Re: Install Debian for desktop

2002-05-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, May 19, 2002, Jamin W. Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: 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

Re: how can I install the dpkg tool?

2002-05-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, May 20, 2002, Squirrel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: 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

pppd +multilink + demand = ?

2002-05-20 Thread Tony Crawford
Hi gang! My pppd does the demand option fine. Now my ISP offers ML-PPP, and I find pppd does the multilink option just great too--but not in conjunction with the demand option! Is this a known issue? Anybody have a workaround? Do I want to start reading up on diald or something like that? (What

Re: urgent! where to install .h files

2002-05-20 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
Hi Sean On 18/05/02, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On 18-May-2002 Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: I'm trying to install a perl module called Gnokii, which requires one first to compile the gnokii program. Note, gnokii is packaged in Debian (at least under unstable) so you

Re: 1:1 mirror for an entire hd

2002-05-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, May 20, 2002, R. Lockhart ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I need to transfer all my data, os, partitions, formatting, to a new hard drive. I got a lemon hd (still perfect electronicly but making ugly noises). A replacement is on the way from the manufacturer but I'm not sure about the best

Re: urgent! where to install .h files

2002-05-20 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 20-May-2002 Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: Hi Sean On 18/05/02, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On 18-May-2002 Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: I'm trying to install a perl module called Gnokii, which requires one first to compile the gnokii program. Note, gnokii is packaged

Re: Recommended tape backup software - tape vs disk

2002-05-20 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya peter - a tape is 40 - 80GB same as disks ... nowdays disks is always slightly higher capacity You're behind the curve. AIT3 and SDLT offer capacities of ~200GB per tape. yuppers gave up when tapes was 80GB and the mammoth tape drives was $7K each... and each

Re: Recommended tape backup software - disk failures

2002-05-20 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya a nice picture of what causes a system to fail... disks or ??? http://www.Linux-1U.net/Disks/Disk_Failure.gif ( its from an IDC survey ) ( the picture stolen/copied from http://safersite.net/NSS15AFaultTolerantUsersStoragePowerandNetworks.htm - but it seems they

Re: Install Debian for desktop

2002-05-20 Thread Peter Whysall
on Mon, May 20, 2002, Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: on Sun, May 19, 2002, Jamin W. Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: 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

dpkg problem

2002-05-20 Thread christian . schoenebeck
Hi everybuddy! I need some help: I recently tried to upgrade some packages, but after an error during a package replacement I wasn't able to install anything (with 'apt-get install'). Now everytime I try to install something I get this error message: dpkg: parse error, in file

Re: dpkg problem

2002-05-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 12:06:14PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need some help: I recently tried to upgrade some packages, but after an error during a package replacement I wasn't able to install anything (with 'apt-get install'). If you'd like to give more details about that, we can

Same bookmark file for Galeon and Mozilla?

2002-05-20 Thread Balazs Javor
Hi, Is it possible to use the same bookmark file for both Galeon and Mozilla? I often find it difficult to decide which one I should use. Galeon seems to be the better choice, but it also tends to crash more often :( The problem is that if I use one of them for a while I always have to update my

Re: sshd and tcp wrappers

2002-05-20 Thread Tom Allison
Angel L. Mateo wrote: El lun, 20-05-2002 a las 03:18, Tom Allison escribió: 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

Re: Fonts and XFree86

2002-05-20 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Sunday 19 May 2002 23:26, Daniel D Jones wrote: 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

Regardez la télé avec votre chat ! Gagnez un home cinéma sur www.whiskas.fr

2002-05-20 Thread WHISKAS
oktomail a sélectionné pour vous : Dépêchez-vous, vous avez jusqu'au 24 mai pour participer au grand jeu Whiskas® ! D'un simple clic, tentez votre chance : vous pouvez remporter un Home Cinema, un caméscope numérique, ou un appareil photos

Re: Directory sizes in mc

2002-05-20 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 12:35:17PM -0300, Daniel Toffetti wrote: Of course I don't need it to be done with mc, if you know of any other ways to get an easy glimpse of disk space usage I'm interested also. How about (as root): du / | sort -n some.file And then loading some.file in Your

Re: Fonts and XFree86

2002-05-20 Thread Daniel D Jones
On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 07:36, Nicos Gollan wrote: I don't have them either and it works wonderfully. However (again) I'm running 4.2.0, but that shouldn't matter all too much since they didn't change that part of the system AFAIK. I had 4.1.0 running before and I don't remember those

Re: [OT] UPS signaling cable

2002-05-20 Thread Cam Ellison
* Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: on Sat, May 18, 2002, Cam Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have an APC Back-UPS 650 Pro. Works like a charm. I don't use the Linux driver that is supplied, because apcupsd works better. Gives you more information than you probably

Re: Fonts and XFree86

2002-05-20 Thread steev
snip Anything's worth a shot at this point. Unfortunately, changing the order had no effect. But I've now discovered that something funky is going on. Under Openoffice, the truetype fonts are available. They aren't available anywhere else I've found. I'm running KDE 2. The fonts

Re: versions

2002-05-20 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 09:52:31PM -0500, Glen Lee Edwards wrote: What kind of trouble would it cause me if I installed the unstable base and Woody packages? Woody is just-about-releasable right now, so it shouldn't give you any trouble (knock on wood(y)). It sounds like the only thing

Re: Directory sizes in mc

2002-05-20 Thread Daniel Toffetti
Of course I don't need it to be done with mc, if you know of any other ways to get an easy glimpse of disk space usage I'm interested also. How about (as root): du / | sort -n some.file You can then do nice things with grep as well. Yes, this allows you to do really cool things,

Re: Recommended tape backup software

2002-05-20 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 03:52:54PM -0500, Jamin W. Collins wrote: Doesn't Amanda require a backup partition? Amanda likes to have holding disks to work from, but I don't think you're absolutely required to have one. Doesn't the partition also need to be the size of your largest backup target?

Re: Network problem/question.

2002-05-20 Thread tony mollica
The entire operation is behind a company firewall but the local management doesn't want other company locations browsing our LAN. (Updated drawing below). I have a few more days to make this work, at which time the whole location will be changed to the assigned subnet (10.x.x.x). thanks, tony

C64 emulator

2002-05-20 Thread Balazs Javor
Hi, What is the best C64 emulator for Linux? After doing a search on Google, I've noticed that there are quite a few ones oout there. I would very much welcome any recommendations you might have! Many thanks for your help in advance! best regards, Balazs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

cashbook program

2002-05-20 Thread Russ Pitman
My son thinks that gnucash is a little overkill for his requirements. Can anyone suggest a linux program with similiarity to using M$ money cashbook. This is part of my conversion of the family to freedom. thanks. -- russ

font troubles in sid

2002-05-20 Thread James Hughes
Hi, A while ago, after doing an upgrade, I noticed that fonts in galeon where displaying as rectangles. I managed to fix this through trial and error in the galeon preferences, and life went on, though I did notice that the same rectangles were being used to display the xmms playlist. I decided

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Re: Fonts and XFree86

2002-05-20 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 05:26:16PM -0400, Daniel D Jones wrote: 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

Re: Fonts and XFree86

2002-05-20 Thread Daniel D Jones
On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 12:17, Rick Pasotto wrote: On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 05:26:16PM -0400, Daniel D Jones wrote: 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

Re: Fonts and XFree86

2002-05-20 Thread Brian Stults
steev wrote: snip Anything's worth a shot at this point. Unfortunately, changing the order had no effect. But I've now discovered that something funky is going on. Under Openoffice, the truetype fonts are available. They aren't available anywhere else I've found. I'm running KDE 2. The

how does root run a graphical prog

2002-05-20 Thread Willy S
hi, How come root can not run a graphical program under other user session. Let say, I do 'su' and I try to launch gkrellm. Xterm will produce this message: Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server Everything fine if I run a console program

Re: Fonts and XFree86

2002-05-20 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Monday 20 May 2002 16:28, Daniel D Jones wrote: But I've now discovered that something funky is going on. Under Openoffice, the truetype fonts are available. They aren't available anywhere else I've found. I'm running KDE 2. The fonts aren't available under the ControlCenter. They

Re: how does root run a graphical prog

2002-05-20 Thread Kristian Rink
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 11:45:31PM +0700, Willy S wrote: Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server X requires you to have permissions to access the running X server to display any output on your screen. Usually (on well-configured systems),

Re: how does root run a graphical prog

2002-05-20 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Monday 20 May 2002 18:45, Willy S wrote: How come root can not run a graphical program under other user session. Let say, I do 'su' and I try to launch gkrellm. Xterm will produce this message: Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server

sensors problem

2002-05-20 Thread Ross Boylan
Recently, my sensors module seems to be failing. I see this in the log: May 20 09:25:49 wheat kernel: i2c-amd756.o: SMBus collision! May 20 09:25:50 wheat kernel: i2c-amd756.o: Busy wait timeout! (0800) May 20 09:26:00 wheat last message repeated 10 times I have a 2.4.18 kernel, built locally,

Lexmark Z32 on Woody?

2002-05-20 Thread Steffen Evers
Hi! I am trying to get a Lexmark Z32 printer working. Has anyone succeed on this printer and how? I have spent a day on this and it still does not work ... Steffen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how does root run a graphical prog

2002-05-20 Thread Carl Fink
I recommend xhost local:+ over the more general xhost + -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum http://dm.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how does root run a graphical prog

2002-05-20 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Willy S [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hi, How come root can not run a graphical program under other user session. Let say, I do 'su' and I try to launch gkrellm. Xterm will produce this message: Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server

Re: help

2002-05-20 Thread Matt Zimmerman
(this mailing list is for development of the installation system, not for support of it. moving to debian-user) On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 11:33:29AM -0500, GARY P LARGESS wrote: Then VFS: Insert root floppy disk to be loaded into RAM disk and press ENTER This is where I'm stuck. I have not

Re: how does root run a graphical prog

2002-05-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 11:45:31PM +0700, Willy S wrote: How come root can not run a graphical program under other user session. Let say, I do 'su' and I try to launch gkrellm. Xterm will produce this message: Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to

Re: how does root run a graphical prog

2002-05-20 Thread Peter Hicks
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 11:45:31PM +0700, Willy S wrote: hi, How come root can not run a graphical program under other user session. Let say, I do 'su' and I try to launch gkrellm. Xterm will produce this message: Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to

Re: Locale setting on my console to see Japanese character

2002-05-20 Thread Jeff
Deepak Kotian, 2002-May-19 00:24 +0530: Hi, I have all the locales on my machine. locale -a shows it. I have set the LANG as japanese, but when I do ls -l at command prompt on a directory. I do not proper Japanese character in the time stamp column of the output. It

Re: Install Debian for desktop

2002-05-20 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 10:37:26AM +0100, Peter Whysall wrote: on Mon, May 20, 2002, Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: on Sun, May 19, 2002, Jamin W. Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sun, 19 May 2002 14:33:21 +0200 Robert Ian Smit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know

Re: att and cable modem

2002-05-20 Thread Jeff
Ron Johnson, 2002-May-18 21:29 -0500: On Sat, 2002-05-18 at 21:04, Deva Seetharam wrote: hi all i run debian kernel 2.4.18 on a ibm t22 notebook. i am trying to connect to att cable-modem using the intel ethernet card. i have pump as the dhcp client. i dont have

Accounting/Payroll software

2002-05-20 Thread No Realm
Does anyone know of a GNU replacememt for RealWorld accounting software (RealWorld is DOS based and is produced by Great Plains, which is owned by MS)? -- Powered by Outblaze -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Fonts and XFree86

2002-05-20 Thread Daniel D Jones
On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 12:44, Nicos Gollan wrote: On Monday 20 May 2002 16:28, Daniel D Jones wrote: But I've now discovered that something funky is going on. Under Openoffice, the truetype fonts are available. They aren't available anywhere else I've found. I'm running KDE 2. The

Re: how does root run a graphical prog

2002-05-20 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 06:39:22PM +0200, Kristian Rink wrote: Something like 'xhost +' basically should allow anyone (on your system) to connect to X hence to display any graphical output. Bzzt! 'xhost +' allows anyone (on any system capable of contacting your system) to connect to X and

Re: how does root run a graphical prog

2002-05-20 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 06:49:19PM +0200, Nicos Gollan wrote: You could try using ssh with X forwarding for that. Just ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] should do the trick. It's not the best way, but it works. ...unless you're on a system which is configured to disallow remote root logins via ssh.

Re: C64 emulator

2002-05-20 Thread Paul Dersey
Hi, I like vice a lot. It has worked without any problems with every game I have tried with it. It has a fullscreen mode and joystick support as well. Paul On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 06:04:34PM +0200, Balazs Javor wrote: Hi, What is the best C64 emulator for Linux? After doing a search on

Re: Install Debian for desktop

2002-05-20 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 03:29:20PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: 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

Re: how does root run a graphical prog

2002-05-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 12:37:28PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 06:49:19PM +0200, Nicos Gollan wrote: You could try using ssh with X forwarding for that. Just ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] should do the trick. It's not the best way, but it works. ...unless you're on a

Calendar/scheduling softwae fro debain?

2002-05-20 Thread stan
Can anyone recomend a nice time schedulign software application that's in Debain Woody's archive? A Gnome interface would be a plus. -- They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin

Can a Package be installed that only effects 1 user account?

2002-05-20 Thread John Richardson
Hello, Can a Package be installed that only effects 1 user account? One user needs an old egcs compiler. The rest of the users need the gcc 2.95 or gcc 3 compiler when upgraded. Can dpkg be used to install the .deb file so that it applies to just 1 user's account? The man dpkg, man dselect

Re: how does root run a graphical prog

2002-05-20 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Dave Sherohman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020520 10:49]: On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 06:39:22PM +0200, Kristian Rink wrote: Something like 'xhost +' basically should allow anyone (on your system) to connect to X hence to display any graphical output. Bzzt! 'xhost +' allows anyone (on any system

Is it perfectly to pass argv[] this way to function ?

2002-05-20 Thread Deepak Kotian
Hi, Please check the code segment. /*code start / #include stdio.hint func1(char **a_argv){while (*a_argv!=NULL)printf("\n%s", *a_argv++);return(0);} int main(int argc, char *argv[]){func1(argv[0]);} /*code end / This func1 function prints all the arguments

Re: Network problem/question.

2002-05-20 Thread tony mollica
Ron Johnson wrote: So the rest of the company needs to see win2000server? Yes. I was issued this box, instructed to plug it in and then don't touch it. This should get interesting as a windows setup administered from the Company side. It has one shared directory with some database files

Root SSH permitted by default (was: how does root run a graphical prog)

2002-05-20 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Mon, 20 May 2002 19:01:50 +0100 Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 12:37:28PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: ...unless you're on a system which is configured to disallow remote root logins via ssh. (Such as, say, the default Debian configuration.) Not in

Dunya Gazetesi ve Dunya Ankara CD-Rom

2002-05-20 Thread Dunya Gazetesi Ankara
Dünya Gazetesi'ne Hoþ Geldiniz .. Sizin de sektörünüzde yeriniz olsun ister misiniz ? Nasýl mý ? Dünya Gazetesine abone olun ,faaliyetlerinizi haberleþtirelim., Dünya Gazetesine abone olun ,ücretsiz ilanlarýmýzdan yararlanýn, Dünya Gazetesine abone olun , müþteri pörtföyümüze

Unidentified subject!

2002-05-20 Thread olugboji akinlolu
I have finish installeing the debian version of linux. Good the prompt as the quickstart.pdf manual said. so what is next. Apart from deslect what other commands are there.? Is Debian linux a graphic base interface like windows desktop or even redhat (that is one linux I never got to be able to

Re: Accounting/Payroll software

2002-05-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 12:29, No Realm wrote: Does anyone know of a GNU replacememt for RealWorld accounting software (RealWorld is DOS based and is produced by Great Plains, which is owned by MS)? Methinks a drop-in replacement would be impossible.

Re: how does root run a graphical prog

2002-05-20 Thread Frank Zimmermann
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 11:29:14AM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: * Dave Sherohman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020520 10:49]: On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 06:39:22PM +0200, Kristian Rink wrote: Thankfully, debian's X config has by default an option (and I won't tell you which if you don't know, because

okidata OL410e: yea or nay?

2002-05-20 Thread Bob Bernstein
Has anyone been successful using this printer with Linux (or any other) cups? I have the recommended ljet4 ppd selected, and always seem on the verge of success just before the printer pops up its PAG BUF OVERFLOW message. Making the suggested adjustments to the printer's internal settings (REC

Re: Can a Package be installed that only effects 1 user account?

2002-05-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 11:27:22AM -0700, John Richardson wrote: Can a Package be installed that only effects 1 user account? Just unpack it (using 'dpkg -x' if you like) in that user's home directory, and adjust that user's $PATH to use it. -- Colin Watson

mounting audio CD

2002-05-20 Thread Paul Fischer
Hello, I am trying to mount an audio CD, but the problem is that it just won't mount. I tried to mount it with an audio CD in the drive. And it gave me this error: $ mount /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom -t iso9660 mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc, or too many mounted file

Re: Root SSH permitted by default (was: how does root run a graphical prog)

2002-05-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 01:37:49PM -0500, Jamin W. Collins wrote: On Mon, 20 May 2002 19:01:50 +0100 Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not in woody and sid, at least. See the paragraphs in /usr/share/doc/ssh/README.Debian headed PermitRootLogin set to yes. Man, talk about a bad stance

Re: Calendar/scheduling softwae fro debain?

2002-05-20 Thread Steve Juranich
Actually, I'm thninking that's serious overkill for what I want. Isn't it the grand swiss army knife, scheduler, email client, tea maker :-) I'm looking for a simply little schedule keeper. Well, if you're looking to go old-school, there's always 'ical'.

Re: Root SSH permitted by default (was: how does root run a graphical prog)

2002-05-20 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Mon, 20 May 2002 20:26:11 +0100 Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Like the document says, regularly su'ing to root from an account makes compromising that account essentially equivalent to compromising root anyway. I don't see a problem with the default configuration, and nor do

Re: Is it perfectly to pass argv[] this way to function ?

2002-05-20 Thread Craig Dickson
Deepak Kotian wrote: Please check the code segment. /*code start / #include stdio.h int func1(char **a_argv){ while (*a_argv!=NULL) printf(\n%s, *a_argv++); return(0); } int main(int argc, char *argv[]){ func1(argv[0]); } /*code end / This

Re: mounting audio CD

2002-05-20 Thread Thomas Weinbrenner
Paul Fischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to mount an audio CD, Why? Just put the audio CD in the drive and start a cd player. You only need to mount a cd if you want to access its content as files. [...] $ mount /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom -t iso9660 mount: wrong fs type, bad option,

Re: mounting audio CD

2002-05-20 Thread Jeff
Paul Fischer, 2002-May-20 21:23 +0200: Hello, I am trying to mount an audio CD, but the problem is that it just won't mount. I tried to mount it with an audio CD in the drive. And it gave me this error: $ mount /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom -t iso9660 mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad

Telnet weirdness

2002-05-20 Thread Carl Weidling
Hi, I have two computers, one is running a slack 8.0 distro, the other I am trying to migrate from slack to debian woody (Actually, Debian Woody unofficial, purchased from Edmunds Enterprises). They are connected by a single ethernet cable with a crossover network with static IP addresses in

Re: Is it perfectly to pass argv[] this way to function ?

2002-05-20 Thread Elizabeth Barham
Hi Deepak, Deepak Kotian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Please check the code segment. /*code start / #include stdio.h int func1(char **a_argv){ while (*a_argv!=3DNULL) printf(\n%s, *a_argv++); return(0); } int main(int argc, char *argv[]){ func1(argv[0]); }

Re: mounting audio CD

2002-05-20 Thread Kristian Rink
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 12:53:58PM -0700, Jeff wrote: Paul Fischer, 2002-May-20 21:23 +0200: You can't mount an audio cd. AFAIK it doesn't have a typical data-style filesystem. You can only read from it using an application designed for it, such as a cd-player or a music ripping program.

Re: how does root run a graphical prog

2002-05-20 Thread Robin Putters
On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 18:45, Willy S wrote: hi, How come root can not run a graphical program under other user session. Let say, I do 'su' and I try to launch gkrellm. Xterm will produce this message: Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to

Re: Fonts and XFree86

2002-05-20 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Monday 20 May 2002 19:31, Daniel D Jones wrote: It appears that the problem isn't with XFree86 but perhaps with KDE? Does xfontsel display the truetype fonts? What does xlsfonts say? (Please for the love of God and my mailbox, don't attach the xlsfonts output ;-) ) Why not?

Re: how does root run a graphical prog

2002-05-20 Thread Kristian Rink
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 12:36:06PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 06:39:22PM +0200, Kristian Rink wrote: If you MUST use xhost, use 'xhost + localhost'. But using xauth or XAUTHORITY is the Right Way To Do It. Hm... by now I indeed pretty much was using xhost to

Re: how does root run a graphical prog

2002-05-20 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Monday 20 May 2002 19:37, Dave Sherohman wrote: On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 06:49:19PM +0200, Nicos Gollan wrote: You could try using ssh with X forwarding for that. Just ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] should do the trick. It's not the best way, but it works. ...unless you're on a system which is

Re: Is it perfectly to pass argv[] this way to function ?

2002-05-20 Thread Alan Shutko
Craig Dickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think the convention that argv[argc] == NULL is common enough that this should be acceptable in practice, but I'm not sure it's actually in the C89 standard, FWIW, it is. Section 5.1.2.2.1. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - In a variety of

Re: Is it perfectly to pass argv[] this way to function ?

2002-05-20 Thread Craig Dickson
Elizabeth Barham wrote: The only thing that is troubling is the (**argv != NULL) which assumes that the last string is a NULL string (the first character is NULL), as opposed to using the count (argc), which may not be the case (it's not here). He didn't write **argv != NULL, he wrote *argv

nntpcache 3.0.1

2002-05-20 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anybody create debs for this yet? nntpcache 2.3.3 is considered ancient... - -- Baloo -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE86V/iNtWkM9Ny9xURAkziAJ9gxaPZhad97qOKUMud9d3H2bxB5wCgocX3 hJJyzbJNk/xU1aE52gXTGAY= =C2K2

Re: how does root run a graphical prog

2002-05-20 Thread Corrin Lakeland
On Tue, 21 May 2002 08:24, Nicos Gollan wrote: On Monday 20 May 2002 19:37, Dave Sherohman wrote: On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 06:49:19PM +0200, Nicos Gollan wrote: You could try using ssh with X forwarding for that. Just ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] should do the trick. It's not the best way, but it

Re: font troubles in sid

2002-05-20 Thread Hubert Chan
James == James Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: James Hi, A while ago, after doing an upgrade, I noticed that fonts in James galeon where displaying as rectangles. ... This is probably because gtk is trying to use the Unicode codepage. Try changing it to another codepage, like iso8859-1. If

OT: regexp spam filter

2002-05-20 Thread Gary Turner
I am not practiced in the use of regexp's, and need some help. I want to block a Nigerian domain (I wonder why?) whose IP block is 217.78.64.0 - 217.78.79.255. For unknown reasons (ignorance?), my various incantations and curses have failed the test. If the cognoscenti among you would post

Re: font troubles in sid

2002-05-20 Thread shamad
James, I had fonts which actually were looking like bar codes... I got the following advice and it worked: Add in the section Device of the /etc/X11/XF86Config file, the following: Option NoAccel It seems to be related to the xserver not properly managing the accelerated fonts You may want to give

Re: OT: regexp spam filter

2002-05-20 Thread Alan Su
the following regexp *should work: 217\.78\.(6(4|5|6|7|8|9)|7(0|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9))\.[0-9]+ it's not really obscure, but it's not really all that clever either. =) i'm sure there are more compact solutions out there! -alan Gary Turner wrote (Mon, 20 May 2002 16:11:00 -0500 ): |I am not

Auto-ripping music CDs

2002-05-20 Thread Andrew Pritchard
I've been using the rather excellent abcde cd ripping software for some time in one of my servers at home. I've got it setup now so that it hardly ever requires any intervention from a user - apart from logging in and starting the script off and that's a step I'd like to get round if I can. I

Re: font troubles in sid

2002-05-20 Thread Marc Wilson
Well, the fonts-as-boxes problem is well documented in the X FAQ, but basically it boils down to GTK fonts incompletely specifying the font they want, and then not being able to deal properly with what the X server gives them in answer to their request. Notice that every problem application

Re: Fonts and XFree86 SOLVED

2002-05-20 Thread Daniel D Jones
On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 16:13, Nicos Gollan wrote: On Monday 20 May 2002 19:31, Daniel D Jones wrote: It appears that the problem isn't with XFree86 but perhaps with KDE? Does xfontsel display the truetype fonts? What does xlsfonts say? (Please for the love of God and my mailbox,

Re: Lexmark Z32 on Woody [solved]

2002-05-20 Thread Steffen Evers
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 18:52, Steffen Evers wrote: I am trying to get a Lexmark Z32 printer working. Has anyone succeed on this printer and how? I have spent a day on this and it still does not work ... Found this stuff:

Re: Print font in mozilla

2002-05-20 Thread Mike Fontenot
Anyone know where the system css file(s) for mozilla are? E.g., is there a system css file somewhere that a userContent.css file in ~/.mozilla/default/Chrome will override? If I can find such a file, seems like it would show me what all the possible things I can do in my userContent.css file

Re: Root SSH permitted by default (was: how does root run a graphical prog)

2002-05-20 Thread Daniel D Jones
On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 15:37, Jamin W.Collins wrote: On Mon, 20 May 2002 20:26:11 +0100 Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Like the document says, regularly su'ing to root from an account makes compromising that account essentially equivalent to compromising root anyway. I don't see a

Re: Is it perfectly to pass argv[] this way to function ?

2002-05-20 Thread Elizabeth Barham
Craig Dickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: He didn't write **argv != NULL, he wrote *argv != NULL -- in other words, not last argument is a null string, but the last pointer in the argv array is a NULL. Which is a common behavior (both gcc 2.95 and Microsoft Visual C++ do it, at least), though

Passing io/eth params to 8319too driver

2002-05-20 Thread Jonathan Matthews
I've got a known-good (well, known-crap-but-known-to-work) Realtek 8139 based NIC that is absolutely fine under kernel 2.2, with the rtl8139 driver, but hangs the box solid if 8139too is used, under 2.2 /or/ 2.4. Not a problem under 2.2, as I've just been using rtl8139, but that driver doesn't

Re: Unidentified subject!

2002-05-20 Thread Tinus Kotze
Hi Debian and all the other distributions like RedHat and SuSe is os's with consoles(if you can put it like that). It is only the underlying system on which you work. The graphical interface you are refering to is a program like the old win 3x. For a beginner I would advise that you selected

Re: mounting audio CD

2002-05-20 Thread Jeff
Kristian Rink, 2002-May-20 21:52 +0200: On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 12:53:58PM -0700, Jeff wrote: Paul Fischer, 2002-May-20 21:23 +0200: You can't mount an audio cd. AFAIK it doesn't have a typical data-style filesystem. You can only read from it using an application designed for it,

Re: Telnet weirdness

2002-05-20 Thread Jeff
Carl Weidling, 2002-May-20 12:55 -0700: snip but if I try to telnet, I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ telnet ragwind Trying 192.168.0.2... Connected to ragwind.loc.net. Escape character is '^]'. and that's it, it hangs until I quit out. ssh also hangs. (However, ftp seems

Re: OT: regexp spam filter

2002-05-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 02:19:28PM -0700, Alan Su wrote: the following regexp *should work: 217\.78\.(6(4|5|6|7|8|9)|7(0|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9))\.[0-9]+ it's not really obscure, but it's not really all that clever either. =) i'm sure there are more compact solutions out there! Slightly more

Re: Soundblaster Live! Card Not Working

2002-05-20 Thread Benjamin Pharr
No, the card doesn't show up when I do a lspci. Does that mean I've got a bad card? Thanks, Ben On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 09:15:08AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 13/05/02 Benjamin Pharr did speaketh: I just bought a Soundblaster Live! soundcard, and I can't get it to work. I'm

How difficult is it to package Binary-only software as .deb?

2002-05-20 Thread John Gay
I've got a GVX1 card wich is only supported, software-wise under Xfree864.2.0 and for hardware accelleration, I have to use Accelerated-X. For the moment, I'm using XFree864.2.0 compiled from source for most of my work and the demo X-Server from XIG when I need hardware acceleration. As the XIG

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