I almost have sound working

2000-01-28 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, Thanks to all of your help, I almost have sound working. My CD player will play music, but I have no sound in Linux programs. I went into sound section of the Gnome configuration tool, and when I tried to play a sound, nothing happened. I turned the sound on my speakers all the way up, but

help with displaying true type fonts via xfs font server

2000-01-28 Thread john smith
I havee been able to successfully install and verify that my xfs font server is working via the command fslsfonts -server unix/:7100 (run as user shell) it displays all the fonts that are available but when I have added it to my XF86Config file to tell X server to use the xfs font server and h

ssh is not working, x forwarding broken, libc fscked

2000-01-28 Thread Aaron Solochek
I am running a potato system, and I cannot connect via ssh to it. Everything is installed, but sshd isn't running. What exactly do I have to do to fix this? Also, I am having a problem forwarding X connections to this same machine, I am setting all the right variables and "xhost +"ing correctly,

Re: kmod questions?

2000-01-28 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Eric G . Miller wrote: : On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 05:03:27PM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: : > 1) Does /etc/modules needed with kmod or can it be deleted? : > 2) Why there is no line like : > 0-59/5 * * * * /sbin/rmmod -a : > for cron to process? : : For the /etc/crontab

Clarification

2000-01-28 Thread Brad
On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 11:07:08AM -0500, paul wrote: > BEFORE YOU UPGRADE TO POTATO LOOK AT ALL THREADS ON DEVEL PERTAINING > TO LIBC6 PROBLEMS. > > Sorry about the all caps. ;-) but I believe its in order. There is > currently a problem with the libc6 package that the maintainer is > working on

Re: kmod questions?

2000-01-28 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 05:03:27PM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: > 1) Does /etc/modules needed with kmod or can it be deleted? > 2) Why there is no line like >0-59/5 * * * * /sbin/rmmod -a > for cron to process? For the /etc/crontab entry, make it 0-59/5 * * * * root /sbin/rmmod -a It wants a

Re: kmod questions?

2000-01-28 Thread Gregory T. Norris
On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 05:03:27PM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: > 2) Why there is no line like >0-59/5 * * * * /sbin/rmmod -a > for cron to process? My understanding is that it causes problems for some PCMCIA devices. I don't have any such beasties tho, so I can't verify this.

Re: Reiser filesystem

2000-01-28 Thread Maurizio Cimaschi
On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 07:49:28PM +0100, Arne wrote: > Does anyone already install a Debian-linux on a Reiser-File-system? > http://devlinux.com/projects/reiserfs/ I've installed on my Debian 2.1 with 2.2.13 kernel, it' used for the spool directories of squid and leafnode of my home system from a

RE: problems with remote printing & lpr

2000-01-28 Thread Lewis, James M.
> I'm running slink on a x86 box with all the security & y2k updates > applied. I've got lprng (version 3.5.2-2), magicfilter (version > 1.2-28), a2ps (version 4.10.4-4) and aladdin-gs (version 5.50-3) > installed. > > The first problem I'm having is that when I print (lpr file), I'm not > getti

Re: need tutorials

2000-01-28 Thread Howard Mann
Steve Winston wrote: > > Can anyone recommend tutorials on the following subjects (yes, I can use > the search engines, too..but I am looking for something that has helped you): > 1. using the conflict resolution portion of dselect. > 2. replacing xdm with gdm. > 3. getting netscape (I can't get a

crash diagnostics

2000-01-28 Thread Werner Reisberger
I am still having occasional kernel panics and don't know why. Today an Oops happened some hours before the panic (when I did 'make zImage'). The Oops left the kswaps daemon as zombie and I had to reboot the system. Following is the output of the Oops. I would really appreciate if somebody could gi

Install on Loopback device

2000-01-28 Thread Joseph A. Martin
Hello, I am interested in helping a friend install Debian. His father is unsure of repartioning and trying Linux. I thought about using distro's like PhatLinux or WinLinux, which install to a disk image instead of a raw partition, but they just aren't debian. Is there already boot disks/in

Re: pronunciation of daemon, GNOME and GNU

2000-01-28 Thread David Teague
If you read the FSF literature, in particular the emacs manual you find they (who chose the Gnu as the mascot) want it pronounced with a distinct GA-Noo (I approximate.) The g is hard, and the rest is like the animal. Cheers David On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Matt Folwell wrote: > On Fri, Jan 28, 200

keyboard repeat rate

2000-01-28 Thread Attila Csosz
How could I set the keyboard repeat rate and the speed? Because when I start X and end my X session I observe the following: when I press some key I must wait a while to get any character on the screen. Then the keyboard echos the characters normally onto the screen. Without X the keyboard works n

Since when.....

2000-01-28 Thread Hans
does assigning addresses to a network devices work out of the box? I baked a new kernel (2.2.13) with support for my NE2000 clone and after reboot I could immediately telnet into my Linux box via my LAN (the host, domain name and ip address were already set at install time). What ever happened to '

Re: syslog facilities.

2000-01-28 Thread Lars Weber
Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The daemon used to log its actions in /var/log/mail.info, in accordance with > fetchmail man page. However, during the last few weeks the logs are stoped > though the mail is continued to be fetch in what looks like a proper work of > the daemon. This s

Re: pronunciation of daemon, GNOME and GNU

2000-01-28 Thread Matt Folwell
On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 05:31:19PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > Is gnu pronounced with a y-glide, like news (nyooz)? I always thought > that it was also pronounced guh-noo (without that glide), but I could be > wrong. 'dict gnu' isn't clear. Chambers gives two pronunciations for gnu (the animal) o

problems with remote printing & lpr

2000-01-28 Thread Joe Block
I'm running slink on a x86 box with all the security & y2k updates applied. I've got lprng (version 3.5.2-2), magicfilter (version 1.2-28), a2ps (version 4.10.4-4) and aladdin-gs (version 5.50-3) installed. The first problem I'm having is that when I print (lpr file), I'm not getting a prompt bac

Re: cnews/nntp/slrn Problem

2000-01-28 Thread hawk
> i have a problem posting news with the above mentioned Programs. > Reading news is no problem, but when i try to post something slrn > hangs with "posting...". check /etc/news/inn.conf Switching to potato, it replaced this file without asking me, and there are two lines that the man page says

need tutorials

2000-01-28 Thread Steve Winston
Can anyone recommend tutorials on the following subjects (yes, I can use the search engines, too..but I am looking for something that has helped you): 1. using the conflict resolution portion of dselect. 2. replacing xdm with gdm. 3. getting netscape (I can't get all of it no matter what i do). I

Re: help with kernel compiling

2000-01-28 Thread aphro
make sure you configure the kernel to run on 586 NOT 686 as it appears to be now nate On Fri, 28 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: jwang >If you received a message a few mins ago, please ignore it, something is wrong jwang >with mailing software. jwang > jwang >Hi, jwang > jwang >I fail in ke

Re: help with kernel compiling

2000-01-28 Thread aphro
what compiler? its suggested you use gcc 2.7.2.3 or egcs 1.1 ..probably should avoid anything newer its likely to cause problems like that nate On Fri, 28 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: jwang >Hi, jwang > jwang >When I try to compile 2.2.12 at gateway2000 (pentium 200 with MMX), I got the

Re: How to use ntp/ntpdate to fix my clock

2000-01-28 Thread Shaul Karl
> hi all > > the time on my machine is seriously messed up - currently my machine is > already on Feb 15, 2000. digging through the package database i came across > ntp and ntpdate and installed both (i have an always on connection to the > net). all i want to do i to keep the time on my mach

help with kernel compiling

2000-01-28 Thread jwang
If you received a message a few mins ago, please ignore it, something is wrong with mailing software. Hi, I fail in kernel 2.2.12 compiling at gatewat2000 (pentium 200 with MMX)., but got the following message: =2 -malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2 -DCPU=686 -c -o checksum.o checksum.c che

help with kernel compiling

2000-01-28 Thread jwang
Hi, When I try to compile 2.2.12 at gateway2000 (pentium 200 with MMX), I got the following message, I install hamm on it, and upgrade it to potato now. But I failed in kernel compiling every time. I try 2.0.36 2.0.38, but failed at some delay system call. Any suggestion? Thanks! Have a nice w

Re: help with dselect (on m68k)

2000-01-28 Thread dkphoto
>> OK, I've figured out (at least partially) what is going on. dselect is >> working just fine and so is everything else, except the actual CD. I gave >> up on dselect and rebooted, then mounted the debian CD and discovered >> that my system sees all the folders on it as just plain text files.

Re: licq question

2000-01-28 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I'm using licq (from potato). Since I don't have a sound card, I thought > I'd replace the playing of wave files in the OnEvents tab of the options > dialog with the command "echo -e '\a'" so my machine would beep when I get > a new message. The strange thing to me is

Re: is there a way to see a log of whatever is happening inside the x-window?

2000-01-28 Thread Shaul Karl
> Greetings! > > I was wondering if there was some sort of a way to see what x-windows > is doing because whenever I try to do some things like click on settings > or utilities etc, nothing is happening. I'm not sure if there are errors > or whatever so I wanted to check and see what was happ

Re: xconsole has vanished!

2000-01-28 Thread Shaul Karl
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 07:32:29PM -0600, David J. Kanter wrote: > > Yesterday I updated my XFree86 packages, and now the iconized xconsole > > window that used to appear when starting fvwm is gone. If I log on as root, > > it's there but as a regular user it's not. > > > > What happened? > > I

Epson Stylus Photo 700 WORKING!

2000-01-28 Thread Jonathan Markevich
I know everyone will be tickled to get me off their backs... I got the above printer going using *magicfilter* and not apsfilter. Of course, it's not perfect, it only uses 4 colors, but hey, it prints! I also used the potato version, the slink one wouldn't go. I love apt. It's as close to self-h

Re: CPU question

2000-01-28 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Shao Zhang wrote: : Hi, : I am going to set up a new server which will serve pretty much : everything except www. At the moment, it has a P166, and the : load avg is around about 5. The highest once reached to 22. : : In Australia here, the price of

Re: xfstt and xfs-xtt

2000-01-28 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Shao Zhang wrote: : Hi, : Can someone please explain the difference between the two?? xfstt is a hack; it runs on a different port than xfs. xfs-xtt is intended to replace xfs and serve up TrueType fonts as well as the standard X fonts. xfstt is pretty easy to set up

Re: man

2000-01-28 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Robert Waldner wrote: : On Fri, 28 Jan 2000 09:01:55 +1030, John Pearson writes: : >On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 09:55:44PM +0100, Marco Giardini wrote : >> why some man pages are in /usr/share/man instead of /usr/man? : >> how do i read that man pages? : >> = : : > : >Deb

Woody continuation of Potato?

2000-01-28 Thread Bart Szyszka
Hello, I'm wondering about how things are with Woody. Is it a continuation of Potato, like Potato has been changed for the past couple months or is it a lot less stable and a lot more new stuff than what Potato was like before it was moved to frozen? If I just keep unstable in my apt sources, is i

Re: kmod questions?

2000-01-28 Thread Shaul Karl
> A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > 1) Does /etc/modules needed with kmod or can it be deleted? > > Yes that's still needed - /etc/modules is a Debian feature independent of > the kernel. > Isn't /etc/modules a kerneld related stuff? Without kerneld, (have kmod i

Reiser filesystem

2000-01-28 Thread Arne
Hello, Does anyone already install a Debian-linux on a Reiser-File-system? http://devlinux.com/projects/reiserfs/ I am perhaps going to change from SuSE to Debian, but SuSE now gives the possibility to install on Reiserfs. The reason for changing is the poor network-features of SuSE. Arne

syslog facilities.

2000-01-28 Thread Shaul Karl
I have a /etc/init.d/fetchmail that starts a fetchmail daemon as soon as the system is up. The daemon used to log its actions in /var/log/mail.info, in accordance with fetchmail man page. However, during the last few weeks the logs are stoped though the mail is continued to be fetch in what look

Re: ssh-add won't create indentity file

2000-01-28 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Herbert Ho) wrote: >looking in the man page for ssh-add it states that if the identity >file doesn't exist, then it would create it. but it doesn't. it keeps >spitting me a "bad key file" error. > >so again, i rashly nuke my .ssh, saving my config this time. =) > >and still ssh-

Re: Debian equivalent of RH's rc.local?

2000-01-28 Thread Nathan E Norman
On 26 Jan 2000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: [ snip ] : >> >READMEs in /etc/rcS.d and /etc/init.d. : >> : >> That's good advice, now follow it ;) : > : >I don't see anything in the READMEs that says this is B.A.D. You just : >have to be careful about the sequence number. And you can check

Re: CPU question

2000-01-28 Thread Michelle Konzack
At 07:28 28.01.2000 -0800, you wrote > This was the original Message: >i'd like to know how you could possibly get 2 K5-166s to work together, >from what I've read AMD CPUs have never supported intel's SMP spec, and >never will due to intels patents. AMD apparently supports a SMP spec >cal

Re: Locate question

2000-01-28 Thread Kevin Dalley
Yes, there was a bad NMU to findutils just before the freeze. 4.1-37 fixes this problem. John Bagdanoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've noticed this the last few days with both slink to potato upgrade and a > fresh > potato install on another drive. The problem looks like the latest finduti

Re: apt-get wants to remove netscape?

2000-01-28 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Shaul Karl wrote: > Why does it want to remove netscape? Am I suppose to let it continue and > afterwards install 4.61? No. There are threads about this bug both in debian-user and debian-devel. It should be fixed tomorrow, I think. Just place libc6 on hold for now, or wait f

Re: pronunciation of daemon, GNOME and GNU

2000-01-28 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Egbert Bouwman) wrote: >On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 12:06:56PM +, Colin Watson wrote: >> The English word gnome has the gn as the first part of knee; in the case >> of GNOME I pronounce a hard 'g' separated from the 'n', so guh-NOHM (not >> proper phonetic alphabet, but it should

Re: updatedb error

2000-01-28 Thread Kevin Dalley
Just download 4.1-37. Unfortunately, there was an NMU just below the freeze date, followed by problems with my attempt to upload the fix. You don't want to change the files suggested. -- Kevin Dalley [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: updatedb not working

2000-01-28 Thread Kevin Dalley
Just download findutils-4.1-37. The stable version of findutils works fine. -- Kevin Dalley [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: File system/directory structure docs?

2000-01-28 Thread paul
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Marc said, > I'd like to learn more about the anatomy of a debian > file system - what all the various [usr/[local/][s]bin > directories are for, where new apps I install (without > packages) should go, what /etc and /var are for, etc. > Is there a FAQ or HOWTO that I can read

Re: File system/directory structure docs?

2000-01-28 Thread Howard Mann
Marc Sherman wrote: > > I'd like to learn more about the anatomy of a debian > file system - what all the various [usr/[local/][s]bin > directories are for, where new apps I install (without > packages) should go, what /etc and /var are for, etc. > Is there a FAQ or HOWTO that I can read that cove

Re: Looking for an old copy of dhcpcd-sv 1.3.16-1

2000-01-28 Thread paul
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Bryan said, > Greetings to the list: > I have Debian 2.1 running on my laptop with an updated 2.2.13 > kernel. Also, I have libc6 version 2.07(?) running. Therefore I am in a > crunch: I would to get a copy of a dhcpcd .deb package to install. The > current stable ver

Re: Firewall question

2000-01-28 Thread paul
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Bill said: > Hi. I have a question about how powerful my firewall computer should > be. > > I want to make a firewall for a small constellation of computers > in my living room. Behind the firewall I will have two Win98 computers, > one computer which boots Win98 or several

BEFORE YOU UPGRADE TO POTATO LOOK AT...

2000-01-28 Thread paul
BEFORE YOU UPGRADE TO POTATO LOOK AT ALL THREADS ON DEVEL PERTAINING TO LIBC6 PROBLEMS. Sorry about the all caps. ;-) but I believe its in order. There is currently a problem with the libc6 package that the maintainer is working on right now. Libc6 was incoporated into a different package (lib

cnews/nntp/slrn Problem

2000-01-28 Thread Dennis Schoen
Hi all, i have a problem posting news with the above mentioned Programs. Reading news is no problem, but when i try to post something slrn hangs with "posting...". In my /etc/news/nntp_access: localhost bothpost and slrn outputs on start: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ slrn slrn

potato fscked fvwm, and *slow*

2000-01-28 Thread hawk
I "upgraded" to potato since it was easier than a package-by-package upgrade to get the newer version of wine (OK, that was stupid). Two problems 1) fvwm is, uhh, bad. It's behavior has changed a *couple* of times over the last couple of days. Initially, the wine windows behaved normally, r

Re: Unidentified subject!

2000-01-28 Thread paul
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Claude said, > > I have a version mandrake 6.2 and my streamer Seagate stt8000A ide > Does Mandrake not have thier own list? -ptw-

Re: CPU question

2000-01-28 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Hello, > > I was running a Web-Server on a GigaByte GA 586 HX with a Intel > Pentium 200. Now I am using a GigaByte GA 586 DX which is a > Dual-Pentium. OK, I have no two Pentium 200 but two AMD K5-166 and I > have tried tu use them.

The kernel-iamge-2.2.14-compcat package and hardware detection?

2000-01-28 Thread Shaul Karl
After installing kernel-iamge-2.2.14-compcat I am getting: [15:15:34 Documentation]$ grep 3c59x -A6 /var/log/syslog Jan 28 04:32:19 rakefet kernel: 3c59x.c:v0.99H 11/17/98 Donald Becker http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html Jan 28 04:32:19 rakefet kernel: pcnet32.c: PCI bios is pr

Re: Happy.exe

2000-01-28 Thread hawk
> I was browsing with my windows box when I got the email with happy, > which made me very sad. > What is the best way to get ridd of it? [this is too easy :) ] Since you're reading this list, you already know the *best* way . . . :) rick, who can run the one set of darkside progams he needs und

File system/directory structure docs?

2000-01-28 Thread Marc Sherman
I'd like to learn more about the anatomy of a debian file system - what all the various [usr/[local/][s]bin directories are for, where new apps I install (without packages) should go, what /etc and /var are for, etc. Is there a FAQ or HOWTO that I can read that covers this stuff? More generally,

Re: Some phylosofical questions (and kernel questions too)

2000-01-28 Thread paul
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000 > > --- Luis Campos de Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 5. (as root, too. Same dir) make zImage > >At this point, the shell answers "No target 'zImage'." > > I build kernels as a normal user. > > Have you searched the Makefile for zImage? > > Maybe it's dumped

ssh-add won't create indentity file

2000-01-28 Thread Herbert Ho
i played with ssh-agent a LONG time ago and wasn't impressed. but i figured i would take another stab at it now. so i added this line to my .bash_profile as the man page suggests: [ ! "$SSH_AGENT_PID" ] && exec ssh-agent -- bash --login which works great. then i tried using ssh-add. it asked fo

RE: Many computers working together?

2000-01-28 Thread Paul Kallstrom
Check out the Beowulf Project. This is one of the areas that Linux excels in. On 28-Jan-2000 Davide Anchisi wrote: > Hi, > > My question is not strictly debian related and rises from two > considerations: > 1. most computers, for most of the time they are on, don't use theire > full power; > 2.

Re: Many computers working together?

2000-01-28 Thread Pedro Quaresma de Almeida
>Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 16:17:25 +0100 >From: Davide Anchisi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >My question is not strictly debian related and rises from two >considerations: >1. most computers, for most of the time they are on, don't use theire >full power; >2. when doing an hard job resources are never enoug

Re: CPU question

2000-01-28 Thread aphro
i'd like to know how you could possibly get 2 K5-166s to work together, from what I've read AMD CPUs have never supported intel's SMP spec, and never will due to intels patents. AMD apparently supports a SMP spec called OpenPIC (i think?) but no boards support it .. nate On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Mic

Re: ascii file conversion Mac -> UNIX

2000-01-28 Thread aphro
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Hans Ekbrand wrote: haek >Hi all! haek > haek >Are there any program, or perl one-liner, that convert Mac ascii files haek >(with CR only as line terminator) to Unix ascii format? I have only found haek >the dos2unix proggie. http://macinsearch.com/infomac/text/mac-to-unix-

Re: is there a way to see a log of whatever is happening inside the x-window?

2000-01-28 Thread aphro
start X with something like: startx >&X.log & then when yer in X tail -f X.log nate On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, joseph de los santos wrote: jhou >Greetings! jhou > jhou > I was wondering if there was some sort of a way to see what x-windows jhou >is doing because whenever I try to do some things l

Re: Problems with XFree86 and Debian 2.1

2000-01-28 Thread paul
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Alfred said, > > XFree86 Version 3.3.6 / X Window System > (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6300) > Release Date: January 8 1999 > If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer > than the above date, look for a newer version befo

fetchmail: realloc failed

2000-01-28 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Hi! I'm using debian 2.1 slink installed from CD. I've installed fetchmail, procmail and exim. Trying to get my mail from my ISP I get the following errormessage: fetchmail: reading message 1 of 16 (2912 octets) fetchmail: realloc failed I can do "telnet localhost smtp". The entries in .procma

Many computers working together?

2000-01-28 Thread Davide Anchisi
Hi, My question is not strictly debian related and rises from two considerations: 1. most computers, for most of the time they are on, don't use theire full power; 2. when doing an hard job resources are never enough (the more you have the better is). I wonder if there is a way to make 2 or more d

Re: kmod questions?

2000-01-28 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > 1) Does /etc/modules needed with kmod or can it be deleted? Yes that's still needed - /etc/modules is a Debian feature independent of the kernel. > 2) Why there is no line like >0-59/5 * * * * /sbin/rmmod -a > for cron to proce

Re: Simulating viruses with wine (this is totally serious;-)

2000-01-28 Thread Junichi Uekawa
TassiloVP> something about wine. As a matter of fact I have two viruses stored as TassiloVP> files ( I did not run them though ;-) and I am rather curious to see TassiloVP> what they *would* do if I ran them. Is there perhaps a way of finding TassiloVP> out when running them with wine ? I guess t

kmod questions?

2000-01-28 Thread Shaul Karl
1) Does /etc/modules needed with kmod or can it be deleted? 2) Why there is no line like 0-59/5 * * * * /sbin/rmmod -a for cron to process?

Looking for an old copy of dhcpcd-sv 1.3.16-1

2000-01-28 Thread Bryan K. Walton
Greetings to the list: I have Debian 2.1 running on my laptop with an updated 2.2.13 kernel. Also, I have libc6 version 2.07(?) running. Therefore I am in a crunch: I would to get a copy of a dhcpcd .deb package to install. The current stable version doesn't work with my updated kernel.

Re: Some phylosofical questions (and kernel questions too)

2000-01-28 Thread Luis Campos de Carvalho
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Michel D?nzer wrote: > --- Luis Campos de Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1. ftp ftp.kernel.org (get kernel-2.3.40, latest stable kernel until now) > > tar/gz format. > All 2.3.x (In fact, all kernels with an odd middle number) are unstable by > definition. Ooo

Re: pronunciation of daemon, GNOME and GNU

2000-01-28 Thread Egbert Bouwman
On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 12:06:56PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > The English word gnome has the gn as the first part of knee; in the case > of GNOME I pronounce a hard 'g' separated from the 'n', so guh-NOHM (not > proper phonetic alphabet, but it should suffice ...), by analogy with > GNU. > Th

Firewall question

2000-01-28 Thread Bill White
Hi. I have a question about how powerful my firewall computer should be. I want to make a firewall for a small constellation of computers in my living room. Behind the firewall I will have two Win98 computers, one computer which boots Win98 or several flavors of Unix/Linux, and one Hurd box. Th

Re: help with dselect (on m68k)

2000-01-28 Thread paul
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, David said: > OK, I've figured out (at least partially) what is going on. dselect is > working just fine and so is everything else, except the actual CD. I gave > up on dselect and rebooted, then mounted the debian CD and discovered > that my system sees all the folders on

Re: help with dselect

2000-01-28 Thread Shaul Karl
> I've managed to install the base system and have gotten to dselect which > first asks me to help locate the cd drive, with the prompt to enter: > /dev/cdrom > > ...which I do. Then it asks me to help find the the dist on the CD. > > No matter what I enter, it says it can't find it. This is th

Re: less and color

2000-01-28 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > Then ls is sensing its output device and works accordingly? How does it do > that? With the isatty(3) function. HTH, Eric -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Eindhoven Univ. of Technology Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (SKA)

apt-get wants to remove netscape?

2000-01-28 Thread Shaul Karl
[15:56:55 /tmp]# apt-get dist-upgrade -s |less Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... The following packages will be REMOVED: communicator-base-47 communicator-nethelp-47 communicator-smotif-47 communicator-spellchk-47 gconv-modules libc6-bin navigator-base-47 navigator-nethelp-

Re: newbie needs help veiwing files

2000-01-28 Thread David Teague
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Shaul Karl wrote: > > > > > > --- DOUGLAS HUNTER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > When I'm in bash and trying to ls large files I can only see the last > > > part of the file due to it scrolling past too fast. > > > Is there a command to insert that means I can veiw the out

Re: less and color

2000-01-28 Thread Shaul Karl
> On 26/1/2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I have setup the ls command to use the display color option using an > >alias. It works fine. Colors are also displayed nicely when piping > >ls stdout to the more command. I want to use less instead of > >more. However, when piping ls stdout to t

Re: newbie needs help veiwing files

2000-01-28 Thread Shaul Karl
> > > --- DOUGLAS HUNTER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When I'm in bash and trying to ls large files I can only see the last > > part of the file due to it scrolling past too fast. > > Is there a command to insert that means I can veiw the output page by > > page and change pages when I want to

Re: Lilo & hdb

2000-01-28 Thread Matt Folwell
On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 10:33:23AM -1000, Jason Christensen wrote: > You're right about the linux device structure regarding physical disks. I > however am using the same map-drive lines in my lilo.conf as you are, > except I am booting windows from the primary slave (hdb1). Why is it that > the s

Re: Reading ext2fs from Windows?

2000-01-28 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Todd Suess) wrote: >I was wondering if anyone knows of a WinBlows Utility for mounting and >reading/writing to a ext2fs partition from Windows? It's useful to be able >to read and write my vfat partitions from Debian, but is the reverse possible? >Since I rarely boot windows any

Re: ascii file conversion Mac -> UNIX

2000-01-28 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hans Ekbrand) wrote: >Are there any program, or perl one-liner, that convert Mac ascii files >(with CR only as line terminator) to Unix ascii format? I have only found >the dos2unix proggie. perl -pe 's/\r/\n/g' Or, for fun: perl -015l012pe1 :), -- Colin Watson

IP aliasing on loopback ( Slink )

2000-01-28 Thread M.K.Pai
Guys, Please help me. I am trying to do IP aliasing on loopback, i,e create lo:0, lo:1 etc. The steps outlined in IP Aliasing mini-howto don't seem to work for me. Step 1 : I do /sbin/ifconfig lo:0 192.168.0.1 Now 192.168.0.1 appears as lo:0 in ifconfig Step 2 : Then I do

should named listen on udp ports over 1024 that change on restarts?

2000-01-28 Thread Robert Varga
I have noticed a strange thing. Bind allocates an udp port above 1024 randomly. Is this normal? It is compiled from the source on the debian ftp-mirror. It is version 8.2.2p5-7 I run bind as user/group named:named. Robert Varga

Re: `Powered by Debian' buttons

2000-01-28 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Damon Muller) wrote: >bit of a weird request maybe, but I'm putting together a bit of a >web-site, and I want the world to know that I'm proud to be using >debian. I've got buttons (ie. little retangular graphics) saying it's >powered by vim, mySQL, and php, and I'd love to add a

IP-Port-Forwarding under 2.0.36 (LRP)

2000-01-28 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello, I was looking for the file to "IP-Port-Forwarding". I do not know the filename exactly, but can anyone send me it compiled for kernel 2.0.36. Possible with a man page ??? How about depencies ??? Oh yes, now I have running on my Workstation v2.2 which does contain only ipchains. Thanks

Re: is there a way to see a log of whatever is happening inside the x-window?

2000-01-28 Thread David Z. Maze
joseph de los santos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: joseph> I was wondering if there was some sort of a way to see what joseph> x-windows is doing because whenever I try to do some things joseph> like click on settings or utilities etc, nothing is happening. If you started X with 'startx', error mess

Problems with kfm

2000-01-28 Thread Pedro Quaresma de Almeida
Hi I have instaled kde 1.1.2 (after instaling 1.1.1) apparently with no problems but, kfm refuses to work :( --- bash-2.01$ kfm Could not read '/tmp//kfm-cache-1000/index.txt' X Error: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) 2 Major opcode: 12 Aborted bash-2.01

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V100 #171

2000-01-28 Thread Daan Mol
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2000-01-28 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello, what do you do to install Linux from Floppys ??? I have tried it, but without success. Please can you help me ??? Oh yes, the package you need: Look in the packages(.gz) and search for a package you desire. E.g., "Package: fvwm95" Then go some lines down and you will find a line beginnin

`Powered by Debian' buttons

2000-01-28 Thread Damon Muller
Hi Folks, bit of a weird request maybe, but I'm putting together a bit of a web-site, and I want the world to know that I'm proud to be using debian. I've got buttons (ie. little retangular graphics) saying it's powered by vim, mySQL, and php, and I'd love to add a little debian button to it as we

Re: IMP

2000-01-28 Thread Lars Bungum
> Unfortunately, I haven't found any solution yet; and what's > worse - didn't receive any help from debian-user; I sent 2 messages > about the problem, but a) nobody cares, or b) nobody has this problem. > I tried to found the problem in the php3 code but I'm not > experienced with it.

Re: IMP

2000-01-28 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Lars Bungum wrote: > Mario, > > I am having the same problem with IMP as it seems you have - can't get > the folders to work as they should. > > I am just wondering if you found a solution to the problem? Hi Lars, Unfortunately, I haven't found any solution yet; a

Re: Is the Jan 27 version of Packages.gz for potato/main safe?

2000-01-28 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Guys, Last night I have downloaded the latest Base-Install and then I have used dselect to install MC, NFS-Server, PROFTPD, SAMBA and RSYNC. At the access methode "APT-GET" I have gotten following message: Need to get 11.6 MB of archives. After unpacking 1935 KB will be used. You are abo

Re: CPU question

2000-01-28 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello, I was running a Web-Server on a GigaByte GA 586 HX with a Intel Pentium 200. Now I am using a GigaByte GA 586 DX which is a Dual-Pentium. OK, I have no two Pentium 200 but two AMD K5-166 and I have tried tu use them. The Two-K5-166 version is fast as a P II with 500 MHz. With the kernel

X

2000-01-28 Thread Robyn Manning
I need to know which packages I need to install to run X. I have installed Linux from 7 floppies and I need X also, I have the following packages installed - kdeadmin kdebase kdelibs kdesupport ldso libc6 libncurses libpng li

ascii file conversion Mac -> UNIX

2000-01-28 Thread Hans Ekbrand
Hi all! Are there any program, or perl one-liner, that convert Mac ascii files (with CR only as line terminator) to Unix ascii format? I have only found the dos2unix proggie. TIA Hans Ekbrand

Re: How to use 2 IPs and 1 machine

2000-01-28 Thread Fitsch
Patrick Dahiroc wrote: > > hi all > > i have 2 static IP address (actually i have 3 IP address one is assigned to a > Win95 machine). i don't know the best way to utilize the resources i have. > i was kinda wanting to make one IP to be used by my http server and the other > to be used by my

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