Re: telnetd prompt

2002-03-09 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Jens" == Jens Müller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jens> My telnetd gives the following message: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ Jens> telnet localhost Trying 127.0.0.1... Jens> Connected to localhost. Jens> Escape character is '^]'. Jens> Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 kundenserver.de deb

Re: the quest for a *stable* browser (thanks)

2002-03-09 Thread timothy bauscher
Ok, thank you everyone for your input. I downloaded the nightly CVS Mozilla tarball. If that proves to beunstable, I will try Galeon. (==timothy==) = "timothy" == timothy bauscher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: timothy> I downloaded Mozilla via apt-

Re: telnetd prompt

2002-03-09 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Jens" == Jens Müller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jens> "Eric C. Cooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I believe this comes from /etc/issue.net (probably set up >> during installation). Jens> debian:/etc/news# cat /etc/issue.net Debian GNU/%s 3.0 %h Jens> man issue.net:

Re: Copying Partition, Using Reiser.

2002-03-09 Thread Timothy R. Butler
> 1. Does your current kernel support Reiser? If so, then you >can put the destination disk in the current disk and copy. Well in the computer that my system is currently installed, yes, I have Reiser support. In the latter system however, I do not currently have an OS installed, and the

potato to woody 2nd try

2002-03-09 Thread Eric Richardson
Hi, I followed a suggestion from this list to update dpkg and apt first during the upgrade. For the most part this worked great. A couple of small things. Unless I pushed the wrong button and refused a new kernel, 2.2.20 was not installed during the dist-upgrade. When installing a few more

Re: Incorporating testing or unstable

2002-03-09 Thread Colin Watson
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

Re: Open Office in unstable?

2002-03-09 Thread Jan-Hendrik Palic
Hi ... On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 02:27:41PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: >Are there any plans to get open office into unstable? (I know there is >no chance to get it into woody...) Into woody ... there is no doupt, that we do not get it into woody. I think, we will get it into unstable within the ne

Re: telnetd prompt

2002-03-09 Thread Jens Müller
Shyamal Prasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Try 'hostname, 'hostname --fqdn' and 'dnsdomainname -v' for some > hints. Look in /etc/hostname and /etc/hosts too. I wish I had a simple > answer for you, but I'm somewhat ignorant myself. debian:/etc/news# hostname debian.enode.de debian:/etc/news# h

Re: GnuCash vs MoneyDance

2002-03-09 Thread David Roundy
On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 02:51:30PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > Personally, I would very much prefer to keep my system as free as > possible. I'd much prefer to use gnucash over some other alternative, > but so far I've found it severely lacking in one area, and that's > importing bank stateme

Re: GnuCash vs MoneyDance

2002-03-09 Thread Bill Wohler
hanasaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Could people share the thoughts and experiences? Thanks. I recently switched from Quicken to gnucash. In some respects it's far better than Quicken (as previously mentioned in the accounting department). I have no intentions of going back. I disagree t

Re: telnetd prompt

2002-03-09 Thread Jens Müller
Shyamal Prasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What does /etc/issue.net say? You replied to my other post where I mentioned it, but again: debian:/etc/news# cat /etc/issue.net Debian GNU/%s 3.0 %h -- Please don't CC me on replies!

woody install and X

2002-03-09 Thread Rick Pasotto
I just did a fresh install of woody and it installed X and gnome but never asked about configuring them. Did I miss something? -- If you wish to prosper, let your customer prosper. This is a lesson it has taken you a very long time to learn. When people have learned this lesson, everyone will s

RE: How to Install Pine on Potato?

2002-03-09 Thread Dave Scott
Thanks Seb, That worked with both Debian builds. -Dave -Original Message- From: Sebastiaan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2002 1:10 PM To: Dave Scott Cc: Debian User Subject: Re: How to Install Pine on Potato? High, On Sat, 9 Mar 2002, Dave Scott wrote: > Ok, th

Woody CD ROM images?

2002-03-09 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
I have found some "unofficial" Woody CDROM images and they are in files with names such as woody-i386-1.raw Are these ISO images ready to be burned? Also -- why eight (8) different images? >From what I understand reading the information at the site, all I need is the first CDROM image. Thanks

Re: potato to woody 2nd try

2002-03-09 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 04:31:09PM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: > Hi, > I followed a suggestion from this list to update dpkg and apt first > during the upgrade. For the most part this worked great. A couple of > small things. > > Unless I pushed the wrong button and refused a new kernel, 2.2.2

Re: PINE, Rpm, not installed?

2002-03-09 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Sat, 9 Mar 2002, Camilo wrote: > I wanted to use PINE under my potato install... found it is not > installed? why is this? Licensing issues. Do this: apt-get install pine-tracker Follow it's instructions on how to get the newest version of pine. > Rpm isnt there either... We're *not* Red

Re: How to share cable connection ?

2002-03-09 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, Thomas Graham wrote: > ipmasq using fix LAN ip, which is I do not like. > is it possible to use DHCP server to share cable > connection to LAN ? Yes, but you're still going to need ipmasq anyway. DHCP will only dole out the IPs on your network. Be careful to set it up right

[ALMOST Solved] Re: Wheel mouse

2002-03-09 Thread Daniel Toffetti
On Saturday 09 March 2002 18:13, Stephen Ryan wrote: > > But the "device" in XF86Config-4 is "/dev/mouse" which in fact is a > > link to /dev/gpmdata. I'm completely puzzled... I'll try to look > > for and read about the relationships between gpm and the xserver. > > Thanks for your help ! > > Aha!

Re: Woody CD ROM images?

2002-03-09 Thread Caleb Shay
Well, if you've got a decent net connection, check out http://people.debian.org/~ieure/netinst/ ~30MiB iso image that downloads almost everything over the net so you don't download gigs of isos that are mostly packages you won't be using. Caleb On Sat, 2002-03-09 at 16:40, Randolph S. Kahle wro

Re: telnetd prompt

2002-03-09 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Jens" == Jens Müller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jens> Shyamal Prasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Try 'hostname, 'hostname --fqdn' and 'dnsdomainname -v' for >> some hints. Look in /etc/hostname and /etc/hosts too. I wish I >> had a simple answer for you, but I'm somewhat

Re: wheel mouse

2002-03-09 Thread Nathan
In all the posts i have seen so far there hasn't been a suggestion for Option "Buttons""5" this is what i have for my mouse: when i type gpmconfig i get Device: /dev/psaux Type: imps2 Repeat_Type: raw and in XF86Config-4 Selection "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse1"

Re: Wheel mouse

2002-03-09 Thread csj
On Fri, 08 Mar 2002 21:17:27 -0600 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Daniel Toffetti wrote: > > >Hi ! > > > >I've searched through the archives looking for the correct > >configuration of a three wheel mouse (in my case, it's a Genius Optical > >NetScroll+ Eye PS/2) I just bought on

Primer needed on modconf and friends.

2002-03-09 Thread Bill Moseley
Is there a good summary document that explains modconf and /etc/modules.conf in Debian? I'm trying to get my sound working, but figured it would be a good reason to get a better understanding of modules. I'm going to sound clueless here, so you might as well assume that I am. ;) With that sa

Where to place LS_PRELOAD=/usr... for anti-aliasing?

2002-03-09 Thread nick lidakis
I think I have anti-aliasing working. I can bring up and antialiased xterm and most supported apps using the LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libgdkxft.so . Where do I place this so that X starts with these apps using anti aliasing automagically? I googled around, one how-to recommends placing it in my .xsessio

Re: potato to woody 2nd try

2002-03-09 Thread Eric Richardson
Jerome Acks Jr wrote: > On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 04:31:09PM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: > >> Hi, I followed a suggestion from this list to update dpkg and apt >> first during the upgrade. For the most part this worked great. A >> couple of small things. >> >> Unless I pushed the wrong button

Re: PINE, Rpm, not installed?

2002-03-09 Thread Joe
On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 04:47:57PM -0800, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > On Sat, 9 Mar 2002, Camilo wrote: > > > I wanted to use PINE under my potato install... found it is not > > installed? why is this? > > Licensing issues. Do this: apt-get install pine-tracker Follow it's > instructions on

Re: telnetd prompt

2002-03-09 Thread Eric C. Cooper
In telnetd.c, it does the following (slightly simplified): /* Get local host name */ gethostname(host_name, sizeof(host_name)); hints.ai_family = PF_UNSPEC; hints.ai_flags = AI_CANONNAME; getaddrinfo(host_name, 0, &hints, &res); strncpy(host_name, res->ai_canonname, sizeof(

Re: Trying to get more than one wmnet in wharf

2002-03-09 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 07:50:47PM -0800, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > How exactly do you get more than one wmnet fired up and swallowed by > wharf? If you are using wmaker, just start however many you want and then drag them over to the dock. -- Jerome pgpg6Rpv54t6o.pgp Description: PGP sign

What is the difference between Potato and Woody?

2002-03-09 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
I have started reading details about Woody. (I am running Potato on all of my machines with the 2.4 kernel). I was surprise to see that the 2.4 kernel is "optional". This leads me to a fundamental question... What makes Woody different? Are there structure changes (layout, etc.) that are incompat

Using sources

2002-03-09 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
I have always ignored the sources for Debian. Is there some information about the source packages, how to compile them, etc.? I am assuming that the reason one would want to compile the sources is to use compiler options for a particular processor (586, 686, etc.). Is this the primary advantage o

diagnose segmentation fault with Mozilla 0.9.8-3 mailnews

2002-03-09 Thread Paul Scott
Can someone give suggestions for tracking down the segmentataion fault I get with Mozilla mailnews 0.9.8-3 which I also got with 0.9.8-2. The browser and the web page composer work fine. TIA, Paul Scott

Re: Wheel mouse DIFFERENT PROBLEM

2002-03-09 Thread Greg Murphy
Hello, I've been following this thread, and was hoping it would help me to get my wheel mouse working. I have a Fellowes Gel Mouse (PS/2). Here is the important section in my XF86Config file: Section "Pointer" Protocol"ps/2" Device "/dev/mouse" ZAxisMapping4 5

Re: Using sources

2002-03-09 Thread Corrin Lakeland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 10 Mar 2002 16:21, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: > I am assuming that the reason one would want to compile the sources is > to use compiler options for a particular processor (586, 686, etc.). Is > this the primary advantage or are there other advan

DNS Not Working *Again*

2002-03-09 Thread John Shepherd
Hi, I had a problem earlier this week in which I could set up a PPP connection, but it wasn't working properly. I fixed it by re-installing debian and changing some answers to questions during the configuration. I think the thing that did it was that I had previously specified my own loca

Re: DNS Not Working *Again*

2002-03-09 Thread Michael P. Soulier
If the connection is established but you can't ping anything, that suggests that your routing table isn't set up properly. See the defaultroute option in the pppd manpage, and make sure that it's an option to pppd, either in the script you're using, or in the /etc/ppp/options file. Confi

Xresources/xterm no longer being read?

2002-03-09 Thread xucaen
Hi all, very weird that this happens. /etc/X11/Xresources/xterm used to give me a black background instead of the default white background, but now with woody it is as though it isn't being read. I'm attaching it just incase the syntax has changed. thanks! xucaen ! /etc/X11/Xresources/xterm !

Re: AIM Installation Errors

2002-03-09 Thread Geoff D
--- "Bannerman, Israel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To all: > I downloaded AIm but everything I try to run it I > get this: > > aim:error while loading shared libraries: > libstdc++-lib6.1-1.so.2: cannot > open shared object file: No such file or directory > > > > Is anyone familiar with this

Re: the quest for a *stable* browser

2002-03-09 Thread Geoff D
--- 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? > Which version of Mozilla did you install? Stable has the version of Mozilla Moses used to use. That will c

Re: Wheel mouse

2002-03-09 Thread Cam Ellison
* csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, 08 Mar 2002 21:17:27 -0600 > Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Daniel Toffetti wrote: > > > > >Hi ! > > > > > >I've searched through the archives looking for the correct > > >configuration of a three wheel mouse (in my case, it's a Genius

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