Re: kernel compile step 1

2001-09-20 Thread jjheuring
But doesn't 'apt-get install kernel-package' take care of that? As I understand things I should be able to cd to a specific dir/ and run an executable config file. RnTFnM or that is the README in /usr/share/doc/kernel-package I see it mentions some place not to unpack the kernel but not where

offtopic: How to seperate only sound from a mpeg file

2001-09-20 Thread Thomas Wegner
Hi! Is it possible to seperate sound from a mpeg-file and save the result into a soundfile? ThanksThomas -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

nimda probes

2001-09-20 Thread Sam Varghese
Nicholas Petreley had this suggestion for redirecting nimda probes using Apache: RedirectMatch ^.*\.(exe|dll).* http://support.microsoft.com Of course, one can choose to redirect the request anywhere. Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com

Re: offtopic: which text language to use?

2001-09-20 Thread A.R. \(Tom\) Peters
On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, David Roundy wrote: > Probably if you don't want to typeset any math, though, you're better off > using docbook... but I can't vouch for that. Right: support for math is poor in DocBook: if you need to write many formulae, use LaTeX. In that case, consider LyX for an easy GU

Re: Minicom only works suid root -SOLVED

2001-09-20 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 19 Sep 2001, John Hasler wrote: > Anthony writes: > > I have no idea how all this happened, nor do I understand why /dev/ttyS0 > > had originally got incorrect permissions while /dev/ttyS1, etc, were > > correct. > > Pppd once had a bug that caused it to fail to restore the permissions on > the

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V101 #1495

2001-09-20 Thread Ross Burton
On Wed, 2001-09-19 at 23:24, Dmitriy wrote: > WTF is "application/ms-tnef" ??? > > [-- Attachment #2: winmail.dat --] > [-- Type: application/ms-tnef, Encoding: base64, Size: 3.7K --] > > [-- application/ms-tnef is unsupported (use 'v' to view this part) --] It's a custom binary encoding of ASCI

Potato & KDE 2.2

2001-09-20 Thread Yago Alvarado
Hi all! I've got Debian Potato 2.2r3 and I was wondering whether it would be possible to install KDE 2.2 (compiling the source code) over this system. Would I have to upgrade my system to Woody first? Would it work? Thanks in advance, Yago

Re: Centralizing apt-get downloads

2001-09-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 02:08:28AM -0700, der.hans ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Am 18. Sep, 2001 schwätzte Andrew Perrin so: > > > I have a home setup with a DSL line coming in to one debian box, then two > > other debian boxen connecting to it via ipmasq. Each box is set up to do > > an apt-get

Re: MS Windows users secretly dominating debian-user!

2001-09-20 Thread Johnny Ernst Nielsen
>Tim Moss writes: >> Well then, don't forget to count how many of the Outlook messages were >> sent by viruses and not actual people. > >Are you saying viruses can't use Debian? Wouldn't that violate the DFSG? Tim said _Outlook_ messages. Since Outlook does not run on Debian, viruses that need

Re: booting from floppy fails on scsi-PC

2001-09-20 Thread Christian Eckert
- Original Message - From: Martin F Krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Christian Eckert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 4:53 PM Subject: Re: booting from floppy fails on scsi-PC Thanks for your reply Concerning your short question which boot image I used: I have do

Xfree 4.0.1 corrupted in testing?

2001-09-20 Thread Sven Garbade
Hi all, I uprgaded from Debian Potato Progeny (with Xfree 402, kernel 2.2.19/2.4.5) to testing yesterday. Update was succesfull, but know dri is disabled (agp and dri are compiled into the kernel and runs fine with both kernels before update). I even compiled a new 2.4.9 kernel, no success. In the

ipop3d and SSL

2001-09-20 Thread Makaveli
I've got ipop3d-ssl installed from the Woody archive. All works fine, but one thing... If I check mail with a Outlook Express Client with SSL than I get an "Internet Security Warnig" Which says the following: The server you are connected to is using a security certificate that does not match its in

system time problem with potato?

2001-09-20 Thread Rino Mardo
i'm using the 2.2r0 CDs to install my debian box and i notice one thing. the dates of some files and directories are set hours ahead of my cmos time. files affected are the dynamically created ones like linked files in "/dev", some files in "/var" and "/usr", and "/proc" itself. poking around i

KDM and ip aliasing

2001-09-20 Thread Michael Meskes
Hi, does anyone know how to configure KDM to run on an aliased IP? I do have a machine running 2 IPs on one network card. For some network reasons I need KDM to run on the aliased one and not the original one. The clients try to connect via chooser broadcast and only see the original IP address.

Re: KDM and ip aliasing

2001-09-20 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> I tried setting DisplayManager.sourceAddress but this does not seem > to change anything. > which version of kde/kdm are you using? if it's >= 2.2alpha2, the setting is in kdmrc, section [Xdmcp], key SourceAddress=true/false. otherwise i can only ask, if it works with plain xdm - if not, then i

RE: stable -> testing

2001-09-20 Thread Bob Koss
> > > > I changed 'stable' to 'testing' everywhere in my > /etc/apt/sources.list file. > > When using testing, I always left the deb lines for stable in the > sources.list file. That is to say that I think rather than replacing > your stable lines with testing, you should leave them there and add

Re: Simple keyboard question

2001-09-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 08:53:49AM +0200, Karsten Bolding ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Once there was a program called kbdconfig (or at least very similar) - > now what is the way to change the keyboard layout - i.e. force an native > Italian laptop keyboard to act like an US one. Karsten: Depen

Re: can't mount smbfs

2001-09-20 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Bob Koss, > I'm running 2.4.7. > > Mine works the "other way" also. I need it to work "this way" (;-)) to do a > backup. Having just re-looked at mine after a reboot, it seems to be working again. While I'm loathe to suggest rebooting a debian box, maybe samba makes a real OS like windoze

Re: xterminal login to gdm server not permitted by Xlib?

2001-09-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 10:39:58AM -0400, Walter Tautz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > i.e. X-terminals > > Xlib: connection to "full-hostname:0.0" refused by server > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server Current versions of X don't listen for remote X connections. You'll have to en

Re: MS Windows users secretly dominating debian-user!

2001-09-20 Thread Tony Crawford
oivvio polite wrote (on 19 Sep 2001 at 11:27): > Well not exactly dominating. Maybe not secretly either. But it sounded > good. This oneliner from the department of utterly useless info tells > it all: > > agrep "^User-Agent: ,^X-Mailer: " user|perl -ne 'chomp;/.+?: (.?.?.?[^\d,\(,\[,\/]{1,14

Re: offtopic: which text language to use?

2001-09-20 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth David Roundy, > I don't know anything about docbook (which quite likely is very good), but > latex isn't bad either (and being a physicist I pretty much have to know it > anyways). I've looked briefly at some docbook source, and it looked (to my > untrained eye) uglier than latex source, an

xterm segfaults with -fa in unstable

2001-09-20 Thread mallum
Hi all; Im using X 4.1.0.1 from unstable. I have xft and truetype fonts installed ( via mscorefonts package ). Im trying to get xterm to display AntiAliased fonts its -fa switch however the following ; xterm -fa mono-12 results in a segfault . Any ideas on how to fix this ? xterm and other app

Re: offtopic: How to seperate only sound from a mpeg file

2001-09-20 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Thomas Wegner, > Is it possible to seperate sound from a mpeg-file and save the result into a > soundfile? Although I've never tried to do this myself... [rei:~]% mplayer -ao help MPlayer 0.18pre4(C) 2000-2001 Arpad Gereoffy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Available audio output drivers: os

Re: printers

2001-09-20 Thread Michael Ward Cole
Okay, Perhaps I need to reword this. I am getting the instruction on bootup that my parports are identified as 0 and 1, but that I need to 'use procfs to enable interrupt-driven operation.' I don't know what this means and really would appreciate someone directing me to some instructions on th

Re: MS Windows users secretly dominating debian-user!

2001-09-20 Thread oivvio polite
Also sprach Nathan E Norman: > Also, a more fair count would associate senders with user-agents ... > if I send 100 emails with mutt, and 10 other users send 10 emails each > with Outlook, which is more popular? (From a number of users > standpoint, Outlook should be the answer). Your script do

Re: nimda probes

2001-09-20 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 04:55:23PM +1000, Sam Varghese wrote: > Nicholas Petreley had this suggestion for redirecting > nimda probes using Apache: > > RedirectMatch ^.*\.(exe|dll).* http://support.microsoft.com That is so tempting... Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,

Re: MS Windows users secretly dominating debian-user!

2001-09-20 Thread oivvio polite
Also sprach Tony Crawford: > Funny, I'm not in the list, but I can't see where that pipeline > leaves out those of us with "Debian" in the first "Received" > stamp. > > T. Could you elaborate on that? Is there a way of discriminating subscribed posters from unsubscribed posters by watching the h

Re: Pasting into vim from Win2k via SSH

2001-09-20 Thread Brett Parker
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 03:59:24PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > > > * Patrick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010913 06:54]: > > Hi all, > > > > I have a Debian box that acts as a file and mail server along with a > > Win2k laptop belonging to my employer. (I work from home). > > > > Currently I'm tryi

Re: kernel compile step 1

2001-09-20 Thread Richard Hector
jjheuring wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 09:28:01AM +0700, San Segkhoonthod wrote: > > you can either install kernel-source-2.x.x packages or go get it from > > http://www.kernel.org/pub. > > But doesn't 'apt-get install kernel-package' take care of that? No. kernel-package is a tool to help

Mutt question

2001-09-20 Thread Michael Ward Cole
I have a problem sending email to one domain. My email is sent through home.com and every time that I send mail to another person with the same domain name I get a message undeliverable message saying that it can't find the local-part of the domain. Now, does this mean that it is looking loca

Re: logrotate wtmp,btmp,lastlog

2001-09-20 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I noticed that the stock /etc/logrotate.conf includes explicit >configurations for wtmp and btmp after this comment: > ># no packages own wtmp, or btmp -- we'll rotate them here > >Until recently, this file included a rotator

Re: Lookup during intensive IO

2001-09-20 Thread Jose Manuel dos Santos Calhariz
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 05:31:38PM +0200, Walter Hofmann wrote: > On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Jose Manuel dos Santos Calhariz wrote: > > > Coud this mean, it is enable by default? > > Check with "hdparm /dev/hda" > I have checked. It is disabled by default. I will tried the stability of the machine

Re: Mutt question

2001-09-20 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 07:37:45AM -0400, Michael Ward Cole wrote: > I have a problem sending email to one domain. My email is sent > through home.com and every time that I send mail to another person > with the same domain name I get a message undeliverable message saying > that it can't find the

RE: stable -> testing

2001-09-20 Thread D. Hoyem
When I upgraded from stable to testing all I did was change the stable to testing in tht sourceslist and away you go.. So do you need the stable lines in sources.list, I sy no. --- Bob Koss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > I changed 'stable' to 'testing' everywhere in my > > /etc/apt/so

RE: stable -> testing

2001-09-20 Thread Bob Koss
> > When I upgraded from stable to testing all I did was > change the stable to testing in tht sourceslist and > away you go.. So do you need the stable lines in > sources.list, I sy no. I agree. I seem to be doing okay here by just replacing all occurances of 'potato' with 'testing'. Robert

Re: MS Windows users secretly dominating debian-user!

2001-09-20 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > Are you saying viruses can't use Debian? Wouldn't that violate the DFSG? Johnny writes: > Tim said _Outlook_ messages. Since Outlook does not run on Debian, viruses > that need Outlook can not use Debian to spread. Well, sure. Everyone knows that viruses only work on Windows, so of c

Re: offtopic: which text language to use?

2001-09-20 Thread Alan Shutko
David Roundy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've looked briefly at some docbook source, and it looked (to my > untrained eye) uglier than latex source, and harder to input. But > that's probably just because I am unfamiliar with it. Not entirely. Docbook (or any SGML DTD, really) is more verbose

Re: Well that didn't work - Upgrading Woody from 2.2.19 to 2.4.9

2001-09-20 Thread Alejandro Diego Garin
On Wednesday 19 September 2001 13:39, John Purser wrote: > > And rebooted. > > Now it hangs during boot with this message: > > VFS: Cannot open root device "302" or 03:02 > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:02 > > This a test machine so I

kde in woody

2001-09-20 Thread Alejandro Diego Garin
Hello linuxfriends: I have installed woody (upgraded from potato) and now I would like to install Kde. My question is what is the magic apt-get command to start the whole kde install ? apt-get install __?__ thanks! -- Alejandro Diego Garin GNU/Linux user #151577 counter.li.org Licq #2502623

Re: KDM and ip aliasing

2001-09-20 Thread Michael Meskes
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 12:15:32PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > which version of kde/kdm are you using? if it's >= 2.2alpha2, the Sorry, forgot that. It's 2.1.1. > otherwise i can only ask, if it works with plain xdm - if not, then > i obviously have something more to code ... I have to tr

Re: kde in woody

2001-09-20 Thread smokez
http://kde.debian.net/ there is links from debian.org and if you search the mail archive there are several references adam Alejandro Diego Garin wrote: Hello linuxfriends: I have installed woody (upgraded from potato) and now I would like to install Kde. My question is what is the magic apt

RE: kde in woody

2001-09-20 Thread Bob Koss
> > I have installed woody (upgraded from potato) and now I would > like to install > Kde. My question is what is the magic apt-get command to start > the whole kde > install ? > apt-get install __?__ I'm in exactly the same boat. I did an 'apt-cache search kde' and I see task-kde near the end o

running dot matrix printers in Linux

2001-09-20 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
Hello: I've checked the printer compatibility list, and most printers that are listed are either inkjet or laser printers. Is there any way to print using dot matrix printers? I still have an old Epson LX-300 printer on my desk - would appreciate if it would work in Linux. I also have an HP Deskje

Re: stable -> testing

2001-09-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 06:15:26PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > When using testing, I always left the deb lines for stable in the > sources.list file. That is to say that I think rather than replacing > your stable lines with testing, you should leave them there and add > lines for testing. For som

apt

2001-09-20 Thread timo
Does this happen to look familiar to anyone? loki:/home/odin# apt-get update E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/fpt could not be found. E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/fpt could not be found. E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object E: Tried to d

Re: kde in woody

2001-09-20 Thread Alejandro Diego Garin
On Thursday 20 September 2001 09:53, Bob Koss wrote: > > I have installed woody (upgraded from potato) and now I would > > like to install > > Kde. My question is what is the magic apt-get command to start > > the whole kde > > install ? > > apt-get install __?__ > > I'm in exactly the same boat. I

Re: fbset

2001-09-20 Thread dman
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 09:03:09PM -0600, Dave Thayer wrote: | On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 05:10:55PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: | > * Steve Gran ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010918 16:23]: | [...] | > > for. However, fbset 1024x760-60 works just fine. Am i just feeding the |^

Re: apt

2001-09-20 Thread Danie Roux
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 09:24:46AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does this happen to look familiar to anyone? > > loki:/home/odin# apt-get update > E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/fpt could not be found. ^^^ ftp rather than fpt? -- Danie

RE: kde in woody

2001-09-20 Thread Bob Koss
> > Hi Bob! > I did: > #apt-get update > #apt-get install task-kde > E: couldn't find package task-kde > > what should i do? Now that's weird. Are you sure you're running Woody? Do a 'apt-cache search task-kde'. I see three entries when I do that.

Re: apt

2001-09-20 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 09:24:46 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does this happen to look familiar to anyone? > > loki:/home/odin# apt-get update > E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/fpt could not be found. ^^^ Looks like you misspelled "ftp" a

Re: stable -> testing

2001-09-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 08:18:37AM -0400, Bob Koss wrote: > I agree. I seem to be doing okay here by just replacing all occurances of > 'potato' with 'testing'. Be aware of the difference here ... Using 'potato' means you're tracking a release codename - exactly Debian 2.2 (or Debian 2.2r). Using

Re: apt

2001-09-20 Thread timo
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 03:27:26PM +0200, Danie Roux wrote: > On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 09:24:46AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Does this happen to look familiar to anyone? > > > > loki:/home/odin# apt-get update > > E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/fpt could not be found. >

Re: nimda probes

2001-09-20 Thread dman
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 04:55:23PM +1000, Sam Varghese wrote: | Nicholas Petreley had this suggestion for redirecting | nimda probes using Apache: | | RedirectMatch ^.*\.(exe|dll).* http://support.microsoft.com This is clever. I wonder, though, if the worm will actually follow the redirect. -D

Re: printers

2001-09-20 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Michael Ward Cole: > Okay, Perhaps I need to reword this. I am getting the instruction on bootup > that my parports are identified as 0 and 1, but that I need to 'use procfs to > enable interrupt-driven operation.' I don't know what this means and really > would appreciate someone d

Re: apt

2001-09-20 Thread Bud Rogers
On Thursday 20 September 2001 08:24 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does this happen to look familiar to anyone? > > loki:/home/odin# apt-get update > E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/fpt could not be found. I don't know about the other errors, but is that a typo? I think that should be

Re: fbset

2001-09-20 Thread Danie Roux
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 09:10:55AM -0400, dman wrote: > On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 09:03:09PM -0600, Dave Thayer wrote: > | On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 05:10:55PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > | > * Steve Gran ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010918 16:23]: > | [...] > | > > for. However, fbset 1024x760-60 works just

Re: kernel compile step 1

2001-09-20 Thread D. Hoyem
Well I believe that Kernel-package is one of the packages that you need to install a kernel source the Debian way. If you are attempting to upgrade your kernel to 2.4.9, I think that is what I have read on this thread, then do a apt-cache search kernel. This will provide you all of the kernel's t

Re: rm & download

2001-09-20 Thread Adam McDaniel
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 03:18:10PM +1200, Richard Hector wrote: > I guess realplayer must be sending X events to update the screen, so if > you can intercept those, you should be able to record it frame by frame > ... Of course if that became popular real might decide to stop supportin > X :-( if

Re: kde in woody

2001-09-20 Thread Alejandro Diego Garin
On Thursday 20 September 2001 10:30, Bob Koss wrote: > > Hi Bob! > > I did: > > #apt-get update > > #apt-get install task-kde > > E: couldn't find package task-kde > > > > what should i do? > > Now that's weird. Are you sure you're running Woody? > > Do a 'apt-cache search task-kde'. I see three en

Re: nimda probes

2001-09-20 Thread Adam McDaniel
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 09:15:58AM -0400, dman wrote: > On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 04:55:23PM +1000, Sam Varghese wrote: > | Nicholas Petreley had this suggestion for redirecting > | nimda probes using Apache: > | > | RedirectMatch ^.*\.(exe|dll).* http://support.microsoft.com > > This is clever. I

Re: apt

2001-09-20 Thread timo
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 03:32:40PM +0200, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 09:24:46 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Does this happen to look familiar to anyone? > > > > loki:/home/odin# apt-get update > > E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/fpt could not be found. >

Re: running dot matrix printers in Linux

2001-09-20 Thread Christopher Mosley
On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > Hello: > > I've checked the printer compatibility list, and most printers that > are listed are either inkjet or laser printers. Is there any way to > print using dot matrix printers? I still have an old Epson LX-300 > printer on my desk - would

Potato->Woody HOWTO?

2001-09-20 Thread Yago Alvarado
Hi! I've just subscribed to the list a few days ago and I'm seeing many messages about people migrating from the Stable to the Testing version of Debian which makes me think that it's not such a painful process as I had thought. Is there a HOWTO or something (perhaps in the archives?) expla

Re: bash prompt

2001-09-20 Thread W. Paul Mills
>From man bash: \[ begin a sequence of non-printing characters, which could be used to embed a terminal con­ trol sequence into the prompt \] end a sequence of non-printing characters So, try this: \[\

Logcheck_1.1.1-9_i386.deb problems

2001-09-20 Thread Brian Schramm
I am getting the following error in trying to install logcheck on my unstable debian system. Can someone tell me why? Selecting previously deselected package logcheck. (Reading database ... 110847 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking logcheck (from .../logcheck_1.1.1-9_i386.deb)

RE: Potato->Woody HOWTO?

2001-09-20 Thread Bob Koss
> >I've just subscribed to the list a few days ago and I'm seeing > many messages about people migrating from the Stable to the > Testing version > of Debian which makes me think that it's not such a painful > process as I had > thought. > >Is there a HOWTO or something (perhaps in the arch

Re: kde in woody

2001-09-20 Thread Alejandro Diego Garin
On Thursday 20 September 2001 10:30, you wrote: > > Hi Bob! > > I did: > > #apt-get update > > #apt-get install task-kde > > E: couldn't find package task-kde > > > > what should i do? > > Now that's weird. Are you sure you're running Woody? > > Do a 'apt-cache search task-kde'. I see three entries

ipop3d and SSL

2001-09-20 Thread Makaveli
I've got ipop3d-ssl installed from the Woody archive. All works fine, but one thing... If I check mail with a Outlook Express Client with SSL than I get an "Internet Security Warnig" Which says the following: The server you are connected to is using a security certificate that does not match its in

Re: Potato->Woody HOWTO?

2001-09-20 Thread Bud Rogers
On Thursday 20 September 2001 09:05 am, Yago Alvarado wrote: > Hi! > >I've just subscribed to the list a few days ago and I'm seeing > many messages about people migrating from the Stable to the Testing version > of Debian which makes me think that it's not such a painful process as I > had tho

RE: kde in woody

2001-09-20 Thread Bob Koss
> > well, finally i am doing this > > apt-get install kdebase > next > apt-get install koffice > next > > I'm donwloading the packages now, this should work fine after all > Let us know when you're up and running in kde.

Re: nimda probes

2001-09-20 Thread Alan Shutko
Adam McDaniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > the worm wouldn't even know the difference, to it it looks like it would > hit microsofts site from your url if it tries those extentions. Not correct, it gets a Redirect as the response, and it's its responsibility to follow it, unless it's using a too

Re. Printer troubles

2001-09-20 Thread root
Has no one any idea of how I can solve the problem stated below? I would really like to show that Debian is a real alternative to Windows. > I can print with pr |lpr. I have downloaded the browsers, > Netscape 6 and Opera 5, as well as Star Office. On none of these can I > print using the

update-alternatives --config x-window-manager

2001-09-20 Thread D. Hoyem
Hi all I'm running a PII 350 with Woody and use Window Maker. After the Woody install it had a different window manager installed i.e.Blackbox. I did a update-alternatives --config x-window-manager and chose Window Maker. Now what will happen, when I have to shutdown and reboot, Window Maker wi

Re: nimda probes

2001-09-20 Thread John Hasler
Adam McDaniel writes: > the worm wouldn't even know the difference, to it it looks like it would > hit microsofts site from your url if it tries those extentions. And then Microsoft will accuse you of a DOS attack. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

dri after upgrade to Xfree 4.1.0 doesn't work

2001-09-20 Thread Sven Garbade
Hi all, I want to complete my previous posting. After upgrading from Xfree 402 to Xfree 410 the error log shows the following: (EE) MGA(0): [dri] MGADRIScreenInit failed because of a version mismatch. [dri] mga.o kernel module version is 2.0.1 but version 3.0.x is needed. [dri] Disabling DRI. Se

RE: Potato->Woody HOWTO?

2001-09-20 Thread Yago Alvarado
> No need for a howto: > > 1) Edit /etc/apt/sources.list and add these lines so you can see the > testing packages: [ ...] > If the "apt-get dist-upgrade" stops due to an error, just run > it again. Thanks a lot. That's what I call clear instructions. :-) Regards, Yago

apt-get upgrade broke X

2001-09-20 Thread Andrew Dixon
Hi All, last night I "#apt-get upgrade"d my system and this morning X was broken. I tracked the problem down to my new set up not liking the "1600x1200" mode in my "/etc/X11/XF86Config-4". The other modes work fine. I'm using: XFree86 4.1 Matrox G450 card with mga_drv.o and mga_h

Re: iptables nat forwarding

2001-09-20 Thread Robert L. Harris
I was messing with this a bit also. I have this: /sbin/iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p TCP -i eth0 --dport 80 -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.0.2:80 >From the firewall (192.168.0.1) I can do this: {0}:wally:/etc/init.d>telnet 192.168.0.2 80 Trying 192.168.0.2... Connected to 192.168.0.2.

RE: Potato->Woody HOWTO?

2001-09-20 Thread Yago Alvarado
> I just did this yesterday. It was so simple, even *I* > couldn't screw it up. Thanks for the help. :-) > I chose not to upgrade XFree. One problem at a time. Can you do that? I mean... can you unselect the packages you don't want to install? :-? Regards, Yago

RE: Potato->Woody HOWTO?

2001-09-20 Thread Walter Tautz
On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Bob Koss wrote: > > > >I've just subscribed to the list a few days ago and I'm seeing > > many messages about people migrating from the Stable to the > > Testing version > > of Debian which makes me think that it's not such a painful > > process as I had > > thought. > >

Re: ipop3d and SSL

2001-09-20 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
Without having seen the certificate itself to know how it was created, but using my knowledge of SSL certs I'll see if I can help clear this up... The certificate does not have to be specific to the address, but rather to the hostname... Where this can lead to problems is on dynamic address

Re: named bogus loopback

2001-09-20 Thread Bill Wohler
Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My log file has started filling up with the following messages: > > Sep 19 14:03:42 gbr named[333]: ns_resp: query(clay-courts.bzam.com) > Bogus LOOPBACK A RR (localhost:127.0.0.1) learnt > (A=localhost:NS=65.201.216.121) > Sep 19 14:03:42 gbr

Re: Re. Printer troubles

2001-09-20 Thread Andrew Perrin
What happens when you try to print? Anything? Is there anything in /var/log/lp-acct, /var/log/lp-errs, or /var/log/lpr.log? Have you tried using magicfilter to handle printing? (I haven't used Opera, but Netscape and SO both print fine for me.) BTW: it's unwise to use a root login for mail and

RE: Potato->Woody HOWTO?

2001-09-20 Thread Bob Koss
> > > I chose not to upgrade XFree. One problem at a time. > > Can you do that? > I mean... can you unselect the packages you don't want to install? :-? > The installation / configuration tool asks you questions. I opted to leave anything to do with X the way it was.

Re: update-alternatives --config x-window-manager

2001-09-20 Thread Walter Tautz
On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, D. Hoyem wrote: > Hi all > I'm running a PII 350 with Woody and use Window > Maker. After the Woody install it had a different > window manager installed i.e.Blackbox. I did a > update-alternatives --config x-window-manager and > chose Window Maker. Now what will happen,

Re: view package contents w/o installing

2001-09-20 Thread Walter Tautz
On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Brian Potkin wrote: > On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 11:27:36AM -0500, DvB wrote: > > > Is there any way to see what files are in a package without having to > > install it first? > > > > I can't find this functionality on packages.debian.org and, IMHO, it > > would be useful if

Re: update-alternatives --config x-window-manager

2001-09-20 Thread D. Hoyem
--- Walter Tautz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, D. Hoyem wrote: > > > Hi all > > I'm running a PII 350 with Woody and use Window > > Maker. After the Woody install it had a different > > window manager installed i.e.Blackbox. I did a > > update-alternatives --config x-

Re: Potato->Woody HOWTO?

2001-09-20 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 03:57:02PM +0100, Yago Alvarado wrote: > > I chose not to upgrade XFree. One problem at a time. > > Can you do that? > I mean... can you unselect the packages you don't want to install? :-? No. The reason you can choose to leave X behind is that the packaging has changed.

Re. Printer troubles

2001-09-20 Thread root
Response to questions: /var/log/lp-acct is empty. /var/log/lp-errs has the following repeated about 40 times. /bin/sh: /usr/bin/gs: No such file or directory /var/log/lpr.log has the following with many repeats with changed lpd. (date,etc) lpd[365]: lp : filter 'f' terminated (termsi

loading pcmcia modules in 2.4.9

2001-09-20 Thread Richard Black
Hi All I am trying to upgrade my kernel from 2.4.3 to 2.4.9. Everything seems okay, _except_ I have no sound and no network (both work fine with 2.4.3). As best as I can tell, the my compilation options are the same (or very similar) in both versions. The sound I can tackle later, but the lack

Re: nimda probes

2001-09-20 Thread Hereward Cooper
once upon a time John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Adam McDaniel writes: > > the worm wouldn't even know the difference, to it it looks like it > would > > hit microsofts site from your url if it tries those extentions. > > And then Microsoft will accuse you of a DOS attack. Couldn't you j

Re. Printer troubles

2001-09-20 Thread sheine
I forgot to answer one question of the following; What happens when you try to print? Anything? Is there anything in /var/log/lp-acct, /var/log/lp-errs, or /var/log/lpr.log? Have you tried using magicfilter to handle printing? (I haven't used Opera, but Netscape and SO both print fine for me.

Re: Re. Printer troubles

2001-09-20 Thread Andrew Perrin
Looks like you don't have ghostscript installed (or at least installed correctly). gs's role is to take postscript output (which SO and Netscape generate) and translate it into your printer's native format. Try: apt-get install gs-aladdin and see if that works. -

Exim, imp, www-data question

2001-09-20 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi all, I'm running exim on Potato, with IMP,Postgresql and PHP3. When I setup exim, it asks which account to use to receive system emails and such. So, as usual, I put in my account name. I have noticed then when other users on the IMP system send an email with bad syntax, their email gets sent

RE: Woody install from the net

2001-09-20 Thread Bruce Best \(CRO\)
The instructions I was giving assumed you could download the ~80Mb from the /dists/testing/main/disks-/current/ directory to a Windows partition. If you do this, you don't need **any** floppies. The base system is installed directly from the hard drive. See s. 6.3 of the Debian Installation Ins

Re: MS Windows users secretly dominating debian-user!

2001-09-20 Thread Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak
On 20 Sep 2001, John Hasler wrote: JH> I wrote: JH> > Are you saying viruses can't use Debian? Wouldn't that violate the DFSG? JH> JH> Johnny writes: JH> > Tim said _Outlook_ messages. Since Outlook does not run on Debian, viruses JH> > that need Outlook can not use Debian to spread. JH> JH> We

Re: fbset

2001-09-20 Thread dman
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 03:38:21PM +0200, Danie Roux wrote: | On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 09:10:55AM -0400, dman wrote: | > On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 09:03:09PM -0600, Dave Thayer wrote: | > | On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 05:10:55PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: | > | > * Steve Gran ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010918 1

Re: iptables nat forwarding

2001-09-20 Thread Adam McDaniel
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 08:56:52AM -0600, Robert L. Harris wrote: > {0}:wally:/etc/init.d>telnet 192.168.0.1 80 > Trying 192.168.0.1... > telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused may seem like a silly suggestion, but i beleive iptables has the same rule as in ipchains where you

Re: nimda probes

2001-09-20 Thread Adam McDaniel
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 04:53:02PM +0100, Hereward Cooper wrote: > once upon a time John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > Adam McDaniel writes: > > > the worm wouldn't even know the difference, to it it looks like it > > would > > > hit microsofts site from your url if it tries those extenti

Re: nimda probes

2001-09-20 Thread Greg Wiley
On Wednesday, September 19, 2001 11:55 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Nicholas Petreley had this suggestion for redirecting > nimda probes using Apache: > RedirectMatch ^.*\.(exe|dll).* http://support.microsoft.com Heh. I wonder if nimda actually responds to redirects. -=greg

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