PPPOE and ip-up

2002-03-13 Thread Tony Schonfeld
Hello everybody, i'm using potato with pppoe 3.3 and i can't execute a script in ip-up.d directory when my link is up for a new connect. Can you help me please, many thanks per advance, Tony Ps: reply to my email because i don't brownse the list at this time. -- Tony Schonfeld * F5GIT *

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-13 Thread Warren Stramiello
On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 14:43, Robert L. Harris wrote: > > > 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: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-13 Thread Warren Stramiello
On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 14:36, 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 gro

Re: PS1

2002-03-13 Thread Sean Quinlan
--- Marcelo Leal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2002-03-13 19:30): > 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. The prompt which contains only the shell and version number (the

FreeType Patent Issues and Debian

2002-03-13 Thread Timothy R. Butler
Hi everyone, My recent experiment trying to get Debian to install on a certain laptop led to my installing Mandrake on that laptop (I couldn't ever get Debian to load pcmcia-cs). I then ran into problems with the fonts in Mandrake 8.2 RC1, fonts looked absolutely horrible (when using AA). N

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-13 Thread Petro
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 10:04:14AM -0800, Lazarus Long wrote: > 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 hol

Re: Problems with Email Format

2002-03-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 20:31, Wayne Topa wrote: > 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 o

Re: Emacs question

2002-03-13 Thread Glyn Millington
R.Pac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, > > how can I change the background of the menubar under emacs (version > 20.x) ? In .Xdefaults or .Xsession, with xresources setting Emacs*menubar*Foreground:Red Emacs*menubar*Background:Gold for example - except that these may not b

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-13 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 09:09:45PM +0100, Robert van der Meulen wrote: > Then don't install it on the box your daughter uses. Debian is about > freedom, not censorship. Shielding from 'sensitive' material is a decision > every parent can make by themselves, and it is _not_ the responsability of > a

Re: cdrw and cdrom: do ide and master/slave matter?

2002-03-13 Thread Greg Murphy
Greetings, The cd-r can be on any drive, master or slave. Mine is set up as following: cdrom: /dev/hdc (secondary master) cdr: /dev/hdd ( secondary slave) and I've had no problems. I'm not sure about whether lite-on will work or not. My drive was not listed on the cd-r but it works, so there could

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-13 Thread Kurt Lieber
Lazarus Long said: > Again, there is no excuse for racism in Debian. Other packages have > elided the inappropriate material in the past, as they should. No, they shouldn't. Debian is not about censorship. I personally find the quoted joke offensive, but I'm not about to say he doesn't have a

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-13 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
Do not feed the troll. -- Surely there is a polite way to say FOAD.-- Shmuel Metz "Fornicate Off And Decease". -- Rik Steenwinkel

Re: xfce

2002-03-13 Thread Charles Baker
--- "Kevin C. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-13 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Don't start a trend that we cannot stick to. Unless you really feel like > perusing the sources of everything (grep -ir fuck in the kernel source), > you should drop this now. Yes it sucks. Yes, a lot of people disagree > with such remarks, but freedom com

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-13 Thread Alan James
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 02:36:28PM -0500, 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 g

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-13 Thread Duncan Findlay
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 09:09:45PM +0100, Robert van der Meulen wrote: > > 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

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-13 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 03:25:45PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Don't start a trend that we cannot stick to. Unless you really feel like > > perusing the sources of everything (grep -ir fuck in the kernel source), > > you should drop this now.

Re: Interfaces configuration and tap0

2002-03-13 Thread Philippe Raxhon
Subject: Re: Interfaces configuration and tap0 From: Martin Wuertele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 10:27:58 +0100 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Hi Philippe! On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Philippe Raxhon wr

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-13 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think it is unreasonable. That's like saying that the library has a > right to burn books that it finds filthy or innappropriate. If you > modify source code simply to remove the authors remarks, your are > censoring, and are no better than a book-burner

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-13 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 03:42:16PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I think it is unreasonable. That's like saying that the library has a > > right to burn books that it finds filthy or innappropriate. If you > > modify source code simply to remove

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-13 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Changing some working simply because you are offended by it is just > plain wrong. You are making a decision based solely on your own personal > criteria, rather than that of sound technical advice. I think a Debian developer has a perfectly legitimate ri

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-13 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 03:58:12PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Changing some working simply because you are offended by it is just > > plain wrong. You are making a decision based solely on your own personal > > criteria, rather than that of s

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-13 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If an individual developer feels it's warranted, then by all means, they > can do so. But making it a Debian motto to do such is a bad idea. Oh, certainly. I don't think we should have *any* kind of Debian policy on such things.

Re: Emacs question

2002-03-13 Thread Dan Griswold
Try putting the following in your .Xdefaults file: Emacs*menubar*Background: #9F9FB5 Emacs*menubar*Foreground: DarkBlue HTH, Dan

Procmail setup

2002-03-13 Thread Ryan J Goss
I recently joined this mailing list and enjoy the good discussions, but I am trying to figure out how to set up procmail so that all debian related messages get forwarded to a debian folder and not into my inbox. I don't know what I am doing wrong. Here is what .procmailrc looks like: MAILDIR=$HO

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

2002-03-13 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 09:13:08AM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * 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 suppo

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

2002-03-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 10:28:04AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > 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

easy? exim problem

2002-03-13 Thread Cam
Hey, I'm having a little problem w/ exim... I've set it up many times in the past successfully, but this time I cannot seem to do it. I have it so that it delivers 'local mail only' but that doesn't work at all for some reason (shouldn't local mail only always work??). Anyway, if i try to send m

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-13 Thread Alan James
This bug is fixed. This is no longer an issue. Please dont reply to this thread, or at least dont CC every other list about it.. Yes, I was foolish enough to group reply already, sorry. You can get the get the details of this mess from : http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?archive=no\&

Re: floppy disk multitasking problems

2002-03-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 15:06, KTI Networks/Carlos Miller wrote: > You know if you had a Pen Drive you may want to forget about the floppies. > www.ktinet.com/pendrive the answer! > > give me a call 800-275-6387 > > Best Regards, > > Carlos Miller > Account Manager > KTI Networks, Inc., USA > Voi

A couple of general Debian questions

2002-03-13 Thread Paul F. Pearson
1) when using Dselect, I sometimes select packages, and find out that I don't have the space to actually install them. How can I "unselelect all"? 2) I want to install Woody on my PC at home (I currently have Potato at home, Woody for PPC at work). My home computer's access to the net is at ap

Re: Pump and Dhclient

2002-03-13 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
Martin Wuertele posts : > modify /etc/network/interfaces and add the auto line This is already there in my /etc/network/interfaces file. It fails to work. Only if I run udhcpc as root, does the eth0 device come up. How does one bring up the eth0 interface automatically upon boot ? -- /(__ _

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