Re: XF86Setup para Dell Dimension

2000-06-09 Thread Camilo Alejandro Arboleda
Hola Carlos: - Dell E550 en Intel 810e chipset graphics driver (dc133fsb133) En la página de Intel existen drivers X para el chip 810, pero me temo que necesitarás las X 3.3.5 y glibc 2.1 (es decir: potato). Yo intenté instalar los drivers de intel en un equipo con video 'on board' y no

RE: OT : Athlon

2000-06-09 Thread Angel Vicente Perez
Angel Vicente Perez wrote: Hola a todos... ¿Ha probado alguien Debian GNU/Linux en un ordenador con Athlon a 550 MHz? ¿Da algun problema? Que yo sepa, ninguno, y tenemos un 550, 24 600 y 3 650. Hola a todos... Bueno, pues lo cambie de un K6 a un K7 y muy bien, pero tengo una duda,

[Solucion] Urgente: desde que puse ReiserFs pasa esto

2000-06-09 Thread Toni S
Perdonad por una pregunta tan simple como la que hice. Gracias a los que apuntaron el error en los permisos del directorio tmp, ya que el fallo estaba ahi. Al hacer un chmod 1777 /tmp se solucionó el problema (tal y como apuntó Fernando Sanchez. Gracias

de novato a gurus. Preguntas sobre redes

2000-06-09 Thread Juanma
Querido debianeros: Bueno, la consulta, más que un problema en concreto, es sobre el tema de redes. Resulta que me estoy empapando sobre esto y hay varias dudas prácticas sobre varios puntos. Vamos que es como el alumno que pregunta inquieto a sus profesores. a) sobre el tema de enrutado y

Re: Día del Padre - Orientation Shop

2000-06-09 Thread Hue-Bond
El jueves 08 de junio de 2000 a la(s) 22:34:12 -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] contaba: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] En caso de que no desee volver a recibir ofertas nuestras, por favor, envíe un e-mail a [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] . Mejor de otra manera :^) # echo

Re: postgresql+web

2000-06-09 Thread Correcaminos
Quien:Tito Sam Cuando: jueves, 08 de junio del 2000, a las 02:21, Qué: Re: postgresql+web El Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 09:59:20AM +0200, Vicente Arteaga Gómez dijo: Por ejemplo (Extraido del manual de php3): ?php yo tengo que poner esto antes, en mi

Re: OT : Athlon

2000-06-09 Thread Correcaminos
Quien:Angel Vicente Perez Cuando: viernes, 09 de junio del 2000, a las 08:06, Qué: RE: OT : Athlon Angel Vicente Perez wrote: Hola a todos... ¿Ha probado alguien Debian GNU/Linux en un ordenador con Athlon a 550 MHz? ¿Da algun problema?

Re: Gnome, Mount, winSOSnt y Novell

2000-06-09 Thread Juan C. Amengual
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, [iso-8859-1] Romón Sánchez, Enver wrote: vamos a ello, =8-@ -Original Message- From: JFreak [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 11:36 PM To: Debian Users Spanish Subject:Gnome, Mount,

RE: Gnome, Mount, winSOSnt y Novell

2000-06-09 Thread Arregui-García, Javier
¡Algún día, no! ¡Ahora! :-)) Javi -Mensaje original- De: Juan C. Amengual [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: viernes 9 de junio de 2000 13:47 Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Enver Cc: 'Debian Users Spanish' (algún día os contaré cómo usando el fichero autostart de wmaker y una

RE: Gnome, Mount, winSOSnt y Novell

2000-06-09 Thread Joaquin Fenandez Piqueras
Buenas, yo tb tengo Gnome y Wmaker, y lo hago todavia mas facil. Haces que la variable WINDOWMANAGER apunte a gnome-session, por ejemplo: WINDOWMANAGER=/opt/gnome/bin/gnome-session y despues desde la herramienta de configuración del gnome, eliges que arranque wmaker. De esta forma da muchos menos

Re: Pregunta (un poco) off-topic

2000-06-09 Thread shak
On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 10:15:50PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perdonad pero me tiene frito. Llevo una semana intentando compilar libnet desde el fichero fuente (1.0.1b, descargado directamente de packetfactory). Tiene un configure, o sea, que todo debería ir bien, pero no hay manera.

Re: Gnome, Mount, winSOSnt y Novell

2000-06-09 Thread Juan C. Amengual
Arregui-García, Javier wrote: ¡Algún día, no! ¡Ahora! :-)) Javi -Mensaje original- De: Juan C. Amengual [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (algún día os contaré cómo usando el fichero autostart de wmaker y una macro de gawk consigo que al hacer login en el xdm se me coloque

Re: de novato a gurus. Preguntas sobre redes

2000-06-09 Thread aherrerm
Guenas Te respondo a alguna cosilla. El Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 10:33:52AM +0200, Juanma disidio iscribir: a) sobre el tema de enrutado y pasarelas. ¿es posible hacer una pasarela en un ordenador con una sola tarjeta de red a fin de enlazar dos subredes distintas?. En caso afirmativo ¿cómo se

Re: Te reenvio esto: New Debian Maintainers ...

2000-06-09 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
En realidad depende: - para paquetes dependerá de cuanto de populares sean, que va en proporción al número de bugs que encuentras de ellos. Y también depende de las ganas que tengas de crear nuevos. - para otras cosas (documentación, traducciones) depende de lo que

Re: Spam (offtopic)

2000-06-09 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
¿No fué a AWS a los que les metieron un puro de 1M de pesetas por no respetar la LORTAD? Pide que te desuscriban y acude a www.ag-protecciondatos.es (ahora es www.agenciaprotecciondatos.org) Un saludo Javi On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 09:59:59AM +0100, Gustavo CR wrote:

CD-RW

2000-06-09 Thread c d
Alguien sabe como leer CD's regrabables? Un saludo. Carlitting. --- _ http://www.latinmail.com. Gratuito, latino y en español.

Re: Presentaciones con películas (MPEG)

2000-06-09 Thread David Muriel
Ramiro Alba [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] pregunta: ¿Hay disponibles herramientas libres para Linux de edicion y montaje de películas MPEG? Prueba con `broadcast 2000', que es GPL. No me acuerdo de la dirección, pero lo puedes encontrar en freshmeat. Hasta luego. --

Re: CD-RW

2000-06-09 Thread Santiago Fernandez
Si tu lector es algo viejo no sera capaz de leerlos. Es necesario un lector de 2 años de antiguedad como mucho (mas o menos) para poder leerlo. Los que solo son grabables se pueden leer con lectores menos sensibles. * c d [EMAIL PROTECTED] [09-06-2000 12:51 PM -0400] Alguien sabe como leer CD's

programa tipo fetchamil

2000-06-09 Thread Mauricio E Ruiz Font
Hola, necesito sabes si hay programas bajo windows y linux que hagan lo que el fethcmail, pero que puedan bajar correo de web, como de las cuentas de hotmail etc... -- Mauricio Enrique Ruiz Font UG FAMAT Computacion

hp web jetadmin no sabe de Debian...

2000-06-09 Thread Roberto Meyer
Hola, A ppios del a~o pasado baje la version 5.1 del HPWebJetAdmin que permite la administracion de impresoras que se encuentran en red via web. Venia en formatos .tar.gz y .rpm, que podian adaptarse a Debian. Perdi y nunca recupere este paquete hasta hoy en que, oh sorpresa!, la version 6.0 se

Re: programa tipo fetchamil

2000-06-09 Thread Blu
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 12:46:30PM -0500, Mauricio E Ruiz Font wrote: Hola, necesito sabes si hay programas bajo windows y linux que hagan lo que el fethcmail, pero que puedan bajar correo de web, como de las cuentas de hotmail etc... A mi me parece mucho que no se puede, precisamente el

lista cd a *.txt

2000-06-09 Thread robert top
hola amigos debianeros: tengo un cd lleno de archivos *.jpg me gustaria crear una lista con todos los nombres en formato txt alguna sugerencia, hice una lista para imprimir en ps ,pero no se como hacerla para que sea txt gracias por su colaboracion.

Re: lista cd a *.txt

2000-06-09 Thread Luis Cabrera Sauco
Quien:robert top Cuando: viernes, 09 de junio del 2000, a las 03:45, Qué: lista cd a *.txt hola amigos debianeros: tengo un cd lleno de archivos *.jpg me gustaria crear una lista con todos los nombres en formato txt alguna sugerencia, hice una lista para

Re: Mi pgpv se ha vuelto majareta

2000-06-09 Thread Andres Seco Hernandez
A mi me ha hecho lo mismo un par de veces, pero ha sido siempre con un mensaje en concreto, no con los demás. Igual algún detalle nosecomo del interior del mensaje que le hace entrar en un bucle o algo así. Uso PGP 5. El 08 Jun 2000 a las 12:41AM +0200, Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez escribio: Hola

booteo directo

2000-06-09 Thread Robert-Ito
Muchachos he compartido mi PC c on dos sistemas operativos el amigo LINUX 2.3 en una particion (que ya estaba) en otra el BEOS 5 (nuevo). Por otro lado recomiendo que lo prueben ya que tiene un par emuladores que hace que uno pueda correr programas Linux y Win95, por lo que gente como nosotros

Debian diz nao ao software nao livre. (fwd)

2000-06-09 Thread Helio Loureiro
Prestem atenção que o subject refere-se aos softwares NÃO LIVRE. Concordo 100% com a Debian em boicotar empresas como Sun que usam a política software livre, estou contigo e não abro (thanks to Maçan pela excelente frase). Helio. Fonte: Slashdot.org , postado em Fri Jun 9

Re: My quite ordinary comment about Re: GR to remove non-free...

2000-06-09 Thread Matthew Dalton
eric a . Farris wrote: i think that'll be the kicker. those of use with (slow|no) connection at home will pay a price, either through long download times, or having to find/burn our own non-free CD. i would hope that, if non-free (and i assume contrib must follow) is pulled that it would be

Re: Notice: GR to remove non-free support from Debian

2000-06-09 Thread Brad
On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 11:38:31AM -0700, Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Moore, Paul wrote: Pardon me, but why do you folks think you will no longer have access to Debianized packages of this non-free software? These packages would simply have to be managed outside of the

Re: linux NIS+NT

2000-06-09 Thread M. Tavasti
Marcin Kurc [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a way to somehow synchronize NIS passwords with NT server? Any good solutions? With samba, you can get SMB-passwd and unix passwd synchroniced, when passwd is changed on samba-server. Then you can run make in /var/yp with cron. But if you want

umask

2000-06-09 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi all When a user creates a new directory/file in their home directory, the setuid bit is always set for group members, ie. drwxr-sr-x umask = 022, what do I need to set it to, for new files to = drwxr-xr-x ... and is this ok security-wise ... the execute bit? thanks Andrew

Unidentified subject!

2000-06-09 Thread Paul Larkin
unsubscribe -- Paul

Re: gv

2000-06-09 Thread kmself
I had a problem at one time with one of the font definition files distributed with either gv or ghostscript being corrupted. Literally some binary barfage in the middle of a text file. I fixed it manually, notified the package manager, and Peter Deutsch. IIRC it was a font that he doesn't

Re: GR to remove non-free...

2000-06-09 Thread deja luser
A typical newbie won't start with Debian And this all but guarentees it. Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com

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setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH

2000-06-09 Thread Joseph de los Santos
Hello, My question is a rather simple one compared to the questions I seem to be seeing in the list recently. I would like to know how to set my LD_LIBRARY_PATH to say, add a $PWLIBDIR/lib to my LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable. thanks.

Fortifying netscape

2000-06-09 Thread Johann Spies
I have done this before, but can not get it right this time. I want to fortify Netscape Communicator 4.72 but do not find the correct path to direct Fortify.sh to. I am not sure for which file Fortify is looking. Can somebody help me on this one please? Johann -- J.H. Spies, Hugenotestraat 29,

What hardware is supperted by Debian?

2000-06-09 Thread Rachael Hunt
Hi. I am very interested in getting Debian, but as my computers is very new, I thought that I'd better check out what kind of hardware is supported (i.e. graphics cards, network cards, and the like). I looked up in your FAQ page, but if it was there, I must have missed it. Thank you for

Kernel Compile on Potato

2000-06-09 Thread deja luser
Tonight I installed frozen on a k6-2 system, and am trying to compile a new kernel for it, but make menuconfig fails. I have ncurses installed, and so I should be able to run it, but as it says below it dies in /usr/src/linux/scripts/lxdialog on the line with: #include CURSES_LOC Below is the

Re: What hardware is supperted by Debian?

2000-06-09 Thread Jens Müller
Look into the Hardware HOWTO, available at www.linuxdoc.org. Jens - Original Message - From: Rachael Hunt To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Friday, June 09, 2000 8:53 AM Subject: What hardware is supperted by Debian? Hi. I am very interested in

Re: What hardware is supperted by Debian?

2000-06-09 Thread Matthew Dalton
Linux, and Debian Linux, supports lots of hardware -- too much to list here, and I wouldn't be able to remember everything anyway. Tell us what you have, and we'll tell you if it works with Debian. Matthew Rachael Hunt wrote: Hi. I am very interested in getting Debian, but as my computers

Re: setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH

2000-06-09 Thread Joseph de los Santos
thanks but that didn't seem to work. I still can't see it in my ld_library_path using ldd /bin/bash. any other suggestions? On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 11:27:02PM +, Joseph de los Santos wrote: seeing in the list recently. I would like to know how to set my LD_LIBRARY_PATH to say, add a

Re: What hardware is supperted by Debian?

2000-06-09 Thread Joseph de los Santos
Hi, here is the link you are looking for: http://metalab.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO.html Good luck. Hi.=20 I am very interested in getting Debian, but as my computers is very new, = I thought that I'd better check out what kind of hardware is supported = (i.e. graphics cards,

Re: Kernel Compile on Potato

2000-06-09 Thread deja luser
From: Jim Breton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: deja luser [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Kernel Compile on Potato Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 07:00:21 + On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 02:54:56AM -0400, deja luser wrote: dialog.h:29: curses.h: No such file or directory This file

Re: Kernel Compile on Potato

2000-06-09 Thread Harry ten Berge
From: deja luser [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Kernel Compile on Potato Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 02:54:56 EDT Tonight I installed frozen on a k6-2 system, and am trying to compile a new kernel for it, but make menuconfig fails. I have ncurses installed, and so I

--exclude behavior in tar seems to have changed

2000-06-09 Thread Matthew Thompson
Hello, I always install Debian in one big ugly partition for convenience' sake. Perhaps not the recommended method, but that's the way I do it. Whenever I wanted to make a big tarball image of my current installation, I always would log in as root, cd to /, and submit the following command: #

Re: Kernel Compile on Potato

2000-06-09 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
deja luser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tonight I installed frozen on a k6-2 system, and am trying to compile a new kernel for it, but make menuconfig fails. I have ncurses installed, and so I should be able to run it Not unless you also install libncurses5-dev. The output says it can't find

Re: What hardware is supperted by Debian?

2000-06-09 Thread Matthew Dalton
Joseph de los Santos wrote: Hi, here is the link you are looking for: http://metalab.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO.html This document was last updated in September last year. I wouldn't rely on it totally to see if your 'very new' hardware is supported. No doubt much more hardware has

Re: secret data for php pages

2000-06-09 Thread Robert Varga
If php is called as a cgi then it can be run setuid via suexec anyway. What I was looking for was a way to provide some information preload during the time when apache is still root for the php3 module, since modules run as www-data. There was another suggestion for running several instances of

OT: GNU (was: Re: Notice: GR to remove non-free support from Debian)

2000-06-09 Thread Lars Weber
Moore, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The endless issues over free vs non-free and other license-related issues makes Debian look more like license nit-pickers than anything else. This doesn't seem to me to be a good image to have. It's not done the GNU project much good, and it would be a

Linux client for NT workgroup

2000-06-09 Thread Peter Welte
Hello, Is it possible to configure Debian (or any other Linux distribution for that matter) to verify logins against a Windows NT server instead of the /etc/passwd file? If it involves a lot of specific information, i can probably find that myself, but a general description, at least, would be

very quick question :)

2000-06-09 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi does anyone know the syntax of the 'grep' command to check all files on a machine for a pattern e.g. lawpc34, I've been trying: grep -r / -e lawpc34 -H lawpc34.log but that doesn't seem to work thanks a lot Andrew - Andrew McRobert LLB

Re: Samba and VMWare

2000-06-09 Thread Bob G
Kelly Corbin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using VMWare (which rocks!) Agreed! VMware is stunning! In my win98 virtual machine, I can see my linux box and the rest of my workgroup and all shares work fine, including the shares setup on my linux samba server. Other windoze machines in the

Re: --exclude behavior in tar seems to have changed

2000-06-09 Thread Igor Mozetic
May I ask why the behavior of the --exclude command has changed? Can someone suggest a remedy for my situation? Yes, --exclude has changed indeed (between slink and potato), see /usr/share/doc/tar/NEWS.gz: version 1.13.6 - Paul Eggert, 1999-08-11. * An --exclude pattern containing / now

Re: very quick question :)

2000-06-09 Thread Antonio Moragues Ramón
On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Andrew McRobert wrote: hi does anyone know the syntax of the 'grep' command to check all files on a machine for a pattern e.g. lawpc34, I've been trying: grep -r / -e lawpc34 -H lawpc34.log but that doesn't seem to work Try grep -r lawpc34 / lawpc34.log

off-topic

2000-06-09 Thread john smith
this is sort of off-topic but I don't know where else to ask I would like to know if software from os/2 can be ported to linux.I know that os/2 can use enlightenment, etc so that means the libraries used are not much different to linux??? (i'm guessing here...) or maybe if it cannot be

Re: very quick question :)

2000-06-09 Thread Steve Lamb
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 11:12:03AM +0200, Antonio Moragues Ramón wrote: grep -r / -e lawpc34 -H lawpc34.log but that doesn't seem to work Try grep -r lawpc34 / lawpc34.log Or: find / -exec grep lawpc34 \{\} \; -print lawpc43.log Maybe, but that is how I'd do it. --

Re: --exclude behavior in tar seems to have changed

2000-06-09 Thread Matthew Thompson
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 07:25:40AM +, Jim Breton wrote: I can't say whether anything has changed at any point; but, I think you want to use something like the following: cd / tar Sczvf /syjet/debmain.tgz --exclude tmp --exclude proc --exclude syjet Whoops, I forgot the .

RE: very quick question :)

2000-06-09 Thread Andrew McRobert
thanks -Original Message- From: Steve Lamb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 09, 2000 5:37 PM To: Debian-Users (E-mail) Subject: Re: very quick question :) On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 11:12:03AM +0200, Antonio Moragues Ramón wrote: grep -r / -e lawpc34 -H lawpc34.log but

Re: My quite ordinary comment about Re: GR to remove non-free...

2000-06-09 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I don't know about you, but I never got a non-free cd with my official Debian cd's. Non-free has never been a part of official Debian releases AFAIK. The problem friends lies in the fact that if support is withdrawn from the developers, MANY users will be left without any idea about what to

Matrox frame buffer not working

2000-06-09 Thread Damon Muller
Hi folks, I'm sure I have seen something similar to this problem on the list recently, but I wasn't able to find anything helpful in the list archives. I recently installed a Matrox Mystique in my debian machine, which had been in my windows machine for a few years until I got a new card. I used

hosts.allow not allowing hosts

2000-06-09 Thread Damon Muller
Hi all, Like a good paranoid user, I protect my dial-up machine with both a firewall using ipchains, and also using tcp wrappers to add a further layer of security. Sometimes I find it convinient to scp things to my machine for the outside world, so I leave my ssh port open (I'm using gShield as

ipchians forwarding error

2000-06-09 Thread Damon Muller
Hi gang, Our network has recently gone from a ISDN router (with an IP on out class C) to a ppp modem link (with an IP that is not part of our class C) for its gateway. The machine that is the new gateway has an ipchains firewall running, which I'd managed to munge together, which was broken quite

Re: hosts.allow not allowing hosts

2000-06-09 Thread Damon Muller
Sorry to reply to my own post... I'm an idiot - it should have been sshd: ALL, not ssh: ALL. All fixed, all by myself! cheers, damon Quoth Damon Muller, Hi all, Like a good paranoid user, I protect my dial-up machine with both a firewall using ipchains, and also using tcp wrappers to add

Re: Matrox frame buffer not working

2000-06-09 Thread Jo Hoffmann
Hi folks, I'm sure I have seen something similar to this problem on the list recently, but I wasn't able to find anything helpful in the list archives. I recently installed a Matrox Mystique in my debian machine, which had been in my windows machine for a few years until I got a new

Re: hosts.allow not allowing hosts

2000-06-09 Thread Jo Hoffmann
Hi all, Like a good paranoid user, I protect my dial-up machine with both a firewall using ipchains, and also using tcp wrappers to add a further layer of security. Sometimes I find it convinient to scp things to my machine for the outside world, so I leave my ssh port open (I'm using

Re: Debian Potato and Helix Gnome

2000-06-09 Thread Damon Muller
Hi Glyn, I suspect that they just call it woody because it came after the potato freeze - it doesn't seem to depend on anything in woody. I installed it on a Potato system with no (significant) problems. cheers, damon Quoth J. Glyn Hughes, New to Debian, I am a happy convert from RH, MDK,

Re: umask

2000-06-09 Thread ktb
Andrew McRobert wrote: hi all When a user creates a new directory/file in their home directory, the setuid bit is always set for group members, ie. drwxr-sr-x umask = 022, what do I need to set it to, for new files to = drwxr-xr-x ... and is this ok security-wise ... the execute bit?

Re: Which baud?

2000-06-09 Thread David Wright
Quoting Johann Spies ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I am confused about what is exactly meant by the instruction in the documentation of my UPS: Port must be set to run at 2400 baud Yes, it would have been more sensible to write 2400 baud/bps, as they're the same for a port. According to the

Re: Debian Potato and Helix Gnome

2000-06-09 Thread dyer
J. Glyn Hughes wrote: New to Debian, I am a happy convert from RH, MDK, SuSE et al. Having had quite a scoot around, I am having trouble getting hold of Helix Gnome for Potato - they only seem to have a binary release for Woody. I have seen references by those clearly more talented than I

Re: how does one redirect the input for a terminal ?

2000-06-09 Thread David Wright
Quoting Jan Pfeifer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I'm trying to compress with passwords a couple of hundred files using zip (I have to use this, as some of the compressed files will go to windoze users), but zip only seems to take the password from a terminal, so I can't use the redirector of bash.

Re: umask

2000-06-09 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 12:45:10PM +0800, Andrew McRobert wrote: hi all When a user creates a new directory/file in their home directory, the setuid bit is always set for group members, ie. drwxr-sr-x the setgid bit on directories changes the file creation behaviour from SysV to BSD:

Re: Fortifying netscape

2000-06-09 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 08:40:58AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: I have done this before, but can not get it right this time. I want to fortify Netscape Communicator 4.72 but do not find the correct path to direct Fortify.sh to. I am not sure for which file Fortify is looking. Can somebody

Re: umask

2000-06-09 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 07:07:05AM +, ktb wrote: Andrew McRobert wrote: hi all When a user creates a new directory/file in their home directory, the setuid bit is always set for group members, ie. drwxr-sr-x umask = 022, what do I need to set it to, for new files to =

Re: Debian Potato and Helix Gnome

2000-06-09 Thread Gianluca Montecchi
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 09:32:50PM +1000, Damon Muller wrote: = Hi Glyn, = = I suspect that they just call it woody because it came after the potato = freeze - it doesn't seem to depend on anything in woody. I installed it = on a Potato system with no (significant) problems. You must have two

Re: umask

2000-06-09 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 05:40:17AM -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote: AFAIK, sticky bits, setuid, setguid are inherited from the parent no, only setgid bits on directories are inherited by new subdirectories. the sticky bit (-t) is not inherited (see /tmp) nor is setuid. setuid/gid

Re: umask

2000-06-09 Thread Ron Flory
ktb wrote: Andrew McRobert wrote: hi all When a user creates a new directory/file in their home directory, the setuid bit is always set for group members, ie. drwxr-sr-x umask = 022, what do I need to set it to, for new files to = drwxr-xr-x ... and is this ok security-wise

Re: Way OT: C++ function to clear screen

2000-06-09 Thread David Teague
On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Cameron Matheson wrote: I'm sorry even to mail the Debian list about this, but I can't find this information anywhere. I'm wondering what a function would be in C++ that I could use to clear the screen at the beginning of the program (this is just a console program).

Re: Which baud?

2000-06-09 Thread John Hasler
David Wright writes: Yes, it would have been more sensible to write 2400 baud/bps, as they're the same for a port. Not for an asynchronous port. The baud rate is symbols per second and counts the start, stop, and parity bits (if any). bps is data bits per second and usually works out to 80%

which SQL database?

2000-06-09 Thread Alex Kwan
Hi! I wanted to setup a Apache+PHP3 Intranet Database Server, Orcale, MySQL or PostgreSQL, which one is more easy to learn and config also better supported by Apache+PHP3 ?

frontpage extensions for apache

2000-06-09 Thread Chris Mason
Can anyone offer omse info on adding frontpage extensions to apache whch has been installed from the package? Chris Mason Box 340, The Valley, Anguilla, British West Indies Tel: 264 497 5670 Fax: 264 497 8463 USA Fax (561) 382-7771 Take a virtual tour of the island http://net.ai/ The Anguilla

Re: Notice: GR to remove non-free support from Debian

2000-06-09 Thread David Teague
Matthew, and Debian Folks, On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Matthew Dalton wrote, in part: The real change is that non-free will no longer be covered by the same bug tracking system as the rest of Debian. This will have the most effect on the packages in the contrib section that depend on packages in

Re: how to make *deb package from source ?

2000-06-09 Thread Shaul Karl
I am interested how to make debian package from source - maint-guide seems to me a good starting point. Either install it as a deb or go to www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide. -- -- Shaul Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED]

OT: wine hangs when executing winhelp

2000-06-09 Thread Rick Macdonald
I finally have wine running Quicken2000. Help wasn't working at all. I found that I didn't have winhelp.exe or winhlp32.exe in wine's c:\windows directory. When I put either or both of these programs in place (using win95 for exe and dll), it gives this error and hangs Quicken: Xlib: unexpected

Re: very quick question :)

2000-06-09 Thread Dave Sherohman
Andrew McRobert said: does anyone know the syntax of the 'grep' command to check all files on a machine for a pattern e.g. lawpc34, I've been trying: grep -r / -e lawpc34 -H lawpc34.log but that doesn't seem to work grep requires that the last argument be a filespec telling it where to

Re: Gnome-Language...

2000-06-09 Thread Shaul Karl
Hello everybody, On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Preben Randhol wrote: Oliver Schoenknecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 08/06/2000 (12:12) : due to some misconfiguration mine my whole GNOME now appears in complete English language - the menus as well as each dialogue box and so on...

2.2.15 kernel boot freezes at running ntpdate...

2000-06-09 Thread Mark Phillips
My friend has a Toshiba Tecra 8000 laptop. We are having problems with the 2.2.15 kernel. It boots fine with the 2.0.36 kernel, but recent attempts to boot the 2.2.15 kernel have it freezing at the line running ntpdate to syncronise clock or something like that. Now I suspect the

Re: Way OT: C++ function to clear screen

2000-06-09 Thread Christopher Mosley
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 08:59:56 -0400 (EDT) From: David Teague [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Cameron Matheson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Way OT: C++ function to clear screen Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org On Wed, 7

Re: Where is Xdefaults? (new to X tweaking)

2000-06-09 Thread Shaul Karl
John Foster wrote: Vitux wrote: Hi debs I thought .Xdefaults was supposed to be in /etc/X11/yadayada, but I can't seem to locate it. Do I make this file myself? (I *am* using the -a option with ls...) Running potato, 2.2.14, Afterstep or fvwm. Regards Vitux

kernel: grow_inodes: inode-max limit reached

2000-06-09 Thread Reid Sutherland
[Running Debian 2.2 (unstable) - with 2.2.16-ow1 (openwall.com security patch)] Hello, kernel: grow_inodes: inode-max limit reached It seems no one I've talked to can figure this error out. I'm getting this error every few days (sometimes every 5 days, sometimes in 3 days). It will start

Re: Kernel Compile on Potato

2000-06-09 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 02:54:56AM -0400, deja luser wrote: Tonight I installed frozen on a k6-2 system, and am trying to compile a new kernel for it, but make menuconfig fails. I have ncurses installed, and so I [. . .] In file included from lxdialog.c:22: dialog.h:29: curses.h: No such

Re: 2.2.15 kernel boot freezes at running ntpdate...

2000-06-09 Thread Mark Phillips
I wrote: My friend has a Toshiba Tecra 8000 laptop. We are having problems with the 2.2.15 kernel. It boots fine with the 2.0.36 kernel, but recent attempts to boot the 2.2.15 kernel have it freezing at the line running ntpdate to syncronise clock or something like that. Now I

new legacy Yamaha PCI module in 2.2.16 kernel won't link??

2000-06-09 Thread James D. Freels
I have recently upgraded my kernel to the new stable version 2.2.16. I noticed the new kernel has new support for legacy Yamaha PCI sound, so I thought I would give it a try. There is very little documentation (only the comments in the driver code). I enable the driver in the configuration,

Re: kernel: grow_inodes: inode-max limit reached

2000-06-09 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi Reid, As you ask for clues, here goes my $0.02! This message comes from $KERNEL_SRC/fs/inode.c when the kernel tries to get more inode. Browsing the file I found a #define MAX_INODE (16384). What's your number? Maybe you can try increase this and see if the problem persist.

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Re: Which baud?

2000-06-09 Thread Johann Spies
Thanks for the explanations everybody. On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 01:18:05PM +0100, David Wright wrote: I think I warned you not to use the -F switch in my first posting to you. If you need to convince yourself, try typing the line you have typed above into a VC and an xterm. Then try and

Re: Fortifying netscape

2000-06-09 Thread Johann Spies
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 04:40:31AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 08:40:58AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: I have done this before, but can not get it right this time. I want to fortify Netscape Communicator 4.72 but do not find the correct path to direct Fortify.sh to. I

Debian packages for gl?

2000-06-09 Thread Robert L. Harris
I think a lib or bin might have gotten nuked when I upgraded to XF86-4.0. I can't get Q2 to drop to gl mode. Anyone know which packages I need for OpenGL so I can remove, purge and re-add them? Thanks, Robert :wq! ---

wheel mouse

2000-06-09 Thread Goeman Stefan
Hello everybody, Same question again, I have my (Logitech) wheel mouse working for a terminal window, and that is about it. I mean, it only works for a terminal window. It doen't work when I use: Netscape, gv, xdvi, emacs, I don't understand this. The funny thing is when i do imwheel -k

Can't get php4 to work with Apache

2000-06-09 Thread Jeff Self
I've got Apache 1.3.12 installed and working. Loaded the deb package. I installed PHP4 using the deb package also. But when I try to bring up a php page in my web browser, it gives me an unknown file type message. But I have looked in the srm.conf file and I have put 'AddType

loading modules

2000-06-09 Thread Goeman Stefan
Hello Everybody, Another problem. I have found a way to get my sound card working. It seems that I just need to load the module esssolo1.o. (# modprobe esssolo1). The problem is that I have to be the root user to do this and I don't like to do it manually. I guess there is a better way to do

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