Re: Debian GNU/Linux Banners and Logos

2001-02-19 Thread John Griffiths
at 11:14 AM 2/20/2001 +0530, Murali Kumar K wrote: SoftLandIndia is a virtual freewares and Sharewares directory. The entries are selected with the average Indian user in mind. The aim is for a better, powerful and pleasant usage of PC. Software is key to that. With right software you can do wh

Debian GNU/Linux Banners and Logos

2001-02-19 Thread Murali Kumar K
  Dear sir,   We have launched a Brand New Site www.softlandindia.com   SoftLandIndia is a virtual freewares and Sharewares directory. The entries are selected with the average Indian user in mind. The aim is for a better, powerful and pleasant usage of PC. Software is key to that. With ri

Re: XFree86 broken.

2001-02-19 Thread Martin Albert
On Monday 19 February 2001 10:21, Eivind Arnesen wrote: > I was just beginning to feel comfortable with Debian, when my > X configuration broke down. I tried to remove XFree and install it > again, but there is too many dependency problems. It looks like the > package database > is really screwed

Re: Problem building X 4.0.2 from debian source

2001-02-19 Thread Martin Albert
Hi, Frederik! Good to hear you keep going .. :) On Sunday 18 February 2001 20:38, Frederik Vanrenterghem wrote: > I tried this (now with 4.0.2-3), but the error seems to remain the > same: What I did was: > debian/rules source.make > cd /xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers > mv mga mga_old >

Re: jre problem

2001-02-19 Thread wujf
On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 12:58:12PM -0800, Aaron Brashears wrote: > Since you're using Oracle, presumably you're not opposed to using > non-free software. That being the case, I would suggest using the jdk > or jre available as debs through www.blackdown.org. Not exactly the case. I had some experi

Re: A panicked plea

2001-02-19 Thread Carl Fink
On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 09:53:00PM -0700, user list wrote: > OK, this is really stupid, and there is probably nothing I can do. I > inadvertantly deleted the directory (are you ready?) /var/lib/dpkg. Is there > any way to put this back together short of reinstalling? I gather you don't keep backu

A panicked plea

2001-02-19 Thread user list
OK, this is really stupid, and there is probably nothing I can do. I inadvertantly deleted the directory (are you ready?) /var/lib/dpkg. Is there any way to put this back together short of reinstalling? Art Edwards

newbie: apt->x11 only?

2001-02-19 Thread Remy Indebetouw
I would like to get only xfree86 4.0 (out of woody, presumably), but don't want to deal with all of woody updates - what's the easiest way? i tried getting sources.list to point only to pool/../xfree, and such, without success i also tried loading all 'testing' into dselect but couldn't get it to

How to clone packages setup

2001-02-19 Thread Robin Rowe
Hi. How do I clone my packages setup? I want to install the same packages that I have installed on one machine to another machine that just has a basic install. What configuration files do I copy and what command do I issue to cause apt-get (or whatever) to fetch and install the same packages on t

Wine

2001-02-19 Thread Leonard Leblanc
Has anyone had any experience with using wine? I am currently doing alot of web development at work and _really_ hate using windows. Unfortunately, I don't find Gimp or any other Linux graphics alternative to match up to Adobe Photoshop or Imageready. So basically what I want to know is if any h

Exploring the Debian boot-floppies package

2001-02-19 Thread Chris Fearnley
The Philadelphia Area Debian Society (PADS) (http://www.CJFearnley.com/pads/) Presents Exploring the Debian boot-floppies package When: Wednesday 21 February 2001, 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM Presenter:

Re: Any gotchas with kernel 2.4.x and Debian?

2001-02-19 Thread John Galt
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Aaron Brashears wrote: >I'd like to try out kernel 2.4.1 from unstable, but I wanted to know >if there's anything I should be wary of. A quick search through the >archives of debain-user revealed there's *something* with modconf, but Basically, older versions of modconf don't

Re: Debian or Redhat 7???

2001-02-19 Thread Richard Taylor
This may help you as well. http://www.securityportal.com/lasg/ http://www.cert.org/ >> Steve here, >> >> Well first, I repent of calling Linux 7: Redhat 7. Yes I am new. I have >> been maintaining my own box from a su level for about 3 months. That is why >> I was calling in an expert to insta

Re: Any gotchas with kernel 2.4.x and Debian?

2001-02-19 Thread ktb
On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 08:00:28PM -0800, Aaron Brashears wrote: > I'd like to try out kernel 2.4.1 from unstable, but I wanted to know > if there's anything I should be wary of. A quick search through the > archives of debain-user revealed there's *something* with modconf, but > I'm not sure what

Re: Any gotchas with kernel 2.4.x and Debian?

2001-02-19 Thread Jens Gecius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Aaron Brashears <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd like to try out kernel 2.4.1 from unstable, but I wanted to know > if there's anything I should be wary of. A quick search through the > archives of debain-user revealed there's *something* with modcon

Re: Debian or Redhat 7???

2001-02-19 Thread Tal Danzig
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 04:39:09PM +1300, Matthew Sherborne wrote: > It may get too heavy to not mirror the security update packages. > > Why don't we put signature verification into apt and dpkg and mirror > everything ? Sounds to me like a good idea; however, it would probably mean rather exte

Any gotchas with kernel 2.4.x and Debian?

2001-02-19 Thread Aaron Brashears
I'd like to try out kernel 2.4.1 from unstable, but I wanted to know if there's anything I should be wary of. A quick search through the archives of debain-user revealed there's *something* with modconf, but I'm not sure what the problem is. Is there anything I should be aware of before attempting

Re: Back to Windows??

2001-02-19 Thread Roberto Diaz
> >Microsoft has the benefit of proprietary documentation on lots of > >hardware because they are willing to sign Non-Disclosure Agreements > >with the manufacturers. So they can make drivers that work out of the > >box. Linux developers don't have that luxury. They have to reverse > >engine

Re: Debian or Redhat 7???

2001-02-19 Thread Matthew Sherborne
It may get too heavy to not mirror the security update packages. Why don't we put signature verification into apt and dpkg and mirror everything ? And perhaps have a tool that checks a bunch of known mirrors for discrepencies in the keyring packages ? And have a single URL, location aware,

Re: Back to Windows??

2001-02-19 Thread John Griffiths
Apologies for default sig sent but moments ago. >Microsoft has the benefit of proprietary documentation on lots of >hardware because they are willing to sign Non-Disclosure Agreements >with the manufacturers. So they can make drivers that work out of the >box. Linux developers don't have that

Re: Back to Windows??

2001-02-19 Thread John Griffiths
>Microsoft has the benefit of proprietary documentation on lots of >hardware because they are willing to sign Non-Disclosure Agreements >with the manufacturers. So they can make drivers that work out of the >box. Linux developers don't have that luxury. They have to reverse >engineer the dri

Re: Debian or Redhat 7???

2001-02-19 Thread Tal Danzig
On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 07:13:40PM -0800, Rick Rezinas wrote: > I've been loosely foloowing this thread, and hope you have the best of > luck locking down. A few places to start with the inetd.conf file. You > probably don't > need any of those services. Install ssh. Setup your apt sources.lis

Re: Help: AMD k7

2001-02-19 Thread Roberto Diaz
> I had debian potato working with an pentium processor, but a combinatiuon of > upgrading hardware and a 'helping friend' uninstalling most of the system > convinced me to restart the install from scratch. > The new system: > Athlon k7 pro > gigabyte k7 series mobo > ordinary ide drives and gfx

Re: Back to Windows??

2001-02-19 Thread Bud Rogers
On Monday 19 February 2001 06:43, Hans Verschoor and Jennie Kohsiek wrote: > Bud, > > In your answer you are drifting away from what it is really about. > Jan's point is that, and I agree fully with that, it is virtually > impossible to configure and tune a Linux machine for a (relative) > newbie.

Re: wine and woody

2001-02-19 Thread Dan Griswold
I learned that this bug has been reported, with a possible workaround: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=83393&repeatmerged=yes -- -- Dan Griswold [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: Help: AMD k7

2001-02-19 Thread W. Paul Mills
I recently installed a new board and an AMD Duron (750 MHz). Could not get it to boot because the chipset required me to use an ATA100 compatable IDE driver. I booted with a compatable floppy, compiled a new kernel, installed it, then was OK. redgirl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : Hello, : I had

Re: Debian or Redhat 7???

2001-02-19 Thread Rick Rezinas
I've been loosely foloowing this thread, and hope you have the best of luck locking down. A few places to start with the inetd.conf file. You probably don't need any of those services. Install ssh. Setup your apt sources.list to check for deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main co

Re: APIC error

2001-02-19 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 05:27:37PM -0600, ^chewie wrote: :First thing to ask yourself is, "Why do I need APIC?" If the answer :is only, "Just because," then your solution is to deselect the APIC :option in your kernel compilation. He needs APIC because he's running an Intel Multi Processor. The

Re: Push mirror?

2001-02-19 Thread b3
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 12:38:17PM +1300, Corrin Lakeland wrote: > On Tue, 20 Feb 2001 11:57, b3 wrote: > > Hmm...Have you considered running an IMAP server on the work machine? > > I considered this, but evolution is the only imap aware client I know, and > while it is in debian, it isn't exact

Help: AMD k7

2001-02-19 Thread redgirl
Hello,   I had debian potato working with an pentium processor, but a combinatiuon of upgrading hardware and a 'helping friend' uninstalling most of the system convinced me to restart the install from scratch.   The new system: Athlon k7 pro gigabyte k7 series mobo ordinary ide drives and gf

Realserver 8 & Webinator on Debian

2001-02-19 Thread Steve Rudd
Steve here, I want to install "Real Basic Server 8" and "Webinator" search program on the latest version of Debian 2.2r2. 1. Will they install or are they not compatible. For example, while Webinator would work with Redhat 7, Realserver 8 would not. (But Real Server 7 did install on Redhat 6

Re: Push mirror?

2001-02-19 Thread b3
I don't have too much experience with different IMAP servers -- haven't had the need to "shop around" as yet =) I run imapd, which I installed on my potato box with 'apt-get install imapd' - right out of the box it worked just fine, no configuration required =) Considering that I have it running

Re: DVD-ROM drive recommendations

2001-02-19 Thread Jonathan David Wheelhouse
On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 10:42:02AM +1100, hogan wrote: > > Checked with the driveinfo.exe -> region free! :) > > How does this "region free" patch handle R1 RCE (Region Code Enhancement) > discs? Short answer - I don't know. However, see: http://www.michaeldvd.com.au/Articles/RegionalCodeEnhanc

Re: Debian or Redhat 7???

2001-02-19 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Steve Rudd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # Well first, I repent of calling Linux 7: Redhat 7. Yes I am new. I have # been maintaining my own box from a su level for about 3 months. That is why # I was calling in an expert to install Debian tomorrow. It has become quite # obvious to me that I am

Re: script to configure IP address

2001-02-19 Thread Mike
Brian Stults wrote: > Hi, > > I have a laptop with debian (unstable) installed on it. Sometimes I use > it at home and sometimes I use it at work. At work, it has a direct > connection to the internet, so it has its own IP. At home, its > connection is masqueraded through my main linux box whic

How I got hacked last week: Redhat 7

2001-02-19 Thread Steve Rudd
Steve here, Several have voiced an interest in the hack. Well here is a guess and some facts: THE HACK: For those interested in the hack, I think it was the "Dameon worm" but could not find any evidence of the trace files on my system. Here is what happened: 1. I get a letter from "[EMAIL

Re: Debian or Redhat 7???

2001-02-19 Thread Steve Rudd
Steve here, Well first, I repent of calling Linux 7: Redhat 7. Yes I am new. I have been maintaining my own box from a su level for about 3 months. That is why I was calling in an expert to install Debian tomorrow. It has become quite obvious to me that I am way over my head in trying to get m

Re: Radeon 32MB DDR Please Help....

2001-02-19 Thread mike polniak
Adam J Beavan wrote: > Maybe this is not the right list but I am getting > desperate, has anybody managed to configure > the Radeon 32MB graphics card... > I am runing Debian 2.2.17 with XFree86 4.0.2 > have changed the XF86Config file to include > the radeon driver, but all I get on startx is > t

Re: Debian or Red Hat (was:Re: Debian or Linux 7???)

2001-02-19 Thread Bill Barnes
FWIW, I have had a 486 16MB firewall running Coyote Linux 24/7 since July '00. The 4 machines behind it run Linux (variously, debian, mandrake) and M$ Windoze The only hit has been when I made a modem connection with M$ Outlook on that machine and the hit was confined to that machine. Take a loo

Debian or Red Hat (was:Re: Debian or Linux 7???)

2001-02-19 Thread John Galt
FYI, your subject is WRONG. Linux is trademarked by Linus Torvalds, an employee of Transmeta. Calling RedHat "linux" is no more accurate than calling Debian "linux". To be more exact, it is Red Hat Linux v 7.0 AND Debian GNU/Linux v 2.2r2. I forsee only trouble if you continue to refer to Red

Re: Debian or Linux 7???

2001-02-19 Thread Nate Amsden
Steve Rudd wrote: > Just how much more secure is Debian than redhat? security on any system is only as good as the person running it. if your not confertable with linux or don't want to take the time to properly secure it i would suggest a couple of alternatives: - linux mandrake. it has a easy

xserver-vga16 update will not install

2001-02-19 Thread Pollywog
I updated Woody this morning and apt-get tried to install a new xserver-vga16 for potato, but this is the error I get: Setting up xserver-vga16 (3.3.6-11potato32) ... head: /etc/X11/Xserver: No such file or directory dpkg: error processing xserver-vga16 (--configure): subprocess post-installatio

Re: ls no longer uses @ when -F is used

2001-02-19 Thread John Covici
I cannot get 4.0.39 as a Debian package -- 4.0.37 is what I have and here is an example of the bug. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ ls -l /usr/src/linux lrwxrwxrwx1 root src11 Feb 4 07:48 /usr/src/linux -> linux-2.4.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ ls -d /usr/src/linux /usr/src/linux [EMAI

Re: apt-get config for woody

2001-02-19 Thread John Galt
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >What do I need to put in sources.list to upgrade to woody? switch all instances of potato to woody and all instances of stable to testing, except security.debian.org (they don't do testing ATM). >Is there an ISO if I am installing from scratch? Ther

Re: annoying modules.dep message

2001-02-19 Thread Brian May
> "Erik" == Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Erik> apparently no. this question keeps popping up, never Erik> answered. I had the same problem and I wasn't even able to Erik> figure out what changes the date on /etc/modules.conf Erik> the problem usually goes away a

Re: LSB and RPM

2001-02-19 Thread Colin Watson
Eric Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I was reading the Linux Standard Base(LSB) spec and see that it >specifies the Redhat Package Manager (RPM) v3 as the standard package >manager. After looking at different approaches and philosophy to linux, >I settled on Debian. Debian of course wants to

Re: annoying modules.dep message

2001-02-19 Thread Erik Steffl
Dave Bresson wrote: > > Hi, > > Just a quick question that shouldn't be too hard to answer. Since rolling > my own 2.4.1 kernel, I'm getting this annoying message during bootup that > i can't get to go away: > > modprobe: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than > /lib/modules/2.4.1/modul

Re: Debian or Linux 7???

2001-02-19 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Steve, You sound quite confused. Re-read your message to this list below. Linux is a kernel, it's used in red hat, debian, and every other 'linux' distro. I am using kernel 2.2.17 and really like it. It's as secure as I make it on my box. The kernel ISN'T the security risk; How you handle t

Re: Making a Backup to a CD-RW

2001-02-19 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Monday, February 19, Raffaele Sandrini did write: > Hi all > > I want to make backups to CD-RW. So i have to do it with the mkisofs prog > to create the image. Is it possible that i culd make an exact copy of my > files, i mean, that no name is altered after? I tried it but i never got >

Re: Push mirror?

2001-02-19 Thread Corrin Lakeland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 20 Feb 2001 11:57, b3 wrote: > Hmm...Have you considered running an IMAP server on the work machine? I considered this, but evolution is the only imap aware client I know, and while it is in debian, it isn't exactly what I would call stable.

Re: Debian or Linux 7???

2001-02-19 Thread b3
Hi Steve! The kernel being used isn't really the biggest concern when it comes to security - the ammount of access you allow the outside world is. Any distribution would be rock-stable, if it was disconnected entirely from the network. For most of us, however, that's not an option. ::grin:: So

Re: APIC error

2001-02-19 Thread ^chewie
Dave Bresson wrote: > Hi, in my system logs i'm getting tons and tons of this error message: > > APIC error on CPU0: 02(02) > > ...and so on. As you can probably tell, i'm running a SMP machine. I > just recently rolled my own 2.4.1 kernel based on the kernel-source-2.4.1 > package in sid. Fi

Re: Debian or Linux 7???

2001-02-19 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Steve Rudd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # Hi! # # I am frustrated with the linux 2.2 kernel. I have had two hacks in 3 months # and I am going broke rebuilding my server. # # I went out and bought Redhat 7, and got hacked 6 weeks later. # # I have been placed in contact with a guy who wants me

Re: Debian or Linux 7???

2001-02-19 Thread Known Human Nick Rusnov
Greetings, Security is really a very complex subject, and judging the relative security of various distributions is difficult. What is really the important consideration is the policy of the system and organization behind it. Debian, I know, has a strong security policy; the developers actively t

Re: Push mirror?

2001-02-19 Thread Jimmy Kaplowitz
On that topic, what IMAP server do you recommend? I'd like to set one up, but I'd prefer if it could (1) be fast and (2) work with my regular unix mail spool file setup (mbox). I would be willing (and eager) to forgo #2 if somehow the new format could notify me when I receive new mail as the standa

Re: Making a Backup to a CD-RW

2001-02-19 Thread ^chewie
Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > I want to make backups to CD-RW. Use yacdback: http://freshmeat.net/projects/yacdbak/ It's a collection of bash scripts that use cdrecord(8) and tar(8) to make multi-volume backups of your filesystems. Read the scripts and teach yourself a little about both to

Re: Debian or Linux 7???

2001-02-19 Thread John Griffiths
>So Debian is about twice as good as redhat, but that is not real reassuring. > >I am considering joining the debian family, but am a bit concerned about >security. > >Just how much more secure is Debian than redhat? #apt-get update #apt-get upgrade do it every day an unless you are the first ki

Re: Debian or Linux 7???

2001-02-19 Thread ^chewie
Steve Rudd wrote: > Just how much more secure is Debian than redhat? Firstly, your subject is wrong. It should read "Security: Debian 2.2 or Redhat 7.0". Secondly, you've already answered your own question. Debian IS more secure than Redhat for it's DEFAULT INSTALLATION. However, you cannot expe

xlibsosmesa3 vs. mesag3

2001-02-19 Thread Jimmy Kaplowitz
All of a sudden, I find dselect wanting to replace mesag3 and associated packages with xlibsosmesa3 and its associated packages. I seem just now to have quieted it, but why would it want to do that and which is a better package to use? Does mesag3 support X, and if it doesn't, can X programs use it

Re: why does Apache depend on MySQL libs?

2001-02-19 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 09:42:08AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I would like to install Apache without any MySQL libs. Why does Apache >> depend on MySQL in the first place? Seems like if it depended on any DB it > >should be Postgres. :-) >Um, apache doesn't depend on MySQL. Hrmm.. dsele

Debian or Linux 7???

2001-02-19 Thread Steve Rudd
Hi! I am frustrated with the linux 2.2 kernel. I have had two hacks in 3 months and I am going broke rebuilding my server. I went out and bought Redhat 7, and got hacked 6 weeks later. I have been placed in contact with a guy who wants me to use Debian. But if it based upon the same kernel a

Re: Push mirror?

2001-02-19 Thread b3
Hmm...Have you considered running an IMAP server on the work machine? It seems to me that would solve most of your problems, as you could then connect in from home, and see the same mailboxes and such. Works great for me - I run IMAP on a small server (P120,32mb ram) at my home, and connect from

Re: Kernel compile comments

2001-02-19 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # Hey, give the guy a break. Of course he's aggravated, although it may # be that only a little RTFM would clear things up. I wasn't really the aggrivation that bothered me... I've dealt with many a frustrated newbies. What does bother me is guilt-trips.

Re: apt-get config for woody

2001-02-19 Thread b3
On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 03:01:15PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What do I need to put in sources.list to upgrade to woody? > Is there an ISO if I am installing from scratch? > What is the best way to get woody on a new machine? No ISOs (yet) - probably won't be any until Woody is frozen... E

Re: grep and memory problems with kernel 2.4.1

2001-02-19 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Joris Lambrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # the /dev directory indeed just lists a list of names wich are linked to # device driver files through the inode table # # so in fact you're grep-in the output of the /dev, if this contains some # control chars it might hang your grep command, you sho

Re: Putting computer on standby or sleep

2001-02-19 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Tyler Braun wrote: > > I think xset dpms is what you're looking for. Do man xset for the full story, > but if I do: > > xset dpms 0 0 3600 This will only turn off the monitor (a substantial saving by itself), but won't power down additional hardware such as hard drives. You can spin d

Making a Backup to a CD-RW

2001-02-19 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
Hi all I want to make backups to CD-RW. So i have to do it with the mkisofs prog to create the image. Is it possible that i culd make an exact copy of my files, i mean, that no name is altered after? I tried it but i never got the output i want. I want to backup the /root, /home and the /etc di

xmps-win32-plugin

2001-02-19 Thread studenten wg
hi im running a debian box ( 2.2 mostly stable ) and have just installed xmps from unstable... it runs fine for "normal" avi-files and stuff... but i just cant view divx movies (one of the last reasons for my windows partition)... i tried to compile the xmps-win32-plugin sources from xmps.

Radeon 32MB DDR Please Help....

2001-02-19 Thread Adam J Beavan
Maybe this is not the right list but I am getting desperate, has anybody managed to configure the Radeon 32MB graphics card... I am runing Debian 2.2.17 with XFree86 4.0.2 have changed the XF86Config file to include the radeon driver, but all I get on startx is the monitor going into standby mode

Thread safety in C++ (new/delete) in Potato?

2001-02-19 Thread Martin Weinberg
Folks, I have come across a problem that suggests that new and/or delete are not thread safe. If I put mutexs around my new and delete all is well but memory overuns otherwise (admittedly very rare). From reading the docs, I understand that libstdc++ needs to be configured with enable-threads to

Re: Kernel compile comments

2001-02-19 Thread Ross Boylan
Hey, give the guy a break. Of course he's aggravated, although it may be that only a little RTFM would clear things up. Personally, I've built a number of kernels on stable systems, and have not run into these problems. However, I tend to have a full development environment setup. David, there

Re: Lost permissions on /dev/modem?!

2001-02-19 Thread Ken Januski
Thanks for that info David, I'm still not quite sure what the problem was but decided to follow your advice and set up pppconfig to use wvdial modem strings and then use pon and poff. That worked I'm happy to say! Ken P.S. Yes I was looking at a link to /dev/modem. > Quoting Ken Januski ([EMAI

Trouble compiling gs (ghostscript) from source

2001-02-19 Thread Andrea Vettorello
I would like to try the new stp gs driver (from gimp-print), so i've downloaded the source for the ghostscript and started to read the docs. To start with a simple task, i've tried to create the gs binary package from the debian sources (without the stp patch), but the compilation aborted compilin

Re: LSB and RPM

2001-02-19 Thread Robert Waldner
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001 12:31:21 PST, Nate Amsden writes: >Eric Richardson wrote: >> As in the previous thread -- Why choose Debian? -- it seems the >> packaging, updating system and stability are major plus points. What is >> the long term forecast for package managers and the LSB? Hope this >> hasn'

checkpassword

2001-02-19 Thread Daniel Jones
This seems to be a common problem, as I found a number of complaints about it on the web, but no solutions which seem to work for me. I have a small home network with a dedicated server running Debain 2.2 w/ kernel 2.4.1. I have qmail installed and working on the server - I can send and recieve m

Sid crash: Gnome Control Center (screensaver)

2001-02-19 Thread Steve Cooper
Resending a rewrite of my original poorly-written email that received no responses. I must have something peculiar in my setup because few seem to be encountering this problem with Gnome. I'm just not sure where to look next. When I run the Gnome Control Center it crashes me clear out of X. This

Re: wine and woody

2001-02-19 Thread Ross Boylan
Thanks everyone for the warning--I was about to try this. I wonder how this made it out of unstable? Perhaps it depends on some package which is only available in unstable, so it worked OK there. On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 04:17:39PM +, Pollywog wrote: > > On Mon, 19 Feb 2001 09:57:46 -0600,

Push mirror?

2001-02-19 Thread Corrin Lakeland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I was planning to of synchronise my mail between home and work: To send mail I've removed sendmail and used ssh to forward port 25 to work:25 To recieve mail I currently rsync -aez ssh Mail work:mail However this is ugly. I

apt-get config for woody

2001-02-19 Thread hanasaki
What do I need to put in sources.list to upgrade to woody? Is there an ISO if I am installing from scratch? What is the best way to get woody on a new machine? TIA

Re: jre problem

2001-02-19 Thread Aaron Brashears
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 10:54:10PM +0800, wujf wrote: > Today I tried to install oracle8i on my Potato box with glibc > upgraded and jdk1.1 from unstable. The installer program > failed to invoke the 'dbassist', when i run it from command > line, jre said: > > Unable to initialize threads: cannot

script to configure IP address

2001-02-19 Thread Brian Stults
Hi, I have a laptop with debian (unstable) installed on it. Sometimes I use it at home and sometimes I use it at work. At work, it has a direct connection to the internet, so it has its own IP. At home, its connection is masqueraded through my main linux box which shares a cable modem. There,

APIC error

2001-02-19 Thread Dave Bresson
Hi, in my system logs i'm getting tons and tons of this error message: APIC error on CPU0: 02(02) APIC error on CPU0: 02(02) APIC error on CPU0: 02(02) APIC error on CPU0: 02(02) APIC error on CPU0: 02(02) APIC error on CPU0: 02(02) APIC error on CPU0: 02(02) APIC error on CPU0: 02(02) APIC erro

Re: A solution

2001-02-19 Thread Erik Steffl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Dear Friend, > > It is a blessing that I am able to reach you. I have some > important > information for you,it's about your future and your love life. I > have the > answer, to what is blocking you from having happiness and love in > your life. > You have been prayin

Re: Where does elm store read messages?

2001-02-19 Thread Derk Groeneveld
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Ceri Storey wrote: > On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 08:59:21PM +0100, Derk Groeneveld wrote: > > I went looking for mbox, didn't find it. HOWEVER, this had me exploring my > > homedir another time, and noticed both ~/mail and ~/Mail. A

Re: LSB and RPM

2001-02-19 Thread Nate Amsden
Eric Richardson wrote: > As in the previous thread -- Why choose Debian? -- it seems the > packaging, updating system and stability are major plus points. What is > the long term forecast for package managers and the LSB? Hope this > hasn't been covered. one good reason to choose debian is it wi

Re: Urk! apt wants to uninstall my entire system!

2001-02-19 Thread ^chewie
Gavin Hamill wrote: > Hello :) > > I did an apt-get update today on my alpha 'unstable' system and nearly > required new trousers this morning when I almost pressed 'Y' to this > little lot... > > macha:/home/gdh/# apt-get dist-upgrade > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree...

Re: Where does elm store read messages?

2001-02-19 Thread Ceri Storey
On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 08:59:21PM +0100, Derk Groeneveld wrote: > I went looking for mbox, didn't find it. HOWEVER, this had me exploring my > homedir another time, and noticed both ~/mail and ~/Mail. Apparantly elm > uses ~/Mail! > > Now, any suggestions on how to reintegrate ~/Mail/received, an

A solution

2001-02-19 Thread bob
Dear Friend, It is a blessing that I am able to reach you. I have some important information for you,it's about your future and your love life. I have the answer, to what is blocking you from having happiness and love in your life. You have been praying for an answer,wanting to know what is

LSB and RPM

2001-02-19 Thread Eric Richardson
Hi, I was reading the Linux Standard Base(LSB) spec and see that it specifies the Redhat Package Manager (RPM) v3 as the standard package manager. After looking at different approaches and philosophy to linux, I settled on Debian. Debian of course wants to be standard as in the Filesystem Hierarchy

Re: Where does elm store read messages?

2001-02-19 Thread Derk Groeneveld
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Ceri Storey wrote: > n Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 07:29:29PM +, F.P. Groeneveld wrote: > > Hi there, folks, > > > > had a bit of a goof-up today. I normally use pine to do all my mail, but > > wanted to check something with elm to

Re: Where does elm store read messages?

2001-02-19 Thread Ceri Storey
n Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 07:29:29PM +, F.P. Groeneveld wrote: > Hi there, folks, > > had a bit of a goof-up today. I normally use pine to do all my mail, but > wanted to check something with elm today. Unfortunately, elm moved all my > read mail out of the inbox. Where does elm move these, and is

Re: Xfree86 4.0.2 -Very Low resolution -how to increase?

2001-02-19 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 19 Feb 2001, Martin Albert wrote: > > YOU're actually RUNning the OLD 3.3.6 server. > > My driver is xserver-svga 3.3.6X > > (man dpkg ;-) > dpkg -l x\* > > shows each package installed on your machine whose name starts with x. > (the \ before * is an 'escape character' for the shell; says '

Re: WYSIWYG editor (Prev. Rebooting is foolish)

2001-02-19 Thread William Leese
On Monday 19 February 2001 16:45, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > > urgh, however.. i still have to use Windows for Dreamweaver, any > > suggestions anyone? > > > > it needs to be a WYSIWYG-editor (till i finally cleanup the generated > > code) that handles nested tables well.. and yes i know they shouldn

Re: Antwort: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-19 Thread Erik Steffl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > As far as I know you only might want to reboot if you change the hostname and there's no need to reboot in this case. > want it active. If you change the partitiontable it might be usefull. why? you can create filesystems and mount/unmount disks (partitions) wit

Where does elm store read messages?

2001-02-19 Thread F.P. Groeneveld
Hi there, folks, had a bit of a goof-up today. I normally use pine to do all my mail, but wanted to check something with elm today. Unfortunately, elm moved all my read mail out of the inbox. Where does elm move these, and is it possible to re-integrate them into pine mail folders? Cheers, De

Re: napster.. where is napster?

2001-02-19 Thread Roberto Diaz
> You should just shut off your computer if you can't handle the lack of > personel information... There are many other providers for music, and > other such media. Don't blame the world for your lack of research. I dont follow this kind of conversations please forget about me, write me only w

Re: napster.. where is napster?

2001-02-19 Thread Roberto Diaz
> The thing is - if there's anything even slightly centralised about it - how is > one going to get the money to fund it? > > I mean the bandwidth charges'd be astronomical. We could set up a Free (in the GNU sense of "Libre") search engine not centralized.. in the way of software like napster..

Fw: Re: Mozilla 0.8

2001-02-19 Thread Andras B .
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christian Terboven) said... > > Is there anybody who knows where to finde the Mozilla 0.8 debs ?!? Hi, I get my Mozilla debs from "deb http://galeon.euber.net/galeon/ sid/". The newest version is 0.7, there should be 0.8 in a few days, I think. Andras -- The sticker on the s

Re: switch back to XFree86 3.3.6

2001-02-19 Thread David Wright
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > so i wish to switch back to XFree 3.3.6 and install the driver update > for that. but i tried relinking with 'ln -s /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA > /etc/X11/X ' > to switch back to 3.3.6 and i believe the xserver-svga is installed but it > wouldn't loa

Re: exim configured with SMTP-authentication support?

2001-02-19 Thread Marco Herrn
On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 06:47:52PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > Have a look at http://bugs.debian.org/79173>, which contains an > explanation of how to set it up. > Thanks, that helped. -- Marco Herrn pgpNRkUCTUBRk.pgp Description: PGP signature

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