Re: FreeWWWeb

2000-04-06 Thread Kent West
Bart Friederichs wrote: > Hi, > > I signed up for FreeWWWeb, the registration went OK, my POP works, only I > cannot connect. I use [EMAIL PROTECTED] as my login and PAP > authentication. When I try to login, my /var/log/syslog says PAP > authentication failed. It requests my username and password

Re: ATAPI tape drives.

2000-04-06 Thread Ian Zimmerman
> "Edward" == Edward Mulholland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Edward> The linux hardward compatability HOWTO at Edward> http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO.html says the Edward> following about ATAPI tape drives: >> ATAPI tape drives For these an alpha driver (ide-tape.c) is >> availab

FreeWWWeb

2000-04-06 Thread Bart Friederichs
Hi, I signed up for FreeWWWeb, the registration went OK, my POP works, only I cannot connect. I use [EMAIL PROTECTED] as my login and PAP authentication. When I try to login, my /var/log/syslog says PAP authentication failed. It requests my username and password OK (password is plain text in syslo

Re: installing two NIC's

2000-04-06 Thread Beavis
i infact tried that and got after dmesg: eepro100-drivers eth0: Intel EtherExpressyada.yada irq 9 receiver-blaha General self test Serial Sub-system test Internel registers passed then tulip.c: drivers eth1: Lito-OnMac ADress irq 5 but no tests. w

Re: Somebody using MuPAD on Debian potato/woody?

2000-04-06 Thread Michael A. Miller
> "Julian" == Julian Stoev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there somebody using 1.4.2 version of MuPAD > (www.mupad.de) on debian Potato/Woody. I have used mupad on a Debian 2.2 (frozen potato) system. I needed to install xviewg (version 3.2p1.4-9) before it would run. Mike -- M

Re: Creative SB Live! 1024

2000-04-06 Thread sam
You didn't compile sound support into the kernel did you? Also, this kernel doesn't work if you are using a kernel with SMP enabled. For the driver to work sound support has to be compiled as a module (soudcore.o) and SMP has to be disabled. ~Sam On 6 Apr 2000, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: > sam <[E

Re: ln -s /usr/doc /home/doc

2000-04-06 Thread Debian Mail
> Is it me or do you have this command the wrong way round. I would have > thought that > you wanted: > > ln -s /usr/doc /home/doc Yes, of course! > I hope this fixes things for you... No, since I obviously made it the way you suggest, and then I got the problems I mentioned. Stef

ftp / ip_masq_ftp

2000-04-06 Thread zdrysdal
HI i am still having problems ftp'ing behind a slink masquariding firewall. I have added the module ip_masq_ftp to the kernel but that doesn't appear to have resolved anything... Do I still need a proxy?? or shall i use squid to proxy being that it is in the DMZ? Any help would be great. Zane

Re: Creative SB Live! 1024

2000-04-06 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Go to this site and download the source for the sblive kernel module > (emu10k1) http://opensource.creative.com/ > > Once that is compiled, cp it to /lib/modules/kernelversion#here/misc/ Thanks, but compiling fails with: "Please run make dep in your kernel sou

Re: Wordperfect for Linux

2000-04-06 Thread Tony Crawford
Sandy Shapiro wrote (on 6 Apr 00, at 9:31): > I have Debian 2.1 (Slink). > > I downloaded Wordperfect 8 for Linux (guilg00.gz). > > During the install I get numerous error messages. It seems to be looking > for subdirectories that don't exist on my system, and the program won't > run. > > Will

Re: Installing StarOffice 5.1 from CD

2000-04-06 Thread sgaerner
I had the same problem. A quick & dirty method may be to copy this directory to the harddisk. Then run ./setup. A good idea will be to run ./setup /net to install the binaries in one dir and just about 4 MB in your home-directory. Sven On 06-Apr-2000 John Stevenson wrote: > The file is executabl

config problems

2000-04-06 Thread björn
Hi! Can anyone please help me? I have installed Debian and then configured X with xf86config, after booting I'm greeted with the screen "debian Linux login" but only 1/4 is seen. I can manage to login but on the following screen (desktop) I can't do anything, all the keyes beeps and I get no reacti

installing packages on Mac IIci

2000-04-06 Thread Joshua Holland
I'm very new to Debian and Linux. I got Debian running fine on my Mac IIci. I downloaded the Debian base system install files, but I don't want to install packages by download (my IIci is not connected to net yet and this seems slow anyway). Will I be able to configure Debian to recognize my

Re: Debian kernel & VMware

2000-04-06 Thread Adam Shand
> May be there are some parameters I _must_ turn on in the kernel to run > VMware? or may be I must install respective kernel-headers package? you need to have the real time clock enabled. other then that i don't think there is anything that is required (the default debian kernel used to provide

Re: new computer ??

2000-04-06 Thread Lee Elliott
Hello Hunter, On 06-Apr-00, you wrote: HHM> I'm considering a new computer. I was considering 2, but maybe I'll HHM> turn my 100MHZ pentium into a dedicated browser for family needs. HHM> HHM> ANYhoo, does anyone have good/bad experiences with any of the linux HHM> hardware vedors, VALinux, etc?

Mutt questions (Was: Looking for a good mail program)

2000-04-06 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Brendan Cully wrote: > you want mutt! > [...] > (I'm biased, since I've written most of the new IMAP code). Okay, so you're obviously a Mutt user/developer, and thus the perfect guy for me to address my questions to: I recently switched my working environment from Windows to Debian only and I'v

problem installing user crontabs

2000-04-06 Thread Pollywog
I am trying to install a crontab (ordinary user) and although the user is in /etc/cron.allow, I get this when I try to save the crontab. crontab: installing new crontab "/tmp/crontab.heKnVf":0: bad command errors in crontab file, can't install. I am using the 'crontab -e' ' command, btw, on

Re: Debian kernel & VMware

2000-04-06 Thread Alexander Zhuckov
Andy Roosen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I had the same problem until I compiled with the parallel port as a > module (I usually compile everything into the kernel). There's a note > somewhere on the VMware install site that implied a parallel module > was required. I compiled paralled port as m

RE: new computer ??

2000-04-06 Thread Bart Szyszka
> > Doesn't VALinux sell their machines with Debian on them? > They did a year or more ago but not anymore. They went to Red Hat only and > then to their own RPM based distro. Why are they still advertising Debian on their site, then? -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 GigaBee Inter

xdm does not start anymore - Impossible parser error

2000-04-06 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Hi Debians! I have a strange problem since yesterday. xdm does not start anymore. When I boot the system, xdm dies with this errormessage: Checking for valid XFree86 server configuration.../usr/sbin/parse-xf86config:D:35: Impossible parser error. Please contact the maintainer of this program.

Re: SGML WYSIWYG editors?

2000-04-06 Thread David Z. Maze
John Conover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JC> Are there any? Definitionally, no. (Consider, for example, the differences between viewing HTML documents in Netscape and under Lynx.) I like to use psgml-mode in XEmacs to edit my SGML (DocBook, HTML). YMMV. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECT

Samba not rotating filled logs

2000-04-06 Thread Eric Boyer
I seem to have a problem with logging in samba (2.0.6-5, the latest in potato). Recently, it seems that it won't rotate the log file (/var/log/smb) when it hits the size limit specified in the smb.conf file--it gives an logfile open error (see below), and starts spewing the log entries to the

Re: licq in unstable

2000-04-06 Thread james nigh
i just had to do a re-install (potato) yesterday, and i installed licq without a hitch (via Apt) james - Original Message - From: "Shao Zhang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian Mailing List" Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 6:20 AM Subject: licq in unstable > Hi, > Just wondering what happ

Re: Wordperfect for Linux

2000-04-06 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 09:31, Sandy Shapiro wrote: > I have Debian 2.1 (Slink). > > I downloaded Wordperfect 8 for Linux (guilg00.gz). > > During the install I get numerous error messages. It seems to be looking > for subdirectories that don't exist on my system, and the program won't > run. >

Re: text editor for the rest of us

2000-04-06 Thread Bruce Sass
On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Chris Mason wrote: > I need a text editor I can use in a telnet session that doesn't require a > Unix course to operate. I liked Pico OK but it's not included on my system, > nor on the Debian site. Any suggestions? You can find pine, pico and pilot .debs for Potato at:

Re: fetchmail/exim losing messages when downloading

2000-04-06 Thread Gary Hennigan
David Karlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > Occasionally fetchmail/exim drops incoming mail being fetched from > my pop3 box. > > This morning, fetchmail informed me that 32 messages were being down- > loaded, but when I opened my mailbox with mutt, there were only ten > new ones in there.

Re: ln -s /usr/doc /home/doc

2000-04-06 Thread John Stevenson
Is it me or do you have this command the wrong way round. I would have thought that you wanted: ln -s /usr/doc /home/doc I hope this fixes things for you... Johhny Debian Mail wrote: > I moved /usr/doc to /home/doc, since I have more space on the > partition that is mounted on /home. Then I c

Re: fetchmail/exim losing messages when downloading

2000-04-06 Thread tsuess
Did you run the mailq command and check if any were being held for later delivery? I think the default nature of Exim is to download 10 messages and a time, try checking /etc/exim.conf and see if that is still set to default. I had to up mine to like 200 so mail would not back up. Regards, Todd

Re: fetchmail/exim losing messages when downloading

2000-04-06 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> Hello, > Occasionally fetchmail/exim drops incoming mail being fetched from > my pop3 box. > > This morning, fetchmail informed me that 32 messages were being down- > loaded, but when I opened my mailbox with mutt, there were only ten > new ones in there. > > Anyone else experienced this? > th

Re: Debian kernel & VMware

2000-04-06 Thread Andy Roosen
I had the same problem until I compiled with the parallel port as a module (I usually compile everything into the kernel). There's a note somewhere on the VMware install site that implied a parallel module was required. Cheers, Andy On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 12:52:48PM +0400, Alexander Zhuckov wrot

Re: applix in menu?

2000-04-06 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Ron Farrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to put an entry in /usr/lib/menu for applixware, but it > doesn't ever show up. Yes I remember to do 'update-menus'. I'm running This one is working here: ?package(axbase):command="/usr/local/bin/applix" icon="none" \ needs="X11" section="Apps/

Re: how to email distribution lists...?

2000-04-06 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Jeff Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What's the normal/usual method for sending one email to 100 folks who > are not local users of the system? Is this commonly handled by a mail > reader program or by a separate program on the system? Have a look at bulkmail: Package: bulkmail Version: 1.

Wordperfect for Linux

2000-04-06 Thread Sandy Shapiro
I have Debian 2.1 (Slink). I downloaded Wordperfect 8 for Linux (guilg00.gz). During the install I get numerous error messages. It seems to be looking for subdirectories that don't exist on my system, and the program won't run. Will Wordperfect only work on the Corel Linux, or is there a way to

Re: Debian kernel & VMware

2000-04-06 Thread Alexander Zhuckov
Jean Pierre LeJacq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > > > When I build kernel from sources (using kernel-package) > > > vmware completely hangs my box (I must use reset button). > > > > > just an idea: vmware builds its own kernel modules. if you chan

SMM++

2000-04-06 Thread Maurizio Boriani
Hi to all, I read on http://smm.mudcenter.com/ which there is a debian package of this software but on debian official site (package section) i can't find it. There is anyone that know where I can dawnload it? Thank you in advance -- Maurizio Boriani General Services (Systemist) 20138

ln -s /usr/doc /home/doc

2000-04-06 Thread Debian Mail
I moved /usr/doc to /home/doc, since I have more space on the partition that is mounted on /home. Then I created a softlink to it: ln -s /home/doc /usr/doc The problem is now, that some packages (r-base 1.0.0-1 is an example) store documentation in different locations, and refer to it with softli

Re: lprng / network printers

2000-04-06 Thread Ramin Motakef
Harry ten Berge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > We have installed a new server (Debian 2.1) with a couple of network > printers attached. when there's a lot of jobs for one printer the lpr > command replies with "...connection refused". We've left the > '/etc/lpd.conf' to its original state

fetchmail/exim losing messages when downloading

2000-04-06 Thread David Karlin
Hello, Occasionally fetchmail/exim drops incoming mail being fetched from my pop3 box. This morning, fetchmail informed me that 32 messages were being down- loaded, but when I opened my mailbox with mutt, there were only ten new ones in there. Anyone else experienced this? Please CC me when resp

Diamond HomeFree phoneline 10 Mbps PCI and Linux?

2000-04-06 Thread J. Hartzelbuck
Friends, A friend wants to put the Diamond HomeFree phoneline 10 Mbps PCI network in his computers at home. Doesn't want to run cable for ethernet. I think there is a chance he will want to try Linux and wonder if his network will work. Anybody know? Know where to find out? Are there any other ch

Re: Can't find libz1

2000-04-06 Thread Colin Watson
Debian Mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >zlib-bin wants libz1: > > zlib-bin depends on libz1; however: > Package libz1 is not installed. > >But I can't find libz1 in any of the distributins... It's a virtual package, so look at the Provides: field: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ grep-available -FProvides

Re: text editor for the rest of us

2000-04-06 Thread Colin Watson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I need a text editor I can use in a telnet session that doesn't require >a Unix course to operate. I liked Pico OK but it's not included on my >system, nor on the Debian site. Any suggestions? You might like nano, which is a free (GPLed) replacement for pico; it's inclu

Re: text editor for the rest of us

2000-04-06 Thread Julian Stoev
On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 10:26:54AM -0400, Chris Mason wrote: |I need a text editor I can use in a telnet session that doesn't require a Unix course to operate. I liked Pico OK but it's not included on my system, nor on the Debian site. Any suggestions? Pico can be rebuilt from pine396-src But th

Re: Installing StarOffice 5.1 from CD

2000-04-06 Thread John Stevenson
The file is executable by all users and I do not have noexec opions on the CD. I have set the umask to 222. I sill get the same problem and after reading through the readme on the CD it seems that there is a problem with glibc libraries. It looks like star office needs to have a specific version

Re: netscape6 mirrors?

2000-04-06 Thread Christian Hammers
On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 04:45:44PM +0200, Hans wrote: > Anybody knows if there are mirrors of netscape 6. 10 Megs at .6 k/sec from > the ftp site from Netscape is just too slow for me. --hans sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de bye, -christian- -- Linux - the choice of the GNU generatio

Re: Debian kernel & VMware

2000-04-06 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > When I build kernel from sources (using kernel-package) > > vmware completely hangs my box (I must use reset button). > > > just an idea: vmware builds its own kernel modules. if you change the > kernel, you might need to re-run vmware-config.pl

netscape6 mirrors?

2000-04-06 Thread Hans
Anybody knows if there are mirrors of netscape 6. 10 Megs at .6 k/sec from the ftp site from Netscape is just too slow for me. --hans

text editor for the rest of us

2000-04-06 Thread Chris Mason
I need a text editor I can use in a telnet session that doesn't require a Unix course to operate. I liked Pico OK but it's not included on my system, nor on the Debian site. Any suggestions? Chris Mason Box 340, The Valley, Anguilla, British West Indies Tel: 264 497 5670 Fax: 264 497 8463 USA Fa

Can't find libz1

2000-04-06 Thread Debian Mail
zlib-bin wants libz1: zlib-bin depends on libz1; however: Package libz1 is not installed. But I can't find libz1 in any of the distributins... Stef

Re: netscape6 anyone?

2000-04-06 Thread Brian J. Stults
I have it running on woody. I also started it from within the directory in which I unpacked it. Symbolic links won't work, you have to run it from that directory. I didn't have to change anything at all, but I had been running M14 of mozilla, and I assume it requires mostly the same libraries.

Re: Installing StarOffice 5.1 from CD

2000-04-06 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> I am trying to install StarOffice 5.1 from the official sun > CD onto a debian potato system. However when I try the set > up program from inside the /cdrom/linux/office51 directory, > I get the following error: > > # ./setup > bash: ./setup: Permission denied > the file has probably no execu

Re: share

2000-04-06 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> How do I set up a windows share of a directory from the console? I have > telenetted into a box that has no keyboard but I don't know how to do it. > edit /etc/smb.conf (or however it is called on debian). "man samba" for more info -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signatur

Installing StarOffice 5.1 from CD

2000-04-06 Thread John Stevenson
Hello, I am trying to install StarOffice 5.1 from the official sun CD onto a debian potato system. However when I try the set up program from inside the /cdrom/linux/office51 directory, I get the following error: # ./setup bash: ./setup: Permission denied I have tried this both as root and as a

share

2000-04-06 Thread Chris Mason
How do I set up a windows share of a directory from the console? I have telenetted into a box that has no keyboard but I don't know how to do it. Chris Mason Box 340, The Valley, Anguilla, British West Indies Tel: 264 497 5670 Fax: 264 497 8463 USA Fax (561) 382-7771 Take a virtual tour of the i

Re: END Key in Emacs (only in Xterm)

2000-04-06 Thread Kirk Hilliard
[ The END key no longer works in "emacs -nw" in an xterm. ] Rodrigo Castro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The problem, in my opinion, comes when it reads xterm.elc and this > file doesn't assign correctly. That's it. The problem is with the xterm.el (and xterm.elc) files of all four flavors of e

Re: Oops. New kernel will not come up

2000-04-06 Thread Timothy C. Phan
Hi Eric, How do I do "dkpkg -i old k-i" if the system would not come up at all? "eric k. wolven" wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Tim: > > It may be a "buggy" kernel. dpkg -i old kernel-image (the one that works). > Try downloading the k.-s.-2.2.14-4 and configuring fro

licq in unstable

2000-04-06 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, Just wondering what happened to licq in unstable... apt can no longer install it... Shao -- Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _ Department of Communications/ __| |_ __ _ __

Re: netscape6 anyone?

2000-04-06 Thread Gary Hennigan
John Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have netscape6 (mozilla in netscapes clothing...) running fine on > my potato install. I ran it as root first (a bit risky but its not > an important system) and it complained about missing library: > > libstdc++ > > So I checked thorugh dselec

Re: netscape6 anyone?

2000-04-06 Thread John Stevenson
I have netscape6 (mozilla in netscapes clothing...) running fine on my potato install. I ran it as root first (a bit risky but its not an important system) and it complained about missing library: libstdc++ So I checked thorugh dselect and noticed some old versions of this library. Once

Re: Is there a ssh daemon anywhere in frozen?

2000-04-06 Thread Philipp Letschert
Christian Pernegger wrote: > > I found various ssh/ssh-related packages in non-us, but the description > doesn't indicate if they contain only a client or a client and server... > > At first I thought the server was not included at all but then I observed > some ssh posts on this list - what do y

Is there a ssh daemon anywhere in frozen?

2000-04-06 Thread Christian Pernegger
I found various ssh/ssh-related packages in non-us, but the description doesn't indicate if they contain only a client or a client and server... At first I thought the server was not included at all but then I observed some ssh posts on this list - what do you use? Christian smime.p7s Descript

xterm locking up X

2000-04-06 Thread spectral
I recently installed the frozen debian, and noticed something weird. I run Xfree 3.3.6 and have a S3 Virge using the SVGA server. xterm locks X when i list a dir with many files in it or if there is much output to the window. It locks up for about 5-10 seconds and comes back. in Eterm everything w

RE: installing two NIC's

2000-04-06 Thread Chris Mason
I found that the easiest thing was to run dmesg and see if the OS tried to load the modules for the cards. You may have loaded both cards but you haven't setup ifconfig for eth1. Look at dmesg. Chris Mason Box 340, The Valley, Anguilla, British West Indies Tel: 264 497 5670 Fax: 264 497 8463 US

Re: END Key in Emacs (only in Xterm)

2000-04-06 Thread Rodrigo Castro
Hello, On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 11:21:57AM +0200, Michel LESPINASSE wrote: > On 5 Apr 2000, Kirk Hilliard wrote: > > > infocmp must not be telling the whole story. > > > The END key does not work in "emacs20 -nw" in an xterm with > > "TERM=xterm", but it does work with "TERM=xterms" and > > "info

netscape6 anyone?

2000-04-06 Thread Christian Hammers
Hello Did anybody get the new netscape6-beta working on a Debian potato/woody system? (here it silently ends without giving more information) ... WEBSHELL+ = 1 I am inside the initialize Hey : You are in QFA Startup (QFA)Talkback loaded Ok. WEBSHELL+ = 2 assuming d&d is off for Naviga

Re: SGML WYSIWYG editors?

2000-04-06 Thread Bruce Sass
I haven't heard of any... but you could try Lyx, it will convert its latex output to sgml if you have sgml-tools installed. Docbook, linuxdoc article and linuxdoc manpage are directly supported (with the version in Potato anyways), you may be able to get other dtds to work if you put your mind to

lprng / network printers

2000-04-06 Thread Harry ten Berge
Hi, We have installed a new server (Debian 2.1) with a couple of network printers attached. when there's a lot of jobs for one printer the lpr command replies with "...connection refused". We've left the '/etc/lpd.conf' to its original state. Anyone an idea of what the problem might be? -- Me

debian-user@lists.debian.org

2000-04-06 Thread Nikos Voutsinas
Hello, to all of you What I have understand is that thereis a little problem with terminfo, that's why some OS could not recognize /033 and /007.The solution is probably using the (Crtl-V then press Esc) instead of /033 and (Crt-V then Ctrl-G) instead of /007, at least it works for me In m

Re: END Key in Emacs (only in Xterm)

2000-04-06 Thread Michel LESPINASSE
On 5 Apr 2000, Kirk Hilliard wrote: > infocmp must not be telling the whole story. > The END key does not work in "emacs20 -nw" in an xterm with > "TERM=xterm", but it does work with "TERM=xterms" and > "infocmp xterm xterms" returns no differences at all. I'm not even sure that [x]emacs looks a

SGML WYSIWYG editors?

2000-04-06 Thread John Conover
Are there any? Thanks, John -- John Conover[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.johncon.com/ 631 Lamont Ct. Tel. 408.370.2688 http://www.johncon.com/ntropix/ Campbell, CA 95008 Fax. 408.379.9602 http://www.johncon.com/nformatix/

Re: Debian kernel & VMware

2000-04-06 Thread Alexander Zhuckov
Oswald Buddenhagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > When I build kernel from sources (using kernel-package) > > vmware completely hangs my box (I must use reset button). > > > just an idea: vmware builds its own kernel modules. if you change the > kernel, you might need to re-run vmware-config.pl

/etc/init.d/hwclock.sh behaviour

2000-04-06 Thread Dennis van Dok
   hi, from the documentation of util-linux (in frozen) I got the advice not to use the hwclock --adjust feature, as it is potentially dangerous (if some other program messes with the CMOS clock). My question is: what alternatives do I have? I don't have a network connection on my home box. I

Re: Debian kernel & VMware

2000-04-06 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> When I build kernel from sources (using kernel-package) > vmware completely hangs my box (I must use reset button). > just an idea: vmware builds its own kernel modules. if you change the kernel, you might need to re-run vmware-config.pl -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.sign

Re: ssh unable to listen to port

2000-04-06 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> [...] > The previous copy of ssh is no longer running, so the port should > be free. How can I find out what is preventing ssh from listening > to the port? > this is kind of a weird idea, but you might "telnet localhost 119" to see, who listens. A bit more "professional" is the use of socklist

Debian kernel & VMware

2000-04-06 Thread Alexander Zhuckov
Hi All! When I use standard kernel image (say 2.2.14-2) from potato then vmware loads and works fine. But with standard kernel image and modules I can't see long names on Netware and use frame buffer (no fb for mach64 module). When I build kernel from sources (using kernel-package) vmware complet

Re: newbie questions - kill and lpd

2000-04-06 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> Hi All. Two newbie questions. First - I've just had netscape crash and > kill -9 pid failed to work. I got a netscape zombie according to top. > Any suggestions about what to do now? This indicates, that the parent process of netscape is hanging or something. Don't care much about it: zombies tak

Somebody using MuPAD on Debian potato/woody?

2000-04-06 Thread Julian Stoev
Hi! Is there somebody using 1.4.2 version of MuPAD (www.mupad.de) on debian Potato/Woody. The glibc2.1 version from their ftp is very strange. Xmupad works only when I start it under olvwm AND only if it is not started from Eterm. Not on Windowmaker or Enlightenment in any way!!! :-| This

Order of installation - potato/pcmcia

2000-04-06 Thread Tony Crawford
Hi gang! What am I doing wrong? I copied linux, install.bat, base2_2.tgz, driver2_2.tgz, loadlin.exe etc. etc. to a DOS partition on my Toshiba 4080 XCDT, then booted from a DOS floppy and ran install.bat. The installation looks great (congratulations, team!) up to "reboot the system": the boo

Re: Problem with list... (fwd)

2000-04-06 Thread Vitux
> I can't seem to post messages to this list regardless of what address I > send to. Is there anything anyone can suggest? I'm wondering if it > rejects my messages because my "pop account" includes "mail." before the > domain name in eudora. Sorry, no idea on this one. ;-) > >From: Jordan <[EM

newbie questions - kill and lpd

2000-04-06 Thread Abdul Aziz
Hi All. Two newbie questions. First - I've just had netscape crash and kill -9 pid failed to work. I got a netscape zombie according to top. Any suggestions about what to do now? Second - I get messages about lp1 being out of paper - I have no printer attached at the moment. I've killed the lpd dae

Re: Unknown problem connecting

2000-04-06 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Kent West wrote: > "J. Hartzelbuck" wrote: > > > > Hello friends, > > > > Using Debian, I've installed wvdial and can connect very nicely, but > > commands issued don't do anything! Ping doesn't respond, lynx doesn't > > respond. I'm new to all this, so don't know where I mig

Re: installing two NIC's

2000-04-06 Thread Robert Waldner
On Wed, 05 Apr 2000 18:23:05 PDT, aphro writes: >im thinking its a driver thing, outdated driver or the wrong driver, i >dont have experience using the ne2k pci cards so i can't really advice >further along that path :( look at ´cat /proc/pci´, sometimes the used chipset is reported in the identif

Re: installing two NIC's

2000-04-06 Thread Robert Waldner
On Wed, 05 Apr 2000 16:04:54 PDT, Nick Barron writes: >now they are seperated, but i still can't seem to figure out how to >initialize >eth1 > >i think i might be trying to load module on top of module >loading eth0 instead of eth1 >how is this done effectively? you can look at the currently loade

Re: configuring a base system

2000-04-06 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
Once upon a time, I heard Phil Howard say > > it. REMOVE it or RENAME it. then boot as usual, you might need to edit some > > files in /etc by hand since you start unpack it manually :) > > Since there is no documentation covering this, I need to find out just what > things Debian might need to h

Re: make-kpkg

2000-04-06 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Antonio Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > To use the make-kpkg (kernel-package) it is said that must be used > in a top linux source directory. What exactly does it mean? An > empty directory with only some file such as > kernel-source-2.2.14_2.2.14-4_all.deb? I want to make my own > kern

Re: XF86Setup

2000-04-06 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
Once upon a time, I heard Steve White say > Greetings, > > I have an ATI Rage 128 XPERT 2000 video card and the XF86Setup program does > not seem to be able to start x after I finish the configuration. It says it > is attempting to, then the screen goes dark and stays that way until reboot. >

Re: XF86Setup

2000-04-06 Thread Kent West
> Steve White wrote: > > Greetings, > > I have an ATI Rage 128 XPERT 2000 video card and the XF86Setup program > does not seem to be able to start x after I finish the configuration. > It says it is attempting to, then the screen goes dark and stays that > way until reboot. Any suggestions? > >

Re: Mail: Netscape and double-trouble

2000-04-06 Thread Ross Boylan
Thank you. I can't believe I missed that; somehow I thought Communicator was an earlier generation. I guess I can't install just the add on parts... The Wall St Journal reported today that Netscape had released Navigator 6--actually a beta according to NS's site, which includes a Linux versio

XF86Setup

2000-04-06 Thread Steve White
Greetings,   I have an ATI Rage 128 XPERT 2000 video card and the XF86Setup program does not seem to be able to start x after I finish the configuration. It says it is attempting to, then the screen goes dark and stays that way until reboot. Any suggestions?   Best Regards, Steve    

Re: Unknown problem connecting

2000-04-06 Thread Kent West
"J. Hartzelbuck" wrote: > > Hello friends, > > Using Debian, I've installed wvdial and can connect very nicely, but > commands issued don't do anything! Ping doesn't respond, lynx doesn't > respond. I'm new to all this, so don't know where I might be going > wrong. Can anyone give any pointers? >

Re: Mail: Netscape and double-trouble

2000-04-06 Thread Kent West
Ross Boylan wrote: > > I'm using potato, and just discovered the first mail clients I tried (mutt > and balsa) don't provide any filtering. So I figured I'd try netscape's mail. > > My netscape (4.72) doesn't have any mail that I can see, and I couldn't > find a package which seemed to include i

Re: configuring a base system

2000-04-06 Thread Phil Howard
Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote: > --H+4ONPRPur6+Ovig > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > If you mean that you untar base2_2.tgz into one partiontion, then try to bo= > ot > it. Oh la la, in sbin directorry, you shou

Re: new computer ??

2000-04-06 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
Once upon a time, I heard George Bonser say > It is hard to find Debian pre-installed. I know Dell will not sell certain > hardware configurations with Linux (Red Hat only). VALinux sells their own > version based on Red Hat. I'm sure that you could request Debian on VA box! Also from other vendor

Re: Round Robin

2000-04-06 Thread John Pearson
On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 10:29:30PM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote > On Wed, 05 Apr 2000 17:38:18 +0200, "Neil D. Roberts" writes: > >www.domain.com is 192.168.1.1 or 192.168.1.2 or 192.168.1.3 in order to > >have all 100 people get different responses > > > >I have no idea, to create three A recor

Re: make-kpkg

2000-04-06 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
Let's say you have unpack linux sounce in /usr/src/linux then try this #cd /usr/src/linux #make config|menuconfig|xconfig #[fakeroot|sudo|else] make-kpkg kernel_image You should have kernel-image-?? in /usr/src, try that out ! bye, Chanop Once upon a time, I heard Antonio Rodriguez say > T

Re: Install with dpkg only.

2000-04-06 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
Once upon a time, I heard Gary Hennigan say > I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but if I were in this > situation I'd try to just "tar xzf base2_2.tgz" with base2_2.tgz being > available in main/disks-i386/current. That contains a complete base > install of Debian and I don't think th

RE: new computer ??

2000-04-06 Thread Bart Szyszka
> It is hard to find Debian pre-installed. I know Dell will not sell certain > hardware configurations with Linux (Red Hat only). VALinux sells their own > version based on Red Hat. Doesn't VALinux sell their machines with Debian on them? -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 GigaBee In

Re: Frame Buffer Modes - 2nd post

2000-04-06 Thread Ashley Clark
* Kevin Traas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Ashley Clark wrote: > > Depends (I think), if you are using the vesafb then you are stuck with > > whatever mode you choose at boot-up, if you are using one of the other > > framebuffer drivers I *think* it is just a matter of picking the right > > mode nu

make-kpkg

2000-04-06 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
To use the make-kpkg (kernel-package) it is said that must be used in a top linux source directory. What exactly does it mean? An empty directory with only some file such as kernel-source-2.2.14_2.2.14-4_all.deb? I want to make my own kernel. Thanks, AR (not too newby, but not too good at this eith

Re: new computer ??

2000-04-06 Thread aphro
there are and always will be issues. as always stick to standard hardware for best results. avoid win* stuff(modems especially), most oem systems should be mostly compadible with exception of the modem 90% or so ship with a winmodem as standard, most usually have a hardware modem as an option tho

Re: Help with 3com905 card

2000-04-06 Thread aphro
i believe the driver is outdated i had to update my driver. you can get an updated driver from: http://support.3com.com/infodeli/tools/nic/linux.htm or http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html i use the one from www.3com.com and it works great on my 3c905Cs nate On Wed, 5 Apr 20

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