Re: diffs between kernel-source-2.4.22 and source of kernel-image-2.4.22?

2003-10-14 Thread David Fokkema
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 06:44:04PM +1000, Rob Weir wrote: > On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 05:37:58PM +0200, David Fokkema said > > Hi group, > > > > Compiling my own kernel I ran into strange difficulties. I have a laptop > > (asus L5800C) that's hit by the radeon driver bug resulting in black > > scree

Re: OpenOffice & Debian Sid - foreign characters

2003-10-14 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 07:34:28PM +0100, Celso Pinto wrote: > Hi list, > > i installed OpenOffice 1.1 on my shiny new Debian Sid box ;-) and i > have a big problem: on any OpenOffice application I cannot type > Portuguese accentuated characters like "á è" etc although I can type > in the Euro sym

Re: How to set font size for replacment UI font in OpenOffice?

2003-10-14 Thread moseley
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 01:38:55PM +0800, Sukanta K. Hazra wrote: > > After installing OpenOffice.org 1.1.0 the menu fonts were tiny and > > unreadable. I follow the instructions in the README and replace "Andale > > Sans UI" with another font, but the font is still very tiny. > > > > How do I

Re: alerting users of expiring passwords

2003-10-14 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Haim Ashkenazi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.10.15.0005 +0200]: > I guess you can get it with 'cut' command. something like: > TIME=`grep /etc/shadow | cut -d":" -f 5` > echo "your password will expire in $TIME days" i'd have to delete (numDays(now() - 1970.01.01)) from it. while this is

Re: How to set font size for replacment UI font in OpenOffice?

2003-10-14 Thread Sukanta K. Hazra
> After installing OpenOffice.org 1.1.0 the menu fonts were tiny and > unreadable. I follow the instructions in the README and replace "Andale > Sans UI" with another font, but the font is still very tiny. > > How do I select the font size? > > I'm running Sid and using Icewm for my window man

Re: Debian / Linux KaZaA client?

2003-10-14 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 22:00, Pigeon wrote: --snip-- > > (Why do I feel like ROTFLMAO?) > > Because it sounds dead dodgy. I quite understand. Perhaps I can be of > reassurance by inviting people to check the originating IP in my > headers out as being part of a dialup block, or by working myself up

Re: CD writer

2003-10-14 Thread M. Kirchhoff
Quoting Sidney Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I found a good instruction article on the internet. Care to share the location? I'm sure others could benefit! thanks much --M. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Multiple 'To' in mutt

2003-10-14 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 12:15:19AM -0400, Naitik Shah wrote: > I'm trying to shift to mutt full time, and I'm amazed at how little it > sucks (!). I believe mutt gets both RMS's and ESR's seal of approvals, and they both have so much as said that the

RE: exporting and importing list of installed packages

2003-10-14 Thread Joyce, Matthew
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200308/msg00929.html Matt -- > -Original Message- > From: Jens Grivolla [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, 15 October 2003 10:37 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: apt: exporting and importing list of installed package

Re: speedy spam

2003-10-14 Thread tconnors+linuxdebianuser1066190993
"Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Tue, 14 Oct 2003 10:06:16 -0600: > Yup, welcome to the sad club. If it makes you feel better, it's not > just debian-user; it seems like activity in any mailing list or usenet > group makes you vulnerable. > > My current setup seems to work: > > 1)

Re: speedy spam

2003-10-14 Thread tconnors+linuxdebianuser1066190820
Jeff Elkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Tue, 14 Oct 2003 13:20:09 -0400: > On Tuesday 14 October 2003 6:45 am, Andrew Hayes wrote: > >Jeff Elkins wrote: > >> Well, hell. > >> > >> I set up a new address (for family) on my server and inadvertently used it > >> Sunday in a reply to debian-user. It's

Multiple 'To' in mutt

2003-10-14 Thread Naitik Shah
I'm trying to shift to mutt full time, and I'm amazed at how little it sucks (!). I do have one question though, how do I add people to the 'To', 'Cc' and 'Bcc' fields from my address book? I know how to do one, I hit Q, search, and enter. I know I can append to a search and then tag the results,

Re: CD writer

2003-10-14 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Sidney Brooks wrote: > Oops! I made a mistake in my last posting, the source > was www.kernel.org. I had the other address on my mind > since I upgraded to kde 3.1.4 after I upgraded the > kernel. if you're using a generic kernel ( 2.4.22 ) for writing to a cdrw, here's mo

Re: Umax Astra 3400

2003-10-14 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 12:56:11AM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 12:15:21 EDT, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I had to put in Microsoft, windows X P and I can't get my scanner to > > work. What do I have to do to make it work? Thank youI

Re: Debian / Linux KaZaA client?

2003-10-14 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 05:24:58PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 16:07, Pigeon wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 07:08:13PM -0400, Chris Roddy wrote: > > > Pigeon wrote: > > > > > > >Does anyone have any more up to date information on the availability > > > >of KaZaA clients f

Re: Debian Font Guide for Newbies and the Confused

2003-10-14 Thread M. Kirchhoff
Quoting Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Rob, thanks for making this available. I have one comment. > On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 06:33:09PM +1000, Rob Weir wrote: > > 4) Add :unscaled to the end of the 100dpi and 75dpi font lines, so they > >look like this > > > > FontPath"/us

Scrolling Apps = High CPU Utilization

2003-10-14 Thread M. Kirchhoff
First, let me describe the problem: When using the wheel on my logitech wheel mouse (PS/2, ImPS) to scroll up and down in various apps (Mozilla, AbiWord), I see very high CPU activity as reported by "top". The faster I scroll, the higher the CPU utilization. For example, if I continously scroll

Re: Debian / Linux KaZaA client?

2003-10-14 Thread John Hasler
Pigeon writes: > Thanks. And this site has the source code, which is mysteriously missing > from the Debian/unstable version. You _have_ filed a bug? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Upgrade issue

2003-10-14 Thread Bradley Alexander
I did a dist-upgrade on my sid box tonight, and ran into two debs that are being a thorn in my side. The first one is xlibmesa-gl-dev_4.2.1-12.1_i386.deb and the second is nvidia-glx-dev_1.0.4496-5_i386.deb. Currently I have [defiant /home/storm]# dpkg -l xlibmesa-gl-dev nvidia-glx-dev Desired=Unk

Re: speedy spam

2003-10-14 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 01:20:09PM -0400, Jeff Elkins wrote: > It's pretty bad. I'm doing the fetchmail/mailfilter/spamassassin > dance, so my post was mainly just a whine. Exposing a "secure" > address was a stupid mistake on my part :( Let this be a

Re: apt: exporting and importing list of installed packages

2003-10-14 Thread Tom
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 07:18:04PM -0700, Paul Yeatman wrote: [snip] > run > > dpkg --set-selections < > > to get it back. > I did a test: #echo "par install" | dpkg --set-selections #aptitude #echo "par install" | dpkg --set-selections #aptitude It doesn't seem that dpkg --

Re: speedy spam

2003-10-14 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 06:22:41AM -0400, Jeff Elkins wrote: > Well, hell. > > I set up a new address (for family) on my server and inadvertently used it > Sunday in a reply to debian-user. It's now being flooded with email viruses > and spam. I've

Re: Adding more files to CD-RW using k3b

2003-10-14 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 09:37:02PM -0400, Trey Sizemore wrote: > I have burned some data (.mp3 files) on a CD-RW using k3b. It only used > about half of the disk. Now I want to add some additional files to it > (new session?) but can't seem to find a

Re: Inputting German, Japanese, and English at the same time?

2003-10-14 Thread Marshal Wong
On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 18:38, Arne Goetje wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tuesday 14 October 2003 22:37, Don Werve wrote: > > All these messages about getting X and such to properly display > > international characters got me thinking; does anyone in here have a > >

Re: Gnome 2 and window manager selection?

2003-10-14 Thread stan
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 07:37:38PM -0500, Todd Pytel wrote: > On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 20:09:53 -0400 > stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Yes, that's the problem. When I log into a Gnome session, I have no > > window manager running. I can then get a terminal, and run sawfish, > > ormetacity. The m

Re: At last a promising audio player for KDE

2003-10-14 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 09:47:02AM +1000, peter vdm wrote: > Wouldn't mind giving this a try but I get this prob on woody with > the 0.6.91 compile on KDE 3.1.4 Have you tried getting a KDE3 backport from one of the sites listed on apt-get.org? - --

Re: CD writer

2003-10-14 Thread Sidney Brooks
Oops! I made a mistake in my last posting, the source was www.kernel.org. I had the other address on my mind since I upgraded to kde 3.1.4 after I upgraded the kernel. --- Sidney Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 03:08:17P

Re: Debian / Linux KaZaA client?

2003-10-14 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 07:24:54PM +0200, Olav Lavell wrote: > Op ma 13-10-2003, om 23:57 schreef Pigeon: > > > Does anyone have any more up to date information on the availability > > of KaZaA clients for Linux? > > > > It's the ONE :) > > You're welcome. Tha

Re: windows NT

2003-10-14 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 03:21:04PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > References, please? What's COLA? Where can I read about it? COLA is comp.os.linux.advocacy > What's slashcrap? A derogatory name for Slashdot. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Debian / Linux KaZaA client?

2003-10-14 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 08:31:08PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 23:57, Pigeon wrote: > > A friend of mine has a Win2k PC which has suddenly decided that it > > can't load some extremely fundamental driver and therefore reboots > > itself before it has finished booting. The sta

Re: return of DNS problem-fixed!

2003-10-14 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 02:11:31PM -0800, J Y wrote: > I am off > the list again. I can't always check my mail every couple of hours. Most > of the problem is the swen. ( I must get a hundred and fifty messages > that look like they're from microsoft, daily) Well, you'll still need to check your m

Re: Debian / Linux KaZaA client?

2003-10-14 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 05:39:14PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 06:53:26PM -0400, Johann Koenig wrote: > > Using 'unstable,' add > > deb ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/gift-fasttrack unstable main > > to you're /etc/apt/sources.list > > Then do > > 'apt-get install gift libfasttrack-gi

Re: windows NT

2003-10-14 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 11:19:01AM +0200, Lajos Mester wrote: > oh, my little scrarry admin. > You have also a driving licence, but, are you a race-car-driver? Guess not. His attempt was more like attempting to drive on a freeway without a license, w

Re: apt: exporting and importing list of installed packages

2003-10-14 Thread Paul Yeatman
> > Is there a way to dump my current selection to a file and read it back > > later? I didn't find such an option in aptitude or any of the other > > tools. > > > > I use this: > > grep -E "^Package|Status:.+$" /var/lib/dpkg/status | \ > sed "s/Package:/\tPackage:/" | tr \\n \\t | sed "s/\t\t

Re: CD writer

2003-10-14 Thread Sidney Brooks
--- Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 03:08:17PM -0700, Sidney > Brooks wrote: > > > I have Debian woody with a 2.4.22 kernel and want > to > > install my cd writer. I am using two publications > as > > my guide, by pbharris and joreybump. Both instruct > me > > to in

Re: Inputting German, Japanese, and English at the same time?

2003-10-14 Thread Arne Goetje
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 14 October 2003 22:37, Don Werve wrote: > All these messages about getting X and such to properly display > international characters got me thinking; does anyone in here have a > functioning setup for entering the above three languages in X

Re: Debian Font Guide for Newbies and the Confused

2003-10-14 Thread Ross Boylan
Rob, thanks for making this available. I have one comment. On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 06:33:09PM +1000, Rob Weir wrote: > 4) Add :unscaled to the end of the 100dpi and 75dpi font lines, so they >look like this > > FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled" > FontPath

Re: International Characters

2003-10-14 Thread Arne Goetje
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 14 October 2003 19:28, Tom wrote: > Well, tw.yahoo.com, www.xinhuanet.com, peopledaily.com.cn, and > www.pravda.ru all look super! > > Got anything for www.haaretz.co.il (Hebrew) and www.aljazeera.net > (Arabic)? Nope. Hebrew and Arabic as

Re: [debian-user] International Characters

2003-10-14 Thread Arne Goetje
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 14 October 2003 20:40, Rüdiger Kuhlmann wrote: > >--[Arne Goetje]--<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > On Tuesday 14 October 2003 15:03, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > > On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 23:58, Tom wrote: > > > > Also keep in mind that especially a

Re: CD writer

2003-10-14 Thread Carl Fink
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 03:08:17PM -0700, Sidney Brooks wrote: > I have Debian woody with a 2.4.22 kernel and want to > install my cd writer. I am using two publications as > my guide, by pbharris and joreybump. Both instruct me > to insert modules for scsi emulation, in particular > ide-scsi.I do

The Debian User Forums - www.debianforums.org

2003-10-14 Thread SpArTaK
Hi, I started www.debianforums.org with one thing in mind and that was to give back to the Debian community, which has treated me so well over the past. I hope DebianForums grows and helps people find the answers to their questions and a general place for debian users to communicate. Although I

Re: Random Lockups w/ caps lock, scroll lock

2003-10-14 Thread Matt McMinn
David Fokkema wrote: On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 08:44, Matt McMinn wrote: I've started to experience "random" lockups with my debian system. It seems to be similar to this problem in Suse: http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2002-Dec/0623.html I tried that barrier=none remedy, and on reboot

Re: Woody installation

2003-10-14 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 10:25:45AM -0500, Aswin Venkat wrote: > Hi > > This is my first try at installing debian though i have been using it > for a wee bit. I have been using jigdo to first get the images on a CD and then > use that for installation. I am finding that the big .iso file does > not

Re: apt: exporting and importing list of installed packages

2003-10-14 Thread Tom
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 01:48:06AM +0200, Jens Grivolla wrote: > Hi, > > I apparently have a lot of leftovers from old packages that did not > get cleanly uninstalled, and am losing quite a bit of disk space for > that. > > I would therefore like to do a fresh install (backing up /home and > /etc

Re: Gnome 2 and window manager selection?

2003-10-14 Thread Todd Pytel
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 20:09:53 -0400 stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, that's the problem. When I log into a Gnome session, I have no > window manager running. I can then get a terminal, and run sawfish, > ormetacity. The metacity --replace, did not got it intalled > permanently. To clarify -

apt: exporting and importing list of installed packages

2003-10-14 Thread Jens Grivolla
Hi, I apparently have a lot of leftovers from old packages that did not get cleanly uninstalled, and am losing quite a bit of disk space for that. I would therefore like to do a fresh install (backing up /home and /etc), but using my current selection of packages (which I just carefully verified)

Re: Re: no network access on new install

2003-10-14 Thread Allasso
On Tuesday 14 October 2003 14:38, Allasso wrote: I just finished my first install of debian on my second hard drive via over the net, using my existing system (redhat 8.0), and using the guidelines from section 3.7 in the manual. I finally got it to boot on its own. I am not able to access th

Re: fetchmail

2003-10-14 Thread Rich Johnson
On Tuesday, October 14, 2003, at 03:18 AM, Joyce, Matthew wrote: I'm using Fetchmail and have a fetchmailrc in etc. Fetchmail starts and syslog show my messages being gathered. the problem is the messages do not end up in my home Maildir (courier-imap), they end up in spool somewhere. Any ideas

qballsinventory

2003-10-14 Thread stan
Has anyone managed to build this qballs.inventory.sourceforg.com on Debian? -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Gnome 2 and window manager selection?

2003-10-14 Thread stan
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 06:17:22PM -0500, Todd Pytel wrote: > On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 18:47:01 -0400 > stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > OK, I sed dselect to install Metacity. I already had Gnome-sawfish > > installed. However, I still can't figure out how to tell Gnome to use > > this window mana

Re: openoffice.org1.1-bin: Depends: libfreetype6 (< 2.1.0) but 2.1.4-5 is to be installed +++ E: Sorry, broken packages - LONG

2003-10-14 Thread Peter N. Vargo (LTS)
i just changed on desktop from woody to sid using 2Mbit it isn't problem :) have a nice day i had few serious problems, but installing GNOME&Java solves it - Original Message - From: "Wayne Topa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 8:09 PM Subject:

Re: Gnome 2 and window manager selection?

2003-10-14 Thread Antony Gelberg
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 06:47:01PM -0400, stan wrote: > On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 09:10:15PM -0500, Todd Pytel wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 22:00:23 -0400 > > stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > When I go into the Gnome configurator, and try to go to the windows > > > section it gives me an

Re: rescue mail off secondary server contingency plan

2003-10-14 Thread Dan Jacobson
>> Let's assume it's Friday and one's primary mx server cannot be fixed >> until Monday. Maybe I can write a standard procedure for other low >> bandwidth users to use. S> It has been around for years, and is called uucp. and how does one use uucp to manipulate the exim queue on a remote machine

Re: Font problems (ISO8859) after upgrading

2003-10-14 Thread Ben Upcroft
Hi Asbjorn, I've got exactly the same problem but haven't been able to find a solution. I tried to rollback the upgrade but was unsuccessful in fixing the problem. Would you be able to email me how you were able to fix emacs or at least use different fonts other than the iso8859 fonts? Thanks.

USB Devices

2003-10-14 Thread Lloyd Bayley
Greetings All, I'm hoping you can help me as I've struck a dead-end. It's not for the lack of trying, mind you! When I plug my USB Thumb drive into my linux box, (which I've only just done for the first time as I've not needed to before), I get the following messages on the screen... debian:~# u

Re: Gnome 2 and window manager selection?

2003-10-14 Thread Todd Pytel
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 18:47:01 -0400 stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, I sed dselect to install Metacity. I already had Gnome-sawfish > installed. However, I still can't figure out how to tell Gnome to use > this window manager. > > What am I missing? Nothing obvious, so don't feel bad - the G

Re: Does DRI work?

2003-10-14 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 21:44:02 +0200, Nicos Gollan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tuesday 14 October 2003 19:42, David W. Aquilina wrote: > > ... The only thing I can think of that can be done next would be to > > compile XFree86 from source, which is something I'm

Re: POLL: what's your favourite font under KDE 3?

2003-10-14 Thread alex
Andrea Cavaliero wrote: I'm lookin for a good font under KDE3. I am currently using Bistream Vera, but it doesn't look good (the bold is too bold) when auto-hinting is enabled. So.. what's your favourite font? Andrea Courier (Arabic) bold -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Decent browsers for Linux? Anything to replace IE?

2003-10-14 Thread Ken Bloom
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 21:10:06 +0200, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 12:40, Vineet Kumar wrote: >> * Joseph Jones ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031014 03:35]: >> > While I'm a huge Firebird fan, IE was better at some tasks (yes, they >> > are non-standard HTML tasks, but what can you do when

Re: fetchmail

2003-10-14 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 17:18:02 +1000, "Joyce, Matthew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi, > > I'm using Fetchmail and have a fetchmailrc in etc. > Fetchmail starts and syslog show my messages being gathered. > > the problem is the messages do not end up in my home

Re: Gnome 2 and window manager selection?

2003-10-14 Thread stan
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 09:10:15PM -0500, Todd Pytel wrote: > On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 22:00:23 -0400 > stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > When I go into the Gnome configurator, and try to go to the windows > > section it gives me an error message about "window manager 'unkown' > > not being registr

Re: Umax Astra 3400

2003-10-14 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 12:15:21 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I had to put in Microsoft, windows X P and I can't get my scanner to > work. What do I have to do to make it work? Thank youImogene > Brandt My E- Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ..in case this is no s

Re: alerting users of expiring passwords

2003-10-14 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
martin f krafft wrote: > when a user's shadow password is about to expire, PAM prints > a message about the expiration e.g. at login via SSH. However, if > there is also a /etc/motd, the fact that it follows the warning > obscures the warning and nobody sees it. > > What I would like to do is pro

Re: Decent browsers for Linux? Anything to replace IE?

2003-10-14 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 18:12:57 GMT, Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tuesday 14 October 2003 19:10, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > > * Joseph Jones ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031014 03:35]: > > > While I'm a huge Firebird fan, IE was better at some tasks (yes, > > > they are

CD writer

2003-10-14 Thread Sidney Brooks
I have Debian woody with a 2.4.22 kernel and want to install my cd writer. I am using two publications as my guide, by pbharris and joreybump. Both instruct me to insert modules for scsi emulation, in particular ide-scsi.I do not have this module. I have gone through the kernel compilation several

Re: Debian / Linux KaZaA client?

2003-10-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 16:07, Pigeon wrote: > On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 07:08:13PM -0400, Chris Roddy wrote: > > Pigeon wrote: > > > > >Does anyone have any more up to date information on the availability > > >of KaZaA clients for Linux? > > > > > > > > packages 'nicotine' and 'gtk-gnutella' (I sugg

Re: return of DNS problem-fixed!

2003-10-14 Thread Antony Gelberg
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 02:11:31PM -0800, J Y wrote: > Thank you all. You folks are TOPS!! I did an apt-get remove diald and > manually removed /var/cache/diald and it works!! my shell knowledge is > at a fledgling level so thamks for all the help. I hope I wasn't too > much of a bother. I went to

Re: apt

2003-10-14 Thread Paul Yeatman
What kind of error messages are you getting? Paul ->>In response to your message<<- --received from Davi Leal-- > > dselect has forced me to remove a lot of packages and I can not install them > now. > > I can not install apache, perl, ... > > This Debian GNU/Linux host has been executing (s

Trouble with local login

2003-10-14 Thread Roberto Sanchez
I managed to screw up one of my machines today (at school), to where regular users can't correclty log into it anymore. I get this: No directory, logging in with HOME=/ However, if I ssh in to the machine, it works fine. The user accounts are furnished by the NIS/NFS server (which runs Woody), a

"make dep" using debian's 2.4.22 source

2003-10-14 Thread Ron Johnson
Hi, Anyone seen this error? make -C sched fastdep make[4]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.22/net/sched' .depend:1: *** missing separator. Stop. make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.22/net/sched' make[3]: *** [_sfdep_sched] Error 2 make[3]: Leaving directory `/us

Re: Splitting attachments into separate emails

2003-10-14 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 09:09:21AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > Hello Kev, > > On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 03:44:22PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I use pine and forwards are quoted inline not as attachments. So, > > my message is like this: > > HEADER_WITH_SPAM_AS_SUBJECT > > BLANK_LINE > >

Re: Debian / Linux KaZaA client?

2003-10-14 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 06:53:26PM -0400, Johann Koenig wrote: > On Monday October 13 at 10:57pm > Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > A friend of mine has a Win2k PC which has suddenly decided that it > > can't load some extremely fundamental driver and therefore reboots > > itself before it

re webbrowser

2003-10-14 Thread steef
hey joe, I've tried Konqueror and found it lacking extremely (yes, I love it as > a file manager when combined with qvwm, but it simply isn't as > full-featured as other browsers) and Opera seems worse than Firebird. > So, can anyone suggest a browser that tries to replicate these > changes? > > M

downgrading many packages?

2003-10-14 Thread Alfredo Valles
Hi all. I installed a package (and all its dependencies) from unstable using apt, then I realized that some of the libraries installed were too new and compromised the stability of my system. Is there some way to downgrade a package and all its dependencies using apt? The way I solved this was

Re: Debian / Linux KaZaA client?

2003-10-14 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 07:08:13PM -0400, Chris Roddy wrote: > Pigeon wrote: > > >Does anyone have any more up to date information on the availability > >of KaZaA clients for Linux? > > > > > packages 'nicotine' and 'gtk-gnutella' (I suggest unstable) are not > kazaa clients, but provide similar

Re: tarjeta red

2003-10-14 Thread Roberto Sanchez
dajamopa wrote: Quisiera saber si me puede responder la siguiente pregunta: ¿que componentes o partes , requiere una tarjeta de red para lograr el encendido/apagado de una tarjeta de red ? lo que pasa es que estoy elaborando una tarjeta de red , para el encendido y apagado remoto. pero no se

Re: passwordless root login

2003-10-14 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 08:06:03 -0700, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 06:30:32PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > I'd like to configure a debian box to allow root logins without a

Re: return of DNS problem-fixed!

2003-10-14 Thread J Y
Thank you all. You folks are TOPS!! I did an apt-get remove diald and manually removed /var/cache/diald and it works!! my shell knowledge is at a fledgling level so thamks for all the help. I hope I wasn't too much of a bother. I went to the archives to look at the thread. I am off the list again.

Re: 'advanced' printing

2003-10-14 Thread Alexei Kaminski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I would recommend lprng+ifhp. If I were you, I would not worry about creating your printcap manually. First, there is lprngtool - GUI frontend to LPRng based /etc/printcap. Second, creating printcap file manually is not that difficult. I may send

weird ppp problem

2003-10-14 Thread Jan C. Nordholz
Dear list members, I'm currently experiencing a strange problem when trying to dial up. Perhaps one of you knows the symptoms and can give me some clues what to do: I used to dial up using wvdial, but I've also tried pppd directly, to make sure that the connection-setup and authentication phase i

Re: passwordless root login

2003-10-14 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 04:02:22PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote: | On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 03:58:41PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: | > best way is to: | > edit /etc/pam.d/login | > comment out the line | > #auth required pam_unix.so nullok | > by placing a "#" at the beginning. | > | > T

Re: grip in unstable

2003-10-14 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 09:50:44PM +0100, Antony Gelberg wrote: > Hi all, > > Anyone having problems with grip in unstable? When I hit "rip and > encode", it says no songs selected, should it rip the whole CD? I say > yes, and it rips the first song to wav, then stops. This is a known bug and h

Re: speedy spam

2003-10-14 Thread Wayne Topa
Derrick 'dman' Hudson([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > For a sense of how effective these defenses are, here's some recent > statistics from pflogsumm. I'm not showing the past couple days > because the numbers will be skewed due to downtime of the primary mx > of a domain I relay

Re: passwordless root login

2003-10-14 Thread J. Bruce Fields
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 03:58:41PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 06:30:32PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > I'd like to configure a debian box to allow root logins without a > > password; what do I need to do? The relevant line in the password file > > is > > > > root:

Re: no network access on new install

2003-10-14 Thread klaus imgrund
On Tuesday 14 October 2003 14:38, Allasso wrote: > I just finished my first install of debian on my second hard drive via > over the net, using my existing system (redhat 8.0), and using the > guidelines from section 3.7 in the manual. I finally got it to boot on > its own. > > I am not able

Re: fetchmail

2003-10-14 Thread duck
On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 08:18, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using Fetchmail and have a fetchmailrc in etc. > Fetchmail starts and syslog show my messages being gathered. > > the problem is the messages do not end up in my home Maildir (courier-imap), > they end up in spool somewhere. > exi

apt

2003-10-14 Thread Davi Leal
dselect has forced me to remove a lot of packages and I can not install them now. I can not install apache, perl, ... This Debian GNU/Linux host has been executing (sid, unstable) since more than two years ago, being updated each week. # apt-cache policy apache apache: Installed: (no

Re: Does DRI work?

2003-10-14 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Tuesday 14 October 2003 19:42, David W. Aquilina wrote: > Quick question: does anyone have DRI working with the 'stock' XFree86 > installation in unstable? Unlikely for several cards. You can go to dri.sourceforge.net and either download snapshot tarballs (the installation is a breeze, X setup

Re: speedy spam

2003-10-14 Thread Steve C. Lamb
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 01:20:09PM -0400, Jeff Elkins wrote: > I wonder if anyone has thought of obfustcating email addresses on the list's > web archives? I wonder how many 'bots regularly scrape it for addresses? All the time. And so far nothing has come of it. -- Steve C. Lamb

Re: Do-all computer?

2003-10-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 18:20, csj wrote: > At Sun, 12 Oct 2003 23:32:20 -0500, > Ron Johnson wrote: > > [...] > > > Any ATA CD-RW and DVD-RW/-RAM/+RW drive should work just fine > > with Linux, since they are controlled by the ATAPI driver and > > useland apps. > > CD and DVD writers are a userla

tarjeta red

2003-10-14 Thread dajamopa
Quisiera saber si me puede responder la siguiente pregunta:   ¿que componentes o partes , requiere una tarjeta de red para lograr el encendido/apagado de una tarjeta de red ?   lo que pasa es que estoy elaborando una tarjeta de red , para el encendido y apagado remoto. pero no se que estru

Re: Debian / Linux KaZaA client?

2003-10-14 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 23:57, Pigeon wrote: > A friend of mine has a Win2k PC which has suddenly decided that it > can't load some extremely fundamental driver and therefore reboots > itself before it has finished booting. The standard cure of > reinstalling Windoze is not possible because he doesn'

Re: Decent browsers for Linux? Anything to replace IE?

2003-10-14 Thread Adam
On Tuesday 14 October 2003 19:10, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Joseph Jones ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031014 03:35]: >> While I'm a huge Firebird fan, IE was better at some tasks (yes, they >> are non-standard HTML tasks, but what can you do when that's what the >> industry uses? *sigh*). > > IMO, Mozilla

OpenOffice & Debian Sid - foreign characters

2003-10-14 Thread Celso Pinto
Hi list, i installed OpenOffice 1.1 on my shiny new Debian Sid box ;-) and i have a big problem: on any OpenOffice application I cannot type Portuguese accentuated characters like "á è" etc although I can type in the Euro symbol "¤". I don't have this problem on anyother application only OpenOffic

Re: LM Sensors

2003-10-14 Thread David Z Maze
"C" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Any one got any advice how to get lmsensors working on a 2.4.21-5-k7 > kernel? My best advice is to build your kernel from source, disable anything and everything i2c-related in the kernel source, and then install the lm-sensors-source and i2c-source packages and

Re: Decent browsers for Linux? Anything to replace IE?

2003-10-14 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 12:40, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Joseph Jones ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031014 03:35]: > > While I'm a huge Firebird fan, IE was better at some tasks (yes, they > > are non-standard HTML tasks, but what can you do when that's what the > > industry uses? *sigh*). > > IMO, Mozilla i

Re: speedy spam

2003-10-14 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Tuesday 14 October 2003 1:20 pm, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: >On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 06:22:41AM -0400, Jeff Elkins wrote: >| Well, hell. >| >| I set up a new address (for family) on my server and inadvertently used it >| Sunday in a reply to debian-user. It's now being flooded with email >| vi

Re: speedy spam

2003-10-14 Thread Olav Lavell
Op di 14-10-2003, om 19:36 schreef Jamin W. Collins: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 01:20:09PM -0400, Jeff Elkins wrote: > > > > I wonder if anyone has thought of obfustcating email addresses on the > > list's web archives? I wonder how many 'bots regularly scrape it for > > addresses? > > Yes, they

Re: Wilber the gimp

2003-10-14 Thread René Seindal
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 09:18:25PM +1000, Trevor D. Manning wrote: > * Joerg Johannes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > In the gimp documentation directory, there is a thumbnail-sized > > version of Wilber the gimp. Is there a larger version of this image > > available (I did not find one on gimp.org)

Does DRI work?

2003-10-14 Thread David W. Aquilina
Quick question: does anyone have DRI working with the 'stock' XFree86 installation in unstable? I've triple-checked all my settings and I've recompiled my kernel to ensure that the required elements are included. The only thing I can think of that can be done next would be to compile XFree86 f

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