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Re: mozilla-browser 0.9.8-1 help

2002-02-15 Thread csj
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 01:39:54PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > begin Greg C. Madden quotation: > > > This won't help your current predicament but I use 'mozilla' instead of > > 'mozilla-browser'. This upgrades nine packages, Galeon, mail-news, > > browser, -psm,.. & libs. > > I don't know abo

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Re: Partitioning a working NTFS drive

2002-02-15 Thread Johann Spies
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 11:56:47PM +0200, Game Wizard wrote: > use partition magic to resize primary partition without loosing any data and > then install linux on available space. I have used parted last year on a 20Gig hard disk. At that stage partition magic did not work well on disk > 10G. I

Re: procmail rules

2002-02-15 Thread Cameron Kerr
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >This isn't working for me: (from /etc/procmailrc) > To be quite frank, your recipes are very non-specific, it would be easy to get a false positive, as you search the entire email, without retricting it to a certain header or jus the body. Also, you

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Massive abuse from various Yahoo Groups to Debian Lists

2002-02-15 Thread Mark Janssen
Hi... Today a large number of Debian mailinglists has been mysteriously subscribed to an equal number of yahoogroups e-mail groups. This is clearly against your acceptable use policy for yahoogroups. Please take action against the people involved. Yahoo-groups: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: offline news reader

2002-02-15 Thread Glyn Millington
Carl Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > How does Gnus replace leafnode? I currently have a small inn spool so > I can read offline, so could that also be replace with just Gnus? Do > you have any suggestions on how to set that up, and where to read? Well for off-line reading you would use

Re: Sound

2002-02-15 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On 2002.02.15 00:35:45 +0100 Tom Cook wrote: Alan Shrimpton wrote: > > Terribly sorry! I just found the cable into the speaker was in the sub out > and not the line in. Wife wont admit it but I don't know how it changed. I > checked they were in but not that they were in the wrong place. > > C

Re: shutdown/halt as user

2002-02-15 Thread Romuald DELAVERGNE
Le 2002.02.15 02:29, Bob Thibodeau a écrit : It's more secure than suid, but anyone with physical access to the machine can stop it. Anyway, someone with physical access can poweroff the machine :-)

Re: Massive abuse from various Yahoo Groups to Debian Lists

2002-02-15 Thread Bruce Burhans
- Original Message - From: "Mark Janssen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: ; Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 12:35 AM Subject: Massive abuse from various Yahoo Groups to Debian Lists Shall we turn the tables on them? What if everyone were to join 10 groups and send e

kernel's working

2002-02-15 Thread Bob Thibodeau
All I could do when I got back was another round of make clean; ... install fortunately it worked this time now if I can the win4lin patch to work... Thanks to both of you who tried to help, Bob

Re: maximum nuber of messages in mutt?

2002-02-15 Thread David B Harris
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002 20:32:23 -0600 Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Then I would have to suggest that mutt might be more efficient than > gnus for local access, since it can handle mboxes with 5000+ messages > quite quickly. :) > > /me runs from people wielding actual benchmark figures J

yahoo junk!!!

2002-02-15 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Is everybody else getting notices to debian-user from yahoo about unsubscribing to some stupid list? If so, is there a way to stop it? This kind of junk in my email I don't need! -- Cheryl

Re: Fetchmail and Netscape

2002-02-15 Thread Erik Steffl
Marc Shapiro wrote: > > I use Netscape Communicator 4.77 for my e-mail client. (So fa,r, I > haven't found anythiong else that I am happier with.) Sometimes, > however, its mail filtering just doesn't seem to work quite right. I am > thinking about using fetchmail to get my POP3 mail. I have d

Re: AntiVirus 4 Linux

2002-02-15 Thread Erik van der Meulen
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 22:23:07 +0200, Game Wizard wrote: > I have a question for all of you. I need to setup a service that uses > antivirus on linux to scan incoming mail (ie POP3). I already tried > TrendMicro viruswall, and now d/l sophos. Are there any other good > (and relatively cheap, NOT

Re: Building ldapsearch with Kerberos support?

2002-02-15 Thread Karsten Heymann
* Keith G. Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020215 10:24]: > Does anyone have a clue how to build the ldap-utils (particularly > ldapsearch) in testing with Kerberos support? > > What libraries would I need to download, how to point ldap-utils to it http://www.bayour.com/LDAPv3-HOWTO.html greets, K

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Re: yahoo junk!!!

2002-02-15 Thread ben
On Friday 15 February 2002 01:15 am, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > Is everybody else getting notices to debian-user from yahoo about > unsubscribing to some stupid list? If so, is there a way to stop it? This > kind of junk in my email I don't need! yeah, i'm seeing the same. following the thread, it see

Re: procmail rules

2002-02-15 Thread debian
Yes, normally I wouldn't be searching the entire email, but this account receives several requests each day with email address change requests from the average uesr who only knows to type "Hello, I've moved and switched ISPs so could you please change my email address to blah blah", etc. So, I nee

Re: shutdown/halt as user

2002-02-15 Thread Bob Thibodeau
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 09:49:34AM +0100, Romuald DELAVERGNE wrote: > Le 2002.02.15 02:29, Bob Thibodeau a ?crit : > >It's more secure than suid, but anyone with physical access to the > >machine can stop it. > > Anyway, someone with physical access can poweroff the machine :-) > Agreed, it's a

Re: shutdown/halt as user

2002-02-15 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to David Wright: > > Stuff like this doesn't belong in sysvinit. It belongs in an > > optional package that can call shutdown, not in shutdown itself. > > Let alone in the halt binary! > > Fine, I wouldn't object. > > But I would point out that (1) you don't loose any modularity with a

Re: shutdown/halt as user

2002-02-15 Thread David Roundy
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 11:05:27AM +0100, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > According to David Wright: > > > Stuff like this doesn't belong in sysvinit. It belongs in an > > > optional package that can call shutdown, not in shutdown itself. > > > Let alone in the halt binary! > > > > Fine, I wouldn'

Re: to woody from potato, some advices...

2002-02-15 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 12:17:22PM -0600, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 09:53:16AM -0200, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > > 1) Upgrade to woody via apt > > Definitely upgrade using woody's apt, not potato's - that is, upgrade > the packaging tools first. This has been the advice for u

Re: maximum nuber of messages in mutt?

2002-02-15 Thread Martin Wuertele
Hi David! On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, David B Harris wrote: > Just to throw in my two cents :) Sylpheed, a GTK+-based MUA, is probably > one of the fastest MUAs available under Linux. > > It uses MH mailstores, and it caches. Opening a folder with ~10k > messages takes about three seconds on my machine

Re: to woody from potato, some advices...

2002-02-15 Thread Bob Thibodeau
In my experience, apt-get knows to set up the next versions packaging tools first, even in a full dist-upgrade. Has someone actually gotten burnt by this (lately)? Of course being safe when you do a big upgrade does no harm. Bob On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 09:52:11AM -0200, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote

Where To Get Modules (Drivers) For Each Device On My Computer.

2002-02-15 Thread kevincrookes
Hi all. I got another question for you all now. Where do i get all the drivers or modules is it? For all the different types of devices that i have got attached to my computer??   Hope you can help.   Thanks.   Regards Kevin.

one more sed q

2002-02-15 Thread andrej hocevar
In file , each section (paragraph?) begins exactly with and ends exactly with . How do I print only those sections that include the string ? Thanks, andrej -- echo $(girl_name) > /etc/dumpdates

Re: Where To Get Modules (Drivers) For Each Device On My Computer.

2002-02-15 Thread Bob Thibodeau
We will need to know first of all what _are_ all the different types of devices that you have got attached to your computer. You should also read the hardware compatibility HOWTO. Bob On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 12:26:13PM -, kevincrookes wrote: >Hi all. I got another question for you all n

Re: Where To Get Modules (Drivers) For Each Device On My Computer.

2002-02-15 Thread Dave Price
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 07:32:02AM -0500, Bob Thibodeau wrote: > > You should also read the hardware compatibility HOWTO. > > On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 12:26:13PM -, kevincrookes wrote: > >Hi all. I got another question for you all now. Where do i get all the > >drivers or modules is i

cups drivers

2002-02-15 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hello, I've just installed CUPS and the default printer with the deskjet.pdd driver in woody. My printer is a HP DeskJet 930C. Does exist a better CUPS' driver for it, or the default deskjet.ppd is fine? Thanks, Marcelo -- Marcelo Chiapparini DFT-IF/UERJ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Massive abuse from various Yahoo Groups to Debian Lists

2002-02-15 Thread John Hasler
Mark Janssen writes: > Today a large number of Debian mailinglists has been mysteriously > subscribed to an equal number of yahoogroups e-mail groups. And then unsubscribed. I have received the same messages directly. I think something broke at Yahoo. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Ho

sshd logs and possible security violation

2002-02-15 Thread Chris Evans
I think this belongs on d.-user not the security or ssh lists. Thanks to people who helped point me to logcheck, I saw my first attempted login from outside today. At least, I'm pretty sure that's what I saw but I am seeking some information about what gets logged by sshd. What I see in aut

Re: sshd logs and possible security violation

2002-02-15 Thread Martin Wuertele
Hi Chris! On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Chris Evans wrote: > I think this belongs on d.-user not the security or ssh lists. > > Thanks to people who helped point me to logcheck, I saw my first > attempted login from outside today. At least, I'm pretty sure that's > what I saw but I am seeking some i

Re: Mixing Debian releases the easy way - HowTo - questions

2002-02-15 Thread Christoph Martin
Am Die, 2002-02-12 um 11.11 schrieb Chris Halls: > > Subject: apt-show-versions > > > > apt-show-versions is a script which eases maintenance of mixed > > stable/testing or testing/unstable systems. While beeing able to > > update the packages from your *main* distribution with apt-get upgrade >

Re: Massive abuse from various Yahoo Groups to Debian Lists

2002-02-15 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Bruce Burhans wrote: > Shall we turn the tables on them? What if everyone were to join 10 > groups and send each one a hundred 10,000 line messages every hour? > I *know* there are better ways. This is just to get the ball > rolling... I'm m

Configuring Majordomo

2002-02-15 Thread Bodnyk, Bruce W
Hi, I've installed majordomo and it seems to work except depending upon the command I send to majordomo I get the following message: -- MAJORDOMO ABORT (mj_majordomo)!! [EMAIL PROTECTED]: not replying to Mailer-Daemon to avoid mail loop. Any idea what I haven't done correctly? Thanks! Bruce

Gnome Weather applet questiosn

2002-02-15 Thread stan
I have a couple of questiosn about using the Gnome weatehr applet, if someone has a moment ot enlighten me. 1. What format do I enter the proxy information in ? I need to us amchine that has the name freebsd, and a port number of 3128, so I tried http://freebsd:3128 but it would not take that. The

Gnome problem

2002-02-15 Thread Kapil Khosla
Hi, I recently swithced to gnome as my desktop from icewm and I am having a problem that my title bar is missing in all my applications..netscape,xterm, etc I am thus not able to move any window and the only way to close them is File--exit I had no problems like this in icewm, does any one know w

Re: shutdown/halt as user

2002-02-15 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Roundy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 11:05:27AM +0100, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: >> According to David Wright: >> > > Stuff like this doesn't belong in sysvinit. It belongs in an >> > > optional package that can call shutdown, not in

Re: Gnome problem

2002-02-15 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On 2002.02.15 15:13:07 +0100 Kapil Khosla wrote: Hi, I recently swithced to gnome as my desktop from icewm and I am having a problem that my title bar is missing in all my applications..netscape,xterm, etc I am thus not able to move any window and the only way to close them is File--exit I had no

Unidentified subject!

2002-02-15 Thread Josip Rodin
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Feb 15 14:24:13 2002 Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivery-date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 14:24:10 +0100 Received: from master.debian.org ([216.234.231.5] ident=mail) by cibalia.gkvk.hr with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16b

Re: 486 SX

2002-02-15 Thread Rob Ransbottom
On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 06:16:18PM +, Gerard Robin wrote: | I have the oppotunity to get hold of few omputers 486 SX | (33Mz, 25Mz, hard disk = 89 Mb or 127 Mb) | before they go to the rubbish. | I wanted install the minimum of linux for the mail | (exim, mutt, fetchmail, procmail, etc..)

resolv.conf gets changed

2002-02-15 Thread Pollywog
Sometimes my resolv.conf gets changed when I boot the computer. There is a script somewhere that decides (Microsoft style) that my nameservers should be something other than what they are. Does anyone know which script might be responsible for this outlandish behavior? thanks

Re: resolv.conf gets changed

2002-02-15 Thread Pollywog
I believe I have found the culprit and I disabled it. On 2002.02.15 15:04 Pollywog wrote: Sometimes my resolv.conf gets changed when I boot the computer. There is a script somewhere that decides (Microsoft style) that my nameservers should be something other than what they are. Does anyone kn

Re: spamassassin. CAREFUL ON UPGRADE

2002-02-15 Thread Cam Ellison
* Brian Clark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hey, that's nifty. I adjusted some of my scoring and I only get one or > two that find their way through, but I'll surely zip those off to that > address. > > Speaking of adjusting scoring, I have tried to raise required_hits, with no success. When

strange gnome/gdm/sawfish/xlockmore behavior

2002-02-15 Thread Carlo U. Segre
Hello All: I have recently noticed a strange behavior on my testing boxes running gnome and sawfish. If I walk away from a logged-in session for a few hours, I sometimes (about 50% of the time) return to find the login splash screen rather than a locked display or just the display as I left it.

Re: cups drivers

2002-02-15 Thread dman
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 11:08:04AM -0200, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: | Hello, | | I've just installed CUPS and the default printer with the deskjet.pdd driver | in woody. My printer is a HP DeskJet 930C. Does exist a better CUPS' driver | for it, or the default deskjet.ppd is fine? There's prob

Re: Where To Get Modules (Drivers) For Each Device On My Computer.

2002-02-15 Thread Paolo Falcone
kevincrookes wrote: >Hi all. I got another question for you all now. Where do i get all the = >drivers or modules is it? For all the different types of devices that i = >have got attached to my computer??=20 Try running modconf as root first. It's kinda cryptic, initially, but most of the time

Re: Running Windows ME and Debian on the same system.

2002-02-15 Thread Paolo Falcone
kevincrookes wrote: >I have heard that i can run both Windows ME on one hard drive, and run = >Debian on another hard drive. If so, how do i go about doing it?? Install WinME on the hard disk where you want to install it. Do this first to save yourself later troubles. then install Debian on the

Re: spamassassin. CAREFUL ON UPGRADE

2002-02-15 Thread dman
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 07:17:47AM -0800, Cam Ellison wrote: | * Brian Clark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | > | > Hey, that's nifty. I adjusted some of my scoring and I only get one or | > two that find their way through, but I'll surely zip those off to that | > address. | | Speaking of adjusting

Re: cups drivers

2002-02-15 Thread Gary Hennigan
dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 11:08:04AM -0200, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > | Hello, > | > | I've just installed CUPS and the default printer with the deskjet.pdd > driver > | in woody. My printer is a HP DeskJet 930C. Does exist a better CUPS' driver > | for it, o

Re: sshd logs and possible security violation

2002-02-15 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 01:17:15PM -, Chris Evans wrote: > What I see in auth.log is (consecutive lines): > Feb 14 23:19:29 www sshd[438]: Did not receive ident string from >xxx.yy.zzz.uu (actual number removed in case!) >I think that's an usuccessful attempt to log in, am I right?

Kernel support for MISC binaries not working under 2.4.17

2002-02-15 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
Greetings, I have compiled 'CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC=y' into my 2.4.17 kernel and I have a '/proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/' directory. However, I do not have a 'register' or a 'status' file in that directory. When I try to echo something to these files, bash complains that they do not exist. I hav

Re: shutdown/halt as user

2002-02-15 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* David Wright ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > >Now, would you like /sbin/halt to also show a "Are you really really > >sure (Abort/Ignore/Retry/Fail)?" dialog a few times and then count to > >10 (so we could press ^C) before doing "telinit 0"? I thought I said that... > If the sysadmin want

Re: shutdown/halt as user

2002-02-15 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Dimitri Maziuk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: .. > At least, listen to Manoj Errm, sorry, I think it was Miguel... nevermind. Dima -- Backwards compatibility is either a pun or an oxymoron. -- PGN

Re: shutdown/halt as user

2002-02-15 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* David Roundy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: ... I would want to make it > so that shutdown can only be run by users on the console (or root, > perhaps). But... but... but... That's what it does! Dima -- Backwards compatibility is either a pun or an oxymoron. -- PGN

amanda vs. IP masquing

2002-02-15 Thread Dave Sherohman
I've got an IP masquing firewall with an amanda backup server on the inside and a mail server on the outside. I want to add the mail server to my backups, but masquing moves the connection to a high port number, which the amanda client doesn't like: FAILED [mailserver: [host firewall: port 62265

Re: resolv.conf gets changed

2002-02-15 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 03:08:43PM +, Pollywog wrote: > I believe I have found the culprit and I disabled it. > > On 2002.02.15 15:04 Pollywog wrote: > >Sometimes my resolv.conf gets changed when I boot the computer. There > >is a script somewhere that decides (Microsoft style) that my names

Re: Trend VirusWall

2002-02-15 Thread François
I just try to run rpm -i vmware.rpm and I have the same error. error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - No such file or directory (2) error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm In fact, rpm -i doesn't find the 'rpm package index !!!' i'm interested to know how to use rpm under d

Duplicating current debian install

2002-02-15 Thread François
Hello, i want to change my laptop disk from 5 Go to 20 Go But I do not want reinstall my debian. Does a tar enougth ? François

Connection Via FTP

2002-02-15 Thread kevincrookes
Just a very quick question. Is there a feature in Debian Linux that lets you connect to a server via FTP and lets you upload and transfer files? Also would it be a problem if the connection would be via a 56K Modem?   Thanks.   Regards Kevin.

Re: Duplicating current debian install

2002-02-15 Thread Jason Majors
> i want to change my laptop disk from 5 Go to 20 Go > But I do not want reinstall my debian. > I moved my /var once and had some problems, and here's what I learned: Do not simply tar/copy/etc. a running /var partition and expect it to start properly at the next boot. I forget the spe

Re: resolv.conf gets changed

2002-02-15 Thread John Hasler
Andrew writes: > I believe I have found it... /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/0dns-up > I have disabled it. What was 0dns-up doing that you didn't want it to? Did you have ppp configured to connect on boot? Had you selected 'None' in the pppconfig 'Configure Nameservers' screen? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECT

WD-8013 card

2002-02-15 Thread Phaseuth Arun
Hello there, I'm attempting to install the WD-8013 network card in my Linux machine but it refused to recognize the board. I have set the W1 Jumper on the board to IO=280 IRQ=3 RAM=D and W2 jumper to None/Soft. I tried a few different ways but at no success. When I first started the machine wit

Re: Connection Via FTP

2002-02-15 Thread Jason Majors
> Just a very quick question. Is there a feature in Debian Linux that lets you > connect to a server via FTP and lets you upload and transfer files? Also > would it be a problem if the connection would be via a 56K Modem? Yes, they named it 'ftp' to confuse people though..evidently somebody isn'

Re: pam on debian. /etc/pam.d

2002-02-15 Thread David Z Maze
louie miranda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Any ideas how can i remove the pam authentication > on debian? I don't think you can; essential things like login and the various X display managers are linked against it. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "T

Re: cups drivers

2002-02-15 Thread Cam Ellison
I just downloaded and installed it. It depends on foomatic-bin, and so this (along with a number of other packages got dowloaded and installed, too. I didn't see that message. Cam * Gary Hennigan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 11:08:0

Re: Duplicating current debian install

2002-02-15 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include François Chenais wrote on Fri Feb 15, 2002 um 05:42:06PM: > Hello, > > i want to change my laptop disk from 5 Go to 20 Go > But I do not want reinstall my debian. > > Does a tar enougth ? Disk-upgrade-howto says, tar has a serious bug, however I do not know what the

Re: Connection Via FTP

2002-02-15 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 04:44:24PM -, kevincrookes wrote: > Just a very quick question. Is there a feature in Debian Linux that > lets you connect to a server via FTP and lets you upload and transfer > files? apt-get install ftp or lftp or there's a plethora of ftp clients available. I *

Re: Duplicating current debian install

2002-02-15 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Jason Majors wrote on Fri Feb 15, 2002 um 09:49:17AM: > Do not simply tar/copy/etc. a running /var partition and expect it to start > properly at the next boot. I forget the specifics, but booting into single > user allowed me to move it without these problems, so if you do tarballs, go

Re: to woody from potato, some advices...

2002-02-15 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 07:10:30AM -0500, Bob Thibodeau wrote: > In my experience, apt-get knows to set up the next versions packaging > tools first, even in a full dist-upgrade. Has someone actually gotten > burnt by this (lately)? Remember WOODY is still in testing phase. So safety precaution s

Re: CUPS

2002-02-15 Thread Cam Ellison
* DvB ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > "Robert L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'm trying to do a first time cups install for my HP parallel printer. > > The "cupsomatic-ppd" package in sid claims to have the cupsomatic script > > to configure it but I'm not finding it. > > > > Is th

Re: cups drivers

2002-02-15 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Cam Ellison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just downloaded and installed it. It depends on foomatic-bin, and > so this (along with a number of other packages got dowloaded and > installed, too. > > I didn't see that message. > > * Gary Hennigan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [snip] > > I believe

Re: ppp problems with strange log diagnostics

2002-02-15 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 12:36:27AM +0100, Laurent EVAIN wrote: > Hi, > > I run Debian 2.2 release 3 (stable) > and I use the script ``pon'' to connect > to my IP. > Sometimes I get a connection, sometimes the connection > stops and/or I can't connect. > Since I have 2 providers, I suppose that t

Re: CUPS

2002-02-15 Thread dman
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 09:15:36AM -0800, Cam Ellison wrote: | * DvB ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | > "Robert L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > | > > I'm trying to do a first time cups install for my HP parallel printer. | > > The "cupsomatic-ppd" package in sid claims to have the cupsoma

Linux and Win2k Servers

2002-02-15 Thread R R Potratz
Greetings, I'm teaching in a mission school in Niger and I've inherited an LAN of 12 of win98/win2k machines, in a network with a win2k server taking the DNS, DHCP and log on chores and some file serving. To this mix I would like to add a couple of linux machines to serve web pages and perhaps

Re: Duplicating current debian install

2002-02-15 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 06:03:20PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > Disk-upgrade-howto says, tar has a serious bug, however I do not know > what they are talking about. I suggest: > > tar -l -p -s --same-owner --numeric-owner / | tar -l -p -s --same-owner > --numeric-owner -C /mount/newdisk > Th

Re: Trend VirusWall

2002-02-15 Thread Joey Hess
François Chenais wrote: > I just try to run rpm -i vmware.rpm and I have the same error. > > error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - No such file or directory (2) > error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm > > > In fact, rpm -i doesn't find the 'rpm package index !!!' Maybe y

Help - majordomo

2002-02-15 Thread Bodnyk, Bruce W
I'm attempting to run Majordomo 1.94.5 on Debian GNU/Linux 2.2. The wrapper config-test runs fine and doesn't report any errors. However on sending some commands I'm occasionally getting the following email back: -- MAJORDOMO ABORT (mj_majordomo)!! [EMAIL PROTECTED]: not replying to Mailer-Daem

Re: CUPS

2002-02-15 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 09:15:36AM -0800, Cam Ellison wrote: > * DvB ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > http://localhost:631 or man lpadmin. > In my case, it doesn't. I get "Unable to connect to server: Connection > refused" messages to lpinfo, the web access tool, etc. And yes, I'm su'd to > root

Re: to woody from potato, some advices...

2002-02-15 Thread Scott Henson
On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 21:35, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 04:16:04PM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: > > On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 13:17, Colin Watson wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 09:53:16AM -0200, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > > > > 1) Upgrade to woody via apt > > > > > > Definitel

New to Debian and Linux

2002-02-15 Thread Bannerman, Israel
To all: I am very new to Linux and Debian. What would be the first move in trying to learn Debian? I recently brought the "Learning The Bash Shell"? Any help would greatly be appreciated!! Thanks, -IB

Re: Duplicating current debian install

2002-02-15 Thread Paul Seelig
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 06:03:20PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > François Chenais wrote on Fri Feb 15, 2002 um 05:42:06PM: > > > > i want to change my laptop disk from 5 Go to 20 Go > > But I do not want reinstall my debian. > Normally one installs Debian just once and then simply clones

Galeon and libgdk-pixbuf2

2002-02-15 Thread Balazs Javor
Hi, I did an update on my Woody machine yesterday, which caused Galeon to be removed due to dependency problems. I've installed mozilla 0.98 from Sid along with a couple of libs that where needed. This went fairly well with the exception of libgdk-pixbuf2 which if I try to upgrade suddenly conflic

Re: New to Debian and Linux

2002-02-15 Thread Jason Majors
> I am very new to Linux and Debian. What would be the first move in trying > to learn Debian? > I recently brought the "Learning The Bash Shell"? Read the docs at debian.org, install a system (the people on this list can help), and use it. I learned by doing and making mistakes. If you want to b

Re: Galeon and libgdk-pixbuf2

2002-02-15 Thread Jim Gettys
I've had good luck by putting the Ximian potato feed first, installing galeon (and evolution), and then removing the Ximian potato feed. This gave me up to date galeon, Mozilla .9.8, and evolution. Remembering to remove the Ximian potato feed afterwards is *VITAL*, or you can completely screw up

Re: CUPS

2002-02-15 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Cam Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > * DvB ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > "Robert L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > I'm trying to do a first time cups install for my HP parallel printer. > > > The "cupsomatic-ppd" package in sid claims to have the cupsomatic script >

Suggestion for next Debian release

2002-02-15 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
Ok, now bitchx depends on xutils, who in turn suggests xfree86-common, who in turn depends on libaxw and so on (THIS BOX HAS NO FSCKING X!!!). So I have a suggestion: why don't we make ALL libraries "required" and just install all of them as part of the base system? (Well, sans non-DFSG-compliant

shmem information

2002-02-15 Thread Patrick Boe
Hi all, I'm trying to get some system data, and I'm wondering if there's a tool (system call, something) I can use to get it, or if I'll have to code the data collection into the kernel myself. I want to gather periodic snapshots of shared memory information for all running processes on a Sun SMP

PCMCIA

2002-02-15 Thread Vaughan, Curtis
Twice now, I have experimented with upgrading from potato to woody. Each time, however, I've experienced the exact same problem, which I can't seem to resolve. During the update you get a question basically like this: New modules are being installed for PCMCIA. It is preferable that you shut do

dpkg system messed up

2002-02-15 Thread Kevin C. Smith
TRYING TO UPDATE WITH DSELECT: .. /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/apt/update: line 39: 26924 Segmentation fault $APTGET $OPTS "$APT_OPT0" "$APT_OPT1" update update available list script returned error exit status 1. APT-GET UPDATE: .. Reading Package Lists... Done Segmentation faulty Tree... 0% Any sugge

Re: Suggestion for next Debian release

2002-02-15 Thread dman
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 12:56:19PM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: | Ok, now bitchx depends on xutils, who in turn suggests xfree86-common, | who in turn depends on libaxw and so on (THIS BOX HAS NO FSCKING X!!!). It is a sugggestion, not a req

Re: PCMCIA

2002-02-15 Thread dman
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 11:10:47AM -0800, Vaughan, Curtis wrote: | Twice now, I have experimented with upgrading from potato to woody. Each | time, however, I've experienced the exact same problem, which I can't seem | to resolve. | | During the update you get a question basically like this: | |

RE: PCMCIA

2002-02-15 Thread Vaughan, Curtis
Try /etc/init.d/pcmcia start Here's what I get: Starting PCMCIA services: modulesinsmod: a module named pcmcia_core already exists insmod:/lib/modules/2.2.17/pcmcia/yenta_socket.o: No such file or directory ds: no socket drivers loaded! /lib/modules/2.2.17/pcmicia/ds.o: init_modules: Device o

Need Help with dpkg Error

2002-02-15 Thread Jason Majors
I keep getting the following error when I run apt-get anything on one of my boxes: Setting up libc6 (2.2.5-3) ... dpkg: error processing libc6 (--configure): md5sum gave malformatted output `fc857c5ac5fb84d80720ed4d1c624f6e' Errors were encountered while processing: libc6 I've tried removing th

Re: NVIDIA driver

2002-02-15 Thread Christian Schoenebeck
Am Freitag, 15. Februar 2002 01:37 schrieb Jeronimo Pellegrini: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 01:22:23PM -0800, Caleb Shay wrote: > > I think I've got this one... > > > > /etc/X11/XF86Config ? That's for XF86-3, the nvidia driver is for > > XFree-4 only. Either upgrade to woody or hunt around for pot

Re: Linux and Win2k Servers

2002-02-15 Thread David Bell
AFAIK, All you need to do is start pump or dhcpcd, and they should configure the rest. :) On Fri, 2002-02-15 at 11:46, R R Potratz wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm teaching in a mission school in Niger and I've inherited an LAN of 12 of > win98/win2k machines, in a network with a win2k server taking

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