installation of libgnomeprint-data crashes in postinstall

2002-03-13 Thread user list
I was doing a dist-upgrade on testing today. When apt-get got to libgnomeprint-data it seg faulted during the post-installation script. Can anyone give a hint about this problem? Art Edwards

Re: Can't leave X Windows

2002-03-13 Thread Simon Hepburn
Eric wrote: > Hello all: > I am using Debian Potato, and recently installed the X Windows system. It's the X Window system, or just X. Windows is a dirty word round here ;-) > However, I can no longer go back to the command line. I tried Exit, and the > other various exit/kill commands. Do you

Re: Starting fetchmail on boot (runing as user)

2002-03-13 Thread Juhan Kundla
Adam Majer wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 07:57:25PM -0500, stan wrote: > > I'm migrating mail services to individula user machines. > > > > I want to use fetchmail to retrieve the mail for each user (runing > > fetchmail as that user). > > > > What;s "The Debian Way" of starting up these user

Re: How do you run a bin file format - now StarOffice problem

2002-03-13 Thread Alan & Kerry Shrimpton
Thanks.. that worked but when it runs I get 30 files not found messages from file not found '/directory file is in/so-5_2-ga-bin-linux-en-010.bin file not found '/directory file is in/so-5_2-ga-bin-linux-en-011.bin and continues right down to 040.bin but there is only 10 of 10 files download and th

Re: How do you run a bin file format - now StarOffice problem

2002-03-13 Thread Brett Parker
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 09:04:37PM +1300, Alan & Kerry Shrimpton wrote: > Thanks.. that worked but when it runs I get 30 files not found messages from > file not found '/directory file is in/so-5_2-ga-bin-linux-en-010.bin > file not found '/directory file is in/so-5_2-ga-bin-linux-en-011.bin > and

Re: Moving /var to another drive

2002-03-13 Thread George Karaolides
On 12 Mar 2002, Shri Shrikumar wrote: > On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 15:42, Franηois Chenais wrote: > > And what happens if the /var/log and /var/run dirs that can change during > > the tar ? > > > > Franηois > > Go into single user mode telinit 1 and then tar. I actually use cp -a > which seems t

Re: Acroread not displaying menu text 2nd try

2002-03-13 Thread Pat Colbeck
James Just done some testing and this proplem only occurs in KDE. It works fine in Gnome (with Sawfish) or in WindowMaker. Still don't know how to fix it in KDE though ... Pat

Re: kernel-2.4.17

2002-03-13 Thread George Karaolides
On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Gerard Robin wrote: > About lilo : > I use lilo to boot on HDD1 on which win98 and potato 2.2r2 are installed. > And on HDD2 "potato -> woody" is installed.(I experiment ) > I don't know if lilo can accommodate the three systems ? Yes, in several ways. It's possible to

Re: X Screen Capture?

2002-03-13 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 10:18:18AM -0800, John Shepherd wrote: > > How best to make such a screenshot? Gnome's screen-shooter applet works nicely. Johann -- Johann Spies Telefoon: 021-808 4036 Informasietegnologie, Universiteit van Stellenbosch "Who is like Thee among the gods, O

Re: The future of Debian install??

2002-03-13 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Michael" == Michael P Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Michael> 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. Michael> As with everythin

Re: best way to install non debian package

2002-03-13 Thread François
> > If you want install non-debian software, i.e., after compiling a > compressed tarball, I would suggest that you give checkinstall a try. It > creates a deb package, which installs the binaries in /usr/local. > Installation/Removal is thru dpkg -i/-r. Bonus is that you can install > the resulat

Re: Pump and Dhclient

2002-03-13 Thread Martin Wuertele
Hi Raghavendra! On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Raghavendra Bhat wrote: > I start udhcpc manually. What is the best way to start udhcpc while > booting up ? Is it OK to create a symlink farm using update-rc.d ? How > are you doing this ? modify /etc/network/interfaces and add the auto line: eg auto

Re: Interfaces configuration and tap0

2002-03-13 Thread Martin Wuertele
Hi Philippe! On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Philippe Raxhon wrote: > I'm running a Debian 2.2 with testing packages. I have 2 network cards: > - eth0: not configured, it's used by pppd (ADSL line) when started. > - eth1: configured as 192.168.1.254, for my local network (configured > using linuxconf, pres

Re: Starting fetchmail on boot (runing as user)

2002-03-13 Thread François
add file getmail (or what else U want) un /etc/cron.d/ -- tanna:/etc/network# cat /etc/cron.d/getmail -- # /etc/cron.d/getmail: crontab fragment for getting mail #-- Get

Re: the quest for a *stable* browser

2002-03-13 Thread Vaclav Hula
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 05:22:54PM -0600, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > "James" == James D Strandboge writes: > > James> Me too, and if you are into this sort of thing, galeon > James> handles flash, realplayer and java well in my experience. > > Where/how did you install realplayer? All m

Re: Re Root symlink to /boot/vmlinuz

2002-03-13 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Brooks" == Brooks R Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > me thinks you would like make-kpkg (kernel-package) >> > >> >> IIRC, kernel-package asks if you want the symlinks. I may be wrong, it's >> been a while since I've needed a new kernel :) >> Brooks> Last I ran it (a couple o

two ethernet cards without routing

2002-03-13 Thread jsalord
Hi folk's: I've installed two ethernet cards to my debian server and they work fine. I want to give some services to one IP and other services to the other, so: How can I deactivate the routing option betwen cards? There have to be some kind of routing now because I can connect to my apache typin

remote machines can't open my display since woody upgrade...

2002-03-13 Thread Martin Edward John Waller
Hello, Since I've upgraded to woody and XFree 4.1, I can't get remote machines to display on my machine anymore. Despite that, I can get logins by using Xnest -query on displays other than :0. Here's what I do on local: xhost + (yeah, insecure blah, just for tesing you see) telnet remote (on

Re: remote machines can't open my display since woody upgrade...

2002-03-13 Thread François
Remove -nolisten tcp in /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc and restart X. François On Wed, 13 Mar 2002 10:39:34 + Martin Edward John Waller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Since I've upgraded to woody and XFree 4.1, I > can't get remote machines to display on my machine > anymore.

cd writer setup questions (SONY CRX175A2)

2002-03-13 Thread Erik Steffl
system: debian unstable, kernel 2.4.17 I just installed Sony CRX175A2 CD-r/RW drive (atapi/eide internal drive). It looks like the drive is almost properly recognized, dmesg contains: hdc: SONY CD-RW CRX175E2, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive Note that there is E instead of A in model number and it

Re: remote machines can't open my display since woody upgrade...

2002-03-13 Thread Martin Edward John Waller
"François Chenais" wrote: > Remove -nolisten tcp in /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc and restart X. OK - thanks. As I was using xdm, I also had to the same thing in /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers. Martin > > > François > > On Wed, 13 Mar 2002 10:39:i + > Martin Edward John Waller <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Radio buttons in Gnome

2002-03-13 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hi all, I am trying to change the default button in Gnome so that instead of raising or depressing it has a crossed x in a box when its selected and a blank box when its not. If I use xfce, that happens by default. How can I get Gnome to do it without running xfce as well? Thanks in advance

RE: Reconfigure IP address

2002-03-13 Thread Nicholas Imfeld
I don't seem to have dhcp folder let alone dhclient.leases. Additional info - my ISP IP address has not changed however I have a router between the computer and the ISP. When I look into the router's DHCP Client tables it does not show up. I've taken this computer(laptop) with me to work a few ti

Re: cd writer setup questions (SONY CRX175A2)

2002-03-13 Thread Tim Dijkstra
On Wed, 13 Mar 2002 02:53:19 -0800 "Erik Steffl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I tried to use the SCSI emulation but cannot find the docs how to do > it, I enabled the drivers, the kernel help mentions that there has to be > a kernel option hdc=scsi, but when I included this option in lilo (in >

Re: Radio buttons in Gnome

2002-03-13 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 11:44:19AM +, Patrick Kirk wrote: > Hi all, > > I am trying to change the default button in Gnome so that instead of > raising or depressing it has a crossed x in a box when its selected > and a blank box when its not. > > If I use xfce, that happens by default. How

kernel 2.4.x

2002-03-13 Thread Vittorio
I used to download Bunk's stuff to get kernel 2.4.x. Now where can I find the deb packages with, for instance, kernel 2.4.18 (is out isn't it?)? Ciao Vittorio

Network and login without LDAP, NIS

2002-03-13 Thread AE Roy
First; I'm not on the list, please make a Cc to me, I also welcome personal answer. I'm setting up a network of 8 identical machines to be used by 40 persons. I'm a bit presed by time, so I though I could cut some corners and get them running with Debian within my time schedule. I will set up one

Re: kernel 2.4.x

2002-03-13 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
> I used to download Bunk's stuff to get kernel 2.4.x. bunk's packages are still available: deb http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/debian potato main > Now where can I find the deb packages with, for instance, kernel > 2.4.18 (is out isn't it?)? i usually download them using the forms at http://www.deb

Spamassassin: how to "whitelist" a subject?

2002-03-13 Thread Anthony Campbell
I get replies from a form on my website; they arrive with a subject line: WWW Submission. These get detected as spam by Spamassassin. Is there any way to tell it that they are not? Whitelist just seems to filter addresses, not subjects, and the address at the head of these forms is variable. AC

Logrotator CONFIG!

2002-03-13 Thread louie miranda
/var/log/wtmp { monthly create 0664 root utmp rotate 1 } On logrotate, is it possible to make the filename instead of, ex: wtmp -- origname wtmp.1 -- log rotated / to wtmp-mar132002 -- somthing like this? it will log by date (previous date) -- ex: Yesterday's date was JAN1

Re: Network and login without LDAP, NIS

2002-03-13 Thread Daniel Ruoso
> I will set up one machine(server) the way I want them to be, and then > export the whole disk via NFS to the other 7 machines(clients). On the > clients I'll then fixt the /etc/hostname, /etc/network/interfaces, and > then I'll do chroot, lilo and add a line to /etc/fstab and import the > /home f

Re: Spamassassin: how to "whitelist" a subject?

2002-03-13 Thread Shri Shrikumar
- Original Message - From: "Anthony Campbell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 2:28 AM Subject: Spamassassin: how to "whitelist" a subject? > I get replies from a form on my website; they arrive with a subject > line: WWW Submission. > > These get detected as spam

Re: XFree vs ATI All-in-wonder

2002-03-13 Thread Lorenzo Mattei
On Wed, 13 Feb 2002 06:24:12 -0500, Bill Triplett wrote: >On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 09:14:25AM +0100, Lorenzo Mattei wrote: >>Hi, >>I'm trying to set up an ATI all-in-wonder 128 pro video card on my >>linux box. I'm working with debian potato and XFree-4.1.0 (CPBotha >>packages). Modprobe for r128.

Re: xfce

2002-03-13 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 09:23:24PM -0800, Craig wrote: > On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 09:25:52PM -0600, Kevin C. Smith wrote: > > Anyone running XFce and Unstable. > > Recent upgrade of XFce has removed the Debian menu (xfmenu). > > Anyone know how to get this back? > > > > > maybe "update-menus" > tr

enlightenment...

2002-03-13 Thread Marcelo Leal
hi everybody, my name is marcelo, i'm brazilian, so sorry by the english. i'm using unstable version of Debian, and the problems with instability of evolution has gone. but my window manager (enlightenment), is not fine... when i go to another area, the screen produce a strange effect... when i mov

Re: Promise ATA/133

2002-03-13 Thread Richard Weil
Yes, though it was a little bit of a pain. The controller is supported in the ac series, but not yet in the main kernel (though I think it is in the 2.4.19 pre series). What I had to do to get it to work is: 1. Attach drive to motherboard IDE controller. 2. Install system, get kernel source, appl

RE: two ethernet cards without routing

2002-03-13 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
| I've installed two ethernet cards to my debian server and they work fine. | I want to give some services to one IP and other services to the | other, so: | How can I deactivate the routing option betwen cards? | | There have to be some kind of routing now because I can connect | to my apache | ty

Re: Promise ATA/133

2002-03-13 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
Thanks for the info and the help. If I do use an onboard ATA100 controller, is that supported in the standard potato release's kernel, without any changes? At 06:22 AM 3/13/2002 -0800, you wrote: Yes, though it was a little bit of a pain. The controller is supported in the ac series, but not

Xfree 4.1 on potato

2002-03-13 Thread Craig Sampson
I'm trying to install Xfree 4.10-14 onto an otherwise (reasonably) stock potato machine but am having a problem with a dependancy. It appears that this build, found in testing, requires debconf >= 0.5, but, strangely, this version seems not to exist in testing but rather its in unstable (??!!)

Re: best way to install non debian package

2002-03-13 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 10:15:00AM +0100, Fran?ois Chenais wrote: > > > > If you want install non-debian software, i.e., after compiling a > > compressed tarball, I would suggest that you give checkinstall a try. It > > creates a deb package, which installs the binaries in /usr/local.

Freeswan package on woody?

2002-03-13 Thread Martin Edward John Waller
Hello, I'd like to install freeswan on a woody machine, but a package search for it cam up with nothing. Is there a freeswan package at all? Do I need a 2.4 kernel? (if so, any issues upgrading from a 2.2 kernel to a 2.4 kernel on woody?) Is there a noddy guide to isntalling it on woody? Martin

upgrade 2.4.17 -> 2.4.18 and DRI vanished!

2002-03-13 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, I have an ATI radeon card and have been using DRI for many months. I use the stock Debian kernel packages. When I recently installed the 2.4.18 kernel, DRI stopped working! Today I noticed that the "radeon" module has changed locations: [EMAIL PROTECTED] radeon.o /lib/modules/2.4.17-686

Re: Freeswan package on woody?

2002-03-13 Thread Martin Wuertele
Hi Martin! On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Martin Edward John Waller wrote: > I'd like to install freeswan on a woody machine, > but a package search for it cam up with nothing. > > Is there a freeswan package at all? > Do I need a 2.4 kernel? (if so, any issues > upgrading from a 2.2 kernel to a 2.4 kern

RE: Freeswan package on woody?

2002-03-13 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
| Hello, | | I'd like to install freeswan on a woody machine, | but a package search for it cam up with nothing. | | Is there a freeswan package at all? | Do I need a 2.4 kernel? (if so, any issues | upgrading from a 2.2 kernel to a 2.4 kernel on | woody?) | Is there a noddy guide to isntalling it

Re: 2 CUPS machines _way_ too chatty

2002-03-13 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 07:54:14PM -0500, stan wrote: > Ivestigation (with etherape, and ethereal) revelaed that these 2 machine > were saturating the local net with CUPS/IPP trafic! No print jobs are qued > up. > > Any sugestiosn as to how to troubleshoot this? Turn off browsing in your CUPS con

RE: Freeswan package on woody?

2002-03-13 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
| On my favorite woody machine... | | cyberanarchy:~$ apt-cache search freeswan | freeswan - IPSEC utilities for FreeSWan | kernel-patch-freeswan - IPSEC kernel support for FreeSwan Oops, I forgot that I have a touch of sid in this box... It is in unstable only, or so it seems. Sorry, Brooks

Setting Port and Baud_Rate/Base

2002-03-13 Thread Schoppitsch Dieter
Hi, connecting my HP48gx to my PC works fine with DO$ (kermit). All I have to do is "set port 1" and "set baud 9600". "Receive" receives all files I send from my HP. Unfortunately this procedure doesn't work so simple from linux (or I'm to dumb) - using gkermit (or lrzsz). Gkermit doesn't suppor

Re: power off problem

2002-03-13 Thread Christian Schoenebeck
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 16:15:06 -0500, christophe barbe wrote: >> Since I moved from 2.2.19pre17 to 2.4.17 Kernel a while ago, my machine >> reboots instead of powering off when I booted windows before. I tried the >> 'use real mode APM BIOS call to power off' kernel option, but that didn't >> h

strange problem with apt/dselect

2002-03-13 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
Hi I try to install webmin on one of my systems. All Systems uses the same Debian version (woody). If want to install "webmin" packages on one of them. If i search them i only find webmin-ssl all other packages are not avalible. On all my other Systems they are avaloble. Every system was update

File permissions on nfs mounted directory (Woody)

2002-03-13 Thread Alexis Kotte
Hi, On my Woody box I mount /var/mail through nfs from a file server. However, I can not get hold of my mail using Emacs (21.1). When I call /usr/lib/emacs/21.1/i386-debian-linux-gnu/movemail -p /var/mail/kotte /tmp/dest the response is movemail: Permission denied for /var/mail/kotte

Re: two ethernet cards without routing

2002-03-13 Thread George Karaolides
On Wed, 13 Mar 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi folk's: > > I've installed two ethernet cards to my debian server and they work fine. > I want to give some services to one IP and other services to the other, so: > How can I deactivate the routing option betwen cards? > > There have to be some

Re: Spamassassin: how to "whitelist" a subject?

2002-03-13 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Wed, 13 Mar 2002 01:27:25PM -0800, Shri Shrikumar insinuated: > > I get replies from a form on my website; they arrive with a > > subject line: WWW Submission. > > > > These get detected as spam by Spamassassin. Is there any way to > > tell it that they are not? Whitelist just seems to filter >

trouble installing the latest ssh from woody

2002-03-13 Thread Tim Olsen
I'm having trouble installing the latest ssh from woody: danjah:~# dpkg -D3773 -i /var/cache/apt/archives/ssh_1%3a3.0.2p1-8_i386.deb D10: ensure_pathname_nonexisting `/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci' (Reading database ... 63983 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking ssh (from .../ssh_1%3a

Type 1 fonts

2002-03-13 Thread Rick Pasotto
This morning I upgraded AbiWord (in testing) and there was a dialog telling me to make sure that 'Load "type1"' was in the modules section of my XF86Config-4. It wasn't so I added it and now web pages in Mozilla 0.9.9 look *terrible*. Also, in checking around it appears that there are duplicate ty

Re: Problems with Email Format

2002-03-13 Thread Wayne Topa
Ron Johnson([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 15:46, Costa, Todd (DMH) wrote: > > Hi Deb-Users, > > > > I hope I corrected my email format to text. I can't seem to get my > > email client to send text only. Please reply if its readable. Thanks. > > Umm, Todd

Re: Xfree 4.1 on potato

2002-03-13 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
> I'm trying to install Xfree 4.10-14 onto an otherwise > (reasonably) stock potato machine but am having a problem with a > dependancy. you can find XFree86 4.x debs compiled for potato here: http://people.debian.org/%7Ecpbotha/ i installed them yesterday, it worked quite well. follow the instr

Re: Pump and Dhclient

2002-03-13 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 10:23:48AM +0100, Martin Wuertele wrote: > > modify /etc/network/interfaces and add the auto line: > > eg > auto eth0 > > will when booting fire up eth0. and if your configuration is something > like > eth0 inet dhcp > it will when booting a

mailto: in konqueror

2002-03-13 Thread Tim Dijkstra
Hi, Does anybody know how I can make my favorite mail agent pop-up when I press klik on a mailto: link in konqueror? Thanks, Tim

Re: two ethernet cards without routing

2002-03-13 Thread Vineet Kumar
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020313 02:30]: > Hi folk's: > > I've installed two ethernet cards to my debian server and they work fine. > I want to give some services to one IP and other services to the other, so: > How can I deactivate the routing option betwen cards? > > There have t

GatewayLaptop-Solo9550

2002-03-13 Thread ThomasRatliffDDS
Anyone give me install instructions or a Woody install URL on this? I'm trying to move from RedHat to Debian and figured I'd start with the laptop before playing with the Server and workstations. No peripherals seem to be recognized, X doesn't work and of course config files are in vastly differ

Re: in what config file should I place 'setserial /dev/ttyS3 IRQ 5", and pon ?

2002-03-13 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Vineet Kumar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020312 13:05]: > one of the package-provided initscripts. For setserial, you should be > able to 'dpkg-reconfigure setserial' (as root) and have it "autosave > once". This means that any changes you make to /etc/serial.conf this > time will be saved when the syst

Re: Nvidia Debian Kernel

2002-03-13 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Jonathan Ard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020312 08:38]: > Hi, Kai, > > > > I apt-get source kernel-source-2.4.18 > > Actually, I think you want to use "apt-get install > kernel-source-2.4.18". You are downloading the source to the kernel > source package, which, as you say later, gives you files you

Re: configuring ext3 (was Re: new twist on shutting down and restricting ssh users)

2002-03-13 Thread Vineet Kumar
* dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020306 19:12]: > I've got 2.4.17 on all my systems. (2.4.18 is out now, but not > packaged last I checked) Are there any tricks or gotchas to setting > it up? Here's what I know (I did include support in the kernel) : > o /etc/fstab -- s/ext2/ext3/ try this ins

Re: power off problem

2002-03-13 Thread Alan James
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 05:16:14PM +0100, Christian Schoenebeck wrote: > I already tried APM, then APM with 'use real mode APM BIOS call to power off' > option and finally I tried ACPI instead of APM - didn't make any change. > > Does anybody have an idea? Sorry if this is a stupid question..

Re: Spamassassin: how to "whitelist" a subject?

2002-03-13 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Nori Heikkinen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020313 09:11]: > on Wed, 13 Mar 2002 01:27:25PM -0800, Shri Shrikumar insinuated: > > > I get replies from a form on my website; they arrive with a > > > subject line: WWW Submission. > > > > > > These get detected as spam by Spamassassin. Is there any way to >

RE: Reconfigure IP address

2002-03-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 06:04, Nicholas Imfeld wrote: > I don't seem to have dhcp folder let alone dhclient.leases. Additional > info - my ISP IP address has not changed however I have a router between > the computer and the ISP. When I look into the router's DHCP Client > tables it does not show u

Emacs question

2002-03-13 Thread R . Pac
Hi all, how can I change the background of the menubar under emacs (version 20.x) ? thanks -- R Pac

Courier IMAP authentication

2002-03-13 Thread Pat Colbeck
Hi I think I must be missing something obviose here but here goes:- I have installed courier-imap (this is on Woody) and then point an IMAP client at localhost (in this case Evolution) when it pops up asking for a username and password I type them in and then I fail authentication. The follwoing

Re: the quest for a *stable* browser

2002-03-13 Thread Matt Stump
i am am using the newest build from the mozilla website for win32 and linux and i have very few problems with it. the only thing that bothers me is sometimes keyboard input stops working all of the sudden, but you just open up a new window and it works. --Matt -- "D

Re: problem with dialup connection

2002-03-13 Thread Siward de Groot
Hallo Sebastiaan, thanks for taking the trouble to react :-) . Sebastiaan wrote: > > High, > On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Siward de Groot wrote: > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > I have a problem getting my dial-up internet connection to work. > > Your help would be appreciated. > > > > > Si:/

PS1

2002-03-13 Thread Marcelo Leal
hi folks, why my PS1 variable is [EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w\$ in console (not X). And in X (eterm) is \s-\v\$ ??? i wanna the first way... in the second only bash version appears. thanks!

inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-13 Thread Lazarus Long
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 12:47:25AM -0700, Adam Conrad wrote: > > > -Original Message- > > From: Lazarus Long [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 5:55 PM > > > > Yo family's so black, when they hold hands, it looks like a > > stretch limo. > > > > There'

Unidentified subject!

2002-03-13 Thread osenhor
hi folks, why my PS1 variable is [EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w\$ in console (not X). And in X (eterm) is \s-\v\$ ??? i wanna the first way... in the second only bash version appears. thanks! --- Debian ---

Unidentified subject!

2002-03-13 Thread osenhor
hi, i had installed a potato in my machine working fine... i upgrade to unstable, because my configurations file of enlightenment, dont work in enlightenment version that came with potato. I had already did that, and did work... but this time, my screen give me strange effects...when i move

Re: enlightenment...

2002-03-13 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On 13 Mar 2002 10:56:21 + Marcelo Leal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi everybody, hello Marcelo > my name is marcelo, i'm brazilian, so sorry by the english. why not use debian-user-portuguese, then? > fine... when i go to another area, the screen produce a strange > effect... when i move th

Re: Spamassassin: how to "whitelist" a subject?

2002-03-13 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 13 Mar 2002, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > on Wed, 13 Mar 2002 01:27:25PM -0800, Shri Shrikumar insinuated: > > > I get replies from a form on my website; they arrive with a > > > subject line: WWW Submission. > > > > > > These get detected as spam by Spamassassin. Is there any way to > > > tell it th

Re: Freeswan package on woody?

2002-03-13 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 02:51:14PM +, Martin Edward John Waller wrote: > I'd like to install freeswan on a woody machine, > but a package search for it cam up with nothing. It was recently removed from woody due to an outstanding release critical bug. The bug turned out to not be freeswan's f

Locales missing?

2002-03-13 Thread John Lord
Hi, Recently after the last 2 upgrades I have been getting the following error message, also when installing individual files. *dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `locales' missing, * *assuming package has no files currently installed.* Anyone advice why this is now being report

Woody net install CD's

2002-03-13 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
I've downloaded and burned the woody net install cd's [http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~sdier/debian/woody-netinst-test/] and tried the installation three times and it is not working properly. I can step through all of the setup options as well as configure my network card. It then downloads all th

Re: slrn + leafnode = heavy load

2002-03-13 Thread Ian Balchin
Hi, answering my own post I made a setting in .slrnrc % If 0, save all groups when writing newsrc file % if 1, do not save any unsubscribed groups % if 2, do not save any unread-unsubscribed groups set write_newsrc_flags 1 which has dramatically improved matters. My .jnewsrc now only shows the gr

Wrong behavoir of APT (was: strange problem with apt/dselect)

2002-03-13 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
Hi Now in a easyer way: Can two Debian 3 systems with the exact same sources.list file have diferent packages avalible lists? I have on some packages diffrent version numbers and some packages are missing... cheers, Raffaele -- Raffaele Sandrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For encrypted Mail get my P

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-13 Thread Chris
You are kidding right? IRC is extremely inappropriate for a child to use, period. You are way off base, your perspective is badly skewed and I fear for the safety of your daughter online. I wish her the best of luck with such poor guidance to grow with. * Lazarus Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02031

Re: Strange messages on all terminals

2002-03-13 Thread Tim Dijkstra
On 12 Mar 2002 12:31:48 -0500 "Scott Henson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am having a problem with all my virtual terminals(ctr-alt-F<1-6>) For > some reason a constant stream of information is sent to all of them. It > seems to be something to do with my internet connection, because its > spe

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-13 Thread Robert L. Harris
Question. Who determins what should and shouldn't be? Who is "right"? If I don't find something offensive should everyone just ignore it? If someone else finds it offensive am I wrong? Maybe I'm not sensitive enough, maybe they're too sensitive, maybe it's not worth worryiing about. Maybe yo

Re: the quest for a *stable* browser

2002-03-13 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 09:53:56PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 04:26:57PM -0500, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > > > Have you moved you mozilla directory out of the way and tried with a > > freshly created one? > > Only when upgrading, but I've upgraded three times and still see thi

[eich@XFree86.Org: [Xpert]Trident 9397 Color Distortion Problem]

2002-03-13 Thread Branden Robinson
Hi folks, friendly neighborhood X maintainer here. Egbert Eich and Alan Hourihane are chipset driver authors for XFree86. Help them help you! - Forwarded message from Egbert Eich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Egbert Eich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: xpert@xfree86.org Subject: [Xpert]Trident 93

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-13 Thread Robert van der Meulen
Quoting Lazarus Long ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Again, there is no excuse for racism in Debian. Other packages have > elided the inappropriate material in the past, as they should. An IRC > client has no business being racist. Debian is a distribution that > specifically caters to children; note t

Re: Locales missing?

2002-03-13 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 18:16:33 +0100, John Lord wrote: > *dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `locales' missing, * > *assuming package has no files currently installed.* > > Anyone advice why this is now being reported? Information in the /var/lib/dpkg/ hierarchy which dpkg uses

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-13 Thread Ben Collins
> > Again, there is no excuse for racism in Debian. Other packages have > elided the inappropriate material in the past, as they should. An IRC > client has no business being racist. Debian is a distribution that > specifically caters to children; note the debian-junior project. As it > stand

Re: Wrong behavoir of APT (was: strange problem with apt/dselect)

2002-03-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 08:36:00PM +0100, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > Can two Debian 3 systems with the exact same sources.list file have diferent > packages avalible lists? I have on some packages diffrent version numbers and > some packages are missing... Perhaps you're updating with 'apt-get u

Re: PS1

2002-03-13 Thread Jeff
Marcelo Leal, 2002-Mar-13 14:57 +: > hi folks, > why my PS1 variable is [EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w\$ in console (not X). And in X > (eterm) > is \s-\v\$ ??? > i wanna the first way... in the second only bash version appears. > thanks! I control my prompts from my ~/.bashrc with this: if [

Re: trouble installing the latest ssh from woody

2002-03-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 11:36:09AM -0500, Tim Olsen wrote: > I'm having trouble installing the latest ssh from woody: [..] > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/ssh_1%3a3.0.2p1-8_i386.deb > (--install): > subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 10 Exit code 10 is

Re: Promise ATA/133

2002-03-13 Thread raw-sewa
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 09:42:42PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > I am considering using a Promise ATA/133 drive controller and some ATA/133 > > drives. Is anyone currently using such a setup? > > > you need to download and apply the ata/133 patches to the kernel... > > http://www.1U-Raid5.ne

NFS: right-problem

2002-03-13 Thread Markus Grunwald
Hello ! I have two computers here, eddie and marvin: Linux Marvin 2.2.18pre21 #14 Wed Oct 17 20:20:24 CEST 2001 i586 unknown Linux Eddie 2.4.17 #1 Sam Feb 16 14:06:40 CET 2002 i686 unknown >From marvin, I export a directory with some data to eddie. Unfortunately, I can't create files as user ma

Re: Wine

2002-03-13 Thread Robert Rakowicz
Tom Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi, > Thanks lots everyone who replied - perhaps an RTFM might have been more > appropriate :-( > > winesetuptk looks good but is not on potato :-( > Why not ? I'm using last 5-6 months wine on my potato box and it's work fine for me. I need wine because I mus

floppy disk multitasking problems

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Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-13 Thread Craig Dickson
begin Lazarus Long quotation: > Again, there is no excuse for racism in Debian. [...] Why are you bringing this from debian-devel to debian-user without telling us what it's all about? I have no idea what package you're talking about, or what you find objectionable about it. If you're going to

Re: Pump and Dhclient

2002-03-13 Thread Elizabeth Barham
"Sridhar M.A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > All these are there [/etc/networking/interfaces]. But, when I give > the command: > > /etc/init.d/networking start|restart > > nothing happens. ~~~ ~~~ In /etc/init.d/networking, you'll see: if ! [ -x /sbin/ifup ]; then exit 0 fi -

RE: best way to install non debian package

2002-03-13 Thread Panuganty, Ramesh
Good that this discussion came up. I lost my checkinstall file which I downloaded earlier and can't reach this site now (always inaccessible?). Can somebody give me a copy of this checkinstall package? Thanks, Ramesh -Original Message- From: Sridhar M.A. Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 8:

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-13 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 13-Mar-2002 Chris wrote: > You are kidding right? IRC is extremely inappropriate for a child to > use, period. You are way off base, your perspective is badly skewed > and I fear for the safety of your daughter online. I wish her the > best of luck with such poor guidance to grow with. > A

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