Re: How to login as ROOT as start

2003-12-13 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 12:33:31AM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: How can I login as ROOT after booting at 'Desktop Manager popup. I am only allowed to login as USER both KDE and GNOME. That's a Good Thing. Log in as a normal user and run what you

Re: How to login as ROOT at start

2003-12-13 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://learn.to/quote please. On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 12:10:57PM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: While working as USER, I usually use following command on Konsole window to login as ROOT to do administration work, starting applications ssh -X [EMAIL

Re: Use Debian mailinglists with slow connection to Internet?

2003-12-13 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 07:14:25PM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote: The Debian mailing lists produce big trafic of email. If I want to follow them regularly I have to use a slow and expensive connection to Internet (low quality phone line or mobile

Re: Copy all desktop settings for a new user

2003-12-13 Thread Brad Sims
On Saturday 13 December 2003 3:41 am, Philipp Schulte wrote: I am sure somebody must have a solution for this. Thanks for any pointers. Hrm try copying and chmoding as needed: .kde, .gnome, .gnome2, .vimrc, .bashrc. Thats what I did when moving disks g -- Assumption is the mother of all

Re: How to login as ROOT as start

2003-12-13 Thread Albert Dengg
Hi If you really want to do this (it was discussed a few times here why not to do it), and you want to to login with gdm edit /etc/gdm/gdm.conf and change AllowRoot= (or even AllowRemoteRoot=) to true and you should be fine. I don't know about gdm though. If it is a machine with only one user at a

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

2003-12-13 Thread Adam
On Saturday 13 December 2003 10:00, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote: Hi, Am Do, den 11.12.2003 schrieb Thanasis Kinias um 21:51: AOL was the first that I encountered to do this; over the summer, they started blocking all e-mail originating from Cox IP addresses. Not long thereafter, Cox blocked

Re: Installing all packages

2003-12-13 Thread Brad Stockdale
Hello all, I am new to the list and new to Debian. I've been using Linux since 1996, and my distribution of choice has always been Red Hat. That is, until Red Hat as a company started persuing goals that I had no desire to be involved with. So, that left me with some choices to make. I

Re: Anti-Virus Scanner recommendations please

2003-12-13 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 08:45:38PM -0500, BruceG wrote: If you decide to go with exim4-heavy-daemon, there is a great tutorial on getting SpamAssassin going here :http://ursine.ca/~baloo/clamd-exiscan.txt No, no, you can use dman's spamassassin

Re: Installing all packages

2003-12-13 Thread Nunya
On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 12:23:53PM -0500, Brad Stockdale wrote: But is there an easier way to do this? An unattended way to do it, equivalent of setting the 'Everything' choice in Red Hat's install? First, apt-get install aptitude. Run aptitude. Highlight Not Installed Packages. Hit the

Re: How do I get sound?

2003-12-13 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 08:06:18PM -0800, Mark Healey wrote: Have no sound. What tool do I use to get it? The Sound HOWTOs. http://ursine.ca/doc/HOWTO/en-html/Sound-HOWTO/index.html http://ursine.ca/doc/HOWTO/en-html/Soundblaster-AWE.html

Re: Copy all desktop settings for a new user

2003-12-13 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 at 09:41 GMT, Philipp Schulte penned: Hello, lets say I have a few users (not all of them with prior GNU/Linux experiance) and I want to setup a common profile for their accounts. By profile I mean things like desktop-icons, desktop-theme, menues, MUA-settings,

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

2003-12-13 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 at 09:46 GMT, Joerg Rossdeutscher penned: I agree to that. Not everyone should use a private mailserver. Hobbyists and Freaks should not run such service, it's a job for professionals, and those have a static ip. I'm really tired of writing a lot in mailinglists an get

Re: Bug in testing abiword package?

2003-12-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 01:22:35PM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Under testing and gnome 2.2 I'm trying to install abiword issuing the command apt-get install abiword. The installation fails immediatedly because (unfortunately I'm translating from Italian into

Re: I can't update SPARC unstable

2003-12-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 01:51:59PM -0500, Scott Robert Ladd wrote: The maddening thing is, the update worked for the Sparc a couple of weeks ago, but hasn't worked at all in the last few days. In what way does it fail to work? Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL

Re: Can we tag [T]echnical posts?

2003-12-13 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 at 09:11 GMT, Karsten M. Self penned: Addressing this specifically: while there's a lot of similarity of interests on this list, it's neither a social nor general discussion list. I see no particular reason the Debian Project or SPI should be compelled to provide

Re: Bug in testing abiword package?

2003-12-13 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 at 17:01 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] penned: Under testing and gnome 2.2 I'm trying to install abiword issuing the command apt-get install abiword. The installation fails immediatedly because (unfortunately I'm translating from Italian into English!) Abiword depends on

voice communication - windows w/ masquerade and debian w/ real IP

2003-12-13 Thread Grzegorz B. Prokopski
Hello! I badly need to communicate with a person that is using windows behind a masquerade of his ISP (which he doesn't control). My machine has routable IP address so theorhetically such a connection from windows machine to mine - would be possible. But what kind of software could be used for

Re: ooh! debian jewelry

2003-12-13 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 at 03:00 GMT, Greg Madden penned: For a do-it yourself (sort-of) Debian Swirl go to Kinko's (print shop). They do cut vinyl, fairly cheep, bring in a .esp logo from http:// debian.org/logos/. I put one on my work van :) Ooh. I was wondering where to find logos. Why eps

Re: Bug in testing abiword package?

2003-12-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 11:34:38AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: Since you're on testing, it may be worth waiting a day or so and seeing if this resolves itself. Looking at 'grep-excuses abiword' (install the devscripts package), it'll be a while before any version of abiword arrives in

apt-get install kills gnome apps

2003-12-13 Thread Ben Luey
Hi -- I have installed debian sid and whenever I run apt-get install to get software, galeon, evolution rhythmbox crash. If I run evolution (as a user) and then apt-get install (as root), evolutions closes with the message killed. Same for evolution and rhythbox. Hardware: k6 -- with defaults i386

Re: ooh! debian jewelry

2003-12-13 Thread Terry Hancock
On Saturday 13 December 2003 12:46 pm, Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 at 03:00 GMT, Greg Madden penned: http://debian.org/logos/ Ooh. I was wondering where to find logos. Why eps as opposed to pdf or whatever? Well, for one reason, postscript is an older and more widespread

Re: Use Debian mailinglists with slow connection to Internet?

2003-12-13 Thread Clive Standbridge
On Sat 13 Dec 2003 01:14:53 +(-0800), Karsten M. Self wrote: Alternatively, reduce your online overhead by subscribing to debian-user-digest instead of debian-user. No. You get all the traffic in undigestable chunks. Chunks, yes (that's the point). Indigestible, no. The second

Re: Workbone - With Volume Control - How To Install?

2003-12-13 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 02:18:09PM +, Brian Potkin wrote: To mention several packages: aumix is said to be a competent utility and mp3blaster can play cd's and comes with nmixer; Before everyone rushes off to download mp3blaster to play a

Re: Can we tag [T]echnical posts?

2003-12-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 11:21:02AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: As your autogenerated sig says, peace. It's not autogenerated. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Erin Joyce:

Re: Use Debian mailinglists with slow connection to Internet?

2003-12-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 07:10:11PM +, Clive Standbridge ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sat 13 Dec 2003 01:14:53 +(-0800), Karsten M. Self wrote: Alternatively, reduce your online overhead by subscribing to debian-user-digest instead of debian-user. No. You get all the

Re: ooh! debian jewelry

2003-12-13 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 02:36:10PM -0600, Terry Hancock wrote: } On Saturday 13 December 2003 12:46 pm, Monique Y. Herman wrote: } On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 at 03:00 GMT, Greg Madden penned: } http://debian.org/logos/ } Ooh. I was wondering where to find logos. } } Why eps as opposed to pdf or

Re: Workbone - With Volume Control - How To Install?

2003-12-13 Thread Scarletdown
On 13 Dec 2003 at 19:39, Brian Potkin wrote: On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 02:18:09PM +, Brian Potkin wrote: To mention several packages: aumix is said to be a competent utility and mp3blaster can play cd's and comes with nmixer; Before

Re: eGroupWare Debs

2003-12-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 05:28:15PM -0800, Daniel Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Has anyone packaged (or working on packaging) eGroupWare for Debian? They just released version 0.09.99.008 - their first production release candidate, if I read it correctly. I'd love to be able to use this

HOW-TO get a USB mass storage device to work under Debian

2003-12-13 Thread Jonathan Melhuish
I Googled for some time and looked in the list archives, etc., but could find nothing relevant on installing my digital camera under Debian, so I got bored and tried typing: apt-get install hotplug apt-get install usbutils mkdir /camera mount /dev/sda1 /camera At which point, it worked! I

JBuilder installer causes kernel panic on Sarge

2003-12-13 Thread Jonathan Brandmeyer
I am attempting to install Borland JBuilder 7 on a Sarge system with the Sun JRE/SDK 1.4.1-3 already installed (directly from Sun). The installer is written in Java, so unfortunately I am not able to figure out exactly what it causing the error. After asking all of its questions the installer

Re: Script for subscribing/unsubscribing Debian-user?

2003-12-13 Thread Andreas von Heydwolff
Karsten M. Self wrote: on Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 11:57:05PM +0100, Andreas von Heydwolff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Just wondering - is it possible to write a script for mailing a few initial subscribe or unsubscribe messages for one's favorite lists to the server managing the listmembers or does

Re: HOW-TO get a USB mass storage device to work under Debian

2003-12-13 Thread H. S.
Jonathan Melhuish wrote: I Googled for some time and looked in the list archives, etc., but could find nothing relevant on installing my digital camera under Debian, so I got bored and tried typing: apt-get install hotplug apt-get install usbutils mkdir /camera mount /dev/sda1 /camera At which

PDF spec (Was: Re: ooh! debian jewelry)

2003-12-13 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 at 20:36 GMT, Terry Hancock penned: Furthermore, PDF isn't really an open data format, just a closed one that turned out to be easier to crack than .doc files. Adobe isn't any nicer about sharing their standards than Microsoft is. The fact that we have good Linux

Re: Linux is not for consumers!

2003-12-13 Thread John L. Fjellstad
Monique Y. Herman wrote: Can you explain to me why you would use a subject such as you did, rather than Multiple problems on install: please help or, better yet, multipe emails, each specific to a certain problem? Actually easiest way to get help. Ask how to set up CUPS in linux and you get

Re: ooh! debian jewelry

2003-12-13 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 at 21:00 GMT, Gregory Seidman penned: That is entirely FUD. PDF is no more nor less open than PostScript. Both PostScript and PDF are industry standards developed, promoted, and documented by Adobe. A Google search for pdf specification turns up the Adobe PDF

Re: Setting Up Email

2003-12-13 Thread Anita Lewis
On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 10:54:01 -0800, Scarletdown wrote: On 13 Dec 2003 at 11:50, Anita Lewis wrote: I'm not sure on this, but I think your mail is going to be in /var/mail/gsutton9503. It didn't go into scarletdown, because you didn't tell it to. You should make a .fetchmailrc file for

Re: Debian installation trouble on server

2003-12-13 Thread ads
I'm trying to install Debian (latest) on a 1U rack-server. Specs: P4, Raid (hot spare), no floppy, no cdrom, no PS/2 ports, 2 USB ports. My problem is the following: I cannot connect a cdrom drive, so I thought about installing Debian using floppies via a usb floppy drive. However, the 1st

Re: epson stylus c84 problems

2003-12-13 Thread Steve Dunbar
Tom Russo wrote: Hi, Has anyone been able to get the epson stylus c84 printer working with debian? I've tried it with both usb and parallel port with no luck. Mine works using the parallel port. I'm using CUPS with the Gimp-print driver, version 4.2.5. It didn't work with USB--rather

ssh behaviour: unexpectedly being logged out

2003-12-13 Thread H. S.
Hi, (I had posted about this a while ago, but can't find that thread anymore in gmane, so a repeat): I am trying ssh to connect to my university: -- (Remove all underscores,_if any_, from my email address to get the correct one. Apologies for the inconvenience, but this is to reduce spam.) $

Re: HOW-TO get a USB mass storage device to work under Debian

2003-12-13 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 at 21:36 GMT, Jonathan Melhuish penned: I Googled for some time and looked in the list archives, etc., but could find nothing relevant on installing my digital camera under Debian, so I got bored and tried typing: apt-get install hotplug apt-get install usbutils mkdir

Re: Linux is not for consumers!

2003-12-13 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from John L. Fjellstad: Monique Y. Herman wrote: Can you explain to me why you would use a subject such as you did, Actually easiest way to get help. Actually, as has been known and said for _ages_, it's the best way to get THOSE WHO KNOW to ignore you. Do you want to get lots

Re: Use Debian mailinglists with slow connection to Internet?

2003-12-13 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Karsten M. Self: What's your fetch mode? I'm finding that fetchmail over 56k is taking ~5-10 seconds per message (mostly depending on how much Swen I've got). What?!? Swen, now? Don't you have access to a shell acct? If you do, kill that crap on the server. I haven't seen

Re: The Debian installer

2003-12-13 Thread Joey Hess
Damon L. Chesser wrote: #Debian Non-US deb http://non-us.debian.org/ sarge/non-US main contrib non-free #deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/ sarge/non-US main contrib non-free That is fixed in cvs now. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

ICMP redirect

2003-12-13 Thread tadas
Hello, I would like to ask about the icmp messasages sending in linux 2.4.x. I have two subnets: 192.168.0.0/24 and 192.168.1.0/24 on the same ethernet segment. There is a gateway in each subnet (192.168.0.1 and 192.168.1.1). Clients use netmask 255.255.255.0. Routers have their own default

Re: OT: Letter to TigerDirect

2003-12-13 Thread alex
Kent West wrote: OFF-TOPIC Perhaps I have no business posting this here . . . . I've done business with TigerDirect in the past, but recently they've added a pro-MS banner to their home page. I wrote this note to them, and would encourage other Debianistas who have done business with them to

Re: Linux is not for consumers!

2003-12-13 Thread John Hasler
John L. Fjellstad writes: Actually easiest way to get help. It's the worst way to get help from me. I usually killfile such threads. Tell everybody how much printing sucks in Linux, and how easy it is in Windows, and how you are going back to Windows etc etc, and you get hundreds of helpful

Re: Linux is not for consumers!

2003-12-13 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 at 11:38 GMT, John L. Fjellstad penned: Monique Y. Herman wrote: Can you explain to me why you would use a subject such as you did, rather than Multiple problems on install: please help or, better yet, multipe emails, each specific to a certain problem? Actually

Re: Function of make dep : newbie :-?

2003-12-13 Thread Paul Morgan
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 16:29:37 -0800, Nunya wrote: On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 06:44:52PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: Or, if you have info2www installed, enter (make) (including the parentheses) into the goto: box info2www depends on (apache | httpd); of the several packages that meet that

xsane on woody

2003-12-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi list! I am setting up *Backstreet Ruby* the multi-seat Linux option on woody. Had to recompile X 4.3.0: works great... Have a problem with xsane. On woody it's version 0.84-2. When doing any scanning the colors look extremely weird, sort of like a color negative. Googling got me no closer.

Re: Linux is not for consumers!

2003-12-13 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 at 22:52 GMT, s. keeling penned: Incoming from John L. Fjellstad: Monique Y. Herman wrote: Can you explain to me why you would use a subject such as you did, Actually easiest way to get help. Actually, as has been known and said for _ages_, it's the best way to

Re: Kernel-HOWTO has been removed for review

2003-12-13 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 16:37:31 -0700, Monique Y. Herman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 at 23:24 GMT, Arnt Karlsen penned: On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 17:18:05 -0700, Monique Y. Herman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, 12

Re: Can we tag [T]echnical posts?

2003-12-13 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 12:48:09 -0800, Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: on Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 11:21:02AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: As your autogenerated sig says, peace. It's not autogenerated. Peace. ..huh? You

Re: Function of make dep : newbie :-?

2003-12-13 Thread Nunya
On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 05:50:16PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 16:29:37 -0800, Nunya wrote: On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 06:44:52PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: Or, if you have info2www installed, enter (make) (including the parentheses) into the goto: box I regret that I

Re: Earthlink and Swen

2003-12-13 Thread Paul Morgan
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 20:56:48 -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: Although filtering should obviously be done by service providers, it seems they have a lot of trouble getting it right. Mail to me goes through two service providers (one of them is just a forwarder, and I only recently found out they

Re: OT: Letter to TigerDirect

2003-12-13 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Sat, 2003-12-13 at 10:57, Wayne Sitton wrote: I myself am not a pure-ist. But, I no longer use windows, and Boot Debian Sid for my OS of choice. I have long promoted Debian, even while my colleagues were Red Krap freaks because they thought it was cool to like linux, but not really

get help Re: Linux is not for consumers!

2003-12-13 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sat, 13 Dec 2003, John Hasler wrote: John L. Fjellstad writes: Actually easiest way to get help. It's the worst way to get help from me. I usually killfile such threads. Tell everybody how much printing sucks in Linux, and how easy it is in Windows, and how you are going back to

Re: Bug in testing abiword package?

2003-12-13 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 13 December 2003 08:01 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Under testing and gnome 2.2 I'm trying to install abiword issuing the command apt-get install abiword. The installation fails immediatedly because (unfortunately I'm translating from

Re: Can we tag [T]echnical posts?

2003-12-13 Thread Michael D Schleif
Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003:12:13:01:11:45-0800] scribed: snip / Addressing this specifically: while there's a lot of similarity of interests on this list, it's neither a social nor general discussion list. I see no particular reason the Debian Project or SPI should be compelled

mod_perl non-configurability ???

2003-12-13 Thread Michael D Schleif
# sudo /etc/init.d/apache restart Reloading apache modules/etc/init.d/apache: line 70: 19518 Segmentation fault start-stop-daemon --start --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON failed # COLUMNS=120 dpkg -l '*apache*' | grep ^i | cut -c 0-50 ii apache

Re: HOW-TO get a USB mass storage device to work under Debian

2003-12-13 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Sat, 13 Dec 2003, Jonathan Melhuish wrote: I Googled for some time and looked in the list archives, etc., but could find nothing relevant on installing my digital camera under Debian, so I got bored and tried typing: See http://home.gagme.com/greg/linux/usbcamera.php: [...] Connecting

Re: after compiling,rebooting, fsck fails

2003-12-13 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, tripolar wrote: After compiling kernel, updated grub,then rebooted getting the following error ooops dont have it verbatim something about fsck failed /dev/hda6 doesnt exist or invalid use #mount -n -o remount,rw Give the root password and do fsck /dev/hda6 and

Re: OT: Letter to TigerDirect

2003-12-13 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: Companies like Dell stopped selling Linux based computers because there was a lack of interest. But it was funny that I noticed that the same hardware could be bought for a cheaper price, from them, when it was shipped with winblows. Only problem was, and have

Re: JBuilder installer causes kernel panic on Sarge

2003-12-13 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Jonathan Brandmeyer wrote: I am attempting to install Borland JBuilder 7 on a Sarge system with the Sun JRE/SDK 1.4.1-3 already installed (directly from Sun). The installer is written in Java, so unfortunately I am not able to figure out exactly what it causing the error. After asking all of its

Re: ssh behaviour: unexpectedly being logged out

2003-12-13 Thread Roberto Sanchez
H. S. wrote: Hi, (I had posted about this a while ago, but can't find that thread anymore in gmane, so a repeat): I am trying ssh to connect to my university: What are the contents of your /etc/ssh/ssh_config and ~/.ssh/config? -Roberto pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ssh behaviour: unexpectedly being logged out

2003-12-13 Thread H. S.
Sorry for the mix up of the message text with my signature, my message should have read: (I had posted about this a while ago, but can't find that thread anymore in gmane, so a repeat): I am trying ssh to connect to my university: $ ssh -f [EMAIL PROTECTED] xterm $ ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Kernel-HOWTO has been removed for review

2003-12-13 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Arnt Karlsen wrote: or `make oldconfig`. To be honest, I only found out about oldconfig a few months ago. .. ;-) And I need to get time to learn the Debian way. ;-) The Debian way is really a piece of cake. Step 1: cp /boot/config-kernel version .config make oldconfig Step 2 (optional):

Re: ssh behaviour: unexpectedly being logged out

2003-12-13 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Roberto Sanchez_, on 12/13/03 20:23,typed: H. S. wrote: Hi, (I had posted about this a while ago, but can't find that thread anymore in gmane, so a repeat): I am trying ssh to connect to my university: What are the contents of your /etc/ssh/ssh_config and ~/.ssh/config? -Roberto

Linux music recording (was Re: Linux is not for consumers!)

2003-12-13 Thread Antony Gelberg
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 07:49:10PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 01:26:39PM +0200, David Baron wrote: I would like to go over to Linux for everything except music production (since there is no appropriate software yet). I'd be surprised if this is actually the case.

Re: OT: Letter to TigerDirect

2003-12-13 Thread Ken Gilmour
 That is absolutely untrue.  I called Dell today and tried  (unsuccessfully, of course) to purchase a laptop without Windows.  They said it was not possible.  I then asked if it would somehow  affect the warranty on the hardware if I formatted it and installed  Linux.  The salesman said it would

Re: voice communication - windows w/ masquerade and debian w/ real IP

2003-12-13 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 01:40:06PM -0500, Grzegorz B. Prokopski wrote: Hello! I badly need to communicate with a person that is using windows behind a masquerade of his ISP (which he doesn't control). My machine has routable IP address so theorhetically such a connection from windows

Re: ssh behaviour: unexpectedly being logged out

2003-12-13 Thread Roberto Sanchez
H. S. wrote: What are the contents of your /etc/ssh/ssh_config and ~/.ssh/config? -Roberto The file ~/.ssh/config doesn't exist. The other file is: $ cat /etc/ssh/ssh_config SNIP Raed man ssh_config, specifically the entries on ProtocolKeepAlives and KeepAlive. Se if adjusting those settings

OT. Message to all computer vendors.

2003-12-13 Thread alex
What do you think of everyone on this list and other Linux lists sending a form letter to all computer vendors asking them if they have systemless computers or components that will work with Linux? Do you think that would give them some incentive to become interested in providing such

installing video card to dell optiplex gx110

2003-12-13 Thread wilbur miller
wilbur miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Why Wait? Move to EarthLink.

video card installion

2003-12-13 Thread wilbur miller
the ouestion i have is that i just bought a raedeon 9000 will it fit my tower optiplex gx110?

Re: some issues

2003-12-13 Thread Nunya
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 08:06:18AM +0530, saravanan wrote: 2) I 've installed sendmail from debian CD set. I 've downloaded latest sendmail.deb. How to upgrade using dpkg or apt-get ? dpkg -i sendmail.deb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

software raid

2003-12-13 Thread Lucas Albers
I've been trying to get debian stable working with software raid using various documentation. If you can think of any good software raid (running on your root partition) documentation for debian STABLE please send it over. I don't want ANY testing, as these systems are for production systems. I'm

Re: some issues

2003-12-13 Thread saravanan
Yah, it works. But what is the general command to upgrade a package? ( like rpm -Uvh package) Sarav Nunya wrote: On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 08:06:18AM +0530, saravanan wrote: 2) I 've installed sendmail from debian CD set. I 've downloaded latest sendmail.deb. How to upgrade

Next On The Checklist - VNC

2003-12-13 Thread Scarletdown
Okay, I just installed the VNC package and successfully accessed a KDE desktop from my Windows-98 system. And I must say, I became instantly enamored with VNC. However, I now have a bunch of questions. 1: Every time I connect, I always get root's desktop by default. How do I configure

Re: some issues

2003-12-13 Thread Tom
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 08:28:45AM +0530, saravanan wrote: Yah, it works. But what is the general command to upgrade a package? ( like rpm -Uvh package) Same thing. If the pkg is already installed, it will say upgrading sendmail. The general command is apt-get upgrade. -- To

Re: some issues

2003-12-13 Thread John Hasler
Sarav writes: 1) I 've recompiled my kernel with 2.4.23 for smp support. After that, /proc/cpuinfo shows abt 4 processors available in my system. but 'top' shows abt only single cpu states. What to do ? Type '1' while top is running. man top. 2) I 've installed sendmail from debian CD set.

Re: some issues

2003-12-13 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _saravanan_, on 12/13/03 21:58,typed: Yah, it works. But what is the general command to upgrade a package? ( like rpm -Uvh package) Sarav Once you are up and running after your initial debian install, the commands are: to update the system: $ apt-get update to see what will be

Re: only root able to play music cds? (2nd try)

2003-12-13 Thread michelle
Thanks! That solved the problem. Andreas Janssen wrote: I already wrote an answer to your last question, but here it is again: Sorry. My ability to post messages seems a little flakey. Some messages show up quickly, others I don't see for 2 or 3 days, and a few just don't show up at all.

Re: OT. Message to all computer vendors.

2003-12-13 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 at 03:14 GMT, alex penned: What do you think of everyone on this list and other Linux lists sending a form letter to all computer vendors asking them if they have systemless computers or components that will work with Linux? Do you think that would give them some

Re: ssh behaviour: unexpectedly being logged out

2003-12-13 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Roberto Sanchez_, on 12/13/03 20:57,typed: H. S. wrote: What are the contents of your /etc/ssh/ssh_config and ~/.ssh/config? -Roberto The file ~/.ssh/config doesn't exist. The other file is: $ cat /etc/ssh/ssh_config SNIP Raed man ssh_config, specifically the entries on

Re: ssh behaviour: unexpectedly being logged out

2003-12-13 Thread Roberto Sanchez
H. S. wrote: Okay, I just read them. But frankly I don't see the connection. The problem is not if the host dies or local host dies and I want to keep or not keep the connection. To see of this is being in my Fedora version of Linux, I tried to see ssh_config in that, and found that the only

Re: OT. Message to all computer vendors.

2003-12-13 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 at 03:14 GMT, alex penned: What do you think of everyone on this list and other Linux lists sending a form letter to all computer vendors asking them if they have systemless computers or components that will work with Linux? Do you think that would

Re: ssh behaviour: unexpectedly being logged out

2003-12-13 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Roberto Sanchez_, on 12/13/03 22:39,typed: H. S. wrote: I am really at a loss. If you are running Woody, it might be worth it to try installing (or back porting) the ssh package from Sarge or Sid. -Roberto I am running Sarge. But thanks for your suggestions. At least it is one

Re: Next On The Checklist - VNC

2003-12-13 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Scarletdown wrote: Okay, I just installed the VNC package and successfully accessed a KDE desktop from my Windows-98 system. And I must say, I became instantly enamored with VNC. However, I now have a bunch of questions. 1: Every time I connect, I always get root's desktop by default. How

Re: PDF spec (Was: Re: ooh! debian jewelry)

2003-12-13 Thread Terry Hancock
On Saturday 13 December 2003 03:08 pm, Monique Y. Herman wrote: Oops. Hrm, I could have sworn that PDF was a spec published by Adobe and freely usable, but google seems to disagree. It references some old links from the adobe site, but they seem to have been removed. PDF 5.x is supposed to

Re: PDF spec (Was: Re: ooh! debian jewelry)

2003-12-13 Thread Nunya
On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 10:08:07PM -0600, Terry Hancock wrote: This is equally true of DOC format, too, though. We *could* adopt some prior version of it as a standard, seeing as several open word processors can handle them already. Many PDFs I get don't display correctly in gv. The

Re: PDF spec (Was: Re: ooh! debian jewelry)

2003-12-13 Thread Nunya
On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 10:08:07PM -0600, Terry Hancock wrote: It would be conceivable to call PDF 4 an open standard, since Ghostscript can already handle it. But we really ought to make a distinction, since the newer versions are incompatible. Or, I could even quote the right paragraph.

Grub problems

2003-12-13 Thread dchesser4
Second Post, don't know if the first made it out or not :) I messed up the grub on my box with the Debian installer. I know the partioning scheam. I can make a grub-floppy, but can not run grub-install from knoppix. Debian did not write LILO, but did eat up the grub. I am sure I told it

Re: Grub problems

2003-12-13 Thread Damon L. Chesser
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Second Post, don't know if the first made it out or not :) I messed up the grub on my box with the Debian installer. I know the partioning scheam. I can make a grub-floppy, but can not run grub-install from knoppix. Debian did not write LILO, but did eat up the grub.

Re: hostname bogosity

2003-12-13 Thread Kent West
Michael D. Harnois wrote: I'm perplexed by a network configuration problem on my system. hostname returns the correct name; yet on startup, KDE says Can't get own host name. Your system is severely misconfigured, and my DHCP server doesn't recognize the hostname for the system either. Where could

Re: [OT] C programming, variable size array

2003-12-13 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 12:31:00AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 15:00, Aryan Ameri wrote: On Friday 12 December 2003 22:38, Alex Malinovich wrote: On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 14:04, Wesley J Landaker wrote: On Friday 12 December 2003 11:38 am, Aryan Ameri wrote: Hi

Re: software raid

2003-12-13 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya lucas On Sat, 13 Dec 2003, Lucas Albers wrote: I've been trying to get debian stable working with software raid using various documentation. collection of um http://www.1U-Raid5.net If you can think of any good software raid (running on your root partition) documentation for

Re: PDF spec (Was: Re: ooh! debian jewelry)

2003-12-13 Thread Terry Hancock
On Saturday 13 December 2003 10:11 pm, Nunya wrote: On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 10:08:07PM -0600, Terry Hancock wrote: It would be conceivable to call PDF 4 an open standard, since Ghostscript can already handle it. But we really ought to make a distinction, since the newer versions are

Re: hostname bogosity

2003-12-13 Thread Michael D. Harnois
On Sat, 2003-12-13 at 22:26, Kent West wrote: My first guess would be that you're missing the following line in /etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1 harnoiscomputer localhost A wonderful idea, but alas, the hosts file on my laptop is identical to the one on this machine, and the laptop doesn't

Grub problems

2003-12-13 Thread Damon L. Chesser
I blew up my grub with the debian installer, and it (the installer) does not rigth lilo to hda. How do I repair my grub? I know the drive lay-outs, I can load knoppix chroot and do a grub-floppy. But with the floppy then what do I tell grub? the home of the grub config file is hda6 (or

video mode in console

2003-12-13 Thread Le Hoang Anh
Hi d-u, I want to tune my Debian box (woody) so that in console mode the video mode must fit the width of my screen. I tested several vga mode in lilo.conf but after the tux logo appear the font and screen is not what I like. It's overriden by some program of later run levels. I `dmesg` and

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