Strange problem after upgrading from Buster to testing.

2020-10-25 Thread matthew dyer
Hi all, I am wondering if this should be sent to the Debian accessibility list, but any way, I am in the prosses of installing Debian buster, but wanted to upgrade to testing. I have a very strange problem happens where the system will not boot, so tried to install the bulzie testing with the

Update on my update problem with gnome system.

2018-05-19 Thread Matthew Dyer
Mornning all, A few days ago I reported a  problem whare the gnome testing system which I am now using to write this message.  Here is the resault. I did a clean install of the system using the alfa testing image.  I then edited the sources list and changed the lines from buster to

Can't find external drives

2009-04-16 Thread James Dyer
I'm having problems when attempting to locate directories on my USB drives, and 1 external drive.  When using Konquerer, a messageBox pops up saying error-KDE mediamanager not running.  I'm new to this, and the forums haven't answered my post yet.  I need to get to this usb drive so I can

Re: tapes best for backup?

2008-01-05 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
with my original copy of the Microsoft Font Pack for Windows 3.whatever was unreadable when I tried it a couple of years back. -- David Dyer-Bennet, [EMAIL PROTECTED]; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http

Re: tapes best for backup?

2008-01-05 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
s. keeling wrote: David Dyer-Bennet [EMAIL PROTECTED]: s. keeling wrote: I've never run across a CD I couldn't still read, and I've a few old ones. DVD, I would expect to be even better. For me, tape's Why would you expect DVD to be better? I'd expect it to be worse

Re: tapes best for backup?

2008-01-04 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
modules to put the power to the two external drives under computer control. Or you could use an independent external timer (have to have a 48-hour or better timer though to alternate days). -- David Dyer-Bennet, [EMAIL PROTECTED]; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data

Re: tapes best for backup?

2008-01-04 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
on the disk (which is mirrored) and get backed up to external disks regularly. I can pretty easily afford for any *one* of the backups to fail.) -- David Dyer-Bennet, [EMAIL PROTECTED]; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery

Re: tapes best for backup?

2008-01-04 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
Photo CDs). I *have* had tapes in every format I've ever used, from 7-track up to DDS, go bad or be unreadable for other reasons. I've also had a lot of the *drives* go bad, which means I'd probably want two or three before storing anything important on the tape format. -- David Dyer-Bennet

Re: tapes best for backup?

2008-01-04 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 04:18:11PM -0600, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: hat I think of as minimum acceptable backup is two offline volumes to accept backups, used alternately. Anything less leaves you with all copies of your data online and vulnerable at once

Re: tapes best for backup?

2008-01-04 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 04:18:11PM -0600, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: Paul Cartwright wrote: On Fri January 4 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: so, what would be a good method.. say for instance MY system. my /home is 164 Gb, with 50 Gb free, so I've used 110

Re: spamcop

2006-09-27 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
just fake a subscribe message from the spamtrap address, or enter the spamtrap address into the subscription form on the web. -- David Dyer-Bennet, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/ RKBA: http://www.dd-b.net/carry/ Pics: http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/ Dragaera/Steven Brust

Re: Apache2::Util not getting installed?

2005-08-18 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
Colin Ingram [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David Dyer-Bennet wrote: However, that file doesn't exist: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -F /usr/lib/perl5/Apache2/ Apache/ APR/ APR.pm auto/ ModPerl/ mod_perl.pm It is located at /usr/lib/perl5/Apache2/Apache/Util.pm At least

Apache2::Util not getting installed?

2005-08-16 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
and it's not showing up. -- David Dyer-Bennet, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/ RKBA: http://noguns-nomoney.com/ http://www.dd-b.net/carry/ Pics: http://dd-b.lighthunters.net/ http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/ Dragaera/Steven Brust: http://dragaera.info/ Much of which

Re: Plonking

2005-06-11 Thread Phil Dyer
Hal Vaughan said: On Friday 10 June 2005 10:17 pm, Paul Johnson wrote: On Friday June 10 2005 8:08 am, Phil Dyer wrote: plonk! Oh, please. Can we possibly get any more childish? Please don't advertise your filters, it tends to cause headers to evolve. Even the emotionally disturbed

Re: KDE 3.4

2005-06-10 Thread Phil Dyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Piero Piutti said: deb http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/kde-3.4.0/ ./ There's a kde-3.4.1 there now too. - -- /phil -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) iD8DBQFCqW9zGbd/rBLcaFwRAl42AKDVMYWA3xe8KqmYFfP2WBG2q1FyRQCdHelG

Re: Dns resolving from linux pc in windows network

2005-06-10 Thread Phil Dyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 debian said: We use windows 2003 servers and various linux application servers, DNS is on windows and we have a suffix say; test.tralala So when i perform the command Host 192.168.0.10 i must get a reply that this host is pipo.test.tralala

Re: SPAM:Re: Dns resolving from linux pc in windows network

2005-06-10 Thread Phil Dyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 debian said: Thnx for the reply. My windows has reverse zone. Can you see the rev entry in windows dns for a specific box? - From the windows box, can you nslookup the ipaddress with correct results? This is an error: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Top posting (a different point of view)

2005-06-10 Thread Phil Dyer
I agree with that point exactly. PS: 2 points for anybody that can figure out which point, or even which poster I'm agreeing with. (I really did try to stay out of this...) phil Mark said: Paul Johnson wrote: On Thursday June 9 2005 5:10 pm, Patrick Wiseman wrote: I completely agree.

Re: Top posting

2005-06-10 Thread Phil Dyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 :0 * ^Subject: .*Top Posting /dev/null plonk! - -- /phil -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) Comment: Public Key: http://www.dyermaker.org/gpgkey iD8DBQFCqazoGbd/rBLcaFwRApEUAKCBS0dHR+PtjqAOovs4jZKOCq8o1wCgkhpr

Re: IP Address assigned by ISP, dns set as static?

2005-06-10 Thread Phil Dyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Nicholls said: I've been having a few problems with dns lookups and have been given a new set up dns servers and not the same ones placed into resolv.conf by dhcp. Obviously if I make a change to resolv.conf, it will be soon-after be

Re: i think I switched to Etch without knowing it

2005-06-10 Thread Phil Dyer
John Hasler said: Marty writes: This is all very mysterious to me, all these people lacking an apt.conf file. toncho/~ 1 ls /etc/apt apt-file.conf apt.conf.d listchanges.conf sources.list [EMAIL PROTECTED] pad]$ ls /etc/apt apt.conf.d sources.list -- /phil -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Sudden constant spoofing of my address

2005-06-10 Thread Phil Dyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roberto C. Sanchez said: Pretty much. And since most now do S/MIME and PGP/MIME instead of the old ASCII inline, if they don't it shows up as some random attachment, instead of a bunch of crap at the top and bottom of a message. The thing with

Re: apt-get problems

2005-06-08 Thread Phil Dyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jason G Skala said: I am running woody still and if I do any apt-get command from update to upgrade I get the following apt-get update gives apt-get update Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org stable/main Packages Since sarge is now stable, I'm sure

Re: Confused-New Stable Sarge Dist-Upgrade

2005-06-07 Thread Phil Dyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Leonard Chatagnier said: tar: ./lib/modules/2.6.8-2-686/modules.symbols: Cannot write: No space left on device tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors I chacked partition space with df and seem to have ample room as shown

Re: Only root access the internet

2005-06-03 Thread Phil Dyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 xxx xxx said: Hi all, I'm trying for the last 6 months to connect to the Internet as an ordinary user but only root can! I gave full permissions to pppd, all /etc/ppp files, kppp, wvdial. I can connect but when I open Mozilla I can't connect

Re: Only root access the internet

2005-06-03 Thread Phil Dyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Phil Dyer said: xxx xxx said: Hi all, I'm trying for the last 6 months to connect to the Internet as an ordinary user but only root can! I gave full permissions to pppd, all /etc/ppp files, kppp, wvdial. I can connect but when I open

Re: root compromise on debian woody

2005-05-27 Thread Phil Dyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joey Hess said: Well to choose one security hole at random out of dozens to hundreds that remain unfixed in woody's kernels, this one allows anyone to go from a normal user account to root: CAN-2005-1263 [Linux kernel ELF core dump privilege

Re: OT Required Options?

2005-05-27 Thread Phil Dyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Dickopp said: John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin writes: Apparently, command line programs exist for Microsoft Windows which can only be run successfully if at least one command line option is provided to them. That's true of

Re: Custom kernel building and mkinitrd

2005-05-25 Thread Phil Dyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ibrahim Mubarak said: OK. So I went ahead and downloaded the latest kernel off of kernel.org, compiled it and installed it. Still mkinitrd doesn't output the image. So I tried to mkinitrd of the running kernel. Still nothing. I am guessing it is

Re: html to pdf conversion

2005-05-23 Thread Phil Dyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Deboo ^ said: Is there a html to pdf converter utility/script or any such thing available for debian? I could not find using apt search. you can use a combination of html2ps and ps2pdf. They are both available as deb packages. - -- /phil

Re: Network scan

2005-05-15 Thread Phil Dyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alexandar Angelov said: Mark Roach wrote: Do you know any command(script) to scan range from 192.168.35.1 to 92.168.35.255 and return if port :80 , :21 and MAC Addr. nmap MAC? Sure. nmap will return the mac...if the scanned machine is on

Re: something unclear with sed for me

2005-05-11 Thread Phil Dyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andras Lorincz wrote: I want to replaces all multiple spaces with one space. My first attempt was this: sed -e 's/\ */\ /g' This replaced all multiple spaces with one but as a side effect, sed inserted a space between all characters. You

Re: bash command substitution problem

2005-05-08 Thread Phil Dyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Pollywog said: I have a function defined in my .bashrc as: function lf { /bin/ls -l | grep ^- ; } It prints the files in the CWD without listing other directories. Suppose I want to 'chmod 600' all the files in the CWD without affecting

logrotate

2005-05-08 Thread Phil Dyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Been getting these emails from cron lately... running sarge. /etc/cron.daily/logrotate: /tmp/logrotate.qRrfw3: line 4: kill: (880) - No such process /tmp/logrotate.nnWbEs: line 4: kill: (880) - No such process any clues? - -- /phil -BEGIN

Re: Auto Disconnecting...

2005-05-06 Thread Phil Dyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jerzy Wolowik said: telnet daemon: in.telnetd in /usr/sbin/ it's 0.17-18woody2 according to dpkg managed by inted and indirectly by tcpd daemon as stated in inetd.conf: [snip...] Watch out! Please, think at first of all that obvious things

Re: Auto disconnecting time

2005-05-06 Thread Phil Dyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jerzy Wolowik said: Yeah, I've been doing so. But problem persists. OK, so if I've got this straight - you're having problems with not only telnet disconnecting, but also ssh? Do you have autolog installed? Anything in /var/log concerning the

Re: how to determine WAN IP address from behind a NAT router?

2005-05-05 Thread Phil Dyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A.Melon said: I searched for information on this and found only solutions by parsing the output of websites that display the HTTP REMOTE_ADDR. But I don't want to rely on an external website. I know there must be a way to do this because

Re: sarge apt and init daemons

2005-05-04 Thread Phil Dyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Miquel van Smoorenburg said: OK, although both solutions work, (I guess - I haven't tried the second solution) it still seems kludgy to me. If I use the debian supplied tool to remove a service from startup _totally_, and I use a debian supplied tool

Re: sarge apt and init daemons

2005-05-04 Thread Phil Dyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Hasler said: It won't restart the service if you have left at least one K link in place. Debian provides several tools for turning services on and off. My favorite is sysvconfig (since I wrote it). thanks, John. I'm checking out sysvconfig

Re: sarge apt and init daemons

2005-05-02 Thread Phil Dyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Miquel van Smoorenburg said: If you want to keep updates from starting the daemon, just chmod 644 it. That sounds reasonable...and simple. :) thanks. Reasonable, simple, and wrong :) As long as one start or stop link is still present,

Re: Potential Virus or System Message?

2005-05-01 Thread Phil Dyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 s. keeling wrote: Incoming from Faithful John: I got this weird message, when I left my email through Telnet/Pine running when I left my house. I'd say someone got in, and they got in far enough to shutdown the machine, which generally means

Re: Potential Virus or System Message?

2005-05-01 Thread Phil Dyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Faithful John said: So this gives me a second question. I'm pretty sure that I disabled the remote access ability stuff (though I'm not 100% on that at this moment). Is there a chance someone could still get into my system in any way and do

Re: that hes lost

2005-04-07 Thread Erin Dyer
with our terms please verify your information on our secure, private site to ensure our records are accurate. http://www.lend-one.net/index2.php?refid=windsor Have a Great Day --Erin Dyer Senior Business Consultant - Low-Rate Advisors Inc. Did this reach you in error? please let us know...thx http

apt-file fails???

2005-01-06 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
-file update Can't locate object method host via package URI::_foreign (perhaps you forgot to load URI::_foreign?) at /usr/bin/apt-file line 189. player ddb# apt-get check apt-file Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done -- David Dyer-Bennet, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], http

Re: apt-file fails???

2005-01-06 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
Adam Aube [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David Dyer-Bennet wrote: After installing apt-file, it doesn't work; erroring out, in fact. Is there some missing dependency, perhaps? player ddb# apt-file update Can't locate object method host via package URI::_foreign (perhaps you forgot to load URI

Where is the PATH set?

2005-01-05 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
to discover that that's on its way out and Debian is moving towards doing things another way, and the stuff I chose to standardize on was vestigial. -- David Dyer-Bennet, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/ RKBA: http://noguns-nomoney.com/ http://www.dd-b.net/carry/ Pics: http://dd

Colorized ls problem

2005-01-05 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
to see it fixed at the source. And the other problem there is that /usr/doc/fileutils and the info pages don't seem to give me any clue where to report bugs to. -- David Dyer-Bennet, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/ RKBA: http://noguns-nomoney.com/ http://www.dd-b.net/carry/ Pics

Re: Gallery 1.4 claims newer PHP version

2004-02-10 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
system it's installed in at least 3 separate directories that I know of (you need to do that to have multiple galleries on the server). -- David Dyer-Bennet, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/ RKBA: http://noguns-nomoney.com http://www.dd-b.net/carry/ Photos: dd-b.lighthunters.net

Re: Securing it properly

2004-02-08 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
Jacob S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 00:12:32 -0600 David Dyer-Bennet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The apt-get tool, from what little I've seen so far, is quite nice. I didn't find dependencies especially hard to manage in RedHat, though, and apt-get seems to sacrifice

Re: Securing it properly

2004-02-07 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
, and use less net bandwidth, and generally be a very good thing. As I say, despite having some troubles on the initial learning curve, I'm still favorably inclined and expect to eventually convert my systems to Debian. -- David Dyer-Bennet, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b

Mouse Wheel/Screen Saver

2002-01-06 Thread Nick Dyer
I've noticed that xscreensaver doesn't count mouse wheel movements when deciding whether to blank the screen or not, so if I've been paging through a web page for enough time without moving the mouse, the screen blanks. Can anyone suggest how to fix this? If it is a bug, which package is likely to

Re: XFree86 4.0.2 - Very low resolution - how to increase?

2001-02-15 Thread Leigh Dyer
On 15 Feb 2001 19:55:06 +1100, hogan wrote: Any ideas? It says my card (actually on board S3) isn't supported but that SVGA driver should handle it.. What S3 card exactly? if you check http://www.xfree86.org/current/Status28.html, you'll find that only the S3 Trio3D, and Virge and Savage

Re: Kernel patching

2000-08-11 Thread dyer
.) I assume you are using the docs in /usr/src/linux/README. You now need to rebuild the kernel. hth dyer

Re: Compiling Kernel with debian

2000-07-18 Thread dyer
to get you going. # apt-get install libncurses5-dev kernel-package Also, for a lot of questions you can find answers in the Mailing List Archive. This question about ncurses.h pops up all the time. www.debian.org/List-Archives has a sweet search tool at the bottom. good luck dyer

Re: kdm User List ?

2000-06-30 Thread dyer
, then Login Manager. dyer

Re: X Fonts

2000-06-30 Thread dyer
/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled dyer

Re: Connection terminated after 481.1 minutes

2000-06-29 Thread dyer
of time. Since the time is very close to 8 hours, (nice round number) I suspect that to be the case. dyer

Re: ssh1-ssh2

2000-06-26 Thread dyer
. I believe that ssh2 is running on port instead of the normal port 22. (Cant have both using same port!) If you try to connect with the ssh2 client using the default port (22) then the sshd1 is going to answer and you get a protocol error. Try specifying the port. #ssh -p host dyer

Re: Suggest net trafic analyser pls!

2000-06-23 Thread dyer
ppp connections? dyer

Re: Compiling the Kernel.

2000-06-19 Thread dyer
it cannot find. Also, you should not be running 'make install'. Take a look at the README in the /usr/src/linux directory. You should be running: make mrproper make config (or menuconfig or xconfig) make dep make bzImage make modules make modules_install Again, look at the readme. dyer

Re: setting up ipmasq

2000-06-16 Thread dyer
for the box behind the firewall. dyer

Re: html2ps

2000-06-15 Thread dyer
format) at once. how 'bout html2ps -o output.ps file1.html file2.html file3.html ... will create one big ps file containing all the html files. hope that helps, dyer

Re: /var/log/syslog entries

2000-06-12 Thread dyer
want to stop logging them. ;) dyer

Re: Debian Potato and Helix Gnome

2000-06-09 Thread dyer
'. The only thing I found that required woody was a dependency on libguile6 1:1.3.4-3. Potato provides 1.3.4-2. This was only for the games I think. I upgraded libguile6 to the woody version and all was well. Running nicely on potato. dyer

Re: gv

2000-06-07 Thread dyer
BTW, what kind of tool do you use to convert .ps to .pdf? gv can do .pdf to .ps, acroread does the same thing too. Oki Strangely enough, it's called ps2pdf. I think it's in the gs package. Works great, just used it today. dyer

unable to start X after upgrade to potato

2000-06-06 Thread Phil Dyer
problem, potato has changed how it handles window mangers, look at update-alternatives to register your window manager. That _may_ be your problem. You did do a dist-upgrade, right? dyer

Re: DVD-ROM

2000-05-29 Thread dyer
? Probably, the cd player app is looking for the cdrom in /dev/cdrom. You should point it to your actual device, or make a symlink from your cdrom device to /dev/cdrom ln -s /dev/hdx /dev/cdrom# where x is your actual device. hth dyer

Re: Basic PPP dialup to ISP question

2000-04-01 Thread dyer
' for the connection, and only need to issue the command: pon hth dyer

Re: Basic PPP dialup to ISP question

2000-04-01 Thread dyer
note that if you only use one ISP, you can use the name 'default' for the connection and only need to issue the command: pon Not 'default', 'provider'. -- whoops! Need more coffee! dyer

Re: Woody: missing parse-xf86config? /etc/init.d.xdm wants it!

2000-03-29 Thread Phil Dyer
, but it works. Maybe Brandon will respond and tell us what the future is for this. dyer

Re: permission denied

2000-03-27 Thread dyer
readers. ;) dyer

Re: ssh loading at startup

2000-03-21 Thread dyer
an easier way then the one explained? You need to make it executable. chmod 755 /etc/init.d/ssh dyer

Re: apt kde

2000-02-29 Thread dyer
Joe Gofton wrote: can anyone tell me how to install KDE using APT? Thanks Joe(new user) Joe, here's a link to a site that will give you a bunch of available aptable sites for kde. http://kde.tdyc.com/Debian/ dyer

Re: TkMan

2000-02-03 Thread dyer
the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free. --Charles Evans Hughes It's in non-free. You can get it from debian.org dyer

Re: libxpm4, libz1 - not found

2000-02-03 Thread dyer
matthschulz wrote: Hi all, I tried to upgrade grace 5.01 by grace_5.0.5-1.2.deb. It says it depends on ...,libxpm4, libz1,... I couldnt. find those packages at debian.org packetsearch? Any ideas? Matth They're libc5 based libs. You can find them in oldlibs/ dyer

Re: 128 MB but only 64 MB

2000-02-02 Thread dyer
Ron Rademaker wrote: My computer (Athlon 500) has 128 MB of memory, but linux says that there's only 64 MB. At bootup the bios says 128 MB... I want to use the other 64 MB as well... how??? Ron in /etc/lilo.conf add: append=mem=128M run lilo, reboot dyer

Re: Happy.exe

2000-01-28 Thread dyer
. yeah, you'll need to do a couple of things. I got it at work a couple of months ago. Mcafee has a page telling you how to remove it. http://vil.mcafee.com/vil/vpe10144.asp that'll teach ya for using windows. ;-) dyer

Re: ipchains firewall rules

2000-01-20 Thread dyer
REJECT but as i mentioned i get DENY logs for various ports below 1024 from IPs which i presume are from my ISP. any pointers to good books and such on firewalling would be nice too. /snip Are the deny's perhaps UDP packets? dyer

Re: themes

2000-01-13 Thread dyer
. there are docs on icewm.themes.org that explicitly tell you how to make use of themes. dyer

Re: dependency questions

2000-01-10 Thread dyer
john smith wrote: Hello!, I wanted to install sawmill with slink.when I checked their website, it instructed me that it needs librep, rep-gtk,gtk and imlib so I downloaded some of those and then when I tried to install the first one rep-gtk , it said that it depended on libglib1.2.6 but

Re: help with linux

2000-01-05 Thread Phil Dyer
to get going is to buy a cd. Look on www.debian.org for cd distributers. They only cost a few bucks. Long downloads over slow lines can be a nightmare. Also look around debian's site... lots of good documentation, links, etc. hth dyer

Re: modem problem

1999-12-29 Thread dyer
could install bind. hth -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= dyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Re: cvs behind a firewall?

1999-12-16 Thread dyer
to change our ipchains script. Thanks, Edgar. from /etc/services I get that it uses tcp port 2401. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= dyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Re: In trouble

1999-12-16 Thread dyer
-mandrake.com. The have support there. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= dyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Re: Modem does not work

1999-12-11 Thread dyer
by the _general_ rule: PCI Modem = Winmodem Real Modem = External Modem Now I'm sure you can get some PCI's to work, but I'm just betting you're tired of going to the store. ;-) Take a look at the hardware compatability docs. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= dyer[EMAIL

Re: lo disappeared after 2.1-2.2 upgrade

1999-12-09 Thread dyer
Svante Signell wrote: Has the network interface scripts changed from slink to potato? After upgrading my loop interface is not working any longer. ifconfig shows both my lo and eth0 interface, but route does not report lo. Trying to activate results in: route add -net 127.0.0.0

Re: Setting up PPP on Debian

1999-12-01 Thread dyer
connection . Is there any good guide to read and teach myself to make a PPP client [ excluding PPP-HOWTO ] ? pppconfig (as root) It will guide you through everything, then you use the pon, poff commands to connect, disconnect HTH -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= dyer

Re: @Home Cable Modem

1999-11-12 Thread dyer
me some advice on what I can do? Thanks Jon, take a look at the cable modem HOW-TO http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Cable-Modem.html -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= dyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Re: idle user

1999-10-31 Thread dyer
Attila Csosz wrote: What packeage does it? ( from the official binary slink cd-s ) You've been idle for 68 min. You'll be logged off in 30sec unless you hit a key. Then I was logged off. idled sounds like the culprit. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= dyer

Re: passwd

1999-10-25 Thread dyer
there's a problem about that too (I guess its the same...) so please tell me Hope that can help... Vincent Deffontaines France -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= dyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Re: Copying to a floppy; www connection

1999-10-10 Thread dyer
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Re: www connection again

1999-10-10 Thread dyer
that. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= dyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

how's kde2 look?

1999-09-22 Thread dyer
Anybody running the kde 2.0 debs for slink at tdyc.com? any regrets, blair witch-like evilness? -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= dyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Re: /dev/lp1 bad configured

1999-09-20 Thread Dyer
printing? 2.2.x kernels use lp0. Change from lp1 to lp0 in /etc/printcap dyer

Re: Kppp

1999-09-19 Thread dyer
Eber de Castro Diniz wrote: The I execute kppp, it shows the following message after connect: ppp died unexpectly Does anyone know how to fix it? You may try using an empty /etc/ppp/options file. It fixed it for me. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= dyer[EMAIL

Re: KDE

1999-09-19 Thread dyer
://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/ There is a search at the bottom of the page. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= dyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Re: mail and security

1999-09-19 Thread dyer
and saw that user nobody issued a find command. I just disconnected. Guess I should change my password. May be wrong, but it was probably cron running your locate database update. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= dyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Re: xfree 3.3.4 debianized, where can I found it pls?

1999-09-18 Thread dyer
Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: Any URL? Thanx in advance. JY I assume you are talking about slink packages. http://samosa.debian.org/~branden/ you can apt-get with deb http://samosa.debian.org/%7Ebranden/ xfree86-334-slink/ hth -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= dyer

Re: What is required for Kernel 2.2.12 ?

1999-09-18 Thread dyer
here. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= dyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Re: Xemacs problem

1999-09-13 Thread Dyer
David Kanter wrote: When I try to start xemacs, I occasionally get this error message: Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server emacs: Cannot connect to X server :0.0. Check the DISPLAY environment variable or use `-d'. Also use the

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