xterm options

2002-01-23 Thread Adam Majer
Hi all, In xterm where you can select various options for the terminal like font size or Backarrow Key, [Ctrl-Mouse Button] how can I save my selections so they are selected by default the next time I start xterm? Thanks, Adam

¿Se Ve Su Sitio Web?

2002-01-23 Thread ¡Mensaje Importante!
"¿Se Puede Ver Su Sitio Web?" ¿Es difícil encontrarlo? ¿Está usted en el fondo de las listas?       Quizas SU sitio Web NO está en muchos motores de búsqueda y está en el Fondo de sus listas de los Buscadores y como resultado USTED PIERDE a clientes nuevos que no pueden encontrarle a usted. ¿

Re: .xinitrc not used in Woody?

2002-01-23 Thread Douglas Hespe
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 10:23:02AM +0100, Joachim Fahnenmueller wrote: > I think the xplanetbg command should also have a & at the end. > Yes, of course! This is embarrassing-- I thought I had done that but, as you have politely pointed out, I forgot. Thanks, I think that should fix it. Doug.

Re: Samba & Win2K

2002-01-23 Thread Juergen Striegel
> I have never tried to use win2k with Samba, I got Win2k and NT (and sometimes also Win98, bah) running with Samba. Never got any problems since using encrypted passwords (and for that a smbpasswd file). I dont use domain logins. My experience is: if samba runs with NT4 SP5 or 6 it will run wit

Re: sources.list--where to point?

2002-01-23 Thread Douglas Hespe
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 04:09:02PM -0600, Colin Watson wrote: > > The non-US archive contains things Debian wouldn't be allowed to export > from the US if they were stored there - mostly cryptography. You can > import them into the US yourself without any problems, as long as you > don't export th

Re: /etc/resolve.conf

2002-01-23 Thread Alan Shrimpton
Hi, I would like to thank you for your advise. You don't know how relieved I am. Finally had a spare moment from the wife and I did as you told me and it is downloading as I type. My windows machine was already set up for ICS. Cheers Al - Original Message - From: Cameron Matheson <[E

Re: Samba & Win2K

2002-01-23 Thread Juergen Striegel
> This sounds like an encrypted password problem. Samba by default For this read also the encryption-helpfile coming with samba!

Re: /etc/resolve.conf

2002-01-23 Thread Alan Shrimpton
Hi, The reason why I haven't set my Linux box to connect to the Internet is because I have a winmodem in the windows machine. I am only tinkering around with Linux but if successful, "move over windows". My next modem is a Linux modem. Thanks for the advise. Cheers Al - Original Message -

not enough room in /var/.../... to hold all debs

2002-01-23 Thread Gary Turner
My var partition is 240M. As I attempted a dist-upgrade to woody, I was told there is not enough room in the inn. What are my choices here? Must I resize the partition ( there is all kinds of room in the home or usr partitions I could steal ), or could I create a link into, say, home/debs? When

Re: Samba & Win2K

2002-01-23 Thread Gary Turner
On Tue, 22 Jan 2002 17:16:38 -0500, Jeff Bonner wrote: >After fooling around with the Samba server in Woody for a few days, I >just couldn't get any results, even after reading various FAQs and some >of the docs on samba.org. > >The problem is credentials, authentication, whatever you want to call

Certification?

2002-01-23 Thread Stonelx
Hi, Thinking about certification, Any suggestions on which route to go? Thru LPI? or SAIR? Is there a Debian certification? Thanks Mike

Newsserver??

2002-01-23 Thread Juergen Striegel
180 Mails/night? 2 Mails/min? There's much work to filter/delete those mails I don't need although it's a pitty to trash it. But I do have to since most email providers have a maximum count of space/no of emails. Wouldn't be a newsserver better to handle that flood of information? Did anyone of

Re: /etc/resolve.conf

2002-01-23 Thread Adam Majer
On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 08:36:27PM +1300, Alan Shrimpton wrote: > Hi, > > The reason why I haven't set my Linux box to connect to the Internet is > because I have a winmodem in the windows machine. I am only tinkering > around with Linux but if successful, "move over windows". My next modem is >

Re: locale not set properly

2002-01-23 Thread Johann Spies
I have the same problem. I have tried setting the locales in /etc/environment and in .bashrc also -- and I still get this annoying messages. I suppose it is some bug in the Woody setup. I have run dpkg-reconfigure locales a few times and also locale-gen and it does not seem to make any differenc

Re: Samba & Win2K

2002-01-23 Thread Juergen Striegel
> Check out the SMB HOWTO. Win9x/NT encrypts the password, while samba > expects un-crypted. The howto suggests registry fixes for 9x and NT but > has no info for 2k (at least not on my in-machine file). It does Isn't it the same in Win2k? But I suggest to use encrypted passwords in samba prio

mail to the list undeliverable

2002-01-23 Thread Gary Turner
See below: This is the first time my ISP has sent me one of these for the list. I have noticed that my posts occasionally arrive back to me as much as 6-12 hours after posting. The usual time span is <30 min., and that could be related to my retrieval schedule. Perhaps one of the mail/network g

Re: Samba & Win2K

2002-01-23 Thread Gary Turner
On Wed, 23 Jan 2002 08:42:07 +0100, Juergen Striegel wrote: >> Check out the SMB HOWTO. Win9x/NT encrypts the password, while samba >> expects un-crypted. The howto suggests registry fixes for 9x and NT but >> has no info for 2k (at least not on my in-machine file). It does > >Isn't it the same

Re: List help --

2002-01-23 Thread Neo Sze Wee
For people who prefer manual installation, debian is not easy. I have been try to do that by installing the root disk as base but I encounter many problems with debian file format. dpkg from project/ refuse to install or extract, complaining about the staus file and area file and I do not know w

Re: mail to the list undeliverable

2002-01-23 Thread Gary Turner
On Wed, 23 Jan 2002 01:44:56 -0600, Gary Turner wrote: >See below: > >This is the first time my ISP has sent me one of these for the list. I >have noticed that my posts occasionally arrive back to me as much as >6-12 hours after posting. The usual time span is <30 min., and that >could be relate

Some USB keyboard troubles.

2002-01-23 Thread Gareth Pearce
Hi I have been running debian unstable for a while now - and not had any problems - currently was running a custom 2.4.16 with ext3 patch. I have had a USB mouse for quite a while - and so had the USB support for mice installed in my kernel. Recently however my PS/2 keyboard port died a relativel

Re: Reference for all packages localed in Woody and/or Potato?

2002-01-23 Thread Tatsuya Kinoshita
On Tue, 22 Jan 2002 22:40:16 -0500, dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Look where apt stores its data -- the Packages.gz it downloads has all > the data you're asking for. > > Eg. > > http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz I'm using `apt-cache search WORD', `

Re: locale not set properly

2002-01-23 Thread Tatsuya Kinoshita
On Wed, 23 Jan 2002 09:37:40 +0200, Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have the same problem. I have tried setting the locales in > /etc/environment and in .bashrc also -- and I still get this annoying > messages. I suppose it is some bug in the Woody setup. > > I have run dpkg-reconfi

Re: Some USB keyboard troubles.

2002-01-23 Thread Gareth Pearce
My appologies for sending this - my problem is no longer a problem, I had this in my send queue from last night - and it sent before I got a chance to stop it. My ps/2 port spontaneously started working again :P (in fact - if i dont have something plugged into it it now stuffs up - maybe i should

Re: not enough room in /var/.../... to hold all debs

2002-01-23 Thread David Bell
*** I forgot to reply to list instead of replying to sender. :) *** I ran into this problem a couple days ago on my 486 laptop (KDE is a bit sluggish on it ;) )... Try apt-get --option Dir::Cache::Archives="/folder/on/big/partition" install Or, add Dir::Cache::Archives "/folder/on/big/partition

Re: not enough room in /var/.../... to hold all debs

2002-01-23 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Wed, 2002-01-23 at 08:29, Gary Turner wrote: > My var partition is 240M. As I attempted a dist-upgrade to woody, I was > told there is not enough room in the inn. > > What are my choices here? Must I resize the partition ( there is all > kinds of room in the home or usr partitions I could ste

Re: ::Sigh::

2002-01-23 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Wed, 2002-01-23 at 05:42, Timothy C. Fanelli wrote: > Well -- I'm still on the list... the saga continues - for the record, I've > unsubscribed about 13 times today. > Have you tried to unsunscribe from the web page? Andrea

Re: Apt question

2002-01-23 Thread David Bell
It's easy, and helpful. :) Create/Add... Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-priority: 900 Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-priority: 50 ...To your /etc/apt/preferences, and add a sid source at the end of your /etc/apt/sources.list. If you're using potato, you'd change the 'Pin: releas

Re: adding all users to group

2002-01-23 Thread Cameron Kerr
On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, martin f krafft wrote: >also sprach Cameron Kerr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.22.0848 +0100]: >> All of the users on a Debian system have UID >= 1000. For some unknown >> (to me) reason, the user `nobody' has a UID of 65534 (or -1) > >that's -2 btw ;) Yeah, well I'd rather kn

Re: List help --

2002-01-23 Thread Tatsuya Kinoshita
On Tue, 22 Jan 2002 17:49:26 -0500 (EST), "Timothy C. Fanelli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been trying and trying to unsubscribe... I've sent three or four > emails to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the > subject line, and replying to the confirmation message with the > appropriate

Re: Samba & Win2K

2002-01-23 Thread Gary Turner
On Tue, 22 Jan 2002 17:16:38 -0500, Jeff Bonner wrote: >After fooling around with the Samba server in Woody for a few days, I >just couldn't get any results, even after reading various FAQs and some >of the docs on samba.org. > >The problem is credentials, authentication, whatever you want to call

Re: changelogs for deb files.

2002-01-23 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 09:53:40PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello. > > What are the ways of viewing changlogs for deb files ? > I'm want to review them before getting new deb files. I don't think there is a way of getting to the changelog *before* downloading the deb. But once downloaded

Re: locale not set properly

2002-01-23 Thread Johann Spies
On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 05:14:53PM +0900, Tatsuya Kinoshita wrote: > Show the details of your problem. > (Run `locale-gen', `cat /etc/locale.gen', and `locale') Thanks for your reply. The output is below. After I saw this output, I went back and checked my /etc/environment again and discovered

Re: FreeGica Mandrakesoft

2002-01-23 Thread Josselin Mouette
le mer 23-01-2002 à 03:03, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson a écrit : > > I wouldn't be surprised if that product violates the GPL. What I > personally found most amusing about that spam was it was for Mandrake of > all people. Was rather annoyed that Slashdot rejected "Mandrake spams > Debian-User" article

Re: Gnome-terminal and URLs

2002-01-23 Thread Tommi Komulainen
On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 09:00:58PM -0500, Eric C. Cooper wrote: > On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 05:34:44PM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote: > > I notice that whenever I have a well formed URL appearing on a > > gnome-terminal window, it I pass the cursor over it, the URL text > > becomes underlined and the cu

Re: not enough room in /var/.../... to hold all debs

2002-01-23 Thread Gary Turner
On Wed, 23 Jan 2002 09:45:03 +0100, Andrea Vettorello wrote: >On Wed, 2002-01-23 at 08:29, Gary Turner wrote: >> What are my choices here? Must I resize the partition ( there is all >> kinds of room in the home or usr partitions I could steal ), or could I >> create a link into, say, home/debs?

Re: Newsserver??

2002-01-23 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Juergen Striegel wrote: > 180 Mails/night? 2 Mails/min? There's much work to filter/delete those > mails I don't need although it's a pitty to trash it. But I do have to > since most email providers have a maximum count of space/no of emails. If you download your messages and

Re: FreeGica Mandrakesoft

2002-01-23 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On 23 Jan 2002, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Do you have more information about this GPL violation ? Not really. I probably suck at French and misread the original message, but from what I could tell, it seems like they're basing a closed-source program off GPL'd code. I didn't check thier licensi

Re: FreeGica Mandrakesoftx

2002-01-23 Thread Benjamin Plaquevent
On 23 Jan 2002, Josselin Mouette wrote: > le mer 23-01-2002 à 03:03, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson a écrit : > > > > I wouldn't be surprised if that product violates the GPL. What I > > personally found most amusing about that spam was it was for Mandrake of > > all people. Was rather annoyed that Sla

Re: xterm options

2002-01-23 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 00:09:38 -0600, Adam Majer wrote: > In xterm where you can select various options for the terminal like font > size or Backarrow Key, [Ctrl-Mouse Button] how can I save my selections so > they are selected by default the next time I start xterm? AFAIK you can't, not directl

Re: Newsserver??

2002-01-23 Thread Juergen Striegel
> If you download your messages and have your MUA automagically delete > them off the server after reciept, this won't be a problem. It takes a > while for this list to hit the 10MB mark, the most common limit for > email boxes I've seen. Problem is that (at least in my case) I'm calling my mails

Re: locale not set properly

2002-01-23 Thread Tatsuya Kinoshita
On Wed, 23 Jan 2002 12:02:30 +0200, Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is what was in my /etc/environment after the correction: > > LANG=POSIX > LC_CTYPE="POSIX" > LC_NUMERIC="POSIX" > LC_TIME=it_IT.ISO-8859-1 > LC_COLLATE="POSIX" > LC_MONETARY="POSIX" > LC_MESSAGES="POSIX" > LANGUAGE

Re: Newsserver??

2002-01-23 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Juergen Striegel wrote: > Thanks, I will look at it. Hope you guys are looking at that ng too... > I'm afraid, I'll have a lot of questions ;-) I don't think you can post to that group (I think it's a read-only mirror of the list), alternatively you can go to http://lists.deb

compose-character in X

2002-01-23 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
Is there a way to get the ctrl-. compose character keystroke to work in X by default? It works on console but not X... -- Baloo

Re: Where can I get JetAdmin for Linux?

2002-01-23 Thread Gary L. Dolan
On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 11:29:43PM -0500, dman wrote: > > Can you ping it? Can you telnet to it? (try port 80 for the > webserver, 631 to try and do IPP and 9100 for JetDirect; if you type > stuff while telnetted to 9100 it will spit out of the printer as plain > text) > > On a jetdirect box at

Re: locale not set properly

2002-01-23 Thread Johann Spies
On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 07:49:32PM +0900, Tatsuya Kinoshita wrote: > If you want to use it_IT.ISO-8859-1, select it by > `dpkg-reconfigure locales'. > > And I suggest this: > > -- /etc/environment -- > LANG=en_ZA > LC_TIME=it_IT.ISO-8859-1 Thanks. I do not really want it_IT... for LC_TIME and

Re: apropos does nothing

2002-01-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 10:13:01PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > Yes, there is, and in cron.daily. The manual database doesn't get > > updated as insanely often as it used to, because that annoyed the hell > > out of people who were just trying to view individual pages. This may

Re: FreeGica Mandrakesoft

2002-01-23 Thread Laurent Martelli
> "Paul" == Paul 'Baloo' Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Paul> I wouldn't be surprised if that product violates the GPL. Paul> What I personally found most amusing about that spam was it Paul> was for Mandrake of all people. Was rather annoyed that Paul> Slashdot rejected "

Rsync hda to hdb

2002-01-23 Thread David Raeker-Jordan
I am trying to use rsync (version 2.5.1 protocol version 25) to produce a backup of my Debian unstable system and my win98 system. Here is how my hda is organized: /dev/hda7 on / type ext2 (rw,errors=remount-ro,errors=remount-ro) proc on /proc type proc (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid

Re: Certification?

2002-01-23 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Stonelx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.23.0831 +0100]: > Thinking about certification, > Any suggestions on which route to go? > Thru LPI? or SAIR? i am LPI affiliated, so you won't get an unbiased answer from me. however, before i joined LPI, i researched LPI vs. SAIR and ended up with

Re: a modest proposal - Debian needs more $

2002-01-23 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 22 Jan 2002, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 11:46:45AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > I'd be more than happy to make a contribution to Debian, but how do I do > > that from Britain? > > http://www.spi-inc.org/donations explains how to make donations from > Europe (there's a b

Installing Debian / ZIP Diskettes

2002-01-23 Thread wolerius
I have a question about installing Debian over the internet by using diskettes. I don't like to use eleven diskettes and the images on the server. Is it possible to use a 100Mbyte ZIP Diskette to do it the same way? What can I do? Ulli

Re: FreeGica Mandrakesoftx

2002-01-23 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Benjamin Plaquevent wrote: > Désolé mon anglais est pitoyable alors je préfère répondre en > français... No problem. My French is about as good as your English, it seems. I curse my American education, which made Spanish a required credit (despite the fact its *completely*

Re: Certification?

2002-01-23 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, martin f krafft wrote: > it's non-profit. thius logically means that SAIR might actually be more > popular and more respected, but i think that this is unfair to LPI. my > experience is that where people know off LPI, it's actually valued > higher than SAIR. LPI has higher sta

Re: Certification?

2002-01-23 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Paul 'Baloo' Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.23.1437 +0100]: > > it's non-profit. thius logically means that SAIR might actually be more > > popular and more respected, but i think that this is unfair to LPI. my > > experience is that where people know off LPI, it's actually valued

Re: GUI mail readers

2002-01-23 Thread judd
On 18 Jan, csj wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jan 2002 19:24:11 -0600 > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 17 Jan 2002 00:24:08 + Geoff Beaumont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 23:13, Ron Johnson wrote: >> > > Thanks to all. Last night I found Sylpheed, and do like it,

Re: iEpson StylusColor 860 on USB

2002-01-23 Thread Ovtavio Navarro Sada
Hi, I was having the same problem as U are describing, i just compiled cups (cups.org),configured (easy configuration), desisnstalled lpd and now my printer (epson 777) is working pretty nice. Try CUPS. Cheers, earvin

Re: FreeGica Mandrakesoftx

2002-01-23 Thread Benjamin Plaquevent
On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Benjamin Plaquevent wrote: > > > Désolé mon anglais est pitoyable alors je préfère répondre en > > français... > > No problem. My French is about as good as your English, it seems. I > curse my American education, which m

please don't feed the trolls [was: Re: FreeGica Mandrakesoftx]

2002-01-23 Thread Camille Dominique
Would you guys mind stop crossposting this off topic discussion and choose one list (and language) for its continuation? Or how about just considering the whole original posting as SPAM and forget about it? thanks. -- Camille (subscribed to debian-user-french)

Re: Certification?

2002-01-23 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, martin f krafft wrote: > not quite that harsh. the SAIR test is still a fair test (i should be a > poet), but its emphasis is more on the test itself rather than on the > {knowledge,experience} base it's supposed to certify. does that make sense? Yeah. > and hey, i warn you:

Re: Help with mailbox deletion

2002-01-23 Thread Brian Schramm
The permissions are set to rw at my user name and group name. The ls -l is this: -rw---1 bschramm bschramm 121180 Feb 14 2001 Busness_letters~ -rw---1 bschramm bschramm 361620 Jul 11 2001 Busness_new -rw---1 bschramm bschramm 311718 Jun 4 2001 Bussines -rw-

installing xwindows

2002-01-23 Thread Alex Hunsley
What are the correct packages to install to get xwindows on my debian potato box? I'd like to use KDE. I've searched the package cache and found xfree86 things, is this the track I want to go along? thanks alex

"Simple" package installing

2002-01-23 Thread Alex Hunsley
Towards the end of a Debian install, you're offered to install extra software packages, in Simple or Advanced mode. Advanced mode just launches dselect, which can be done easily at any time, but is there any way for me to launch the Simple mode installer from a working debian install? Or, failin

Re: "Simple" package installing

2002-01-23 Thread Scott Henson
On Wed, 2002-01-23 at 09:52, Alex Hunsley wrote: > Towards the end of a Debian install, you're offered to install extra software > packages, in Simple or > Advanced mode. Advanced mode just launches dselect, which can be done easily > at any time, but is > there any way for me to launch the Simpl

Re: installing xwindows

2002-01-23 Thread Nathan
> What are the correct packages to install to get xwindows on my debian potato > box? I'd like to use > KDE. I've searched the package cache and found xfree86 things, is this the > track I want to go along? apt-get install x-windows-system thats on unstable anyway If that doesn't work then apt

Re: Where can I get JetAdmin for Linux?

2002-01-23 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Noah Meyerhans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 10:29:05AM -0500, Brian P. Flaherty wrote: > > > > I don't know if you can get JetAdmin for Linux, but I suggest looking > > at CUPS. I have JetAdmin at work on Solaris and CUPS at home and they > > seem pretty similar to me.

Re: Where can I get JetAdmin for Linux?

2002-01-23 Thread Dragos
On Tuesday 22 January 2002 04:45 pm, Stan Brown wrote: > I'm replacing a HP-UX workstation with a woody box. > > One of the functions of this HP box is to rotuinely check that status of a > HP jetAdmin printer. > > Can I get JetAdmin software for Linux? If so has anyone got a pointer to a > locatio

Re: installing xwindows

2002-01-23 Thread Alex Hunsley
Nathan wrote: > > > What are the correct packages to install to get xwindows on my debian > > potato box? I'd like to use > > KDE. I've searched the package cache and found xfree86 things, is this the > > track I want to go along? > > apt-get install x-windows-system > > thats on unstable an

installing woody

2002-01-23 Thread sam rosenfeld
I have a broken (or at least bent) Debian2.2r2 on my personal box. When I install woody on the same partition that now holds my 2.2r2, would it be best to format the partition first? Or are there better ways of handling the installation? BTW, I use this machine primarily for software experiment

Re: Where can I get JetAdmin for Linux?

2002-01-23 Thread Dragos
On Wednesday 23 January 2002 05:10 pm, Dragos wrote: > On Tuesday 22 January 2002 04:45 pm, Stan Brown wrote: > > I'm replacing a HP-UX workstation with a woody box. > > > > One of the functions of this HP box is to rotuinely check that status of > > a HP jetAdmin printer. > > > > Can I get JetAdmi

Re: compose-character in X

2002-01-23 Thread Gary Turner
On Wed, 23 Jan 2002 03:25:40 -0800 (PST), Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: >Is there a way to get the ctrl-. compose character keystroke to work in >X by default? It works on console but not X... > A couple of hours ago, I just happened to read that the default 'compose' key in X is the bump labeled '

Re: Certification?

2002-01-23 Thread Chris Jenks
At 08:45 AM 1/23/02, martin f krafft wrote: not quite that harsh. the SAIR test is still a fair test (i should be a poet), but its emphasis is more on the test itself rather than on the {knowledge,experience} base it's supposed to certify. does that make sense? and hey, i warn you: this is all m

Konqueror's audioCD IO slave

2002-01-23 Thread list3
Hi. I am using woody. For some reason I don't have Konqueror's audioCD IO slave installed/activated. Any ideas on what can I do ?

Re: List help --

2002-01-23 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Wed, 23 Jan 2002 18:07:08 +0900 (JST), Tatsuya Kinoshita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jan 2002 17:49:26 -0500 (EST), > "Timothy C. Fanelli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've been trying and trying to unsubscribe... I've sent three or four > > emails to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "u

Re: compose-character in X

2002-01-23 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Gary Turner wrote: > A couple of hours ago, I just happened to read that the default > 'compose' key in X is the bump labeled 'scroll lock'. Can't speak to > the accuracy of that--don't have X up here. See also man xmodmap(1). Nope. Doesn't seem to work. -- Baloo

Re: su woes. - resolved

2002-01-23 Thread Corey Halpin
The problem was that the newest base-password deletes the group "wheel" under some circumstances. In my case, "wheel" had the same gid as "sys" wanted. This is a problem if you have PAM configured such that only members of group wheel can become root. On the bright side, I found a securit

Re: Where can I get JetAdmin for Linux?

2002-01-23 Thread dman
On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 05:42:29AM -0600, Gary L. Dolan wrote: | On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 11:29:43PM -0500, dman wrote: | > | > Can you ping it? Can you telnet to it? (try port 80 for the | > webserver, 631 to try and do IPP and 9100 for JetDirect; if you type | > stuff while telnetted to 9100 it

Re: compose-character in X

2002-01-23 Thread Dave Carrigan
Paul 'Baloo' Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a way to get the ctrl-. compose character keystroke to work in > X by default? It works on console but not X... I don't think that you can make ctrl-. the compose character, but you can make other keys the compose character. I personall

galeon can not access https

2002-01-23 Thread Purnomosidi D. P.
Hi I am using woody and I've just install galeon. At that time, it also installed mozilla but now I can not access https anymore. Do I miss something? TIA -- bpdp

Re: compose-character in X

2002-01-23 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On 23 Jan 2002, Dave Carrigan wrote: > I don't think that you can make ctrl-. the compose character, but you > can make other keys the compose character. I personally like assigning > it to the Windows key, since I don't use it for anything else. I use > this: > > xmodmap -e 'keycode 115 = Multi_

Re: galeon can not access https

2002-01-23 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Wed, 2002-01-23 at 17:33, Bambang Purnomosidi D. P. wrote: > > Hi > > I am using woody and I've just install galeon. At that time, it also > installed mozilla but now I can not access https anymore. Do I miss > something? > Probably mozilla-psm =) Andrea

Re: galeon can not access https

2002-01-23 Thread Nathan
> I am using woody and I've just install galeon. At that time, it also > installed mozilla but now I can not access https anymore. Do I miss > something? apt-get install mozilla-psm restart galeon and https away :) nathan -- --[Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] GPG/PGP key ID:

Rsync hda to hdb

2002-01-23 Thread briand
You really don't want to back up proc, which is a "virtual" filesystem for the kernel. You do want there to be a proc directory on your backup disk so add /proc to your exclude list and include a separate "mkdir proc" in your bckup script. BTW, cp isn't a waste of time since there is an update op

Re: insmod bttv does not find TV card--says no such device???

2002-01-23 Thread David Gardi
mikepolniak wrote: My Pinnacle studio PCTV pro card shows up in /proc/pci and i can load all the required modules (tuner, videodev,i2c)...but when i #insmod bttv card=52 ...it says no such device. Syslog shows : ... bttv: driver version 0.7.83 loaded ... bttv: using 2 buffers with 2080k (4160k

Re: Mixer

2002-01-23 Thread J.A.Serralheiro
really ? but you removed the mixer device file first. HA! you can createnew device files using MAKEDEV do man MAKEDEV to read more about. change to /dev directoty. then MAKEDEV mixer anbd everithuig should be fine On 22 Jan 2002, Mike Atamas wrote: > I accidently made /dev/mixer/ a link to a

where does s10 come from in ifconfig?

2002-01-23 Thread Gary Turner
I just upgraded to Woody this A.M., and was feeling like pretty hot stuff. My dsl was humming at 9MB/min throughput and installation and configuration happened pretty much like it's supposed to--a few broken depends, nothing bad. When I went back to try to clean a few things up, it hit the fan.

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Re: RPM [was Re: Certification?]

2002-01-23 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 23-Jan-02 by martin f krafft: >>> no. but debian is enough of a clean Linux to make either be a perfect >>> certification for it. both certs require knowledge of RPM though (as >>> well as DEB). >> >> Ouch. Would be nice if RPM didn't suck harder than CAB... > > not entirely true, RPM

Re: Majordomo, exim, web?

2002-01-23 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya paul my crack at moving stuff off of yahoo... - i assum those "readers that posts thru web interface" are those using yahoo mail or hotmail etc..etc.. on my debian boxes... - exim and mailman is "debianized" and works in general - i d/l compiled mj/sendmail

Re: Where can I get JetAdmin for Linux?

2002-01-23 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Gary L. Dolan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 05:22:29PM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > > > > Well, you could print to it via Samba, or you could plug your > > networked printer into the hub, give it ip address etc., and > > set up CUPS with socket://my.hp.printer:910

Re: emacs not using auto-fill-mode

2002-01-23 Thread Joerg Johannes
Am Montag, 21. Januar 2002 21:39 schrieben Sie: > On Mon, 21 Jan 2002 20:47:10 +0100, Joerg Johannes wrote: > >Am Sonntag, 20. Januar 2002 19:53 schrieb Gary Turner: > >> On Sun, 20 Jan 2002 19:18:33 +0100, Joerg Johannes wrote: > >> >Hi list! > >> > > >> >I have > >> >(auto-fill-mode 1) > >> >in m

Re: installing woody

2002-01-23 Thread Greg C. Madden
On Wed, 2002-01-23 at 06:14, sam rosenfeld wrote: > I have a broken (or at least bent) Debian2.2r2 on my personal box. When I > install woody on the same partition that now holds my 2.2r2, would it be best > to format the partition first? Or are there better ways of handling the > installation?

Re: installing woody

2002-01-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 10:14:02AM -0500, sam rosenfeld wrote: > I have a broken (or at least bent) Debian2.2r2 on my personal box. When I > install woody on the same partition that now holds my 2.2r2, would it be best > to format the partition first? Or are there better ways of handling the > i

Majordomo, exim, web?

2002-01-23 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
I'm in an interesting position where I need to move a mailing list from Yahoo. The users on the list are currently fed up with Yahoo attaching huge ads to every message, it's unreliability and ever-changing TOS. I got volunteered to take on this project. Is there a majordomo package or a majordo

Re: kmail and links

2002-01-23 Thread Joerg Johannes
Am Sonntag, 20. Januar 2002 21:24 schrieb Ron Johnson: > On Sun, 20 Jan 2002 19:18:18 +0100 Joerg Johannes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi again > > > > How can I tell kmail to open links in konqueror? I don't find an option > > for thi in the preferences menu. > > > > thanks > > > > joerg > > In

Re: compose-character in X

2002-01-23 Thread Dave Carrigan
Paul 'Baloo' Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 23 Jan 2002, Dave Carrigan wrote: > > > I don't think that you can make ctrl-. the compose character, but you > > can make other keys the compose character. I personally like assigning > > it to the Windows key, since I don't use it for anythi

ppp connection

2002-01-23 Thread Jason Majors
I am trying to get a friend's Potato R3 install to connect to his ISP so we can download and install a version of X that will work. I ran pppconfig and entered the information correctly, but pppon fails to connect. I set up wvdial and ran it. It will connect and even get an IP address for the ppp c

Re: Xf86 4.1.0.1 configuration problem

2002-01-23 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Conor McCutcheon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thank you, that has made my xserver at least find a functioning display. I still am having some inexplicable difficulties though. I have a very poor monitor, only capable of 640x480 at 8bpp (better than a herc mono though), and I cannot compel X to us

WINE cannot find dll

2002-01-23 Thread Marc Shapiro
For the most part, I try to avoid anything to do with M$ Windows. Unfortunately, I don't always get my 'druthers (as Ii'l aaabner would say). I have gone back to school to get a second (more useful) degree in CompSci. All of my programming classes will be using M$ products. Since I am the prima

Re: regarding duplicate messages

2002-01-23 Thread Jaakko Niemi
On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, dman wrote: > Regarding duplicate messages on debian-user, here is the relevant > portion of the headers from a recent one : > > > Received: from murphy.debian.org ([216.234.231.6]) by ritvax.isc.rit.edu > (PMDF V5.2-32 #40294) with SMTP id <[EMAIL PRO

Re: ppp connection

2002-01-23 Thread ben
On Wednesday 23 January 2002 11:16 am, Jason Majors wrote: > I am trying to get a friend's Potato R3 install to connect to his ISP so we > can download and install a version of X that will work. > I ran pppconfig and entered the information correctly, but pppon fails to > connect. > I set up wvdial

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