Re: mount troubble

2002-04-29 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Sun, 2002-04-28 at 02:33, Ernst-Magne Vindal wrote: > Hi all > > Im haveing this troubble with mounting a folder from on disk to a folder > on another. > The scenario is something like this: > I'm running an ftp server just for a few of my friends and let them log > into their home directories

Re: dynamically generated files

2002-04-29 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Scott Henson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020428 20:03]: > I need something that dynamically generates files on the file system. > Much like cgi. I need it to just happen when a program accesses the > file. It will only be reading said file not executing it. Anyone have > any ideas on how to do this

OT: Re: Home brew

2002-04-29 Thread Michael Mueller
> Quoting - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I'd appreciate some advice on home-building a computer that will have > > > Linux and (cough) WindowsXP installed with an emphasis on Debian . > > Suggestions are welcome--general or specific. 1. Become one with www.pricewatch.com 2. Beware of inflated shippi

Re: Tool to find out info about machine ?

2002-04-29 Thread craigw
On Sun Apr 28, 2002 at 09:08:22PM -0700, Kapil Khosla wrote: > Hi, > Is there a program / utility in Linux to find out the information of a remote > host by telling its IP address. > I am interested in knowing the hostname, possibly location (server),of a > remote machine whose IP address is kno

Re: Tool to find out info about machine ?

2002-04-29 Thread craigw
On Sun Apr 28, 2002 at 11:41:30PM -0500, Elizabeth Barham wrote: > > There is nmap which tries to guess the operating system plus some > other things. If you are running those machines and want to found out > how things are going, you might consider installing the snmp daemon on > them and queryin

Re: "keyboard: unknown e1 escape sequence"

2002-04-29 Thread Paul Miller
hmm.. yeah, I get those messages too. What keymap are you using? On Sun, 28 Apr 2002 15:48:31 +0200 "Tim Dijkstra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 28 Apr 2002 01:10:55 -0400 > "Paul Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > I'm using a Logitech iTouch cordless keyboard and

xfs fs compile error

2002-04-29 Thread Greg C. Madden
I dl'd the 2.4.18 source & kernel-patch-xfs using dselect. During the kernel compile (make-kpkg)I get a failure if I include the following option in my .config file. I don't know what DMAPI is or if it is available on my Debian Sid system ( I know I don't need it ;)) but if it is a bug I would like

stupid script tricks - slightly OT

2002-04-29 Thread jeff
help a scripting dummy here... made a /usr/local/share/icons dir. would like to have symlinks to _all_ the xpm, gif, tiff, and jpg icons on my drive...available for use as icons in windowmaker... am i making sense? i await your lesson sensei... :) domo...arigato... -jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Rock solid no GUI pim?

2002-04-29 Thread Ralf Arens
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-04-26 13:20]: > A couple of months ago I ditched GUI mail programs for ever. I'm now a > happy mutt user. Now I'm looking for A) a calendar program plan, but it is an GUI program. > B) an address book, that are as non graphical, For mutt I recommend - abook, an ad

Re: stupid script tricks - slightly OT

2002-04-29 Thread Allan Wind
On 2002-04-29 02:34:05, jeff wrote: > help a scripting dummy here... > > made a /usr/local/share/icons dir. would like to > have symlinks to _all_ the xpm, gif, tiff, and jpg > icons on my drive...available for use as icons in > windowmaker... > > am i making sense? cd /usr/local/share/icons; fi

ScanMail Message: To Sender, virus found and action taken.

2002-04-29 Thread System Attendant
Title: ScanMail Message: To Sender, virus found and action taken. ScanMail for Microsoft Exchange has detected virus-infected attachment(s). Place = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender = debian-user Subject = Darling Delivery Time = April 29, 2002 (Monday) 00:06:12 Action on virus found: "WORM_KLEZ

Solved but some Qs remain WAS: Re: PCI IDE controller - how to make it work?

2002-04-29 Thread Erik Steffl
Jerome Acks Jr wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 12:59:07PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > > I just got PCI IDE controller and have troubles making it work with > > linux (2.4.18). > > > > the docs in linux/Documentation/ide.txt say that linux will probe for > > ide devices that have device file

Re: Rock solid no GUI pim?

2002-04-29 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Ralf Arens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > Sorry, no emacs here. ;-) > > But if you usually use emacs, you could switch to it entirely -- use VM > or Gnus as mail clients. I heard tell of a mutt major mode for emacs. Is that true? Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The

Re: vim :help error?

2002-04-29 Thread Martin A. Hansen
great solution is implemented and works thanks (but this is a typical development bug - but its hard to figure the solution when you dont know that you have to deal with an old bugfix) martin On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 11:39:15AM -0500, dman wrote: > On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 01:00:04PM +0200, Ma

Re: dynamically generated files

2002-04-29 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Scott Henson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020428 20:03]: > > I need something that dynamically generates files on the file system. > > Much like cgi. I need it to just happen when a program accesses the > > file. It will only be reading said file not ex

RE: mount troubble

2002-04-29 Thread Ernst-Magne Vindal
-Original Message- From: Crispin Wellington [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29. april 2002 07:00 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: mount troubble On Sun, 2002-04-28 at 02:33, Ernst-Magne Vindal wrote: > Hi all > > Im haveing this troubble with mounting a folder from on disk

Re: Tool to find out info about machine ?

2002-04-29 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, craigw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun Apr 28, 2002 at 11:41:30PM -0500, Elizabeth Barham wrote: > > > > There is nmap which tries to guess the operating system plus some > > other things. If you are running those machines and want to found out > > how things are going, you might consid

Re: Building kernel-image with kpkg

2002-04-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Apr 22, 2002, Shawn McMahon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > begin Grant Edwards quotation: > > > > > You're arbitrarily nuking things from the source tree. > > > > It's not my fault, somebody told me to! > > This is a test. > > You can restore those files by typing: > > dpkg -P `apt-ca

Re: pgaccess and latin1

2002-04-29 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Thanks Eric! "Eric G. Miller" schrieb: >> >> I am trying out postgresql and pgaccess. I have a charset problem with >> >> pgaccess. When I insert data with pgaccess I cannot insert german >> >> umlauts. Typing a-umlaut end up in the Trademark-Sign. > Perhaps trying to change the font used by pg

identd server

2002-04-29 Thread Michael Mueller
I am new to Debian. I am bringing up a sparc box. /etc/inetd.conf was barren. I added telnet. I tried to add the in.identd line but I am missing the indent server it seems. So I did apt-get install pidentd. THen I added the ident line to /etc/inetd.conf. Do debian users normally configure t

Re: How was the slink --> potato switch? How will be potato --> woody? When?

2002-04-29 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 11:20:08AM +0700, Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim wrote: > > When you install from scratch you lose the configuration file changes on the > > old installation. > > It is not a problem, since most of the configs are default anyway. Maybe for you... > > Set the debconf level to cri

[Heading OT] Re: Wrong characters in man pages

2002-04-29 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 03:36:54PM -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote: > On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 10:35:54PM +0200, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: > > will just display EUR instead of either the euro sign or the > > ring-with-four-dashes sign (what is that anyway?) in different places. > > The currency symbol

Re: [Heading OT] Re: Wrong characters in man pages

2002-04-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 11:36:17AM +0200, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: > On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 03:36:54PM -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 10:35:54PM +0200, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: > > > will just display EUR instead of either the euro sign or the > > > ring-with-four-dashe

Euro symbol: (was Re: [Heading OT] Re: Wrong characters in man pages)

2002-04-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Apr 29, 2002, Matijs van Zuijlen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 03:36:54PM -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 10:35:54PM +0200, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: > > > will just display EUR instead of either the euro sign or the > > > ring-with-four-dashe

RE: apt-cache again!

2002-04-29 Thread Satelle, StevenX
Ok I'll give you an example (this happened over the weekend). I'm installing a package using dselect. It comes up with a dependency list, I click ok then go to install. I then realise that the deps I clicked ok to are basically asking to uninstall the whole system. Obviously this is a mistake so

Re: apt-cache again!

2002-04-29 Thread Preben Randhol
"Satelle, StevenX" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 29/04/2002 (12:37) : > Ok I'll give you an example (this happened over the weekend). I'm installing > a package using dselect. It comes up with a dependency list, I click ok > then go to install. I then realise that the deps I clicked ok to are > bas

Permissions and Remote Printing

2002-04-29 Thread Erik van der Meulen
Dear All - I have two Debian boxes, one of which has a printer connected to it. The printer works (magicfilter), I can print from the local machine (echo 'Hello World' |lp), and also from my other Win boxes using Samba. What I have not been able to do is print from another Debian system. If I try t

libgtk hosed after upgrade

2002-04-29 Thread Quenten
Hello all I am running a Woody box and I did a apt-get update then apt-get upgrade and during it dpkg said errors found while trying to install libgtk and told me to do a apt-get -f install and in doing this, apt had a sub process died error and gave me this ldconfig: /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0 is n

aide debian

2002-04-29 Thread Boobacast
bonjour,je voudrais savoir comment installer cet os ;y a t-il un guide complet pour l'installation(au moins la base)?merci

Re: libgtk hosed after upgrade

2002-04-29 Thread Quenten
And here is the errors I get when trying to install it from the deb package by hand # dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/libgtk1.2_1.2.10-11_i386.deb (Reading database ... 77551 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace libgtk1.2 1.2.10-10 (using .../libgtk1.2_1.2.10-11_i386.de

Mutt major mode for emacs (Was: Rock solid no GUI pim?)

2002-04-29 Thread David Purton
On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 05:25:09PM +0930, Tom Cook wrote: > On 0, Ralf Arens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] > > Sorry, no emacs here. ;-) > > > > But if you usually use emacs, you could switch to it entirely -- use VM > > or Gnus as mail clients. > > I heard tell of a mutt major mode for em

Trouble with Eterm

2002-04-29 Thread Thorsten Haude
Hi, I have some problems with Eterm after an upgrade on 2002-04-22. Startup of Eterm takes 13 seconds, themes had a wrong version, terminal setting errors while sshing to other machines. (http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/debian-user-200204/msg03974.html) I fixed the theme version by hand,

Re: libgtk hosed after upgrade

2002-04-29 Thread Quenten Griffith
Well I fixed it myself I RTFM lol and did a dpkg -i --force-overwrite libgtk1.2.. not sure why I had to do this. Quenten wrote: And here is the errors I get when trying to install it from the deb package by hand # dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/libgtk1.2_1.2.10-11_i386.deb (Reading d

Re: pppd mulfunction ???

2002-04-29 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 01:29:12AM +0200, Debian User wrote (amongst other things): > Please help. When sending to this list, that's somewhat implicit :-) Unfortunately I cannot answer all your questions; hopefully somebody else can help on those. [unanswered questions omitted] > First I should

Re: apt did not install

2002-04-29 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 05:44:02PM -0500, Ted Goodridge, Jr wrote: > > For some reason apt did not install...I don't know why. Am I going to > have to reinstall the system? [ I assume that you mean that you don't have apt installed ] I believe that a standard debian install *should* have apt. W

Re: Reading to turn computer into internet router for modem

2002-04-29 Thread Charles Baker
--- "Michael W. Cole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to figure out how to create an internet > router for two > computers. One is a linux and the other is a > windows 98. I just want > to be able to have access to the internet on either > at any time. > Could someone please direct me t

Re: Tool to find out info about machine ?

2002-04-29 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Kapil Khosla quotation: > I am interested in knowing the hostname, possibly location (server),of a > remote machine whose IP address is known to me, For hostname information, try "host". This will only work if they have reverse DNS set up for that IP address, and set up "correctly". For

Re: Tool to find out info about machine ?

2002-04-29 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Elizabeth Barham quotation: > > There is nmap which tries to guess the operating system plus some > other things. Be careful advising people who don't know what they're doing to use "nmap" when they want to find host information. Many sysadmins see portscans as an attack. Some ISPs will

Re: Building kernel-image with kpkg

2002-04-29 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Karsten M. Self quotation: > > > > dpkg -P `apt-cache pkgnames` > > I suspect you're missing an operator term on your apt-cache command. In case he actually tried to do it, I didn't want him to nuke his entire system and cause me grief. I had complaints one time when I posted a similar p

debian + sedlbauer + hylafax: can not receive faxes

2002-04-29 Thread michael mende
Hello debian-users, hallo debian-users-german, because this is sent to both debian-user and debian-user-german i try it in english. German ansers are also welcome. i try to get a fax server running with: debian/woody isdn sedlbauer speedfax+ isa hylafax. The current state is that i can send faxes

RE: apt-cache again!

2002-04-29 Thread Satelle, StevenX
Yes but if you've made a mistake how do you say "no that's not what I meant" after you've already said yes -Original Message- From: Preben Randhol [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 April 2002 11:49 To: Satelle, StevenX Cc: Debian User List (E-mail) Subject:Re: apt-ca

Re: xfs fs compile error

2002-04-29 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On Mon, 2002-04-29 at 14:19, Greg C. Madden wrote: > I dl'd the 2.4.18 source & kernel-patch-xfs using dselect. During the > kernel compile (make-kpkg)I get a failure if I include the following > option in my .config file. I don't know what DMAPI is or if it is > available on my Debian Sid system (

[off-topic] Re: [atualizacoes-anuncio] [CLA-200 2:474] Anúncio de Segurança do Conectiva Linux - et hereal

2002-04-29 Thread Francisco M Neto
> > Coneclixo Informa > > Suponho que te equivocaste quanto ao nome da empresa, é Conectiva o nome > correto. > > Apenas lembrando: pacotes Debian também têm bugs e atualizações de > segurança. E não a chamamos Debian/GNULixo não é mesmo? Não uso > Conectiva, não sou pago pela Conectiva, mas esp

unrtf in /etc/mime.types

2002-04-29 Thread Martin A. Hansen
hi i would like to have mutt translate rtf files automagically. it works with .doc files where i have inserted a line with antiword in /etc/mime.types however, with unrtf one need the switch unrtf --text . how is that handles with mime.types? martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: Reading to turn computer into internet router for modem

2002-04-29 Thread Darryl Grant
Michael, You could set up NAT. Have your Linux box be your server and your '98 box be a client. A friend of mine has a dialup account and his is setup like that. I have mine setup with a cable modem. Works like a charm for me. Darryl Quoting "Michael W. Cole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I am try

Re: Permissions and Remote Printing

2002-04-29 Thread Adam CRAIG
I have hosts specified in my hosts.lpd - don't know about "+" maybe it's enough. However there is another file /etc/lpd.perms which I had to edit to get things working the way they had when I switched from redhat to debian. __ Do You Yahoo!? Everyt

print web pages with dot matrix?

2002-04-29 Thread ktb
I'm running Woody. The printer I'm working with is a Panasonic KX-P2030. It will print web pages fine from a windows computer but from Woody it only spits out something along the lines of - %!PS-Adobe-3.0 %%BoundingBox: 54 72 558 720 %%Creator: Mozilla (Netscape) HTML -> PS %%DocumentData: Clean

Re: Where to find a good DOC on compiling src

2002-04-29 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 03:29:06PM -0400, Costa, Todd (DMH) wrote: > Hi Again Debian-Users, > > I am trying to find a way to reduce the number of Squid processes > running on my Debian Box. I only vaguely remember your OP, but why do you want to do this? Lack of memory? Esthetics? -rob

Cannot access shared libraries

2002-04-29 Thread Dan Bowtell
Some programs cannot access shared libraries even though they are obviously their. Mozilla cannot access the java plugin. although it can access other plugins. It is in the correct directory. DVR also cannot access any of the compression libraries, although they are there? Any thoughts. I

OT: Spamcop

2002-04-29 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
Has anybody other than Julian Haight successfully install spamcop? -- Baloo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: logrotate and wtmp confusion...

2002-04-29 Thread Grant Edwards
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 08:38:25PM -0500, Grant Edwards wrote: > > on the first, check the output of chkwtmp. None of my machines have "chkwtmp", but it turns out that mgetty is what's causing the huge wtmp files. I don't know if it's init or mgetty itself that's causing the problem. -- Grant

Re: aide debian

2002-04-29 Thread Glyn Millington
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > bonjour,je voudrais savoir comment installer cet os ;y a t-il un guide > complet pour > l'installation(au moins la base)?merci http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual And don't send html!!! hth Glyn -- Debian Home http://www.debian.org Deb

unsubscribe

2002-04-29 Thread Lorenzo Mattei
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compiling KDE3 - missing dcopidl

2002-04-29 Thread Robert_L
Hi, I am trying to compile KDE3 from source. I have compiled and installed arts and kdelibs and am running into the following snap during configure for kdebase: "checking for dcopidl... not found configure: error: The important program dcopidl was not found! Please check whether you installed

Re: stupid script tricks - slightly OT

2002-04-29 Thread jeff
Allan Wind wrote: > cd /usr/local/share/icons; find / \( -name \*.gif -o name \*.jpeg -o -name > \*.jpg -o -name \*.tif -o -name \*.tiff \) -a -type f | xargs -i ln -s \{\} . this looks like it should indeed work...but when i try it, i get: find: paths must precede expression Usage: find [path

dpkg sanity check?

2002-04-29 Thread Robert L. Harris
I just tried to do a "sudo ls" on my sid box. I'm getting a memory fault. /usr/bin/sudo has a very new file stamp and I don't remember it being updated recently. Is there a way to verify pkg's like an integrity check? :wq! -

compiling KDE3 - missing dcopidl

2002-04-29 Thread Robert_L
Oops, meant to send that to the kde list. Sorry. Well, maybe I'll get lucky here instead ;) all the best, Robert_L -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: identd server

2002-04-29 Thread M . Mueller
On Monday 29 April 2002 05:17 pm, Michael Mueller wrote: > I am new to Debian. I am bringing up a sparc box. /etc/inetd.conf was > barren. I added telnet. I tried to add the in.identd line but I am missing > the indent server it seems. So I did apt-get install pidentd. THen I added > the ident

SMC card not recognized :-|

2002-04-29 Thread Francois Chenais
Hello, I'm trying to install debian on a liux box with an SMC card but all the drivers failed :-| - mca - ultra - ultra 32 - 9194 - ne Someone has any feedback on this ? The card wo

Re: error with cdrecord

2002-04-29 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Dario M. wrote on Sat Apr 27, 2002 um 11:35:43AM: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/pub$ cdrecord dev=0,0,0 speed=4 ghost.raw > > > Cdrecord 1.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg Schilling > > > cdrecord: Invalid argument. Cannot get mmap for 4198400 Bytes on > > > /dev/zero. >

Re: libgtk hosed after upgrade

2002-04-29 Thread craigw
On Mon Apr 29, 2002 at 07:49:56AM -0400, Quenten wrote: > And here is the errors I get when trying to install it from the deb package > by hand > > # dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/libgtk1.2_1.2.10-11_i386.deb > (Reading database ... 77551 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing t

2.2.20 -> 2.4.18 kernel-image -> X hangs machine

2002-04-29 Thread dave mallery
hi i posted this the other day, but no response. X was perfect under woody and 2.2.20. after installing both a custom 2.4.18 and the two latest kernel images, the same symptoms remain. when you startx or let gdm start, the screen blanks, flickers and the machine is totally hung. in my previ

printing to a remote debian host?

2002-04-29 Thread Martin A. Hansen
hi i have two linux boxes. one acts as router and is connected to a network printer on the remote network. printing from the server to the remote printer works. now printing from the linux box on the internal network to the router dont work: i get this error from lpq: Printer: [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: logrotate and wtmp confusion...

2002-04-29 Thread Grant Edwards
On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 10:45:06AM -0500, Grant Edwards wrote: > None of my machines have "chkwtmp", but it turns out that > mgetty is what's causing the huge wtmp files. I don't know if > it's init or mgetty itself that's causing the problem. For the sake of posterity, here's the deal: If the

Re: aide debian

2002-04-29 Thread Steve Juranich
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/arm/install.fr.txt -- Stephen W. Juranich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Electrical Engineering http://students.washington.edu/sjuranic University of Washington

Re: I can hear my mouse, but not my music

2002-04-29 Thread I.J.W. Wever
>> >> Me thinks they are on the same hardware interupt. Ut O. > >> >Try a USB mouse, maybe? > >> I can't really spare money for a new mouse currently :( I noticed my >> soundcard and my eth0 both use IRQ 5, but otherwise I could detect no >> double uses. > >Swap with somebody, if possible. At

Unidentified subject!

2002-04-29 Thread Keith O'Connell
Hi, I have identified a problem with my setup of Woody, and I would like some input. I wiped my machine down and used the floppies to setup a net install, this gives me kernel 2.2.20. Everything works fine except sound. This is OK as I know that I need 2.4.x for my sound to work. I then instal

2.4.18 - No SCSI subsystem

2002-04-29 Thread Keith O'Connell
Hi, I have identified a problem with my setup of Woody, and I would like some input. I wiped my machine down and used the floppies to setup a net install, this gives me kernel 2.2.20. Everything works fine except sound. This is OK as I know that I need 2.4.x for my sound to work. I then install

Re: Will Gnome 2.0 make it inot Woody?

2002-04-29 Thread Brian Nelson
craigw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun Apr 28, 2002 at 01:42:43PM -0500, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 10:54:19PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: > > > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 08:36:38AM -0400, stan wrote: > > > > > Just curiosn >

Posting dangerous code (was Re: Building kernel-image with kpkg)

2002-04-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Apr 29, 2002, Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > on Mon, Apr 22, 2002, Shawn McMahon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > begin Grant Edwards quotation: > > > > > > > You're arbitrarily nuking things from the source tree. > > > > > > It's not my fault, somebody told me to! > >

Re: aide debian

2002-04-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Apr 29, 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > bonjour,je voudrais savoir comment installer cet os ;y a t-il un guide > complet pour l'installation(au moins la base)?merci In general: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual In French, for x86 hardware:

Re: logrotate and wtmp confusion...

2002-04-29 Thread Grant Edwards
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 02:55:55PM -0500, Grant Edwards wrote: > On my Woody system, there's nothing in /etc/logrotate.d > except the file for the base-config. Yet, looking at > /var/log shows that syslog, messages, daemon.log user.log, > and other stuff are clearly being rotated.

Re: Tool to find out info about machine ?

2002-04-29 Thread David Smead
There are functions in the C lib that get host information by name or IP number. I have it wrapped up with a lot of other `play' stuff, but here are the most significant lines of code. sock = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0 ); if( !sock ) goto abort; if( inet_aton(argv[1], &addr) ) { printf(

Re: Configuring a new system that shipped w/ Debian?

2002-04-29 Thread Scott Henson
On Wed, 2002-04-24 at 18:08, Grant Edwards wrote: > > I am planning on shipping Linux boxen with Debian preinstalled. > > When the customer unpacks the box and fires it up, what is the > best way to allow him to reconfigure the sorts of things that > one normally configures as part of an install:

Re: Permissions and Remote Printing

2002-04-29 Thread Carlos Sousa
On Mon, 29 Apr 2002 12:55:12 +0200 Erik van der Meulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear All - I have two Debian boxes, one of which has a printer > connected to it. The printer works (magicfilter), I can print from the > local machine (echo 'Hello World' |lp), and also from my other Win > boxes u

Newbie C programming question - OT

2002-04-29 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hi all, I'm trying to teach myself C and am writing as little PIM to go with mutt in console mode. To date, my only programming type experience has been developing mult-user databases for contact management in VBA. In VBA, forms have fields and fields have events like OnEnter() and OnExit(). I

PRIVA SALES: AUTO RESPONSE EMAIL NOTIFICATION

2002-04-29 Thread sales
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Thank you for your email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your email regarding ‘A powful tool’ has been received and is being processed. You can expect a response from us shortly. Priva Computers Inc. Sales Department Please do not respond to this message. -- To UNSUB

Re: apt-cache again!

2002-04-29 Thread craigw
On Mon Apr 29, 2002 at 02:32:12PM +0100, Satelle, StevenX wrote: > Yes but if you've made a mistake how do you say "no that's not what I meant" > after you've already said yes hit Ctrl-C while it's still downloading the packages -- -CraigW -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: unrtf in /etc/mime.types

2002-04-29 Thread craigw
On Mon Apr 29, 2002 at 03:47:37PM +0200, Martin A. Hansen wrote: > hi > > i would like to have mutt translate rtf files automagically. > > it works with .doc files where i have inserted a line with antiword in > /etc/mime.types > > however, with unrtf one need the switch unrtf --text . how is

Re: Tool to find out info about machine ?

2002-04-29 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Mon, 29 Apr 2002 09:19:31 -0400 "Shawn McMahon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Many sysadmins see portscans as an attack. Some ISPs will delete your > account for doing that. In some states folks might even attempt to > prosecute you. Actively port scanning another system is against the TOS

Re: dynamically generated files

2002-04-29 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Tom Cook ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020429 00:53]: > On 0, Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > mkfifo /tmp/datefifo > > > > while : > > do > > echo `date` >> /tmp/datefifo > > done > > > > Then, see what happens when you cat /tmp/datefifo in another console. > > (Try it a few times.) > > I

Re: aide debian

2002-04-29 Thread Sami Dalouche
je te conseille de t'inscrire sur la liste debian-user-french@lists.debian.org et de reposer ta question sur ce forum. (cf http://www.debian.org et la section Mailing-Lists)   Il existe en effet de nombreux guides d'install, mais je n'ai pas les URLs.. Les gars sur debian-user-french se feron

Re: Converting mbox -> maildir

2002-04-29 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Paul 'Baloo' Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020428 02:57]: > On Sun, 28 Apr 2002, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > > I'd use maildir -- but then again, I always use maildir. =) I think the > > reason you give below is a pretty good one. Any good reason to use mbox? > > Not afaics, unless you're running out

Re: unrtf in /etc/mime.types

2002-04-29 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Martin A. Hansen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020429 13:57]: > hi > > i would like to have mutt translate rtf files automagically. > > it works with .doc files where i have inserted a line with antiword in > /etc/mime.types > > however, with unrtf one need the switch unrtf --text . how is that > ha

Re: I want an itinerary before I

2002-04-29 Thread debian-security-announce-request
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console-common problems

2002-04-29 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Hi, I get errors while configuring console-common: debian:/home/juh# dpkg-reconfigure console-common Looking for keymap to install: de-latin1-nodeadkeys /usr/sbin/install-keymap: line 3: 9361 Speicherzugriffsfehler /usr/bin/dumpkeys >${TMP} Failed to dump keymap! This might be because you'r co

Re: dynamically generated files

2002-04-29 Thread Christian Jaeger
At 23:02 Uhr -0400 28.04.2002, Scott Henson wrote: I need something that dynamically generates files on the file system. Much like cgi. I need it to just happen when a program accesses the file. It will only be reading said file not executing it. Anyone have any ideas on how to do this on a wo

Latest unstable Galeon using wrong gconfd?

2002-04-29 Thread Paul Smith
Is this a known issue? I didn't see a bug on the Galeon reports page, but I'm not sure the bug is in Galeon. I just upgraded to the latest galeon/mozilla-browser/mozilla-psm from unstable, which also upgraded a number of other packages. Afterwards, Galeon wouldn't start: it gave me an error:

Freeswan kernel compile

2002-04-29 Thread curtis
When you chose to install freeswan you are told taht you will need to build your own kernel by installing the kernel-source package and kernel-patch-freeswan, which cn be automatically applied when using make-kpkg. Well, that's just great. What the hell does it mean? Ok, I have the kernel-sou

ncurses

2002-04-29 Thread Ted Goodridge, Jr
Which ncurses package for debian has the development headers and libs? I installed bin, base, and term, which one am I missing? Thanks in advance, Ted -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

imap - ssl

2002-04-29 Thread Tom Allison
I think I'll start simple. I would like to install an imap server. If possible, I would like to do SSL-imap. But the description to the courier-ssl package says I have to provide a purchased X509 compliant certificate. Ok, I don't have the money just for me and a few friends. So does anyone