Re: Next On The Checklist - VNC

2003-12-14 Thread Scarletdown
On 14 Dec 2003 at 23:14, Nate Duehr wrote: > On Sunday 14 December 2003 10:56 pm, Scarletdown wrote: > > > Oh, and after looking at everything I posted above here, I am now > > wondering... Since the lines added to /etc/inetd.conf call Xvnc, is it > > possible that I am calling up the wrong serv

kernel expolit. is 2.4.18-bf2.4 affected?

2003-12-14 Thread Paul William
Hi all, Is the stock woody 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel affected by the kernel exploit that was used to attack the debian.org servers? If it is affected then what kernel is safe? Thanks Paul -- .''`. Paul William : :' :Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things t

Re: can't logout on consoles

2003-12-14 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
Shawn posts: >> experienced that when logging out on a console the message "logout" >> appears and the session hangs Have had a similar experience after upgrading `util-linux'. The package util-linux supplies getty, getty is the culprit here as it does not immediately free the tty after l

Re: Next On The Checklist - VNC

2003-12-14 Thread Nate Duehr
On Sunday 14 December 2003 10:56 pm, Scarletdown wrote: > Oh, and after looking at everything I posted above here, I am now > wondering... Since the lines added to /etc/inetd.conf call Xvnc, is it > possible that I am calling up the wrong server when I test this stuff > manually? I've been using

Re: Linux is not for consumers!

2003-12-14 Thread jerry garcia
On Thursday 11 December 2003 12:26 pm, David Baron wrote: > Problems persist and have gotten nowhere! > > 1. Connecting ADSL -- edited everything including ppp_on_boot, > dsl_provider, pap_secrets, all that stuff. No go. Running "pon ppp_on_boot" > gives me a bad tdb and quits. The only tdb referen

Re: Next On The Checklist - VNC

2003-12-14 Thread Scarletdown
On 15 Dec 2003 at 3:24, Antony Gelberg wrote: > On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 06:59:58PM -0800, Scarletdown wrote: > > Okay, I just installed the VNC package and successfully accessed a KDE > > desktop from my Windows-98 system. And I must say, I became instantly > > enamored with VNC. However, I no

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

2003-12-14 Thread ben_foley
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 06:41:59PM +0100, Magnus von Koeller wrote: Content-Description: signed data > On Sunday 14 December 2003 17:21, Al Davis wrote: > > It is worth putting up with some spam to get a free, uncensored, > > fast email system. > > Free, uncensored and worthless would be a better

hard drive recognition for >2.4.16 kernels

2003-12-14 Thread TJ Sellari
I've been trying without success to run 2.4.22, 2.4.23, or 2.6.0 kernels on Sarge. The problem seems to be that they see my hard drive as hda rather than as hde. 2.4.16 (and Windows XP) sees the drive as hde, as do several versions of tomsrtbt and Knoppix, and they all boot with no problems. T

Re: can't logout on consoles

2003-12-14 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Sun, December 14 at 10:44 PM EST Shawn Lamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hello - > >Recently I have experienced that when logging out on a console the >message "logout" appears and the session hangs there. The screen >accepts keypresses and I can CTRL+ALT+F7 back to an XSession. The >logout

Re: scott wiseman is pissing me off

2003-12-14 Thread ben_foley
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 09:10:54AM -0800, Scott M. Wiseman wrote: > To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: RESUME - Client Development Specialist for Technology firms > > IF this resume reaches you in Error. > > Please forward to your Human Resources Department > > > > > > Resume > > > >

Re: My Debian box can't connect Internet

2003-12-14 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Paul, Thanks for your advice. On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 04:13, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 11:54:22PM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > > # cat /etc/resolv.conf > > search domain.com\000 > > nameserver 192.168.2.1 > > Ah ha! You might try adding a nameserver on the outside or mak

Re: Easing the load.

2003-12-14 Thread ben_foley
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 04:36:05AM +0800, David Palmer. wrote: > On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 19:35:58 + > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [huge snippage] > > very disappointed to see anyone receive those as a response to a > > genuine query on this list. while independent inititiative is well > > recommend

Re: PDF spec (Was: Re: ooh! debian jewelry)

2003-12-14 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
Monique posts: >> I could have sworn that PDF was a spec published by Adobe and freely >> usable, but google seems to disagree Should the PDF format be used and recommended by governments? The Govt. of India is calling for opinions and this link is interesting http://gnu.org.in/philosoph

can't logout on consoles

2003-12-14 Thread Shawn Lamson
Hello - Recently I have experienced that when logging out on a console the message "logout" appears and the session hangs there. The screen accepts keypresses and I can CTRL+ALT+F7 back to an XSession. The logout just seems to hang indefinitely. Happens on "exit" or "logout" for all users, incl

Re: Next On The Checklist - VNC

2003-12-14 Thread Antony Gelberg
On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 06:59:58PM -0800, Scarletdown wrote: > Okay, I just installed the VNC package and successfully accessed a KDE > desktop from my Windows-98 system. And I must say, I became instantly > enamored with VNC. However, I now have a bunch of questions. I suggest you peruse the

Re: software raid

2003-12-14 Thread Antony Gelberg
On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 07:43:31PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > hi ya lucas > > On Sat, 13 Dec 2003, Lucas Albers wrote: > > > I've been trying to get debian stable working with software raid using > > various documentation. > > collection of um > http://www.1U-Raid5.net > > > If you can

Re: Earthlink and Swen

2003-12-14 Thread Steve Lamb
Kevin Mark wrote: more viruses, more cpu time, more MONEY. Its always money in the end. Well, not always money. Money is the final factor, to be sure, but I can say with a resonable level of assurance that there are other factors. Factors such as space and power. Granted one can get more

Re: Kernel options - how to determine which are needed?

2003-12-14 Thread Steve Lamb
Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..shorewall is neat. Using the webmin gui module? Nope, editing the configuration file by hand. ..if you're a iptables newbie fresh from the ipchains bronze age world, just make sure you understand the subtle new meanings to a few things in iptables. ;-) Heh, I never

Re: Applications are too big

2003-12-14 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 at 08:02 GMT, Mark Healey penned: > On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 00:31:03 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > >>Are you running X directly from x/k/gdm? > > gdm, for some reason the install procedure didn't have a console > login option. I'd like to hace a console login screen. There

Re: PDF spec (Was: Re: ooh! debian jewelry)

2003-12-14 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 at 15:54 GMT, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) penned: > On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 14:08:21 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: >> Hrm, I could have sworn that PDF was a spec published by Adobe and >> freely usable, but google seems to disagree. > > Google isn't quite the all-seeing eye yet. >

Re: How to know correct hardware options for compiling 2.4.23 kernel

2003-12-14 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 10:49:29AM -0600, J N wrote: > ... I'm noticing that I appear to need to know more specific technical > information than I currently have access to for my laptop: Dell Latitude > CPI-A 366XT. Can anyone point me to a FAQ that would tell me what kind > of chipsets were in

gethostbyname() always does DNS lookup when DISPLAY is set

2003-12-14 Thread Frank Dekervel
hello, i'm facing a really weird problem on my machine. when doing "telnet localhost" my machine always does a DNS lookup even if - host.conf: order hosts, bind - nsswitch.conf: hosts: files dns - localhost is defined in /etc/hosts now, if i do 'unset DISPLAY' this behaviour goes magically away

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

2003-12-14 Thread Wesley J Landaker
On Sunday 14 December 2003 2:37 pm, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote: > Am So, den 14.12.2003 schrieb Al Davis um 17:21: > > On Thursday 11 December 2003 03:56 pm, Joerg Rossdeutscher > > > > wrote: > > > Yes, many ISPs do that, and it's a good thing. > > > We all would drown in spam if they accepted mail

Re: Next On The Checklist - VNC

2003-12-14 Thread Johann Koenig
On Sunday December 14 at 07:33pm Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nunya wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 11:29:59AM -0800, Deryk Barker wrote: > > > >>True, but there is no preservation of the session. The original > >>developers of VNC (Olivetti UK) wanted this feature so that peop

Re: yet another NVIDIA problem (4496)

2003-12-14 Thread Stewart Jenkins
On Saturday 13 December 2003 02:05, Paul Johnson wrote: > > That is the crap driver I'm talking about. BTW, you can get it easier > with apt...the nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx packages are it. Interesting. I had lots of problems with the two debian packages, but have had rock solid performanc

Re: OT:Message to all computer vendors

2003-12-14 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 17:26:49 -0500, alex wrote: [snip] > we tell which ones? My guess is that there just hasn't been any incentive > for manufacturers to 'bother' with even trying them on Linux. Could it > be that > they don't have any Linux knowledgeable people working for them?. > If manufact

Re: Trying to boot after Debian installer ran

2003-12-14 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 16:16, Damon L. Chesser wrote: Snip This got it going: (grub menu.lst of Libranet) title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.4.22-1-386 root(hd1,5) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-1-386 root=/dev/hdb6 ro hdc=scsi hdd=scsi initrd=/boot/init

Re: ICMP redirect

2003-12-14 Thread David Z Maze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I would like to ask about the icmp messasages sending in linux > 2.4.x. I have two subnets: 192.168.0.0/24 and 192.168.1.0/24 on the > same ethernet segment. There is a gateway in each subnet > (192.168.0.1 and 192.168.1.1). Clients use netmask > 255.255.255.0. Routers

Re: Next On The Checklist - VNC

2003-12-14 Thread Scarletdown
On 15 Dec 2003 at 1:28, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 15:04:23 -0800, > "Scarletdown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > So I am making some headway on this project. Now, here is what I am > > ultimately shooting for. > > > > 1: Have vncserver load au

Re: Copy all desktop settings for a new user

2003-12-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 10:41:34AM +0100, Philipp Schulte ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, > lets say I have a few users (not all of them with prior GNU/Linux ^ ' > experiance) and I want to setup a common profile for their accounts. > By profile I mean things like desktop-icons, des

Re: aic7xxx kernel freeze...

2003-12-14 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 23:44:18 +0100, Ignacio Más Ivars <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi all! > > I have a problem that is driving me crazy. I am trying install a > custom version of the 2.4.22 kernel ..why not your custom 2.4.23? It _may_ have been fixed in th

Re: Next On The Checklist - VNC

2003-12-14 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Nunya wrote: On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 11:29:59AM -0800, Deryk Barker wrote: True, but there is no preservation of the session. The original developers of VNC (Olivetti UK) wanted this feature so that people could disconnect their viewer at work, go home, reconnect and be exactly where they had left

Re: Orphaning of Firebird RDBMS

2003-12-14 Thread Grzegorz B. Prokopski
W liście z nie, 14-12-2003, godz. 07:21, John L. Fjellstad pisze: > Hi Grzegorz, > > I read that you might not have time to work on the maintance of the firebird > package. I was wondering what kind of work is involved in maintaining a > debian package? There's nothing particularry unachievab

ldap based /etc/passwd with md5 vs crypt

2003-12-14 Thread hanasaki
The sarge setup supports selecting crypt for passwds in ldap. How can MD5 be used?mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Next On The Checklist - VNC

2003-12-14 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 15:04:23 -0800, "Scarletdown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 14 Dec 2003 at 11:28, Deryk Barker wrote: > > > Thus spake Scarletdown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > You need to run vncserver as that user. > > > > > > > > 2: The VNC session alw

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

2003-12-14 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Joerg Rossdeutscher: > > Censorship? Nonsense. Blah, blah, blah. *plonk* -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling - - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

Missing headers (was Re: Use Debian mailinglists with slow connection to Internet?)

2003-12-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 12:34:07PM +, Clive Standbridge ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat 13 Dec 2003 12:51:37 +(-0800), Karsten M. Self wrote: > > ...OTOH, it may reduce a lot of the overhead of full headers. > Hmm, the references and in-reply-to headers have been missing for the last

Re: Trying to boot after Debian installer ran

2003-12-14 Thread Damon L. Chesser
csj wrote: On 14. December 2003 at 4:16PM -0600, "Damon L. Chesser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snipped: grub menu entries, etc] Given the above, how can I get Debian to boot? cd into the Debain / (while running Libranet) and run lilo? Modify in some unknown to me way the above grub entry?

Re: Kernel options - how to determine which are needed?

2003-12-14 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 10:04:07 -0800, Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > .._I_ would add everything in netfilter/iptables and remove ipchains > > support, and make use of iptables statefullness features, up high in > > in my rule lists, s

aic7xxx kernel freeze...

2003-12-14 Thread Ignacio Más Ivars
Hi all! I have a problem that is driving me crazy. I am trying install a custom version of the 2.4.22 kernel no matter what I do it freezes dead when trying to load the aic7xxx driver. I have tried to compile the driver in the kernel, as a module, both the driver and the SCSI support as a module,

Re: [OT] C programming, variable size array

2003-12-14 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 08:38:18PM +0200, Aryan Ameri wrote: > Hi There: > > I am a first year CS student, learning C. A while ago I was asked this > question from a fellow friend of mine: > > "Write a program, which promts the uset to enter some numbers. The user > should terminate the sequenc

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

2003-12-14 Thread Magnus von Koeller
On Sunday 14 December 2003 22:46, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote: > There's no alternative. You can't block open relays on dynamic IPs, > since they are _dynamic_ IPs. Yes, what's happening to you is > unfair. Any better ideas? I don't see one. And I don't want to > receive spam from millions of open "d

Re: Next On The Checklist - VNC

2003-12-14 Thread Scarletdown
On 14 Dec 2003 at 11:28, Deryk Barker wrote: > Thus spake Scarletdown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > You need to run vncserver as that user. > > > > > 2: The VNC session always gives me the KDE desktop. However, I would > > like to run other desktops as well (GNOME in particular). Is there any >

Re: Trying to boot after Debian installer ran

2003-12-14 Thread csj
On 14. December 2003 at 4:16PM -0600, "Damon L. Chesser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snipped: grub menu entries, etc] > Given the above, how can I get Debian to boot? cd into the > Debain / (while running Libranet) and run lilo? Modify in some > unknown to me way the above grub entry? Grub and

Re: Trying to boot after Debian installer ran

2003-12-14 Thread panda
Damon L. Chesser wrote: I have run the debian installer, installed a base system, chose the default LILO install choice. The installer did NOT wright (I watched the drive light to verify this, it SHOULD have written) to the disk, system re-booted. I have mounted the Debian partitions to examin

Trying to boot after Debian installer ran

2003-12-14 Thread Damon L. Chesser
I have run the debian installer, installed a base system, chose the default LILO install choice. The installer did NOT wright (I watched the drive light to verify this, it SHOULD have written) to the disk, system re-booted. I have mounted the Debian partitions to examine them. Debian root =

Re: Compiling a kernel without making a .deb package.

2003-12-14 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 10:02:28AM -0600, John Foster wrote: > Joseph Jones wrote: > > >I can compile a kernel into a .deb package as described in the > >newbiedoc, but I need to compile a kernel with drivers for my laptop's > >NIC so I can make a rescue disc to do a network install from. Could

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

2003-12-14 Thread Joerg Rossdeutscher
Am So, den 14.12.2003 schrieb Raquel Rice um 03:27: > Blocking an IP range just without > knowing they are open relays or sending out spam is no better than > arresting a black man because the police officer has some idiot > belief that black men commit all crimes. There's no alternative. You can'

Re: don't have enough free space

2003-12-14 Thread Kent West
Gruessle wrote: Hi, This is my first post and help call :) I just installed Debian I did exit without installing any packages - had to install it 3 times and didn't want to risk another glitch while installing packages. Anyway the basic system seams to work now, but I have following problem I ra

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

2003-12-14 Thread Joerg Rossdeutscher
Am So, den 14.12.2003 schrieb Adam um 12:57: > On Saturday 13 December 2003 09:50, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote: > > There's nothing wrong with fetching mail > > - immediately after every dial in > > - every 10 minutes when being online > > - every 3 hours no matter if already online > > > > Works fi

Re: Earthlink and Swen

2003-12-14 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 12:53:20PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > > Then that is my mistake; I offer my apology to you and to Ross. I > found out about it several days ago during a normal routine check of > services offered on earthlink's web site, and immediately turned it on, I did the same. >

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

2003-12-14 Thread Joerg Rossdeutscher
Am So, den 14.12.2003 schrieb Al Davis um 17:21: > On Thursday 11 December 2003 03:56 pm, Joerg Rossdeutscher > wrote: > > Yes, many ISPs do that, and it's a good thing. > > We all would drown in spam if they accepted mail from > > everywhere. There is absolutely nothing you can do except to > > u

Re: loopback interface down, sob ;-(

2003-12-14 Thread Lou Losee
I recently had something similar. It turned out to be that I had two versions of ifconfig installed. One was in /sbin/ifconfig, the other in /usr/bin/ifconfig. The 'correct' ifconfig was the one in /sbin/ifconfig. It seems that I had installed the inetutils-tools package which caused the bogus

Re: Linux is not for consumers!

2003-12-14 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 12:59:54AM -0500, H. S. wrote: > Apparently, _Bijan Soleymani_, on 12/14/03 00:36,typed: > > My favourite quote is from the emacs manual: > > > > "Help buffers describing variables or functions defined in Lisp > >normally have hyperlinks to the Lisp definition, if you

OT:Message to all computer vendors

2003-12-14 Thread alex
Roberto Sanchez wrote: Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 at 03:14 GMT, alex penned: What do you think of everyone on this list and other Linux lists sending a form letter to all computer vendors asking them if they have systemless computers or components that will work with Linux?

Re: eject won't work any more

2003-12-14 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Joan Tur_, on 12/14/03 16:07,typed: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Es Diumenge 14 Desembre 2003 21:33, en H. S. va escriure: Apparently, _Joan Tur_, on 12/14/03 15:29,typed: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- After having removed all *knoppix* packages (I installed SID

Re: PDF spec (Was: Re: ooh! debian jewelry)

2003-12-14 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 22:50:32 -0600, Terry Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I attended media production classes > for staff at Caltech in which making maximum use of these > PDF 5 features was *really* pushed hard (sometime last year). > No doubt they had also

Re: eject won't work any more

2003-12-14 Thread Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Es Diumenge 14 Desembre 2003 21:33, en H. S. va escriure: > Apparently, _Joan Tur_, on 12/14/03 15:29,typed: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > After having removed all *knoppix* packages (I installed SID using > > knoppix 3.2 and then changed

How to Esc?

2003-12-14 Thread Gruessle
In the install I am in "Testing up sources ..." and get connection timed out How can I esc from thet without reboot? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Kernel-HOWTO has been removed for review

2003-12-14 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 12:29:50 -0600, Terry Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >>Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > >>>.. ;-) And I need to get time to learn the Debian way. ;-) > > >>T

Re: PDF spec

2003-12-14 Thread John Hasler
Terry Hancock writes: > Which says they're trying to deny certain fair use rights... No it doesn't. Fair use is defined by law. It grants you the right to do certain things _without_ _the_ _copyright_ _owner's_ _permission_. The publisher has no obligation to enumerate your fair use rights. Th

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

2003-12-14 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 14:26:07 -0500, Al Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Actually ... I have several email addresses, and my mail comes > in from several paths. MY spam filtering seems to be nearly > 100% effective on the freeelectron address, which I control.

Re: Can't mount floppy as USER

2003-12-14 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 12:53:31AM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > (remark: I also tried > /dev/fd0 /floppy autoowner,user,noauto 0 0) You want... /dev/fd0 /floppy autouser,noauto,rw 0 0 - -- .

Re: eject won't work any more

2003-12-14 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _H. S._, on 12/14/03 15:33,typed: This is a repost, the first one got screwed up, apologies. Apparently, _Joan Tur_, on 12/14/03 15:29,typed: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hallo! After having removed all *knoppix* packages (I installed SID using knoppix 3.2 and then

Re: eject won't work any more

2003-12-14 Thread H. S.
This is a repost, the first one got screwed up, apologies. Apparently, _Joan Tur_, on 12/14/03 15:29,typed: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hallo! After having removed all *knoppix* packages (I installed SID using knoppix 3.2 and then changed to sid's repositories), eject won't wor

Re: eject won't work any more

2003-12-14 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Joan Tur_, on 12/14/03 15:29,typed: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hallo! After having removed all *knoppix* packages (I installed SID using knoppix 3.2 and then changed to sid's repositories), eject won't work any more: 1. as user. When run witn "-v" parameter it sh

eject won't work any more

2003-12-14 Thread Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hallo! After having removed all *knoppix* packages (I installed SID using knoppix 3.2 and then changed to sid's repositories), eject won't work any more: 1. as user. When run witn "-v" parameter it shows like the following: - - [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: PDF spec (Was: Re: ooh! debian jewelry)

2003-12-14 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 12:56:45 -0600, Terry Hancock wrote: > I accessed this without registering because you provided a deep-link, but > normally, Adobe makes you go through a forms process to get this far, > AFAICT. Nope. I very vaguely recalled it being available on "developer.adobe.com" (whic

Re: xsane on woody [SOLVED]

2003-12-14 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi list! I am setting up *Backstreet Ruby* the multi-seat Linux option on woody. Had to recompile X 4.3.0: works great... Have a problem with xsane. On woody it's version 0.84-2. When doing any scanning the colors look extremely weird, sort of like a color negative. Googli

Re: Linux is not for consumers!

2003-12-14 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _John Hasler_, on 12/14/03 15:11,typed: H. S. writes: But we are fortunate the kind of attitude that some programmers and hackers have is not so common outside their community. Imagine going to a charity medical camp and explaining your problem and getting a retort in return similar to

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

2003-12-14 Thread Al Davis
On Sunday 14 December 2003 12:41 pm, Magnus von Koeller wrote: > On Sunday 14 December 2003 17:21, Al Davis wrote: > > It is worth putting up with some spam to get a free, > > uncensored, fast email system. > > Free, uncensored and worthless would be a better description > for my email account if i

Re: Easing the load.

2003-12-14 Thread David Palmer.
On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 19:35:58 + [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 07:48:26AM -0600, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > > > - Original Message - > > From: "David Palmer." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2003 23:16 > > Subject: Re: E

Re: My Debian box can't connect Internet

2003-12-14 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 11:54:22PM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > # cat /etc/resolv.conf > search domain.com\000 > nameserver 192.168.2.1 Ah ha! You might try adding a nameserver on the outside or make sure that nameserver is able to get a connection

Re: Linux is not for consumers!

2003-12-14 Thread John Hasler
H. S. writes: > But we are fortunate the kind of attitude that some programmers and > hackers have is not so common outside their community. Imagine going to a > charity medical camp and explaining your problem and getting a retort in > return similar to "Go read a book on medicine first," or "To r

Re: Next On The Checklist - VNC

2003-12-14 Thread Deryk Barker
Thus spake Nunya ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 11:29:59AM -0800, Deryk Barker wrote: > > > > True, but there is no preservation of the session. The original > > developers of VNC (Olivetti UK) wanted this feature so that people > > could disconnect their viewer at work, go home,

Re: Easing the load.

2003-12-14 Thread David Palmer.
On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 12:25:11 -0500 Paul Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 13:16:05 +0800, David Palmer. wrote: > > [snip] > > Perhaps you'll follow your own advice and seek three votes to throw > yourself off the list for your inability to use line wrap. Well, maybe this t

Re: Next On The Checklist - VNC

2003-12-14 Thread Nunya
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 11:29:59AM -0800, Deryk Barker wrote: > > True, but there is no preservation of the session. The original > developers of VNC (Olivetti UK) wanted this feature so that people > could disconnect their viewer at work, go home, reconnect and be > exactly where they had left of

changing roots on: dpkg -i

2003-12-14 Thread Rob Benton
I'm trying to install the xfree86 packages with the /opt directory as root. I've tried using --instdir but the install fails on the pre/postinst scripts. Is there an easy way to do this without having to build my own package? If not is there a way I can modify the binary debs without having to r

Re: Next On The Checklist - VNC

2003-12-14 Thread Deryk Barker
Thus spake Roberto Sanchez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): ... > Unless you need the entire desktop for something, you might try > X11 forwarding. You can install Cygwin/X on your '98 box and then > ssh into your Debian box. Then you can run whatever X apps you want > as the user that you logged in as. Tru

Re: Next On The Checklist - VNC

2003-12-14 Thread Deryk Barker
Thus spake Scarletdown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Okay, I just installed the VNC package and successfully accessed a KDE > desktop from my Windows-98 system. And I must say, I became instantly > enamored with VNC. However, I now have a bunch of questions. > > 1: Every time I connect, I always ge

Re: don't have enough free space

2003-12-14 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Gruessle_, on 12/14/03 14:02,typed: Hi, This is my first post and help call :) I just installed Debian I did exit without installing any packages - had to install it 3 times and didn't want to risk another glitch while installing packages. Anyway the basic system seams to work now, bu

don't have enough free space

2003-12-14 Thread Gruessle
Hi, This is my first post and help call :) I just installed Debian I did exit without installing any packages - had to install it 3 times and didn't want to risk another glitch while installing packages. Anyway the basic system seams to work now, but I have following problem I ran tasksel from

Client Development Specialist for Technology firms

2003-12-14 Thread Scott M. Wiseman
Title: Objective: To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RESUME - Client Development Specialist for Technology firms IF this resume reaches you in Error. Please forward to your Human Resources Department     Resume   Scott Wiseman 13428 Maxella Ave Ste 207 Marina Del Rey, CA 90292 310-96

Re: Can't mount floppy as USER

2003-12-14 Thread Paul Morgan
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 00:53:31 +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > Hi folks, > > I can't mount floppy as USER only as ROOT > > /etc/fstab > /etc/fstab: static file system information. > # > # > > /dev/hdc2 / ext2errors=remount-r

Re: Earthlink and Swen

2003-12-14 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 23:58:34 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 06:31:55PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > >> - if you don't read communications from earthlink, then no wonder you >> don't know what's going on >> > I did check my backed up folder and found the last 8 months of earthl

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

2003-12-14 Thread Magnus von Koeller
On Sunday 14 December 2003 17:21, Al Davis wrote: > It is worth putting up with some spam to get a free, uncensored, > fast email system. Free, uncensored and worthless would be a better description for my email account if it wasn't for my Spam filtering - considering that >95% of my email is Sp

Re: NSCD not in process list

2003-12-14 Thread Craig Jackson
On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 08:16, Craig Jackson wrote: Looks like nscd is looking for the root account but can't find it. I think maybe something isn't working properly with pam_ldap. 6126: handle_request: request received (Version = 2) 6126: GETPWBYUID (0) 6126: Haven't found "0" in password cache

Re: Bootup Freezes - Still Need Help

2003-12-14 Thread Thomas H. George
Responders have suggested this might be a hardware problem but I don't see why. I downloaded the latest debian kernel-source-2.4.22 and complied a new kernel. I still have the freeze on bootup problem. The point in the bootup process where this occurs seems to be random. I can recover by bootin

Re: I can't update SPARC unstable

2003-12-14 Thread Nate Duehr
On Saturday, Dec 13, 2003, at 15:02 America/Denver, Scott Robert Ladd wrote: Colin Watson wrote: The maddening thing is, the update worked for the Sparc a couple of weeks ago, but hasn't worked at all in the last few days. In what way does it fail to work? In dselect, when I ask it to update, th

Re: Linux is not for consumers!

2003-12-14 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Roberto Sanchez_, on 12/14/03 10:48,typed: H. S. wrote: Good thing this is not a common approach, else everybody would be *told* they *must* know image processing theory and compression theory to view an mpeg movie on a computer! ->HS I find that learning the theory behind someth

Re: PDF spec (Was: Re: ooh! debian jewelry)

2003-12-14 Thread Terry Hancock
On Sunday 14 December 2003 09:54 am, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > http://partners.adobe.com/asn/tech/pdf/specifications.jsp has e.g. > the PDF Reference, Fourth Edition, Version 1.5 (1172 pages). xpdf seems to > handle the "Acrobat 5" version of it just fine. Hmm. Yes, that's very interesting. I

Re: Easing the load.

2003-12-14 Thread ben_foley
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 07:48:26AM -0600, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "David Palmer." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2003 23:16 > Subject: Re: Easing the load. > > > > On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 09:16:24 -0500 > > Paul Morga

Re: Copy all desktop settings for a new user

2003-12-14 Thread Terry Hancock
On Sunday 14 December 2003 08:49 am, Philipp Schulte wrote: > Nunya wrote: > > I do it for these files: > > > > desk:/mnt/apt/inst/dotfiles# ls > > dot.fetchmailrc dot.gnome dot.gtkrc-1.2-gnome2 > > dot.procmailrcdot.xsession > > dot.fluxbox dot.gnome2 dot.gtkrc-2.0

Re: Grub problems

2003-12-14 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Anita Lewis wrote: On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 10:53:40 + (UTC), Anita Lewis wrote: On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 21:58:25 -0600, Damon L. Chesser wrote: I blew up my grub with the debian installer, and it (the installer) does not rigth lilo to hda. How do I repair my grub? I know the drive lay-outs

Re: Easing the load.

2003-12-14 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 13:16:05 +0800, David Palmer. wrote: [snip] Perhaps you'll follow your own advice and seek three votes to throw yourself off the list for your inability to use line wrap. -- paul "Do the little things" ("Gwnewch y pethau bychain") St. David (Dewi Sant)

Re: My Debian box can't connect Internet

2003-12-14 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Stephen Liu: > [somebody:] > > Similarly to kill the connection: > > > > poff dsl-provider > > # poff 202.123.68.108 > /usr/bin/poff: I could not find a pppd process for provider Close, but no cigar. Use (literally!): poff dsl-provider# not IP address -- Any technolo

Re: Kernel-HOWTO has been removed for review

2003-12-14 Thread Terry Hancock
> > Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >>Arnt Karlsen wrote: > >>>.. ;-) And I need to get time to learn the Debian way. ;-) > >>The Debian way is really a piece of cake. > > ..patching too? How about Netfilter Patch-O-Matic? > > > From `man make-k

Can't install mythtv on unstable

2003-12-14 Thread stan
I'm building a new stable machine to use as a testbed for mythtv. I've added the following to etc/apt/sources.lst # MythTV deb http://dijkstra.csh.rit.edu:8088/~mdz/debian woody mythtv deb http://marillat.free.fr testing main But when I do an "apt-get install mythtv\*" I get an error about not fi

Re: NSCD not in process list

2003-12-14 Thread Craig Jackson
More info: sid -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Kernel options - how to determine which are needed?

2003-12-14 Thread Steve Lamb
Arnt Karlsen wrote: .._I_ would add everything in netfilter/iptables and remove ipchains support, and make use of iptables statefullness features, up high in in my rule lists, seatch netfilter.org mailing lists for samples of " -j ALLOW RELATED,ESTABLISHED " in action. Well, that's a given. Th

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