Re: Bogus spaces inserted when pasting to VIM

2002-09-22 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tim Dijkstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody have seen this before and, more importantly, does anybody know a fix for this? It's auto-indent, and it's annoying. Put this file in your homedirectory as .vimrc to turn off all that nonsense (you really only

Re: Question on File Permissions

2002-09-22 Thread Gottfried Szing
Am Son, 2002-09-22 um 21.34 schrieb Debian User: I set up a Web Server here on my Debian Box. Question, is there any way to set a default file permission on a certain user folder inside the /var/www/ folder. I want to setup accounts for users to upload web files, but the problem is

Re: CUPS - unable to print postscript file

2002-09-22 Thread Andy Saxena
On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 09:58:59PM -0500, Donald R. Spoon wrote: Dunno if this will help or not, but I initially had the same problem stumbled upon an answer for me. First, I use the Printing Manager in KDE to set up CUPS. All of the rest is in reference to this utility. If you

Re: Question on File Permissions

2002-09-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 09:54:14PM +0200, Gottfried Szing wrote: and for setting default permissions you can also consult the umask functionallity. but i think this is very dangerous to turn x on by default. I can't think of a situation where it's dangerous to grant execute permission, unless

Re: [OT] punctuation (was Re: Configuring w3m for Mozilla)

2002-09-22 Thread Bob Proulx
Preben Randhol [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-09-22 10:10:49 +0200]: By the way there is a shell called bush which can be interesting (at least for scripting) : http://www.pegasoft.ca/bush.html Interesting! Thanks for sharing that. Bob msg03060/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Question on File Permissions

2002-09-22 Thread Gottfried Szing
Am Son, 2002-09-22 um 22.05 schrieb Colin Watson: On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 09:54:14PM +0200, Gottfried Szing wrote: and for setting default permissions you can also consult the umask functionallity. but i think this is very dangerous to turn x on by default. I can't think of a situation

Re: Question on File Permissions

2002-09-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 10:26:42PM +0200, Gottfried Szing wrote: Am Son, 2002-09-22 um 22.05 schrieb Colin Watson: I can't think of a situation where it's dangerous to grant execute permission, unless the executable is set-id. If you can read the file then you can always copy it off

Re: Question on File Permissions

2002-09-22 Thread Debian User
Gottfried Szing wrote: Am Son, 2002-09-22 um 22.05 schrieb Colin Watson: On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 09:54:14PM +0200, Gottfried Szing wrote: and for setting default permissions you can also consult the umask functionallity. but i think this is very dangerous to turn x on by default.

aliases or functions--which to use?

2002-09-22 Thread alex
I've been using aliases to access other partitions on my two hard drives, ranging from hda1 to hdb9 and don't have any problem that I can detect. I have other Linux's scattered throughout the two hard drives. Windows 98 is on hda1, as usual. Debian's / is on hdb5 For example, In Debian,

Re: Question on File Permissions

2002-09-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 01:36:17PM -0700, Debian User wrote: Ok, I am learning this umask util. I'm confused, if you set the umask, is that for any new file created on the linux system, or just the files in the paticular directory that the umask command was run in? umask affects only the

Re: ssh `known_hosts' worry

2002-09-22 Thread Jim McCloskey
| You may want to check your logs and look for information about | where the connection was to. Perhaps that will tell you more. Thanks for your response. The first thing I did was to trawl the logs looking for unusual things. But an entry in known_hosts would have been created by an

Re: Question on File Permissions

2002-09-22 Thread Gottfried Szing
Am Son, 2002-09-22 um 22.36 schrieb Debian User: Ok, I am learning this umask util. I'm confused, if you set the umask, is that for any new file created on the linux system, or just the files in the paticular directory that the umask command was run in? This isn't listed on the man page

Re: Question on File Permissions

2002-09-22 Thread Gottfried Szing
Am Son, 2002-09-22 um 22.36 schrieb Colin Watson: i explictly grant permissions on demand and after some checks. i dont give everyone access to a specific resource. so for security reasons the exe-permissions should used really carefully. its like a opt-in into my security realm. As I

Re: aliases or functions--which to use?

2002-09-22 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002.09.23.0342 +0200]: In spite of the fact that these aliases work, I'm told by experts that I shouldn't use aliases but do the same job by using ' functions '. I've tried this and it does work but I can't see any difference . functions take a tiny bit

Re: cdrecord -scanbus examples, please.

2002-09-22 Thread Gerard Robin
On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 02:30:20PM +0200, Jesus Climent wrote: ... Thus I would like some people to send me some cdrecord -scanbus ... Linux sg driver version: 3.1.22 Cdrecord 1.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg Schilling Using libscg version 'schily-0.5' scsibus0:

Re: cdrecord -scanbus examples, please.

2002-09-22 Thread Alan D. Salewski
On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 01:03:01PM -0500, DvB spake thus: Jesus Climent [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi I am packaging a tool (phaser) to use cdrecord from the conseole. I want to show the user list of different scsi devices (through ide-scsi) to select the one for writer and one for

Re: Question on File Permissions

2002-09-22 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Debian User [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Question, is there any way to set a default file permission on a certain user folder inside the /var/www/ folder. I want to setup accounts for users to upload web files, but the problem is that whenever I upload files, the

OT: M$ Proxy Server

2002-09-22 Thread martin f krafft
So my brother, a just-convert from XP to Debian, is attending a boarding school here in Germany which is apparently a so-called Micro$oft Project School, meaning that it's all Micro$oft (it even smells there). Now Micro$oft apparently found out that my brother has installed Linux and that many of

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Re: mutt + Maildir

2002-09-22 Thread Christoph Claus
On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 10:27:20AM +0200, Jens Benecke wrote: Hallo, Hallo - Gibt es irgendwie eine Möglichkeit, mutt dazu zu bringen, selber geschriebene Mails in der _momentanen_ Mailbox zu speichern, also nach dem Motto set record=$PWD oder sowas? Dem kann geholfen werden...

Re: apt-get upgrade from testing broke aptitude, kpackage

2002-09-22 Thread Leo Spalteholz
Bob Nielsen wrote: On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 11:37:50AM -0700, Leo Spalteholz wrote: I did a routine apt-get upgrade today from testing. There were a ton of updated packages including libc, rpm etc. However now when I try to run aptitude it says loading cache and locks up. For kpackage it

Re: aliases or functions--which to use?

2002-09-22 Thread Michael Heironimus
On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 09:42:51PM -0400, alex wrote: But, can someone explain why 'functions' should be used instead of 'aliases' ? Well, there are a few reasons related to the rules on exactly when alias definitions are evaluated and when substitution is done, but the only real-world

Re: Question on File Permissions

2002-09-22 Thread Debian User
Well, basically what I learned today, is that web file permissions are usually handled by the FTP client, which I am finding out is a problem with certain FTP utils like Dreamweaver for instance, because for some reason you have to download the Exchange Utilties which cost more $$ to get the

Re: apt-get upgrade from testing broke aptitude, kpackage

2002-09-22 Thread Leo Spalteholz
Leo Spalteholz wrote: Bob Nielsen wrote: On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 11:37:50AM -0700, Leo Spalteholz wrote: I did a routine apt-get upgrade today from testing. There were a ton of updated packages including libc, rpm etc. However now when I try to run aptitude it says loading cache and

Re: cdrecord -scanbus examples, please.

2002-09-22 Thread Carlos Sousa
Jesus Climent [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thus I would like some people to send me some cdrecord -scanbus outputs where they have grep'ed the writer and reader entries. 0,0,0 0) 'YAMAHA ' 'CRW8424S' '1.0g' Removable CD-ROM 0,0,0 0) 'YAMAHA ' 'CRW8424E' '1.0j'

Re: netmasks

2002-09-22 Thread David B Harris
On Sat, 21 Sep 2002 14:33:06 + Martin Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a question i was asked recently on a topic that I thought i understood untill i was asked Given the hypothetical subnet 136.206.16.128 and netmask 255.255.255.128, state the valid range of IP addresses that could

Re: Lost Mozilla

2002-09-22 Thread David B Harris
On 22 Sep 2002 14:41:36 +0100 Brian Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Help,Debian Newbie.Have installed Debian 3.0 OK. Problem, Mozilla was working OK. Now I cannot launch it, I get message 'No such file etc'. Tried apt-get to install /or remove it, but can neither install or remove it.I'm now

RE: two CST timezones

2002-09-22 Thread Yu Guanghui
Hi Sun's Solaris has the same style. I don't know what the standard is too. Yu Guanghui -Original Message- From: Dan Jacobson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 1:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Konqueror and file associatin

2002-09-22 Thread Robert L. Harris
Has anyone set up a file association in Konqueror to kick off CX Office for viewing .xls files? Just reinstalled CXO and don't have my logs of having it working last time. CXOffice will manually open the files great with $Home: excel file.xls but Konqueror says it can't import the file of

Reset root password

2002-09-22 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
I have acquired a hand me down debian potato box that I need to do some serious overhaul work on, but the old admin doesn't remember the root password. Does anyone have a quick and dirty FAQ or doc on how to reset/change the root password? Thanks for the help. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Reset root password

2002-09-22 Thread nate
Matthew Daubenspeck said: I have acquired a hand me down debian potato box that I need to do some serious overhaul work on, but the old admin doesn't remember the root password. Does anyone have a quick and dirty FAQ or doc on how to reset/change the root password? if its using lilo the

Re: Mesa bug?

2002-09-22 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Eric G. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 04:11:44PM +0930, Tom Cook wrote: Hi all, This may be a mesa bug or it may be a manifestation of my ignorance of opengl. If the latter then I apologise for OT posting. I am playing with clipping planes in an

Re: netmasks

2002-09-22 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Martin Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a question i was asked recently on a topic that I thought i understood untill i was asked Given the hypothetical subnet 136.206.16.128 and netmask 255.255.255.128, state the valid range of IP addresses that could be assigned to hosts on the

Re: Mesa bug?

2002-09-22 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, John Manko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Also, according to 1.4 specs: The state required for clipping is at least 6 sets of plane equations (each consisting of four double-percision floating-point coefficients) and at least 6 corresponding bits indicating which of these

Re: Strange X behaviour after woody instalation (?!)

2002-09-22 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Zbigniew Perski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Two weeks ago I decided to move from WinNT to Debian woody. I am new in Linux so I decided first to instal woody as a 2nd system. Installation was correct (bf2.4 on ext3) but problems starts when I tried to turn on X windows. After startx my

Re: Reset root password

2002-09-22 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, nate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthew Daubenspeck said: I have acquired a hand me down debian potato box that I need to do some serious overhaul work on, but the old admin doesn't remember the root password. Does anyone have a quick and dirty FAQ or doc on how to reset/change

Re: i810 and X (and automatic power-down)

2002-09-22 Thread Jeff Cours
Success! Thanks to everyone for all your excellent help. For the archives, here is what it took to get the system to power-off at shutdown and to get X working. In /etc/lilo.conf, I added this line to the section that boots Linux: append=mem=511M apm=on The apm=on turns on power

import Maildir mails to mailman archive?

2002-09-22 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello list, I installed mailman can created a brand-new mailing list. Now I'd like to import some mails in my Maiildir folder to mailman archive. Is there any import tool or utility to achive this? BTW, If I want to backup mailmain archive as well as all configuration, what directories should I

Installing non-debian source

2002-09-22 Thread Russell
Hi, I have a source tree that is installed by running make install within it. Is there a Debian way that somehow includes this into the installation system ? (iirc, alien only works with binaries) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Metacity and Sticky apps

2002-09-22 Thread Hubert Chan
christophe == christophe barbé [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: christophe I forgot to say that on the left button of the window, in christophe the menu there is a Put on all workplace. But gkrellm has christophe fortunately no decoration. Also metacity doesn't memorize christophe this property. I

Re: nautilus-mozilla

2002-09-22 Thread Hubert Chan
Lauren == Lauren Matheson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: #apt-cache search nautilus |grep mozilla nautilus1.1-mozilla - Nautilus component for use with Mozilla (GNOME2) nautilus2-mozilla - Nautilus component for use with Mozilla (GNOME2) something is missing in your sources.list maybe ?

demand dialing with pppconfig

2002-09-22 Thread John Schmidt
Hi, I use pppconfig to set up my modem for dialout. Everything works well if I use pon/poff from the command line. However, I would like to use demand dialing. I turned on demand dialing via pppconfig and also did a pon to start up pppd. I looked at /var/log/syslog to verify that pppd

Re: Re. CUPS in Woody 3.0 unstable.

2002-09-22 Thread Adam Bogacki
Have you read the Debian Readme in /usr/share/doc/cupsys, there is a sneaky Debian gotcha in there . Yep - I take it you refer to the provision to register individual users to the CUPS install. I can't find any provision for this on the web site and can't see how to do that. On the other

[FIXED] Metacity and Sticky apps

2002-09-22 Thread christophe barbe
On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 10:41:15PM -0400, Hubert Chan wrote: BTW, gkrellm2 (which hit unstable recently) seems to work better with Metacity, and has configuration options to (among other things) show up on all workspaces. Thanks for the great tip. This is exactly what I was looking for.

Re: IMAP is a memory hog

2002-09-22 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Brendan J Simon wrote: I've noticed that the IMAP daemon is very memory hungry. I've noticed our server slowing down and swapping and top reports that imap is taking 50-70MB of memory. Why so high ??? Do you have some annoyingly huge emails, per chance? Is there a

Re: Packages to install to program in java

2002-09-22 Thread Matthias Szupryczynski
On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 13:53, Irvin Temp wrote: What are the packages that i need to install so that can be able to program in java? I already deed an apt-cache search java -- no results AFAIK, you have to bypass the package system for this and download the Java JRE / SDK directly from

Re: Packages to install to program in java

2002-09-22 Thread Corrin Lakeland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 16:03, Matthias Szupryczynski wrote: On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 13:53, Irvin Temp wrote: apt-cache search java -- no results Java's licence prevents it being included in debian. AFAIK, you have to bypass the package system for

make-kpkg 2.4.19 kernel: Module /usr/src/modules/pcmcia-cs failed.

2002-09-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
I'm getting a build error when trying to update to a 2.4.19 kernel, in pcmcia-cs. I've found a few posts pointing to similar issues through Google, but no solid suggestions that are fixing this problem. Anyone have pointers? Full build output follows. Peace.

Re: Packages to install to program in java

2002-09-22 Thread Edward Guldemond
On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 08:53:09PM -0700, Irvin Temp wrote: What are the packages that i need to install so that can be able to program in java? I already deed an apt-cache search java -- no results TIA irvin Download the RPM packages from java.sun.com, use alien to convert the RPM

IDE master to slave conversion

2002-09-22 Thread Neal Pollock
I'm changing the position of my IDE drives and subsequently need to set my debian disk asa slave. What configuration files do i need to edit to ensure a clean boot with all services running properly? ie. root=/dev/hda6 becomes root=/dev/hdb6 in lilo.conf. cheers.

Re: IDE master to slave conversion

2002-09-22 Thread nate
Neal Pollock said: I'm changing the position of my IDE drives and subsequently need to set my debian disk as a slave. What configuration files do i need to edit to ensure a clean boot with all services running properly? ie. root=/dev/hda6 becomes root=/dev/hdb6 in lilo.conf. also fstab, i

Re: IDE master to slave conversion

2002-09-22 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 00:56, Neal Pollock wrote: ie. root=/dev/hda6 becomes root=/dev/hdb6 in lilo.conf. First, please set your mail client to wrap lines, preferably somewhere around 80 characters. Second, the only things that I can think of that you'd need to modify to get a clean boot would

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2002-09-22 Thread Jesus Climent
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