DPT SmartRAID VI ?

2000-07-01 Thread Owen G. Emry
I'm wondering if anyone has managed to get a SmartRAID V or VI controller working. I tried compiling a 2.4.0test2 kernel with I2O support enabled, but the bootup just hangs while initializing the I20 device(s). Any advice greatly appreciated. Thanks much! oge

Re: Problems with terminal

2000-07-01 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 11:00:48PM +, Marcio Rosa da Silva wrote: > Hi! > > I'm having some problems with the terminal in some softwares. The problems > are: > > * The backspace doesn't work in some programs like micq and pydb (python > debugger). Others like pine and the xterm/rxvt/etc... wo

Re: apt-get

2000-07-01 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Sat, 1 Jul 2000, Pete Chudykowski wrote: > I'm running my ftp service on port other than 21. That confuses > apt-get. Is there any way around it? I'm too lazy to edit ftp://localost:54/debian Read man sources.list Jason

apt-get

2000-07-01 Thread Pete Chudykowski
I'm running my ftp service on port other than 21. That confuses apt-get. Is there any way around it? I'm too lazy to edit /etc/services every time i need to download a package. XsX

Re: Cheap printer?

2000-07-01 Thread Mike Werner
Jeff Noxon wrote: > I would personally suggest a used laser printer. I see HP laserjets at > garage sales all the time (although I am sure the situation may be very > different where you are.) Toner costs a LOT less than ink. I'll second that. I've got an HP LaserJet III sitting here. The qua

Re: problem reading vim online dox

2000-07-01 Thread Nate Bargmann
Hi all. Back on Thu, 15 Jun 2000 22:47:31 -0700 (PDT) Aaron Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >In vim, if I type > :help >I get > Sorry, help file "/usr/share/vim/vim56/doc/help.txt" not found > Press RETURN or enter command to continue >I get this _exact_ same error message if i type any o

Problems with terminal

2000-07-01 Thread Marcio Rosa da Silva
Hi! I'm having some problems with the terminal in some softwares. The problems are: * The backspace doesn't work in some programs like micq and pydb (python debugger). Others like pine and the xterm/rxvt/etc... works well. The problem is that the former prints ^H and I have to use DEL instead. *

Re: webserver inside debian firewall

2000-07-01 Thread Terry Carney
On Sat, 1 Jul 2000, Nick wrote: > how can i set up port 80 to forward through to the inside server, say > 192.168.1.11? The following works for me. /usr/sbin/ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L X.X.X.X 80 -R Y.Y.Y.Y 80 X.X.X.X is my masquerading machine with the DSL interface. Y.Y.Y.Y is the machin

Re: X broken at 3.3.6-8 potato update!!! a work-around fix

2000-07-01 Thread John Goerzen
"James D. Freels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The fix as recommended by several folks is to > > "rm -rf /tmp/.X11-unix" > > I trust this information is being passed on to the developers without > a formal bug report. It would be far better to submit a bug report, actually. -- John

Ricoh MP-7080A cd-burner hangs system

2000-07-01 Thread jpeach
hi all I'm having a bit of trouble with a Ricoh MP-7080A CD burner - basically it hangs my system whenever I try to burn a data CD. Audio CDs burn fine, however. I'm using a stock 2.2.15 kernel with the appropriate enhanced IDE and ReiserFS pathches. The cd burner is connected to the HPT3

deb

2000-07-01 Thread Vitaliy Bondarenko
    Exuse me, but how to read your documentation? What is the type -.deb?          Thank you,     V

apache.. how to keep newer verison than that of Debvian apt-get

2000-07-01 Thread Gregory Guthrie
I had installed apache from Their site, version 1.3.12, and then wanted to install some Debian www based utilities (dwww), and so had apt-get install apache, it installed version 1.3.3, and to a different place, and name (httpd/apache). Is there any way to overlay the debian version with the n

Major Network Issues

2000-07-01 Thread Chris HOOVER
I'm having major network problems since switching to my new ISP (road runner). I know that the problem is on my side and need some help figuring out what is wrong and how to fix it. Problem 1: I am unable to ping/connect any of my isp's servers (pop/smtp/nntp/etc) from any box on my network othe

pty-redir package?

2000-07-01 Thread Chris R. Martin
Is there a debian package containing the pty-redir program? Thanks, Chris Martin --- "I chose not to choose Life. I chose something else." -- Renton, Trainspotting ---

Re: rpm's

2000-07-01 Thread Bart Szyszka
> Just installed debian for the first time and I'm a little green. I have > two questions. > 1. For some reason the package didn't contain ftpd. Where can I find a > .deb binary? Type: apt-cache search ftpd And that'll give you the names of all the packages and descriptions that have the 'ftpd'

Re: rpm's

2000-07-01 Thread Sven Burgener
On Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 05:24:02PM -0500, Pete Chudykowski wrote: > 1. For some reason the package didn't contain ftpd. Where can I find a > .deb binary? Use apt-get for installing packages on your system. Use it also to keep your system up-to-date. (-> man apt-get) To install ftpd, run "apt-g

rpm's

2000-07-01 Thread Patrick Barr
On Sun, 02 Jul 2000 11:09:02 Pete Chudykowski wrote: > Hi, > > Just installed debian for the first time and I'm a little green. I have > two questions. > 1. For some reason the package didn't contain ftpd. Where can I find a > .deb binary? > 2. Is there a way to make debian understand rpm's?

ipportfw problem

2000-07-01 Thread Brad Reid
i have set up ipmasq on my debian machine and it works fine. i am using kernel 2.0.36 and included the patch to enable ipportfw. i can set ipportfw rules and redirect ports into my internal network but i don't get any response back from the internal machines. ipportfw is kind of working in t

Re: Xemacs/GNUs and decoding attachments

2000-07-01 Thread Andre Berger
Christopher Splinter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Christopher Splinter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > If you use tm, you probably also use Gnus < 5.8.0, right? You > > > should upgrade. > > I did, and the problem is gone. But I get errors on sta

rpm's

2000-07-01 Thread Pete Chudykowski
Hi, Just installed debian for the first time and I'm a little green. I have two questions. 1. For some reason the package didn't contain ftpd. Where can I find a .deb binary? 2. Is there a way to make debian understand rpm's? If so, where can I find info on how to do it? Thanks. XsX.

webserver inside debian firewall

2000-07-01 Thread Nick
hey guys: i am confused on how to set this up. I want to put a webserver inside my firewall. This is how i set up the firewall. I am using slink w/ 2.2.15 i have the dhcp-beta package set up to do dhcp for the inside network i have ipchians to do the Masquearding and ipforwarding enabled in th

Re: Apache Web Server question

2000-07-01 Thread kmself
On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 09:53:43PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: > On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 08:08:14PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 07:55:38PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: [...] > > Directories must have read and execute permissions for user "www-data" > > (world read/execut

Re: clobbered fonts--intermittant

2000-07-01 Thread David S. Jackson
On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 04:52:34PM -0400 David S. Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Occasionally when I run sawfish or lately, even a freshly rolled > fvwm2 binary, I get clobbered fonts when I close out of X. It's > as though only some of the characters get clobbered though. Only >

Re: creating custom cds

2000-07-01 Thread Joseph de los Santos
oops. sorry did'nt notice html was on. I usually send using exmh to this list. thanks. - Original Message - From: ktb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian-User-Mailing-List Sent: Saturday, July 01, 2000 4:06 AM Subject: Re: creating custom cds > First, please turn off the html setting on your

Re: FW: ppp help

2000-07-01 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello Ashby, On Fri, 30 Jun 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I can't seem to get my modem to dial up though. Are there > any good document pages (http) that explain how to set up > dial up scripts? My modem is on ttys3 (com4). So far, I've been > looking in /etc/ppp/* and have not understood what

Re: Xemacs/GNUs and decoding attachments

2000-07-01 Thread Christopher Splinter
* Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Christopher Splinter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > If you use tm, you probably also use Gnus < 5.8.0, right? You > > should upgrade. > I did, and the problem is gone. But I get errors on startup: [...] Have a look at <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[1]. Does this

Re: Postgresql 7.02 and Debian

2000-07-01 Thread Oliver Elphick
Andre Berger wrote: >I tried to build postgresql_7.0.2-2 on my PPC, but this fails. There >should be some kind of patch, shouldn't it? There is no special patch for PPC builds. Mail me the failing section of your build log and I'll take a look. -- Oliver Elphick

Re: creating custom cds

2000-07-01 Thread ktb
First, please turn off the html setting on your email program as many people on this list use text based email programs. Second, you can find many answers to your questions by using the list archives which you can search at -- http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/#search that is where I found th

Re: Xemacs/GNUs and decoding attachments

2000-07-01 Thread Andre Berger
Christopher Splinter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > application/x-gzip; base64 -> /tmp/Xautoconfig-0.6.tar.gz > > /usr/share/xemacs21/packages/lib-src/tmdecode: mmencode: command not found > > Try putting "/usr/lib/xemacs-21.1.10/i386-debian-linux/"

Re: Xemacs/GNUs and decoding attachments

2000-07-01 Thread Christopher Splinter
* Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > application/x-gzip; base64 -> /tmp/Xautoconfig-0.6.tar.gz > /usr/share/xemacs21/packages/lib-src/tmdecode: mmencode: command not found Try putting "/usr/lib/xemacs-21.1.10/i386-debian-linux/" in your $PATH. > Process tm-file exited abnormally with code

Re: Postfix troubles

2000-07-01 Thread Miles Bader
I've worked around a similar problem with postfix recently. The solution turned out to be very simple, using Postfix's `virtual host' facility. You basically insert into your /etc/postfix/main.cf file the contents of /usr/share/doc/postfix/examples/sample-virtual.cf; the critical line is: virt

Xemacs/GNUs and decoding attachments

2000-07-01 Thread Andre Berger
I get this error when I try to decode an attachment I received. application/x-gzip; base64 -> /tmp/Xautoconfig-0.6.tar.gz /usr/share/xemacs21/packages/lib-src/tmdecode: mmencode: command not found Process tm-file exited abnormally with code 127 How can I get rid of it? I'm using potato/PPC and

Re: Postgresql 7.02 and Debian

2000-07-01 Thread Andre Berger
Stefan Nobis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Bill Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Missing files in the compile. > > The log follows. Snipped out all the good makes. This was a second run. > > If you got postgresql with apt-get source... then there are 3 files: > > *.orig.tar.gz > *.dif

Re: Which window manager

2000-07-01 Thread Preben Randhol
Dinesh Nadarajah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 30/06/2000 (23:37) : > I am looking for a window manager for debian that will > not soakup the system resources. Which one would you > suggest? First keep well away from Enlightenment. It uses a lot of resources on absolutely nothing (e.i eye-candy).

Re: SSL for smtp & pop

2000-07-01 Thread Robert Varga
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > > Q.2/ Do Outlook Express 5.0 onwards & Netscape 4.6 onwards offer SSL > > support for both pop & smtp? If they do not, any other mail clients do? > > Netscape 4.6 does support secure pop-3 and smtp. I haven't tried the secure > smtp > before bu

xfree 4.0 and Matrox

2000-07-01 Thread Sven Richter
Does anybody know how to configure the second monitor on a matrox g400 ? I only get the first one working the second one is just still blank. see ya Sven \\\ (..) ---oo0-()-0oo--- www.svenrichter.de -- ICQ: 61484034 E-Ma

Re: Postgresql 7.02 and Debian

2000-07-01 Thread Oliver Elphick
Stefan Nobis wrote: >BTW: In the Build-Depends tcl8.0-dev and tk8.0-dev are listed -- the >newer versions 8.2 will also do. Actually, postgresql specifically requires 8.0, because there are problems with multibyte encoding and later versions of tcl (problem in postgresql not tcl) -- Oliver E

Re: Postgresql 7.02 and Debian

2000-07-01 Thread Stefan Nobis
Bill Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Missing files in the compile. > The log follows. Snipped out all the good makes. This was a second run. If you got postgresql with apt-get source... then there are 3 files: *.orig.tar.gz *.diff.gz *.dsc The last one, postgresql_7.0.2-2.dsc, contains s

Re: GNOME+Sawmill workspaces

2000-07-01 Thread Ed Cogburn
Jim Lisi wrote: > > Ed Cogburn wrote: > > > > > > That option stops all edge flipping, not just the flipping from the > > top or bottom of the screen. Having seen this option though, its > > obvious what I'm looking for hasn't been implemented. Guess I'll have > > to wait. Thanks. > >

Re: Fdisk

2000-07-01 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
:-> "Jay" == Jay Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a question on adding another drive to my potato box. I > want to format > it to hold window zip files to run with apache. So how would I format it > and have apache access it for files? I'm not sure I understand your q

creating custom cds

2000-07-01 Thread Joseph de los Santos
Hello,     I am so happy..we got a yamaha cd writer today (but I had to install it to a windows machine :( owner's orders ehehe but they said I can use it..hehehe..) anyway, I've been thinking...yes, I can think too sometimes,  and I wanted to know if I can create my very own 100% made by me

Re: Which window manager

2000-07-01 Thread Andre Berger
Dinesh Nadarajah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am looking for a window manager for debian that will > not soakup the system resources. Which one would you > suggest? > > Thanks. > > -D My favourite combo is sawfish (CoolClean Theme) with tkdesk (Be'ish style) instead of gnome-panel. Sawfish i

Re:Fdisk

2000-07-01 Thread duh man
most of your questions can be answered if you only try to read. RTFM man fdisk, man chmod, etc. > Hello goup, > I have a question on adding another drive to my potato box. I want to format > it to hold window zip files to run with apache. So how would I format it > and have apache acces

Re: Apache Web Server question

2000-07-01 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 09:53:43PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: > > > Should I be worried that my apache server is running under root. running apache as root is a very bad idea, but you would have had to do this yourself it is never done like by any default i am aware of. run ps aux | grep apache to

Fdisk

2000-07-01 Thread Jay Kelly
Hello goup, I have a question on adding another drive to my potato box. I want to format it to hold window zip files to run with apache. So how would I format it and have apache access it for files? thanks guys -- If Windows is the answer, then I want the problems back! Powe