Re: Allow root to telnet

2002-04-18 Thread David Smead
It's probably easier to set up ssh, and access as a normal user and the su. -- Sincerely, David Smead http://www.amplepower.com. On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Michael Watts wrote: > Hi, > > I am having trouble with a few services and want to allow root to telnet > to a Debian 2.2r5 system for testing p

Re: mutt and my email address

2002-04-18 Thread Mike Thompson
at the end of /etc/exim/exim.conf write [EMAIL PROTECTED] "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" Ffr or similar. On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 12:09:28PM -0500, Brooks R. Robinson wrote: > Greetings, > Okay, so I'm trying to transition off of pine and Microsoft Outlook and > move to mutt. I've got most things

xconsole won't allow input!?!

2002-04-18 Thread Michael Kahle
I have been using Debian Woody now for about 2 months. This is installed on an old P5 166 w/ 64 mb of ram. I made the decision today to install XFree86 with afterstep for a lightweight window manager. I managed to get everything working fine, but when I launch XConsole it won't let me put any in

conio.h

2002-04-18 Thread Zain Halai
Hey, I'd like to use functions like clrscr() or cprintf on debian 2.1, but the header file conio.h does not exist under unix/linux systems (am I wrong?) as is in Borland C++ Compiler. Is there an equivalent library or any other way I could use the functions that are in conio.h? Thank you in advance

Re: view output of process while

2002-04-18 Thread David Smead
And there is always vncserver. -- Sincerely, David Smead http://www.amplepower.com. On 17 Apr 2002, Dave Carrigan wrote: > Rory Campbell-Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Is it possible to log back into a machine over ssh and 'attach' to a > > running process so that one can see the outp

Re: Mouse problem

2002-04-18 Thread David Smead
Thanks to everyone who responded regarding the mouse problem. I fixed the problem by changing XF86Config as follows, along with a new link from /dev/mouse and - killing gpm. I don't use any program that run it, and don't know what programs do, and missed the fact that it was installed by default.

Re: xconsole won't allow input!?!

2002-04-18 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Michael Kahle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been using Debian Woody now for about 2 months. This is installed > on an old P5 166 w/ 64 mb of ram. > > I made the decision today to install XFree86 with afterstep for a lightweight > window manager. I managed to get everything working f

Re: xconsole won't allow input!?!

2002-04-18 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 18-Apr-2002 Michael Kahle wrote: > I have been using Debian Woody now for about 2 months. This is installed > on an old P5 166 w/ 64 mb of ram. > > I made the decision today to install XFree86 with afterstep for a lightweight > window manager. I managed to get everything working fine, but wh

Re: [update] Re: CUPS: now pdf files don't print

2002-04-18 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 10:58:44PM -0500, dman wrote: > On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 10:48:32PM -0500, DvB wrote: > > | Apparently, it's just one pdf file in particular that refuses to print > | and all others work (or at least all others that I've tested). > > I found one of those too. (I think the

Re: conio.h

2002-04-18 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Zain Halai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey, > I'd like to use functions like clrscr() or cprintf on debian 2.1, but the > header file conio.h does not exist under unix/linux systems (am I wrong?) > as is in Borland C++ Compiler. Is there an equivalent library or any other > way I could use

Re: conio.h

2002-04-18 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 01:02:26AM -0400, Zain Halai wrote: > Hey, > I'd like to use functions like clrscr() or cprintf on debian 2.1, but the > header file conio.h does not exist under unix/linux systems (am I wrong?) > as is in Borland C++ Compiler. Is there an equivalent library or any other > w

login.defs

2002-04-18 Thread Priit Kivisoo
Hi, Just wanted to know, why I can't use LOGIN_STRING "%s's password: " in login.defs. The default password string (Password: ) won't change. I've tried it on several Linuxes (RH, Slack, SuSE) and it worker perfectly. Thanks in advantage... Priit Kivisoo -- debian 2.2r6 user --

magicfilter and HP Deskjet 720c

2002-04-18 Thread Erik van der Meulen
Hi List - I have been using magicfilter with my HP LaserJet 4L for quite some time no. Works fine! No I have acquired an HP DeskJet 720c and I would like to add that to my config. Unfortunately, magicfilter does not seem to have an input filter for this particular deskjet. It has: dj500c, 550c, 6

Re: view output of process while

2002-04-18 Thread Matthew Gregan
On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 01:22:18PM +, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > Is it possible to log back into a machine over ssh and 'attach' to a > running process so that one can see the output of, say, a kernel > compile? Take a look at the ``screen'' package. -- Matthew Gregan |

Re: conio.h

2002-04-18 Thread David Smead
I've used the slang package that has all the raw functions that makes it easy to write wrappers for text screen operations. Ncurses used to have lots of bugs but that was several years ago when I chose slang instead and probably the ncurses bugs have been fixed. -- Sincerely, David Smead http:/

Re: xscreensaver

2002-04-18 Thread Marc Wilson
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 08:48:38PM -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote: > Related question: On a dual display system not using xinerama (e.g., > different xserver on :0.0 and :0.1, can you get the screensaver to run > on just one display? You can cause xscreensaver to run on any number of displays, but it

Re: Emacs' main menu font

2002-04-18 Thread Oki DZ
On 04/17 14:47 Glyn Millington wrote: > Probably best in ~/.Xdefaults > > eg > >Emacs.default.attributeFont:-b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1 That is 12-point font, right...? BTW, I have some more questions... - Would it be possible to set the editor's font (ie: th

Re: Emacs advice,what to install?

2002-04-18 Thread Holger Rauch
Hi! On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Wendell Cochran wrote: > [...] > Flaming vi vs emacs is for script kiddies. There *are* arguments for Emacs: - You don't have to think about which mode you are currently in, just hack your stuff in there (something which is rather difficult with vi since you need to be

Re: login.defs

2002-04-18 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 18-Apr-2002 Priit Kivisoo wrote: > Hi, > > Just wanted to know, why I can't use > > LOGIN_STRING "%s's password: " > > in login.defs. > > The default password string (Password: ) won't change. > I've tried it on several Linuxes (RH, Slack, SuSE) and > it worker perfectly. > > Thanks in adv

Re: Intermittent System Lockup (long)

2002-04-18 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Apr 17, 2002, Jamin W. Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, 17 Apr 2002 11:53:10 -0700 > "Karsten M. Self" wrote: > > > on Wed, Apr 17, 2002, Jamin W. Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > > - CPU -- a continuous kernel-build loop is a pretty good test. > > > > You're l

Re: Emacs' main menu font

2002-04-18 Thread Glyn Millington
Oki DZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 04/17 14:47 Glyn Millington wrote: >> Probably best in ~/.Xdefaults >> >> eg >> >>Emacs.default.attributeFont:-b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1 > > That is 12-point font, right...? Right!! Not sure about the other questions,

kernel-headers-2.2.19pre17

2002-04-18 Thread James Michael DuPont
Dear Debian Kernel Hackers. I think that I must have done something wrong and please excuse the stupid question. In this mail : http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2001/debian-user-200106/msg02814.html You write apt-get -i kernel-headers-2.2.19pre17 Unfortunatly : # apt-get -i kernel-headers-2.2

kernel-headers-2.2.19pre17

2002-04-18 Thread James Michael DuPont
Dear Debian Kernel Hackers. I think that I must have done something wrong and please excuse the stupid question. In this mail : http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2001/debian-user-200106/msg02814.html You write apt-get -i kernel-headers-2.2.19pre17 Unfortunatly : # apt-get -i kernel-headers-2.2

Re: view output of process while

2002-04-18 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Apr 17, 2002, Dave Carrigan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Rory Campbell-Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Is it possible to log back into a machine over ssh and 'attach' to a > > running process so that one can see the output of, say, a kernel > > compile? > > If you find that you of

Upgrade to woody

2002-04-18 Thread David Smead
http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/ says . . . testing's gone mainline! Point apt at the new "testing" distribution (or the old "woody" distribution) on your favourite Debian mirror. knuth:~# apt-get install testing Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: Couldn't fin

Re: X

2002-04-18 Thread Patrick Kirk
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 06:36:25PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: >On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 10:57:49PM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 05:36:27PM -0400, Aravind Vinnakota wrote: >> >Hi all, >> > Somehow I successfully installed Debian 2.2r6 on my Ultra 5 sparc. But I >> >having tro

Re: xconsole won't allow input!?!

2002-04-18 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Michael Kahle wrote: > I made the decision today to install XFree86 with afterstep for a lightweight > window manager. I managed to get everything working fine, but when I > launch XConsole it won't let me put any input into the xconsole window. This is normal. It only read

Re: Emacs advice,what to install?

2002-04-18 Thread David Smead
There's no such thing as everybody's editor. Emacs is a lifestyle, so if you're looking for simpler editors there are lots of choices. The editor e3 may be have the lowest size per function at about 10K, so if your want to keep size down and still have a quite functional editor you should try tha

broken apt upgrade

2002-04-18 Thread Andrew Pritchard
Ran my morning apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade, and now netsaint is playing up. Can someone tell me where I've gone wrong, and how I should fix it! djelibyebi:~# apt-get upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: libpgsql2.1 T

Re: check for root kit

2002-04-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 02:31:46AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2002/debian-devel-200203/msg02337.html How do you come up with these URL? Do you have some trick to do it quickly? I know messages are stored at l.d.o site but ... Wondering... Osamu -- ~\^

Re: IPCop on Debian

2002-04-18 Thread Pat Colbeck
IPcop so far as I know is its own custom distribution. I.E you dont install it ontop of Debian or RedHat or whatever it installs on a blank hard drive itself. In essence its a custome kernel with ipchains and everything removed not necessary to run firewalling and snort with a HTML front end chucke

whereis iptables LOG

2002-04-18 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello, I use this rule to redirect the outgoing smtp connection under NAT. Where are the log messages? I just can't find any log begging with "SMTP_LOG" under /var/log/. Idea? iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p TCP -s 192.168.10.0/24 ! -d 111.222.333.444 --dport 25 -j LOG --log-prefix SMTP_LOG: --

problem with syslog log rotation

2002-04-18 Thread José
Hi all, recently i added this to my potato 2.2r3 logrotate.conf /var/log/syslog { monthly rotate 1 } after this, i noticed that nothing have changed ! the rotation is still done weekly with rotation 5 ! any idea ? thx -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Doc problem related to mkrboot package

2002-04-18 Thread Jean-Francois Leveque
I recently got the 2.2r6 i386 CDs for an offsite install. I read the doc and found that the file boot.bat mentionned in the CD doc equivalent of http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-rescue-boot#s-install-cd cannot be found on the CD (as far as I can tell). This file is also mentionne

Unable to mount cd-rom

2002-04-18 Thread Sam Varghese
I recently moved my Debian install over to a new hard disk and after this I find that I cannot mount my cd-rom. My /etc/fstab reads as under: /dev/hda2 / ext2defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/hda5 noneswapsw 00 proc

Re: Allow root to telnet

2002-04-18 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Michael Watts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am having trouble with a few services and want to allow root to telnet > to a Debian 2.2r5 system for testing purposes, but can not find the way > to allow this to happen. That is because it is one of the worse ideas around. If you allo

Re: Swapfiles

2002-04-18 Thread Joe Bouchard
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 10:34:54PM -0500, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > "Oki" == Oki DZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Oki> Hi, On a 128Mbytes machine, how much swap space can it > Oki> handle? Would it be all right to assign it 384Mbytes? > > Yes. > > I typically assign twice as much swa

Unidentified subject!

2002-04-18 Thread dscpubl
Hello there - Pleae also cc: me at [EMAIL PROTECTED], because my normal listserver address goes to what *was* my potato box. Now it is woody-not-yet-workin box, so please cc: me here. I just got woody Compact and went to install it -- when what to my wondering eyes should appear but ne2k,

debian-user@lists.debian.org

2002-04-18 Thread Bud Rogers
On Wednesday 17 April 2002 22:02 pm, Christian Jaeger wrote: > At 21:39 Uhr -0500 17.04.2002, Bud Rogers wrote: > >I ran gnus in Xemacs for a long time and loved it. As I remember, gnus > >can be built for either Xemacs or Emacs but cannot be compatible with both > >at the same time. You might w

debian-user@lists.debian.org

2002-04-18 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Christian Jaeger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > With a change back to nnml, the 'Wrong type argument' piece went away > and really, I have now a listing of the mails I've always downloaded > from emacs. But...: 'Window height 0 too small (after splitting)', I > can't open the individual mails. Argh

Re: Intermittent System Lockup (long)

2002-04-18 Thread ben
On Wednesday 17 April 2002 11:58 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Wed, Apr 17, 2002, Jamin W. Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Wed, 17 Apr 2002 11:53:10 -0700 > > > > "Karsten M. Self" wrote: > > > on Wed, Apr 17, 2002, Jamin W. Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > - C

Kühlschrank uaf

2002-04-18 Thread ntf_Ariane
Der Mini Kühlschrank aus der Fernsehwerbung. Dieser Mini-Kühlschrank ist der Clou und Hingucker auf jeder Party und jedem

Re: magicfilter and HP Deskjet 720c

2002-04-18 Thread Travis Crump
It uses pnm2ppa as the input filter which is available as a seperate package. Erik van der Meulen wrote: Hi List - I have been using magicfilter with my HP LaserJet 4L for quite some time no. Works fine! No I have acquired an HP DeskJet 720c and I would like to add that to my config. Unfortunat

RE: Swapfiles

2002-04-18 Thread Smith, Brian N.
>John Hasler wrote >I wrote: >> Executables, being read-only, are mapped directly from disk and never >> use any swap at all. Only data gets mapped to swap. >Karsten writes: >> Is this a GNU/Linux thing or a more general Unix/POSIX thing? >Neither. It's a virtual-memory thing. It's the obvi

Re: IDE-SCSI, CD-RW, ZIP drive weirdness

2002-04-18 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 08:14:54PM -0600, Troy Telford wrote: > I have an ATAPI CD-RW installed as the second slave (/dev/hdd). > > According to the documentation I've read, to use the CD-RW in Linux, I > have to use IDE-SCSI (kernel) and have 'hdd=scsi' in the boot parameters. > > I've done thi

Re: Upgrade to woody

2002-04-18 Thread Sami Dalouche
change your /etc/apt/sources.list to something like deb ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/debian/ testing main deb ftp://ftp.rutgers.edu/pub/debian/ testing contrib deb ftp://ftp.ee.debian.org/debian/ testing non-free deb ftp://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian-non-US/ testing non-US/main non-US/contrib no

netscape bus error

2002-04-18 Thread John Habermann
Hi Do support for a community group that recycles computers installs debian and gives them to low income people. One of the recipients is issues with Netscape. Netscape (4.77-2) doesn't open at all and when netscape is entered into an xterm he receives only a line saying "Bus error". Anyone hav

Re: net connect problem, sleep?

2002-04-18 Thread Michael Wördehoff
Hello again, Ron Johnson, Jr. ! Last night i didn't remember from where APM ist used, but hoped you could find something about in the Kernel-Doku ( or simply reading the config-informations with 'menuconfig' ). Additionally here is one more piece about that ( but there may be more instances

Re: xconsole won't allow input!?!

2002-04-18 Thread Michael Kahle
Baloo, Shaelh, and David, Thank you all for your answers. I asked this question to the list late last night after I couldn't figure out why I couldn't get a terminal. Shortly after I posted I installed xterm and I was all set. As you all pointed out, this is not the program I was looking for.

Re: cut-n-pasting links

2002-04-18 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 07:54:48PM -0700, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Rick Pasotto wrote: > > > How can I cut-n-paste something that shows as a link in Mozilla > > and/or the gnome terminal? Every key combination I've tried seems to > > activate the link instead of putting t

Re: Intermittent System Lockup (long)

2002-04-18 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Wed, 17 Apr 2002 23:58:41 -0700 "Karsten M. Self" wrote: > on Wed, Apr 17, 2002, Jamin W. Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > Created two copies of the 2.4.16 kernel source and have currently been > > running two endless compiling loops in SSH sessions to the system. > > The loops have been runn

Re: [update] Re: CUPS: now pdf files don't print

2002-04-18 Thread DvB
dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 10:48:32PM -0500, DvB wrote: > > | Apparently, it's just one pdf file in particular that refuses to print > | and all others work (or at least all others that I've tested). > > I found one of those too. (I think the one I found didn't

Re: cut-n-pasting links

2002-04-18 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 08:53:05AM -0500, dman wrote: > On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 09:42:42AM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > | How can I cut-n-paste something that shows as a link in Mozilla and/or > | the gnome terminal? Every key combination I've tried seems to activate > | the link instead of puttin

Re: conio.h

2002-04-18 Thread dman
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 01:02:26AM -0400, Zain Halai wrote: | Hey, | I'd like to use functions like clrscr() or cprintf on debian 2.1, but the | header file conio.h does not exist under unix/linux systems (am I wrong?) | as is in Borland C++ Compiler. Is there an equivalent library or any other | w

Re: [update] Re: CUPS: now pdf files don't print

2002-04-18 Thread DvB
"Eric G. Miller" writes: > I've gotten more than one PDF file generated/served via some kind of web > bot that had trailing or leading garbage (seems to be MS ware related). > Trimming the junk in vim, made ghostscript a happy camper. Perhaps this > is one of those embrace extend tacticts?

Re: Upgrade to woody

2002-04-18 Thread dman
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 12:32:35AM -0700, David Smead wrote: | http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/ says . . . | testing's gone mainline! Point apt at the new "testing" distribution | (or the old "woody" distribution) on your favourite Debian mirror. | | knuth:~# apt-get install testing | Readi

Icewm still being maintained

2002-04-18 Thread Anthony Campbell
Looking at http://www.icewm.org today, I see that - contrary to posts on this list and elsewhere - icewm is still being actively maintained and a beta release of 1.2.0 is due out this month. Good news! Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux GNU/Debian (Windows-free zone) For electronic bo

Re: debian for embedded...original playstation

2002-04-18 Thread Shawn McMahon
> On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, java guru wrote: > > want Linux on that hardware, you're likely going to have to do all the > gruntwork yourself. Good luck! > > -- > Baloo > Sony's official port is available in Japan already. US kit starts shipping May 22. It's not Debian, but it is Linux, and with

Re: kernel-headers-2.2.19pre17

2002-04-18 Thread Bob Thibodeau
-i is the dkpg switch for install you want apt-get install kernel-headers-2.2.19pre17 It's in the help text Bob On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 12:09:26AM -0700, James Michael DuPont wrote: > Dear Debian Kernel Hackers. > I think that I must have done something wrong and > please excuse the stupid quest

netscape bus error

2002-04-18 Thread John Habermann
Hi Do some support for a community group that recycles computers, installs debian and then gives them to low income people. One of the recipients has issues with Netscape. Netscape (4.77-2) doesn't open at all and when netscape is entered into an xterm he receives only a line saying "Bus error

Woody not ready, methinks

2002-04-18 Thread Michael Rudmin
I was hoping to get Baltic fonts, and I had just installed, and I read that Debian is advising new installers to install Woody instead of Potato. So I figured why not reinstall. First, let me preface by naming my system. 800 Mhz PII, *slow* permanent web link, everything else normal. Also, my we

Re: xconsole won't allow input!?!

2002-04-18 Thread Patrick Kirk
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 01:01:52AM -0700, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: >On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Michael Kahle wrote: > >This is normal. It only reads anything you send at /dev/xconsole. You >can have X start this automatically, with a little tweek (look around in >/etc/X11), and you can get your logs

Re: Upgrade to woody

2002-04-18 Thread Jerome Lacoste \(Work\)
On Thu, 2002-04-18 at 09:32, David Smead wrote: > > > http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/ says . . . > testing's gone mainline! Point apt at the new "testing" distribution > (or the old "woody" distribution) on your favourite Debian mirror. > > knuth:~# apt-get install testing > Reading Packag

Re: xconsole won't allow input!?!

2002-04-18 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Patrick Kirk wrote: > I really wish I could stop that xconsole loading but I can't dind it > anywhere no matter how mcu grepping /etc/X11 I do. How does one stop > it appearing? It seems to be started by /etc/X11/Xsetup in sid. I swear there was a way to shut it off in a co

Re: mutt and my email address

2002-04-18 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Mike Thompson wrote: > > at the end of /etc/exim/exim.conf write > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" Ffr > > or similar. > Also, look at the really nice rewriting rule that is commented out at the end of the default exim.conf provided in the Debian package. It uses /etc/email-addre

Suggestions for multi-platform game development library?

2002-04-18 Thread marshal
Hi all! I'm looking for something, I guess a library would be probably what I'm looking for, that will allow me to write a game (RPG), but that is supported on many platforms. I'm looking specifically for *nix, Windows, and, also preferably, MacOS (9 or X. X should be fairly easy.) I want a wri

Re: conio.h

2002-04-18 Thread Wayne Topa
Zain Halai([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hey, > I'd like to use functions like clrscr() or cprintf on debian 2.1, but the > header file conio.h does not exist under unix/linux systems (am I wrong?) > as is in Borland C++ Compiler. Is there an equivalent library or any other > way I

Re: Intermittent System Lockup (long)

2002-04-18 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Jaye Inabnit ke6sls ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wednesday 17 April 2002 11:29 am, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > >yup, snipped it all< > > Greetings Jamin: > > I built a box for a young friend as a gift. It is back on my bench now.

RE: Upgrade to woody

2002-04-18 Thread Donald R. Spoon
David Smead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/ says . . . testing's gone mainline! Point apt at the new "testing" distribution (or the old "woody" distribution) on your favourite Debian mirror. knuth:~# apt-get install testing Reading Package Lists... Done Buildin

Re: whereis iptables LOG

2002-04-18 Thread dman
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 04:43:09PM +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote: | Hello, | | I use this rule to redirect the outgoing smtp connection under NAT. | Where are the log messages? I just can't find any log begging with | "SMTP_LOG" under /var/log/. Idea? syslog and/or messages if you go to a console,

Re: whereis iptables LOG

2002-04-18 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002 16:43:09 +0800 "Patrick Hsieh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use this rule to redirect the outgoing smtp connection under NAT. > Where are the log messages? I just can't find any log begging with > "SMTP_LOG" under /var/log/. Idea? The log entries will go where ever your sysl

how can I setup a network monitoring station

2002-04-18 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
I wish to setup a network monitoring machine to track network traffic in an office of about 100 users. The main focus of attention is the traffic passing between our router and the network, as we recently and inexplicably had most of the bandwidth of our half meg leased line saturated by network tr

Re: Upgrade to woody

2002-04-18 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 12:32:35AM -0700, David Smead wrote: > > > http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/ says . . . > testing's gone mainline! Point apt at the new "testing" distribution > (or the old "woody" distribution) on your favourite Debian mirror. > > knuth:~# apt-get install testing > R

Re: Linux Universal Instant Messaging Client?

2002-04-18 Thread Paul F. Pearson
Everybuddy. On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Michael Kahle wrote: > Once again, I answered my own question. GAIM seems to now be able to > do them all! :) Lucky me. But how about a similar program GPLed written > in Java? > > "Michael Kahle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does anyone know if there

gdkxft and non iso-1 characters

2002-04-18 Thread Grzegorz Prokopski
Hi! The short version of my story is: - I installed gdkxft (on my unstable) and it works quite nicely - only thing that doesnt work are iso8859-2 characters. It looks like it displays iso8859-1 chars intead of iso-2. Locale and the rest of settings (like iso-2 font) are OK. It works when I disabl

Re: Emacs' main menu font

2002-04-18 Thread Henrik Enberg
Oki DZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - Would it be possible to set the editor's font (ie: the editing area) > without altering the mini-buffer's? I'd like to try some multi-byte fonts, > but I want to have the minibuffer uses the default font (as what it is > now). This can't be done. > - I'd li

jigdo template for woody-i386-1.raw corrupt?

2002-04-18 Thread Joey Smith
I've been trying for 2-3 days now to get woody-i386-1.raw using jigdo, but it always fails before it starts fetching packages with the error: jigdo-file print-missing: Invalid template data - corrupted file? Created `woody-i386-1.raw.list' Merging parts from `file:' URIs, if any... jigdo-file make

Re: Upgrade to woody

2002-04-18 Thread David Roundy
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 12:32:35AM -0700, David Smead wrote: > > > http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/ says . . . > testing's gone mainline! Point apt at the new "testing" distribution > (or the old "woody" distribution) on your favourite Debian mirror. > > knuth:~# apt-get install testing > R

Re: Running Yahoo Messenger??

2002-04-18 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Hall Stevenson quotation: > > FWIW, they automatically provide a "bulk mail" filter that catches most > unwanted e-mail. You don't honestly think that they filter out the spam sites to which they sell your information, do you? -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linu

Weblogic server shutdown

2002-04-18 Thread shyamk
I am new to Weblogic server (the practical side perhaps), so I do not know how to shutdown the Weblogic server from the text-console / command prompt. Please help. Regards, Shyam -- ([EMAIL PROTECTED])--(=)--(Shyam)--- "Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder." "The trut

Conflicts

2002-04-18 Thread Ted
Hi. I am trying to install the gnome games package uning gnome apt but it tells me " The following packages have unmet dependencies libguile9: Conflicts libguile6 but 1:1.3.4-2 is installed." ..Any help appreciated. -- Regards Ted Wager -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Wrong sender address!

2002-04-18 Thread Andreas Grabner
On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 12:13:46PM +0100, Brett Parker wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]${lookup{$1}lsearch{/etc/email-addresses}\ > {$value}fail} bcfrFs > > which rewrites a whole bunch of headers including the sender according > to information foun

Re: Upgrade to woody

2002-04-18 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin David Smead quotation: > > > http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/ says . . . > testing's gone mainline! Point apt at the new "testing" distribution > (or the old "woody" distribution) on your favourite Debian mirror. man sources.list "point apt at the new distribution" doesn't mean "typ

Re: kernel-headers-2.2.19pre17

2002-04-18 Thread James Michael DuPont
Sorry to bother you all again, This is what I get out. I have tried looking everywhere on the net and cannot find the headers. I would recompile my kernel so I have the headers that fit, but I am not that good. Something keeps the kernel from booting, maybe it is to big. >>apt-get install kernel-

Re: Unable to mount cd-rom

2002-04-18 Thread Steve Juranich
I've got a similar setup. I don't know if this is your problem but... When you load the ide-scsi stuff, I think that it emulates EVERYTHING on that bus, unless you pass it a couple of boot parameters. I don't know what these boot parameters are, and I haven't bothered to figure it out yet, so

Re: Unable to mount cd-rom

2002-04-18 Thread Quenten
Silly question but have you tried many diffrent cd's? Is it a burned cd it is locking up on? Or will it lock up on any cd? You can try changing it to auto instead of iso9660 and see if that helps any. Sam Varghese wrote: > I recently moved my Debian install over to a new hard disk and after > t

Re: Unable to mount cd-rom

2002-04-18 Thread Martin Zipfel
On Sat, 20 Apr 2002 11:47:48 +1000 Sam Varghese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I recently moved my Debian install over to a new hard disk and after > this I find that I cannot mount my cd-rom. > > My /etc/fstab reads as under: > > /dev/hda2 / ext2defaults,errors=remount-ro

make-kpkg

2002-04-18 Thread dave mallery
hi i had good luck making a custom 2.2.20 kernel yesterday (following the newbie instructions) this morning i made a custom 2.4.18 from the source package. it is no good.. probably a config omission. question: can i simply: dpkg -r kernel-image-2.4.18_custom1.0_i386.deb ?? it needs to be ob

Samba Messaging

2002-04-18 Thread Tinus Kotze
Hi I converted my system to debian a while back and got the following problem. I can't receive/send messages while i can pretty much do anything else. I am connected to a LAN. My username is "jmak" and i will use a friends win2k machine to show some examples who's username is "mindlessdemon" My

Woody Install Problems Rpt.

2002-04-18 Thread Michael Rudmin
Woody installation failure: I have found that when I use the TARball base system, the tarball validates fine. Then it extracts. Then it exits with an error (error return code=1). I also tried the disks install, and that too crashes at a similar point--during or just after validation. So it wou

Re: kernel-headers-2.2.19pre17

2002-04-18 Thread Bob Thibodeau
On my system, apt-cache search kernel-headers shows (among others) kernel-headers-2.2.19pre17-compact kernel-headers-2.2.19pre17-idepci you probably want one of those Bob On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 11:27:47AM -0700, James Michael DuPont wrote: > Sorry to bother you all again, > This is what I ge

Re: Swapfiles

2002-04-18 Thread Mark Lanett
> >> Executables, being read-only, are mapped directly from disk and never > >> use any swap at all. Only data gets mapped to swap. > I am a little puzzled by the comment "executables do not use swap" and I > have to admit computer design is not my forte. You need swap for data because the compu

Conflicts

2002-04-18 Thread Ted
Hi. I am trying to install the gnome games package uning gnome apt but it tells me " The following packages have unmet dependencies libguile9: Conflicts libguile6 but 1:1.3.4-2 is installed." ..Any help appreciated. -- Regards Ted Wager Libranet Linux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

vpopmail & qmailadmin guidance!?...

2002-04-18 Thread justin cunningham
hi, I'm trying to get qmailadmin to work and wondered if anyone here had a quick how-to since the documentation on inter7.com is specific to compiling & configuring from source and not deb. Everything is installed ok, I created the me file manually and vpopmail delivers mail locally ok but I can't

Re: kernel-headers-2.2.19pre17

2002-04-18 Thread James Michael DuPont
Thanks bob, I have the exact same installed. Funny my uname -r returns 2.2.19pre17. /etc/netlock/nlvcard.o was compiled for kernel version 2.2.19pre17-compact while this kernel is version 2.2.19pre17. Anyway, does anyone have this netlock VPN client for linux running? Or has used free

Re: cut-n-pasting links

2002-04-18 Thread tom poe
Hi: I'm clunking along with highlighting, then wander up to the top menu, click edit, and select copy. This usually gets it to the buffer, for the desktop apps. I'm using the Mozilla 0.6 version right now. hth, tom On Thursday 18 April 2002 06:43, Rick Pasotto wrote: > On Wed, Apr 17, 2002

Re: netscape bus error

2002-04-18 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 18-Apr-2002 John Habermann wrote: > > Hi > > Do some support for a community group that recycles computers, installs > debian and then gives them to low income people. One of the recipients has > issues with Netscape. Netscape (4.77-2) doesn't open at all and when netscape > is entered into

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Re: Woody not ready, methinks

2002-04-18 Thread Mark Janssen
On Thu, 2002-04-18 at 16:26, Michael Rudmin wrote: > It looks to me like Woody is not quite ready for > install. > > P.S. If you reply to this cc: me over at Mike_Rudmin > "at" yahoo.com, or I won't see it. Not that I have > to. [@ sign was spelled out to jinx spammers]. I've had no problems

Re: Suggestions for multi-platform game development library?

2002-04-18 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > Any suggestions? I'd prefer opinions with experiences. I know of > allegro, SDL, and libgengameng (but I don't do C++, ... yet.) just from > a quick scan through dselect. > > I guess what I'm looking for is something to manage to graphics (no 3D > required, yet...), sound, and perhaps sound

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