Re: ORBit help

2002-05-30 Thread dman
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 01:56:20AM -0700, David Wright wrote: | | Help! I am desperately trying to learn to use the ORBit implementation | of CORBA and getting nowhere fast. The only beginners tutorial I can | find is at http://icps.u-strasbg.fr/~genaud/ORBIT/. It's okay, but the | ftp site fro

Re: NAT and DSL internet access with dynamic IP and LAN clients

2002-05-30 Thread dman
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 07:55:06PM -0700, Walter Reed wrote: | On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 08:14:11PM -0400, Baran wrote: | | | Baran: The obvious problem you have is that you are running an old version of | windows! You need to install the Debain version of windows which is newer | than even Windows

Re: How to set 800x600 X?

2002-05-30 Thread dman
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 01:17:29PM +1000, James Cameron wrote: | How do you set the X server to 800x600 from a program or script? You edit the config file. The config file is NOT re-written automagically. (only brain-dead software that is too stupid for it's own good would do a fool thing like t

Re: How to set 800x600 X?

2002-05-30 Thread David B Harris
On 31 May 2002 13:17:29 +1000 James Cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also, some of the boxes have Trio64 cards, which are supported on 4.2, > not 4.1, and so I have to use 3.3. Without starting the X server, how > can I tell on a specific Debian box which version will be started? > Checking '

How to set 800x600 X?

2002-05-30 Thread James Cameron
How do you set the X server to 800x600 from a program or script? How do you detect on a woody system whether X is 3.3 or 4.1? G'day, I'm setting up for an outback lan party, and since I'm using some old equipment I'd like every one of the 12 Debian boxes to run an X server at 800x600. While I c

Re: NAT and DSL internet access with dynamic IP and LAN clients

2002-05-30 Thread Walter Reed
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 08:14:11PM -0400, Baran wrote: Baran: The obvious problem you have is that you are running an old version of windows! You need to install the Debain version of windows which is newer than even Windows XP!! Lucky for you that you can download and install Debian Windows for

Re: convert html to text

2002-05-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 19:31, ben wrote: > On Thursday 30 May 2002 04:26 pm, Seneca wrote: > > On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 03:53:20PM -0700, ben wrote: > > > i seem to remember somebody mentioning an app or script that converts > > > html to text. i've searched the archives but can't find any reference

Email line wraps

2002-05-30 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 05:16:43PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > Now all you have to do is remember to limit your posts to 72 or so > columns. > > Would have thought that after all these years you would remember that! You think by now mailers that have thier own editor would have this hard coded al

RE: what causes this error [solved. thanks mysql list]

2002-05-30 Thread justin cunningham
This was the error for the record. Thanks debian list. justin Okay, now the problem is clear. mysqladmin 3.23.37 uses backticks (`) around the database names (as you can see in the error message you quoted) to support special chars therein, but backticks for quoting column/table/database names w

Re: changing IP routes

2002-05-30 Thread No Realm
On Thu, 30 May 2002 19:25:11 -0500 "Jamin W. Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you can provide the IP range of the remote location it's just a > matter of putting an entry in your routing tables for it. UGH! Really does help if one make sure they read all of a post. I totally missed the

Re: NAT and DSL internet access with dynamic IP and LAN clients

2002-05-30 Thread dman
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 08:14:11PM -0400, Baran wrote: | NAT and DSL internet access with dynamic IP and LAN clients This is easy : apt-get install ipmasq | i have a DSL internet access with dynamic ip address not fixed | (static) one. No matter. | i try to configure this DSL internet ac

Re: crontab programming. bug?

2002-05-30 Thread Walt Mankowski
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 11:44:00AM +0200, Tobias Ulbricht wrote: > > please cc. to me [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hi. > > I had the stupid idea to set > EDITOR=my-prog > and execute > crontab -e > to be able to "edit" crontabs in the right way, i.e. without touching the > crontab-files directly but wi

Re: convert html to text

2002-05-30 Thread dman
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 03:53:20PM -0700, ben wrote: | i seem to remember somebody mentioning an app or script that converts html to | text. i've searched the archives but can't find any reference to that. | anybody have a clue? links -dump foo.html -D -- "Don't use C; In my opinion, C is

Re: what causes this error

2002-05-30 Thread dman
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 01:26:24PM -0700, justin cunningham wrote: | mysqladmin: CREATE DATABASE failed; error: 'You have an error in your | SQL syntax near 'whateverunamethedatabase' How about including the offending SQL as well? WHen there's a coding error and the code isn't shown, one can only

Re: decode base64 encoded partial files with mutt?

2002-05-30 Thread dman
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 06:41:55PM +0200, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: | On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 08:01:57PM +0200, Bruno Boettcher wrote: | > Hello! | > i have a guy who doesn't stop to send me the info i need in splitted | > word documents, and he's unable to change his behaviour... | | What's a spl

Re: looking for restricted editor

2002-05-30 Thread Jeffrey Chimene
It looks like micro-Emacs has what you want: >From http://www.eeng.brad.ac.uk/help/.edit/.uemacs/.appa.html > -RThis places EMACS in "restricted mode" where any commands allowing the > user to read or write any files other than > the ones listed on the command line are disabled. Also

Re: NAT and DSL internet access with dynamic IP and LAN clients

2002-05-30 Thread Tom Allison
Baran wrote: 1 st Question: NAT and DSL internet access with dynamic IP and LAN clients Hello, i have a DSL internet access with dynamic ip address not fixed (static) one. when i install on a single PC either server or and PC i have the internet access. with ICS works fine as well in win2

Re: looking for restricted editor

2002-05-30 Thread Jeffrey Chimene
No doubt you've already considered this, but Emacs does what you want via custom key maps and function hooks. Of course, it's probably more horsepower than you need. I don't claim any expertise in Emacs, but I had to solve a similar problem on an operating system long ago and far away (OpenVMS/TPU)

Re: the dreaded Word attachment

2002-05-30 Thread Walt Mankowski
On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 05:27:32PM -0700, Jim McCloskey wrote: > Is this a solitary delusion of mine, or have others experienced > something like this? Has anyone found a better way of dealing with > this plague? Lately I've been bouncing emails with Word docs I want to read to my Yahoo Mail acco

Re: Auto-update .twmrc?

2002-05-30 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 31-May-2002 Jeffrey Chimene wrote: > I think the answer is "you can't", but I'll ask anyway: > > Is there any way to auto-update .twmrc when new software's installed? > > I think the answer is "no" because twm doesn't implement an *include* > directive for .twmrc. I don't want to switch windo

Re: resizing root partition

2002-05-30 Thread Walt Mankowski
On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 10:34:52AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Wed, May 29, 2002, Joris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > But here comes the catch. None of the root environments I found on > > floppy had resize2fs on them. > > The LNX-BBC and/or LinuxCare BBC do. One of them works, the other

Re: Q: How to find people with Debian skills

2002-05-30 Thread Michael D. Crawford
Just ask the recruiter to click on the following link: http://www.google.com/search?q=resume+debian+experience that search finds 7460 results at Google, many of them resumes of people with debian experience. You can add extra keywords for things like skills, and include city names or postal

Re: Precompiled kernel modules packages available

2002-05-30 Thread David Z Maze
Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - lm-sensors most likely requires i2c modules from the same location It looks like the stock kernels are built with i2c support enabled, and recent kernels use i2c-2.6.0; you *should* be able to use lm-sensors modules without having the corresponding i2c

Auto-update .twmrc?

2002-05-30 Thread Jeffrey Chimene
I think the answer is "you can't", but I'll ask anyway: Is there any way to auto-update .twmrc when new software's installed? I think the answer is "no" because twm doesn't implement an *include* directive for .twmrc. I don't want to switch window managers: this is a memory constrained system and

Re: How do I discover the X version I'm running?

2002-05-30 Thread Oleg
On Thursday 30 May 2002 08:45 pm, Hubert Chan wrote: > > "Charles" == Charles Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Charles> --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Hi- > >> > >> How do I know what X version I'm running? TIA Regs Henry > > Charles> <> > > Charles> Try: dpkg -l xfree* | grep "^ii" x

NAT and DSL internet access with dynamic IP and LAN clients

2002-05-30 Thread Baran
1 st Question: NAT and DSL internet access with dynamic IP and LAN clients Hello, i have a DSL internet access with dynamic ip address not fixed (static) one. when i install on a single PC either server or and PC i have the internet access. with ICS works fine as well in win2000 environment. P

Re: Q: How to find people with Debian skills

2002-05-30 Thread Lorens Kulla
How about this. Could potential recruiters monitor the list and send private email to someone they became interested in by following posts? Granted, they might actually have to read the list and be able to asses someones ability. Never mind, that sounds too much like RTFM. My bad. Lorens On Thu,

Re: How do I discover the X version I'm running?

2002-05-30 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Charles" == Charles Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Charles> --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Hi- >> >> How do I know what X version I'm running? TIA Regs Henry >> Charles> <> Charles> Try: dpkg -l xfree* | grep "^ii" Don't forget to escape the * with a backslash, or else the shell w

Re: Man page output

2002-05-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 07:53:53PM -0400, Robert_L wrote: > On Thursday 30 May 06:55, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > > Is there an easy way to output man pages without all of the underlined > > text? I want to redirect man page output to text type files, but all > > of the files include squares or ^H

Fw: looking for restricted editor

2002-05-30 Thread Chris Lewis
Chris Lewis - Original Message - From: "Chris Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Brian Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 8:08 PM Subject: Re: looking for restricted editor > Brian, > > You may be able to get THE - The Hessling Editor - to do what you want since > it

Re: How do I discover the X version I'm running?

2002-05-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 04:27:47PM -0700, Charles Baker wrote: > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > How do I know what X version I'm running? > > <> > > Try: dpkg -l xfree* | grep "^ii" It's wise to quote the *, either as 'xfree*', "xfree*", or xfree\*. Otherwise it'll work most of the time u

Re: Making /home not accessible by outsiders

2002-05-30 Thread Pollywog
On Thu, 30 May 2002 17:16:43 -0400 "Wayne Topa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now all you have to do is remember to limit your posts to 72 or so > columns. > > Would have thought that after all these years you would remember > that! I just installed Sylpheed and had the setting at 70 columns, so

Re: changing IP routing

2002-05-30 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Thu, 30 May 2002 19:25:11 -0500 "Jamin W. Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you can provide the IP range of the remote location it's just a > matter of putting an entry in your routing tables for it. UGH! Really does help if one make sure they read all of a post. I totally missed the f

["Chris Lewis" ] looking for restricted editor

2002-05-30 Thread Brian Nelson
This should have been sent to the list... --- Begin Message --- Brian, You may be able to get THE - The Hessling Editor - to do what you want since it appears to have been made in the image of xedit a CMS (mainframe) editor that was used extensively to provide user input. apt-get install the ..

Re: convert html to text

2002-05-30 Thread ben
On Thursday 30 May 2002 04:26 pm, Seneca wrote: > On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 03:53:20PM -0700, ben wrote: > > i seem to remember somebody mentioning an app or script that converts > > html to text. i've searched the archives but can't find any reference to > > that. anybody have a clue? > > html2text

Re: changing IP routing

2002-05-30 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Fri, 31 May 2002 07:59:46 +0800 "No Realm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry for the poor diagram. If I remove my gateway for the eth0, I will > not be able to reach my network on the other side of the .60 router. I > am using my Debian box as a backup mail server that passes all mail to a > m

Re: Making /home not accessible by outsiders

2002-05-30 Thread Wayne Topa
Pollywog([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Thu, 30 May 2002 13:38:14 -0500 > "dman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > | I had my home directory o-r but sometimes certain programs could not > > | read my user config files, so I had to make my /home/user directory > > | o+r I had th

Re: changing IP routing

2002-05-30 Thread No Realm
On Fri, 31 May 2002 05:01:48 +0800 "No Realm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here is my /etc/network/interfaces: > > auto eth0 > iface eth0 inet static > address 192.168.60.31 > netmask 255.255.255.0 > broadcast 192.168.60.255 > gateway 192.168.60.1 > > auto eth1 > iface eth1 inet

Re: Help needed : kernel panic unable to mount root fs

2002-05-30 Thread Goswin Brederlow
"Shree Raman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hi all!! > > I am experiencing a tough time as my system had a kernel panic. it > happened while I was installing openoffice. The system hunged and > there was no way left other than rebooting & then a kernel panic > prompt. > > > I had installed deb

Re: Man page output

2002-05-30 Thread Robert_L
On Thursday 30 May 06:55, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > Is there an easy way to output man pages without all of the underlined > text? I want to redirect man page output to text type files, but all > of the files include squares or ^H^H^H all over the place... man ls | col -b >ls.txt all the best,

HELLO

2002-05-30 Thread Dr. Mrs. Mariam Abacha
Alternate e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am Dr. Mrs. Mariam Abacha, wife to the late Nigerian Head of state, General Sani Abacha who died on the 8th of June 1998 while still on active service for our Country. I am contacting you with the hope that you will be of great assistance to me, I cur

Re: convert html to text

2002-05-30 Thread John Hasler
ben writes: > i seem to remember somebody mentioning an app or script that converts > html to text. html2text -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PR

Re: looking for restricted editor

2002-05-30 Thread Brian Nelson
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm looking for some kind of editor that can be prevented from opening > arbitrary files, and can, ideally, be set up to only start up with a > given file at the command line, and save to that same file. It should be > easy to use too. Does such a beast exis

Re: convert html to text

2002-05-30 Thread Seneca
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 03:53:20PM -0700, ben wrote: > i seem to remember somebody mentioning an app or script that converts html to > text. i've searched the archives but can't find any reference to that. > anybody have a clue? html2text -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: How do I discover the X version I'm running?

2002-05-30 Thread Charles Baker
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi- > > How do I know what X version I'm running? > TIA > Regs > Henry > <> Try: dpkg -l xfree* | grep "^ii" The output should be something like: ii xfree86-common 4.1.0-17 X Window System (XFree86) infrastructure dpkg is the de

Man page output

2002-05-30 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
Is there an easy way to output man pages without all of the underlined text? I want to redirect man page output to text type files, but all of the files include squares or ^H^H^H all over the place... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

convert html to text

2002-05-30 Thread ben
i seem to remember somebody mentioning an app or script that converts html to text. i've searched the archives but can't find any reference to that. anybody have a clue? ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

is debian-sys-maint user suppose to be in mysql-server 3.22.32-6 potato?

2002-05-30 Thread justin cunningham
I'm having undefinable permission problems with mysqladmin and don't see debian-sys-maint user in the user table. Is he suppose to be there in potato? In woody he's there and the install script says he is used to start and stop the damon. I'm not having start|stop|restart trouble though I'm lookin

Re: Loadlin alternatives

2002-05-30 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"DSC" == DSC Siltec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DSC> *SIGH* That's exactly what I'm doing, "the debian way", except that I DSC> also run one additional step, "make BzImage" if I want a DSC> BzImage. The kernel-package default for i386 is BzImage, so you should not have to run tha

Precompiled kernel modules packages available

2002-05-30 Thread Eduard Bloch
Hi, just for fun I set up a simple script in Debian chroot to build kernel modules for all official (i386, 2.4.x) kernel-images in Woody from misc. modules-source packages. The list contains ALSA, lmsensors, 3dfx-device, cdfs, ftpfs, dvb-driver, ... modules. You can pick the modules from http:/

New woody install - INIT: cannot execute "/etc/init.d/rcS"

2002-05-30 Thread Matt Miller
I just installed woody (from a pile of 1.4M floppies) onto my circa 1994 Intel 486. When trying to boot off the hard drive or off my boot floppy everything looks fine until INIT: cannot execute "/etc/init.d/rcS" INIT: Entering runlevel: 2 INIT: cannot execute "/etc/init.d/rc" INIT: cannot execu

RE: Firewall verification - nmap

2002-05-30 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya list of (online) places that nmaps your machine ( fw ) http://www.Linux-Sec.net/Audit/nmap.test.gwif.htm c ya alvin -- nmapping a machine doesnt say too much about the security of the internal lan or the fw... -- Testing/Piercing the firewalls ... http://www.rootpromp

Re:A very new website

2002-05-30 Thread cple h
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Re: GIFs by mozilla

2002-05-30 Thread Kristian Rink
On Thu, 30 May 2002 18:41:51 -0300 Klaus Imgrund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Had that happening for the third time now. Suddenly a directory like > 'java files' or 'security files' shows up in /home/user with all kind > of gif's in it. > Anybody has the slightest idea what is going on there? > P

Re: How do I discover the X version I'm running?

2002-05-30 Thread Kristian Rink
On Thu, 30 May 2002 16:37:55 -0300 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How do I know what X version I'm running? > TIA X -version Cheers, Kris -- Savour what you feel and { Kristian Rink what you see - things that { irc:: irc.sorcery.net (kristian) may not seem important now { fo

GIFs by mozilla

2002-05-30 Thread Klaus Imgrund
Hello, got a little problem with mozilla. Got version 0.9.9 installed. At some websides mozilla just feels like downloading most of the gif's from the side. Had that happening for the third time now. Suddenly a directory like 'java files' or 'security files' shows up in /home/user with all kind of

How do I discover the X version I'm running?

2002-05-30 Thread synthespian
Hi- How do I know what X version I'm running? TIA Regs Henry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: changing IP routing table

2002-05-30 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Fri, 31 May 2002 05:01:48 +0800 "No Realm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here is my /etc/network/interfaces: > > auto eth0 > iface eth0 inet static > address 192.168.60.31 > netmask 255.255.255.0 > broadcast 192.168.60.255 > gateway 192.168.60.1 > > auto eth1 > iface eth1 inet static >

Re: Q: How to find people with Debian skills

2002-05-30 Thread ben
On Thursday 30 May 2002 10:43 am, Joey Hess wrote: > dman wrote: > > That sounds good, but I was thinking more along the lines of a portion > > of http://www.debian.org so that people looking for a job could post > > their interest there and prospective employers can go and browse > > through that

Re: memory leak in cyrus's pwcheck with pam ?

2002-05-30 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 30-May-2002 nate wrote: > not a critical issue yet, but i have noticed when using > pam on cyrus(with ldap), memory on pwcheck goes way up, > currently at 80MB. if i restart it, it starts off at 1500kb > or so and quickly gets to 20-30MB then eventually 50MB ..then slowly > grows more

memory leak in cyrus's pwcheck with pam ?

2002-05-30 Thread nate
not a critical issue yet, but i have noticed when using pam on cyrus(with ldap), memory on pwcheck goes way up, currently at 80MB. if i restart it, it starts off at 1500kb or so and quickly gets to 20-30MB then eventually 50MB ..then slowly grows more any ideas as for a fix for this? last

Re: font display problem in mozilla

2002-05-30 Thread Peter Whysall
On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 22:06, Hubert Chan wrote: > I added this line: > user_pref("browser.display.screen_resolution", 96); > to my .galeon/mozilla/galeon/prefs.js file, and it seems to have fixed > it. Maybe try fiddling around with the 96. (Mozilla has an entry in > the preferences dialog to cha

Re: Loadlin alternatives

2002-05-30 Thread ben
On Thursday 30 May 2002 06:55 am, DSC Siltec wrote: [snip] > > *SIGH* That's exactly what I'm doing, "the debian way", except that I > also run one additional step, "make BzImage" if I want a BzImage. No > matter whether I use the kernel BzImage or VmLinuz, I get the error > mentioned at bugs.deb

Re: font display problem in mozilla

2002-05-30 Thread Hubert Chan
I added this line: user_pref("browser.display.screen_resolution", 96); to my .galeon/mozilla/galeon/prefs.js file, and it seems to have fixed it. Maybe try fiddling around with the 96. (Mozilla has an entry in the preferences dialog to change this, but Galeon doesn't.) -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PR

changing IP routing table

2002-05-30 Thread No Realm
I have potato running with two interfaces and the IP routing table looks like this when it boots up: Dest.Gateway Genmask Flags Met. Iface 192.168.60.0 *255.255.255.0 U 0 eth0 192.168.61.0 *255.255.255.0 U 0 eth1 default WAN 0.0.0.0

Quick question on controllers

2002-05-30 Thread Mike Dresser
Hard drive scenario: 4 x 160 Gig Maxtor D540X133's. Not going to be using raid. Using these to store disk images, so speed isn't really an issue, only reliability and stability under 2.4.x Looking at using an MS-6580(intel 845G) motherboard, with a p4/2000 or faster. Here's my options so far:

Re: Q: How to find people with Debian skills

2002-05-30 Thread ben
On Thursday 30 May 2002 06:34 am, dman wrote: > On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 06:30:04PM -0700, ben wrote: > | On Wednesday 29 May 2002 06:04 pm, dman wrote: > | > What if debian.org added a "jobs" section where people can post their > | > interest (employers and employee-wannabes)? Any volunteers for >

RE: what causes this error

2002-05-30 Thread justin cunningham
I tried that too. Thanks. -Original Message- From: Robert Webb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 1:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: what causes this error justin cunningham wrote: >mysqladmin: CREATE DATABASE failed; error: 'Yo

Re: what causes this error

2002-05-30 Thread Robert Webb
justin cunningham wrote: mysqladmin: CREATE DATABASE failed; error: 'You have an error in your SQL syntax near 'whateverunamethedatabase' I can complete every function with msyqladmin except create and drop. What am I doing wrong. I've read all the docs online, sent similar emails with no re

looking for restricted editor

2002-05-30 Thread Joey Hess
I'm looking for some kind of editor that can be prevented from opening arbitrary files, and can, ideally, be set up to only start up with a given file at the command line, and save to that same file. It should be easy to use too. Does such a beast exist? -- see shy jo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Firewall verification

2002-05-30 Thread Paul Scott
Ron Johnson wrote: On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 11:11, Brooks R. Robinson wrote: | there is another way to do a basic check? apt-get install nmap But he needs another machine that is outside of his local LAN to nmap him. The only way that I know/think that my firewall is working is to see the DE

what causes this error

2002-05-30 Thread justin cunningham
mysqladmin: CREATE DATABASE failed; error: 'You have an error in your SQL syntax near 'whateverunamethedatabase' I can complete every function with msyqladmin except create and drop. What am I doing wrong. I've read all the docs online, sent similar emails with no response. This is not an acces

Re: font display problem in mozilla

2002-05-30 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Jason" == Jason Lunz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jason> I actually looked this up once; it was reported fixed in debian Jason> bug #138788, which refers to bugzilla bug #83289. That "fix" Jason> didn't work, though, or at least didn't address all the Jason> problems. I suppose #138788 shoul

Xfree 4.2.0 and KDM

2002-05-30 Thread Stephen J. Thompson
Hello all, I have just installed XFree 4.2.0 on two machines and found KDM has stopped working. Has anyone else encountered this problem. Does anyone have any pointers on how to solve it? Thanks. Stephen. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

php pcntl_fork?

2002-05-30 Thread Roach, Mark R.
Is anyone else able to use the pcntl_fork() function in php4 from woody? I get "Call to undefined function" Thanks, Mark Roach -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: font display problem in mozilla

2002-05-30 Thread Hall Stevenson
> Yes. You can often see text jump by a few pixels > when you select it; however, the resulting position isn't > always correct. You can also fix the entire display by > switching to another virtual desktop and back, and > you can sometimes see offsets change in galeon's > display by moving another

RE: Firewall verification

2002-05-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 11:11, Brooks R. Robinson wrote: > | there is another way to do a basic check? > > > apt-get install nmap But he needs another machine that is outside of his local LAN to nmap him. The only way that I know/think that my firewall is working is to see the DENY messages in t

Re: exim's header rewrite

2002-05-30 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 06:56:05PM +0800, Michael C Alonzo wrote: > I have two pop mail servers, 1 from my ISP and one from softhome.net. > here's my mailing list subscriptions: > > PACIFIC.NET.PH(ISP) SOFTHOME.NET > > debian-user boost-user

Re: font display problem in mozilla

2002-05-30 Thread Jason Lunz
In mlist.debian-user, you wrote: > Yeah, myself and a colleague at work have both seen it. It's an > off-by-one error in their rendering engine, but I'm not sure if it's > filed; I can never find my way around in Mozilla's bug tracking > system. I actually looked this up once; it was reported fixe

Re: font display problem in mozilla

2002-05-30 Thread Rudy Gevaert
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 12:30:23PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > Depending on the size of the font (and maybe the font itself), if the > last line of text in a mozilla display is only partially visible, then > scrolling up one line sometimes results in the characters being only > partially displayed

Re: Making /home not accessible by outsiders

2002-05-30 Thread Pollywog
On Thu, 30 May 2002 13:38:14 -0500 "dman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | I had my home directory o-r but sometimes certain programs could not > | read my user config files, so I had to make my /home/user directory > | o+r I had this problem with Procmail after installing Cyrus; it > | could not

Re: font display problem in mozilla

2002-05-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 02:41:32PM -0400, Jason Lunz wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > Depending on the size of the font (and maybe the font itself), if the > > last line of text in a mozilla display is only partially visible, then > > scrolling up one line sometimes results in the characters be

Re: Where is Packaging Manual?

2002-05-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 06:27:01PM -, Grant Edwards wrote: > In muc.lists.debian.user, you wrote: > > Thanks. Is there a downloadable (PDF or single HTML page) or > > searchable version somewhere? The online version is too chopped > > up for searching. > > > > [I don't have access to the CVS

Re: font display problem in mozilla

2002-05-30 Thread Jason Lunz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Depending on the size of the font (and maybe the font itself), if the > last line of text in a mozilla display is only partially visible, then > scrolling up one line sometimes results in the characters being only > partially displayed. A page-up followed by a page-down to

Re: woody is killing me

2002-05-30 Thread dman
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 05:01:00PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: | On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 09:59:48AM -0500, dman wrote: | > On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 11:34:52AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: | > | On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 06:16:10AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: | > | > OK, I'll fess up. I am dying over here

Re: [Announce] 1.0.0-4 .debs for i386

2002-05-30 Thread Paul Scott
dman wrote: On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 10:51:14AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: | joy:/home/paul# apt-get install openoffice.org ... | Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: | openoffice.org: Depends: libgcc1 (>= 1:3.1) but 1:3.0.4-7 is to be | installed $ apt-cache policy lib

Re: Making /home not accessible by outsiders

2002-05-30 Thread dman
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 03:32:37PM +, Pollywog wrote: | On Thu, 30 May 2002 09:28:34 -0500 | "dman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | | > To fix existing home directories, if they are all in /home/, | > | > chmod o-r /home/* Oops, I forgot that the 'adduser' option sets the directories group-

Re: Weirdness in "apt-get upgrade"

2002-05-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 04:30, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 04:09:57AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 03:57, Colin Watson wrote: [snip] > The woody distribution has been frozen since 1 May. The only things > you'll see in it before (and after) release now are sec

Re: Where is Packaging Manual?

2002-05-30 Thread Grant Edwards
In muc.lists.debian.user, you wrote: > Thanks. Is there a downloadable (PDF or single HTML page) or > searchable version somewhere? The online version is too chopped > up for searching. > > [I don't have access to the CVS server, though it could be > arranged. What format are the sources?] Neve

Re: Q: How to find people with Debian skills

2002-05-30 Thread dman
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 01:43:18PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: | dman wrote: | > That sounds good, but I was thinking more along the lines of a portion | > of http://www.debian.org so that people looking for a job could post | > their interest there and prospective employers can go and browse | > throu

Re: [Announce] 1.0.0-4 .debs for i386

2002-05-30 Thread dman
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 10:51:14AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: | joy:/home/paul# apt-get install openoffice.org ... | Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: | openoffice.org: Depends: libgcc1 (>= 1:3.1) but 1:3.0.4-7 is to be | installed $ apt-cache policy libgcc1 libgcc1:

Re: Where is Packaging Manual?

2002-05-30 Thread Grant Edwards
In muc.lists.debian.user, you wrote: >> Where can I find the "Packaging Manual?" > > It's been merged into debian-policy (you want chapter 6 for details of > maintainer scripts). Some of it will eventually be in a dpkg > programmer's manual, but for now is preserved in appendices to policy. Than

Re: DTP unter Linux: Ist Scribus zuverlässig?

2002-05-30 Thread Jan Torben Heuer
Am Mittwoch, 29. Mai 2002 23:00 schrieb Gerhard Reuteler: > Hat jemand Erfahrung mit Scribus? Ist es stabil genug? Kann es die > grundlegenden Dinge, die es für mehrspaltigen Satz von Text und Bild > braucht? Gibt es eine brauchbare Alternative? OpenOffice.org ist raus, allerdings ist Wordkram != D

Re: Mod probe: can't locate module char-major ....

2002-05-30 Thread Joerg Johannes
Am Mittwoch, 29. Mai 2002 16:10 schrieb tom r: > Since I don't need the rtc, I just turn it off. Edit the file > /etc/modutils/arch/i386 and replace the line: > > alias char-major-10-135 rtc > > with > > alias char-major-10-135 off > > and then run update-modules. Very Nice Thanks, Tom joerg -

Re: [Announce] 1.0.0-4 .debs for i386

2002-05-30 Thread Paul Scott
Chris Halls wrote: Finally, they are out! The main highlight of these packages is a split, and additional user interface language support. Dictionaries are not yet included. Many thanks to Martin Quinson for his language contributions, and John Cooper for the menu entries. There will not be a

Re: cashbook program

2002-05-30 Thread David Z Maze
Matijs van Zuijlen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 12:05:49AM +0800, Russ Pitman wrote: >> 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 conv

Foreign Language with OpenOffice?

2002-05-30 Thread Kent West
Forgive my ignorance concerning internatialization . . . . At my university our Foreign Language department staff/faculty have traditionally used WordPerfect throughout the years, along with foreign language modules from WordPerfect Corp/Novell/Corel for creating German, French, etc documents

Re: Q: How to find people with Debian skills

2002-05-30 Thread Joey Hess
dman wrote: > That sounds good, but I was thinking more along the lines of a portion > of http://www.debian.org so that people looking for a job could post > their interest there and prospective employers can go and browse > through that info. Something like http://www.debian.org/consultants/ ? -

netfilter/writing kernel module

2002-05-30 Thread Francois Chenais
Hello, I'm looking for un example to write kernel module to add rules in netfilter using the userspace QUEUE. packet >QUEUE > my module -> OUT | | \|/

Re: Q: How to find people with Debian skills [SOLVED] :)

2002-05-30 Thread Harvey Kelly
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 08:32:02AM -0500, dman wrote: > On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 03:02:23AM +0100, Harvey Kelly wrote: > | On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 08:37:49PM -0500, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > | > On Thu, 30 May 2002 02:19:51 +0100 > | > "Harvey Kelly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | > > | > > As in t

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