Re: System slows to REAL slug on boot

1999-09-16 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 09:53:01PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I'm having problems with my system on rebooting to a new kernel. I don't > know > what is causing the problem, and have found nothing yet in the archives about > similar circumstances. The new kernel is 2.2.9, the old was 2

Re: installing debian

1999-09-16 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 09:12:41PM +0200, Tino van Uffelen wrote: > Hello, > > I want to try and install debian. As I have a rather old computer (i486, 4mb > ram and 60 mb Hard disk), I don't think I have room for both dos/windows and > linux so I want to remove dos completely first. This means I

Re: Apache+PHP3

1999-09-16 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 04:44:21PM +0700, Usef Saiful Ulum wrote: > Hi there, > > I have installed Apache 1.3.9 with PHP3: > > # tar xvzf apache_1.3.9.tar.gz > # tar xvzf php-3.0.12.tar.gz > # cd apache_1.3.9 > # ./configure --prefix= > # cd ../php-3.0.12 > # ./configure --with-mysql= > --with-

lprng probs.

1999-09-16 Thread Dave Dash
I keep getting this error: dd:~# dpkg -i debs/l/lprng_3.6.8-2_i386.deb Selecting previously deselected package lprng. (Reading database ... 50046 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking lprng (from debs/l/lprng_3.6.8-2_i386.deb) ... Setting up lprng (3.6.8-2) ... Starting printer spo

Re: Couldn't update dpkg (works now)

1999-09-16 Thread Patrik Magnusson
>> Or, from dselect, hold dpkg. Upgrade. Unhold dpkg. Upgrade. >> >> Worked fine for me. Actually I had to: hold dpkg, install, unhold dpkg + hold dpkg-dev, install, unhold dpkg-dev, install. But I'm fine now. Thanks to you and Adam Powell and Seth Arnold who also responded. /Patrik

wwwofle and netscape (under win$)

1999-09-16 Thread Jean-Yves Barbier
Hi, I have installed wwwofle on my server, but verytime I tryied to setup netscape under win$ with the proxy address, at the first (re)load of a page, I'm thrown out of win$ (returning directly to boot!). Any idea??? JY -- Jean-Yves Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Membre fondateur du CGE "La mort

Re: mutt questions

1999-09-16 Thread Seth R Arnold
For the sake of completeness, the version of mutt that I use on my redhat server (can't change it, thems the rules..) allows this line in its .muttrc: set record = "\=outgoing" Yeah, the thing gets huge. Thats what gzip is for. :) On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 11:14:40AM -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote: > On

Re: small fonts in Netscape packaged with Slink

1999-09-16 Thread Seth R Arnold
John, someone posted recently a link to an X font deuglification mini-howto. It isn't a proper part of LDP, so search standard search engines for it, or scan your backlog of debian-user. I haven't tried much of what is in the thing, I was thrilled to get xfstt running, and left it at that. :) On

Apparent SCSI failure on HP Vectra Xu Debian 2.1 install...

1999-09-16 Thread Gary Young
[Subject was "RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0"] Thanks to those who have responded, for the help so far. I am still attempting to install debian 2.1 onto an HP Vectra Xu box with SCSI disks. The boot from the resc1440 floppy fails after the "RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0"

Re: Another Dselect cockup 2

1999-09-16 Thread Paul
Hello Dean and Brad Thanks for the help, it seems to have worked. The original trouble was, and still is that in order to get a number of applications (Wordperfect, WindowMaker etc) working I`ve installed a mixture of libraries,some of which just don`t get on together.At least according to deselec

Re: Web access to /usr/doc?

1999-09-16 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999 16:03:08 -0400, you wrote: >I'm simply saying that this is already implemented as >http://HOSTNAME/doc/PACKAGE I was not aware of the doc configuration in /etc/apache/srm.conf. And I didn't think when I answered your last e-mail [1]. I apologize. Greetings Ma "_that_ is embar

Re: hi i got a question

1999-09-16 Thread Scott Henry
> "J" == Jerry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: J> I have a WinModem on Com1, Before i go any farther can a J> WinModem work in Linux? Short answer: No. Medium answer: WinModem (and other Win* hardware) is a really stupid idea: cripple the hardware to save a few manufa

Re: hi i got a question

1999-09-16 Thread Jerry
To: "Jerry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Copies to: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject:Re: hi i got a question From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date sent: 16 Sep 1999 07:12:47 -0500 > > I ran pppconfig, pppsetup, and oth

Re: Another Dselect cockup 2

1999-09-16 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Paul wrote: > By a combination of wild keystrokes I seem to have asked Dselect to > remove a number of required packages, my problem is that I can`t seem to > find out how to reset it so that it just displays the current situation > with not

Re: Install problem - Locks up during boot off of rescue disk

1999-09-16 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Thanks for the tip. These disks didn't work, but there was another link to someone else who had come up with the solution. This one worked for me. (I don't have the link handy because I do not have web access from this system. Doug "Thomas R. Shemanske" wrote: > The problem is a conflict be

Re: Web access to /usr/doc?

1999-09-16 Thread Peter S Galbraith
> >Why not use http://localhost/doc/PACKAGE ? Marc Haber wrote: > In my case, the web browser is running on my desktop machine which is > a Windows machine not running any web server software. Okay, I think I didn't make myself clear... > Even if it were a Debian box, /usr/doc needs only to

Re: hi i got a question

1999-09-16 Thread andreas palsson
Hello. When you are done configuring PPP using pppconfig, your next command is "pon " where is the name of your internetprovider you entered during pppconfig. To cut the connection, use "poff". .A Jerry wrote: > > To: "Jerry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Copies to:

Re: Couldn't update dpkg

1999-09-16 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Patrik Magnusson wrote: > I hope these lines say it all (because I can't think of anything to add). > > Preparing to replace dpkg 1.4.1.6 (using .../archives/dpkg_1.4.1.8_i386.deb) > ... > Unpacking replacement dpkg ... > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/dpkg_1.4.1.8_i386.deb > (--

Re: Another Dselect cockup 2

1999-09-16 Thread Dean
Hi Paul: I'm just a curious newbie. Has deselect done the deed yet or did you halt the process before it got done.Dean Paul wrote: > > I`m sending this again as nobody posted a reply last time. Sorry if it`s > a stupid question but I`m still stumped, and I`ve read and reread the > help page

installing debian

1999-09-16 Thread Tino van Uffelen
Hello, I want to try and install debian. As I have a rather old computer (i486, 4mb ram and 60 mb Hard disk), I don't think I have room for both dos/windows and linux so I want to remove dos completely first. This means I don't have anything to fall back on when installing linux doesn't work. Coul

installing debian

1999-09-16 Thread Tino van Uffelen
Hello, I want to try and install debian. As I have a rather old computer (i486, 4mb ram and 60 mb Hard disk), I don't think I have room for both dos/windows and linux so I want to remove dos completely first. This means I don't have anything to fall back on when installing linux doesn't work. Coul

Re: Debian to be too late released

1999-09-16 Thread andreas palsson
Stephan Hachinger wrote: > > Didn't think of any speacial reason, but only thought that an up-to-date > distribution is always something good (surely it also becomes more > attractive by this). > > > Kind Regards, > > Stephan Hachinger > There are two reasons, NFS and RAID. NFS under Linux

Another Dselect cockup 2

1999-09-16 Thread Paul
I`m sending this again as nobody posted a reply last time. Sorry if it`s a stupid question but I`m still stumped, and I`ve read and reread the help pages. By a combination of wild keystrokes I seem to have asked Dselect to remove a number of required packages, my problem is that I can`t seem to fi

Re: mutt questions

1999-09-16 Thread Mark Wagnon
On Wed 09/15/99 12:11PM, Shao Zhang wrote: > > > > > 2) How do I define a default 'save to' folder? > > save-hook '~A' your-default-folder > I've never saved my out-going email while I've used mutt (most of my posts are to mailing lists and usenet, so I can always get a copy when I need one),

Re: Web access to /usr/doc?

1999-09-16 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999 13:04:23 -0400, you wrote: >Why not use http://localhost/doc/PACKAGE ? In my case, the web browser is running on my desktop machine which is a Windows machine not running any web server software. Even if it were a Debian box, /usr/doc needs only to be present on a single machi

Re: debianized slash?

1999-09-16 Thread Bradley Bell
I would recommend bk2site, depending on how demanding your needs are. http://multiagent.com/bk2site/ It's in potato. I've not used the "slashdot-like" features yet, so it will take a little configuration, but I presume it's straightforward. (look at http://multiagent.com for an example configurati

Re: Mount question

1999-09-16 Thread robbie
chmod 0 /share should work I think. Regards -- Rob Murray

Re: sb live card under debian

1999-09-16 Thread wim
On 16-Sep-99 Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: > On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 09:08:39AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> Your wrong. I have a SoundBlaster Live! (Value!), and it works fine under >> kernel 2.2.11. Simply get the module from >> http://developer.soundblaster.com/linux/. The README with i

Re: Web access to /usr/doc?

1999-09-16 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Why not use http://localhost/doc/PACKAGE ? Marc Haber wrote: > Since dwww sometimes goofs in building URLs: Would this link: > > |[EMAIL PROTECTED]/503]:/var/www/usr$ ls -al | grep doc > |lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root8 Sep 14 19:27 doc -> = > /usr/doc/ > |[EMAIL PROTECTED]/504]:/var/

small fonts in Netscape packaged with Slink

1999-09-16 Thread John Davis
Hello Why is that even though I have both the 75dpi and 100dpi fonts installed for X windows, Netscape still uses tiny unreadable fonts?

Re: Couldn't update dpkg

1999-09-16 Thread Stephen R. Gore
Patrik Magnusson wrote: > I hope these lines say it all (because I can't think of anything to add). > > Preparing to replace dpkg 1.4.1.6 (using .../archives/dpkg_1.4.1.8_i386.deb) > ... > Unpacking replacement dpkg ... > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/dpkg_1.4.1.8_i386.deb > (--

Re: fetchmail as daemon dies...

1999-09-16 Thread Mark Wagnon
On Thu 09/16/99 06:01PM, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: > OOPS, sorry Mark, I was thinking to other things! > In fact my fetchmail is installed. > > I made a file call FETCHMAIL in /etc/cron.d which options are: > > */20 12-23,0-3 * * * mail /usr/bin/fetchmail --syslog --fetchmailrc > /etc/fetchmailrc

Re: X Login Fails

1999-09-16 Thread Kent West
j way wrote: > > > > > Kent, tnx again for the ^-alt-f2. Was able to fix the problem & X is running > fine. > I was missing some dependencies: rstart, rstartd, xmh, xlib6g-dev & a couple > of others. > The login & passwd were accepted ok but then the trouble started, ending with > another login

Re: fetchmail as daemon dies...

1999-09-16 Thread Mark Wagnon
On Thu 09/16/99 11:03AM, Brian Servis wrote: > For delivery to other users use the 'user there has > password is here' syntax in your > fetchmailrc. Look at the 'THE RUN CONTROL FILE' and 'CONFIGURATION > EXAMPLES' sections in the man page as well as > /usr/doc/fetchmail/sample.rcfile.gz. Oh,

font problem - missing charsets

1999-09-16 Thread Micha Feigin
sorry I sent the previous message by mistake before it was finished: I started getting this message from most programs recently: Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset Most of them will start despite the message, except for xemacs21 (

font

1999-09-16 Thread Micha Feigin
I started getting this message from most programs recently: Most of them will start despite the message, except for xemacs21 (the I found up to now) which segfaults after it. (It started befor) I am using kde 1.1.1 and xfs and xfstt. I made some changes to the fonts in one of the directorys, but c

Re: mc not working (?)

1999-09-16 Thread Patrik Magnusson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jens Carsten Hansen) writes: > Hi, I use mc frequently ( also to edit textfiles, I'm not a vi guy ), but > recently it stopped working. Try 'mc.real'. It gives out some error-messages: params.c:OpenConfFile() - Unable to open configuration

Re: What happened to /usr/sbin/in.ftpd?

1999-09-16 Thread Dpk
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 10:29:56AM -0400, Kristopher Johnson wrote: After upgrading from slink to potato, I notice that /usr/sbin/in.ftpd is gone, and that the corresponding line in /etc/inetd.conf has been marked "##". All the other /usr/sbin/in.*d daemons seem to still be there.

Re: spreadsheet?

1999-09-16 Thread John Foster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Heh, heh... I'll be curious to see just to what level that support entends. > Their support of their own system (OS/2) is hardly a sterling example which > would make my heart jump with anticipation... - T

Couldn't update dpkg

1999-09-16 Thread Patrik Magnusson
I hope these lines say it all (because I can't think of anything to add). Preparing to replace dpkg 1.4.1.6 (using .../archives/dpkg_1.4.1.8_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement dpkg ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/dpkg_1.4.1.8_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/shar

Re: fetchmail as daemon dies...

1999-09-16 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 16 Sep, Mark Wagnon wrote about "Re: fetchmail as daemon dies..." > On Thu 09/16/99 10:18AM, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: >> Well I don't run it as a daemon, but through inetd, with '--syslog' >> option, which writes in different files: > > Thanks. How does one go about running it from inetd? I'

Re: fetchmail as daemon dies...

1999-09-16 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 08:09:44AM -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote: > Thanks. How does one go about running it from inetd? I'm probably > completely off base here, but I thought fetchmail delivers mail to > the spool file of the user who runs it. Is that correct? If so, how > does it know where to put the

Re: Crontab as root

1999-09-16 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, BIBKO wrote: > I set up a contab file as user root with crontab -e. It is in > /var/spool/cron/crontabs. It is planed to run 10 8 * * 1-5 > /usr/bin/pphol. > pphol is the cripts which need to be executed. But cron does not execute > the file

Re: emacs or xemacs ?

1999-09-16 Thread Jan Vroonhof
Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I honestly don't mean to start a holy war here, but I'd like to > > know: Is there anyone who prefers Emacs to XEmacs, and why? I am trying to stay out of this thread (because discussions like this always become holy wars) but I couldn't let this one p

Re: spreadsheet?

1999-09-16 Thread kvaughan
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 09:58:20AM -0500, John Foster wrote: [...] >IBM has made the "public" statement that they will be supporting Linux. >Since IBM bought out the Lotus folks there is at least a chance that we >will see the entire office suite and many other IBM applications ported >to Linu

Re: "RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0"

1999-09-16 Thread Gary Young
Craig H. Block wrote: > >In attempting to install Debian 2.1 from resc1440 > >floppy onto an HP intel box with SCSI disks that > >had run Windows-NT, I get the error: > > "RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0" > >and the boot stops. > That is a normal message stating that the kernel has found

Re: Debian Install on 386 floppy

1999-09-16 Thread Stephan Hachinger
Hello! Probably the MCA and ESDI bus architecture of your PS/2 is the cause for this problem. I will try to compile a proper kernel for you (I think 2.2 supports MCA, not 2.0), put it on a lowmem disk, and send an image to you. But I need a bit of time as I'm quite busy now. I also don't know if 2

Mosaic scheme

1999-09-16 Thread Ling Alexander
hi all when i try to set scheme for the proxy in Mosaic under slink, what do I give enter? Netscape and Mozilla dont seem to need a scheme. And how about Arena? Yours truly Alexander Ling

Re: fetchmail as daemon dies...

1999-09-16 Thread Mark Wagnon
On Thu 09/16/99 10:18AM, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: > Well I don't run it as a daemon, but through inetd, with '--syslog' > option, which writes in different files: Thanks. How does one go about running it from inetd? I'm probably completely off base here, but I thought fetchmail delivers mail to th

Re: spreadsheet?

1999-09-16 Thread John Foster
J Horacio MG wrote: > > > Are there any good, free spreadsheet programs out there? Anywhere? > > I believe Lotus 1·2·3 might be released for Linux, can anyone confirm or > deny this point? > > Regards, IBM has made the "public" statement

Re: Help! mgetty & ppp won't play together

1999-09-16 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Bob Billson wrote: > > "Keith G. Murphy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > stats molec3 "*" - > > > ^^ > > > Is this column supposed to be the local machine name? I can't find it > > > documented anywhere. > > > > Yes, it is. It does seem to be very poorly documented. I think

Re: spreadsheet?

1999-09-16 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
john jousted, > "Richard E. Hawkins" wrote: > > john jabbed, > > > http://www.wingz.com/wingz/index.html > > but it's not free; it asks for $50 as shareware. > See this. > http://www.wingz-us.com/wingz/news/linux.html > My copy is FREEWARE as version 3.11 > I had to register but there was no

What happened to /usr/sbin/in.ftpd?

1999-09-16 Thread Kristopher Johnson
After upgrading from slink to potato, I notice that /usr/sbin/in.ftpd is gone, and that the corresponding line in /etc/inetd.conf has been marked "##". All the other /usr/sbin/in.*d daemons seem to still be there. Anyone know what happened, and what I should do to fix it? - Kris

Re: spreadsheet?

1999-09-16 Thread kaynjay
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 09/16/99 at 10:28 AM, Paul Seelig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Check out this: >http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/financial/spreadsheet/wingz-311.tar.gz >http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/financial/spreadsheet/wingzpro-311.tar.gz >Both are free (unfortunately

ftp ls & dir problem SOLVED!

1999-09-16 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
The problem was that the firewall was set to let ONLY ports 1:1023 to go out on the WEB I/F. (silly isn't it?) A great thanx to Arnold Seth who drove me to the solution. JY

Re: Fw: X Configuration

1999-09-16 Thread lexchive
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 08:20:31AM +0100, Simon Martin wrote: > Hi I sent this message a couple of days ago with no answer. It seems like I > have a problem with no /dev/mem device. MAKEDEV doesn't > know this device so can anyone tell me what the major/minor node numbers are > for this device (l

XEmacs can't find info files

1999-09-16 Thread Kristopher Johnson
My XEmacs's info mode is now unable to find files that it previously could. It appears that the info files have been moved to /usr/share/info (I'm running potato), and that XEmacs doesn't want to look there. I know I can set INFOPATH in my .login or set the Info-directory-list variable in my .ema

PCMCIA (?) Ethernet problem

1999-09-16 Thread Ingles, Raymond
I'm installing Debian 2.1 onto a Zenith "Z*Star EX", a 486/50MHz laptop w/8MB RAM and a 300MB HD. I'm using a Xircom AdapterIIps Ethernet card (which claims to be supported by pcmcia-cs). The PCMCIA stuff seems to be loading the "xirc2ps_cs" module (or something very like that) and ifconfig repor

Re: Debian to be too late released

1999-09-16 Thread Martin Waller
Yes - I'm trying to persuade some people here at my work place to switch to Debian from RedHat as they 'discover' linux, but they're put off by the lack of a stable 2.2.x debian release, especially as they want to do some SMP work. OK - upgrade slink to 2.2.x, but then there's more faffing abou

Re: Mouse input corrupted under X 3.3.3.1 with kernel 2.2.12

1999-09-16 Thread Daniel . Egger
On 15 Sep, Alec Smith wrote: > Any pointers would be greatly appreciated. I can try to provide more > information as needed. This is a know problem You have to use X 3.3.5... Servus, Daniel

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Re: debianized slash?

1999-09-16 Thread Steve Rothanburg
I finally got slash to work on my system at home. Unfortunately it's a smallish 486 and I think something might be timing out before the mysql database lookups can finish. I'm running Potato right now. The hardest part was getting it to run the perl scripts correctly. My access.conf file was misco

Debian to be too late released

1999-09-16 Thread Stephan Hachinger
> > - Original Message - > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Monday, September 13, 1999 6:23 PM > Subject: Re: Debian to be too late released > On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, Stephan Hachinger wrote: > > > Surely I would appreciate a 2.4 [kernel] ready distribution. > > Why? > > >

Re: I'm searchiang for CS4237 audio driver for linux

1999-09-16 Thread Stephan Hachinger
- Original Message - From: Davide Gobbi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, September 16, 1999 9:40 AM Subject: I'm searchiang for CS4237 audio driver for linux > > Hi. Last week I have intall Debian on my PC. Now I want that my CS4237 > play music. How I can do it in linux. Where c

Chinese KDE under Slink

1999-09-16 Thread Tom Allard
I'm having trouble getting KDE to work properly in Chinese (for my in-laws machine). I have chinese fonts installed (intlfonts-chinese and intlfonts-chinese-big 1.1-2) and KDE 1.1.2 (had the same problem in 1.1.1), including kdebase-i18n. I can set the Language to "Simplified Chinese (zh_CN.G

Re: problems with 2.2.11 and serial port (pilot, camera)

1999-09-16 Thread Mark Buda
> "Mark" == Mark Buda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mark> Under 2.2.11, I am having persistent problems with Mark> pilot-manager that vanish when I boot 2.0.36. Also, I am Mark> having similar problems with kdcpi, a perl script that can Mark> talk to my Kodak digital camera - wor

Re: hi i got a question

1999-09-16 Thread John Hasler
> I ran pppconfig, pppsetup, and others and tryed to use all of them. They > all didn't give me any errors Type 'pon' (as root), and note what your modem does. Then type 'plog' and post the output. We also need to know what sort of modem you have and what port it is on. -- John Hasler

Re: where is what? - clarification (hopefully)

1999-09-16 Thread Mark Buda
> "Jari" == Jari Aalto+mail procmail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I am compelled by my nature to pick a couple nits. Jari> However, one thing is for sure: what(1) is not equivalent of Jari> ident(1). I didn't mean that they are identical, I meant they serve the same purpose in their r

Re: Brand spankin new user...

1999-09-16 Thread ray
Soul Existance wrote: > > Ok, i downloaded the latest release of Debian... now i want to install it. i > set aside 3gig for it. i'll be multi-os-ing between linux and win98. > > If you dont mind, here's my quesion: > > The install disk tells me i need to partition my drive for the /swap and > /r

Fw: X Configuration

1999-09-16 Thread Simon Martin
Hi I sent this message a couple of days ago with no answer. It seems like I have a problem with no /dev/mem device. MAKEDEV doesn't know this device so can anyone tell me what the major/minor node numbers are for this device (ls -l /dev/mem should do, unless it is dependant on the memory configur

Re: hi i got a question

1999-09-16 Thread Simon Martin
Hi Jerry First you configure the link, using say pppconfig, then you must bring up the link. For example you can try pppd call my_isp (supposing my_isp is the profile defined in pppconfig). Once you have this working, you can then try setting up auto-connection (see the demand option of pppd and

Re: ftp ls & dir problem

1999-09-16 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 02:28:19AM -0700, Seth R Arnold wrote: > Jean-Yves, try setting your ftp program to passive mode -- sometimes PASV, > PASSIVE, depending on your ftp client. > > Chances are your firewall prevents these things from happening. Normally, > your ftp client opens a control chann

Re: Brand spankin new user...

1999-09-16 Thread Stephan Engelke
Hi, On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 02:52:02AM -0700, Craig B wrote: > One last note, I don't mean to discourage you from using Debian, but it > _is_ the most difficult to install. I understand that RedHat and Caldera > are the easiest. You may want to get your feet wet with one of those > and then gradu

Re: hi i got a question

1999-09-16 Thread Jerry
To: "Jerry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Copies to: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject:Re: hi i got a question From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date sent: 13 Sep 1999 21:51:01 -0500 > Jerry Smith writes: > > I use Debian

xconsole

1999-09-16 Thread Craig B
Hello list people; Anyone out there know what it takes to get xconsole working as not root. All I get is a "Couldn't open console" message. The man page isn't much help and there are no debuging options. I tried chmod'ing /dev/xconsole and /dev/tty0 but it didn't make any difference. This is a

Re: Linux checks only 8 chars of the password...

1999-09-16 Thread Marek Habersack
* Ben Collins said: > > > (atleast after today it will be, once the new shadow is installed). > > Hmm... is that mean that we're gonna switch to the same passwd suite as RH, > > for example? Too bad... the current passwd has many useful switches (-l -u > > being two of them...) > > No, RedHat doe

Re: X Login Fails

1999-09-16 Thread David Karlin
Hi, On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 07:23:29AM -0700, j way wrote: > I have installed X windows for the first time on slink. The X login > prompt box appears, but after keying the password the system reports > login incorrect. I'm locked out. Suggestions? (short of reloading > linux & the entire 7500 f

Re: Brand spankin new user...

1999-09-16 Thread Craig B
Soul Existance wrote: > > ... so is it going to destroy any data on my win98 partition, or when > i do this change, does it only partition the 3 gigs i set aside... You will be using Linux fdisk to create your root and swap partitions during the installation. You will see your dos partition w

Re: Crontab as root

1999-09-16 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 09:57:19AM +0200, BIBKO wrote: > Dear Sirs, Hoooh, that too much honors ;->> > I set up a contab file as user root with crontab -e. It is in > /var/spool/cron/crontabs. It is planed to run 10 8 * * 1-5 > /usr/bin/pphol. > pphol is the cripts which need to be exe

Re: error's when starting X

1999-09-16 Thread David Karlin
Hello, On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 11:12:03AM +0200, Steeve Lennmark wrote: > > Admitedly not 100% positive, but when I've had that error before, it means > > that I had the wrong X server.had to go and select another one from > > XF86Config > > I've tried running XF86Setup and it works just

debianized slash?

1999-09-16 Thread NatePuri
I hate to be knock-off of someone elses deal. But I really need the functionality of slashdot's app to make it easier on me to post URL for my users. Is there any debianized slash app that is configured to work right out the dpkg? I've downloaded and tried to make sense of the raw source from t

Re: Crontab as root

1999-09-16 Thread Seth R Arnold
Does cron send you email about it? On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 09:57:19AM +0200, BIBKO wrote: > Dear Sirs, > > I set up a contab file as user root with crontab -e. It is in > /var/spool/cron/crontabs. It is planed to run 10 8 * * 1-5 > /usr/bin/pphol. > pphol is the cripts which need to be executed.

Re: ftp ls & dir problem

1999-09-16 Thread Seth R Arnold
Jean-Yves, try setting your ftp program to passive mode -- sometimes PASV, PASSIVE, depending on your ftp client. Chances are your firewall prevents these things from happening. Normally, your ftp client opens a control channel to the server, and when you download files, your client opens a port,

Apache+PHP3

1999-09-16 Thread Usef Saiful Ulum
Hi there, I have installed Apache 1.3.9 with PHP3: # tar xvzf apache_1.3.9.tar.gz # tar xvzf php-3.0.12.tar.gz # cd apache_1.3.9 # ./configure --prefix= # cd ../php-3.0.12 # ./configure --with-mysql= --with-apache=../apache_1.3.9 --enable-track-vars # make; make install # cd ../apache_1.3.9 # .

xfree86 3.3.5 debianised?

1999-09-16 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi all, I'd like to upgrade to XFree86 3.3.5, but I didn't find it debianized yet; does anyone know an URL from where I could download it?? I have an ATI Rage 128 card, and a friend of mine gave me an rpm package supporting it; but this package ask for some dependencies, which I have BUT: /lib/l

Re: spreadsheet?

1999-09-16 Thread J Horacio MG
> Are there any good, free spreadsheet programs out there? Anywhere? I believe Lotus 1·2·3 might be released for Linux, can anyone confirm or deny this point? Regards, -- Horacio [EMAIL PROTECTED] Valencia - ESPAÑA

is my firewall setup good?

1999-09-16 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi all, As I'm not a network specialist, I'd like your advices about my firewall setup. CONFIG: station, 2.2.10, (192.168.1.2) server, 2.2.10, (192.168.1.1), 2 ehernet cards, LAN in 192.168.1.0, WEB (cable-modem) in DHCP lease ADDR ipmasq, (no IP-in-IP, nor encaps

Crontab as root

1999-09-16 Thread BIBKO
Dear Sirs, I set up a contab file as user root with crontab -e. It is in /var/spool/cron/crontabs. It is planed to run 10 8 * * 1-5 /usr/bin/pphol. pphol is the cripts which need to be executed. But cron does not execute the file. regards Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED]

gnome-su ? (like kdesu)

1999-09-16 Thread Ingo Reimann
Hi there, does anyone know about a small tool like kdesu for gnome, that allows to run X-Programms under root and does all the authentifacation stuff ? Thanks, Ingo I. Reimann [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mailing problems

1999-09-16 Thread Quant-X UNIX and Linux Support
Just a thing to check: is everything OK with the DNS? I mean are there proper MX records being published in your zones. From "does not know how to deliver the message" it seems that others are not aware of the fact that your computer is equipped with an SMTP server. On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 04:3

Apache 1.3.9 from potato dist

1999-09-16 Thread Stephen Kelly
Hi Everyone, Anyone else having problems with the apache 1.3.9 from the apt dist? I can't get mine to run. apachectl says it has started, but it doesn't spawn. Kind of annoying as you can imagine. I haven't had time to look mroe closely at this one, so if anyone knows anything, great. Otherwise,

ftp ls & dir problem

1999-09-16 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi all, I have a huge problem on my station: every time I try to ftp any external (web) service, the connexion is Ok, but when I try to make 'ls' or 'dir' no way! the answer' still the same: 500 Illegal PORT Command ftp: bind: Address already in use LAN: station PII400, 2.2.10, ftp=system ba

Re: spreadsheet?

1999-09-16 Thread Paul Seelig
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Richard E. Hawkins wrote: > > http://www.wingz.com/wingz/index.html > > but it's not free; it asks for $50 as shareware. > Check out this: http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/financial/spreadsheet/wingz-311.tar.gz http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/financial/spreadshe

Maling Problems (continued)

1999-09-16 Thread Nagy Gergely
Hi, here is the complete error message: -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 12:24:45 +0200 From: Mail Delivery System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender This message was created automatically by mail deli

Re: fetchmail as daemon dies...

1999-09-16 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 11:05:54PM -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm running fetchmail as daemon on a slink system. Every now and > then, it seems to die, and I end up wondering why I'm not getting > new mail. > > Can anyone tell me where fetchmail writes its logs (if it keeps > them)?

Re: E-mail client for POP3?

1999-09-16 Thread David Karlin
On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 08:38:18AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > Juli-Manel Merino Vidal wrote: > > Another thing you can do is share /var/spool/mail, so both boxes will > > share the mailboxes. Use NFS, for example. > > may have to go that route. Sharing /var/spool/mail still puts the mail > on a box

I'm searchiang for CS4237 audio driver for linux

1999-09-16 Thread Davide Gobbi
Hi. Last week I have intall Debian on my PC. Now I want that my CS4237 play music. How I can do it in linux. Where can I find the driver? Thank you a lot.

Re: sb live card under debian

1999-09-16 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 09:08:39AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Your wrong. I have a SoundBlaster Live! (Value!), and it works fine under > kernel 2.2.11. Simply get the module from > http://developer.soundblaster.com/linux/. The README with it says that it > will > only work for kernel

How to use the gpg --gen-revoke certificate?

1999-09-16 Thread Fabien Ninoles
Sorry, I can find any information about how to use the revoke certificate produce by gpg. Running gpg revoke.asc ask me for a datafile. Which one? The purpose of the pre-generate certificate is to let the user revoking a key without knowing is password. I find this option useful but can't figure o

upgraded to KDE 1.1.2 and menus don't work

1999-09-16 Thread Pollywog
I just upgraded (from source) to KDE version 1.1.2 and now my menus do not work. The apps seem to work, it is just the menus that don't bring them up. Anyone else having this problem with KDE 1.1.2? -- Andrew - GnuPG Public KeyID: 0x48109681

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