Re: Where is kernel source?

2003-02-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 03:55:37AM -0500, David Turetsky wrote: > Excellent. Thanks. I stopped just short of compiling the new kernel > (perhaps another day). I needed this to accommodate the installation of > an 'el cheapo' winmodem driver supported under linux If you just want to compile a kerne

Re: Hardware IDE ATA Raid 1 support in Linux Debian - Linux disapointment

2003-02-15 Thread Alvin Oga
On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Pedro Ruivo (TRQV-DSI) wrote: > I've bought a Highpoint RocketRaid 100 card in order to have a fault > tolerant system. Unfortunately i didn't checked if it was supported under > Debian Linux. suppsedly, supported hw raid is listed here - if its not listed..

Secure browsing across insecure LAN

2003-02-15 Thread Dr. Aldo Medina
In my workplace they just installed Internet access. However, I wish I could navigate privately some sites (for example, Dmoz.org, where I edit), at least privately from some personal in my company with access to the server. So I think in creating some kind of private tunnel between my work's compu

Re: PCI graphics cards recommendations

2003-02-15 Thread Haralambos Geortgilakis
Hi All, and Daniel Santamaria, who typed, Greek Geek??? that would have to be the BEST example of an oxymoron I have ever heard! From your silly comments below, i think you should change your signature to dumbGreek!, just to be consistent ;) cheers, Dan Argumentum ad hominem? N

Re: PCI graphics cards recommendations

2003-02-15 Thread Haralambos Geortgilakis
Hi All & Norman, whom typed Michael Moore, right? He doesn't have an axe to grind ... Prey tell, do you have a point of view, axe to grind or did God/Alah tell you to type your stuff? Is your line of reasoning beyond critique? Say, you're quite adept at non-sequiters! That was ob

Re: Setting progs at a runlevel

2003-02-15 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 18:45, Jeff Elkins wrote: > As a RH refugee, I'm used to running the 'setup' program to enable/disable > program startups at runtime. For Debian, am I correct in cd'ing to the > /etc/rcX.d dir and moving SXXprogram to KXXprogram to disable it? > > If so, is there a better w

Re: I will never go back to RH

2003-02-15 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Saturday 15 February 2003 9:39 am, Vineet Kumar wrote: >It only gets better from there, trust me. I think apt is one of the >highly-visible features that attracts people to debian. Policy is the >real gold that makes the lifers. I'm sure you're correct. However, just now I was compiling kdeg

Browsers falling apart

2003-02-15 Thread Bill Moseley
Geeze, I'm not sure what's going on. In X I use Galeon, Mozilla and Opera. I like Opera because it's fast but a week or so ago it quit running -- segfaults: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200302/msg01087.html I miss the speed of Opera. Mozilla (1.2.1-9) was nice because

Re: My cup runneth over!

2003-02-15 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 11:11:51PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 06:46:03PM -0500, David Turetsky wrote: > > You sure there ain't some way to prevent a slew of xterm windows from > > opening up each time I reboot into gdm? > > > > Earlier today, if there was one, there was

Re: maildir vs. mbox vs. mh ???

2003-02-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 08:34:06PM +1100, Rob Weir ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 03:48:00PM +0800, Isaac To wrote: > > For me, each mail has two copies. I regularly read one of them, the > > "regular" copy, which is stored as maildir. I use spamassissin to > > scan for junk

Re: More detailed post ...

2003-02-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 01:22:04PM -0500, Daniel Barclay ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I should change mail software just for the Mail-Followup-To: header? > > I should drop all the positive features of my current mailer (Netscape > Communicator 4) just to get automatic Mail-Followup-To: support?

Re: Mozilla Debian Package 1.2.1-9

2003-02-15 Thread Nathan Poznick
Thus spake Jeff Elkins: > Regarding this package, is there a way to enlarge the menu font sizes? They > are so tiny I'm going blind! I'm at 1024x768, but prior to the upgrade it > was much more readable. Probably the best way to do this (and ensure that it sticks) is to do this: In your ~/.moz

Re: Setting progs at a runlevel

2003-02-15 Thread Joseph Barillari
> "JE" == Jeff Elkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JE> As a RH refugee, I'm used to running the 'setup' program to enable/disable JE> program startups at runtime. For Debian, am I correct in cd'ing to the JE> /etc/rcX.d dir and moving SXXprogram to KXXprogram to disable it? J

Re: Setting progs at a runlevel

2003-02-15 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 12:45:10AM +0100, Jeff Elkins wrote: > As a RH refugee, I'm used to running the 'setup' program to enable/disable > program startups at runtime. For Debian, am I correct in cd'ing to the > /etc/rcX.d dir and moving SXXprogram to KXXprogram to disable it? > > If so, is the

RE: My cup runneth over!

2003-02-15 Thread David Turetsky
>>> Earlier on Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 06:46:03PM -0500, David Turetsky wrote: You sure there ain't some way to prevent a slew of xterm windows from opening up each time I reboot into gdm? Earlier today, if there was one, there was 60.70.80 Seems like each time I reboot, the nu

RE: Compiling kernel source

2003-02-15 Thread David Turetsky
>>> David Turetsky wrote on Sat Feb 15, 2003 um 11:54:36AM: 'uname -r' gives '2.4.18-bf2.4' but 'apt-get install kernel-source-2.4.18-bf2.4' replies 'Couldn't find package ... -bf2.4' so I installed 2.4.18. The installation went fine. Quite interesting >>> Andreas Bloch [mailto:[

Re: I will never go back to RH

2003-02-15 Thread nate
will trillich said: > isn't redhat implementing apt-get on their stuff these days? not that i've seen. I don't count up2date as an apt-get replacement since it only (appears) to track installed packages. there's a port of apt-get of course, but without a good archive to back it up, it's usefulne

Re: PCI graphics cards recommendations

2003-02-15 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 20:31, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 01:31:01PM +1300, Haralambos Geortgilakis wrote: > > > > "Mr Powell said he was representing "the newest country and the oldest > > democracy","-Apparently Mr Powell is not aware of the Hellenic/Greek > > Democray, dat

Setting progs at a runlevel

2003-02-15 Thread Jeff Elkins
As a RH refugee, I'm used to running the 'setup' program to enable/disable program startups at runtime. For Debian, am I correct in cd'ing to the /etc/rcX.d dir and moving SXXprogram to KXXprogram to disable it? If so, is there a better way? Thanks, Jeff Elkins http://www.elkins.org -- To U

Re: docs via www behaviour

2003-02-15 Thread will trillich
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 10:58:49PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 01:45:03AM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 06:00:20PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I've just discovered something interesting - when I view docs for > > > m

Re: PCI graphics cards recommendations

2003-02-15 Thread Daniel Santamaria
Greek Geek??? that would have to be the BEST example of an oxymoron I have ever heard!  From your silly comments below, i think you should change your signature to dumbGreek!, just to be consistent ;) cheers, Dan Subject: Re: PCI graphics cards recommend

Re: I will never go back to RH

2003-02-15 Thread will trillich
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 12:39:50AM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > It only gets better from there, trust me. I think apt is one > of the highly-visible features that attracts people to debian. > Policy is the real gold that makes the lifers. Once you start > to learn more about the system, you reali

Re: The myth of aptitude simplicity

2003-02-15 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sat, 15 Feb 2003 20:05:26 -0800 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why does everybody keep saying this when it's false? Aptitude and > apt-get are getting thier information from the same place and making > the same decisions. Both tell you quite specifically what is going on > before it

Re: The myth of aptitude simplicity

2003-02-15 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sun, 16 Feb 2003 15:32:13 +1100 Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried aptitude. Couldn't figure out how to specify > stable/testing/unstable packages. Can it do that? In interactive mode, v. v shows you all (v)ersions of the package available and you can decide which to install. --

Re: My cup runneth over!

2003-02-15 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 06:46:03PM -0500, David Turetsky wrote: > You sure there ain't some way to prevent a slew of xterm windows from > opening up each time I reboot into gdm? > > Earlier today, if there was one, there was 60.70.80 > > Seems like each time I reboot, the number doubles!!! the S

Re: how do you save a buffer out as a file in vim?

2003-02-15 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 11:26:04AM -0500, Drew Cohan wrote: > I want to be able to open one file in vim (vim file1), copy > some arbitrary lines (v, down arrow, yy), and then save that > buffer out as a file (file2). > > What is the ":" command to save out the buffer? vim will tell you lots of th

Re: Adobe Acrobat Reader deb

2003-02-15 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 01:19:42PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > I want to install Adobe Acrobat Reader. Is there any deb file for > > it? > > For reading and printing PDF files, I've almost always found xpdf > sufficient. It's DFSG-free (acroread really isn't); you c

Re: PCI graphics cards recommendations

2003-02-15 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 07:03:08PM +, Jonathan Matthews wrote: > Hi everyone. > > Can anyone recommend/warn me off any PCI graphics cards that > are still available at retail? > > I've googled a bit, but can't find any info written in the last year or > so, or any relevant to X4.x > > FWIW

Re: passwordless ssh login not working

2003-02-15 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 08:50:29PM -0500, jereme wrote: > Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Since protocol 1 is now working, I'm not too bothered about 2 not > > working, but it would be nice to fix it purely on the grounds of not > > liking to have broken stuff around especially when it works

RE: Compiling kernel source

2003-02-15 Thread David Turetsky
>>> David Turetsky wrote on Sat Feb 15, 2003 um 11:54:36AM: 'uname -r' gives '2.4.18-bf2.4' but 'apt-get install kernel-source-2.4.18-bf2.4' replies 'Couldn't find package ... -bf2.4' so I installed 2.4.18. The installation went fine. Quite interesting >>> Andreas Bloch [mailto:[

Re: where would I ask...

2003-02-15 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Sunday 16 February 2003 5:26 am, Russell wrote: >What's better about scsi drives? I saw an old scsi controller card >at a PC meet today. I have a 4gig Seagate SCSI that has been running reliably since about 1996 or so. It's slow - about 10/Mb/s - but I use it to archive important stuff. Jeff

Re: PCI graphics cards recommendations

2003-02-15 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 04:41:13PM +1300, Haralambos Geortgilakis wrote: > > Hi All & Nathan, > > who typed > > > > >On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 01:31:01PM +1300, Haralambos Geortgilakis wrote: > > > > > >>"Mr Powell said he was representing "the newest country and the oldest > >>democracy",

Re: Exim "closing connection" for no apparent reason

2003-02-15 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 02:22:58AM +, Pigeon wrote: > On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 06:09:08PM +, Pigeon wrote: > > If I now reboot nestie and try exim -qf again, all the mails are > > forwarded to pigeon quite happily, even though there are probably many > > more than 40 (the number at which I f

Re: spoofing the From: header

2003-02-15 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 04:56:51PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > Why not use a separate (but not totally bogus) address? Does your MTA > support address suffixes such as scruloose-debian-user or > scruloose+debian-user? Those are probably the easiest way to hide, and > you don't sacrifice that abi

Re: ftpd-ssl

2003-02-15 Thread Michael Heironimus
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 07:09:21PM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: > Probably more people would use it if more ftp clients supported it... > I don't know how well it's supported in MS and Apple worlds... I don't know of a single native Windows or Mac ftp client that supports it. For that matter, the

Re: Mozilla Debian Package 1.2.1-9

2003-02-15 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Sunday 16 February 2003 5:23 am, Russell wrote: Did you get a different monitor? Maybe you should set DisplaySize. man XF86Config-4 No, It's not an Xfree issue, at least AFAIK... The monitor and the video card are the same, it's just that post-upgrade the Mozilla menu size is shrunk! Thanks

Re: Mozilla Debian Package 1.2.1-9

2003-02-15 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 10:27:07PM +0100, Jeff Elkins wrote: > Regarding this package, is there a way to enlarge the menu font sizes? They > are so tiny I'm going blind! I'm at 1024x768, but prior to the upgrade it > was much more readable. Edit your .gtkrc. If you use KDE, I recall kcontrol h

Edited and updated by a Human team

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Re: The myth of aptitude simplicity

2003-02-15 Thread Russell
Paul Johnson wrote: On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 02:29:39PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: I think you'd be much better off forgoing apt-get and using an interactive package tool instead such as aptitude. Proper use of such a tool will make it much easier to keep your package system in stable state.

Re: basic firewall question

2003-02-15 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 03:17:29PM -0600, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: > On the LAN, try nmap and Nessus. From the Internet, www.grc.com and > www.vulnerabilities.org. The former is the Web site for Steve Gibson, > a controversial figure. His Shields Up! scan is Window-centric, but a > decent starti

Re: where would I ask...

2003-02-15 Thread Russell
Pigeon wrote: On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 02:18:10PM -0600, Elizabeth Barham wrote: GSO writes: Where would I ask if anyone has any linux hardware to sell - need a parallel port scanner (UK). snip If you have to get a SCSI card though... well get one, it'll open the wonderful world of SCSI hard

Re: basic firewall question

2003-02-15 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 03:39:01PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > I am planning on getting DSL in the near future, so I have been considering > what to do about a firewall. > > My intended setup is like this: > > www -> DSL modem -> cable/DSL router w/ hardware FW -> small LAN > > However, I w

Re: Mozilla Debian Package 1.2.1-9

2003-02-15 Thread Russell
Jeff Elkins wrote: Regarding this package, is there a way to enlarge the menu font sizes? They are so tiny I'm going blind! I'm at 1024x768, but prior to the upgrade it was much more readable. Thanks, Jeff Elkins http://www.elkins.org Did you get a different monitor? Maybe you should set Dis

Re: kernel-package

2003-02-15 Thread Manoj Srivastava
> In article <20030215103937.GB14742@fake>, Richard Hector > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I haven't found this in the docs - does make-kpkg create a new > initrd image for me, or do the package scripts do that as part of > the install process, or do I need to do it myself (presumably

Re: KDE 3? or 4?

2003-02-15 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 02:23:05PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: > Yes, libfam0c102 conflicts with libfam0 (debatably so, see bug #181104). > What I meant was that the KDE stuff in unstable that has not been > upgraded to KDE 3 would have to be removed in order to install the rest > of KDE 3, due to t

Re: How do I find out where a package came from?

2003-02-15 Thread jereme
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 09:59:13PM -0500, jereme wrote: > > You can check the file: > > > > /usr/share/doc/package/copyright > > > > Debian policy say that this file has to exist for all official debs. > > > > also: > > > > "In addition, the copyright

The myth of aptitude simplicity

2003-02-15 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 02:29:39PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: > I think you'd be much better off forgoing apt-get and using an > interactive package tool instead such as aptitude. Proper use of such a > tool will make it much easier to keep your package system in stable > state. Why does everybod

Re: More detailed post ...

2003-02-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 02:38:25PM -0500, Fred Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 02:50, Paul Johnson wrote: > > http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html > > i hadn't read that, and it brings up a number of points I hadn't > considered, but the majority of them are alo

Re: passwordless ssh login not working

2003-02-15 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 12:40:08PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Pigeon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030215 11:03]: > > Since protocol 1 is now working, I'm not too bothered about 2 not > > working, but it would be nice to fix it purely on the grounds of not > > liking to have broken stuff around especial

Re: where would I ask...

2003-02-15 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 02:18:10PM -0600, Elizabeth Barham wrote: > GSO writes: > > > Where would I ask if anyone has any linux hardware to sell - need a > > parallel port scanner (UK). > > Its just a matter of verifying that a certain scanner is known to work > on Linux and then finding it. For

Re: Exim "closing connection" for no apparent reason

2003-02-15 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 06:09:08PM +, Pigeon wrote: > If I now reboot nestie and try exim -qf again, all the mails are > forwarded to pigeon quite happily, even though there are probably many > more than 40 (the number at which I first had the problem). This > suggests to me that the problem is

Re: PCI graphics cards recommendations

2003-02-15 Thread Haralambos Geortgilakis
Hi All & Nathan, who typed On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 01:31:01PM +1300, Haralambos Geortgilakis wrote: "Mr Powell said he was representing "the newest country and the oldest democracy","-Apparently Mr Powell is not aware of the Hellenic/Greek Democray, dated around 300 BCE; when "we" co

Re: KDE 3? or 4?

2003-02-15 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 12:37:37PM -0700, Bill Webster wrote: > I was confused by the fact that the packages say 'Version: 4:...'. In > fact why do they? Not entirely certain. I usually ignore anything before the : in Debian version numbers, they seem to be insignificant. > I always try and watc

Re: more kernel questions

2003-02-15 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 12:54:02AM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > Is there something else I've missed? Did you reboot? -- .''`. Baloo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than to fix a system msg31001/pgp0.

Re: How do I find out where a package came from?

2003-02-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 09:59:13PM -0500, jereme wrote: > You can check the file: > > /usr/share/doc/package/copyright > > Debian policy say that this file has to exist for all official debs. > > also: > > "In addition, the copyright file must say where the upstream sources > (if any) were obta

Mozilla Debian Package 1.2.1-9

2003-02-15 Thread Jeff Elkins
Regarding this package, is there a way to enlarge the menu font sizes? They are so tiny I'm going blind! I'm at 1024x768, but prior to the upgrade it was much more readable. Thanks, Jeff Elkins http://www.elkins.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: How do I find out where a package came from?

2003-02-15 Thread jereme
Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > "David" == David Goodenough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > David> If I downloaded a package from one of the sources in my > David> sources.list and did not notice it at the time, how can I find > David> out which source actually produced this deb? >

Re: ftpd-ssl

2003-02-15 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 01:52:17AM +, mjoyce wrote: > I have ftpd-ssl running, it seems to work very well. > > As far as I can tell it just uses port 22, neat, this seems to make the > problems of ftp, port, firewalls, passive clients etc, go away, just open and > forward port 22. > > Is th

Re: Galeon opens multiple frames recursively, endlessly

2003-02-15 Thread Alan Davis
I received a message with a solution from Dave W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Try this - works for me every time: > > dpkg-reconfigure -pmedium mozilla-browser > > Then restart Galeon. I wish this bug would get fixed - if Galeon EVER > gets shut down rudely, the windows start spawning. Worked ok fo

Re: avi to free format

2003-02-15 Thread Gemini
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, An avi file can already be in a free format, as there are many different codec that creates avi files. Some are free some are not. I don't know though how it is possible to identify which codec has been used to create the avi file. In my opini

Re: how to login from old pc to new pc

2003-02-15 Thread jereme
Hi Roman, Roman Brodylo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I want to use my old PC as a second "Terminal" on my new system, but > how the do you do that? It sounds like you want to be able to log in to an X environment displayed on old_box but with new_box hosting the session, (doing all the work

Re: passwordless ssh login not working

2003-02-15 Thread jereme
Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Since protocol 1 is now working, I'm not too bothered about 2 not > working, but it would be nice to fix it purely on the grounds of not > liking to have broken stuff around especially when it works for > everyone else! I see in your first message you combed th

ftpd-ssl

2003-02-15 Thread mjoyce
I have ftpd-ssl running, it seems to work very well. As far as I can tell it just uses port 22, neat, this seems to make the problems of ftp, port, firewalls, passive clients etc, go away, just open and forward port 22. Is this right ? if so, i'm surprised more people don;t use it. Matt --

Re: PCI graphics cards recommendations

2003-02-15 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 01:31:01PM +1300, Haralambos Geortgilakis wrote: > > "Mr Powell said he was representing "the newest country and the oldest > democracy","-Apparently Mr Powell is not aware of the Hellenic/Greek > Democray, dated around 300 BCE; when "we" coined the term. His grasp of >

Re: xdmcp and gdm -- missing something ?

2003-02-15 Thread J.F.Gratton
Don, Thank you so much, this is exactly what I looked for. I am stuck in the same position as you are, trying to automate the procedure. A temporary hack for now is to add the line you mentionned (X :1 vt8 etc etc) into my /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh. This is ugly, but hey.. it works :) I tried to so

pbuilder failing

2003-02-15 Thread Jason Pepas
hello, I am not sure what list to report this to, so I'll start here. pbuilder for ppc is failing when trying to create a sid base.tgz. specifically, it can't download libpcap: (pts/0)root@phaeton:/mnt/nfs/pbuilder$ pbuilder create --distribution sid --buildplace /mnt/nfs/pbuilder/tmp/ --build

Re: spoofing the From: header

2003-02-15 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Scruloose ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030215 14:27]: > I recently found one of my own posts on Google groups... and I really do > *not* like seeing my preferred address splattered all over the web like > that (And yes, I know I knew we were being archived on the web, I > just had sort of a brain-fart ab

Re: spoofing the From: header

2003-02-15 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 05:11:52PM -0500, Scruloose wrote: > I recently found one of my own posts on Google groups... and I really do > *not* like seeing my preferred address splattered all over the web like > that (And yes, I know I knew we were being archived on the web, I > just had sort of a br

apt 1000 different levels of priority mere eye candy?

2003-02-15 Thread Dan Jacobson
Is it true that the apparently 1000+ different levels of priority mentioned on the apt_preferences(5) man page are actually just a handful? If one manages to make 'apt-cache policy' report one item with priority 504 and another with priority 506, there are still other factors that override this an

Re: PCI graphics cards recommendations

2003-02-15 Thread Haralambos Geortgilakis
Hi All & Paul, who typed, A. Because it's backwards. On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 04:44:15PM +1300, Haralambos Geortgilakis wrote: I killed the motherboard (FIC 503, *sobs*), with a 7200 rpm kooler plugged into it & not directly to the power supply. Doh! Aww, you're going about it all w

Re: xdmcp and gdm -- missing something ?

2003-02-15 Thread Donald Spoon
J.F.Gratton wrote: Hello all, I have two computers (networked, 'f course) both with the same setup, gdm + gnome 2.2 latest versions (I apt-get dist-upgrade every day on the unstable branch). The way I understood the Chooser is that I'd be able to get the gdm login screen of PC #2 on PC #1 . I'

Re: spoofing the From: header

2003-02-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 05:11:52PM -0500, Scruloose wrote: > If I post to debian-user with a totally bogus "from" address, will the > listserver filter me out as being "not a subscriber"? No. > Would this screw up the threading or anything? No. > And would people still be able to find my PGP ke

Re: cronproblem solved

2003-02-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 02:47:45PM -0500, George Georgalis wrote: > You might not have seen "man 5 crontab" try setting > alias man='man -a' > first then you'll have an option to see all the manpages. For what it's worth, 'export MANOPT=-a' is probably cleaner. Cheers, -- Colin Watson

Re: Newbie Installation Problems

2003-02-15 Thread Mark Whaite
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 11:57:03AM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: > On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 09:47:04PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > Fun fact: Today is Oregon Day. On this day in 1859, Oregon became the > > US's 33rd state, the result of the Vote at Champoeg, in which two > > Canadians wanted de

Re: ALSA sound setup

2003-02-15 Thread Larry Holish
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 04:53:42PM -0500, Scruloose wrote: > On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 01:38:43PM -0600, Larry Holish wrote: > > > Sorry, I guess I should have started with this. I'm running testing > > with a SB Live 5.1. Here's the relevant packages I have installed: > > > Looks like you are runn

Re: more kernel questions

2003-02-15 Thread Richard Hector
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 03:44:01PM -0500, sean finney wrote: > On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 09:11:47AM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > > Thanks, but no, I checked the symlinks, and /vmlinuz and the old version > > both point to the correct places (as do the initrd ones). > > hmm... well, could you post

problem building freeswan modules

2003-02-15 Thread supermann
Hi all. I use stable (woody), kernel source 2.4.19 and 2.4.20 I applied kernel-patch-freeswan/stable uptodate 1.96-1.4 on my system. I try to build a kernel with the following kommand: make-kpkg --added-patches freeswan kernel_image kernel_headers My /etc/kernel-pkg.conf: patch_the_kernel := YES

Re: more kernel questions

2003-02-15 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 12:54:02AM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > I've just compiled and installed a new kernel, using make-kpkg. However, > I'm not sure it's actually running. uname -a still gives me 2.4.18-586tsc, > which is the old one - my new kernel doesn't have the 586tsc bit on the > end of

Re: How do I find out where a package came from?

2003-02-15 Thread Hubert Chan
> "David" == David Goodenough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: David> If I downloaded a package from one of the sources in my David> sources.list and did not notice it at the time, how can I find David> out which source actually produced this deb? Try "apt-cache policy ". This will show you all t

Re: Compiling kernel source

2003-02-15 Thread sean finney
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 05:33:19PM -0500, David Turetsky wrote: >ln -sf /boot/vmlinuz-Linux /vmlinuz, which is taken from the line in >lilo.conf following image=/vmlinuz, and which reads in its >entirety, 'label=Linux' > >Is that what you had in mind, or rather should I have put s

Re: Any way to play Canon movie files?

2003-02-15 Thread csj
On Sat, 15 Feb 2003 09:33:35 +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > I tried to use xmovie to play a movie file made with the Canon > Powershot A40, which is in .AVI format. It wasn't recognized, > and trying to convert it to a different format doesn't work > either. > > Is there any way of playing th

Re: avi to free format

2003-02-15 Thread csj
On Sat, 15 Feb 2003 13:06:34 +0100, Rudy Gevaert wrote: > Somebody send me a avi film but I would like to change it into > a free (as in free speech) format. What format should I use > and what packages should I intall? The freest format is probably mpeg 1. There are few audio and video codecs th

Re: Upgrade to Sid by apt

2003-02-15 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Willem-Jan Meijer wrote on Fri Feb 14, 2003 um 06:19:43PM: > Hello again, > > I want to upgrade to sid, is there a rule for sources.lists? I think, if you ask that question, you should seriously reconsider your idea. Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Compiling kernel source

2003-02-15 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include David Turetsky wrote on Sat Feb 15, 2003 um 11:54:36AM: > > 'uname -r' gives '2.4.18-bf2.4' but 'apt-get install > > kernel-source-2.4.18-bf2.4' replies 'Couldn't find package ... -bf2.4' > > so I installed 2.4.18. The installation went fine. Quite interesting Wrong. Use "apt-get sou

RE: Compiling kernel source

2003-02-15 Thread David Turetsky
>>> On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 02:12:35PM -0500, David Turetsky wrote: Following your instructions, I edited lilo.conf and commented out the 4 lines about image=/vmlinuz.old, which appeared with the new image=/vmlinux entries, then ran lilo. Same problem. Rebooted. Same problem. Ran ta

How do I find out where a package came from?

2003-02-15 Thread David Goodenough
If I downloaded a package from one of the sources in my sources.list and did not notice it at the time, how can I find out which source actually produced this deb? I have one of the KDE 3.1 sites in my sources.list, and I recently hit a problem with mpeglib which would not upgrade due to a file o

Re: KDE 3? or 4?

2003-02-15 Thread Brian Nelson
Bill Webster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 02:42, Paul Johnson wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 10:53:02AM -0700, Bill Webster wrote: >> > I am having a problem and I am wondering if someone out there is having >> > the same problem or can explain what is going on. >> > >>

xdmcp and gdm -- missing something ?

2003-02-15 Thread J.F.Gratton
Hello all, I have two computers (networked, 'f course) both with the same setup, gdm + gnome 2.2 latest versions (I apt-get dist-upgrade every day on the unstable branch). The way I understood the Chooser is that I'd be able to get the gdm login screen of PC #2 on PC #1 . I've found an (outdate

Re: KDE 3? or 4?

2003-02-15 Thread Brian Nelson
Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 02:05:37PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: >> As for the missing packages (kdenetwork and kdepim, I think), they >> should appear in the archives in the next few days. You'll also need to >> remove libfam0 and anything depending on it

Bridging PPP (BCP over PPP)

2003-02-15 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Hi I was wondering if anyone knows... ...does linux support BCP over PPP? thanx -- Haim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

how to login from old pc to new pc

2003-02-15 Thread Roman Brodylo
Hello, after 2 weeks I finally got everything working on my new PC (except sound, but that can wait). I want to use my old PC as a second "Terminal" on my new system, but how the do you do that? Could somebody tell me how or point me to where I can find out how to get this working? I've got

spoofing the From: header

2003-02-15 Thread Scruloose
I recently found one of my own posts on Google groups... and I really do *not* like seeing my preferred address splattered all over the web like that (And yes, I know I knew we were being archived on the web, I just had sort of a brain-fart about it)... So I got to thinking: There was a thread jus

Re: kde package dependencies broken (kde relies on everything?)

2003-02-15 Thread csj
On Fri, 14 Feb 2003 15:38:34 +0100, Jeff Elkins wrote: > > On Friday 14 February 2003 4:21 pm, Michel Loos wrote: > >The kde Package is a metapackage which allows you to install > >all of kde with 1 apt-get. But KDE works fine without the > >package kde. > > How would one -uninstall- KDE in one f

Re: cron solved

2003-02-15 Thread George Georgalis
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 10:25:31PM +0100, Ina&Frank wrote: >Thanx for your explaination. I read the man 5 cron manpage (I ran man 5 >cron) and understood that you have to use (better to do so) the -u option. > >My problem was that I want to 'load' and 'unload' a firewall rule >periodically. ipta

Re: ALSA sound setup

2003-02-15 Thread Scruloose
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 01:38:43PM -0600, Larry Holish wrote: > Sorry, I guess I should have started with this. I'm running testing > with a SB Live 5.1. Here's the relevant packages I have installed: > Looks like you are running a older driver (0.9.0beta10) than me, so > 'snd-card-emu10k1' is co

Re: Galeon AND Mozilla!

2003-02-15 Thread Jason Wojciechowski
Narins, Josh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > (Galeon has no open bugs like I describe) No, but mozilla-browser does. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=173518 And others like it. That page gives a workaround to try, as well. -- Jason Wojciechowski http://wonka.hampshire.edu/~jason

unsubscribe issue

2003-02-15 Thread Fer'had Erdogan
Guys. (would be interesting to find out how many girls actually use Debian at all),   I think I found what my problem is. There’s some kind of antispam thing through my mail server people that might be attaching a little more crap onto the subject line which messes up my confirmation emai

Re: Emacs Key Bindings

2003-02-15 Thread Bob Hilliard
"Charlie Reiman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> -Original Message- >> From: Bob Hilliard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 12:15 PM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: Emacs Key Bindings >> >> >> I like to indent the first line of each paragraph. By defau

Re: Galeon AND Mozilla!

2003-02-15 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 15:03, Narins, Josh wrote: > I use Galeon or Mozilla. > I was in the train station. > I booted my laptop. > I used Galeon. > I got on the train... > > Galeon: > On starting Galeon I see the standard "last time bombed" > I click discard last session. > Galeon starts making ne

cron solved

2003-02-15 Thread
George, Thanx for your explaination. I read the man 5 cron manpage (I ran man 5 cron) and understood that you have to use (better to do so) the -u option. My problem was that I want to 'load' and 'unload' a firewall rule periodically. iptables runs (kernel 2.4.18) under root, so I had to edit

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