mozilla questions

2001-09-22 Thread Tim locke
couple of mozilla-related question (0.9.4) 1. cannot access hotmail...i.e. when I click on "sign-in" "status bar just says "done" but nothing happened 2. can mozilla use postscript fonts? 3. (offtopic) where can I get free postscript fonts? hehehe _

Re: debian distro vs. applications

2001-09-22 Thread Craig Dickson
Noah Meyerhans wrote: > Unfortunately, Debian has never been very good at keeping up with > upstream development. They said that the "testing" distribution and > package pools would help speed things up a bit, but it's not likely that > woody will be released fewer than 18 months after potato. >

Re: debian distro vs. applications

2001-09-22 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 03:59:56PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > I switched to Debian2.2r2 about eight months ago (at that time 2.2r2 was > > the latest distribution). Recently, I've been unable to build almost > > all the applications I have tried. The usual problem seems to be missing > > f

Re: informacion

2001-09-22 Thread Adam McDaniel
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 07:45:16PM -0300, Daniel Toffetti wrote: > Did you translated this Sp->En and En->Sp with Babelfish ? Is it good > enough ?? I'm surprised, and if you say me that you don't even know a > word of Spanish I'll have no other choice than to go take a look... Well, no, i dont k

kernel problems -- boot and network

2001-09-22 Thread dman
I'm having some problems with kernels in the areas of booting and network. First some background : I now have a laptop (Dell 7500) at work that I am allowed to install Debian (woohoo!). The install went great. I used a potato cd (2.2r2) then switched to woody. The machine has a 3Com PCMCIA ne

horrible harddrive performance

2001-09-22 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hey people. My wife has become a Linux convert (woohoo!), but unfortunately I'm having a problem getting decent performance out of her computer. She has a P-III 800, which is faster than my 450, but the harddrive performance is a bottleneck on her whole system. It's horribly slow.

Cheops compile problem

2001-09-22 Thread Stephen Hargrove
Just downloaded cheops and am trying to compile it. It fails with the following:' # make gcc -g -O2 -Wall -DDEFAULT_PATH=\"/usr/local/share/cheops\" -DLIB_PATH=\"/usr/local/lib/cheops\" -I/usr/include/gtk-1.2 -I/usr/include/glib-1.2 -I/usr/lib/glib/include -DHAS_GMODULE -c -o domain.o domain.c

Re: xvidtune & XFree

2001-09-22 Thread Wayne Topa
Harvey Kelly([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hello everyone, > > I'm trying to configure X - but the problem is that I can get everything > fine, except the screen is way off to the left. I use xvidtune to alter it > so it's perfect, but how do I save my changes? Can I? > > I

Re: xfonts packages broken?

2001-09-22 Thread Wayne Topa
Hall Stevenson([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > * Pollywog ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010922 15:14]: > > I have the following xfonts packages installed, but when I upgrade Woody > > and these packages get upgraded, I lose fonts in my Gnome themes, the > > Gnome panel, and in Evolution. Ins

Re: Preview of new Ghostscript packages - please test

2001-09-22 Thread Yasuhiro Take
[ Ccing to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for notice ] Hello, At 21 Sep 2001 15:39:27 +0300, Samuli Suonpaa wrote: > > > Torsten Landschoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Please take a look at these packages and tell me about any problems > > which are not obvious - there is a lot of stuff still lacking and

Re: URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL

2001-09-22 Thread Stig Brautaset
> {URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL} > Dear sir, > > In order to transfer out (USD 126 M) One hundred and twenty six > million United States Dollars) from African Development Bank. I have > the courage to ask you to look for a reliable and honest person who > will be capable for this

Re: SSL packages (LDAP PAM NSS) +

2001-09-22 Thread Doug Fields
What I am wondering about is: a) Does anyone maintain ssl versions of nss-, pam- ldap and openldap 2.0.1x? Hello, Over the last two days I just completed converting my development environment to a fully LDAP NSS/PAM environment in preparation of converting the entire data center. I used t

URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL

2001-09-22 Thread hassan bellob
Hassan Bello. #20 LOUIS BOTHA CRESCENT SADTON SOUTH AFRICA, Fax: 874-762-727949. Tel: 874-762-727947. {URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL} Dear sir, In order to transfer out (USD 126 M) One hundred and twenty six million United States Dollars) from African Development

If your're a music lover and u like trance, then go here for the portal.

2001-09-22 Thread trancehead
http://www.geocities.com/goldshroom2000/Trance_links.html -trancehead

shout out to Debian

2001-09-22 Thread Martin F Krafft
not that i ever ever doubted this, just up'ed my ISDN router to woody, it routing my home network to the internet, but i didn't lose internet connectivity for a second! this is my most productive (private) system, and i was sweating a little - but the update needed to happen. and since we expect no

Re: Regarding /tmp

2001-09-22 Thread Martin F Krafft
also sprach Colin Watson (on Sat, 22 Sep 2001 04:04:35PM -0500): > So file a bug (which I imagine will be closed straight away) instead of > pointlessly bitching like a muppet on -user. I can't imagine what you > think this achieves. DON'T YOU DARE mentioning the muppets in any form of negative co

Re: mk2sd.exe for Dell's Inspirion

2001-09-22 Thread Martin F Krafft
also sprach Goran Ristic (on Sat, 22 Sep 2001 10:58:14PM +0200): > As I get my new Inspirion 8100 next week, I tried to collect as much > information about it, as possible. ;) > > As I understood the sources, this program is intended for > Suspend-to-[RAM|Disk]. > Unfortunately I can't find it on

Re: euro symbol and debian sid

2001-09-22 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include tim wrote on Thu Sep 20, 2001 um 12:27:58AM: > Another story is xterm and console I am currently totally unable to > view/write the EURO. > Its totally annoying, currently I really need the EURO sign. http://channel.debian.de/faq -- Eine neue DAU-Generation wächst heran: DAR = dümms

Re: debian distro vs. applications

2001-09-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 06:56:23PM -0500, sam rosenfeld ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I switched to Debian2.2r2 about eight months ago (at that time 2.2r2 was > the latest distribution). Recently, I've been unable to build almost > all the applications I have tried. The usual problem seems to be

Re: SSL packages +

2001-09-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 11:58:44PM +0200, Tarjei Huse ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi list, > > I've been using debian for about 1 month now, but with 2 yrs rh > experience, so I'm not completely new. > > What is frustrating me though is the us / non us divide on crypto and > that many core pack

Re: crash

2001-09-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 11:23:58PM +0200, Hans Gubitz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > After a local crash I can't install/remove some (n=?) packages: > > pumuckl:~# dpkg -i isdnutils_3.1pre1b-22.deb > (Reading database ... 87745 files and directories currently > installed.) > Preparing to replace isd

debian distro vs. applications

2001-09-22 Thread sam rosenfeld
I switched to Debian2.2r2 about eight months ago (at that time 2.2r2 was the latest distribution). Recently, I've been unable to build almost all the applications I have tried. The usual problem seems to be missing file dependencies. In fact, in almost all instances, the application called for d

Re: System hang via SSH/scp and NFS

2001-09-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 01:52:47AM +0200, Blazko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Greetings. > > I have a strange problem in network: > when copying files via NFS or scp from OpenSSH, the sending machine > hangs randomly. It has woody (actual version) installed. I had the same > thing on the same mach

Re: info to man

2001-09-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 01:41:23PM -0400, Michael P. Soulier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hey people. > > Is there a decent way to translate from info to man? I personally hate > info pages, and I'd like to convert and contribute some converted info > documentation. I greatly prefer man. >

Re: Package stuck

2001-09-22 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Sat, 2001-09-22 at 17:15, Paul Tansom wrote: > Sometime on Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 10:33:31PM -0500, Michael Heldebrant typed > out the following... > > > > /var/lib/dpkg/info should have the install scripts that the courier > > packages are trying to run. Perhaps looking in there will be > > in

Re: removing xdm??

2001-09-22 Thread Dale Morris
On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, David Roundy wrote: > On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 03:21:27AM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > > Dale Morris wrote: > > > > > > On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, Dale Morris wrote: > > > > > > > Upgrading from potato to woody xdm was installed with X. When I removed > > > > it, X starts back up us

Re: Regarding /tmp

2001-09-22 Thread dman
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 10:59:58AM -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: | Hey, don't delete my fucking work, just because I happen to have put it in | /tmp. /tmp means "temporary", it doesn't mean "delete upon reboot". If /tmp is only for work (such as compiling the latest vim release) on a system whe

Re: configing network stuff

2001-09-22 Thread Hereward Cooper
once upon a time Alex Hunsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > What's the command under debian to config or check network stuff? > (e.g. set IP, > DHCP server etc.) ifconfig seems to report some things, is anything > else? Under ifconfig can be used to configure devices: eg: ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.1

SSL packages +

2001-09-22 Thread Tarjei Huse
Hi list, I've been using debian for about 1 month now, but with 2 yrs rh experience, so I'm not completely new. What is frustrating me though is the us / non us divide on crypto and that many core packages (esp. the ldap ones) does not have a -ssl version. What I am wondering about is: a) Does

Re: configing network stuff

2001-09-22 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Sat, 2001-09-22 at 16:58, Alex Hunsley wrote: > What's the command under debian to config or check network stuff? (e.g. set > IP, > DHCP server etc.) ifconfig seems to report some things, is anything else? > Under > redhat I used linuxconf, but that doesn't seem to exist under debian... Poke

Re: help - mouse, and installing NIC driver

2001-09-22 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Sat, 2001-09-22 at 16:56, Alex Hunsley wrote: > Sean Quinlan wrote: > > --- Alex Hunsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-09-22 20:10): > > > Another problem, while I'm at it - I've put a 3c network card in the > > > machine > > > (type: 3c905cx-txm) and downloaded the drivers from > > > http://suppor

Re: floppy - permissions? Can't write to floppy!

2001-09-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 01:28:59AM +0800, csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, 2001-09-22 at 09:17, Mr. Jan Hearthstone wrote: > > > > I ran "/etc/fstab" all I get (for all entries) > > > is - > > > > "Permission denied". I always run everything as > > > the > > > > > Please state exactly

Re: Hercules Fortissimo II and sound mixers (using the headphonesplug)

2001-09-22 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Sat, 2001-09-22 at 13:40, calyth wrote: > Michael Heldebrant wrote: > > > > > What input are your speakers attached to and what input is your > > headphone attached to? It should be a simple job of creating a shell > > script to mute one output and turn on another. Then you could just run > >

configing network stuff

2001-09-22 Thread Alex Hunsley
What's the command under debian to config or check network stuff? (e.g. set IP, DHCP server etc.) ifconfig seems to report some things, is anything else? Under redhat I used linuxconf, but that doesn't seem to exist under debian... thanks lex -- Now playing: nothing at all

Re: INIT:Entering runlevel:2 failed

2001-09-22 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Sat, 2001-09-22 at 18:37, Robin Gerard wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 10:18:27PM -0500, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > > On Thu, 2001-09-20 at 20:09, Robin Gerard wrote: > > > hello, > > > I run potato 2.2r2 and have upgraded partially > > > with woody. > > > All ran fine, but after my system

Re: help - mouse, and installing NIC driver

2001-09-22 Thread Alex Hunsley
Sean Quinlan wrote: > > --- Alex Hunsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-09-22 20:10): > > I'm setting up a Debian system after a while away from linux. I've got > > Debian > > 2.2 r3 (potato). > > I can't start X up - when I try, I get the message "No mouse - couldn't find > > /dev/mouse0" (it might n

Re: Strange delays - new to this Please Help! Thanks

2001-09-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 12:12:48PM +, todd mansill ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi All, > > Sorry about the multiple To: *DON'T* cross post. Replies/followup redirected to /dev/null. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand?

Re: Regarding /tmp

2001-09-22 Thread Craig Dickson
Colin Watson wrote: > > And if I find the fuckbag who wrote the script that delted my work, > > I'm going to give him a piece of my mind. > > So file a bug (which I imagine will be closed straight away) instead of > pointlessly bitching like a muppet on -user. I can't imagine what you > think thi

Re: more network problems

2001-09-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 02:30:25PM -0700, Lazar Fleysher ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello everybody > > > earlier today Ihave posted a message about problems configuring network > card. > Basically the situation is that the computer does not see the network Please set your linewrap to somethi

Re: INIT:Entering runlevel:2 failed

2001-09-22 Thread Robin Gerard
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 10:18:27PM -0500, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > On Thu, 2001-09-20 at 20:09, Robin Gerard wrote: > > hello, > > I run potato 2.2r2 and have upgraded partially > > with woody. > > All ran fine, but after my system crashed, linux > > boot correctly until: > > ttyS00 . >

Re: Strange delays - new to this Please Help! Thanks

2001-09-22 Thread Timeboy
On Saturday Sep 22 14:12 todd mansill wrote: > ** Sorry about the multiple To: but I'm new to this and I don't know what > ** category this falls into: My PC is running KDE2 and I put a program called > ** cnet (network layer simulator) which requires tcl/tk to run it's windows > on > ** and

Re: m86k Xwindow

2001-09-22 Thread Timeboy
On Saturday Sep 22 21:15 mmissett wrote: > ** "Your video card was successfully identified. The Cannot open > /proc/bus/pci/devices. You probably have an old kernel. Support for the old > Linux PCI interface should be coming soon. > **Server will be installed. Next you'll be presented

Re: Newer Mozilla for Potato(2.2)

2001-09-22 Thread Dmitriy
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 01:22:18PM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: > Hi, > I was wondering if there is Mozilla package somewhere that is newer than > the Debian M18 that is in the standard mirror locations. I want to try > multizilla which would like 0.92 or 0.94. I'm pretty sure you don't want to do

proftpd is burning me after upgrade

2001-09-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi there, I am getting a message just starting proftpd daemon after upgrade the package. It's "No certificate files found!". I think it's a proftpd new feature problem or any so. Do u have any idea for create or disable this burning message? - Daemon is working perfectly. Seeya and thanks

crash

2001-09-22 Thread Hans Gubitz
After a local crash I can't install/remove some (n=?) packages: pumuckl:~# dpkg -i isdnutils_3.1pre1b-22.deb (Reading database ... 87745 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace isdnutils 1:3.1pre1b-22 (using isdnutils_3.1pre1b-22.deb) ... Checking whether you need the ippp

Re: text in menu bars has turned to hash marked boxes

2001-09-22 Thread Dmitriy
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 07:19:00PM -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: > Yes, see bugs 109480 and 109611 in the BTS. Annoying, isn't it? Uhh Are u shure about #109480 ? It says: "#109480: ITP: yardradius -- Yet Another RADIUS Daemon" > > - > Marc Wilson > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >

Re: java with Konqueror in KDE (woody)

2001-09-22 Thread Stephan Hachinger
> - Original Message - > From: "Alejandro Diego Garin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 2:58 PM > Subject: java with Konqueror in KDE (woody) > > > I have installed KDE on woody and I would like to use Konqueror as my web > > browser so I enabled Java globally b

Re: Creating Device drivers

2001-09-22 Thread Stephan Hachinger
> - Original Message - > From: "Rainer Sigl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 1:57 PM > Subject: Creating Device drivers > > > > Hi, > > please can anybody tell me the way to include a new device driver > > as loadable module AND, alternatively, in the kernel. >

Re: Regarding /tmp

2001-09-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 10:59:58AM -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > Hey, don't delete my fucking work, just because I happen to have put it in > /tmp. Don't put your work in /tmp then. > /tmp on Linux is not some stupid communist Ho ho ho *plonk* The news is enough without random political noise

kde, truetype fonts and antialiasing: SOLUTION

2001-09-22 Thread James D Strandboge
If this is completely obvious, please disregard. However, I saw several posts regarding getting kde to use anti-aliased truetype fonts. Here is what I did (with sid): apt-get install anti-aliasing-howto msttcorefonts After it is installed, just add the true type directory to /etc/X11/XftConfig.

Re: Regarding /tmp

2001-09-22 Thread Joey Hess
Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > That's all well and good, but there's no reason whatever to clear out /tmp > if the machine shutdown unexpectedly. If you ABSOLUTELY INSIST on > clearing /tmp, put it in the shutdown scripts not the bootup scripts. > > It's a completely stupid and useless policy that doe

Re: Iniciando com o DEBIAN-Linux

2001-09-22 Thread Disem
- Original Message - From: "TRF TRF" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 5:26 PM Subject: Iniciando com o DEBIAN-Linux > Olá, Meu nome é Thiago Rodrigues, tenho 21 anos e escrevo de Cuiabá MT, > > Esses dias atrás percebi que meu computador estava ficando lerdo > "n

Re: Strange delays - new to this Please Help! Thanks

2001-09-22 Thread Martin Albert
Hi, Todd! You should first mail to debian-user for questions like this. d-anounce is definitely the wrong place. I left the other list adresses in for this mail, so that people know that there was an answer to your request. When you reply, please consider to remove some more. I can only guess

Re: nv driver causes strange mouse cursor

2001-09-22 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Anthony Campbell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010922 01:58]: > If I use the nvidia driver my Riva 128 card works correctly. If I use > the nv driver, however, the mouse cursor appears as a little coloured > square. Has anyone seen this? Any cure? You could try to disable the hardware cursor and use the

Re: help - mouse, and installing NIC driver

2001-09-22 Thread Sean Quinlan
--- Alex Hunsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-09-22 20:10): > I'm setting up a Debian system after a while away from linux. I've got Debian > 2.2 r3 (potato). > I can't start X up - when I try, I get the message "No mouse - couldn't find > /dev/mouse0" (it might not be exactly device mouse0, but you g

Re: X v4.1.0 broke

2001-09-22 Thread Jason Boxman
On Friday 21 September 2001 07:56 am, Ilya Martynov wrote: > >> ** (WW) System lacks support for changing MTRRs > > MMRR can be compiled in or not. It is kernel option - no need to > upgrade kernel. Just recompile. Anyway it is not critical error. It > only affects X server perfomance (noticeable

Re: .config in kernel source?

2001-09-22 Thread Martin F Krafft
also sprach Manoj Srivastava (on Sat, 22 Sep 2001 03:10:29PM -0500): > Umm, no. If you generate a kernel-source-blah*.deb; it shall > contain a tarball of the sources where you created it from. okay. so it's really just basic vanilla source (with patches applied)? so the actual kernel data

Re: .config in kernel source?

2001-09-22 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Martin" == Martin F Krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Martin> so self-made kernel-source packages do not contain the kernel-source Martin> of your kernel, but the generic kernel source? Umm, no. If you generate a kernel-source-blah*.deb; it shall contain a tarball of the sources w

Re: IMAP server?

2001-09-22 Thread Martin F Krafft
also sprach xio (on Sat, 22 Sep 2001 05:37:44PM +0100): > How do you avoid that problem? find a relay that will let you relay with TLS client key authentication, like postfix-tls. martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL P

Re: Mutt Unread Mail

2001-09-22 Thread Martin F Krafft
also sprach xio (on Sat, 22 Sep 2001 05:02:57PM +0100): > Mutt can use different kinds of mailboxes: > > $ man muttrc > > [...] >mbox_type > Type: folder magic > Default: mbox > > The default mailbox type used when creating new folders. >

Re: Formatting program's output

2001-09-22 Thread Romain Lerallut
Thus spake Frederik Vanrenterghem on Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 05:57:46PM +0200: > Hi, > > <...> > > I would need to find a way to limit the number of characters per line > fortune supplies. (Preferably by starting a new line on spaces of > course, and not in the middle of a word). > > Any ideas how

Re: info to man

2001-09-22 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Saturday, September 22, Michael P. Soulier did write: > Hey people. > > Is there a decent way to translate from info to man? I personally hate > info pages, and I'd like to convert and contribute some converted info > documentation. I greatly prefer man. > > I know there are

Re: xfonts packages broken?

2001-09-22 Thread Hall Stevenson
* Pollywog ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010922 15:14]: > I have the following xfonts packages installed, but when I upgrade Woody > and these packages get upgraded, I lose fonts in my Gnome themes, the > Gnome panel, and in Evolution. Instead of characters, I see tiny blocks > consisting of dots. > > hi

Re: Regarding /tmp

2001-09-22 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Jeffrey W. Baker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010922 11:01]: > Hey, don't delete my fucking work, just because I happen to have put it in > /tmp. /tmp means "temporary", it doesn't mean "delete upon reboot". If > you want that, how about "/gets-deleted-at-reboot". DUH. /tmp on Linux > is not some stu

m86k Xwindow

2001-09-22 Thread mmissett
I am new to this and have been trying to get some sort of GUI installed and running. I think I have succeeded in getting at least some bits installed, but I have yet to get anything to work, and would appreciate a bit of guidance. First off, the computer in question is a 68k Mac (and that may

help - mouse, and installing NIC driver

2001-09-22 Thread Alex Hunsley
I'm setting up a Debian system after a while away from linux. I've got Debian 2.2 r3 (potato). I can't start X up - when I try, I get the message "No mouse - couldn't find /dev/mouse0" (it might not be exactly device mouse0, but you get the jist). I've run xf86config and made sure that I've specifi

xfonts packages broken?

2001-09-22 Thread Pollywog
I have the following xfonts packages installed, but when I upgrade Woody and these packages get upgraded, I lose fonts in my Gnome themes, the Gnome panel, and in Evolution. Instead of characters, I see tiny blocks consisting of dots. hi xfonts-100dpi 4.0.3-4100 dpi fonts for X hi xfon

Re: info to man

2001-09-22 Thread David Z Maze
Michael P Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MPS> Is there a decent way to translate from info to man? I personally MPS> hate info pages, and I'd like to convert and contribute some MPS> converted info documentation. I greatly prefer man. This probably wouldn't be that wonderful in the general ca

Re: wireless pain

2001-09-22 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: [cut] Uh, please ignore that mail, inadvertenly bounced to this list.

Re: Regarding /tmp

2001-09-22 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, Adam Bower wrote: > On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > > > Hey, don't delete my fucking work, just because I happen to have put it in > > /tmp. /tmp means "temporary", it doesn't mean "delete upon reboot". If > > you want that, how about "/gets-deleted-at-reboot"

Re: IMAP server?

2001-09-22 Thread Craig Dickson
xio wrote: > > > If all you're concerned about is outgoing mail, then you have everything > > > you need already. Just reconfigure exim (using eximconfig) to be an > > > "internet site" instead of uploading all your mail to your ISP's SMTP > > > server. Then exim will directly deliver outgoing mai

Re: Regarding /tmp

2001-09-22 Thread Adam Bower
On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > Hey, don't delete my fucking work, just because I happen to have put it in > /tmp. /tmp means "temporary", it doesn't mean "delete upon reboot". If > you want that, how about "/gets-deleted-at-reboot". DUH. /tmp on Linux > is not some stupid commu

wireless pain

2001-09-22 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
dammit. we didn't really get any good data yesterday so I went out this morning and di the drive again in 45 minutes. Got 46000 beacon packets. Good so far. Then I rebooted my machine and the bastard boot scripts deleted my /tmp/capture file. Who the heck came up with that policy. I'm gonna go

Regarding /tmp

2001-09-22 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
Hey, don't delete my fucking work, just because I happen to have put it in /tmp. /tmp means "temporary", it doesn't mean "delete upon reboot". If you want that, how about "/gets-deleted-at-reboot". DUH. /tmp on Linux is not some stupid communist shit-licking in-memory filesystem like it is on S

Re: Removing installed packages

2001-09-22 Thread Joey Hess
Hall Stevenson wrote: > perl > perl-5.005 > perl-5.005-base > perl-5.6 > perl-5.6-base > perl-base > Why, for example, are there two versions of perl ?? Isn't perl-5.6 > backwards-compatible with perl-5.0x ?? I do see that the perl-5.6 > package can be removed and will leave me with 'perl'. It

Re: floppy - permissions? Can't write to floppy!

2001-09-22 Thread csj
On Sat, 2001-09-22 at 09:17, Mr. Jan Hearthstone wrote: >I just wish there would be a way for those who do > not want to learn programming, and any other technical > stuff, but just to USE a computer for whatever, to > learn to use LINUX. I have been trying to learn LINUX > for ages, and it is

info to man

2001-09-22 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hey people. Is there a decent way to translate from info to man? I personally hate info pages, and I'd like to convert and contribute some converted info documentation. I greatly prefer man. I know there are tools to convert info and man to html, and that's a decent format when read

xvidtune & XFree

2001-09-22 Thread Harvey Kelly
Hello everyone, I'm trying to configure X - but the problem is that I can get everything fine, except the screen is way off to the left. I use xvidtune to alter it so it's perfect, but how do I save my changes? Can I? I've trying editing XF86Config-4 with the info from xvidtune, but when I

Re: wheel mouse

2001-09-22 Thread Avdi B. Grimm
On Sat, 2001-09-22 at 11:14, Dan Born wrote: > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Mouse0" > Driver "mouse" > Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" > Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" > Option "Emulate3Buttons" "off" > Option "ZAxisMapping"

Removing installed packages

2001-09-22 Thread Hall Stevenson
I was looking at what packages I've installed over time, along with ones installed by default, and am going to some cleaning. In doing so, I ran across a couple that I want to ask about... They are: perl perl-5.005 perl-5.005-base perl-5.6 perl-5.6-base perl-base and tcl8.0 tcl8.2 tcl8.2-de

Re: IMAP server?

2001-09-22 Thread xio
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 09:09:09PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote: > Thus spake Craig Dickson: > > Stephen Gran wrote: > > > > > I keep having silently dropped emails to some servers and I can't quite > > > figure out why. My ISP (Comcast - god bless 'em for the speed, but tech > > > support, well, ne

Re: glimmer compile error

2001-09-22 Thread dman
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 08:59:13PM +, Rajesh Fowkar wrote: | dman saw fit to inform me that: | >On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 11:17:09PM +, Rajesh Fowkar wrote: | >| Hi, | >| | >| I am trying to compile glimmer. However ./configure gives me the following | >| error : | >| | >|

Re: Mutt Unread Mail

2001-09-22 Thread xio
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 01:25:25AM +0200, Martin F Krafft wrote: > also sprach Danie Roux (on Tue, 11 Sep 2001 02:22:43PM +0200): > > Anyone know how to make that little delay between folders changing > > dissapear? > > it needs to parse the new mailbox. that takes time. you can't > deactivate it,

Formatting program's output

2001-09-22 Thread Frederik Vanrenterghem
Hi, I'd like to make a signature with 2 columns, a static and a variable one. I'll use signify for this purpose. Unfortunately, it doesn't handle fortune's output as desired. I would need to find a way to limit the number of characters per line fortune supplies. (Preferably by starting a new line

Re: nslookup and host always consult a dns server - never local /etc/hosts

2001-09-22 Thread Martin F Krafft
first, your mailer send an incorrect email address: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" you might want to add that extra 'e'! second: host and nslookup are DNS utilities, so they don't give a flying food about /etc/hosts. as you said, ping and telnet work fine, so your systems are good. nslookup and host both

nslookup and host always consult a dns server - never local /etc/hosts

2001-09-22 Thread Lars Steidinger
hello, i am running sid and have a problem with nslookup, host etc. All nslookup-requests and host-request are send to my local dns server (Elsa Lancom ISDN-Router). Ever the router is offline any request of my own hostname (ux01) and other hosts failed. In the nsswitch.conf and host.conf files

Re: glimmer compile error

2001-09-22 Thread Rajesh Fowkar
dman saw fit to inform me that: >On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 11:17:09PM +, Rajesh Fowkar wrote: >| Hi, >| >| I am trying to compile glimmer. However ./configure gives me the following >| error : >| >| --- >| checking for GnomePrint li

Re: help please - kppp connection wont work

2001-09-22 Thread John Hasler
Todd writes: > I can't get kppp to work - Forget kppp. Run pppconfig as root to configure ppp, and then use pon to start ppp and poff to stop it. If you must have a GUI install gpppon, which is a GUI wrapper around pon and poff. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisco

Re: wheel mouse

2001-09-22 Thread Dan Born
Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "off" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection If you have an /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, add

wheel mouse

2001-09-22 Thread Avdi B. Grimm
I'll make this short. I've got a standard-issue MS PS/2 wheel mouse. @ buttons and a wheel. I want all the buttons to work under X (v. 4.something-or-other). Right now only the two buttons work. What do I need to add to my X config files? -- Avdi Grimm

Re: apt-get & packages marked as rc

2001-09-22 Thread Rajesh Fowkar
Vineet Kumar saw fit to inform me that: >* Rajesh Fowkar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010921 07:23]: >> Hi, >> >> Is there any way to remove all the packages at a stretch using apt or dpkg >> ? >> >> When we do apt-get remove the configuration files are retained. Now say I >> want to remove all these pa

Re: GTK fonts

2001-09-22 Thread Hall Stevenson
* Charles Baker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010922 09:18]: > No, I hadn't come across these ideas. Also, how can I tell for sure if > XFree 4.x or 3.x is running? Does 4.x only use XF86Config-4? Check the log files that X creates. They're in /var/log, named XFree86.?.log (I've got one with a '0' in plac

Re: Quick pon question

2001-09-22 Thread John Hasler
csj writes: > Three replies so far but nobody wants to reveal the dark secret. All I > want is a one/two-word option to stick into /etc/ppp/peers/foovider. Do I > have to (re)write my own chatscript? No. You just have to read the pppd man page and then edit /etc/ppp/peers/foovider and add the rel

Re: removing xdm??

2001-09-22 Thread David Roundy
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 03:21:27AM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > Dale Morris wrote: > > > > On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, Dale Morris wrote: > > > > > Upgrading from potato to woody xdm was installed with X. When I removed > > > it, X starts back up using my .xsession file, but there are no window > > > man

Re: mp3 ---> wav

2001-09-22 Thread Martin F Krafft
also sprach John Griffiths (on Sat, 22 Sep 2001 01:53:31PM +): > >Sure. mpg321 -w. XMMS will do it too, I think, if you specify the Disk > >Output plugin. > > ok i think u were referring to mpg123? he wasn't. drop-in mpg321 is a replacement for mpg123, which doesn't come with the problematic

Re: tiger reports

2001-09-22 Thread David Roundy
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 10:33:04AM -0700, Craig Dickson wrote: > > > It can potentially make superuser access easier to crack unless both > > accounts have strong passwords. More generally, I suspect that this > > is flagged because it could indicate that your system has been > > compromised and

Re: amaya crashes and has a bug in filebrowser

2001-09-22 Thread Timeboy
On Friday Sep 21 20:00 Jan Ulrich Hasecke wrote: > ** Timeboy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ** > ** > On Wednesday Sep 19 19:44 Jan Ulrich Hasecke wrote: > ** > > ** > Try bluefish. > ** > ** Nice tool. But then I would prefer emacs with psgml. ;-) It was only a suggestion. There are so much

Re: euro symbol and debian sid

2001-09-22 Thread Timeboy
On Thursday Sep 20 22:38 Thomas Apel wrote: > ** On Thursday, 20. September 2001 00:27, tim wrote: > ** > > ** > I cant figure out how to get full euro support in X and console. I am > ** > already using -15 fonts and locale.gen is set to "[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ISO-8859-15". > ** > ** After genera

Strange delays - new to this Please Help! Thanks

2001-09-22 Thread todd mansill
Hi All, Sorry about the multiple To: but I'm new to this and I don't know what category this falls into: My PC is running KDE2 and I put a program called cnet (network layer simulator) which requires tcl/tk to run it's windows on and for some reason the program takes 3 minutes before the windo

Re: help please - kppp connection wont work

2001-09-22 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 05:38:29AM +, todd mansill wrote: > Hi All, > > I have an urgent problem and I need some help please: > > I can't get kppp to work - when I try to connect I get the following > error message in the log window: > > The remote server is required to authenticate itself

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