Re: Security trough paranoia

2001-03-30 Thread Joseph Carter
useful. :) The install does ask if MD5 is preferred, IIRC. It does, and it has the (IMO preferred) default of yes. -- Joseph Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED]Free software developer [regarding measures to prevent cheating in quake] I mean, as long as I can make my rocket launcher

Re: [Quake-user] Re: IO permission problem

2000-08-16 Thread Joseph Carter
and it will cooperate with gpm just fine! Making it suddenly /require/ root to function? Uh, no. +set vid_svgalibgfx 1 -- Joseph Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG key 1024D/DCF9DAB3 Debian GNU/Linux (http://www.debian.org/) 20F6 2261 F185 7A3E 79FC The QuakeForge Project

Re: [Quake-user] Re: IO permission problem

2000-08-14 Thread Joseph Carter
! -- Joseph Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG key 1024D/DCF9DAB3 Debian GNU/Linux (http://www.debian.org/) 20F6 2261 F185 7A3E 79FC The QuakeForge Project (http://quakeforge.net/) 44F9 8FF7 D7A3 DCF9 DAB3 Techical solutions are not a matter of voting. Two legislations in the US

ATTN: pjw@edmc.net

2000-03-30 Thread Joseph Carter
you via the lists. I will not attempt to do so in the future. Mail me from an ISP with a clue in the future if you'd like a reply. Regarding your problem, epic4 pre2.507 (uploaded today) should fix it. -- Joseph Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG key 1024D/DCF9DAB3 Debian GNU/Linux

Re: how to setup default.kmap.gz

2000-03-17 Thread Joseph Carter
some time now. -- Joseph Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG key 1024D/DCF9DAB3 Debian GNU/Linux (http://www.debian.org/) 20F6 2261 F185 7A3E 79FC The QuakeForge Project (http://quakeforge.net/) 44F9 8FF7 D7A3 DCF9 DAB3 BenC -include ../../debian/el33t.h BenC sendmail build

Re: new toy story release names

1999-12-30 Thread Joseph Carter
Glumanda Goldini e.t.c. ;) You know we have to kill you now, right? --=20 Joseph Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian Linux developer http://tank.debian.net GnuPG key pub 1024D/DCF9DAB3 sub 2048g/3F9C2A43 http://www.debian.org20F6 2261 F185 7A3E 79FC 44F9 8FF7

Re: your mail

1999-12-29 Thread Joseph Carter
machines and we have a _LOT_ of lists!) debian-user might be able to help. Good luck with Debian! --=20 Joseph Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian Linux developer http://tank.debian.net GnuPG key pub 1024D/DCF9DAB3 sub 2048g/3F9C2A43 http://www.debian.org20F6 2261 F185 7A3E

Re: Quake in Germany - not illegal?

1999-12-28 Thread Joseph Carter
(that you have to bye on some legal way) it is completetely useless.=20 quake-lib. --=20 Joseph Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian Linux developer http://tank.debian.net GnuPG key pub 1024D/DCF9DAB3 sub 2048g/3F9C2A43 http://www.debian.org20F6 2261 F185 7A3E 79FC 44F9 8FF7 D7A3 DCF9

Re: Quake is GPL

1999-12-26 Thread Joseph Carter
will NOT do that for a piece of GPL code. I flatly refuse, and it's my package. --=20 Joseph Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian Linux developer http://tank.debian.net GnuPG key pub 1024D/DCF9DAB3 sub 2048g/3F9C2A43 http://www.debian.org20F6 2261 F185 7A3E 79FC 44F9 8FF7 D7A3 DCF9

Re: Quake is GPL

1999-12-26 Thread Joseph Carter
to make sure my mirror is legal and I want you to do it for me. If that's how it has to be, that's how it has to be. You're better to stop mirroring. --=20 Joseph Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian Linux developer http://tank.debian.net GnuPG key pub 1024D/DCF9DAB3 sub 2048g

Re: upgrading from corel linux to potato

1999-11-19 Thread Joseph Carter
it. All in all, a rougher upgrade than you'd expect to see from any debian version to any other. Possibly someone will post information on how to do this cleanly as we get closer to a potato release. -- - Joseph Carter GnuPG public key: 1024D/DCF9DAB3, 2048g/3F9C2A43 - [EMAIL

Re: replacing the standard mta with qmail (Re: Question about dselect)

1999-11-10 Thread Joseph Carter
That should do it, yes. And it'll remove exim for you, safely. You could do exim purge above, but you are gonna want to keep a working mail config around just in case... -- - Joseph Carter GnuPG public key: 1024D/DCF9DAB3, 2048g/3F9C2A43 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] 20F6 2261 F185 7A3E 79FC

Re: [PHILADELPHIA] MIME Solutions: Using Debian's mime-support Package

1999-11-08 Thread Joseph Carter
if there's some technical how-to information presented. Also archives of this kind of stuff would be great for new maintainers. -- - Joseph Carter GnuPG public key: 1024D/DCF9DAB3, 2048g/3F9C2A43 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] 20F6 2261 F185 7A3E 79FC 44F9 8FF7 D7A3 DCF9 DAB3

Re: PGP and verifying ids / emails

1999-07-30 Thread Joseph Carter
they are who they say they are, can demonstrate control of the email address they gave you, etc, AND can demonstrate they can use the key, they're probably safe. I love it, this is most definitely going into the HOWTO... -- Joseph Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux developer GnuPG

Re: infomagic

1999-07-24 Thread Joseph Carter
if we shoot for having it out by the holidays it could be done, however we've seen what happens if it's not done by December---everyone goes on vacation and nothing gets done until February. =p -- Joseph Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux developer GnuPG: 2048g/3F9C2A43 - 20F6

Re: infomagic

1999-07-24 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sat, Jul 24, 1999 at 01:48:29AM -0700, Jonathan Walther wrote: On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Joseph Carter wrote: To everyone expecting a September release, WAKE UP! It's NOT going to happen. It's NOT possible, not that soon. I think if we shoot for having it out by the holidays it could

Re: ADSL

1999-07-13 Thread Joseph Carter
2 nameserver nameserver 3 -- Joseph Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux developer GnuPG: 2048g/3F9C2A43 - 20F6 2261 F185 7A3E 79FC 44F9 8FF7 D7A3 DCF9 DAB3 PGP 2.6: 2048R/50BDA0ED - E8 D6 84 81 E3 A8 BB 77 8E E2 29 96 C9 44 5F

epic4 pre2.004-19990618-[12] are BROKEN (Was: Uploaded epic4 pre2.004-19990618-3 (source i386) to master)

1999-06-29 Thread Joseph Carter
, this message does not apply to you. On Sat, Jun 26, 1999 at 12:01:07AM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote: Format: 1.6 Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 23:19:55 -0700 Source: epic4 Binary: epic4 epic4-dbg Architecture: source i386 Version: pre2.004-19990618-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: high Maintainer

Re: non-us.debian.org having problems???

1999-03-30 Thread Joseph Carter
to be correct. Fair reply: non-us is _ALWAYS_ broken. It's being addressed, but the end result is almost certainly going to be that Debian will end up with a new non-us server in a new location and the ftpmasters will actually have access to the new machine. -- Joseph Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Missing ldd? Have libc6 on hold? Get ldso from slink...

1999-03-15 Thread Joseph Carter
, there was a list on #debian in the topic, someone removed it. -- Joseph Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED]Debian GNU/Linux developer PGP: E8D68481E3A8BB77 8EE22996C9445FBEThe Source Comes First! - lux if macOS

Re: Intent to Party like its 1999

1999-02-27 Thread Joseph Carter
* Knghtbrd bops netgod for the subject line -- Do you think she's the sincere type? ... Yeah, I was afraid of that. -- Richie Ryan, Highlander: The Series

Re: Intent to Party like its 1999

1999-02-27 Thread Joseph Carter
On Fri, Feb 26, 1999 at 07:15:55PM -0600, David Welton wrote: Anyway, 4 PM is a bit early for me on Monday (have to work), but if people would like to meet somewhere that evening, it could be fun. How about it? I'd recommend getting together with Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) to

Re: Intent to Party like its 1999

1999-02-27 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sat, Feb 27, 1999 at 12:37:13PM -0600, David Welton wrote: Ok, so the consensus seems to be that everyone wants to meet near where they live;-) It might be nice to carpool a bit further south, so as to accomodate the people closer to san jose... Urk, I don't know if I want to drive with

Re: stuff someone should package (Re: Audio CD MP3)

1999-02-07 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sat, Feb 06, 1999 at 04:45:12PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: BladeEnc (http://home8.swipnet.se/~w-82625) is a wonderful encoder if you're interested in producing high-quality MP3's. I think bladenc is binary-only, but LAME is free though it has some assembly required. I believe source was

Re: mailing list archives

1998-12-29 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sun, Dec 27, 1998 at 06:05:38PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: You'll find an up-to-date archive of both lists at ftp://ftp.infodrom.north.de/pub/usenet/mailing-lists/debian-{devel,user}/ It's splitted by months and gzipped for older months. Noteworthy is that this unlike the HTML

Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-10-22 Thread Joseph Carter
Please forgive me for the crossposted reply, I've trimmed some addresses out. On Thu, Oct 22, 1998 at 12:11:40PM -0400, Clemmitt Sigler wrote: Development of USB and FireWire support is crucial to the future of Linux IMHO. I2O also springs to mind, and Intel may help with this. We've seen

Re: /tmp permissions

1998-09-15 Thread Joseph Carter
On Mon, Sep 14, 1998 at 04:57:08PM -0600, Phil Humpherys wrote: Nuno Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's a good policy for /tmp directory to have 777 permissions !? With such permissions any user could write on that directory until even there's no more space on device, rigth

Re: working minicom - gets stuck on initielizing modem

1998-07-05 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sun, Jul 05, 1998 at 04:45:44AM -0700, Micha Feigin wrote: I tried to set up minicom. But as a start it would only start up as root and then tell me that i shouldn't run it as root. Then it gets stuck on the line initielizing modem. The same modem works when i start it from win95

Re: svgatextmode fails with 2.1.108

1998-07-04 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sat, Jul 04, 1998 at 01:23:27PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wouldn't worry too much about VGA-related stuff not working in 2.1.107 and 2.1.108. The VGA Console is completely broken in these two kernels. Shift-PgUp/PgDn does not work and God knows what else is broken. As far as I know

Re: [Debian] Running Linux from CD

1998-07-03 Thread Joseph Carter
On Fri, Jul 03, 1998 at 05:34:06PM +0200, Brederlow wrote: They didn't have space for it anymore. It'd be an interesting thing to set up to give people at LUG meetings. It's kinda what I wanted to do with a Zip disk.. Bring me a Zip disk and I'll give you a working Linux system that

Re: Directory Colors

1998-07-02 Thread Joseph Carter
On Thu, Jul 02, 1998 at 12:51:33AM -0400, Shaleh wrote: The ls that comes w/ Debian supports colors. However it is off by default (do not ask why). You need to add a line to /etc/profile that says alias ls=ls --color=auto. This wll make ls give colored output. You can also put that line in

Re: Stupid question

1998-07-02 Thread Joseph Carter
On Thu, Jul 02, 1998 at 02:24:48AM -0500, Eric wrote: I'm trying to decide how much of my hard drive to give to the three partitions I plan on making for /, /usr, and /home. I'm sure this is a really silly question, but I've been reading the ls and tree manpages and can't figure it out.

Re: Directory Colors

1998-07-02 Thread Joseph Carter
On Thu, Jul 02, 1998 at 03:53:17AM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: and the line 'source ~/bash_functions' in both .bash_profile and .bashrc. I was using . ~/... I like that better, it seems more Righttm. pgpQzbJMYTwtD.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [Debian] Running Linux from CD

1998-07-02 Thread Joseph Carter
On Thu, Jul 02, 1998 at 03:21:33PM +0200, Niklas Höglund wrote: is it possible to run Linux completely from CD. We have created I think older versions of Red Hat supported this. I remember reading something about it on Red Hat 4.2. RH4.2 was said to no longer support this. They didn't

Re: How to clear screen before login prompt

1998-07-01 Thread Joseph Carter
On Tue, Jun 30, 1998 at 09:57:41PM -0500, the lone gunman wrote: I was trying to do a clear screen after I logout from the console before the login prompt appears. Any idea how this can be done? I tried some escape sequence but doesn't work. TIA. Many folks suggested adding

Re: How to clear screen before login prompt

1998-07-01 Thread Joseph Carter
On Wed, Jul 01, 1998 at 03:36:57AM -0400, Shaleh wrote: Instead of all this futzing around, why not use a getty designed for what you are doing?? I use mingetty. Not only is it smaller than agetty, and a hair faster -- it also clears term. I have it display linux_logo above my login prompt.

Re: Iomega ZIP Drive(100Meg)

1998-07-01 Thread Joseph Carter
On Wed, Jul 01, 1998 at 11:38:06AM -0700, Syed Huq wrote: I have a Iomega ZIP Drive(100Meg, parallel port). How do I make Linux see all the files there ? Do I need to mount that drive somehow ? Can you tell me the commands to use ? This really belongs in debian-user, so the To: header has

Re: connect to Samba from DOS

1998-06-30 Thread Joseph Carter
On Mon, Jun 29, 1998 at 04:48:43PM -0700, Steve Mayer wrote: Paul, Try ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/Clients/LANMAN/ There should be four disk images there that give you a the DOS LanManager client. This should work. You can also use Lantastic 7.0 with the encapsulated NetBIOS and SMB

fun with mgetty

1998-06-30 Thread Joseph Carter
I was going to try and set up mgetty to allow me to call my machine from elsewhere for either ppp or shell access so I could connect from pretty much any machine with a modem. I need to also be able to locally initiate an outgoing call from this machine on the same modem for ppp or dialup access

[off-topic] SCSI cables

1998-06-28 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
[Story part, you can skip this if you want] I'd like to start working on some packages that relate to Zip drives (ie, Zip rescue/install) however I've discovered a problem.. My external SCSI connector seems to have been damaged. The damage doesn't affect the

Re: Apt problems

1998-06-26 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Fri, Jun 26, 1998 at 08:36:09AM -0700, Steve Mayer wrote: I ran into this same problem after updating to the lastest libc6_2.0.7r-2. The dependency in the latest apt is looking for something = 2.0.7pre1-0. I guess that it doesn't see 2.0.7r-2 as being greaterthan or equal to.G

Re: Story: How Linux Could Kill Windows NT

1998-06-23 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 02:07:37PM -0400, Brian Morgan wrote: Below is a story by ZDnet about Linux that just came out today. Thought you might be interested in reading it. Coincidentally, another story came out from ZDnet today about Microsoft winning one in the DOJ battle. Sounds like a

Re: Afterstep?

1998-06-21 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Mon, Jun 22, 1998 at 04:22:55AM +1000, Chris wrote: Hi all, What happened to afterstep? I just installed afterstep for my newly upgraded hamm box, expecting to see my setup just as normal, however it appears that afterstep has been replaced with something else - GNUStep. To be honest,

Re: Debian and Afterstep1.4.5.3-1

1998-06-18 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 11:15:01PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: dpk wrote: I,... what are people switching to? Any recommendations for a fast, slick, and easily configurable wm? WindowMaker. As a bonus, it's similar to afterstep in look feel. To be fair, the config file for wmaker hasn't

Re: Apple II Emulator

1998-06-16 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 08:22:33PM -0400, Carlos Figueroa wrote: Do you have a Apple IIgs emulator? E-Mailme at [EMAIL PROTECTED] . There is one, xgs. At this time, there is not a .deb of it and you need a ROM image for it. It will take 00, 01, and 03 ROMs which can be found places you would

Re: Debian and Afterstep1.4.5.3-1

1998-06-10 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 05:19:45AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: I,... what are people switching to? Any recommendations for a fast, slick, and easily configurable wm? Why not just stick with the 1.0 series? Upstream bugs, no libc6 version, the package was upgraded kinda by accident (was on

Re: umsdos run on fat32 ?

1998-06-09 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Mon, Jun 08, 1998 at 01:33:40PM -0400, R. Chris Ross wrote: I have recently gotten a laptop at work that I need to run Win95 and later, likely NT. It would be great to also load Linux in the same partition. Can Debian be installed using an umsdos file system in a fat32 partition?

Re: procmail woes

1998-06-09 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Mon, Jun 08, 1998 at 03:01:32PM -0400, Paul McDermott wrote: hello my debian user friends, I have just upgraded my hardware and was doing a new install of slink. When it came to configure procmail is where I ran into trouble. These are the versions of procmail and smail smail

Re: Debian and Afterstep1.4.5.3-1

1998-06-09 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Mon, Jun 08, 1998 at 02:31:59PM -0700, Phlip wrote: I got this version ooff your site and installed it but had problems making it the default manager. Also, is the file .steprc included in the package? I can't seem to locate it on my system and would really appreciate knowing where it is

Re: Linuxconf

1998-06-08 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Mon, Jun 08, 1998 at 09:21:02AM +0100, Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 wrote: I friend of mine is running RedHat 5.1 (i have tried to convert him, but without any luck) and he was telling me that RedHat is now using the Linuxconf package, and I was wondering how compatiable Linuxconf is with

Re: Afterstep

1998-06-07 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Sun, Jun 07, 1998 at 06:30:55PM +1200, Michael Beattie wrote: I read on the list a while ago (I may have misinterpreted) that there was a configuration utility written in tk or tcl for afterstep. is this true? where can i get it? For 1.0, yes. For 1.4, not yet. = pgpf32IdMH2rK.pgp

Re: PS/2 mouse device

1998-06-05 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Thu, Jun 04, 1998 at 10:07:41PM -0500, Nick Gillam wrote: I have successfully installed Debian 1.3.1 onto several PS/2s thanks to help from users on this list. However, I have not been able to determine the device name for the PS/2 mouse. /dev/psaux Also, what Debian package is

Re: How to make X fonts Bigger

1998-06-03 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Tue, Jun 02, 1998 at 10:22:34PM -0400, Kevin Atkinson wrote: Is there any way to make all X fonts say 1.5 times bigger than they are now? If you find a solution to X fonts being too small and not scaling properly, LET ME KNOW! I cannot use X till I find a solution to this or get a bigger

Re: How to make X fonts Bigger

1998-06-03 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Wed, Jun 03, 1998 at 05:36:49AM -0400, John Kloss wrote: Is there any way to make all X fonts say 1.5 times bigger than they are now? If you find a solution to X fonts being too small and not scaling properly, LET ME KNOW! I cannot use X till I find a solution to this or get a

Re: Red Hat 5.1

1998-06-03 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Wed, Jun 03, 1998 at 01:59:02PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: So Red Hat 5.1 (their second libc6 version) is out before Debian 2.0... Not that there's a competition between Debian and Red Hat. Just a comment... Have you been watching the erratas mentioned on Freshmeat? THAT bothers me.

Re: smail vs sendmail, fetchmail, K6 processor

1998-06-02 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Wed, Jun 03, 1998 at 12:07:36AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: I think I heard at some point that you can't have two K6's on the same board is that true? This is my understanding [could be wrong]: K6 IS supported in multiprocessor, but it is using an SMP scheme called OpenPIC or

Re: Can't recognize com port

1998-06-01 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Mon, Jun 01, 1998 at 02:33:07PM -0700, Alan D. Post wrote: ANy suggestions on how I can get PPP to recognize my com port? I just installed linux on my system. I set pgm to tty1 (com2) (it was orignally on tty0) which is where my mouse is. It it working. Neither PPP nor minicom will

Re: SWAP or swap

1998-05-31 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Sat, May 30, 1998 at 04:42:01PM -0500, Matthew D. Myers wrote: Can anyone verify this.. I don't wanna waste disk space if it's not gonna be used. Thanks to you George. It was at one point 16 megs, but it's been 128 for some time now. pgpoBHI2L0xXP.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: HELP!!! BASH IS FSCKED!!

1998-05-30 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Fri, May 29, 1998 at 10:24:33AM +0100, M.C. Vernon wrote: The last thing I remember doing as root is fiddling with the sysclock (hence a previous posting here yesterday afternoon). At about 7pm (BST) I logged in from the console, read news and mail and logged out again. I then got back home

Re: Getting ttyx

1998-05-29 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Thu, May 28, 1998 at 06:49:38PM +1200, Michael Beattie wrote: What is the best way to get the current console's tty? I know tty does the job, but how do I find the name WITHOUT the /dev/ ? i.e. tty1, tty2, tty3 etc? I want to use it with bl in a script. Whelp, here's a thought: ~$ tty

Re: Getting ttyx

1998-05-29 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Fri, May 29, 1998 at 02:55:22PM +1200, Michael Beattie wrote: What is the best way to get the current console's tty? I know tty does the job, but how do I find the name WITHOUT the /dev/ ? basename `tty` [etc] Thanks to all for replies... I have lots of options now..

Re: Stronghold Apache

1998-05-28 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Thu, May 28, 1998 at 02:10:30AM -0400, John Kloss wrote: Your name seems familliar to me from the days when I used DOS to access the net more frequently than anything else.. Admittedly that was long ago so I could be wrong. so I'm thinking about hosting a web site to do e-commerce (selling

Re: mutt not in color

1998-05-28 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Thu, May 28, 1998 at 02:02:51AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed mutt on my computer and it is not in color. Here is an output of mutt -v: Did you install the debian package mutt? pgp8yu1E2iEm4.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Does Debian support...

1998-05-28 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Thu, May 28, 1998 at 05:19:16PM +1000, Rafal Gasiorek wrote: I need to be able to access data from Linux, Win95 and NT running on the same machine. Currently I can only do this with Slackware... I tried RED HAT, very nice - good installation and easy setup of X, however no support for

Re: off-topic - netscape

1998-05-27 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Wed, May 27, 1998 at 01:50:36AM +0200, Chris Zander wrote: Yes, I know what you mean - at the time that I though Linux was some sort of light bulb (you laugh, it's not that long ago though) I was using win95 with a 14 monitor @1024x768 with 60Hz. It turned out that my eyes would fatigue too

Re: creating simple interface for low-power users

1998-05-27 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Wed, May 27, 1998 at 08:14:39AM -0500, Tim O'Brien wrote: Impatience, lazyness and hubris. Always remember these three great virtues (© Larry Wall) Do not program something which has already been programmed several times. You have the choices to do what you want without any

Re: DSELECT

1998-05-27 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Wed, May 27, 1998 at 11:19:22PM +0200, Karl Laping wrote: I still have some fights with DSELECT. When I call SELECT I am told: Since you do not hve the privilegy necessary to update package you are in the read-only mode. Thus, I cannot use '+' or '-' to select. dselect must be run as root.

Re: off-topic - netscape

1998-05-26 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Mon, May 25, 1998 at 01:05:12AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As it stands with the latest version, it installs, and it adds scripts et al to start and stop through init (ie it starts on boot now) but, if there are no fonts, it is all for naught - it will fail to run at startup et al

Re: changing default screen manger in x

1998-05-26 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Mon, May 25, 1998 at 10:04:38PM +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote: MF I am tring to change my default screen manager under X. MF It s on a server and i am using it throuh a terminal (on a PC), MF so i need to change it only for me. Make sure you have allow-user-xsession in /etc/X11/config,

Re: Xwindows not working

1998-05-26 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Mon, May 25, 1998 at 02:42:44PM -0400, Keith Alen Vance wrote: [..] Mystique 220 and I am trying to get it work with Xfree86 and AfterStep. I downloaded the files for Xfree86 3.3.1 and installed them and then setup [..] You need 3.3.2 for the the Mystique 220. That means hamm or finding bo

Re: off-topic - netscape

1998-05-26 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Tue, May 26, 1998 at 09:36:57PM +0200, Chris Zander wrote: but anyway...once it has fonts...Netscape looks GREAT! Netscape won't let you use a TT font for fixed stuff though.. xfstt doesn't bother to report that fixed width fonts are I think. This is prolly an upstream issue. I keep

Re: Debian 2.0 FAQ

1998-05-24 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Sun, May 24, 1998 at 01:02:43PM +0200, Wolfgang Gernot Bauer wrote: Im looking for the Debian2.0 upgrade-FAQ. Does anyone know where it is? Attached to email. Btw. Is upgrading better than reinstalling? Unless you have a reason to reinstall, ie I plan to reinstall at some point so I can

Re: Reinstalling required packages with dselect

1998-05-24 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Sun, May 24, 1998 at 10:22:15AM -0700, Darren Benham wrote: Unless you don't like less for some reason, I'd just copy /usr/bin/less ontop of /bin/more and use less, instead. Nononononono... more works on ANY terminal. less does not. pgpK1l8xdoAvT.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: off-topic - netscape

1998-05-24 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Sun, May 24, 1998 at 09:51:56PM +0200, Chris Zander wrote: I've been using the Netscape Communicator for Linux for quite some time now and have always wondered if there is some way to make it use dynamic fonts - or at least make its fonts look better. I always figured there was no official

Re: Debian from the Stampede's POV

1998-05-23 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Fri, May 22, 1998 at 09:52:51PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: On Sat, 23 May 1998 14:10:40 +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: (Oh, and the nice thing about having an ar of two tar's rather than a tar with some extra stuff tacked on the end is that you can get to *all* the information in the former

Re: Debian from the Stampede's POV

1998-05-23 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Sat, May 23, 1998 at 12:14:34AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: The other data in Debian's case is stuff like dependency information, installation and removal scripts, and the maintainer's contact address. Proprietary to Debian... The .deb is proprietary to Debian. =p The installation

Re: Debian from the Stampede's POV

1998-05-23 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Sat, May 23, 1998 at 12:33:15PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: The .deb is proprietary to Debian. =3Dp The installation and removal scri= Any particular reason you have Quoted Printable on? Not really. Other than that it's the default and is more or less considered standard so I left it

Re: Debian from the Stampede's POV

1998-05-23 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Sat, May 23, 1998 at 03:28:43PM -0400, Bonard B. Timmons III wrote: The .deb is proprietary to Debian. =3Dp The installation and removal scri= pts Proprietary -- what in the heck could possibly be proprietary about Debian? We need to clear this confusing mess up NOW!!! As I meant it,

Re: newsgroup, instead of mail list?

1998-05-23 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Fri, May 22, 1998 at 03:37:44PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: George It is a lot easier to follow a high-traffic list with a George newsreader than it is a mail reader. Yes. I agree. What does this have to do with gateways, though? Why *don't* people just read mailing lists with

Re: !!! URGENT !!! Can't boot back to Win95

1998-05-23 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Fri, May 22, 1998 at 05:40:59PM -0700, Brian Weiss wrote: I would really suggest not using .deb kernels. The reason they have FAT32 support is because they are just the standard default bins. They are not configured to run on your system. They therefore are not very high performance. They

Re: Debian from the Stampede's POV

1998-05-22 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Thu, May 21, 1998 at 01:08:11PM -0700, G John Lapeyre wrote: Does the stampede format even SUPPORT dependancies? This is readily available from their web site. SLP Version 2.1 int value of 4. (Production release) [..] That is gross and at best hard to use by the end users

Re: PGP 262

1998-05-22 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Thu, May 21, 1998 at 11:44:47AM -0700, The Gecko wrote: On 21-May-98 Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: Is there a specific reason that you need to build PGP yourself? It's available in .deb format at ftp://nonus.debian.org/pub/debian-non-US/bo/binary-i386/pgp-us_2.6.3a-1.deb None, except that

Re: X windows, Dselect, and then some...

1998-05-22 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Thu, May 21, 1998 at 02:10:29PM -0500, Goetzke, Christopher L wrote: (1) What is the graphical configuration utility for Xfree86 called ( and where is it)? It's XF86Setup. I don't recall where it lives offhand (and my computer is in an odd state at the moment, needing re-installs of

Re: newsgroup, instead of mail list?

1998-05-22 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Thu, May 21, 1998 at 10:15:54PM -0500, Gregory Guthrie wrote: Given the volume of traffic on this list, I would certainly find a newsgroup more convenient. 1) it maintains threads, and thus has MUCH better organization and access. Mutt does this with mail. 2) the linear, header and

Re: newsgroup, instead of mail list?

1998-05-22 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Fri, May 22, 1998 at 08:35:53AM -0500, Goetzke, Christopher L wrote: My local news server does indeed have linux.debian.user; I'm headed that way now. Those of you staying email can argue about whether you want posts gatewayed back to the list. ;-) I don't want news posts gateway'd back

Re: Unknown PCI Ethernet card

1998-05-22 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Fri, May 22, 1998 at 08:25:27PM +0200, Peter Paluch wrote: in my school I want to install a PCI ethernet card into my Linux server box. I am not sure about it's type although I've read all manuals to it. It just says it is a Genius / KYE Corp. Ethernet Card which is NE2000 compatible, I

Re: newsgroup, instead of mail list?

1998-05-22 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Fri, May 22, 1998 at 12:14:21PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: I'm down to 10 spam a day now. I don't want 30 again. Get some real filters in place, then. Excuse me, but I have filters. The 10 spam I get sli[p by the filters because of forged headers manipulated to get by filters. And

Re: Debian from the Stampede's POV

1998-05-21 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
[This thread prolly belongs on -user more than -devel] On Wed, May 20, 1998 at 02:54:38AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: This is what I got from the Stampede's FAQ: How is Stampede Linux better than Debian Linux? + glibc2 in the standard distribution We're closer to standard

Re: Linux AGP and VIA chipsets

1998-05-21 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Wed, May 20, 1998 at 12:42:31AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Does anyone else have a motherboard baised on a VIA Apollo 3 AGP chipset with 1Mb cache RAM? Or do I need a Intel 430TX type for absolute reliability/compatability? I'm looking at Biostar, DFI, and FIC brands. All

Re: How to convert Microsoft mail to Netscape mail ?

1998-05-19 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Tue, May 19, 1998 at 11:10:15AM -0400, Stephen Carpenter wrote: From had weird charicters...8 bitters) anyway..there is then a program on the net somewhere (search for it) that converts from MSIM to Eudora...which uses the same mailbox format as Nutscrape (which is standard maildir

Re: Folders in pine

1998-05-19 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Tue, May 19, 1998 at 10:41:16AM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: Pine does not do this by itself. The docs state that Pine will support this, by allowing you to define multiple folders for incoming mail, but it won't do the filtering for you. You need to use something like procmail, which

[Off Topic] Mail formats (Was: How to convert Microsoft mail to Netscape mail ?)

1998-05-19 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Tue, May 19, 1998 at 03:40:37PM -0400, Stephen Carpenter wrote: hmm interesting...I have always used mbox format...I think I looked at maildir once... I like maildir because I occasionally lost mail with mbox. I have a much more simple setup :) I just have ~/mail for all of my incomming

Re: AfterStep

1998-05-17 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Sun, May 17, 1998 at 01:01:50PM +0400, Alexey Vyskubov wrote: Where is configuration files for afterstep_1.4.5.3-1??? My ~/GNUstep doesn't work now. Moreover, there is no /usr/share/GNUstep. In /usr/doc/afterstep/README.debian : [..] mkdir ~/GNUstep mkdir ~/GNUstep/Library cp -r

Re: 2.0.33 is no good for lic6-dev ?

1998-05-16 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Fri, May 15, 1998 at 04:11:46PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Hmm. if you use -I/usr/src/linux/include, then as far as I can see; it should link with those files (as you state further, it is linked to kernel-source-2.0.33). What toerh files you happen to have elsewhere should not

Re: Totally off-subject ( And now for something Completely different)

1998-05-16 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Fri, May 15, 1998 at 09:54:57PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now I can't remember where I found it and EVERYONE is looking for it from Me?!?! um well..add me to the list...if you do happen to find it...let me know where! www.linux-howto.com has it. pgpH6gWbhZQ5D.pgp Description:

Re: DOSEmu 97.7

1998-05-14 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Thu, May 14, 1998 at 04:49:07PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to try a 2.1 kernel. Which do you recommend/Which one is the most stable? At this point, the latest is probably stable. I use 2.1.101 and it's more stable than 2.0.33---which on some systems isn't saying much.

Re: Leafnode question

1998-05-12 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Mon, May 11, 1998 at 11:03:24PM -0300, Jack Kern wrote: I was running fetch this afternoon, and noticed it was downloading messages for a couple of groups I don't read (my system is single-user)... checking the interesting groups directory found that they were in fact listed. Does

Re: Sound - permissions on /dev devices

1998-05-11 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Sun, May 10, 1998 at 11:46:48PM -0700, G. Crimp wrote: Hi, I finally got my sound enabled in the kernel. On to the next problem. Whenever I try to use something like workbone, or anything that needs to use a device such as /dev/audio, or /dev/dsp, or even /dev/hdb (my cdrom) as

Re: Mouse

1998-05-09 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Fri, May 08, 1998 at 06:51:02PM -0600, Chris Betz wrote: My mouse is currently a Microsoft Serial Mouse with Wheel, at least according to windows. I have it plugged into the Com1 port on my computer. I'm a newbie, and I can't seem to get xwindows to recognise my mouse even if I go through

Re: Supressing duplicate email

1998-05-08 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Thu, May 07, 1998 at 11:21:23AM -0700, Mike Schmitz wrote: Does anyone have a procmail recipe to supress duplicate email? (Useful when subscribed to more than one Debian list). man 5 procmailex There is such an animal to be found there. = pgpbfu8QErHbC.pgp Description: PGP signature

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