installation to >137GB disk

2003-11-27 Thread ziv minot
I want to do a fresh install of Debian to a 200GB IDE disk (reiserfs, if it matters). Only 137GB are recognized with my stock 3.0r1 CDs. Looking in the archives I see the suggestion to install to a different disk then upgrade the kernel and then format the big disk. This is not practical for

Re: Help... I think I've shot myself in the foot...

2003-11-27 Thread Erik Steffl
Peter S. Hayes wrote: Hi all, I've had Debian dual-booted with Win XP on my portable for about six months. I haven't worked all the bugs out yet, but I've been getting better! And I try using it for more of my personal work (my job requires Windows at the moment). Yesterday while at work, I

Re: Looking for 17" TFT X11 config (mine is flickering...)

2003-11-27 Thread Erik Steffl
Christian Hammers wrote: Hello My brand new LG "Flatron L1715S" TFT display with max resolution [EMAIL PROTECTED] and recommended resolution "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" is flickering like hell in the first and at least a bit in the second resolution. A collegue of mine uses the same TFT with Windows and h

Re: spam microsoft

2003-11-27 Thread Stephen Cormier
On November 26, 2003 07:20 pm, Robin Gerard wrote: > Hello, > microsoft sends me five spam of 160 000 bytes in my box and when I > run host I receive the message: address not exists. > If the adress exists I put it in my file hosts.allow but without > success. I don't know if smtp-refuser works fin

Re: Looking for 17" TFT X11 config (mine is flickering...)

2003-11-27 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
Have you tried having it autoscan without trying to add your own custom mode lines? I don't have the same LCD but I do have two NEC MultiSync LDC1800 running in Xinerama mode off a nVidia GeForce FX 5200 runnning quite nicely at 1280x1024 without any flicker. All I set for the "Monitor" sec

Re: Importing Corel Draw

2003-11-27 Thread Terry Hancock
On Wednesday 26 November 2003 03:59 pm, csj wrote: > I'm actually having problems importing SVG with Sketch (I'm > missing a Suggests depends which I'm too lazy to install). But > I'm using Sketch as an EPS (PostScript) to SVG converter. Last I checked, the SVG import in Sketch didn't work with t

Re: eject command for normal users and some other stuff

2003-11-27 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 at 00:34 GMT, H S penned: [trials and tribulations snipped] > > Okay, I am going to take this step by step because I have many issues > unresolved. I am connected to the internet through an ADSL modem (use > "pon dsl-provider" to get online). But how do I make a normal user > a

Re: ..cc'ing, was: www.debian.org

2003-11-27 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 at 01:01 GMT, Arnt Karlsen penned: > On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 09:55:52 -0700, "Monique Y. Herman" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> -- monique PLEASE don't CC me. Please. Pretty please with sugar on >> top. Whatever it takes, just don't CC me! I'

Re: Importing Corel Draw

2003-11-27 Thread Terry Hancock
On Wednesday 26 November 2003 01:34 am, Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschler wrote: > I've exported drawings to wmf and then opened them in OpenOffice Draw with no > apparant information loss. Right, because WMF is a vector format. -- Terry Hancock ( hancock at anansispaceworks.com ) Anansi Spaceworks http://

Re: Usable X login/starter in Debian needed

2003-11-27 Thread Marc Wilson
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 07:09:49PM +0100, Otto Wyss wrote: > Isn't there a usable X login/starter in Debian. They're all usable. > I've tried XDM (doesn't allow shutdown, looks awfull), Awful is in the eye of the beholder. Personally, I find the simplicity of xdm to be absolutely wonderful. Yo

Re: Broken Galeon in Sarge

2003-11-27 Thread Paul Morgan
Niels L. Ellegaard wrote: Thanasis Kinias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I don't know if this has to do with the Debian security situation, but the three Sarge boxes I apt-get updated yesterday all now have broken Galeons. Galeon refuses to execute, claiming that it can't find a gconf schema.

"startup" keytab file in konsole

2003-11-27 Thread Ari Freund
Hi, I want konsole to start with my cutom keytab file (which I placed in ~/.kde//my.keytab). I start konsole using the quick launcher, so I changed the launch command (in the Kmenu editor) to    konsole --keytab my and this did the trick. However, if I start a second shell shell within konso

Re: loading iptables when debian server reboots

2003-11-27 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello T.J.! On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 02:03:34PM -0800, Reed, T.J. wrote: I have just created and entered iptables rules. However, when the debian server is rebooted, the iptables rules are no longer listed when I enter the command iptables -L. Prior to rebooting the debian server, I issued the com

Re: x-window-system-dev for installing X-Window includes?

2003-11-27 Thread Tom
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 05:00:04PM -0500, Andrew Malcolmson wrote: > I'm attempting to compile the GPLed 2.2.0 beta of TheKompany's Rekall and > the configure script halts with a failed check for 'X includes'. > Searching aptitude for likely packages sources for X includes (this means > C header f

Re: www.debian.org

2003-11-27 Thread John Hasler
monique writes: > There hasn't been an announcement made about *when* exactly the machines > were compromised, has there? Thursday or Friday. > Then again, the belief seems to be that actual packages haven't been > compromised, so maybe it doesn't matter ... The archive was not compromised. --

Re: (unofficial) Debian project list status

2003-11-27 Thread John Hasler
Hugo Vanwoerkom writes: > Great to see you back. Was an interesting experience: PC's are nothing > without Debian... Karsten M. Self writes: > ...and vice-versa Not true. Debian runs on lots of non-pc platforms. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin -- To UN

after changing IP and ifup --all, SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument

2003-11-27 Thread Andrew Kasza
I have debian 2.2, kernel 2.2.19. I had to change the configuration of network (I mean I had to change IP, netmask, gateway and so on). I did the following three steps. 1step 'ifdown --all' 2step ' I changed the file /etc/network/interfaces' 3step 'ifup --all' after the 3step i got the following

processes - Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-27 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 12:07:05AM -0800, Tom wrote: > > It's only going to get worse as Linux gets more popular. > > They've had ten plus years. If it was going to happen, it would have > happened.

Re: Poll: who's apt-get upgraded sid this week?

2003-11-27 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Thu, November 27 at 9:42 AM EST David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> How many people have apt-get their SID boxes since "the indicdent"? >> Everything seems to be back up... Is it sitnorm again? > >I'm continuing to run aptitude ~daily, but my mirror h

Re: installing KDE on new beta installer/sarge

2003-11-27 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Richard! On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 12:43:56PM -0500, Richard Harding wrote: I am trying to install KDE using the new beta installer and sarge. I have managed to get the system installed and WindowMaker and IceWM so far. I am getting unmet dependency errors with KDE. I have since put in unst

Re: dpkg and file ownership

2003-11-27 Thread Alf Werder
On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 05:26, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 02:25:32PM +0100, Alf Werder wrote: > > How does dpkg handle the upgrade of a package, if file ownership und > > access permissions of an installed file was changed manually? Does it > > keep the modified state, asks me or ju

Re: spam microsoft

2003-11-27 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 at 23:20 GMT, Robin Gerard penned: > Hello, microsoft sends me five spam of 160 000 bytes in my box and > when I run host I receive the message: address not exists. If the > adress exists I put it in my file hosts.allow but without success. I > don't know if smtp-refuser works

loading iptables when debian server reboots

2003-11-27 Thread Reed, T.J.
All, I have just created and entered iptables rules. However, when the debian server is rebooted, the iptables rules are no longer listed when I enter the command iptables -L. Prior to rebooting the debian server, I issued the command iptables-save -c > /etc/iptables-save.bak1 Looking at /etc

x-window-system-dev for installing X-Window includes?

2003-11-27 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
I'm attempting to compile the GPLed 2.2.0 beta of TheKompany's Rekall and the configure script halts with a failed check for 'X includes'. Searching aptitude for likely packages sources for X includes (this means C header files, right?) I found the meta package x-window-system-dev but this seems t

Re: Information please!

2003-11-27 Thread @(none) <@murphy.debian.org, pvalley\"
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have always wanted to know if UNIX/LINUX is for me, and eventually replace my windows OS. I want, very much, to install it on my old system to give it a real feel/try...I have been told that DEBIAN has releases for "older" UNIX/LINUX OS's [as well as the Penti

Re: Broken Galeon in Sarge

2003-11-27 Thread Niels L. Ellegaard
Thanasis Kinias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't know if this has to do with the Debian security situation, but > the three Sarge boxes I apt-get updated yesterday all now have broken > Galeons. Galeon refuses to execute, claiming that it can't find a gconf > schema. I have the same probl

RE: Help... I think I've shot myself in the foot...

2003-11-27 Thread Peter S. Hayes
Thank you! I did read enough to figure out how to reboot (through LILO) into a single-user mode so that X is not started. The keyboard works fine there; it's only after X is started with the logon that the keyboard goes wacky. I haven't figured out how to get networking and other facilities runni

Re: apt-getting source for my kernel

2003-11-27 Thread Jazzforever
Hallo, I need to compile the nic driver for my Broadcom bcm4401. I have the source but it needs the kernel source. I installed from disk 5 which means I have kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4. I tried apt-getting kernel-source-2.4.18-bf2.4 and was told it doesn't exist. Without networking how do I get it. O

Re: 2 linux questions

2003-11-27 Thread Jakob Lell
On Monday 24 November 2003 12:56, Bjorn Johansson wrote: > Hello! > > 1. How do a patch my kernel? Hello, if you use kernel-package, you can just run this: make-kpkg --added-patches foo ... See man make-kpkg for more details. If you want to patch your kernel source tree permamently (or there is no

Re: Xresources & Xdefaults documentation

2003-11-27 Thread Paul Morgan
Karsten M. Self wrote I picked up a copy of O'Reilly's _X Window System User's Guide_ some years ago. /me thinks. Sheesh. Eight years already Hey, I wrote my first program on an ICT Sirius in 1968, so no sympathy from me. I have, however, discovered two things: - if one is obsessed wit

Re: Information please!

2003-11-27 Thread Initech
On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 11:59:38AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > I have always wanted to know if UNIX/LINUX is for me, and eventually > replace my windows OS. I want, very much, to install it on my old system > to give it a real feel/try...I have been told that DEBIAN has releas

Re: installed qmail, apt-get always trying to re-install MTA

2003-11-27 Thread Initech
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 02:28:40PM +1100, Ross Tsolakidis wrote: > Hi all, > > I recently installed qmail, I removed Exim just to be sure. > Everything is now running fine. > > The problem I'm having is every time I try and install another package, > it always attempts to re-install exim. > For e

Re: Official Apt sources

2003-11-27 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello 'Your Name'! On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 12:47:19PM +, Your Name wrote: I am fairly new to debian and i am trying to find the official apt soures, i can find a million unoffical sources, but searching with google and searching debian.org doesnt give it. I dont know who to suggest it to bu

Re: www.debian.org

2003-11-27 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 at 18:21 GMT, Vineet Kumar penned: > > > aptitude keeps such a log in /var/log/aptitude ... if you use > aptitude, that is. > Aptitude isn't the only thing I use, but I think it's the only thing I've used lately. There hasn't been an announcement made about *when* exactly t

Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-27 Thread Tom
On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 05:39:05AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: Thanks for the excellent answers. > ...you don't need to worry about viruses for GNU/Linux. >GNU/Linux has a security profile. It's generally markedly different >from legacy MS Windows. >I don't think viruses and worm

Re: Poll: who's apt-get upgraded sid this week?

2003-11-27 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Tom wrote: How many people have apt-get their SID boxes since "the indicdent"? Everything seems to be back up... Is it sitnorm again? I have tried a few times, but no new or upgraded packages have showed up yet. -Roberto pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

[OT] True Spam, was Holiday Gifts

2003-11-27 Thread Michael Dominok
On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 14:33, Dennis wrote: > Please think of Fairbury Steaks for your holiday needs. We have been in > business since 1937, most recently marketing our premium quality meats > online at www.FairburySteaks.com -- Check us out there, or call toll > free at 1-877-316-9266 to reques

Re: Apt error in Debian/Sid with Python

2003-11-27 Thread Paul Morgan
Florian Ernst wrote: Hello again! On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 08:24:55PM +0200, C Stefan wrote: On toppic : The people from Debian discovered how badly the server were compromised ? Once more, as all this has been on the list several times, see http://www.wiggy.net/debian/ Because I think that my

Re: GRUB for Debian

2003-11-27 Thread Paul Morgan
Victory wrote: Hello all, How to install GRUB for Debian 3.0r1 in conjunction with kernel-image and kernel-source. By default it's LILO. Regards, Victor, A couple of useful links: http://myrddin.org/howto/debian-grub.html http://www.xs4all.nl/~lennartb/bootloaders/bootloaders.html -- .

Usable X login/starter in Debian needed

2003-11-27 Thread Otto Wyss
Isn't there a usable X login/starter in Debian. I've tried XDM (doesn't allow shutdown, looks awfull), login.app (can't start my otherwise perfect running X). I won't try GDM (requires too much of gnome), KDM (requires too much of KDM). Does anyone know a simple solution? O. Wyss -- See "http:/

Re: GRUB for Debian

2003-11-27 Thread charlie derr
apt-get install grub good luck, ~c Victory wrote: Hello all, How to install GRUB for Debian 3.0r1 in conjunction with kernel-image and kernel-source. By default it's LILO. Regards, Victor, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: Poll: who's apt-get upgraded sid this week?

2003-11-27 Thread David Z Maze
Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How many people have apt-get their SID boxes since "the indicdent"? > Everything seems to be back up... Is it sitnorm again? I'm continuing to run aptitude ~daily, but my mirror hasn't seen any updates since the compromise. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Experiment: Neophyte versus Windows XP & Debian Woody

2003-11-27 Thread John Hasler
Monique writes: > That seems like a really arbitrary way to choose to split up executables. > I guess I just don't understand why I as an admin would care to make that > distinction. /opt was invented by the commercial Unices for closed-source third-party applications. /opt was added to Linux to

Re: Downside to Aptitude?

2003-11-27 Thread Paul Morgan
M. Kirchhoff wrote: I've recently started using aptitude from the console instead of apt-get for package management on my Woody systems. I find some of the features, like the ability to do a "--with-suggests", quite useful. It seems like Aptitude does a better job of handling dependencies as wel

installing KDE on new beta installer/sarge

2003-11-27 Thread Richard Harding
I am trying to install KDE using the new beta installer and sarge. I have managed to get the system installed and WindowMaker and IceWM so far. I am getting unmet dependency errors with KDE. I have since put in unstable sources and the unmet dependencies are down to just one ksysgaurd. Does any

Re: hmm debian.org..?

2003-11-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 on Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 05:36:48PM +0100, Christian Schnobrich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 14:49, smurfd wrote: > > > Have a little faith in the debian folks! > > I sure do! > > What i dont trust, is some one claiming such thi

AMAVIS/POSTFIX

2003-11-27 Thread Jean-Paul Lacharme
POSTFIX is a pretty good smtp server. Nowadays, you cannot manage a good smtp service without running centralized anti-virus and anti-spam associated services. I manage a debian woody server. I expected that installing AMAVIS with Sophos antivirus would be a rather simple operation.. But it appeare

http://lists.debian.org/

2003-11-27 Thread Colin Miller
Hi, I tried to follow a link from http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?archive=no&bug=221761 to http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/debian-legal-200311/msg00178.html But got a 404 error. It seems that http://lists.debian.org has had its www paged deletes (or has an IP alais to anoth

Re: splitting mbox files

2003-11-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 12:52:22PM +0900, Vincent Lefevre ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On 2003-11-16 14:16:40 +, ben wrote: > > pigeon posted this script just yesterday. > > > > - > > #!/bin/bash > > IFS=$'\n' > > i=0 > > BASENAME="split.mbox

Re: Frozen mouse and keyboard in new Woody installation

2003-11-27 Thread Kent West
John wrote: On bootup of newly installed 2.4 Woody, both mouse and keyboard are frozen on the first desktop manager screen. I have tried installing with KDE and again with Gnome, and the problem is the same either way. Installation goes fine. In console mode, after installation, I am able to apt

Re: mutt and forwarded mail

2003-11-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 11:36:02PM -0600, Bill Goudie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 12:25:09PM -0500, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > > I have mail being bounced from my school account. However it is a dumb > > system and not easily configured. It's a First Class system, for those

Re: (unofficial) Debian project list status

2003-11-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 07:06:27AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Karsten M. Self wrote: <...> > >You might want to check that you're subscribed to debian-announce and/or > >debian-security-announce. Some notifications were posted to these lists > >before murphy went down, n

Re: Joe-Jobbed, was [unsubscribe]

2003-11-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 09:53:58AM +0100, Michael Dominok ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, 2003-11-22 at 21:11, L.F. wrote: > > It took me some time but it has worked. Debian has unsubscribed me. I think > > Debian is derious. Now I am not receiving any mail from > > Debian but I keep receivi

Re: XDM can't shutdown

2003-11-27 Thread ben_foley
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 08:04:42PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 03:19:49AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > use "update-alternatives --config x-window-manager" to get to a menu that > > will allow you to select between what you've got available. then use > > startx to fire

Re: Xresources & Xdefaults documentation

2003-11-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 12:39:55AM +0200, Micha Feigin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Can someone recomend so documentation about Xresources & Xdefaults. > I found some examples floating around but the exact syntax eludes me. > I tried googling, looking in the HOWTO directory and apropos but it > see

Re: Servidor com 2 acessos a Internet

2003-11-27 Thread Gilberto Villani Brito
Ola, I'm brazilian like you (heheheh...). I'm not sure what is your question, but I'll try explain to you. You can use your debian in internet, but your computer not. You need configure your debian to router and in your computer you need put the default gateway the debian's ip. Now, for your debia

Re: OK, may be not a hoax... (was Re: Hoax: Re: What up with www.debian.org ?)

2003-11-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 11:50:40AM -0800, Brian Nelson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Arnt Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 02:00:35 -0800, > > Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > >> > There should be an official announcement one way or the other soon.

Re: Apt error in Debian/Sid with Python

2003-11-27 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello again! On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 08:24:55PM +0200, C Stefan wrote: On toppic : The people from Debian discovered how badly the server were compromised ? Once more, as all this has been on the list several times, see http://www.wiggy.net/debian/ Because I think that my desktop was compromised

Re: Theoretical APT question

2003-11-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 03:36:26PM +, Ken Gilmour ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Replying to the message sent by Karsten M. Self ?on Thu, 20 Nov 2003 19:51:35 -0800, > received at 15:32:59 on 21/11/2003. Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > >Much of your objective could be attained via a reasonable par

Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 12:07:05AM -0800, Tom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Paul Johnson wrote: > > >Non-issue if you don't use Windows. > > This is totally piling on, but given this recent security compromise, > I think the whole Linux community needs to reevaluate its "can't > happen here" ment

Re: Downside to Aptitude?

2003-11-27 Thread Tom
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 08:33:22AM -0500, M. Kirchhoff wrote: > > > I've recently started using aptitude from the console instead of apt-get > for package management on my Woody systems. I find some of the > features, like the ability to do a "--with-suggests", quite useful. It > seems like Apt

Re: Modems-dialup.

2003-11-27 Thread lee
On Thursday 27 November 2003 06:35, David Palmer. wrote: > Hello Lee, > > These are the best modems in the world:- > > http://www.maestro.com.au/special%20modems.htm > > I've had one for three years, and the only time I've had a dropped > connection is when the I.S.P. has dropped it. Fully Linux co

I`cant create boot disk on fd0

2003-11-27 Thread Joxny
I try to create floppy boot disk, but something is wrong. I study method in how-to-bootdisk, and I`d like create single bootdisk with lilo. But when start my system it only write: Uncompresing linux...ok, booting the kernel. and it`s all. Where is the problem ? (sorry fo

Re: why not my box automatically power-off?

2003-11-27 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Akira Kitada wrote: Hi all. Refering "debian-reference", I'm configuring Debian for learning debian(and my convenience). One of my intention is make debian auto power-off when I invoke "shutdown -h now". for that, I've done the following configurations. (in /etc/lilo.conf) append

GRUB for Debian

2003-11-27 Thread Victory
Hello all, How to install GRUB for Debian 3.0r1 in conjunction with kernel-image and kernel-source. By default it's LILO. Regards, Victor, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: usb mouse

2003-11-27 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Simon Tod wrote: I'm having no luck in getting a USB Mouse to work... /etc/fstab reports: none /proc/bus/usb usbfs defaults 0 0 On boot up into a Knoppix 2.4.20-xfs kernel I always get... usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs usb.c: registered new driver hub usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ t

Re: Official Apt sources

2003-11-27 Thread Rus Foster
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Your Name wrote: > Hi there, > > I am fairly new to debian and i am trying to find the official apt > soures, i can find a million unoffical sources, but searching with > google and searching debian.org doesnt give it. > > I dont know who to suggest it to but maybe it could be

Downside to Aptitude?

2003-11-27 Thread M. Kirchhoff
I've recently started using aptitude from the console instead of apt-get for package management on my Woody systems. I find some of the features, like the ability to do a "--with-suggests", quite useful. It seems like Aptitude does a better job of handling dependencies as well. Are there any p

Holiday Gifts

2003-11-27 Thread Dennis
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Re: usb mouse

2003-11-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Simon Tod wrote: I'm having no luck in getting a USB Mouse to work... /etc/fstab reports: none /proc/bus/usb usbfs defaults 0 0 On boot up into a Knoppix 2.4.20-xfs kernel I always get... usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs usb.c: registered new driver hub usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ t

Re: No mouse in gpm

2003-11-27 Thread Paul Morgan
Mark Healey wrote: On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 18:01:59 -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: Mark Healey wrote: In an earlier attempt to get X running I was told to If so, run "gpmconfig" and specify: mouse location: /dev/psaux mouse type: ps/2 repeat type: raw For my generic ps2 type mouse. I've done th

Re: Which package has Perl:XML::Simple?

2003-11-27 Thread HdV
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Charlie Zender wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running sid and my perl scripts have > > use XML::Simple > > Which package is this in? Why not let the system do the work for you? $ apt-cache search XML::Simple libdns-zoneparse-perl - Perl extension for parsing and manipulating DNS Zone

Re: Experiment: Neophyte versus Windows XP & Debian Woody

2003-11-27 Thread Paul Morgan
Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 at 23:33 GMT, Paul Morgan penned: In my experience, /opt and /usr/local have slightly different functions. /opt would be used for vendor applications, etc., whereas /usr/local would be used for locally built tools, etc. That seems like a really

Official Apt sources

2003-11-27 Thread Your Name
Hi there, I am fairly new to debian and i am trying to find the official apt soures, i can find a million unoffical sources, but searching with google and searching debian.org doesnt give it. I dont know who to suggest it to but maybe it could be a useful link in the APT-howto document (or one

Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-27 Thread Gilberto Villani Brito
I use qmail + qmail-scanner + mcafee and it is working for a long time with any problem. Gilberto Em Wed, 19 Nov 2003 12:55:52 -0500 Stephen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > Hello: > > What virus scanner is the choice for most Debian users? I'm using Woody, > and rather than download and instal

Re: Debian Community Security, was Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-27 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, David Palmer. wrote: ... > Novell is offering financial enticement, depending on the project, up to > $2500.00 for moving the Gaim buddy list over to Evolution, so they are > obviously going after the desktop market, and the competition factor is > going to be up there. hum

Re: problem with python in Debian/unstable

2003-11-27 Thread Joris
J.S.Sahambi verraste ons met de boodschap: > I upgraded my sytesm (Debian/unstable) with dselect and i got the > following output. Is this some problem with distribution and how do I > remove it. > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/python_2.3.2-6_all.deb > (--unpack): > trying t

Re: apt-getting source for my kernel

2003-11-27 Thread Jazzforever
Ken Irving schrieb: On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 11:53:49PM -0800, Mark Healey wrote: I need to compile the nic driver for my Broadcom bcm4401. I have the source but it needs the kernel source. I installed from disk 5 which means I have kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4. I tried apt-getting kernel-source-2.4.18-b

Re: Modems-dialup.

2003-11-27 Thread David Palmer.
On Sat, 22 Nov 2003 13:51:22 + [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Hi folks.. > >apologies getting off topic a bit but really would like to hear > >everyone's opinion if there's particular modem that stands above and > >beyond the rest..sort of like say a Courier modem would for dial-up. > >If I go

Re: problem with python in Debian/unstable

2003-11-27 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
J.S.Sahambi wrote: > I upgraded my sytesm (Debian/unstable) with dselect and i got the > following output. Is this some problem with distribution and how do I > remove it. > > I am not able to install any new program. > :( first, install apt-listbugs. that way you'll get a list of bugs be

Re: splitting mbox files

2003-11-27 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2003-11-16 14:16:40 +, ben wrote: > pigeon posted this script just yesterday. > > - > #!/bin/bash > IFS=$'\n' > i=0 > BASENAME="split.mbox" > while read x; do > echo "$x" | grep '^From ' && i=$(( i + 1 )) > echo "$x" >> $BASENAM

Re: communication structures crumbled

2003-11-27 Thread Martin Schulze
Dan Jacobson wrote: > To us debian users, the most notable thing during this break in or > whatever episode, is how the communication structures crumbled. It had to be re-installed. You probably know that since you've read the announcement we were able to send out before the machine was taken dow

Re: Installing CUPS

2003-11-27 Thread Andrew Schulman
> How do I know if I have CUPS installed? 'apt-cache policy cupsys' will show you which version is installed 'ps aux | grep cupsd' will show you if cupsd is running 'netstat -anp -A inet | grep 631', issued as root, will show you who (if anyone) is listening on port 631/tcp. For a list of other

Re: broken apt-get/dpkg

2003-11-27 Thread Peter Samek
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 04:18:42PM -0600, Dan Davison wrote: > > Hi, I can't remove a package (powernowd) despite trying various forcing > options and --purge etc with apt-get and dpkg. The error output is below. > Could someone tell me what I should do in this situation please? The only > other t

Re: Importing Corel Draw

2003-11-27 Thread Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschler
I've exported drawings to wmf and then opened them in OpenOffice Draw with no apparant information loss. Chris Am Mittwoch, 26. November 2003 05:56 schrieb Terry Hancock: > On Tuesday 25 November 2003 03:36 pm, Andreas von Heydwolff wrote: > > There once was a free Linux port of PhotoPaint 9 fro

Re: Woody on Sparc

2003-11-27 Thread mas
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 11:01:02AM -0500, Bojan Baros wrote: > > Can you attach the XFree86.log file (/var/log), or just grep it for EE and > WW at it and paste it here? > Sorry for the delay in mailing the log file as the lists were down. I am attaching the same along with this mail. R

Re: Experiment: Neophyte versus Windows XP & Debian Woody

2003-11-27 Thread Erik Steffl
On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 17:12, Tom wrote: > On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 06:33:57PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > > In my experience, /opt and /usr/local have slightly different functions. > > /opt would be used for vendor applications, etc., whereas /usr/local > > would be used for locally built tools, e

Re: Experiment: Neophyte versus Windows XP & Debian Woody

2003-11-27 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 at 23:33 GMT, Paul Morgan penned: > > In my experience, /opt and /usr/local have slightly different > functions. /opt would be used for vendor applications, etc., whereas > /usr/local would be used for locally built tools, etc. > That seems like a really arbitrary way to cho

Re: libqt3 conflicts when installing KDE-3 in debian testing.

2003-11-27 Thread Paul Scott
Kenter, Pepijn wrote: Hi all. I'm trying to upgrade to KDE-3 in debian testing. When I select the kdebase package (4:3.1.4-0woody1), I get the following conflicts: libkonq4 depends on libarts1 (>= 1.1.4) libkonq4 depends on libqt3-mt (>= 3.1.2) libarts1 depends on libqt3c102-mt (>= 3.2.1) libqt3

Re: eject command for normal users and some other stuff

2003-11-27 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 18:34, H S wrote: --snip-- > Next, for some reason, "eject" command is also root only? How do I > make normal user also be able to use that as well? The easiest way is to make the eject binary SUID root. (man chmod for more info) Note that making ANYTHING SUID root is general

Unison dies..

2003-11-27 Thread linuxinfo
Hi All.. How can I set unison to run as a dameon on the server and on the client prevent it for running more than on instance when the cron calls it.. Many Thanks Gregory Machin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

HELP...Updating libc6 to newer version on debian woody...

2003-11-27 Thread linuxinfo
Hi All.. Does anyone know how i can update libc6 to the latest stable release on debian woody. A number of time's i have wanted to install new software and not been able to because the version of libc6 was to old.. Many Thanks Gregory Machin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Joe-Jobbed, was [unsubscribe]

2003-11-27 Thread Michael Dominok
On Sat, 2003-11-22 at 21:11, L.F. wrote: > It took me some time but it has worked. Debian has unsubscribed me. I think > Debian is derious. Now I am not receiving any mail from > Debian but I keep receiving a lot of e-mails from many other places: > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAI

Re: zsh completion for CVS

2003-11-27 Thread Magnus Therning
On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 12:55:36PM +0900, Vincent Lefevre wrote: >On 2003-11-18 09:31:42 +0100, Magnus Therning wrote: >> The command line completion for CVS in zsh seems to be broken: the >> completion for 'cvs add' doesn't provide completion for file names >> :-( > >It depends on the filenames. I

Re: Learning debian Linux

2003-11-27 Thread John L. Fjellstad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 25 November 2003 10:32, Davor Balder wrote: > If you want to learn *linux*, that takes *a lot* of reading. Starting > from philosophy, the concept, how it is supposed to operate, meaning, > the zen... And for that, Debian is the best. Painfu

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2003-11-27 Thread lnx
Hi folks.. apologies getting off topic a bit but really would like to hear everyone's opinion if there's particular modem that stands above and beyond the rest..sort of like say a Courier modem would for dial-up. If I go with Alltel's choice it'll be a Slipstream 5200 most likely..which hopeful

Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-27 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya stephen On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Stephen wrote: > On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 05:16:12PM -0800 or thereabouts, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 12:55:52PM -0500, Stephen wrote: > > > What virus scanner is the choice for most Debian users? I'm using Woody, > > > and rather than downl

Re: finding what is using a mount point

2003-11-27 Thread Alvin Oga
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Tyler Morgan wrote: > On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 03:43:49PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > > I mounted an image through a loop interface and now when I try to unload > > it I get a message: > > umount: /home/micha/tmp: device is busy > > I made sure no file is open from there but

Re: Future transit from testing to stable with sarge possible?

2003-11-27 Thread Tobias Reckhard
Nick Welch wrote: Er... I think I misunderstood you. Yep. You want to just stay with sarge while it's testing and keep it when it becomes stable too? Exactly. Yeah, you can just use 'sarge' in sources.list. The code names (woody, sarge, etc) work as well as stable / testing / unstable. Good. T

Re: traffic shaper

2003-11-27 Thread LeVA
Greg Folkert írta: On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 15:02, LeVA wrote: Hello! I'm looking for an application which can limit another process's bandwith usage. A program called 'trickle' does this perfectly, but I've read a few minutes ago on it's homepage, that the programmer stopped developing it, and I

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