Re: OT-Pronunciation of Gnome

2001-07-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
ot;Covenant with death", if you ask Nick Petreley. > > GNU: Is it "new" or "guh-new"? > > The latter (says so on the opening blurb at http://www.gnu.org) "Cancer", if you ask Steve Ballmer. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ Wha

Re: How toinstall Linux source ??

2001-07-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
source separately and tried > using dselect. I did find Linux source in the listing but there 4 > different packages with diff version numbers. Is this the right way of > installing/downloading the source code?? Yes. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of

Re: How to install Linux source code - part 2

2001-07-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 08:43:33PM +, Giri X ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Also when I use dselect , the first option Access does not list CDROMS in > it. It says that it can be used only for http, ftp and APT. How do I install > from the CDS. $ man sources.list -- Karste

Re: reiserfs question

2001-07-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
, you'll avoid this behavior. Compare, e.g.: vfat, minix, iso9660, and other filesystem types, which don't run automatic filesystem checks on mount counts. e2fsck on a non-ext2fs filesystem will exit with errors, no harm done (not sure in case of ext3fs). Cheers. -- Karsten M. Se

Re: Adaptec Raid

2001-07-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
ht also want to refer to http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-kernel.html Corrections appreciated, I think I've got most of that about right. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 c

Re: Adaptec Raid

2001-07-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
he patch from. I'm not sure if you want to be in /usr/src or /usr/src/linux. Check the docs for the specific patch you're applying. > And it is prompting me for a file to patch. > > do you know how to specify the kernel to patch or even what the name > is and where it is l

Re: Newbie Tips: Will, you asked.....

2001-07-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 12:47:22AM -0500, will trillich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 10:36:12AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > From the better-late-than-sober dept. > > > > ...there's also 'chvt' which allows directl

Re: How to startx as normal user?

2001-07-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
; ... > > X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). > > I could not find anything containing the name Xwrapper on the HDD or > in dselect. On a previous installation, xdm was not installed and I > could start it as a normal user (bash: startx). How do I fi

Re: VNC: connection refused?

2001-07-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
t you're rejecting a connection for some reason? - Are you connecting to an active session? - What's the vnc*server* command you're running to launch the server, and the corresponding viewer command? - Is the server running? Cheers. -- Karsten M. Self http://km

Re: Finding your IP

2001-07-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
t-ip $ ./get-ip -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org Free Dmitry!! Boycott Adobe!! Repeal the DMCA!! http://www.

Re: Finding your IP

2001-07-31 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 08:51:20PM -0700, Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > on Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 04:47:29PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL > PROTECTED]) wrote: Wups. That was copied from my OpenBSD box. You'll want to use 'ppp0' (or other PPP device),

Re: Numeric Keypad in X

2001-07-31 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 05:06:48PM -0700, Brad Rhodes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > How can I type numbers on the numeric keypad in X? I turn on the Num > Lock and I still can't type numbers. What keysyms/keycodes are you getting? -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom

Re: strange PATH problems with root

2001-07-31 Thread Karsten M. Self
elect and use dselect without exporting > a new PATH manually. > > Uninstalling gdm does not recover the initial state ??? > What is this shit ? You clobbered your root init files some other way. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt&qu

Re: Undeleting files

2001-07-31 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 04:06:02PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Is there any way to get > back deleted files in Linux? From your comprehensive system backups. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don&

Re: ghostview problem

2001-07-31 Thread Karsten M. Self
hostview ...assuming network and proper /etc/apt/source.list configurations. ...though again, I'd recommend gv instead. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.so

Re: ipchains rules: REJECT vs. DENY

2001-07-31 Thread Karsten M. Self
A full nmap scan (1024 ports) on the box takes several minutes. This reject/deny policy comes from the book _Building Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls_, recommended. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is

Re: Modules gone after Kernel update to 2.4.7

2001-07-31 Thread Karsten M. Self
configurated? > > Or could it be that there is some kerneld configuration missing? When > I compiled my kernel, I realised that the kerneld-option does not > exist any more. It only say "loadable module support" which I checked > of course. Modutils is installe

Re: (WM) launching apps in particular workspaces

2001-07-31 Thread Karsten M. Self
at Gnome provided enough more > than just WindowMaker to make it worth while. Note that 'Save Session' creates a file somewhere (under GNUstep) that should give you the syntax for starting apps in specified workspaces. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.co

Re: How to detect scans

2001-08-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 02:40:05PM -0300, Miguel Griffa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > Could anyone point me to info on how to detect scans on a > machine? BTW, it's potato. snort, and a good book on network security. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netc

Re: reiserfs & mount

2001-08-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
remove all the options after 'defaults'? I believe 'errors' is just an ext2fs filesystem option. Though my 'mount' manpage doesn't have any reiser info in it. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don'

Re: paths(newbie)

2001-08-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
n:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games > 2. are paths recursive? (i'm thinking not on this one, or else why not just >set the path to the root directory?) I don't understand the question. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt"

Re: Putting a TESTING package on a STABLE system

2001-08-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
want all packages except LILO from woody > but I want LILO to stop at potato. Is there a way of telling apt and friends > to do this? If not I suppose I will have to get the source and submit a > patch. $ echo lilo hold | dpkg --set selections -- Karsten M. Self http://kmse

Re: new HD

2001-08-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
nt cd home tar cvf - * | ( cd /mnt; tar xvf - ) umount /mnt mv /home /home-old mount -t $newdr /home ...will do it. Modify your /etc/fstab as appropriate. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understa

Re: debian solution's for donated computer

2001-08-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
e. Note that memory makes a huge difference in apparent speed and response, and that memory for older systems is getting *more* expensive as stocks are depleted. They ain't makin' that stuff no mo'. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Ge

Re: paths(newbie)

2001-08-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 01:25:33PM -0700, Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > on Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 03:11:28AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > 2. are paths recursive? (i'm thinking not on this one, or else why not just > >s

Re: init.d/junkbuster not loading as $DAEMON

2001-08-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
ting the launch line, commenting the original, and stripping bits until it runs, then adding stuff back until it breaks again. Then look at the relevant file. Do the config and cookie files exist? -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don&#

Re: command line formating problem

2001-08-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
ir_colors` ;; *) local TITLEBAR='' ;; esac # shell prompt PS1="${TITLEBAR}\ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:\W]\ \$ " PS2='> ' PS4='+ ' } proml unset proml export PS1

Re: code red goes on

2001-08-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
CTED]&*() waste of time? Any way to test an IP to see if it's been compromised? ...or a good way to grab the relevant data and mail your own report? I'm running 'host' against a bunch of IPs (I've got about 40), turning up a bunch of ' does not exist' respo

Re: How to startx as normal user?

2001-08-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
27; whenever all the > mounted HDDs are being intensively read for no apparent reason. On most systems: /etc/cron.daily/slocate /etc/cron.daily/locate slocate is preferred. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you under

Re: code red goes on

2001-08-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
t; I have had 47 in the last 24 hrs. Please use follow-up response. Anyone noting trends between 7/20 and 8/2? I've got 30 v. 49, respectively. Looks like this is actually the bigger attack. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don&

Re: fixing a debian system: which RTFM to start?

2001-08-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
/hda[1234], or similar. Post your /etc/apt/sources.list? > The current kernel is 2.4.6 and /etc/apt/sources.list > points to woody (with commented potato). -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There i

Re: caching-only name server

2001-08-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
suffice? Any other files that need to be edited? The BIND docs and/or Network Administrator's Guide by Wirzenius walk you through a caching-only setup. There's an alternative DNS project which is recommended, however. djbdns, possibly maradns, or pdnsd, though I'm not the be

Re: code red goes on

2001-08-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
lased to stomp on this > before we get to 20 Jul and the biggest DDoS in hiustory kicks off. 348 days and counting ;-) (or did he really mean 20 *Aug*, 2001). -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand?

Re: ntp: not synchronized?

2001-08-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
tever port the outbound request went to. ntpdate is presumably similar. > There is the "-u" option for ntpdate which might be useful - Thanks, I'd missed that. Still doesn't work though. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestal

Re: undelete for ext2

2001-08-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
ong-lived partitioning schema on my boxen. For general backup suggestions: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/backups.html Partitioning suggestions: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/partition.html Cheers. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ Wh

Re: alien rpm trouble

2001-08-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
g-shlibdeps: warning: format of lib_name.so is not recognized" Not sure what this implies, but it suggests a level of cruftiness that's not promising. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understan

Re: Mutt questions

2001-08-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
s are available. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA!

Re: XFree86

2001-08-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
k unstable, do it. If you want an update of a specific package, download tarballs from the developer and install to /usr/local. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://g

Re: ntp: not synchronized?

2001-08-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 03:37:49PM -0500, ktb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 01:00:40PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 05:33:53AM -0700, Erik Steffl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > ktb wrote: > > > > > &

Re: ntp: not synchronized?

2001-08-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
(my own) that blocks a mess of stuff, allowed are ports are: icmp: 0, 3, 11 ports PASS: 22, 25, 80, 443 -- PASS ports REJECT: 113 (All others DENY) ...is there something that ntpdate needs to get through to me? -- Karsten M. Self ht

Re: /var/log/XFree86.0.log

2001-08-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
if you'll attach them Better yet, describe your problems, and, if possible, submit just appropriate context from your config and/or log. Full config file is probably OK. Logfiles tend to get largish. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "

Re: A good list of what Debian installs and what it doesn't

2001-08-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
]) go far easier. Cheers. Notes: 1. Actually, if you're like me, three times, for the first system you install on. Once to see what it does. Twice to get it the way you want. A third time to fix the errors you made in the second attempt. I us

Re: Script to generate XF86Config-4

2001-08-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
6Setup is one, another is xf86config My understanding is that xf86config is generally out of date (though I've used it in a pinch) and XF86Setup isn't geared to XF86v4, though I keep getting confused on this topic. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/

Re: kernel compile problem

2001-08-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
nels > came from debian. I haven't tried one from www.kernel.org yet. Also > which one of these kernels is the latest version? I'm not at my debian > workstation or I would look at the readme. Have you selected "experimental features" option? Many options are disabled un

Re: Moving Directories

2001-08-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
ral 'misc[0123456789]' directories under /mnt, and have a new partition /dev/hdb2 that's going to be the new /usr partition. $ umount /usr $ mount /dev/hda7 /mnt/misc1 $ mkdir /usr $ mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb2 /usr I'd strongly recommend you find and read a

Re: keymaps

2001-08-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
don't resolve in all contexts. Try using an absolute pathname ot de-latin1.kmap, either by editing the system keymaps, or by copying it to your home directory and modifying it there. If this is the problem, I'd also consider filing a bug against the appropriate package. -- Karsten M. S

Re: ntp: not synchronized?

2001-08-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 12:07:34PM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > * Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) spake thusly: > > on Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 06:43:07PM -0500, ktb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > There is the "-u" option for n

Re: easy twm question

2001-08-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
wing to my twmrc: IconifyByUnmapping # don't show windowicons, just use icon manager. RandomPlacement # opening windows isn't a drag. ShowIconManager # show icon manager at startup. To minimize a window, click the "circle in a square" icon, usually at top left

xscreensaver DPMS bug (was Re: DPMS keeps getting disabled in XFree 4)

2001-08-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
has been set, and preserve current settings, life might be good. Unfortunately, there's little difference between a default DPMS setting and one that's been specified by the user. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you

Re: ntp: not synchronized?

2001-08-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 08:01:04PM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > * Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) spake thusly: > > on Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 12:07:34PM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk ([EMAIL > > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > * Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.

Re: FW: Careful. This is for information only.

2001-08-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
-- but widely distributed, an effective antidote. Personally I favor the "Debian GNU/Linux install" service model myself -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://ge

Re: fixing a debian system: which RTFM to start?

2001-08-07 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 10:53:20AM +0700, Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim (rms46@vlsm.org) wrote: > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim (rms46@vlsm.org) wrote: > > > I am a lay debian user with minimum operating experience. > > > Would someone please inform m

Re: FW: Careful. This is for information only.

2001-08-07 Thread Karsten M. Self
as default.ida, thinking, well, if the infected machine wants a file, > give it to it! CR limits download to a few KB or MB, IIRC. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http:

Re: easy twm question

2001-08-07 Thread Karsten M. Self
h xwininfo and xprop don't dump PIDs. > P.S. Nice online resume. Thanks. Hiring ;-) -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourc

Re: satellite hookup

2001-08-07 Thread Karsten M. Self
limits for DSL service. A large motivator was satellite latency. Makes for interesting reading. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/

Re: Mailing list software ... which one to use?

2001-08-07 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 08:57:17AM +0100, P Kirk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Mailman seems very easy to configure and very popular with the busier > lists. Sourceforge uses it. Seconded. I've used and adminned Mailman lists. Just watch those old lock files. -- Karsten M. Self

Filesystem errors (Fwd: [crazyharshu@yahoo.com: request])

2001-08-07 Thread Karsten M. Self
Forwarded by request. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal th

Re: Install stable?

2001-08-07 Thread Karsten M. Self
e BBC (bootable business card), or the recently announced LNX-BBC project (http://www.lnx-bbc.org/). There are GNU/Linux and DOS-based memory testers, you're encouraged to use them. Specifics on the errors might also be helpful. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/

Re: Power down

2001-08-07 Thread Karsten M. Self
etting to do? APM is compiled in, but disabled by default, in vanilla kernels. You have to enable APM at boot time with a lilo boot prompt directive or a line in /etc/lilo.conf: apm=on Cheers. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don'

Re: Recommended applications needed under X

2001-08-07 Thread Karsten M. Self
which I quite like. > > Can anybody recoomend good applications to run under X such as.. > > Excel like spreadsheet Gnumeric > Access like database Postgres + graphic front ends, Tk/Tcl. I've got less experience in this area. Note that virtually *any* GNU/Linux database is su

Re: Backing up harddisk prior to failure

2001-08-09 Thread Karsten M. Self
g the original poster's questions. It's getting tough to find drives < 20 GB, friend picked up a slow, 5400 rpm 20G IDE for $85 a month or so back. For general backup/restore suggestions, see: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/backups.html Good luck. -- Karsten M

Re: partitioning revisited

2001-08-09 Thread Karsten M. Self
ary. Realize too the downsides are relatively bearable: too little swap, and you can't run really big (or lots of) apps. Too much (and too little memory), and you're going to be spending a lot of time exercising it. Bad disk allocation -- you'll lose a touch of speed. The world is

Re: upgrading more then one box by downloading the files once!

2001-08-09 Thread Karsten M. Self
nsparent squid proxy. Your webrowsing will also benefit. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org Free Dmitr

Re: FW: Careful. This is for information only.

2001-08-09 Thread Karsten M. Self
mage done to them by software licensed to them > under it. ...e.g.: third parties harmed by defects in MSFT software aren't bound by it, and might have grounds and basis for a suit. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt&qu

Re: anacron vs cron, conflict?

2001-08-09 Thread Karsten M. Self
and cron run some maintance > script? would it run double? $ cat /etc/crontab ...take a look at it, ask if you don't understand. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Th

Re: CrushLink > New Password

2001-08-09 Thread Karsten M. Self
uot; procmail recipie? Looks like: :0 * ^Content-Type: text/html /dev/null ...should do the trick, though it's not very genteel and might do the wrong thing on occasion. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't y

Re: wierd returnings

2001-08-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
; original sender it comes to you. Imagine what would ahppen if the > Reply-to was set to the list!! He'd be unsubscribed by listmaster. This is in fact the preferred behavior. List members can do little but procmail the idiot or try to hail his postmaster. -- Karsten M. Self

Galeon (unstable): Cannot find a schema for galeon preferences (gconf)

2001-08-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
.5.8), libpanel-applet0 (>= 1.4.0.4-2), libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2, libxml1 (>= 1:1.8.14-3), oaf (>= 0.6.5), xlibs (>> 4.1.0), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.3), mozilla-browser (>= 2:0.9.3), libxml1 (>= 1.8.14), libpanel-applet0 Suggests: gtm Conffiles: /etc/s

Re: Galeon (unstable): Cannot find a schema for galeon preferences (gconf)

2001-08-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 11:56:51PM -0700, Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > I'm getting a dialog box with the following error when running Galeon > after the latest unstable upgrade: > > Cannot find a schema for galeon preferences. I was pointed to the followi

Re: messages log file

2001-08-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
at happens if you telnet port 80 from a remote site? Does the request show up in any system logs? > I am suspicious of my ISP "filtering" the connections (although after > speaking to them they tell me they don't), although wouldn't a std. > nmap scan show my ports a

Re: Galeon (unstable): Cannot find a schema for galeon preferences (gconf)

2001-08-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
t. > Faq said chmod -R 755; but that did'nt help. > I tried chmod -R 777, and that works. (a litle drastic) > After that Galeon wrote a lot of "stuf" in the dir. WTF is /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults doing being world writeable? Isn't that just crying

Re: X freezes (was XMMS hanging system?)

2001-08-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
ld be used: # Load "xtt" # TT-Font-Server of XFree86.org Load "freetype"# TT-Font-Server of freetype.org Wolfgang Pichler > XFree86 is 4.0.3, and I run two Window managers - Sawfish 0.99-1/Gnome > 1.4.0.4-4 and Enlightenment 0

Re: gateway

2001-08-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
need to install/configure? http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO.html http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/IPCHAINS-HOWTO.html http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Cable-Modem/index.html http://www.linuxdoc.org/LDP/nag2/index.html -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com

Re: Reading Quark / Pagemaker files

2001-08-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
in my experience. If the PDF is locked, you're going to be somewhat stuck. If you're in the US, circumventing the lock puts you in violation of the DMCA. > Is there a clone that will let me edit Quark / Pagemaker files? Don't know. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.n

Re: Modifying a Windows 95/98 FAAT 32 partition

2001-08-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
- Restore from backup. I suggest tar for creating backups, to tape, networked storage, or CDR. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/

Re: Modifying a Windows 95/98 FAAT 32 partition

2001-08-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
you're repartitioning is an extremely good one to foster. Particularly for the novice user. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/

Mozilla: configure menu fonts?

2001-08-12 Thread Karsten M. Self
t change appearances. Thoughts? TIA. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org Free Dmitry! Boyc

Re: best practice for tar and gzip?

2001-08-12 Thread Karsten M. Self
apes, in rotation, for redundancy. More data: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/backups.html -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/

Re: Mozilla: configure menu fonts?

2001-08-12 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 11:21:36AM +0100, John Toon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On 12 Aug 2001 02:10:26 -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > I've updated to a recent Mozilla under Woody/testing: > > > > Version: 2:0.9.3-1 > > > > Problem: the menu

Re: Mozilla: configure menu fonts?

2001-08-12 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 02:10:26AM -0700, Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > Problem: the menu fonts are all rather larger than I'd like -- appear > to be Helvetica or Arial, roughly 16 points. I prefer fixed fonts for > all menus, at about 10 points. Turns out I

Re: Mozilla: configure menu fonts?

2001-08-12 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 11:50:39AM -0400, Mark Garland ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, 12 Aug 2001 05:10:26 Karsten M. Self wrote: > > I've updated to a recent Mozilla under Woody/testing: > > > > Version: 2:0.9.3-1 > > > > Problem: the menu fon

Re: Mozilla: configure menu fonts?

2001-08-12 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 08:28:29AM -0700, Craig Dickson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > File is ~/.mozilla///chrome/userChrome.css > > > > Content that works for now: > > > > window{ > > font-family: Helvetica !impo

Re: path to image magick?

2001-08-12 Thread Karsten M. Self
ISP have package imagemagick installed? $ dpkg -s imagemagick ...which can be run as an unprivileged user. Cheers. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sou

Re: turning off xdm?

2001-08-12 Thread Karsten M. Self
I want to start X? All of the runlevels except 1 seem to > have xdm. Should I just pick a runlevel and delete the xdm in the > corresponding rc.x directory? http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/xdm-disable.html Cheers. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What

Re: HELP, caught in a login loop

2001-08-12 Thread Karsten M. Self
. http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/xdm-disable.html -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.ku

Re: remote administration methods

2001-08-12 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 05:24:46PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > also sprach Karsten M. Self (on Wed, 25 Jul 2001 12:27:54PM -0700): > > Have you looked at bitkeeper (http://www.bitkeeper.com/)? This is an > > almost-free software versioning system which ad

Re: turning off xdm?

2001-08-12 Thread Karsten M. Self
", it's possible to run an X display manager just for managing remote connections. This would allow running [xgkw]dm in one or more runlevels, but only providing console logins at box itself. This is configured in the /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers file. http://kmself.home.netcom.com/GNU/Linu

Re: Mozilla: configure menu fonts?

2001-08-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 11:09:54PM -0700, Aaron Leventhal ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 08:28:29AM -0700, Craig Dickson > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Is there any real documentation on this anywhere? > > &g

Sid: Lost fonts (box-characters)

2001-08-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
11/fonts/Speedo, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi" Thoughts? -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5

Re: can't configure xserver-xfree86

2001-08-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Debian :) > > Any help appreciated! Can you: - run XF86Setup (install if necessary) - run xf86config (deprecated, but sometimes works) - run raw X, then launch applications (latter, usually from a console) What commands are you running when things hang? -- Karsten M. Self

Re: can't configure xserver-xfree86

2001-08-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
postrm scripts, and try to work out what's going on from there. I'd suggest you can try running the preinst and postinst scripts manually, but I'm not convinced that this works (apt sets environment?). Comments, anyone? -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com

Re: Wine & Remedy

2001-08-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
ary interface" (iABI) for Unix. The current de-facto standard is GNU/Linux binaries. There's an older standard which is obsolete. Asking this establishes that: - Clues Remedy that there's a GNU/Linux interest for the product. - Whether they've got a clue to current Uni

Re: shred

2001-08-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
gt; As you say, it makes several passes so the original info cannot be lifted > with fancy techniques, whatever they may be (electron microscopes or > something). Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec9

Re: Fwd: Re: debian-user-digest Digest V101 #1132

2001-08-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
el and others. You're more than welcome to make an ass out of yourself in public. But you're making an ass out of yourself in public. And archives. The 'Net has a long memory. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don'

Re: Woody and default keymap

2001-08-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
s Copy a keymap there named as 'default.kmap.gz'. Check /etc/init.d/console-tools for more info. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourcefor

Re: X window app config questions

2001-08-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
m. Check list archives going back a week or two, this has been discussed. Consider alternative clients. Debian-devel discussed this and there seems to be a bug in the picture somewhere. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you und

ISO8859 vs. ISO10646 encoding font sequence (was Re: Lost fonts)

2001-08-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 12:26:18AM -0700, Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > I'm seeing a fonts problem in two packages I use, dillo (0.6.0, from > tarball sources) and xchat-gnome (version: 1.8.2-1), both are showing up > with a bad font choice. Main fonts are rend

Re: Help with Woody

2001-08-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
ory so I can continue to install Woody? if [ ! -d /mnt/cdrom ]; then mkdir /mnt/cdrom; fi mount -t iso9660 -r /dev/ /mnt/cdrom -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http

Re: Wine & Remedy

2001-08-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 08:27:44AM +1000, Sam Varghese ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 10:55:23AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > If you're not averse to running a legacy MS Windows OS, Lin4Win provides > > more compatibility than WINE for

Re: turning off xdm?

2001-08-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 03:57:45PM -0700, Paul Mackinney ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Karsten M. Self muttered: > > on Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 05:01:28PM -0700, Eric G. Miller (egm2@jps.net) > > wrote: > > > On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 06:52:57PM -0500, Kevin C. Smith wrote

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