Re: backup all the changes I made to the "virgin debian system"

2002-06-25 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On Monday 24 June 2002 20:19, Ian D. Stewart wrote: I know, pretty bad, replying to my own mail... ;) > > I think I'm starting to see the problem. As far as I can tell, dpkg does > not record the datetime when any particular package is installed/upgraded, > and I can't find anywhere else where t

logging question

2002-06-25 Thread Geoff Ludwiczak
I'd like to know about what you people use for monitoring logs. Like for instance, I know in Debian, that all logs are put into /var/log. So I have a shell script that does sudo tail -f /var/log/*.log to keep track of changes. I'm wondering, what progams or what kind of setup do you have for moni

Re: Unix 101: ls with file count

2002-06-25 Thread Kent West
Wienand Ian wrote: Chain commands in an alias: alias dols="ls; echo `ls -l | grep ^d | wc -l` directories; echo `ls -l | grep ^- | wc -l` files" customize as needed If you're wondering why you copied and pasted this in it didn't work but just constantly showed you the stats for

Re: DHCP client stopped getting responses from ATTBI server

2002-06-25 Thread Geoff Ludwiczak
I'm not sure if this would help any, but I usually use pump instead of dhcp-client. My ISP has a whole bunch of different IP blocks, and it's strange. If I use dhcp-client (dhclient), I get IP blocks like 207.x.x.x, and if I use pump instead of dhcp-client, I get 64.x.x.x. When I get an IP in th

Re: Unix 101: ls with file count

2002-06-25 Thread Kent West
However, when I added ";ls | wc -l` Total Files'" to the end, I get a count of 16 directories, 8 files, and 25 Total Items. Something's not adding up. D'oh! I added "ls -l" instead of "ls". When I fixed that, the count dropped back down to 24. Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: How stable is dual head, twin view feature ?

2002-06-25 Thread ThanhVu Nguyen
Hi, > but you can tell the Matrox driver that the LCD is there > vs a monitor and see if that cleans it up. > I am not sure what the option to tell it's an LCD is. > What does your config file and your log looklike? My kernel (2.4.18) is compiled and configured manually, I did enable dri

Re: Strange mail behaviour

2002-06-25 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, andrej hocevar wrote: > sendmail -f "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -F foo root gives: Hi, you are using sendmail with the -f option and root is allowed to send mail with another sender name without any X-Authority warnings ... the -F option specifies the full name ... and if you are won

VIA AC´97

2002-06-25 Thread Björn Viggeborn
Hi! I´m searching for information to tell me if my Sound card supports Soundfonts. If you have this information please let me know. My soundcard is VIA AC´97 chipset. /Björn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: AWK: adds "^M" at the end of line?

2002-06-25 Thread Schoppitsch Dieter
Maybe a small utility called "flip" can help? Dieter > Von: Ramesh Pathak [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gesendet am: Dienstag, 25. Juni 2002 06:27 > > One more thing can be tried if its a pb with DOS files. > Use dos2unix to convert the dos files to unix and then try this awk !! > > RCP > > >

Re: Unix 101: ls with file count

2002-06-25 Thread Travis Crump
Kent West wrote: However, when I added ";ls | wc -l` Total Files'" to the end, I get a count of 16 directories, 8 files, and 25 Total Items. Something's not adding up. D'oh! I added "ls -l" instead of "ls". When I fixed that, the count dropped back down to 24. Kent For me, echo `ls -l

Re: eepic.sty amssymb.sty?

2002-06-25 Thread Johann Spies
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 09:27:02PM -0300, Luiz Gadelha Jr. wrote: > I'm also running woody. > I've removed and reinstalled all tetex packages with: > > dpkg --purge tetex-extra > dpkg --purge tetex-bin > dpkg --purge tetex-base > apt-get install tetex-base tetex-bin tetex-extra > > It's still no

Re: backup all the changes I made to the "virgin debian system"

2002-06-25 Thread Ulf Rompe
Hi, about three months ago I wrote some related thoughts in article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Four weeks ago I got the first and only reply to it - must be because of the quality and my good english. :-) But hey, I don't give up, so here is an extract of my thoughts *again*, still untested, but it may

Trouble starting the installation

2002-06-25 Thread Kalle Kivimaa
I've never encountered anything like this before, if somebody has any ideas (except "possible hardware problem" with no specifics, I've got that advice already...) I'd be very happy to hear them. System: Soltek VIA P4X266 motherboard Pentium 4 1.6GHz 512Mb 266MHz DIMM Maxtor 40G hard disk PowerMag

mutt and maildir(?)

2002-06-25 Thread Tom Cook
Hi all, I'm trying something New and Different with my mail configuration. Until fairly recently I have used mutt to access an IMAP server. Now I have decided I want procmail, so I am using fetchmail to get the mail, which forwards it to exim, which pipes it through procmail, which dumps each mes

Re: How stable is dual head, twin view feature ?

2002-06-25 Thread tvn1981
> I have XFree86 4.1.0.1 running with a GeForce 2 400MX card with the driver > from nvidia.com. I haven't tried xinerama, but I do know that the GeForce 2 > does not support interlacing. Perhaps this is related? I am not sure, I have many good experiences with nvidia card on Linux except wi

Re: mutt and maildir(?)

2002-06-25 Thread Chris Kenrick
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 04:48:30PM +0930, Tom Cook wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying something New and Different with my mail configuration. > Until fairly recently I have used mutt to access an IMAP server. Now > I have decided I want procmail, so I am using fetchmail to get the > mail, which forw

Re: Unix 101: ls with file count

2002-06-25 Thread Gary Turner
On Tue, 25 Jun 2002 00:24:23 -0500, Kent West wrote: >Wienand Ian wrote: >Actually, it worked just fine when I copied/pasted it. I'm using bash. >As you suggested, I replaced the double-quotes with singles, and it >works the same. Or it appears to at least. > >However, when I added ";ls | wc -

Re: backup all the changes I made to the "virgin debian system"

2002-06-25 Thread Romuald DELAVERGNE
Le 2002.06.25 02:43, Ian D. Stewart a écrit : If a .deb for a given package exists in /var/cache/apt/archives, will apt-get -d still download it, or will it use the local package? It use the local package. -d means not install and not force download. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

combining POP mail and mail file with local "repeating" and combining POP server?

2002-06-25 Thread Daniel Barclay
Is there any POP server that can combine the mail from another POP server with mail in a mail file? I'd like to have a local POP server that, when queried, queries another POP server and looks at a local mail file, and then serves the combined set of messages to the POP client. Here's why I as

Woody+ Ximian + Evolution

2002-06-25 Thread jfcarvajal
Hi All! I know that Ximian is supported only for potato buy I have been trying to install Ximian and Evolution on Woody with no success and a lot of effort and time waste. I have read I have tried the following: 1) Woody Gnome 1.4 + Evolution ->: Always says cannot find the Database Shell" 2) W

sounding system bell in a shell script run from toolbar icon

2002-06-25 Thread Shawn Lamson
hey all - here's my question: I use IceWm which i love. You can write shell scripts and initiate them via icons on the menu or toolbar... i wrote one to mount and unmount my CD-Rom. Part of this script is to echo a system bell when the Drive is fully mounted/unmounted or a longer bell if the de

Re: exim, auth, pam, solutions

2002-06-25 Thread Mike Mimic
Hi! > On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 07:19:20AM -0700, Mike Mimic > wrote: > > But won't that broke the use of "shadow" group? > > Than programs which use that won't be able to read > > it. > > I realised it, tried the group shadow attempt again > and reset ownership. > For whatever odd reason, I had t

Re: mutt and maildir(?)

2002-06-25 Thread Bob Proulx
> I'm trying something New and Different with my mail configuration. Oh boy! Life on the edge. :-) > Until fairly recently I have used mutt to access an IMAP server. Now > I have decided I want procmail, so I am using fetchmail to get the > mail, which forwards it to exim, which pipes it throu

dhcpd.leases stays empty

2002-06-25 Thread Andreas Eichner
Hi list, I've got some trouble with the dhcpd-2.2.x (package is dhcp)from Woody (on 2.4.18). It assigns IP addresses in a correct manner but /var/lib/dhcp/dhcpd.leases stays empty. Does anyone know why this could be? I use fixed addresses, so I use entries like... host Aurora { opti

PAM not working reliably

2002-06-25 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 So why is it if I have /etc/shadow owned by root:shadow, group has read access, and mail in the shadow group, exim can't authenticate through PAM. If I chown /etc/shadow to root:mail, it works...WTF? - -- Baloo -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Versio

Re: backup all the changes I made to the "virgin debian system"

2002-06-25 Thread Colin Watson
[No need to cc me; I read the list.] On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 08:43:38PM -0400, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > After further inventigation, it looks like apt-get -d can be used to download > necessary packages without installing them. > > Colin, > > If a .deb for a given package exists in /var/cache/a

upgrading potato to woody by CD (fwd)

2002-06-25 Thread H C Pumphrey
Hi All, I asked this in Debian-CD and no-one seemed to know, so I thought I'd ask the wider commmunity and see if anyone else had seen the same thing. A month or so ago, Marcin Wolinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've tried to upgrade a Potato system to Woody using the 3.0pre6 > version of D

Re: logging question

2002-06-25 Thread Christian Schoenebeck
> I'm wondering, what progams or what kind of setup do you have for monitoring > logs? I use the X window system a lot, so I guess what I'm also asking is, > what are the best programs for keeping these logs visible? Do you have a > transparent term or xconsole or some other root window writing p

Re: logging question

2002-06-25 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Geoff Ludwiczak ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020624 22:11]: > I'd like to know about what you people use for monitoring logs. Like > for instance, I know in Debian, that all logs are put into /var/log. > So I have a shell script that does sudo tail -f /var/log/*.log to keep > track of changes. I'm wond

Re: Centralized /etc/passwd ?

2002-06-25 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Paladin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020624 16:00]: > On 24 Jun 2002 15:01:47 -0500 > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've heard that NIS isn't very robust. Might LDAP be a better > > choice? Or is there an important integration between NIS & NFS? > > Funny... I think I've heard someth

Re: combining POP mail and mail file with local "repeating" and combining POP server?

2002-06-25 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 11:31:06PM -0400, Daniel Barclay wrote: > Is there any POP server that can combine the mail from another POP server > with mail in a mail file? > > I'd like to have a local POP server that, when queried, queries another > POP server and looks at a local mail file, and then

downgrading packages?

2002-06-25 Thread James Nord
Hi, I use testing and I upgraded the apache-ssl server after the recent security alert. But since this I have some PHP scripts that are doing wierd[1] things. I may have also upgraded other things at the same time but I don't recall updating PHP. Is there any way to install an older packag

Re: PAM not working reliably

2002-06-25 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Tue, 2002-06-25 at 16:39, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > So why is it if I have /etc/shadow owned by root:shadow, group has read > access, and mail in the shadow group, exim can't authenticate through > PAM. If I chown /etc/shadow to root:mail, it wor

Re: Centralized /etc/passwd ?

2002-06-25 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 02:05:38AM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Paladin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020624 16:00]: ... > > BTW, what's more secure? Putting everything in the firewall PC or on > > The general answer to this is that it's more secure to keep your > firewall machine as minimal as possible.

Enhanced Real Time Clock Support?

2002-06-25 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello, In the kernel configuratioin, I found a description in the help page of SMP support. People using multiprocessor machines who say Y here should also say x x Y to "Enhanced Real Time Clock Support", below. The "Advanced Power x x Management" code will be disabled if you say Y here.

Perl, Apache and Berkley db

2002-06-25 Thread Danie Roux
We use a commercial web based application written in Perl. They only support RedHat. No problem says I, it should work fine on Debian. Bummer: The application comes bundled with Apache. There are httpd.bdb, httpd.db and httpd.dbm. The one that gets installed gets decided by a perl script that test

Re: sounding system bell in a shell script run from toolbar icon

2002-06-25 Thread Shawn Lamson
--- Shawn Lamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hey all - > > here's my question: > ---snip > busy etc... It works great when executed from a terminal window or > xterm in X. But when i execute it via the menu/toolbar icon it won't > sound the system bell ( i assume it has so

nbd and md

2002-06-25 Thread Martin Hermanowski
Moin, I got a problem a software-raid 1 (mirror), where one device is a local disk and the other a network block device. If i disconnect (nbd-client -d) the nbd, everything works flawlessly, if the network between the two machines is up. But if the connection is broken and I try to disconnect the n

Re: Enhanced Real Time Clock Support?

2002-06-25 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Patrick Hsieh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.06.25.1159 +0200]: > People using multiprocessor machines who say Y here should also say x > x Y to "Enhanced Real Time Clock Support", below. The "Advanced Power x > y Management" code will be disabled if you say Y here. "Console

Devices conflict & modconf

2002-06-25 Thread Xavier de Labouret
Hi, I recently had a conflict between my webcam (Logitech 3000 Pro), and my SB 128 sound card. I wonder if i should file a bug report against modconf (i am using Debian Woody) because of it. The trouble was that i had no sound at all, even if i asked the right modules to load. After some invest

Re: [ Debian Users ] Subject Prefix ?

2002-06-25 Thread christophe barbé
You already got enough reply about sorting, so : Could you avoid posting to a mailing list by doing a reply to a current thread and changing the subject ? I don't know for pine but on MUA able to display the threads, it's boring to see a thread in another simply because you can type the ml address

make-kpkg problem

2002-06-25 Thread Joel
i tried to compile package a custom built kernel and encountered this error. - - - - - - - start [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/kernel-dev/linux-2.5.6/linux$ make-kpkg clean dpkg: warning, architecture `i386-none' not in remapping table rm -f modules/modversions.h modules/ksyms.ver debian/files stam

send and receive mail through eth1

2002-06-25 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
I need to setup a machine to be on an internal lan on eth0, but connect to another gateway on eth1 to collect mail. Both eth0 and eth1 are running in trusted network environments. I have looked at the exim and fetchmail man pages, but don't see any obvioius options for setting them to use (say) in

Thread stealing [was Re: [ Debian Users ] Subject Prefix ?]

2002-06-25 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 07:41:42AM -0400, christophe barbé wrote: > Could you avoid posting to a mailing list by doing a reply to a current > thread and changing the subject ? I don't know for pine but on MUA able > to display the threads, it's boring to see a thread in another simply > because you

Re: PAM not working reliably

2002-06-25 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 05:19:59PM +0800, Crispin Wellington wrote: > > So why is it if I have /etc/shadow owned by root:shadow, group has read > > access, and mail in the shadow group, exim can't authenticate through > > PAM. > PAM (running at the

Re: make-kpkg problem

2002-06-25 Thread Ulf Rompe
Joel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i tried to compile package a custom built kernel and encountered > this error. [...] > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/kernel-dev/linux-2.5.6/linux$ make-kpkg clean > dpkg: warning, architecture `i386-none' not in remapping table Your architecture seems to be misreco

first installation,cannot find default font

2002-06-25 Thread Wilfried Mestdagh
Hello, I try to install Debian on my machine. At the end I have to configure mouse, keyboard, video,.. After that is a test witch failed with the following error: Fatal server error: Could not open default font 'fixed' Does this means I have to download/install fonts separately ? The only 'fon

Re: send and receive mail through eth1

2002-06-25 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 01:01:47PM +0100, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > I need to setup a machine to be on an internal lan on eth0, but connect > to another gateway on eth1 to collect mail. Both eth0 and eth1 are > running in trusted network environments. > > I have looked at the exim and fetchmail

hpoj package

2002-06-25 Thread Marc De Leenheer
Hello all, I have a HP LaserJet 1220 printer for which I have installed the hpoj package. The printer is connected to the parallel port. Everything seems to work fine (e.g. ptal-hp mlc:par:0 device or display works perfectly), and printing is no problem either. But when executing ptal-hp mlc:

Re: SSH stopped working

2002-06-25 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
> is there a sshd (the server daemon) runing at the other side? Are you > sure? > > Thank you for the reply. Yes, I am sure sshd is running on the other side. Other computers can use ssh to attach to the machine. Randy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsu

apache + apache-ssl

2002-06-25 Thread Jan Johansson
Installing the .23 apache removed my apache-ssl, no worries since it was a lab system, but uhm.. how do i proceed if i _want_ apache and apache-ssl on the same rig? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

SSH stuff... (from slashdot)

2002-06-25 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
Is this true? -Forward The privilege separation code in OpenSSH 3.3 does not work with 2.2 Linux kernels. It relies on mmap() semantics that aren't supported before kernel 2.4 (maybe 2.3.x). OpenSSH will configure, compile, and install successfully. It will start up, but it will NOT accep

apache + apache-ssl

2002-06-25 Thread Jan Johansson
Installing the .26 apache removed my apache-ssl, no worries since it was a lab system, but uhm.. how do i proceed if i _want_ apache and apache-ssl on the same rig? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SSH stopped working

2002-06-25 Thread irado furioso com tudo
Em 25 Jun 2002 05:26:32 -0700 "Randolph S. Kahle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, conhecido dependente de drogas (Coke e BigMac's), wrote: > Thank you for the reply. > > Yes, I am sure sshd is running on the other side. Other computers > can use ssh to attach to the machine. > > Randy well.. Maybe you ha

Re: g++ 2.96 on debian?

2002-06-25 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 21:06:37 -0500, Arun Madhurmohan wrote: > I use debian linux at home and redhat linux (unfortunately) at work. > Redhat comes with g++ 2.96 That isn't a formal gcc release; see http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.96.html . (There are dissenting opinions as to its usefulness though, li

Re: Unix 101: ls with file count

2002-06-25 Thread Kent West
Here's my alias, which I believe works like I want it to: alias dolsa='ls -la --color | more ; echo ---; echo `ls -la | grep ^d | wc -l` Directories; echo `ls -la | grep ^- | wc -l` "File(s)" ; echo `ls -la | grep ^l | wc -l` "Symbolic Link(s)"; echo 1 Byte Count ; echo `ls -l

Re: Help w/ attbi.com & linksys BEFSR41

2002-06-25 Thread Rob Ransbottom
On 24 Jun 2002, Reid Gilman wrote: Reid, thanks for the response on the BEFSR41 & attbi.com. I'll get back to you after I next have a chance to work on the problem. rob Live the dream. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: make-kpkg problem

2002-06-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 07:51:52PM +0800, Joel wrote: > i tried to compile package a custom built kernel and encountered this error. > > - - - - - - - start > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/kernel-dev/linux-2.5.6/linux$ make-kpkg clean > dpkg: warning, architecture `i386-none' not in remapping tabl

Re: SSH stuff... (from slashdot)

2002-06-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 08:34:12AM -0400, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > Is this true? > > -Forward > The privilege separation code in OpenSSH 3.3 does not work with 2.2 Linux > kernels. Yes, but only if you enable compression. Turn that off ('Compression no' in /etc/ssh/sshd_config) and I'

BIND9 Blues

2002-06-25 Thread David Fisher
Hi, Upon restarting bind9 after a very long time on one of my woody boxes today I got: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/bind$ sudo /etc/init.d/bind9 restart Stopping domain name service: namedrndc: connection to remote host closed This may indicate that the remote server is using an older version of the c

Re: upgrading potato to woody by CD (fwd)

2002-06-25 Thread H C Pumphrey
On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, H C Pumphrey wrote: [Upgrading potato to Woody via CD does this:] > > and after getting to some 50% it displayed: > > E: Internal Error, Could not configure a pre-depend Typically, after deciding I was stumped and posting this message, I decided to have another go. But t

Re: eepic.sty amssymb.sty?

2002-06-25 Thread André Carezia
On Monday 24 June 2002 21:27, Luiz Gadelha Jr. wrote: > Hi, > > I'm also running woody. > I've removed and reinstalled all tetex packages with: > > dpkg --purge tetex-extra > dpkg --purge tetex-bin > dpkg --purge tetex-base > apt-get install tetex-base tetex-bin tetex-extra > > It's still not insta

Re: Support for Big Commerical Applications

2002-06-25 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 10:21:04AM +1200, Tom Parker wrote: > Has anyone had any experiance with Patrol and Oracle on Woody or another > "unsupported" distribution? Have you been able to extract support from the > vendors if things have gone wrong? > > It would seem that RedHat may well get the n

Is the server up?

2002-06-25 Thread Marc Shapiro
Hi, The subject says it all. Is the server operating? I have not received anything from the digest is several days. I normally get twenty digests, or more, each day. If you receive this, please respond off-list, as well as on, so I can be sure of receiving the response. TIA -- Marc Shapiro

Re: DHCP client stopped getting responses from ATTBI server

2002-06-25 Thread Simon Law
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 05:02:27PM -0500, Alex Roitman wrote: > Hello, > > I had my home system on a cable modem with AT&T Broadband > as a provider for about a year. Everything worked perfectly > well, until about a week ago they must have switched the > DHCP server. Now my dhclient gets no DH

[he's got psm] Re: can't acces https with mozilla

2002-06-25 Thread DvB
And I quote: > I've got mozilla-psm installed OK, thats why I can't figure it out. > > I tried uninstalling mozilla-psm, and when I tried secure sites after that I > got the message from mozilla telling me to install psm. > So I reinstalled psm but it still doesen't work, the only difference i

Re: ssh security update and libpam-tmpdir

2002-06-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 12:18:32AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > If you have libpam-tmpdir installed, be careful when installing the > recent security update for OpenSSH; libpam-tmpdir will stop working > afterwards and cause ssh logins to be dropped (I've just filed a bug > report). > > Since you

postfix--unknown user "xxx" kept in the queue

2002-06-25 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello list, I've delete some user accounts in my postfix mail server. However, when someone sent to the deleted account, it will kept in the mail queue. So I typed "mailq" command and it came out a big unknown user queue list. Is there any why to fix that? -- Patrick Hsieh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: dhcpd.leases stays empty

2002-06-25 Thread Nick Traxler
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 10:37:01AM +0200, Andreas Eichner wrote: > > Hi list, > > I've got some trouble with the dhcpd-2.2.x (package is dhcp)from Woody > (on 2.4.18). It assigns IP addresses in a correct manner but > /var/lib/dhcp/dhcpd.leases stays empty. Does anyone know why this could > be

Re: g++ 2.96 on debian?

2002-06-25 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
On Tue, 25 Jun 2002 14:34:52 +0200 "J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's because Debian tries to stick as closely as is reasonably > possible to official gcc releases. "2.96" (of which there appear to be > many versions which are difficult to distinguish) has a lot of issues;

X, Window manager, and startup question

2002-06-25 Thread Dave Whiteley
Help please, I am using xdm and icewm, (but I suspect that my problem relates to other window managers as well). I start up several applications at login, using .xsession but these all start up in the first virtual screen. Is there any way in which I can start them in other screens. My .xsession

Stable not same as potato in security archive?

2002-06-25 Thread Keith G. Murphy
I noticed the announcement of the patch to SSH (version 3.3) in security-announce. I tried to upgrade to the patched Potato version. This was the pertinent line in my sources.list: deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free ^^ After

RE: first installation,cannot find default font

2002-06-25 Thread Wilfried Mestdagh
Hello, Ok I just contunied with ctrl-c and it seemd it installed the fonts... after a while I got again to fill in all video stuff, and the test seems to work (except Icould not move the mouse cursor). But when I reboot I come again in the command interpreter. How do I start up Gnome Desktop ?

Re: Stable not same as potato in security archive?

2002-06-25 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 09:53:07AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > I noticed the announcement of the patch to SSH (version 3.3) in > security-announce. I tried to upgrade to the patched Potato version. > This was the pertinent line in my sources.list: > > deb http://security.debian.org stable/u

Re: Stable not same as potato in security archive?

2002-06-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 09:53:07AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > I noticed the announcement of the patch to SSH (version 3.3) in > security-announce. I tried to upgrade to the patched Potato version. > This was the pertinent line in my sources.list: > > deb http://security.debian.org stable/u

Re: Stable not same as potato in security archive?

2002-06-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 10:51:31AM -0400, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 09:53:07AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > > I thought potato and stable were the same thing right now!? No? > > Not sure how the structure works actually, but I noticed the same > thing with a few new

Re: dhcpd.leases stays empty

2002-06-25 Thread Andreas Eichner
Am Dienstag, 25. Juni 2002 16:28 schrieb Nick Traxler: > That's why. With fixed addresses, you know what address was assigned, > so there's no need to record it in the leases file. Is there a way to force recording (for autodns-dhcp)? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: g++ 2.96 on debian?

2002-06-25 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 25-Jun-2002 Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > On Tue, 25 Jun 2002 14:34:52 +0200 > "J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> That's because Debian tries to stick as closely as is reasonably >> possible to official gcc releases. "2.96" (of which there appear to be >> many versions

RE: X, Window manager, and startup question

2002-06-25 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 25-Jun-2002 Dave Whiteley wrote: > Help please, > > I am using xdm and icewm, (but I suspect that my problem relates to > other window managers as well). I start up several applications at > login, using .xsession but these all start up in the first virtual > screen. Is there any way in which

Re: 2.2 vs 2.4 kernels (OT)

2002-06-25 Thread Reid Gilman
I agree, I think it works very well the way Debian does it.  On Tue, 2002-06-25 at 00:20, Larry Smith wrote: I think it works out well the way Debian presents it. Individuals are free to install the 2.4 version, and in so doing help to "stablize" it. I would think that business would

Re: 2.2 vs 2.4 kernels

2002-06-25 Thread Reid Gilman
On Tue, 2002-06-25 at 00:38, nate wrote: > Can someone explain (or supply a pointer to an > explanation of) what is wrong with the 2.4 > kernel, that debian plans to continue offering the > 2.2 kernel with woody? > Several other distros have been shipping with > 2.4 exclusively for over a

mod_ssl problem

2002-06-25 Thread Richard Weil
I can't seem to get mod_ssl working and I don't see why. I'm using apache 1.2.6 and libapache-mod-ssl 2.8.7. I modified httpd.conf per instructions, including adding the cut-and-paste info. I then ran mod-ssl-makecert as root in the /etc/apache directory. I got some errors when I tried to make a te

Re: X, Window manager, and startup question

2002-06-25 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On Tuesday 25 June 2002 10:41, Dave Whiteley wrote: > Help please, > > I am using xdm and icewm, (but I suspect that my problem relates to > other window managers as well). I start up several applications at > login, using .xsession but these all start up in the first virtual > screen. Is there any

Re: Woody+ Ximian + Evolution

2002-06-25 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
Why do you need to use the Debs from Ximian?? Evolution is pretty recent in Testing. -- Arthur H. Johnson II, Debian GNU/Linux Advocate Catechist, St John Catholic Church, Davison MI USA President, Genesee County Linux Users Group IRC: [EMAIL PROTECTED],#debian YIM: arthurjohnson AIM: bytor

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RE: Woody+ Ximian + Evolution

2002-06-25 Thread jfcarvajal
With no ximian package at all, The one from testing doesn`t work for me, always complains about Cannot initialize the Evolution shell.", I have no clue after following the recomendations in Ximian Knowledge Base > -Mensaje original- > De: Arthur H. Johnson II [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >

Question on dependencies

2002-06-25 Thread Mike Dresser
I'm doing the ssh updates on a potato machine here, and running into problems, due to having to use lilo out of woody. pellusbackup:~# apt-get install ssh Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these: Sorry, but the foll

Re: apache + apache-ssl

2002-06-25 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On Tuesday 25 June 2002 08:34, Jan Johansson wrote: > Installing the .23 apache removed my apache-ssl, no worries since it was a > lab system, but uhm.. how do i proceed if i _want_ apache and apache-ssl on > the same rig? Have you tried installing libapache-mod-ssl? As I understand it, this, in

Re: Problem connecting app to X display server

2002-06-25 Thread Sivea Key
- Original Message - From: "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Sivea Key" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 5:27 PM Subject: RE: Problem connecting app to X display server > > On 24-Jun-2002 Sivea Key wrote: > > HI, > > I'm new to Debian and LINUX so any help

RE: Woody+ Ximian + Evolution

2002-06-25 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
Odd. I had this error too, and cant remember what I had to do to fix it. Try running Evolution as a different user. If I recall right, it had something to do with permissions. -- Arthur H. Johnson II, Debian GNU/Linux Advocate Catechist, St John Catholic Church, Davison MI USA President, Genes

apt-get

2002-06-25 Thread Reid Gilman
All of a sudden my apt-get has stopped automatically installing dependencies.  I try to install different programs and it just keeps on saying a package that I don't have anymore depends on something and it won't be installed.  And then it quits without installing any of the packages I want.  A

RE: first installation,cannot find default font

2002-06-25 Thread Wilfried Mestdagh
Hello, Hum that's the second time I ask a question, and just when I see the mail returning to I foudn the answer. I hope you will forgive that ;-) There is a spelling error in the xf86config program. When it asking for the mouse it propose /dev/tty00 and it has to be /dev/ttyS0 (for com1). Als

Re: Centralized /etc/passwd ?

2002-06-25 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Carel Fellinger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020625 02:49]: > On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 02:05:38AM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > * Paladin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020624 16:00]: > .. > > > BTW, what's more secure? Putting everything in the firewall PC or on > > > > The general answer to this is that it's mo

Re: first installation,cannot find default font

2002-06-25 Thread Francisco Fialho
Wilfried Mestdagh wrote: Hello, Hum that's the second time I ask a question, and just when I see the mail returning to I foudn the answer. I hope you will forgive that ;-) There is a spelling error in the xf86config program. When it asking for the mouse it propose /dev/tty00 and it has to be

mutt's thread editing (was Re: Thread stealing )

2002-06-25 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Hans Ekbrand ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020625 05:03]: > On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 07:41:42AM -0400, christophe barbé wrote: > > Could you avoid posting to a mailing list by doing a reply to a current > > thread and changing the subject ? I don't know for pine but on MUA able > > to display the threads,

Re: wheel mouse wheel not working

2002-06-25 Thread Vikki Roemer
My version of XFree86 is 3.3.5 . >From my /etc/X11/XF86Config file: Section "Pointer"    Protocol    "IntelliMouse"    Device  "/dev/mouse"    BaudRate    1200    Emulate3Timeout 50    Resolution  200 EndSection Was that the right file?  It looks different than what every

Re: ATI Rage 128 and XFree 4.1

2002-06-25 Thread Michael Jinks
On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 07:00:14PM -0500, Steven A. Reisman wrote: > On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 06:24:59PM -0500, Michael Jinks wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 08:41:06PM +0200, Helgi ?rn Helgason wrote: > > > > > > Section "Device" > > > Identifier "Ati Rage 128" > > > VideoRam81

Re: Question on dependencies

2002-06-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 12:01:05PM -0400, Mike Dresser wrote: > I'm doing the ssh updates on a potato machine here, and running into > problems, due to having to use lilo out of woody. > > pellusbackup:~# apt-get install ssh > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > You

Re: apt-get

2002-06-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 12:10:07PM -0400, Reid Gilman wrote: > All of a sudden my apt-get has stopped automatically installing > dependencies. I try to install different programs and it just keeps on > saying a package that I don't have anymore depends on something and it > won't be installed. An

RE: Problem connecting app to X display server--more failed efforts

2002-06-25 Thread Sivea Key
> On 24-Jun-2002 Sivea Key wrote: > > I'm new to Debian and LINUX so any help would be greatly appreciated. > > > > I am trying to run a simulation program on Debian. It compiles fine (now) but > > whenever I try to launch the gui it tells me it can't connect to the display > > and that I need to r

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