Re: cdrdao / ide-scsi problem

On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 08:41:29PM +0200, David Fokkema wrote: > Well, you are right, so I tried, :-). It works, so there is reason to be > glad. However, I'm still wondering how paranoid I must be to still want > cdrdao to run without setuid. Furthermore, without setuid and with group > permission

Re: help!! my partition table is lost after a next reboot ...

On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 07:40:54AM +0200, Jeetu Golani wrote: > > Hello, > > Yup did that for a pal once i.e. recover the partition. So long as u > don't > play around too much, i.e. repartitioning or reinstalling, your data > should > be valid. > > Do you remember the approx sizes of all your

Re: First Ever Debian Install: my notes

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 04:37:45PM -0800, Bill Klintoe wrote: > more options. You can read about debian's > stable/testing/unstable releases on the Debian main > site. Next, I had to make an /etc/apt/preferences file > that looked like this: > > Packa

Sendmail error on apt-get upgrade

Howdy Group! Whenever I try and do an apt-get upgrade It ask if I want to install a new package, I check and its still sendmail; So I yet yes and continue to install it. Well it asks for me to start sendmail and I say yes, then it craps out during the start. Can anyone explain? I've attached th

Sendmail error on apt-get upgrade - The file

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Re: Shell based text editor for writing prose

On 02 Apr 2003, Joey Hess wrote: > John Griffiths wrote: > > what I'm after is a recommendation from others who might have used > > something like this to write 5,000 word plus english language documents. > > I've had no problems writing documents in that range with vim. Folding > becomes fairly u

Re: cdrdao / ide-scsi problem

> > Well, you are right, so I tried, :-). It works, so there is reason to be > > glad. However, I'm still wondering how paranoid I must be to still want > > cdrdao to run without setuid. Furthermore, without setuid and with group > > permissions or something like that I should be able to control wh

Re: help!! my partition table is lost after a next reboot ...

On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 09:54:53AM +0200, Qian Gong wrote: > I have an idea to recover the partition table. If you create a bigger > partition than the original file system. Then mount it and use df to get > the size of the file system, which is usually the same size as the > partition. Then use

Re: cdrdao / ide-scsi problem

> > Here is the way Debian installs cdrecord > > > > -rws--x---1 root cdrom177k Apr 9 2002 /usr/bin/cdrecord > > The package I see in unstable installs as -rwsr-xr-- if you're running > setuid, which is much more sensible (there's a comment in the Debian > policy manual noting tha

Re: Debian Policy: 10.2.2 (was) Re: rsync: what userid to run it?

On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 08:38:03PM -0500, Abdul Latip wrote: > May I know where to get more detailed information about > globally allocated UID and GID numbers ($10.2.2 of Debian > Policy)? Should I send it to the "debian-policy" list? Globally allocated ids (0-99 and 6-64999) are allocated b

Re: cdrdao / ide-scsi problem

On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 11:24:36PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 03:32:43AM +1000, bob parker wrote: > > I'm no expert really, and maybe there is some other permissions problem going > > on, but I observe that with a default Debian Woody install that cdrecord is > > setuid.

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Re: Shell based text editor for writing prose

On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 09:54:21PM -0600, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > "John" == John Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > John> Travis Crump wrote: > >> Is this a troll? I prefer vim, a good number of people prefer > >> emacs. Both will suit your needs. > >> > >> > >

Re: Shell based text editor for writing prose

On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 11:49:45PM -0700, Glenn English wrote: > On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 19:23, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > > Honestly, I don't know that there is a good console "wordpad.exe" like editor. > > nano is probably the closest to what you are looking for, with emacs being a > > (much more compl

Re: cdrdao / ide-scsi problem

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 10:10:10AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > cdrecord asks the following debconf question: OK, mybad. But xcdroast doesn't, and I never use cdrecord from the command line since xcdroast will do it all in one shot for me. - -- .'

build package with gcc-3.2

Hello All, I would like to build some (scientific) package with gcc-3.2 in order to take advantages of my "Mobile Pentium 4". But, before to do it, I would like to know if it will not distord my Debian testing/unstable box: in other words, can we use packages that were built with the gcc-3.2 com

Re: ip_tables newbie needs help [was "test - please ignore"

On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030402 09:21 PST]: > > Hugh Saunders wrote: > > >[OFF-LIST] > > > > > >On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 01:47:20PM -0100, ernst wrote: > > > > > >>test - please ignore > > > > > > > > >it is *never* necessary to post a t

[SID] Ultime libfreetype6

Nell'ultimo dist upgrade sono state installate libfreetype6 2.1.3+2.1.4rc2-5 credo al posto delle rc2-4 (ma non ne soo ssicuro). Fatto che sto che i font anitialiased erano mlto piu' belli prima che co adesso... qualcuno sa come fare per downgradare solo questa lib o ha la libreria piu' ve

Re: cdrdao / ide-scsi problem

On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 10:23:59AM +0200, David Fokkema wrote: > > > Well, you are right, so I tried, :-). It works, so there is reason to be > > > glad. However, I'm still wondering how paranoid I must be to still want > > > cdrdao to run without setuid. Furthermore, without setuid and with group

Re: remote printer configuration - cups

Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 06:14:12AM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: | Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | >I would first install the 'cupsys' package. Then add a local queue | >for the printer (use either the lpadmin command or the web interface | >which you'll find at http://loca

Re: Help with DRM / DRI on Matrox G400

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 20:22:12 -0800, Paul Mackinney wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] declaimed: "Paul" == Paul Mackinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Paul> I don't have a device /dev/dri/card0. Am I supposed to be Paul> running devfs? Kernel config shows Paul> $ grep DEVFS conf

Re: USB camera mount

I have a cam too and when I want to connect it to the computer, I use the /dev/sda1 device (scsi) like a vfat file system. I think you should have scsi support on kernel. Regards. El jue, 03 de 04 de 2003 a las 09:13, Tim escribió: > Hi, > > I've compiled my kernel, mass storage as a module, an

Re: cdrdao / ide-scsi problem

> > > Sudo is a solution. > > > > Well, that way a user that can run cdrdao can run basically everything, > > can't he? > > > No. By sudo you can limit the user to run a specific program, even with > specific options. In that case sudo might be worth looking into and I will do just that, :-) Davi

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-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Antonio Gutiérrez Mayoral [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 3. April 2003 13:31 An: Tim Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: USB camera mount I have a cam too and when I want to connect it to the computer, I use the /dev/sda1 device (scsi) lik

logging changes in file permissions

How can I log all changes in file permissions? I am *still* trying to track down the process that is changing the permissions on my /home/user directory against my wishes. I can't see anything in cron.daily that might be doing it. It's very frustrating and inconvenient. Thanks, - Richard. -- R

exim4 install deadlock

I have a pb while installing exim4 because the exim4-base wants exim4-config to be configured before configuring itself and exim4-config wants the same with exim4-base :-| Thanks François tanna:/usr/share/doc/horde2# dpkg --configure -a Setting up exim4-base (4.14

Re: logging changes in file permissions

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 01:00:05PM +0100, Richard Kimber wrote: > How can I log all changes in file permissions? integrit lets you know if they've changed. - -- .''`. Baloo Ursidae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian admin and user `. `

Re: remote printer configuration - cups

On Thu, 03 Apr 2003 06:06:05 -0500 Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > | I started to try this approach and died here: > > | > > | Setting up cupsys (1.1.15-4) ... > > | Starting CUPSys: cupsd. > I have what is supposed to be a network printer with support for > JetDirect, Cups and LPD.

Re: upgrading to unstable KDE

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Re: cdrdao / ide-scsi problem

On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 11:24:36PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 03:32:43AM +1000, bob parker wrote: > > I'm no expert really, and maybe there is some other permissions problem going > > on, but I observe that with a default Debian Woody install that cdrecord is > > setuid.

Re: Use a Firewall, Go to Jail?

On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 10:34:21PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Worse yet, Network Address Translation (NAT), a technology widely > > used for enterprise security, operates by translating the 'from' and > > 'to' fields of Internet packets, thereby concealing the source or > > destination of each

Re: searching for what package includes a given file

On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 11:36:28PM -0500, Benjamin Rutt wrote: > Is there a way to do that search via command-line tools without > resorting to the web page? I know that dpkg -S will do > that for packages already installed on your system, but doesn't help > for those that are not. apt-file sear

Re: help!! my partition table is lost after a next reboot ...

On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 09:22:39 +0200 Roman Joost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If someone had the same bad luck, i'll recommend to do this: > > 1. print out your partition table or rescue it, like Kevin said: fdisk > -ul /dev/hda >part.table 2. remove all the partitions > 3. create a new partition

Re: login as root to GUI

On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 23:31:52 -0800 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Please turn your line wraps on to something more sensable like 72 > columns per line instead of one paragraph per line. This isn't meant to be picking on you. But I've

Re: Shell based text editor for writing prose

"Colin" == Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Colin> On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 09:54:21PM -0600, Shyamal Prasad Colin> wrote: >> >> The quoting above, [...] were all done by emacs. Colin> Yes, I can tell. :( I even have a special vim macro to get Colin> rid of tha

Re: Use a Firewall, Go to Jail?

"Paul" == Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Paul> I think that's a far more liberal interpretation of the law Paul> than will be applied, since as far as the ISP is concerned, While I agree, I have to state my opinion that a law that depends on "how it will be applied" is a ba

Re: Compiling xcircuit

On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 10:33:16PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: > > Yeah, sorry. :-/ (I'm having some issues with the autoconfiscation, > which aren't hard to work around, I just haven't had the time. I > should stop taking classes.) > Sorry for what? I am sorry that I am botherin

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netstat / masquerading

Hi group, I was used to display masqueraded connections with netstat -M but now, under Woody, I get no support for 'ip_masquerade' on this system. I set up masquerading with iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o $BADIF -j MASQUERADE What do I have to do to see the masqueraded connections? Regar

[no subject]

Hello I've been looking into buying hardware to build a wlan at home, to avoid all the annoying cables. However, determining which cards are supported (and reasonably easy to get running) with a stock Debian GNU/Linux (Unstable) install has proven tricky. Thus, I would very much like some input on

RE: xf86cfg crashes when I try to configure mouse

This worked beautifully! much easier on the eyes too than xf86config. :-D thanks!!! >Have you tried >dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86? __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com -- To UN

Re: remote printer configuration - cups

> On Thu, 03 Apr 2003 06:06:05 -0500 > Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > | I started to try this approach and died here: >> > | >> > | Setting up cupsys (1.1.15-4) ... >> > | Starting CUPSys: cupsd. > >> I have what is supposed to be a network printer with support for >> JetDirect, Cups

Re: cdrdao / ide-scsi problem

On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 02:07:28AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 10:10:10AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > cdrecord asks the following debconf question: > > OK, mybad. But xcdroast doesn't, and I never use cdrecord from the > command line since xcdroast will do it all in on

Re: Shell based text editor for writing prose

John Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > what I'm after is a recommendation from others who might have used > something like this to write 5,000 word plus english language documents. Neal Stephenson uses Emacs: http://hobbes.ncsa.uiuc.edu/nealstephensonOS.html -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Why am I no longer receiving the digest?

On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 10:58:15PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 12:31:56PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 01:41:46PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > > > Is there some problem with the list servers at the moment? I haven't > > > received a debian-user-digest since

Re: login as root to GUI

On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 08:18:30AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 23:31:52 -0800 > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Please turn your line wraps on to something more sensable like 72 > > columns per line instead of one paragraph per line. > > This isn't meant t

Re: searching for what package includes a given file

Nicolas Kratz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 11:36:28PM -0500, Benjamin Rutt wrote: >> Is there a way to do that search via command-line tools without >> resorting to the web page? I know that dpkg -S will do >> that for packages already installed on your system, but doesn

Re: searching for what package includes a given file

Nicolas Kratz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 11:36:28PM -0500, Benjamin Rutt wrote: >> Is there a way to do that search via command-line tools without >> resorting to the web page? I know that dpkg -S will do >> that for packages already installed on your system, but doesn

System freezes sporadically during user initiated HD access (SCSI)

Hi all, my debian woody system developed a quirk that I can't isolate. From time to time the system freezes with the HD access light on. This LED is attaced to the SCSI controller (Terratec) so I guess this means it happens while it accesses on of the SCSI devices. I have a DVD-ROM and two SCSI

Re: upgrading to unstable KDE

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 03 April 2003 11:47, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > On April 2, 2003 03:33 am, Paul Johnson wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 07:06:58PM +0800, Arne Goetje wrote: > > > when did you upgrad

Re: netstat / masquerading

David Fokkema wrote: Hi group, I was used to display masqueraded connections with netstat -M but now, under Woody, I get no support for 'ip_masquerade' on this system. I set up masquerading with iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o $BADIF -j MASQUERADE What do I have to do to see the masquerad

[SID] evolution

hi i have a pblm with evolution on SID. when i edit a mail account, you go to "Defaults" tab, you change 'Sent messages folder' to another folder ; then you apply; quit the dialog box; you re-edit (the same account), go to defaults tab and you can see that the modification has not been taken :

Re: Problems with ddclient

On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 09:22:31PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > (Please reply to the list as others may run into this problem, too) > > On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 10:32:07PM -0500, Stephen Touset wrote: > > Is that a limitation of ddclient? I've tried inputting the values > > manually on their webpa

Re: unsubscribe

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Re: urgent Mail Server

On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 10:43:04PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 12:26:37PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > Please read section 5 of rfc 2821. > > > > "If no MX records are found, but an A RR is found, the A RR is > > treated as if it was associated with an implicit MX

Re: build package with gcc-3.2

Jerome BENOIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would like to build some (scientific) package with gcc-3.2 in > order to take advantages of my "Mobile Pentium 4". But, before to > do it, I would like to know if it will not distord my Debian > testing/unstable box: in other words, can we use package

Re: Compiling xcircuit

"Sridhar M.A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 10:33:16PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: >> The Debian build of xcircuit doesn't use the Tcl wrapper, but it does >> use the Python wrapper. If neither of these mean anything to you, you >> probably don't need either.

Re: Sawfish 1.3 + Gnome2 questions?

"Florentin Ionescu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does sawfish work with gnome2 ? Except for the edge-flipping issue, which is solved thanks to the respondents, it hasn't given me any trouble with Gnome2. I'm using sawfish version 1.3 from unstable. Gary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: Use a Firewall, Go to Jail?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 03:05:12PM +0200, Nicolas Kratz wrote: > Careful there. A bunch of oh so clever scientists figured out how to > spot multiple boxes behind a NAT router, by means of looking at the IP > "id" header field. You're average helldesk

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Re: login as root to GUI

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 08:18:30AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > And people who still use MUAs that can't do line wrap should consider > finding one that can. And there's still old VT100 terminals feeping away in many libraries. Personally, I don'

Re: netstat / masquerading

David Fokkema, 2003-Apr-03 16:08 +0200: > Hi group, > > I was used to display masqueraded connections with > > netstat -M > > but now, under Woody, I get > > no support for 'ip_masquerade' on this system. > > I set up masquerading with > > iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o $BADIF -j MASQUERAD

mysql-max

Someone can tell me if there is mysql-max package for debian? I means there is in anywhere a package like mysql-max.deb or something like this? or a package that provide mysql-max features? thanks --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com

Re: remote printer configuration - cups

On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 09:17:23AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | > On Thu, 03 Apr 2003 06:06:05 -0500 | > Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > | >> > | I started to try this approach and died here: | >> > | | >> > | Setting up cupsys (1.1.15-4) ... | >> > | Starting CUPSys: cupsd. | > | >

gnome2.2.1 for woody in cd...

Hi! I am running woody at work and at home, and I want to install the Jamie Strandboge's backport of gnome2.2.1. At home I have a slow internet connection, but at work the connection is better. I want to create a cd at work with all the gnome2.2.1 stuff (which is at http://ftp.acc.umu.se/mir

Sparc Ultra1 Debian 3.0, kernel 2.4.18 builtin lan card problem...

I have just loaded Debian 3.0(kernel 2.4.18) onto a Sun Ultra1 and the built-in lan i/f doesn't seem to want to come up.  I keep getting the following messages repeating on the console:   eth0: Link down. Cable problem? eth0: Auto-Negotiation unsuccessful, trying force link mode I've played

Re: logging changes in file permissions

On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 04:28:39 -0800 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How can I log all changes in file permissions? > > integrit lets you know if they've changed. Thanks. I looked at the webpage, but it wasn't clear to me from that whether it tells you which process made the change. It

pop proxy

Hello I'm looking for a secure pop proxy for secure pop connection in a DMZ. - ssl + certificat Thanks a lot François -- Debian SID Linux tanna 2.4.20-freeswan-ipvs-xfs #7 SMP Tue Feb 11 11:01:05 CET 2003 i686 unknown unknown GNU/L

is there a i586 distro?

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Re: no gnome-terminal package in sarge?

I wrote: > > I recently upgraded a woody box to sarge and found that there is > > no gnome-terminal package in testing, although there is one in unstable. > > What's the story here? On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 11:00:06PM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: > You can get it from snapshot.debian.net: >

Ugly font hell

Help! I'm in Ugly Font Hell. I have a Sarge system that's all up-to-date, but can't find the Debian Way to have decent looking antialiased fonts in X. I've gone through message archives, Google, Debian bug reports, and every other source trying to fix this problem. I've mucked with defoma, libfree

Re: login as root to GUI

On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 08:18:30AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This isn't meant to be picking on you. But I've been considering this > for a while. > > People shouldn't wrap lines at all in messages they send -- this is a > hoary hold-over from the dark ages. while you are using debian maili

Re: netstat / masquerading

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Re: Woody reinstall, mozilla menu huge fonts

On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 09:53:05AM -0800, Michael Rudmin wrote: > So I'm wondering what's gone wrong. *WHY* do those > fonts on the menu come out giant? I really like > mozilla, but at the current stage it's unusable, and > googling doesn't provide any clues. I don't know why ... I have been

Vaio PCG-R505TSK Installation Trouble

Hello, I'm trying to install woody (bf 2.4) on my Vaio PCG-R505TSK ... with no success. After booting into the bootfloppy cd with 'linux ide2=0x180,0x386" (to makte the pcmcia cdrom drive work during the install) I can install debian without any problems and the system comes up after the install

Re: login as root to GUI

On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 08:47:54 -0600 Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > mutt does line wrap, but the default is ugly and hard to read. Many > popular and useful MUAs don't do linewrap at all. Furthermore, how > does someone effectively _quote_ text which is not linewrapped? Now > the loc

Re:

On 03 Apr 2003 16:13:06 +0200 Søren Boll Overgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (Unstable) install has proven tricky. Thus, I would very much like > some input on which cards you are using and to what degree they > perform as expected. Google hasn't yielded much in the way of help, > except that

Re: cdrdao / ide-scsi problem

Nathan E Norman wrote: On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 02:07:28AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 10:10:10AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: cdrecord asks the following debconf question: OK, mybad. But xcdroast doesn't, and I never use cdrecord from the command line since xcdroast will do

Installing WordPerfect 8.0 in woody

A couple of years ago Corel gave free downloads of WordPerfect 8.0 for linux. I still have the original packet, and I'm trying to install it in woody. That is not, however, so simple. WP can only be installed with the Runme script provided in the packet, and it requires older libraries like lib

Re: Shell based text editor for writing prose

Colin Watson wrote: > > Pico? > > I don't know of any good reason to use pico instead of the suggested > nano, unless you're using pine and are only using pico as the built-in > editor. As far as I know nano entirely supersedes pico in all other > respects. And best of all nano is free software w

Re: Shell based text editor for writing prose

Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 09:54:21PM -0600, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > > John> No, not a troll, I want to know if any of the editors are > > John> aimed at writers rather than coders, > > The quoting above, [...] were all done by emacs. > > Yes, I can tell. :( I even have

Does anyone know an application that ....

Hi all, Now playing with web pages, mozilla composer is great, got hang of it now. I neet an ftp transport program to get my masterpeices from my drive to the ftp site. Mozilla will do this one page at a time, I need to move directories to ftp. Idealy some GUI, I tried axyftp-gtk, it hangs with

Re: cdrdao / ide-scsi problem

On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 20:59, Qian Gong wrote: > > > > > > Sudo is a solution. > > > > Well, that way a user that can run cdrdao can run basically everything, > > can't he? > > No. By sudo you can limit the user to run a specific program, even with > specific options. sudo is a setuid program, it need

Teles ISDN ISA/PnP

Hallo zusammen, ich versuche seit einiger Zeit vergeblich meine Teles 16.3c unter Woody zum laufen zu bringen. Installation bisher: pnpdump >/etc/isapnp.conf entkommentieren der entsprechenden Einträge isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf Meldung .OK kompilieren des Kernel (2.4.20) mit ISDN U

compiling pan

I tried to compile pan 0.13.4, but got a configure error saying that it couldn't find gnet >= 1.1.5 so I installed the unstable version 1.1.7-3. However configure still gives the same error, and also complains about not finding gnet-config. There doesn't seem to be a gnet-config on my system, do I

How to upgrade woody on a AXP Multia to the 2.4.x kernal

Hello, Im trying to get my AXP powered DEC Multia as a WAP-server. It has a 2.2Gb 2.5" ata hd, 128M ram, an EEPro100 nic, and 2 proxim cards: 802.11a and 802.11b. The 802.11a is for the WiFi backbone and the 802.11b is for wireless clients and the eepro100 is for the wired clients. I wil

Re: is there a i586 distro?

Ray said on Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 11:00:49AM -0600: > or others that are compiled/optimized for the later i386 PCs? No. > if not, how should i go about mass source compiling debs for my computers? > (i have a couple P1 laptops, P2s and a P4) Look for the pentium-builder package. > and is it wort

What;s required to get squierrelmail working on Debian?

I'm trying to get squierrmail working on a fresh stable/testign install. I've installed exim, the various peices of courier that I think I need, and apache. I've run /etc/squierrelmail/comf.pl. It looks like I may need to edit some apache files by hand? A quick HOWTO on this would be _greatly_ a

Re: login as root to GUI

Hugh Saunders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 08:18:30AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> This isn't meant to be picking on you. But I've been considering this >> for a while. >> >> People shouldn't wrap lines at all in messages they send -- this is a >> hoary hold-over fr

kernel won't boot (was Re: compiling a kernel)

Hello everybody, In case you allready received this question (or even answered ??) I apologise, but I have seen no reactions, or my own question, so I guess something has gone wrong The thing is, I can't figure out what's option I should choose which is currently off. As I thought I might have ch

Wireless Ethernet hardware (Was: none)

Søren Boll Overgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've been looking into buying hardware to build a wlan at home, to avoid > all the annoying cables. However, determining which cards are supported > (and reasonably easy to get running) with a stock Debian GNU/Linux > (Unstable) install has proven

Re: Ksoftirq running wild .. What is it?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 01 April 2003 23:17, Mariano Kamp wrote: > Hi Nicolas, > Oh really? Lol, ok I will take that into consideration in the future. > To be serious again, what should I do in such a case? Reboot the machine > would be the only other option I cou

Re: Re:

On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 10:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > The only time it matters that your card and access point are the same > > brand is if they use a non-standard protocol; I believe some of the > > higher-priced Cisco units (redundancy alert) are like this. FWIW, the Orinoco Gold works fl

Re: Does anyone know an application that ....

On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 08:23:49PM +0100, dave selby wrote: > I neet an ftp transport program to get my masterpeices from my drive to the > ftp site. Mozilla will do this one page at a time, I need to move directories > to ftp. If you have shell access on the other end, tar everything up into a

create an image of a partition

Does somebody know a better way to create an image of a existing partition? I know dd=/dev/hda1 of=windows_partition.img, but the image has a size of 3 GB. I thought about backup a fresh win98 installation, so i can write the image back to the partition if windows goes crazy. I don't want instal

Re: Does anyone know an application that ....

On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 14:23, dave selby wrote: > Hi all, Now playing with web pages, mozilla composer is great, got hang of it > now. > > I neet an ftp transport program to get my masterpeices from my drive to the > ftp site. Mozilla will do this one page at a time, I need to move directories >

Re: Does anyone know an application that ....

-- dave selby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Thursday, 03 April 2003, 08:23 PM +0100): > I neet an ftp transport program to get my masterpeices from my drive to the > ftp site. Mozilla will do this one page at a time, I need to move directories > to ftp. Idealy some GUI, I tried axyftp-gtk, it han

mozilla 1.3: no root/no history

Since upgrading to the latest Mozilla from unstable, I have the following problems with Mozilla: 1-I can't launch Mozilla as root (su or logged in as root). When I type mozilla on the command line, it accepts the command and does nothing but give me a new prompt. 2-When running Mozilla as user,

default run level

Here is a newbie question: Which default run level do I change inittab to so that the PC boots to a VGA console instead of X? Sincerely, Jon D. Irish BAE SYSTEMS Analytical Solutions (Lower Tier Project Office) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

keysigning: Genova/Italy 7-9 April 2003

I will be in Genova/Italy from Monday till Wednesday. As before, those interested in keying beers and signing drinks, please reply privately (reply-to set). -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian develo

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