Re: woody man segfaults when run as root

2000-07-05 Thread Brendan Cully
On Tuesday, 04 July 2000 at 20:21, Brendan Cully wrote: > Hi all, > > I noticed that my up-to-date woody system (plus helixcode) has a man > which segfaults when run as root, but works perfectly as an ordinary > user. Anyone else seen this? > > man-db 2.3.17-1 > libc6 2.1.3-10 > libdb2 2.7.7-2 t

Re: Xfree86 4.0.1

2000-07-05 Thread Mike Werner
Corey Popelier wrote: > Hrm. > I jumped the gun, assuming the fact that my apt-get -s upgrade this > morning wanted to do an X upgrade. It appears its just gone from 3.3.6-8 > to 3.3.6-9. S'alright. I got a bit excited myself when I saw the XFree packages being upgraded when I did my last dist-up

[no subject]

2000-07-05 Thread CHEONG, Shu Yang \(Patrick\)
Mahadev, You could seriously get yourself flamed for asking such questions on the mailing list without checking it out first yourself. PLEASE, visit http://www.debian.org and also http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/base (for Intel) and look for the kernel-image debs P

Re: Xfree86 4.0.1

2000-07-05 Thread Corey Popelier
Hrm. I jumped the gun, assuming the fact that my apt-get -s upgrade this morning wanted to do an X upgrade. It appears its just gone from 3.3.6-8 to 3.3.6-9. Excuse me whilst I pop out and shoot myself. Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECT

TkDesk problem

2000-07-05 Thread Larry Elmore
I've been a fan of TkDesk for 3-4 years now, but since switching to Debian, I've had a very annoying problem with it, and I was wondering if anyone could help me solve them? I'm using 'woody' and the TkDesk .deb. The problem is that TkDesk keeps reverting to its default settings at apparently rand

Re: Xfree86 4.0.1

2000-07-05 Thread Mike Werner
Corey Popelier wrote: > I see this is now debbed in woody, anyone done the upgrade from 3.3.6 > yet? Any problems? Where did you see this? I just did an apt-get update, and the X versions are still at 3.3.6 -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | "Where do you want to go today?"

Xfree86 4.0.1

2000-07-05 Thread Corey Popelier
I see this is now debbed in woody, anyone done the upgrade from 3.3.6 yet? Any problems? Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: X is "out of resources"

2000-07-05 Thread Mike Werner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Anyone know what might cause this: > > X Error of failed request: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for > operation) > Major opcode of failed request: 53 (X_CreatePixmap) > Serial number of failed request: 1017 > Current serial number in output stream: 1053 > >

X is "out of resources"

2000-07-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Anyone know what might cause this: X Error of failed request: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation) Major opcode of failed request: 53 (X_CreatePixmap) Serial number of failed request: 1017 Current serial number in output stream: 1053 it seems i get it often when i try to run

Samba Setup

2000-07-05 Thread Jay Kelly
Hello All, I thought I would take a crack at Samba so I installed Samba. Now what do I need to do for my window98 clients to log in to samba? What change to my network setting will I need to make? Will my Primary Network Login be Microsoft Family or Client for Microsoft Networks? Do I need to chan

Re: GQL Library.

2000-07-05 Thread Corey Popelier
Ok I just answered my own question, its libgql in woody. Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Corey Popelier wrote: > Tried to compile genSQL for Gnome (off the Gnome Recent software list) the > configure script cam

GQL Library.

2000-07-05 Thread Corey Popelier
Tried to compile genSQL for Gnome (off the Gnome Recent software list) the configure script came back with can't locate gql-config from the GQL Library. Anyone know what GQL is and if there's a quick Debian solution for this? Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Wor

Re: Offering external services, rlogins, smtp etc: how does it work?

2000-07-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 09:56:11AM +0930, Mark Phillips wrote: > Hi, > > I am a little confused about how the external services thing works. > > Suppose for example you want to allow exteral rlogins to your > computer. I presume you modify the inetd.conf file to include the line: > > login str

Re: Image copy of a floppy, how?

2000-07-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 08:02:34PM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > I created a boot floppy during my kernel upgrade, but I would like to > create another copy-backup in case a problem occurs with my only boot > floppy. I am not sure how to do it, I read that: > > > 5.5.4.1 Writing Disk

Offering external services, rlogins, smtp etc: how does it work?

2000-07-05 Thread Mark Phillips
Hi, I am a little confused about how the external services thing works. Suppose for example you want to allow exteral rlogins to your computer. I presume you modify the inetd.conf file to include the line: login stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.rlogind Now when is this file

RE: Supported Hardware.

2000-07-05 Thread Carl Burton
Thanks for the info -Original Message- From: C. Falconer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 8:05 PM To: Carl Burton Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Supported Hardware. I don't quite understand your question - you are selling some hardware, and want to

server crashed

2000-07-05 Thread zdrysdal
HI yesterday my email/web server decided to give up on me. Firstly i noticed this when our email wasn't getting out to the outside world...although the web server was still operational. I tried to telnet into the server but it kept disconnecting me. So i jumped into my car and drove to the site

Image copy of a floppy, how?

2000-07-05 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I created a boot floppy during my kernel upgrade, but I would like to create another copy-backup in case a problem occurs with my only boot floppy. I am not sure how to do it, I read that: 5.5.4.1 Writing Disk Images From a Linux or Unix System To write the floppy disk image files to the

Driver

2000-07-05 Thread Michael Cole
I have tried to find a driver for a HP 320 Deskwriter. I can not find or determine which driver to use that came with debian frozen linux 2.2.15. I haven't been able to find a driver to use on the HP web site. Can someone tell me if there is a driver that I can use with this printer? I am using

RE: Compaq ProLiant ML350

2000-07-05 Thread A. Scott White
Thanks to everyone who has helped me with this. I'm getting closer. I compiled a 2.2.15 kernel with Compaq Smart Array2, placed it onto the Rescue floppy and ran the following rdev commands on the kernel image: The install can now see the controller and the 1 logical drive (YES). rdev -R linu

RE: DRIVERS

2000-07-05 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 06-Jul-2000 JOHN G BROPHY wrote: > Hi. > Can you please supply me with a web site address so that I can download a > driver for ESS1688 PLUG AND PLAY. > > JOHN BROPHY > These cards are supported by both OSS

Re: sawmill is a herring bone screen

2000-07-05 Thread Joey Hess
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > Not sure of Sawmill's default behavior, but the herringbone is the > default X Windows background (there's a reason for it, lost in the mists > of time). Not particularly lost. Such a display makes it easy to see moire patterns if your monitor is subtly out of tuns, a

[NEWBIE] Japanese keyboard

2000-07-05 Thread Christophe Jasiak
Hi everybody! Does anybody know how to configure my linux box in order to fully use my japanese keyboard? I had a look to the documentation and the web ressources but i haven't found anything to help me. Do you know a link or do you have tips to configure it ? I've tried user-jp-conf but it doe

how to view /usr/doc/xbooks/specs/Xaw/CH1

2000-07-05 Thread a
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installing ipmasqadm

2000-07-05 Thread Nick
hello list, today i decided to install ipmasqadm but ran into some difficulty i untarred it into the /usr/src directory then i ran make install and got the following error: install -m 700 -o root modules/*.so /usr/lib/ipmasqadm install: modules/*.so: No such file or directory make: *** [install]

Re: Potato and Helix-Gnome - Solved!

2000-07-05 Thread Morten Liebach
On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 12:39:15PM -0500, Robert Maynord wrote: > Dear Debian list: > > Thanks for your responses! I finally solved the Potato and Helix-Gnome > installation problem. I found that if I do NOT use the "simple" package > choice in apt-get, but use the "advanced" instead, it works.

Unidentified subject!

2000-07-05 Thread Simon Tennant
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how can my program interact with dpkg

2000-07-05 Thread a
my C program starts dpkg by exec. How can my program know when dpkg prompts user for input (e.g. dpkg execute a installation script) and how to send user input to dpkg? Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] because I'll leave the list in a minute.

Re: help with installing

2000-07-05 Thread erik
On Wed, 05 Jul 2000, Nisse Hellberg wrote: > Hi, > > I would like some help installing Debian using floppies. After i've > inserted all the 7 base disks there is a problem uncompressing the file, > is that because i've partitionated the disk wrong? - Uncompressing which file? Maybe you could incl

Re: Bad symlinks with CD-RW's

2000-07-05 Thread erik
On Tue, 04 Jul 2000, Rogerio Brito wrote: > On Jul 03 2000, erik wrote: > > mkisofs -f -J -T -r -l -V EFILinux_2.2 -P EFI-Systems -b boot/rescue.bin \ > > -c boot.catalog -o /disks/EFI-image/EFI-1.0-i386.raw /disks/EFI; > > I normally use only the -r -J options when I'm creating my > d

I needing driver for Yamaha 740 chip

2000-07-05 Thread Rudy I Marschall
I needing driver for Yamaha 740 chip greeting rudy

Re: help with installing

2000-07-05 Thread kmself
On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 01:34:37PM -0600, Bruce Sass wrote: > On Wed, 5 Jul 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > /var - 250 - 500++ MB Need can grow appreciably with large website, > >newsfeeds, databases, etc. > > Webspace, newsfeeds and databases aside, APT's cac

Re: X fonts (2)

2000-07-05 Thread Marcio Rosa da Silva
On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Marcio Rosa da Silva wrote: > I have another problem with the fonts in X. > > I installed the freefont package but gimp doesn't find the fonts. I simply > installed the .deb and didn't make anything else. > > The fonts are in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/freefont/ > > Should I

PS/2 Mouse in Gnome SOLUTION!

2000-07-05 Thread Robert Maynord
Dear Bill, Syrus, Kent and Friends: Thanks for your suggestions regarding the PS/2 mouse. Through working with your suggestions, I finally discovered the solution specific to my situation. In the gpm.conf file, I changed the repeat_type= so that there is NO repeat type (a blank space). Now it

Re: Kernel upgrade

2000-07-05 Thread Ron Rademaker
On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Jay Kelly wrote: > Hello Group, > I decided to upgrade my kernel from 2.2.12 to 2.2.15 and ran into a > problem. This is what Im doing. > I extract the kernel while im in the /usr/src/ directory. Then I > made a directory /usr/src/linux-2.2.15 and then cd /usr/src/linux-2.2.1

Relay problem, Listar & Exim

2000-07-05 Thread andreas palsson
Hello. I'm trying to set up a mailinglist-manager together with Exim, but if fails because of some unknown reason. I can perfectly mail a normal user at the host, but when I specify the list-manager in the TO:-field then Exim says it tries to relay mail. I've set the "local_domains" to "my.hidden

Re: help with installing

2000-07-05 Thread Bruce Sass
On Wed, 5 Jul 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > /var - 250 - 500++ MB Need can grow appreciably with large website, >newsfeeds, databases, etc. Webspace, newsfeeds and databases aside, APT's cache takes a large chunk of HD space... there have been reports of Potat

exim question

2000-07-05 Thread Ron Rademaker
How can I use multiple domains with exim, eg both the domains domain.com and otherdomain.com run on a machine and I want this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] to user foo [EMAIL PROTECTED] to user bar [EMAIL PROTECTED] to user hello [EMAIL PROTECTED] to user bar Ron Rademaker

Unattended installation updates ?

2000-07-05 Thread Markus Fischer
Hello, Are there anz news updates how the unattended installtion process is doing on debian ? The only thing I found so far was a post in the archives [1]. kind regards, Markus [1] http://www.de.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9907/msg00571.html ps: Second try, my last mail

Re: Helix Gnome vs Debian Gnome -- worth the upgrade?

2000-07-05 Thread Kent West
Nathan E Norman wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 01:15:34PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > > I tried to install HelixGNOME via the instructions for Debian on > > the helixcore website (lynx -source blah blah blah), and chose > > option 3 (full install), and it looked like everything was going > > fin

Re: Potato and Helix-Gnome - Solved!

2000-07-05 Thread Kent West
Robert Maynord wrote: > > Dear Debian list: > > Thanks for your responses! I finally solved the Potato and Helix-Gnome > installation problem. I found that if I do NOT use the "simple" package > choice in apt-get, but use the "advanced" instead, it works. I am able to > use the Helix-Gnome CD

konqueror (KDE) problem: Could not create view for ....

2000-07-05 Thread Bernhard Josef Rieder
Hi All, when I try to start konqueror I always get the message Could not create view for inode/directory when I try tu type in a httl-url instead i get: . for text/html In the kde mailing lists i found: --- 8< --- Hmm, what was it. Ah yes, you need to re-run Makefile.cvs in kdebase, an

Re: Helix Gnome vs Debian Gnome -- worth the upgrade?

2000-07-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 01:15:34PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > I tried to install HelixGNOME via the instructions for Debian on > the helixcore website (lynx -source blah blah blah), and chose > option 3 (full install), and it looked like everything was going > fine, until I got a dependency error th

Re: Helix Gnome vs Debian Gnome -- worth the upgrade?

2000-07-05 Thread Kent West
Darlock wrote: > > On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Morten Liebach wrote: > > Currently I use the potato with Helix GNOME and runs fine, I was installed > the Debian Potato GNOME and the upgrade works perfectly. > > I have this line into sources.list: > > deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/distri

Re: DRIVERS

2000-07-05 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
Please drop the HTML. This is an email list, not a website. On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 18:56:36 -0700, JOHN G BROPHY wrote: >driver for ESS1688 PLUG AND PLAY. This card is supported by ALSA (http://www.alsa-project.org/) which is packaged for Debian ("alsa-source", "alsa-base", "alsaconf" etc.).

DRIVERS

2000-07-05 Thread JOHN G BROPHY
Hi.   Can you please supply me with a web site address so that I can download a driver for ESS1688 PLUG AND PLAY.   JOHN BROPHY  

Re: How to create console fonts from TTF, BDF, PCF

2000-07-05 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 12:08:57 -0700, Dinesh Nadarajah wrote: > Is it possible to create console fonts from TTF, BDF, and PCF fonts? Have a look at "xmbdfed". HTH, Ray -- LEADERSHIP A form of self-preservation exhibited by people with auto- destructive imaginations in order to ensure that whe

/etc/mtab wiped clean after mke2fs is run

2000-07-05 Thread Peter S Galbraith
This is weird. On potato, running mke2fs wipes out the existing /etc/mtab file (it's zero size) such that `df' and `mount' have no record of any mounted filesystems. Anyone else seen this? I use e.g. mke2fs -m 0 -i 16384 /dev/hda3 -- Peter Galbraith, research scientist <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: help with installing

2000-07-05 Thread kmself
On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 02:08:13PM +0200, Nisse Hellberg wrote: > Hi, > > I would like some help installing Debian using floppies. After i've > inserted all the 7 base disks there is a problem uncompressing the file, > is that because i've partitionated the disk wrong? Unlikely, unless you've run

Weird sendmail problem

2000-07-05 Thread Ron Rademaker
I got a really weird sendmail problem, all the messages I sent to the machine a put in the queue with reason deferred, in neither mailq, mailq -v, the syslog or the mail.log, mail.err, mail.info or mail.warn is any other information available then Deferred. No reason why, just deferred... If anyon

Potato and Helix-Gnome - Solved!

2000-07-05 Thread Robert Maynord
Dear Debian list: Thanks for your responses! I finally solved the Potato and Helix-Gnome installation problem. I found that if I do NOT use the "simple" package choice in apt-get, but use the "advanced" instead, it works. I am able to use the Helix-Gnome CD with no problem. Except: There ap

Trouble with PCMCIA-card

2000-07-05 Thread Guðmundur Erlingsson
Hi, I'm trying to get connect my Linux laptop to the network at my office, and tried to compile the kernel, but dmesg shows this suspicious looking gibberish: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address c68205e7 current->tss.cr3 = 056e1000, %cr3 = 056e1000 *pde = 0009e067 *pte = 00

Re: Ugly console font

2000-07-05 Thread kmself
Please respond to list. Reply and followups redirected. On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 09:21:11AM -0700, Dinesh Nadarajah wrote: > There are about 30 Console lines and yes I think it is > running in SVGATEXT mode. That's SVGATextMode -- it's the name of a program. What's the output of: dpkg -s s

RE: sawmill is a herring bone screen

2000-07-05 Thread Pollywog
I have the same problem with sawmill. Nothing but that herringbone screen. I wanted to leave KDE only because it is getting to be a huge memory hog. I have tried other desktop environments/wm's including Gnome-icewm and now Windowmaker. Enlightenment looks nice, but I had gone back to KDE after

Re: Sawmill is a herring bone screen

2000-07-05 Thread Pollywog
Try this: Install Gnome and then put this in your ~/.xsession #!/bin/sh panel & gmc & exec sawmill I installed Gnome, but you could install some other environment. -- Andrew

Re: SSL for smtp & pop

2000-07-05 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Robert Varga wrote: > 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 t

X tunneling with SSH

2000-07-05 Thread Sven Gaerner
Hi, I get the following error when I try to start xosview over a ssh connection. I connect with ssh 'host.somewhere.com -X -v' Everything works fine until I try to start xosview. That's the output of SSH I get. debug: Received X11 open request. debug: channel 0: new [X11 connection from host.som

Kernel upgrade

2000-07-05 Thread Jay Kelly
Hello Group, I decided to upgrade my kernel from 2.2.12 to 2.2.15 and ran into a problem. This is what Im doing. I extract the kernel while im in the /usr/src/ directory. Then I made a directory /usr/src/linux-2.2.15 and then cd /usr/src/linux-2.2.15 and ln -s linux-2.2.15 linux. After doing that

Re: linux + wan (frame relay)

2000-07-05 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
We used a Sangoma Wanpipe card in a linux box for about a year and were very happy with it. We only stopped using it because we moved our office and opted for DSL in the new space. This card can also be purchased with a built-in CSU/DSU which is what we got so other than your linux box you only

Re: UUENCODED attachmets

2000-07-05 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Hello, I use mpack here. Works great on extracting these attachments. Here's a bit of his README: - mpack/munpack version 1.5 for unix Mpack and munpack are utilities for encoding and decoding (respectively) binary files in MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions)

Re: find question

2000-07-05 Thread Michalowski Thierry
Andrew Kae wrote: > One last thing, does anyone know of a command to tell me last access date of > a file? > > Just try "ls -ul" ("man ls" will provide you much more options) HTH ( .02 euro) -- Thierry Michalowski / Edipresse Publications S.A

Re: find question

2000-07-05 Thread Andrew Kae
Hello everyone, Thank you for your support. I have a few more questions =) For reference, I am running Unix Sys V 4.0. TESTS Numeric arguments can be specified as +n for greater than n, -n for less than n, n for exactly n. I find this to be a

Point me to FAQ/HOWTO for zip disks

2000-07-05 Thread David Teague
Hi The ZIP-DRIVE mini HOWTO (circa mid 1999) has an invalid URL for information on the USB zip drive. http://peloncho.fis.ucm.es/~inaky/USB/news.html Can some kind person point me to the correct FAQ/HOWTO so I can make my ZIP 250 USB work under Linux? --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Major Network Issues

2000-07-05 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
First of all, I would go to base connection issues. Turn off/ignore any local networking issues for the box you are trying to connect to road runner. With road runner, I use 'pump' from potato, it really works slick. It will overwrite any existing routing for the interface it uses. To that end,

Re: Socks4

2000-07-05 Thread Thomas Guettler
haven't worked with socks yet, but in the firewall-howto there is something about it. Maybe this helps. On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 09:46:56AM -0400, Honderdors, Raymond wrote: > Hi > Me have Problem. > I'm behind a socks4 server and i do not know how to set up socks4 on my > debian system > plz help

Re: Ethercard Plus Elite 16: (WD/8013EP); Slink, Potato, Corel

2000-07-05 Thread Bob Nielsen
It's a kernel problem, not a distribution problem. Your kernel, as compiled, probably does not have the wd.o module. Try recompiling the kernel and select "Western Digital/SMC cards" in 'make menuconfig', either 'y' or 'm'. On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 01:30:41PM +0300, virtanen wrote: > On Tue, 4 J

Re: Potato and Helix-Gnome

2000-07-05 Thread Morten Liebach
On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 08:45:05AM -0500, Robert Maynord wrote: > Dear debian-user List Friends: > > I have been following the Potato and Helix-Gnome discussions, and decided > to try the setup. I downloaded last weeks version of Potato, and it works > fine. I purchased the Helix-Gnome disk, and

Re: help with installing

2000-07-05 Thread Thomas Guettler
On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 02:08:13PM +0200, Nisse Hellberg wrote: > Hi, > > I would like some help installing Debian using floppies. After i've > inserted all the 7 base disks there is a problem uncompressing the file, > is that because i've partitionated the disk wrong? installing from cdrom is ea

Re: sendmail problem: HELLLPPPPPP!!!

2000-07-05 Thread Richard A Nelson
On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Ron Rademaker wrote: > okay, I a little further now, only every mail stays in the mailq with the > message: Deferrred > > HELP!! please post (or send privately) the output of `mailq -v` so I can see why your mail is deferred - then we can figure how to get it going -- Rick

Default Color Depth in X (was Re: Helix Gnome vs Debian Gnome -- worth the upgrade?)

2000-07-05 Thread Dan Everton
> this! Anyway I prefer to start X from a command prompt so's I can specify > the colour depth. Swerving completely off topic here, but I see a lot of people do this. But if you don't like the default color depth that X comes up in, did you know you can change the default? I have the following l

Re: scp alternative

2000-07-05 Thread Frank Mehnert
On Wed, 05 Jul 2000, Chris Mason wrote: > I've been using scp to copy the files from my production web server to my > hosting companies web server. scp works well except that there is no way to > prevent it coping files that already are up to date, and also, it requires a > password every time. Th

Re: sendmail problem: HELLLPPPPPP!!!

2000-07-05 Thread Ron Rademaker
okay, I a little further now, only every mail stays in the mailq with the message: Deferrred HELP!! please Ron On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Richard A Nelson wrote: > On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Ron Rademaker wrote: > > > Alright I get the following message when I try to generate sendmail.cf: > > > > Configure

Re: sendmail problem: HELLLPPPPPP!!!

2000-07-05 Thread Richard A Nelson
On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Ron Rademaker wrote: > Alright I get the following message when I try to generate sendmail.cf: > > Configure sendmail with the existing /etc/mail/sendmail.mc? [Y] > Updating sendmail databases ... > Checking sendmail.cf and databases. > Scanning /etc/mail/sendmail.mc > Creatin

sendmail problem: HELLLPPPPPP!!!

2000-07-05 Thread Ron Rademaker
Alright I get the following message when I try to generate sendmail.cf: Configure sendmail with the existing /etc/mail/sendmail.mc? [Y] Updating sendmail databases ... Checking sendmail.cf and databases. Scanning /etc/mail/sendmail.mc Creating /etc/mail/Makefile. done. Generating /etc/mail/sen

Socks4

2000-07-05 Thread Honderdors, Raymond
Hi Me have Problem. I'm behind a socks4 server and i do not know how to set up socks4 on my debian system plz help Kind Regards Raymond Honderdors EDP department Soest work : (+31356091363)

scp alternative

2000-07-05 Thread Chris Mason
I've been using scp to copy the files from my production web server to my hosting companies web server. scp works well except that there is no way to prevent it coping files that already are up to date, and also, it requires a password every time. Is there a better alternative? My remote server doe

NIS configuration problem

2000-07-05 Thread Alberto Rodríguez Ortega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, i'm trying to activate nis on 2 servers (for X reason). Master server is 'nix_master' and the slave is 'nis_slave' on the example. Well, i have some problems. Why i get the next message when i do a make on /var/yp ? Jul 5 15:39:43 nis_sl

Potato and Helix-Gnome

2000-07-05 Thread Robert Maynord
Dear debian-user List Friends: I have been following the Potato and Helix-Gnome discussions, and decided to try the setup. I downloaded last weeks version of Potato, and it works fine. I purchased the Helix-Gnome disk, and it works - at least with Red Hat. I have unsuccessfully tried the Potato

Re: Compaq ProLiant ML350

2000-07-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 08:55:38PM +0100, Lee Elliott wrote: > Nathan E Norman wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 09:03:43PM +0100, Lee Elliott wrote: > > > There is an option for Compaq Smart Array support when compiling > > > kernels, so you may need to compile a kernel with this support. T

how to enable 'quake mouse'?

2000-07-05 Thread Attila Csosz
Hi, I've successfully compiled quakeforge-0.1.1 it work nice with GLX support with my Asus TNT2 card. But I've a problem with the mouse. Trying to run 'qw-client-gl' after startx in a xterm window I see the mouse pointer so I can't use mouse to play quake. I can use only the keyboard to control th

Re: Mustek 12000SP (SANE)

2000-07-05 Thread Andre Berger
Sven Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Do you if there is any way to say them that my scanner is a MUSTEK ? (a > configuration file) Try man sane-mustek Andre

Network (internet) problems

2000-07-05 Thread Alex V. Toropov
Hi, all Some time ago I find out that I have some kind of communication problems over internet with some hosts. It looks like "dead" connection. for example: I open a pop3 connection to some host with telnet. I can login and retr small messages with no problem. (small = 10k) I can even retr such

Re: Upgrade advice

2000-07-05 Thread Morten Liebach
On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 11:18:56AM -, Guðmundur Erlingsson wrote: > Hi there, > > I've put slink on my laptop and it's been sweet so far. I'd like to upgrade > it to a newer version, with newer kernel, but I'm not sure which is best. > Should I go for frozen or would Woody be safe? The thing i

help with installing

2000-07-05 Thread Nisse Hellberg
Hi, I would like some help installing Debian using floppies. After i've inserted all the 7 base disks there is a problem uncompressing the file, is that because i've partitionated the disk wrong? I've got a 10GB disk and i want a root /partition, a /usr, a /home and 128MB of swap. Im not sure how

Re: firewall script

2000-07-05 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Thanks, Looks very easy. Quoting ktb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > > > > Hi all Debian users, > > anyone has a firewall script that can send me. > > I already know ipchains well but with a script (commented) it

mysqldump

2000-07-05 Thread Clinton Byrne
Hi there does anyone know how I could do a dump of my database ( using mysqldump) but i want to leave out 1 specific table. Any help would be great Thanks Clinton

Upgrade advice

2000-07-05 Thread Guðmundur Erlingsson
Hi there, I've put slink on my laptop and it's been sweet so far. I'd like to upgrade it to a newer version, with newer kernel, but I'm not sure which is best. Should I go for frozen or would Woody be safe? The thing is, I'd like to try out Helix Gnome, and have to have Woody installed to be able

Re: Helix Gnome vs Debian Gnome -- worth the upgrade?

2000-07-05 Thread Darlock
On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Morten Liebach wrote: Currently I use the potato with Helix GNOME and runs fine, I was installed the Debian Potato GNOME and the upgrade works perfectly. I have this line into sources.list: deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/distributions/debian unstable main

Re: Desperately looking for help with a PCMCIA SCSI card!

2000-07-05 Thread Juan C. Amengual
erik wrote: > On Tue, 04 Jul 2000, Juan C. Amengual wrote: > > > I have an ASUS F7400 Laptop (a.k.a. ASUS Grandio Laptop). I have > > installed Debian 2.2 (a.k.a. Potato). I have a PCMCIA SCSI Card: Adaptec > > SlimSCSI 1480A Cardbus (Adaptec APA-1480 SCSI Host Adapter). I am still > > trying to m

Re: font question

2000-07-05 Thread Sebastian Moerchen
Joseph de los Santos wrote: > > I seem to have forgotten where else debian looks for it's fonts for xfree86. I > have installed xfstt before and I remember netscape being able to see my > truetype fonts after configuring xfstt. now it does'nt show anymore but I did > the exact same thing as before

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2000-07-05 Thread ben
did u sort out the problem with the CR-563-B drive as i have the same problem?

Re: Ethercard Plus Elite 16: (WD/8013EP); Slink, Potato, Corel

2000-07-05 Thread virtanen
On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, Nathan E Norman wrote: > Yup, the card is there. That's good ... Tried two things: 1) tried to install 'Potato'. (I used 'slink' earlier) That doesn't admit wd module at all. So the network didn't start working. 2) Tried to install 'Corel 1.1'. Did not make network worki

RE: MS Proxy

2000-07-05 Thread C. Falconer
Erm - people... MS Proxy is not a firewall in itself. Perhaps the NT machine that runs Proxy also has a modem/other device in it, in which case it is doing firewall-style duties (perish the thought though... an NT based firewall) Whereas if you have another device controlling your link, then

Re: Mustek 12000SP (SANE)

2000-07-05 Thread Sven Richter
Do you if there is any way to say them that my scanner is a MUSTEK ? (a configuration file) see ya Sven \\\ (..) ---oo0-()-0oo--- www.svenrichter.de -- ICQ: 61484034 E-Mail: Sven Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 05-Jul-

Re: Supported Hardware.

2000-07-05 Thread C. Falconer
I don't quite understand your question - you are selling some hardware, and want to make sure the components are supported by Debian? Look at this address to find out: http://www.linux.org/help/ldp/howto/Hardware-HOWTO.html Yeah - I could have looked up each item for you - but now you ha

Re: Helix Gnome vs Debian Gnome -- worth the upgrade?

2000-07-05 Thread Morten Liebach
On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 06:11:56PM -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote: > On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 08:35:36PM -0400, Edwin Lau wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > I am using the unstable debian release. Having read the news > > group for a while, I noticed that a lot of people like the Helix > >

Exporting X-stuff (was: Re: oops..sorry for the blank msg earlier)

2000-07-05 Thread Morten Liebach
On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 10:59:04PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 12:18:40AM +, john smith wrote: > > Strongly suggest you learn to add paraphraphs and whitespace to your > posts. > Aye! :-) > > I have another lazy > > question, I want to allow another client to

Re: UUENCODED attachmets

2000-07-05 Thread kmself
On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 08:57:36AM +0200, Darlock wrote: > On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, Felipe Alvarez Harnecker wrote: > > Hi, > > some email programs sends email in an uuencoded fashion, something like > this: > >begin 600 noticiam1.htm >M/&AT;6P^#0H-"CQH9

Re: Desperately looking for help with a PCMCIA SCSI card!

2000-07-05 Thread erik
On Tue, 04 Jul 2000, Juan C. Amengual wrote: > Dear sirs, > > first of all, beg your pardon for the dramatical subject of this e-mail > ;-), but I'm really desperated. My problem: > > I have an ASUS F7400 Laptop (a.k.a. ASUS Grandio Laptop). I have > installed Debian 2.2 (a.k.a. Potato). I have a

Re: Helix Gnome vs Debian Gnome -- worth the upgrade?

2000-07-05 Thread John Gould
Hi there, There certainly are debs on Helix's web site, works fine on potato, there supposedly for woody. You will get one unresolved dependancy, just sort this via 'apt-get install' from the woody archive. I believe it's guile6? And, yes I think it's worth the upgrade! I had one problem w

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