Re: Wheel mouse

2002-03-09 Thread Cam Ellison
* csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, 08 Mar 2002 21:17:27 -0600 > Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Daniel Toffetti wrote: > > > > >Hi ! > > > > > >I've searched through the archives looking for the correct > > >configuration of a three wheel mouse (in my case, it's a Genius

Re: the quest for a *stable* browser

2002-03-09 Thread Geoff D
--- timothy bauscher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I downloaded Mozilla via apt-get. It crashes > often. I would like a stable open source > alternative to Mozilla. > > Any suggestions? > Which version of Mozilla did you install? Stable has the version of Mozilla Moses used to use. That will c

Re: AIM Installation Errors

2002-03-09 Thread Geoff D
--- "Bannerman, Israel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To all: > I downloaded AIm but everything I try to run it I > get this: > > aim:error while loading shared libraries: > libstdc++-lib6.1-1.so.2: cannot > open shared object file: No such file or directory > > > > Is anyone familiar with this

Xresources/xterm no longer being read?

2002-03-09 Thread xucaen
Hi all, very weird that this happens. /etc/X11/Xresources/xterm used to give me a black background instead of the default white background, but now with woody it is as though it isn't being read. I'm attaching it just incase the syntax has changed. thanks! xucaen ! /etc/X11/Xresources/xterm !

Re: DNS Not Working *Again*

2002-03-09 Thread Michael P. Soulier
If the connection is established but you can't ping anything, that suggests that your routing table isn't set up properly. See the defaultroute option in the pppd manpage, and make sure that it's an option to pppd, either in the script you're using, or in the /etc/ppp/options file. Confi

DNS Not Working *Again*

2002-03-09 Thread John Shepherd
Hi, I had a problem earlier this week in which I could set up a PPP connection, but it wasn't working properly. I fixed it by re-installing debian and changing some answers to questions during the configuration. I think the thing that did it was that I had previously specified my own loca

Re: Using sources

2002-03-09 Thread Corrin Lakeland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 10 Mar 2002 16:21, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: > I am assuming that the reason one would want to compile the sources is > to use compiler options for a particular processor (586, 686, etc.). Is > this the primary advantage or are there other advan

Re: Wheel mouse DIFFERENT PROBLEM

2002-03-09 Thread Greg Murphy
Hello, I've been following this thread, and was hoping it would help me to get my wheel mouse working. I have a Fellowes Gel Mouse (PS/2). Here is the important section in my XF86Config file: Section "Pointer" Protocol"ps/2" Device "/dev/mouse" ZAxisMapping4 5

diagnose segmentation fault with Mozilla 0.9.8-3 mailnews

2002-03-09 Thread Paul Scott
Can someone give suggestions for tracking down the segmentataion fault I get with Mozilla mailnews 0.9.8-3 which I also got with 0.9.8-2. The browser and the web page composer work fine. TIA, Paul Scott

Using sources

2002-03-09 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
I have always ignored the sources for Debian. Is there some information about the source packages, how to compile them, etc.? I am assuming that the reason one would want to compile the sources is to use compiler options for a particular processor (586, 686, etc.). Is this the primary advantage o

What is the difference between Potato and Woody?

2002-03-09 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
I have started reading details about Woody. (I am running Potato on all of my machines with the 2.4 kernel). I was surprise to see that the 2.4 kernel is "optional". This leads me to a fundamental question... What makes Woody different? Are there structure changes (layout, etc.) that are incompat

Re: Trying to get more than one wmnet in wharf

2002-03-09 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 07:50:47PM -0800, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > How exactly do you get more than one wmnet fired up and swallowed by > wharf? If you are using wmaker, just start however many you want and then drag them over to the dock. -- Jerome pgpg6Rpv54t6o.pgp Description: PGP sign

Re: telnetd prompt

2002-03-09 Thread Eric C. Cooper
In telnetd.c, it does the following (slightly simplified): /* Get local host name */ gethostname(host_name, sizeof(host_name)); hints.ai_family = PF_UNSPEC; hints.ai_flags = AI_CANONNAME; getaddrinfo(host_name, 0, &hints, &res); strncpy(host_name, res->ai_canonname, sizeof(

Re: PINE, Rpm, not installed?

2002-03-09 Thread Joe
On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 04:47:57PM -0800, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > On Sat, 9 Mar 2002, Camilo wrote: > > > I wanted to use PINE under my potato install... found it is not > > installed? why is this? > > Licensing issues. Do this: apt-get install pine-tracker Follow it's > instructions on

Re: potato to woody 2nd try

2002-03-09 Thread Eric Richardson
Jerome Acks Jr wrote: > On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 04:31:09PM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: > >> Hi, I followed a suggestion from this list to update dpkg and apt >> first during the upgrade. For the most part this worked great. A >> couple of small things. >> >> Unless I pushed the wrong button

Where to place LS_PRELOAD=/usr... for anti-aliasing?

2002-03-09 Thread nick lidakis
I think I have anti-aliasing working. I can bring up and antialiased xterm and most supported apps using the LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libgdkxft.so . Where do I place this so that X starts with these apps using anti aliasing automagically? I googled around, one how-to recommends placing it in my .xsessio

Primer needed on modconf and friends.

2002-03-09 Thread Bill Moseley
Is there a good summary document that explains modconf and /etc/modules.conf in Debian? I'm trying to get my sound working, but figured it would be a good reason to get a better understanding of modules. I'm going to sound clueless here, so you might as well assume that I am. ;) With that sa

Re: Wheel mouse

2002-03-09 Thread csj
On Fri, 08 Mar 2002 21:17:27 -0600 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Daniel Toffetti wrote: > > >Hi ! > > > >I've searched through the archives looking for the correct > >configuration of a three wheel mouse (in my case, it's a Genius Optical > >NetScroll+ Eye PS/2) I just bought on

Re: wheel mouse

2002-03-09 Thread Nathan
In all the posts i have seen so far there hasn't been a suggestion for Option "Buttons""5" this is what i have for my mouse: when i type gpmconfig i get Device: /dev/psaux Type: imps2 Repeat_Type: raw and in XF86Config-4 Selection "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse1"

Re: telnetd prompt

2002-03-09 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Jens" == Jens Müller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jens> Shyamal Prasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Try 'hostname, 'hostname --fqdn' and 'dnsdomainname -v' for >> some hints. Look in /etc/hostname and /etc/hosts too. I wish I >> had a simple answer for you, but I'm somewhat

Re: Woody CD ROM images?

2002-03-09 Thread Caleb Shay
Well, if you've got a decent net connection, check out http://people.debian.org/~ieure/netinst/ ~30MiB iso image that downloads almost everything over the net so you don't download gigs of isos that are mostly packages you won't be using. Caleb On Sat, 2002-03-09 at 16:40, Randolph S. Kahle wro

[ALMOST Solved] Re: Wheel mouse

2002-03-09 Thread Daniel Toffetti
On Saturday 09 March 2002 18:13, Stephen Ryan wrote: > > But the "device" in XF86Config-4 is "/dev/mouse" which in fact is a > > link to /dev/gpmdata. I'm completely puzzled... I'll try to look > > for and read about the relationships between gpm and the xserver. > > Thanks for your help ! > > Aha!

Re: How to share cable connection ?

2002-03-09 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, Thomas Graham wrote: > ipmasq using fix LAN ip, which is I do not like. > is it possible to use DHCP server to share cable > connection to LAN ? Yes, but you're still going to need ipmasq anyway. DHCP will only dole out the IPs on your network. Be careful to set it up right

Re: PINE, Rpm, not installed?

2002-03-09 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Sat, 9 Mar 2002, Camilo wrote: > I wanted to use PINE under my potato install... found it is not > installed? why is this? Licensing issues. Do this: apt-get install pine-tracker Follow it's instructions on how to get the newest version of pine. > Rpm isnt there either... We're *not* Red

Re: potato to woody 2nd try

2002-03-09 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 04:31:09PM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: > Hi, > I followed a suggestion from this list to update dpkg and apt first > during the upgrade. For the most part this worked great. A couple of > small things. > > Unless I pushed the wrong button and refused a new kernel, 2.2.2

Woody CD ROM images?

2002-03-09 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
I have found some "unofficial" Woody CDROM images and they are in files with names such as woody-i386-1.raw Are these ISO images ready to be burned? Also -- why eight (8) different images? >From what I understand reading the information at the site, all I need is the first CDROM image. Thanks

RE: How to Install Pine on Potato?

2002-03-09 Thread Dave Scott
Thanks Seb, That worked with both Debian builds. -Dave -Original Message- From: Sebastiaan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2002 1:10 PM To: Dave Scott Cc: Debian User Subject: Re: How to Install Pine on Potato? High, On Sat, 9 Mar 2002, Dave Scott wrote: > Ok, th

woody install and X

2002-03-09 Thread Rick Pasotto
I just did a fresh install of woody and it installed X and gnome but never asked about configuring them. Did I miss something? -- If you wish to prosper, let your customer prosper. This is a lesson it has taken you a very long time to learn. When people have learned this lesson, everyone will s

Re: telnetd prompt

2002-03-09 Thread Jens Müller
Shyamal Prasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What does /etc/issue.net say? You replied to my other post where I mentioned it, but again: debian:/etc/news# cat /etc/issue.net Debian GNU/%s 3.0 %h -- Please don't CC me on replies!

Re: GnuCash vs MoneyDance

2002-03-09 Thread Bill Wohler
hanasaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Could people share the thoughts and experiences? Thanks. I recently switched from Quicken to gnucash. In some respects it's far better than Quicken (as previously mentioned in the accounting department). I have no intentions of going back. I disagree t

Re: GnuCash vs MoneyDance

2002-03-09 Thread David Roundy
On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 02:51:30PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > Personally, I would very much prefer to keep my system as free as > possible. I'd much prefer to use gnucash over some other alternative, > but so far I've found it severely lacking in one area, and that's > importing bank stateme

Re: telnetd prompt

2002-03-09 Thread Jens Müller
Shyamal Prasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Try 'hostname, 'hostname --fqdn' and 'dnsdomainname -v' for some > hints. Look in /etc/hostname and /etc/hosts too. I wish I had a simple > answer for you, but I'm somewhat ignorant myself. debian:/etc/news# hostname debian.enode.de debian:/etc/news# h

Re: Open Office in unstable?

2002-03-09 Thread Jan-Hendrik Palic
Hi ... On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 02:27:41PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: >Are there any plans to get open office into unstable? (I know there is >no chance to get it into woody...) Into woody ... there is no doupt, that we do not get it into woody. I think, we will get it into unstable within the ne

Re: Incorporating testing or unstable

2002-03-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 11:16:54PM -0600, Timothy R. Butler wrote: > Hi, > > Can anyone tell me the process by which I might incorporate > [...] > > specific- instances of testing packages but on the whole remain > > at stable. > > First, create an /etc/apt/preferences file, and put something li

potato to woody 2nd try

2002-03-09 Thread Eric Richardson
Hi, I followed a suggestion from this list to update dpkg and apt first during the upgrade. For the most part this worked great. A couple of small things. Unless I pushed the wrong button and refused a new kernel, 2.2.20 was not installed during the dist-upgrade. When installing a few more

Re: Copying Partition, Using Reiser.

2002-03-09 Thread Timothy R. Butler
> 1. Does your current kernel support Reiser? If so, then you >can put the destination disk in the current disk and copy. Well in the computer that my system is currently installed, yes, I have Reiser support. In the latter system however, I do not currently have an OS installed, and the

Re: telnetd prompt

2002-03-09 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Jens" == Jens Müller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jens> "Eric C. Cooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I believe this comes from /etc/issue.net (probably set up >> during installation). Jens> debian:/etc/news# cat /etc/issue.net Debian GNU/%s 3.0 %h Jens> man issue.net:

Re: the quest for a *stable* browser (thanks)

2002-03-09 Thread timothy bauscher
Ok, thank you everyone for your input. I downloaded the nightly CVS Mozilla tarball. If that proves to beunstable, I will try Galeon. (==timothy==) = "timothy" == timothy bauscher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: timothy> I downloaded Mozilla via apt-

Re: telnetd prompt

2002-03-09 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Jens" == Jens Müller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jens> My telnetd gives the following message: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ Jens> telnet localhost Trying 127.0.0.1... Jens> Connected to localhost. Jens> Escape character is '^]'. Jens> Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 kundenserver.de deb

Re: PINE, Rpm, not installed?

2002-03-09 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 07:00:20PM +0100, Jens M?ller wrote: > Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Due to licensing issue, PINE is only available as source package. See > > below. > > Is it so? > > I installed it once, there was a dummy package which downloaded the > source package, bu

Re: Missing ICQ features / anyone seen those?

2002-03-09 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sat, 2002-03-09 at 05:09, Balazs Javor wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks! Does it work with the new ICQ protocol? Yup. When you go to add an account, just choose "Oscar" instead of "ICQ" and you'll be all set. -Alex signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: hotplug: problems with cold-plugging

2002-03-09 Thread Craig Dickson
begin Stefan Bellon quotation: > 2.4.18 > > I just had a closer look at it. The message doesn't appear at startup, > but nevertheless, the effect is the same: > > If I do "/etc/init.d/hotplug restart", then I get the following message: > > umount: /proc/bus/usb: not mounted > > I digged a bi

Re: Copying Partition, Using Reiser.

2002-03-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2002-03-09 at 15:32, Timothy R. Butler wrote: > Hi everyone, > I have a 1.9 Gig install of Debian I would like to copy to a second > computer. Further more, I would like to format the hard disk on the new > computer with ReiserFS rather than ext2. Is there a simple way to do the > abov

Problems with fbtv after recent upgrade.

2002-03-09 Thread stan
'v got a woody machine. Frame buffer tv gas been working like a charm on it for months. The other day (a week or so agoa) I upgraded it when dslect offerred me teh choice. I alos upgraded xawtv, and motv. Now frame fbtv is acting cranky. If I try to use it as a non root user, I get the chanel,

Copying Partition, Using Reiser.

2002-03-09 Thread Timothy R. Butler
Hi everyone, I have a 1.9 Gig install of Debian I would like to copy to a second computer. Further more, I would like to format the hard disk on the new computer with ReiserFS rather than ext2. Is there a simple way to do the above steps? If not, is there an easy way to do a netinst install

Re: segfault with postponed and mutt_1.3.27-4_i386

2002-03-09 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 11:12:13AM +0100, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: > On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 06:04:02PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > Maybe the subject change will make more eyes look at the message... > > > > If you *haven't* seen this problem yourself, I'd like to know, as well > > if you have.

Re: alsa dsp devfs

2002-03-09 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 10:14:51AM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > > I can't seem to be able to get sound from my dsp using alsa. I can load the > modules and play *.wav files using aplay. What is the trick to getting the > dsp to work? > > I ran snddevices. > > > Also, when starting alsa: >

Re: How to Install Pine on Potato?

2002-03-09 Thread Sebastiaan
High, On Sat, 9 Mar 2002, Dave Scott wrote: > Ok, three different installs of Potato and still cannot get pine to > install. :-( > > > Anyway, here is some of the messages that seem to stand out on the > compile. > I can't make heads or tails of any of these messages. > This should work. Add a s

Re: Wheel mouse

2002-03-09 Thread Stephen Ryan
On Sat, 2002-03-09 at 15:21, Daniel Toffetti wrote: > On Saturday 09 March 2002 00:17, Kent West wrote: > > >This is what I currently have (working well except for the wheel): > > > > > >Section "InputDevice" > > >Identifier "Mouse1" > > >Driver "mouse" > > >Option "Protocol""IM

Re: console mixer for two soundcards

2002-03-09 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
Hi Karsten, I like aumix but I'm not sure about two devices. Regards, Joachim On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 01:55:47PM +0100, Karsten Heymann wrote: > Hi, > is there any text-based mixer app in unstable which can use more than > one mixer device or which lets you choose your mixer device file? I > cou

Re: Certificate printer software? / turboprint

2002-03-09 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 04:50:48PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: > Correct me if I'm wrong, kostenlos==free of charge? as in beer? > Maybe the term you want is "freeware" which is not in the public domain, > and can have any number of license restrictions, but doesn't cost $ to > use. In the above c

Re: Certificate printer software? / turboprint

2002-03-09 Thread Sebastiaan
High, On Sat, 9 Mar 2002, Eric G. Miller wrote: > On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 04:19:05PM -0300, Daniel Toffetti wrote: > > On Friday 08 March 2002 19:50, Gary Turner wrote: > > > > The full version costs AFAIK EUR 20. (BTW, it often causes > > > > confusion that you have no English word for kostenlos

How to Install Pine on Potato?

2002-03-09 Thread Dave Scott
Title: How to Install Pine on Potato? Ok, three different installs of Potato and still cannot get pine to install. L First problem I had on all boxes was with –lncurses, I seemed to get around it by installing the development lib of ncurses. I read through the doc and readme like 20 times n

Re: GnuCash vs MoneyDance

2002-03-09 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sat, 2002-03-09 at 14:35, James D Strandboge wrote: > In addition to doing all my household/personal finances with it, I use > gnucash for accounts/receivable, invoicing and reports for consulting I > do on the side and have been very pleased with gnucash's capabilities. > It has much improved

Re: Certificate printer software? / turboprint

2002-03-09 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 04:19:05PM -0300, Daniel Toffetti wrote: > On Friday 08 March 2002 19:50, Gary Turner wrote: > > > The full version costs AFAIK EUR 20. (BTW, it often causes > > > confusion that you have no English word for kostenlos / gratuit. > > > Can't you invent one?) > > > --- snipped

Re: Wheel mouse

2002-03-09 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sat, 2002-03-09 at 14:10, Daniel Toffetti wrote: > On Friday 08 March 2002 20:40, Bob Thibodeau wrote: > > > > The important parts for making the wheel work are > > > > > > > > Option "Emulate3Buttons" "off" > > > > Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" > > > > > > Well, now at least it doesn't

RE: VPN on Kernel 2.4.18

2002-03-09 Thread Dave Scott
Vector,   Make sure eth0 is public ip or change the rulez if its eth1   Of course you need IP Forwarding rule and masquerade connections first.   echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward   Then you need to enable source NAT if you have static IP,   iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -

Re: need advice on IRC client choice

2002-03-09 Thread Sebastiaan
High, On Sat, 9 Mar 2002, Gary Turner wrote: > As you might imagine, I need some suggestions on which irc-client to > install. > > I'm running Debian Woody, X11 v4, and Gnome-sawfish desktop. I mention > the X stuff because for this application I think a graphical interface > will be more approp

Re: GnuCash vs MoneyDance

2002-03-09 Thread James D Strandboge
On Sat, 2002-03-09 at 15:05, David Z Maze wrote: > Ed Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Sat, 09 Mar 2002 10:46:31 -0600 > > hanasaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Could people share the thoughts and experiences? Thanks. > > > > MoneyDance is a multi platform Java app and commercial

need advice on IRC client choice

2002-03-09 Thread Gary Turner
It's hard to believe, but I haven't done chat (and I've been 'online' since Genie in '90 or '91). I don't even have a chat client installed on any of my machines. So, I figure -- let's stick one on the Debian box. A quick "apt-cache search irc | grep client" yields 48 client packages. There's

Re: ssl for webmin

2002-03-09 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, curtis wrote: > Any ideas why enabling SSL support for webmin through the webmin browser > doesn't work? I have uninstalled and reinstalled webmin many times > thinking something just must not have gotten installed right, but that's > apparently not the issue. > > I should not

Re: Wheel mouse

2002-03-09 Thread Daniel Toffetti
On Saturday 09 March 2002 00:17, Kent West wrote: > >This is what I currently have (working well except for the wheel): > > > >Section "InputDevice" > >Identifier "Mouse1" > >Driver "mouse" > >Option "Protocol""IMPS/2" > >Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" > >#Option

Re: Wheel mouse

2002-03-09 Thread Daniel Toffetti
On Friday 08 March 2002 20:40, Bob Thibodeau wrote: > > > The important parts for making the wheel work are > > > > > > Option "Emulate3Buttons" "off" > > > Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" > > > > Well, now at least it doesn't crash, but the wheel doesn't work. > > Which protocol are you usin

Re: Certificate printer software? / turboprint

2002-03-09 Thread Daniel Toffetti
On Friday 08 March 2002 19:50, Gary Turner wrote: > > The full version costs AFAIK EUR 20. (BTW, it often causes > > confusion that you have no English word for kostenlos / gratuit. > > Can't you invent one?) > --- snipped > > Optionally we could adopt "kostenlos" as we have "kaput," "dumkopf," >

Re: hotplug: problems with cold-plugging

2002-03-09 Thread Stefan Bellon
Craig Dickson wrote: > begin Stefan Bellon quotation: > > I've used usbmgr to manage my USB devices till now and everthing > > worked fine. But I read that for 2.4 kernels hotplug is the > > suggested way to go and not usbmgr. > > > > So I now tried to set up hotplug. > > > > The hot-plugging

Re: Missing nsupdate

2002-03-09 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 12:51:44PM -0500, David Priban wrote: > I'm probably missing somethig here but does anybody know what happend > to nsupdate utility from bind package? It was included in bind 8.2.4 > but is not in 8.3.1 .deb file but it is part of original sources from ISC. > Same thing appl

Re: GnuCash vs MoneyDance

2002-03-09 Thread David Z Maze
Ed Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 09 Mar 2002 10:46:31 -0600 > hanasaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Could people share the thoughts and experiences? Thanks. > > MoneyDance is a multi platform Java app and commercial. > It has many nice features, good support. > I have used it f

Re: telnetd prompt

2002-03-09 Thread Jens Müller
"Eric C. Cooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I believe this comes from /etc/issue.net (probably set up during > installation). debian:/etc/news# cat /etc/issue.net Debian GNU/%s 3.0 %h man issue.net: %h - show the system node name (FQDN) And where comes the system node name (FQDN) kunden

Re: hotplug: problems with cold-plugging

2002-03-09 Thread Craig Dickson
begin Stefan Bellon quotation: > I've used usbmgr to manage my USB devices till now and everthing worked > fine. But I read that for 2.4 kernels hotplug is the suggested way to > go and not usbmgr. > > So I now tried to set up hotplug. > > The hot-plugging itself works fine. But hotplug doesn'

hotplug: problems with cold-plugging

2002-03-09 Thread Stefan Bellon
Hi! I've used usbmgr to manage my USB devices till now and everthing worked fine. But I read that for 2.4 kernels hotplug is the suggested way to go and not usbmgr. So I now tried to set up hotplug. The hot-plugging itself works fine. But hotplug doesn't detect what is already plugged in at boot

A MUST for all IT-Executives!

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Re: GnuCash vs MoneyDance

2002-03-09 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 01:10:58PM -0500, Ed Lawson wrote: > On Sat, 09 Mar 2002 10:46:31 -0600 > hanasaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Could people share the thoughts and experiences? Thanks. > > MoneyDance is a multi platform Java app and commercial. > It has many nice features, good suppo

OT: interface card to register button presses

2002-03-09 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, does anyone know a good, simple interface card which gives you the ability to connect a panel with about 100 buttons to your computer and registrates which butten is pressed? Of course it should work with Linux and hopefully an easy to program one. I was asked to make a simple voting simula

Re: questions about fvwm config, XF86Setup, fonts

2002-03-09 Thread Simon Hepburn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Hi all, now that I have X running again, I notice a few things. > >> XF86Setup no longer works. when I select it from my fvwm menu nothing > >> happens. no errors no screen flashing, nothing. > > > >You seem to have started more than one thr

Re: PS/2 (/dev/psaux) is not working on Woody with Kernel 2.2.20

2002-03-09 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Mar 06, 2002, Jan H. van Gils ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi, > > Thanks for reading message. > > After installing my Laptop (Dell Inspiron 3200) with Debian Woody > I am not able to use my /dev/psaux (PS/2 mouse). > > The system was running NetBSD this morning and de mouse was

Re: PINE, Rpm, not installed?

2002-03-09 Thread Jens Müller
Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Due to licensing issue, PINE is only available as source package. See > below. Is it so? I installed it once, there was a dummy package which downloaded the source package, built binary packages and installed them. -- Please don't CC me on replies!

Re: questions about fvwm config, XF86Setup, fonts

2002-03-09 Thread xucaen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Hi all, now that I have X running again, I notice a few things. XF86Setup >> no longer works. when I select it from my fvwm menu nothing happens. no >> errors no screen flashing, nothing. >You seem to have started more than one thread on this, so forgive me if I'm >

Re: GnuCash vs MoneyDance

2002-03-09 Thread hanasaki
Is it 100% Java? Same JAR runs on all OS's or OS' specific ports w/ JNI? I looked at that site but cant tell the difference between the download vs purchase. Ed Lawson wrote: On Sat, 09 Mar 2002 10:46:31 -0600 hanasaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Could people share the thoughts and experie

Re: start-stop-daemon chroot option.

2002-03-09 Thread Chris Hilts
On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 07:27:09PM +0100, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: > You might need some shared libraries (that the daemon binary itself depends > upon) that are missing in the chroot jail. Since spamd is a perl script, it's most likely missing a perl interpreter in the chroot jail. Chris Hilts

Re: start-stop-daemon chroot option.

2002-03-09 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Sat, 09 Mar 2002 12:08:54 -0600, Corey Halpin wrote: [...] >Yes, there is a spamd in /usr/sbin, and there is also one in >/var/lib/spamd/usr/sbin. You might need some shared libraries (that the daemon binary itself depends upon) that are missing in the chroot jail. "ldd -v " should show you

RE: /etc/passwd file, and USERSPEC.H

2002-03-09 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Sat, 2002-03-09 at 18:21, Mark Dascher wrote: > Ah, ok. So the passwd (5) man page is just a bit outdated, then? (When I > read a man page, I like to make sure I understand it completely, so I > usually have to test stuff out ;) I filed a bug on it. -- Oliver Elphick

RE: /etc/passwd file, and USERSPEC.H

2002-03-09 Thread Mark Dascher
Ah, ok. So the passwd (5) man page is just a bit outdated, then? (When I read a man page, I like to make sure I understand it completely, so I usually have to test stuff out ;) -Original Message- From: Ben Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2002 11:31 AM To: Mar

start-stop-daemon chroot option.

2002-03-09 Thread Corey Halpin
I'm attempting to chroot my spamd process to run from /var/lib/spamd. I have copied all the relevant files from /etc, and from /usr/sbin to /var/lib/spamd. I then edit /etc/init.d/spamassassin and add --chroot /var/lib/spamd after every start-stop-daemon invocation. when I run the modifie

Please help me find a font with outline shape

2002-03-09 Thread andrej hocevar
Could anyone tell me which font does have the "outline" shape available for use in latex and where to find it? Please, I need it quickly. The manual (info latex) only says this much: _ `\fontseries{series}' Select font series. Valid series include: [.

Re: GnuCash vs MoneyDance

2002-03-09 Thread Ed Lawson
On Sat, 09 Mar 2002 10:46:31 -0600 hanasaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Could people share the thoughts and experiences? Thanks. MoneyDance is a multi platform Java app and commercial. It has many nice features, good support. I have used it for about a year and like it very much. I tried GnuCa

Re: PINE, Rpm, not installed?

2002-03-09 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 05:32:31AM -0600, Camilo wrote: > I wanted to use PINE under my potato install... found it is not > installed? why is this? Rpm isnt there either... Due to licensing issue, PINE is only available as source package. See below. I think RPM is available in potato but it is

Re: PINE, Rpm, not installed?

2002-03-09 Thread timothy bauscher
apt-get install rpm *it should work* (==timothy==) = Hi! I wanted to use PINE under my potato install... found it is not installed? why is this? Rpm isnt there either... I guess i can use apt-get to install PINE.. but im not so sure about rpm, since it is

Re: How to share cable connection ?

2002-03-09 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 12:37:11AM +0800, Thomas Graham wrote: > hey, I am wonder how can I share my cable connection > to two PCs using debian ? Yes. > ipmasq using fix LAN ip, which is I do not like. You are wrong here. IPmasq method does not require this. Network IP assignment rocedure

etherwake

2002-03-09 Thread Charlie Grosvenor
Hi Has anybody successfully used etherwake to start a machine remotly? I have a D-Link DFE-530TX which supports Wake-On-LAN but i cannot get it to work. Thankyou Charlie

PINE, Rpm, not installed?

2002-03-09 Thread Camilo
Hi! I wanted to use PINE under my potato install... found it is not installed? why is this? Rpm isnt there either... I guess i can use apt-get to install PINE.. but im not so sure about rpm, since it is the red hat package management tool.. and debian is built with apt in mind... does rpm wo

Help! Task-ximian-gnome not installing correctly...

2002-03-09 Thread Camilo
Hello! well, after forcing a package to overwrite another with dpkg, apt-get moved on installing task-ximian-gnome.. until it found this other problem.. setting up guile1.4-slib (1.4-ximian.11) ... ERROR: Could not find slib/require.scm in ("/"usr/share/guile/site" "/usr/share/guile/1.4" "/usr

Re: How to share cable connection ?

2002-03-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2002-03-09 at 10:37, Thomas Graham wrote: > hey, I am wonder how can I share my cable connection > to two PCs using debian ? > ipmasq using fix LAN ip, which is I do not like. > is it possible to use DHCP server to share cable > connection to LAN ? What you ask (using static IPs) happens _

Re: The future of Debian install??

2002-03-09 Thread csj
On Fri, 8 Mar 2002 15:19:59 -0500 "Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 08/03/02 Manoj Srivastava did speaketh: > > >I beg to differ. A computer is a marvelous, versatile, > > flexible, configurable tool, and, I prefer to actually learn how > > to use ones tools. > >

Re: the quest for a *stable* browser

2002-03-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2002-03-09 at 10:07, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 11:15:01PM -0500, timothy bauscher wrote: > > I downloaded Mozilla via apt-get. It crashes > > often. I would like a stable open source > > alternative to Mozilla. > > Which version of mozilla are you using? > > I have n

GnuCash vs MoneyDance

2002-03-09 Thread hanasaki
Could people share the thoughts and experiences? Thanks. -- = = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = = Spam : Unhealthy and High in Sodium and Cholesterol = ==

Re: Charset problem

2002-03-09 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 05:24:23PM -0300, Daniel Ruoso wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a woody user and I'm having problems with the ISO8859-1 charset, > characters like áéíóúçàèèìòù doesn't work in many programs, specially > gnome programs. Follow a list of programs that have this problem: It depends on th

How to share cable connection ?

2002-03-09 Thread Thomas Graham
hey, I am wonder how can I share my cable connection to two PCs using debian ? ipmasq using fix LAN ip, which is I do not like. is it possible to use DHCP server to share cable connection to LAN ? Thanks ___ Do You Yahoo!? Get you

Re: /etc/passwd file, and USERSPEC.H

2002-03-09 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 11:10:40AM -0500, Mark Dascher wrote: > OK. Do you know how I would switch from the /etc/shadow aging info to the > /etc/password aging info? I already ran pwunconv, but it doesn't seem to > unconv the aging information. It's not too big a deal if you don't know > how; I'

Re: Basic linux network questions (long)

2002-03-09 Thread Russell Coker
On Fri, 8 Mar 2002 22:23, Richard Wurdack wrote: > I discover, however, that if I shut the lid on the box (it might be > hibernating, don't know - I didn't doing anything special for APM), and > reopen it, pon can't dial out without a reboot (just like Windows!). Here's the APM related kernel buil

Re: the quest for a *stable* browser

2002-03-09 Thread Carl Fink
The only stability problem with recent Mozilla I've detected is that opening a second instance (not a second window) makes both instances unable to load new web pages. (Cached stuff continues to work.) -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] I-Con's Science and Technology Programming

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