Re: X question

on Sat, May 05, 2001 at 06:50:52AM -0400, Sunny Dubey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > hi, > > how do I get Xfree86 to not automatically copy everything that I highlight > with my cursor? That *is* X behavior, by design. I don't know of any way to disable it. Under X, there's no separate keystroke

Re: Strong encryption for mozilla (woody)

On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 06:03:10PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > Is there a way to get mozilla on woody to do strong encryption? The > docs refer to the personal security manager, but the file no longer > exists. Mozilla's site says the security is now incorporated into the > nightly build. > > Si

Re: vim tip-o-rama

On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 11:03:15PM -0400, MaD dUCK wrote: > also sprach mdevin (on Wed, 02 May 2001 03:12:19PM +1000): > > Can you explain further how that works to someone who barely know > > that i puts vim in insert mode and esc takes it out? I had a look > > at the manpage and vimtutor and I c

Gimp and gif

Hi! I' ve installed gimp1.2 and gimp1.2-nonfree with gif support. Now I'm a little bit confused because it is not possible to save any file as a gif-file. I can open a gif-file and save it as gif but there's no other way. Is this correct? Gif-plugin is installed. Thanks...Thomas -

Re: [users] Re: vim tip-o-rama

also sprach will trillich (on Mon, 07 May 2001 12:03:32AM -0500): > official schmofficial. hehe. > ap "a paragraph", select [count] paragraphs (see > ip "inner paragraph", select [count] paragraphs > (see ah. learn new things day in, day out

Re: vim tip-o-rama

on Sun, May 06, 2001 at 11:03:15PM -0400, MaD dUCK ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > also sprach mdevin (on Wed, 02 May 2001 03:12:19PM +1000): > > Can you explain further how that works to someone who barely know > > that i puts vim in insert mode and esc takes it out? I had a look > > at the manpage

Re: Strong encryption for mozilla (woody)

on Sun, May 06, 2001 at 09:00:57PM -0800, Ethan Benson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 06:03:10PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > > Is there a way to get mozilla on woody to do strong encryption? The > > docs refer to the personal security manager, but the file no longer > > exis

Re: a printer for Linux

on Sun, May 06, 2001 at 06:21:16PM -0700, Mike Fedyk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 08:13:41PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: > > Ron Farrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Yes, and when I was buying I wanted color. My ink-jet printer does > > > 12PPM black/10PPM color and s

Re: webmin

On Sun, 6 May 2001, Jim Darrough wrote: > Evidently there are no webmin related programs available for the current > stable version as the command below returns nothing. Any idea what else I > can do? > Add the following lines to /etc/apt/sources.list and then do an apt-get update: deb http://ww

Re: [users] Re: vim tip-o-rama

also sprach Karsten M. Self (on Sun, 06 May 2001 10:10:56PM -0700): > > set nowrap > > set nolinebreak > > set textwidth=0 > > set wrapmargin=10 > > set textwidth=72 don't ask me why, i tried both and for whatever reason ended up prefering the way i chose. but hey, don't know why i had > > set w

Re: XFree 4.0.3 for woody

Timeboy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But i don't know wheter libc6_2.2 is stable anough for all > programs of the debian pool. Yes, that's the question. ;-) Ciao! juh -- Schlachtet die Unschuldslämmer! http://www.sudelbuch.de/2001/20010206.html

Video CD players?

I am unable to compile mplayer for playing vcds. :-( Is there any debian package available that can play vcd? I would love to watch movies under Debian. -- Regards, V.Suresh. sureshvuserssourceforgenet http://www16.brinkster.com/vsuresh. --Powered by Debian

dpkg upgrade

I often get lots of segfaults when dpkg works - particularly when i use apt-get, and apt-get inturn calls dpkg, then dpkg segfaults. Though a reboot sets it right sometimes, I think that is not the way. My dpkg --version shows 1.6.15 for i386. I read somewhere that dpkg 1.9 is available. Is it p

Re: XFree 4.0.3 for woody

Hi Timo, If I understood correctly, you had potato X3.3.6 and upgraded it to X4.0.3?! Could you please elaborate how did you do it? Didi you have to setup config files by hand or was it setup automatically? On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 08:09:03PM +0200, Timeboy wrote: How are all the other apps after

Re: mouse wheel scrolling

Hi Mitul, On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 04:58:51PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > I am trying to get my USB MS Intellimouse to scroll in Linux. > have downloaded and installed imwheel 0.9.9. My Pointer section in the > XF86Config-4 is as follows. If you are running XF4.0x you do

Re: X question

* Karsten M. Self , 2001-05-07 09:04 +0200: > on Sat, May 05, 2001 at 06:50:52AM -0400, Sunny Dubey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > hi, > > > > how do I get Xfree86 to not automatically copy everything that I highlight > > with my cursor? > > That *is* X behavior, by design. I don't know of a

Re: Toshiba Satellite 2535CDS laptop

I've a 2520 cds under Debian GNU/Linux. You can enter in the bios setup in pressing the ESC key when powering on the machine. Debian is fine for your Laptop and you should think about avoiding dual boot with M$ which is only about losing drive space. I'm not able to boot with the debian CD (A lon

Re: wait till end of write, how?

> > One alternative is to use a "semaphore" file. Have the NT app create a file > > named, say "busy", just prior to starting the transfer of the big file. > > Once the big file is transferred the NT box erases "busy". The shell script > > would be written so that if the "busy" file exists, it do

Re: Video CD players?

V.Suresh hat gesagt: // V.Suresh wrote: > I am unable to compile mplayer for playing vcds. :-( > Is there any debian package available that can play vcd? >I would love to watch movies under Debian. xine is great. -- ____ Frank Barknecht

Re: Strong encryption for mozilla (woody)

On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 10:15:03PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > Note, however, if you're shifting to the dailies, that the 0.9x series > is rumored to be less stable than the 0.8x line. N /me sobs why don't they just throw away that entire XUL, irc, news, mail, whatever-other-usel

Re: wait till end of write, how?

> > And if you can't do that, just have the script checksum the file every 5 > > secs, and if it hasn't changed for 10 secs, you're probably set. > > > > Use the suggestion from Rick first though. > > Since the W2k client users just copy the relvant files using drag'n'drop > something like a semap

Solved: irda-common: won't install/remove in unstable

on Thu, May 03, 2001 at 01:31:56PM -0700, Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > I've been getting the following messages trying to install irda-common > on a TuxTops 20U laptop (x86, unstable) for the past month or so: > > Preparing to replace irda-common 0.9.5-2 (using > .../ir

Re: install screensaver with setuid root

On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 08:33:38PM +0200, Alex Suzuki wrote: > On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 12:42:36PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > > Even if the application itself is free of buffer overflows and such you > > would be granting root access to wads of unaudited and buggy library code. > > yeah, I guess y

Re: Gnome Packages annoyances

On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 11:43:08AM +1000, Brian May wrote: > > "Karsten" == Karsten M Self writes: > > Karsten> Place your response *after* quoted material. > > Why? Makes it read like a conversation. "Question? Answer!" makes more sense to read than "Answer! Question?" > I like to

uucp news feed gone one way

Hello! I'm plaing with woody on my nntp server and my notebook. I've had quite good working uucp feed betwen them (just for fun, I know there are simpler ways). On server I've got inn 2.3.1-4 on notebook inn 1.7.2-18. After apt-get upgrade few days ago serwer stoppede receiving news from noteboo

Re: Gnome Packages annoyances

Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 07/05/2001 (11:42) : > Try reportbug. This is not the only debian bug report tool, but it Thanks, I'll try it. > probably aggravated by version mismatches. Since ximian no longer > claims to support woody, I commented them out of my apt sources.list. I

Re: LS120 drive

>From a Google search, the document at this URI indicates that as early as kernels 2.0 something there was support for running an IDE LS-120 as an a: drive. The Linux hardware database entry at

Re: Where's lame

Preben Randhol wrote: > > Viktor Rosenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 06/05/2001 (11:34) : > > Hi, > > > > how come, lame is nowhere in Debian? Not even in sid? Or libmp3lame > > for that matter. > > Forget MP3, Ogg Vorbis is better as it is free : > >http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/index

Re: Where's lame

Viktor Rosenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 07/05/2001 (12:03) : > I know, but my custom-build hardware won't play it. Too bad. Huh? -- Preben Randhol --- http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/ -- «For me, Ada95 puts back the joy in programming.»

gnome logout

I can't find why the logout dialog box (debian unstable) doesn't propose me "halt system" and "reboot". I can only answer yes or no to the "really logout?" question. I was thinking it was due to the right to execute the halt and shutdown binaries, so I've set their setuid bit : no change. On a o

Sendmail troubles

Hello folks, sendmail got updated recently in woody and is now causing me all kinds of headaches. There's a crontab entry in /etc/cron.d/sendmail, which runs `/etc/init.d/sendmail cron-mta` exactly every 10 minutes on my machine: */10 * * * * mail/etc/init.d/sendmail cron-m

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V101 #568

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gnome-panel not sharing /tmp/languages?

I've a Debian "unstable" installation, up-to-date. If more than a single user is using gnome on the console, then the latter users can not start the gnome panel (as of gnome-panel_1.4.0.3-1). After some hunting around I think the problem might be that /usr/bin/panel seems to create /tmp/language

rsync+ssh problem

Hello I am trying to use rsync over ssh on one of my linux boxes. remotelogin]# rsync -avz -e ssh / [EMAIL PROTECTED]:backup bash: rsync: command not found unexpected EOF in read_timeout it does not ask for the password since my identity.pub is absorbed into the authorized_keys on xx.xx.xx.

Problems with xcdroast

Hi I am trying to use xcdroast to write some CDs in a IDE-CD recorder. I have configured the ide-scsi module and at first all seems all right, but now xcdroast gives me the following message: - The SCSI_Bus has changed since last "save" in the Setup-Menu. Please check if all settings

Re: rsync+ssh problem

On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 12:32:28PM +0200, Peter O. Fedichev wrote: > I am trying to use rsync over ssh on one of my linux boxes. > > remotelogin]# rsync -avz -e ssh / [EMAIL PROTECTED]:backup > bash: rsync: command not found > unexpected EOF in read_timeout > Sounds like you don't have rsyn

Re: rsync+ssh problem -- more info

"David L. Sifry" wrote: > On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 12:32:28PM +0200, Peter O. Fedichev wrote: > > > I am trying to use rsync over ssh on one of my linux boxes. > > > > remotelogin]# rsync -avz -e ssh / [EMAIL PROTECTED]:backup > > bash: rsync: command not found > > unexpected EOF in read_timeo

Question About Debian

Hi, I am from Turkey and working for a leading communication company in Turkey as a Chief Engineer. I am inexperienced in using Debian. I had some difficulties of working with debian. I explored the site of debian.org. When booting debian, at the end of booting process i get an error message t

linux-gpib

Hi! I need driver for my gpib card (NI PCII). I have tryed to install linux-gpib package from C. Schroeter (Linux Lab Project), but compilation failed. I suppose because package is old for my kernel (2.2.19). Has anyone installed this package on potato? What kernel is it possible to install these

http://packages.debian.org/ bug

Hi, Against which package should I fill bugreport about CGI forms on http://packages.debian.org/? I've tried to search for filename MIME::Entity using last form on that page and result was 'Error: "MIME::Entity" is not a valid search request'. I refuse to agree with it :) -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Re: rsync+ssh problem

On Monday 07 May 2001 05:32, Peter O. Fedichev wrote: > remotelogin]# rsync -avz -e ssh / [EMAIL PROTECTED]:backup > bash: rsync: command not found > unexpected EOF in read_timeout I had to add a PATH line to ~/.ssh/environment on the remote host because rsync was not in the standard path.

Re: trouble booting 2.4.4

Jason Healy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > flexible == good. Unfortunately, there wasn't much warning about it, so I > bet a lot of people (and their respective machines) are panicing. Hmm, I thought the message in the preinst was as prominent as it could be. Any suggestions on how it can be impr

Re: rsync+ssh problem -- more info

On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 12:42:05PM +0200, Peter O. Fedichev wrote: > > On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 12:32:28PM +0200, Peter O. Fedichev wrote: > > > > > I am trying to use rsync over ssh on one of my linux boxes. > > > > > > remotelogin]# rsync -avz -e ssh / [EMAIL PROTECTED]:backup > > > bash: rsyn

Re: Gnome Packages annoyances

Preben Randhol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 07/05/2001 (11:50) : > Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 07/05/2001 (11:42) : > > Try reportbug. This is not the only debian bug report tool, but it > > Thanks, I'll try it. # apt-get install reportbug Reading Package Lists... Done Building Depe

Re: Gimp and gif

You will have to 'index' the file before being able to save it under .gif format. Find the 'indexed' menu under 'image' menu. Once upon a time, Thomas Wegner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> found a keyboard. And typed: >Hi! > >I' ve installed gimp1.2 and gimp1.2-nonfree with gif support. Now I'm >a little bi

Re: Strong encryption for mozilla (woody)

>> Note, however, if you're shifting to the dailies, that the 0.9x >> series is rumored to be less stable than the 0.8x line. > > N > > /me sobs > > > why don't they just throw away that entire XUL, irc, news, mail, > whatever-other-useless-cruft and concentrate on the rendering > engine,

Re: Gimp and gif

Thomas Wegner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I' ve installed gimp1.2 and gimp1.2-nonfree with gif support. Now > I'm a little bit confused because it is not possible to save any > file as a gif-file. GIF uses a color map. Did you reduce the number of used colors to 256 by converting the image to "

log files for thousands of domains

I have uploaded version 0.07 of my logtools package to unstable which includes the new clfdomainsplit program to split a web log file containing data from large numbers of domains into separate files. This program has a limit that it can only split log files for as many domains as it can open f

Re: Question About Debian

on Mon, May 07, 2001 at 01:51:27PM +0300, Suat Secgin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > I am from Turkey and working for a leading communication company in > Turkey as a Chief Engineer. I am inexperienced in using Debian. Sounds as if you're new to Unix as well. I'd strongly recommend traini

can't connect to portmapper from remote host

Hello again debian-user! As I was trying to set up NFS on a debian-potato-box at work ("agda" at 130.241.119.140) I found out that the remote host, that was to be the NFS client 194.236.111.14, could not connect to the portmapper on the server. The error message recieved was "No route to host".

Re: Strong encryption for mozilla (woody)

Hall Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 07/05/2001 (14:02) : > If you're a gnome user, why not try galeon ?? It's site is here: > http://galeon.sourceforge.net/. I've used it in the past and it's > quite nice... Do you know where one can get the Debian pacakges? The download link on that page

Re: Sendmail bug still biting

On Sunday 06 May 2001 07:16 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >The quick fix to this problem until it's resolved is to not run the >sendmailconfig script. Remove the aliases.db and run newaliases by hand. You >may also need to chown root:root *.db while in the /etc/mail directory as I >have to do that

Re: trouble booting 2.4.4

On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 09:02:54PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > Jason Healy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > flexible == good. Unfortunately, there wasn't much warning about it, so I > > bet a lot of people (and their respective machines) are panicing. > > Hmm, I thought the message in the preins

Re: trouble booting 2.4.4

At 989287374s since epoch (05/07/01 07:02:54 -0400 UTC), Herbert Xu wrote: > Jason Healy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > flexible == good. Unfortunately, there wasn't much warning about it, so I > > bet a lot of people (and their respective machines) are panicing. > > Hmm, I thought the messag

Debian CD

Hi! I have a problem with creating a Debian CD. I'm using Potato recently, but more and more application needs newer deb packages (from the testing version). This way I'd like to know how could I create some CD from the testing distribution. Unfortunately I don't know the correcy structure of a de

Filtering mail w/ procmail

Hey, I have a little problem. I'm subscribed to three mailing lists (debian-user, agenda-user, and sdl), and the mail is a little overwhelming. Back in the day, i used Mozilla to filter the mail into different folders, but now I use mutt. It looks like the best way to filter would be to use proc

Re: quake-x11 problems

Hi Ilya, Thanks! it worked! I got: 969 frames 40.9 seconds 23.7 fps for demo1.dem I think this is a good rate, isn't it? > In quake 1 you could issue command timedemo (or timedemo1 - I don't > remember) at quake console. It plays demo and when demo is finish

Re: Strong encryption for mozilla (woody)

Hall writes: > If you're a gnome user, why not try galeon ?? Because it depends on _all_ of Mozilla? > I've used it in the past and it's quite nice... I found it less stable than Netscape 4.75, which crashes several times a day. I also would like to have a decent browser that doesn't attempt to

Re: Strong encryption for mozilla (woody)

On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 07:54:39AM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > If you're a gnome user, why not try galeon ?? It's site is here: > http://galeon.sourceforge.net/. I've used it in the past and it's > quite nice... galeon indeed works very well. the problem is a mozilla bug is still a galeon b

Nautilus dies / restart after a while

Hi, I am happy Nautilus now runs on my sid i386 system (it used to refuse to do so cause of some misterious gconf / Corba stuff) :-) Nevertheless, I've still got 2 problems : 1) Nautilus seems to go to sleep a strange way When I leave my computer on for a while (say 5 minutes) without using Nau

character set ISO-9959-1??

I have a question about character sets. Currently I have my locale set to US IS0-8859-1. Should I edit this to use other locales, and if so, what locales should I use? The problem I am experiencing is when I am using mutt to read email, and I receive a mail from Thomas Kohler (I think) it shows up

sk_run_filter and irda.o?

Hi, I just built a 2.4.4 kernel this weekend (running on top of Debian 2.2 with http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/kernel-24.html). Although things seem to be running fine, I notice that irda won't load: hermes:/home/ndw# modprobe irda /lib/modules/2.4.4/kernel/net/irda/irda.o: unresolved symbol sk_run_f

Re: Strong encryption for mozilla (woody)

> Hall writes: > > If you're a gnome user, why not try galeon ?? > > Because it depends on _all_ of Mozilla? I don't know exactly how it works, but the original complaint had to do with the XUL interface and the add-ons (mail, news, irc, etc). Galeon doesn't have all this. It uses "gnome" for the

Re: Strong encryption for mozilla (woody)

On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 07:51:16AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > I found it less stable than Netscape 4.75, which crashes several times a > day. > > I also would like to have a decent browser that doesn't attempt to copy IE. the i suggest trying opera. it's quite stable and very fast. well, it's no

LS120 drive

Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 05:44:35 -0400 From: "Andrew Hagen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" , "Sebastiaan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >From a Google search, the document at this URI i

Re: Filtering mail w/ procmail

At 989236552s since epoch (05/07/01 08:55:52 -0400 UTC), Cameron Matheson wrote: > Unfortunately, only the debian list is filtered. I'm assuming this is because > my syntax is wrong, but the man page and examples didn't help me find my > problem. Anyone know what's going on? Perhaps it is that

Re: Filtering mail w/ procmail

On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 06:55:52AM -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote: > > #debian-user mailing list > :0: > * ^X-Mailing-List: > Mail/debian-user > > #agenda-user mailing list > :0: > * ^X-Mailing-List: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Mail/agenda-user > > #sdl programming list > :0: > * ^X-Mailing-List: <[EM

Re: install screensaver with setuid root

On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 04:12:51AM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote: > You should probably file a bug on the package, if it's not useable > without introducing a security risk. Perhaps someone more familiar > with the code could seperate out the part that needs special > privileges into a seperate setuid

Re: Filtering mail w/ procmail

On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 06:55:52AM -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote: > I have a little problem. I'm subscribed to three mailing lists (debian-user, > agenda-user, and sdl), and the mail is a little overwhelming. > It looks like the best way to filter would be to use procmail, so I set up my > .procma

Re: Filtering mail w/ procmail

> > #debian-user mailing list > :0: > * ^X-Mailing-List: > Mail/debian-user i think the right sintax should be as follows: :0: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail/debian-user :0: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail/vim aldo --- sito familiare: http://utenti.tripod.it/vel/ altra e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Odi et a

Re: Filtering mail w/ procmail

On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 06:55:52AM -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote: > Hey, > > * ^X-Mailing-List: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Mail/sdl > > > Unfortunately, only the debian list is filtered. I'm assuming this is because > my syntax is wrong, but the man page and examples didn't help me find my > problem

Re: Strong encryption for mozilla (woody)

On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 02:20:24PM +0200, Preben Randhol wrote: > Hall Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 07/05/2001 (14:02) : > > If you're a gnome user, why not try galeon ?? It's site is here: > > http://galeon.sourceforge.net/. I've used it in the past and it's > > quite nice... I am using

Re: Question About Debian

Reason for the error is that you are missing the XF86Config-4 file that is necessary for X to start. I suggest apt-get install task-windows-system that command should install all the necessary packages for X Windows System and allow you to configure it to your hardware. The GUI that I suggest usi

Re: Strong encryption for mozilla (woody)

Hall Stevenson writes: > I don't know exactly how it works, but the original complaint had to do > with the XUL interface and the add-ons (mail, news, irc, etc). Galeon > doesn't have all this. A complaint I share. > It uses "gnome" for the interface and is only a web browser. But I still have

Re: Video CD players?

Is Xine available as a debian package? If so what should I issue to apt-get? I tried apt-get install xine, it says package not found. Once upon a time, Frank Barknecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> found a keyboard. And typed: >V.Suresh hat gesagt: // V.Suresh wrote: > >> I am unable to compile mplayer fo

Re: Strong encryption for mozilla (woody)

Martin writes: > the i suggest trying opera. it's quite stable and very fast. I tried it. I found it neither more stable nor faster than Navigator (though with a 28.8 connection browser speed is not a problem anyway). -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Filtering mail w/ procmail

On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 04:18:16PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > :0: > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Mail/debian-user > :0: > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Mail/vim Yes, this is the correct syntax. From man procmailrc: If the regular expression contains `^TO_' it will be sub­ stituted by `(^((

modprobe : Can`t locate module

Hi list, i have following problem - during boot system complains about modules: Loading modules: /lib/modules/2.0.36/ipv4/ip_masq_ftp.o modprobe : Can`t locate module /lib/modules/2.0.36/ipv4/ip_masq_ftp.o But i am not using kernel 2.0.36 anymore , so from where can this error message come from

Re: can't connect to portmapper from remote host

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello again debian-user! > > As I was trying to set up NFS on a debian-potato-box at work ("agda" at > 130.241.119.140) I found out that the remote host, that was to be the NFS > client 194.236.111.14, could not connect to the portmapper on the server. The > error

Installation problems with Woody

A server I have root on was compromised this weekend. Since we don't know the vulnerability that was exploited, but we do know the attack came via an account I set up, I decided to back up my home directory and reinstall my system. I had been running potato, but since I was doing a scratch instal

Re: dpkg upgrade

Subject: dpkg upgrade Date: Mon, May 07, 2001 at 10:58:35AM +0600 In reply to:V.Suresh Quoting V.Suresh([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I often get lots of segfaults when dpkg works - particularly > when i use apt-get, and apt-get inturn calls dpkg, then dpkg > segfaults. Though a reboo

ypbind grabs port designated for another service

Hi, just had to handle a problem where CUPS (IPP printing subsystem) didn't work any more after a reboot. While checking the log files I noticed that cupsd could not bind to its (static) port 631 because ypbind was listening on that port already. Is there a standard way to handle such a situatio

Re: Gnome Packages annoyances

Preben Randhol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 07/05/2001 (13:50) : > # apt-get install reportbug > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have > requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable

Re: ypbind grabs port designated for another service

Thomas Gebhardt wrote: > > Hi, > > just had to handle a problem where CUPS (IPP printing subsystem) > didn't work any more after a reboot. > > While checking the log files I noticed that cupsd could not bind > to its (static) port 631 because ypbind was listening on that > port already. > > Is

Lilo and removable device (LS120)

Hi, just trying to make a boot floppy with Lilo. Problem: This floppy should boot a second machine that has no floppy drive but a ls120 ide floppy. This second system is not running linux (yet). The floppy inserted in the ls120 drive is recognized as /dev/hdb . If the second machine had a floppy

Help Please With HP Travan Scsi Tape Drive

Hi All I cannot get my HP Travan T4000S Scsi tape drive to work. I have gathered all the information I can find about the problem into the rest of this email. Am I missing something obvious? Thanks in anticipation of any assistance given. Stephen Here is the version information for my syste

Re: Gnome Packages annoyances

Rob Mahurin wrote: > > On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 11:43:08AM +1000, Brian May wrote: > > > "Karsten" == Karsten M Self writes: > > > > Karsten> Place your response *after* quoted material. > > > > Why? > > Makes it read like a conversation. "Question? Answer!" makes more > sense to read t

Re: Gnome Packages annoyances

On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 01:47:32PM +0200, Preben Randhol wrote: > Preben Randhol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 07/05/2001 (11:50) : > > Thanks, I'll try it. > > # apt-get install reportbug [...] > Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: > reportbug: Depends: python-newt but it

Re: Strong encryption for mozilla (woody)

On Mon, 07 May 2001 08:37:03 Hall Stevenson wrote: > > Hall writes: > > > If you're a gnome user, why not try galeon ?? > > > > Because it depends on _all_ of Mozilla? > > I don't know exactly how it works, but the original complaint had to > do with the XUL interface and the add-ons (mail, news,

How to get mutt to use mail aliases

I have set up a .mail_aliases file for mutt that looks like: alias mdevin [EMAIL PROTECTED] In my .muttrc I have: set alias_file=$HOME/.mail_aliases source $HOME/.mail_aliases set edit_hdrs Now when I try and edit the To: Cc: Bcc: fields and press tab, mutt will not give me a list of email addres

Unable to start X

I just did a dist-upgrade to woody and when I try to start X I get the following error message: X: cannot stat /etc/X11/X (No such file or directory) aborting xinit: server error I will check the list archives (with lynx :-) and I know I need to make a symlink somewhere, but I'm not sure to what.

Starting X through INIT and kdm

Hi all Until now i start X with the startx command. I'd like to set it up that init X starts with the kdm interface. How do i do this on debian. I think that has somethiing to do with the alternatives System... Do i have to make a script by myself? Pls give some hints :-))) cheers, Raffaele --

Re: Sound problems

I posted this sometime back, but didn't get replies. So, here it is again. Please help. Hi, I run potato r3. I use mp3blaster, xmms to play mp3s, audio cds play fine. But Gnome doesn't recognise my sound devices. It keeps saying /dev/dsp -- no such device, and Tries esound

Re: Filtering mail w/ procmail

Instead of the XMailingList Header,You may try the From:, To:, Cc: headers which will never fail,as I have found. My .procmailrc is managing three mailing lists without any probs. Look at the headers of the mails you get fromthe lists, see which header is the most common factor(Should be To, Cc) an

Re: Strong encryption for mozilla (woody)

On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 09:36:53AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > I tried it. I found it neither more stable nor faster than Navigator > (though with a 28.8 connection browser speed is not a problem anyway). I can't believe that. Opera loads about 5 times faster than Navigator here, and is very quic

Re: How to get mutt to use mail aliases

On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 02:21:39AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have set up a .mail_aliases file for mutt that looks like: > alias mdevin [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > In my .muttrc I have: > set alias_file=$HOME/.mail_aliases > source $HOME/.mail_aliases > set edit_hdrs > > Now when I try and edi

Re: Starting X through INIT and kdm

On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 06:22:00PM +0200, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > Hi all > > Until now i start X with the startx command. I'd like to set it up that init > X starts with the kdm interface. How do i do this on debian. I think that has > somethiing to do with the alternatives System... > Do i h

Re: [users] Re: vim tip-o-rama

On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 01:20:14AM -0400, MaD dUCK wrote: > (waiting for emacs users to join in: you can do all of this and next > month's laundry with a key-combo that will only cause you to put three > knots in your fingers while reaching through your legs to touch the > back of your head - that'

Re: Gnome Packages annoyances

On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 12:11:38PM -0400, Brian Nelson wrote: > Rob Mahurin wrote: > > > > On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 11:43:08AM +1000, Brian May wrote: > > > > "Karsten" == Karsten M Self writes: > > > > > > Karsten> Place your response *after* quoted material. > > > > > > Why? > > > > Mak

two apt sources

Hi to all! It is possible to have two sources in /etc/apt/sources.list? I mean, it is possible to have one line pointing to stable and another to testing? This would be the case in a potato system with one package from woody. In this way when I apt-get update the system, apt-get will read the s

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