Re: Today mozilla-firebird Wants To Remove KDE

2003-08-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 01:27:52PM -0400, David Crane wrote: > In the other branch of this thread, I asked whether multiple rounds of > "apt-get upgrade" would be needed to bring a 3.0rev1 "woody" distribution > up to a current "testing" distribution. Here's the documentation of 'upgrade' from the

Re: Is Gnome working in teesting?

2003-08-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 02:01:47PM -0400, stan wrote: > On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 05:27:26PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > If it's filed in the bug tracking system, at the moment you just have to > > look at the bug every so often, although there's some work outstanding > > on letting you subscribe

Re: apt-listbugs output question... was Re: Is Gnome working in teesting?

2003-08-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 01:09:24PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > Another trivia question for someone out there-- > > I noted the following bug types. Is the "pending upload" essentially a > fixed bug not in the dist yet? See the description of the pending tag under http://www.debian.org/Bugs/D

new ppp package

2003-08-25 Thread Marco d'Itri
[Please Cc me, I'm not subscribe to either list.] [A copy of this message is sent to the debian-user-french mailing list as I know that there are many ADSL users there. If you need to reply feel free to write in French, I understand it.] Two new ppp packages have been installed today in unstable a

Re: convert RedHat to Debian

2003-08-25 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 01:34:57 +0200 (CEST), Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > --- Z F <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > Hello everybody, > > > > I have a RedHat box and I would like to convert it to Debian. Is it > > possible to do it without reformatt

Re: Mozilla printer problems

2003-08-25 Thread Mike Mueller
On Sunday 24 August 2003 16:27, Kevin McKinley wrote: > On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 13:58:42 -0400 > > Mike Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Saturday 23 August 2003 09:37, Tom Allison wrote: > > > this is my current printer configuration in Mozilla. > > > lpr ${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME:+'-P'}${MOZ_PRINTER

Re: money/quicken/?

2003-08-25 Thread D. Clarke
Wow, thanks to all of your insight. Looks like I have some software to test ;) ~ Darryl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: convert RedHat to Debian

2003-08-25 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 01:34:57AM +0200, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > --- Z F <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribi?: > > Hello everybody, > > > > I have a RedHat box and I would like to convert it to Debian. Is it > > possible to do it without reformatting the hard drive? If yes, how. ... > I am in the pro

Re: Today mozilla-firebird Wants To Remove KDE

2003-08-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 18:43, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 01:27:52PM -0400, David Crane wrote: > > In the other branch of this thread, I asked whether multiple rounds of > > "apt-get upgrade" would be needed to bring a 3.0rev1 "woody" distribution > > up to a current "testing" dist

Re: Today mozilla-firebird Wants To Remove KDE

2003-08-25 Thread Thomas Krennwallner
Hi! On Sun Aug 24, 2003 at 07:31:53PM -0400, David Crane wrote: > This fixed it. An "apt-get dist-upgrade" would now succeed. But it > will have to wait until next weekend, since it says it will download > 291MB of archives, which will take 21.6 hours over my modem. > > I'll try to remove bun

Re: Is Gnome working in teesting?

2003-08-25 Thread stan
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 12:47:49AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 02:01:47PM -0400, stan wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 05:27:26PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > > If it's filed in the bug tracking system, at the moment you just have to > > > look at the bug every so often

Re: Checking what's installed

2003-08-25 Thread Nick Hastings
* Piers Kittel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030825 11:25]: > Hello all > > Am installing Debian on a 486 laptop, and because I want to trim down > the installation as much as possible, how do I view a list of what's > installed by apt-get on the laptop? DSelect is useless as it marks some > stuff that

Re: Help Please!! Mouse Dead.

2003-08-25 Thread William Bradley
> On Sunday 24 August 2003 05:09 pm, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > > Following is my XF86Config-4 set up for the mouse: > > > > > > Section "InputDevice" > > > Identifier "Configured Mouse" > > > Driver "mouse" > > > Option "CorePointer" > > >

Re: Is Gnome working in teesting?

2003-08-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 11:15:56PM -0400, stan wrote: > On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 12:47:49AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 02:01:47PM -0400, stan wrote: > > > Is sound still also broken in testing? > > > > [Please don't send me private copies of list mail. I read the list.]

Re: [SLUG] Perl configured, but Apt tells me it's not.

2003-08-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 01:00:56PM +1200, Andrew McNaughton wrote: > Been there before. Debian's routing failure to keep anything like up to > date with perl versions is my only serious gripe with Debian. Testing and unstable are both perfectly up to date with perl. Stable is just as up to date w

Re: Help Please!!

2003-08-25 Thread William Bradley
On Sunday 24 August 2003 05:17 pm, you wrote: > > Section "InputDevice" > > Identifier "Configured Mouse" > > Driver "mouse" > > Option "CorePointer" > > Option "Device""/dev/psaux" > > Option "Pr

Re: money/quicken/?

2003-08-25 Thread Pierre THIERRY
> And no, I never used double-entry in my checkbooking either. AFAIK, it is the standard way everywhere to write transactions for financial professionals. But one will not learn it in school... I took a book for the preparation of a financial diplom. Try the double-entry a while, and you won't go

Mounting large Windows ME disk?

2003-08-25 Thread Larry Hunter
Folks, I'm trying to add an 80GB Maxtor 4D080H4 (IDE) disk from a Windows ME machine (with lots of valuable data on it) to a current Debian unstable system. When I try to mount it, I get basement:~# mount /dev/hdb1 /opt mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb1, or

Re: Is Gnome working in teesting?

2003-08-25 Thread Travis Crump
Colin Watson wrote: On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 11:15:56PM -0400, stan wrote: I don't know the problem you're referring to, so I have no idea ... smokey:~# apt-get upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages have been kept back aspell aspell-en audaci

Re: cannot install perl-doc

2003-08-25 Thread Bob Proulx
Praveen Kallakuri wrote: > Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: > perl-doc: Depends: perl (>= 5.6.1-8.3) but it is not going to be > installed What does this say on your machine? apt-cache policy perl Mine says: Installed: 5.6.1-8.2 Candidate: 5.6.1-8.3 Version T

debian lists have no nomail option

2003-08-25 Thread Dan Jacobson
I was surprised to find that some debian lists require a subscription to post, but have no "nomail" option. This means e.g. gmane.org users will get a copy of each message, even though they've already read them. For modem users, for the privilege of posting one message, one must get one's POP box

Re: BIOS reports more memory than kernel finds

2003-08-25 Thread Bob Proulx
Dean Allen Provins wrote: > I just added another 32 + 64 MB of memory to an older Pentium 1 (2 72 > pin SIMMS each). There was already 32 MB installed, so this should have > totalled 128 MB. The BIOS finds about 117 MB, and the kernel (2.2.18) > finds just 65 MB. Read this for the details: ht

Re: ..booooo, should be: Dead rodent, was: Help Please!!

2003-08-25 Thread Bob Proulx
Arnt Karlsen wrote: > William Bradley wrote: > > a lot of trouble, except for one item. The mouse did not work. It is > > an off the shelf Logitech PS/2 mouse with a wheel. Wheelmice are ImPS/2 protocol. (Intelimouse) > > Section "InputDevice" > > Identifier "Configured Mouse" > >

Re: debian lists have no nomail option

2003-08-25 Thread Travis Crump
Dan Jacobson wrote: I was surprised to find that some debian lists require a subscription to post, but have no "nomail" option. Umm, which debian lists require a subscription in order to post? pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: OS X as Client, and Debian as backbone?

2003-08-25 Thread Zoran's mailinglist account
Le 11/08/2003 15:58, « Bengt Thurée » <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > Hej, > > I have heard some rumours that this combination (using > Macintosh OS X as clients and Linux as a backbone (fileserver)) > do not work perfectly. *** There were issues with previous OS X versions but ever since the 1

Re: kernel 2.4.21 && swsp && acpi

2003-08-25 Thread Lajos Mester
Thanks that helped! The only strange thing about it is, that now the ACPI part won't get compiled... i have no acpi module in the generated deb package. Isn't enought a 'make-kpkg clean' ? I saw debian files across the source files, shuld i delete them? Lajos On Friday 22 August 2003 20:54, D

Re: kernel 2.4.21 && swsp && acpi

2003-08-25 Thread Lajos Mester
> I have had this problem at tuesday, when trying to > install 2.6.0-test2. It was solved just by installing > 'devfs' package. Are you sure your system have devfs > installed? Well, today i've istalled the latest devfsd, but 2.6 still won't run. It says: FATAL: Module ide_probe_mod already in

Re: Is Gnome working in teesting?

2003-08-25 Thread Andreas J. Guelzow
On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 21:15, stan wrote: > How did you get it upgraded to testing, given all teh current breakeage in > testing? > Interesting question. We are running a production computer lab that has recently been upgraded to testing. Am I to expect that it is going to start to fall apart soo

Re: debian lists have no nomail option

2003-08-25 Thread Travis Crump
Travis Crump wrote: Dan Jacobson wrote: I was surprised to find that some debian lists require a subscription to post, but have no "nomail" option. Umm, which debian lists require a subscription in order to post? never mind, I figured it out(some==2, debian-chinese-(big5|gb) and debian-ctte, bot

Re: Mounting large Windows ME disk?

2003-08-25 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 22:02:40 -0600, Larry Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Folks, > > I'm trying to add an 80GB Maxtor 4D080H4 (IDE) disk from a Windows ME > machine (with lots of valuable data on it) to a current Debian > unstable system. When I try to mou

Re: UDMA in kernel 2.4.21

2003-08-25 Thread Alexey Chetroi
On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 12:53:00AM +0200, Diego Calleja Garc?a wrote: > > > > I've compiled kernel 2.4.21 from unstable, but when I'm trying > > to setup UDMA mode X67-X69, kernel complains that udma 3/4/5 not > > functional and indeed hdparm -tT /dev/hda shows performance degrade. > > But kerne

Help me please with TAR

2003-08-25 Thread Piotrek
Hello, I am quite a new user of Debian, so my question would sound a little bit stupid, but I've got a problem with TAR. I am using a testing version of Debian. I have upgraded TAR to 1.13.25-5 version and as I try to unpack tar.bz2 files with " tar xjf ... " I get such a message: tar (child)

Re: Help me please with TAR

2003-08-25 Thread geordie
Piotrek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [25 Aug 2003 09:08 +0200]: > tar (child): bzip2: Cannot exec: No such file or directory > tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting no > tar: Child returned status 2 > tar: Error exit delayed from previous error You need to install the bzip2 package. Geordie. --

Re: Help me please with TAR

2003-08-25 Thread Jon Haugsand
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hello, > > I am quite a new user of Debian, so my question would sound a little bit > stupid, but I've got a problem with TAR. I am using a testing version of > Debian. I have upgraded TAR to 1.13.25-5 version and as I try to unpack > tar.bz2 files with " tar xjf ... " I g

Problems with xserver-xfree86

2003-08-25 Thread Stephen Touset
On Debian sid, I've been trying to install xfree86. After installation (including xserver-xfree86, xserver-common, and xfree86-common), it seems there was a problem creating /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, /etc/X11/X, and /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config. Long story short, they're not there. I've tried doing a dpkg

Re: Help me please with TAR

2003-08-25 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi, * Piotrek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030825 16:14]: > Hello, > > I am quite a new user of Debian, so my question would sound a little bit > stupid, but I've got a problem with TAR. I am using a testing version of > Debian. I have upgraded TAR to 1.13.25-5 version and as I try to unpack > tar.bz2

libc6

2003-08-25 Thread Ognian Kirilov
Hello, I updated my system this morning. After update I saw that link /lib/libc.6.so is incorrect after invoking ldconfig nothing changes Here are details from execution of ldconfig -v /lib: ldconfig: Cannot stat /lib/libc-2.3.2.so: No such file or directo

What to expect after XP installation on the other disc

2003-08-25 Thread Joris Huizer
Hello everybody, The computer I'm using has two hard discs: /dev/hda Windows ME /hev/hdb Linux Debian Because Windows ME is slow and buggy, my dad wants to replace it with XP; What are the risks - will XP mess with the boot loader or something? Is there more I should be affraid of? Thanks for

Unidentified subject!

2003-08-25 Thread webmaster
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Re: money/quicken/?

2003-08-25 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 12:00:25PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Look at all those dependencies! You're not supposed to scare people > > off. :) > > If I were running RH/Mdk/SuSE (RPM Hell), or used KDE and had a 56K > line, I'd be scared. Otherwise

Re: Bug#206959: debian lists have no nomail option

2003-08-25 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 07:17:47AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > This means e.g. gmane.org users will get a copy of each message, even > though they've already read them. No, it doesn't. Try thinking about what it means when the web page says "This list is not moderated, posting is allowed to anyon

Re: What to expect after XP installation on the other disc

2003-08-25 Thread Shaun ONeil
On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 03:56, Joris Huizer wrote: > Hello everybody, > > The computer I'm using has two hard discs: > /dev/hda Windows ME > /hev/hdb Linux Debian > > Because Windows ME is slow and buggy, my dad wants to > replace it with XP; > What are the risks - will XP mess with the boot loa

MuNAS: A Network Audio System for Linux-based Thin-Client Systems

2003-08-25 Thread Gwan-Hwan Hwang \(黃冠寰\)
 The MuNAS solves the problem that the X Window system does not support the transformation of audio data. It makes the thin-client/server computing model in Linux be capable of executing multimedia applications. The audio data generated by Open Sound System (OSS/Free ) compatible audio appl

Re: money/quicken/?

2003-08-25 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 12:37:14PM -0600, Brian Gonzales wrote: > Ah ha! That's what double-entry is, it makes *so* much sense now. Good > thing Quicken does it transparently, or people would never balance their > books. Well, they both do it transpar

Re: money/quicken/?

2003-08-25 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 12:45:33PM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: > Not in the point-and-drool fashion offered by things like Money and > Quicken. For gnucash you would have to manually go to your bank's web > site and download the qif. This is a probl

Re: What to expect after XP installation on the other disc

2003-08-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 02:56, Joris Huizer wrote: > Hello everybody, > > The computer I'm using has two hard discs: > /dev/hda Windows ME > /hev/hdb Linux Debian > > Because Windows ME is slow and buggy, my dad wants to > replace it with XP; > What are the risks - will XP mess with the boot loa

Verify programs

2003-08-25 Thread Bas Benschop
Hello, This weekend several systems at our site were hacked. In /var/spool/.test/ several programs were installed, log, pscan, x and xscan. Also some system utilities were replaced with older versions. Is it possible to check the versions of programs and compare them with the versions in the pack

Please help solve printing weirdness

2003-08-25 Thread Kieren Diment
For some reason I am having printing weirdness on this machine. I am running testing, upgraded from Woody if that helps. I have recompiled my kernel to contain parport and parport_pc (Kernel 2.4.18) I have a HPLJ2100 printer. I have lpd and magicfilter installed: magicfilter.conf looks lik

Re: Help me please with TAR

2003-08-25 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 09:17:40AM +0200, Piotrek wrote: > tar (child): bzip2: Cannot exec: No such file or directory > tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting no > tar: Child returned status 2 > tar: Error exit delayed from previous error apt-

Re: Verify programs

2003-08-25 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 11:34:35AM +0200, Bas Benschop wrote: > Hello, > > This weekend several systems at our site were hacked. In /var/spool/.test/ > several programs were installed, log, pscan, x and xscan. > > Also some system utilities were repl

Re: Verify programs

2003-08-25 Thread Harry Brueckner
Here are some links that might help you. http://www.fish.com/tct/help-when-broken-into http://www.dpo.uab.edu/~kalyan/incidentchecklist.html http://www.sans.org/rr/catindex.php?cat_id=27 HTH, Harry --On Monday, August 25, 2003 11:34:35 AM +0200 Bas Benschop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This weeken

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Re: Verify programs

2003-08-25 Thread Harry Brueckner
Sorry, I forgot this link, which might also prove to be useful in the future. ;-) http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/index.en.html Harry --On Monday, August 25, 2003 11:34:35 AM +0200 Bas Benschop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This weekend several systems at our site were hac

Re: What to expect after XP installation on the other disc

2003-08-25 Thread Craig Genner
On Monday 25 Aug 2003 8:56 am, Joris Huizer wrote: > Hello everybody, > > The computer I'm using has two hard discs: > /dev/hda Windows ME > /hev/hdb Linux Debian > > Because Windows ME is slow and buggy, my dad wants to > replace it with XP; > What are the risks - will XP mess with the boot load

Re [2]:

2003-08-25 Thread kejopyn
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Re: Verify programs

2003-08-25 Thread Alvin Oga
hi bas On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Bas Benschop wrote: > Hello, > > This weekend several systems at our site were hacked. In /var/spool/.test/ > several programs were installed, log, pscan, x and xscan. do you mind saying which "versions" they broke into do you mind saying how you think they got in

Re: System clock GMT or not

2003-08-25 Thread Erik Rask
> On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 09:40 pm, Harry Brueckner wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > I have my woody system configured to run the systems HW clock in GMT. This > > is kinda uncomfortable because I also have a windows system running on the > > same machine (shame on me). > > > > I know that I change the tim

installation problem on thinkpad a21m

2003-08-25 Thread Tom Allison
I'm trying to install onto an IBM thinkpad, model A21m (2628-FSU) using the "mini-CD" that is available for network installations. I have found that the "bf24" kernel will install, but upon reboot there is a PCI/IRQ conflict which renders the system non-bootable. I do not seem to have this prob

[COL #124463] Autoodpoved: Re: Details

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Re: Is Gnome working in teesting?

2003-08-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 12:41:30AM -0600, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote: > On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 21:15, stan wrote: > > How did you get it upgraded to testing, given all teh current breakeage in > > testing? > > Interesting question. We are running a production computer lab that has > recently been upg

Re: Perl5.8 installed; Apt preconfigures, but fails to install.

2003-08-25 Thread Johann Koenig
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 22:52:32 +1200 Adam Bogacki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > *** I am ready to continue the process of correcting apt's error > messages > but they now flash by too quickly to be legible and there is no way > I'm aware of, in the absence of a WM in console mode, of scrolling > back

Re: What to expect after XP installation on the other disc

2003-08-25 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 11:37:32AM +0100, Craig Genner wrote: > That way when I have to reinstall windows I just unplug the first disk, > reinstall and it only messes with the second disks boot loader. Plug the > first disk back in and away I go. T

Re: bonnie++: disastrous RAID 1/5 results

2003-08-25 Thread Juri Haberland
martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Juri Haberland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.08.22.0049 +0200]: >> Generally I recommend to use mdadm, because it is more flexible >> and actively maintained by Neil Brown, the Linux SoftwareRAID guy. > > Okay, I will check it out. Can it do the persistent superblo

Webcam Hardware and Software Advice Request

2003-08-25 Thread Emre Sevinc
Hi, I want to connect a USB webcam to my home PC which runs Debian Woody (3.0) kernel 2.4.18 Which webcam would you advise me? I don't need a super quality and expensive system, all I want is a system that I can set up with minimal hassle. I've read an article (http://www.aboutdebian.com/webca

Re: What to expect after XP installation on the other disc

2003-08-25 Thread Roberto Sanchez
--- Craig Genner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > On Monday 25 Aug 2003 8:56 am, Joris Huizer wrote: > > Hello everybody, > > > > The computer I'm using has two hard discs: > > /dev/hda Windows ME > > /hev/hdb Linux Debian > > > > Because Windows ME is slow and buggy, my dad wants to > > replace

Re: That movie

2003-08-25 Thread apnic-answer
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Re: Today mozilla-firebird Wants To Remove KDE

2003-08-25 Thread Stefan Waidele jun.
David Crane wrote: [mozilla-firebird] I am unsure what I should be moving toward: (1) Go back to the "stable" distribution, and find backports at www.apt-get.org? I am on stable and tried to do this. Apt also tried to remove much of KDE. (Someone told me this was because firebird depends on somet

Re: Thank you!

2003-08-25 Thread closed
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Webmin

2003-08-25 Thread Mark Maas
Ok..   This going to sound dumb... Bare with me... New to linux and all. I installed webmin by doing: "apt-get install webmin" and it worked fine.   Now how do I access webmin? something like: http://[debianhostname]:1000 ?   For the life of my I can't figure it out!   Mark.    

Re: Webmin

2003-08-25 Thread Rus Foster
> Ok.. > > This going to sound dumb... Bare with me... New to linux and all. > I installed webmin by doing: "apt-get install webmin" and it worked fine. > > Now how do I access webmin? something like: http://[debianhostname]:1000 ? Try http://127.0.0.1:1 Rgds Rus -- w: http://www.jvds.com

forwarding imap through ssh

2003-08-25 Thread Eduardo Gargiulo
Hi all I have imapd bound only to loopback interface. I would like to forward this service in my ssh connection. Is there any way to forward a service bound to loopback only if I'm connecting through ssh to external interface? How? thanks in advance and sorry for my english -ejg -- To UNSUBSC

Re: Webmin

2003-08-25 Thread Damien Solley
On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 22:41, Mark Maas wrote: > Ok.. > > This going to sound dumb... Bare with me... New to linux and all. > I installed webmin by doing: "apt-get install webmin" and it worked > fine. > > Now how do I access webmin? something like: > http://[debianhostname]:1000 ? > > For t

Re: Webmin

2003-08-25 Thread Mark Maas
Thanks people for your answers. But I cannot connect to it by http://127.0.0.1:1 (locally tried ofcourse), http://192.168.8.5:1 and http://debian:1 . None of them worked. I installed, apt-get install webmin webmin-core again, but still no go. I also rebooted. There must be something

unprivileged user

2003-08-25 Thread Robert Storey
Dear All, Sometime back somebody told me there was a way to add a user account where the user was very limited in what he could do. As I remember, the user would not even be able to change directories. I've been trying to figure out how to do this, and a few Google searches did not turn up wha

Re: Is Gnome working in teesting?

2003-08-25 Thread Andreas J. Guelzow
On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 05:08, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 12:41:30AM -0600, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote: > > On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 21:15, stan wrote: > > > How did you get it upgraded to testing, given all teh current breakeage in > > > testing? > > > > Interesting question. We are r

Re: Webmin

2003-08-25 Thread Damien Solley
On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 23:05, Mark Maas wrote: > Thanks people for your answers. > > But I cannot connect to it by http://127.0.0.1:1 (locally tried > ofcourse), http://192.168.8.5:1 and http://debian:1 . > > None of them worked. > > I installed, apt-get install webmin webmin-core aga

Re: unprivileged user

2003-08-25 Thread Rus Foster
> Dear All, > > Sometime back somebody told me there was a way to add a user account > where the user was very limited in what he could do. As I remember, the > user would not even be able to change directories. Try googling for "chroot user" Rgds Rus -- w: http://www.jvds.com | Linux + Free

Re: Webmin

2003-08-25 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 02:41:38PM +0200, Mark Maas wrote: > Now how do I access webmin? something like: http://[debianhostname]:1000 ? https://localhost:1/ - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian admin and user

Re: Checking what's installed

2003-08-25 Thread Piers Kittel
You are quite right, and I apologise for being arrogrant and ignorant. Thanks very much to everyone who helped me with my query. Cheers - Piers Quoting Charles-Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I hope the comment 'dselect is useless' is just an unfortunate use of > words used when you were a litt

Re: Webmin

2003-08-25 Thread Mark Maas
That worked, thanks! Mark - Original Message - From: "Damien Solley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mark Maas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 3:11 PM Subject: Re: Webmin > On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 23:05, Mark Maas wrote: > > Thanks people for your answer

Re: LILO ! framebuffer

2003-08-25 Thread R Ransbottom
> > Paul M Foster (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > On boot, I'm getting the framebuffer, with the little colored Tux in > > > the upper lefthand corner of the screen. I don't want that, I want Had the same problem and the same difficulty finding the answer: In lilo.conf append="video=vga16:off

Stripped down versions of software

2003-08-25 Thread Piers Kittel
Hi all I'm installing debian on a 486 laptop, and want to use it for X, IRC, www and email, so which window manager is best to use for the 100MHz laptop with 20mb RAM, and which IRC, WWW and email clients would also be good to use here? Thanks very much for your help in advance Cheers - Piers

Re: Stripped down versions of software

2003-08-25 Thread jqdkf
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 02:04:20PM +0100, Piers Kittel wrote: > Hi all > > I'm installing debian on a 486 laptop, and want to use it for X, IRC, www and > email, so which window manager is best to use for the 100MHz laptop with 20mb > RAM, and which IRC, WWW and email clients would also be good to

acme package - experiences

2003-08-25 Thread skyshadow
Hi, I'm wondering if someone's got some experience with the acme package. The packege description is: acme - Enables the "multimedia buttons" found on laptopsacme - Enables the "multimedia buttons" found on laptops I have a Compaq 1800-18XL484 with those funny multimedia buttons which xev does n

Re: installing mixed packages with apt

2003-08-25 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 06:23:38AM -0700, Dweeil Brock wrote: | I"m using woody and I want to install the unstable version of vsftpd | 1.2.0-1. | I have tried the following apt-get commands, but apt cannot find the | version I want -- even though this version if listed under the unstable | relea

Re: acme package - experiences

2003-08-25 Thread Damien Solley
On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 23:46, Olivier Robert wrote: > Hi, > > I'm wondering if someone's got some experience with the acme package. > The packege description is: > > acme - Enables the "multimedia buttons" found on laptopsacme - Enables > the "multimedia buttons" found on laptops > > I have a Com

Spam Assassin 2.5x

2003-08-25 Thread David Corbin
I upgraded SA to the 2.54 version from apt-get.org. Now, it seems, NO spam is detected. Looking at the headers, it gives everything a 0 score. It also says "test=0", as if it's not checking anything. Is there some configuration piece that got missed or that I need to set by hand? David -- To

Re: acme package - experiences

2003-08-25 Thread Roberto Sanchez
--- "Olivier (skyshadow) Robert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Hi, > > I'm wondering if someone's got some experience with the acme package. > The packege description is: > > acme - Enables the "multimedia buttons" found on laptopsacme - Enables > the "multimedia buttons" found on laptops >

Re: Webcam Hardware and Software Advice Request

2003-08-25 Thread D. Clarke
Hi, I have a logitech quickcam web and I use this: qce-source - source code for QuickCam Express kernel module of course, you must be using a kernel with video4linux and usb support (a stock kernel has support for all those modules) to use the webcam. (and the mic doesn't function, but I've ne

Re: Help Please!!

2003-08-25 Thread Kent West
William Bradley wrote: >I have installed Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 rl "Woody" Official i386. > >The mouse did not work. It is an off the >shelf Logitech PS/2 mouse with a wheel. There is nothing wrong with the >mouse, I tested it on the Windows, which will dual boot on the same machine. > >Followin

Re: Problems with xserver-xfree86

2003-08-25 Thread debjan
On Debian sid, I've been trying to install xfree86. After installation (including xserver-xfree86, xserver-common, and xfree86-common), it seems there was a problem creating /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, /etc/X11/X, and /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config. Long story short, they're not there. I've tried doing a dpk

RE: Stripped down versions of software

2003-08-25 Thread Wathen, Metherion
Hi Piers, Heres what I have on my 100 MHz desktop system Blackbox window manager Opera7 web browser (although right now I don't have net connection) havent decided on email or IRC yet. But definately Blackbox WM is the way to go. HTH, mw. > Hi all > > I'm installing debian on a 486 laptop, and w

OT: CSS forum sought

2003-08-25 Thread martin f krafft
I am looking for a good forum (or some people) who could help me with a couple of CSS (cascading stylesheet) problems. Does anyone know a good forum or would be willing to help me out? Thanks, -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: acme package - experiences

2003-08-25 Thread skyshadow
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 11:52:20PM +1000, Damien Solley wrote: > On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 23:46, Olivier Robert wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm wondering if someone's got some experience with the acme package. > > The packege description is: > > > > acme - Enables the "multimedia buttons" found on laptop

Re: OT: CSS forum sought

2003-08-25 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 04:11:31PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > I am looking for a good forum (or some people) who could help me > with a couple of CSS (cascading stylesheet) problems. Does anyone > know a good forum or would be willing to help me out? http://www.css-discuss.org/ and http://css

Kernel Upgrade Problems

2003-08-25 Thread debian
Hi all, I am fairly new to Debian, but have used Mandrake and Redhat for a couple of years. I have had a Debian Woody box running for a few months running the stock 2.2.20-idepci kernel, and decided it was time to upgrade. The box is a AMD XP 1800 with 256Mb DDR266 RAM. I ran: apt-get install

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2003-08-25 Thread Frédéric Aliotti
I have installed Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 rl "Woody" Official i386. I'm trying to use an application called Cyberdocs on this computer : this application have to open OpenOffice.org to convert word documents to XML. This process is triggered by a java application. Everything is properly installed. M

Re: Webmin

2003-08-25 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Mark Maas wrote: > That worked, thanks! > Btw, that information could have been found in /usr/share/doc/webmin/README.Debian The first place you should look is /usr/share/doc//README.Debian for any Debian quirks. Some packages also have a NEWS.Debian for important thing you

Re: forwarding imap through ssh

2003-08-25 Thread Mark Roach
On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 09:57, Eduardo Gargiulo wrote: > Hi all > > I have imapd bound only to loopback interface. I would like to forward > this service in my ssh connection. Is there any way to forward a service > bound to loopback only if I'm connecting through ssh to external > interface? How?

Re: Spam Assassin 2.5x

2003-08-25 Thread Matthias Hentges
Hi David, Am Mon, 2003-08-25 um 15.53 schrieb David Corbin: > I upgraded SA to the 2.54 version from apt-get.org. Now, it seems, NO > spam is detected. Looking at the headers, it gives everything a 0 score. > It also says "test=0", as if it's not checking anything. Is there some > configurat

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