing again. One more question, though. I keep getting the following after /every/ job prints: User: stephen Host: firestarter Class: firestarter Job: stdin How do I shut this off? I've got :sh: and :tr: in my printcap, but it just keeps printi

Re: combo GUI/text mail client

2001-04-11 Thread Brandon High
Joseph Dane wrote: Here's what I'd like to have: a mail client that I can access via a nice, flashy GUI when I'm sitting at my desk, or via a simple text-mode interface when I'm connecting remotely. I do something similar to what you plan on: Mozilla mail for the desktop, and pine for remote

Re: OT : RE: water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.

2001-04-11 Thread D-Man
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 01:59:02PM -0500, will trillich wrote: | On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 01:07:02PM -0400, D-Man wrote: | > I think that an introduction that is easy for inexperienced people to | > start with would be a good thing. It should include references to | > more detailed/advanced documen

network printing (again)

2001-04-11 Thread Johannes Jörg
Hello List I still have no idea how to enable access to my local printer from a remote host (in my local network) These are the files I consider important: Server-printcap: lp|lq850|Epson LQ 850:\ :lp=/dev/lp0:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lq850:\ :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\ :if=/

network printing (again)

2001-04-11 Thread Johannes Jörg
Hello List I still have no idea how to enable access to my local printer from a remote host (in my local network) These are the files I consider important: Server-printcap: lp|lq850|Epson LQ 850:\ :lp=/dev/lp0:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lq850:\ :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\ :if=/

Re: GNULpr on Debian?

2001-04-11 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Holger Rauch wrote: > Hi! > > I found out that HP is sponsoring an open-source printing project called > GNULpr (or GLPR for short). However, I found out that only RPMS are > offered (for Mandrake, Turbo Linux, and RedHat). And they're working on a Debian setup. See lpr.sour

Re: Woody nukes Gnome

2001-04-11 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Glen Snyder wrote: > If I purge all of the ximian and helix files, that's practically every > application I use99 packages not to mention the others that will > probably be removed because of dependency problems. Debian Woody sets up > gnome 1.0.56 Ximian "Woody" has

RE: Printing

2001-04-11 Thread Lewis, James M.
> -Original Message- > From: Stephen E. Hargrove [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 3:59 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Printing > > > I'm having problems getting my printer going. It was > working, then I had > to reinstall, and now I can't

RE: Printing

2001-04-11 Thread Lewis, James M.
> -Original Message- > From: Stephen E. Hargrove [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 4:15 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Printing > > > Nevermind, I figured it out, and I'm (finally) printing > again. One more > question, though. I keep g

newbiedoc, vim and latex

2001-04-11 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 04:18:08PM -0400, D-Man wrote: > On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 01:59:02PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > | i think vim is abominable, deplorable and inconsiderate. it uses > | modes for this, modes for that... and i wouldn't ever consider > | using anything else. > > Come to think

Re: OT : RE: water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.

2001-04-11 Thread D-Man
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 04:18:08PM -0400, D-Man wrote: | On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 01:59:02PM -0500, will trillich wrote: | | | wanna write up a vim intro at sourceForge.net/projects/newbiedoc/? | | Can I write it in LaTeX? I want to learn to use latex effectively. I just took a quick look, and I

Re: combo GUI/text mail client

2001-04-11 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 13:16, Brandon High wrote: > Joseph Dane wrote: > > * netscape and pine don't (can't?) share addressbooks, so they either > >get out of sync, or require more attention than one would like to > >offer them > > Probably the ugliest point. You could over engineer it a

Re: How do you broadcast a message?

2001-04-11 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 11:05:24AM -0700, Known Human Nick Rusnov wrote: > > that is done with the command 'wall'. Interesting. I get an error, as root or any other user. wall: /dev/:0: No such file or directory Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "With sufficient thrust,

Re: No chance to get my IntellyMouse working under X

2001-04-11 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 08:58:24PM +0200, Thomas Wegner wrote: > > I think you should change some settings: > Option "Device""/dev/psaux" > Option "Protocol" "IntelliMosue" I don't think she should. The IntelliMouse protocol is for the serial version of that mouse, according t

Re: water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.

2001-04-11 Thread Kevin Stokes
>> imagine how much hair-pulling you'll save the next poor soul if > you document what you learned... hmm?< > > Ahh, but I'm not a Linux or Free-Software devotee. This is where you lose the sympathy of a lot of people. You've identified a problem and you want other people to spend their time and

/etc/network/if-up.d

2001-04-11 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
Hi all, am I correct in assuming that my iptables script should go into /etc/network/if-up.d? Or should I put it in init.d? TIA Dima -- E-mail dmaziuk at bmrb dot wisc dot edu (@work) or at crosswinds dot net (@home) http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu/descript/gpgkey.dmaziuk.ascii -- GnuPG 1.0.4 public ke

Setting up server

2001-04-11 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, My friend and I decided to set up a little web-hosting company, but neither one of us knows exactly how to do this. I figure we'll need to have apache, DNS, etc. But the main thing that's stopping us up right now, is that we don't know how to set up the internet on his computer (he has

Re: OT : RE: water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.

2001-04-11 Thread Alan Shutko
D-Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Would anyone like to provide a comparison of LaTeX and Docbook? > (without a flamewar of course). LaTeX: * Been around longer * Stable, ie changes little over the years * Extremely easy to set up (significantly because of above) * Well documented if you lik

Re: water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.

2001-04-11 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 05:00:24PM -0400, Kevin Stokes wrote: > >> imagine how much hair-pulling you'll save the next poor soul if > > you document what you learned... hmm?< > > > > Ahh, but I'm not a Linux or Free-Software devotee. > > This is where you lose the sympathy of a lot of people. You'

Re: water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.

2001-04-11 Thread Glenn Becker
I have followed this discussion with great interest. It's been really lively! :-) I hardly consider myself to have achieved 'power user' status. I started with Slackware Linux in late 1998. At this time I never touch Windows and do not miss it. My initial reaction to what was -- I do not argue -

amd and nis

2001-04-11 Thread Andrew D Dixon
Hi All, I've got a small network of linux boxen here (the server is Red Hat 7 and my client is Debian woody) and I'm trying to configure them so that you can login to your account from any machine on the network. I've got NIS up and running so that you can login from anywhere but I need some way f

Re: Fw: su in X

2001-04-11 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Wednesday, April 11, Erik van der Meulen did write: > Dear list, this should be easy, but I have not managed yet... > I run Gnome desktop as a 'regular' user. If I need to do systemsmanagment, I > do 'su -' in a terminal to get root access. Only if I need to start an X app > (just installed

Re: water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.

2001-04-11 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hello Glenn and All, I just wanted to say "Ditto, couldn't have said it better myself." I don't touch Windows at all anymore myself. It'd be way to boring for me now. I don't know what I'd do without all the exciting, fun,(and to me, important) concepts that I have learned by using Linux. I was

folder highlightning in Pine ?

2001-04-11 Thread Allan Andersen
Hi, I'm a new user with pine email (Have allways used a graphical program), but was impressed to see the program 'simplicity' and speed, so I desided to try it out my self. I've set up some filters in Pine to control the incoming mails into the right folders. But as soon as I got more than a coup

Re: water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.

2001-04-11 Thread John Hasler
Kevin Stokes writes: > There are people who care deeply about Linux and Free Software. I am not > one of them. Then why should those people care about you? > I wish Linux the best, but I'm not ready to invest hours of my time > writing doc. Then invest your money. There are plenty of consultan

Re: gtcd/sound problems

2001-04-11 Thread Eric Richardson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello, > > When trying to play gtcd I get "error playing cd"...but it's an audio cd (an > introduction to classical music)..what is wrong here? > > Also, when I try to play login.wav (gnome's file) no sound is coming out...I > have unmuted the mixer via gamix, mixe

Passive mode FTP?

2001-04-11 Thread Stan Brown
Whats the magic environment variable to get ftp to use FTP mode? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bi

Re: Fw: su in X

2001-04-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 11:05:16AM +0100, Dave Whiteley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On 11-Apr-2001 Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 10:49:18AM +0100, Dave Whiteley > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >> I had a similar problem a bit ago. I seem to recall that I fixed > >> it > >> b

Re: Passive mode FTP?

2001-04-11 Thread Adam James
On Wed, 11 Apr 2001 18:24:00 -0400 (EDT), Stan Brown said: > Whats the magic environment variable to get ftp to use FTP mode? Possibly a stupid answer, but use pftp rather than ftp. -- An honest tale speeds best being plainly told. -- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI"

Re: OT : GUI Interfaces

2001-04-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 09:42:30PM +0200, Joris Lambrecht ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > -Original Message- > From: Karsten M. Self [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: woensdag 11 april 2001 20:31 > To: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' > Subject: Re: OT : GUI Interfaces > > > > > > on Wed, Apr

Re: newbiedoc, vim and latex

2001-04-11 Thread D-Man
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 03:47:10PM -0500, will trillich wrote: | On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 04:18:08PM -0400, D-Man wrote: | > On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 01:59:02PM -0500, will trillich wrote: | > | i think vim is abominable, deplorable and inconsiderate. it uses | > | modes for this, modes for that... a

Re: vim intro (was water, water everywhere...)

2001-04-11 Thread Romain Lerallut
On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, D-Man wrote: > > | wanna write up a vim intro at sourceForge.net/projects/newbiedoc/? > I wrote a short 'vi' intro for 'newbiedoc'. Feel free to add any '(g)vim' extension you can think of. The html vi doc: http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/proposed-update.rom1/newbiedoc/vi.h

Re: Should dumb, lazy people be encouraged to use Linux?

2001-04-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 01:30:21PM -0500, will trillich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 10:36:25AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 09:25:16AM -0400, Kevin Stokes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > > GNU/Linux is a grown-up's operating system. You'

Re: water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.

2001-04-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 05:46:05PM -0400, Glenn Becker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I have followed this discussion with great interest. It's been really > lively! :-) Yathink? > But the soul of the experience (if I can use that crappy tattered > word) is experiment: of trying things out and

iptables logging?

2001-04-11 Thread Adam James
Hi all, This is just something that's getting slightly annoying - iptables is refusing to log to /var/log/*. Runnning dmesg I can see all the iptables reports, so its logging to the kernel, just syslog is ignoring it (?). My /var/log/messages entry in /etc/syslog.conf is as follows: *.=info;*.=n

portmap: too small RPC?

2001-04-11 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
Anybody have any thoughts on what's causing the following message and how to correct it? portmap: too small RPC reply size (0 bytes) portmap: too small RPC reply size (0 bytes) lockd_up: makesock failed, error=-5 portmap: too small RPC reply size (0 bytes) lockd_up: no pid, 2 users?? portmap: too

Re: ssh problems

2001-04-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 02:19:43PM +1000, Tomaas Ortega ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > hey guys > im getting these errors when running ssh i was wondering if anyone could help > me > > > debug1: sshd version OpenSSH_2.5.2p2 > debug1: load_private_key_autodetect: type 0 RSA1 > Disabling protocol

Re: combo GUI/text mail client

2001-04-11 Thread Joseph Dane
> "Brandon" == Brandon High <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> * netscape and pine don't (can't?) share addressbooks, so they >> either get out of sync, or require more attention than one would >> like to offer them Brandon> Probably the ugliest point. You could over engineer it and Brandon>

Re: water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.

2001-04-11 Thread csj
On Wednesday 11 April 2001 16:06, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 10:52:54PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > now MacOS X, which is housetrained Unix, [...] > > thats not what i would call it. i would call it a neutered Unix > thats been run over by a truck. Strong words. What mak

Re: ssh problems

2001-04-11 Thread Tomaas Ortega
no im trying to ssh to a machine on the network, but those are the errors i am getting im assuming it is sshd although im not entirely certain what could be causing the error but ill try what you said adios

Linux fpr HP Apollo 715/50

2001-04-11 Thread Andreas Bartsch
where can I get Linux for this hardware on a bootable cd? Thanks in advance Andreas

Funny Story

2001-04-11 Thread Steve Witt
I don't know if this story is true or not, but I hope it is. A guy who is our sys admin said he read on a sys admin type mailing list that the crew of the International Space Station are having some computer problems just like a lot us down here on earth. It seems that the U.S. provided computers r

Re: FW: OT : GUI Interfaces

2001-04-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 05:05:21PM +0200, Joris Lambrecht ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > hmmm, i don't think you're missing anything, X does indeed provide a > graphicall shell to run a gui on, i'll have to rephrase my question > to, does anyone know a GOOD desktop that doesn't weigh a TON on an

Duda!

2001-04-11 Thread david llanos
Hola! Sobre DEBIAN. Tengo problemas al configurar mi maquina para que haga conexiones PPP, como usuario me puedo conectar sin problemas .pero como SERVIDOR no funciona, la llamada llega al modem pero luego no hay respuesta de mi servidor. Me podrían ayudar mandandome cómo y qué archivos

Problems building gmmusic on stable

2001-04-11 Thread Stan Brown
I'm trying to build the nice looking music library application gmmusic on my stable machien. Unfortunately I'm having problems with the perl modules. It comes with a script that is supposed to download from CPAN, and install the correct modules. Unfortunatley after it claims to succed in doing t

Help!

2001-04-11 Thread david llanos
Hello! About  DEBIAN. I have problems to configure my PC to make conexion PPP, like USER i have no problems but "like a SERVER it doesn't work". Could you help me, sending to me what files i have to configure? Thanks!   David Llanos  Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.h

Re: xcdroast and devfs

2001-04-11 Thread Brian May
> "Ethan" == Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ethan> it wants /dev/sg[0-16] these are the scsi generic devices. Ethan> which im sure devfs renamed to something rediculously long Ethan> and ugly. Looks fine to me: [503] [pluto:bam] ~ >ls -l /dev/sg* lr-xr-xr-x1 root

Re: Help!

2001-04-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 11:59:21PM -, david llanos ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: DON'T send HTML email to list. DO use a meaningful subject line. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-syst

videoconferencing

2001-04-11 Thread Dan Berdine
Hi, I'v been searching through the debian-user archives for information on how to set up my camera to do videoconferencing (or anything to start with really) and have gleaned some useful information, but I was wondering if anyone could tell me where I should look for general documentation on the

Re: Linux fpr HP Apollo 715/50

2001-04-11 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001, Andreas Bartsch wrote: > where can I get Linux for this hardware on a bootable cd? > > Thanks in advance > Andreas Hi Andreas, I don't think you can get Linux support for HP PA Risc at the same level of maturity as that for most other platforms that Linux runs on. But check

Re: xcdroast and devfs

2001-04-11 Thread Christoph Simon
On 12 Apr 2001 10:05:40 +1000 Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > xcdroast from unstable might fix this(?), but I can't even get it to > run. (it warns that certain executables aren't setgid, even when run > as root, and that cdrecord is either too old or too new). xcdroast on unstable seems

Re: water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.

2001-04-11 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 07:23:06AM +0800, csj wrote: > On Wednesday 11 April 2001 16:06, Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 10:52:54PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > now MacOS X, which is housetrained Unix, [...] > > > > thats not what i would call it. i would call it a neutered

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