Re: Getting free ISPs to work

2000-05-30 Thread Pat Mahoney
On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 09:24:03PM -0700, John Bagdanoff wrote: > Keep an eye on this site. > > http://beta.freei.net/ > > Click on beta release. Not sure how soon they'll have a linux port to > test. > > fred > > -- > > Using Linux > > > >

Re: help me

2000-05-30 Thread Pat Mahoney
On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 01:03:28PM +0200, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: > kent nyberg wrote: > > > > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > > ^^ > > > > Did you just happen to miss this part of alla the mails you get from the > > list? > > Probably not, bu

Re: KDE & GNOME (was: Making documentation easier to find)

2000-05-30 Thread Pat Mahoney
On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 10:10:57PM +0200, David Henningsson wrote: > >If you are running KDE, > > I'm currently using Slink 2.1r4. Is KDE in potato? I don't think I have > seen a package with KDE on my two CD's. I saw gnome, with big warning > labels saying thinks like "!!!WARNING!!! ALPHA softwa

RFC 1878 documents for subnet

2000-05-30 Thread Alex Kwan
Where to got RFC 1878 documents for subnet mask and the valid addresses.

Re: Getting free ISPs to work

2000-05-30 Thread John Bagdanoff
Keep an eye on this site. http://beta.freei.net/ Click on beta release. Not sure how soon they'll have a linux port to test. fred -- Using Linux

No high memory space

2000-05-30 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi I've had a number of problems getting X to run on my Toshiba ... I know think it may have something to do with a message I receive @ startup. THe message is "no high memory area available" (or words to that effect). I seem to remember reading something about Linux + 128MB ram & greater ... is t

RE: internet connection

2000-05-30 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi Scott ... all you should need to do is run pppconfig (to set up the connection properties for your ISP), and then run "pon ". You must have also set the IP addresses of your ISP's nameservers, in /etc/resolv.conf A -Original Message- From: T [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday,

RE: OT: NTP hardware

2000-05-30 Thread david . cureton
For a solution developed by amateur radio operators have a look at: www.tapr.org in the area titled TAC32. May be some help however please note that some construction is required. Software is available for to maintain system clock of a linux system very accurately however I cannot recall what is

Re: internet connection

2000-05-30 Thread ktb
T wrote: > > Hi, > i have set up debian base system and was advised to get on the net with that > computer to get the rest of the system. I am having trouble configuring my > internet connecti0on. I have it on a win computer, and the terminal window > comes up with a menu, where i switch to p

eBay Auction #34178744

2000-05-30 Thread Jay Barbee
I am writing to confirm that I was the highest bidder for: PDA - Palm Pilot Professional (item #342178744) at $91.89. I see that you are accepting checks. How much for shipping? And where do I send the check? Would you prefer one of these online payment deals? I will be out of the country ne

New Mutt for Slink...

2000-05-30 Thread Jay Barbee
I know that there has been some talk before about building a newer version of Mutt for stable "slink". I have an up to date system, and I am still holing off with Potato's release. Does anyone have a Debianized Mutt v1.0.1i or v1.2? GnuPG support is my main concern. Thanks, --Jay Barbee

Re: segmentation fault

2000-05-30 Thread kmself
On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 11:20:38PM +0200, Smith, Martin wrote: > I installed XFree86 and when I execute startx I get: > > /usr/bin/X11/startx: line 74: 141 Segmentation faultxinit $clientargs > -- $serverargs > > Also get "segmentation fault" when I try to run XF86Setup. Any ideas what >

Re: xfstt package and fonts; xfstt and xfs-xtt

2000-05-30 Thread kmself
On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 08:31:54PM +, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > It is said there that you must get the fonts separately for xfstt to > work. Yes. > Can you use the fonts from windows? Yes. > If so, how do you do it? Copy your MS Windows fonts to some location, you can copy them directl

Re: runaway crons

2000-05-30 Thread kmself
On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 09:17:40PM -0500, Brad wrote: > On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 11:50:12AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > I hit my work system remotely this morning to check mail and got > > > >bash: fork: resource temporarily unavailable > > > [SNIP] > > there too). pstree showed a

internet connection

2000-05-30 Thread T
Hi, i have set up debian base system and was advised to get on the net with that computer to get the rest of the system. I am having trouble configuring my internet connecti0on. I have it on a win computer, and the terminal window comes up with a menu, where i switch to ppp and then log in. I

Re: runaway crons

2000-05-30 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 09:17:40PM -0500, Brad wrote: > On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 11:50:12AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > I hit my work system remotely this morning to check mail and got > > > >bash: fork: resource temporarily unavailable > > > [SNIP] > > there too). pstree showed a

Re: problems with downloading

2000-05-30 Thread Joseph de los Santos
Yes, I agree a number of people are indeed having these kinds of problems with dist-upgrading and I am one of them. I wonder what's causing these errors?

Xlib or what?

2000-05-30 Thread Kreaped Ripping Reaper
hi... i'm using X-4 on a woody box using helix-gnome... i just apt-get update and upgraded. it installs new x*-3.6+ i think(i never checked) but now i got these errors when starting X (**) kreaped mouse: Emulate3Buttons, Emulate3Timeout: 50 (II) Keyboard "Keyboard0" handled by legacy driver

gigabit solutions

2000-05-30 Thread Marc-Adrian Napoli
Hi all, Anyone using gigabit cards on debian 2.0/2.2 ? We're going to be looking for a gigabit card soon to move to a central NFS server type solution, anyone have any experience with this? (Which cards? Which switch? etc) Thanks in advance! Regards, Marc-Adrian Napoli Network Administrator Co

Re: how to change the order of directories PATH is searched?

2000-05-30 Thread Brad
On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 02:22:56PM -0500, Ron Flory wrote: > Chris Baker wrote: > > "john smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The sbin directories are usually not added to the path of a non-root > > user. I'm guessing that you used su to become root, which doesn't > > change your enviornment (e

Re: runaway crons

2000-05-30 Thread Brad
On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 11:50:12AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > I hit my work system remotely this morning to check mail and got > >bash: fork: resource temporarily unavailable > [SNIP] > there too). pstree showed a heck of a lot of cron jobs. Found and > killed the root cron proces

[OT] Re: wanted: more extensive package info

2000-05-30 Thread Brad
On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 02:13:45PM -0400, Bob Bagwill wrote: > > It would also be nice to know whether the development effort > is a one-man-show, benevolent dictatorship, participatory > democracy, hallucinatory anarchy, etc. Ok, i have to ask... how does the hallucinatory anarchy development mo

RE: is there a gui frontend in X for dialing ppp?

2000-05-30 Thread Larry Elmore
> We..."pon" and "poff", and let's not overlook "plog" _are_ > elegantly tiny and simple, _but_ since my ISP instituted 'idle-time > disconnects' I don't always know whether I'm connected or not. A little > on/off light thingie might be nice to check before doing an apt-get, a > perl -MCPAN

Re: OT: NTP hardware

2000-05-30 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 11:45:07AM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: > Off topic, if you don't have interest in stratum 1 NTP servers stop > reading now please :) > > Is anyone here running a stratum 1 NTP server? If so, what hardware > are you using for time synchronization? We have a GPS receiver

RE: XFCOnfiggin'

2000-05-30 Thread Andrew McRobert
thanks guys, but I've run xf86config & XF86Setup about 300,000 times (almost no embellishment there!!) ... I've also got a server flag for "don't die if the mouse fails" ... oh well Andrew -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Vitux Sent: Wednesda

Re: Ethernet Error

2000-05-30 Thread Steve
Ok. That sounds like a plan. When I run route, I see an entry for the localnet associated with eth0 and an entry for the lo (no gateway assigned to either). I'm not completly familiar with route tables. Could I get a hand with them? What shows for route is: DestinationGatewayGenmask

Re: Potato

2000-05-30 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 12:33:56PM +0200, Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote: > > Hi, > > On Tue, 30 May 2000, Corey Popelier wrote: > > > Well, irrelevantly to Debian its a carbohydrate. > > Hmm, as a biologist, I cannot leave it like that. > > A potato is a specialised starch storage organ of the pota

Re: Getting free ISPs to work

2000-05-30 Thread Pat Mahoney
On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 09:53:37AM -0700, Jonathan Markevich wrote: > > --- Chris Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 04:48:16AM -0700, Jonathan Markevich wrote: > > > > > > As for Freewwweb, STAY AWAY. They have no clue how to run a SMTP > > > server. I get ALL of my ma

Re: IP-Chains, etc.

2000-05-30 Thread Corey Popelier
Ok I had forgotten the dns setting (Sigh). Now I get a lot of "udp port domain unreachable" messages in my tcpdump. Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 31 May 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Why are you using a proxy, just go

Re: IP-Chains, etc.

2000-05-30 Thread ron
Why are you using a proxy, just go to your win network option, to the tcp/ip properties and set the gateway to the lin box, as well as the dns... Ron By the way, did you try adding that masq ipchains rule? On Wed, 31 May 2000, Corey Popelier wrote: > Some additional information I can give, is t

Re: IP-Chains, etc.

2000-05-30 Thread Corey Popelier
Some additional information I can give, is that a ping from the Windows box behaves as follows: (win) ping 203.24.100.1 (tcpdump from linux box) 10.0.0.2 > dialup-gw.aceonline.com.au: icmp: echo request (above line times 4). Now this would indicate to me that IP forwarding is occurring. But no

Re: XF4.0 deb eta?

2000-05-30 Thread Bryan Scaringe
Have you managed to get Quake (I/II/III) running? I've been getting segfaults like clockwork. Do you know of any other GL apps that might let me know if things are completely hosed? Thanks, Bryan On 27-May-2000 Didi Damian wrote: > There is a driver available for xfree86-3.3.6 at nvid

Re: [*] Emacs and Color

2000-05-30 Thread Colin Watson
maths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >not under X, can i let emacs use diffrence color to express C >codes? i try M-x font-lock-mode, nothing happen.(but i have >a Emacs for NT, M-x font-lock-mode do work). Please look at the thread on this topic here two weeks ago: http://www.debian.org/Lists-Ar

Re: Ethernet Error

2000-05-30 Thread Ron Rademaker
Why do you think the problem is with the card? What about your route table, is all correct there? And ipchains, you don't have them so you can't get anything out or in can you? What exactly does it say when you try to ping? Sound like a route problem to me! Ron Rademaker On Tue, 30 May 2000, St

Ethernet Error

2000-05-30 Thread Steve
Hello, I'm using Slink on an AMD-233 powered computer. I have a 3Com905-TX Ethernet card installed. The modules appears to be loading with the kernel as eth0. When I run ifconfig I can see the the eth0 card with the correctly assigned IP information. The problem: I can't ping to the cards IP addre

Re: Using gnuserv (Re: bigots - was Emacs - was Mail/news software)

2000-05-30 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 11:20:04PM -0400, Chris Gray wrote: > > pidof xemacs && gnuclient -q $1 || xemacs -nw $1 This will only work if you are the one and only user ever to use xemacs. So you better use (analog to what was shown on the list a couple of days ago): $ fuser -sn tcp $((UID+21490

Re: XFCOnfiggin'

2000-05-30 Thread Vitux
Vitux wrote: > > Ron Rademaker wrote: > > > > Why don't you just run xf86config on your laptop (debian)?? That should > > make X work > > > > Ron > > > I second. My experience with different cards and monitors is > that I often have to run xf86config a few times to straighten > things out and

Re: problems with downloading

2000-05-30 Thread mcclosk
|> man apt-get says: |> "An update should always be performed before an upgrade |> dist-upgrade." I had done `apt-get update' before each attempted upgrade step. A number of people have been having these problems (judging by the list). I just kept trying, and eventually it half-worked

sendmail problem

2000-05-30 Thread Bob Nielsen
I just did an update of potato today for the first time in over a month (I recently moved and am finally getting caught up with things). After the update I found that I could not send any mail. /var/log/mail.log showed an error message: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(nielsen): cannot chdir(/var/spool/mqueue): P

Solved: Dselect suddenly vanished from potato?]

2000-05-30 Thread Vitux
Vitux wrote: > > Colin Watson wrote: > > > > Vitux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >The strangest thing: Dselect has vanished! (or maybe just > > >crapped out?) > > >Normally, I would log in as root, type dselect, and off we go > > >installing stuff. > > >Now, I get "bash: dselect: command not foun

Re: Dselect suddenly vanished from potato?

2000-05-30 Thread Vitux
Colin Watson wrote: > > Vitux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >The strangest thing: Dselect has vanished! (or maybe just > >crapped out?) > >Normally, I would log in as root, type dselect, and off we go > >installing stuff. > >Now, I get "bash: dselect: command not found". > >Ok, maybe there's some p

Re: BIND configuration files

2000-05-30 Thread Adam Shand
> Now is there any way to convert the other config files apart from > named.{boot,conf}? the format of the actual db files didn't change between bind 4/8. all you need to migrate is the named.boot -> named.conf adam.

Re: is there a gui frontend in X for dialing ppp?

2000-05-30 Thread Taupter
montefin wrote: > > We..."pon" and "poff", and let's not overlook "plog" _are_ > elegantly tiny and simple, _but_ since my ISP instituted 'idle-time > disconnects' I don't always know whether I'm connected or not. A little > on/off light thingie might be nice to check before doing an apt-g

Re: Potato

2000-05-30 Thread John Carline
Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 30 May 2000, Corey Popelier wrote: > > > Well, irrelevantly to Debian its a carbohydrate. > > Hmm, as a biologist, I cannot leave it like that. > > A potato is a specialised starch storage organ of the potato plant, > necessary for vegetative reproductio

segmentation fault

2000-05-30 Thread Smith, Martin
I installed XFree86 and when I execute startx I get: /usr/bin/X11/startx: line 74: 141 Segmentation faultxinit $clientargs -- $serverargs Also get "segmentation fault" when I try to run XF86Setup. Any ideas what the cause is?

Re: xfstt package and fonts; xfstt and xfs-xtt

2000-05-30 Thread Joseph de los Santos
Hello, there is a mini-howto for installing ttf for debian and you can find all the information you need to know there. the link is http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/TT-Debian.html#toc6 Good Luck.

Re: where did debian put gnome-config file?

2000-05-30 Thread Pollywog
On Tue, 30 May 2000, Joseph de los Santos wrote: > Hi, > I would like to know where gnome-config file is located. I can't find it > or locate it. > > Thank you. It is in /usr/bin and is part of the libgnome-dev package. -- Andrew

where did debian put gnome-config file?

2000-05-30 Thread Joseph de los Santos
Hi, I would like to know where gnome-config file is located. I can't find it or locate it. Thank you.

Re: glibc

2000-05-30 Thread zdrysdal
Thanx for the help... I'll see what happens :) Zane [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) on 31/05/2000 03:18:48 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org cc:(bcc: Zane Drysdale/Diagnostic Labs/64) Subject: Re: glibc Oki DZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Tue, 30 May 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Where is Dvips from Tomas Rockiki?

2000-05-30 Thread Colin Watson
Antonio Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Is that package somewhere in frozen? Try the tetex-bin package. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

A perplexing conundrum... Wingate/Linux

2000-05-30 Thread Citizen-Class Hacker
Alright people, I've got a question for you all. We have a multi-machine LAN set up in the house using Coax cables. My parents each have a Win98 comp, my mom's is connected to the Net and she passes it to us using Wingate. We have a registered copy, so no need to worry there. The problem, howev

Re: Authenticating SMTP Server

2000-05-30 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 11:03:39AM -0400, Richard A Nelson wrote: > sendmail 8.10.1, postfix-tls and file a bug requesting fetchmail to be > compiled w/sasl or tls (it supports one, I forget which) - again this > doesn't really fit in with current policy - encryption support ;-{ There is such a b

Re: Problems with TeTex

2000-05-30 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Anthony Campbell wrote: > Try changing to /tmp, and then, as root, do > > initex latex.ltx > > Ignore any warnings about Latex being more than one year old. > > If this produces latex.fmt, move it to your web2c directory. That did work actually, and after running texhash everything wo

Re: Problems with TeTex

2000-05-30 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Anthony Campbell wrote: > Try changing to /tmp, and then, as root, do > > initex latex.ltx > > Ignore any warnings about Latex being more than one year old. > > If this produces latex.fmt, move it to your web2c directory. That did work actually, and after running texhash everything wor

emacs20 install problem

2000-05-30 Thread Aaron Solochek
I am getting the following error from potato. I was getting this, purged all the emacs stuff, then apt-get install emacs20, and this is what I get. The following NEW packages will be installed: emacs20 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/8988k

Where is Dvips from Tomas Rockiki?

2000-05-30 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Is that package somewhere in frozen?

Re: Slink Package list Q

2000-05-30 Thread David S. Bateman
Jonathan Gift wrote: > Hi, > > I saw from the list posted on Debian that Enlightenment 0.16X was included, > yet when I loaded the Slink I got from LinuxMall I got last week it was > version 0.14. What gives? > > Is there a list a list for Potato and can I trust it, ie E 0.16X on there? add ;

Re: KDE & GNOME (was: Making documentation easier to find)

2000-05-30 Thread Bruce Sass
On Tue, 30 May 2000, David Henningsson wrote: > >If you are running KDE, > > I'm currently using Slink 2.1r4. Is KDE in potato? I don't think I have > seen a package with KDE on my two CD's. I saw gnome, with big warning > labels saying thinks like "!!!WARNING!!! ALPHA software! This is very bug

xfstt package and fonts; xfstt and xfs-xtt

2000-05-30 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
It is said there that you must get the fonts separately for xfstt to work. Can you use the fonts from windows? If so, how do you do it? Or otherwise, how do you get the fonts? Which is better, xfstt or xfs-xtt, since they seem to conflict with one another?

[*] Emacs and Color

2000-05-30 Thread maths
hello not under X, can i let emacs use diffrence color to express C codes? i try M-x font-lock-mode, nothing happen.(but i have a Emacs for NT, M-x font-lock-mode do work). many thanks! ** zhang xiaolei Department

[*] buffer of Emacs

2000-05-30 Thread maths
hello all i am a newbie of Emacs. i had learned the toturial, and now reading the info page, but its too long. could someone tell me what's "run a program in Emacs's buffer" and how to do it ? many thanks! ** zhang xiaolei

KDE & GNOME (was: Making documentation easier to find)

2000-05-30 Thread David Henningsson
>If you are running KDE, I'm currently using Slink 2.1r4. Is KDE in potato? I don't think I have seen a package with KDE on my two CD's. I saw gnome, with big warning labels saying thinks like "!!!WARNING!!! ALPHA software! This is very buggy and horrible and you don't want it". If I've got it

guide me, how to use C api

2000-05-30 Thread mayur y
i want to use C programming to access Mysql in linux operating system so if u could tell me how to do it including what all i have to install to make it work. waiting for ur reply my e-mail address is "[EMAIL PROTECTED] or hotmail.com thanking u sincerely mayur ___

Re: potato install w/ aic7880

2000-05-30 Thread Chris Baker
sjk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am having a terrible time trying to get potato to install on a > machine with an aic7880 scsi controller. The current rescue.bin hangs > at loading sym53c416 - just after the aic78xxx mods. I have tried > compiling a new kernel with the options listed in the ins

Re: Potato install question--Configure Device Driver Modules

2000-05-30 Thread Bruce Sass
On Tue, 30 May 2000, Ron Stordahl wrote: > When doing 'Configure Device Driver Modules' under 'misc' I find > > "parport - (No description available)" > "parport_pc - PC-style hardware" > > > Seems likely the later would be the typical parallel port at x'0378' irq 7. > If so it would

Potato install question--Configure Device Driver Modules

2000-05-30 Thread Ron Stordahl
When doing 'Configure Device Driver Modules' under 'misc' I find "parport - (No description available)" "parport_pc - PC-style hardware" Seems likely the later would be the typical parallel port at x'0378' irq 7. If so it would not be so hard to say so seems to me. But what is 'parpo

Potato install question--Configure Device Driver Modules step

2000-05-30 Thread Ron Stordahl
When doing 'Configure Device Driver Modules' under 'misc' I find "serial- ( no description available)" Is this likely to be the typical 2 serial ports??? If so seems like it should say soas it is it leaves me wondering. Ron

Re: how to change the order of directories PATH is searched?

2000-05-30 Thread Ron Flory
Chris Baker wrote: > "john smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The sbin directories are usually not added to the path of a non-root > user. I'm guessing that you used su to become root, which doesn't > change your enviornment (e.g. your path) by default. use: su - which opens a login shell,

Re: problems with download

2000-05-30 Thread Marc O. Sandlus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm still getting these 404 errors in response to `apt-get upgrade' > and `apt-get dist-upgrade': > > Failed to fetch > http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/admin/debconf_0.2.80.15.deb > 404 Not Found These files simply don't exist! I had a l

Re: how to change the order of directories PATH is searched?

2000-05-30 Thread Chris Baker
"john smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I do not understand why all of a sudden some commands for root are not > found (like adduser,ldconfig etc) looking at my path I found out that > /usr/sbin,/sbin are not there anymore!!! strange? anyway, when I added > them again to my path everythings bac

Re: gdm Question (I think)

2000-05-30 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello Jay, On Mon, 29 May 2000, Jay Kelly wrote: > Hello Guys, > I'm currently using Gnome and starting it with "startx" I changed the > .xsession so that O could start it from the console but when it starts I am > no longer asked for a login name and pass. I want to be able to start gdm (I > thi

runaway crons

2000-05-30 Thread kmself
I hit my work system remotely this morning to check mail and got bash: fork: resource temporarily unavailable Ok, that sux. 'exec' and 'sash' are your friends (as well as the fact that sshd appears to fork to create a session rather than 'exec'ing). I managed to get a couple of root shells

Re: What's /dev/mouse for?

2000-05-30 Thread kmself
On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 02:37:14PM +0100, David Wright wrote: > Quoting David S. Bateman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > I do believe that your mouse should be symbolically linked > > > to /dev/psaux and not /dev/ttyS0 or any sort of ttyS 'if' it > > > is a ps/2 mouse t

RE: wanted: more extensive package info

2000-05-30 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 30-May-2000 Bob Bagwill wrote: > IMHO, package pages, e.g. > http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/base/bash.html > should have a pointer to the package homepage if it exists, > and more info about the author(s), development effort, etc. > all of this info is in the copyright file link

wanted: more extensive package info

2000-05-30 Thread Bob Bagwill
IMHO, package pages, e.g. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/base/bash.html should have a pointer to the package homepage if it exists, and more info about the author(s), development effort, etc. It would be nice to have an idea whether a package is under current rapid development, matur

eth0 Error Message

2000-05-30 Thread Shane
Hi, I am getting the following error message during the boot process randomly. The motherboard is the Intel CA810 with EEPRO100 network card. Power cycling the system sometimes fixes the problem. eth0: card reports no resources eth0: card reports no RX buffers The system is running the Deb

i810 + GLX - question

2000-05-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Has anybody gotten i810 (specifically i810e if there is a difference) working with GLX and something like quake2 ? I cannot get the newer agpgart to work with X no matter what. I can get the older agpgart(from intel) to load with both XF86_SVGA and XFCom_i810. X loads fine, i installed utah-glx d

everybuddy

2000-05-30 Thread Daniel Burrows
I am trying to register my ICQ account with everybuddy but when I add it in and re-start - I go back to the accounts section and it's empty - Is this supposed to be empty? Please CC me on a reply. Thanks.

Re: can't get around diald problems...

2000-05-30 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 09:03:37PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > May 29 20:52:54 kaynjay diald[2221]: start sl0: SIOCSIFMETRIC: Operation not > supported > I don't know about the reroute issue, but the SIOCSIFMETRIC error is (to me) > an obvious problem (seems fatal in its reporting). Is it so

Re: XF4.0 deb eta?

2000-05-30 Thread Ron Rademaker
There won't come any .debs of xfree86 4.0, Branden mailed that to the debian-devel list some time ago, but there will be .deb.of xfree86 4.0.1 (which should come somewhere mid June), so you can either compile it yourself or wait a while. Ron Rademaker On Fri, 26 May 2000, Robert L. Harris wrote:

Apache & SSL using incorrect certificate

2000-05-30 Thread Dan Brosemer
I'm attempting to do VirtualHosting with SSL (two different secured sites on one server). Obviously they have different certificates. Unfortunately, Apache is using the certificate of one for the other. Now it's getting the DocumentRoot fine, though, so I'm wondering what's up? NameVirtualHost

RE: XF4.0 deb eta?

2000-05-30 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 27-May-2000 Robert L. Harris wrote: > > > Ok, > Not trying to tick anyone off, but I need the NVIDIA driver for my new > video card and it appears to require XF-4.0. I'd rather keep to .debs and > not go source or converted .rpm, so I can keep my box "clean"... > Anyone got an eta or a rea

RE: Corrupt apt status and available lists

2000-05-30 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 26-May-2000 Nils-Erik Svangård wrote: > Hi! > > I have a woody system, and pretty unstable hardware. > Yesterday I had a crash when running apt-get upgrade. > Since then apt-get update wont work any more, complaining about the status > file, and when I try to apt-get updata I get some problems

Re: Intro and it seems that W3.1 can see beyond the partition barriers!

2000-05-30 Thread I. Tura
Actually, under the circumstances I usually found with the old computers I adminster (amateur), the ol' BIOS do not force a large disk towards 528 Mb, but there is a slight difference, and I prefer to apply the Ontrack patch. I'm used to it, and I applied it without problems (thanks for th

Re: Intro and it seems that W3.1 can see beyond thepartitionbarriers!

2000-05-30 Thread I. Tura
>It seems you have made logical partitions for your Linux >install, and IIRC, IIRC is a computer-related acronym or is similar to things like IMHO? > linux fdisk and dos fdisk do not agree how >to handle logical partitions. This could account for the fact >that dos thinks there's no logic

Re: Getting free ISPs to work

2000-05-30 Thread Jonathan Markevich
--- Chris Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 04:48:16AM -0700, Jonathan Markevich wrote: > > > > As for Freewwweb, STAY AWAY. They have no clue how to run a SMTP > > server. I get ALL of my mail bounced back to me because they > don't > > have a record of valid dial-up IP

OT: NTP hardware

2000-05-30 Thread Nathan E Norman
Off topic, if you don't have interest in stratum 1 NTP servers stop reading now please :) Is anyone here running a stratum 1 NTP server? If so, what hardware are you using for time synchronization? We have a GPS receiver that provides clocking for a SONET ring here and I'm sure there's a card I

Re: New kernel needed for potato upgrade?

2000-05-30 Thread David Wright
Quoting William Dowling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Can some one explain the relation between kernel upgrade and > slink->potato upgrade? They're separate issues in the main. What you have to be careful about is that you don't accidently upgrade packages that are related to the kernel rather than the d

OT: named cache

2000-05-30 Thread Bob Bernstein
I haven't asked a big dummy question in awhile; here goes: Is named's cache of dns query results held in memory only or is it ever - for any reason - written to a file? -- Bob Bernstein http://www.ruptured-duck.com

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2000-05-30 Thread Pablo Fanjul Gómez
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Re: automagically queuing sendmail on dial-up

2000-05-30 Thread Richard Klinda
Hoi Joseph, ALL! You've to put a little script to /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/. Edit (/create) a sendmail_queue (you can give it any other name) file: , | #!/bin/sh | # Flush sendmail queue | | sendmail -q & ` Then do a chmod +x /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/sendmail_queue (as root), that's it! This script'll

Re: Q: Number CD's Potato?

2000-05-30 Thread Ron Rademaker
I checked a site some time ago where you can find unofficial images of potato (and woody to btw), they had 4 iso's. By the way, slink wasn't 1 cd if I recall correct, I though there were 4 official (with sources) and 2 without sources (main and contrib). Ron Rademaker On Tue, 30 May 2000, Jona

Re: IP-Chains, etc.

2000-05-30 Thread Ron Rademaker
I'm not a telepath, I can't see from here if you got the right things in your kernel ;) But you ipchains misses something, the masquerading, you should do: ipchains -A forward -j MASQ -s /24 -d 0/0 I can tell you what you should have in your kernel: IP Masquerading, if you want to masquerade ping

Q: Number CD's Potato?

2000-05-30 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, What is going to be the number of binary CD's for Potato for those of us who can't dl it? One as in Slink, or more? And what is the "official" number, ie those + source? Thanks, Jonathan

Re: nisplus avaliable on debian?

2000-05-30 Thread Gerhard Kroder
Gilbert Laycock wrote: > Gerhard Kroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > i need to run nisplus on debian systems. is there any chance to get a > > deb-package for potato? if not i'll go get it as tar and install it the > > old way... > > > > See > http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/nisplus/index.html >

Re: Does the VIA chipset work with Linux?

2000-05-30 Thread ferret
On Mon, 29 May 2000, Brian Stults wrote: > Paul McHale wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I am interested in replacing my motherboard, but the current replacement > > available is based on the VIA chipset. Does anyone have any experience with > > this chipset? > > > > paul > > > These are tricky

Re: Strange GPM behavior

2000-05-30 Thread ferret
I have this with XF86 4.0 (compiled locally) but not with 3.3.6 installed from Potato. I'm using a Logitech multiprotocol ps2 mouse in ps2 mode. On Sun, 28 May 2000, Craig McPherson wrote: > Hmm, this is a new one. > > When GPM is running, the mouse will work in the console... but the mouse > c

IP-Chains, etc.

2000-05-30 Thread Corey Popelier
Ok I now have my Debian and Windows boxes networked, and I tried to set up IP Chains as follows: ipchains -P forward DENY ipchains -A forward -i ppp0 -j ACCEPT Now whenever I traceroute something from the Win box I get: 1 1ms<10ms<10ms (Linux box). 2* **

Re: Authenticating SMTP Server

2000-05-30 Thread Richard A Nelson
On 26 May 2000, Kirk Hilliard wrote: > I would like to configure my SMTP server to relay mail for a few > friends who dial up and are dynamically assigned IPs. I certainly > don't want an open relay, but I don't know what other options I have > with Debian. sendmail 8.10.1 can use sasl to do aut

Re: glibc

2000-05-30 Thread Colin Watson
Oki DZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Tue, 30 May 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> in order to install a newer version of lftp in order to get the recursive >> put feature... i need to upgrade glibc. Can a lower version of glibc run >> concurrently alongside the newer version, or will it replace i

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