Re: OT: no mail from the list

On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 04:16:35AM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: > >From ~2300 CST 1/4/02 until ~0230 CST 1/6/02 I received less than 10 > messages from this list. All of them were 20 to 36 hours old. I have > no messages dated 1/5/02. > > Is this a local disturbance in the fabric of the universe, o

Galeon for woody?

I've been palying with Galeon on FreeBSD, and I'm pretty impressed! Where can I get a .deb for woody? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and

Re: need email removed

also sprach Jeremy Vaught <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.06.0628 +0100]: > I have been receiving list information at a number of email accounts. Some > were deleted and so in the absence of those accounts they are sent to my > admin account. Now I don't know the accounts that were deleted so I can'

Re: Dual head with two cards?

On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 10:24:04PM -0400, William Burrow wrote: > Is it technically possible to construct a dual head machine by using two > video cards (say a PCI and AGP card)? Any tips where to look? Yes. You need XFree86 4 or later, and you want to read their documentation. >From my dual hea

Galeon for testing?

I've been playing around withe Galeon browser on another OS and I decided I really like it. I wnet to instll it on my Debian "testing" system using dselect, and I can't seem to find it. Anyone know where I can get a .deb? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]84

Re: Debian Lists, USENET & Spam

Thus spake Nori Heikkinen: > on Sat, 05 Jan 2002 10:07:43PM -0600, Nori Heikkinen insinuated: > > RTFM: > > man procmail > > http://spamassassin.taint.org/ > > http://spamassassin.taint.org/dist/README > > so of course, having written this, and having rtfm'ed myself, now i > have a question ... >

Re: Users activity logging..

also sprach Petre Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.06.1509 +0100]: > i'm wondering if there is a software that would log everything a user > types,does,accesses,somewhere in a safe location.. i think that the closest you can get without seriously offending your users privacy is process account

Re: Debian Lists, USENET & Spam

Nori Heikkinen wrote: > orange:~# apt-get install spamassassin/unstable > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > E: Couldn't find package spamassassin/unstable > > ? am i doing it wrong? (currently running potato) Well potato's apt does not support that syntax, or pi

Re: iptables redir of 80 to 8080

also sprach dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.04.2111 +0100]: > have a web server running on a machine (call it 'A'). > machine 'A' is also the gateway masquerading connections from the > LAN to the DSL provider > have 'A' transparently proxy all HTTP requests from the LAN and >

Problems with gnome sound after "upgrade" from Progeny to woody

I finally bit the bullet, and "upgraded" one of my Progeny machines to woody this weekend. Things went reasonably well, althoug certainly not automaticly. In any case, when I loged inot a Gnome session, things were not very useable, so I loged out, deleted .gnom* .esd* .saw* and loged back in. W

Re: Help removing failed package

On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 10:25:20PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > Im seting up a new "testing: machine. > > I sat down and worked through dselect to select all the packages I wanted. > > Now I have one (trafstats) that is stuck in limbo. dselect shows it sa stae > "C", and it makes the install step f

Re: Debian and Redhat on the same PC

dx, I'll just reverse the order I'll answer your questions. >And how do you make/allocate partitions for both of them without >stepping on each other? Easy. Just make a separate partitions for RHL and Debian. Be it primary or logical whatever. Your call. Fortunately, you can make them share the

Re: Re: i386-none not in remapping table

Addendum: Note you need to append the --arch=i386 to compile the kernel the Debian way. Sorry for not using postfix notation. Paolo Falcone Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > >David Raeker-Jordan wrote: > >>I have an

Re: VIM features

Previously Paul Mackinney wrote: > What would be helpful is a README.Debian file in /usr/doc/vim that > alerts the user to the existence of /etc/vim/vimrc and its nice set of > potential customizations. I had overlooked the vim stuff in /etc, but I > have learned to check the /usr/doc directory.

Re: Help removing failed package

also sprach Stan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.06.0425 +0100]: > Now I have one (trafstats) that is stuck in limbo. dselect shows it sa stae > "C", and it makes the install step fail. I tried doing a dpkg -r trafstats, > but that also fails. > > How can I remove this failed package? apt-get

Re: Users activity logging..

Moin, * Petre Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02-01-06 15:09]: >i'm wondering if there is a software that would log everything a user >types,does,accesses,somewhere in a safe location.. Yup, it's called Carnivore. http://www.fbi.gov/hq/lab/carnivore/carnivore2.htm Thorsten -- There is no drug known

Re: Kernel boots from floppy, not from hard drive

Did you remember to run lilo after making changes in /boot? On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 08:14:46AM -0800, Albert Kinderman wrote: > I dual boot, using another boot manager to get to lilo on my > debian partition. > > Everything worked fine until two days ago, when I made a new > kernel using make-kpk

Re: need email removed

On Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:28:04 -0700, "Jeremy Vaught" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > I have been receiving list information at a number of email accounts. Some > were deleted and so in the absence of those accounts they are sent to my > admin account. Now I don't know the accounts that were

Re: Installing Woody via adsl

dman wrote: > On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 02:05:46PM +0100, Antonio wrote: > | Is there a way to net-install Woody (or sid) via ADSL? I don't have a direct > | ethernet connection, but installing via ADSL would solve me a couple of > | problems. > > Yes. ADLS is nothing special as far as software go

Debian at FOSDEM 2002

Moin! We have also been invited by FOSDEM to attend this year's Free and Open Source Developers Meeting taking place on February 16th and 17th in Bruxelles. There are a lot of seminar rooms which can be used by all participating projects and developers. If there are people from Debian who would

Re: woody & ext3

On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 12:06:01PM +0100, François Chenais wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to install my woody with ext3. > Must I install it ext2 and transform to ext3 or > is there any way to get install disk using ext3 ? > > > Thanks > > François I b

Re: x install problems

lee wrote: Right now I'm using a tnt2 m64 (agp)..made by an outfit called pny tech. Seemed like it was a g-force clone type card ? What bothers me about this card is it does not say it'll work with anything other than a windows os (pick yer poison,it says it does 'em all). Another one I used

Re: Booting a (network) machine that has no kbd and no monitor attached.

On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 02:13:09AM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: > I am setting up a machine that will be connected to the local network > and will not have a monitor nor a keyboard attached to it. > What changes, if any, should be made to the Debian software in order > for such machine to be able to

Re: Gnome & GDM - root login?

Michael Dickey wrote: > Seems a silly question, but... > Just installed Gnome & GDM on my son's computer along with a lot of the > Debian-junior packages. Now I find that I cannot login as root - I always get > the message "The system administrator is not allowed to login from this > screen" I

Re: Need Help to Program Text Draw Utility

> But it seems that there is no Linux-utility to draw simple > ascii-figures (lines, text, rectangles, circles) with > cut/copy/paste-capacity in textmode. IIRC this topic has been on this list before. There's even an emacs mode for this. I'm not sure if you'll find cut/copy/paste-capacity for sin

Re: NVidia GeForce MX problems - "no screens found"

On Thursday 03 January 2002 05:29 pm, Gregory Soyez wrote: > >Current (as of today) Woody system, NVidia GeForce MX AGP card, > >Debian packaged nv driver. XF86cfg starts fine and allows me to build > >the XF86Config file, but when I try to start the server I get the "no > >screens found" error. /v

Re: Gnome & GDM - root login?

Michael Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Seems a silly question, but... Just installed Gnome & GDM on my > son's computer along with a lot of the Debian-junior packages. Now I > find that I cannot login as root - I always get the message "The > system administrator is not allowed to login from

Re: Debian Lists, USENET & Spam

dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 08:27:13PM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote: > | Where is there a HOWTO or tutorial on using available tools (e.g. > | procmail) to filter spam? Is it something that the "unwashed masses" > | like myself can learn to do? > > If you would like, I

problems copying audio cd w/ cdrecord and cdrdao

Hello, I have problems creating audible audio cd's on my SONY CD-RW CRX160E, ATAPI CDROM drive. When burnt with either (A) cdrecord or (B) cdrdao, it just cannot be played back in my stereo, it just scans no tracks and wont't play. Here is what I have tried.. (A) cdda2wav -B -D /dev/sr0 my_au

problems copying audio cd w/ cdrecord and cdrdao

Hello, I have problems creating audible audio cd's on my SONY CD-RW CRX160E, ATAPI CDROM drive. When burnt with either (A) cdrecord or (B) cdrdao, it just cannot be played back in my stereo, it just scans no tracks and wont't play. Here is what I have tried.. (A) cdda2wav -B -D /dev/sr0 my_au

Still can't install :-(

I am still having problems installing Potato. I always use `simple' install mode and not select X, so I can install the unofficial XFree 4.x debs from someone who is listed in Debian (http://people.debian.org/~someone) I think... anyway I tried listing all the packages at once on the command lin

problems copying audio cd w/ cdrecord and cdrdao

Hello, I have problems creating audible audio cd's on my SONY CD-RW CRX160E, ATAPI CDROM drive. When burnt with either (A) cdrecord or (B) cdrdao, it just cannot be played back in my stereo, it just scans no tracks and wont't play. Here is what I have tried.. (A) cdda2wav -B -D /dev/sr0 my_au

Re: i NEED THE AUREAL AU8830 DRIVER

Thus spake D.: > go here: > http://sourceforge.net/projects/aureal/ > --- steven martinez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > PLEASE IF YOU KNOW WHERE i CAN GET THE DRIVER FOR > > SOUND CARD AUREAL AU8830 > > > > THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT! MSN > > Photos is the easiest way to share and print yo

Re: Signatures

on Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 10:39:59PM -0700, Jeremy Nickurak ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > I've also heard from several people that my sigs are coming across as > > broken or invalid. Not sure why this is, they _do_ appear valid to me > > here virtually always. > > Gpg (as run from evolution) s

X system under debian

Hi, I'm using the latest stable debian release. For some reason after intalling it,  X windows stoped  functioning under any user but root. What should I do??ICON Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: Click Here

Re: x install problems

Thus spake lee: > Right now I'm using a tnt2 m64 (agp)..made by an outfit called pny tech. > Seemed like it was a g-force clone type card ? What bothers me about this > card is it does not say it'll work with anything other than a windows os > (pick yer poison,it says it does 'em all). > > Anot

RE: Booting a (network) machine that has no kbd and no monitor attached.

I have a total of four Debian machines, only one of which has a keyboard and monitor. The other three are put up in a closet and just there happily doing their jobs (for the most part). I don't recall any changes I had to make to the OS itself. At least one of the machines required me to go into

Re: printing stopped working--any ideas?

Thus spake Luke Call: > When I try to print directly to /dev/lp0 from the command line ("cat > filename.txt > /dev/lp0") nothing happens; printing from applications > like gimp doesn't work either. It did work until recently, and I've > tried various HOWTOs, searching the web, and taking the sys

Re: Gnome & GDM - root login?

In /etc/gdm/gdm.conf change AllowRoot=false to AllowRoot=true under [security]. HTH, Sujeet On Thu, 2002-01-03 at 17:46, Michael Dickey wrote: > Seems a silly question, but... > Just installed Gnome & GDM on my son's computer along with a lot of the > Debian-junior packages. Now I find that I c

Re: cant open display

Moin, * Deva Seetharam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02-01-04 19:59]: >i did export DISPLAY=`hostname`:0.0 as user and xhost +`hostname` as root. >when i run netscape, i get the error message >Error: Can't open display:... > >then i tried export DISPLAY=:0.0 and tried to run netscape. >i get the error mess

Re: OT: Language War (Re: "C" Manual)

dman wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 09:39:09PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: > | On Thu, 03 Jan 2002 17:34:00 -0600 (CST), Richard Cobbe wrote: ... > | >char str[] = { 'b', 'a', 'd', ' ', 's', 't', 'r', 'i', 'n', 'g' }; > | >// note the lack of a terminating '\0'! > | >cout << str; ...

apt-get problem

I am facing a strange problem with apt-get. I have liborbit0 with a version "0.5.7-0.ximian", one of the versions left behind after I tried installing ximian. Now in unstable the version of liborbit0 is 0.5.12-1, but doing an apt-get upgrade does not upgrade this package, it says it is already in t

Re: qmail(maildir) + procmail + mutt

also sprach Américo Rocha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.04.2340 +0100]: > My ~/.qmail states: > > ./Maildir/ > |preline /usr/bin/procmail it should just be the procmail line, not the Maildir line. procmail isn't even invoked that way afaik. -- martin; (greetings from the heart of th

Re: Installing Woody via adsl

Hi, I have a cable connection which uses DHCP and it has caused me several problems in the past. I always had to resort to downloading a complete ISO of an installation cd, install and update after having set up networking. This might not be necessary anymore. Maybe the following extract from the

Trying to use install floppies and get Boot failed

I'm not sure which mailing list this should go to, so I'll try here first.   Here's the situation.  I have downloaded the ReiserFS floppies from here:ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/3.0.18-2001-12-21/images-1.44/reiserfs/   To the best of my knowledge, these are the most up

libssl09 for postgresql_7.1.3 ??

well,i need the postgres above 7 and i got the unofficial cds from ftp.fsn.hu and i cant install the postgresql 7 packages cause they need libssl09 which i was unable to find whatsoever neither on 1,2,3 or the extra 2 cds.. how can i search in a debian cd inside the .deb packages for a certian

Re: Gnome & GDM - root login?

I read this thread with interest, and can tell you one reason why I often login as root using gdm. I recently got a machine with gdm installed, and began shutting down in my usual way by su root shutdown -h now This had the result that gnome was saving every application that was open, and openin

Re: Users activity logging..

Petre Daniel([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > i'm wondering if there is a software that would log everything a user > types,does,accesses,somewhere in a safe location.. > thanx reading man script should be what you want. -- The Queue Principle: The longer you wait in line, the grea

Re: Debian Lists, USENET & Spam

Nori Heikkinen([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > on Sat, 05 Jan 2002 10:07:43PM -0600, Nori Heikkinen insinuated: > > RTFM: > > man procmail > > http://spamassassin.taint.org/ > > http://spamassassin.taint.org/dist/README > > so of course, having written this, and having rtfm'ed myse

Re: How to start OSS/Commercial Automatically + upgrade LD

Ben Bogart - FMPM/F1999([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hello all, > > I've installed debian and have to say I feel quite a bit more at home > with Debian than any other Linux system I've used. I am a NetBSD user > for the mostpart. > > I have a few questions, first off how can I

Re: Galeon for woody?

On 2002-01-06T10:12:55 +, Stan Brown wrote: > I've been palying with Galeon on FreeBSD, and I'm pretty impressed! > Where can I get a .deb for woody? You need non-US for that one, Galeon having SSL support and all that. For your sources.list: deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstab

Evolution error

It seems that I still have been unsuccessful in getting Evolution to work after several weeks since its initial release. The error I keep getting is: evolution-shell-WARNING **: Cannot access Bonobo/ConfigDatabase on wombat: (IDL:OAF/GeneralError:1.0) I know I have bonobo and bonobo-conf install

Re: Debian Lists, USENET & Spam

also sprach Jens Gecius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.06.1520 +0100]: > OK, so, could you post your scripts? That might be very helpful for > others. > > Another question: you check in exim if that sender is a spam-address. > How exactly does that work? Do you just check the headers and then > deny

OT: performance problems.

folks, sorry if i am posting this here, but i am sort of clueless, and i'd love some advise from you wise people! i have this AMD Thunderbird 1.3 GHz machine with 512Mb of SD-RAM, a 1Gb swap partition on a 20Gb 5400 seagate IDE drive. that's quite powerful, isn't it? Linux piper 2.4.9 #1 Tue Sep

HELP! please, the packaging system has a package stuck in it's craw!

I'm trying to upgrade a machine from progeny, to woody. At the moment my main problem is that the packaging system has the package trafstats stuck in it's craw, and I cna't seem to get it out! dselect shows it as status "C", and I'v tried removing it wiht various invocations of dselect dpkg, and

Re: Emacs & X

On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 09:26:02AM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > Is there any version of emacs that isn't dependent upon having > XFree86 installed? If you rebuild it yourself, I'm sure any version of emacs is X-optional. > I love emacs. I can't install XFree86 (or rather, don't need to > waste t

Re: problems copying audio cd w/ cdrecord and cdrdao

I haven't tried to play it on my comp, for I do not have the sound set up yet. Burnt audio cd's can be correctly scanned with cdda2wav -J, though. I can see all the tracks with their respective times, on my stereo it then looks as if a blank cd was inserted. I'd better set up my sound, which m

Re: OT: Language War (Re: "C" Manual)

Lo, on Friday, January 4, David Teague did write: > On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Richard Cobbe wrote: > > > Not in the general case, no. > > > > std::string *s = new string("foo"); > > std::string *s2 = s; > > > > delete s; > > > > If we assume a variant of C++ that extends delete to set it

gdm shutdown (was: The right way to power off a computer as non-root)

Thomas Deselaers wrote: > > I use my computer as a workstation and thus I think it would be a good idea > to be able to switch it of as user without being root. . > Of course this would be possible with gdm, . Okay, maybe I'm an idiot (don't answer that :-), but how do you shut down t

Windows client with debian server.

Hi, I would like to know if it's possible to have windows machines connect to a linux server at login, so that all the windows user profiles are saved on the server. This way if I work on win machine A and then go to win machine B, I still have my work in front of me... What software do I need fo

Re: Debian Lists, USENET & Spam

On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 09:20:12AM -0500, Jens Gecius wrote: | dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | > On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 08:27:13PM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote: | > | Where is there a HOWTO or tutorial on using available tools (e.g. | > | procmail) to filter spam? Is it something that the "unw

Unidentified subject!

Hi, I would like to know if it's possible to have windows machines connect to a linux server at login, so that all the windows user profiles are saved on the server. This way if I work on win machine A and then go to win machine B, I still have my work in front of me... What software do I need fo

Re: OT: Language War (Re: "C" Manual)

Lo, on Friday, January 4, David Jardine did write: > On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 05:34:00PM -0600, Richard Cobbe wrote: > > > > Yes, it *is* types. Remember the definition of type-safety: > > > > If an expression E is determined at compile time to have type T, > > then evaluating E will hav

Netscape

I have been trying to apt-get install netscape with no luck. My sources.list is using us.debian.org. Can someone point me in the right direction? Larry

Re: How to start OSS/Commercial Automatically + upgrade LD

On Sun, 6 Jan 2002 04:27:52 -0500 (EST) Ben Bogart - FMPM/F1999 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > I've installed debian and have to say I feel quite a bit more at home > with Debian than any other Linux system I've used. I am a NetBSD user > for the mostpart. Good. You might like Gen

Re: gcc oddities : why would this compile?

On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 06:52:04PM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: | On Fri, 4 Jan 2002 21:41:13 -0500, dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | | > I have both gcc 2.95.4 and gcc 3.0.2 installed. Both of them compiled | > this C program (this is the entire thing) : | > | > --- | > int | > main()

Re: routing help on dual homed box

On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 09:51:07AM +, Alan Chandler wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Saturday 05 January 2002 3:47 pm, Serge Rey wrote: > > hi, > > > ... [snip] > > i'm wondering if this is a routing problem? this is what the routing > > table looks like for box

tar question

How can I get tar to backup my entire machine to a file in /tmp with causing recursion? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a grap

Re: Galeon for testing?

On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 11:52:02AM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: | I've been playing around withe Galeon browser on another OS and I decided I | really like it. | | I wnet to instll it on my Debian "testing" system using dselect, and I | can't seem to find it. | | Anyone know where I can get a .deb?

Re: Q:Serveurs courrier

hello , yes i'm sorry it was an address error from me. Best regards, Tony -- Tony Schonfeld - F5GIT - Phone: +33 (0)6 75 23 65 30 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.f5git.ampr.org

Re: Debian and Redhat on the same PC

On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 01:17:52AM -0500, dx wrote: | I just like to know how can I install Debian and Redhat | on the same PC. With separate partitions for each OS. | I already installed Redhat using Grub, No problem (I like grub too, much easier to use than lilo, IMO) | but Debian is using L

Re: Booting a (network) machine that has no kbd and no monitor attached.

On Sat, Jan 05, 2002, Shaul Karl wrote: > I am setting up a machine that will be connected to the local network > and will not have a monitor nor a keyboard attached to it. > What changes, if any, should be made to the Debian software in order > for such machine to be able to boot without complai

Re: libssl09 for postgresql_7.1.3 ??

On Sun, 2002-01-06 at 03:57, Petre Daniel wrote: > well,i need the postgres above 7 and i got the unofficial cds from > ftp.fsn.hu and i cant install the postgresql 7 packages cause they need > libssl09 which i was unable to find whatsoever neither on 1,2,3 or the > extra 2 cds.. > how can i sea

Re: Help removing failed package

On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 03:36:01PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Stan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.06.0425 +0100]: > > Now I have one (trafstats) that is stuck in limbo. dselect shows it sa stae > > "C", and it makes the install step fail. I tried doing a dpkg -r trafstats, > >

Re: apt-get problem

On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 03:51:46PM -0500, Shaji N Vyapron wrote: > I am facing a strange problem with apt-get. I have liborbit0 with a > version "0.5.7-0.ximian", one of the versions left behind after I tried > installing ximian. Now in unstable the version of liborbit0 is 0.5.12-1, > but doing an

Re: Galeon for testing?

On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 11:52:02AM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > I've been playing around withe Galeon browser on another OS and I decided I > really like it. > > I wnet to instll it on my Debian "testing" system using dselect, and I > can't seem to find it. > > Anyone know where I can get a .deb?

Re: gcc oddities : why would this compile?

On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 06:52:04PM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote: > On Fri, 4 Jan 2002 21:41:13 -0500, dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have both gcc 2.95.4 and gcc 3.0.2 installed. Both of them compiled > > this C program (this is the entire thing) : > > > > --- > > int > > main() >

Re: need email removed

"Jeremy Vaught" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hello, > I have been receiving list information at a number of email accounts. Some > were deleted and so in the absence of those accounts they are sent to my > admin account. Now I don't know the accounts that were deleted so I can't > remove the

Linux, Solaris, KDM

I'm having a lot of difficulty getting my Sid box to serve KDM to an Ultra 5 w/ Solaris 8. I edited /etc/kde2/kdm/Xservers (added "ultra5:0 foreign"). I edited /etc/kde2/kdm/Xaccess (uncommented "*" and "* CHOOSER BROADCAST"). I edited /etc/kde2/kdm/kdmrc (in the [Xdmcp] section set "Enable=true

Re: OT: no mail from the list

On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 07:01:20AM -0600, Colin Watson wrote: | On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 04:16:35AM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: | > >From ~2300 CST 1/4/02 until ~0230 CST 1/6/02 I received less than 10 | > messages from this list. All of them were 20 to 36 hours old. I have | > no messages dated 1/5

Re: gdm shutdown (was: The right way to power off a computer as non-root)

On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, Jason Bleazard wrote: > Thomas Deselaers wrote: > > > > I use my computer as a workstation and thus I think it would be a good idea > > to be able to switch it of as user without being root. > > . > > > Of course this would be possible with gdm, > > . > > > Okay, mayb

Re: gdm shutdown (was: The right way to power off a computer as non-root)

On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 11:59:46AM -0500, Jason Bleazard wrote: | Thomas Deselaers wrote: | > | > I use my computer as a workstation and thus I think it would be a good idea | > to be able to switch it of as user without being root. | . | > Of course this would be possible with gdm, | . |

Re: tar question

On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 12:26:58PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: | How can I get tar to backup my entire machine to a file in /tmp with | causing recursion? tar -zcvf /tmp/backup.tar.gz /[^t]* tar acts recursively automatically, but it is bad to try and include the directory you are writing the tar fi

OT: Perl & UTF-8

Hi! I want to substitute element content by entity references in UTF-8 encoded XML files using Perl. My script currently only works with ISO 8859 encodings. Is there a module that can be used in Perl scripts that correctly reads and writes files according to specified encoding? If so, what's the n

Re: Debian Lists, USENET & Spam

On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 04:54:46PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: | also sprach Jens Gecius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.06.1520 +0100]: | > OK, so, could you post your scripts? That might be very helpful for | > others. | > | > Another question: you check in exim if that sender is a spam-address.

Re: Gnome & GDM - root login?

On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 07:30:12AM -0800, Richard Otte wrote: | I read this thread with interest, and can tell you one reason why I | often login as root using gdm. I recently got a machine with gdm | installed, and began shutting down in my usual way by | su root | shutdown -h now | | This had

Re: iptables redir of 80 to 8080

Thanks. On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 06:36:01PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: | also sprach dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.04.2111 +0100]: | > have a web server running on a machine (call it 'A'). | > machine 'A' is also the gateway masquerading connections from the | > LAN to the D

Re: Booting a (network) machine that has no kbd and no monitor attached.

On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 02:13:09AM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: | I am setting up a machine that will be connected to the local network | and will not have a monitor nor a keyboard attached to it. | What changes, if any, should be made to the Debian software in order | for such machine to be able to

stoping a detached screen

Hi, I run some deamons from screen. Such a deamon is started in the following way screen -S -m -d ./startscript.sh This works fine, a new but detached screen is created in which my script runs. Killing the script is much harder. I would prefer something of the following form: screen --kill . Cu

Re: X system under debian

On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 07:36:47AM +, icon icon wrote: |Hi, | |I'm using the latest stable debian release. | |For some reason after intalling it, X windows stoped functioning under |any user but root. | |What should I do?? This is a permissions error and comes up on th

solved Re: pine?

Pine compiles for me now; things I did: # ln -s /usr/bin/gcc /usr/bin/cc install -dev portion of ncurses package add "-llber" to the compile options in the "build" script (alternatively could have adjusted it to build without LDAP support) That last I'd call a bug in the Debian source package;

[Gnome] login as root

Hallo debian-user, I have a problem logging in to Gnome Desktop. When woody and Xfree 4 is started, I get the login screen. There are two accounts, user and root. I can login as normal user without any problems, but there is no way to logon as root. I'm quite sure that I didn´t mistype

Re: Matrox drivers + XFree86 package

Thus spake Eric G. Miller (egm2@jps.net): > Why bother? The X drivers are perfectly good for the G200. It's > probably only useful to get the Matrox driver's for the newest cards, > or those with OpenGL or some other special function not supported by > the X drivers. In general, X support for M

Re: Linux, Solaris, KDM

On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 01:50:10PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I'm having a lot of difficulty getting my Sid box to serve KDM to an Ultra | 5 w/ Solaris 8. I edited /etc/kde2/kdm/Xservers (added | "ultra5:0 foreign"). I edited /etc/kde2/kdm/Xaccess (uncommented "*" and | "* CHOOSER BROADCAS

Re: Matrox drivers + XFree86 package

Thus spake Marc Wilson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I don't know where you got this idea, but Matrox's provided v1.43 > driver works perfectly fine with the packaged XFree86. Further, the > packaged open-source driver knows what a G200 is quite well. I would > doubt there's much, if any, difference be

Re: OT: Perl & UTF-8

On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 08:06:38PM +0100, Holger Rauch wrote: | Hi! | | I want to substitute element content by entity references in UTF-8 encoded | XML files using Perl. My script currently only works with ISO 8859 | encodings. Is there a module that can be used in Perl scripts that | correctly r

RE: Windows client with debian server.

http://www.samba.org/ j. -- Jeremy L. Gaddis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -Original Message- From: Alok Menghrajani [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2002 11:52 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Windows client with debian server. Hi, I would like to know if it'

Re: OT: Language War (Re: "C" Manual)

On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 09:38:01PM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: | dman wrote: ... | > In C/C++ there is an invariant on strings ("char*", which is | > essentially equivalent to "char[]") that they end with a NUL byte. | | no, that's not true. It is true. A type is more than the name a compiler gi

OT: COX cable internet service change (after @home)

Greetings: I have been (trying) to keep up with the @home status. I learned last week that if you are a [EMAIL PROTECTED] user, you will migrate away from @home to cox.net in the coming weeks. No worries right? Not really. I really liked the constant (nearly static) IP I was given. I

Re: routing help on dual homed box

On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 09:22:49AM -0800, Serge Rey wrote: | now i'm trying to figure out the best way to automate this. i think my | problems the last few days were in the sequencing of configuring the | following mix of things | | eth1 - lan | eth0 - dhcp | firewall script | | the latter runs

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