Re: Kerberos problem!

2004-02-19 Thread David Z Maze
Beck Zoltan Gyula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to configure a kerberos server, I read the documentation and > followed the instructions, but something is wrong I think. Make sure you've checked the usual things, in particular that the clocks on all of your machines agree to within fiv

Re: aptitude marking everything "packages held back"?

2004-02-19 Thread David Z Maze
"Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just wondering if anyone else has seen this. On one of my machines, > aptitude works like a champ. On the other, as of a week or so ago, > every package that would normally be aqua (available for upgrade) in the > "g" screen is instead white and

Re: /usr/src/linux symlink

2004-02-20 Thread David Z Maze
Andy Firman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Okay. I have a question about this from the kernel README: > >Do NOT use the /usr/src/linux area! This area has a (usually >incomplete) set of kernel headers that are used by the library header >files. They should match the library, and not g

Re: GnuCash vs MoneyDance

2002-03-09 Thread David Z Maze
Ed Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 09 Mar 2002 10:46:31 -0600 > hanasaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Could people share the thoughts and experiences? Thanks. > > MoneyDance is a multi platform Java app and commercial. > It has many nice features, good support. > I have used it f

Re: bash scripting question (variables and spaces)

2002-03-19 Thread David Z Maze
Karsten Heymann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I have once again come upon bash problem I can't solve. I'm writing > a little bash frontend and one of the programs expects a option that > includes spaces and is composed from two other shell var's. Example: > > #!/bin/bash > A="Hello" > B="

Re: su montioring

2002-03-20 Thread David Z Maze
David Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > are there any program that will log/monitor who are using root > privigies ? su and sudo already log people using them in the system log. On my unstable machine, for example: Mar 20 17:50:38 watertown su[21359]: + pts/1 dmaze-root indicates that the

Re: Kerberos

2002-03-21 Thread David Z Maze
dinni bartholomew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am having some trouble building kerberos from the > source ... i keep getting > *** [all-recurse] Error 1 > errors when i try to run make... Which Kerberos? There are three in Debian (KTH krb4, MIT krb5, Heimdal krb5), plus the MIT krb4 distribut

Re: Kerberos

2002-03-22 Thread David Z Maze
dinni bartholomew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am trying to install MIT kerberos5 on potato... *prods around* Oh, that doesn't actually seem to be in non-US for stable; we just have a local build in these parts. Heimdal *does* appear to be in there, though, and should probably work for you fo

Re: Are these machines up to it?

2002-03-22 Thread David Z Maze
Keith O'Connell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I now have come by two old machines that I want to employ, but > before I throw mt self at it, I want to know if they are up to the > task, and also if they are, will they likley remain suitable for the > tasks as new versions of software are released >

Re: disable xdm

2002-04-01 Thread David Z Maze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > how can I disable xdm and boot into terminal mode. I prefer to use > startx. 'dpkg --remove xdm' is the most straightforward way, if you're never ever going to want xdm. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politi

Re: Xfree86 4.2.XXX

2002-04-02 Thread David Z Maze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I've recently gotten a new laptop, a Toshiba Satellite Pro 6000 (a > model that came out early last year). It's got a Trident CyberBlade > XP Ail graphics adapter. > > I've been trying to get X support for it, and have come to the > following conclusions: > > * XFree8

Re: grep question

2002-04-08 Thread David Z Maze
Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In the grep's info page I find the following which works as said. > But I want to know why. What does the [c] do in this case? > > > 7. Why do people use strange regular expressions on `ps' output? > > ps -ef | grep

Re: Sources from Sid & Binaries from Woody

2002-04-11 Thread David Z Maze
Holger Rauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is it safe (in the sense that it won't hose my system) to stay with > Woody when it comes to the binaries and to add appropriate deb-src > lines to /etc/apt/sources.list for the latest and greatest stuff? Sure, if you're willing to accept that 'apt-get in

Re: Kernel-compile-howto for other computers

2002-04-15 Thread David Z Maze
Jaye Inabnit ke6sls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a new(ish) computer I assembled a few months ago. It can > compile kernels in less than 5 minutes. I would like to learn how > to correctly build kernels and modules for other computers on this > box using the 'make-kpkg' methods the Debian

Re: I want Source Files for Dselect and DebConf

2002-04-17 Thread David Z Maze
Xeno Campanoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > And I can't seem to find it on the Debian Website. Any suggestions? Run 'dpkg -S `which dselect`' to find out which package dselect is in (here dpkg), and then 'apt-get source dpkg'. Or you can dig around under ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/

Re: make-kpkg

2002-04-17 Thread David Z Maze
dave mallery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > trying to make a revised 2.2.20 kernel package. running without > root in /usr/src/linux per the excellent newbiedoc howto: > >>make-kpkg clean > ... blur >>make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image --append_to_version=x01 > > ...snip about 20 minute

Re: Debian's position on MP3 encoders?

2002-04-19 Thread David Z Maze
Shyamal Prasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If this is the case, what is the "Debian recommended" or "Debian > user consensus" (if any) on an audio encoder for my CDs? I don't > care if it's actually not MP3 - but it must be free, it must be > legal, and reasonable performance and player choices w

Re: Woody: "xhost +" on Local Machine not Working

2002-04-20 Thread David Z Maze
Holger Rauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When I execute "xhost +" on localhost, telnet to another machine, > set the DISPLAY to my machine's hostname (!export > DISPLAY=prag:0.0"), I get the error message that this connection is > refused by the server? Why? (It doesn't make sense to me since I >

Re: Adding kernel modules after install

2002-04-21 Thread David Z Maze
Peter Whysall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 2002-04-21 at 19:22, Ron Johnson wrote: >> Related question: how do you _compile_ extra kernel modules >> after the kernel is installed and running? > > You could do your make (x|menu)config to select what you'd > forgotten, then do: ... > If you

Re: gcc howto

2002-04-22 Thread David Z Maze
Sherab Puntsok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My aim is to have a Debian system running gcc 3.0.4 and libc6 2.2.5 > with kernel 2.4.18. (Was running potato r0 gcc 2.95.2 libc 2.1.3) > First I've done the update by apt-get. (What did you update?) > Then I have manually compiled (against libc6-2.1.3

Re: Building kernel-image with kpkg

2002-04-22 Thread David Z Maze
Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Various sources have recommended doing "rm -rf */pcmcia" before > building a kernel from sources (assuming you're goign to use > the pcmcia stuff in the pcmcia-cs package). > > If I do that, the "make" dies because it's looking for stuff in > those dir

Re: Building kernel-image with kpkg

2002-04-22 Thread David Z Maze
Ramesh Panuganty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yeah, you need the link from /usr/src/linux -> > /usr/src/ to ease while applying kernel patches > etc... I've never found that necessary (though I also tend not to apply patches to my kernel source). A well-formed patch should apply cleanly to a sou

Re: docbook: xml -> (x)html conversion

2002-04-25 Thread David Z Maze
Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am learning docbook and try to build a html file from xml using a > dtd from the package docbook-website. docbook-website is pretty specialized; it's a DTD/stylesheet combo designed pretty much exactly for building Web pages that look like, say, http://

Re: how to create a link of another directory in home directory ...

2002-04-26 Thread David Z Maze
faisal gillani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. (*) text/plain ( ) text/html (Unnecessary, and irritating on public mailing lists; please configure your mailer to send plain text only.) > i want to create a link of another directory in my home directory > .. as i dont want to

Re: simple dpkg & compile from source question

2002-04-26 Thread David Z Maze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > On Fri Apr 26, 2002 at 05:00:45PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 12:14:00PM -0700, justin cunningham wrote: >> > Hi, I have to compile a program from source since the install >> > script for the deb package is installing in the wrong directory. >> >

Re: how to create a link of another directory in home directory ...2

2002-04-27 Thread David Z Maze
faisal gillani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > what is the diffrence between a symbolic & a hard link ? A symbolic link is a directory entry that points to the name of another file. For example: dmaze% echo hello > foo dmaze% ln -s foo bar dmaze% ls -l bar lrwxrwxrwx1 dmazedmaze

Re: file uri in sources.list, "archive" format?

2002-04-27 Thread David Z Maze
Brenda J. Butler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > the file uri should point to an "archive" which should have a > certain directory structure (like on debian cd's) right? Yup. > And there should be package index files? So my question is, how do > I make that index file, and does anyone have any oth

Re: rlogin without a password

2002-05-01 Thread David Z Maze
Dougie Nisbet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This used to be a piece of cake, but now in the Brave New SSH world, > it's a right royal pain. All I want to do, is switch on my laptop, > and remsh to my server, without specifying a username or > password. Can I do this with ssh, and if not, how do I i

Re: Reverse Depends on packages

2002-05-05 Thread David Z Maze
Mike Fedyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a tool, or series of commands that'll help me find packages > that are not depended on anymore in the debian packaging system? These days I tend to use aptitude as my standard dpkg/APT front-end. Current aptitude (possibly only the version in unsta

Re: building deb-src packages

2002-05-13 Thread David Z Maze
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've downloaded the mozilla source package, but am unsure > of what to do next. > Do I do this: >dpkg-deb --build /etc/apt/mozilla-1+rc1 > or >cd /etc/apt/mozilla-1+rc1 && dpkg-buildpackage -ai686 > > Or something totally different? What are yo

Re: installed kernel source but still no modversions.h!

2002-05-14 Thread David Z Maze
Alex Hunsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to compile the 3c90x netcard driver from 3com. > First time I try, I get this: > > 3c90x.h:22: linux/modversions.h: No such file or directory > In file included from /usr/include/linux/sched.h:13, > from 3c90x.h:36, >

Re: Setting effective UID for a shell script

2002-05-15 Thread David Z Maze
Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How can I set the effective UID for a shell script? I've got a > script which checks if xscreensaver is running and if not, starts it > and then activates it. However, the script always gets run as root > (it's being run as an APM script). This doesn't

Re: environment variables

2002-05-15 Thread David Z Maze
Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Where is a good place to park an Environment Veriable like > RSYNC_RSH? In your .profile, .bashrc, or .zshenv file, depending on which shell you use. Infidels might also consider .cshrc. :-) (I have a separate dotfile, .variables, which sets this sor

Re: Stopping spam

2002-05-15 Thread David Z Maze
Andy Saxena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just curious, but does anybody have any thoughts on TMDA? There was a thread on it on gnu.emacs.gnus not too far back (look on http://groups.google.com for it). There are people who swear by it; arguments against it are (a) it's rude to force people to a

Re: non-gui battery app?

2002-05-26 Thread David Z Maze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > The apm bin from the apmd package with something like: > $ while(true);do apm; sleep 10; clear;done; Or, more simply, just 'watch apm'. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking

Re: Fonts using various screen resolutions

2002-05-28 Thread David Z Maze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I have been doing a lot of reading on de-uglifying fonts on X. I > have installed truetype fonts, worked on xfs, tried different > configurations in my applications. Personally, I don't believe in this truetype thing; PostScript Type 1 fonts work perfectly well for scal

Re: cashbook program

2002-05-30 Thread David Z Maze
Matijs van Zuijlen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 12:05:49AM +0800, Russ Pitman wrote: >> My son thinks that gnucash is a little overkill for his >> requirements. Can anyone suggest a linux program with similiarity >> to using M$ money cashbook. >> >> This is part of my conv

Re: Precompiled kernel modules packages available

2002-05-30 Thread David Z Maze
Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - lm-sensors most likely requires i2c modules from the same location It looks like the stock kernels are built with i2c support enabled, and recent kernels use i2c-2.6.0; you *should* be able to use lm-sensors modules without having the corresponding i2c

Re: How do I discover the X version I'm running?

2002-05-31 Thread David Z Maze
Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The "X -version" output contains a line > "Operating System: Linux 2.4.13 i686 [ELF]". That's probably the version of kernel installed on the system the X server was built on. > But when I run "uname -r", I get "2.2.19", and /proc/version contains > "L

Re: color boot text

2002-06-01 Thread David Z Maze
nick lidakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would like to have my thinkpad x22 boot with colored text. Simple > red will do. Is that possible without using the framebuffer? Nothing about booting Linux, in general, is inherently black-and-white. But... > If I remember correctly, a friend runnin

Re: Inittab: command not executed

2002-06-03 Thread David Z Maze
"D.J. Bolderman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In /etc/inittab i have the following line to start my adsl connection: > a1:35:once:/usr/sbin/adsl start > However, during bootup this line is not executed, because i still have to > start my connection manually. I can't find anything in the logs eithe

Re: Upgrade to Woody

2002-06-05 Thread David Z Maze
Paladin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm currently using Debian's stable release but, due to some delays in the > versions of some libraries that won't let me compile some programs, I > would like to upgrade to Woody. My question is (of course): how!? > Is apt-get dist-upgrade safe enough? It sho

Re: Update - RE: rc.local in debian (was: Ip Masquerading)

2002-06-05 Thread David Z Maze
"Ronald Castillo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just to update something new I have found out.. I tried pinging my ADSL > router and my brother“s PC from my Linux box and it doesn't work either, > but it did work from my Windows PC when I had it connected directly to > my ADSL router. So, now I'm f

Re: Upgrade to Woody

2002-06-05 Thread David Z Maze
"D.J. Bolderman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > seb bastos wrote: >> in'st it the 'stable' field to be replace by 'testing'??? >> > No. There are 3 options. Stable, Unstable and Testing. You can also refer to a release by name. So if you say "potato", you'll get stable now and won't get auto-upda

Re: Debian: abandon ship?

2002-06-06 Thread David Z Maze
Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I agree. I think stable should be able to get more fixes and updates > than just security fixes. It's well known that much of the software in > stable is quite buggy and years behind the upstream source (Mozilla M18, > for example) but cannot be fixed un

Re: lm-sensors

2002-06-06 Thread David Z Maze
Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 10:34:55PM -0400, Bob Underwood wrote: >> are the new lm-sensors and libsensors2 available somewhere? if so, >> where? i just checked unstable and the packages are the same as in >> woody. > > Has anybody else noticed sid aging li

Re: howto manage programs compiled from source ???

2002-06-07 Thread David Z Maze
"Michael D. Schleif" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Where is some howto explaining ins and outs and options to managing > programs compiled from source under debian? I'm not sure if there's any concise documentation out there, but... > Clearly, one reason to choose debian is apt/dpkg/dselect, et a

Re: DHCP for PCMCIA interface: Being Canonical

2002-06-10 Thread David Z Maze
Bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a wireless (SMC 2632W) PCMCIA network card on my laptop which runs > Debian/Sid. (This is important.) > Works great, once up. However, I do have to manually "pump -i wlan0" > for it to get its address from the friendly neighbourhood DHCP > server. ... >

Re: problems with running remote X programs

2002-06-14 Thread David Z Maze
Matthew Yee-King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm running gdm, windowmaker, woody and xfree 4.2. i need to run > software on a remote mahcine that outputs to my local X server. On > the remote machine, i export DISPLAY="mylocalIP:0" then on my local > machine, i xhost . Eew eew eew. Don't do th

Re: Centralized /etc/passwd ?

2002-06-24 Thread David Z Maze
Paladin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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 something about NFS

Re: Need help with the proper way to build i2c and lm-sensors modules

2002-06-26 Thread David Z Maze
"Moore, Louis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have what I hope is a brain dead user issue trying to build the i2c and > lm-sensor modules on a 2.4.18 debian install. > > I installed the 2.4.18-5 kernel source package and soft linked > /usr/src/linux to the top level directory. (shouldn't be neces

Which window manager to use?

2002-06-27 Thread David Z Maze
I can't seem to find a window manager I like. I'm not actually picky on the appearance, so long as it's not garishly ugly (for example, any of the Enlightenment themes). I'm running unstable on every machine this matters for; I'm also willing to consider things that aren't (yet) packaged. Pointe

Re: moves dot files to different directory

2002-06-28 Thread David Z Maze
"Henning, Brian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have the task of moving all my hidden files to another directory. how can > i select only these files and not the standard files. > > ls .* doesn't seem to work. Really? It does for me (or at least 'ls -d .*'). 'ls -a' will list all files, even if

Re: How do I change de IP addresses in woody

2002-06-28 Thread David Z Maze
Romel Sandoval <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I want to change the IP address of two woody machines to 192.168.1.x and > I changed the /etc/hosts file but I notice that the machines still > respond to their old IP adresses. Well I know this by using the ping > command. You probably want to edit /et

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