Re: Fetchmail--SMTP connect to localhost failed

1999-09-05 Thread bwarsing
From: Kent West > I can send mail from this box to my own account on this box, as well as > to my account on my ISP (university campus). I think I've tried every > permutation on the "qualify_domain" and "local_domains" lines in > exim.conf, but either I haven't hit the right combination or it's go

Re: more ftp, but no apt-get

1999-09-05 Thread Greg & Heather Vence
below is the default... Notice your 2nd line is different? hth -- Greg. # Use for a local mirror - remove the ftp1 http lines for the bits # your mirror contains. # deb file:/your/mirror/here/debian stable main contrib non-free # See sources.list(5) for more information, especialy # Remember tha

How to produce a newsletter

1999-09-05 Thread Kent West
Learning curve aside, what's going to be the best Linux app for producing a 1- or 2-page newsletter? I've used WordPerfect for years (from back in the DOS days of 5.x to the Windows version to the Linux version now), but I suspect there's something better for this sort of thing. Thanks!

Re: nas???

1999-09-05 Thread John Gay
Thanks for the offer. I can ping between both PC's, it is just ftp and telnet that only work one way. I don't know a lot about networking so I read the net3 HOW-TO and set up some files for the I.P. Addresses and route. I don't know what is configured as far as the I.P. setting. I.E. Masquerading

Re: H45 QuickCD PCMCIA CDROM and/or JVC SCSI via Bus Toaster ?

1999-09-05 Thread Mark Wagnon
On Sun 09/05/99 03:46PM, John Miskinis wrote: > I am wondering if anyone has experiences (good or bad) with using > either of these CDROM devices under debian. I have the opportunity > to borrow the debian (or other dists) CD next week, and want to > make sure it is possible to use these devices t

StarOffice on potato dist - am I screwed?

1999-09-05 Thread Eric G. Stern
I'm trying to install the downloaded version of StarOffice on a system running a recent version of potato. It hangs just when I'm telling it to begin the install. I understand there are lots of issues with the version of the C library in use. The release notes say that it is tested with glibc-2.

H45 QuickCD PCMCIA CDROM and/or JVC SCSI via Bus Toaster ?

1999-09-05 Thread John Miskinis
Hello, I am wondering if anyone has experiences (good or bad) with using either of these CDROM devices under debian. I have the opportunity to borrow the debian (or other dists) CD next week, and want to make sure it is possible to use these devices to install. When I got the base system up on

Re: Fetchmail--SMTP connect to localhost failed

1999-09-05 Thread Kent West
Mark Wagnon wrote: > I had this problem too. I fixed it by adding localhost to the list of > local_domains. > -- > ( __ _ > Mark Wagnon ) Debian GNU/ -o) / / (_)__ __ __ > Chula Vista, CA ( /\\/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ /

Re: Ethernet

1999-09-05 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Jean-Yves Barbier wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > I got a new computer and brought it to my college, and installed Debian on > > it. However, when i installed it, i couldn't get the module for my NE2000 > > compatible driver to in

How to uninstall X

1999-09-05 Thread Kent West
Since I'm having so much trouble getting the extended-half of my keyboard to work (arrow keys, pg-up/dn, etc), I'm thinking it might be good just to purge all X-related files and do a clean install of the X Window System. Preferably someone can tell me how to fix my keys; alternatively, can anyone

Re: Fetchmail--SMTP connect to localhost failed

1999-09-05 Thread Mark Wagnon
On Sun 09/05/99 05:07PM, Kent West wrote: > I found several references to this in the archives, but no solution. > When I run "fetchmail -k mail.acu.edu" and provide my password for > [EMAIL PROTECTED] I get a bunch of "skipping message #x not flushed", > followed by "SMTP connect to localhost fail

Sound Woes

1999-09-05 Thread Kent West
I have successfully configured sound on a couple of Debian boxes, but only as a result of hit&miss luck. On this box with an AudioPCI 64 (Ensonique 1371 I believe), I haven't had any success. A LOT of the problem is that I just don't comprehend what's necessary to get sound working. Reading the HO

problems starting X

1999-09-05 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hey all. I just had a problem crop up the other day, and it's got me totally baffled. I'm running slink, with the updates from netgod.net, and the 3dfx xserver from http://glide.xxedgexx.com/3DfxRPMS_vb_glibc.html (converted to .deb via alien). I have a 3dfx v

Re: reboot question

1999-09-05 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Mark Bathie wrote: > I am trying to set up my home system for friends to use, what is the best > way to allow them access to some sort of reboot command ? I would use the ctrl-alt-del key combination. The first thing to do is edit /etc/shutd

Fetchmail--SMTP connect to localhost failed

1999-09-05 Thread Kent West
I found several references to this in the archives, but no solution. When I run "fetchmail -k mail.acu.edu" and provide my password for [EMAIL PROTECTED] I get a bunch of "skipping message #x not flushed", followed by "SMTP connect to localhost failed". Near as I can figure from the archive postin

Re: Installing xfree86 3.3.3.5

1999-09-05 Thread Alexis Maldonado
Hello! On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 03:18:48PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I need to install xfree86 3.3.3.5 (so that I can get a Nvidia RIVA TNT-2 > vid card working.. if there is another way to do this without getting > xfree86, i'd love to know.. ) anyhow, when i tried installing 3.3.3.5 > usi

Re: Revisit Large Hard Drives

1999-09-05 Thread Alexis Maldonado
Hello! On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 03:19:24PM -0500, John Foster wrote: > I did not see any replies to this query from a previous posting, so I'll > ask again. Has any one here tried using Linux (Debian Slink) with a hard > drive in the size range of 15 to 27.5 Gb. I want to install 2 of these > now a

Re: traceroute: icmp socket: Operation not permitted

1999-09-05 Thread Chris Schleifer
There were problems with a version of the netstd package (3.07-8 I think) which was in potato a few days ago. You probably got this version when you upgraded. Try updating to the newest (3.07-9) version, it fixed this problem on mine. Chris Schleifer Phillip Deackes wrote: > Today I tried to us

filtering with exim

1999-09-05 Thread Mark R. Devlin
First off, I have "simple" filtering down -- putting each list in its own folder. What I want to do is one notch up from that.. I'm trying to get the filter to save messages from debian-devel-changes relating to i386 (including "all" and "source" architectures) and toss everything else. The foll

Re: Process Limits

1999-09-05 Thread Phil Brutsche
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, shaul wrote: > Perhaps by editing ? > > > is there anyway of setting process limits to the users, like in +BSD's? > > Try `man ulimit`. -- -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Process Limits

1999-09-05 Thread shaul
Perhaps by editing ? > is there anyway of setting process limits to the users, like in +BSD's? >

Meta key

1999-09-05 Thread Brian E. Lavender
Is there another way to map the Meta key rather than xmodmap? brian -- Brian Lavender http://www.brie.com/brian/

Revisit Large Hard Drives

1999-09-05 Thread John Foster
I did not see any replies to this query from a previous posting, so I'll ask again. Has any one here tried using Linux (Debian Slink) with a hard drive in the size range of 15 to 27.5 Gb. I want to install 2 of these now and 2 more later in my server. I have seen numerous questions regarding usage

Re: xterm-menus not working

1999-09-05 Thread Johann Spies
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Keith Harbaugh wrote: > I had exactly the same problem you originally described, shrunken xterm-menus, > when I originally used for the geometry resource what the X people call > "loose resource specifications", with the `*', > which modifies the geometry of *all* widgets subo

Installing xfree86 3.3.3.5

1999-09-05 Thread mcmi0037
I need to install xfree86 3.3.3.5 (so that I can get a Nvidia RIVA TNT-2 vid card working.. if there is another way to do this without getting xfree86, i'd love to know.. ) anyhow, when i tried installing 3.3.3.5 using the instructions on their web site, i get the error "Error in loading shared lib

Re: ftp, but no apt-get

1999-09-05 Thread Mark Wagnon
tf wrote: > my little saga continues. using cftp, I'm able to access my website's > remote directory, but while connected, can still not use > apt-get to build a system. > > Can I just ftp packages to some directory on my machine, then dselect them > from there? can't think of how to say this,

Re: Apache modules etc

1999-09-05 Thread Andreas Piesk
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- on Fri, 03 Sep 1999, Stephen Kelly wrote: > I added the PerlHandler line, I should have thoguht of that before, but it > did not fix the problem. Same error. Thanks for pointing that out though > Andreas. Any other ideas? > > Steve > hiho, you could send me the

more ftp, but no apt-get

1999-09-05 Thread tf
hey again. here's my /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian-non-us stable non-us as far as I know, just the default.. see anything wrong? -tf

Re: Why use Debian? Why not Red Hat?

1999-09-05 Thread Steve George
Hi, I can't see how RedHat can offer any more drivers than any other distrib because everyone is working from the same source.. All standard drivers are in the kernel source and all distributions use it so therefore all distributions have the same number of drivers. The only things I can think

Re: Another try - help to fix arrow keys in X

1999-09-05 Thread Kent West
Brian Servis wrote: > > *- On 3 Sep, Kent West wrote about "Re: Another try - help to fix arrow keys > in X" > > Brian Servis wrote: > > > > > > > >> So it looks like your keymap is all messed up. Are you running xmodmap > >> or anything at the start of your xsession? Try using xev again an

excel under Wine?

1999-09-05 Thread kaynjay
Has anyone gotten excel 4 to run under the latest Wine? I've never used Wine before, but believe I have it set up properly, going with: wine -winver win31 -dosver 6.2 -name excel /mnt/C/excel/excel.exe with C:\ defined as /mnt/C and other places as appears appropriate. I can't get winehq to respo

FTP servers and security help

1999-09-05 Thread Paul McHale
I have debian installed and am very impressed. Apache is running. WU_FTP is running. Mostly through no fault of my own :). The installation did an excellent job ! My question regards previous mailings to this group discussing PRO_FTP and security issues. Which FTP server do you recommend ? I

ppp scripting

1999-09-05 Thread Jim B
I'm looking for a way to force my pppd to cycle through the several dial-up numbers I use for my ISP if any of them fails. If one of their lines is down or doesn't answer, I'd like to automatically dial one of their other numbers. I could probably write up a script to do this but I'm wondering wh

RE: Why use Debian? Why not Red Hat?

1999-09-05 Thread Paul McHale
I am sorry that I cannot list specifics. I thought I had read in the journals that RedHat offered the most drivers when comparing Linux distributions. I may have had this confused with packages, I.e. RPM. I am pretty sure it was drivers though. Sorry I can't offer more specifics. Can anyone el

Re: dselect in xterm

1999-09-05 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 10:08:22AM -0700, Brian E. Lavender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > it is rather annoying. Any suggestions, so I don't have black text on > white blocks when running dselect from an xterm? > Add the following two lines to /etc/X11/Xresources/xterm: XTerm*background: black XT

Re: ftp, but no apt-get

1999-09-05 Thread Greg & Heather Vence
hey tf, how about sending the contents of your /etc/apt/sources.list file? L8r -- Greg. - Original Message - From: tf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, September 04, 1999 11:43 AM Subject: ftp, but no apt-get > howdy guys, > > my little saga continues. using cftp, I'm able to

Re: Problem of installing Word Perfect 8

1999-09-05 Thread Mark Wagnon
Liu Chung Him wrote: > > Dear all, > > I got the Word Perfect 8 and I want to install it into my system. > However, when i run the install problem (Runme), it shows me that it > cannot find the libXpm.4.s0 . I have checked that the libXpm.4.so is in > /usr/X11P6/lib. What is the problem

Re: printer setup

1999-09-05 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
> i would try to run magicfilterconfig. I finally got this to work, to my surprise (makes me about 1 for 6 with that package). Ultimately it took purging it and lpr, reinstalling & configuring lpr, and only then letting it try to install magicfilter. Oh, and for a deskjet 500, it is absolut

Problem of installing Word Perfect 8

1999-09-05 Thread Liu Chung Him
Dear all, I got the Word Perfect 8 and I want to install it into my system. However, when i run the install problem (Runme), it shows me that it cannot find the libXpm.4.s0 . I have checked that the libXpm.4.so is in /usr/X11P6/lib. What is the problem ?? Thanks ! Wilson

Re: Error opening terminal: xterm-debian.

1999-09-05 Thread David Z. Maze
Brian E Lavender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brian> When I telnet into another machine and I try to run a curses Brian> based application I get the below error. Say I run mutt Brian> Error opening terminal: xterm-debian. See /usr/doc/xterm/README.Debian for more information on why xterm-debian is

Re: where is what?

1999-09-05 Thread Ernest Johanson
There is a program called grep to search text files. There is also an rgrep that will search directories recursively. You can do searches on the Packages file that is at the base directory of each distribution. In this case searching for what may not have found something, but searching for text, s

ftp, but no apt-get

1999-09-05 Thread tf
howdy guys, my little saga continues. using cftp, I'm able to access my website's remote directory, but while connected, can still not use apt-get to build a system. Can I just ftp packages to some directory on my machine, then dselect them from there? can't think of how to say this, but how

Re: Clueless Newbie needs Networking Help

1999-09-05 Thread Kent West
Tor- Simon Law wrote: > As far as Windows services and protocols are concerned, they want me > to start up: Client for Microsoft Networks, IPX/SPX, NetBEUI, and > TCP/IP. I'm using an ISA D-Link DE250CT card, but I think I've > successfully loaded up the module as dmesg | more, shows

dselect in xterm

1999-09-05 Thread Brian E. Lavender
When I use dselect in an Xterm the text is rather annoying compared to the way it is in a plain terminal. When I open an Xterm, by default I get black text on a white background. I am using Windowmaker, so I hold down the ctrl key and click the middle button. I then enable reverse video and get whi

Re: Help finishing Coda's installation

1999-09-05 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi, Quoting Seth R Arnold ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Having never run coda before makes me emminatly qualified to talk about it. > :) > > set the cache-size-in-kb to whatever you want. The rule is -- more cache > will likely lead to more speed improvements. Of course, if coda is like > everyth

RE: Fetchmail for all users

1999-09-05 Thread Pollywog
On 05-Sep-99 Martin Fluch wrote: > On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Pollywog wrote: > >> >> On 05-Sep-99 Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: >> > Hi all, >> > at home, I have my brothers and I want to do the following >> > thing: >> > when PPP goes up fetchmail get all the mail

Re: Help finishing Coda's installation

1999-09-05 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi, Quoting Seth R Arnold ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Having never run coda before makes me emminatly qualified to talk about it. > :) > > set the cache-size-in-kb to whatever you want. The rule is -- more cache > will likely lead to more speed improvements. Of course, if coda is like > everyth

Re: Block stupid/annoying sites

1999-09-05 Thread Pollywog
On 05-Sep-99 Martin Fluch wrote: > On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Pollywog wrote: > >> >> On 05-Sep-99 Frankie Fisher wrote: >> > >> > This thread has been going on for a few days, and noone seems to have >> > said >> > very much about junkbuster. >> >> I started installing it last night. I more or less

Error opening terminal: xterm-debian.

1999-09-05 Thread Brian E. Lavender
When I telnet into another machine and I try to run a curses based application I get the below error. Say I run mutt $ mutt Error opening terminal: xterm-debian. I then type $ TERM=vt100 $ mutt now it runs The remote curses based application will run. Is there a better way to do this, or i

X 3.3.4 dependancy

1999-09-05 Thread Greg & Heather Vence
from http://samosa.debian.org/~branden/xfree86-334-slink/ xbase-client and xf86setup are want xlib6g version 3.3.4-1 or greater... xlib6g says its version is 3.3.4-0slink1 How do I solve this one? TIA -- Greg.

How do I get Meta key for emacs?

1999-09-05 Thread Brian E. Lavender
I am using emacs and I am trying to get the Meta key from Xwindows and the terminal. I know I can issue the command $ xmodmap -e "keysym Alt_L = Meta_L Alt_L" and that will give me the meta key in Xwindows, but not outsite Xwindows. I seem to once running across another way to remap the keyboar

Re: where is what?

1999-09-05 Thread Jim Foltz
You're not thinking of whatis, are you? On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 06:23:57AM +, Keith Harbaugh wrote: > `what' was an old unix program which would access certain identifying > lines within text files, allowing easy reading of key parts of files > without having to use a pager or editor. > > I

Re: NIS with LDAP

1999-09-05 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 06:26:02PM +0300, Dan Pomohaci wrote: > Is possible to use LDAP as NIS? How can I do it? I read > umlich-ldap-doc but I found nothing about. > I have a small old (486) network (10 computers) working in Debian (slink > version). > > Thanks, Yes it is possible. I suggest us

NIS with LDAP

1999-09-05 Thread Dan Pomohaci
Is possible to use LDAP as NIS? How can I do it? I read umlich-ldap-doc but I found nothing about. I have a small old (486) network (10 computers) working in Debian (slink version). Thanks, -- | Dan N. Pomohaci

Re: Ethernet

1999-09-05 Thread Jean-Yves Barbier
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I got a new computer and brought it to my college, and installed Debian on > it. However, when i installed it, i couldn't get the module for my NE2000 > compatible driver to install correctly. Does anyone know how to reinstall? No need, just recompile a kernel, it's

Re: Block stupid/annoying sites

1999-09-05 Thread Martin Fluch
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Pollywog wrote: > > On 05-Sep-99 Frankie Fisher wrote: > > > > This thread has been going on for a few days, and noone seems to have > > said > > very much about junkbuster. > > I started installing it last night. I more or less have it working, but > the sample files don't

RE: Fetchmail for all users

1999-09-05 Thread Martin Fluch
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Pollywog wrote: > > On 05-Sep-99 Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > > Hi all, > > at home, I have my brothers and I want to do the following thing: > > when PPP goes up fetchmail get all the mail from them and store > > in /var/spool/mail/pa

Re: xterm-menus not working

1999-09-05 Thread Keith Harbaugh
On Sun, 1999-09-05 14:44:47 +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, Keith Harbaugh wrote: > > > If you want to do a little further digging on this situation, > > try the following: > >xrdb -q | grep -i ^xterm > > and post the results back. > > > > Here are the results: > $xrdb -q |

Re: How to reset time information

1999-09-05 Thread Bob Nielsen
Yeah, WordPerfect 7 seems to use UTC, since if I use the date function after 5 p.m., it shows the following day. Oh, well. On Sat, Sep 04, 1999 at 11:14:09PM -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote: > Bob Nielsen wrote: > > > > I'm not familiar with 'netscape time' but you can set the timezone with > > tzconf

RE: Fetchmail for all users

1999-09-05 Thread Pollywog
On 05-Sep-99 Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > Hi all, > at home, I have my brothers and I want to do the following thing: > when PPP goes up fetchmail get all the mail from them and store > in /var/spool/mail/paulo pedro luiz > So I have to have a .

Re: reboot question

1999-09-05 Thread Tommi L. Jensen
On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 10:59:42PM +1000, Mark Bathie wrote: > I am trying to set up my home system for friends to use, what is the best > way to allow them access to some sort of reboot command ? > sudo ? -- You name it, I lame it /LamerBill AKA platypus AKA Tommi L. Jensen --- [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: xterm-menus not working

1999-09-05 Thread Johann Spies
On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, Keith Harbaugh wrote: > If you want to do a little further digging on this situation, > try the following: >xrdb -q | grep -i ^xterm > and post the results back. > Hello Keith. Here are the results: $xrdb -q | grep -i ^xterm XTerm*termName: xterm-debian XTerm*geometry:

Re: "import"ing screenshots?

1999-09-05 Thread Tommi L. Jensen
imagemagick -- You name it, I lame it /LamerBill AKA platypus AKA Tommi L. Jensen --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Re: where is what?

1999-09-05 Thread Mark Buda
> "Keith" == Keith Harbaugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Keith> `what' was an old unix program which would access certain Keith> identifying lines within text files, allowing easy reading Keith> of key parts of files without having to use a pager or Keith> editor. Your descript

Re: Fetchmail for all users

1999-09-05 Thread Phillip Deackes
Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > at home, I have my brothers and I want to do the following thing: > when PPP goes up fetchmail get all the mail from them and store > in /var/spool/mail/paulo pedro luiz > So I have to ha

Re: Block stupid/annoying sites

1999-09-05 Thread Pollywog
On 05-Sep-99 Frankie Fisher wrote: > > This thread has been going on for a few days, and noone seems to have > said > very much about junkbuster. I started installing it last night. I more or less have it working, but the sample files don't have enough examples of acl list entries, for one thin

Re: reboot question

1999-09-05 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 10:59:42PM +1000, Mark Bathie wrote: > I am trying to set up my home system for friends to use, what is the best > way to allow them access to some sort of reboot command ? Why do you need you friend to reboot your machine? Usually inittab is configured so that ctrl-alt-del

Re: traceroute: icmp socket: Operation not permitted

1999-09-05 Thread Phillip Deackes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miquel van Smoorenburg) wrote: > > - Your traceroute binary is setuid, but not to root, or > - there is some firewall rule blocking ICMP packets installed Thanks, Mike. I took a look in /usr/sbin and found a few files which are set as owned by gsmh and as group 1000 - me in oth

reboot question

1999-09-05 Thread Mark Bathie
I am trying to set up my home system for friends to use, what is the best way to allow them access to some sort of reboot command ? cheers, Mark.B.

Re: CRITICAL: syslogd hangs (fwd

1999-09-05 Thread Alberto Maurizi
The problem has been solved. But i don't know how. I edited some network related files (that were actually wrong) and I get the syslogd running. thanks to all alberto

Re: Block stupid/annoying sites

1999-09-05 Thread Frankie Fisher
> > On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 10:26:28PM +0200, andreas palsson wrote: > > > Hello. > > > > > > I am using Debian GNU/Linux as a nameserver, and I wonder how do I > > > modify it to reject all lookups for stupid sites like > > > "ad.doubleclick.net" or any other annoying banner-site? > > > I've been

Fetchmail for all users

1999-09-05 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all, at home, I have my brothers and I want to do the following thing: when PPP goes up fetchmail get all the mail from them and store in /var/spool/mail/paulo pedro luiz So I have to have a .fetchmailrc for root with all the accounts? in /root?

RE: Why use Debian? Why not Red Hat?

1999-09-05 Thread David Teague
On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Paul McHale wrote: > If you have bizaar hardware, redhat (I believe) has more drivers. > Redhat has more packages but this may be an arguement for alien. Paul I have acquaintances who never did get X up under Red Hat using the SiS6326 card. That card is apparently S3 bas

Re: traceroute: icmp socket: Operation not permitted

1999-09-05 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Phillip Deackes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Today I tried to use traceroute and got the message: > >traceroute: icmp socket: Operation not permitted > >This has happened only recently. I tried running the command as root, >but got the same message. - Your tracerout

traceroute: icmp socket: Operation not permitted

1999-09-05 Thread Phillip Deackes
Today I tried to use traceroute and got the message: traceroute: icmp socket: Operation not permitted This has happened only recently. I tried running the command as root, but got the same message. It appears that this has happened since I last did apt-get dist-upgrade (I use unstable) *or* sinc

Re: CRITICAL: syslogd hangs (fwd

1999-09-05 Thread Aaron Solochek
I have almost the exact same behavior on my slink system with 2.2.10. It is unpredictable, but yep, syslogd, and also lpd hang on bootup. However if I wait it out (sometimes like 10 minutes) I get a login and everything seems fine, that includes startx. So if you find any solutions, please sen

CRITICAL: syslogd hangs (fwd

1999-09-05 Thread Alberto Maurizi
The following message have been sent to bugs list. Does anybody have an idea of the problem described? Thanks, alberto maurizi -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sun, 5 Sep 1999 12:13:07 +0200 (CEST) From: Alberto Maurizi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL

Re: [Debian: Directorys] /user/ on external Server

1999-09-05 Thread Seth R Arnold
On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 12:29:01PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Hello, [snip] > As File-Server I can use my AMD K5-133 and one IBM DTTA 351680. > But what software I must use ??? It all depends on what your clients are -- if it is the one machine that runs the DOS and the linux and the somethi

[Debian: Directorys] /user/ on external Server

1999-09-05 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello, I have a problem with my Disk-Space on my Workstation and now I have four Workstations (DLD, Debian, DR-Dos/DJGPP and WfW). Now I like to install a big File-Server in my private network (not the FTP/NFS-Server in my Public-Network). It must contain the /user/... Directorys. Also a pro

Re: Help finishing Coda's installation

1999-09-05 Thread Seth R Arnold
Having never run coda before makes me emminatly qualified to talk about it. :) set the cache-size-in-kb to whatever you want. The rule is -- more cache will likely lead to more speed improvements. Of course, if coda is like everything else, there are limits to how far you can push it and still get

Help finishing Coda's installation

1999-09-05 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all, I have to do in one week a monograph about CODA for school and I'm a bit late! :) I got Debian GNU/Linux experimental packages of Coda-server and Coda-client and installed in 2 machines (a server and a client). These packages do a lot for me to setup. I was checking CODA HOW

Re: where is what?

1999-09-05 Thread Seth R Arnold
Keith -- will 'grep' do what you want? (suggested usage is along these lines: grep Keith email-message -or- grep Keith */* ... grep is nice. :) On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 06:23:57AM +, Keith Harbaugh wrote: > `what' was an old unix program which would access certain identifying > lines within te

Re: netbase from potato not configuring

1999-09-05 Thread Seth R Arnold
On Sat, Sep 04, 1999 at 08:38:12PM -0500, Brad wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, Seth R Arnold wrote: > > > Hey guys -- I just did the apt-get stuff to upgrade to potato, but the > > silly thing died several times. After restarting it often enough, I > > got to t

Apache SuExec won't work with virtual hosts outside /var/www

1999-09-05 Thread Alexander List
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Package: apache Version: 1.3.6-15.2 Changing the SuExec docroot from /var/www/htdocs to /var/www will enable SuExec for people without or with few virtual hosts residing below /var/www. However, on "bigger" systems with lots of virtual hosts, one might want to

where is what?

1999-09-05 Thread Keith Harbaugh
`what' was an old unix program which would access certain identifying lines within text files, allowing easy reading of key parts of files without having to use a pager or editor. I used the search features of the debian web site's Package page, searching on `what', but to no avail (the first sear

Re: How to reset time information

1999-09-05 Thread Mark Wagnon
Bob Nielsen wrote: > > I'm not familiar with 'netscape time' but you can set the timezone with > tzconfig. > Thanks. I tried that. The funny thing is that my local/system time is correst. Netscape for some reason insists on using the UTC time. I'm assuming that's what it is, because it's off by

Re: How to reset time information

1999-09-05 Thread Bob Nielsen
I'm not familiar with 'netscape time' but you can set the timezone with tzconfig. Bob On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 02:38:43AM +, Mark Wagnon wrote: > Hi all: > > I posted earlier aboout my troubles with getting the system time and > my Netscape time in sync. > > I set my timezone to US/Pacific w

Expert disk partioning help needed

1999-09-05 Thread Eric G . Miller
I had a huge partition devoted to linux (most of my 10.x GB disk). Anyway, I tried out the experimental ext2resize to resize my / partition so I could use some of the space for HURD (my BIOS won't look past cylinder 1024 which is where some unused space lived). Anyway, the resize seemed to work f

Re: X Driver for Viper V770D AGP Graphics?

1999-09-05 Thread Alexis Maldonado
Hello! On Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 03:35:14PM -0600, Duggan Dieterly wrote: > i can't find the X driver for my viper v770d agp 32 MB graphics board. > does anyone know if a driver has been written for this board? can i use > anyother drivers? is this board so new that a driver hasn't been written fo

(More info about my setup) Trying to get X11 and other packages in full

1999-09-05 Thread John Miskinis
Hello Folks, I got a couple requests for more information about how I am trying to set things up, and what I did to get this far. I gave up on trying to use 1.3, as it would crash shortly after "Loading Linux.", even when I copied the entire "debian" directory from the 1997 Boot Magazine to

Re: Clueless Newbie needs Networking Help

1999-09-05 Thread John Foster
Tor- Simon Law wrote: > > Hello. > > I'm pretty new to Debian and have been unable to get my network > configured properly. You see, in a couple days, I will be heading off > to University of Waterloo (Canada) and will want to hook up to their > residence's network. -

Re: Cannot print from StarOffice

1999-09-05 Thread John Foster
Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > (Please CC: me on replied. Thanks.) > > I am at wit's end here -- I have a `network' installation of StarOffice 5.1 > here at home for use by myself and my wife. It works fine, but just won't > print. I even re-downloaded 5.1 again, and reinstalled, but no luck. The

Re: How to reset time information

1999-09-05 Thread Mark Wagnon
Brad wrote: > > In this case, you could find it using "apropos timezone". Sometimes that > doesn't work, depending if you pick good keywords or not ;) Thanks. I forgot about apropos. It worked though. However, the problem persists... thanks again -- ( __

RE: xf86config

1999-09-05 Thread Pollywog
On 05-Sep-99 Brian E. Lavender wrote: > It does not seem to be on my system, but I do have xfree86 3.3.3.1 > Where do I find xf86config? > > brian > -- > Brian Lavender > http://www.brie.com/brian/ in xserver-common -- Andrew

Re: xf86config

1999-09-05 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, Alvin Oga wrote: > you might want to try [...] Xconfigurator too AFAIK, that is a RedHat tool that hasn't (yet) been Debianized. So you probably won't find it on a Debian box ;) - -- finger for PGP public key. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: xf86config

1999-09-05 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, Brian E. Lavender wrote: > It does not seem to be on my system, but I do have xfree86 3.3.3.1 > Where do I find xf86config? Using the search at http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages (at the very bottom of the page), i find it's in the xserv

Re: xf86config

1999-09-05 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya... > It does not seem to be on my system, but I do have xfree86 3.3.3.1 > Where do I find xf86config? you might want to try XF86Setup or Xconfigurator too if you want to see if its on your system find / -name xf86config -ls have fun alvin

Re: netbase from potato not configuring

1999-09-05 Thread addiction
ahh i remembered! the problem was that something which installed PRIOR to netbase had wiped out my hostname. that is, my hostname was just a blank line and as you know that can play some funny tricks on things. once i re-added my hostname everything installed properly. cheers again, addi

Re: alternative to getting packages file by file?

1999-09-05 Thread Mark Wagnon
John Miskinis wrote: > > Hello, > > Although I have been able to get the "base" 2.1 system up and > running, I am now trying to download what I need to get X Windows, > and its dependency packages, and then a few clients (for now) running. > > In the relnotes9.html, the required files are listed

xf86config

1999-09-05 Thread Brian E. Lavender
It does not seem to be on my system, but I do have xfree86 3.3.3.1 Where do I find xf86config? brian -- Brian Lavender http://www.brie.com/brian/

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