Re: Network problem/question.

2002-05-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 22:42, tony mollica wrote: > Thanks for the reply. What I need to do is > have the windows clients on the LAN side > (192.168.100.0/24) be able to access a shared > directory on a win2000server box on the WAN > side (10.x.x.0/24) and still preserve my Linux masq. > I canno

Re: Debian on an old system

2002-05-19 Thread Michael D. Crawford
You could try the database API that is included with ZooLib. It has a C++ api. It doesn't have a network protocol of any sort, although a network server has been built with it that uses a proprietary (and I imagine special-purpose) protocol. It's pretty efficient. You should get the code tha

Re: Network problem/question.

2002-05-19 Thread tony mollica
Thanks for the reply. What I need to do is have the windows clients on the LAN side (192.168.100.0/24) be able to access a shared directory on a win2000server box on the WAN side (10.x.x.0/24) and still preserve my Linux masq. I cannot change the IP's on the WAN side with the exception of the m

Re: mixture of regular debian libs and ximian gnome libs

2002-05-19 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 14:15, Josef Oswald wrote: > > First thanks for responding, now after I run this command I've got > _lots_ of ximian packages, how do I remove them ( I know that with > apt-get remove a single package can be removed > But a whole Bunch of them? > I've been running my

Re: Where's the POP3 package?

2002-05-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 21:48, Glen Lee Edwards wrote: > I need to install a POP3 server. What package is it in? > > Is there a way that I can search packages for a file using apt and a regexp? $ apt-cache search pop3d cvm - Credential Validation Modules cyrus-common - CMU Cyrus mail system (commo

Re: versions

2002-05-19 Thread Glen Lee Edwards
>The upcoming stable distribution - Woody - features fairly recent >software. It still uses 2.2 by default though installing 2.4 can be done >also (there's an explanation for this in the Debian docs). > >For the most recent software, there's also the unstable distribution >(codenamed Sid) - unstabl

Re: Debian on an old system

2002-05-19 Thread Mike Thompson
The flat file database "Nosql" is small and fast and uses very little resources. It runs using sed, awk and perl scripts. If you use it with a small shell like "ash" for example it should fulfill all the requirements you have for your muffler shop. Mike On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 07:23:30PM -0500,

Where's the POP3 package?

2002-05-19 Thread Glen Lee Edwards
I need to install a POP3 server. What package is it in? Is there a way that I can search packages for a file using apt and a regexp? Glen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: abcde rips to wav, then hangs

2002-05-19 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Sun, 19 May 2002 06:44:09PM -0700, Robert Woodcock insinuated: > On 18 May 2002 15:27:46 -0700, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > [...] > > with OUTPUTTYPE specified as mp3 in ~/.abcde.conf, running `abcde` > > rips all the tracks to .wav, and then hangs. > > You've probably managed to half-convince abcd

Re: about dpkg

2002-05-19 Thread Corrin Lakeland
On Mon, 20 May 2002 14:12, Squirrel wrote: > When I type "dpkg -i *deb",it says "ldconfig" not found on > PATH;"start-stop-daemon" not found on PATH; Hello, You already have these packages on your machine; You do not have them in your PATH. I suggest you type source ~/.bashrc Here is a good s

Re: about dpkg

2002-05-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 10:12:38AM +0800, Squirrel wrote: > When I type "dpkg -i *deb",it says "ldconfig" not found on > PATH;"start-stop-daemon" not found on PATH; > "update-rc.d" not found on PATH.It seemed that I have not installed > those tools in my machine ,where can I found these packages an

about dpkg

2002-05-19 Thread Squirrel
When I type "dpkg -i *deb",it says "ldconfig" not found on PATH;"start-stop-daemon" not found on PATH; "update-rc.d" not found on PATH.It seemed that I have not installed those tools in my machine ,where can I found these packages and what are the full name of these packages? -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: how can I install the dpkg tool?

2002-05-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 09:41:28AM +0800, Squirrel wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > Can you give a bit more information about what you're doing, though? It > > sounds rather dangerous. Installing .debs verbatim on a non-Debian > > system could break it, as dpkg will keep track of file conflicts wit

sshd and tcp wrappers

2002-05-19 Thread Tom Allison
IIRC, ssh includes the tcpwrapper for access. This means that it also looks as the /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny files. I want to configure sshd such that it allows certain domains to be accepted. I was adding "sshd: .domainname.com" to the hosts.allow file, but tcpdchk complains that i

X Configuration

2002-05-19 Thread Tom Allison
Where would I put global settings for things like xset? I thought it might be /etc/X11/Xsession.d/ But there's nothing that says that is the right place to put it. I would like to do something like: 'xset dpms 600 1200 2400' everytime that the [xkw]dm login screen starts up. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

/dev/fb0 permissions

2002-05-19 Thread Sridhar M.A.
Hello, I have downloaded and compiled links browser with support for frame buffer devices. When I tried to run as user, obviously, I got an error regarding permissions. When I checked /dev/fb0, it had only write permission for 'others'. Just to check whether thr program would run, I changed the pe

storing route information

2002-05-19 Thread Tom Allison
Where is the recommended place to add route informating that needs to be added after an interface is configured? I have some additional routes to add. Is it expected to go into /etc/network/interfaces as part of a 'up' command line option? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: abcde rips to wav, then hangs

2002-05-19 Thread Robert Woodcock
On 18 May 2002 15:27:46 -0700, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > i'm trying to use abcde to convert my cds to mp3s. i haven't done > this in about a year, but last spring it worked fine on this box. > haven't changed anything but the versions of abcde and its components > have changed as i've been updating

Re: Recommended tape backup software - tape vs disk

2002-05-19 Thread Ron Johnson
You and I must think on different scales... 30 days worth of the 155GB database that I manage, plus the 40GB of flat files == 5.8TB 30 days worth of the 80GB database that I manage, plus the 20GB of flat files == 2.4TB 30 days of the 1.5TB disk space that my co-worker manages plus 200GB of flat

Re: how can I install the dpkg tool?

2002-05-19 Thread Squirrel
> You'll probably want to touch /var/lib/dpkg/status. > > Can you give a bit more information about what you're doing, though? It > sounds rather dangerous. Installing .debs verbatim on a non-Debian > system could break it, as dpkg will keep track of file conflicts with > other packages but not wi

Re: Why do I have to double type tildes quotes when in X-Window?

2002-05-19 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Sean" == Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sean> or enjoy the fact that meta is meta and alt is alt (-: You can Sean> always fix the console mapping. Yeah, but that only works if you have 104 keys. ;-) -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key

Re: Recommended tape backup software - tape vs disk

2002-05-19 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya ron > [snip] > > - tons of problems with tapes for "large amount of data"... > > You get what you pay for. At work, we use DLTs, and _never_ > have problems, as long as we run the cleaning tape weekly. > Part of the reason is that DLT drives are made well, and another > reason is that

Re: exim configuration

2002-05-19 Thread dman
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 11:59:49PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: [...] | All three of you helped explain it to me. | I got this far (from the base server [option 1]): | | 2002-05-17 23:57:29 178vLV-0001QC-00 <= [EMAIL PROTECTED] | U=tallison P=local S=351 | 2002-05-17 23:57:29 178vLV-0001QC-00 ** [E

Re: Debian on an old system

2002-05-19 Thread dman
On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 12:01:16AM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: | Thanks to everyone who's already responded. Rather than quote 5 | differenet messages, I'll just spit out the questions here. | | While a GUI would be nice in terms of ease of use, the primary use is | going to be in a muffler shop

Re: Recommended tape backup software

2002-05-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 18:18, Alvin Oga wrote: > > hi ya [snip] > - tons of problems with tapes for "large amount of data"... You get what you pay for. At work, we use DLTs, and _never_ have problems, as long as we run the cleaning tape weekly. Part of the reason is that DLT drives are made

Re: debconf config

2002-05-19 Thread Joey Hess
Dave L. wrote: > while installing debconf_1.1.2_all.deb on Potato 2.2r6 (in order to install > xfree 4.1.0), during configure stage... > > 'no type given for question at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Question.pm line > 15.' > > i even tried to comment out the check ('die') to no avail :) I'm not sure

Re: Recommended tape backup software

2002-05-19 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya i thought amanda needed "temp space for it to backup its file to go to backup" .. ie.. if you backing up 100GB of user data ... you need another 100GB of space too ... before it goes to the final backup media ( tape ? ) - 1TB in some cases of backups ... -- tar is a time tested be

Re: Boot Disks

2002-05-19 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Keith O'Connell wrote: > > Hi, > > I have clearly misunderstood the making of boot disks and would like some > guidance. I made some for each machine here in case or emergency, and thought > I would test them, and each one halted with a kernel panic. > > I assumed that a floppy in the drive of

advansys

2002-05-19 Thread Henning, Brian
Hello- I have an advansys scsi card that is causing me a little bit of trouble. It is giving me an error on boot "scsi : aborting command due to timeout". I thought i had it figured out when i did the install i passed the kernel this info "linux advansys=0xAC00" i did verify that that is the correc

Re: plptools & the Revo/(Diamond Mako)

2002-05-19 Thread csj
On Sat, 18 May 2002 22:46:25 -0700 Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Fri, 17 May 2002 23:45:50 -0700 > >Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Has anyone used plptools, (p3nfsd and/or ncpd) to mount their Psion Revo > >> to their Linux box via the serial cable? > >> > > > >I used

Re: Why do I have to double type tildes quotes when in X-Window?

2002-05-19 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > Carl> Also, the ALT key does not work as a meta key for emacs. > > It probably thinks you have a pc104 keyboard, where the Windows keys act > as the meta keys. Switch it to pc101. > or enjoy the fact that meta is meta and alt is alt (-: You can always fix the console mapping. -- To UNS

Re: java "shortcoming" in Mozilla

2002-05-19 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 15:46, Kent West wrote: > Kent West wrote: > > It works mostly well in Mozilla 1.0RC2 from Sid (Atomic > > something-or-other didn't work; everything else I tried did). ... > BTW; "about:plugins" reports that I've got the "Java(TM) Plug-in > Blackdown-1.3.1-FCS" plugin. Min

dhcp in woody

2002-05-19 Thread Alex Moreno
Hi, I'm writing to this list because my problem is on the network configuration, not in the laptop or the pcmcia package. I explain it... I make a clean instalation of woody, and when it has finished, i make dhcpd and the script catches all the network configuration of the network in my university

Re: HP DeskJet 610C

2002-05-19 Thread Ted
Jeremy T. Bouse wrote: Someone has probably already stated this but I have do have a HP 610CL connect'd to one of my internal Debian machines running lprng to handle print spooling from the other Debian and a couple Windows 2000 machines fine... I used lprngtool (1.1.1-6) and l

Re: Fonts and XFree86

2002-05-19 Thread Daniel D Jones
On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 15:24, Dale Hair wrote: > I believe truetype fonts would not load on mine until I moved the > truetype fontpath lines to the beginning of the section. My X11Config-4 > is probably not ideal but I'm satisfied with it for now. I'm open to > critique. I have my truetypes in /u

Re: mixture of regular debian libs and ximian gnome libs

2002-05-19 Thread Josef Oswald
Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 02:43:49AM +0200, Josef Oswald wrote: >> Well it seems that by installing ximian gnome I installed a mixture of >> incompatible libs, ( just found out this evening as I wanted to >> install various *-dev libs.) >> >> Now how can I so

Re: Why do I have to double type tildes quotes when in X-Window?

2002-05-19 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Carl" == Carl Weidling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Carl> when I type a tilde (~) or quote (') or double quote(") I have to Carl> type it twice. Check your keyboard settings in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. It probably thinks you have a non-English keyboard, where those keys are dead keys

Re: Recommended tape backup software

2002-05-19 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On 19 May 2002 13:58:29 -0500 "Kirk Strauser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm a big fan of Amanda, which uses tar or dump to backup as many remote > machines as you want to a central backup server. Doesn't Amanda require a "backup" partition? Doesn't the partition also need to be the size of

Re: java "shortcoming" in Mozilla

2002-05-19 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: Alex Malinovich wrote: I'm running the blackdown distribution of the JDK (1.3.1) and using the Mozilla plugin. I can't quite figure out why, but for some reason threads seem to be terminating prematurely. Most simple java apps work fine, but trying to run any of the popcap gam

Re: java "shortcoming" in Mozilla

2002-05-19 Thread Kent West
Alex Malinovich wrote: I'm running the blackdown distribution of the JDK (1.3.1) and using the Mozilla plugin. I can't quite figure out why, but for some reason threads seem to be terminating prematurely. Most simple java apps work fine, but trying to run any of the popcap games (www.popcap.com)

Re: Install Debian for desktop

2002-05-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 08:59, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 02:33:21PM +0200, Robert Ian Smit wrote: [snip] > > I know Debian is more difficult to install, but I hope I will benefit by > > learning a lot. The default install for Redhat 7.3 is quite nice, but > > adapting it

Re: HP DeskJet 610C

2002-05-19 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
Someone has probably already stated this but I have do have a HP 610CL connect'd to one of my internal Debian machines running lprng to handle print spooling from the other Debian and a couple Windows 2000 machines fine... I used lprngtool (1.1.1-6) and lprng (3.8.10-1) and their

Re: Fonts and XFree86

2002-05-19 Thread Dale Hair
> > I've removed xfs, xfstt and xfs-xtt, all three of which were running. > I've verified that the correct path is in XF86Config-4, checked > /var/log/XFree86.0.log to ensure that the path is not being barfed out > and that the freetype module is being loaded, verified the presence of > fonts.di

Re: Recommended tape backup software

2002-05-19 Thread Florentin Ionescu
At this link you have alternatives described : http://www-105.ibm.com/developerworks/education.nsf/ linux-onlinecourse-bytitle/0FB4D16BD2C3E83E86256AA2005244D1?OpenDocument Florentin. On Sun, 19 May 2002, Michael Madden wrote : » Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 10:26:26 -0500 » From: Michael Madden <[EM

Why do I have to double type tildes quotes when in X-Window?

2002-05-19 Thread Carl Weidling
Hello, I just acquired an 8 CD set, Debian Woody (Unoffical) from Edmunds ENterprises and installed it. It's working pretty well except that when I'm in X-windows (any window manager, any term, xterm, gnometerm, whatever), when I type a tilde (~) or quote (') or double quote(") I have to type it

Re: Blocking 'unsubscribe'

2002-05-19 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 06:17:29AM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 08:56:32PM +0800, Michael C Alonzo wrote: > > Good Day, > > > > How do i block mails(through procmail) with a subject line of 'unsubcribe'? > > # blackhole for autoresponders > :0 > * 1^0 ^From:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Recommended tape backup software

2002-05-19 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2002-05-19T15:26:26Z, Michael Madden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Which tape backup software is considered the best? I not really > considering commericial products, but I'd like to stick to one of the > following: dump, tar, cpio, pax I'm a big fan of Amanda, which uses tar or dump to back

Re: apt/pins: Why does apt try to downgrade?

2002-05-19 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 06:52:25PM +0200, Thomas Schoepf wrote: > On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 07:25:59AM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > Short answer: Use pin of 90 instead of 700 for mozilla-browser and > > others in /etc/apt/preferences. > > Won't that prevent upgrades when mozilla-browser_2:1+rc2-3 is

Re: Unidentified subject! -- SORRY!

2002-05-19 Thread Andreas Grabner
RTFM correct :-) Sorry!!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Recommended tape backup software

2002-05-19 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 10:26:26AM -0500, Michael Madden wrote: > Which tape backup software is considered the best? I not really > considering commericial products, but I'd like to stick to one of the > following: dump, tar, cpio, pax > > I will be backing up ext2 and ext3 filesystems to a DDS4

Re: Fonts and XFree86

2002-05-19 Thread Daniel D Jones
On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 11:05, Shadowdancer wrote: > On Sunday 19 May 2002 04:31, Daniel D Jones wrote: > > > I have xfs-ttf installed and running. ps aux verifies it's there and > > running on port 7110. I have unix/:7110 in my XF86Config-4 file, as > > well as the direct font paths. xf's log fi

Re: Fetchmail

2002-05-19 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 10:06, Keith O'Connell wrote: > scheduling. What I want to know is, how often does it download mail, > and how can I change this time gap? I don't desperately want to change > it as it is working fine, I just want to know how it works. man fetchmail Reaad the "DAEMON MODE" s

Unidentified subject!

2002-05-19 Thread Andreas Grabner
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Re: Galeon quit working

2002-05-19 Thread Dale Hair
On Sun, 2002-05-12 at 13:05, Dale Hair wrote: > After last dist-upgrade on two machines Galeon quit working. One is > running testing with galeon from unstable, the other is testing only. > When I try to run it from xterm I get > > /usr/bin/galeon-bin: relocation error: /usr/lib/libgtkembedmoz

Re: ps/2 mouse flickering on toshiba - xfree 4.1.0-16

2002-05-19 Thread Ken Irving
On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 05:42:30PM +0100, Vasco Figueira wrote: > Hi all, > > When recently upgraded from potato to woody, wich means xfree 3.x to > 4.x, I have occasionaly some problems with my external (ps/2) mouse. > > I have a Toshiba Satellite 4070, and the mouse is a Microsoft > Intellimous

Re: apt/pins: Why does apt try to downgrade?

2002-05-19 Thread Thomas Schoepf
On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 07:25:59AM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Short answer: Use pin of 90 instead of 700 for mozilla-browser and > others in /etc/apt/preferences. Won't that prevent upgrades when mozilla-browser_2:1+rc2-3 is available in unstable? What I want is: use some packages from unstable if

Re: Install Debian for desktop

2002-05-19 Thread synthespian
On Sun, 19 May 2002 14:33:21 +0200 Robert Ian Smit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi, > (cut) > >If I install software in /usr/local, as I understand it, I bypass >Debian package management. If I want to run current software (as in >Redhat or Mandrake current) will I need to install a lot of softwar

Re: Blocking 'unsubscribe'

2002-05-19 Thread Michael C Alonzo
Thanks for all those replied! Have a nice day. -- Jan Michael C Alonzoemail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG key: http://dotdeb.150m.com/pubring.gpg The trouble with computers is that they do what you tell them, not what you want.

perl info file for emacs

2002-05-19 Thread John S. J. Anderson
Greetings -- I'm trying to (finally) get my Perl coding environment set up properly in (X)Emacs, and one hurdle I'm running into is getting the 'help on function (at point)' commands to work. They require a copy of the Perl docs in 'info' format. Now, I know I cat get this file from Ilya's Z's w

Re: Blocking 'unsubscribe'

2002-05-19 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 10:05:40AM -0500, Richard Cobbe wrote: > Lo, on Sunday, May 19, Michael C Alonzo did write: > > > Osamu Aoki wrote this message last Sun, May 19, 2002 at 06:17:29AM -0700: > > > On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 08:56:32PM +0800, Michael C Alonzo wrote: > > > > # blackhole for autor

Re: Install Debian for desktop

2002-05-19 Thread Shadowdancer
On Sunday 19 May 2002 14:33, Robert Ian Smit wrote: > Hi, > > I am using Windows as my main system at the moment. I have tried various > distributions in the past (Suse, Mandrake, Redhat). The Linux-systems I > tried could never fully replace my Windows desktop. Unstable application > software was

Re: Directory sizes in mc

2002-05-19 Thread Daniel Toffetti
> I had never bothered with this until I saw your note. I notice the > following items: > > 1. As soon as you enter a directory, the display reverts to the > standard. I noticed it too. > 2. There is no entry in ~/.mc/ini that remotely resembles a > directory display style. And besides this, th

Recommended tape backup software

2002-05-19 Thread Michael Madden
Which tape backup software is considered the best? I not really considering commericial products, but I'd like to stick to one of the following: dump, tar, cpio, pax I will be backing up ext2 and ext3 filesystems to a DDS4 tape drive on the local machine. Is any of the prementioned backup utilit

Boot Disks

2002-05-19 Thread Keith O'Connell
Hi, I have clearly misunderstood the making of boot disks and would like some guidance. I made some for each machine here in case or emergency, and thought I would test them, and each one halted with a kernel panic. I assumed that a floppy in the drive of a working machine followed by the comm

Fetchmail

2002-05-19 Thread Keith O'Connell
Hi, I am newish and have just installed Woody onto two machines at home and I am having a few mail hic-cups. I noticed that there was a global fetchmail facility which I read up on and duly got working. I used to use fetchmail as a user and set a cron job to down load the mail every 10 min, but

Re: Blocking 'unsubscribe'

2002-05-19 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 10:20:01PM +0800, Michael C Alonzo wrote: > Osamu Aoki wrote this message last Sun, May 19, 2002 at 06:17:29AM -0700: > > On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 08:56:32PM +0800, Michael C Alonzo wrote: > > > Good Day, How do i block mails(through procmail) with a subject > > > line of 'un

Re: Fonts and XFree86

2002-05-19 Thread Shadowdancer
On Sunday 19 May 2002 04:31, Daniel D Jones wrote: > I have xfs-ttf installed and running. ps aux verifies it's there and > running on port 7110. I have unix/:7110 in my XF86Config-4 file, as > well as the direct font paths. xf's log file verifies that the font > path is being set - none of the

Re: Blocking 'unsubscribe'

2002-05-19 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Sunday, May 19, Michael C Alonzo did write: > Osamu Aoki wrote this message last Sun, May 19, 2002 at 06:17:29AM -0700: > > On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 08:56:32PM +0800, Michael C Alonzo wrote: > > # blackhole for autoresponders > > :0 > > * 1^0 ^From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > * 1^0 ^Subject: Auto

Re: Install Debian for desktop

2002-05-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 02:33:21PM +0200, Robert Ian Smit wrote: > With some of the major applications reaching 1.x, I believe now is the > time to give Linux another shot. Besides I don't want to upgrade to > WinXP. Heh ... > I do have a few questions about package-management. > > Once Woody be

Re: Install Debian for desktop

2002-05-19 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Sun, 19 May 2002 14:33:21 +0200 "Robert Ian Smit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know Debian is more difficult to install, but I hope I will benefit by > learning a lot. As you've no doubt already experienced, the Debian install is text based. No fancy GUI. But other than that I can't say t

Re: apt/pins: Why does apt try to downgrade?

2002-05-19 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, apt preference is confusing. Short answer: Use pin of 90 instead of 700 for mozilla-browser and others in /etc/apt/preferences. Read on ! On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 01:59:51PM +0200, Thomas Schoepf wrote: > I'm using apt_preferences to follow testing and to use mozilla from > unstable. That wor

Re: Blocking 'unsubscribe'

2002-05-19 Thread Michael C Alonzo
Osamu Aoki wrote this message last Sun, May 19, 2002 at 06:17:29AM -0700: > On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 08:56:32PM +0800, Michael C Alonzo wrote: > > Good Day, > > > > How do i block mails(through procmail) with a subject line of 'unsubcribe'? > > # blackhole for autoresponders > :0 > * 1^0 ^From:[EM

Re: cfingerd always hangs

2002-05-19 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 08:20:34PM +0200, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: > > Also, I wonder whether someone could try to finger > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] to see whether the problem is specific to > > this particular host. I would appreciate it. > > Works fine for me. I got your name and public key back.

Re: Install Debian for desktop

2002-05-19 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 02:33:21PM +0200, Robert Ian Smit wrote: > I am using Windows as my main system at the moment. I have tried various > distributions in the past (Suse, Mandrake, Redhat). The Linux-systems I > tried could never fully replace my Windows desktop. Unstable application >

Re: NIS su - joe su: Autentication service cannot retrieve authntication info. (Ignored)

2002-05-19 Thread Christian Jönsson
On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 03:13:19PM +0200, chj wrote: > On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 08:35:22PM +0200, Robert Rakowicz wrote: > > Christian Jönsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Hi, > > > > > I am trying to set up NIS on my Debian Woody SPARC systems. > > > > > > Following nis.debian.howto using

Re: Directory sizes in mc

2002-05-19 Thread Cam Ellison
I had never bothered with this until I saw your note. I notice the following items: 1. As soon as you enter a directory, the display reverts to the standard. 2. There is no entry in ~/.mc/ini that remotely resembles a directory display style. 3. When you use it, there is a certain amount of dis

Re: Blocking 'unsubscribe'

2002-05-19 Thread Thomas Schoepf
> How do i block mails(through procmail) with a subject line of 'unsubcribe'? Put this in your ~/.procmailrc :0 * ^Subject: unsubscribe /dev/null Thomas -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Blocking 'unsubscribe'

2002-05-19 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 08:56:32PM +0800, Michael C Alonzo wrote: > Good Day, > > How do i block mails(through procmail) with a subject line of 'unsubcribe'? # blackhole for autoresponders :0 * 1^0 ^From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * 1^0 ^Subject: Automated reply from * 1^0 ^Subject: subscribe * 1^0 ^Subje

Re: NIS su - joe su: Autentication service cannot retrieve authntication info. (Ignored)

2002-05-19 Thread Christian Jönsson
On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 08:35:22PM +0200, Robert Rakowicz wrote: > Christian Jönsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hi, > > > I am trying to set up NIS on my Debian Woody SPARC systems. > > > > Following nis.debian.howto using shadow passwords I end up > > with this problem. I cannot login on a

Re: Install Debian for desktop

2002-05-19 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 19/05/02 Robert Ian Smit did speaketh: > I am using Windows as my main system at the moment. I have tried various My condolences. > distributions in the past (Suse, Mandrake, Redhat). The Linux-systems I > tried could never fully replace my Windows desktop. Unstable application > softw

Re: Problem with iptables and 2.4.17

2002-05-19 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 01:02:28PM +1000, Nick Croft wrote: > He also advises NOT enabling explicit congestion notification. > > [ ] IP: TCP Explicit Congestion Notification support I'm not sure that this is a good idea; ECN is a standard people should be using, then complaining to the owners b

Re: Directory sizes in mc

2002-05-19 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 01:23:05PM -0300, Daniel Toffetti wrote: > I would like to know if there is some way of doing this a permanent > behaviour. I tried changing the Listing Mode to User Defined, but I > can't get it to show the sizes. I don't use mc, but I would imagine that this would slow

Re: your mail

2002-05-19 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 11:50:50AM +0200, Christian Geier wrote: > hi, > when I start my potato for intel I gett this message: "Starting NFS > kernel daemon: nfsdnfssvc: Function not implemented mountd". rpcinfo > does not show any nfs lines, either, and so I cannot access the machine > via nfs.

Blocking 'unsubscribe'

2002-05-19 Thread Michael C Alonzo
Good Day, How do i block mails(through procmail) with a subject line of 'unsubcribe'? tia -- Jan Michael C Alonzoemail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG key: http://dotdeb.150m.com/pubring.gpg [We] use bad software and bad machines for the

Re: Debian on an old system

2002-05-19 Thread John Hasler
Alex writes: > While a GUI would be nice in terms of ease of use... It would be nice in terms of initial user comfort and familiarity, but an ncurses UI would provide more ease of use. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Install Debian for desktop

2002-05-19 Thread Robert Ian Smit
Hi, I am using Windows as my main system at the moment. I have tried various distributions in the past (Suse, Mandrake, Redhat). The Linux-systems I tried could never fully replace my Windows desktop. Unstable application software was one reason, the amount of hacking required another. With

apt/pins: Why does apt try to downgrade?

2002-05-19 Thread Thomas Schoepf
Hi, I'm using apt_preferences to follow testing and to use mozilla from unstable. That works just fine. Now I've downloaded the mozilla source tar and diff and changed a few things. I versioned this new package "2:1+rc2-2.1". Now "apt-get upgrade" wants to downgrade to "2:1+rc2-2". As far as I u

java "shortcoming" in Mozilla

2002-05-19 Thread Alex Malinovich
I'm running the blackdown distribution of the JDK (1.3.1) and using the Mozilla plugin. I can't quite figure out why, but for some reason threads seem to be terminating prematurely. Most simple java apps work fine, but trying to run any of the popcap games (www.popcap.com) results in the "loader" p

Re: Debian on an old system

2002-05-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 00:01, Alex Malinovich wrote: > Thanks to everyone who's already responded. Rather than quote 5 > differenet messages, I'll just spit out the questions here. > > While a GUI would be nice in terms of ease of use, the primary use is > going to be in a muffler shop, so a mouse

Re: [OT] UPS signaling cable

2002-05-19 Thread Frank Copeland
On 19 May 02 02:53:25 GMT, csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A note from one manufacturer's site, for example, reads in part: "Due to > special signaling requirements necessary for Windows Plug and Play, the > serial cable included with the UPS will not work in the Linux > environment." I'm not sur

Re: plptools & the Revo/(Diamond Mako)

2002-05-19 Thread Brian
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject: Re: plptools & the Revo/(Diamond Mako) From: csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 10:34:46 +0800 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org On Fri, 17 May 2002 23:45:50 -0700 Brian

Re: Debian on an old system

2002-05-19 Thread Alex Malinovich
Thanks to everyone who's already responded. Rather than quote 5 differenet messages, I'll just spit out the questions here. While a GUI would be nice in terms of ease of use, the primary use is going to be in a muffler shop, so a mouse wouldn't survive long anyway. That leaves me with ncurses and