Re: Anacron message

2001-06-01 Thread will trillich
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 12:04:14PM -0500, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: > suddenly i'm getting the following email from anacron: > > /etc/cron.daily/logrotate: > error: wn:32 { expected after log file name(s) > run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate exited with return code 1 > > anybody know what i ne

Re: Apple G4 with MacOS 9.1 unable to connect to Debian 2.2 box

2001-06-01 Thread will trillich
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 12:15:45AM +0200, Cleto Pescia wrote: > I've run into a weird problem trying to have a PowerMac G4 with MacOS 9.1 > connect to a Debian Linux 2.2 box (kernel 2.2.18). > A friend of mine has a small network of Macs, with several releases of > MacOS, all connected to a Debian

Re: [users] My Dilemma w/ ssh

2001-06-01 Thread will trillich
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 04:20:43PM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: > Alex Strasheim wrote: > > > > I'm having the same problem (can't login), and hosts.deny didn't solve it. > > I can't ssh to localhost either. > > > > I'm new to debian, and I'm just trying to get a usable system set up -- one > >

Re: abbreviations for non-native english speakers

2001-06-01 Thread will trillich
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 05:55:37PM -0500, Andrew D Dixon wrote: > will trillich wrote: > > > > BYCMUYJTCP > > (but you can alaways make up your own, just to confuse people.) > > And you can alaways make up words too :0) and on a bad day, even leave a or two out. :( [ shoulda been bycAmuyOjtcp ]

Re: Installation Problems

2001-06-01 Thread Roderick Cummings
From: "Margarete Hans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Subject: Installation Problems Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 19:10:24 -0400 I assume that no one responded to my original message because it was in rich text format so here it is again - hopefully in plain text this time. I tried installing Debian Potat

Re: Configuring Networking - Newbie - add'l info

2001-06-01 Thread will trillich
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 05:56:03PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 02:49:26PM -0400, Bob Underwood wrote: > > > /etc/network/interfaces > > > > > > (parenthethical material omitted) > > > iface lo inet loopback > > > > > > iface eth0 inet static > > > hostname cxxx-x >

lilo & fstab

2001-06-01 Thread burningclown
All, I'm still trying to find my way through my boot / lilo / lilo vs. grub problems. Have put grub on the backburner for a moment in favor of a step by step effort to understand what's going on. When I attempt to install lilo on my system now, I get the following error: LILO, the LInux LOader,

Re: Installation Problems

2001-06-01 Thread Brian Nelson
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 07:10:24PM -0400, Margarete Hans wrote: > I assume that no one responded to my original message because it was > in rich text format so here it is again - hopefully in plain text this > time. Also, your post is hard as hell to read. Too much information clumped together.

Re: Tripwire

2001-06-01 Thread Eugene Tyurin
Long time ago I was told that read-only floppies are not exactly safe. Early fd drives used read-only tab as a physical circuit-breaker, but nowadays everything is done through BIOS. So, theoretically, one can write onto a write-protected floppy. Is this correct? --ET. On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 a

Re: upgrade of woody--downgrade of apache

2001-06-01 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 01:22:22AM -0500, Wayne Sitton wrote: > I originally was running Debian stable. Runing a php4 website. Because of > another project, I had to upgrade to woody. The problem is, The apache > vesion in woody, does not work with php4. So I want to downgrade my version > of ap

Re: Trapping modem indicators.

2001-06-01 Thread Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak
On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Hans wrote: H> I was just wondering: is it possible to trap modem indicators and if so, H> how? E.g. I would like to know when a modem puts the line in OH (off hook), H> trap that signal and use it in a script (or Tx and Rx signals for that H> matter). /proc doesn't seem to hav

Re: abbreviations for non-native english speakers

2001-06-01 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
> "Jaye" == Jaye Inabnit ke6sls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jaye> fwiw, I found a killer apt called 'wtf'. I'll let you do the Jaye> math on what that means, but it is a great way to know what Jaye> 'imnsho' means. If you hadn't mentioned it, Jaye, I would have. But I still have

Re: Installation Problems

2001-06-01 Thread Margarete Hans
>> two other unformatted Linux partitions(70MB and 210MB). The partitions >> were made with Partition Manager, a very basic DOS-utility. >Why? If you are doing a vanilla install, creating partitions are part of >the install .

Re: I need info please

2001-06-01 Thread csj
On Friday 01 June 2001 07:39, ktb wrote: > Learning Linux is not an easy thing. It takes time (years) and > lots of patients. Linux - the operating system that sends you to the infirmary ;-)

Debian d.net team

2001-06-01 Thread Zoltan Kraus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey all, I have been pondering this idea for a while and decided to come here for some advice. I have noticed that there are no Debian distributed.net teams... I was going to make one, but before I do, I wanted to see how many people were interested

Re: Total Confusion

2001-06-01 Thread csj
On Saturday 02 June 2001 06:35, Sidney Brooks wrote: > In response to a suggestion, I installed the parport and parport_pc > modules. After that I was able to install the lp module. > Unfortunately, after going through this whole new installation of > Debian, the result was the same. The printer do

Re. Total Confusion

2001-06-01 Thread Sidney Brooks
Here are answers to some of the questions that helpful people have posed. About two hours ago, I installed Debian anew. It was during this installation that I added the modules parport, etc. . The message at the time of installation was "installation successful". I have successfully installed

Re: Re. Total Confusion

2001-06-01 Thread Lance Simmons
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 03:35:03PM -0700, Sidney Brooks wrote: > In response to a suggestion, I installed the parport and parport_pc > modules. After that I was able to install the lp module. > Unfortunately, after going through this whole new installation of Debian, > the result was the same. Th

Re: Shareing nfs with windows problem

2001-06-01 Thread W. Paul Mills
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (D-Man) writes: > On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 04:05:06PM -0500, Andrew D Dixon wrote: > | Brian Schramm wrote: > | > > | > Has anyone gotten the pcnfsd system to work? I am trying to share > | > a nfs mount with windows (samba will not work in this case) and am > | > haveing troubl

Re: Compiling custom debian packages

2001-06-01 Thread Colin Watson
Jonathan Freiermuth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I like to roll my own packages with something like "apt-get --source >build imlib". I have CFLAGS exported as "-O4 -march=k6", and the build >process pulls the flags out of the environment. Great. But "apt-get >source --build netpbm" does not use my C

Re: Re. Total Confusion

2001-06-01 Thread tom
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 03:50:43PM -0700, Sidney Brooks wrote: > As for the ping suggestion, I think that I tried it about a week ago > without success. The clue that I do not know how to use is that my ISP > administrator had no trouble connecting his computer through my line to the > internet.

apple usb keyboard

2001-06-01 Thread Sean Morgan
I was thinking of replacing my currently ailing keyboard with one of those new apple pro keyboards and was wondering if anyone had any experience with them. Will they work with debian on a PC straight out of the box or at all?

PCMCIA advice needed!

2001-06-01 Thread vester
hello, just a basic question about pcmcia...should i get the pcmcia source package and compile them myself or does the pcmcia-modules package basically provide for this? i compiled my kernel with pcmcia support and cardctl seems to recognise my cards (at least the names), a network card is auto

Re: IceWM + dockapps

2001-06-01 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 12:50:49AM -0400, Vincent Foley wrote: > Hi, > > does IceWM 1.0.7 (the one in testing) has support for dockapps? I seem to > remember that they had took Blackbox's Slit code and integrated it to IceWM to > support those. I'd like to know if I can get that if I apt-get it

RE: Installation Problems

2001-06-01 Thread Matt Chipman
> -Original Message- > From: Margarete Hans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, 2 June 2001 9:10 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Installation Problems > > > I assume that no one responded to my original message because it was > in rich text format so here it is ag

Re: Installation Problems

2001-06-01 Thread Steve Kieu
Hi, Your hard disk is IDE? DO you know the name and make. But in your case I suspect the problem with the floppy disk. Try to use the best disk when you run rawwrite or check the badblock fisrt. TO make sure your computer is bootable in Linux you can try loadlin provided that you can boot into D

Compiling custom debian packages

2001-06-01 Thread Jonathan Freiermuth
Hi, I like to roll my own packages with something like "apt-get --source build imlib". I have CFLAGS exported as "-O4 -march=k6", and the build process pulls the flags out of the environment. Great. But "apt-get source --build netpbm" does not use my CFLAGS. Is there a standard, debian way to

Installation Problems

2001-06-01 Thread Margarete Hans
I assume that no one responded to my original message because it was in rich text format so here it is again - hopefully in plain text this time. I tried installing Debian Potato, vanilla flavor, with floppies on a COMPAQ laptop, Contura 400C. It has 20480 KB RAM, of wich 4 MB are on the System Boa

Re: Re. Total Confusion

2001-06-01 Thread Lance Simmons
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 03:35:03PM -0700, Sidney Brooks wrote: > In response to a suggestion, I installed the parport and parport_pc > modules. After that I was able to install the lp module. > Unfortunately, after going through this whole new installation of Debian, > the result was the same. Th

exim config

2001-06-01 Thread Nic Strong
I have just installed exim on my box and it seems to be causing problems when using fetchmail to get my mail from my ISP. I configured exim using smarthost to deliver outgoing mail (suitable for dialup option). But when using fetchmail from my ISP, I occationally get mails from my ISP saying that

Re. Total Confusion

2001-06-01 Thread Sidney Brooks
Following your suggestions, I have installed the parport and lp modules and changed the BIOS to make the parallel port bidirectional. Windows recognized the printer port change. Debian still will not print. When using echo to tell it to print, it says "no such device" to both /lp0 and /lp1. As f

Re: Shareing nfs with windows problem

2001-06-01 Thread Brian Schramm
Can you give me an idea on how to do that by nis? Maybe that would be better anyways. The nfs client that I am using on Windows has that as a choice. Brian Andrew D Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Brian Schramm wrote: > > > > Has anyone gotten the pcnfsd system to work? I am trying to shar

Re. Total Confusion

2001-06-01 Thread Sidney Brooks
In response to a suggestion, I installed the parport and parport_pc modules. After that I was able to install the lp module. Unfortunately, after going through this whole new installation of Debian, the result was the same. The printer does not appear in dmesg and the echo system for printing di

Re: Re. Total Confusion

2001-06-01 Thread megglestone
X-Mailer: AtDot 2.0.1 X-URL: http://www.atdot.org/ > For the record, my parallel port and serial port are enabled in the BIOS. > You mentioned early that you reset the BIOS back to default settings... You've checked that the parallel port is enabled... if its a newer computer... then you can se

Re: xserver

2001-06-01 Thread Erik Steffl
> Derya PALANCI wrote: > > Hi all, > > How can i stop a working-but-invisible x server?? I had just installed > Xfree 4.0, debian potato and kernel 2.4.5. after the configuration i > started x server but it was very big so i wanted to close it. But i > couldnt manage and press all the combination

Re: Re. Total confusion

2001-06-01 Thread Brian Nelson
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 05:04:42PM -0400, D-Man wrote: > On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 03:41:35PM -0500, Brian Nelson wrote: > | On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 01:15:23PM -0700, Sidney Brooks wrote: > | > More information. > | > > | > I have tried minicom, kppp, gnome -ppp, wvdial, and pppconfig. They all > |

fakeroot problem

2001-06-01 Thread csj
With fakeroot 0.4.4-9.2, a build exits with [stderr abridged and graciously spaced for clarity] /usr/bin/perl: error while loading shared libraries: libfakeroot.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory dh_shlibdeps: command returned error code make: *** [binary

Re: line numbers in code

2001-06-01 Thread Erik Steffl
Alan Shutko wrote: > > D-Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Naw, (g)vim is much better > > > > (I have tried emacs, and that is my conclusion, now go make your own > > after trying both) > > Sure... does (g)vim include Tetris? Or a text adventure? Or a shrink > to help your mind cope with

Re: ORBS?

2001-06-01 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 11:21:37PM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote: > On Fri, 01 Jun 2001 12:04:27 EDT, "Noah L. Meyerhans" writes: > >Does anybody know what happened to ORBS? http://www.orbs.org simply > > Well, according to Alan Brown they were "served with 2 NZ High court > injunctions ordering t

Re: Total confusion

2001-06-01 Thread tom
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 12:09:12PM -0700, Sidney Brooks wrote: > I have written a couple of times about my two problems, namely that Debian > will not recognize that I have a printer connected and that I can connect > to my ISP but can't get on to the internet. Here is some more information. You

Re. Total Confusion

2001-06-01 Thread Sidney Brooks
I would like to make the following observation in response to some of the suggestions that I have read. In response to my persistence, my ISP administrator, who is not interested in linux, set up Redhat linux on his computer, doing nothing but a straightforward installation with none of the sub

Re: ORBS?

2001-06-01 Thread Robert Waldner
On Fri, 01 Jun 2001 12:04:27 EDT, "Noah L. Meyerhans" writes: >Does anybody know what happened to ORBS? http://www.orbs.org simply >shows "Due to circumstances beyond our control, the ORBS website is no >longer available." There's no further explanation. Well, according to Alan Brown they were

bad configureation script on libstdc++2.10-dev.deb ?

2001-06-01 Thread Michael O'Brien
Hola~ Anyone else seeing the following: # dpkg --configure libstdc++2.10-dev Setting up libstdc++2.10-dev (2.95.4-0.010522) ... gzip: stdout: Broken pipe install-info: read gzip -d

Re: Re. Total confusion

2001-06-01 Thread D-Man
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 03:41:35PM -0500, Brian Nelson wrote: | On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 01:15:23PM -0700, Sidney Brooks wrote: | > More information. | > | > I have tried minicom, kppp, gnome -ppp, wvdial, and pppconfig. They all | > dial and get connected to my ISP. None get me on to the internet

Re:

2001-06-01 Thread Stephan Hachinger
Hallo! Jo, ich bin zwar grad wieder mal im Stress, deshalb bitte ich Dich, Dich an Andere zur Hilfe zu wenden, aber... warum Deine mail bisher anscheinend noch keiner beantwortet hat... das Format der Nachricht sollte kein HTML (RichText) sondern nur reiner Text sein; das Betreff möglichst aussage

Something in the syslog

2001-06-01 Thread Ron Steinke
I'm getting the following message in /var/log/syslog about once a minute: kernel: lp1 at 0x0378, (polling) Anyone know what's causing this? I'm running a 2.0 kernel, if that's important, but otherwise I have a fairly standard `testing' installation. Ron Steinke

Installation Problems

2001-06-01 Thread Derek Hans
I tried installing Debian Potato, vanilla flavor, with floppies on a COMPAQ laptop, Contura 400C. It has 20480 KB RAM, of wich 4 MB are on the System Board and 16 MB are part of an Expansion Module, an SL enhanced 486DX2 processor at 40 MHz, an integrated 387-Compatible coprocessor; I have a primar

Re: Re. Total confusion

2001-06-01 Thread Brian Nelson
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 01:15:23PM -0700, Sidney Brooks wrote: > More information. > > I have tried minicom, kppp, gnome -ppp, wvdial, and pppconfig. They all > dial and get connected to my ISP. None get me on to the internet. Sounds like a configuration problem with the dialer. pppd should log

Trapping modem indicators.

2001-06-01 Thread Hans
I was just wondering: is it possible to trap modem indicators and if so, how? E.g. I would like to know when a modem puts the line in OH (off hook), trap that signal and use it in a script (or Tx and Rx signals for that matter). /proc doesn't seem to have it and the modem-HOWTO neither. Pointers ap

Re: Shareing nfs with windows problem

2001-06-01 Thread D-Man
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 04:05:06PM -0500, Andrew D Dixon wrote: | Brian Schramm wrote: | > | > Has anyone gotten the pcnfsd system to work? I am trying to share | > a nfs mount with windows (samba will not work in this case) and am | > haveing trouble with pcnfsd. It will not authorize the users

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Re: Unrecognized signatures

2001-06-01 Thread Colin Watson
debian-user@lists.debian.org wrote: >I'm using KMail for my mail (obviously). After I installed gnupg and >set the keyserver option, I now have KMail automatically recognizing >signed mail. Problem is, more often than not I get mail with the >warning: "Message was signed by unknown key ID foo" >

Re. Total confusion

2001-06-01 Thread Sidney Brooks
More information. I have tried minicom, kppp, gnome -ppp, wvdial, and pppconfig. They all dial and get connected to my ISP. None get me on to the internet. As for my printer problem, I think that the facts that the printer is absent from dmesg and the "echo" test failed, shows that higher pro

Re: Shareing nfs with windows problem

2001-06-01 Thread Andrew D Dixon
Brian Schramm wrote: > > Has anyone gotten the pcnfsd system to work? I am trying to share a nfs mount > with windows (samba will not work in this case) and am haveing trouble with > pcnfsd. It will not authorize the users. > > I've never used pcnfsd but even the regular old nfsd is picky abou

Re: Re. Total confusion

2001-06-01 Thread Cameron Matheson
On 01 Jun 2001 12:52:12 -0700, Sidney Brooks wrote: > In answer to some questions. > My ISP connection is dialup. What have you tried? Use pppconfig to configure your ISP once your modem works. > When I try to install the lp module in the debian install process, I get > the message "installatio

Re: Re. Total confusion

2001-06-01 Thread D-Man
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 12:52:12PM -0700, Sidney Brooks wrote: | In answer to some questions. | My ISP connection is dialup. Have you tried wvdial? Sometimes that works quite nicely with little configuration necessary. | When I try to install the lp module in the debian install process, I get |

Re. Total confusion

2001-06-01 Thread Sidney Brooks
In answer to some questions. My ISP connection is dialup. When I try to install the lp module in the debian install process, I get the message "installation failed". I think that I succeeded at one time afterward using apt-get. It still didn't work.I tried dmesg and no printer was shown. Testin

Re: Total confusion

2001-06-01 Thread Jason Majors
Do you have the necessary modules loaded to use a printer? Do you have an entry for it in /etc/printcap? How is your networking setup? Is it cable? DSL? dialup? And how is it configured? You need to provide details in order for people to help. On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 12:09:12PM -0700, Sidney Brook

Re: Total confusion

2001-06-01 Thread Andrew Perrin
It's quite impossible to dianose at this level - you've provided no specific information. - What happens when you try to print something to your printer? - What filtering mechanism are you using for your printer? magicfilter? Have you tried using magicfilterconf to set it up? - What happens when

Shareing nfs with windows problem

2001-06-01 Thread Brian Schramm
Has anyone gotten the pcnfsd system to work? I am trying to share a nfs mount with windows (samba will not work in this case) and am haveing trouble with pcnfsd. It will not authorize the users. Thanks for any help. Brian -- Brian Schramm http://www.linuxexpert.orgICQ 104442754 AIM schra

Total confusion

2001-06-01 Thread Sidney Brooks
I have written a couple of times about my two problems, namely that Debian will not recognize that I have a printer connected and that I can connect to my ISP but can't get on to the internet. Here is some more information. The printer and internet connection work with Windows. The printer works

Problems in CD-Writing using a LG CED-8080B

2001-06-01 Thread Massimo Perga
Hello, does anybody write CD with LG CED-8080B ? I've a lot of problems using CDRECORD, it says me that it has problems with SCSI cmd. I compiled my kernel 2.4.3 with every SCSI module to make IDE-ATAPI devices SCSI-compatible. I can mount my CD-RW device like a SCSI-CDROM, so it seems my kerne

Re: Setting up NIS

2001-06-01 Thread Ian Greenhoe
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 04:27:32PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 12:36:23PM -0700, Ian Greenhoe wrote: > > Also, I'm curious about what sort of results you might see from > > > > rpcinfo -u bradley.west.mycompany.com ypserv > > bradley:~# rpcinfo -u bradley.west.mycompany

ghostscript drivers?

2001-06-01 Thread Robert L. Harris
I want to get the hp deskjet 882C driver, which apparantly I have to recompile ghostscript for. I tried doing this along time ago and it went nowhere fast and the driver didn't compile. Anyone know if there will be a new release of ghostscript with some of these drivers compiled in or anythi

Re: Qs about Java 2 and potato, also q about Herald installation

2001-06-01 Thread Andrea Vettorello
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi... tried to find this information in the archives first but it looks like > the search engine's being a tad misanthropic the last couple of days > anyways... my questions... > > I'm currently running the potato distribution... is Java 2 available for > that? How d

Re: libpcap0 question

2001-06-01 Thread Aaron Brashears
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 03:03:08AM -0600, Curtis Hogg wrote: > My question then, is this? How/where did the .so file come from? When I > compiled libpcap 0.6.2 from source from www.tcpdump.org, all i got was a > libpcap.a file. I'm also working on a project using libpcap and libpcap dev, and I no

Re: installing via apt/ppd

2001-06-01 Thread John Hasler
bxb3 writes: > My problem is that my ISP requires that I log on manually. How do I > accomplish this in the Debian installation? Depends on what you mean by "log on manually". Most likely, you need to select "Chat" authentication in pppconfig. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill

Re: middle mouse button

2001-06-01 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Frank Zimmermann wrote: > Curtis Hogg wrote: > > > > > What do you have your repeater type set to for your gpm configuration? You > > may have a problem there. > > > > Here are the relevant lines in my gpm.conf: > > device=/dev/ttyS0 > responsiveness= > repeat_type=ms3 > type=ms+ > append="" > Tr

Re: where oh where has my little kernal gone?

2001-06-01 Thread Steve Gran
On Wed, 30 May 2001, "Paul Valley" wrote: in gack! Anyway, cd /usr/src/linux - that's the directory where your kernel source is stored. But if you've never done this before (which I'm guessing you haven't) I think it would be well worth your while to check out a few sites online that offer wa

installing via apt/ppd

2001-06-01 Thread bxb 3
Greetings to the Debian Community (and the Linux community in general...). I am trying to install Debian (2.2r3/Potato) via floopys and the internet (via ppp and apt). My problem is that my ISP requires that I log on manually. How do I accomplish this in the Debian installation? Thanks anyways a

Re: recompiling the debian way...

2001-06-01 Thread Steve Gran
On Thu, 31 May 2001, "Yves Berthiaume" wrote: > > Hi there, > > Since I'm new to this list. I don't know if this *off-topic*... > > I'm having trouble installing my new kernel package. When I do a > dpkg --install /usr/src/mynewkernelpkg... > > It complains that there is a conflict with pcmcia

Re: question?

2001-06-01 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 03:31:26AM -0500, Wayne Sitton wrote: > I don't want to start a flame war, BUT too late... > I've been working with Uinx since I was 12, now I'm 28. I've been a linux if you've been using unix for over half your lifetime, more than a decade and a half, then surely yo

Re: Prog. Languages (was: question?)

2001-06-01 Thread Bruce Sass
On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Romain Lerallut wrote: > Usually, you choose a language depending on what you want done. YMMV. > > If you want to learn a bit about computer languages > *in general* you may want to: > > 1) start with interpreted languages, such as Perl. ( not Python which is strongly object-ori

test

2001-06-01 Thread tom arnall
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Re: Tripwire

2001-06-01 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 07:45:29PM +0530, N. Raghavendra wrote: > Hello debian-user, > > I have just installed the tripwire package. Two questions: > > 1. The directory /usr/lib/tripwire/databases was empty, so I > created a database by doing 'tripwire -initialize'. It looks like > this is a nece

Unrecognized signatures

2001-06-01 Thread csj
I'm using KMail for my mail (obviously). After I installed gnupg and set the keyserver option, I now have KMail automatically recognizing signed mail. Problem is, more often than not I get mail with the warning: "Message was signed by unknown key ID foo" I'm sure it's a gnupg problem (if at all

Re: Exim and several mail domains

2001-06-01 Thread will trillich
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 07:56:22AM +0200, Daniel de los Reyes wrote: > I have a machine running exim that has to serve several mail domains. I > understand I should set them up as local domains, but then (correct me > if I'm wrong) if I have domainA and domainB all local users would have > email ad

Re: Exim and several mail domains

2001-06-01 Thread will trillich
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 07:56:22AM +0200, Daniel de los Reyes wrote: > I have a machine running exim that has to serve several mail domains. I > understand I should set them up as local domains, but then (correct me > if I'm wrong) if I have domainA and domainB all local users would have > email ad

Re: Tripwire

2001-06-01 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* N. Raghavendra ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Hello debian-user, > > I have just installed the tripwire package. Two questions: > > 1. The directory /usr/lib/tripwire/databases was empty, so I > created a database by doing 'tripwire -initialize'. It looks like > this is a necessary step, b

Have you been hacked by f*ck PoizonBOx?

2001-06-01 Thread L@@K dont throw away!
I've created an online community called "Have you been hacked by f*ck PoizonBOx?". http://www.delphi.com/PoizonBOx/start/ Please join the discussion! With the message board, you can view discussion folders quickly in the left-hand column and read up to 20 messages at a time. You can even atta

Have you been hacked by f*ck PoizonBOx?

2001-06-01 Thread L@@K dont throw away!
I've created an online community called "Have you been hacked by f*ck PoizonBOx?". http://www.delphi.com/PoizonBOx/start/ Please join the discussion! With the message board, you can view discussion folders quickly in the left-hand column and read up to 20 messages at a time. You can even atta

Re: question?

2001-06-01 Thread DvB
My question is what programming language is best to learn?? Start with Lisp... yes, definitely Lisp :-P

Re: Currency of packages

2001-06-01 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Good point. Think about those folks who install an OS in an office suit. There may be a dozen or more computers that need to work worry free. That's where stable rules. Maintenance then isn't 'tinker & reboot', 'tinker & reboot', but a check of system logs and a warm feeling that it's alright

Re: To install kde2 with apt-get

2001-06-01 Thread ktb
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 09:56:32AM -0500, Rogelio E. Castillo Haro wrote: > Hi, > I already have the sources.list lines to apt-get kde2 to my debian potato, > vut I > don't rmember which is the name of package to install. > > Do someone recall to me? > I think it is task-kde kent -- From see

Re: Setting up NIS - SOLVED (sorta)

2001-06-01 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 05:31:22PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > I'm trying to get a NIS domain started and having little luck... I've > followed along through /usr/share/doc/nis/nis.debian.howto.gz (which is > great to have there!), but it doesn't seem to have worked. After (far too) much mucki

Re: question?

2001-06-01 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Wayne Sitton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > I don't want to start a flame war, BUT > > I've been working with Uinx since I was 12, now I'm 28. I've been a linux > fan for about 3 years. I started with red hat, but when a friend told > debian was tthe one, I started using it. and quic

Re: apt-get --print-uris in NoLocking mode

2001-06-01 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 10:59:53PM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote: > On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 03:42:23PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > > On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 01:56:23AM +0200, Santi B?jar wrote: > > >I try to get a list of all the .deb to be installed (with > > >--print-uris), but I have to do

group descriptors corrupted

2001-06-01 Thread Michael Kevin O'Brien
Hola~ My disk drive is not in a happy place. When I try to boot I get: EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,3)): ext2_check_descriptors: Block for group 0 not in group (block 41471)! EXT2-fs: group descriptors corrupted! Is there an easy way to un-corrupt group descriptors? What exactly is

Re: question?

2001-06-01 Thread Mike Egglestone
Perl is pretty cool besides... its name is cool. Mike - Original Message - From: "Wayne Sitton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian-user" Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 1:31 AM Subject: question? > I don't want to start a flame war, BUT > > I've been working with Uinx since I was 1

XF86Config or hardware issue on Thinkpad 560?

2001-06-01 Thread Daniel Freedman
Hi, I'm hoping for some suggestions in narrowing down the search space of the problem I'm encountering running Debian Potato with my IBM Thinkpad 560. I recently exchanged the laptop's motherboard (including DC/DC) as the old mb had faulty cpu/cache memory (unit nominally ran potato fine except

Re: mkisofs -- not in dselect

2001-06-01 Thread Lukas Ruf
I found it myself: www.debian.org -> packages -> search -> download -> dpkg --install nonethelss, quite strange to me --lpr On Fri, 01 Jun 2001, Lukas Ruf wrote: > Dear all, > > I do not find mkisofs in my dselect. The system I am running: > woody/unstable. > > my /etc/apt/sources.list:

ORBS?

2001-06-01 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
Does anybody know what happened to ORBS? http://www.orbs.org simply shows "Due to circumstances beyond our control, the ORBS website is no longer available." There's no further explanation. noah -- ___ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ |

Re: Currency of packages

2001-06-01 Thread Nate Amsden
> jennyw wrote: > I'd like to hear how Debian old-timers work with this. we deal with it. i run cyrus imap 1.5.x and many other "old" packages from stable. they are in stable for a reason..they are stable :) its a small price to pay to have a rock solid system that i don't have to worry about up

Re: Don't allow incoming telnet

2001-06-01 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 10:52:41AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Remove it if you can (I forget if it's a seperate package): > apt-get --purge remove telnet That's the telnet client. Personally, I'd recommend: apt-get remove --purge telnetd telnet apt-get install telnet-ssl telnet-ssl will

Re: ifconfig

2001-06-01 Thread Jim McCloskey
Michael Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.10 netmask 255.255.255.0 up |> |> Currently I am running this as root each time I reboot the |> laptop. I am sure I can find somewhere to put this, but I would |> like to put it in the "correct" location. In Debian, there is a

Re: ifconfig

2001-06-01 Thread Andrew Perrin
Look at /etc/network/interfaces - that's where I made the changes on my system. -- Andrew J Perrin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Asst Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 269 Hamil

Re: Don't allow incoming telnet

2001-06-01 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Don't allow incoming telnet Date: Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 10:46:38AM +0100 In reply to:Rory Campbell-Lange Quoting Rory Campbell-Lange([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi. > How do I stop telnet sessions coming IN? > (I only want users to use ssh) > man update-inetd -- "I do not f

Re: Re: Setting up NIS

2001-06-01 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 12:08:23PM +0200, paolo pedaletti wrote: > The problem was in /etc/ypserv.securenets (actualy a link to > /var/yp/securenets) > There wasn't the right line: > host xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Thanks for the suggestion, but so such luck. ypserv.securenets already contained 255.0.0.0

mkisofs -- not in dselect

2001-06-01 Thread Lukas Ruf
Dear all, I do not find mkisofs in my dselect. The system I am running: woody/unstable. my /etc/apt/sources.list: --- deb ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/mirror/debian/ woody main non-free contrib deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ woody main non-free contrib deb http://www.realbodo.de/ debia

Re: line numbers in code

2001-06-01 Thread Alan Shutko
D-Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can emacs on a floppy (including all the syntax highlighting I > actually use) to take to less fortunate machines (usually windoze > boxen^H^H^H^H^Hpaperweights)? Absolutely. Just write it out to a CD, and stack the CD on the floppy. 8^) > Can you extend ema

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