Re: ypbind

2000-03-24 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 02:54:26PM -0800, Beavis wrote: > what is ypbind > > my xconsole keeps saying that it times out: > > Mar 24 .. spy ypbind[259]: broadcast:RPC: Timed out. > > what does that mean and how do i either fix it or get rid of it. Uninstall the nis package. Ben -- --

Re: Squid ACLs does not work

2000-03-24 Thread sgaerner
Yes, I ran /etc/init.d/squid restart to reload the config file and the /etc/ban_domains.squid is readable to all, so this should no be a problem. Sven On 24-Mar-2000 John Pearson wrote: > On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 11:13:42PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote >> Hi, >> >> I have some problems with squ

ypbind

2000-03-24 Thread Beavis
what is ypbind   my xconsole keeps saying that it times out:   Mar 24 .. spy ypbind[259]: broadcast:RPC: Timed out.   what does that mean and how do i either fix it or get rid of it.   just asking,  beavis

Re: C++

2000-03-24 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
You can also check the following site http://www.BruceEckel.com/ which has great and very complete books about C++ and Java, downloadable in different formats: html, pdf, word, etc. Enjoy it Bart Friederichs wrote: > Never knew this was so easy to find.. > > http://www.gnacademy.org/uu-g

Re: (not)lame batch job

2000-03-24 Thread Hans
Thanks for the tip. I'll check it out. --Hans > >I'm using cdenc > >- snip --- >#!/usr/bin/perl ># ># Creation of whole mp3 Suite of one CD ># ># Version 0.3.5 of 06.07.1999 by Stephan Skrodzki ># > snip - > >with little changes with lame or gogo. >a very easy way to create *

problem with latest X release

2000-03-24 Thread Britton
With the latest frozen software, I get Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' when I try to run X. Is this a known problem? Anyone have an idea what I should try first? Thanks. Britton Kerin

Re: mutt and Turkish

2000-03-24 Thread Patrick
I've been searching about in www.mutt,org and can't find any reference to what I should ser charset to. Does anyome know where I can find out what the Turkish character set is and do I need to make any other changes to my system for it to work in mutt? On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 11:48:03AM +0900, Ch

RE: XF86Setup & apt-get

2000-03-24 Thread Ross Boylan
You need to get a server for your card for XFree to work. XF86Setup additionally requires the vanilla vga (svga?) server to run, but you can avoid this by using the console based configuration (XF86config--not the configuration file, but a script). It may be a bug that the configuration depends o

Re: Moving /home to new Parition

2000-03-24 Thread Brian Lavender
First mount your new home partition under a different mount point. # mkdir /mnt/home # mount /dev/hda12 /mnt/home # cd /home # find . -xdev | cpio -pm /mnt/home # mv /home /oldhome Edit your fstab so that it mounts hda12 as home ie /dev/hda12 /home ext2 defaults 0 2 # init 6 This will reboot,

Re: Two monitors (dual heads) on a single box?

2000-03-24 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter S Galbraith) wrote: >John Stevenson wrote: >> I know that it is possible, not exactly sure how though. I >> know that if you look into the framebuffer stuff of XFree, then >> it talks about having dual monitors for the same desktop. > >> Sorry I cant be of much help, but

Re: network

2000-03-24 Thread Patrick
On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 12:38:14PM -0800, Beavis wrote: > how do i reconfigure my network > change my ip, dns, gateway, etc. > > thankx Edit the following files in /etc/ resolv.conf hosts networks /etc/init.d/network All should work easily. No need to reboot like Windows. -- Patrick Kirk Diplo

Re: network

2000-03-24 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 12:38:14PM -0800, Beavis wrote: > how do i reconfigure my network > change my ip, dns, gateway, etc. depending on your Debian version: slink (or upgraded slink to potato): edit /etc/init.d/network pure potato: edit /etc/network/interfaces For any of them, edit /etc/

Re: dns changing

2000-03-24 Thread Patrick
If you mean to change dns servers, just edit /etc/resplv.conf and then restart bind. On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 12:32:29PM -0800, Beavis wrote: > how do i change the dns? -- Patrick Kirk Diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggy" until you can find a rock.

Re: dns changing

2000-03-24 Thread Antonio Fiol Bonnín
/etc/resolv.conf On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Beavis wrote: > how do i change the dns? >

network

2000-03-24 Thread Beavis
how do i reconfigure my network change my ip, dns, gateway, etc.   thankx

RE: Can't unzip kernel 2.2.14

2000-03-24 Thread C. Falconer
Or the other possibility is that lynx has saved the sources as linux-2.2.14.tar.gz and has ungzipped it without renaming it (or the opposit - called it linux-2.2.14.tar and its really a tar.gz file) -- From: Ben Collins[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 25 March 2000 5:21 AM To:

dns changing

2000-03-24 Thread Beavis
how do i change the dns?

Re: Which version of PGP?

2000-03-24 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 12:13:55PM -0800, Percival wrote: > I am curious to see which version of PGP people are using. Debian is known > as an open-source 'only' distribution, and I'm curious to see what people > think about this whole patent issue. There are curerently 3 versions of PGP > in

Re: Limiting user access in ftp, ssh, samba, etc... 'passwords'

2000-03-24 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 12:11:59PM -0800, Percival wrote: > I run a domain and host websites for myself and some friends. I am trying to > learn all about linux/system administration/security and I want to run a > responsible host as I have 24/7 Internet through a DSL. I try to run a > secure

Re: Limiting user access in ftp, ssh, samba, etc... 'passwords'

2000-03-24 Thread Antonio Fiol Bonnín
> I want to have easy freedom in limiting user access. I have killed > telnetd, and only sshd. I want to allow some users access through ssh, > some through ftpd, and some through samba. How can I turn off user > access through ssh, but keep their account, and allow them access > through ftp?

Re: C++

2000-03-24 Thread Bart Friederichs
Never knew this was so easy to find.. http://www.gnacademy.org/uu-gna/text/cc/chapters.html Bart

Re: C++

2000-03-24 Thread Bart Friederichs
> http://webstore.ansi.org/ Hmm, looks like a store, I don't wanna buy a book. Just some online info. It is the gaps in my memory that must be filled. Bart

Which version of PGP?

2000-03-24 Thread Percival
I am curious to see which version of PGP people are using. Debian is known as an open-source 'only' distribution, and I'm curious to see what people think about this whole patent issue. There are curerently 3 versions of PGP in potato - international, us, and internation version 5. Are there

Limiting user access in ftp, ssh, samba, etc... 'passwords'

2000-03-24 Thread Percival
I run a domain and host websites for myself and some friends. I am trying to learn all about linux/system administration/security and I want to run a responsible host as I have 24/7 Internet through a DSL. I try to run a secure box. I want to have easy freedom in limiting user access. I have

Re: ntpdate

2000-03-24 Thread Charon
Do an apt-get install ntp and it will install the ntp daemon.. it also prompts you to enter as many locations as you would like .. then it will boot ntpd for you automatically at bootup.. it's painless :) Oh yeah, apt-get rules ;) On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Dzuy M. Nguyen wrote: > How do I ad a ntpd

Re: ntpdate

2000-03-24 Thread Patrick
On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 11:56:54AM -0800, Dzuy M. Nguyen wrote: > How do I ad a ntpdate line to my rc.local boot script? I want it to > synchronize my clock everytime I boots. I usually type: > > ntpdate 140.142.16.34 Just read the instructions in /etc/init.d/ntpdate and it will work out of th

Re: Moving /home to new Parition

2000-03-24 Thread Antonio Fiol Bonnín
Assuming you have a /mnt/tmp directory, you can do: mount /dev/hda12 /mnt/tmp cp -dpR /home/* /mnt/tmp Then you check that everything is on the right place, and that I have not given you the wrong cp command (verify symlinks for example). Check also that each file belongs to the right user and ha

Re: C++

2000-03-24 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Bart Friederichs wrote: > Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 12:08:22 -0800 > From: Bart Friederichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Debian userlist > Subject: C++ > Resent-Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 20:05:22 + > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Resent-cc: recipient list not shown:

Re: Moving /home to new Parition

2000-03-24 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 11:51:25AM -0800, Dzuy M. Nguyen wrote: > I mounted a new partition /hda12 and use the /home as the mountpoint. > When I go: > > mount /dev/hda12 /home > > I end up with an empty directory. How do I move the current contents > of my /home directory into the new mountpoin

C++

2000-03-24 Thread Bart Friederichs
Hi, I am writing a C++ program and I really need info on how to overload operators (especially + and <<) and info on streams. Does anybody know a URL where this kind of info can be found? TIA Bart

ntpdate

2000-03-24 Thread Dzuy M. Nguyen
How do I ad a ntpdate line to my rc.local boot script?  I want it to synchronize my clock everytime I boots.  I usually type:   ntpdate 140.142.16.34   at the root prompt.  I can't figure out how to put it into the startup script.   thanks.

Moving /home to new Parition

2000-03-24 Thread Dzuy M. Nguyen
I mounted a new partition /hda12 and use the /home as the mountpoint. When I go:   mount /dev/hda12 /home   I end up with an empty directory.  How do I move the current contents of my /home directory into the new mountpoint /home on /dev/hda12?   thanks.

Re: 2 networks

2000-03-24 Thread Hecubus
On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Allan M. Wind wrote: > On 2000-03-24 05:40:37, The_Phantom 74 wrote: > > I KNOW OF A PRODUCT ... > All caps spam, it can't get much worse. How is it spam when he was just answering the question? Or are you simply too ready to jump to conclusions? -- Hecubus

Re: ...no Masquerade...?

2000-03-24 Thread Jeff Gordon
On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 01:51:19PM -0500, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > 2.Also, consider using kernel-package. > If you can do Prolog and Perl, you can compile a kernel. The code for > masquerading is in the kernel, but it needs to be turned on, so you will > need to compile a kernel for yourse

Re: ...no Masquerade...?

2000-03-24 Thread Jeff Gordon
On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 01:46:19PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > Most likely you are trying to use the old ipfwadm stuff and you need to > use ipchains. Either way, "modprobe ipchains" should get you there. Hmm; well, 'ipchains' answers to its name but 'modprobe ipchains' says it knows of no such m

PPP starts sending every other packet....

2000-03-24 Thread Joe Emenaker
I recently upgraded my Linux box that connects my house to the net. and I also upgraded the machine on the other end of the PPP connection, too (the one on the "internet" side). Something really wierd occurs, though. After a few minutes of heavy usage, the throughput will drop to almost zero.

Re: Can't unzip kernel 2.2.14

2000-03-24 Thread spectral
Hi, > I keep downloading the kernel source (2.2.14) off of kernel.org (slink > doesn't have the new kernel in it's package list), but I can't ever > unzip it. I've tried downloading it with lynx about five times, but > when I try to save it, it gives me an end-request i/o error. I've saved > it

Re: ...no Masquerade...?

2000-03-24 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 01:45:30PM -0500, Jeff Gordon wrote: > Hi -- > > (I'm very much a newbie, though I've just gone through a month-long > trial-by-trashed-partitions to get here. :-) > > Potato tells me IP Masquerading was not included in the kernel, a fact > which now has my brother (he's f

Re: Two monitors (dual heads) on a single box?

2000-03-24 Thread Peter S Galbraith
John Stevenson wrote: > I know that it is possible, not exactly sure how though. I > know that if you look into the framebuffer stuff of XFree, then > it talks about having dual monitors for the same desktop. > Sorry I cant be of much help, but the XFree docs should have > something. Have a l

Re: XF86Setup & apt-get

2000-03-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
apt-get install xserver-svga On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 07:05:04AM -0800, Michael Zielinski wrote: > I set my sources.list to: > > http://www.debian.org/~vincent/ xfree-update main > > I did an apt-get update then apt-get upgrade. Everything went fine > until I tried to run XF86Setup, this wasn't

...no Masquerade...?

2000-03-24 Thread Jeff Gordon
Hi -- (I'm very much a newbie, though I've just gone through a month-long trial-by-trashed-partitions to get here. :-) Potato tells me IP Masquerading was not included in the kernel, a fact which now has my brother (he's fiftysomething; I'm fifty) from being able to reach the 'Net. Should we be

Re: AccelStar Permedia II AGP

2000-03-24 Thread Jason Christensen
On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Brian wrote: > Has anyone successfully installed this card? > Not specifically this card, but another permedia2 based card, the Diamond FireGL 1000 Pro. AGP, 8M RAM. > I'm using Slink 2.1r4. I see the card on the list here: > > http://www.xfree86.org/cardlist.html > > "Ac

Re: How to do a clean Potato install?

2000-03-24 Thread Aaron Solochek
I don't know about the cd, but I had to make a couple of boot disks, a rescue, boot image, and three driver disks, and the potato install process used dhcp to configure my network, and did everything else over the net, it was great. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Christian Pernegger wrote: >

Re: Debian Perl Modules

2000-03-24 Thread Brian Lavender
I just downloaded perl 5.6.0 which was released yesterday, and I did a $ ./configure.gnu --prefix=/usr/local and it looks if all is well. I ran dselect, and it looks as if it still works. I also checked to make sure that my original perl 5.005_03 is still in /usr/bin and it looks as if it is t

How to do a clean Potato install?

2000-03-24 Thread Christian Pernegger
Hello everyone! I haven't been subscribed to this list for a long time (and I didn't post a lot even then because I was new to Linux at the same time...) Anyway, here I am. I've had surprisingly much success with setting up my Slink box, but the included X-Free doesn't support my new Matrox, SMP

Re: apt-get complaining about dependencies, and other upgrade issues

2000-03-24 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
In case I want to upgrade to potato, are the same recommendations for upgrading to slink valid? Like, not upgrading from X, but from text mode... And... Anything else? Thanks a lot! j. -- Jeronimo Pellegrini Institute of Computing - Unicamp - Brazil http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~jeronimo mailto:[

Re: apt-get complaining about dependencies, and other upgrade issues

2000-03-24 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: On Fri, 24 Mar 2000 15:20:59 +0100 (CET), Ron Rademaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: What did you mean by "go to the main/base and later to the main/lib"? If you meant subdirectories, there was none in /var/cache/apt/archives. Anyway, I did what you said a few times, but even though bluefish wa

Re: Which MTA to use?

2000-03-24 Thread Joe Block
Damon Muller wrote: > > Quoth Brooks R. Robinson, > > I am looking at changing an in-house e-mail system from an ugly > > combination of outsourced collection/forwarding and JSMail on an > > NT server to linux. We have an ADSL line coming in, and I can > > handle all of th

Re: How to blank screen?

2000-03-24 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong) wrote: >> "Ron" == Ron Rademaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> What do you mean... blank the screen? Do you mean that after a >> while the screen just goes blank? If that's so see the setterm M >> (as in RTFM) and check the -blank opti

Re: Can't unzip kernel 2.2.14

2000-03-24 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 10:13:32AM -0700, Matheson wrote: > Hey, > > I keep downloading the kernel source (2.2.14) off of kernel.org (slink > doesn't have the new kernel in it's package list), but I can't ever > unzip it. I've tried downloading it with lynx about five times, but > when I try to s

Can't unzip kernel 2.2.14

2000-03-24 Thread Matheson
Hey, I keep downloading the kernel source (2.2.14) off of kernel.org (slink doesn't have the new kernel in it's package list), but I can't ever unzip it. I've tried downloading it with lynx about five times, but when I try to save it, it gives me an end-request i/o error. I've saved it to a coup

Re: apt-get complaining about dependencies, and other upgrade issues

2000-03-24 Thread Ron Rademaker
I know the upgrading process to potato can be a real pain in the ass, but I think it's worth it. Ron On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > :: On Fri, 24 Mar 2000 16:11:40 +0100 (CET), Ron Rademaker <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> said: > > > Why afraid of upgrading? Potato works fine with me

Re: Debian Perl Modules

2000-03-24 Thread Brian Lavender
I still have a question regarding the debian perl modules. It appears that dpkg and apt have perl modules. If I went in and replace perl with a newer version from source, I would have to rebuild those modules. If I look at my libraries of my Potatoe installation I see some Debian perl modules. You

Re: apt-get complaining about dependencies, and other upgrade issues

2000-03-24 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: On Fri, 24 Mar 2000 16:11:40 +0100 (CET), Ron Rademaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Why afraid of upgrading? Potato works fine with me... not stable yet okay, > but also not unstable! Well... I'm not exactly afraid of potato... I'm afraid of the upgrading process! I've had a few problems usin

Re: "Neighbour table overflow" in potato boot-up

2000-03-24 Thread brian moore
On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 09:55:55AM -0600, Alberto Brealey G. wrote: > > i did a not-so-fresh install of potato last week (first installed base slink > cause i have a bootable cdrom, then upgraded it to potato and installed the > other packages). the machine worked fine in the office for a couple o

Two monitors (dual heads) on a single box?

2000-03-24 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Is it possible to run two monitors using two video cards on one box? If so, I presume you run two XServers (one for each). How do you switch input focus (mouse and keyboard) from one to the other? (Video cards are a Diamond Viper V550 16 MB and an older Matrox Millenium 2MB; both run on the SVG

"Neighbour table overflow" in potato boot-up

2000-03-24 Thread Alberto Brealey G.
i did a not-so-fresh install of potato last week (first installed base slink cause i have a bootable cdrom, then upgraded it to potato and installed the other packages). the machine worked fine in the office for a couple of days, then i moved it to another building, and the first time i tried to b

Re: XF86Setup & apt-get

2000-03-24 Thread Ron Rademaker
There is a way to take them all at once: it's called dselect... Ron On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Michael Zielinski wrote: > I set my sources.list to: > > http://www.debian.org/~vincent/ xfree-update main > > I did an apt-get update then apt-get upgrade. Everything went fine > until I tried to run

Re: Similar problem as in Re: messed up terminal

2000-03-24 Thread Antonio Fiol Bonnín
I suggest that you try the following instead of "reset": just type cat ESCc (Esc key, then C key (no shift, no caps-lock) Ctrl-D You should hit RETURN after the first two lines. It worked for me some times that reset did not work. I did not try the other methods you state. Antonio On F

Similar problem as in Re: messed up terminal

2000-03-24 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello there, On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Evan Moore wrote: > > after reading a binary file sometimes the terminal gets all messed up and > > everything is displayed in symbols. I'm sure everyone has done this a few > > times. How can I get my terminal bac

XF86Setup & apt-get

2000-03-24 Thread Michael Zielinski
I set my sources.list to: http://www.debian.org/~vincent/ xfree-update main I did an apt-get update then apt-get upgrade. Everything went fine until I tried to run XF86Setup, this wasn't installed. I then did an apt-get update XF86Setup and then an apt-get install XF86Setup. Once again everyth

Re: can't load a library...

2000-03-24 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 08:28:30AM -0600, rich wrote: > Howdy all, > > I'm trying to install a program that relies on libXt.so.6 and > libX11.so.6. Whenever I try to run it I get the message, 'can't load > libXt.so.6' > > I've done dpkg -S for both of these and see that xlib6g provides both. > I'

can't load a library...

2000-03-24 Thread rich
Howdy all, I'm trying to install a program that relies on libXt.so.6 and libX11.so.6. Whenever I try to run it I get the message, 'can't load libXt.so.6' I've done dpkg -S for both of these and see that xlib6g provides both. I've got this installed, so can anyone tell me what the problem could be

Re: How to blank screen?

2000-03-24 Thread Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong
> "Ron" == Ron Rademaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What do you mean... blank the screen? Do you mean that after a > while the screen just goes blank? If that's so see the setterm M > (as in RTFM) and check the -blank option. That's exactly what I'm looking for. Thanks.

Re: apt-get complaining about dependencies, and other upgrade issues

2000-03-24 Thread Ron Rademaker
I'll just answer you first question and I think that'll solve your second as well. I had a similar problem and I fixed, quite brute force I must say but all works fine now. apt downloads all your deb packages in /var/cache/apt/archives, so I just went there, to the main/base section and did: dpk

Re: How to blank screen?

2000-03-24 Thread Ron Rademaker
What do you mean... blank the screen? Do you mean that after a while the screen just goes blank? If that's so see the setterm M (as in RTFM) and check the -blank option. Ron On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong wrote: > How do you blank the screen, as in a screensaver. It was working >

How to blank screen?

2000-03-24 Thread Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong
How do you blank the screen, as in a screensaver. It was working before, bul all of a sudden, it doesn't and I don't know why. Being that this is Linux, I figure there must be a way to fix this without rebooting, which I have a sneaking suspicion might solve the problem. So if anyone could lead m

apt-get complaining about dependencies, and other upgrade issues

2000-03-24 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Hello; I have 2 problems... I'm currently running slink, and: 1) I wanted to upgrade bluefish. But I wnted the version which comes with potato. So I thought, "Well, if apt-get handles dependencies correctly, I just have to add frozen to my mirrors list, and it'll get whatever packages

Re: Sudden memory usage.

2000-03-24 Thread ktb
Maybe ps aux would use less memory than Top -- I don't really know just a thought. My other thought is Netscape. I've had a similar situation happen while using the browser. Not much to go on here. hth, kent - Original Message - From: Levi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, March

Re: Routing

2000-03-24 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> Behind the debian box is a small network with 15 pcs running different OSes > > How can setup routing and forward rules to go to the outside world with > eth0 ip adress > (i know that it is ip-masquerading and ip-forwarding but i have > troubles and maybe want somebody to tell me

Routing

2000-03-24 Thread Denis J. Cirulis
Hello ! I hav such a situation : radio link backbone connected to my Debian box with two NICs eth0 is radio link card with the real ip adress eth1 is 3com509 with ip adress of 10.0.0.1 Behind the debian box is a small network with 15 pcs running different OSes

Re: Oh no, not another AWE64 question

2000-03-24 Thread Frank Barknecht
brian moore hat gesagt: // brian moore wrote: > > So my next step was to try ALSA drivers.. I've successfully installed > > these before when I ran slackware. I believed I followed the instructions > > accurately.. anyhow, here is some info.. > > No idea.. I see no reason to use ALSA with this ca

Re: Oh no, not another AWE64 question

2000-03-24 Thread Frank Barknecht
brian moore hat gesagt: // brian moore wrote: > > So my next step was to try ALSA drivers.. I've successfully installed > > these before when I ran slackware. I believed I followed the instructions > > accurately.. anyhow, here is some info.. > > No idea.. I see no reason to use ALSA with this ca

Re: Oh no, not another AWE64 question

2000-03-24 Thread Frank Barknecht
Charon hat gesagt: // Charon wrote: > So my next step was to try ALSA drivers.. Good. ALSA rocks! I am using an AWE64 with ALSA here, so maybe I can be of help. But first a question: What ALSA version are you using? Some things (module options etc.) changed between 0.4 and 0.5, so this is impo

Re: problem with dpkg

2000-03-24 Thread Ron Rademaker
Looks like some kind of perl module is missing, I ran dpkg -S Long.pm on my system and it said it was in perl-5.005. I suggest you download this package manually and install it manually with dpkg (dpkg -i ), if that doesn't work, try the force options in dpkg to install perl-5.005 (eg --force-depen

problem with dpkg

2000-03-24 Thread Lorincze, Tamas \(GEL,NonGE,MSX\)
In the middle of the installation process the dpkg-preconfigure utility gave an error message that it didn't find Getopt/Long.pm . When I checked I found out that not only this file, but the whole directory was missing. Do you know which package contains these? And why were these not installed wit

Re: smb2www config?

2000-03-24 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> after installing and successfully using smb2www (on Patato) without any > configuration, the company i work for changed the ip addresses. > Since then, i still can use smbclient to connect to these ... windoses, > but using smb2ww it is only possible now to connect to my own samba > server. Some

ppp-problem

2000-03-24 Thread Andzo
The ppp-daemon dies! Hello all, I have little ppp-problem here! When I launch wvdial it dials to ISP and starts ppp- daemon, but after few seconds wvdial gives message "pppd has died" or something like that and the connection hangs up and wvdial try's to redial. My /

suscribe

2000-03-24 Thread Anssi J. Alhonen
I wanna join!

Re:Re: esound, lesstif, debian issues

2000-03-24 Thread Lepus
Hello. > I didn't see your original post, however I've used the ALSA > sound drivers and Gnome no problem. Just a bit fiddly getting the driver > configure to work. Don't know about your Fractint and motif problem though > - sorry. Well, the problem isn't running or configuring the drive

Re: Looking for some online Linux graphics (ps, jpeg, src for gimp, etc).

2000-03-24 Thread Ioa Petra
I am not sure where you got your information about finding posters on the internet in jpeg format, but I think you are going to find that a rather difficult find. First of all you don't print posters from JPEG files. That format is strictly meant to be viewed onscreen. The type of optimization it u

Re: 2 networks

2000-03-24 Thread Paul Huygen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Allan M. Wind) wrote: >> I KNOW OF A PRODUCT ... > >All caps spam, it can't get much worse. I doubt whether the message Mr. Wind referred to was spam. It seems to me that it is an answer to a question that someboby asked one or two days before. The "all caps" might be just an a

Re: Bash, Keys, Potato

2000-03-24 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 06:17:21PM -0300, Rodrigo Castro wrote: > I started with no .inputrc, no /etc/profile, no /etc/inputrc > and even so I had problems with letter E (upcase only). Any idea? Even > with no setup, no config files, I get no success. I upgraded my > libreadline4 today and it

Looking for some online Linux graphics (ps, jpeg, src for gimp, etc).

2000-03-24 Thread Shaul Karl
My local LUG is setting up a booth in a trade show about Linux. Can you point me to some URLs from which we will be able to print posters to put on the walls of the booth? I was told to look for postscript files, jpeg, files that can be given to gimp and the like. We are looking for Linux related

Re: 2 networks

2000-03-24 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 2000-03-24 05:40:37, The_Phantom 74 wrote: > I KNOW OF A PRODUCT ... All caps spam, it can't get much worse. Btw, does anyone know of a list of know spammers with enough physical details to avoid buying anything from them - company name, domain name, phone number etc. I, for one, don't mind

Re: 2 networks

2000-03-24 Thread The_Phantom 74
I KNOW OF A PRODUCT THAT USES A LAZER (NEEDS LINE OF SIGHT) THAT CAN GO THE DISTANCE AND YOU CAN CHOSE 10 OR 10/100MB/S IF YOU ARE INTERESTED REPLY WITH SUBJECT LAZER AND I WILL DIG UP THE DETAILS FOR YOU... Original Message Follows From: Onno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: George Bonser <[E

Sudden memory usage.

2000-03-24 Thread Levi
Tonight, while running nothing out of the ordinary, there was a sudden increase in hard drive activity. Really suspicous, I hopped over to tty8 where I keep a copy of top running for just this sort of occasion. Top was set to display my usual luser account's procceses, so I couldn't see what was us

Re: glibc-compat ???

2000-03-24 Thread Steve Greenland
On 23-Mar-00, 18:08 (CST), Andor Dirner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Robert Varga wrote: > > > > The other one it breaks is Oracle 8.0, and one needs to convert Redhat > > compatibility libraries to be able install it, and a patch from Oracle. > > FWIW, I'm running Oracle 8

Re: Security_announce

2000-03-24 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Vail) wrote: >I have been trying to subscribe to the security_announce...and for some >reason it has not been letting me subscribe to the security_announce. I >tried like 3 or 4 times...is there something about the subscription >process for security_announce being broken or

.fmt files

2000-03-24 Thread Sridhar M.A.
Hi, I saw your message regarding the missing fmt files under slink. I too faced the same problem last week and it took me a day or two to relaize that this was the y2k problem. I have a slow connection and downloading the new updates is a problem. I got around the problem in this way. 1. Logged i

Re: resetting dselect

2000-03-24 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nick Barron) wrote: >- Original Message - >From: David Z. Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: >Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 7:55 PM >Subject: Re: resetting dselect > >> Beavis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Beavis> ok, well lets just say this: what if the packages are in t

Security_announce

2000-03-24 Thread Tim Vail
I have been trying to subscribe to the security_announce...and for some reason it has not been letting me subscribe to the security_announce. I tried like 3 or 4 times...is there something about the subscription process for security_announce being broken or something? In order to rule out the pos

Re: glibc-compat and upgrading from Slink to Potato using dselect's FTP method.

2000-03-24 Thread Taupter
Hello all I'm near from upgrading my Slink to Potato using dselect's FTP, but I'm afraid if it can drive my system _really_ bad (broken). I tried it six months ago, and the result was a reinstalling Slink from CDs. Did anyone try this way? Worked fine? Taupter

Re: Squid ACLs does not work

2000-03-24 Thread John Pearson
On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 11:13:42PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > Hi, > > I have some problems with squid and its ACLs. > > I'm using Debian 2.2 with Kernel 2.2.13 and squid 2.2STABLE5. > My ACL section in /etc/squid.conf looks like the following. > > acl all src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 > acl manager

X problem with rotated text?

2000-03-24 Thread Carl Fink
Just wondering: is there a known issue with rotated text in XFree86 3.3.6-6? I've been printing some name tents with WordPerfect 8, and everything worked normally until I had rotated text on the screen. Then suddenly XF86_SVGA (not xwp) was taking 90% of processor time, and the system slowed to

Re: files within library files

2000-03-24 Thread Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong
> "Mark" == Mark Bathie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hey all, > Is there some way I can find out... given a file how do I know > what library file contains this file > e.g. which library file/debain package would contain the file > "as86" > Is there a search page to

Re: files within library files

2000-03-24 Thread Andrei Ivanov
The search engine on Debian site (online packages), second query box, that allows to search for files within packages. I think its bin86, or smthg like that. Andrew > Is there some way I can find out... given a file how do I know what > library file contains this file > > e.g. which library file/

files within library files

2000-03-24 Thread Mark Bathie
Hey all, Is there some way I can find out... given a file how do I know what library file contains this file e.g. which library file/debain package would contain the file "as86" Is there a search page to cater for such a request ? cheers, mb  

Re: Which MTA to use?

2000-03-24 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Brooks R. Robinson, > I am looking at changing an in-house e-mail system from an ugly > combination of outsourced collection/forwarding and JSMail on an > NT server to linux. We have an ADSL line coming in, and I can > handle all of the DNS and network stuff through

trouble with ppp connection using pon

2000-03-24 Thread Lee Malatesta
I'm having trouble connecting to my internet provider with storm linux (rain which is slink). Neither the PAP and CHAP options of pppconfig will get pon to work correctly. I'm currently attempting to use the chat option with slightly better results. I can connect, but the connection times out wi

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