Re: APT newbie question

On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 10:49:52 +0800 (CST) Terence Ng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > If I am using stable distribution (Debian2.2r1), using > Python 2.1, how do I upgrade to Python 2.2.3 in > unstable distribution (I still want my default as > stable distribution). First of all, you should

Re: Mounting windows boxes

On Sun, 15 Jun 2003, Jake Johnson wrote: > What is the easiest way to mount a windows share from a Linux box? It is > easy to mount a samba share, but I am having difficulty in the reverse direction. Assuming the kernel has smbfs compiled in or as a module and the windows share is made available

Re: exim-tls or VPN

* Will Trillich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030615 22:14]: > i've been fencing with exim-tls and am at the cusp of > surrendering. i hear that i could use a vpn to allow my emailers > to connect securely and send/receive email that way, without > having to wrestle exim to do the tls that's supposed to be

Re: Removing inetd

On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 01:27:52AM -0400, Rob French wrote: > Hello, > > What's the "Debian way" to stop running inetd? I can't remove the > package very easily since so many things seem to depend on it... > Should I just use update-rc.d to remove it from all the runlevels? apt-get install xinet

Mounting windows boxes

What is the easiest way to mount a windows share from a Linux box? It is easy to mount a samba share, but I am having difficulty in the reverse direction. Thanks, Jake Johnson http://www.plutoid.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: How to Identify Mailing Lists

On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 08:22:37AM +0200, David Fokkema wrote: > On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 05:58:50PM -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: > > Try this to identify all the Debian mailing lists in one whack: > > > > # Debian lists ... > > :0: > > * ^X-Mailing-List: .*[<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] > > * ^X-Mailing-List:

xdvitune not working properly

I'm having a heck of a time getting my display centered. I've played with xdvitune, as root, and using sudo. I can get the screen shifted to the left, as is with the 2 other computers, but as soon as I log out, and log back into X, it's back to the right. What is/isn't happening? Thanks -- R

Re: APT newbie question

* Terence Ng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030616 06:32]: >> Edit your /etc/apt/apt.con and add the following >> line: >> APT::Default-Release"stable"; > I am sorry. My release should be Debian3.0r1. I > cannot find a file /etc/apt/apt.conf but > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/70debconf. What should I do? Oh,

Re: ssh or VPN

On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 11:38:58AM -0400, Vivek Kumar wrote: > We are trying to give either vpn or ssh access to all the > remote users.. I am more comfortable with ssh but others say > VPN so one quick question which one is more secure or better - > VPN or ssh ? as i understand it, ssh is an enc

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Re: Totally Remote Debian Install Help

> > > Now, I'm trying to figure out how to replace its current Windows 98, with > > Debian Linux, preferably without having to rely on anyone there doing > > anything to the machine beyond switching it on (and perhaps hitting the > > reset button). If anyone has done something similar, or can see

Re: APT newbie question

Hi, I am sorry. My release should be Debian3.0r1. I cannot find a file /etc/apt/apt.conf but /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/70debconf. What should I do? Best regards, Terence Ng --- Alexander Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Terence Ng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030616 > 04:49]: > > > If I am using st

Re: How to set xdm as default

Hi, I have run: dpkg --purge gdm, dpkg-reconfigure -plow xdm I have modified /etc/X11/default-display-manager, it shows: /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm After I reboot, it still shows that xdm is not the default display manager. Best regards, Terence --- Hugh Saunders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun,

Re: APT newbie question

* Terence Ng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030616 04:49]: > If I am using stable distribution (Debian2.2r1), using > Python 2.1, how do I upgrade to Python 2.2.3 in > unstable distribution (I still want my default as > stable distribution). Edit your /etc/apt/apt.con and add the following line: APT::Defau

APT newbie question

Hi, If I am using stable distribution (Debian2.2r1), using Python 2.1, how do I upgrade to Python 2.2.3 in unstable distribution (I still want my default as stable distribution). Best regards, Terence ___ Do You Yahoo!? Get your

Re: filling the area under a curve in gnuplot

On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 05:13:41PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: } Sorry for asking a gnuplot question here... } } Is it possible to shade the area under a curve in 2D mode (plot)? } How? I don't know of a way of doing it from within gnuplot. If you want the graph in some output format, however,

RE: Console Screensaver

Hey this one's perfect!! Thanks!! -Original Message- From: Seneca [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 10:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Console Screensaver On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 09:29:31AM +0800, Miranda, Joel Louie M wrote: > Has anyone used a console s

Re: Console Screensaver

On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 09:29:31AM +0800, Miranda, Joel Louie M wrote: > Has anyone used a console screensaver? Matrix screensaver on KDE is good. > But I was hoping it has a console version of it. apt-get install cmatrix -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: USB and PCMCIA card readers

On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 13:45, Piers Kittel wrote: > Hello all > > I have 2 card readers - an Sandisk PCMCIA compactflash card reader, and > an Lexar USB Smartmedia card reader, and well, the question is how to > get those to work on my linux laptop? I don't know about the PCMCIA reader. For th

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Hello, Has anyone used a console screensaver? Matrix screensaver on KDE is good. But I was hoping it has a console version of it. I have framebuffer support on my kernel. Thanks, Louie. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PRO

Re: USB and PCMCIA card readers

--- Piers Kittel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Hello all > > I have 2 card readers - an Sandisk PCMCIA compactflash card reader, and > an Lexar USB Smartmedia card reader, and well, the question is how to > get those to work on my linux laptop? I'm not fairly sure what is there > to need t

Re: Beginning Linux Programming(THANK YOU)

Tinus wrote: > Kevin wrote: > > Tinus wrote: > > > Can somebody advise a tutorial for the make/configure part? The > > > programming C part I already have covered. > > > > I believe the make/configure process is generally known as autoconf; > > googling for "GNU autoconf" gets many hits, at least

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Re: Low latency patch worth the fuss?

Not responding to the OP's mail since I already deleted it. On 15 Jun 2003 18:57:05 -0500 Shyamal Prasad wrote: > "debian" == debian writes: > > debian> Hi there, I'm just ripping a few CDs' with Grip and even > debian> with nice level -20 for both ripping & encoding the system

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RE: Console password generator

Pwgen looks pretty good. Thanks! -Original Message- From: Massimiliano Ferrero [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 6:06 PM To: Debian User Subject: Re: Console password generator Miranda, Joel Louie M wrote: > Hello, > > Im not sure if debian package has a password

RE: Console password generator

thanks -Original Message- From: Jean-Marc V. Liotier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 6:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Console password generator On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 10:24, Miranda, Joel Louie M wrote: > Im not sure if debian package has a password ge

Re: Low latency patch worth the fuss?

"debian" == debian writes: debian> Hi there, I'm just ripping a few CDs' with Grip and even debian> with nice level -20 for both ripping & encoding the system debian> "drags" noticeably. The kernel low latency patch should in debian> theory offer a solution by improving on th

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Re: pb with eepro100

Manu wrote: Hi I am having some issues with my pc. I have an intel card and I know it works with the knoppix distribution 3.2 as I have tried it and was connected . I have compared the modules and the only differences between debian and knoppix was the mii.o. In fact this module is a dependance f

Re: Beginning Linux Programming(THANK YOU)

On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 00:16, Kevin McKinley wrote: > On 15 Jun 2003 23:40:36 +0200 > Tinus Kotzé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Can somebody advise a tutorial for the make/configure part? The > > programming C part I already have covered. > > IANAP. > > I believe the make/configure process is

Re: whereami question

Es geschah am Sonntag, 15. Juni 2003 17:14 als matt zagrabelny schrieb: > i cannot find in the documentation or examples of whereami how to set > the gateway, netmask, etc for a static interface. i see in the > detect.conf that you can set the ip with the ping test, but cannot find > how to set the

Re: Fixing error when installing package

On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 11:35:14PM +0100, Ben Kal wrote: > On 14 Jun 2003 iwk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I just installed Eclipse 2.1 from unstable. It downloaded a whole bunch > > of dependant packages, among which the j2re1.4 (Blackdown). > > Configuration of the latter failed, leading to

Re: Beginning Linux Programming

On 15 Jun 2003 23:40:36 +0200 Tinus Kotzé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can somebody advise a tutorial for the make/configure part? The > programming C part I already have covered. IANAP. I believe the make/configure process is generally known as autoconf; googling for "GNU autoconf" gets many hi

Re: old interne modem (ISA)

On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 11:22:58PM +, Robin Gerard wrote: > On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 12:33:16AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 12:36:06AM +, Robin Gerard wrote: > > > Can someone tell me what I forgot to do or which type of internal > > > modem (ISA) works with linux

Re: Converting to UTF-8 from ISO-8859

On 14 Jun 2003 Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been working on converting my system over to using UTF-8 wherever > possible. I've already configured galeon, evolution, gnome-terminal and > just about every other graphical application to use UTF-8 by default. I've > set my locale

Re: Fixing error when installing package

On 14 Jun 2003 iwk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just installed Eclipse 2.1 from unstable. It downloaded a whole bunch > of dependant packages, among which the j2re1.4 (Blackdown). > Configuration of the latter failed, leading to a whole series of > dependant packages (ant, junit etc) to fai

Re: How to set xdm as default

On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 08:57:19PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 04:42:43PM +0100, Hugh Saunders wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 04:10:17PM +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote: > > > First, you really should use aptitude to install and remove stuff. > > > Try that first. > > > > I

Re: old interne modem (ISA)

On Monday 16 June 2003 01:22, Robin Gerard wrote: > > Sure. Finely ground, your internal modem will make an extremely > > strong cup of coffee. > > Okay, I've mad coffee with my internal modem who's volonteers for a cup ? Me! I love heavy metal(s) :-D -- Frank Van Dammehttp://www.openstanda

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Hello, I've installed gnome 2.2 today. Unfortunately my applications menu in the panel is empty. I couldn't figure out why. What can I do that the applications, the debian menu and the kde menu appear? The links to the applications seem to exist. Nautilus shows them under "programs". Thank you fo

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Hi I am looking for a tutorial for linux programming. I have thorough experience in Delphi and quite a bit in Java. I would like to start programming for Linux in C. I am looking to start with KDevelop as IDE. My problem is I don't know much about "configure". Can somebody advise a tutorial for t

Re: old interne modem (ISA)

On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 12:33:16AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 12:36:06AM +, Robin Gerard wrote: > > Can someone tell me what I forgot to do or which type of internal > > modem (ISA) works with linux. > > Sure. Finely ground, your internal modem will make an extreme

Re: Advice needed : Oracle and Debian Linux

On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 12:49:11AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > > Most businesses really don't know what to make of free software. > Therefore they try to make it fit into their traditional model of > commercially purchased non-free software. The concept of buying > software fits the traditional pu

Re: Samba Access

Shawn Lamson wrote: On Mon, 21 Apr 2003 19:07:05 -0500 Donald Spoon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I struggled getting the Windows ---> Samba ---> CUPS ---> HP printer route going here. The solution I finally wound up using was to use a "Post Script" driver on the Windows machine. I used the "gene

Re: Low latency patch worth the fuss?

On 15 Jun 2003 21:09:22 +0200 Mario Vukelic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd say it's really worth it, and from my brief encounter with Gentoo > I'd suspect that most of Gentoo's perceived speed is because of the > kernel (they offer the CK kernel in portage, but as I understand also > the stock

Re: KDE and Debian conflicts

On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 04:09:33PM +0100, Marc Warne wrote: > I'm having dependency problems when trying to install stable KDE packages > with the testing Debian ones. That's really not surprising. The g++ 3.2 transition involved a change in the Qt package names, among other things. "Don't do that

Re: How to set xdm as default

On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 04:42:43PM +0100, Hugh Saunders wrote: > On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 04:10:17PM +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote: > > First, you really should use aptitude to install and remove stuff. > > Try that first. > > Its fine to suggest aptitude, its usefull in some situations, but i > dont

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Re: Low latency patch worth the fuss?

On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 13:08, iwk wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm just ripping a few CDs' with Grip and even with nice level -20 for > both ripping & encoding the system "drags" noticeably. The kernel low > latency patch should in theory offer a solution by improving on the > resposiveness of the sys

kde & ``unmet dependencies'' _heLL_ ???

I am very confused ;> First, this system is woody. indicates that _all_ I need to upgrade to kde v3.x is to add this to /etc/apt/sources.list : deb http://download.kde.org/stable/3.1.2/Debian stable However, when I then do: apt-get dist-upgrade it re

Re: Low latency patch worth the fuss?

On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 20:08, iwk wrote: > Is it really worth > the fuss of recompiling the stock (debian) kernel which is working fine? > Anyone got any practical experience? I've been running Con Koliva's patch set fo a while. http://members.optusnet.com.au/ckolivas/kernel/ It's already out for

Re: howto rebuild items under /usr/share/applnk ???

Also sprach Michael D. Schleif (Sun 15 Jun 02003 at 11:02:42AM -0500): > In a misbegotten effort to upgrade to kde 3.x, I have managed to delete > /usr/share/Applnk/* . > > Now that I have re-installed kde 2.2.25, and I log into my desktop, the > panel in the lower left has gear-icons, instead of

Low latency patch worth the fuss?

Hi there, I'm just ripping a few CDs' with Grip and even with nice level -20 for both ripping & encoding the system "drags" noticeably. The kernel low latency patch should in theory offer a solution by improving on the resposiveness of the system. But does it in practice? Is it really worth th

USB and PCMCIA card readers

Hello all I have 2 card readers - an Sandisk PCMCIA compactflash card reader, and an Lexar USB Smartmedia card reader, and well, the question is how to get those to work on my linux laptop? I'm not fairly sure what is there to need to know to solve the problem, the laptop's a fairly ancient on

Re: CVS_RSH for :ext: CVS access

On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 00:02:02 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) wrote: > A while back I posted this note. It might help in getting up to speed > with the alternatives system. A short tutorial on the subject. > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/debian-user-200208/msg02808.html You

Re: Questions re kernel

On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 21:44:58 +1200 cr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However, there are a number of things that need sorting, including a > couple of what may be fundamental points that I should sort out before > this installation gets too far down the track. > > First, I have a couple of DOS parti

Re: Unexpected APM functionality after installing gnome2.2 backport

Quoting James Strandboge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 11:57, M. Kirchhoff wrote: > > Hello All, > > > > I recently picked up a second-hand laptop (IBM Thinkpad 570). I installed > Woody > > per the usual and found that APM seemed to work fine for putting the laptop > to > > sleep

howto rebuild items under /usr/share/applnk ???

In a misbegotten effort to upgrade to kde 3.x, I have managed to delete /usr/share/Applnk/* . Now that I have re-installed kde 2.2.25, and I log into my desktop, the panel in the lower left has gear-icons, instead of application-specific icons, in positions 3-11 and 13. Clicking on one of these g

Re: naming of debian distributions

* Frederiks, P. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030615 17:26]: > The official woody CD's I have create apt.sources lines containing > the word 'unstable'. I don't know why, but I do know for sure this is > the official woody-release and NOT sid. This is a known problem. See http://bugs.debian.org/157014 Si

Re: OT:Any tips on burning knoppix cdr

On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 09:24:23 -0500 John Foster wrote: > I have tried to burn 4 Knoppix cdr's using different programs > including trying windoze nero with the exact same results.the cd > burns but does not produce a bootable cd. Their web site seems to > indicate that if you can sucessfully bur

Re: How to set xdm as default

On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 17:42, Hugh Saunders wrote: > Its fine to suggest aptitude, its usefull in some situations, but i dont > think you can say that people _should_ use it. People can install packages > however they like apt-get, dpkg, aptitude, synaptic, wajig, etc. Sure, however, they should r

Re: Problem with sqwebmail login (repost)

On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 01:13:00PM +, Jonathan Matthews wrote: > On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 02:49:58PM +0200, Sasa Babic wrote: > > /* Sorry if this is double post. I'm not sure if it got to the list (seems > > * not). */ > > > > Debian stable & sqwebmail. > > > > I must be doing something wron

Re: OT:Any tips on burning knoppix cdr

On Sunday 15 June 2003 17:24, John Foster wrote: > I have tried to burn 4 Knoppix cdr's using different programs > including trying windoze nero with the exact same results.the cd > burns but does not produce a bootable cd. Their web site seems to > indicate that if you can sucessfully burn a c

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Hello! I have installed Debian Linux 3.0r1 and a home-compiled 2.4.18 kernel (no additional patches) with NFS-kernel-server (compiled in). Everything seems to work, but when I change the runlevel to 1 and to 2 after doing something or simply typing CNTRL-D the system hangs at this point: Starti

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in the past month, I've grabbed updates to sarge, and have them "archived" onto cdrom. Now that I've re-installed woody, and upgraded back to sarge, how do I get apt-get to see these updated files, so I can save a bit of time using a dialup internet connection. Thanks -- Rodney D. Myers <[EMAIL

RE: naming of debian distributions

Title: RE: naming of debian distributions The official woody CD's I have create apt.sources lines containing the word 'unstable'. I don't know why, but I do know for sure this is the official woody-release and NOT sid.

Re: [debian-user] Converting to UTF-8 from ISO-8859

>--[Alex Malinovich]--<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 06:58, Rüdiger Kuhlmann wrote: > > >--[Alex Malinovich]--<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > 1) I've set up an .Xmodmap file to map my left Windows key to Multi_key > > > so that I can type extended characters. However, I have to run "xmodma

Re: How to set xdm as default

On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 07:58:38AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 04:36:06PM +0100, Hugh Saunders wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ man dpkg-reconfigure |grep plow > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ > > > > been doing some farming?? > > The man page is out of date if it doesn't include

Re: OT:Any tips on burning knoppix cdr

John Foster wrote: I have tried to burn 4 Knoppix cdr's using different programs including trying windoze nero with the exact same results.the cd burns but does not produce a bootable cd. Their web site seems to indicate that if you can sucessfully burn a cd with the Knoppi.iso file th

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whereami question

hello whereami users, i cannot find in the documentation or examples of whereami how to set the gateway, netmask, etc for a static interface. i see in the detect.conf that you can set the ip with the ping test, but cannot find how to set the other parameters for static ip. please advise. thanks,

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Hi, I'm having dependency problems when trying to install stable KDE packages with the testing Debian ones. This is my sources.list file: deb http://www.uk.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free deb http://www.uk.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb ftp://download.uk.kde.or

Re: OT:Any tips on burning knoppix cdr

On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 09:24:23 -0500 John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have tried to burn 4 Knoppix cdr's using different programs > including trying windoze nero with the exact same results.the cd > burns but does not produce a bootable cd. Their web site seems to > indicate that if yo

Re: naming of debian distributions

* matt zagrabelny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030615 15:10]: > i installed debian using the woody cds. but in my sources.list i have > all my paths set to unstable. am i running sid or woody? There is a small bug with the Woody CDs, so that the disks are identified as "unstable disks". Please have a vi

Re: naming of debian distributions

i manually changed sources.list [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /etc/debian_version testing/unstable thanks for the info. -matt On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 09:09, Christian Schoenebeck wrote: > Es geschah am Sonntag, 15. Juni 2003 15:10 als matt zagrabelny schrieb: > > hi, > > > > i installed debian using t

Re: naming of debian distributions

* Christian Schoenebeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030615 16:09]: > If you installed it using the official woody CDs it's very unlikely that you > have an unstable source in you apt list. According to http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=157014 you have unstable sources (for the disks) afte

Re: How to set xdm as default

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 04:36:06PM +0100, Hugh Saunders wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ man dpkg-reconfigure |grep plow > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ > > been doing some farming?? The man page is out of date if it doesn't include -plow... - -- .''`. B

Re: OT:Any tips on burning knoppix cdr

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 09:24:23AM -0500, John Foster wrote: > BTW these are my first attempts at using Debian SID apps to burn a cd. > Any tips or experiances would be appreciated. Thanks! Have you read the CD Burning Howto? - -- .''`. Baloo

anyone using mailutils-imap4d?

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Re: How to set xdm as default

On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 04:10:17PM +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote: > First, you really should use aptitude to install and remove stuff. Try > that first. Its fine to suggest aptitude, its usefull in some situations, but i dont think you can say that people _should_ use it. People can install packages h

Re: How to set xdm as default

On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 07:12:43AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > Since there's no real benefit to having more than one display manager > installed, dpkg --purge gdm, dpkg-reconfigure -plow xdm [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ man dpkg-reconfigure |grep plow [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ been doing some farming?? --

Re: naming of debian distributions

Es geschah am Sonntag, 15. Juni 2003 15:10 als matt zagrabelny schrieb: > hi, > > i installed debian using the woody cds. but in my sources.list i have > all my paths set to unstable. am i running sid or woody? If you installed it using the official woody CDs it's very unlikely that you have an u

Re: How to set xdm as default

On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 15:45, Terence Ng wrote: > I cannot remove gdm by running: dpkg --remove gdm First, you really should use aptitude to install and remove stuff. Try that first. In general, copying the error messages is more likely to generate helpful answers that just saying you "cannot" :)

Re: naming of debian distributions

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 08:10:12AM -0500, matt zagrabelny wrote: > i installed debian using the woody cds. but in my sources.list i have > all my paths set to unstable. am i running sid or woody? Sid. - -- .''`. Baloo Ursidae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to set xdm as default

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 07:19:25PM +0800, Terence Ng wrote: > but message shows: > Not starting X display manager (xdm); it is not the > default display manager. > > I have viewed /etc/X11/default-display-manager > and it shows: > /etc/bin/gdm > What

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-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 01:48:17PM +0530, SRIKANTH NS wrote: > I installed clamav sometime back. Since I thought Linux is immune from > virii(mistakenly) I never scanned Linux partitions. It is. > Yesterday I did a scan "clamscan -i -r /home/srikanth

Re: How to set xdm as default

I cannot remove gdm by running: dpkg --remove gdm and I have already installed xdm --- Mario Vukelic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 13:19, Terence Ng wrote: > > > I have viewed /etc/X11/default-display-manager > > and it shows: > > /etc/bin/gdm > > > > but I do not know how

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On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 02:49:58PM +0200, Sasa Babic wrote: > /* Sorry if this is double post. I'm not sure if it got to the list (seems > * not). */ > > Debian stable & sqwebmail. > > I must be doing something wrong, because I'm not able to authenticate trough > sqwebmail interface. Searched th

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Re: Antivirus- Clamscan - Exploit.IFRAME.Generic

On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 01:48:17PM +0530, SRIKANTH NS wrote: > Hi All > I installed clamav sometime back. Since I thought Linux is immune from > virii(mistakenly) I never scanned Linux partitions. > > Yesterday I did a scan "clamscan -i -r /home/srikanth" > It reported 2 files apart from test sign

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Mark L. Kahnt writes: > The Debian outlook tends to be rather that if some software should be on > a machine and available on a runlevel, it is best for the decision to be > made by the sysadmin, rather than some guesses/judgements by Debian > maintainers whether something belongs in certain runlev

Re: How to set xdm as default

On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 07:19:25PM +0800, Terence Ng wrote: > Hi! > > How do I set xdm as default? I have tried: > rcconf and select xdm and > /etc/init.d/xdm start > > but message shows: > Not starting X display manager (xdm); it is not the > default display manager. > > I have viewed /etc

Re: How to set xdm as default

On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 13:19, Terence Ng wrote: > I have viewed /etc/X11/default-display-manager > and it shows: > /etc/bin/gdm > > but I do not know how to set, since there is no > /etc/bin/xdm such file. If xdm is installed, edit /etc/X11/default-display-manager to read /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm. May

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