Re: Lots of problems - help please

2004-06-23 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 00:27:57 +0200, Daniel Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I love apt-get for the easiness of installing things, but do any of you have any idea what a headache it is to find out what a certain package is called? If there was a simple 'list everything that's installed' (and I'm

Re: Lots of problems - help please

2004-06-23 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 10:49:57 +1200, Simon Kitching [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NB: Can anyone point me to a reference that describes what the flags on the left of the dpkg --list output (eg ii, rc) mean? I know ii means installed.. On the first few lines of its output. ;-)

XFree86: unresolved symbols in LibGLCore.a

2004-03-10 Thread Rob VanFleet
One of my machines running woody has developed a notion that it should no longer be capable of starting the X server. I made no changes to it, the first report of it came after a user logged out from a successful X session, after which KDM tried to start several times, finally falling back to the

Re: How to find WHEN a package was installed

2004-03-01 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 12:13:00PM +, Colin Watson wrote: On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 09:50:26PM +1000, Peter A. Cole wrote: I need to find out when my perl version was upgraded, and I can use dpkg to verify the fact that it's installed, but I can't seem to find a way to display *when* it

Re: How to find WHEN a package was installed

2004-03-01 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 07:00:07PM +0100, Florian Ernst wrote: Hello Rob! On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:33:57AM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 12:13:00PM +, Colin Watson wrote: I'm sorry, but there's no facility in dpkg to log installations at the moment: it's

gnome sound server monopolizing alsa's audio

2003-12-18 Thread Rob VanFleet
I'm currently using sid's Gnome 2.4 and alsa 0.9.8-3 with an Intel 82801EB integrated sound card (snd-intel8x0 driver). It works fine except for when I enable sound events in gnome. When gnome's sound server is running nothing gets to use the audio device save gnome itself. My event sounds work

Re: gnome sound server monopolizing alsa's audio

2003-12-18 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 08:11:10AM -0500, Laurence J. Lane wrote: On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 06:29:15AM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: Is this a known bug, and if so, is there a workaround? I tried searching the BTS, but I wasn't really sure which package to look for. Any given program can

Re: gnome sound server monopolizing alsa's audio

2003-12-18 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 09:56:37AM -0500, Mark Roach wrote: On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 09:37, Bijan Soleymani wrote: The only thing close to this is esd -terminate that kills the server after the last client exits. However that's not very useful for gnome, since it only plays a little sound

Re: Stable Debian == obsolete??

2003-11-10 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 06:31:46PM -0600, Chema wrote: On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 21:01:49 +1100 Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RW When I got to the boot loader options, I was surprised to find RW only lilo. RW RW You need a default bootloader during the install. lilo works. If RW you

Re: Stable Debian == obsolete??

2003-11-10 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 12:34:23AM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: On ?, 2003-11-10 at 19:49, Rob VanFleet wrote: On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 06:31:46PM -0600, Chema wrote: Lilo can't boot from any place after the 2Gb, at least it couldn't the last time I used it, about a year and a half ago

Re: filtering MS* mails w/ Spamassassin

2003-10-24 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 07:30:10AM -0500, Nathan J. Malmberg wrote: On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 03:24:42AM -0400, ThanhVu Nguyen wrote: My SA setting blocks most of the spam mails but it doesn't/can't stop these MS mails, no matter how many MS examples I try to feed to it to learn. Anyone has

Re: rsyncing via cron

2003-09-17 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 10:30:05AM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: * Andy Firman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030917 10:18]: I have never used ssh-add but I am doing the same thing you are and I used this very nice how-to that you may find useful: http://killyridols.net/rsyncssh.shtml Careful with

Re: Gnome 2.x backport

2003-09-17 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 05:36:15PM -0300, Valter G. Nogueira Jr. wrote: where can I find a Gnome 2.x backport? See here: http://debianplanet.org/node.php?id=992 Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: XFree86 Config

2003-09-17 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 04:44:39PM -0400, Rishikesh wrote: I bought a new monitor and I want to reconfigure X. How can I get the debconf menus to configure X I got when I was installing debian. dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 should do it. Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: scsi tape drive - debian package

2003-09-17 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 10:43:40AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I recently attached a SCSI tape drive to my raid box running Debian. It's a SONY Model: SDX-300C I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction on how to get it working, backing up. I had a

OT: Re: rms on debian : background noise

2003-08-18 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 08:19:37PM -0400, J.F.Gratton wrote: On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 22:07, ben wrote: be fair. if it wasn't for rms, there might very well not be a linux, much less a debian. A zealot is a zealot is a zealot. He might have been usefull, but past a certain point, constant

Re: OT: Re: rms on debian : background noise

2003-08-18 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 07:12:01AM -0500, rvf wrote: On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 08:19:37PM -0400, J.F.Gratton wrote: On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 22:07, ben wrote: be fair. if it wasn't for rms, there might very well not be a linux, much less a debian. A zealot is a zealot is a zealot. He

Re: OT: Re: rms on debian : background noise

2003-08-18 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 03:40:49PM +, ben wrote: Rob VanFleet wrote: On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 08:19:37PM -0400, J.F.Gratton wrote: On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 22:07, ben wrote: be fair. if it wasn't for rms, there might very well not be a linux, much less a debian. A zealot is a zealot

Re: rms on debian

2003-08-17 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 01:38:39AM -0500, Jesse Meyer wrote: On Sun, 17 Aug 2003, Kevin Mark wrote: http://www.ofb.biz/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=260 [ SNIP ] RMS: When I recommend a GNU/Linux distribution, I choose based on ethical considerations. Today I would

Re: voodoo 3500 tv tuner

2003-07-30 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 07:48:07PM -0400, -Art- wrote: Forgive me if this isn't the proper newsgroup. Newbie here, seeking Help/info/suggestons on how to get my VooDoo 3500 tv tuner to work in Debian/Knoppix distro. rotsa ruck man. You *might* be able to get it working with the v3tv

Re: Upon boot, many strange and useless modules are loaded

2003-07-29 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 06:46:13PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 10:21:28AM -0500, Darin Strait wrote: After a little poking around, I found that all sorts of oddball modules (for which I don't have the hardware. serverworks?) had been loaded. After

Re: Upon boot, many strange and useless modules are loaded

2003-07-29 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 10:16:15PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 12:21:31PM -0500, Rob VanFleet wrote: Check /etc/modules. Any module entry in that file will be loaded at bootup. Nope. :-( Hmm, do you have hotplug or discover installed? Those will attempt

Re: Change window manager to blackbox

2003-07-12 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 07:37:21PM +1200, Paul William wrote: Hi, I would like to use blackbox as my defualt window manager, I cant figure out how to do this. update-alternatives --config x-window-manager should do the trick. Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

semi-OT: redhat character encoding

2003-05-27 Thread Rob VanFleet
I have a redhat machine (which unfortunately must stay that way for the time being) that I often manage remotely from a box running woody. I've noticed that whenever I call up the RH machine's manpages remotely I get some character issues, most annoying being the fact that all '-' characters

Re: upgrading to unstable KDE

2003-04-02 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 05:20:44PM -0500, Levi Waldron wrote: I'm running Woody right now, but am tempted to dselect-upgrade KDE to the 3.10 in unstable (because of the improvements to kmail). Any thoughts on the potential pain/painlessness of this upgrade, before I try it? If there's a

Re: sshd: Did not receive identification string

2003-03-23 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 11:11:52AM +0100, mike wrote: Hello What does this log entry mean? Mar 23 09:44:17 xxx sshd[7920]: Did not receive identification string from 218.53.214.11 Mar 23 09:47:31 xxx sshd[7925]: Did not receive identification string from 218.53.214.11 That some ***

Re: I need a little help

2003-03-17 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 01:13:19PM -0700, Didier Caamano wrote: Greetings to all: I was wondering how I can configure apache 1.3 to not allow visitors to view the source code of the page when they click on View -Source Is there any option in apache to do that?, any hint will be

Slow X startup

2003-02-21 Thread Rob VanFleet
After installing woody on my home machine I've noticed severe delays in X startup, specifically loading the window manager. I'm using blackbox so the WM itself should not be an issue - I've ran this exact setup on the machine in the past without problem. After looking the XFree86.log, the only

Re: URGENT: Building kernel.

2003-01-16 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 12:31:30PM -0500, Narins, Josh wrote: The debian way can be found, if I understand, with man make-kpkg As well as the URL in the original message. ;-) [...] I am installing the linux kernel 2.4.18 in debian following the instructions found in the url:

Re: Windows Telnet

2003-01-06 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 12:09:59PM +1100, Cameron Hutchison wrote: [...] . Changing font size and resizing xterm on keypress In your .Xresources (or .Xdefaults), add this: --- cut here --- #define XTERM_RESIZE_TALL \033[8;64;80t #define XTERM_RESIZE_BIG\033[8;41;80t #define

Re: kde still sucks and gnome2 rocks why?

2003-01-02 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 10:30:26AM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: That means twm may be the cat's meow for some, while someone else wants Gnome on KDE with XPWE. Me, I run Gnome2 rather than KDE simply because I prefer the look and feel, and the ability to load up panels with applets - and since

Re: Security Question

2003-01-02 Thread Rob VanFleet
John Gedeon wrote: I have Debian installed on my home computer (3.0 stable version) I want to use it to remote login in to work, however the people in charge of the remote logins (IT) at my work say that Debian has lots of security holes. I was wondering what security holes Debian

Re: Determining the usefulness of compression

2002-12-05 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 08:44:28PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: * Charlie Reiman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021204 18:26]: [...] Thanks for the help guys. I'll go with the filtype/filesize comparisons suggested. Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Determining the usefulness of compression

2002-12-04 Thread Rob VanFleet
I am writing a script that will compress certain files passed to it (well, that's a part of the script) and I was wondering if there was a simple way to determine if a file is worth compressing or not. I know that with some very small files, compression actually increases the file size. Should I

Re: locking a console

2002-11-19 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 03:23:08PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: hello all when i am in x, i can lock it with, say, xscreensaver. someone who wants to use the computer, will need my password. he can switch to other virtual console, but still will need username and password. i will

Re: why does it look at xdm and kdm while shutting down?

2002-11-18 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 04:41:15PM +0100, Matthias Hentges wrote: Am Mon, 2002-11-18 um 13.52 schrieb Sandip P Deshmukh: hello all my inittab sets the runlevel to 2. in /etc/rc2.d, there were links referring to files in /etc/init.d directory. i did not want xdm, kdm, gdm to

Re: vi as a text editor

2002-11-16 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 01:30:09PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 01:24:27AM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 12:18:11PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: hello all one is managing words towards end of line. as i type, towards the end

Re: vi as a text editor

2002-11-16 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 05:03:34PM -0600, Shyamal Prasad wrote: I've used vi for at least 14 years now, I switched to emacs for heavy editing about 10 years ago. But you *must* know vi if you ever want to be real Unix user. Learn it. You will be rewarded. That is the only reason I don't use

Re: Mplayer

2002-11-15 Thread Rob VanFleet
Francois Chenais [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any sid package for Mplayer Don't believe so, but it's relatively easy to build a debian package from the source. From the main source directory run: fakeroot debian/rules binary or just run it as root (omitting 'fakeroot'). You will more

Re: vi as a text editor

2002-11-15 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 12:18:11PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: hello all i have recently started using vi and i like it for its simplicity - 'clean-ness'. somethings are missing though. one is managing words towards end of line. as i type, towards the end of the line, it juts cuts the

RE: Howto add a crontab job ?

2002-11-14 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 07:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Chris, Thanks. man crontab doesn't tell me what the syntax is for a every 5 minute job though, and that's what I need. Any other ideas ? [...] Do a man on crontab I'm coming in late on this thread, so apologies if this has

Re: Trying to do a search on Debian home page.

2002-11-11 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 15:37, infotechsys wrote: Hi, Whenever I try to do a search on Debian I get a message tell me that the search engine is down. I went to Freshmeat an did a search on cups and was taken to a list on debian that showed all the packages associated with cups. So, my

Drive with no partition number

2002-11-05 Thread Rob VanFleet
I am replacing a drive that I use for /home in a machine. This drive was brought semi-up-to-date with some off-site backups, since the drive it's replacing is dying and is incredibly slow. The new drive was not restored by me, and I noticed after installing it in the machine that it has no

Re: SSH stuff... (from slashdot)

2002-06-25 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 08:34:12AM -0400, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: Is this true? According to Wichert Akkerman on debian-security: Actually our package contains a patch from Solar Designer to make privsep work on 2.2 kernels. It might still be broken on 2.0 kernels

OT crossover cable speed

2002-03-25 Thread Rob VanFleet
Sorry this has nothing to do with Debian, but I'm at a loss as to where else to ask (if it matters, both machines are running Debian g). I am looking to connect two machines, one will be connected to the outside network, the other connected to it via a second NIC. I really don't want to use a

procmail rule for html mail

2002-03-04 Thread Rob VanFleet
It seems like this has come up before, but I couldn't turn anything up from searching. Basically, I am looking for a procmail rule that will detect html mail, and pipe it to a script to strip the tags from it, preferably before the other rules are applied, so it still ends up in the proper

mpeg encoder

2002-02-26 Thread Rob VanFleet
I am looking for a simple, no-frills mpeg encoder that will allow me to make mpegs of a sequence of images. Most of what I've found so far seems like a bit of overkill. Can anoyone suggest a simple, but reliable encoder for such a purpose? Thanks, Rob

Re: NTFS Mount

2002-02-25 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 05:05:50PM -0800, Curtis Vaughan wrote: Putting umask=0222 as the options for my NTFS mount finally permitted me as a normal user to access my ntfs mount. GREAT. Now, 222 is write permissions across the board. But I notice that the owner for all files directories is

Re: stable--unstable (or how far to throw the disks?)

2002-02-21 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 09:48:23PM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 07:56:29PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: At 09:48 AM 02/20/02 -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: Ok, I am now better informed. It does say alot about the upgrade process that I have not been doing that and have gone

Re: stable--unstable

2002-02-20 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 11:22:38PM -0700, debian wrote: After I edit my sources.list and run: 'apt-get update', what packages am I supposed to install prior to running: 'apt-get dist-upgrade' ?? You shouldn't have to install anything - dist-upgrade will take care of that for you. I would

Re: stable--unstable

2002-02-20 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 06:10:42PM -0600, Colin Watson wrote: [...] chris watson has, in the past, suggested that the first thing to be upgraded are the apt tools because, apparrently, those in potato differ from those in woody and sid. Both I and the release notes normally

Re: voodoo 3500 tv and v4l

2002-02-08 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 08:12:25PM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: How do I get TV and Radio to work in Linux with my Voodoo 3500 TV card? I compiled V4L into the 2.4.18 kernel. Do I also need to compile I2C support? Do I need bttv if I use mplayer? Do I need any other options in Video 4

Re: How can I get mutt to dlete an entire thread?

2002-02-05 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 10:23:56PM -0500, stan wrote: Still tweaking on my uutt config I have it set up so that all threads are compressed when I enter a folder. I would like to be able to mark all messages in a given thread as deleted from the index screen. At present if I hit d only the

OT: English as a Second Language Software for Linux

2001-10-19 Thread Rob VanFleet
As the subject says, I am looking for some good ESL software for Linux. Does anyone have some suggestions? Thanks, Rob

Re: secure ftp...

2001-10-17 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 12:17:40PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 06:58:35AM -0500, Alexander Wallace wrote: Hello there, is there an alternative to regular ftp server? does it require special client? Any sugestions??? Provided that you have ssh installed on both

Re: SPAM WARNING: spammers use Debian lists for harvesting

2001-10-04 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 05:32:49AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, knee-jerk reaction on my behalf, but I would have appreciated having the connection between lists and spam made to me when I signed up, so, I make it now to anyone who might be tempted to use their primary e-mail address

startx immediately after console login

2001-09-17 Thread Rob VanFleet
I am trying to figure out the best method to automatically startx after a user logs in from the console. I know I could accomplish easily by using a graphical display manager, but I would prefer to avoid that if at all possible. I have tried a couple of methods thus far, with less than

Re: [SOLVED] startx immediately after console login

2001-09-17 Thread Rob VanFleet
As Lukas Ruf so kindly pointed out to me, I was missing the obvious that my terms were still parsing /etc/profile each time they were ran, so I added a condition to check whether $DISPLAY contains a value or not, and run 'startx exit' if $DISPLAY is empty. -Rob

Re: aterm and ~/.Xdefaults

2001-09-10 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 03:45:44PM -0700, Arno wrote: I also tried 'ATerm' in place of 'XTerm', but to no avail. Aterm remains the default white background and black foregound. try 'Aterm', not 'ATerm' (this works for me). Here's a snip from my ~/.Xresources: Aterm*background: black

Logcheck regex problems

2001-09-10 Thread Rob VanFleet
I seem to be having a small problem with something in the logcheck.ignore file. The default setup for the logcheck package under debian already contains this entry in logcheck.ignore to avoid reporting this common cron job: /USR/SBIN/CRON\[.*\]: (mail) CMD ( if \[ -x /usr/sbin/exim \]; then

aterm and ~/.Xdefaults

2001-09-08 Thread Rob VanFleet
Aterm doesn't seem to want to read my ~/.Xdefaults file even though its manpage declares it will. Before anyone tells me to try ~/.Xresources, I already have, and xterm reads ~/.Xdefaults just fine. All I have in my ~/.Xdefaults is the background and foreground color: XTerm*background: black

Re: DRI Voodoo3 trouble

2001-07-12 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 02:01:33AM -0400, Theodore Knab wrote: Hi, I have the new version of XFree86 4.1.0 from people.debian.org/~branden running. Although the graphics look great, I need the DRI stuff to work. I am not sure how to do this. I installed the 3dfx modules. I created a

Re: program response sluggish compared to Win98

2001-06-09 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 01:10:01AM -0500, rich wrote: Howdy all, I've had a problem for a while in which my potato sytem seems to perform relatively sluggishly - most noticably on Wordperfect. Example: While WP8 under W98, I can hold the page down key for 5 seconds, and when I let go, the

Re: file search in package archives?

2001-05-30 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 02:04:58PM -0500, DvB wrote: dpkg -S does this on installed packages but is there a way to search for a file in packages that aren't installed yet? Does apt store this information? While not as exact as zgrep'ing the Contents-i386.gz file, as someone else suggested,

Re: Debian Distro on Floppies?

2001-05-18 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 04:27:11PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Thu, May 17, 2001 at 05:11:12PM -0400, Ken Clarke ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi, I'm trying to find a Linux Distro that can still be obtained for floppy installation. Yes I know about just hooking up a CD-ROM drive, a

Re: Strong encryption for mozilla (woody)

2001-05-09 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 09:34:31AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: I've never used IE. Really? So how would you support your previous statement, I also would like to have a decent browser that doesn't attempt to copy IE. if you had no experience with it. How exactly would Mozilla be imitating

Re: vim tip-o-rama

2001-05-08 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 12:03:32AM -0500, will trillich wrote: [snip] aha. BUT the key is, how to get VIM to know when you're editing a MUTT file... and set configs accordingly? i'm sure there are several ways -- #~/.muttrc set editor=vim -c tw=64 or #~/.vimrc

Re: any women here?

2001-04-17 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 07:49:49PM -0400, melissa ion kibbe wrote: That's not a bad idea. Women tend to have a more open-ended, inclusive take on things than men do. Ladies, join us at http://newbiedoc.sourceForge.net, and help make Debian a kinder, gentler place gee, do you

Re: Nautilus cannot display html

2001-04-17 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 10:53:16AM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote: Has anyone tried out sid's nautilus packages? I've got 1.0-2 and 1.0-3 installed, and both of them could not render html files (they were displayed as text, meaning html source). It was not even capable of rendering its own help

Re: I now have X, still no mouse

2001-04-14 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 02:30:17PM -0700, Lorens Kulla wrote: I've tried to make the links, my mouse is on com1 (ttyS0). When I issue the command ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/mouse I get file alreaddy Exists. My mouse is a Logitech Moouseman Model:M-CV46. I seem to be really out of my league. Try

rxvt, vim, ^? backspace

2001-04-13 Thread Rob VanFleet
I'm experiencing a strange problem. When using vim within rxvt I can backspace with no problems, yet when I ssh into another machine (running RH 7 unfortunatly) and attempt to use vim, my backspaces show up as ^?. I have 'set bs=2' in my .vimrc on the remote machine (not sure if it relates to

Re: rxvt, vim, ^? backspace [SOLVED]

2001-04-13 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 04:04:20PM +1000, CaT wrote: On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 12:57:11AM -0500, Rob VanFleet wrote: I'm experiencing a strange problem. When using vim within rxvt I can backspace with no problems, yet when I ssh into another machine (running RH 7 unfortunatly) and attempt

Re: Progeny Debian

2001-04-12 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 08:11:41PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 07:52:44PM -0500, Bud Rogers wrote: On Wednesday 11 April 2001 19:37, Rob VanFleet wrote: Did you file a bug report with them? It's the least you could do. Good grief, Rob. Didn't anyone ever

Re: Progeny Debian

2001-04-11 Thread Rob VanFleet
Did you file a bug report with them? It's the least you could do. -Rob On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 12:55:10PM -0700, Forrest English wrote: i tried it. here's a message i sent to my lug. alright, i gave it a shot. i repeal my defense of progeny. wanna know how to break a progeny

Re: Using Visioneer Scanner under Debian

2001-04-09 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 11:13:07PM +0100, Chris Howells wrote: From: Bob Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is anyone using a Visioneer 4400 Scanner successfully under Debian? http://panda.mostang.com/sane/ And where exactly did you see anything about Visioneer scanners there? -Rob

Re: [attn] non-us.debian.org ... security is Down

2001-04-05 Thread Rob VanFleet
Other Non-US mirrors are listed here: http://www.debian.org/misc/README.non-US Ironically enough, there is a United States mirror. -Rob On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 11:11:34PM -0500, Nathan wrote: On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 07:37:18PM -0500, Bud Rogers wrote: On Wednesday 04 April 2001 19:22, John

Blackbox submenu (was Re: Adding to the Debian-Blackbox Menu)

2001-04-05 Thread Rob VanFleet
Sorry to shift away from the original topic, but does anyone know what happened to the 'Blackbox' submenu in the default blackbox menu in unstable? -Rob

Re: Blackbox submenu (was Re: Adding to the Debian-Blackbox Menu

2001-04-05 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 02:37:32PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: I have not heard of it disappearing. Whoops, must have been a fluke on my end, purged it and reinstalled and I've got it back now. -Rob

exim: daemon vs. inetd

2001-03-29 Thread Rob VanFleet
I was wondering if their were any security benefits/pitfalls exiting between running exim through inetd or running it as a standalone daemon. -Rob

Re: Progeny and Upgrading

2001-03-20 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 04:14:35PM -0500, Matt Grant wrote: I ran a apt-get update on my Progeny Beta3 pointing to ftp.us.debian.org/debian/stable Considering that Progeny is based upon unstable, having apt pointed at Debian's stable tree is a bad idea. Progeny has their own apt lines, and I'd

Re: Nautilus ?

2001-03-20 Thread Rob VanFleet
You need nautilus-mozilla, which you can't get because it depends on Mozilla .8 or later, which hasn't been packaged yet (even in unstable, it is still at M-18). -Rob On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 09:29:54PM +, Gavin Hamill wrote: Just a pop question :) I've installed potato as a bare-bones

Re: Nautilus ?

2001-03-20 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 10:31:51PM +, Gavin Hamill wrote: On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Rob VanFleet wrote: You need nautilus-mozilla, which you can't get because it depends on Mozilla .8 or later, which hasn't been packaged yet (even in unstable, it is still at M-18). So at the moment

Re: nautilus staying around?

2001-03-20 Thread Rob VanFleet
I would believe that it's running as your desktop, which would show up as a Nautilus process (if you're using Gnome at least). -Rob On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 11:24:49PM -0500, joeytsai wrote: Whenever I use Nautilus, then close its window, its process still sticks around and I have to kill it

fetchmail-ssl

2001-03-14 Thread Rob VanFleet
Is there any special things one needs to do to get fetchmail-ssl working correctly other than putting '--ssl' in the OPTIONS section of /etc/default/fetchmail? I'm trying to connect to my mail server which is running a ssl encrypted imap daemon. This is a new change, so I'm not at all familiar

Re: wraping lines in mutt

2001-03-13 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 07:09:33PM +0100, Daniel de los Reyes wrote: How do I wrap lines in mutt? .Currently I have smart_wrap in my .muttrc but it doesn't seem to be enough. Oftentimes, it's the editor mutt is using that is the culprit. I use vim as my mutt editor, and I enable wrapping with

Re: Microsoft Wheel Mouse

2001-03-13 Thread Rob VanFleet
Hmm, I have a MS Intellimouse, and it works fine for me. About the only thing I could tell you to try is get rid of the Buttons line. Here is my setup: Section InputDevice Identifier Generic Mouse Driver mouse Option CorePointer Option

Corba errors filling up syslog

2001-03-13 Thread Rob VanFleet
After installing Nautilus (which I think is the culprit, although I'm still not certain), I'm getting errors to syslog like this: Mar 13 21:55:29 shaitan gconfd (rvf-2168): Failed to notify listener 1459618789, removing: IDL:CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0 Mar 13 21:55:29 shaitan gconfd (rvf-2168): Failed

Re: debain on windows 2k

2001-03-08 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 09:54:16PM -0500, Vadim Kutsyy wrote: into. Even Writing a read-only driver might be very, very hard. Since it is internally very different from NT NTFS reading the WIN2K NTFS will 'to my recollection' not be possible with any standard stuff you get with Linux

Re: Security Issue

2001-03-06 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 10:55:40AM -0800, Ken Sandell wrote: Hey guys, I want to have User Read Only directories, but I want to have users in the same group and have them still not be able to read any other users home directories. Also, the folder ~user/web is where their web shit is and

Re: IMPS/2 mouse protocol and XF86Setup

2001-03-01 Thread Rob VanFleet
Here's a simpler option than the /dev/gpmdata one. Just run 'gpmconfig', answer the questions normally until you get to the repeat_type, and simply leave it blank/turn it off (can't remember exactly how the program asks you). With the Intellimouse, all that is screwing with the mouse in X is the

Re: What's up with Mozilla

2001-02-28 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 04:18:38AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: unless you have lots of users wanting to use mozilla, then you end up with X number of copies of this monster in /home. where X == the number of users on the system. file permissions and the FHS exist for a reason, mozilla

Re: Am I ready for the big Woody?

2001-02-28 Thread Rob VanFleet
Woody is testing, which is not all that unstable at all. Really, I've been using it since it became testing, and I haven't had one problem other than a few packages that I needed to d/l manually because the task packages weren't feully up to speed (which has been fixed now BTW). If you're

Re: Eek! X won't go away!

2001-02-27 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 04:55:51PM -0500, MaD dUCK wrote: also sprach Glenn Becker (on Tue, 27 Feb 2001 04:14:48PM -0500): I don't really know what the purpose of xdm is. There are packages to 'prettify' it, but I just object to the whole thing. :-) well, do consider a console login and a

Re: help with voodoo 3

2001-02-26 Thread Rob VanFleet
If you're using woody, you're not going to get DRI to work until libglide3 gets moved into testing from sid. Glide3 is a necessary component of acceleration in X4. As to your list of packages, I think that 'glide-v5' is for Voodoo5 cards, not Voodoo3. -Rob On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 01:01:13AM

Re: KDE2 install

2001-02-26 Thread Rob VanFleet
As I understand it, security.debian.org is still useful if you're running testing, since someone running testing still has some packages from potato. Unstable gets security fixes simply from regular upgrades while those using testing would normally have to wait for the packages to stabalize

Re: KDE2 install

2001-02-26 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 04:26:32PM -0800, John Mautz wrote: As pointed out by hogan, there is no security.debian.org for testing/woody. Yes, but those running testing still have a sizable portion of packages from stable/potato that security.debian.org is needed to update. -Rob

Re: sblive

2001-02-26 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 08:45:02AM +0200, Alexander Pott wrote: Can anyone help? I am having trouble setting up my sblive. When I use lsmod I can see that the emu10k1 driver is loaded but is unused. The soundcore module is also loaded. When I list the pci device the sblive is there and

Re: Are you guys sure about that?

2001-02-23 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 08:34:51PM -0500, MaD dUCK wrote: also sprach Robert Cymbala (on Fri, 23 Feb 2001 05:23:01PM -0800): This question comes from LULA discussion list (linux users LA). There someone writes that with Red Hat 7, ``up2date'' is equivalent to apt-get update/upgrade in

Re: sudo strangeness

2001-02-21 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 04:18:35PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 05:39:54PM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: Nope, still no password prompt This is strange... you didn't add yourself to group `sudo' did you? members of this group are never required to authenticate. Argh

sudo strangeness

2001-02-20 Thread Rob VanFleet
I set up an /etc/sudoers file to give user rvf the ability to run anything, but be asked for a password. As the example files shows, I set it up like this: rvf ALL = ALL The problem is that whenever I run a command with sudo, it works but I'm never asked for a password. Would

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