Re: freevxfs?

2001-08-01 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
used by foreign operating systems. If you're looking for a journalling filesystem under Linux, your choices are - ReiserFS - XFS - JFS - Ext3 A little googling should turn up lots of useful information (including, IIRC, an IBM developerworks paper comparing the first three). HTH, Ray -- RUMOUR

Re: How to install gnumeric on testing? (libgal4 problem)

2001-07-31 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
/). It currently awaits approval from the ftpmasters (as it introduces a new gnumeric-doc package). HTH, Ray -- ART A friend of mine in Tulsa, Okla., when I was about eleven years old. I'd be interested to hear from him. There are so many pseudos around taking his name in vain. - The Hipcrime

Re: Linux Sources

2001-07-28 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
a bunch of questions to set up a kernel. It doesn't really matter where you extract the kernel sources. /usr/src is the traditional location, but /usr/src is under control of the package management system, so I wouldn't recommend it anymore. Personally, I use /usr/local/src. Ray -- RUMOUR Believe all

Re: EDITOR

2001-07-20 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
disbelief here), you can either configure it specifically for mutt: echo 'set editor=/bin/ae' $HOME/.muttrc or as your default editor by putting VISUAL=/bin/ae export VISUAL in your shell's init files. HTH, Ray -- Tevens ben ik van mening dat Nederland overdekt dient te worden.

Re: dependency problem in Debian unstable distribution

2001-07-16 Thread ray p
Somebody pushed the new version of locales down early that version of glibc will be in testing in ~10 days according to the excuses page/ On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 03:40:03PM +0300, Emil wrote: locales depends on glibc_2.2.3-7 glibc_2.2.3-7 does not appear to be available --

OT Pop3 mail service

2001-07-16 Thread ray p
Does anyone know of a good Linux friendly pop3 mail provider free would be good although pay would also work. Thanks for any thoughts on the subject. -- BOFH excuse #103: operators on strike due to broken coffee machine pgpjMIaUZsopQ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ssh to a machine with sshv2

2001-07-13 Thread ray p
It maybe that the Sun box has ssh 1 turned off and the openSSH boxes have it turned on. By default the non-free ssh 2 server has 1 turned off by defualt openSSH leaves it turned on. On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 11:03:26PM -0300, Alejandro Gar?n wrote: On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 03:16:12AM -0300,

Re: sysadmin won't allow linux - PLEASE HELP

2001-07-12 Thread ray p
Or better yet get putty. It supports SSH 2 with public key authentication. And is small enough that you can put a key the client and the scp and sftp (FTP tunnled through SSH) client on ~2 floppies It can be run from the floppy and can connect to any SSH server has a lot of very cool features.

new.net tlds, resolve.conf, squid

2001-07-12 Thread ray p
I'm trying to set up my Woody box to see the TLDs served by new.net's root servers to do this I added the line search new.net to my /etc/resolve.conf now I can ping the servers on the new tlds (maxim.free) and when I run a browser that does not go through my Squid I can browse to them. But

Re: Kernel 2.4.5 at last! Problems

2001-07-10 Thread ray p
Config files can not be brought forward across major kernel versions. Use the config file that came with the image as a starting point or the example config on http://www.markybob.com is a decent starting point. On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 05:35:24PM +, Victor wrote: After extreme

Re: TTF fonts

2001-07-07 Thread ray p
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/Font-HOWTO.html http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/other-formats/html_single/FDU.html http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/other-formats/html_single/TT-Debian.html

Re: how stable is the testing branch?

2001-07-06 Thread ray p
Testing is as stable as any other ditro of Linux not up to the Debain stable though. Having said that I would agree to only run testing if you have a need but it sounds like you do and I don't think Koffice will compile on stable. Having said that don't apt-get dist-upgrade every day. I would

Re: Can't open root device

2001-06-29 Thread ray p
I would suggest that you get the example config file from http://www.markybob.com put that in your source tree as .config and run make oldconfig then use make menuconfig to tweak it only changing things you are sure you understand. Do not use xconfig. This is what solved the same problem for

Re: security

2001-06-29 Thread ray p
If you really want help with this project send a mail signed with a good trusted key that proves that you are who you say you are and really do work for this Uni. Otherwise I hope everyone on this list is smart enough to ignore you. On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 07:44:05AM -0500, Chris Parker wrote:

Re: nVidia Riva TNT graphics card driver

2001-06-29 Thread ray p
Download the tarballs from the Nivdia website go into the kernel module tree and type make install (as root of course) do the same fro th GLX module. change your XF86Config-4 file like the readme says and you will be good. Basically go read the readme and you should be fine. On Fri, Jun 29,

Re: nVidia Riva TNT graphics card driver

2001-06-29 Thread ray p
at 11:29:41AM -0600, ray p wrote: Download the tarballs from the Nivdia website go into the kernel module tree and type make install (as root of course) do the same fro th GLX module. change your XF86Config-4 file like the readme says and you will be good. Basically go read the readme

Re: Serial Mouse problem

2001-06-28 Thread ray p
If form console you do cat /dev/mouse and move the mouse what happens? If you do not get random noise that is not your mouse device. Also in your XF86Config file what does it have for the protocol? Also do you have GPM running and what branch of Debian are you using? On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at

Re: Why use fakeroot when compiling kernel?

2001-06-23 Thread ray p
If you are using kernel-package you have to have root rights to compile it. Using fakeroot lets you do it without being root kind of like sudo. On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 10:40:34AM -0500, Ken Januski wrote: Thanks to all who've helped me in recompiling my kernel. I used kernel-package on one

Re: Why use fakeroot when compiling kernel?

2001-06-23 Thread ray p
needs to do I think they introduce just one more way to get root or at least part of root. I will admit that I know more about sudo and not so much about fakeroot. On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 10:59:47AM -0500, Ken Januski wrote: Thanks Ray, Let me rephrase the question. I've never used fakeroot

Re: kernel compiles

2001-06-22 Thread ray p
IMHO it is easier I think this is a good thing. Also if you have amny similar machines having your kernel image as a .deb makes it *very* easy to install it on many machines. Also it never forgets to run lilo :). The main part I like about it is it remembers all the messy little steps so I can

Re: Ripping MP3s

2001-06-20 Thread ray p
apt-get install ripperx (I don't think it is Potato) rip ogg files at 160 with varaiable bitrate smaller and sounds better then mp3s all the software that comes with Debian can play them and no legal issues. :). All in all a good thing Ripperx can also use lame and there are some unofficial

Re: MPG / AVI player

2001-06-19 Thread ray p
Mplayer. mplayer.sourceforge.net. You can even build debs from the cvs sources they also have links to the windows dlls that you will need. Now having said that where do you get the Futurama episodes from? On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 08:55:53PM -0500, Jonathan Daugherty wrote: Does anyone know of

Re: Slow and ugly X startup with NVidia drivers

2001-06-11 Thread ray p
The newest drivers work fine here and fix the problem you are having. On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 11:11:04PM +1000, Joel Mayes wrote: On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 06:55:23PM +0200, Alex Suzuki wrote: Hello friends, This is already bothering me for a while, but I never really cared. But now I

Re: cryptographic file systems for use with 2.4 kernel?

2001-06-07 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 10:57:11 -0700, Forrest English wrote: so basicaly i'm wondering if there are any options out there for a crypto file system that is compatible with linux 2.4.5. ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/crypto/v2.4/ HTH, Ray -- Cyberspace, a final frontier

Re: Linux vs Windows NT?

2001-06-07 Thread ray p
There are some good whitepapers on the subject of what is good about Linux and some head to head type stuff at htpp://www.linuxcare.com If this friend is dealing with business or manager types a lot of this stuff is written in their language. On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 09:05:29AM -0400, ANDREW

Re: Need help with NVIDIA driver installation

2001-06-04 Thread ray p
You need to remove the directory that you made and install the kernel drivers first. The Removing all old and conflicting files message is normal let it do what it wants to. Just install the kernel drivers first and they should work fine for you. On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 06:41:04PM -0700, Abner

Re: http-ssl

2001-06-03 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 20:04:46 +0200, Eamon Roque wrote: I'm looking for the http-ssl package. I can't seem to find anything but documents that tell me about setting it up. There is no package by that name. Try apt-get install libapache-mod-ssl libapache-mod-ssl-doc HTH, Ray

Re: exit[139]

2001-06-03 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 13:40:08 -0600, user list wrote: Ideally, I'd like someone to tell me what exit code 139 means. 139 = 128 + 11 -- signal 11 -- time to read http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11 HTH, Ray -- PATRIOTISM A great British writer once said that if he had to choose between betraying

Re: METAFONT

2001-06-03 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
. HTH, Ray -- POPULATION EXPLOSION Unique in human experience, an event which happened yesterday but which everyone swears won't happen until tomorrow. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan

Re: gnumeric

2001-05-31 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
know if gnumeric will build with the new libgal It does, at least in the current upstream version, 0.65. Unfortunately that upstream version requires a newer libxml1 than is currently available in unstable; I'm thinking of doing an NMU of libxml1 soonish. Ray -- RUMOUR Believe all you hear. Your

Documentation on SSL CA

2001-05-29 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 16:13:17 +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: Everybody can form his/her own CA. It's not that hard[1]. [1] ... though IMHO badly documented. Have you had a look at http://sourceforge.net/projects/ospkibook/ ? Ray -- Obsig: developing a new sig

Re: Can't find ssh

2001-05-28 Thread ray p
Make sure that you have the non-us lines in /etc/apt/sources.list uncommented then run apt-get update and then do apt-get ssh. Also it might be a good idea to tr another mirror. On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 04:10:55PM -0700, Andy Davidson wrote: I just installed Debian potato (2.2r0, I think; got

Re: Can't find ssh

2001-05-28 Thread ray p
There is a version of SSh in non-free also. The client/server created by the ssh.com people. I would suggest the openSSH version and of course as far as that goes you are dead on. Also I don't know how hard or easy to bring the version of SSH from Woody to Potato but that would give you SSH2.

Re: LAME not included in Debian

2001-05-26 Thread ray p
But if by chance you do want to use lame to make MP3s (I think that in addition to being patent free that ogg also sounds better) you can get unofficial debs from deb http://forcix.cx/ debian/ On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 08:57:15PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the LAME -

Re: 2.2 to 2.4

2001-05-24 Thread ray p
Do you still have the config file that you used for your 2.2 kernel? If so put it in the 2.4 source tree named .config and run make oldconfig. That will make sure that you have all of the same config settings that you had before and either confirm that is is a configuration problem or prove

Re: /etc/rc* and locate

2001-05-24 Thread ray p
And of course updatedb will rebuild the database which depending on your system may be a short time or a *very* long time. On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 02:30:35PM -0700, Kevin Dalley wrote: locate -e limits your output to files in the database which still exist. Noah L. Meyerhans [EMAIL

Re: Missing gnumeric dependency?

2001-05-23 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
have this problem again. Configure gnumeric not to load all plugins by default. Can this be done globally or is it strictly a per-user setting? AFAIK it is per-user only. HTH, Ray -- POPULATION EXPLOSION Unique in human experience, an event which happened yesterday but which everyone

Re: Missing gnumeric dependency?

2001-05-22 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
libgnum_python.so Yes, it's just a plugin. - and, if I did, would dpkg just put it back when the next revision of gnumeric gets installed? Indeed. What other options are there for getting that error to go away? Configure gnumeric not to load all plugins by default. HTH, Ray -- Tevens ben ik van mening

Re: Best way to install tuxracer on testing

2001-05-18 Thread ray p
The best way to do it is to either add unstable to your sources do a apt-get update and then an apt-get install tuxracer and then change your sources back and do an apt-get update again. You could also just go to www.debian.org and do a search on the packages download the right debs and install

Re: in.telnetd

2001-05-16 Thread ray p
What OS is your freind using it is the OS of evil might I suggest the latest dev build of putty. It does not require that she be able to install anything. Standalone .exe the dev build has support for ssh2 public key auth. On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 11:38:23AM -0700, Jon Hughes wrote: In order

Re: no mutt-ssl but we can have apacvhe-ssl? what's the deal?

2001-05-16 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
/software/gnutls/) will become an alternative. Ray -- PATRIOTISM A great British writer once said that if he had to choose between betraying his country and betraying a friend he hoped he would have the decency to betray his country. - The Hipcrime Vocab

Re: [offtopic] recommendation on resources (books, websites) on object oriented programming?

2001-05-16 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
should be emphasized Bertrand Meyer, Object-Oriented Software Construction 2nd Ed., is a very thorough text on OOP, focusing on the concepts (yes, Meyer is the inventor of Eiffel, but Eiffel is mentioned just once in this text). http://www.noamazon.com is your friend. HTH, Ray -- UNFAIR Term

Re: SSH-2.4.0 ./configure error

2001-05-06 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
isn't in your $PATH. A common cause is not having the C library's development files (libc6-dev) installed. Ray -- LEADERSHIP A form of self-preservation exhibited by people with auto- destructive imaginations in order to ensure that when it comes to the crunch it'll be someone else's bones

Setting compile variables

2001-05-04 Thread Matthew H. Ray
didn't really say anything about this. What about making gcc more SMP-aware (a .gccrc somewhere?)? Is there a Debian SMP/optimizing mini-howto somewhere (or should I think about writing it after I get all this straightened out?)? -- Matthew H. Ray mray@ jump.net

Re: available parse error

2001-05-01 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 00:44:37 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm in a little trouble here. I have attempted to edit the file manually, but no joy. Is there an easy answer? apt-get update cd /var/lib/dpkg mv available available.old grep -v '^X-MediumDebian' available.old available

Re: Bootable Linux-on-a-CD

2001-04-25 Thread ray p
Check out www.linuxcare.com/bootable_cd it is just what you are asking for. They have ISO's there for download or just talk your LUG into ordering a bunch and giving you one of the really cool small ones. :) One of the really cool things about this CD is that it just happens to be mostly

Re: The Perfect Debian / Personal Computer

2001-04-24 Thread ray p
The big question that you don't talk about is how much are you willing to spend and what flavor of Debian (stable, testing, etc) are you going to be running. The answer to this question would vary quite a bit based on that for example if money is not object and you want to run testing. Then

Re: Mail client

2001-04-24 Thread ray p
The same mail client I use everywhere mutt or course. On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 03:50:08PM +0200, Ales Jerman wrote: Which X Mail clent to use under FVWM2? Thanks! Bye, Ale? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: libncurses.a

2001-04-22 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
packages. HTH, Ray -- POPULATION EXPLOSION Unique in human experience, an event which happened yesterday but which everyone swears won't happen until tomorrow. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan

Re: OpenSSH: How to do RhostsRSAAuthentication?

2001-04-20 Thread ray p
What you need to do is set up ssh-agent and agent forwarding to do what you want to do. ssh-agent is well documented on the web go forth and read. Have fun On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 03:22:25PM +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote: Hi, please help before I tear my hair out. I'm trying to get

Re: OT: compiler flags: what is -lqt ?

2001-04-19 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
it again. HTH, Ray -- LEADERSHIP A form of self-preservation exhibited by people with auto- destructive imaginations in order to ensure that when it comes to the crunch it'll be someone else's bones which go crack and not their own. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan

Re: xfree4 installation

2001-04-19 Thread ray p
Hey how are things down in Provo? Try apt-get install aptutils apt-get install debconf then try it again. You will also need to run xf86config to make a new config file and you will have to make a sym link from /etc/X to the spot where xfree86 ends up. You might also have to apt-get install

Re: Nvi saved the file xxxxx

2001-04-18 Thread ray p
Do a locate filename to find the file. (This assumes you leave the machine on all night) Then do a vi -r filename. On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 10:48:39PM +1000, Mark wrote: I keep on getting automatically emailed this message. I have tried doing vim -r which shows the following: ~$ vim -r Swap

Re: any women here?

2001-04-18 Thread ray p
I would have to say that many of us do the invisiable ray thing but that it is without malice and that we don't know we do it. I know I do and I also know that I feel bad and try to correct it when I do. But many of us are just stupid about such things and geeks tend to be worse about it. So

Re: startx delay

2001-04-17 Thread ray p
Even if you are not noticing the disk activity it is almost for sure there. Try playing with hdparm to speed up your disk and this will go away it worked for me. On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 09:33:40PM +0600, V.Suresh wrote: When firing startx, X comesup, then in 2-3 secs windowmaker pops up,

Exim issue

2001-04-17 Thread Ray Percival
After setting up exim I can send mail using Mutt it appears to send fine and there are no errors in the logs. When I send to one of my addresses from my ISP it sends it I can go out and look at the mail on the ISP's server. But no messages are getting sent to 3rd parties. I set up exim as a

Re: stream manipulation with time

2001-04-15 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 16:44:42 +0200, Sebastiaan wrote: The problem is the nested `` here: $(command) is equivalent to `command` but is nestable. HTH, Ray -- LEADERSHIP A form of self-preservation exhibited by people with auto- destructive imaginations in order to ensure that when it comes

Re: Debian stable install problems

2001-04-13 Thread J.H.M. Dassen Ray
match exactly, and make sure you're not mixing a home-built version with the Debian packages. HTH, Ray -- What is this talk of software 'releases'? Klingons do not 'release' software; our software ESCAPES, leaving a bloody trail of designers and quality assurance people in its wake!

Re: what i've learned, and explanation.

2001-04-12 Thread Ray Percival
Having dealt with Lusers for far longer than I care to think about I'm going to go ahead and give some opnions on the subject. Other important questions are: * Specifically, _what_ are people entitled to? Are they entitled to demand that I spend my time catering to their needs? Are they

Re: compile probs

2001-04-08 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
to tell the C compiler (well, preprocessor) where to look for include files, and the -L flag to tell the linker where to look for libraries. HTH, Ray -- ART A friend of mine in Tulsa, Okla., when I was about eleven years old. I'd be interested to hear from him. There are so many pseudos around

K-Jofol plugin for XMMS

2001-04-05 Thread Ray Percival
I can not get this to compile I have xmms-dev but it is still complaing about missing files. I'm trying it with .95 and am going to try .94. If any one has it working or better yet know where to get debs for it please let me know how. Thanks Ray.

Re: libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2?

2001-03-30 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
library, not (a version of) the _C++_ one. Where would I find libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2? In the libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1 package. HTH, Ray -- ART A friend of mine in Tulsa, Okla., when I was about eleven years old. I'd be interested to hear from him. There are so many pseudos around taking his name

Re: apt-get upgrade mysql-server problem?!

2001-03-30 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
can we do to resolve this problem? This looks like a known problem; http://bugs.debian.org/92196 has details on how to fix it by hand. HTH, Ray -- LEADERSHIP A form of self-preservation exhibited by people with auto- destructive imaginations in order to ensure that when it comes to the crunch

Kernel panic after upgrade to 2.4.2

2001-03-27 Thread Ray Percival
Thanks in advance for your help. I decided to go to kernel 2.4.2 on my testing box. Did a apt-get install to get the source. Got my old config file from /boot and put it in the source and did a make oldconfig. I then did a make xconfig and made sure that I had ext2 support and elf and a.out

Re: Relational Data Base Managers

2001-03-27 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
) billing application I'm responsible for at work. HTH, Ray -- Cyberspace, a final frontier. These are the voyages of my messages, on a lightspeed mission to explore strange new systems and to boldly go where no data has gone before.

Re: Problems upgrading from potato to woody

2001-03-27 Thread Ray Percival
I don't know about the lilo isssue but yes the X issue is a well known problem. Do a apt-get install xserver-xfree86 xbase-clients (that one might be xclients-base) xfonts-base xfonts-75dpi xfonts-100dpi and run xf86config to create a xf86config file and you should be fine. --

Re: oops..missed a module

2001-03-27 Thread Ray Percival
Use modconf to add it. -- Original Message -- From: Jake R. Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 17:38:12 -0600 (CST) I recently installed debian and I missed a module es1688 for my latitude lm sound support. Is there a way that I can add

Re: no opengl after woody update

2001-03-26 Thread Ray Percival
If you installed from the tarballs just do a quick make install agian and it should work fine. Before the last one when was the last time you did a upgrade? In the past month or so it has broken twice on me but a quick reinstall has fixed it. -- Original Message

Re: special keys (volume etc.) - how to use?

2001-03-24 Thread ray p
I saw something about how to do this on linux.com a few weeks ago. You might take a look at that. Erik Steffl wrote: is it possible to use special keys on various keyboards? lot of keyboards have various extra keys - for example volume settings, cd control, internet shortcuts etc... I

Re: reiserfs install

2001-03-22 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
of the 'spare' partition on the reiserfs disk - change /etc/fstab on the reiserfs disk I'd recommend rdev-ing the kernel on the reiserfs disk at this point. - boot 2.4.2 kernel from the reiserfs disk HTH, Ray -- LEADERSHIP A form of self-preservation exhibited by people with auto- destructive

Re: potato-package for gcc 2.95.3 ?

2001-03-22 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
fixes that are so important as to warrant submission for inclusion in a new point release of potato. Ray -- UNFAIR Term applied to advantages enjoyed by other people which we tried to cheat them out of and didn't manage. See also DISHONESTY, SNEAKY, UNDERHAND and JUST LUCKY I GUESS

RE: Problem with printer Canon BJC 4300

2001-03-21 Thread Ray Percival
I've always said that a little research before a purchase will save one grief. In any case. I have a BJC 4400 (which also emulates a 600) working fine. What I did is grab pdq and xpdq. I got the debs from unstable but I'm running woody. Install them then go to www.linuxprinting.org and get the pdq

Re: Ximian packages

2001-03-20 Thread Ray Percival
Go to www.debianplanet.org look at the unofficial apt sources list and search on ximian. It will give you all the lines. -- Original Message -- From: Rogelio E. Castillo Haro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 08:04:09 -0600 Hello, Someone knows

Re: Docs for OpenSSL

2001-03-20 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
a huge gap when it comes to creating the actual certificate. libapache-mod-ssl comes with a mod-ssl-makecert script that takes care of most certificate-related actions. It's documented (briefly) in the README.Debian in libapache-mod-ssl-doc. HTH, Ray -- Cyberspace, a final frontier

Apt, Debconf, and Perl.

2001-03-19 Thread Ray Percival
Does anyone know how to fix this. I have tried a reinstall of deboconf and it did not work. Once again thanks. Can't locate Debconf/Client/ConfModule.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/lib/perl/5.6.0 /usr/local/share/perl/5.6.0 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.6.0

Nvidia .97 drivers

2001-03-18 Thread ray p
Has anybody played with these yet and if so how do they work and did you have any problems. Also is the new AA stuff worth the risk of a update? Thanks for any info.

Re: xlibs CRC error?

2001-03-18 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
distribution. As such, you should be aware that for these trees dpkg will abort on file conflicts to induce maintainers to remove file conflicts between packages. You can override this by using the --force-overwrite flag with dpkg. Is it a CRC problem or something? No. HTH, Ray -- Obsig: developing

2.4.x kernel on a current woody machine

2001-03-17 Thread ray p
Is the current incarnation of Woody ready for the 2.4.x kernel? In other words if I want to do this is there anything special I have to do or should it just work?

apt-get dist-upgrade

2001-03-17 Thread ray p
Is anybody else getting some odd perl errors from apt and if so have you fixed it or do you know what is going on? Thanks.

Re: Functionality simular to FreeBSD's jails

2001-03-15 Thread Ray Percival
Not knowing about *BSD's jails I'm not sure if you want to restrict a user to only one part of the filesystem why not use chroot? -- Original Message -- From: Ilya Martynov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 15 Mar 2001 17:03:16 +0300 Hi, I'm interested if there is

A SSH question.

2001-03-14 Thread Ray Percival
I understand that this is not a Debian specific question but I'm hoping someone out there will be kind and explain this one in short easy to understand words. :) I'm trying to ssh into my Debian box on a DSL line setting behind a floppyfw based firewall. When I am at home I can SSH into that

Re: mod-ssl

2001-03-14 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 13:25:09 +1100, John Griffiths wrote: #apt-get install libapache-mod-ssl what do I need to configure? That is explained in libapache-mod-ssl-doc, in particular its README.Debian. HTH, Ray -- PATRIOTISM A great British writer once said that if he had to choose

Re: coexistence with Windows 2000

2001-03-14 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 21:37:29 +, Darryl Röthering wrote: I can use the lilo.conf file to point to other kernels, but what entries do I put there to boot up a Windows session? You need an entry with other=[partition] and table=[drive]. HTH, Ray -- RUMOUR Believe all you hear. Your

SSH with IPmasq

2001-03-13 Thread ray p
I have a firewall (floppyfw) based that I am trying to do SSH through to my Debian box on the other side and it will not work. I have uncommented the lines that are supposed to allow forwarding to the box behind it in the scripts and still everytime I try to connect I get connection refused. I

Re: installing communicator

2001-03-09 Thread Ray Percival
Go to the package search page and do a search it will give you the righ name. apt-get install netscape will work but might give you more than you want. -- Original Message -- From: Eric Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 15:16:46 -0700

Re: licq broken in woody?

2001-03-07 Thread Ray Percival
I've noticed this also looks like a bug to me. -- Original Message -- From: David Purton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 23:19:46 +1030 (CST) Hi, ever since I upgraded to woody, licq hasn't worked. I'm using gnomeicu, but I don't like it as

Get-apt Does it overwrite ?

2001-03-06 Thread Daniel Ray
when you get updated files does it overwrite current configuration? ( just want to be safe ) Daniel

Re: mod-ssl

2001-03-06 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
written to deal with this case. Here's a modified version - use at your own peril, and make sure you have a ca.config (see the one that's commented out for inspiration). HTH, Ray #!/bin/sh ## ## sign.sh -- Sign a SSL Certificate Request (CSR) ## Copyright (c) 1998-2000 Ralf S. Engelschall, All Rights

Re: DSL

2001-03-06 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
the former telecom monopolist provides a DSL service which requires PPTP VPN (and thus for Linux use, a patched pppd) and custom log-on scripts (using a webportal), whereas my employer offers DSL based on simple DHCP (and thus for Linux use only requiring a DHCP client). HTH, Ray -- PATRIOTISM

Package quality

2001-03-05 Thread Ray Percival
When you search for a package it has a column for quality and this has a percentage in it. What does that mean? I've just wondered about this for awhile and just thought I'd ask. Thanks very much.

Re: Installing Debian

2001-03-05 Thread Ray Percival
do the simple option on a install the rest of it is just knowing what to do. I think I just found a project thanks. Ray -- Original Message -- From: - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 17:07:17 -0500 I know I'm sticking my neck out on this one

RE: What's up with Mozilla

2001-02-28 Thread Ray Percival
painfull thing to happen if you're using online documentation wich you finally dug up -Original Message- From: ray p [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 3:38 PM To: Joris Lambrecht Subject: Re: What's up with Mozilla That would be wrong. Maybe a bit on the slow side

Re: Xfree86 4.0.2 problems when using XF86Setup on testing distribution

2001-02-27 Thread Ray Percival
Don't use XF86Setup to setup X 4. Use xf86config instead. The graphical tools have never worked very well with X 4. You might want to take a look at http://www.xfree86.org/4.0.2/RELNOTES1.html#1. While they no longer say that the graphical tools won't work you will notice that XF86setup is *not*

Root Password problem

2001-02-27 Thread Daniel Ray
ok .. i am a little new are retriving passwords with debian or anyh flavor of linux My boss decided to play sysop while i was home sick .. so how he changes the root password .. Ihave the machine here .. ( it doesn't have a cd-rom drive ) my question how can i change the root password

Re: Root Password problem

2001-02-27 Thread Daniel Ray
Grin he doesn't know what he did .. the system is on a video/mouse/keybroard switch box see it was my fault leaving the system login as root in the frist place .. since i am the only person that knows the system .. I didn't think there would have been a problem. hind sight is 20/20 sorry

Re: Root Password problem

2001-02-27 Thread Daniel Ray
Thanks, Mike worked like a charm

Mozilla .8

2001-02-20 Thread Ray Percival
Does anybody know of a deb for Mozilla .8 or failing that how easy is it to create one that just works using alien? What I am looking for here is something that works as well as the Progeny .7 debs. I installed it a entry showed up under Debian and net in my menus it launche ran and does what

Re: Insecure permission for swap partition.

2001-02-18 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
a look at info file utilities file permissions or do man chmod (chmod 0600 /dev/hda7 [or whatever your swap partition is] should do the trick). HTH, Ray -- UNFAIR Term applied to advantages enjoyed by other people which we tried to cheat them out of and didn't manage. See also

Mozilla .8

2001-02-16 Thread ray p
I'm now running the Progeny debs for Mozilla .7. I would like to go to .8 but so my menus and stuff do not get broken I would like to go with debs. So does anyone know if there are any Mozilla .8 debs out there yet? Thanks much.

Re: upgrade to xfree 4.0.x

2001-02-16 Thread Ray Percival
That would be the way you should be able to do it. I was never able to get it to work. Too many things that broke other things etc. I just ended up going to testing and have been *very* happy with it so far. With a couple of minor exceptions nothing has broken and it is in terms of

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