Re: Help: Netgear or Linksys NIC's? Please?

2000-05-21 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, May 21, 2000 at 07:42:46PM -0600, montefin wrote: > > 1.) Netgear's FA310TX 10/100 PCI RJ45 NIC NIC i have one of these, its now sitting in the closet. the thing has been horridly flaky, when it stops working it takes several ifconfig up/down to get it going again -- if i was lucky. mos

Re: My HD's never spin down...

2000-05-21 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
the disk will only spin down if nothing is reading/writing to it, run procinfo to check read/writes, and see if it is increasing when the drive spins up, chances are there are programs that need the disk so the disk spins back up. i always keep my drives spun up 100% of the time, back in '95 i los

isapnp.conf

2000-05-21 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, I'm trying to get my ethernet NE2000 clone to work in linux. The HOWTO said to read up about isapnptools, so I started looking at the README.debian, and it has someone's config file here. Anyways, I can't make any sense of it. It says: # EDI0119 Serial No 2368613654 [checksum 13] # ANSI

My HD's never spin down...

2000-05-21 Thread Högman
Well, I guess that the subject says it all. My primary rootdisc, /dev/hda, goes on and on. Quite frankly, the noise is getting to me. Is there any way to silence it? Running on a Woody system, XFree 3.3.6, Kernel 2.2.14 I also tried running hdparm -Y /dev/hda : result - the drive spun down, just

My HD's never spin down...

2000-05-21 Thread Högman
Well, I guess that the subject says it all. My primary rootdisc, /dev/hda, goes on and on. Quite frankly, the noise is getting to me. Is there any way to silence it? Running on a Woody system, XFree 3.3.6, Kernel 2.2.14 I also tried running hdparm -Y /dev/hda : result - the drive spun down, just

Re: Help: Netgear or Linksys NIC's? Please?

2000-05-21 Thread montefin
Didi Damian wrote: > > * montefin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [21-05-2000 07:42 PM -0600] > > I'm having an SDSL connection installed the first week of June. I will > > need to have network cards in both my computers. I am told the installer > > will take care of the rest while installing a Flowpoint 220

Re: Debian vs Red Hat??? I need info.

2000-05-21 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 11:22:47AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: > > agreed, the plain text db is the right way to do it. > > OTOH, it would be nice if dpkg did what apt does and uses a binary db > "cache" to speed up operations...updating both binary and text versions > as changes are made. > > t

Re: Help: Netgear or Linksys NIC's? Please?

2000-05-21 Thread montefin
Wow you guys are great -- and fast! Ray Olszewski wrote [in part]: > > At 07:42 PM 5/21/00 -0600, montefin wrote [in part]: > ... > >I'm having an SDSL connection installed the first week of June. I will > >need to have network cards in both my computers. I am told the installer > >will take car

Re[2]: exim mail routing...

2000-05-21 Thread Gregory Guthrie
I'm (still) having some exim setup problems.. I have three machines in this test; alpha (Debian host), a local smtp server (cserv), and my PC (windows). Mail from alpha to pc works fine; all gets routed to the smarthost (=cserv). This is "direct" named mail to myself, but an aliased email (to

Re: Netgear or Linksys NIC's? Please?

2000-05-21 Thread Ron Stordahl
: : 2.) Linksys's ETHERFAST FAST ENET PCI 10/100 MBS 10/100BTX RJ45 PNP : : The Linksys works perfectly. Uses the tulip driver. And you can get these cards for $15-$20 Ron

kppp and pppconfig don't play nicely together

2000-05-21 Thread walt
Earlier today I posted about a problem with kppp and potato. I finally figured it out once I got logging to work. The problem really had nothing to do with the upgrade itself. The problem was that I used pppconfig for the first time ever, and I used it to define an account with exactly the same n

Re: Help: Netgear or Linksys NIC's? Please?

2000-05-21 Thread Didi Damian
* montefin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [21-05-2000 07:42 PM -0600] > Hi, > > I just told a friend who bounced off Debian that the > _one_outstanding_factor_ in my having made it so far in Debian was > _this_list_. With that guilt trip firmly implanted ;) here's my > question: > > I'm having an SDSL conn

Re: exim mail routing...

2000-05-21 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, May 21, 2000 at 07:31:06PM -0500, Gregory Guthrie wrote: > At 11:29 PM 05/21/2000 +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > >nobody said, it that there must be so many places for > >documentation - it simply has "grown" historically into this situation. > >and even that is not that bad. man, info

Re: Help: Netgear or Linksys NIC's? Please?

2000-05-21 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 07:42 PM 5/21/00 -0600, montefin wrote [in part]: ... >I'm having an SDSL connection installed the first week of June. I will >need to have network cards in both my computers. I am told the installer >will take care of the rest while installing a Flowpoint 2200 DSL Router. Did whoever told you

Help: Netgear or Linksys NIC's? Please?

2000-05-21 Thread montefin
Hi, I just told a friend who bounced off Debian that the _one_outstanding_factor_ in my having made it so far in Debian was _this_list_. With that guilt trip firmly implanted ;) here's my question: I'm having an SDSL connection installed the first week of June. I will need to have network cards i

BIND deb: no h2n

2000-05-21 Thread Bob Bernstein
By sheer dint of not having a life I've become interested in BIND. I note that while Debian (and others, for instance OpenBSD) do not include the 'h2n' utility in their distros of this package, some (to be named at a later date) Linux distributions do see fit to include it. Is this a license issue

Re: Debian vs Red Hat??? I need info.

2000-05-21 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sun, May 21, 2000 at 11:38:18AM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 07:37:59PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > Apt uses a mixed approach: it uses the same textfiles as dpkg but > > > uses a binary cache to also get the advantages of a binary database. > > > > it does? where? >

Re: Debian vs Red Hat??? I need info.

2000-05-21 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 07:37:39PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 07:07:00PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > Previously Keith G. Murphy wrote: > > > I must say, my subjective experience has been that rpm's are much > > > faster to install something. Of course, it's also fa

Re[2]: exim mail routing...

2000-05-21 Thread Gregory Guthrie
I have a smarthost, but things don't work right. My previous debian build on this machine worked fine, so the network environment seems OK. In /etc/exim.conf: # Send all mail to a smarthost smarthost: driver = domainlist transport = remote_smtp route_list = "* mail.mum.edu bydns_a" But

Re: Debian vs Red Hat??? I need info.

2000-05-21 Thread Joey Hess
Wichert Akkerman wrote: > I wouldn't call it nonsensical, but the way dpkg does it is definitely > more robust. I need to take another close look at how rpm and dpkg > differ in this respect anyway, so if people are interested in the little > details I might be willing to write a little comparison

Re: exim mail routing...

2000-05-21 Thread Gregory Guthrie
At 11:29 PM 05/21/2000 +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: nobody said, it that there must be so many places for documentation - it simply has "grown" historically into this situation. and even that is not that bad. man, info and /usr/doc are the main sources - it could be *much* worse. possibly the

Re: modem question

2000-05-21 Thread Ray Olszewski
**External** modems don't have IRQs and ioports; serial ports do. Which serial port did you plug it into -- /dev/ttyS0 (DOS's COM1) or /dev/ttyS1 (DOS's COM2)? You can use "setserial" in probe mode (e.g., "setserial /dev/ttyS0") to find out what the current settings are for a serial device. You ne

Re: Putting applications in Xwindows

2000-05-21 Thread Kent West
Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > Thanks, I will try that next. What is funny is that only the "debian box" > appears gray -I > have afterstep running-, and I can click on it: nothing happens. Any other > box is not gray, > has "something". I already tried dpkg -r ; apt-get install package>, but > s

Re: Update on Epson Stylus Color 850 info

2000-05-21 Thread Pollywog
On Sun, 21 May 2000, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > Hm... "Developing"? We only needd color tuning. We don't need a > driver. We *do* have a driver! These are the 3 lines in the upp file > that need to be changed: > > -dupCyanTransfer="{0. 0.0452 0.0836 0.1215 0.1493 0.1749 }" > -dupMagentaT

Re: Putting applications in Xwindows

2000-05-21 Thread Pollywog
On Sun, 21 May 2000, you wrote: > > I'm no expert, but here's a brief rundown of my understanding. > > Desktop icons are not part of window managers, but they are part of > "environments", such as KDE or Gnome, so if you're looking for desktop > icons, that's the direction to look. I am less of a

Re: modem question

2000-05-21 Thread Kent West
Paulo Henrique Baptista wrote: > > HI all, > anyone has a US/Robotics 3Com external modem. > I'm trying to setup it and cant succed. > What are its configurations? > ioport, irq, setserial, ttyS? > Thanks, Paulo Henrique > Assuming it's not

Re: Putting applications in Xwindows

2000-05-21 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Thanks, I will try that next. What is funny is that only the "debian box" appears gray -I have afterstep running-, and I can click on it: nothing happens. Any other box is not gray, has "something". I already tried dpkg -r ; apt-get install , but still no life to the gray box. I will see what hap

Re: Putting applications in Xwindows

2000-05-21 Thread Kent West
Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > Yes I do. I have installed several of them: icewm, fvwm, enlightenment, > afterstep,etc > > Pollywog wrote: > > > On Sun, 21 May 2000, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > > I got my Xwindows going with functioning mouse, the only problem is that > > > I don't have any appl

Re: RFC okay, i hereby volunteer.

2000-05-21 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >so. > >i volunteer (and would love some assistance from >some of you others--Svante? are you listening? hmm?) >to spend some of my free [sic] time to make it easier >for newbies to find their way around (so that the >experts can focus on answering more challenging >quest

Re: Putting applications in Xwindows

2000-05-21 Thread Mark Crotts
On Sun, May 21, 2000 at 05:43:47PM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > Yes I do. I have installed several of them: icewm, fvwm, enlightenment, > afterstep,etc Try this. vim ~/.xinitrc add the following line exec save it then "startx" > Pollywog wrote:

RE: apt-get proxy config?

2000-05-21 Thread Christian Pernegger
Hi! Read man apt-get It explains how to permanently set up proxies for apt. IIRC: (in /etc/apt/apt.conf add) Acquire::http::proxy "http://yourproxy:yourport/";; Christian > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Peter Firmstone > Sent: Sund

modem question

2000-05-21 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista
HI all, anyone has a US/Robotics 3Com external modem. I'm trying to setup it and cant succed. What are its configurations? ioport, irq, setserial, ttyS? Thanks, Paulo Henrique

samba question

2000-05-21 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista
Hi all, I want to setup samba. Anyone can send me a good smb.conf aside the one that exists at SAMBA HOWTO. I tried to setup and it didnt appear at explorer at windows client. What commands I can use to log samba problems? Thanks, Paulo Henrique

diald question

2000-05-21 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista
Hi all, I have a small network with a debian gnu/linux box with modem sharing connection with windows clients (using masquerade). I want to install and configure diald to automagically dials when some windows client try to acess the Internet. I installed diald and I'm lo

RFC okay, i hereby volunteer.

2000-05-21 Thread w trillich
from the private support i've gotten over my 'HFTFMADBUFE' rantings, i can tell i struck a chord: this is not specific to debian, it's a unix/linux-wide situation. the documentation is hither and yon, and the newbies don't have the knowledge of which tools to use in order to find what they're look

RE: Please help - network incredibly slow...

2000-05-21 Thread Christian Pernegger
Thanks for your reply! Info coming up... (attached, unix line breaks) I just hope they're readable - I have to mail from NT because I haven't had time to get exim to do my bidding yet :( Regards Christian > -Original Message- > From: John Pearson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sund

RE: squid maybe causing crash

2000-05-21 Thread zdrysdal
Here is the required info : It is an old 486 DX/SX Dell machine with 16MB ram running Slink with 2.0.36 kernel. Disk space = total 837MB, free 339MB. Main software is : Squid version 2.1.2-1. Apache version 1.3.3-7. Smail version 3.2.0.102-1. I was unable to retrieve any relevant onfo from the

Re: Putting applications in Xwindows

2000-05-21 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Yes I do. I have installed several of them: icewm, fvwm, enlightenment, afterstep,etc Pollywog wrote: > On Sun, 21 May 2000, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > I got my Xwindows going with functioning mouse, the only problem is that > > I don't have any applications accessible from there, even xterm i

Re: exim mail routing...

2000-05-21 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> >> Can I get a quick-hint how to do this with exim, which I now seem to have > >> as my new mail program. > >> > >RTFM! ;-) > >look at this 800 kb file and search for smarthost. there is a complete > >config example. > > Or run 'eximconfig'. A lot easier ;) > yes - that's the thing, that is r

Re: anyone have apsfilter working with a networked ps printer?

2000-05-21 Thread Sven Gaerner
I just configured apsfilter for using a ps printer connected locally to /dev/lp0. Then I added the line :rp=\: and changed the line :lp...\: to :lp=/dev/null:\ in the file /etc/printcap. That's all and worked fine for me until now... Sven At Thu, 18 May 2000 14:00:55 -0800 (AKDT), Britton <[EMA

Re: exim mail routing...

2000-05-21 Thread Sven Burgener
[snip] >> Sorry, but what on earth is "HFTFMADBUFE"? Couldn't find it in the >> Jargon file. [snip] >well, i have the impression, that it is "decrypted" on the same line. ;-) Yes, sorry, I realised it slightly too late. I guess the length of the acronym completely knocked me out for a sec there. ;

Re: exim mail routing...

2000-05-21 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> >HFTFMADBUFE, the linux motto, is an acronym for 'hunt for the %#@ > [snip] > > Sorry, but what on earth is "HFTFMADBUFE"? Couldn't find it in the > Jargon file. > well, i have the impression, that it is "decrypted" on the same line. ;-) however, this attack against debian (or linux or even *n

Re: exim mail routing...

2000-05-21 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Oswald Buddenhagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Can I get a quick-hint how to do this with exim, which I now seem to have >> as my new mail program. >> >RTFM! ;-) >look at this 800 kb file and search for smarthost. there is a complete >config example. Or run 'ex

Re: exim mail routing...

2000-05-21 Thread Sven Burgener
[snip] >HFTFMADBUFE, the linux motto, is an acronym for 'hunt for the %#@ [snip] Sorry, but what on earth is "HFTFMADBUFE"? Couldn't find it in the Jargon file. TIA Sven

Debian and the Linuxtag 2000

2000-05-21 Thread Alexander Reelsen
Hi First, the Linuxtag[1] is one of the biggest linux events in europe, held this year in Stuttgart, Germany. It is dated from 29 June to the 2nd of July. It deals with all aspects of GNU/Linux and is directed to everyone, regardless if newbie or experienced administrator. There will be commercial

Re: exim mail routing...

2000-05-21 Thread Riku Saikkonen
Gregory Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >I used to have sendmail used as my MTA, and had it setup to use an upstream >smartmailer, i.e. all non-local mail went there. > >Can I get a quick-hint how to do this with exim, which I now seem to have >as my new mail program. Run "eximconfig" (the n

Re: configuring X problem

2000-05-21 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> -- > What am I doing wrong ? I've tried selecting different mouse and > keyboard > options, but still get the same error. > i'm not sure, but i have the impression, that exactly the same question came up some days ago on this list, so please look at the archives. if you find noth

Re: exim mail routing...

2000-05-21 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> > > Can I get a quick-hint how to do this with exim, which I now seem to have > > > as my new mail program. > > > > >RTFM! ;-) > >look at this 800 kb file and search for smarthost. there is a complete > >config example. > > -- Ahem, ... > > in the "FM" there is no string "smarthost". :-) > t

Re[2]: exim mail routing...

2000-05-21 Thread Bob Bernstein
Gregory Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This was an automatic setup option with sendmail! grep smarthost /usr/sbin/eximconfig -- Bob Bernstein http://www.ruptured-duck.com

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2000-05-21 Thread Hagit Tenne

Re: OT: Is pgp 2.6.X considered old?

2000-05-21 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, May 21, 2000 at 12:35:32PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > Thanks for the quick replies. There is no "pgp" link to pgp5. I see a set > of executable links from the manpage. > > Mutt expects "pgp." What is the best approach to integrate these together? ... Never mind, folks. I just F

Re: OT: Is pgp 2.6.X considered old?

2000-05-21 Thread Kenward Vaughan
Thanks for the quick replies. There is no "pgp" link to pgp5. I see a set of executable links from the manpage. Mutt expects "pgp." What is the best approach to integrate these together? Kenward On Sun, May 21, 2000 at 11:49:48AM -0700, Eric Hanchrow wrote: > > "Kenward" == Kenward Va

Re: exim mail routing...

2000-05-21 Thread Gregory Guthrie
At 06:07 PM 05/21/2000 +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > Can I get a quick-hint how to do this with exim, which I now seem to have > as my new mail program. > RTFM! ;-) look at this 800 kb file and search for smarthost. there is a complete config example. -- Ahem, ... in the "FM" there is no

configuring X problem

2000-05-21 Thread BadMan
I use Debian2.1 , installation went fine everything works fine, EXCEPT I just cant get Xwindows to work. I have 16Mb Diamond Viper TNT AGP Video Card (Version 1.95E5802), IntelliMouse 1.1A PS/2 Compatible. I try to configure XFree86, write the new configuration, when I try to start X, the screen

Anyone have kppp working under potato?

2000-05-21 Thread walt
I started with the Corel/debian linux download version. Kppp worked fine. Then I made lots of changes. I did an "apt-get dist-upgrade" to potato, which went fine. This removed the Corel kde installation so I got the standard kde 1.1.2 debian distribution from kde.org, which also went fine. I

Re: Putting applications in Xwindows

2000-05-21 Thread Pollywog
On Sun, 21 May 2000, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > I got my Xwindows going with functioning mouse, the only problem is that > I don't have any applications accessible from there, even xterm isn't > there! I suposse that it hapenned because I installed all the > applications first, and then only my Xsy

Re: OT: Is pgp 2.6.X considered old?

2000-05-21 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sun, May 21, 2000 at 11:41:12 -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > I just installed pgp last night, read some mail this AM, and got a "need > newer pgp version" message from a tagged post. I haven't used pgp before, > so don't know if the "older" version is considered really old now. More or less.

Re: Debian vs Red Hat??? I need info.

2000-05-21 Thread w trillich
Steve Lamb wrote: > > On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 06:29:01PM -0500, w trillich wrote: > > there are #NO# pointers from a standard cd-install of slink, > > Of course not. Correct me if I'm wrong but apt didn't really come into > its own as the standard package tool until potato. you're probably righ

Re: apt-get, upgrade, /var/cache/apt/archives

2000-05-21 Thread w trillich
Daniel Martin wrote: > > Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Fri, 19 May 2000, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > > > > 1:) What is the best way to make apt-get use the /archives folder to > > > perform the upgrade and return the system to stage 2. above? > > > > cp /archive/*.deb /var

OT: Is pgp 2.6.X considered old?

2000-05-21 Thread Kenward Vaughan
I just installed pgp last night, read some mail this AM, and got a "need newer pgp version" message from a tagged post. I haven't used pgp before, so don't know if the "older" version is considered really old now. Can someone toss the answer to this my way, please? TIA, Kenward

Re: module loading problems

2000-05-21 Thread ulla . russell
I tried depmod -a and got /lib/modules/2.2.9/fs/vfat.o:unresolved symbols /lib/modules/2.2.9/fs/msdos.o /lib/modules/2.2.9/fs/fat.o /lib/modules/2.2.9/net/eepro100.o /lib/modules/2.2.9/net/3c59x.o /lib/modules/2.2.9/net/dummy /lib/modules/2.2.9/net/bsd_comp.o /lib/modules/2.2.9/net/ibmtr.o etc

Re: exim mail routing...

2000-05-21 Thread w trillich
eavesdropping, here... one of the debian gurus wrote: > > > Can I get a quick-hint how to do this with exim, which I now seem to have > > as my new mail program. > > > RTFM! ;-) > look at this 800 kb file and search for smarthost. there is a complete > config example. for illustrative purposes,

Putting applications in Xwindows

2000-05-21 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I got my Xwindows going with functioning mouse, the only problem is that I don't have any applications accessible from there, even xterm isn't there! I suposse that it hapenned because I installed all the applications first, and then only my Xsystem. How do I make them visible from there? Thanks, A

Minor Samba issues

2000-05-21 Thread Philip Lehman
I just installed Samba on a small server to act as a file and print server for a Linux (printing only) and a Windows client (both). Installing and configuring everthing took about ten minutes, SWAT is amazing! So basically everything works like it is supposed to, but there are still some minor iss

Re: xterm xterm-debian

2000-05-21 Thread Christophe TROESTLER
On Thu, 18 May 2000, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What's the best the best way to avoid having ot reset my terminal > variable everytime I telnet to a site that does not know what > xterm-debian is? Since this happens quite often it is getting a > little tedious. Make a script. For example I

Options for automatic recompilation

2000-05-21 Thread Christophe TROESTLER
Hi everybody, I know apt-get --compile source will download and recompile the package for me but I was wondering if there is a standard way (i.e., not modifying debian/rules but changing a config file for apt-get) to pass optimizations for i586 processors? I indeed like to optimize e.g

Re: Who eats my buffers?! (kernel leaks memory?)

2000-05-21 Thread Christian Hammers
Hello > Christian Hammers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > CH> I have a serious problem. One of the servers I administrate seems to > CH> have a buffer leak. free and vmstat show me that the buffer size > CH> increases by some K every second leading to a 15M memory loss per hour. > CH> I'm currently

Re: are there any good free 3d modeling tools?

2000-05-21 Thread Felix Natter
Chris Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > I'm looking for good free (as in speech) 3d modeling tools. there is also an open-source modeller (designed for games): http://prettypoly.sourceforge.net -- Felix Natter

Re: apt-get proxy config?

2000-05-21 Thread Alex Titov
Peter Firmstone wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm relatively new to debian and I'm having a little confusion setting > up my /etc/apt/sources.list file for use behind a squid proxy-firewall. > > I can't seem to get the format right! > > I guessed that it may be: > > deb http://squid.cqu.edu.au:3128/www.a

Re: Stuck...

2000-05-21 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 21-May-2000 w trillich wrote: > Martin Bialasinski wrote: >> >> * "w" == w trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> BTW: ESC + 0 ^= F10 >> >> w> hi, newbie mode here, how do you learn of those keystroke >> w> equivalences? >> >> Hmm, somebody told me long time ago :-) >> >> Maybe it is

Re: exim mail routing...

2000-05-21 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> Can I get a quick-hint how to do this with exim, which I now seem to have > as my new mail program. > RTFM! ;-) look at this 800 kb file and search for smarthost. there is a complete config example. -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- If Windows is the an

exim mail routing...

2000-05-21 Thread Gregory Guthrie
I used to have sendmail used as my MTA, and had it setup to use an upstream smartmailer, i.e. all non-local mail went there. Can I get a quick-hint how to do this with exim, which I now seem to have as my new mail program. Thanks, Gregory -

Re: Where (& what) is rman?

2000-05-21 Thread Jo Hoffmann
> Dear friends, > > My valiant attempt as a green user to obtain and insall KDE for slink has > hit a snag. dselect shows thatrman is nt available and is needed for > kdebase. > > Why would it not be available? > > Where can I get it? It is either in contrib or non-free (can't remember). You

Re: libfltk-dev: which "config.h"

2000-05-21 Thread Frank Barknecht
Frank Barknecht hat gesagt: // Frank Barknecht wrote: > Johann Spies hat gesagt: // Johann Spies wrote: > > > I am trying to compile the programs in /usr/share/doc/libfltk1/examples/. > > > > After copying the files to /tmp and gunzipping the .gz files I get the > > following error when I run "

Re: NIS+? Alternatives?

2000-05-21 Thread Dan Melomedman
On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 05:11:11AM -0500, Michael Janssen (CS/MATH stud.) generated a stream of 1s and 0s: > > Some of you probably have seem me asking about this in #debian: > > I'm trying to setup NIS+ on Debian.. I have a number of machines which > I would like to use NIS+ for authenticatio

afterstep in slink

2000-05-21 Thread Alberto Meroni
Hello to everybody. I installed afterstep from slink but apparently update-menu dies with the error message cat: write error: Bad file descriptor Update-menus[26727]: Script /etc/menu-methods//afterstep returned error status 1Any hint ? Second problem : my man system does not find manual pages in

Re: apt-get, upgrade, /var/cache/apt/archives

2000-05-21 Thread Daniel Martin
Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 19 May 2000, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > > 1:) What is the best way to make apt-get use the /archives folder to > > perform the upgrade and return the system to stage 2. above? > > cp /archive/*.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/ > Specifically,

apt-get proxy config?

2000-05-21 Thread Peter Firmstone
Hi, I'm relatively new to debian and I'm having a little confusion setting up my /etc/apt/sources.list file for use behind a squid proxy-firewall. I can't seem to get the format right! I guessed that it may be: deb http://squid.cqu.edu.au:3128/www.au.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-US

'chat -v' but no readout

2000-05-21 Thread ktb
I'm trying to determine my connection speed. I've read in the archives that 'chat' must have the '-v' option in order to view the speed with 'plog' or in '/var/log/messages.' I notice in '/etc/ppp/peers/provider' that 'chat' is passed the '-v' option but I don't see the connection speed when I lo

Re: network setup script ??

2000-05-21 Thread Ron Rademaker
I don't know if you can do network setup again, but I can tell you what you'll have to do to get the network working. 1. Make sure the nerwork card is recognised and the drivers are installed (duh!). 2. Get the eth0 interface 'up' using ifconfig ( command = ifconfig eth0 ${IPADDR} netmask ${NETMA

Re: Mouse doesn't work in Xwindow, NFS, bug(3.)???

2000-05-21 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Thanks, I was just waiting for this to disconnect my winbox and try to fix debian. I will give it a try. Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > > > installation (kernel 2.2.15something) there were no problems. But after > > > > all this apt-getting-installing I rebooted, thinking it might fix the > > > >

Re: Mouse doesn't work in Xwindow, NFS, bug(3.)???

2000-05-21 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> > > installation (kernel 2.2.15something) there were no problems. But after > > > all this apt-getting-installing I rebooted, thinking it might fix the > > > mouse problem in Xwindow, and while loading the same kernel from floppy > > > went bananas with NFS, sending signals without response (I do

RE: Stuck...

2000-05-21 Thread Chris Mason
I tried puTTY and absolutely hated the default settings. I am using SecureCRT, wonderful program. 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 island http://net.ai/ The Anguilla Guide Find out m

Re: Debian vs Red Hat??? I need info.

2000-05-21 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 06:29:01PM -0500, w trillich wrote: > "apropos"? okay, i'll try that... man -k is easier to type. :P > CONCLUSION: > there are #NO# pointers from a standard cd-install of slink, Of course not. Correct me if I'm wrong but apt didn't really come into its

Re: Missing header file conio.h

2000-05-21 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 04:36:41 -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote: > The semi-equivalent system under Unix would be [n]curses. There's > probably little chance of getting that program to run under Linux without > some serious rewriting on your part. Well, there is a reasonable chance it will compile

Re: Mouse doesn't work in Xwindow, NFS, bug(3.)???

2000-05-21 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > 2. After rebooting the first time with the boot disk created in fresh > > installation (kernel 2.2.15something) there were no problems. But after > > all this apt-getting-installing I rebooted, thinking it might fix the > > mouse problem in Xwindow, and while loading

Re: [Debian]:Browser ala lynx

2000-05-21 Thread Stefan Lommel
Hallo Liste, > Bei mir läuft E-mail usw. per Kommmandozeile nur für das Surfen im Netz > muß ich X starten für Netscape. > Gab es da nicht mal einen Referenzbrowser ? Probier mal Amaya der W3C unter http://www.w3.org/Amaya/ ru sl mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: network setup script ??

2000-05-21 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> But now id like to set his networking up, what script do i run ??. Is it > on the system or only on the install floppies. > I dont know enough about the network setup to do it from the ground up, > i can fix it :) when its there ( ussually ). > i don't know, where the initial setup script is. tr

Re: Mouse doesn't work in Xwindow, NFS, bug(3.)???

2000-05-21 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> 1. Mouse (/dev/psaux, ps2 with wheel) doesn't work after setting it up > through xf86config; it had always worked before. Mouse works in console, > detected by gpm with correct settings. so i post it again ... from /etc/X11/XF86Config: Section "Pointer" Protocol"IMPS/2" D

Re: Debian vs Red Hat??? I need info.

2000-05-21 Thread Ron Rademaker
That's why I said to point to it during installation! Ron Rademaker On Sat, 20 May 2000, w trillich wrote: > seems like an uphill battle, eh? > > Ron Rademaker wrote: > > > > Try: pt-get install pine > > > > It'll give youenough information to get a bit further > > > > Ron Rademaker > >

Where (& what) is rman?

2000-05-21 Thread J. Hartzelbuck
Dear friends, My valiant attempt as a green user to obtain and insall KDE for slink has hit a snag. dselect shows thatrman is nt available and is needed for kdebase. Why would it not be available? Where can I get it? Thanks very much. -- Chris

Mouse doesn't work in Xwindow, NFS, bug(3.)???

2000-05-21 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
A fresh installation using the boot floppies in frozen directory (ftp.debian...), dselect + apt-get used to continue installation. Problems: 1. Mouse (/dev/psaux, ps2 with wheel) doesn't work after setting it up through xf86config; it had always worked before. Mouse works in console, detected by gp

Re: Debian vs Red Hat??? I need info.

2000-05-21 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 07:37:59PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > Apt uses a mixed approach: it uses the same textfiles as dpkg but > > uses a binary cache to also get the advantages of a binary database. > > it does? where? See /var/cache/apt/*.bin files. An example why is that good is the spe

Re: Stuck...

2000-05-21 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> >Yet another reason to move to ssh. Using puTTY on a windows > >box, brings up an xterm like window, and it's like being > >right in front of your linux box. > > What about TeraTerm [Pro] with the SSH extension? How good do you think > that is? I think it's also free, innit? > it works. but pu

Re: Stuck...

2000-05-21 Thread w trillich
Martin Bialasinski wrote: > > * "w" == w trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> BTW: ESC + 0 ^= F10 > > w> hi, newbie mode here, how do you learn of those keystroke > w> equivalences? > > Hmm, somebody told me long time ago :-) > > Maybe it is a VT100 thing or such. none of the vt100's i

Re: Stuck...

2000-05-21 Thread Sven Burgener
>Yet another reason to move to ssh. Using puTTY on a windows >box, brings up an xterm like window, and it's like being >right in front of your linux box. What about TeraTerm [Pro] with the SSH extension? How good do you think that is? I think it's also free, innit? Sven

Re: Stuck...

2000-05-21 Thread Martin Bialasinski
* "w" == w trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> BTW: ESC + 0 ^= F10 w> hi, newbie mode here, how do you learn of those keystroke w> equivalences? Hmm, somebody told me long time ago :-) Maybe it is a VT100 thing or such. Ciao, Martin

network setup script ??

2000-05-21 Thread John Leget
Hi all. I just installed woody :) on my brother in laws pc , he was keen to poke around. He had allready got hold of an older mandrake pack but it had developed some problems. And since potato is still cooking... ( and i dont have a local copy- i keep a copy of woody myself though on a HDD in

Re: Stuck... -->mc!!

2000-05-21 Thread Martin Albert
> Le sam, 20 mai 2000, Alain Reinhardt a écrit : > > I always also suggest to try 'mc' (assuming MidNight Commander is installed) > because it is always a good feeling for a new user to go as far as a file > manager of some sort -in this case a very good one. Nothing means more when > you begin t

Re: init - autostarts

2000-05-21 Thread Martin Albert
On Sat, 20 May 2000, w trillich wrote: > Dominic> all that "starting syslogd", "starting inetd" etc > Dominic> when you're booting, it's controlled by init, right? > Dominic> how do i tell it not to start the things I'd rather > Dominic> not be running? Mostly you will want to have syslogd, initd

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