Re: shutdown -h now : don't power off

1999-07-23 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Halis" == Halis Osman Erkan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Halis> As it seen your APM daemon is not working. Which is only needed, if one wants to suspend the box. It is not needed for poweroff on shutdown (apmd will be killed long before anyway, so it has no effect). Ciao, Martin

Re: newbie q about perl modules

1999-07-23 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Stephen" == Stephen Pitts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Stephen> Yup, also, when you get a custom module from CPAN, put it in Stephen> /usr/local/lib/site_perl, the proper place for downloaded Stephen> modules. This is the default place, when installing modules manually (or through CPAN.pm). S

Re: Lynx Problems

1999-07-22 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Doug" == Doug Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Doug> a mammoth job since I'm not aware of any way to find files with html Doug> extensioins other than open every directory one by one to see whats in it. I find /usr/doc/ -name "*.html" locate .html Doug> don't know whether or not its doing

Re: apt-get: upgrade one package to particular version?

1999-07-22 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Carl" == Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> apt-get --install icewm >> >> should be all you need to do. Carl> No, actually it isn't, since that would install the version in Carl> *stable*. That's what I have installed now. What I'd like to Carl> do is install the version in *unstable

Re: Good HTML editor for debian Linux?

1999-07-22 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Carl" == Carl Mummert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Carl> What I still haven't found is the equivilent of 'indent' for Carl> html files, that will neaten up my code, single-case my Carl> tags,etc. Maybe this from unstable: Package: tidy Priority: optional Section: web Maintainer: Johnie Ingram

Re: A Pet Peeve about posting on the lists

1999-07-22 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Steve" == Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Steve> I don't think people reply to any ol' message to create a new Steve> message, but are replying to a message and were courtious Steve> enough to change the subject and now someone is bitching about Steve> it. No, this is usually not the c

Re: Relaying from a remote machine with exim

1999-07-22 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Patrick" == Patrick Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Patrick> had to do with headers...people complain of messages like this: "received Patrick> at Mon, 19 Jul 1999 21:11:23 +0100 (BST) from Patrick> [EMAIL PROTECTED] [212.19.67.118] (may be forged)" Complain to your ISP to fix his DNS. $

Re: FreeCiv

1999-07-22 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Andreas" == Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Andreas> Does anybody have an idea what to do or do I have to Andreas> subscribe to the freeciv mailing list? Either that, or file a bugreport on the Debian package, describing the problem and the patch. The maintainer will forward it ups

Re: Suggestion for Newbie Guide Lines

1999-07-22 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Martin" == Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Martin> Did you check the right spots for help? [...] Forgot about a thing for this part. - Check the Bug Tracking System Maybe the problem you encounter is a known bug? http://bugs.debian.org/ will show

Re: Relaying from a remote machine with exim

1999-07-22 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Patrick" == Patrick Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Patrick> I want exim on my home machine to relay mail from the whole Patrick> 212.19.64.x and 212.19.67.x so my email does not appear to Patrick> have a spoofed header and go into spam folders on friends Patrick> machines. [I tend to move d

Re: Suggestion for Newbie Guide Lines

1999-07-22 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Hi, this is my proposal for a posting, it got longer than intended, but it is a good one, I believe (corrections welcomed). It is too long for a weekly posting, but it is a good welcome mail one should get on subscription. And it can be made available on the net (and in a newbie-doc package).

Re: Suggestion for Newbie Guide Lines

1999-07-21 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Wayne" == Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Wayne> Very good idea, Colin. That would be _much_ better than a Wayne> weekly posting to the list! We would have to find a Maintainer Wayne> to package it, of course. It can be an addition, a weekly post is good nevertheless. I will mail my

Re: Good HTML editor for debian Linux?

1999-07-21 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Chris" == Chris Beaumont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Chris> Is there anything Linux-friendly with anything approaching the Chris> feature set of the program that I am used to, BBEdit on the Chris> Power Macintosh... I don't know BBEdit. I use XEmacs. In .emacs, you put (autoload 'html-mode

Re: Dependency problem with dpkg <-> apt-get

1999-07-21 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "peter" == peter karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: peter> If I run 'apt-get -f install' it wants to install cnews and peter> inews, which I don't want to do. peter> # dpkg -s equivs peter> Package: equivs peter> Status: install ok installed peter> [...cut...] peter> Provides: netscape4, lyn

Re: giving gnome a try

1999-07-20 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "JonesMB" == JonesMB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: JonesMB> It would be nice if downloading gnome would suggest that JonesMB> Window Maker or some other compatible Window manager. I JonesMB> attempted to use gnome, then decided to download Window JonesMB> Maker. As someone already said: there

Re: why so much hate?

1999-07-20 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Buddha" == Buddha Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Buddha> interface being worked on right now is apt. Currently, Buddha> gnome-apt is a decent, working packaging interface. In my Buddha> opinion, it does not quite replace dselect (mainly because I Buddha> can't easily tell which packages ar

Re: samba password changes after potato upgrade

1999-07-20 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Doug" == Doug Thistlethwaite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Doug> password file (I don't even remember if it was an option at that Doug> time). I think the latest version set the system up to use Doug> passwords, but the file didn't have the users or passwords Doug> available. And it can't. SMB

Re: XEmacs has slow startup

1999-07-20 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Kristopher" == Kristopher Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Kristopher> Does anyone know what it's doing here, whether it's Kristopher> important, and whether there is some way to either make it Kristopher> work better No, not at all. Kristopher> or to turn it off completely? This is some

Re: Suggestion for Newbie Guide Lines

1999-07-20 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Stephan" == Stephan Engelke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Stephan> + online version of the (Debian-specific) FAQ. There are Stephan> some tools out there to automatically maintain a FAQ. Maybe Stephan> something like the FAQ-O-Matic could be helpful, does anyone Stephan> have experiences with s

Re: PPPuzzles

1999-07-19 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "John" == John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Even though I've configured exim, it doesn't by itself arouse pppd,... >> ...and so it doesn't actually send the messages. John> You have to run it while connected to the Net. Type 'runq' as John> root, or put runq in a script in /etc/ppp/

Re: samba password changes after potato upgrade

1999-07-19 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Doug" == Doug Thistlethwaite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Doug> One more thing about Samba. Does anyone know why the Doug> distribution does not have all of the tools that are described Doug> on the samba site. Because the package has been broken up. Doug> There is a file that describes a se

Re: Setting Up During Installation

1999-07-19 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Kent" == Kent Hayden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Kent> During installation, you're given an option to install by Kent> tasks/profiles instead of dselect. Is there any way to access Kent> this again later? Unfortunately no. I am currently looking at some way to make this possible for the next

Re: why so much hate?

1999-07-19 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Michael" == Michael Merten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Michael> I really have to step in here. The 'intuitive' argument is Michael> habitually used to argue against *any* software that doesn't Michael> conform in every way to the expectation of whoever is trying Michael> to use it. Yes, and

Re: Finding orphans?

1999-07-19 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Gary" == Gary L Hennigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Gary> Is there any way to find orphaned files/directories? Use package cruft. Ciao, Martin

Re: Install Source Packages

1999-07-19 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Klaus" == Klaus Pieper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Klaus> one with dselect and all the web packages were gone. So, is Klaus> there any chance either to remove the old perl stuff and keep Klaus> the dependent packages or can I build a deb package from the Klaus> tar file? The equivs package f

Re: E-mail with exim tip.

1999-07-19 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Stephen" == Stephen Pitts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [..exim as daemon..] Stephen> Uncomment the "exit 0" line in /etc/init.d/exim. Also disable it in inetd.conf and reload the inetd config with /etc/init.d/inetd reload Ciao, Martin

Re: Here's an easy question, how shutdown debian?

1999-07-18 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Patrick" == Patrick Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Patrick> It is true that its hard to work out how to get the machine Patrick> off in Linux. I use halt...which no-one here suggested. Is Patrick> it not the most logical way to halt a system? Halt did not sync the disks. If you ask some "

Re: Here's an easy question, how shutdown debian?

1999-07-18 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Andri" == Andri Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Andri> Everytime I restart my debian pc after having turned it off Andri> debian tells me at bootup that devices were not unmounted Andri> properly. I don't use any commands to shutdown debian, I just Andri> use the on/off switch when I'm finish

Re: Sort of a Debian question

1999-07-18 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "John" == John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: John> them. Any body have any suggestions? Please hold off on the John> "Gourmet GEEK" jokes. I've heard them all. Hmm, never heared of such jokes. Dare to post two o three? :-) Ciao, Martin

Re: need help adding entry to sources.list

1999-07-18 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Pollywog" == Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Pollywog> I do notice that you have both stable and unstable sources in the same file Pollywog> and I wonder how the system does not downgrade some of your packages. Because apt-get only considers the newest version of a packages found in mu

Re: What software to use for setting up an ISP web server on debian?

1999-07-17 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Andri" == Andri Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Andri> Do you know what software to use and how to accomplish auto installing Andri> scripts for the new user? I don't know any programm that does this. I think anyone uses a custom script, written especially for his needs, to add new users (a

Re: Security problems

1999-07-17 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Andrei" == Andrei Ivanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> You can instead deny them telnet access in /etc/hosts.deny >> with something like: >> >> in.telnetd: ALL Andrei> That would refuse telnet access to everyone, and she would not be able to Andrei> telnet to the box from somewhere else to

Re: docs in /usr/doc not supported?

1999-07-17 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Pollywog" == Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Pollywog> Where will documents go now? I cannot RTM if I cannot find it ;) /usr/share/doc In Policy 3.0.0, Debian has moved to FHS as the path layout. Install the debian-policy package. FHS: http://www.pathname.com/fhs/ Ciao, Mart

Re: Security problems

1999-07-17 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "lena" == lena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: lena> I am a newbie with administrating my own Debian server, and got problems lena> that got to do with security. If you are new to this, go to your local bookshop, and check the "Practical UNIX & Internet Security" (O'Reilly). Especially if your l

Re: poff quesition.....

1999-07-17 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "David" == David Karlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: David> and my path (user) is: David> /sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin, David> wouldn't the original, /usr/bin/poff, be called instead of my new version, David> /usr/local/bin/poff? Yes. But what is th

Re: poff quesition.....

1999-07-17 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "David" == David Karlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: David> Instead, it seems that my script should be incorporated into David> (or called by) poff. Should I put my command(s) at the very David> to of /usr/bin/poff, or is there a more appropriate location? Better write your own poff version, w

Re: SGML question.

1999-07-16 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Felipe" == Felipe Alvarez Harnecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Felipe> Hi, anybody knows about a simple "user manual" DTD available Felipe> ?? DocBook is oversized for this task and i don't know about Felipe> any repository of DTDs. Maybe linuxdoc? There is a debian package. As for Docbook,

Re: -y option in apt-get

1999-07-15 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Renato" == Renato Katsuragawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Renato> So, I'd like to know if has a manner to do this in a really Renato> non-interactive installation. This can be done without any Renato> configuration. Not yet. It is no the TODO list, and is worked on. Ciao, Martin

Re: Centralized script ...

1999-07-15 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Debian" == Debian Developer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [central vs. spreaded config files] Debian> Is this a design intention, is this a goal ? Yes. And it is an advantage. It is easier to handle, less error prone, and it allows for network distribution. If your central file defines the n

Re: modules - where to load them

1999-07-15 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Jason" == Jason Carley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jason> I was wondering whether there was a standard convention for Jason> which file to use for module loading. I am not sure whether Jason> modules.conf or my startup script is the best spot for loading Jason> sound modules. There is no mod

Re: IP Usage Accounting

1999-07-15 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Damon" == Damon Muller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Damon> What we need is some way to keep track of the amount of Damon> bandwidth usage that this person uses. He'll have a static IP Damon> address. ipfwadm and ipchains can both log the traffic through accounting rules. I didn't use them so f

Re: Tools to generate X interface for programs

1999-07-15 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Romeu" == Romeu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Romeu> One which I can drag buttons, create forms an handle events, Romeu> just like Delphi an VB. Is there such a tool? You want a GUI builder. This depends on the language your application is written in. Ciao, Martin [Please answer bel

Re: Exim configuration question...

1999-07-14 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "George" == George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: George> Set up exim as a standalone system UNABLE to deliver internet George> mail. This is an option in eximconfig and then add the one George> router listed above for LAN delivery to the one host. Any George> other mail will not find a cap

Re: Exim configuration question...

1999-07-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Steve" == Steve Beitzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [ Please do linewraps at ~70 characters ] Steve> I am trying to configure exim for the following behavior: Steve> * Fully capable local delivery Steve> * No remote delivery EXCEPT to users on one specific computer Steve> on our LAN. Run e

Re: Save 70% of your Inernational Faxes Cost

1999-07-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Raymond" == Raymond A Ingles wrote: Raymond> Hmm. Is there anyone actually doing anything about the spam Raymond> on the Debian lists? Email inquiries I've sent have not been Raymond> answered... Spam Fighting Team -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> member Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: overriding package dependencies ?

1999-07-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Bruno" == Bruno Boettcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Bruno> i would like to cope myself with the jdk (BTW i have the jdk1.2 Bruno> installed, which isn't in the distrib yet...) but i didn't Bruno> found a way to tell dselect to not install the dist jdk, but Bruno> still install the tools i n

Re: Save 70% of your Inernational Faxes Cost

1999-07-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Patrick" == Patrick Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Patrick> This seems to come from novare.net the details of which are Patrick> as follows. Could we find some way of barring all mail from Patrick> these spammers? Novare host the Debian list server. When a mail is send to the list, it gets

Re: Problem with removing package.

1999-07-10 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "dave" == dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: dave> geko:/home/geko# dpkg -i python-base_1.5.2-4.deb dave> (Reading database ... 28377 files and directories currently dave> installed.) dave> Preparing to replace python-base 1.5.2-4 (using dave> python-base_1.5.2-4.deb) ... dave> Unpacking repla

Re: Exim & SMTP

1999-07-08 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Ali" == Ali Onur Uyar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ali> Now the question is wether Exim rejects smtp requests from Ali> localhost. Does the error message contain the smtp error exim gave? Does hostname --domain match the value for local_domains in the exim configuration? To which address do

Re: Bind

1999-07-08 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Brian" == Brian Schramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brian> On Tue, 06 Jul 1999, Martin Bialasinski wrote: Brian> I thought forwaders where for a local network. That is why I Brian> did not put any in. No, if you have a LAN and want to resolve the IPs you us

Re: Exim troubles

1999-07-07 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Ben" == Ben Lutgens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ben> I just upgraded and now I can't send mail to any addresses at my Ben> ISP, What upgrade? From which version to which? Ben> I have to "masquerade" my box as my ISP so mail will get through Ben> to any addresses but if I do exim doesn't que

Re: Bind

1999-07-07 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Brian" == Brian Schramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brian> I am using one machine to run Debian 2.1. I do not have a Brian> network but I want bind to handle caching of DNS inquires. I Brian> am doing this so I can use the sendmail genericstable and Brian> virtualtable and convert my addres

Re: E-mail for dummies - part 2

1999-07-06 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Hans" == Hans van den Boogert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hans> So what about sending mail then? Using 'smail' sounds obvious, Hans> but how does the route from MUA to the SMTP server go. The MTA you install receives the mails you send using your MUA and sends them to the destination. Either

Re: Multiple CD installation tip.

1999-07-06 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Hans" == Hans van den Boogert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hans> After you install the base system, put the first CD-ROM of the Hans> Debian distribution in the tray, fire up dselect and run Hans> 'update.' Hans> Then take out the first CD-ROM, put in the second CD-ROM and do Hans> an 'update

Re: The vexed 2-CD problem...

1999-07-06 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Bob" == Bob Bernstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bob> NOW, as I say some months later (it can't have been that long Bob> though) I come to notice I have an empty /etc/rc.boot dir. /etc/rc.boot is depreciated. The scripts are nowe in /etc/init.d and have a link in /etc/rcS.d which contains

Re: [Debian] can't upgrade from slink to potato

1999-07-06 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Nico" == Nico De Ranter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Nico> That's exactly why I wanted to upgrade the whole system in stead Nico> of just the ppp package. I considered downloading the source Nico> and compiling it myself but that would make it difficult to Nico> upgrade later on. Actually, h

Re: fate strikes again

1999-07-06 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Dan" == Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dan> I know... but xdm has a loop that never exits. If you go to "Quit Dan> X-windows" when you right click, it just restarts xdm. Thank you Dan> for reminding me of the name though. Then switch to a virtual console by pressing ctrl+strg+f1, log in as

Re: Correct way to select alternatives

1999-07-06 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Kristopher" == Kristopher Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Kristopher> What is the correct way to switch between different Kristopher> "alternatives"? For example, currently my /usr/bin/vi Kristopher> points to nvi. What is the right way to change it to Kristopher> point to vim or elvis?

Re: Unattended installation?

1999-07-06 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Kristian" == Kristian Kvhntopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Kristian> I am searching for information on unattended installation of Kristian> Linux distributions on Intel machines. Kristian> I already have installation about how to do this with Kristian> RedHat, but I am still looking on infor

Re: Securing system

1999-07-04 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Mark" == Mark Wagnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mark> order to telnet into my gateway (is that right?)). But i've read Mark> in the past that telnet isn't very secure and that people can Mark> intercept logins and passwords when one telnets to a computer. If the packages pass theri box. For

Re: Remove funny files

1999-07-04 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Rolf" == Rolf Edlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rolf> That gives me a '--exclude=files.txt' file. Trying to remove it Rolf> as 'rm -i --exclude=files.txt' was unpossible. But when I go upp Rolf> one directory, then it was easy to remove the file. -- starts an option. Commands, that accept -

Re: [SuSE Linux] What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-07-04 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Mark" == Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I have yet to see a program on any operating system that comes close >> to the power of gnus. Mark> Which also starts you off at the top. Not if you don't want this. It is a changeable, as everything else. The problem is not the cursor at

Re: [SuSE Linux] What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-07-03 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Christian" == Christian Dysthe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Christian> To a certain extent I have to agree, but where I REALLY Christian> think Linux lags behind is email. I miss an email client Christian> coming close to for instance Outlook Express and The Bat! Christian> for Windows (or eve

Re: Essential Debian - /tmp permissions wrong? PROBLEM

1999-07-03 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Andrew" == Andrew Martin Adrian Cater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andrew> On ED /tmp has permissions of 755 so nothing can write temp files. Either that, or you untar'ed some archive as root into /tmp that had the . directory in it. One should always untar in a subdirectory of /tmp. Andrew

Re: can't allways fill capacity of ISDN-line

1999-06-30 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Johan" == Johan Ur Riise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Johan> My system is fairly update with the unstable archive. I have a Johan> dual processor machine, and i run the 2.2.9 kernel. I also run Johan> ipchains. Do you use the stock ISDN drivers from the kernel? I think they are still older th

Re: Testing the system

1999-06-28 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Sami" == Sami Dalouche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sami> Yes, but with RPM, you can configure properly your system and rm Sami> a file after. dpkg -C won't se that while rpm will. Try the package cruft and the package debsums. Ciao, Martin

Re: Name of "Select and Install Profiles" program?

1999-06-26 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "David" == David Teague <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: David> Even with a fresh install, I couldn't get a script. If I leave David> dselect after it starts in the initial boot up to start a David> script, that screen never appears again, if memory serves. You David> say thse parts of the script a

Re: changing default umask on useradd

1999-06-25 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Chad" == Chad A Adlawan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Chad> does anyone know of a way to change the default "useradd" or Chad> "adduser" behaviour in terms of giving permissions to the new Chad> users home directory ? that is, when u add a new user, the Chad> permission on his/her new home dir

Re: Name of "Select and Install Profiles" program?

1999-06-24 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "KS" == Kevin Septor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: KS> program pops up allowing you to choose between tasks or profiles KS> and it then passes that info on to dselct so that you don't have KS> to tool around with 2000+ plus packages on your own. KS> Well I seemed to of blown by that screen (aga

Re: Matrox MGA-G100 and upgrading X ...

1999-06-24 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "pa" == per adua32 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: pa> I thought I'd install the X window server today, but it seems that pa> the version of X that came with my debian cd does not support my pa> videocard (Matrox MGA-G100). You can get a newer version from ftp.netgod.net/x Ciao, Martin

Re: [MTA] Problems using sendmail and exim...

1999-06-24 Thread Martin Bialasinski
> On Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 12:34:57PM -0700, did George Bonser write: >> Your EHLO is broken. That host probably requires a fully qualified domain >> name. www. >> >> Just www will probably not work. This is LIKELY due to your /etc/hosts >> being incorrect. >> "SC" == Sudhakar Chandrasekharan <

Re: [MTA] Problems using sendmail and exim...

1999-06-23 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "SC" == Sudhakar Chandrasekharan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SC> $ echo "Testing. Please ignore." | sendmail -v SC> [EMAIL PROTECTED] SC> LOG: 0 MAIN SC> <= [EMAIL PROTECTED] U=thaths P=local S=295 SC> www:~ $ Exim version 2.05 debug level 1 uid=8 gid=8 SC> probably Berkeley DB version 1.8x (

Re: xfree 3.3.3 for slink

1999-06-18 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "MJ" == Marcus Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MJ> They seems to work just fine. Anyone know how to test the glx-g200 MJ> driver? The mesa-gl screensavers dont seem to be any faster etc... Anything that is compiled against Mesa will do. But you either have to recompile it against libGL

Re: Use MD5 to check packages

1999-06-18 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "BC" == Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BC> Or you could install the debsums package which will also let you create BC> .md5sum files for packages that don't have them. How do you do that? There is nothing in the manpage or in /usr/doc/debsums about this. Ciao, Martin

Re: Disabling the power button

1999-06-18 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "AM" == Alisdair McDiarmid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AM> I've got an ATX system with APM enabled and working fine. I'd like AM> to disable the power button in software so that the machine AM> effectively cannot be switched off without root access - `shutdown AM> -h now' would still halt and

Re: agp graphics cards with slink

1999-06-17 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "s" == shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: s> 3) I have heard that people are working on a slink version of s> 3.3.3.1. You can wait and see. They are recompiled for some time now. deb http://ftp.netgod.net x/ in sources list and one can install them. Ciao, Martin

Re: Debian Updates?

1999-06-17 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "MM" == Marc Matteo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MM> So what determines an "r" release? The Debian pages say the MM> current release is at 2.1r2. How do I know if I have an "r2" MM> release? Use apt on a stable tree on a server. If there won't be any packages installed on apt-get dist-upgrad

Re: cron executes at UTC not local time

1999-06-17 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "AVT" == Alex V Toropov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AVT> it's executes all tasks from /etc/crontab and /etc/cron.d/* at AVT> specified time as if it's UTC time, not local time as I'd like it AVT> to be. Check the debian-devel archives of late january/late february and see if the problem with

Re: [OT] Matrox G200 3D acceleration

1999-06-14 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "PQdA" == Pedro Quaresma de Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: PQdA> I have a Matrox Millennium G200 (8Mg) working in my computer, PQdA> and I have a driver for it "xmatrox_2.2-1_i386.deb". These are old 2D drivers for X. The SVGA server package found at ftp.netgod.net (or in unstable) nativ

Re: equivs

1999-06-14 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "LC" == Lex Chive <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: LC> So, did I miss something? How am I supposed to use equivs, I just LC> put the package name in /etc/equivs.conf and run debian/rules LC> binary, right? The equivs package in slink doesn't work with apt too well. You would have to bump up the ve

Re: Threading Was Re: Balsa problem - new mailbox (pop3)

1999-06-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "SP" == Stephen Pitts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SP> Has anyone found an X-based mail program that does threading? gnus in XEmacs. Ciao, Martin

Re: php-cgi and non apache

1999-06-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "MS" == Martin Saturka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MS> I can't make to work php-cgi with non apache httpd's. Is there a MS> way? (I use cern-httpd, but I'm satisfied with any non gutsy MS> eater httpd.) I have no problems with it on th Roxen webserver. I just do a redirect like /(.*).php3(

Re: Poisonous xdm

1999-06-12 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "MT" == Michael Talbot-Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MT> When I start xdm my keyboard locks and I have to switch the MT> computer off. The mouse works. This happens when more than one display manager or getty tries to handle a virtual console. Check /etc/inittab which is the first uncl

Re: smail config for outfoing mail

1999-06-12 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "AC" == Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AC> I'm registering for an ISP which gives the server for outgoing mail AC> (relay.force9.net). AC> Can anyone tell me where this has to be configured please? Run smailconfig, use Option "Internet site" and enter the name as the smarthost

Re: Rewriting message headers for a smarthost relay using exim

1999-06-12 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "J" == Jor-el <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: J> up in [EMAIL PROTECTED] 's mailbox says that it was sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] . This J> is most certainly NOT what I want. Is there a way to force header J> rewriting only for non-local deliveries? This is only possible, if you run two instances

Re: i want a copy of netscape 4.51

1999-06-11 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "AS" == Adam Shand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AS> anyway, thanks for the info... that sucks though. have you found AS> anything that helps? it crashes about 1 of 4 times i shut down a AS> netscape window, and about 1 of 2 times i try and enter a password AS> protected site ... since these a

Re: exim configuration: "Return-path" and "Sender" headers

1999-06-11 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "AG" == Arcady Genkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AG> How can I rectify this problem? I know that "Sender" headers are AG> not to blame (read they are not supposed to cause any harm), but AG> in our imperfect world they do. And "Return-path" should be fixed AG> too. At the end of /etc/exim.co

Re: More Qs about Net Connection (was "Connecting to the Net")

1999-06-10 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "AJF" == Andrew J Fortune <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> When you run pppconfig, and it asks for the modem port and the default >> says "/dev/modem", change it to "/dev/ttyS[0-3]", with the 0-3 being the >> number of the "COM port" your modem is on minus one. For example, if the >> modem is on

Re: a little [OFF-TOPIC] Exim .forward files

1999-06-10 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "PL" == Peter Ludwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: PL> if $header_Resent-From: contains debian-isp then PL> save $home/mail/debian-isp PL> endif You should filter on the X-Mailing-List header. Works best here with procmail. Ciao, Martin

Re: GNOME installation screw-up

1999-06-03 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "DG" == David Gaudine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DG> I just installed Gnome today, without having any clue what I was DG> doing. Did you read http://www.gnome.org/start/getting_debian.shtml ? DG> My .xsession-errors tells me "gnome-session not found", and DG> indeed there's no such thing on

Re: Further question re. dpkg and apt (was: Re: GNOME Installation)

1999-06-03 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "HvdB" == Hans van den Boogert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: In addidtion to the answer you got: HvdB> out the dependencies and get the files from either HvdB> place. However, apt needs a packages.gz file for the directory HvdB> in order to know what is in the directory. I haven't figured out

Re: GNOME

1999-06-03 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "AJF" == Andrew J Fortune <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AJF> However, I am currently running with Debian 2.0, and I am AJF> wondering if someone could please advise this newbie as to AJF> whether or not this installation would work for me ? Frankly, I don't know, as we didn't try this. If you a

Re: GNOME installation screw-up

1999-06-03 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "MMD" == Matthew Myers Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MMD> a) why X won't start as root (the account with "exec MMD> gnome-session" in the .xsession file) Check ~/.xsession-errors for clues about why it didn't start properly. MMD> c) how to get out of XDM so that I can start fixing the ab

Re: Deb v2.1 vs. potato question

1999-06-03 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "GW" == Gregory Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: GW> The install was very smooth. I installed with the Web server plus GW> option. I am close to having the base system operational. I have GW> been working on my IP Masq commands and it seems a lot of the GW> discussions on IP Masq are on 'ipcha

Re: Missing gtk-config for building GnomePGP

1999-06-03 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "JHM" == J Horacio MG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JHM> I've been checking around and I've got libgnome 0.30.1-5 JHM> installed, and the only header in /usr/lib/glib/include/ is JHM> glibconfig.h (no gnome.h in there nor anywhere else). As for the gtk devel package, you also need the libgnome

Re: GNOME Installation

1999-06-01 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "M" == Morgoth3 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: M> I'm trying to install GNOME by hand, and I need to install M> libgnome32 to continue. When I try to install it, I am told that M> it depends on having libgnomeui32 installed. But when I try to M> install that, it says i need to already have lib

Re: Missing gtk-config for building GnomePGP

1999-06-01 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "JHM" == J Horacio MG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JHM> checking for gtk-config... no JHM> checking for GTK - version >= 1.1.1... no install libgtk1.1.2-dev The package you have is for runtime only, this is the package if you want to compile something. Ciao, Martin

Re: faq on installing debian and gnome

1999-05-31 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "JHMD" == J H M Dassen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JHMD> On Mon, May 31, 1999 at 14:14:10 +0100, Thornton, Richard wrote: >> and the gnome window manager. JHMD> GNOME is not a window manager. In any case, GNOME is available JHMD> in Debian package format, and should thus be installable like

Re: ICQ programs for Debian GNU/Linux

1999-05-31 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "LOLZ" == Luiz Otavio L Zorzella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: LOLZ> More than that, it looks like gtkicq is no longer in potato (why?), The package has been renamed to gnomeicu. Ciao, Martin

Re: bugtracking system

1999-05-30 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "KK" == Konstantin Kivi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: KK> Who knows what bugtracking system is used by debian Can I use it KK> for my own project? It is called debbugs. There is a package in potato. Ciao, Martin

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