on-screen-all-desktop-log-watch for Gnome2.4

2003-11-06 Thread mody
Hello all! I reinstalled my Sid box few days ago and switched from sawfish to metacity and from iso... to utf-8 locales. Now I can't run root-portal, that I used to use for watch what was happening down inside. Is there any other tool for watching logfiles, that works with Gnome2.4 AND shows on al

Re: UUCP & Usenet (was Re: NTP packages (was: setting hardware clock from NIST))

2003-11-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Ron Johnson wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > In the beginning systems were isolated. There was no net. Then UUCP > > brought light unto the darkness. This was called USENET and we saw > > > > I thought that "Unix-Unix cp" was for, well, copying files, of which > Usenet files were only a sub

Re: debian install went fine, but windoze slowed to a crawl

2003-11-06 Thread Kent West
David Millet wrote: so i just finished my first successful installation of debian (thank you, thank you, i'll be signing autographs until tuesday), originally it was just my win2000 drive in, i left it in there as the master (hda) and put in a new drive as slave (hdb) which i installed debian is

Re: An apology

2003-11-06 Thread ScruLoose
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 09:30:00PM -0800, Mark Healey wrote: > I've been having quite a bit of trouble getting a debian system > installed. Because it wasn't nearly as easy as I was told I've been > getting quite petulant and taken it out on people who've been nothing > but helpful. I understand

Re: how to make unicode mode default for all virtual consoles?

2003-11-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 12:58:34PM +0100, Miernik ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Currently Unicode mode come's up as default on the first console, but > for consoles 2 to 6 I need to run unicode_start on every console. What > is the proper Debian way to have unicode mode on all vc's by default? >

debian install went fine, but windoze slowed to a crawl

2003-11-06 Thread David Millet
so i just finished my first successful installation of debian (thank you, thank you, i'll be signing autographs until tuesday), originally it was just my win2000 drive in, i left it in there as the master (hda) and put in a new drive as slave (hdb) which i installed debian is. i can boot flawl

An apology

2003-11-06 Thread Mark Healey
I've been having quite a bit of trouble getting a debian system installed. Because it wasn't nearly as easy as I was told I've been getting quite petulant and taken it out on people who've been nothing but helpful. I am sorry. Mark Healey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Giving debian a chance. -- To UNS

Re: Faked Browser with Mozilla Firebird

2003-11-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 10:21:45PM +, Clive Menzies ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm intrigued. why would you want to do this? I understand Opera > does it because MS had found a way to lock them out of certain sites. > Is this also a problem for Mozilla? http://twiki.iwethey.org/Mai

Re: Abiword in testing unusable

2003-11-06 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 08:32:51PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 20:25, Carl Fink wrote: > > Same thing as you, as I quoted above. So what's apt-get trying to > > install? > > Dunno. Show us the whole command + all messages. Okay, here's what happens with abiword proper:

Re: F-Prot and Amavis, exim

2003-11-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 11:31:38AM +0100, Mark Maas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello all, > > I have the following system running smoothly for some tim enow: > Exim3, Amavis, spamassassin and Clamav-antivirus. > > I just wanted to add F-prot to the list, so Installed it and uncommented the > ap

Re: heres my noob install questions, smart people please help

2003-11-06 Thread Paul E Condon
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 05:25:24PM -0700, David Millet wrote: > ok so i've been doing this linux desktop thing for about a year now, > started with redhat, then went to mandrake, now i want to move on to > debian, i'm still a noob so i've been reading up on the install > instructions on http://w

Re: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"

2003-11-06 Thread David Palmer.
On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 17:58:51 -0700 David Millet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Complain to the store's owner that his employees overwrote your > >data, and demand compensation. Contact the BSA, and tell them > >about the unlicensed Windows. > > > > > hell ya! > > Contact MS and tell them ab

exim3 + amavis-new + clamav (clamd) - Help!

2003-11-06 Thread BruceG
Okay, I've got exim working. Courier-imap is working well, and messages are popping into folders. I decided to try ClamAV, and am running into trouble. I installed clamav, clamav-daemon and amavis-new. I can run a clamscan from the command promptand scan user directories. I don't see where amavis-

Re: [OT] SCO's crack legal team

2003-11-06 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Greg Norris wrote: On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 09:35:53AM +0800, csj wrote: Speaking of IP hassles, maybe you should have exported that into the free png format. The original version was png, actually... I converted it to gif because more browsers handle that format, and it has a significantly small

Re: Separate /home drive?

2003-11-06 Thread David Palmer.
On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 22:57:50 +0100 Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > David Palmer. (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > I've been reading different partitioning howtos but can't find any > > reference to a situation I thought I would like to install. > > It's probably a newbie

Re: ssh-agent

2003-11-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 10:39:58PM +, Geoff Thurman wrote: > Forgive me if this is cretinous beyond compare, but I am confused. I am > on a standalone machine, and never use SSH, and yet there is an > SSH-agent in my /tmp. Is this normal? I believe that Debian's default X session scripts run

Re: heres my noob install questions, smart people please help

2003-11-06 Thread ScruLoose
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 05:56:44PM -0700, David Millet wrote: > hey thanx so much for your help, just one quick question > > >Yes, but I wouldn't recommend it. The FAT filesystem semantics aren't the > >same > >as Unix, and it's not a very good filesystem anyway. I would leave your > >Unix > >

Re: What's the best package manager for single-package upgrades?

2003-11-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 11:19:47AM -0800, Joe Rhett wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 04:41:50PM -0600, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: > > > Try adding this line to your /etc/apt/apt.conf file and see if you get > > > better results with your 'apt-get update': > > > APT::Default-R

Re: What's the best package manager for single-package upgrades?#

2003-11-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 11:53:12AM -0800, Joe Rhett wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > Ah, that would explain your confusion. 'apt-get upgrade' isn't what you > > want, since as documented in the apt-get(8) man page it will not install > > new packages. In particular, if you attempt to use 'apt-get u

Re: Lynx vs xli

2003-11-06 Thread Marc Wilson
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 09:27:02PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've managed to fight through a bunch of problems, some my own, some > caused by Debian's way of doing things. (For example, although my > display is now mostly configured to my liking, I still have no clue where > XFConfig-4 is

Re: sawfish debian menu compatibility?

2003-11-06 Thread Marc Wilson
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 11:31:48AM -0600, andy bezella wrote: > a few sid upgrades ago (i believe starting with the recent cvs > checkouts) it appears that sawfish lost compatibility (to some extent) > with the debian menu system. the apps menu does not appear on the root > window menu. At some p

Re: Going to give it another shot-need more help

2003-11-06 Thread Kent West
Mark Healey wrote: On Thu, 6 Nov 2003 13:09:24 -0500, ScruLoose wrote: First off. I am doing this because none of the kernels on the cds support my nic. Consequently, any suggestions that involve using apt-get show that the suggestor is a moron who doesn't pay attention. Whereas I might agree th

Re: Going to give it another shot-need more help

2003-11-06 Thread ScruLoose
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 04:51:54PM -0800, Mark Healey wrote: > On Thu, 6 Nov 2003 13:09:24 -0500, ScruLoose wrote: > > First off. I am doing this because none of the kernels on the cds > support my nic. Consequently, any suggestions that involve using > apt-get show that the suggestor is a moron

Re: [OT] SCO's crack legal team

2003-11-06 Thread Greg Norris
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 09:35:53AM +0800, csj wrote: > Speaking of IP hassles, maybe you should have exported that into > the free png format. The original version was png, actually... I converted it to gif because more browsers handle that format, and it has a significantly smaller file size in t

Re: Testing URIs not working

2003-11-06 Thread Haines Brown
> From: Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Have you read any of the below? > > /usr/share/doc/newbiedoc/newbiedoc-html/apt-get-intro/index-apt-get-intro.html > /usr/share/doc/newbiedoc/newbiedoc-html/apt-get-intro/apt-and-install.html > /usr/share/doc/newbiedoc/newbiedoc-html/apt-get-intro/info.

Re: User looses access to DISPLAY (resolved)

2003-11-06 Thread Haines Brown
> Haines Brown wrote: > > Finally bringing to conclusion my first debian (3.0r.1) install, I > > ran aptitude update. When I subsequently rebooted, user cannot > > start x, but root can. Sorry to reply to myself, but thought the information might be useful. After spending much of the day sniffing

Re: kde under sid

2003-11-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 12:55, Debian User wrote: > I removed gdm, invoked startx, and it launched gnome. I tried to > install kde again, and I receive the following: > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > kde: Depends: kde-core but it is not going to be installed >Depends:

Re: heres my noob install questions, smart people please help

2003-11-06 Thread Kent West
David Millet wrote: 1) are these instructions http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/install the best for a noob like me or are there some better ones out there somewhere? These instructions cover lots of different methods of installation and lots of different situations. As a result, they

Re: kde under sid

2003-11-06 Thread Debian User
I removed gdm, invoked startx, and it launched gnome. I tried to install kde again, and I receive the following: The following packages have unmet dependencies: kde: Depends: kde-core but it is not going to be installed Depends: kde-amusements but it is not going to be installed D

Re: Cannot install, upgrade, remove, etc.

2003-11-06 Thread Kent West
Papadopoulos Alexis wrote: Installing is impossible, whatever I do I mustn't need dpkg, it doesn't work. Now as for the copying files from somewhere else solution, it would be great but I have 2 problems : 1) I don't know where I could get those files 2) even if I did, as I said before if I try to

Re: Abiword in testing unusable

2003-11-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 20:25, Carl Fink wrote: > On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 08:19:16PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 19:25, Carl Fink wrote: > > > > > $ apt-cache policy abiword > > > > abiword: > > > > Installed: (none) > > > > Candidate: 2.0.0+cvs.2003.09.25-1.1 > > > > V

Re: Abiword in testing unusable

2003-11-06 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 08:19:16PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 19:25, Carl Fink wrote: > > > $ apt-cache policy abiword > > > abiword: > > > Installed: (none) > > > Candidate: 2.0.0+cvs.2003.09.25-1.1 > > > Version Table: > > > 2.0.0+cvs.2003.09.25-1.1 0 > > >

Re: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"

2003-11-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 20:09, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 08:27:22PM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > OTOH: Yesterday I was told by Linux folks that the sound problems on > > Linux that I have from time to time might need a si

Re: Abiword in testing unusable

2003-11-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 19:25, Carl Fink wrote: > On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 07:15:44PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > Hmmm. Have you done an 'apt-get update' lately? > > This afternoon. > > > $ apt-cache policy abiword > > abiword: > > Installed: (none) > > Candidate: 2.0.0+cvs.2003.09.25-1.1

Re: kde under sid

2003-11-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 11:57, Debian User wrote: > I just upgraded from woody to sid. Gnome will start up fine, but kde > crashes instantly when started from the gdm login. I can use apt-get to > install kde components(i.e. konsole, kpackage) just fine. Is this a > known issue? What happens if y

Re: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"

2003-11-06 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 08:27:22PM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > OTOH: Yesterday I was told by Linux folks that the sound problems on > Linux that I have from time to time might need a simple restart of the > system. Which was a surprise for me as

efax - SOLVED

2003-11-06 Thread Robert Story
> I'm trying to use efax to receive faxes. I've read the man page and it > seems reasonably clear enough. > > However, I'm only able to get efax to work if I'm root. As an > individual user, this is what I get when I try to put the fax modem > into receive mode: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ efax

Re: Voice dictation

2003-11-06 Thread csj
On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 17:14:30 -0800, Bill Wohler wrote: > > Once upon a time, long, long, ago, I used ViaVoice from IBM to > do dictation. Pretty good stuff. > > Earlier this year I replaced my system; today I tried to > reinstall ViaVoice from the CD I had originally received from > IBM. No joy.

kde under sid

2003-11-06 Thread Debian User
I just upgraded from woody to sid. Gnome will start up fine, but kde crashes instantly when started from the gdm login. I can use apt-get to install kde components(i.e. konsole, kpackage) just fine. Is this a known issue? Thanks, Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Re: Exim4 - current spam setup

2003-11-06 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 05:08:13PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > A added a warn test for dsn and postmaster. Postmaster (and abuse) > wipes out yahoo.com. Unfortunatelly a lot of people have accounts > at yahoo. I reject on dsn, whois and ipwhois. -

Re: Abiword in testing unusable

2003-11-06 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 07:15:44PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > Hmmm. Have you done an 'apt-get update' lately? This afternoon. > $ apt-cache policy abiword > abiword: > Installed: (none) > Candidate: 2.0.0+cvs.2003.09.25-1.1 > Version Table: > 2.0.0+cvs.2003.09.25-1.1 0 > 50

Re: Abiword in testing unusable

2003-11-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 18:36, Carl Fink wrote: > It's impossible to install either abiword or abiword-GTK in the current > Testing. Abiword proper depends on > > libperl5.6 (>= 5.6.1-8.3) but 5.6.1-8.2 is to be installed > > and abiword-GTK depends on > > libpspell4 (>= 0.12.2-5) b

Re: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"

2003-11-06 Thread BruceG
- Original Message - From: "BruceG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian-User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 7:53 PM Subject: Re: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers" > > - Original Message - > From: "Ron Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Debian-User"

Re: Exim4 - current spam setup

2003-11-06 Thread Bill Moseley
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 09:39:15PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 02:30:12PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 2) What RBL entries (dnslists) are you using in Exim4's ACL list? > > bl.spamcop.net, and a couple of ones from rfc-ignorant.org to weed out > some of the fishy so

Re: 3Com Gigabit Server NIC Product #: 3C996B-T

2003-11-06 Thread Allan Wind
On 2003-11-06T16:28:58-0600, Dale Schroeder wrote: > Does the linux driver that comes with this NIC work straight out of the > box on Woody? Aka Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5701. Not sure what you use in woody or which modules are installed, but the card works like a charm with the tg3 dri

Re: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"

2003-11-06 Thread BruceG
- Original Message - From: "Ron Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian-User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 7:34 PM Subject: Re: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers" > On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 18:02, BruceG wrote: > > > > - Original Message -

Re: heres my noob install questions, smart people please help

2003-11-06 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 04:32:33PM -0800, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > David Millet said on Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 05:25:24PM -0700: > > 4) once i get debian up and running, i want to set it up to where > > the second partition on hda, my win2000 fat32 drive, is mounted as > > my home directory as a user.

Re: Going to give it another shot-need more help

2003-11-06 Thread Mark Healey
On Thu, 6 Nov 2003 13:09:24 -0500, ScruLoose wrote: First off. I am doing this because none of the kernels on the cds support my nic. Consequently, any suggestions that involve using apt-get show that the suggestor is a moron who doesn't pay attention. Also, my X isn't working either so the same

Re: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"

2003-11-06 Thread David Millet
Complain to the store's owner that his employees overwrote your data, and demand compensation. Contact the BSA, and tell them about the unlicensed Windows. hell ya! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: heres my noob install questions, smart people please help

2003-11-06 Thread David Millet
hey thanx so much for your help, just one quick question Yes, but I wouldn't recommend it. The FAT filesystem semantics aren't the same as Unix, and it's not a very good filesystem anyway. I would leave your Unix homedir on a Unix filesystem, and mount the fat32 partition somewhere else. i wa

Re: exim .forward - mail in mbox format, not Mailbox format

2003-11-06 Thread BruceG
- Original Message - From: "Ron Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian-User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 7:30 PM Subject: Re: exim .forward - mail in mbox format, not Mailbox format > On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 18:11, BruceG wrote: > > - Original Message -

Abiword in testing unusable

2003-11-06 Thread Carl Fink
It's impossible to install either abiword or abiword-GTK in the current Testing. Abiword proper depends on libperl5.6 (>= 5.6.1-8.3) but 5.6.1-8.2 is to be installed and abiword-GTK depends on libpspell4 (>= 0.12.2-5) but it is not going to be installed abiword-common

Re: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"

2003-11-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 18:02, BruceG wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: David Millet > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: Debian-User > Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 6:52 PM > Subject: Re: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers" >

Re: heres my noob install questions, smart people please help

2003-11-06 Thread Mark Ferlatte
David Millet said on Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 05:25:24PM -0700: > 1) are these instructions > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/install the best for a noob > like me or are there some better ones out there somewhere? They are probably best. > 2) i have 2 harddrives, hda and hdb, hda has wi

Re: exim .forward - mail in mbox format, not Mailbox format

2003-11-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 18:11, BruceG wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "BruceG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Debian-User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 6:04 PM > Subject: exim .forward - mail in mbox format, not Mailbox format > > > > Hey all, > >[snip] > > Ou

Re: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"

2003-11-06 Thread David Millet
My experience with the wonderful world of Linux and end users - or normal people. My sister needed a laptop to help her start a new business writing grant proposals. I figured I'd help by buying her a laptop (used, but still good, a Dell Latitude PIII, 256Meg RAM, 12 Gig hard d

heres my noob install questions, smart people please help

2003-11-06 Thread David Millet
ok so i've been doing this linux desktop thing for about a year now, started with redhat, then went to mandrake, now i want to move on to debian, i'm still a noob so i've been reading up on the install instructions on http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/install but before i got started i

Re: exim .forward - mail in mbox format, not Mailbox format

2003-11-06 Thread BruceG
- Original Message - From: "BruceG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian-User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 6:04 PM Subject: exim .forward - mail in mbox format, not Mailbox format > Hey all, > >Been playing with a .forward file for Exim, but am missing something

Re: Problem unravaling mixed system

2003-11-06 Thread Joey Hess
Colin Watson wrote: > > strace -o /tmp/trace dpkg -i doc-linux-text_2003.10-1_all.deb > > > > and attach output. There are some errors at the end but I am afraid > > this is way beyond my level of expertise (this is actualy the first time > > I have used strace). > [...] > > write(8, "\37\213\10\

Re: efax

2003-11-06 Thread Andrés Roldán
Robert Story <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dear All, > > I'm trying to use efax to receive faxes. I've read the man page and it seems > reasonably clear enough. > > However, I'm only able to get efax to work if I'm root. As an individual user, this > is what I get when I try to put the fax modem

Re: Faked Browser with Mozilla Firebird

2003-11-06 Thread Clive Menzies
On (06/11/03 16:48), Kent West wrote: > Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 16:48:50 -0600 > From: Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Faked Browser with Mozilla Firebird > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Clive Menzies wrote: > > >I'm intrigued. why would you want to [make Firebird/Mozilla look > >like

Re: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"

2003-11-06 Thread BruceG
  - Original Message - From: David Millet To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Debian-User Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 6:52 PM Subject: Re: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers" all I have to say is that I personally want linux to rule the deskto

Re: efax

2003-11-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 17:49, Robert Story wrote: > Dear All, > > I'm trying to use efax to receive faxes. I've read the man page > and it seems reasonably clear enough. > > However, I'm only able to get efax to work if I'm root. As an > individual user, this is what I get when I try to put the f

efax

2003-11-06 Thread Robert Story
Dear All, I'm trying to use efax to receive faxes. I've read the man page and it seems reasonably clear enough. However, I'm only able to get efax to work if I'm root. As an individual user, this is what I get when I try to put the fax modem into receive mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ efax -d /d

Re: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"

2003-11-06 Thread David Millet
all I have to say is that I personally want linux to rule the desktop, simply because I will stand to make alot of money when big companies start picking it up. a lot of us will, in fact. i'm extremely confident that it will rule the desktop market, because of the speed at which t

Re: Help!

2003-11-06 Thread Clive Menzies
On (06/11/03 17:32), Ken Gilmour wrote: > Do you work in sales or something? > > > Replying to the message sent by David Palmer. ?on Thu, 6 Nov 2003 14:02:34 +0800, > received at 17:32:09 on 06/11/2003. David Palmer. wrote: > > >Stick with it! > >Some kind person is trying to save you. > >Now,

Re: Cannot install, upgrade, remove, etc.

2003-11-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 16:53, Papadopoulos Alexis wrote: > Installing is impossible, whatever I do I mustn't need dpkg, it doesn't > work. Now as for the copying files from somewhere else solution, it would > be great but I have 2 problems : > 1) I don't know where I could get those files > 2) even

Re: lilo+ext3 guru needed...

2003-11-06 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya schrieb try the following options in /etc/fstab ( at least none of my boxes has any lilo/grub boot problems into ext3 ( or i havent noticed any funky stuff going on /dev/hda1/ ext3defaults 1 1 ( hda7 in your case ) c ya alvin On Thu, 6 Nov 2003,

Re: Lynx vs xli

2003-11-06 Thread Brian Potkin
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 09:27:02PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Snip question about XFConfig-4 and modelines] > According to what I've found in Google, bug 4918 has been fixed for > years. But I can't get Lynx to recognize either XLOADIMAGE_COMMAND or > VIEWER to change from ImageMagick to x

Re: lilo 22.5.8-4

2003-11-06 Thread Andrés Roldán
When lilo finds the field bitmap= on lilo.conf, it assumes "install=bmp". The syntaxis "install=/boot/*.b" is now deprecated as LILO has put together all those *.b files into its binary. You can even remove that install= line or, for avoiding problems, just put install=bmp and all will work fine.

Re: Faked Browser with Mozilla Firebird

2003-11-06 Thread Paul E Condon
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 10:21:45PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (06/11/03 17:35), Joseph Jones wrote: > > > > Lukas Ruf wrote: > > > > >Dear all, > > > > > >is there any way to make Mozilla Firebird send a faked browser > > >identification to the server? I would like it to send for some site

exim .forward - mail in mbox format, not Mailbox format

2003-11-06 Thread BruceG
Hey all, Been playing with a .forward file for Exim, but am missing something in it's interaction with Courier. I created a .forward file in my home directory and did the "chmod go-wx .forward". When I do a fetchmail, I see the new messages going in the right directory, but rather than a di

ssh-agent

2003-11-06 Thread Geoff Thurman
Hello all, Forgive me if this is cretinous beyond compare, but I am confused. I am on a standalone machine, and never use SSH, and yet there is an SSH-agent in my /tmp. Is this normal? I have tried to put my mind at rest by reading the man pages, but couldn't convince myself that the thing sho

Re: Cannot install, upgrade, remove, etc.

2003-11-06 Thread Papadopoulos Alexis
Installing is impossible, whatever I do I mustn't need dpkg, it doesn't work. Now as for the copying files from somewhere else solution, it would be great but I have 2 problems : 1) I don't know where I could get those files 2) even if I did, as I said before if I try to replace one of the broken f

Re: Buildin Soun Card: How?

2003-11-06 Thread Kent West
Phillipus Gunawan wrote: G'day, I am having trouble to listen to any song song from my woody. I have a Celeron 400 with everything_build_in_features, one of them is sound card. Is there any good doc that I can read to configure the sound card? I've tried googling around, and all I can find are PCI

Re: Separate /home drive?

2003-11-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 16:20, David Palmer. wrote: > On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 15:38:06 -0600 > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 15:24, David Palmer. wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I've been reading different partitioning howtos but can't find any > > > reference to a

Re: Faked Browser with Mozilla Firebird

2003-11-06 Thread Kent West
Clive Menzies wrote: I'm intrigued. why would you want to [make Firebird/Mozilla look like IE to websites]? I understand Opera does it because MS had found a way to lock them out of certain sites. Is this also a problem for Mozilla? It's not that MS had found a way to lock out Opera; it's tha

3Com Gigabit Server NIC Product #: 3C996B-T

2003-11-06 Thread Dale Schroeder
Does the linux driver that comes with this NIC work straight out of the box on Woody? Some of 3Com's drivers only work with a few distributions, but they are unclear in their literature about this one. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

NForce audio chipset, alsa and dmix

2003-11-06 Thread jjluza
I use an nforce2 based motherboard and use the audio chipset included in. I use it with snd_intel8x0 (alsa driver) and it works well, except a very usefull feature : mixing of multiple stream I would like to know how to get software mixing working ? I don't want to use program such as arts or esou

installing kde cvs packages on sid

2003-11-06 Thread navaja
hi im trying to apt-get the kde cvs packages, but i get conflicts which go down as far as xlibs (i found this out by apt-get install libarts1, and so on). this is the output i get when trying to update the packages. i have put the apt repositories mentioned on the opendoorsoftware website in my

Re: Cannot install, upgrade, remove, etc.

2003-11-06 Thread Kent West
Papadopoulos Alexis wrote: This is the message I get but apparently I was wrong, I'm not positive that this message is in any way related to my problem : "ide0(3,5):vs-7000: search_by_entry_key: search_by_key returned item position == 0" Still I'm sure the problem is the fs. Now as for unmounting e

Re: lilo+ext3 guru needed...

2003-11-06 Thread LeVA
Dennis Stosberg írta: Am 06.11.2003 um 18:03 schrieb LeVA: So it seems I can not use data=journal with my root partition. I have to edit /etc/fstab , and change /dev/hda7 ...,data=ordered, if I want to start my system. Is this normal? I don't think so... Anybody knows the cure for this pr

Re: GUI login screen.

2003-11-06 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: "Rob Weir" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian-user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 11:21 Subject: Re: GUI login screen. I must admit I dont know I thought I fixed it but must not have done so. I printed your note this time and I'll get it do

Re: Separate /home drive?

2003-11-06 Thread David Palmer.
On Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:53:39 -0500 "Jason Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ahh... reminds me of that old adage: > Home is where your fstab tells it to be. > > (Hint: man fstab) > > Regards, > Jason Thank you, Jason. Regards, David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Re: Faked Browser with Mozilla Firebird

2003-11-06 Thread Clive Menzies
On (06/11/03 17:35), Joseph Jones wrote: > > Lukas Ruf wrote: > > >Dear all, > > > >is there any way to make Mozilla Firebird send a faked browser > >identification to the server? I would like it to send for some sites > >the MSIE identification, while for others Netscape 4.7. > > > >Can I do th

Re: Separate /home drive?

2003-11-06 Thread David Palmer.
On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 15:46:03 -0600 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Palmer. wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I've been reading different partitioning howtos but can't find any > > reference to a situation I thought I would like to install. > > It's probably a newbie idea, but I wondered if i

Re: icewm problems

2003-11-06 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Nov 06 at 14:00, Thomas H. George spoke: > /etc/init.d/kdm and added /usr/games to the path list. This didn't > solve the problem so I edited .icewm/toolbar in my home directory and > changed the entry to prog "Pysol" /usr/games/pysol pysol. This didn't Try prog Pysol pysol /usr/g

Re: xfce

2003-11-06 Thread Clive Menzies
On (06/11/03 17:24), JG wrote: > Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hi Kent, > > > > > >> Not knowing what your level of *nix knowledge is, it's hard to answer > > >> without being too terse or too simplistic. > > > I've been using Redhat for about a year no

Re: Separate /home drive?

2003-11-06 Thread David Palmer.
On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 15:38:06 -0600 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 15:24, David Palmer. wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I've been reading different partitioning howtos but can't find any > > reference to a situation I thought I would like to install. > > It's probably a n

Re: Separate /home drive?

2003-11-06 Thread Miernik
On 2003-11-06, David Palmer. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's probably a newbie idea, but I wondered if it would be possible to > have system partitions on one drive, and posting to /home on another. Of course it's possible. It's even possible to have /home mounted on a different machine over t

Re: Separate /home drive?

2003-11-06 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello David Palmer. (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I've been reading different partitioning howtos but can't find any > reference to a situation I thought I would like to install. > It's probably a newbie idea, but I wondered if it would be possible to > have system partitions on one drive, and p

Re: [Fwd: Re: Cannot install, upgrade, remove, etc.]

2003-11-06 Thread Papadopoulos Alexis
The first time I runned it, it said something like that (sorry forgot), but it now says : /dev/hda1: clean, 30/8032 files, 11794/32098 blocks the 30 above means there are 30 corrupted files no ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMA

Re: Cannot install, upgrade, remove, etc.

2003-11-06 Thread Papadopoulos Alexis
This is the message I get but apparently I was wrong, I'm not positive that this message is in any way related to my problem : "ide0(3,5):vs-7000: search_by_entry_key: search_by_key returned item position == 0" Still I'm sure the problem is the fs. Now as for unmounting everything except /, well i

Re: file and directory permissions question...

2003-11-06 Thread Clive Menzies
On (06/11/03 14:39), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Eric, > > > /foo - Only folks in the 'users' group can read, write and delete > > files/dirs. > > The permissions of directory foo do not influence whether someone can > open a given file in it for reading or writing, only whether he can >

Re: Separate /home drive?

2003-11-06 Thread Paul E Condon
On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 05:24:25AM +0800, David Palmer. wrote: > > Hello, > > I've been reading different partitioning howtos but can't find any > reference to a situation I thought I would like to install. > It's probably a newbie idea, but I wondered if it would be possible to > have system par

RE: Separate /home drive?

2003-11-06 Thread Jason Wilson
Ahh... reminds me of that old adage: Home is where your fstab tells it to be. (Hint: man fstab) Regards, Jason -Original Message- From: David Palmer. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 4:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Separate /home drive? Hello, I've b

lilo 22.5.8-4

2003-11-06 Thread Robin Gerard
Hello, I installed lilo 225.8-4 in my box and I added in lilo.conf: bitmap=/usr/share/lilo/contrib/sid.bmp bmp-color=1,,0,2,,0 bmp-table=120p,173p,1,15,17 bmp-timer=254p,432p,1,0,0 install=/boot/boot-map.b afterward I ran /sbin/lilo and when I rebooted I saw the nice picture sid.bmp, but there

Re: [Fwd: Re: Cannot install, upgrade, remove, etc.]

2003-11-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 15:37, Papadopoulos Alexis wrote: > Original Message > Subject: Re: Cannot install, upgrade, remove, etc. > From:"Papadopoulos Alexis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date:Thu, November 6, 2003 3:33 pm > To: "Kent We

Re: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"

2003-11-06 Thread Mike Mueller
On Thursday 06 November 2003 14:27, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > So, yes: It seems it makes some sense what the RedHat chief executive > said. If your brother or sister starts a new venture, you wouldn't use the local newspaper to say that their venture is immature and folks should check back in a

Re: Cannot install, upgrade, remove, etc.

2003-11-06 Thread Kent West
Papadopoulos Alexis wrote: Actually ls is in /bin/ for me. It doesn't change anything. I'm positive now that the problem is due to the fs, some weird messages appear in the boot process, What are the messages? Strange though, I'm using ReiserFS, are these I've never used ReiserFS, so am unfamilia

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