Re: What is difference between sid n woody?

2002-04-17 Thread Greg C. Madden
On Tue, 2002-04-16 at 10:52, Gaurav Kumar wrote: Hi Frenz Q1) What is the difference between sid n woody? Q2) How can I find if my system is sid or woody? TIA. Execute 'more /etc/apt/sources.list' at a command prompt. Woody=Testing, Sid=Unstable -- Greg C. Madden Debian GNU/Linux 3.0

Re: Alternative to DEBIAN-CD

2002-04-17 Thread Bob Underwood
On Tuesday 16 April 2002 13:01, Daniel Mashao wrote: I find debian-cd complicate and I cannot find the reason why it should be. All I want is to go to my usual mirror site and get woody distribution files and write them to a cd so that I can go home and update my computer to woody. 'potato' is

Re: Samba alternative

2002-04-17 Thread dman
On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 11:49:08AM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: | I used to have a full-blown Windows network set up at home with 5 PCs. | As I started converting them to Linux I would set up Samba on each | machine so they could still talk with the other Windows machines. At | this point, I only

Re: Dpkg trouble again

2002-04-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 07:34:19PM +0200, Florian Struck wrote: Ok ill ask again like in my earlyer post where i didn't get any answer. Could someone be so kind and give me the list file for rcs? cause mine is empty due to a crash while updating with dselect on sid. And now the package rcs is

Re: Samba alternative

2002-04-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, I run Samba and NSF. Samba as scrach pad to exchange windows machine which can be plugged in through DHCP. So you can have friend plug into network. NSF is nice for unix machine since ot is aware of normal unix permission things. So this isfor between unix/linix/bsd/hurd/... CODA,

Re: xscreensaver

2002-04-17 Thread craigw
On Tue Apr 16, 2002 at 10:13:10AM -0300, Marcelo Leal wrote: what the command line for lock the screen with xscreensaver ??? i use xlock, but the xscreensaver is more cool than that one... when i execute xscreensaver, appears that dialog box thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: starting nfs - allow/deny - more

2002-04-17 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya david from your ( df ) list of partitions... just simplify the problem and export just /tmp for testing... and possibly /home ... knuth# vi /etc/exports /tmp192.168.8.0/255.255.255.0(rw) /home 192.168.8.0/255.255.255.0(rw) - restart nfs otherbox# mount

Re: starting nfs - allow/deny - more

2002-04-17 Thread David Smead
Alvin, Thanks for the help - it didn't work any different. -- Sincerely, David Smead http://www.amplepower.com. On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Alvin Oga wrote: hi ya david from your ( df ) list of partitions... just simplify the problem and export just /tmp for testing... and possibly /home

Re: jigdo in the background

2002-04-17 Thread dman
On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 11:36:01PM +0200, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: | Hi | | Hi i have a little LAN here (3 PCs and a router). The router has no screen. Is | it possible to start the jigdo process on it and detach (close the ssh | connection)? I don't like to have 2 computer on the whole night.

Re: Samba alternative

2002-04-17 Thread ben
On Tuesday 16 April 2002 01:30 pm, Alex Malinovich wrote: I used to have a full-blown Windows network set up at home with 5 PCs. As I started converting them to Linux I would set up Samba on each machine so they could still talk with the other Windows machines. At this point, I only have ONE

Re: Eth0 issue

2002-04-17 Thread ben
On Tuesday 16 April 2002 02:04 pm, curtis wrote: I have posted this issue before without getting any results. Having tried to remedy the issue on my one also without any results, I am giving this a second try. Hopefully somebody can help me. Basically, the problem is this: whenever I boot my

Re: How do I get off the list??

2002-04-17 Thread dman
On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 06:22:11PM -0400, Jason Healy wrote: | At 1018974885s since epoch (04/16/02 11:34:45 -0400 UTC), Wayne Topa wrote: | I continue to see people having this problem. Why? | This is 'not' Rocket Science. | | I've been using linux and mailing lists for 8 years now, so I

Re: I/O error, dev 16:41 (hdd)

2002-04-17 Thread ben
On Tuesday 16 April 2002 02:47 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Could somebody please explain this dmesg output a little more verbosely: end_request: I/O error, dev 16:41 (hdd), sector 29437448 hdd: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } hdd: read_intr:

Re: [±¤°í]debian-us er´Ô ¾È³çÇϽʴϱî?

2002-04-17 Thread dman
On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 04:48:32PM +1000, Rob Weir wrote: [foreign encoded spam snipped] | Completely OT: | It just my box, or do the characters below cause minor 'sparkles' to | appear on a i386 VT? It depends on how the bytes are handled. If your MUA/pager converts the charset in some way to

Re: How do I get off the list??

2002-04-17 Thread ben
On Tuesday 16 April 2002 02:53 pm, Noah Meyerhans wrote: On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 11:34:45AM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: I have tried for 2 weeks to ge off this list. As you can see, from I continue to see people having this problem. Why? Part of the problem seems to be that the

Re: Linux on Walmart's systemless computers

2002-04-17 Thread dman
On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 07:20:31PM -0400, - wrote: | It looks like no one has any first hand experience with any of the | 17 computers. It looks like it. | Can someone offer any opinions about the makeup and suitability of | these computers for Linux operation based on the information | provided

Re: Samba Won't Take Passwords

2002-04-17 Thread ben
On Tuesday 16 April 2002 03:06 pm, Derek Loree wrote:  exist. See attached.   PDC is an m$ construct, denoting the primary domain controller, based on m$'s retarded capacity to accommodate networks, in general. it's not an app--it's a designation applied to their concept of a primary server.

Re: [±¤°í]debian-user´Ô ¾È³çÇϽʴϱî?

2002-04-17 Thread ben
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Re: starting nfs - allow/deny - more

2002-04-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
I remember using user mode nfs in my potato days. Try user mode one. Also installing these using tasksel may be easier since it install set of them. # dselect update # tasksel ... select NFS On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 09:06:32PM -0700, David Smead wrote: Alvin, Thanks for the help - it

Re: How do I get off the list??

2002-04-17 Thread ben
On Tuesday 16 April 2002 03:22 pm, Jason Healy wrote: At 1018974885s since epoch (04/16/02 11:34:45 -0400 UTC), Wayne Topa wrote: I continue to see people having this problem. Why? This is 'not' Rocket Science. I've been using linux and mailing lists for 8 years now, so I consider myself

Re: check for root kit

2002-04-17 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Tue, 2002-04-23 at 22:31, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: There is a very small possibility that someone has intruded into our network. I would like to test my 3 woody machines for possible root kits. What is the best way of doing this? Should I check the md5sum of programs such as find, ps and

encrypt ISO image files

2002-04-17 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello list, I use mkisofs to make my backup archive into multiple ISO images. Is it possible to encrypt them so that when they were burned, the owner still need to enter password to authentacate? -- Patrick Hsieh [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG public key http://pahud.net/pubkeys/pahudatpahud.gpg --

Re: check for root kit

2002-04-17 Thread Tom Massey
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 02:31:05PM +, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: There is a very small possibility that someone has intruded into our network. I would like to test my 3 woody machines for possible root kits. What is the best way of doing this? Should I check the md5sum of programs such as

Re: Linux on Walmart's systemless computers

2002-04-17 Thread ben
On Tuesday 16 April 2002 04:20 pm, - wrote: It looks like no one has any first hand experience with any of the 17 computers. Can someone offer any opinions about the makeup and suitability of these computers for Linux operation based on the information provided on the web page? Linux is

Re: How do I get off the list??

2002-04-17 Thread ben
On Tuesday 16 April 2002 04:37 pm, csj wrote: On Tue, 16 Apr 2002 11:34:45 -0400 Wayne Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eileen([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: Hi, I have tried for 2 weeks to ge off this list. As you can see, from I continue to see people having

Re: NOSQL

2002-04-17 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 04:52:10PM -0700, Xeno Campanoli wrote: I asked this before, and the only answer I got was some obscure crack in German. Is NOSQL still a useful thing, and/or is anyone using it? If so, what kinds of projects is it used for? As a database management system, it has

Re: Alternative to DEBIAN-CD

2002-04-17 Thread ben
On Tuesday 16 April 2002 04:35 pm, Shawn McMahon wrote: begin Daniel Mashao quotation: messages (if they were error messages at all :) ). All I want is a program that will take the address of the mirror site, the dist I want, and say get woody for me. Have the program get it. Simple.

Running Yahoo Messenger??

2002-04-17 Thread Gaurav Kumar
Hi All I have downloaded n installed ymessenger(sid version), from yahoo, for my Debian 3.0. After running the utility, the program asks for yahoo id and not the id for my HTTP proxy, which I have set it in the program already. Any Hints? -Gaurav

getting CUPS to work.

2002-04-17 Thread Patrick Lane
I have a HP DeskJet 880C. I installed CUPS, configured the printer. The CUPS server shows all test pages as being printed, however, the printer receives no data. The output of 'lpinfo -v' is as follows: blacktop:/home/mandingo# lpinfo -v network socket network http network ipp network lpd direct

Re: Emacs advice,what to install?

2002-04-17 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 16 April 2002 09:05 am, Elizabeth Barham wrote: Russ Pitman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have always disliked emacs, so much so that when the install programs loaded it I dumped it out as soon as I got to the root prompt, right from

Re: check for root kit

2002-04-17 Thread ben
On Tuesday 23 April 2002 07:31 am, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: There is a very small possibility that someone has intruded into our network. I would like to test my 3 woody machines for possible root kits. What is the best way of doing this? Should I check the md5sum of programs such as find,

Re: Intermittent System Lockup (long)

2002-04-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 10:51:44PM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote: On 17 Apr 2002, it was written: I'm hoping someone here might be able to give me a few pointers on how to track down a strange system lockup. [snip] (I don't want to post this to the list since it isn't very useful, but

Re: NOSQL

2002-04-17 Thread Xeno Campanoli
Eric G. Miller wrote: On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 04:52:10PM -0700, Xeno Campanoli wrote: I asked this before, and the only answer I got was some obscure crack in German. Is NOSQL still a useful thing, and/or is anyone using it? If so, what kinds of projects is it used for? As a

Re: Running Yahoo Messenger??

2002-04-17 Thread Noah Sombrero
On Wed, 17 Apr 2002 06:24:34 +0100 (BST), you wrote: Hi All I have downloaded n installed ymessenger(sid version), from yahoo, for my Debian 3.0. After running the utility, the program asks for yahoo id and not the id for my HTTP proxy, which I have set it in the program already. Go to the

Re: NOSQL

2002-04-17 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 11:16:16PM -0700, Xeno Campanoli wrote: Eric G. Miller wrote: On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 04:52:10PM -0700, Xeno Campanoli wrote: I asked this before, and the only answer I got was some obscure crack in German. Is NOSQL still a useful thing, and/or is anyone

Re: Eth0 issue

2002-04-17 Thread Frank Copeland
On 16 Apr 02 21:04:59 GMT, curtis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /etc/default/pcmcia reads: PCMCIA='yes' PCIC=xircom_cb[was =yenta_socket, but either way I get the same results] According to the PCMCIA HOWTO: PCIC This identifies the PC Card Interface Controller driver

Re: encrypt ISO image files

2002-04-17 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello Jeremy T. Bouse [EMAIL PROTECTED], I am considering to tar the whole archive into one single file and gpg sign/encrypt before burn it into the CD. Is this workable? On Tue, 16 Apr 2002 23:39:41 -0700 Jeremy T. Bouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you ever find out how to do this or

SIS 315/550/650/640/740 - testers wanted

2002-04-17 Thread Thomas Winischhofer
Hi, I am desperatly looking for people who are willing to help me testing (and eventually developing) the kernel framebuffer and X driver for these chipsets. If you're interested, please drop me a note. Thomas PS: Please note that I need testers especially for the chipsets named, no others

Re: Running Yahoo Messenger??

2002-04-17 Thread Gaurav Kumar
Hi Thnx for the info. But I have already an yahoo id. And after entering my id n password in the dialogbox of yahoo messenger, it says connecting and tha connection never gets established. My point is that the messenger is not asking for my http proxy's id n password, w/o which it can't connect

Re: Emacs' main menu font

2002-04-17 Thread Glyn Millington
Oki DZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Where can I set the font for the main menu of Emacs? Probably best in ~/.Xdefaults eg Emacs.default.attributeFont:-bh-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1 Emacs*menubar*font:

Re: Emacs' main menu font

2002-04-17 Thread Ernst-Magne Vindal
On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 09:47, Glyn Millington wrote: You schould replace ~/.Xdefaults with ~/Xresources. The latter is loaded automatically. I'm not sure if emacs gets it's fonts there, I have the emacs fonts in ~/.emacs. /ernst Oki DZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Where can I set the

Re: Swapfiles

2002-04-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Apr 16, 2002, John Hasler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Karsten writes: Swap is there for programs that are, er, swapped. Executables, being read-only, are mapped directly from disk and never use any swap at all. Only data gets mapped to swap. Hmm...interesting. References? Is

Re: check for root kit

2002-04-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Apr 17, 2002, Tom Massey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 02:31:05PM +, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: There is a very small possibility that someone has intruded into our network. I would like to test my 3 woody machines for possible root kits. What is the best

Re: Emacs' main menu font

2002-04-17 Thread Glyn Millington
Ernst-Magne Vindal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You schould replace ~/.Xdefaults with ~/Xresources. The latter is loaded automatically. So is ~/.Xdefaults ! Depends how you have set up to start X. I'm not sure if emacs gets it's fonts there, I have the emacs fonts in ~/.emacs. Emacs most

Re: Intermittent System Lockup (long)

2002-04-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Apr 16, 2002, Jamin W. Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm hoping someone here might be able to give me a few pointers on how to track down a strange system lockup. When the lockup occurs, both monitors drop to power saving mode and the system from what I can tell is dead to the

Re: Dual Boot with Win2k

2002-04-17 Thread Paul Mackinney
Matthew Daubenspeck declaimed: Has anyone had any dual-boot experience with Windows 2000? I currently have linux on one drive and 2K on another, and am looking for a viable way of dual booting the two... Thanks! Don't forget my (politically incorrect) favorite: - Install Windows NT/2000/XP

Annoying Mcast Packets

2002-04-17 Thread David Gardi
Hi to all, I have recently changed dialup ISP, and since then tcpdump is reporting strange packets going to a variety of 224.0.0.0/4 addresses from apparently the dialup node I'm connect to. Here are a two examples: tcpdump: listening on ppp0 00:48:43.928630 195.130.232.243 224.0.0.1: igmp

Re: Dual Boot with Win2k

2002-04-17 Thread DSC Siltec
Paul Mackinney wrote: Matthew Daubenspeck declaimed: Has anyone had any dual-boot experience with Windows 2000? I currently have linux on one drive and 2K on another, and am looking for a viable way of dual booting the two... I have Win98 experience. It probably corresponds. How I

Re: NOSQL

2002-04-17 Thread andrea gelmini
On mar, apr 16, 2002 at 11:16:16 -0700, Xeno Campanoli wrote: So it doesn't sound like anyone's actually used it for real work; at least not recently? the author of nosql is a friend of mine. he uses it for his work (usually db solution for big site)... on linux journal i've seen adverts of

Re: compilation problems

2002-04-17 Thread John Habermann
On Sun, 14 Apr 2002 12:23, Vivek Bharathan wrote: Hello, I recently reformatted my hard drive and upgraded from potato to woody. Previously, under potato, when I upgraded and recompiled my kernel, I simply set the config file, typed make dep, and make install and configured lilo and everything

Re: Wrong characters in man pages

2002-04-17 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 06:44:52PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 09:02:34PM +0200, DSC Siltec wrote: I have the opposite problem , but I can help you with yours even as I ask about mine. You are using the ISO-8859-2 character set, or else the Eastern-European

Re: Running Yahoo Messenger??

2002-04-17 Thread Amardeep Singh
On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Gaurav Kumar wrote: Hi Thnx for the info. But I have already an yahoo id. And after entering my id n password in the dialogbox of yahoo messenger, it says connecting and tha connection never gets established. My point is that the messenger is not asking for my http

Re: Running Yahoo Messenger??

2002-04-17 Thread Jeff
Gaurav Kumar, 2002-Apr-17 08:48 +0100: Hi Thnx for the info. But I have already an yahoo id. And after entering my id n password in the dialogbox of yahoo messenger, it says connecting and tha connection never gets established. My point is that the messenger is not asking for my http

Re: Dual Boot with Win2k

2002-04-17 Thread Jeff
DSC Siltec, 2002-Apr-17 14:56 +0200: Paul Mackinney wrote: Matthew Daubenspeck declaimed: Has anyone had any dual-boot experience with Windows 2000? I currently have linux on one drive and 2K on another, and am looking for a viable way of dual booting the two... I'm doing this on

Re: I want Source Files for Dselect and DebConf

2002-04-17 Thread David Z Maze
Xeno Campanoli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And I can't seem to find it on the Debian Website. Any suggestions? Run 'dpkg -S `which dselect`' to find out which package dselect is in (here dpkg), and then 'apt-get source dpkg'. Or you can dig around under

debian for embedded...original playstation

2002-04-17 Thread java guru
Hi., Is there any debian port i could run on original playstation ? Any help is appreciated. srini = Thanks and have great day srini For live cricket scores download Yahoo! Score Tracker at:

Re: getting CUPS to work.

2002-04-17 Thread dman
On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 10:25:38PM -0700, Patrick Lane wrote: | I have a HP DeskJet 880C. I installed CUPS, configured the printer. The | CUPS server shows all test pages as being printed, however, the printer | receives no data. That's a parallel port printer and plugged directly into the

Re: Dpkg trouble again

2002-04-17 Thread Florian Struck
On Tuesday 16 April 2002 19:34, Florian Struck wrote: Ok ill ask again like in my earlyer post where i didn't get any answer. Could someone be so kind and give me the list file for rcs? cause mine is empty due to a crash while updating with dselect on sid. And now the package rcs is blocking

stoppling console logging

2002-04-17 Thread Rick Pasotto
syslog keeps sending messages to whichever console I happen to be on, thus messing up the display. Recently I started getting these messages every couple of minutes because of mailman: PAM_unix[24436]: (cron) session opened for user list by (uid=0) PAM_unix[24436]: (cron) session closed for user

Re: XFree 4.2.0 - again

2002-04-17 Thread Russell Coker
On Wed, 17 Apr 2002 14:36, Sean Middleditch wrote: On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 06:47, Russell Coker wrote: I don't know which sub-version of the GeForce cards I'm using, I just got whatever was cheapest at the time (you'd have to be crazy to buy a high-end NVidia card - they release new models

RE: Fonts on an LCD Flat Panel

2002-04-17 Thread Schoppitsch Dieter
I got similar problems setting up Linux on my (2nd) Laptop: This ugly fonts came from the wrong XServer (and maybe) the 'stretch'-funcionallity of my monitor. I made good experience with: * install XF86Setup (needs VGA16-XServer) * running xviddetect (shows the right XServer, ie SVGA) *

compiling kernel 2.0 under potato

2002-04-17 Thread Matteo Semplice
Hi everybody, I am trying to compile a 2.0.38 kernel (because the atp870a driver for the Acard SCSI card is broken after 2.2 and I read claims that it worked at the time of 2.0 kernels) By the way, comments and info on this are welcome! I grabbed the gcc272 package, issued a make xconfig,

Re: XFree 4.2.0 - again

2002-04-17 Thread Sean Middleditch
On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 08:45, Russell Coker wrote: On Wed, 17 Apr 2002 14:36, Sean Middleditch wrote: On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 06:47, Russell Coker wrote: I don't know which sub-version of the GeForce cards I'm using, I just got whatever was cheapest at the time (you'd have to be crazy to buy

Re: Intermittent System Lockup (long)

2002-04-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 17 Apr 2002, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Tue, Apr 16, 2002, Jamin W. Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm hoping someone here might be able to give me a few pointers on how to track down a strange system lockup. When the lockup occurs, both monitors drop to power saving mode and the

Uprgading sendmail from Potato - Woody

2002-04-17 Thread Erik van der Meulen
Dear Debian-friends, I am in the process of upgrading my Potato server from Potato to Woody. Until now all seems to work fairly well. I followed the instructions that have passed on the list (upgrading apt, perl and libc6 first). Now I have come onto something I am a little afraid off:

Re: Microsoft Access

2002-04-17 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
Keith G. Murphy wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Im working ina medical group that uses Microsoft Access, is there any software that can interact with Access? If you're thinking about doing some lightweight work with Access from Linux, and it's OK for it to be Perl-based, you might

cut-n-pasting links

2002-04-17 Thread Rick Pasotto
How can I cut-n-paste something that shows as a link in Mozilla and/or the gnome terminal? Every key combination I've tried seems to activate the link instead of putting the text in the buffer. -- Once the principle of government -- judicial monopoly and the power to tax -- is incorrectly

Re: cut-n-pasting links

2002-04-17 Thread dman
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 09:42:42AM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: | How can I cut-n-paste something that shows as a link in Mozilla and/or | the gnome terminal? Every key combination I've tried seems to activate | the link instead of putting the text in the buffer. In galeon (and I presume mozilla)

Re: Eth0 issue

2002-04-17 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 02:04:59PM -0700, curtis wrote: I have posted this issue before without getting any results. Having tried to remedy the issue on my one also without any results, I am giving this a second try. Hopefully somebody can help me. Basically, the problem is this: whenever I

Re: Is there a way to continue a process elsewhere?

2002-04-17 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 16-Apr-2002 andrej hocevar wrote: Hello, suddenly, all my consoles went blank after trying to open a file with bmv (this is not normal behaviour!) but I could still enter X. Since I wasn't using screen at that time, would there be a way of continuing a process in X? Or sending a command

Re: Help installing packages (newbie but refusing to give up)

2002-04-17 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 16-Apr-2002 GQ Kokidko wrote: I am a new user and have installed the base system of the stable debian linux on hdb1 and windows 2000 on hda1. I can boot to linux and windows and have lilo configured properly but dselect and tasksel aren't able to find the packages (which are on hda1 in

Re: encrypt ISO image files

2002-04-17 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 17-Apr-2002 Patrick Hsieh wrote: Hello list, I use mkisofs to make my backup archive into multiple ISO images. Is it possible to encrypt them so that when they were burned, the owner still need to enter password to authentacate? couldn't you wrap them with gpg? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

postfix with SASL on Debian?

2002-04-17 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello, I'd like to enable SASL support of Postfix on woody. What packages should I install anyway? Any instructions ? -- Patrick Hsieh [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG public key http://pahud.net/pubkeys/pahudatpahud.gpg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: getting CUPS to work.

2002-04-17 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 07:19:29AM -0500, dman wrote: On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 10:25:38PM -0700, Patrick Lane wrote: | The output of 'lpinfo -v' is as follows: Where did you get this command? I don't have it on my system. What version of CUPS are you running? My system shows that lpinfo

Re: Emacs advice,what to install?

2002-04-17 Thread Wendell Cochran
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 22:15:45 -0700 I have always disliked emacs . . . emacs is simply a great editor. . . . This speak is opinion, deplorable, and completely blasphemous. . . . Emacs is a tool (well, a collection of tools); vi is a tool. A craftsman chooses the tool that best fits the

Re: stoppling console logging

2002-04-17 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 08:32:33AM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: syslog keeps sending messages to whichever console I happen to be on, thus messing up the display. Recently I started getting these messages every couple of minutes because of mailman: PAM_unix[24436]: (cron) session opened for

Re: getting CUPS to work.

2002-04-17 Thread dman
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 10:18:11AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: | On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 07:19:29AM -0500, dman wrote: | On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 10:25:38PM -0700, Patrick Lane wrote: | | The output of 'lpinfo -v' is as follows: | | Where did you get this command? I don't have it on my

dhcp-client strangeness

2002-04-17 Thread Sridhar M.A.
Hi, I am currently running woody and am facing a problem while connecting to my isp via dhcp. I have the following lines in /etc/network/interfaces auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp In /etc/modules.conf, I have alias eth0 8139too But, when I do (or during boot up),

Re: Emacs advice,what to install?

2002-04-17 Thread John Hasler
Wendell Cochran writes: Emacs is a tool (well, a collection of tools); vi is a tool. A craftsman chooses the tool that best fits the work at hand. And that best fits _his_ hand. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Say, I'm not seeing my postings today

2002-04-17 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 06:42:10PM -0700, Xeno Campanoli wrote: What's the buzz? Is the mailer slow again? I understand master got DOSed yesterday, or something along those lines. It should be more healthy now. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To

Re: Running Yahoo Messenger??

2002-04-17 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Noah Sombrero quotation: Go to the Yahoo web site and establish an identity there. Or, better yet, don't, since that's an email harvesting service for spammers now. And even a telephone number harvesting service for telemarketers, if you happen to give them your phone number. --

Re: Help installing packages (newbie but refusing to give up)

2002-04-17 Thread Scott Henson
On Tue, 2002-04-16 at 18:27, GQ Kokidko wrote: I am a new user and have installed the base system of the stable debian linux on hdb1 and windows 2000 on hda1. I can boot to linux and windows and have lilo configured properly but dselect and tasksel aren't able to find the packages (which

A logging issue.

2002-04-17 Thread Shaul Karl
For some time now both ipchains and ntpd stopped logging their events to their usual log files. Here these log files are kern.log and ntpd.log, and maybe other log files. Moreover, ipchains did write its logging rules to the terminal but not to the log files. Both ipchains, ntpd and syslogd

Linux Universal Instant Messaging Client?

2002-04-17 Thread Michael Kahle
Does anyone know if there is free software out there that acts as a gateway to AOL IM, ICQ, and MSN IM, etc.? I know about GAIM, but I would like one program that replaces them all. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Linux Universal Instant Messaging Client?

2002-04-17 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Wed, 17 Apr 2002 11:35:35 -0500 Michael Kahle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know if there is free software out there that acts as a gateway to AOL IM, ICQ, and MSN IM, etc.? Jabber is what you're looking for (or at least the closest thing I know of). -- Jamin W. Collins -- To

Re: Linux Universal Instant Messaging Client?

2002-04-17 Thread Michael Kahle
Once again, I answered my own question. GAIM seems to now be able to do them all! :) Lucky me. But how about a similar program GPLed written in Java? Michael Kahle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know if there is free software out there that acts as a gateway to AOL IM, ICQ, and

Re: xscreensaver

2002-04-17 Thread Marcelo Leal
great reply in a list :) i will remember that command: doubt --help. it funny. thanks craig! it's working fine. On Tue, 2002-04-16 at 23:15, Eric G. Miller wrote: On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 10:13:10AM -0300, Marcelo Leal wrote: what the command line for lock the screen with xscreensaver ???

Intermittent System Lockup (long)

2002-04-17 Thread Jamin W . Collins
I'm hoping someone here might be able to give me a few pointers on how to track down a strange system lockup. When the lockup occurs, both monitors drop to power saving mode and the system from what I can tell is dead to the world (no network connectivity and completely unresponsive to local

Re: Annoying Mcast Packets

2002-04-17 Thread Andreas Grabner
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 12:15:22PM +0200, David Gardi wrote: Hi to all, I have recently changed dialup ISP, and since then tcpdump is reporting strange packets going to a variety of 224.0.0.0/4 addresses from apparently the dialup node I'm connect to. Here are a two examples: tcpdump:

Re: Linux Universal Instant Messaging Client?

2002-04-17 Thread Marc Wilson
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 11:46:44AM -0500, Michael Kahle wrote: Once again, I answered my own question. GAIM seems to now be able to do them all! :) Lucky me. But how about a similar program GPLed written in Java? Bleah... why? -- Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.cox.net/msw

mutt and my email address

2002-04-17 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
Greetings, Okay, so I'm trying to transition off of pine and Microsoft Outlook and move to mutt. I've got most things tweaked the way I like them, but the I can't seem to find a configuration that works for changing my 'from' email address. I use a dyndns.org hostname for my machine, but

[Drivers for pca20tv video card] Re: ricerca

2002-04-17 Thread Daniel Toffetti
On Wednesday 17 April 2002 16:55, Gabry wrote: Ho una scheda tv cardpca20tv da un po di anni. adesso con windows millennium non mi funziona. Ci sono i drivers aggiornati? The original messages asks about uptodate drivers for a pca20tv video card. I know nothing about that, perhaps somebody

Re: Linux Universal Instant Messaging Client?

2002-04-17 Thread Michael Kahle
Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bleah... why? Why Java or why something other than Gaim? If your question is the former, because I enjoy programing in Java. If it's the latter, I can't answer that as I have never used it. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Why 2.2 kernel instead of 2.4

2002-04-17 Thread Grant Edwards
I notice that woody installs a 2.2 kernel instead of a 2.4 kernel. Are the reasons behind that decision? I'm hoping to start shipping a product that has Debian installed on it in a couple months, and hopefully the stable release of 3.0 will be out by then. Is the plan to have stable 3.0 run a

System-Native LDAP authentication client on Debian 2.2 ?

2002-04-17 Thread ade
Hi, Please, could someone help me to find the response to the following qestion regarding LDAP ? Does Linux Debian 2.2 accepts a system-native LDAP authentication client ? The aim is to authenticate SUN Solaris and several Linux Distributions(especially Debian 2.2) stations with iPlanet

Re: Linux Universal Instant Messaging Client?

2002-04-17 Thread Michael Kahle
On Wed, 17 Apr 2002 11:35:35 -0500 Michael Kahle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know if there is free software out there that acts as a gateway to AOL IM, ICQ, and MSN IM, etc.? Jamin W. Collins wrote: Jabber is what you're looking for (or at least the closest thing I

Re: Linux Universal Instant Messaging Client?

2002-04-17 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Michael Kahle quotation: Once again, I answered my own question. GAIM seems to now be able to do them all! :) Lucky me. But how about a similar program GPLed written in Java? And with all the files named halibut-x, where x is a prime integer. This is a Debian list; Gaim will do

Re: postfix with SASL on Debian?

2002-04-17 Thread David Wright
I'd like to enable SASL support of Postfix on woody. What packages should I install anyway? Any instructions ? # apt-get install postfix-tls and read the /usr/share/doc/ and the additional documentation on the postfix site. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Why 2.2 kernel instead of 2.4

2002-04-17 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Wed, 17 Apr 2002 12:32:09 -0500 Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I notice that woody installs a 2.2 kernel instead of a 2.4 kernel. Are the reasons behind that decision? TMK, Woody installs the kernel that the installation was started with. There are several boot images for Woody.

Re: Why 2.2 kernel instead of 2.4

2002-04-17 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h Grant Edwards wrote on Wed Apr 17, 2002 um 12:32:09PM: I notice that woody installs a 2.2 kernel instead of a 2.4 Then you should read Release Notes and put the bf2.4 CD into the drive. Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- Wer Stabilität aufgibt, um Benutzerfreundlichkeit zu bekommen,

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