advance,
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reason for your reservations has been recently removed.
KDE has always been GPL. Now, even Qt is GPL. And to top it, Richard
Stallman has passed his holy wand of acceptance over the entire project.
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/opinions/2281/1/
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On Sun, 8 Oct 2000, Walter Tautz wrote:
> i'd really like to be able to read this marvelous list without
> having to scroll through the listings looking for followups...perhaps
> pine can do this which is what I use now.
Yes, just have Pine sort the messages by Ordered Subject.
Dw
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apples to apples.
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2000.
These are books that will make valuable additions to students' libraries.
Web sites:
www.gnu.org
www.opensource.org
These are really everything you need.
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re, I recommend a Linux-oriented search engine,
viz Google (www.google.com/linux). Search, for example, on 'linux
accounting program'.
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On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Thomas J. Hamman wrote:
> Can somebody please tell me how I can tell my printer to STOP?
# lprm -
# man lprm
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Where is the appropriate place in debian 2.2 to configure ipchains for a
firewall and IP masquerading?
Thanks in advance,
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look at for your reference library:
'The Complete FreeBSD', Lehey, Walnut Creek
'Maximum Linux Security', Anonymous, SAMS
'Linux Network Servers 24 Seven', Hunt, Network Press
'UNIX Shells by Example', Quigley, Prentice Hall
It is informative to read book reviews of these titles on Amazon.com (and
then actually buy them at bookpool.com or one of the stores at unamazon.com
:)).
Happy reading,
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At the end of booting my new potato 2.2 installation (my first for debian),
the console screen goes blank and then reappears four times before finally
settling on the login prompt.
What's going on?
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I did 'dpkg --remove' on some services I don't want: anacron, diald,
wwwoffle and junkbuster. But these services still show up in /etc/rc2.d and
/etc/init.d. Why didn't these references get removed as well?
Thanks in advance,
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# update-inetd --add telnet
The entry definition does not contain any whitespace characters!
What does this message mean? What am I doing wrong?
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I need to get the list of packages installed by 'task-x-window-system', so
that I can uninstall the ones I do not want. But
# dpkg --listfiles task-x-window-system
does not give it and
/user/share/doc/task-x-window-system/README.debian
does not show it.
Thanks in advance,
Dwight
to Debian later when your priorities change.
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On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 10:55:35PM -0700, Dwight Johnson wrote:
> > # update-inetd --add telnet
> > The entry definition does not contain any whitespace characters!
> >
> > What does this message mean? What am I doing wr
le cautions me to use only
update-inetd to do this.
My general question is 'How do I use update-inetd to add telnet to my
inetd.conf services?' I have read the update-inetd man page and the
associated man pages and it is still not clear.
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r services offered by
your business and I will give you suggestions for Internet marketing. What
are 'immovables'?
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On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 09:26:57AM -0700, Dwight Johnson wrote:
> >
> > That's what I have always done on my Red Hat and SuSE installations. But
> > on Debian 2.2, my inetd.conf file does not have a telnet entry to uncomm
today.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2000-10-14-001-20-PS
that the SAMBA project has just forked and I believe one of the issues with
the forking team is the lack of full Windows 2000 interoperability in the
current SAMBA.
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omes the exclusive
property of Microsoft. Here's the most revealing article to appear on the
agreement to date (note additional draconian stuff):
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/business/001013/4679940.html
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> On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 02:23:23PM -0700, Geo
password. This method
went out of favor several years ago. Try making a manual connection using
minicom to learn the details of how your ISP authenticates and starts the
ppp session. See the PPP HOWTO for details of how to do this.
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y running?
Launch top. The dead netscape is often still running like a chicken with
its head cut off and putting a dangerous load on the system. top will show
you the of the errant process. Kill it with:
$ kill -s 9
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I suggest deleting the '1006' line from /etc/chatscripts/provider and
commenting out 'mtu 1006' from /etc/ppp/peers/provider and then try
connecting again. Send the log results to the list.
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On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, Shaji N V wrote:
&g
t that the Debian package
developers have broken telnet into separate client and server packages.
When you install telnet, you only get the client. The server package is
called 'telnetd'. Installing this makes the required entry in
/etc/inetd.conf.
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Netscape developers. An
infinite loop like this can easily be given a timeout and allow the
'Stop' event and other navigation events to take place. It is a piece of
shoddy and amateurish programming that is a disgrace to the profession.
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On 15 Oct 2000, John Hasler wrote:
> Shaji N V writes:
> > ...spd_vhi...
>
> That FAQ must be pretty old. spd_vhi has been useless for a long time.
Yes, the option '115200' takes care of this setserial in my ppp connection.
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ate
> time...
>
> how is that supposed to be set up? did i overlook something?
See above.
For the VIM user community, post on the 'comp.editors' newsgroup.
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dmesg" extract the messages out of? The files
> mentioned in man dmesg are empty, so I guess they're in RAM?
They are in /var/log/messages.
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ntcap
postscript = yes
The first 7 lines are the Debian Samba package defaults. The final 7 lines
were suggested in the book 'The Linux Problem Solver' by Brian Ward and I
inserted them when I couldn't at first get it to print at all.
Thanks for any help,
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On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Stephan Kulka wrote:
> Which program should I use to view a pdf.? AFAIK there is no acrobat
> reader for linux.
> Is there a possibility to read them at the command line?
Try pdftotext in the xpdf package.
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in advance,
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Answered my own question.
The answer here appears to be the enscript package.
Dwight
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Dwight Johnson wrote:
> I am able to print PostScript files with:
>
> $ lpr file.ps
>
> to my PostScript printer on my Debian 2.2 system.
>
> But I am unable to
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Philipp Schulte wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 12:57:03AM -0700, Dwight Johnson wrote:
>
> > Answered my own question.
> >
> > The answer here appears to be the enscript package.
>
> But why are you using ps_only_ in the first place?
would use for that? For the moment, I want to stay with packages that are
stable. This is not a request to 'upgrade to woody'.
Thanks in advance,
Dwight
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it held down, move it to where you want the
capture to end. Now you can paste it anywhere you want, for example, into
a text file open in an editor, for printing.
> or capture a screen in GNOME to send via email??
Look at xv.
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On 09-Oct-2000 Dwight Johnson wrote:
> What is the preferred way to configure a PostScript printer on debian 2.2?
Thanks to everyone who helped me with suggestions.
I used magicfilter with lpd and also took care to have the kernel modules
parport, parport_pc and lp installed.
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On Sat, 21 Oct 2000, Daniel Barclay wrote:
>
> > From: Dwight Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > [Netscape] is a piece of
> > shoddy and amateurish programming that is a disgrace to the profession.
You have misquoted me, sir. I _never_ referred globally to Netscape
I must configure my debian box so my wife can read and send her mail
using Eudora from her Win95 box which is delivered to her mailbox
(/var/mail/user) on the debian box using fetchmail/procmail/exim.
Normal TCP/IP networking is already working on the network. The debian
box is configured as an I
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks for your reply.
> On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 03:33:58PM -0500, Dwight Johnson wrote:
> ...
> > When she tries to read her mail using Eudora, she gets a message that
> > her connection has been refused. When she tries to send ma
On 10 Dec 2000, Willy Lee wrote:
> "Kyle" == Kyle Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I was reading the IP masq how-to and it shows how to setup ipchains
> > in a rc.firewall file. From what I gather, debian uses a different
> > boot system. How would I make the rc.firewall for a debian
On my Debian 2.2r2 system I have:
libncurses5
ncurses-base
ncurses-bin
all installed.
Yet, when attempting to compile Pine 4.21 (from the .deb source package
in nonfree), I get the following compile error:
cc-g -DDEBUG -DLNX -DSYSTYPE=\"LNX\" -DMOUSE -o pine addrbook.o
adrbkcmd.o adrbkli
My Pine compile attempt is showing:
cc-g -DDEBUG -DLNX -DSYSTYPE=\"LNX\" -DMOUSE -o pine addrbook.o
adrbkcmd.o adrbklib.o args.o bldaddr.o context.o filter.o folder.o help.o
helptext.o imap.o init.o mailcap.o mailcmd.o mailindx.o mailpart.o mailview.o
newmail.o other.o
pine.o reply.o scre
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Colin Watson wrote:
> Dwight Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >My Pine compile attempt is showing:
> >
> >cc-g -DDEBUG -DLNX -DSYSTYPE=\"LNX\" -DMOUSE -o pine addrbook.o
> [...]
> >os.o date.c ../pico/libpico.a ../c-cl
Exim is placing the strange header:
>From nobody
on every mail it places in my mailbox.
What is this for? How do I configure it, make it go away?
Thanks in advance,
Dwight
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Andrew Hall wrote:
> This may be silly, but here goes. I have downloaded the new version os ssh
> due to the security
> announcement a little bit ago. Looking at its depends I see that it requires
> libz1 but I can not
> find that package anywhere on the debian site. I do
On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Rino Mardo wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 11:36:59AM -0600 or thereabouts, Gregory Guthrie
> wrote:
> > I have my system setup as a satellite, which forwards all email to a
> > sh\marthost, who delivers it.
> >
> > But when it arrives, I'd like the addresses to show where
On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, ktb wrote:
> You might want to try mutt. I like it a lot better. It
> took some configuring but it isn't as clunky as pine.
I have recently been trying mutt and, quite honestly, I have find mutt a
lot clunkier than Pine.
One example: when you call up Pine for the f
On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, David Wright wrote:
> Quoting Dwight Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, ktb wrote:
> >
> > > You might want to try mutt. I like it a lot better. It
> > > took some configuring but it isn't as clunky as pine.
>
Given that banner ads have many objectionable features -- waiting for the
damned things to show up from a remote server being the most egregious -- I
am wondering what would be a better way for companies to tell us about
their products.
Rick Lehrbaum, on his site, linuxdevices.com, sold vendor spo
On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, W. Crowshaw wrote:
> Now if I try calling up pppd directly with the command (pppd
> /dev/ttyS0 38400 debug connect "chat -vf mychatscript" ), I get
> this debug info upon connection:
>
> Dec 19 19:03:31 anima pppd[236]: Serial connection established.
> Dec 19 19:03:31 anim
On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, David Wright wrote:
> Quoting Dwight Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> > These issues concern people who are _not_ beginners. Time is money and
> > taking a lot of time to configure an application is wasteful, when an equal
> > result can be achieve
On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, W. Crowshaw wrote:
> ... /dev/ttyS0 is the only one
> that actually makes my modem dial. This could be because I am
> running Debian on Macintosh 7500 PowerPC with 2 serial ports, one for
> the printer and the other for the modem.
Aha! You are on a Mac? You must have had
On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, W. Crowshaw wrote:
> At 5:42 PM -0800 12/19/00, Dwight Johnson wrote:
> >
> >Show us your chatscript.
> >
>
> My chat script looks like this:
> 'TIMEOUT' '30'
> 'ABORT' 'BUSY'
> 'ABORT'
On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Ken Weingold wrote:
> I am going to be setting up Linux server at work for something and
> want to do backups, weekly I guess. Any suggestions on software to do
> this? I am not familiar with unix backups.
I can recommend the Ecrix SCSI DLT tape drive -- 66 Gb (or smaller)
On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, John Griffiths wrote:
> trying to do a new install on a box with an NE2000 NIC
> having trouble with the module on install (that is it fails)
> do i need to tell it the IRQ/IO arguments?
>
> if so what is the syntax?
I was never able to get this done in the install. I comple
On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, John Griffiths wrote:
> >I was never able to get this done in the install. I completed the install
> >without networking and then, after some research, placed:
> >
> >alias eth0 ne
> >options ne io=0x300 irq=10
> >
> >in the file /etc/modutils/network. Of course, after mo
On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Bruce Sass wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 03:12:08PM -0800, Adam Shand wrote:
> > > pine, pico and pilot deb's are included in woody. you'll notice that the
> > > version numbers have an 'L' at the end of them. that signifi
On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Nate Amsden wrote:
> maybe part of the problem is that you are replying to the mail keeping
> the original mail in the message body. it probably doesn't make a
> difference
> but i make sure that the message has only what the list software wants
> nothing more, no signature, n
On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Rob VanFleet wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 02:06:32AM -0800, Dwight Johnson wrote:
> > Have you tried to unsubscribe recently?
> >
> > It is failing at the confirm stage. And listmaster is not on the job to do
> > manual unsubscribe. Is there so
On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, W. Crowshaw wrote:
> At 11:04 AM -0800 12/20/00, Dwight Johnson wrote:
> >On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, W. Crowshaw wrote:
> >
> >> At 5:42 PM -0800 12/19/00, Dwight Johnson wrote:
> >> >
> >> >Show us your chatscript.
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