[OT]Re: your mail

2001-06-13 Thread Sachin Garg
> A paperless office has about as much chance as a paperless bathroom. We have paperless bathrooms in the Indian subcontinent :) Sorry, couldn't help myself ... sachin

Re: All packages ... again.

2001-06-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 11:02:00PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi ... > > Ok ... so, I was used to the fact that, my system just have one > program for the main tasks. If debian has more than one option, I'd > like to ask again, a couple of things: > > a) If I'm not wr

RE: All packages ... again.

2001-06-13 Thread Ian Perry
You said: "Listen to the voices of experience." A few years ago I actually did what this person wanted to do... tried installing them all. After several weeks of tooling around and getting nowhere with an extremely unstable system, I ended up getting out my setup disks, killed the partitions and

Re: web management question

2001-06-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, May 30, 2001 at 01:41:37PM -0500, will trillich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: ...oldie, but... > On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 01:01:53PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > The directory ~/public_html is made accessible as: > > > > http://server/~user/ > > > > ...with the appropriate configu

Power button works but...

2001-06-13 Thread jean-michel le bot
Hello, After running shutdown -h now, the system shuts down and issues a message saying "Power down." But then I have to hit the power button to switch off my computer. This is a think I didn't have to do when I was running Mandrake 7.2 instead of Potato 2r0 : my computer switched off automatica

Re: One For The Record Books

2001-06-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, May 30, 2001 at 08:19:25PM -0400, Mike ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Vinod Kurup wrote: > > On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 03:10:53PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > > > i once got an answer that predated my question, but temporal > > > displacement notwithstanding, it was attributable to borked > >

Re: Evolution and Balsa in unstable

2001-06-13 Thread christophe barbé
You should fill a bug for the broken dependencies. These packages neeed only to build rebuild against the last libgal. By the way, balsa is outdated (we should certainly fill a bug for that too). You can use my build (1.1.5) with the following lines in your sources.list : deb ftp://ufies.org/pub/

Re: Power button works but...

2001-06-13 Thread Jonas bazz Egidius
jean-michel le bot wrote: > So this is my question: is there a way to make my computer switch off > automatically after 'shutdown -h now' ? > Shall I recompile the kernel for that or is there a more simple way (adding a > module...) ? Do you have apm-support in your kernel? (General setup -> Powe

Re: Evolution and Balsa in unstable

2001-06-13 Thread David Nusinow
On Wednesday 13 June 2001 12:05 am, christophe barbé wrote: > You should fill a bug for the broken dependencies. > These packages neeed only to build rebuild against the last libgal. > Evolution already has a bug against it for this (it's also been reported a lot, as it is a collection of merged

Re: pseudo-image

2001-06-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, May 30, 2001 at 06:23:09PM -0500, howard n perkins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > hi im having problems using the pseudo-image kit install. i get the > kit downloaded and umziped and i get the .list files but when i goto > make the image file its self and start downloading everything it gets

Re: speed up modem connection

2001-06-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, May 31, 2001 at 12:24:47AM -0700, John Joe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I surf with Netscape 4.0 for Linux and find it much > slower than IE 5.0 of MS Winodws. I've change MTU to 576 (MTU is an > argument to pppd) and it didn't help. > > I connect by 33.6k internal modem. I use Debian 2.1

rlinetd: how secure?

2001-06-13 Thread Sebastiaan
Hello, I am using rlinetd as replacement for inetd on a firewall. With rlinetd you can deceide which inetd services are allowed to be available for the inside and which for the outside world. When I do a nmap localhost, echo, discard, daytime, chargen, ftp, telnet, smtp and time are available (an

Re: making an 'Eterm' terminfo entry

2001-06-13 Thread Duane Healing
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 05:14:39PM -0700, Aaron Brashears wrote: > I recently put together a new debian box based on unstable. When I > connect to my local server running debian stable using ssh in Eterm, > the server complains when I run ncurses based applications such as > emacs that there is no

Compose key in X

2001-06-13 Thread Johann Spies
I have tried using xkeycaps to set the compose key: keycode 0x4E = Scroll_Lock NoSymbolMulti_key When I try it out in emacs, it does not work at all. In the gnome-terminal I get - [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ^e bash: :s^e: substitution failed [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ -

Re: 486 router is very slow

2001-06-13 Thread Dragos Delcea
Leen Besselink wrote: > You know, I don't think you can swap something like netfilter > rules/information/counters/whatever... > > I'm not sure how much kernel-'memory' can actually be swapped at all. > > so this might be the problem. that's the problem: the kernel is not swapable (only NT trie

Re: All packages ... again.

2001-06-13 Thread Balbir Thomas
Actually you can come pretty close to installing all. I once did it for the heck of it and have saved the selctions (if you are interested). Besides I think it would be a good test of debians excellent package management system to see if a novice users selected all packages , would dpkg be able t

Re: How to use junkbuster in lynx?

2001-06-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 02:26:30PM -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > I haven't used junkbuster, but assuming it's a normal proxy server > (atleast it's interface the browser deals with) > > set the environment variable http_proxy="http://proxy.host.name:port"; I've

Re: [OT?] ugly screen fonts in .pdf files

2001-06-13 Thread Joerg Johannes
This might be an acroread problem. I have noticed that acroread for Linux (and all other unices) displays text very ugly, but the windows one shows them fine. So if you have a .pdf created with pdflatex (as I do very often, because I need to print them out at university, and there is no LaTeX :-((

Re: [OT?] ugly screen fonts in .pdf files

2001-06-13 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 13 Jun 2001, Joerg Johannes wrote: > This might be an acroread problem. I have noticed that acroread for > Linux (and all other unices) displays text very ugly, but the windows > one shows them fine. So if you have a .pdf created with pdflatex (as I > do very often, because I need to print them

Re: [OT?] ugly screen fonts in .pdf files

2001-06-13 Thread Joerg Johannes
Anthony Campbell wrote: > > On 13 Jun 2001, Joerg Johannes wrote: > > This might be an acroread problem. I have noticed that acroread for > > Linux (and all other unices) displays text very ugly, but the windows > > one shows them fine. So if you have a .pdf created with pdflatex (as I > > do very

Re: Power button works but...

2001-06-13 Thread Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak
On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, jean-michel le bot wrote: jlb> jlb> Hello, jlb> After running shutdown -h now, the system shuts down and issues a jlb> message saying "Power down." jlb> But then I have to hit the power button to switch off my computer. This is a jlb> think I didn't have to do when I was ru

Re: speed up modem connection

2001-06-13 Thread Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak
on Thu, May 31, 2001 at 12:24:47AM -0700, John Joe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I surf with Netscape 4.0 for Linux and find it much > slower than IE 5.0 of MS Winodws. I've change MTU to 576 (MTU is an > argument to pppd) and it didn't help. > > I connect by 33.6k internal modem. I use Debian 2.

Re: Evolution and Balsa in unstable

2001-06-13 Thread Colin Watson
David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wednesday 13 June 2001 12:05 am, christophe barbé wrote: >> You should fill a bug for the broken dependencies. >> These packages neeed only to build rebuild against the last libgal. > >Evolution already has a bug against it for this (it's also been repor

Re: Local non-mirror debian archive

2001-06-13 Thread Colin Watson
John Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >At 11:34 PM 6/12/01 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: >>Dave Sherohman wrote: >>> Does any tool currently exist that will create an archive of this sort >>> for me? If not, where can I find documentation on setting it up manually? >> >>apt-ftparchive(1) or dpkg-sca

COM21 is killing me with ARP

2001-06-13 Thread Sebastiaan
Hello, a couple of days ago I installed a COM21 cable modem. Although I can internet without problems, the modem itself is sending me endless ARP requests, while my computer does not answer them. I analysed the data with iptraf, and it looks like this: ARP request for 212.127.130.4 (46 bytes) from

how to add application to icewm menu bar

2001-06-13 Thread Alex Kwan
Hi! I am using icewm window manager, how to add application (freeamp) to the menu bar of icewm, I don't want type 'freeamp' on the xterm every time. Thanks! Alex

USB burning

2001-06-13 Thread Frederic de Villamil
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I got an USB Sony Spressa burner and I'd like to know if it's linux friendly (with kernel recompiling indeed) and which soft handles it thanks in advance fred - -- http://www.skreel.org/neuro Trace ta route sans compromissions -BEGIN PGP

stopping named from starting

2001-06-13 Thread Jonathan Freiermuth
Hi all. I play occasionally with bind, but do not want it running full-time. I'm trying to learn about it, and am not ready for prime-time. Every time I "apt-get upgrade" and get a new version of bind, it starts itself automatically. This is in spite of the fact that I have set all the rc.d lin

Exim trouble

2001-06-13 Thread Rajkumar S.
Hi all, I have a neatly configured exim running, but having problem with sending mail to gnu.org.in. The problem is that the MX record is having an ip address instead of name Non-authoritative answer: gnu.org.in preference = 10, mail exchanger = 202.88.232.42 and the Exim complaints that i

Re: Exim trouble

2001-06-13 Thread Jonas bazz Egidius
Rajkumar S. wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a neatly configured exim running, but having problem with sending > mail to gnu.org.in. The problem is that the MX record is having an ip > address instead of name > > Non-authoritative answer: > gnu.org.in preference = 10, mail exchanger = 202.88.232.4

tftp server

2001-06-13 Thread Minervini Luigi
Does anyone know the meaning of the parameters -p -s /tftpboot (coloured in green) in the following line: tftp dgram udp wait root /usr/etc/in.tftpd in.tftpd -p -s /tftpboot thanks a lot Luigi

Re: stopping named from starting

2001-06-13 Thread ktb
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 07:23:18AM -0400, Jonathan Freiermuth wrote: > Hi all. > > I play occasionally with bind, but do not want it running full-time. I'm > trying to learn about it, and am not ready for prime-time. Every time I > "apt-get upgrade" and get a new version of bind, it starts itsel

Re: tftp server

2001-06-13 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 02:25:43PM +0200, Minervini Luigi wrote: > Does anyone know the meaning of the parameters -p -s /tftpboot (coloured in > green) in the following line: > tftp dgram udp wait root /usr/etc/in.tftpd in.tftpd -p -s /tftpboot man in.tftp -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/

Re: [users] Re: stopping named from starting

2001-06-13 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach ktb (on Wed, 13 Jun 2001 07:25:09AM -0500): > > To be most effective, /etc/resolv.conf should list the IP address of your > > local machine (127.0.0.1) as a nameserver. It currently does not. that should be 0.0.0.0. i found that once somewhere and never again, but from the source code,

Re: IBM Java 1.3 - Anyone get to work?

2001-06-13 Thread ChrisHoover
I have done that. It does not fix this problem. Amardeep Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 06/13/2001 03:29:42 AM To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subject: Re: IBM Java 1.3 - Anyone get to work? hi, after adding path to libjava.so to ld.so.conf, did you run ldconfig On Tue, 12 Jun 2001 [EMAIL P

Gnome, sawfish and testing...

2001-06-13 Thread Tiago Alves Macambira
Hi folks... I've just installed potato with reiserfs in a box in my office and dist-upgraded to woody. Everything was going just fine when, to my surprize, i realized that there's no more task-gnome-desktop in woody. And it got worst: there was no sawfish in testing either! What

RE: Latex version 2.09 from 7 Dec 89 ??

2001-06-13 Thread Lewis, James M.
> > Hi, > > Don't ask me why 'cus I don't know, but my fearless leader has decided > he needs an ancient version of LaTex on his spiffy new Debian laptop. > > Since this is from Dec 1989, I'm going to go out on a limb and guess I > can't get a .deb for it :) > > Anyone have a clue where I coul

Re: USB burning

2001-06-13 Thread glynis
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 01:13:08PM +0200, Frederic de Villamil wrote: > I got an USB Sony Spressa burner and I'd like to know if it's linux friendly > (with kernel recompiling indeed) and which soft handles it i'm using a usb iomega zip cd burner, and it works great with debian (unstable) and th

Re: [users] Re: stopping named from starting

2001-06-13 Thread ktb
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 02:57:23PM +0200, MaD dUCK wrote: > also sprach ktb (on Wed, 13 Jun 2001 07:25:09AM -0500): > > > To be most effective, /etc/resolv.conf should list the IP address of your > > > local machine (127.0.0.1) as a nameserver. It currently does not. > ^^ I did

Re: [users] Re: stopping named from starting

2001-06-13 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach ktb (on Wed, 13 Jun 2001 08:31:18AM -0500): > I did not sprach this. i am sorry, my bad. should pay more attention to quoting. martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redistribution of this emai

Re: how to add application to icewm menu bar

2001-06-13 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 07:07:27PM +0800, Alex Kwan wrote: > Hi! > > I am using icewm window manager, > how to add application (freeamp) > to the menu bar of icewm, I don't want > type 'freeamp' on the xterm every time. > vi ~/.icewm/toolbar then add: prog freeamp (icon name) freeamp You may ne

telnet

2001-06-13 Thread Andrew D Dixon
Hi All, I'm trying to setup a telnet daemon on a box running stable (I know, and I want to use ssh but the software we're using only knows about telnet. It's a private lan too so I'm not too concerned.). I've set everything up so inetd should spawn the telnet daemon but when I try to connect I ge

Re: [OT?] ugly screen fonts in .pdf files

2001-06-13 Thread David Purton
On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Joerg Johannes wrote: > This might be an acroread problem. I have noticed that acroread for > Linux (and all other unices) displays text very ugly, but the windows > one shows them fine. So if you have a .pdf created with pdflatex (as I > do very often, because I need to print

Re: Latex version 2.09 from 7 Dec 89 ??

2001-06-13 Thread David Z Maze
Jonathan D Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JDP> Don't ask me why 'cus I don't know, but my fearless leader has decided JDP> he needs an ancient version of LaTex on his spiffy new Debian laptop. JDP> JDP> Since this is from Dec 1989, I'm going to go out on a limb and guess I JDP> can't get a .de

Linux Expo 2001

2001-06-13 Thread Victoria Carson
Need a plasma screen on your Linux Expo stand? £430 + VAT is all it takes to secure the latest 42" plasma screen delivered, set-up and insured on your stand with all necessary cables and connections for the duration of the show . No hidden extras, we'll even collect at the end of the show. Cont

Re: gnome

2001-06-13 Thread Rafael Sasaki
I`ve had this same problem when i upgraded my Gnome. I installed the packege libgdk-pixbuf-gnome2 and it starts working fine now. Rafael Sasaki - Original Message - From: "Guilherme Borges" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 9:57 AM Subject: gnome

Why can't I?

2001-06-13 Thread Auke van der Gaast
Hello, I'm quite new to Linux... I've tried everything I could find on the net regarding this issue, but still it doesn't work. I'm trying to restrict users' access to only their home dir (I don't want them to be able to see or reach / or even /home ) I've already wasted half a day on just

Re: Why can't I?

2001-06-13 Thread ANDREW PERRIN
chmod o-rwx / chmod o-rwx /home chgrp root / chgrp root /home - Andrew J. Perrin - Assistant Professor of Sociology University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 269 Hamilton Hall CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [users] Re: Why can't I?

2001-06-13 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach ANDREW PERRIN (on Wed, 13 Jun 2001 10:48:29AM -0400): > chmod o-rwx / > chmod o-rwx /home > chgrp root / > chgrp root /home at which point you won't be able to access even your homedirectory anymore. na, you need the x right on directories higher up the hierarchy from where you want to

Re: stopping named from starting

2001-06-13 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 07:25:09AM -0500, ktb wrote: > > Take a look at the man page for update-rc.d > # update-rc.d -f bind remove > should remove the offending scripts. No no no no no. That is the *wrong* way to do it! If you do it that way, then the very next time you upgrade your bind packa

Re: Why can't I?

2001-06-13 Thread Dave Carrigan
ANDREW PERRIN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > chmod o-rwx / > chmod o-rwx /home Ok: $ sudo chmod o-rwx / $ ls bash: ls: command not found $ ps bash: ps: command not found $ pwd /home/dave $ cd bash: cd: /home/dave: Permission denied Uh oh. Good thing I ensured that I started a root shell

Re: Why can't I?

2001-06-13 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 04:40:56PM +0200, Auke van der Gaast wrote: > I'm trying to restrict users' access to only their home dir > (I don't want them to be able to see or reach / or even /home ) > I've already wasted half a day on just that, I'd really appreciate > it if anyone could tell me

Re: Why can't I?

2001-06-13 Thread ANDREW PERRIN
Oops - sure is I'll try to stick to subjects I know more about :) ap - Andrew J. Perrin - Assistant Professor of Sociology University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 269 Hamilton Hall CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA

Russian characters on terminal (howto?)

2001-06-13 Thread paolo pedaletti
Ciao, there is a conference here in university and some visitors are from Russia. When they connect their host in .ru and read mail with pine (*on remote host*) they can't read the text with the right characters. I suspect that ssh/telnet export some variable that doesn't permit them to read the ma

Re: [users] Re: Why can't I?

2001-06-13 Thread Hall Stevenson
> also sprach ANDREW PERRIN (on Wed, 13 Jun 2001 > 10:48:29AM -0400): > > chmod o-rwx / > > chmod o-rwx /home > > chgrp root / > > chgrp root /home > > at which point you won't be able to access even your > homedirectory [snip] > consider again. *why* do you want to do this? Sounds like a seriou

Re: Why can't I?

2001-06-13 Thread Casper Gielen
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 04:40:56PM +0200, Auke van der Gaast wrote: > Hello, > > I'm quite new to Linux... I've tried everything I could find on the > net regarding this issue, but still it doesn't work. > > I'm trying to restrict users' access to only their home dir > (I don't want them to be

HELP - SYSTEM WON'T COMPLETELY BOOT UP

2001-06-13 Thread ChrisHoover
HELP - I am having major problems all of a sudden. I came back from a break only to find that my linux box was completely locked up. I tried to ping it from my nt machine, but recieved no responce. So, I went ahead and powered down the machine. When I powered it up, it started to boot up but

help! help! help!

2001-06-13 Thread Minervini Luigi
Sorry but I'm a brand new Linux user, so I'm really in trouble!! I need to configure a tftp server to download a configuration image from a remote router. The following is the tftp configuration file (included in xinetd.conf): # protocol. The tftp protocol is often used to boot diskless \

Re: Latex version 2.09 from 7 Dec 89 ??

2001-06-13 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 10:24:27AM -0400, David Z Maze wrote: :Right Answer: LaTeX2e is intended to be a mostly-compatible successor :to LaTeX 2.09. Thanks, I'll try that first, this is all complecated by the fact that I know *nothing* about TeX of any flavor... :(I know that LaTeX2e isn't 100%

Re: how to add application to icewm menu bar *n

2001-06-13 Thread Alex Kwan
Kevin, Done! Thanks! but I only have a text mode toolbar right now, Another question, how can I use a M$Windows98's icon to be my freeamp's icon? Alex > On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 07:07:27PM +0800, Alex Kwan wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I am using icewm window manager, > > how to add application (freea

IPMasq No Joy

2001-06-13 Thread Stephen Handley
Title: Earn Over $4000.00 In Just 39 Days! Hi all,   Already posted about this once and thank you for the responses ... unfortunately I'm still stuck.   I have IPMasq installed, and as far as I can tell ipchains and ipmasqadm aswell   I can ping IP addresses from both my Debian server and m

Re: Gnome, sawfish and testing...

2001-06-13 Thread christophe barbé
IIRC there's no more task package in woody. In testing I see sawfish and sawfish-gnome. http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=sawfish&searchon=names&subword=1&version=unstable&release=all Christophe On Wed, 13 Jun 2001 16:23:29 Tiago Alves Macambira wrote: > Hi folks..

Re: [users] Re: Why can't I?

2001-06-13 Thread Auke van der Gaast
Well, not really, or maybe a bit. I just wouldn't like, for instance, the homedir of my little brother, (who can make my machine download things, since I have cable and he has 'only' a 56k modem connection.) to be accessible to colleagues. Kind of a privacy issue for others, not my own, becau

Re: networking broken (ifup, route add)

2001-06-13 Thread Gregory Guthrie
At 09:33 AM 06/13/2001 -0300, Miguel Griffa wrote: At 12:40 p.m. 12/06/01 -0500, you wrote: At 01:44 PM 06/12/2001 -0300, you wrote: At 11:05 a.m. 12/06/01 -0500, you wrote: At 12:57 PM 06/12/2001 -0300, Miguel Griffa wrote: SO,  1) what's wrong with ifup,  2) how to manually add localhost. try "i

Re: IPMasq No Joy

2001-06-13 Thread ChrisHoover
Stupid question, but have you setup ip_forwarding on your ipmasq machine? It not, it must be compiled into the kernel and you must have a 1 in /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward. This will allow the kernel to release the packets to the internet connection. Chris Stephen Handley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [users] Re: Why can't I?

2001-06-13 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Auke van der Gaast (on Wed, 13 Jun 2001 05:04:53PM +0200): > I only want to give people access through FTP. Maybe it's a good > idea to give them access to the FTP folders of others too, but I > don't want them browsing through the whole harddisk. They only need > to be able to retreive

Re: Gnome, sawfish and testing...

2001-06-13 Thread Colin Watson
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?christophe_barb=E9?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, 13 Jun 2001 16:23:29 Tiago Alves Macambira wrote: >> I've just installed potato with reiserfs in a box in my office >> and dist-upgraded to woody. Everything was going just fine when, to my >> surprize, i realized that th

off

2001-06-13 Thread spider
id like to thank everyone who helped me here ill be off for vacation see ya in november!

Re: help! help! help!

2001-06-13 Thread Sebastiaan
On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Minervini Luigi wrote: > Sorry but I'm a brand new Linux user, so I'm really in trouble!! > > I need to configure a tftp server to download a configuration image from a > remote router. > The following is the tftp configuration file (included in xinetd.conf): > > # pr

Mathematica font problem on debian ?

2001-06-13 Thread Balbir Thomas
hi When I try to run mathematica on debian (potato with kernel 2.2.19) I get an error stating that mathematica fonts are not properly installed. I have added the mathematica font directory (i.e. subdirectories of /usr/local/mathematica/SystemFiles/Fonts) to /etc/X11/XF86Config . On checking which

GDM and chooser

2001-06-13 Thread Thierry Florac
Hello, I currently use a Debian Potato update with Ximian GNOME packages (1.4) and GDM as display manager. How can I setup GDM to be able to have a chooser and to login on my linux box or on remote X servers ?? Thanks, Thierry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> P.S. : please be kind to reply also directly

Re: Mozilla 9.1has toasted my System

2001-06-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 01:29:16PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Two weeks ago i installed Mozilla 9.0 with the standard Mozilla installer. > And as this has worked pretty fine, I decided to use also the > installer that comes with Mozilla 9.1 (wich I downloaded from >

Re: Mathematica font problem on debian ?

2001-06-13 Thread John R Lenton
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 11:47:01AM -0500, Balbir Thomas wrote: > hi > When I try to run mathematica on debian (potato with kernel 2.2.19) I get an > error stating that mathematica fonts are not properly installed. I have > added the mathematica font directory (i.e. subdirectories of > /usr/local/m

Re: Power button works but...

2001-06-13 Thread D-Man
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 09:03:17AM +0200, jean-michel le bot wrote: | | Hello, | After running shutdown -h now, the system shuts down and issues a | message saying "Power down." | But then I have to hit the power button to switch off my computer. This is a | think I didn't have to do when I was r

Re: COM21 is killing me with ARP

2001-06-13 Thread Angus D Madden
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 12:01:23PM +0200, Sebastiaan wrote: > a couple of days ago I installed a COM21 cable modem. Although I can > internet without problems, the modem itself is sending me endless ARP > requests, while my computer does not answer them. I analysed the data with I have a COM21 and

Re: [users] Re: Why can't I?

2001-06-13 Thread D-Man
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 05:46:09PM +0200, Auke van der Gaast wrote: | Well, not really, or maybe a bit. I just wouldn't like, for | instance, the homedir of my little brother, (who can make | my machine download things, since I have cable and he | has 'only' a 56k modem connection.) to be access

[probably offtopic] xdm port listening

2001-06-13 Thread Sean Morgan
I've noticed a disturbing behavior in the version of xdm distributed in the x strike force's 4.1.0 prerelease series where xdm seems to listen on random ports in the 3-6 range. I'm not quite sure about this as I don't know exactly how to look up which program is using which port, though the

FTP/User access, was: Re: [users] Re: Why can't I?

2001-06-13 Thread Auke van der Gaast
>By default (and quite naturally) > users _can't_ see someone else's home directory unless that person > explicitly makes it readable. Well, maybe that's the problem... because they _can_ see others' homedir, don't know why, but it's true. I've used adduser to create the users. Thought that shou

Re: PDAs

2001-06-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 12:31:57PM -0400, Carl Fink ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm going to buy a PDA within the next week or so. After fairly > extensive research it looks like I have to get a PalmOS device. EPOC > is seemingly dead in the water, Compaq isn't selling their devices > without Wi

Re: FTP/User access, was: Re: [users] Re: Why can't I?

2001-06-13 Thread D-Man
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 07:39:21PM +0200, Auke van der Gaast wrote: | >By default (and quite naturally) | > users _can't_ see someone else's home directory unless that person | > explicitly makes it readable. | | Well, maybe that's the problem... because they _can_ see others' | homedir, don't kn

Re: stopping named from starting

2001-06-13 Thread ktb
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 11:02:28AM -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 07:25:09AM -0500, ktb wrote: > > > > Take a look at the man page for update-rc.d > > # update-rc.d -f bind remove > > should remove the offending scripts. > > No no no no no. That is the *wrong* way to do i

newbieDoc.sourceForge.net

2001-06-13 Thread will trillich
Folks keep raving about what we're trying to do over at http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ We were newbies not too long ago -- and we're writing down our experiences to provide newbie-friendly introductions to Debian/Linux so that today's newbies might have life just a bit better than we d

Re: Raid; mkraid /dev/md0

2001-06-13 Thread Guy Geens
> "Frans" == Frans Schreuder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Frans> I've attached the original message if anyone can shine a light Frans> on this thing that will not work. It's really the mkraid Frans> /dev/md0 part that won't work. Did you try after you copied the raidtab to the correct place?

Re: FTP/User access, was: Re: [users] Re: Why can't I?

2001-06-13 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach D-Man (on Wed, 13 Jun 2001 01:47:35PM -0400): > Home dirs should have "711" as the permissions (owner > read-write-execute group and world execute only). I just checked on > my system (I am really the only user right now) and the perms are 755 > (actually I'm not sure what the 's' in t

Re: FTP/User access, was: Re: [users] Re: Why can't I?

2001-06-13 Thread Dave Carrigan
D-Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Home dirs should have "711" as the permissions (owner > read-write-execute group and world execute only). I just checked on > my system (I am really the only user right now) and the perms are 755 > (actually I'm not sure what the 's' in the 010 column is (group

Re: grub & dual boot with 2 hd

2001-06-13 Thread Guy Geens
> "Anthony" == Anthony Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Guy" == Guy Geens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Guy> following in /boot/grub/menu.lst: Guy> title Debian GNU/Linux Guy> root (hd1,1) Guy> kernel /vmlinuz Guy> Guy> title Windows 2000 Guy> rootnoverify (hd0,0) Guy> chainloader +1 An

help with port forwarding

2001-06-13 Thread debuser
I have a Linux machine (Debian unstable with kernel 2.2.18) that is successfully masquerading for our local network. I want to do port forwarding so that machines on the Internet can see the web server of a machine on the local net. Following the IP-Masquerading howto, I have the following script w

Switching PCMCIA cards

2001-06-13 Thread Arafat Mohamed
I installed Progeny on a Toshiba Tecra 8000. At the time, I had a 3Com network card and all was good. I just got a new Xircom RealPort network card. As you might guess, I no longer have network connectivity. I'm new to the whole Linux thing (Did the install this weekend) and I don't know what I nee

debian-changes list

2001-06-13 Thread Tim Olsen
Are changes to unstable supposed to go to the debian-changes list? In the past few days, I've gotten a lot of unstable change notices from the debian-changes list. I thought debian-changes was just for stable changes. tim

Re: grub & dual boot with 2 hd

2001-06-13 Thread Anthony Fox
Guy Geens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > "Anthony" == Anthony Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > "Guy" == Guy Geens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Guy> following in /boot/grub/menu.lst: > > Guy> title Debian GNU/Linux > Guy> root (hd1,1) > Guy> kernel /vmlinuz > Guy> > Guy> title Win

Re: All packages ... again.

2001-06-13 Thread Gregory Laprade
On the other side of the scale, I recently did what a friend suggested and bailed on the CD install just b4 it upacked packages and installed them on my system...leaving me with a bootable system and (virtually) nothing on it. I then got network support up by apt-getting from CD, config'd some ftp

Re: kernel-package question

2001-06-13 Thread Guy Geens
> "Haim" == Haim Ashkenazi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Haim> Hi I've just compiled a custom kernel with 'kernel-package Haim> --revision=3:win4lin1 kernel-image'. the kernel I was compiling Haim> was the source of the kernel from which I originally installed Haim> the system - 2.2.19-reiserfs.

What happened to the task-gnome* packages in Woody?

2001-06-13 Thread Robert A. Jacobs
Debian Users, What happened to the task-gnome* packages in Debian Woody? I see that the packages are still available in both Potato and Sid but Debian they are curiously absent in Woody? If a user wishes to install Gnome, which packages must he install in the absence of a single

Re: debian-changes list

2001-06-13 Thread Colin Watson
Tim Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Are changes to unstable supposed to go to the debian-changes list? In >the past few days, I've gotten a lot of unstable change notices from >the debian-changes list. I thought debian-changes was just for stable >changes. Normally, yes; changes to unstable nor

Re: Not Loading Modules

2001-06-13 Thread Guy Geens
> "Thomas" == Thomas H George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Thomas> I compiled a 2.2.19 kernel with module support and sound Thomas> modules for my sound card selected, ran make modules and make Thomas> modules_install, then copied everything in Thomas> /usr/src.../arch/i386/boot to /boot. The k

Re: Networking problem (SAMBA???)

2001-06-13 Thread Guy Geens
> "aparra" == aparra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: aparra> But the problem is that some times the win98 machines stops aparra> viewing the network, put I still have IP conexion. And if I aparra> try to make, from any win machine. a telnet to any linux, it aparra> takes years to get the prompt.

Re: COM21 is killing me with ARP

2001-06-13 Thread Sebastiaan
On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Angus D Madden wrote: > On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 12:01:23PM +0200, Sebastiaan wrote: > > a couple of days ago I installed a COM21 cable modem. Although I can > > internet without problems, the modem itself is sending me endless ARP > > requests, while my computer does not answe

Re: FTP/User access, was: Re: [users] Re: Why can't I?

2001-06-13 Thread D-Man
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 11:23:36AM -0700, Dave Carrigan wrote: | D-Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | > Home dirs should have "711" as the permissions (owner | > read-write-execute group and world execute only). I just checked on | > my system (I am really the only user right now) and the perms

Re: What happened to the task-gnome* packages in Woody?

2001-06-13 Thread Hall Stevenson
> What happened to the task-gnome* packages in Debian > Woody? I see that the packages are still available in > both Potato and Sid but Debian they are curiously absent > in Woody? > > If a user wishes to install Gnome, which packages must > he install in the absence of a single task package? How

Re: newbieDoc.sourceForge.net

2001-06-13 Thread David Nusinow
Not that I'm against some duplication, but isn't this basically what www.linuxnewbie.org is doing? They were absolutely critical in my early days of linux, and I still head back there every so often to search the archives to see if anyone else has had my problem. - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTE

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