Re: under six inches of water -- a debian tale

2002-05-09 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On 7 May 2002, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Will, that is a wonderful story, but I imagine it says more about Acer > > than about Debian. :} > > Yeah. Makes me want to buy an Acer for my boat... I hear Acer makes great boat anchors. 8:o) -- Baloo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: Red Hat user shopping around

2002-05-09 Thread Ron
On Wed, 2002-05-08 at 23:49, Glen Lee Edwards wrote: > dman writes: > >On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 07:09:13PM -0500, Glen Lee Edwards wrote: [snip] > >debian packages are much saner too -- for example try installing > >python2 on a headless RH box *without* also installing the X server > >and X font se

Re: Increasing font size in mozilla

2002-05-09 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Wed, 8 May 2002, Mike Fontenot wrote: > Has anyone succeeded in getting significantly > larger font sizes in (potato's) mozilla? Try going into the font preferences and playing with the DPI settings. I bet those aren't tuned right. -- Baloo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

After upgrading kernel I lost my CDROM

2002-05-09 Thread Edward Kleckner
I have been running a version of woody from Feb 28, 2002 on a 686 machine using the 2.2.19 kernel that was installed from a potato cdrom set and then the software was updated from another cdrom set to woody. Everything was working fine for many days, but xcdroast complained about cdrecord not work

Forwarding

2002-05-09 Thread David Smead
I did an apt-get install on a kernel that looked like it was packaged for my machine. Now I want to pass traffic between the two nics that are installed. First question: Does this system map indicate that forwarding is in the kernel? thevenin:/boot# grep -i forward System.map-2.4.18-686 c0199

Re: Red Hat user shopping around

2002-05-09 Thread Glen Lee Edwards
Ron writes: > >> That by itself is good enough for me to try it. I absolutely dread Red Hat >> upgrades. I don't know why they can't do it so you can just upgrade >> individual >> packages without having to re-install the whole system. Most of the time >> when I >> upgrade I can guarantee that

Re: how to use -j DROPLOG in iptables?

2002-05-09 Thread David Stanaway
On Wed, 2002-05-08 at 22:25, Patrick Hsieh wrote: > Hello, > > When I use -j DROPLOG in iptables, my woody complains: > iptables v1.2.6a: Couldn't load target > `DROPLOG':/lib/iptables/libipt_DROPLOG.so: cannot open shared object file: No > such file or directory > > Try `iptables -h' or 'iptab

Re: Red Hat user shopping around

2002-05-09 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Wed, 8 May 2002, Glen Lee Edwards wrote: > The Debian web site says that Debian will install on 12 Meg RAM. Is that > information current? I haven't seen a reason why it wouldn't be. > What are the main differences between Debian and Red Hat (I'm assuming there > are > a few current or ex-R

Re: Red Hat user shopping around

2002-05-09 Thread Ron
On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 01:09, Glen Lee Edwards wrote: > Ron writes: > > [snip] > >A Debian policy-that-I-think-is-a-quirk: there is the the concept > >of the meta-package. mail-transport-agent is an example. When, > >for example, you install exim, mail-transport-agent is also > >installed. If y

am trying to unsubscribe

2002-05-09 Thread jason kahn
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Re: Red Hat user shopping around

2002-05-09 Thread Ron
On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 01:18, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 8 May 2002, Glen Lee Edwards wrote: [snip] > - dpkg makes life easier than dealing with RPM. The dpkg isn't a > complete bitch to deal with like RPM on the command line. You also have > to make an effort to install two versions of

Re: Red Hat user shopping around

2002-05-09 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Wed, 8 May 2002, Glen Lee Edwards wrote: > Linux and low RAM boxes don't get along well. Not sure what paralell universe that's from. Linux runs on PDAs, for chrissake. 8:o) I ran ursine.dyndns.org on a 386 with 8MB RAM and 111MB of disk space (I was in high school and had to scrape togethe

Re: Red Hat user shopping around

2002-05-09 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Thu, 9 May 2002, Glen Lee Edwards wrote: > I don't have a problem as much with downloading dependencies as I do with > needing programs that require conflicting libraries. I'm fortunate in that I > have an ADSL line that will allow 66+ kB/s downloads, assuming the site I'm > accessing can hand

Re: apt database problems?

2002-05-09 Thread Johann Spies
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 02:24:39PM +0100, Simon Young wrote: > On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 02:48:50PM +0100, Simon Young wrote: > > I can install lvm-common without a hitch, but the problem comes > > whenever I try and install lvm5. I get this: "apt-cache search lvm" does not show lvm5 on my system

Re: Red Hat user shopping around

2002-05-09 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On 9 May 2002, Ron wrote: > I don't remember being able to easily install 2 versions of > the same package. Countless times I had installed a newer version of a package only to discover it managed to slip it in there in some borken manner that left the old version completely intact *and* installe

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Re: Red Hat user shopping around

2002-05-09 Thread Glen Lee Edwards
Paul 'Baloo' Johnson writes: >On Wed, 8 May 2002, Glen Lee Edwards wrote: > >> Linux and low RAM boxes don't get along well. > >Not sure what paralell universe that's from. Linux runs on PDAs, for I mis-stated myself; Low RAM boxes and Linux GUIs (X and gimp, desktop applications (Gnome, KDE), et

Re: Red Hat user shopping around

2002-05-09 Thread Glen Lee Edwards
Paul 'Baloo' Johnson writes: >On Thu, 9 May 2002, Glen Lee Edwards wrote: > >> I don't have a problem as much with downloading dependencies as I do with >> needing programs that require conflicting libraries. I'm fortunate in that I >> have an ADSL line that will allow 66+ kB/s downloads, assuming

Re: Red Hat user shopping around

2002-05-09 Thread Peter Whysall
On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 07:39, Ron wrote: > On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 01:18, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > > On Wed, 8 May 2002, Glen Lee Edwards wrote: > [snip] > > - dpkg makes life easier than dealing with RPM. The dpkg isn't a > > complete bitch to deal with like RPM on the command line. You also h

Re: Red Hat user shopping around

2002-05-09 Thread Ron
On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 01:43, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 8 May 2002, Glen Lee Edwards wrote: [snip] > > They recently dumped inet for xinet. Instead of having one configuration > > file > > in /etc/inetd.conf, they now have individual files per service in > > /etc/xinetd.d/. I'm sure t

Re: Red Hat user shopping around

2002-05-09 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Thu, 9 May 2002, Glen Lee Edwards wrote: > >> have an ADSL line that will allow 66+ kB/s downloads, assuming the site I'm > >> accessing can handle it. If the perl dependencies in your example install > >> without breaking other dependencies, I'm good to go. > > > >Jeez...I'm so glad I'm back

Stopping spam

2002-05-09 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Thu, 9 May 2002, Glen Lee Edwards wrote: > I'll look into it. I need some way to kill the spam that goes through my > servers. Yesterday I received an email from Brazil. I'm not real sure what > it > said, but it looked official, made several references to "spam," and quoted at > the bottom

Re: Stopping spam

2002-05-09 Thread John Conover
If anyone wants: http://www.johncon.com/john/StochasticUCEDetection/ is a reasonably good spam mechanism. Its tightly integrated with procmail, very configurable, and has the C sources for the database system that runs it. It will never reject an e-mail on any one thing, (like an RBL,) but re

Re: Modules question

2002-05-09 Thread Seneca
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 09:46:27PM -0700, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > On 8 May 2002, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > possible, right? Create an hourly cron job that does "rmmod -a", > > to eliminate any unused modules. > > If you do that, do modules get re-inserted as needed? I think it would depend

Re: xdvi not displaying eps graphics

2002-05-09 Thread Vittorio
Anthony Campbell [debian-user] <07/05/02 16:03 +0100>: > On 06 May 2002, Lars Jensen wrote: > > How do I get xdvi to display included eps graphics? It used to do that, > > but after a recent upgrade it has syopped to do so. > > > > Thanks, > > Lars. > > > > Funny - still shows them here (latest

Re: Increasing font size in mozilla

2002-05-09 Thread René Seindal
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 04:29:26PM -0600, Mike Fontenot wrote: > > Has anyone succeeded in getting significantly > larger font sizes in (potato's) mozilla? Don't use the mozilla in potato. It is two years old. Use the one in sid, which is much newer and has the recently discovered security hole

Re: Modules question

2002-05-09 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Thu, 9 May 2002, Seneca wrote: > I think it would depend upon the kernel. Early in the kernel config, > there is a question about autoloading modules when needed. I haven't > tried kernels without it, but whenever fat support is unloaded, if I use > my floppy (all my floppies are fat), it's loa

Re: HELP! Trident 4DWave/SiS 7018/Ali 5451 PCI Audio doesn't work

2002-05-09 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Jay Mallar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.05.08.1854 +0200]: > I've been unable to get my sound card to work, and was hoping for > some help. http://se.debian.net/lists/debian-user/2002/01/msg01351.html no news there. it works sometime, other times it doesn't. best performance so far with

Re: Red Hat user shopping around

2002-05-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 12:20:44AM -0500, Ron wrote: > Isn't that how everyone does it? Even in Debian/woody, there > are .conf files in more places than just the /etc tree. Reading configuration (that the user might be expected to change) out of anywhere other than /etc is considered a bug ...

Re: apt database problems?

2002-05-09 Thread Simon Young
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 04:28:51PM +1000, Rob Weir wrote: > > I don't know anything about LVM, but are you sure you need the lvm 5 > package? Pretty sure, unless I'm doing something *drastically* wrong :) >From the output of apt-cache show lvm-common... This package includes parts of the LVM p

AVFS for debian

2002-05-09 Thread Alexander Kotelnikov
Hello. These are prerelease packages for AVFS, not clean and policy compliant, but very well working. Installation: 1. add to your apt sources deb http://people.debian.org/~sacha/debian unstable main and/or deb-src http://people.debian.org/~sacha/debian unstable main Source package name is avfs,

Woody install floppies

2002-05-09 Thread George Karaolides
Hi all, I have had a problem with the i386 woody floppies (3.0.22-2002-04-03, flavour bf2.4)? The problem is that when rebooting for the first time after installation of the base system, the base system configuration environmenst starts (as normal) but gets stuck in a loop, presenting the same t

Re: Debian Verification?

2002-05-09 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
Thank-you. Yes, a talented cracker could simply modify the databases, however I hardly ever see this. Crackers usually don't think about verification databases in the package manager. I have caught many a cracker in RPM this way ;) -- Arthur H. Johnson II Catechist, St John Catholic Church, D

PS/2 mouse

2002-05-09 Thread John Joe
i have Debian 2.2 and PS/2 mouse. the mouse works except the mouse pointer (the X mark) does not show. (it takes me a while to realize that the mouse works) __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Mother's Day is May 12th! http://shopping.yahoo.com --

Re: Woody install floppies

2002-05-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 01:12:30PM +0300, George Karaolides wrote: > I have had a problem with the i386 woody floppies (3.0.22-2002-04-03, > flavour bf2.4)? > > The problem is that when rebooting for the first time after installation > of the base system, the base system configuration environmenst

photomesa .debs?

2002-05-09 Thread stan
I was reaading an article on slashdot this morning that referenced a photo browser called photomesa. Lookrd interesting. Anyone know where I can find this as a .deb? -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

Re: Disabling startx in gdm

2002-05-09 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 08:07:55PM +, Pollywog wrote: > On 2002.05.08 19:02 Ernst-Magne Vindal wrote: > > > >Hi again > >Sorry about this, but this is not disabelig gdm, it's remowing it. > > Go to /etc/init.d/gdm and edit the script by putting > > exit 0 > > on a line by itself, after the s

ralt key dont work in x after woody upgrade ?

2002-05-09 Thread Martin A. Hansen
hi i have a laptop with a danish keyboard running woody. i just upgraded and now my ralt/alt-gr key dont work in x. it works in console. how do i fix this ??? my XF86Config-4 have this entry: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Keyboard" Driver "keyboard"

Dial Up Machine Configuration

2002-05-09 Thread Dave Whiteley
Hello, I am seeking hints, suggestions of documentation, pointers to documentation etc. I am setting up a dial-up machine at home, to provide services to a mini network (three or four machines). Many packages seem to assume a permanant (or no) network connection. These start at boot time, via

Re: Installing X on woody

2002-05-09 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Wed, 08 May 2002 16:11:58 -0500 "D. Michael McFarland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The easy way, it now seems to me, should be to start from scratch with > boot floppies from woody, skipping the brief potato phase of the > installation. But as I understand it, there are no boot floppies or >

Re: After upgrading kernel I lost my CDROM

2002-05-09 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 10:35:05PM -0700, Edward Kleckner wrote: > I have been running a version of woody from Feb 28, 2002 on a 686 > machine using the 2.2.19 kernel that was installed from a potato cdrom > set and then the software was updated from another cdrom set to > woody. Everything was wo

Re: Disabling startx in gdm

2002-05-09 Thread Pollywog
On 2002.05.09 11:16 Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 08:07:55PM +, Pollywog wrote: > update-rc.d -f gdm remove The above will work as intended - until you upgrade gdm. Then the symlinks will re-appear. man update-rc.d(8). However, if you leave a single symlink in plac

Java plugins

2002-05-09 Thread Carlos A P Gomes
Hi, some time ago someone in this list suggested a way to get java plugins installed on woody by runnig the browser as root e accessing java.sun.com. My question: is there any security issue installing that plugin as root? Thanks, Carlos -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

wireless.opts and Encryption

2002-05-09 Thread Jack
Hi, Success with these: . no encryption. settings in wireless.opts just work fine. . with encryption. after plug-in the card, manually do "iwconfig eth1 key 0102030405", then the link is up. Failure: . with encryption. KEY="0102-0304-05" (or KEY="0102030405") in

Re: Java plugins

2002-05-09 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 15:32, Carlos A P Gomes wrote: > Hi, > some time ago someone in this list suggested a way to get java plugins > installed on woody by runnig the browser as root e accessing java.sun.com. > > My question: is there any security issue installing that plugin as root? I would rat

Printing

2002-05-09 Thread steve downes
Struggling to get my Debian Woody system to print. Any help greatly appreciated. The machine is stable & up to date, been running Woody a while. LPD is running & restarting it doesn't help. "Cat Docs.txt > /dev/lp0" works lpr Docs.txt says:- "lp0: compatibility mode" & thats it, nothing in any lo

Re: Printing

2002-05-09 Thread Quenten Griffith
I used a handy tool called printtool to set up my network printer. Its a nice option if you don't feel like configuring it by hand. steve downes wrote: Struggling to get my Debian Woody system to print. Any help greatly appreciated. The machine is stable & up to date, been running Woody a wh

Re: starting a Debian based company..

2002-05-09 Thread Timothy H. Keitt
On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 00:20, dman wrote: > On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 08:44:09PM -0700, faisal gillani wrote: > | Well i wana start a company here in pakistan giving > | out network salutions to the corporate companies .. > | mainly because corporate companies mostly uses M$ > | solutions here .. so i

Re: Printing

2002-05-09 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya steve in the old days you could not have comments in the printcap stanza... try move the # lines before lp|epson and see if helps c ya alvin > "lp0: compatibility mode" & thats it, nothing in any log files, no > spool file written no printer activity, nothing. > > I've messed about

Re: Woody install floppies - SOLVED

2002-05-09 Thread George Karaolides
On Thu, 9 May 2002, Colin Watson wrote: > Check the list archives for debian-user for the last couple of days. > Lots of people have reported it, and somebody posted a workaround > pending the fixed base-config getting into woody. Thanks for the pointer. It led me to a solution: http://wiki.d

Re: Red Hat user shopping around

2002-05-09 Thread dman
On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 08:37:56AM +0100, Peter Whysall wrote: | On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 07:39, Ron wrote: | > On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 01:18, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: | > > On Wed, 8 May 2002, Glen Lee Edwards wrote: | > [snip] | > > - dpkg makes life easier than dealing with RPM. The dpkg isn't a

Re: After upgrading kernel I lost my CDROM

2002-05-09 Thread dman
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 10:35:05PM -0700, Edward Kleckner wrote: | I have been running a version of woody from Feb 28, 2002 on a 686 | machine using the 2.2.19 kernel that was installed from a potato cdrom | set and then the software was updated from another cdrom set to | woody. Everything was wo

Re: Woody: apt mysteriously wants to pull in 100 MB from sid. Why?

2002-05-09 Thread dman
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 09:56:37PM -0700, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: | On 7 May 2002, Mario Vukelic wrote: | | > Also, especially in the release process of woody I find this highly | > inconvenient :) I would sleep better knowing that I track "woody", not | > "testing", when a new "testing" can p

Re: Java plugins

2002-05-09 Thread Brett Parker
Mario Vukelic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 15:32, Carlos A P Gomes wrote: > > Hi, > > some time ago someone in this list suggested a way to get java plugins > > installed on woody by runnig the browser as root e accessing java.sun.com. > > > > My question: is there any securi

Re: Red Hat user shopping around

2002-05-09 Thread dman
On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 01:11:30AM -0700, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: | On Thu, 9 May 2002, Glen Lee Edwards wrote: | | > >> have an ADSL line that will allow 66+ kB/s downloads, assuming the site I'm | > >> accessing can handle it. If the perl dependencies in your example install | > >> withou

Re: Red Hat user shopping around

2002-05-09 Thread dman
On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 01:09:42AM -0500, Glen Lee Edwards wrote: | Ron writes: | > | >> That by itself is good enough for me to try it. I absolutely dread Red Hat | >> upgrades. I don't know why they can't do it so you can just upgrade individual | >> packages without having to re-install the w

Re: PS/2 mouse

2002-05-09 Thread Rudy Gevaert
On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 03:40:03AM -0700, John Joe wrote: > i have Debian 2.2 and PS/2 mouse. the mouse works > except the mouse pointer (the X mark) does not show. > (it takes me a while to realize that the mouse works) I suggest you do the following: - install gp; - run gpmconfig and get your mo

Re: Red Hat user shopping around

2002-05-09 Thread dman
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 11:43:21PM -0700, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: | On Wed, 8 May 2002, Glen Lee Edwards wrote: | > They recently dumped inet for xinet. Instead of having one configuration file | > in /etc/inetd.conf, they now have individual files per service in | > /etc/xinetd.d/. I'm su

Re: Dial Up Machine Configuration

2002-05-09 Thread John Hasler
Dave Whiteley writes: > Consider for example a time server. I would like to have it running to > provide time synchronisation for all my machines, so I would like it to > start at boot. However, I do not want it to dial up regularly, which > would suggest that I should start it up at dial up. Use

Re: Dial Up Machine Configuration

2002-05-09 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 02:05:13PM +0100, Dave Whiteley wrote: [snip] > Consider for example a time server. I would like to have it running to > provide time synchronisation for all my machines, so I would like it > to start at boot. However, I do not want it to dial up regularly, > which would sug

Re: photomesa .debs?

2002-05-09 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 09-May-2002 stan wrote: > I was reaading an article on slashdot this morning that referenced a photo > browser called > photomesa. Lookrd interesting. > > Anyone know where I can find this as a .deb? > note the Java requirement and the non commercial license .. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Problem with XFree86 under sid

2002-05-09 Thread jeff
I've been running Debian sid on a single processor 600 MHz Athlon machine for a while, and have been doing dist-upgrades nightly. I recently upgraded my kernel to 2.4.18 (though this has nothing to do with the problem). I physically moved my computer to a different location, and began to experie

Re: Red Hat user shopping around

2002-05-09 Thread dman
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 11:49:16PM -0500, Glen Lee Edwards wrote: [some quotes re-arranged for better cohesiveness of replies] | dman writes: | >On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 07:09:13PM -0500, Glen Lee Edwards wrote: | >(I couldn't get my 8MB clunker to boot from a cd and didn't have any | >floppies han

1280x1024 for i810 w/X4.1 on dell m781p monitor

2002-05-09 Thread Uhlhorn, Stephen R
Hello- I'm having difficulty getting my dell m781p to display at 1280x1024 (several flickering vertical lines are shown on screen). I built a 2.4 kernel w/ agpart and i810 support. The configured X using debconf and inputting the correct Horiz and Vert scan rates for the monitor, but when I try to

Re: Printing

2002-05-09 Thread dave mallery
On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 02:39:01PM +0100, steve downes wrote: > > lp|epson inkjet:\ is the above "epson inkjet" valid? (spaces, etc) dave -- Dave Mallery, K5EN (r/h 7.2 krud; debian testing) PO Box 520Ramah, NM 87321 .~. no gates.. /V\

(OT) POP Outlook Folders to Imap Linux

2002-05-09 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all, I installed exim, wu-imapd-ssl and ipopd-ssl from woody in a Potato Debian GNU/Linux machine. All is working fine. I have a machine with 200 POP folders in Outlook that I cant get them I put them inside Imap folders. Any hints? TIA,

Re: Printing

2002-05-09 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya you can have any number of aliases (description) for the pritner besides -Plpr -Pepson -Pepson800 -P'epson inkjet' should work but who knowz... but you probably dont want to use that "epson inkjet" in the lpr command c ya alvin lpr|epson800|epson inkjet|post s

X Fonts and Ximian Gnome

2002-05-09 Thread Jeremy Turner
Hello I'm new to Debian (a recent convert from Mandrake) and a moderately advanced Linux user, but I've been having a few problems getting everything up and running on my IBM ThinkPad A22m (the problems aren't laptop-related). (1) The X server is complaining about not finding the 'fixed' font. I

eeyes conflicts with gnome-panel-data in testing

2002-05-09 Thread user list
I am doing a fresh update from potato (first 2.2 CD's) to testing and I have the following problem: Preparing to replace eeyes 1:0.3.11-5 (using .../eeyes_1%3a0.3.12-4_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement eeyes ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/eeyes_1%3a0.3.12-4_i386.deb (--unpa

Woody net base install from local mirror

2002-05-09 Thread George Karaolides
Hi all, With Debian potato, it was fairly trivial to put the base2_2.tgz file in a webserver under a directory $DOCUMENTROOT/debian/dists/potato/main/disks_i386 and do a net install of the base system from a local mirror. Now with woody, the install system seems to look for debian packages where

Re: Red Hat user shopping around

2002-05-09 Thread jeff
Glen Lee Edwards wrote: > What are the main differences between Debian and Red Hat (I'm assuming there > are > a few current or ex-Red Hat users here)? isntallation 'looks' much different (i like it - simpler), config files are much easier to find in debian, apt is such a slick tool, and i find

Re: Java plugins

2002-05-09 Thread dave mallery
On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 10:32:52AM -0300, Carlos A P Gomes wrote: > Hi, > some time ago someone in this list suggested a way to get java plugins > installed on woody by runnig the browser as root e accessing java.sun.com. that was me. just finished doing it again. it only needs root to get the

Re: Printing

2002-05-09 Thread steve downes
Loaded Printtool but it wouldn't run without control-panel or some additional configuration. Isn't this a Red Hat program? Used it when I first started playing with Linux but didn't like it then. Resorted to hand writing my printcap but that was a while ago & I've gone rusty since then. Thanks fo

Re: Printing

2002-05-09 Thread steve downes
In the present time too it would appear. That was the one I needed. Thinking about it & going back to when I last was messing about with Printcap I should have known the answer. The printer definition has to be in one line (the \ at the end of the line simply puts a new line on screen, not in the

Re: Printing

2002-05-09 Thread steve downes
Dunno whether it will work yet. I'll try prnting to "epson inkjet" when I've sorted the other problems & let you know. I'll probably always use lp day to day anyway. Steve On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 09:29:08AM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > hi ya > > you can have any number of aliases (description) f

Re: X Fonts and Ximian Gnome

2002-05-09 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 18:31, Jeremy Turner wrote: > (2) After getting the X server working, I would like to install Gnome. > AFAIK, the only(?) way to do this is with Ximian Gnome's installer, > correct? You don't say which debian version you use. Ximian does only support stable, and for now that

Re: eeyes conflicts with gnome-panel-data in testing

2002-05-09 Thread user list
Sorry for this really dumb question. the icon is pretty trivial. However, this looks like a bug that could lead to kvetching by newbies so I'll file a bug report. Again, I apologize for my density. Art Edwards On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 10:27:56AM -0600, user list wrote: > I am doing a fresh updat

troubleshooting my hardware

2002-05-09 Thread Alex Hunsley
A while ago I was having trouble installing linux on a certain machine. I tried windows to see if it might also have problems - it did, crashing frequently. An attempt last night to re-install linux failed - I got quite far, selected which packages to install, and machine just hung during installin

Re: eeyes conflicts with gnome-panel-data in testing

2002-05-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 10:27:56AM -0600, user list wrote: > I am doing a fresh update from potato (first 2.2 CD's) to testing and > I have the following problem: > > Preparing to replace eeyes 1:0.3.11-5 (using .../eeyes_1%3a0.3.12-4_i386.deb) > ... > Unpacking replacement eeyes ... > dpkg: erro

Re: Printing

2002-05-09 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya steve sounds like progress... and the next step is to print the "tiger.ps" to the pritner... followed by netscape/browser printint pages to it ?? lpr -P'epson fun ...' /etc/printcap cd /usr/share/ghostscript/5.50/examples gs -dNOPAUSE -sOutputFile=|lpr -Plp tiger.ps - color or bw

Re: Woody net base install from local mirror

2002-05-09 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Thu, 9 May 2002 19:44:00 +0300 (EEST) "George Karaolides" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know how I can set up a local partial Debian mirror so the > base system can be installed from it? I've done so using the debmirror script. The only thing I had to manually do was to create syml

re: My ultimate linux box

2002-05-09 Thread Jens Tollofsen
Would be cool with water cooling in it. koolance or some other vendor, and isolate the box with noisekiller pads. shouldnt sound that much then. Only bad thing with the koolance box is that its so small. With the price that box will have i supose you have won on a lottery or something in that way.

What about Woody?

2002-05-09 Thread Jorge Santos
I can't believe no one has asked this yet. Does anyone knows what is going on with the 3.0 release? I'm not demanding a release date or such, it's just that is been more than a week since Anthony Towns predicted it would be out and then he said the issues with the security maintenance for Woody a

Re: how to use -j DROPLOG in iptables?

2002-05-09 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Patrick Hsieh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020508 20:24]: > Hello, > > When I use -j DROPLOG in iptables, my woody complains: > iptables v1.2.6a: Couldn't load target > `DROPLOG':/lib/iptables/libipt_DROPLOG.so: cannot open shared object file: No > such file or directory > > Try `iptables -h' or 'ipt

RE: How to get xfree86 v4 working after dist-upgrade?

2002-05-09 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
| Hi, | | I upgraded from potato to woody and now I would like to use the new | version 4 x windows software. It seems that it all installed everthing | but version 3 is still running when I do startx. I didn't see anything | in the release-notes. Other than that the upgrade went well. | | Wha

Re: (OT) POP Outlook Folders to Imap Linux

2002-05-09 Thread Theo Fokkinga
On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 01:14:31PM +, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > I installed exim, wu-imapd-ssl and ipopd-ssl from woody in a Potato > Debian GNU/Linux machine. > All is working fine. > I have a machine with 200 POP folders in Outlook that I cant get them I

Mailman.

2002-05-09 Thread Daniel Doro Ferrante
Hi Folks, I am using mailman as a 2-way gateway for a particular newsgroup. (I am running Debian 2.2r6.) However, /etc/cron.d/mailman reports some problem all the time. Something like this: --- Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/lib/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 119, in ?

Re: troubleshooting my hardware

2002-05-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 12:25, Alex Hunsley wrote: > A while ago I was having trouble installing linux on a certain machine. I > tried windows to see if it might also have problems - it did, crashing > frequently. An attempt last night to re-install linux failed - I got quite > far, selected which pa

Problem with mail to news...

2002-05-09 Thread Aquarion
Because I find news far easier to deal with than email for mailing lists, I'm filtering [EMAIL PROTECTED] into a series of local newsgroups (local.debian.*, in fact) with procmail, inn2, and mail2news (mail2news isn't the debian package, although I think it's a newer version of the same program. Th

Re: Increasing font size in mozilla

2002-05-09 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
You can use ALT+mousewheel to change font size on the fly. A very nice feature of Mozilla. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Increasing font size in mozilla

2002-05-09 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 20:45, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > You can use ALT+mousewheel to change font size on > the fly. A very nice feature of Mozilla. I missed the start of the thread, but the original poster may be interested in this http://www.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html -- I did not vote

Re: PowerEdge 1650 / Debian help!

2002-05-09 Thread Debian
At 02:18 PM 5/9/2002 -0400, you wrote: >Hello, >You've got a few different options. You could just install the system >from CD, then copy the e1000 driver to a floppy, and then compile it on >your 1650. I can't even worry about the network yet because I can't install anything from CD. I can't fi

Ärendenr: OM248345 - Company.

2002-05-09 Thread internet
Tack för ditt e-brev. Vi återkommer med svar så snart som möjligt. Med vänlig hälsning SEB Telefon och Internet -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

openoffice lib

2002-05-09 Thread Dale Hair
I tried running spadmin after installing the latest openoffice 1.0.0-3 with apt-get. It seems the library path needed to be added to /etc/ld.so.conf for it to run. Could this be done in the installation process. Now I think I had my HP LaserJet 1100 installed with openoffice641d but it is not an

RE: Colors in term?

2002-05-09 Thread Jan Johansson
> What's the value of the TERM environment variable? > env|grep TERM should tell you, at least under bash. TERM=vt220 BitchX gives me color tho. but MC, ls and stuff does not. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installing X on woody

2002-05-09 Thread D. Michael McFarland
"Jamin W. Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > However, it may be helpful to install the "base-config" from unstable and > then run it manually to finish the installation. This can be done rather > easily by configuring a "sources.list" file listing both the testing and > unstable sources, then

Malformed .desktop files in OpenOffice

2002-05-09 Thread Cam Ellison
I upgraded to Debian sub-version 3 of OO today, and now cannot access any of it. I get messages (including when I try setup) regarding malformed .desktop files (e.g. printeradmin.desktop, textdoc.desktop). Although I have Gnome installed, I do not use it. The ~/.gnome/apps/OpenOffice.org 1.0

Re: Red Hat user shopping around

2002-05-09 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 10:24:39PM -0500, Jamin W. Collins wrote: ( ... ) > The main thing that struck me on the move are that some of the > configuration files are "automagically" updated (modules.conf for example) > and if you make changes to them directly you can end up losing those > changes.

Re: Modules question

2002-05-09 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 05:21:22AM -0400, Seneca wrote: > On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 09:46:27PM -0700, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > > On 8 May 2002, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > > possible, right? Create an hourly cron job that does "rmmod -a", > > > to eliminate any unused modules. > > > > If you d

Re: Kernel Compiling [HELP!]

2002-05-09 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
Hi Curtis, your procedure seems ok. Can you boot with the previous kernel? If so, look for the messages on booting the new kernel (e. g. /var/log/kern.log) and maybe post these. Regards, Joachim On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 05:31:04PM -0700, curtis wrote: > Ok, here I go again! > > I am trying t

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