Re: [DEB] Re: *total* switch of CapsLock and Ctrl

2001-10-13 Thread Paul M Foster
On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 11:01:33PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Eugene Tyurin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011011 17:59]: > > > > > > Hello, > > > > I would like to remap CapsLock and LeftCtrl keys on my system - not > > only for X, but also for console system-wide. Obviously, I have to do > > bette

Mailx problem

2001-10-13 Thread Antti Tolamo
I have problem sending mail with mail command. Any other user than root gets '/usr/sbin/sendmail/: Permission denied'. Changing rights to for everyone to use mail, sendmail or exim doesn't make a diffrence. Odd is also that I can use with any user sendmail, and mail command, however sending cre

RE: Minimum Potato Files

2001-10-13 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> Well, it turns out that there are 79 packages in the base dist, > but once you go in and out of dselect, you end up with 169 packages. It > takes up about 220M of space. dselect tries to install packages from priority 'Standard' by default. This is why there are more packages. That and

RE: No luck with getting xdm to work

2001-10-13 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 13-Oct-2001 Ian Patrick Thomas wrote: > I have read the mini-HOWTO on www.linuxdoc.org and RTFM. Here is what > appears in /var/log/xdm.log > > AUDIT: Fri Oct 12 20:02:22 2001: 359 X: client 3 rejected from local host > Auth name: XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 ID: -1 > Xlib: connection to ":0.0"

Re: Compiling Pine

2001-10-13 Thread Cheryl Homiak
But my understanding that this version at debian.org will only give me pine-4.21 and that's not what I want; I want to have the latest version. Am I correct in this belief or not? I actually did figure out quite some time ago about downloading all the correct files, but reading through the instruc

Re: JPEG or GIF background in fvwm?

2001-10-13 Thread Marc Wilson
It's really not related to your window manager, although various do provide a way to set it. The easiest way to deal with it is to set it via your ~/.xsession file before you invoke the window manager. You can use any one of: xv xsetroot xloadimage display

Re: QuickTime

2001-10-13 Thread Francois Gouget
On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, dooshiant wrote: > http://openquicktime.sourceforge.net/ > > I don't know much Spanish but I guess that's what you're looking for. :-) Or you could also have a look at CrossOver (I don't know Spanish either). It's not open source but it will let you view Sorenson movies t

ADSL startup and non-root users

2001-10-13 Thread Iam
Hi at all, I'm using a Woody Linux distribution. I want to know if it's possible to give non-root users access to the Internet through ADSL connection in the same way as they can pon/poff a normal PSTN connection. In fact I, as a root user, use pon dsl-provider to connect to the Internet but even

Re: I'm in a loop

2001-10-13 Thread Steve Kowalik
At 12:37 pm, Saturday, October 13 2001, Gary Turner mumbled: > I don't know about you, but fixing my first problem and then watching > Linux boot was a warm fuzzy. Now if I can just get cron to stop mailing > me every hour that news is failing (it's not even set up yet). > You can just move the n

Re: Hello and 1st Question

2001-10-13 Thread Steve Kowalik
At 3:32 am, Friday, October 12 2001, Robert L. Harris mumbled: > Debian has 3 distrubitions I guess you'd say. > > The current "stable" distribution of Debian Linux (gnu/linux) is named Potato. > The current "testing, soon to be stable" distribution is named Woody. At > some > point in the fut

linuxworld: shutting down application when window closes

2001-10-13 Thread ramsubs
greetings all. i came across this article in linuxworld.com: http://www.linuxworld.com/ic_706716_6995_1-3133.html --- The DA's Office Goes Digital At the Queens County District Attorney's Office, keeping track of all the documents associated with the 50,000 criminal cases it processes

Looking for console IRC client with DCC auto-get and auto-accept

2001-10-13 Thread Morbo
Hi, Could anyone please suggest a good console based IRC client with the possibility to download files from mIRC Fserve fileservers, and the possiblility to set auto-accept and auto-get for DCC transfers. Many thanks in advance! regards, Balazs

Re: Looking for console IRC client with DCC auto-get and auto-accept

2001-10-13 Thread The Big PiG
On Saturday 13 October 2001 02:55, Morbo wrote: > Hi, > > Could anyone please suggest a good console based IRC client with the > possibility to download files > from mIRC Fserve fileservers, and the possiblility to set auto-accept and > auto-get for DCC transfers. > > Many thanks in advance! > rega

Re: Looking for console IRC client with DCC auto-get and auto-accept

2001-10-13 Thread Patrick Lane
I believe BitchX will do that, ScrollZ will too. --Patrick Morbo wrote: Hi, Could anyone please suggest a good console based IRC client with the possibility to download files from mIRC Fserve fileservers, and the possiblility to set auto-accept and auto-get for DCC transfers. Many thanks in

Advice on creating a workstation

2001-10-13 Thread russirv
Hello All I do voluntary work in a place where members of the public come to use computers, drink tea and coffee, read newspapers ... Usually we use windows but I have decided to experiment with linux workstation (dual booting with win2000). I really want to restrict users to browsing the www,

Re: Advice on creating a workstation

2001-10-13 Thread Matthew Sackman
Hi there, This is really easy to do in debian - it's just a matter of editing the various menus to create a user account that's as restrictive as you want. For ease of use, I'd suggest you use KDE. Then simply log in as the user that will be used by the group, and edit all the menus. Remove anyth

Re: Looking for console IRC client with DCC auto-get and auto-accept

2001-10-13 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Morbo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > Hi, > > Could anyone please suggest a good console based IRC client with the > possibility to download files > from mIRC Fserve fileservers, and the possiblility to set auto-accept and > auto-get for DCC transfers. Use the ircclient to end all ircclient d

Re: webalizer

2001-10-13 Thread Remco van de Meent
Tilmann Holst wrote: > Remco van de Meent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I'll make a new package available in the next few days and I'll put > > it up for download on some debian.org machine. You won't find in > > the potato archive however. I just put them online: http://people.debian.org/~remco

Re: woody apt: dowloading from different releases

2001-10-13 Thread Jussi Ekholm
Bruce Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am running Libranet 1.191 updated to woody with KDE from sid. > The version of apt in woody has been 0.5.3; as of yesterday, it > upgraded to 0.5.4. > > This version of apt has a feature to download a file from a different > release without changing /

NFS kernel daemon: nfsdnfssvc: Invalid argument

2001-10-13 Thread Graham Williams
I've just "apt-get dist-upgrade" a couple of machines (one sparc one i386). I'm running unstable and when nfs-kernel-server was being upgraded it gave the message: Starting NFS kernel daemon: nfsdnfssvc: Invalid argument mountd. Until now NFS has been working just fine. I'm running kernel 2.2.

Re: Advice on creating a workstation

2001-10-13 Thread ktb
On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 01:29:16PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello All > > I do voluntary work in a place where members of > the public come to use computers, drink tea and > coffee, read newspapers ... > > Usually we use windows but I have decided to > experiment with linux workstation

Re: not cleanly unmounted?

2001-10-13 Thread Jussi Ekholm
bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi. after recompiling 2.4.10, my boot process is fine until the end > where i get an error: "/dev/hdd2 was not cleanly unmounted, > check forced" and fsck goes and does its business for a couple > of minutes. i find this annoying, as i DO cleanly unmount before i >

First time Custom Kernel help - No suck file of directory

2001-10-13 Thread John Purser
Good Morning, I've been down with a cold, up with antihistamines, and whacked out on cough syrup for a few days so I figured I'd build my first custom kernel. Strangely enough I find I need some help. A little history: I'm running woody and a 2.4.9 kernel that I installed from kernel-image-2.4.9-

Blocking streaming audio and video

2001-10-13 Thread George Karaolides
Hi, This may well be a bit off-topic, but how do I block users on the LAN from accessing streaming audio and/or video data from the Internet and filling up the Internet line? I'm running Debian GNU-Linux 2.2r3 (potato) on the gateway. I use the ipmasq Debian package to set up masquerading and

Re: JPEG or GIF background in fvwm?

2001-10-13 Thread Jussi Ekholm
Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is somewhat off-topic, but can anyone point me in the right > direction to finding out how to use a .gif or .jpeg file as a desktop > background in fvwm? Hello Marc. I use xv to set it up. I made the following "script"; #!/bin/sh xv -root -max -qui

Star Office 6

2001-10-13 Thread sheine
I have downloaded all the files for Star Office 6, but haven't the slightest idea of how to install them. The guide describes a method that relates to the CD version. All the files are of the form *.bin. Does anybody know what to do next?

Kernel 2.4.0-test11 on potato

2001-10-13 Thread Marco Heusler
hi folks, I've been trying to get the mentioned kernel to run on my machine (potato 2.2r2). I've tried it the debian way (make-kpkg,...) and the normal way (make dep, ...). I always end up with the kernel properly installed, all modules created, BUT the file /lib/modules/2.4.0-test11/modules.d

apt-get dist-update problem

2001-10-13 Thread Søren Neigaard
I just did a apt-get dist-update to testing, and it killed my X. Why? When I installed Potato, I got a nice graphic setup screen for X, where I could setup my mouse, keybord, grapics card and screen. Can I use this again? -- Med venlig hilsen/Best regards, Søren Neigaard mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Star Office 6

2001-10-13 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 06:11:08AM -0700, sheine wrote: > I have downloaded all the files for Star Office 6, but haven't the > slightest idea of how to install them. The guide describes a method that > relates to the CD version. All the files are of the form *.bin. Does > anybody know what to do

Re: Blocking streaming audio and video

2001-10-13 Thread dman
On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 03:58:17PM +0300, George Karaolides wrote: | | Hi, | | This may well be a bit off-topic, but how do I block users on the LAN from | accessing streaming audio and/or video data from the Internet and filling | up the Internet line? The easiest way would be to simply block

Re: apt-get dist-update problem

2001-10-13 Thread dman
On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 03:21:54PM +0200, Søren Neigaard wrote: | I just did a apt-get dist-update to testing, and it killed my X. | Why? Probably because you didn't configure X after the upgrade. | When I installed Potato, I got a nice graphic setup screen for X, | where I could setup my mouse,

Re: Star Office 6

2001-10-13 Thread sheine
I changed the permissions and got new troubles. The soa and sop files started, but told me that I did not have enough disk memory, when I am reasonably sure that I do. The first so file told me that I needed the directory on the last so file. When I tried it, I was told that a bin file couldn't

Re[2]: apt-get dist-update problem

2001-10-13 Thread Søren Neigaard
Saturday, October 13, 2001, 4:08:53 PM, dman wrote: d> On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 03:21:54PM +0200, Søren Neigaard wrote: d> | I just did a apt-get dist-update to testing, and it killed my X. d> | Why? d> Probably because you didn't configure X after the upgrade. Ok ad how do I do this? d> | When I

Re: NFS kernel daemon: nfsdnfssvc: Invalid argument

2001-10-13 Thread James D Strandboge
On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 10:38:39PM +1000 or thereabouts, Graham Williams wrote: > I've just "apt-get dist-upgrade" a couple of machines (one sparc one > i386). I'm running unstable and when nfs-kernel-server was being > upgraded it gave the message: > > Starting NFS kernel daemon: nfsdnfssvc: Inv

Re: Star Office 6

2001-10-13 Thread Phillip Deackes
On Sat, 13 Oct 2001 07:12:06 -0700 sheine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I changed the permissions and got new troubles. The soa and sop files > started, but told me that I did not have enough disk memory, when I am > reasonably sure that I do. The first so file told me that I needed the > direct

Re: apt-get dist-update problem

2001-10-13 Thread Ian Patrick Thomas
On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 04:32:19PM +0200, S?ren Neigaard wrote: > Saturday, October 13, 2001, 4:08:53 PM, dman wrote: > > d> On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 03:21:54PM +0200, Søren Neigaard wrote: > d> | I just did a apt-get dist-update to testing, and it killed my X. > d> | Why? > > d> Probably because

Re[2]: apt-get dist-update problem

2001-10-13 Thread Søren Neigaard
Saturday, October 13, 2001, 5:44:45 PM, Ian wrote: IPT> On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 04:32:19PM +0200, S?ren Neigaard wrote: >> Saturday, October 13, 2001, 4:08:53 PM, dman wrote: >> >> d> On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 03:21:54PM +0200, Søren Neigaard wrote: >> d> | I just did a apt-get dist-update to testi

Re: apt-get dist-update problem

2001-10-13 Thread Ian Patrick Thomas
On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 05:02:33PM +0200, S?ren Neigaard wrote: > Saturday, October 13, 2001, 5:44:45 PM, Ian wrote: > > IPT> On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 04:32:19PM +0200, S?ren Neigaard wrote: > >> Saturday, October 13, 2001, 4:08:53 PM, dman wrote: > >> > >> d> On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 03:21:54PM +0

/sbin/ipchains: host/network `domain.name' not found

2001-10-13 Thread George Karaolides
Hi, I'm running Debian GNU-linux 2.2r3 (potato) and trying to set up firewall rules with sources and destinations specified as domain names rather than IP addresses. The problem is that ipchains returns an error: /sbin/ipchains: host/network `domain.name' not found Try `/sbin/ipchains -h' or '/

Re: linuxworld: shutting down application when window closes

2001-10-13 Thread Ross Burton
> The DA's Office Goes Digital > At the Queens County District Attorney's Office, keeping track of all the > documents associated with the 50,000 criminal cases it processes each year > is a family affair. There, necessity is the mother of invention, funding is > the father, and the prodigal child

Re[2]: apt-get dist-update problem

2001-10-13 Thread Søren Neigaard
Saturday, October 13, 2001, 6:10:28 PM, Ian wrote: IPT> On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 05:02:33PM +0200, S?ren Neigaard wrote: >> Saturday, October 13, 2001, 5:44:45 PM, Ian wrote: >> >> IPT> On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 04:32:19PM +0200, S?ren Neigaard wrote: >> >> Saturday, October 13, 2001, 4:08:53 PM, dm

Re: No luck with getting xdm to work

2001-10-13 Thread Ian Patrick Thomas
On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 10:57:09PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > On 13-Oct-2001 Ian Patrick Thomas wrote: > > I have read the mini-HOWTO on www.linuxdoc.org and RTFM. Here is what > > appears in /var/log/xdm.log > > > > AUDIT: Fri Oct 12 20:02:22 2001: 359 X: client 3 rejected from

Re: apt-get dist-update problem

2001-10-13 Thread Helmut Trinkl
On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 11:10:28AM -0500, Ian Patrick Thomas wrote: > On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 05:02:33PM +0200, S?ren Neigaard wrote: > > Saturday, October 13, 2001, 5:44:45 PM, Ian wrote: > > > > IPT> On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 04:32:19PM +0200, S?ren Neigaard wrote: > > >> Saturday, October 13, 200

Re: apt-get dist-update problem

2001-10-13 Thread dman
On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 04:32:19PM +0200, Søren Neigaard wrote: | Saturday, October 13, 2001, 4:08:53 PM, dman wrote: | | d> On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 03:21:54PM +0200, Søren Neigaard wrote: | d> | I just did a apt-get dist-update to testing, and it killed my X. | d> | Why? | | d> Probably because

Re: Software DVD players

2001-10-13 Thread Ross Burton
> Excuse my ignorance, but what's the attraction of watching DVD movies on a > computer? It seems I'm better off in my comfy recliner chair or on the > couch watching my 29 inch Panasonic GAOO then sitting at my desk in the > den. As I asked the original question I should reply here too... I actu

RE: Software DVD players

2001-10-13 Thread KP
I'm offering free psychiatric help over the internet for couples like this one, email me back for details! lol just kiddingdon't take it personal! -Original Message- From: Ross Burton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2001 10:44 AM To: Debian Users Subject: Re: Sof

Re: apt-get dist-update problem

2001-10-13 Thread Ian Patrick Thomas
On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 05:28:13PM +0200, S?ren Neigaard wrote: > Saturday, October 13, 2001, 6:10:28 PM, Ian wrote: > > IPT> On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 05:02:33PM +0200, S?ren Neigaard wrote: > >> Saturday, October 13, 2001, 5:44:45 PM, Ian wrote: > >> > >> IPT> On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 04:32:19PM +

booting W95 from a second harddrive with grub

2001-10-13 Thread ae roy
I have lying about a 120MB drive, very old, with W95 on it, and I'm trying to boot it using grub, but it doesnt work. This is what I have in my grub fi le # For booting Windows NT or Windows95 title Windows NT / Windows 95 boot menu root(hd1,0) makeactive chainloader +1 Can anyone help

Re: Star Office 6

2001-10-13 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 07:12:06AM -0700, sheine wrote: > I changed the permissions and got new troubles. The soa and sop files > started, but told me that I did not have enough disk memory, when I am > reasonably sure that I do. The first so file told me that I needed the > directory on the las

Fw: NFS kernel daemon: nfsdnfssvc: Invalid argument

2001-10-13 Thread L^Å^rinha....=^o^=
Me tire do seu catalogo obrigada     - Original Message - From: James D Strandboge To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2001 11:35 AM Subject: Re: NFS kernel daemon: nfsdnfssvc: Invalid argument On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 10:38:39PM +1000 or thereabouts, Graha

Re: not cleanly unmounted?

2001-10-13 Thread Mark Lanett
I sometimes have a problem with non-hda drives because they spin down. The unmount command tries to spin them up, doesn't wait long enough, and you have an unclean unmount. ~mark > hi. after recompiling 2.4.10, my boot process is fine until the end > where i get an error: "/dev/hdd2 was not clean

Re[2]: apt-get dist-update problem

2001-10-13 Thread Søren Neigaard
Saturday, October 13, 2001, 5:42:09 PM, dman wrote: d> On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 04:32:19PM +0200, Søren Neigaard wrote: d> | Saturday, October 13, 2001, 4:08:53 PM, dman wrote: d> | | d>> On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 03:21:54PM +0200, Søren Neigaard wrote: | d>> | I just did a apt-get dist-update to te

Re: Blocking streaming audio and video

2001-10-13 Thread George Karaolides
Hi, Sorry to be posting a followup to my own question, but I think I have a solution for this. I found some ipchains rules at: http://nw-hoosier.dyndns.org/rlohman/linux/firewall/es-block.html and put these in post-processing rules files for ipmasq, separately for internal and external interfa

Re: booting W95 from a second harddrive with grub

2001-10-13 Thread Tim Moss
On Sat, 13 Oct 2001 12:08:38 -0400 "ae roy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have lying about a 120MB drive, very old, with W95 on it, and I'm > trying to > boot it using grub, but it doesnt work. This is what I have in my grub > fi > le > Windows' system partition has to be on the first disk. Wi

Re: /sbin/ipchains: host/network `domain.name' not found - SOLVED

2001-10-13 Thread George Karaolides
Sorry to be posting a followup to my own question, but I solved this. I was using ipmasq to set up rules which needed to resolve external domain names before actually allowing external traffic... A bit stupid, but there it is. Putting my rules in post-processing rules files: /etc/ipmasq/P30inte

Re: apt-get dist-update problem

2001-10-13 Thread dman
On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 07:03:50PM +0200, Søren Neigaard wrote: | Saturday, October 13, 2001, 5:42:09 PM, dman wrote: | | d> On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 04:32:19PM +0200, Søren Neigaard wrote: | d> | Saturday, October 13, 2001, 4:08:53 PM, dman wrote: | d> | | | d>> On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 03:21:54PM

Re: booting W95 from a second harddrive with grub

2001-10-13 Thread dman
On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 10:08:38AM -0700, Tim Moss wrote: | On Sat, 13 Oct 2001 12:08:38 -0400 | "ae roy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | | > I have lying about a 120MB drive, very old, with W95 on it, and I'm | > trying to | > boot it using grub, but it doesnt work. This is what I have in my grub |

Maximum mount count?

2001-10-13 Thread Petre Daniel
so like,after 2,3 days at start up it stops and it runs fsck i believe.. just as if i unplugged my pc.how can i make it not to check my fs ? it says "maximum mount count.." and it runs fsck.. Dani

what music players?

2001-10-13 Thread Petre Daniel
Heya,what music players at console except mpg123? thx. Dani.

apt 0.5.4: preferences file

2001-10-13 Thread Bruce Miller
I put in a lot of effort yesterday studying the man pages for apt and apt_preferences as well as the APT HOWTO which is buried deep in the Debian website. To no avail. apt turned up its nose at my feeble attempt to write a preferences file. I usually beat my head against the brick wall until I

Re: Star Office 6

2001-10-13 Thread Tommi Komulainen
On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 06:11:08AM -0700, sheine wrote: > I have downloaded all the files for Star Office 6, but haven't the > slightest idea of how to install them. The guide describes a method that > relates to the CD version. All the files are of the form *.bin. Does > anybody know what to do

Re: QuickTime

2001-10-13 Thread csj
On Saturday 13 October 2001 15:20, Francois Gouget wrote: > On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, dooshiant wrote: > > http://openquicktime.sourceforge.net/ > > > > I don't know much Spanish but I guess that's what you're looking > > for. :-) > >Or you could also have a look at CrossOver (I don't know Spanish >

wwwoffle bugfix

2001-10-13 Thread andrea gelmini
hi all, I use wwwoffle a lot so I need a version without bugs (in particular the problem with compressed pages). Well, I applied the patches founded in wwwoffle homepage, which fix four important bugs in latest release of this program (some of them are also o

Re: Minimum Potato Files

2001-10-13 Thread csj
On Saturday 13 October 2001 09:58, Brooks R. Robinson wrote: > Hey, this question has been asked before, and no one gave imo > a really good answer.  What is the minimum installation debs?  There > are two schools of thought.  First, the packages listed in > basecont.txt in the disks- conta

Re: what music players?

2001-10-13 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Petre Daniel wrote on Sat Oct 13, 2001 um 08:35:25PM: > Heya,what music players at console except mpg123? splay, mpg321, ogg123, play (from sox package), bplay, midiplay, timidity. Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- Linux rebootet man in drei Fällen: Neuer Kernel, neue (Board-)Hardware, neue Pa

Re: linuxworld: shutting down application when window closes

2001-10-13 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> I know this happpens in Java using AWT or Swing - in the basic GUI Hello > World program you can make a window appear. Pressing the close button > closes the window but the program continues running, as the programmer did > not catch the window closing event and quit the application. Code has t

RE: Maximum mount count?

2001-10-13 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 13-Oct-2001 Petre Daniel wrote: > so like,after 2,3 days at start up it stops and it runs fsck i believe.. > just as if i unplugged my pc.how can i make it not to check my fs ? > it says "maximum mount count.." and it runs fsck.. > Dani after a certain number of successful mount a filesystem g

Why need an MTA in the defualt install ??

2001-10-13 Thread Sunny Dubey
hey, why do most UNIX OS's ship with an MTA enabled in the default install?? is there some [un]written rule of unix that I'm not aware of or something?? everytime I install debian, I always ponder why is exim being installed even though I never seem to use it. (For as long as I've used debian,

Re: lynx-ssl: Alert! HTTP 1.0 400 bad request; Not with other browsers

2001-10-13 Thread Morten Bo Johansen
Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: lynx-ssl > Version: 2.8.4.2-1 > > Does the following a lynx bug or is there a way to get lynx behave like > other browsers? It could be a Lynx bug, certainly. Whether or not one should dub some behaviour in a brower's interaction with html a bug i

Re: ADSL startup and non-root users

2001-10-13 Thread Jakob B. Jensen
While specialized tools like pon are fine for their special cases, Debian and other UNIX systems also have some different, generally usable way of granting normal users the right to perform some specific command as root, given roots prior permission. For Debian systems I would recommend the supe

Re: what music players?

2001-10-13 Thread Dave Thayer
On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 08:35:25PM +0200, Petre Daniel wrote: > Heya,what music players at console except mpg123? For a nice full-screen console player try mp3blaster. dt. -- Dave Thayer | If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about Denver, Colorado USA | cutting them down?

Shouldbe EASY?

2001-10-13 Thread forrest curo
All right, this would not have happened had there been kernel images for potato (or an obvious link thereto) near the basic potato distribution folder, but the critter IS running, as long as I log in at various alt-F1 to alt-F6s and leave it awaiting commands on some of them. But there's no obvio

Re: Why need an MTA in the defualt install ??

2001-10-13 Thread dman
On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 01:54:32PM -0400, Sunny Dubey wrote: | hey, | | why do most UNIX OS's ship with an MTA enabled in the default install?? | is there some [un]written rule of unix that I'm not aware of or something?? Daemon type programs (such as cron) notify the admin of errors via email.

bad file

2001-10-13 Thread Kevin
it looks like the filesystem is screwed up is there a way i can remove/fix this file remotely (ie no init 1) ?-wS--x-w- 25830 3373684167 3802483123 14067798681382885448 Sep 2 1905 guide.it.html [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/share/doc/apt# rm guide.it.html rm: cannot unlink `guide.it.html': Operatio

OT: Hello and 1st Question

2001-10-13 Thread Brad R
He's naming the releases off characters from Toy Story? Now I'm scared. That's almost as bad as the way we used to name computers at where I worked. We used the names of old TV detectives, which was tough when I took over because the only one I recognized was Columbo. I had to ask others what the

PHP4 downgrade.

2001-10-13 Thread Tarjei Huse
Hi, I'm running unstable, but have relixed that the latest php4 debs contain an api related bug so I cannot install Midgard, a CMS system. Is there a "downgrade" function in the apt-get system? I'd like to go back to the last 4.0.6 release. Yours Tarjei Huse

gnumeric and mozilla fonts

2001-10-13 Thread Harvey Kelly
Hello everybody, I know this is an old topic, but can anyone remind me of the *subject* for upgrading to XFree 4.1 and GTK/Mozilla fonts going haywire? Actually it is only Gnumeric and Mozilla that have freaked out - AbiWord is still fine. I've searched under different combinations of GTk fonts u

Re: gnumeric and mozilla fonts

2001-10-13 Thread Harvey Kelly
Sorry, sorry, sorry. Two minutes after sending this e-mail I searched under gnumeric and fonts, and I got the solution. Sorry - I'll try to be a bit more patient! Harvey On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 08:44:38PM +0100, kellyh wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I know this is an old topic, but can anyone

how to get Skipstone

2001-10-13 Thread Hans
Hi, I just started with Debian and now I want to install Skipstone on it. The problem is now that whatever I try I get message from apt-get install like the one underneath. This is a message when I did apt-get install skipstone, but when I the try to get mozilla I messages just like this one. I

Re: how to get Skipstone

2001-10-13 Thread Ross Burton
> Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: > skipstone: Depends: libstdc++3 (>= 1:3.0.2-0pre010908) but it is not installable > Depends: libmozilla > Depends: libnspr4 (>= 2:0.9.1-0.1) but it is not going to be installed > Depends: mozilla-

Enlightenment theme Customization...

2001-10-13 Thread Ricardo Diz
Hi there! I'm trying to change some defaults in theme BlueSteel for Enlightenment, specially the borders. I mean, I know I can change them for any window I want and then use the remember option, but I want it to be the default with BlueSteel. BTW, where can I get I "Do-a-theme-yourself-HOWTO"

Security Update

2001-10-13 Thread Mark Rompies
Hi! I've just use Debian for the first time in my life. I want to upgrade the applications or anything to mmake it more secure (i think it will use apps from security.debian.org). The problem is very simple: what commands should i type from the console to update the security fixes for a/any pa

obtaining makemap [postfix]

2001-10-13 Thread Darren Wyn Rees
Where do I find 'makemap' to use with Postfix ? What package ? Looking at an OpenBSD box I have here, the makemap seems to have come from Sendmail... but I'm not sure. Thanks. -- Darren Wyn Rees [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Security Update

2001-10-13 Thread Tarjei Huse
You must add a line in your sources list that points to security.debian.org. Then you can use apt-get Mark Rompies wrote: > > Hi! > > I've just use Debian for the first time in my life. I want to upgrade the > applications or anything to mmake it more secure (i think it will use apps > from s

Re. Star Office 6

2001-10-13 Thread sheine
Tommi Komulainen wrote: Just a thought, you weren't planning to do anything productive with, or did you? If you did, guess you'd better reconsider: This message caused me to reconsider the several years that I have fooled around with linux. Maybe it is just a computer game, not a serious tool

Re: Why need an MTA in the defualt install ??

2001-10-13 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 02:55:46PM -0400, dman wrote: > | Additionally, if the MTA is there for localhost reasons only, why can I > | connect to it from another machine on the network?? > > I guess it listens to port 25 (SMTP) by default. This can surely be > disabled, or firewall rules can be

Re: Security Update

2001-10-13 Thread David Raeker-Jordan
Mark Rompies wrote: > Hi! > > I've just use Debian for the first time in my life. I want to upgrade the > applications or anything to mmake it more secure (i think it will use apps > from security.debian.org). The problem is very simple: > > what commands should i type from the console to updat

D-Link DFE-530TX+ Installation

2001-10-13 Thread Rong Fan
Hello, my ethernet card(D-Link DFE-530TX+) wasn't recognized during installation. what should i do to make it work? any advice is welcome. thanks in advance. Best regards, Roam

Re: Security Update

2001-10-13 Thread Sean Quinlan
--- Mark Rompies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-10-13 21:30): > I've just use Debian for the first time in my life. I want to upgrade the > applications or anything to mmake it more secure (i think it will use apps > >from security.debian.org). The problem is very simple: > > what commands should i t

rxvt & vi

2001-10-13 Thread Mark Rompies
Hi... First... I wonder why my rxvt looks weird everytime I quit from vi? the rxvt window is full of every last commands and its output, and I can't find my cursor until i blindly type "clear" and press enter. Second.. Everytime i use vi: - i never see the "-INSERT-" (press "i", "o", "a" in com

Re: Maximum mount count?

2001-10-13 Thread John Carline
Petre Daniel wrote: > so like,after 2,3 days at start up it stops and it runs fsck i > believe..just as if i unplugged my pc.how can i make it not to > check my fs ?it says "maximum mount count.." and it runs > fsck..Dani man tune2fs check out the -c option John -- Powered by the Penguin

where can I get older versions of debs?

2001-10-13 Thread Tarjei Huse
Hi, I whant to revert back to the 4.0.6-6 version of php4 in unstable. Where can I get the debs? Tarjei

Re: how to get Skipstone

2001-10-13 Thread Hans Steinraht
That was simple, I downloaded the single package. Then apt-get install skipstone and its working now. Yhank you very much. Hans On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 10:21:46PM +, Hans wrote: > Hi, > > I just started with Debian and now I want to install Skipstone on it. > The problem is now that whate

Re: D-Link DFE-530TX+ Installation

2001-10-13 Thread dman
On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 04:42:18PM -0400, Rong Fan wrote: | Hello, | my ethernet card(D-Link DFE-530TX+) wasn't recognized during installation. what should i | do to make it work? any advice is welcome. Run 'modconf' and pick the tulip driver. Then see 'man interfaces' for information on editing

Re: where can I get older versions of debs?

2001-10-13 Thread Craig Dickson
Tarjei Huse wrote: > I whant to revert back to the 4.0.6-6 version of php4 in unstable. > Where can I get the debs? I actually don't know if the old debs are still available anywhere, but you ought to still have them yourself if you had that version installed previously. Look in /var/cache/apt/ar

Re: rxvt & vi

2001-10-13 Thread dman
On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 03:53:44AM +0700, Mark Rompies wrote: | Hi... | | First... | I wonder why my rxvt looks weird everytime I quit from vi? the rxvt window | is full of every last commands and its output, and I can't find my cursor | until i blindly type "clear" and press enter. | | Second.

netscape and debian stable

2001-10-13 Thread xucaen
a very strange thing happened to my system today. I am running debian 2.2r3 and netscape 4.76. Everything ran fine untill today when for no apparent reason Netscape began locking up my keyboard. The mouse still worked and all my running programs still worked, but no keyboard. This only happened whe

Perl CPAN maodule usinf passive ftp?

2001-10-13 Thread Stan Brown
How can I prsuade the perl CPAN module to use Debians passive mode ftp? Is the a environment varibale that I can set theat will tell all ftp tasks, suchs as ncftp to do the same? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n.

Re: where can I get older versions of debs?

2001-10-13 Thread Tarjei Huse
> > Where can I get the debs? > I actually don't know if the old debs are still available anywhere, but > you ought to still have them yourself if you had that version installed > previously. Look in /var/cache/apt/archives. It should be there unless > you've deleted it. D**. Ok, does anyone feel

paache+php wiht postgres or mysql

2001-10-13 Thread A. Demarteau \(linux rules!\)
hi, which of the (see topic) namde database system woudl work best in conjunction with apache and php 4? --- Andor Demarteau [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

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