Re: Faulty apache configuration problems

2001-10-13 Thread John Foster
Alson van der Meulen wrote: > look like some libapache-perl or whatever that package is called is > missing = Thanks but, I am using the apache-perl.deb that has perl statically linked to apache--not mod perl. Any other ideas? John Foster

Re: Faulty apache configuration problems

2001-10-13 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 11:32:21PM -0500, John Foster wrote: > I had Apache running nicely on a new test server (woody system) and I > added a complete set of perl-mods and apache-mods when dselect was > finished I attempted to restart the server with this as the result. Any > ideas what might hav

Faulty apache configuration problems

2001-10-13 Thread John Foster
I had Apache running nicely on a new test server (woody system) and I added a complete set of perl-mods and apache-mods when dselect was finished I attempted to restart the server with this as the result. Any ideas what might have caused this and how to fix it? server:/home/user# apachectl start

Re: D-Link DFE-530TX+ Installation

2001-10-13 Thread Erik Steffl
dman wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 04:47:23PM -0500, W. Paul Mills wrote: > | [EMAIL PROTECTED] (dman) writes: > | > On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 04:42:18PM -0400, Rong Fan wrote: > [...] > > | > | D-Link DFE-530TX+ > > | > > [...] > > | > tulip > > [...] > > | NO NO See that + on the end --

How-to

2001-10-13 Thread Scott Henson
A few weeks back I read this How-to for ex Be-os users switching to debian. I am not an ex-Be-os user, but I found the instructions a lot more readable and easier to follow than those provided by the official debian how-to. Now I am almost ready to install debian (I am waiting on some new hardware

Re: netscape and debian stable

2001-10-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 05:31:07PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > a very strange thing happened to my system today. I am running debian > 2.2r3 and netscape 4.76. Everything ran fine until today when for no > apparent reason Netscape began locking up my keyboard. The mouse s

Re: Can I force ftp to use passive mode?

2001-10-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 11:48:53PM -0400, Stan Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm behind a firewall, that requires that ftp be run in "passive" mode. > While this s easy enough to do with the -p option, I would like to be able > to set some system wide configuration, or environmnet variable, so

Re: Can I force ftp to use passive mode?

2001-10-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 11:48:53PM -0400, Stan Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm behind a firewall, that requires that ftp be run in "passive" mode. > While this s easy enough to do with the -p option, I would like to be able > to set some system wide configuration, or environmnet variable, so

Re: Why need an MTA in the defualt install ??

2001-10-13 Thread Joey Hess
Sunny Dubey wrote: > why do most UNIX OS's ship with an MTA enabled in the default install?? Erm, because unix is a multiuser operating system, and mail is one of the main communications channels between users and other entities on such a system. -- see shy jo

Can I force ftp to use passive mode?

2001-10-13 Thread Stan Brown
I'm behind a firewall, that requires that ftp be run in "passive" mode. While this s easy enough to do with the -p option, I would like to be able to set some system wide configuration, or environmnet variable, so that all users get this as the default. Is this possible? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL

Re: bad file

2001-10-13 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 08:07:12PM -0700, Kevin wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/share/doc/apt# chmod 644 guide.it.html > chmod: changing permissions of `guide.it.html': Operation not permitted try lsattr guide.it.html, guess the 'i' attribute is set (immutable) chattr -i guide.it.html should fix it

Re: rxvt & vi

2001-10-13 Thread Ian Patrick Thomas
On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 03:53:44AM +0700, Mark Rompies wrote: > Hi... > > First... > I wonder why my rxvt looks weird everytime I quit from vi? the rxvt window > is full of every last commands and its output, and I can't find my cursor > until i blindly type "clear" and press enter. > > Second.

Re: bad file

2001-10-13 Thread Kevin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/share/doc/apt# chmod 644 guide.it.html chmod: changing permissions of `guide.it.html': Operation not permitted > > >> On Sat, 13 Oct 2001 12:01:40 PDT, Kevin writes: > >> >it looks like the filesystem is screwed up > >> > > >> >is there a way i can remove/fix this file remot

gravis eliminator aftershock gamepad in Linux

2001-10-13 Thread Titus Barik
I'm not sure where to even start on this one. Alright, this is a USB joystick which is available here: http://www.gravis.com/products/pro_eli_d1022.html I've created a /dev/js0 device for this gamepad and jstest detects it and I can press all the buttons and whatnot and they respond. However, in

Lock ups with kernel 2.4.10 & 2.4.12

2001-10-13 Thread Morgan Terry
I know this probably isn't debian related, but I figured I'd ask here anyway. My system is locking solid whenever I either (a) exit X windows, or (b) switch to a VT from X (i.e. Ctrl-Alt-F2), or (c) the console blanker comes on. I have this happen with kernels 2.4.10 and 2.4.12. I am running 2.4

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Re: debug messages while logged out

2001-10-13 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 06:41:57PM -0500, Gary Turner wrote: > There are no background tasks running. At least non that I know about. Ah, that's where you're wrong... you have PostgreSQL installed and running. That cruft is telling you that it's hard at work. Not doing much of anything, prob

Re: D-Link DFE-530TX+ Installation

2001-10-13 Thread dman
On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 04:21:21AM +0200, Theo Wribe wrote: | > -Original Message- | > From: dman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | > Sent: den 14 oktober 2001 03:31 | > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org | > Subject: Re: D-Link DFE-530TX+ Installation | > | > On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 04:47:23PM -0

Re: Why need an MTA in the defualt install ??

2001-10-13 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 07:39:17PM -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: > How do you read your own e-mail? Do you pop it from somewhere to the > local box, or do you use fetchmail or maildrop or one of their relatives > to dump it into the local mail spool? > > Fetchmail and etc need a local MTA running bec

Re: rxvt & vi

2001-10-13 Thread Marc Wilson
It's not 'vim-runtime', it's 'vim-rt', and if you're using unstable it's not even that, because unstable has moved on to Vim 6.0. On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 05:28:15PM -0400, dman wrote: > On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 03:53:44AM +0700, Mark Rompies wrote: > | Hi... > | > | First... > | I wonder why my rx

Re: Why need an MTA in the defualt install ??

2001-10-13 Thread Marc Wilson
How do you read your own e-mail? Do you pop it from somewhere to the local box, or do you use fetchmail or maildrop or one of their relatives to dump it into the local mail spool? Fetchmail and etc need a local MTA running because that's how they put mail into the spool. There's one reason. Ano

Re: gotmail

2001-10-13 Thread Marc Wilson
On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 08:18:10AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > yep. that's my whole .procmailrc...if it's that incomplete maybe you can > send me yours so I can figure out what's wrong with mine. I'm not saying anything is wrong with yours... because I haven't seen it. ^_^ What appeared on

RE: D-Link DFE-530TX+ Installation

2001-10-13 Thread Theo Wribe
> -Original Message- > From: dman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: den 14 oktober 2001 03:31 > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: D-Link DFE-530TX+ Installation > > On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 04:47:23PM -0500, W. Paul Mills wrote: > | [EMAIL PROTECTED] (dman) writes: > | > On

Re: Why need an MTA in the defualt install ??

2001-10-13 Thread Mark Lanett
From: "Dave Sherohman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 1) Go into /etc/inetd.conf, comment out all lines that mention > "smtp" (there should only be one), and restart inetd > (/etc/init.d/inetd restart). I think this will do both of those steps: /usr/sbin/update-inetd --disable smtp ~mark

Re: bad file

2001-10-13 Thread Robert Waldner
>> On Sat, 13 Oct 2001 12:01:40 PDT, Kevin writes: >> >it looks like the filesystem is screwed up >> > >> >is there a way i can remove/fix this file remotely (ie no init 1) >> > >> >?-wS--x-w- 25830 3373684167 3802483123 14067798681382885448 Sep 2 1905 g >uid >> >e.it.html >> >> Long shot: Hav

Re: booting W95 from a second harddrive with grub

2001-10-13 Thread Tim Moss
On Sat, 13 Oct 2001 17:51:52 -0400 "Bruce Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I believe that you are getting too complicated. Windows is, indeed, > not very flexible but I am not sure that the comments in this thread > are either correct or relevant to the real problem. Complicated? Yes (not

Re: bad file

2001-10-13 Thread Kevin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/share/doc/apt# cat /dev/null >guide.it.html su: guide.it.html: Permission denied and as for just trying to rm it, i already showed i cant do that > On Sat, 13 Oct 2001 12:01:40 PDT, Kevin writes: > >it looks like the filesystem is screwed up > > > >is there a way i can remo

Re: concerning ext3fs

2001-10-13 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Vineet Kumar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011012 08:48]: > * Hall Stevenson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011010 12:36]: > > > Thanks for the hint; I hadn't yet noticed mine. Perhaps > > > a better solution is to specify "ext3,ext2" in /etc/fstab > > > instead of auto? > > > > Is that a valid option for fstab ??

Re: bad file

2001-10-13 Thread Robert Waldner
On Sat, 13 Oct 2001 12:01:40 PDT, Kevin writes: >it looks like the filesystem is screwed up > >is there a way i can remove/fix this file remotely (ie no init 1) > >?-wS--x-w- 25830 3373684167 3802483123 14067798681382885448 Sep 2 1905 guid >e.it.html Long shot: Have you tried `cat /dev/null >g

Re: D-Link DFE-530TX+ Installation

2001-10-13 Thread dman
On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 04:47:23PM -0500, W. Paul Mills wrote: | [EMAIL PROTECTED] (dman) writes: | > On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 04:42:18PM -0400, Rong Fan wrote: [...] | > | D-Link DFE-530TX+ | > [...] | > tulip [...] | NO NO See that + on the end -- takes the rtl8139 driver. Doh! As I was wr

Re: First time Custom Kernel help - No suck file of directory

2001-10-13 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
John Purser wrote: 2. Once upon a time I ran across a tutorial on building a custom Kernel the debian way but I can no longer find it. Has anyone seen a good one they could steer me to? If you have done so already, install kernel-package; then look at README in /usr/share/doc/kernel-pa

Re: apt 0.5.4: preferences file

2001-10-13 Thread Bruce Miller
Jens, Thanks for the ideas. In fact, today, I did a Google search on ``/etc/apt/preferences" and got many of the same results. My German is not as good as my Scandinavian languages (I did post- graduate study in Sweden and later married a Norwegian-American whom I met while she was majoring in S

XFree86 nolisten option: Debian specific or general?

2001-10-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
I've been engaged in an extended offline discussion with an individual on the topic of running remote X applications under Debian. Getting beyond security concerns involved, the -nolisten flag of XFree86 is one of the blocks he's stumbled over. Discovering the 'man' command appears to be another.

Re: Re. Star Office 6

2001-10-13 Thread T. Tilton
Hello sheine, I am not sure what qualifies for serious work. I have been using StarOffice 5.2 since it came out for serious and productive work without nearly the amount of lost work as I had previously with any MS office product. It's not perfect but it is more reliable than MS products I have

Re: Re. Star Office 6

2001-10-13 Thread Alan Shutko
sheine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tommi Komulainen wrote: >> Just a thought, you weren't planning to do anything productive >> with, or did you? If you did, guess you'd better reconsider: > This message caused me to reconsider the several years that I have > fooled around with linux. Maybe i

Re: linuxworld: shutting down application when window closes

2001-10-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 05:12:38PM +0800, ramsubs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > greetings all. > > i came across this article in linuxworld.com: > http://www.linuxworld.com/ic_706716_6995_1-3133.html > --- > The DA's Office Goes Digital > At the Queens County District Attorney's Office,

debug messages while logged out

2001-10-13 Thread Gary Turner
I'm a wintel appliance operator, so you can imagine my confusion at seeing the following on the screen of my logged off Debian/Linux box: DEBUG: --Relation pg_shadow-- DEBUG: Pages 1: Changed 0, Reappend

LPRng.deb package failure when apt-get upgrade from woody

2001-10-13 Thread Jeremy
I consistently get this problem when I install a new system and apt-get update from woody. the system gets all the packages and when it comes time to unpack and install LPRng it fails and exits with a error status 2. I think this needs to be fixed.

Re: [DEB] Re: *total* switch of CapsLock and Ctrl

2001-10-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 01:23:22AM -0400, Paul M Foster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 11:01:33PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > > * Eugene Tyurin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011011 17:59]: > > > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I would like to remap CapsLock and LeftCtrl keys on

Re: howto avoid connection reset by peer with ssh

2001-10-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 04:51:25PM -0300, Alejandro Diego Garin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > hello linuxfriends: > > The firewall of my company is reseting my conections with ssh when is idle 3 > minutes or something like these. > How can I prevent this with the ssh client on my Linux? I need t

Re: bad file

2001-10-13 Thread Wayne Topa
Kevin([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > it looks like the filesystem is screwed up > > is there a way i can remove/fix this file remotely (ie no init 1) > > ?-wS--x-w- 25830 3373684167 3802483123 14067798681382885448 Sep 2 1905 > guide.it.html > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/share/do

Re: Shouldbe EASY?

2001-10-13 Thread Michael P. Soulier
No idea. modules.dep should be built automagickally, but if you want to build it manually, run "depmod -a". Mike On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 11:37:58AM +, forrest curo wrote: > All right, this would not have happened had there been kernel images for > potato (or an obvious link thereto)

Re: Enlightenment theme Customization...

2001-10-13 Thread Adam Kessel
On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 06:28:57PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote: > http://www.themes.org used to be quite good for this sort of thing, but > they seem to be down right now. You could try The site seems to work if you go to http://classic.themes.org. Some of the links are broken, in that case you ju

Re: Enlightenment theme Customization...

2001-10-13 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Ricardo Diz: > > Hi there! > > I'm trying to change some defaults in theme BlueSteel for Enlightenment, > specially the borders. I mean, I know I can change them for any window I want > and then use the remember option, but I want it to be the default with > BlueSteel. > > BTW, whe

RE: D-Link DFE-530TX+ Installation

2001-10-13 Thread Theo Wribe
Use via-rhine it will work. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of W. Paul Mills > Sent: den 13 oktober 2001 23:47 > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: D-Link DFE-530TX+ Installation > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (dman) writes

Re: date gives tomorrows date

2001-10-13 Thread John Hasler
Faheem Mitha writes: > if you don't have dialup but have an always-on connection like with dsl > or cable modem, then you are better off using the ntp package, which runs > a daemon and periodically contacts an ntp server. And if you _do_ have a dialup you are better off using the chrony package,

mozilla cut and paste not working

2001-10-13 Thread xucaen
anyone else having problems with Mozilla's cut and paste? I should be able to highlight it and paste it into another window using the middle button. it works for everything else and worked for netscape. Has this happened to anyone else? thanks!! xucaen

Re: bzip2 brings ppp to its knees?

2001-10-13 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, csj wrote: > Anybody else had a similar experience? I can compile without my meager > 56K connection stalling. But with a running bzip2 process ppp traffic > becomes so abysmal I even get disconnected. You have a proper modem, or one of those 'software modems' aka win/linmod

bzip2 brings ppp to its knees?

2001-10-13 Thread csj
Anybody else had a similar experience? I can compile without my meager 56K connection stalling. But with a running bzip2 process ppp traffic becomes so abysmal I even get disconnected. -- Sir Isaac Newton: "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."

Re: date gives tomorrows date

2001-10-13 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Sat, 13 Oct 2001, Tony wrote: > > Potato 2.2.19 Linux only box. I'm having a problem with the dates. > $date Sun Oct 14 03:58:09 EST 2001 <- is tomorrow $date -u Sat Oct 13 > 17:59:40 UTC 2001 <- is correct have checked the date in the BIOS is > ok. have tried UTS=yes and UTS=no in the /etc/d

Re: D-Link DFE-530TX+ Installation

2001-10-13 Thread W. Paul Mills
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (dman) writes: > On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 04:42:18PM -0400, Rong Fan wrote: > | Hello, > | my ethernet card(D-Link DFE-530TX+) wasn't recognized during installation. > what should i > | do to make it work? any advice is welcome. > > Run 'modconf' and pick the tulip driver. T

Re: booting W95 from a second harddrive with grub

2001-10-13 Thread Bruce Miller
I believe that you are getting too complicated. Windows is, indeed, not very flexible but I am not sure that the comments in this thread are either correct or relevant to the real problem. What one needs is a good boot manager in the MBR of the first hard disk on the system. GRUB is an excelle

netatalk from source problem.

2001-10-13 Thread bert
Hello all -- I'm attempting to build netatalk from its source package, due to the fact that the binary package doesn't seem to support encrypted passwords. I keep getting an error after doing: debian/rules binary debian/rules build works fine and completes without any noticeable errors. When

Re: lynx-ssl: Alert! HTTP 1.0 400 bad request; Not with other browsers

2001-10-13 Thread Shaul Karl
> Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Package: lynx-ssl > > Version: 2.8.4.2-1 > > > > Does the following a lynx bug or is there a way to get lynx behave like > > other browsers? > > It could be a Lynx bug, certainly. Whether or not one should > dub some behaviour in a brower's interacti

paache+php wiht postgres or mysql

2001-10-13 Thread A. Demarteau \(linux rules!\)
hi, which of the (see topic) namde database system woudl work best in conjunction with apache and php 4? --- Andor Demarteau [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Re: where can I get older versions of debs?

2001-10-13 Thread Tarjei Huse
> > Where can I get the debs? > I actually don't know if the old debs are still available anywhere, but > you ought to still have them yourself if you had that version installed > previously. Look in /var/cache/apt/archives. It should be there unless > you've deleted it. D**. Ok, does anyone feel

Perl CPAN maodule usinf passive ftp?

2001-10-13 Thread Stan Brown
How can I prsuade the perl CPAN module to use Debians passive mode ftp? Is the a environment varibale that I can set theat will tell all ftp tasks, suchs as ncftp to do the same? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n.

netscape and debian stable

2001-10-13 Thread xucaen
a very strange thing happened to my system today. I am running debian 2.2r3 and netscape 4.76. Everything ran fine untill today when for no apparent reason Netscape began locking up my keyboard. The mouse still worked and all my running programs still worked, but no keyboard. This only happened whe

Re: rxvt & vi

2001-10-13 Thread dman
On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 03:53:44AM +0700, Mark Rompies wrote: | Hi... | | First... | I wonder why my rxvt looks weird everytime I quit from vi? the rxvt window | is full of every last commands and its output, and I can't find my cursor | until i blindly type "clear" and press enter. | | Second.

Re: where can I get older versions of debs?

2001-10-13 Thread Craig Dickson
Tarjei Huse wrote: > I whant to revert back to the 4.0.6-6 version of php4 in unstable. > Where can I get the debs? I actually don't know if the old debs are still available anywhere, but you ought to still have them yourself if you had that version installed previously. Look in /var/cache/apt/ar

Re: D-Link DFE-530TX+ Installation

2001-10-13 Thread dman
On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 04:42:18PM -0400, Rong Fan wrote: | Hello, | my ethernet card(D-Link DFE-530TX+) wasn't recognized during installation. what should i | do to make it work? any advice is welcome. Run 'modconf' and pick the tulip driver. Then see 'man interfaces' for information on editing

Re: how to get Skipstone

2001-10-13 Thread Hans Steinraht
That was simple, I downloaded the single package. Then apt-get install skipstone and its working now. Yhank you very much. Hans On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 10:21:46PM +, Hans wrote: > Hi, > > I just started with Debian and now I want to install Skipstone on it. > The problem is now that whate

where can I get older versions of debs?

2001-10-13 Thread Tarjei Huse
Hi, I whant to revert back to the 4.0.6-6 version of php4 in unstable. Where can I get the debs? Tarjei

Re: Maximum mount count?

2001-10-13 Thread John Carline
Petre Daniel wrote: > so like,after 2,3 days at start up it stops and it runs fsck i > believe..just as if i unplugged my pc.how can i make it not to > check my fs ?it says "maximum mount count.." and it runs > fsck..Dani man tune2fs check out the -c option John -- Powered by the Penguin

rxvt & vi

2001-10-13 Thread Mark Rompies
Hi... First... I wonder why my rxvt looks weird everytime I quit from vi? the rxvt window is full of every last commands and its output, and I can't find my cursor until i blindly type "clear" and press enter. Second.. Everytime i use vi: - i never see the "-INSERT-" (press "i", "o", "a" in com

Re: Security Update

2001-10-13 Thread Sean Quinlan
--- Mark Rompies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-10-13 21:30): > I've just use Debian for the first time in my life. I want to upgrade the > applications or anything to mmake it more secure (i think it will use apps > >from security.debian.org). The problem is very simple: > > what commands should i t

D-Link DFE-530TX+ Installation

2001-10-13 Thread Rong Fan
Hello, my ethernet card(D-Link DFE-530TX+) wasn't recognized during installation. what should i do to make it work? any advice is welcome. thanks in advance. Best regards, Roam

Re: Security Update

2001-10-13 Thread David Raeker-Jordan
Mark Rompies wrote: > Hi! > > I've just use Debian for the first time in my life. I want to upgrade the > applications or anything to mmake it more secure (i think it will use apps > from security.debian.org). The problem is very simple: > > what commands should i type from the console to updat

Re: Why need an MTA in the defualt install ??

2001-10-13 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 02:55:46PM -0400, dman wrote: > | Additionally, if the MTA is there for localhost reasons only, why can I > | connect to it from another machine on the network?? > > I guess it listens to port 25 (SMTP) by default. This can surely be > disabled, or firewall rules can be

Re. Star Office 6

2001-10-13 Thread sheine
Tommi Komulainen wrote: Just a thought, you weren't planning to do anything productive with, or did you? If you did, guess you'd better reconsider: This message caused me to reconsider the several years that I have fooled around with linux. Maybe it is just a computer game, not a serious tool

Re: Security Update

2001-10-13 Thread Tarjei Huse
You must add a line in your sources list that points to security.debian.org. Then you can use apt-get Mark Rompies wrote: > > Hi! > > I've just use Debian for the first time in my life. I want to upgrade the > applications or anything to mmake it more secure (i think it will use apps > from s

obtaining makemap [postfix]

2001-10-13 Thread Darren Wyn Rees
Where do I find 'makemap' to use with Postfix ? What package ? Looking at an OpenBSD box I have here, the makemap seems to have come from Sendmail... but I'm not sure. Thanks. -- Darren Wyn Rees [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Security Update

2001-10-13 Thread Mark Rompies
Hi! I've just use Debian for the first time in my life. I want to upgrade the applications or anything to mmake it more secure (i think it will use apps from security.debian.org). The problem is very simple: what commands should i type from the console to update the security fixes for a/any pa

Enlightenment theme Customization...

2001-10-13 Thread Ricardo Diz
Hi there! I'm trying to change some defaults in theme BlueSteel for Enlightenment, specially the borders. I mean, I know I can change them for any window I want and then use the remember option, but I want it to be the default with BlueSteel. BTW, where can I get I "Do-a-theme-yourself-HOWTO"

Re: how to get Skipstone

2001-10-13 Thread Ross Burton
> Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: > skipstone: Depends: libstdc++3 (>= 1:3.0.2-0pre010908) but it is not installable > Depends: libmozilla > Depends: libnspr4 (>= 2:0.9.1-0.1) but it is not going to be installed > Depends: mozilla-

how to get Skipstone

2001-10-13 Thread Hans
Hi, I just started with Debian and now I want to install Skipstone on it. The problem is now that whatever I try I get message from apt-get install like the one underneath. This is a message when I did apt-get install skipstone, but when I the try to get mozilla I messages just like this one. I

Re: gnumeric and mozilla fonts

2001-10-13 Thread Harvey Kelly
Sorry, sorry, sorry. Two minutes after sending this e-mail I searched under gnumeric and fonts, and I got the solution. Sorry - I'll try to be a bit more patient! Harvey On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 08:44:38PM +0100, kellyh wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I know this is an old topic, but can anyone

gnumeric and mozilla fonts

2001-10-13 Thread Harvey Kelly
Hello everybody, I know this is an old topic, but can anyone remind me of the *subject* for upgrading to XFree 4.1 and GTK/Mozilla fonts going haywire? Actually it is only Gnumeric and Mozilla that have freaked out - AbiWord is still fine. I've searched under different combinations of GTk fonts u

PHP4 downgrade.

2001-10-13 Thread Tarjei Huse
Hi, I'm running unstable, but have relixed that the latest php4 debs contain an api related bug so I cannot install Midgard, a CMS system. Is there a "downgrade" function in the apt-get system? I'd like to go back to the last 4.0.6 release. Yours Tarjei Huse

OT: Hello and 1st Question

2001-10-13 Thread Brad R
He's naming the releases off characters from Toy Story? Now I'm scared. That's almost as bad as the way we used to name computers at where I worked. We used the names of old TV detectives, which was tough when I took over because the only one I recognized was Columbo. I had to ask others what the

bad file

2001-10-13 Thread Kevin
it looks like the filesystem is screwed up is there a way i can remove/fix this file remotely (ie no init 1) ?-wS--x-w- 25830 3373684167 3802483123 14067798681382885448 Sep 2 1905 guide.it.html [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/share/doc/apt# rm guide.it.html rm: cannot unlink `guide.it.html': Operatio

Re: Why need an MTA in the defualt install ??

2001-10-13 Thread dman
On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 01:54:32PM -0400, Sunny Dubey wrote: | hey, | | why do most UNIX OS's ship with an MTA enabled in the default install?? | is there some [un]written rule of unix that I'm not aware of or something?? Daemon type programs (such as cron) notify the admin of errors via email.

Shouldbe EASY?

2001-10-13 Thread forrest curo
All right, this would not have happened had there been kernel images for potato (or an obvious link thereto) near the basic potato distribution folder, but the critter IS running, as long as I log in at various alt-F1 to alt-F6s and leave it awaiting commands on some of them. But there's no obvio

Re: what music players?

2001-10-13 Thread Dave Thayer
On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 08:35:25PM +0200, Petre Daniel wrote: > Heya,what music players at console except mpg123? For a nice full-screen console player try mp3blaster. dt. -- Dave Thayer | If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about Denver, Colorado USA | cutting them down?

Re: ADSL startup and non-root users

2001-10-13 Thread Jakob B. Jensen
While specialized tools like pon are fine for their special cases, Debian and other UNIX systems also have some different, generally usable way of granting normal users the right to perform some specific command as root, given roots prior permission. For Debian systems I would recommend the supe

Re: lynx-ssl: Alert! HTTP 1.0 400 bad request; Not with other browsers

2001-10-13 Thread Morten Bo Johansen
Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: lynx-ssl > Version: 2.8.4.2-1 > > Does the following a lynx bug or is there a way to get lynx behave like > other browsers? It could be a Lynx bug, certainly. Whether or not one should dub some behaviour in a brower's interaction with html a bug i

Why need an MTA in the defualt install ??

2001-10-13 Thread Sunny Dubey
hey, why do most UNIX OS's ship with an MTA enabled in the default install?? is there some [un]written rule of unix that I'm not aware of or something?? everytime I install debian, I always ponder why is exim being installed even though I never seem to use it. (For as long as I've used debian,

RE: Maximum mount count?

2001-10-13 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 13-Oct-2001 Petre Daniel wrote: > so like,after 2,3 days at start up it stops and it runs fsck i believe.. > just as if i unplugged my pc.how can i make it not to check my fs ? > it says "maximum mount count.." and it runs fsck.. > Dani after a certain number of successful mount a filesystem g

Re: linuxworld: shutting down application when window closes

2001-10-13 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> I know this happpens in Java using AWT or Swing - in the basic GUI Hello > World program you can make a window appear. Pressing the close button > closes the window but the program continues running, as the programmer did > not catch the window closing event and quit the application. Code has t

Re: what music players?

2001-10-13 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Petre Daniel wrote on Sat Oct 13, 2001 um 08:35:25PM: > Heya,what music players at console except mpg123? splay, mpg321, ogg123, play (from sox package), bplay, midiplay, timidity. Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- Linux rebootet man in drei Fällen: Neuer Kernel, neue (Board-)Hardware, neue Pa

Re: Minimum Potato Files

2001-10-13 Thread csj
On Saturday 13 October 2001 09:58, Brooks R. Robinson wrote: > Hey, this question has been asked before, and no one gave imo > a really good answer.  What is the minimum installation debs?  There > are two schools of thought.  First, the packages listed in > basecont.txt in the disks- conta

wwwoffle bugfix

2001-10-13 Thread andrea gelmini
hi all, I use wwwoffle a lot so I need a version without bugs (in particular the problem with compressed pages). Well, I applied the patches founded in wwwoffle homepage, which fix four important bugs in latest release of this program (some of them are also o

Re: QuickTime

2001-10-13 Thread csj
On Saturday 13 October 2001 15:20, Francois Gouget wrote: > On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, dooshiant wrote: > > http://openquicktime.sourceforge.net/ > > > > I don't know much Spanish but I guess that's what you're looking > > for. :-) > >Or you could also have a look at CrossOver (I don't know Spanish >

Re: Star Office 6

2001-10-13 Thread Tommi Komulainen
On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 06:11:08AM -0700, sheine wrote: > I have downloaded all the files for Star Office 6, but haven't the > slightest idea of how to install them. The guide describes a method that > relates to the CD version. All the files are of the form *.bin. Does > anybody know what to do

apt 0.5.4: preferences file

2001-10-13 Thread Bruce Miller
I put in a lot of effort yesterday studying the man pages for apt and apt_preferences as well as the APT HOWTO which is buried deep in the Debian website. To no avail. apt turned up its nose at my feeble attempt to write a preferences file. I usually beat my head against the brick wall until I

what music players?

2001-10-13 Thread Petre Daniel
Heya,what music players at console except mpg123? thx. Dani.

Maximum mount count?

2001-10-13 Thread Petre Daniel
so like,after 2,3 days at start up it stops and it runs fsck i believe.. just as if i unplugged my pc.how can i make it not to check my fs ? it says "maximum mount count.." and it runs fsck.. Dani

Re: booting W95 from a second harddrive with grub

2001-10-13 Thread dman
On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 10:08:38AM -0700, Tim Moss wrote: | On Sat, 13 Oct 2001 12:08:38 -0400 | "ae roy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | | > I have lying about a 120MB drive, very old, with W95 on it, and I'm | > trying to | > boot it using grub, but it doesnt work. This is what I have in my grub |

Re: apt-get dist-update problem

2001-10-13 Thread dman
On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 07:03:50PM +0200, Søren Neigaard wrote: | Saturday, October 13, 2001, 5:42:09 PM, dman wrote: | | d> On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 04:32:19PM +0200, Søren Neigaard wrote: | d> | Saturday, October 13, 2001, 4:08:53 PM, dman wrote: | d> | | | d>> On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 03:21:54PM

Re: /sbin/ipchains: host/network `domain.name' not found - SOLVED

2001-10-13 Thread George Karaolides
Sorry to be posting a followup to my own question, but I solved this. I was using ipmasq to set up rules which needed to resolve external domain names before actually allowing external traffic... A bit stupid, but there it is. Putting my rules in post-processing rules files: /etc/ipmasq/P30inte

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