Re: the quest for a *stable* browser

2002-03-09 Thread Ovidiu Damian
I am running galeon from unstable and it has not crashed on me once. * timothy bauscher ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I downloaded Mozilla via apt-get. It crashes > often. I would like a stable open source > alternative to Mozilla. > > Any suggestions?

Adding new kernel modules

2002-03-09 Thread Patrick Dahiroc
hi i've been running kernel 2.4.17 for a week now and things are great even sound is working as a module. what i want to do now is to have reiserfs as a module. is it possible to just build the desired module and not reinstall a new kernel? thanks pd ___

Re: Solved: LARGE fonts on Mozilla/Galeon menus--any fix?

2002-03-09 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Mar 08, 2002, Paul Mackinney ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Paul Mackinney declaimed: > > After using a smaller loaner monitor for a few weeks, I'm back to my > > old, higher resolution setup in X. But now Mozilla and Galeon are both > > using these absolutely huge fonts for their menus, can'

Re: questions about fvwm config, XF86Setup, fonts

2002-03-09 Thread Simon Hepburn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, now that I have X running again, I notice a few things. XF86Setup > no longer works. when I select it from my fvwm menu nothing happens. no > errors no screen flashing, nothing. You seem to have started more than one thread on this, so forgive me if I'm losing

Re: BSD or System V

2002-03-09 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Mar 08, 2002, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On 08-Mar-2002 Jorge Escalante wrote: > > Is Debian based on BSD or SysV? > > > > sysV. For init yes. For userland, I'd say it's more a BSDish influence, with heavy GNU tendencies (which are largely neither one nor the ot

Re: Debian install for beginners?

2002-03-09 Thread Simon Hepburn
Brian Nelson wrote: > Simon Hepburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Brian Nelson wrote: > > > Those old (FX chipset?) motherboards only have a cacheable area of > > > 64MB, so using more than 64MB can actually reduce performance, though I > > > think this effect would be less significant on Linux.

Re: Debian install for beginners?

2002-03-09 Thread Brian Nelson
Simon Hepburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Brian Nelson wrote: > > > Simon Hepburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Brian Nelson wrote: > > > > Those old (FX chipset?) motherboards only have a cacheable area of > > > > 64MB, so using more than 64MB can actually reduce performance, though I > >

Re: the quest for a *stable* browser

2002-03-09 Thread Brian Nelson
Joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 04:25:55AM +, Richard Steusloff wrote: > > > > I got Mozilla via Ximian's website ximian.com. Got the Gnome desktop and > > have not had nary a problem with Mozilla. No dependency problems at all, > > at all. Ximian has not had th

Re: the quest for a *stable* browser

2002-03-09 Thread Joe
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 11:49:31PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: > Joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 04:25:55AM +, Richard Steusloff wrote: > > > > > > I got Mozilla via Ximian's website ximian.com. Got the Gnome desktop and > > > have not had nary a problem with Mo

[NOISE]Re: Certificate printer software? / turboprint

2002-03-09 Thread Christophe Courtois
> Optionally we could adopt "kostenlos" as we have "kaput," "dumkopf," > and "blitzkrieg." Unlike the French, English speakers have no > problem using/stealing the words that best do the job. :-) If half of the words in the vocabulary in English came from French, you would have a problem... .

Re: segfault with postponed and mutt_1.3.27-4_i386

2002-03-09 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 06:04:02PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: > Maybe the subject change will make more eyes look at the message... > > If you *haven't* seen this problem yourself, I'd like to know, as well > if you have. > > Mike > > On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 02:20:54PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: > >

telnetd prompt

2002-03-09 Thread Jens Müller
My telnetd gives the following message: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ telnet localhost Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 kundenserver.de debian.enode.de login: I have no idea where the kundenserver.de comes from. Can anyone help me? -- Please don

Re: Incorporating testing or unstable

2002-03-09 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 11:16:54PM -0600, Timothy R. Butler wrote: > Hi, > > Can anyone tell me the process by which I might incorporate > [...] > > specific- instances of testing packages but on the whole remain > > at stable. > > First, create an /etc/apt/preferences file, and put something li

OT: extracing audio from audio-dvd

2002-03-09 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi list Sorry this is really off-topic, but maybe someone has an idea: I have an audio-only DVD (Rabih Abou-Khalil: The cactus of knowlegde) Xine does not play it (only one track, whis is a bonus track with video), and I can't get the audio with transcode, as the transcode-examples suggest. vlc s

Re: Missing ICQ features / anyone seen those?

2002-03-09 Thread Balazs Javor
Hi, Thanks! Does it work with the new ICQ protocol? best regards, Balazs On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 05:56:28PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: >On Fri, 2002-03-08 at 16:10, Balazs Javor wrote: > >> There are two features I've been missing / would like to have >> in ICQ, but I havn't found any impleme

Re: Missing ICQ features / anyone seen those?

2002-03-09 Thread Balazs Javor
OK. I've tried. It can. It's a pitty it can't send files, though. But I still think it would be a nice feature to be able to at least place some dedicated status icons for a some select contacts on a panal, whith the ability to initiate a message to them by clicking on their icons... Balazs On S

console mixer for two soundcards

2002-03-09 Thread Karsten Heymann
Hi, is there any text-based mixer app in unstable which can use more than one mixer device or which lets you choose your mixer device file? I could find only kmix (starts slow if not using kde) and gamix (hangs often) for x-windows. Thanks, Karsten -- Karsten Heymann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAI

Re: telnetd prompt

2002-03-09 Thread David Jardine
On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 11:13:15AM +0100, Jens Müller wrote: > My telnetd gives the following message: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ telnet localhost > Trying 127.0.0.1... > Connected to localhost. > Escape character is '^]'. > Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 kundenserver.de > debian.enode.de login: > > I hav

DHCPD - No subnet declaration?

2002-03-09 Thread Charlie Grosvenor
hi My machine has three network cards in it each attached to a different network. I am trying to use dhcpd to provide ip addresses to machines on two of the networks but don't want it to provide ip addresses to the third network. I have but subnet declarations for the first two networks, but ha

Re: Debian install for beginners?

2002-03-09 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Simon Hepburn wrote on Fri Mar 08, 2002 um 08:53:50PM: > > this effect would be less significant on Linux. > > That would be the TX chipset. I dont think that the FX,VX Chipsets had this > limitation. You err. FX, VX and TX had this limitation, and HX could work with small TAG-RAM (64

Re: the quest for a *stable* browser

2002-03-09 Thread stan
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 11:15:01PM -0500, timothy bauscher wrote: > I downloaded Mozilla via apt-get. It crashes > often. I would like a stable open source > alternative to Mozilla. > I've become a BIG fan of galeon, myselg. -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety dese

Re: Need a good finance program

2002-03-09 Thread John Foster
Alex Malinovich wrote: > > Any suggestions for a good finance program? I've been using M$ Money for > years now, but now that I'm moving COMPLETELY away from M$ products, I > need a good replacement. --REPLY You might take a look at MoneyDan

/etc/passwd file, and USERSPEC.H

2002-03-09 Thread Mark Dascher
In the man page for /etc/passwd, it says that password aging information can be keps in four characters following the encrypted password field (separated from it with a comma). However, I have tried manually entering the aging info there (e.g. , or , or ,..//), but it has no effect. I tri

Re: /etc/passwd file, and USERSPEC.H

2002-03-09 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Sat, 9 Mar 2002 09:45:19 -0500, Mark Dascher wrote: >Is there such a thing as an apt-get searcher, to >find which package would contain a certain file? http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spa

Re: telnetd prompt

2002-03-09 Thread Jens Müller
David Jardine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ telnet localhost > > Trying 127.0.0.1... > > Connected to localhost. > > Escape character is '^]'. > > Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 kundenserver.de > > debian.enode.de login: > > > > I have no idea where the kundenserver.de comes from. Ca

starnge errors in dmesg

2002-03-09 Thread stan
I went to check somthing in the dmseg buffer this morning on my woody system, and found the dmesg buffer full of messages like this: VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,64) What the 1#$*& is going on? -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither lib

Re: Performance Issues with Spamassassin

2002-03-09 Thread Anthony and Mary Ann Tantillo
That sounds good. I noticed that Debian sets up the spamd daemon to run as root. Is there any reason to run the daemon as a non-root user on a standalone system (assuming the firewall is set up correctly)? The README.spamd.gz file talks about this Tony On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 10:42:06PM -050

Re: /etc/passwd file, and USERSPEC.H

2002-03-09 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Sat, 2002-03-09 at 14:45, Mark Dascher wrote: > In the man page for /etc/passwd, it says that password aging information can > be keps in four characters following the encrypted password field (separated > from it with a comma). However, I have tried manually entering the aging > info there (e.

Re: telnetd prompt

2002-03-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2002-03-09 at 08:55, Jens Müller wrote: > David Jardine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ telnet localhost > > > Trying 127.0.0.1... > > > Connected to localhost. > > > Escape character is '^]'. > > > Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 kundenserver.de > > > debian.enode.de login:

Re: Missing ICQ features / anyone seen those?

2002-03-09 Thread Max Koszela
[This is an email copy of a Usenet post to "linux.debian.user"] The development on gnomeciu seems to have woken up a bit. If you dont need AOL-compatability i'd rather suggest that. It's much smaller, and to my personal opinion it seems less buggy. (you'll need to get the package that is in testin

Re: telnetd prompt

2002-03-09 Thread Jens Müller
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Maybe from /etc/resolv.conf. Since my IP address is given by a > DHCP client, the DHCP client also generates /etc/resolv.conf, and > it specifies my ISP in the "search" clause. > > For example: > $ cat /etc/resolv.conf > search no.cox.net > nameserver 68

OT: should i report portscans to ISP?

2002-03-09 Thread Juhan Kundla
Hei! Firstly, i am a linux newbie. I have a small network of computers here, which i have to look after. This network is connected to internet via debian woody firewall. This firewall is being portscanned quite often. Those scans originated from a computer, which has same ISP as me. As far as i ca

Re: starnge errors in dmesg

2002-03-09 Thread Mark Zimmerman
On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 10:12:48AM -0500, stan wrote: > I went to check somthing in the dmseg buffer this morning on my woody > system, and found the dmesg buffer full of messages like this: > > VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,64) > > What the 1#$*& is going on? > Do you have a Zip

Re: OT: should i report portscans to ISP?

2002-03-09 Thread Chris Jenks
At 10:40 AM 3/9/02, Juhan Kundla wrote: Hei! Firstly, i am a linux newbie. I have a small network of computers here, which i have to look after. This network is connected to internet via debian woody firewall. This firewall is being portscanned quite often. Those scans originated from a computer

Re: the quest for a *stable* browser

2002-03-09 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 11:15:01PM -0500, timothy bauscher wrote: > I downloaded Mozilla via apt-get. It crashes > often. I would like a stable open source > alternative to Mozilla. Which version of mozilla are you using? I have never used the packaged version of mozilla, but the version I instal

RE: /etc/passwd file, and USERSPEC.H

2002-03-09 Thread Mark Dascher
OK. Do you know how I would switch from the /etc/shadow aging info to the /etc/password aging info? I already ran pwunconv, but it doesn't seem to unconv the aging information. It's not too big a deal if you don't know how; I'm just trying to see what I have to do to make it work like the man pa

Re: DHCPD - No subnet declaration?

2002-03-09 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 09-Mar-2002 Charlie Grosvenor wrote: > hi > My machine has three network cards in it each attached to a different > network. I am trying to use dhcpd to provide ip addresses to machines on two > of the networks but don't want it to provide ip addresses to the third > network. I have but sub

alsa dsp devfs

2002-03-09 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
I can't seem to be able to get sound from my dsp using alsa. I can load the modules and play *.wav files using aplay. What is the trick to getting the dsp to work? I ran snddevices. Also, when starting alsa: Starting ALSA sound driver (version 0.9.0beta10): no sound cards defined. In /etc/

Re: OT: should i report portscans to ISP?

2002-03-09 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 05:40:10PM +0200, Juhan Kundla wrote: > So my question is: what should i do? Should i report > this to my ISP? Should i block the IP address of the scanner? (This is > probably bad idea, since we have here dynamic IP-addresses) I don't want to > overreact in any way. I am ve

Re: the quest for a *stable* browser

2002-03-09 Thread Carl Fink
The only stability problem with recent Mozilla I've detected is that opening a second instance (not a second window) makes both instances unable to load new web pages. (Cached stuff continues to work.) -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] I-Con's Science and Technology Programming

Re: Basic linux network questions (long)

2002-03-09 Thread Russell Coker
On Fri, 8 Mar 2002 22:23, Richard Wurdack wrote: > I discover, however, that if I shut the lid on the box (it might be > hibernating, don't know - I didn't doing anything special for APM), and > reopen it, pon can't dial out without a reboot (just like Windows!). Here's the APM related kernel buil

Re: /etc/passwd file, and USERSPEC.H

2002-03-09 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 11:10:40AM -0500, Mark Dascher wrote: > OK. Do you know how I would switch from the /etc/shadow aging info to the > /etc/password aging info? I already ran pwunconv, but it doesn't seem to > unconv the aging information. It's not too big a deal if you don't know > how; I'

How to share cable connection ?

2002-03-09 Thread Thomas Graham
hey, I am wonder how can I share my cable connection to two PCs using debian ? ipmasq using fix LAN ip, which is I do not like. is it possible to use DHCP server to share cable connection to LAN ? Thanks ___ Do You Yahoo!? Get you

Re: Charset problem

2002-03-09 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 05:24:23PM -0300, Daniel Ruoso wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a woody user and I'm having problems with the ISO8859-1 charset, > characters like áéíóúçàèèìòù doesn't work in many programs, specially > gnome programs. Follow a list of programs that have this problem: It depends on th

GnuCash vs MoneyDance

2002-03-09 Thread hanasaki
Could people share the thoughts and experiences? Thanks. -- = = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = = Spam : Unhealthy and High in Sodium and Cholesterol = ==

Re: the quest for a *stable* browser

2002-03-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2002-03-09 at 10:07, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 11:15:01PM -0500, timothy bauscher wrote: > > I downloaded Mozilla via apt-get. It crashes > > often. I would like a stable open source > > alternative to Mozilla. > > Which version of mozilla are you using? > > I have n

Re: The future of Debian install??

2002-03-09 Thread csj
On Fri, 8 Mar 2002 15:19:59 -0500 "Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 08/03/02 Manoj Srivastava did speaketh: > > >I beg to differ. A computer is a marvelous, versatile, > > flexible, configurable tool, and, I prefer to actually learn how > > to use ones tools. > >

Re: How to share cable connection ?

2002-03-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2002-03-09 at 10:37, Thomas Graham wrote: > hey, I am wonder how can I share my cable connection > to two PCs using debian ? > ipmasq using fix LAN ip, which is I do not like. > is it possible to use DHCP server to share cable > connection to LAN ? What you ask (using static IPs) happens _

Help! Task-ximian-gnome not installing correctly...

2002-03-09 Thread Camilo
Hello! well, after forcing a package to overwrite another with dpkg, apt-get moved on installing task-ximian-gnome.. until it found this other problem.. setting up guile1.4-slib (1.4-ximian.11) ... ERROR: Could not find slib/require.scm in ("/"usr/share/guile/site" "/usr/share/guile/1.4" "/usr

PINE, Rpm, not installed?

2002-03-09 Thread Camilo
Hi! I wanted to use PINE under my potato install... found it is not installed? why is this? Rpm isnt there either... I guess i can use apt-get to install PINE.. but im not so sure about rpm, since it is the red hat package management tool.. and debian is built with apt in mind... does rpm wo

etherwake

2002-03-09 Thread Charlie Grosvenor
Hi Has anybody successfully used etherwake to start a machine remotly? I have a D-Link DFE-530TX which supports Wake-On-LAN but i cannot get it to work. Thankyou Charlie

Re: How to share cable connection ?

2002-03-09 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 12:37:11AM +0800, Thomas Graham wrote: > hey, I am wonder how can I share my cable connection > to two PCs using debian ? Yes. > ipmasq using fix LAN ip, which is I do not like. You are wrong here. IPmasq method does not require this. Network IP assignment rocedure

Re: PINE, Rpm, not installed?

2002-03-09 Thread timothy bauscher
apt-get install rpm *it should work* (==timothy==) = Hi! I wanted to use PINE under my potato install... found it is not installed? why is this? Rpm isnt there either... I guess i can use apt-get to install PINE.. but im not so sure about rpm, since it is

Re: PINE, Rpm, not installed?

2002-03-09 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 05:32:31AM -0600, Camilo wrote: > I wanted to use PINE under my potato install... found it is not > installed? why is this? Rpm isnt there either... Due to licensing issue, PINE is only available as source package. See below. I think RPM is available in potato but it is

Re: GnuCash vs MoneyDance

2002-03-09 Thread Ed Lawson
On Sat, 09 Mar 2002 10:46:31 -0600 hanasaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Could people share the thoughts and experiences? Thanks. MoneyDance is a multi platform Java app and commercial. It has many nice features, good support. I have used it for about a year and like it very much. I tried GnuCa

Please help me find a font with outline shape

2002-03-09 Thread andrej hocevar
Could anyone tell me which font does have the "outline" shape available for use in latex and where to find it? Please, I need it quickly. The manual (info latex) only says this much: _ `\fontseries{series}' Select font series. Valid series include: [.

start-stop-daemon chroot option.

2002-03-09 Thread Corey Halpin
I'm attempting to chroot my spamd process to run from /var/lib/spamd. I have copied all the relevant files from /etc, and from /usr/sbin to /var/lib/spamd. I then edit /etc/init.d/spamassassin and add --chroot /var/lib/spamd after every start-stop-daemon invocation. when I run the modifie

RE: /etc/passwd file, and USERSPEC.H

2002-03-09 Thread Mark Dascher
Ah, ok. So the passwd (5) man page is just a bit outdated, then? (When I read a man page, I like to make sure I understand it completely, so I usually have to test stuff out ;) -Original Message- From: Ben Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2002 11:31 AM To: Mar

RE: /etc/passwd file, and USERSPEC.H

2002-03-09 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Sat, 2002-03-09 at 18:21, Mark Dascher wrote: > Ah, ok. So the passwd (5) man page is just a bit outdated, then? (When I > read a man page, I like to make sure I understand it completely, so I > usually have to test stuff out ;) I filed a bug on it. -- Oliver Elphick

Re: start-stop-daemon chroot option.

2002-03-09 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Sat, 09 Mar 2002 12:08:54 -0600, Corey Halpin wrote: [...] >Yes, there is a spamd in /usr/sbin, and there is also one in >/var/lib/spamd/usr/sbin. You might need some shared libraries (that the daemon binary itself depends upon) that are missing in the chroot jail. "ldd -v " should show you

Re: start-stop-daemon chroot option.

2002-03-09 Thread Chris Hilts
On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 07:27:09PM +0100, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: > You might need some shared libraries (that the daemon binary itself depends > upon) that are missing in the chroot jail. Since spamd is a perl script, it's most likely missing a perl interpreter in the chroot jail. Chris Hilts

Re: GnuCash vs MoneyDance

2002-03-09 Thread hanasaki
Is it 100% Java? Same JAR runs on all OS's or OS' specific ports w/ JNI? I looked at that site but cant tell the difference between the download vs purchase. Ed Lawson wrote: On Sat, 09 Mar 2002 10:46:31 -0600 hanasaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Could people share the thoughts and experie

Re: questions about fvwm config, XF86Setup, fonts

2002-03-09 Thread xucaen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Hi all, now that I have X running again, I notice a few things. XF86Setup >> no longer works. when I select it from my fvwm menu nothing happens. no >> errors no screen flashing, nothing. >You seem to have started more than one thread on this, so forgive me if I'm >

Re: PINE, Rpm, not installed?

2002-03-09 Thread Jens Müller
Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Due to licensing issue, PINE is only available as source package. See > below. Is it so? I installed it once, there was a dummy package which downloaded the source package, built binary packages and installed them. -- Please don't CC me on replies!

Re: PS/2 (/dev/psaux) is not working on Woody with Kernel 2.2.20

2002-03-09 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Mar 06, 2002, Jan H. van Gils ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi, > > Thanks for reading message. > > After installing my Laptop (Dell Inspiron 3200) with Debian Woody > I am not able to use my /dev/psaux (PS/2 mouse). > > The system was running NetBSD this morning and de mouse was

Re: questions about fvwm config, XF86Setup, fonts

2002-03-09 Thread Simon Hepburn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Hi all, now that I have X running again, I notice a few things. > >> XF86Setup no longer works. when I select it from my fvwm menu nothing > >> happens. no errors no screen flashing, nothing. > > > >You seem to have started more than one thr

OT: interface card to register button presses

2002-03-09 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, does anyone know a good, simple interface card which gives you the ability to connect a panel with about 100 buttons to your computer and registrates which butten is pressed? Of course it should work with Linux and hopefully an easy to program one. I was asked to make a simple voting simula

Re: GnuCash vs MoneyDance

2002-03-09 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 01:10:58PM -0500, Ed Lawson wrote: > On Sat, 09 Mar 2002 10:46:31 -0600 > hanasaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Could people share the thoughts and experiences? Thanks. > > MoneyDance is a multi platform Java app and commercial. > It has many nice features, good suppo

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hotplug: problems with cold-plugging

2002-03-09 Thread Stefan Bellon
Hi! I've used usbmgr to manage my USB devices till now and everthing worked fine. But I read that for 2.4 kernels hotplug is the suggested way to go and not usbmgr. So I now tried to set up hotplug. The hot-plugging itself works fine. But hotplug doesn't detect what is already plugged in at boot

Re: hotplug: problems with cold-plugging

2002-03-09 Thread Craig Dickson
begin Stefan Bellon quotation: > I've used usbmgr to manage my USB devices till now and everthing worked > fine. But I read that for 2.4 kernels hotplug is the suggested way to > go and not usbmgr. > > So I now tried to set up hotplug. > > The hot-plugging itself works fine. But hotplug doesn'

Re: telnetd prompt

2002-03-09 Thread Jens Müller
"Eric C. Cooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I believe this comes from /etc/issue.net (probably set up during > installation). debian:/etc/news# cat /etc/issue.net Debian GNU/%s 3.0 %h man issue.net: %h - show the system node name (FQDN) And where comes the system node name (FQDN) kunden

Re: GnuCash vs MoneyDance

2002-03-09 Thread David Z Maze
Ed Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 09 Mar 2002 10:46:31 -0600 > hanasaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Could people share the thoughts and experiences? Thanks. > > MoneyDance is a multi platform Java app and commercial. > It has many nice features, good support. > I have used it f

Re: Missing nsupdate

2002-03-09 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 12:51:44PM -0500, David Priban wrote: > I'm probably missing somethig here but does anybody know what happend > to nsupdate utility from bind package? It was included in bind 8.2.4 > but is not in 8.3.1 .deb file but it is part of original sources from ISC. > Same thing appl

Re: hotplug: problems with cold-plugging

2002-03-09 Thread Stefan Bellon
Craig Dickson wrote: > begin Stefan Bellon quotation: > > I've used usbmgr to manage my USB devices till now and everthing > > worked fine. But I read that for 2.4 kernels hotplug is the > > suggested way to go and not usbmgr. > > > > So I now tried to set up hotplug. > > > > The hot-plugging

Re: Certificate printer software? / turboprint

2002-03-09 Thread Daniel Toffetti
On Friday 08 March 2002 19:50, Gary Turner wrote: > > The full version costs AFAIK EUR 20. (BTW, it often causes > > confusion that you have no English word for kostenlos / gratuit. > > Can't you invent one?) > --- snipped > > Optionally we could adopt "kostenlos" as we have "kaput," "dumkopf," >

Re: Wheel mouse

2002-03-09 Thread Daniel Toffetti
On Friday 08 March 2002 20:40, Bob Thibodeau wrote: > > > The important parts for making the wheel work are > > > > > > Option "Emulate3Buttons" "off" > > > Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" > > > > Well, now at least it doesn't crash, but the wheel doesn't work. > > Which protocol are you usin

Re: Wheel mouse

2002-03-09 Thread Daniel Toffetti
On Saturday 09 March 2002 00:17, Kent West wrote: > >This is what I currently have (working well except for the wheel): > > > >Section "InputDevice" > >Identifier "Mouse1" > >Driver "mouse" > >Option "Protocol""IMPS/2" > >Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" > >#Option

Re: ssl for webmin

2002-03-09 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, curtis wrote: > Any ideas why enabling SSL support for webmin through the webmin browser > doesn't work? I have uninstalled and reinstalled webmin many times > thinking something just must not have gotten installed right, but that's > apparently not the issue. > > I should not

need advice on IRC client choice

2002-03-09 Thread Gary Turner
It's hard to believe, but I haven't done chat (and I've been 'online' since Genie in '90 or '91). I don't even have a chat client installed on any of my machines. So, I figure -- let's stick one on the Debian box. A quick "apt-cache search irc | grep client" yields 48 client packages. There's

Re: GnuCash vs MoneyDance

2002-03-09 Thread James D Strandboge
On Sat, 2002-03-09 at 15:05, David Z Maze wrote: > Ed Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Sat, 09 Mar 2002 10:46:31 -0600 > > hanasaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Could people share the thoughts and experiences? Thanks. > > > > MoneyDance is a multi platform Java app and commercial

Re: need advice on IRC client choice

2002-03-09 Thread Sebastiaan
High, On Sat, 9 Mar 2002, Gary Turner wrote: > As you might imagine, I need some suggestions on which irc-client to > install. > > I'm running Debian Woody, X11 v4, and Gnome-sawfish desktop. I mention > the X stuff because for this application I think a graphical interface > will be more approp

RE: VPN on Kernel 2.4.18

2002-03-09 Thread Dave Scott
Vector,   Make sure eth0 is public ip or change the rulez if its eth1   Of course you need IP Forwarding rule and masquerade connections first.   echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward   Then you need to enable source NAT if you have static IP,   iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -

Re: Wheel mouse

2002-03-09 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sat, 2002-03-09 at 14:10, Daniel Toffetti wrote: > On Friday 08 March 2002 20:40, Bob Thibodeau wrote: > > > > The important parts for making the wheel work are > > > > > > > > Option "Emulate3Buttons" "off" > > > > Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" > > > > > > Well, now at least it doesn't

Re: Certificate printer software? / turboprint

2002-03-09 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 04:19:05PM -0300, Daniel Toffetti wrote: > On Friday 08 March 2002 19:50, Gary Turner wrote: > > > The full version costs AFAIK EUR 20. (BTW, it often causes > > > confusion that you have no English word for kostenlos / gratuit. > > > Can't you invent one?) > > > --- snipped

Re: GnuCash vs MoneyDance

2002-03-09 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sat, 2002-03-09 at 14:35, James D Strandboge wrote: > In addition to doing all my household/personal finances with it, I use > gnucash for accounts/receivable, invoicing and reports for consulting I > do on the side and have been very pleased with gnucash's capabilities. > It has much improved

How to Install Pine on Potato?

2002-03-09 Thread Dave Scott
Title: How to Install Pine on Potato? Ok, three different installs of Potato and still cannot get pine to install. L First problem I had on all boxes was with –lncurses, I seemed to get around it by installing the development lib of ncurses. I read through the doc and readme like 20 times n

Re: Certificate printer software? / turboprint

2002-03-09 Thread Sebastiaan
High, On Sat, 9 Mar 2002, Eric G. Miller wrote: > On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 04:19:05PM -0300, Daniel Toffetti wrote: > > On Friday 08 March 2002 19:50, Gary Turner wrote: > > > > The full version costs AFAIK EUR 20. (BTW, it often causes > > > > confusion that you have no English word for kostenlos

Re: Certificate printer software? / turboprint

2002-03-09 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 04:50:48PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: > Correct me if I'm wrong, kostenlos==free of charge? as in beer? > Maybe the term you want is "freeware" which is not in the public domain, > and can have any number of license restrictions, but doesn't cost $ to > use. In the above c

Re: console mixer for two soundcards

2002-03-09 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
Hi Karsten, I like aumix but I'm not sure about two devices. Regards, Joachim On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 01:55:47PM +0100, Karsten Heymann wrote: > Hi, > is there any text-based mixer app in unstable which can use more than > one mixer device or which lets you choose your mixer device file? I > cou

Re: Wheel mouse

2002-03-09 Thread Stephen Ryan
On Sat, 2002-03-09 at 15:21, Daniel Toffetti wrote: > On Saturday 09 March 2002 00:17, Kent West wrote: > > >This is what I currently have (working well except for the wheel): > > > > > >Section "InputDevice" > > >Identifier "Mouse1" > > >Driver "mouse" > > >Option "Protocol""IM

Re: How to Install Pine on Potato?

2002-03-09 Thread Sebastiaan
High, On Sat, 9 Mar 2002, Dave Scott wrote: > Ok, three different installs of Potato and still cannot get pine to > install. :-( > > > Anyway, here is some of the messages that seem to stand out on the > compile. > I can't make heads or tails of any of these messages. > This should work. Add a s

Re: alsa dsp devfs

2002-03-09 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 10:14:51AM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > > I can't seem to be able to get sound from my dsp using alsa. I can load the > modules and play *.wav files using aplay. What is the trick to getting the > dsp to work? > > I ran snddevices. > > > Also, when starting alsa: >

Re: segfault with postponed and mutt_1.3.27-4_i386

2002-03-09 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 11:12:13AM +0100, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: > On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 06:04:02PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > Maybe the subject change will make more eyes look at the message... > > > > If you *haven't* seen this problem yourself, I'd like to know, as well > > if you have.

Copying Partition, Using Reiser.

2002-03-09 Thread Timothy R. Butler
Hi everyone, I have a 1.9 Gig install of Debian I would like to copy to a second computer. Further more, I would like to format the hard disk on the new computer with ReiserFS rather than ext2. Is there a simple way to do the above steps? If not, is there an easy way to do a netinst install

Problems with fbtv after recent upgrade.

2002-03-09 Thread stan
'v got a woody machine. Frame buffer tv gas been working like a charm on it for months. The other day (a week or so agoa) I upgraded it when dslect offerred me teh choice. I alos upgraded xawtv, and motv. Now frame fbtv is acting cranky. If I try to use it as a non root user, I get the chanel,

Re: Copying Partition, Using Reiser.

2002-03-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2002-03-09 at 15:32, Timothy R. Butler wrote: > Hi everyone, > I have a 1.9 Gig install of Debian I would like to copy to a second > computer. Further more, I would like to format the hard disk on the new > computer with ReiserFS rather than ext2. Is there a simple way to do the > abov

Re: hotplug: problems with cold-plugging

2002-03-09 Thread Craig Dickson
begin Stefan Bellon quotation: > 2.4.18 > > I just had a closer look at it. The message doesn't appear at startup, > but nevertheless, the effect is the same: > > If I do "/etc/init.d/hotplug restart", then I get the following message: > > umount: /proc/bus/usb: not mounted > > I digged a bi

Re: Missing ICQ features / anyone seen those?

2002-03-09 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sat, 2002-03-09 at 05:09, Balazs Javor wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks! Does it work with the new ICQ protocol? Yup. When you go to add an account, just choose "Oscar" instead of "ICQ" and you'll be all set. -Alex signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: PINE, Rpm, not installed?

2002-03-09 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 07:00:20PM +0100, Jens M?ller wrote: > Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Due to licensing issue, PINE is only available as source package. See > > below. > > Is it so? > > I installed it once, there was a dummy package which downloaded the > source package, bu

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