* justin cunningham ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020426 15:13]:
> Hi, I have to compile a program from source since the install script for
> the deb package is installing in the wrong directory. no biggie BUT
> I've always used deb packages and haven't mix n matched before. Will I
> have a problem with d
* Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) [020426 00:28]:
> I'm running a daemonized fetchmail at work, ~1000 messages daily.
>
> Periodically the daemon dies. No good reason. OK, I can deal with
> that. Create an /etc/cron.d/fetchmail file with the following:
>
>
> 3/15 * * * * root
* Oi Yan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020426 13:17]:
> Hi all
>
> I installed pgp but don't know how to exchange the
> public key and use in email
I don't think it will be very straightforward using a web-based email
client like Yahoo unless the client webapp includes specific support for
it.
I do recom
* Brian Nelson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020426 13:09]:
> 'apt-get clean' just removes all the packages you've downloaded (in
> /var/cache/apt/archives/), so you'll have to re-download all those
> updated packages.
Well, you'll only have to re-download them if you need the .debs again,
like if you need
* Karsten Heymann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020426 04:56]:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to speed up failfetching via my modem. I've got four accounts
> to fetch mail from, i'm running spamassassin and sanitizer. My problem
> is: Every mail is fetched, scanned, delivered into my mailbox and
> afterwards deleted
* Patrick Kirk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020426 05:54]:
> On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 04:19:30PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote:
> >* Ross Boylan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020425 13:44]:
> >
> > set record="+archive/sent-mail/`date '+%Y/%m-sent-mail-%Y'`"
> > se
* Johan van der Walt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020426 03:17]:
> I installed Debian 2.2r6 earlier this week. Also wanted to install
> netscape but got the error message given below. Can anyone please
> help. Is netscape 4 not available?
Yes it is. Select the 'netscape' package from the dselect list, or
* Paul Pearson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020425 16:10]:
> space. However, how can I tell the tools to reconfigure what was just
> installed? I don't know which packages were updated (there were about
> 43, I think).
dpkg --configure --pending
good times,
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* Ross Boylan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020425 13:44]:
> On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 01:07:31PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> > How big are your mailboxes? I find my wait threshold starts to get
> > tripped at ~500-1000 items, which most of my mailboxes hit quickly ;-)
>
> My primary inbox is around 2,7
* Matt Chipman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020423 15:51]:
> Is there a list of or a method of finding alternative apt-able archives for
> both woody and potato?
see these pages:
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-basico.en.html
http://www.debian.org/mirror/mirrors_full
>
> I have uncommente
* Rory Campbell-Lange ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020423 16:26]:
> I am setting up a machine behind a cisco router to exist as a standalone
> machine in a DMZ. I'm using the Ziegler book "Linux Firewalls", but I'm
> having trouble knowing what is meant by 'subnet_base' here, in the
> header setting of the
* Lenny Leblanc ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020423 06:11]:
> After about 12 hours the Internet decides to stop working. I can see no
> traces of errors or mishaps in the syslog and not quite sure where to look
> now.
>
> Once the Internet crashes, if I try 'ifdown eth0' and 'ifup eth0' it still
> does
* Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) [020421 01:20]:
> > or doesn't allow X forwarding in it's
>
> That's "its".
>
> > ssh config.
>
> X11 forwarding effects server only. For the client, this is
That's "affects". =)
good times,
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* Shawn McMahon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020420 23:26]:
> begin Vineet Kumar quotation:
> >
> > Yes, and actually quite painless. Create an /etc/apt/preferences file
> > with something like this in it:
> >
> > Package: *
> > Pin: release a=testing
> >
* Jeroen Valcke (jeroen@valcke.com) [020406 12:19]:
> Hello,
>
> Weird, Licq is available as a package in unstable and in stable, but not
> in testing. My question what's the best thing to do to install this on a
> Debian testing system? Is it possible to select some package from
> unstable and in
* dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020419 09:10]:
> On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 11:22:56AM -0400, Shawn McMahon wrote:
> | begin Noah Meyerhans quotation:
> | > HA! That's the most rediculous thing I've ever heard on this list.
> |
> | "ridiculous".
"pedantic".
> |
> | > The
> | > only thing a firewall
* Jeremy Nickurak ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020414 12:24]:
> On Sat, 2002-04-13 at 21:57, hanasaki wrote:
> > How do i get gdm to run on the vnc server when a client connects? It is
> > just going inot the session
>
> It sounds to me like what you want to do is not have VNC start gdm, but
> the other
Hello,
I've got a machine in a (fairly typical) NAT gateway role for a small
home LAN. I recently set it up as a samba PDC to allow home directory
sharing for the windows machines.
I often see in my firewall logs that packets sent to the broadcast
address of my (RFC1918) lan but with the originat
* Patrick Kirk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020402 23:11]:
> Hi all,
>
> When I post from mutt, my mails are really ugly because I can't get it
> to text wrap.
>
> In .vimrc I have the setting:
> au FileType mail set tw=70 fo=tcrq2 nomodeline
>
> It was provided by wayne Topa.
>
> In .muttrc I have thi
* Jeff J. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020403 08:13]:
> I am looking for an ATA/100 or 133 RAID controller that fulfills these two
> requirements:
>
> Operates in a 66mhz PCI slot.
>
> Is (well?) supported by Debian.
>
> Somewhere in the $200 range would be nice. Does such a thing exist?
> I know ther
* Markus Grunwald ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020403 10:33]:
> Hi !
>
> In the last days, I were configuring my dial on demand (DoD) ppp daemon.
> It's working nearly fine and the past messages about exim were
> interesting. I used some info from there, but now I have a new problem:
>
> marvin is my mai
* Markus Grunwald ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020403 10:32]:
> Hi!
>
> I would like to say a few words about ipv6 handling of some few
> programs.
>
> Are YOU using ipv6 ? No ? Well, me neither. It's a nice thing and I will
> use it if I have to, but up to now, everything here is ipv4.
Well, yes, actua
* Paul 'Baloo' Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020403 07:58]:
> OK, to whomever piped the latest message on debian-announce through
> razor-report, I wish to officially declare you a moron.
SpamAssassin is your friend:
X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-97.0 required=5.0
tests=RAZOR_CHECK,A_FROM_IN_AUTO_WLIS
* Matthew Daubenspeck ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020403 08:14]:
> I just got mutt working properly with gpg thanks to the archives. Does mutt
> have to include the signature as an attachment, or can it do it in-line in
> the message itself?
pgp_create_traditional
>
> Can it also verify signatures th
* Jeff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020402 22:17]:
> Is that any mail client that supports maildirs, other than Mutt
> of course?
I know of at least gnus, and there's a patch for pine, which, IIRC, is
included if you apt-get source pine. Also, I just found out that GNU
mailx does support maildir. I'm sure
* fti International ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020401 23:03]:
> Hello,
>
> My question is simple. The size of the rescue floppy on debian web
> site, under the directory /...1.44/, is 1.4mb.But a floppy
> labeled "1.44mb", once formatted by DOS or Windows, has only
> 1.38mb available.H
* Timo --Blazko-- Boewing ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020402 13:07]:
> At least the images show the chat client. i tried to manually compile
> the actual version, but got the well-gnown "GnomeConf not found" error
What's the actual error message you're getting? It sounds to me like
it's a simple matter o
* Glenn Murray ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020402 12:05]:
> I was able to get vncserver to work with KDE after some effort. It's
> not hard once you understand it. My troubles stemmed largely from not
> understanding the principal of Linux vnc, being somewhat misled by the
> Windoze version. I thought
* Rob Weir ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020402 05:52]:
> For the first problem, there's always esdplay realplayer, which
> according to the manpage 'attempt[s] to reroute the audio device to
> esd'. No idea about the second, sorry.
That's esddsp, not esdplay. It's a wrapper that attempts to make
programs
* Patrick Kirk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020402 10:29]:
> Have you made sure NumLock is on when you use Ctrl Alt +
NumLock doesn't affect Ctrl Alt (+|-) here, on my sid system.
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* Simon Hepburn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020401 00:20]:
> dman wrote:
>
> > Will KMail automatically try at ever-increasing intervals for a given
> > amount of time and then genarate a bounce that _will_ be delivered to
> > the sender if the mesasge can't be delivered? For the first point, if
Well,
* dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020331 22:04]:
> On Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 03:55:48AM -0800, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote:
> | OK, I installed devfs and it seems to be working OK, I'm wondering how I
> | ditch the original disk-based /dev filesystem now.
>
> Boot with a floppy or cd. Then you can get to
* tony brito ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020323 22:14]:
> Hello I am a new linux user
>
> I use netzero as my ISP and pay 9.95 per month!
> netzero is installed on my win98 box.
> I use a modem for dial-up service to netzero.
Last I heard (it has been a while so they may have changed their system)
the
* stan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020325 16:26]:
> On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 01:31:37PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 02:14:12PM -0500, stan wrote:
> > > I have two woody machines, that I want to be able to use ssh to login from
> > > one to the other without having to enter my
* martin f krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020319 19:48]:
> it's either too late in the night or here's something going on.
> IP=3D195.226.187.154, postfix 1.1.3-1 on debian woody, port 25,
> mailhost for 27 domains, otherwise closed relay.
>
> now i find this in the logs:
>
> postfix/smtpd[6023]: co
* Carel Fellinger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020314 17:53]:
> Is it just me, or are others too experiencing a rather slow
> debian-user? It takes more then an hour just to get me own posting
> back! This used to be mere minutes.
It sure is. I do remember messages appearing in minutes, but they are
tak
* David D.W. Downey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020314 20:45]:
> Your use of a distribution does NOT NOT NOT preclude YOU YOU YOU from being
> socially an parentially responsible for ensuring your daughter does not see,
> hear, or become exposed to any software or real world items you don't want
> her to
* Warren Stramiello ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020313 23:39]:
> Trying to stir up passions by comparing snipping racist remarks from
> source to the image of a torch-waving book burning (and the implicit
> link to nazism) doesn't strike me as a good analogy... the request that
Finally! The nazis! I invo
* Petro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020314 10:04]:
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 10:05:41PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote:
> > * Petro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020313 18:34]:
> > > Any racism you perceive in either of those two statements is purely
> > > your own ignorance and knee
* Osamu Aoki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020313 21:34]:
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 09:13:08AM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote:
> > * dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020306 19:12]:
> > > I've got 2.4.17 on all my systems. (2.4.18 is out now, but not
> > > packaged last I checked) Ar
* Petro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020313 18:34]:
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 10:04:14AM -0800, Lazarus Long wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 12:47:25AM -0700, Adam Conrad wrote:
> > > > -Original Message-
> > > > From: Lazarus Long [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2
* Nori Heikkinen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020313 09:11]:
> on Wed, 13 Mar 2002 01:27:25PM -0800, Shri Shrikumar insinuated:
> > > I get replies from a form on my website; they arrive with a
> > > subject line: WWW Submission.
> > >
> > > These get detected as spam by Spamassassin. Is there any way to
>
* dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020306 19:12]:
> I've got 2.4.17 on all my systems. (2.4.18 is out now, but not
> packaged last I checked) Are there any tricks or gotchas to setting
> it up? Here's what I know (I did include support in the kernel) :
> o /etc/fstab -- s/ext2/ext3/
try this ins
* Jonathan Ard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020312 08:38]:
> Hi, Kai,
> >
> > I apt-get source kernel-source-2.4.18
>
> Actually, I think you want to use "apt-get install
> kernel-source-2.4.18". You are downloading the source to the kernel
> source package, which, as you say later, gives you files you
* Vineet Kumar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020312 13:05]:
> one of the package-provided initscripts. For setserial, you should be
> able to 'dpkg-reconfigure setserial' (as root) and have it "autosave
> once". This means that any changes you make to /etc/serial.conf this
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020313 02:30]:
> Hi folk's:
>
> I've installed two ethernet cards to my debian server and they work fine.
> I want to give some services to one IP and other services to the other, so:
> How can I deactivate the routing option betwen cards?
>
> There have t
* Michael Montagne ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020312 16:09]:
> I get more info. I just get the feeling that I'm not supposed to edit
> /etc/network/interfaces. The warnings seem to imply that I should let
> debconf do what it does best.
Not so, $EDITOR /etc/network/interfaces and hack away!
All you n
* John Kennedy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020312 11:04]:
> Good morning,
>
> I have a 56k dialup/firewall box using Debian 2.2.17
>
> I configured the dialup connection using 'ppp-config'
> and selected 'demand' dial
> however after reboot doing 'netstat -nr' returns only
>
> "192.168.1.10 0.0.0.0
* Thomas Wegner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020228 23:37]:
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 11:50:10PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote:
> > * Thomas Wegner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020227 22:15]:
> > > I'm running woody and xfree4.1. I'm using a graphic table from wacom
> > > (Wacom G
* Matijs van Zuijlen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020311 01:40]:
> On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 12:56:08AM +0100, Bjarne S. N?ss wrote:
> > > also, xhost + is probably not the safest thing to do if untrusted machines
> > > have network access to your machine
> >
> > xhost +localhost is better.
> >
> > But if
* Michael Marziani ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020306 14:33]:
> I've poked around dselect and can't find chkconfig. Is this included in
> some larger package of handy admin utils? If no chkconfig, is there a
> package that does something similar?
Not really. There's the update-rc.d utility which is use
* Harry Putnam ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020306 11:02]:
> Setup: Stock woody install from testing
>Kernel 2.2.20
>
> Comments: X is installed but not running for these tests
> Mouse works in X but not in console
>
>
> If I say:
>
> # /etc/init.d/gpm force-reload
> Stopping
* steve downes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020305 01:10]:
> debug1: Requesting X11 forwarding with authentication spoofing.
that looks good.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xterm
> xterm Xt error: Can't open display:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ vncviewer
> Error: Can't open display:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
Tha
* Craig Dickson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020305 16:13]:
> When searching only a single directory, without its subdirectories, you
> probably don't really need find; it would do as well in most cases just
> to redirect grep's stderr to /dev/null, like this:
>
>grep "pattern to seach for" files 2>/d
* Nigel Pauli ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020305 05:36]:
> I'd be grateful if someone can set my mind at rest on this one.
>
> I've got a network 10.0.0.0/255.255.255.0. A DHCP server running on NT4
> at 10.0.0.3 looks after a scope running from 10.0.0.25 to 10.0.0.225
> with 10.0.0.200 to 10.0.0.225 e
* hanasaki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020305 12:49]:
> Here is the situation. It looks like something in the route is blocking
> IP traffice based on the Linux IP stack. The below is repeatable with
> Different external IP's assigned from RR to diff NIC w/ diff MAC's
>
> Win2000 -> RoadRunnderCableM
* Vineet Kumar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020305 12:35]:
>
> That looks fine. Also (you probably know, but should be said for the
> record)
Ack, looks like I just trailed off there. What I meant to say was that
changing the X configs won't in any way affect how gpm runs.[*]
* with one
* will trillich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020305 13:24]:
> > check out apt-file.
>
> unless you have potato.
>
> $ apt-cache search apt-file
> $
>
> maybe you're using woody or sid?
Correct, my bad. apt-file is pretty new; I think it's only in unstable
so far. In potato, I don't know of
* I.J.W. Wever ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020305 10:39]:
> Hi list,
>
> I've recently installed Debian2.2r5 from a mounted file system
> (my windows disk): /mnt/hda5/dl/Linux/dists
>
> In that directory I have directories /stable and /potato, which are
> identical
> and both contain all available bina
* Harry Putnam ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020305 09:36]:
> Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > * Harry Putnam ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020305 00:29]:
> >> /etc/gpm.conf is set to /dev/psaux. So the X mouse cannot be
> >> .. right?
> >
> > Right
* Harry Putnam ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020304 23:26]:
>
> If I have the name of a file like xpm.h and want to know what package
> contains it. And I find that `apt-cache search xpm.h' doesn't know
> about it.
>
> And dpkg -S xpm.h doesn't either
>
> I'm assuming that means it isn't here but might
* David Wright ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020305 00:44]:
>
> Now that KDE is working on sid again, I'd like to let my users choose
> between Gnome, KDE, and None. Is there some way to let users override
> /etc/alternatives/x-session-manager at the graphical login?
Yep. ~/.Xsession . On my system, KDE
* Harry Putnam ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020305 00:29]:
> /etc/gpm.conf is set to /dev/psaux. So the X mouse cannot be
> .. right?
Right. Also, as I've said before, adding a symlink in the mix can only
confuse things further. Forget about a /dev/mouse symlink. Tell gpm to
use /dev/psaux and tell X to
* Sebastiaan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020301 09:17]:
> Hello,
>
> I use bind for my domain and I am trying to forward any www queries to the
> providers' server. So suppose my domain name is domain.com, I want that
> every www.domain.com is redirected to www.me.provider.com.
>
> I have tried various
* Johan van der Walt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020301 00:06]:
> I am a physicist in the School of Physics of the Potchefstroom
> University in South Africa and is one of a few people on campus
> using Linux. Have been using Linux now for a couple of years. I am not
> a Linux guru and learn about the sys
* paul ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020228 17:22]:
> Thanks
>
> the cat command works when the end is EOF
> and does not work with << EOF or < EOF
> I haven't the slightest clue on why but can't argue
> with success.
When you say something like "<< EOF" to your shell, it's called a
"here-document". You
* Harry Putnam ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020228 18:14]:
> Geordie Birch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >> At least `woody' sounded.. well erect :-
> > why don't you lose all those cd's, do a network install of stable,
> > then, before installing _anything_ beyond base, apt-get dist-upgrade to
* Troy Telford ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020228 18:06]:
> I hope this will be simple...
I think you'll be pleased =)
> I recently re-installed Debian. After revising my apt.sources list, as
> well as a good 'ol dist-upgrade to bring my system up to Debian
> 3.0/unstable, I discovered an interesting
* Carel Fellinger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020228 13:53]:
> So `cat filename > /dev/lp0' still works?
> But the following failed? Strange.
>
> > > # cat << EOF > /dev/lp0
> > > > a very short line
> > > > a second line
> > > > a final line
> > > > << EOF
Not so strange. Try it th
* FU ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020228 12:10]:
> Setting up exim (3.33-1.1) ...
> Error: system's FQDN hostname
> (pa1_2.mildred.cpsc.ucalgary.ca) doesn't
> match
> RFC1035 syntax; cannot configure the mail system.
> dpkg: error processing exim (--configure):
> subprocess post-installation script retur
* Harry Putnam ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020227 22:37]:
> I'm not real sure what card is in there but its one of the commaon
> 3com cards. I had hoped some kind of probe would find it and I
> wouldn't have to tear things up to find my original box etc. or open
> the case to get it. This case is in a i
* will trillich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020227 05:20]:
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 03:09:55PM +1100, Matthew Dalton wrote:
> > The only packages that gave me any grief were the KDE ones, as expected.
> > The newer packages had the files rearranged between the different
> > packages, so apt-get was unabl
* Bodnyk, Bruce W ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020228 07:36]:
> I'm trying to configure samba on my Linux machine so I can
> access directories on an MT box and am being unsuccessful.
> I'm thinking it has something to do with another problem
> which I have ignored up to now.
>
> After installing Linux I
* louie miranda ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020228 07:11]:
> Hi, when will "Woody" be out?
When it's ready =)
See http://www.debian.org/releases/ for more philosophy.
good times,
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* Thomas Wegner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020227 22:15]:
> I'm running woody and xfree4.1. I'm using a graphic table from wacom
> (Wacom Graphire seriell) and all is fine. But my middle and right
> mouse buttons are changed. This is a known bug and the mouse buttons
> must be changed in gnome (or xfree)
* debianlist ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020227 11:40]:
> In installation, Debian can not detected my pci network card. how can
> i get it to work?
Did you complete the installation (as from CDROM or such) or were you
trying to do a network install that never got off the ground?
If you have a system ins
* Lance Heller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020227 10:02]:
>
> What magic, if any, must be worked to have Bastille run on Debian?
apt-get install bastille
=)
(not on potato, though.)
good times,
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* Martin Price ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020226 15:30]:
> I've probably done something dumb...
>
> I'm using Woody, and other than www my dialup ISP connection seems to work
> fine (ftp, ssh, X). However, Netscape, Lynx and Opera all fail to open
> web pages; Netscape says 'Connection reset by Peer',
* Gary Turner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020225 18:25]:
> For whatever reason, I just can't wrap my mind around this for my setup.
>
> What I have is:
>
> Netgear gateway/router/firewall which also handles chat with ISP to
> maintain connection negotiate dynamic IP (bessie)
>
> Workstations are etta,
* Axel Minck ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020225 13:13]:
> Hi,
>
> I am running Debian potato with XFree 3.3.6, and I can only start X
> server as root ; otherwise I get a message "user is not authorized to
> start X server"
> I tried to modify my /etc/X11/Xserver file by replacing root by anybody
> but
* Marcelo Chiapparini ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020225 09:11]:
> thank you very much for your answer. I would like to install the missing font.
> How can I do it? I didn't find any lucidatypewriter font package in woody...
The font is included in both the xfonts-75dpi and xfonts-100dpi
pacakges.
good
* Rodney Agha ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020221 18:47]:
> What would be the procuder to add groups to user emails ?
> how would you check for email groups?
> for eg, on workstation using outlook, to : #allstaff ?
You probably want an alias. The procedure for setting this up will be
dependent on your MTA
* David Richards ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020220 13:32]:
>how would i set up exim to recieve email for the domain totallywasted.net
> and put it all in [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailbox ? so that [EMAIL PROTECTED] will
> catch all the email for the totallywasted.net domain
This is commonly known as a virt
* John Ericson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020220 08:49]:
> When Im doing an 'apt-get install reportbug' it wants to install packages
> that is using 'Recommends' and 'Suggests' depending, but I want it to only
Mine doesn't. People have complained such things about dselect, but
apt-get doesn't automatica
* Remy Indebetouw ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020220 09:26]:
> I have potato but libc6 (and a couple of other things, I think
> binutils) from woody. I need lib6c-dev, but want as little
> else as possible. I tried pointing my sources.list at woody, running
> apt-get upgrade,and apt-get install libc6-de
* Abner Gershon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020220 09:01]:
> Can someone tell me search and replace commands I can
> use to convert comma delimited text in form:
> "field 1","field 2","field 3"
> to text file to be used in tabular latex file of form:
> field 1 & field 2 & field 3
:%s/","/ \& /g
:%s/"//g
* Walter Tautz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020220 09:01]:
> procmail is not used as the local delivery agent. It would
> seem sendmail has no way of knowing I am using procmail
> for outgoing mail if the only place procmail is mentioned
> is in .forward. By the way I am using pine. I would use
> pine but
* Tony Crawford ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020220 06:14]:
> Meanwhile, while we're on the subject, is there a way I can make
> cron (or run-parts or whoever) wait longer for the output before
> timing out? Or maybe detach the process? Or is that a bad idea?
What if you had 2 separate jobs: one runs ip
* Lars Jensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020218 22:36]:
> What is the best way to allow a regular user to issue the shutdown
> (or halt) command? I wan't to allow my son to halt the machine after
> having used it. For the moment I have redefined Control-alt-delete to do
> shutdown -h, but I thought there
* Rick Pasotto ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020216 21:40]:
> How do I port forward with iptables? With ipchains the command was:
>
> ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L $extip $port -R $intip $port
Try this:
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -d $extip --dport $port \
-j DNAT --to-destination $intip
Chec
* David Wright ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020214 13:58]:
>
> > How can I let a normal user use the "halt" or "shutdown" command?
>
> All the responses to this query have been ugly hacks. The right way to do
> this this (put on flame-retardant suit here) is the way RedHat does: make
> the halt binary
* Ian Balchin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020214 10:02]:
> Hi,
>
> My debian-list folder in mutt has over 5000 messages in it despite
> some weeding out. Pretty soon I shall have to go and make a coffee
> while waiting for it to open.
Try this one, or some variation, also:
folder-hook lists/debian 'pu
* Shaun ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020214 09:58]:
> I'm used to use Red Hat. All the ethernet drivers and etc were called
> /dev/eth*. In debian is this
> the same? All I see is /dev/gre*. does that mean that my NIC isnt being found
> by the kernel?
Are you using devfs? If not, the existence of device
* Christian Schoenebeck ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020214 08:59]:
> I've compiled and installed both, the nvidia kernel module and the nvidia
> glx driver. Now what do I have to do, getting X to use that driver? I
> reconfigured XF86Config as described in the README. I exchanged the svga
> line by:
>
>
* ben ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020213 15:26]:
> On Wednesday 13 February 2002 01:44 pm, Vineet Kumar wrote:
> > * ben ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020201 00:13]:
> > > in /etc/gpm.conf, do
> > >
> > > repeat_type=raw
> > >
> > > and in /etc/X11/XF86Con
* ben ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020201 00:13]:
> in /etc/gpm.conf, do
>
> repeat_type=raw
>
> and in /etc/X11/XF86Config, do
>
> Option "Device" "/dev/gpmdata"
>
> i'd be interested in your analysis of why this should work. all i know is
> that it does.
I just spoke to this in another threa
* Ibrahim Shaame ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020131 23:18]:
> --- "Karsten M. Self" wrote:
> > There's a short FAQ on GNU/Linux X display manager
> > disabling you may
> > find useful, at:
> >
> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/xdm-disable.html
> >
> > Thank you.
>
> I think before sending him t
* Rudy Gevaert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020213 12:16]:
> My mouse also freezes in X, I have the same X installed in redhat, with
> the latest matrox drivers, and in sid also. In redhat my mouses freezes
> but when I switch to console and back to X my mouse works fine (I can
> live with this), but in s
* Scott Henson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020213 12:31]:
> GAIM is what you are looking for. It has plugins that allow it to do
> MSN. I havent used it, but I hear it is stable and alright.
It sure is. I can't speak for the MSN plugin, but I use it for AIM and
Yahoo messenger, and it works like a dr
* Michel Loos ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020212 16:47]:
> Hi,
>
> continuing around e-mail applications with imaps:)
> Is there any way to use gkrellm with an imaps server ?
> Seems the buildin mail application does not work and I was unable to
> configure mailwatch for external mailboxes (imap or imaps
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