Re: unwanted console messages

2001-10-29 Thread Justin R. Miller
Thus spake Adam John Henry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): My virtual consoles are being bombarded with spam from my firewall, and I wish to stop it. Editing '/etc/syslog.conf' doesn't do the trick, however, and I'm curious what other program is printing these messages. Only my active console gets

Re: 2nd core pointer speed settings in XFree4

2001-10-29 Thread Timo \Blazko\ Boewing
On Mon, 2001-10-29 at 23:30, Aniartia wrote: I duno about tablets but in mice Option Resolution {number} works well for me, T-ball at 255 mouse at 130.. T-ball nice n' fast, mouse nice n' slow ;) Ani Hello Ani, this option won't work on my USB tablett but also not with my PS/2 Mouse.

Re: XFree4.1 freeze with black screen

2001-10-29 Thread Jens Gecius
Morbo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anybody know where to start looking, if X just freezes the whole machine on starx with a black screen? I had to reset. Just had that problem yesterday after activating twinview. Turned out to be a crash of xfree (based on an oops of nvidia-driver). The

Re: Microsoft bullies again

2001-10-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 03:10:56PM +0200, George Karaolides ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sun, 28 Oct 2001, Greg Madden wrote: More wasted bandwidth, No, it didn't deny intrance it redirected you to a site that suggests you download a MS product., while suggesting MS was standards

Re: problems debian / gnome

2001-10-29 Thread Henryx
On 29 Oct 2001 23:42:14 +1300 Andrew McMillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you uninstall gdm / kdm / xdm (dpkg -r gdm xdm kdm) you will get the login prompt and be able to log in, then go 'startx' to start an Xsession. If don't change the line id:5:initdefault: in id:2:initdefault: in the

Re: Woody and X not liking xhost +

2001-10-29 Thread Hanasaki JiJI
Ah.. Does this hold true even though all activity is taking place on the same host and IP and physical box? Karsten M. Self wrote: on Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 12:17:13PM -0600, Hanasaki JiJI ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I am running woody and have two shells open in X. One is su'ed to

Re: Woody and X not liking xhost +

2001-10-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 05:54:14PM -0600, Hanasaki JiJI ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: HTML snipped Please set your mailer to send text rather than HTML, particularly to list or Usenet posts. Thank you. -- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of

cproto.deb for potato not available?

2001-10-29 Thread Kris Huber
I'm wondering if a 'cproto' debian package is available for the Linux 2.2 kernel. I see one under 'unstable' but from what I read, application binaries need to be compiled for the kernel you are running. Cproto has been around for several years; I'm surprised it's not there (so I suspect I'm

IMAP...

2001-10-29 Thread Alexander Wallace
Hi there.. I have task-imap installed using apt-get... Is there anything I need to do to be able to use it? I'm trying to get my email using evolution from another machine, and nothing happens, not even an error, but If i use pop it does work and retrieve my email... Is there something extra I

Annoying Mozilla behavior

2001-10-29 Thread Greg Wiley
I like Mozilla a bunch but it has an annoying behavior that deserves a wishlist bug unless it's due to my own stupidity: It doesn't remember the last page position when returning via back. That is, it always returns to the top of the previous page whenever I hit the back button rather than

Re: newline in terminal??

2001-10-29 Thread Rohan Deshpande
Hey again, ASDF JLK; This bug is really annoying me. I use the terminal just like everyone else and having my text be rewritten over as I type is just plain annoying. Anyone discovered a solution yet? Thanks, Rohan * Sebastiaan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi, On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Rohan

Re: cproto.deb for potato not available?

2001-10-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 05:12:39PM -0700, Kris Huber wrote: I'm wondering if a 'cproto' debian package is available for the Linux 2.2 kernel. I see one under 'unstable' but from what I read, application binaries need to be compiled for the kernel you are running. No, there's no kernel

Re: IMAP...

2001-10-29 Thread Kurt Lieber
On Monday 29 October 2001 11:19 am, Alexander Wallace wrote: I understand Imap encripts passwords right? and I should use it instead of pop? IMAP does NOT encrypt passwords. It has one (minor) security advantage over POP3 in that it only sends your password once to establish a connection,

Re: 2nd core pointer speed settings in XFree4

2001-10-29 Thread Aniartia
On Monday 29 October 2001 12:28, you wrote:  this option won't work on my USB tablett but also not with my PS/2  Mouse. Mh, what am I doing wrong... It might be that it won't work :(.. from the XF86Config-v3 man pages:        Resolution count                sets the resolution of the device in

Annoying Mozilla 0.9.5 behavior

2001-10-29 Thread Rick Pasotto
I recently upgraded from Mozilla 0.9.2 to 0.9.5 and today I discovered an annoying bug. I normally run junkbuster and it looks like this somehow confuses 0.9.5. What happens is that the wrong page gets loaded. The URL window shows the correct address but the actual page seems to come from

Re: Annoying Mozilla behavior

2001-10-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 04:20:38PM -0800, Greg Wiley wrote: I like Mozilla a bunch but it has an annoying behavior that deserves a wishlist bug unless it's due to my own stupidity: It doesn't remember the last page position when returning via back. That is, it always returns to the top of

Re: PA-RISC / hppa installation maturity information?

2001-10-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 12:09:27PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: A friend has stumbled across an HP 9000D330 system, 128MB, 12GB, three disks, and he's interested in running Debian/Woody on it. I've poked around debian.org looking for some basic getting-started and installation instructions

Re: Segmentation fault

2001-10-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 11:54:17PM +0100, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: On Monday 29 October 2001 20:38, Karsten M. Self wrote: $ strace man foo Hi again, here the output of strace man ls [...] and here the output of man -d ls Hi Raffaele, If you tell me the version number of the man-db

Re: woody stable?? when?

2001-10-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 08:51:51PM +, Keith Willoughby wrote: Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 11:50:42PM +0100, Martin Kacerovsky wrote: You are quite not concrete(factual) ;-) Nobody can be. The response to when will the next Debian release happen

Re: newline in terminal??

2001-10-29 Thread W. Paul Mills
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rohan Deshpande) writes: Hi everyone, I was just wondering why this is happening: When I am typing in a terminal, i.e. a long directory, at the end of the terminal's width, the text does not start on a new line. It just overwrites what text is already on screen; it

Re: Annoying Mozilla 0.9.5 behavior

2001-10-29 Thread Gordon Paynter
On Monday 29 October 2001 16:30, Rick Pasotto wrote: I normally run junkbuster and it looks like this somehow confuses 0.9.5. What happens is that the wrong page gets loaded. [snip] Setting the proxy to 'direct internet connection' solved the problem. I've been noticing this for awhile (Moz

Re: Creating new kernel with initrd?

2001-10-29 Thread D.
Did you add initrd=/boot/initrdname to lilo.conf. That should be the first line after default=Linux. --- Timothy Webster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Upgrading to 2.4.12-k6 with initrd works fine. Using kernellab I create a new kernel 2.4.12-ac6. cp /boot/config-2.4.12-k6

Re: Japanese fonts in X

2001-10-29 Thread dman
On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 01:56:27PM +0200, Jörg Johannes wrote: | Hello List | | I have installed a potato box for a friend. She would like to use japanese | fonts in GNOME, so I have installed the xfonts-intl-japanese | and xfonts-intl-japanese-big packages, selected japanese on gdm login, but

Re: Sharp printer support in Linux

2001-10-29 Thread dman
On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 11:41:52AM -0200, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: | I have a Sharp AL 1041 printer at office. | Anyone knows if this printer works with Linux? I don't, but linuxprinting.org might. Is it a PostScript printer? If so, then it works. If it has a parallel port

Re: Annoying Mozilla 0.9.5 behavior

2001-10-29 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 07:30:30PM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: I recently upgraded from Mozilla 0.9.2 to 0.9.5 and today I discovered an annoying bug. I normally run junkbuster and it looks like this somehow confuses 0.9.5. What happens is that the wrong page gets loaded. The URL window shows

Re: Annoying Mozilla 0.9.5 behavior

2001-10-29 Thread Keith Willoughby
Gordon Paynter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've been noticing this for awhile (Moz 0.9.3, 0.9.4, 0.9.5) and I found yesterday from the nice mozilla folks on IRC that this is a known falut with junkbuster. Apparently, junkbuster doesn't handle HTTP 1.1 connections and keep alive connections,

Re: IMAP...

2001-10-29 Thread Justin R. Miller
Thus spake Kurt Lieber ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): IMAP does NOT encrypt passwords. A couple of clarifications. IMAP can operate over SSL (it's called IMAPS on TCP port 993 instead of 143), and a good portion of the mail clients that support IMAP will support IMAPS. Also, depending upon the server

Re: problems debian / gnome

2001-10-29 Thread dman
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 11:47:31AM +0100, Marko Djukic wrote: | there is no /home/user/.xsession-errors file... | | How about /var/log/XSession*? | | nope, no xsession error log file to be found anywhere... just looks like | xsession doesn't start at all... | | i get the command line login

Re: Optimizing FTP

2001-10-29 Thread nate
Casper Gielen said: Hi there, I'm maintaining an FTP server however I'm not very pleased with the performance. It's a 100Mbit connection (half duplex) to a PIII-500 with 400 MB RAM and 240G software RAID1 running glftpd on a 2.4.13 kernel. top doesn't reveal any obvious problems, the

Re: woody stable?? when?

2001-10-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 07:04:50PM -0600, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 08:51:51PM +, Keith Willoughby wrote: Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 11:50:42PM +0100, Martin Kacerovsky wrote: You are quite not

Re: Creating new kernel with initrd?

2001-10-29 Thread Timothy Webster
I did that as part of the debian kernel image 2.4.12-k6 install. -tim. thanks -- Original Message -- From: D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 17:31:14 -0800 (PST) Did you add initrd=/boot/initrdname to lilo.conf. That should be the first line

Re: best ac kernel for ext3

2001-10-29 Thread Hall Stevenson
* DvB ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011029 21:09]: I'm thinking about just downloading and compiling an ac kernel to get ext3 but Alan's latest sound like they've got some issues. Any ideas as to which one I should run? 2.4.9 with the official ext3 patch is working fine here... Also, has Linus

PATH variable--where is it?

2001-10-29 Thread Gary Turner
I give up. This is making me nuts. Where is the path variable stored? I assumed that it would show up in .bashrc or .bash_profile. It's not there. I can export path= for that session on that console, but I can't locate the global. echo $PATH or env shows me the value just fine. I've pored

Re: OT: impact on performances of (kernel + XFREE)

2001-10-29 Thread Matthew Garman
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 02:35:15PM +0100, Marco Fioretti wrote: In such a context, how much do a modern kernel and Xfree pair impact on overall performance? In other words, of 1000 CPU clock cycles, how many would be spent executing actual application code in the CPU, and how many for all the

Re: PATH variable--where is it?

2001-10-29 Thread San Segkhoonthod
/etc/profile is the global, I beleive. san On Tue, 2001-10-30 at 10:11, Gary Turner wrote: I give up. This is making me nuts. Where is the path variable stored? I assumed that it would show up in .bashrc or .bash_profile. It's not there. I can export path= for that session on that console,

Re: PATH variable--where is it?

2001-10-29 Thread Matthew Garman
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 09:11:38PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: I give up. This is making me nuts. Where is the path variable stored? I assumed that it would show up in .bashrc or .bash_profile. It's not there. I can export path= for that session on that console, but I can't locate the

Re: PATH variable--where is it?

2001-10-29 Thread the Edward Blevins
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 09:11:38PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: I give up. This is making me nuts. Where is the path variable stored? I assumed that it would show up in .bashrc or .bash_profile. It's not there. I can export path= for that session on that console, but I can't locate the

Re: Annoying Mozilla 0.9.5 behavior

2001-10-29 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Rick Pasotto, I normally run junkbuster and it looks like this somehow confuses 0.9.5. What happens is that the wrong page gets loaded. The URL window shows the correct address but the actual page seems to come from somewhere random in the cache. Today I tried to access

Re: Annoying Mozilla behavior

2001-10-29 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Colin Watson, The mozilla in Debian stable and testing is really rather old. Let's hope we can get a new release out sometime soon and finally kill M18. It's actually very easy to get and install the nightly builds into /usr/local. If you want to actually use mozilla as your day-to-day

Re: PATH variable--where is it?

2001-10-29 Thread Gary Turner
Tnx Matt, You get the credit, only because you beat San Edward by 2 and 13 min respectively. This looks to be just what I need. Presumeably I can define CLASSPATH and PYTHONPATH et al. in the same file. tnx agn gt On Mon, 29 Oct 2001 21:52:11 -0600, you wrote: On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at

Re: newline in terminal??

2001-10-29 Thread Simon Law
On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Rohan Deshpande wrote: Hey again, ASDF JLK; This bug is really annoying me. I use the terminal just like everyone else and having my text be rewritten over as I type is just plain annoying. Anyone discovered a solution yet? I've got a question for you. Is

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