Re: net-help needed : adsl + dyn-IP (? + dhcp ?) . (re-)starting fromscratch

2000-07-11 Thread Stan Kaufman
"S. Champ" wrote: > > hello. > > -- -- -- -- > > an excerpt from the text, below, which may be the root of the issue: > > 2) crucial question: > >do i need to have dhcpcd up-and-running before or after i start-up the > pppoe > client-daemon ? and why do i need to have dhcpcd running, at

Running Samba as a PDC

2000-07-11 Thread Jay Kelly
Hello Group, I have samba running as my Domain Controller and Im using Windows98 machines for clients and everything work fine. But I have ran into a small problem here. I want to name my domain something different from my workgroup. Everything I have read says that the workgroup name will be the

Re: apt files to CD?

2000-07-11 Thread Pat Mahoney
On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 09:41:00AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello Users, > Is there a way to download all the apt files, burn them to CD and install > off of that? > I have a fast connection at work to d/l the files, but only a modem at home > on my debian machine. > > This would make it

Re: Logitech Mouseman + ps/2

2000-07-11 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
Once upon a time, I heard Ethan Pierce say > Hi, Im having difficulty getting my mouse to work under X > properly...particularly the middle mouse button. xf86config just plain kills > x, but I can get x running with XF86Setup. The problem is the middle mouse > button, what mouse "Server" to u

Re: dhcpcd segfault

2000-07-11 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Hey guys. So after getting Rogers to hook me up, I tried two > modules > to try to talk to my Soho PCI NIC. The ne2k module didn't work, saying, > "device or resource busy". The tulip driver silently installed, and on the

net-help needed : adsl + dyn-IP (? + dhcp ?) . (re-)starting from scratch

2000-07-11 Thread S. Champ
hello. -- -- -- -- an excerpt from the text, below, which may be the root of the issue: 2) crucial question: do i need to have dhcpcd up-and-running before or after i start-up the pppoe client-daemon ? and why do i need to have dhcpcd running, at all? ( shouldn't the pppoe software be hand

Logitech Mouseman + ps/2

2000-07-11 Thread Ethan Pierce
Hi, Im having difficulty getting my mouse to work under X properly...particularly the middle mouse button. xf86config just plain kills x, but I can get x running with XF86Setup. The problem is the middle mouse button, what mouse "Server" to use and what device exactly is it running from. Its

Re: Mutt and IMAP - Specifying server

2000-07-11 Thread Damon Muller
Hi Patrick, Quoth Patrick Kirk, > Does anyone have an example of a .muttrc that works with an IMAP > server? I can do everything except put the name of the server in. Mutt, as shipped with debian (slink and potato), doesn't do imap all that easily. At least, I've never worked out the secret! O

Re: Any recommendations for notebooks that work well with Linux?

2000-07-11 Thread kmself
On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 07:39:27PM -0300, Rogerio Brito wrote: > I was surfing the web looking for information about Notebooks > running Linux and reading the howto about notebooks (i.e., > partly doing my homework), but they generally only give > abstract recommendations a

Re: random signature

2000-07-11 Thread kmself
On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 09:30:50PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > Hi all > > Is there a way to put some sort of random signature system to use in > mutt? If not, can any other mail client do this? (I dont want / have X > on this box here) sigrot, among others. -- Karsten M. Self http://www.

Re: kpkg

2000-07-11 Thread cls--colo spgs
...yepa...works fine, now. good info. thx. bentley taylor. // "Stephen A. Witt" wrote: > > > Do you have the kernel-package installed? There is pretty good > documentation for it in /usr/doc/kernel-package/README. After compiling > the kernel with make-kpkg, the kernel image is in the paren

Re: smbmount

2000-07-11 Thread zdrysdal
thanx for the replies, it is all working now... it is weird how a redhat Samba rpm package would have smbmount/smbclient included whereas a Debian Samba package doesn't. BTW, what is more reliable as a means for copying great quantities of files : 1) smbmount from an AIX samba shared directory

Re: Lilo-problem

2000-07-11 Thread Tom Pfeifer
virtanen wrote: > 1) > My machine has got the following OS's and hd's: > > On the hda there is win98 and on the hdb there is 'debian' slink. > The machine bios cannot boot from hdb. > > 2) Is it possible and safe to install 'lilo' so that I can boot both the > OS directly from the hard disks? >

Re: apt files to CD?

2000-07-11 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Jul 11 2000, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > Use apt-get with download only option, apt-move it to partial > mirror, burn partial mirror, at home apt-get install from cd. I > think it should work, haven't done it myself. I do it all the time and it works like a champ! The only thing

Any recommendations for notebooks that work well with Linux?

2000-07-11 Thread Rogerio Brito
Dear fellow users, I'm now in the market for a portable computer and I'd like to buy an inexpensive notebook (I've got a limited budget for that). While a have considerable experience with running Linux for desktop computers, I have never used a notebook fo

Re: crack?

2000-07-11 Thread Bolan Meek
Ethan Pierce wrote: > > Hi all, I wanted to test out crack on my /etc/passwd file... > someone told me it takes 6 days to run for good passwords. > While my root password is non dictionary, will crack work? If it _really_ is non-dictionary, probably not, but I can't answer for sure without studyi

Re: Lilo-problem

2000-07-11 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Johann Spies wrote: > Thanks Tom and others who replied. I am learning (although sometimes > the hard way) ;) > > I have now also installed NT booting from /dev/hda. Can I still use > Lilo or is it saver to use NT's bootloader, going to Dos and use loadlin? > > I do not want to learn the hard

Re: Debian + other distribution

2000-07-11 Thread Raoul van Putten
> And how shold I proceed to use the same /boot partition for both > distributions? Should I expand it? Debian 2.2 install it's kernel image on > /boot automatically? I think it does. If not, look in /etc/lilo.conf where it is and move it to /boot. You dont need to enlarge the partition. Edit

Re: need help from linux community!!

2000-07-11 Thread Raoul van Putten
> I installed debian 2.2 this afternoon on a partition without erase neither > my RedHat nor > win95 and when I try to boot MBR appears, and not lilo. How should I proceed? > I need to > correct this quickly. When I press TAB it runs win95 , HELP What is this > MBR? How run > lilo instead

Re: kpkg

2000-07-11 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, cls--colo spgs wrote: > debs, > > i read yesterday that "kernel-package" is the 2d most > beneficial feature of dlinux (after > apt-get--untouchable!)so i thought i'd give it a > whirl. > > using kernel-package (6.05), i've been trying to test a > custom (compliled) 2.2.

Re: random signature

2000-07-11 Thread John Galt
Build a shell script, it's trivial. Took me a grand total of 15 min to write the scripts and 30 min to type the signatures. On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Sven Burgener wrote: > Hi all > > Is there a way to put some sort of random signature system to use in > mutt? If not, can any other mail client do t

kpkg

2000-07-11 Thread cls--colo spgs
debs, i read yesterday that "kernel-package" is the 2d most beneficial feature of dlinux (after apt-get--untouchable!)so i thought i'd give it a whirl. using kernel-package (6.05), i've been trying to test a custom (compliled) 2.2.16 kernel in 2, slink lapboxes. after i run "make menuconfig,

crack?

2000-07-11 Thread Ethan Pierce
Hi all, I wanted to test out crack on my /etc/passwd file...someone told me it takes 6 days to run for good passwords. While my root password is non dictionary, will crack work? Im very curious about how much a user can gain if he/she is able to cat my /etc/passwd

Re: imp

2000-07-11 Thread Matthew Thompson
> Hi Matthew, > > Is the mysql module uncommented in /etc/php3/apache/php3.ini? > It should be like this: > > ; Dynamics Extensions > extension=imap.so > extension=ldap.so > extension=mysql.so These were all here, but this one: > extension=pgsql.so ...wasn't so I added that line a

need help from linux community!!

2000-07-11 Thread ricgh
I installed debian 2.2 this afternoon on a partition without erase neither my RedHat nor win95 and when I try to boot MBR appears, and not lilo. How should I proceed? I need to correct this quickly. When I press TAB it runs win95 , HELP What is this MBR? How run lilo instead this MBR?

Re: ckermit

2000-07-11 Thread Gary Hennigan
Walter Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hey Man > > Try http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ > > Walt > > -Original Message- > From: Magnus Sandberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hi, > > I have an older installation of Debian Potato (like half a year old) on a > machine were I also h

random signature

2000-07-11 Thread Sven Burgener
Hi all Is there a way to put some sort of random signature system to use in mutt? If not, can any other mail client do this? (I dont want / have X on this box here) TIA Sven -- Powered by Debian GNU/Linux 2.2

Re: How to print? (Xerox DocuPrint C15)

2000-07-11 Thread Bjoern Brill
On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Horacio MG wrote: > Hi, > > (please, Cc: the answer to me as I'm not on the list) > > just got this new brand printer, and I'm trying to get something printed > with it, but never configured a printer before now. > Hello Horacio, printing under linux is achieved by the

Re: remote shell question

2000-07-11 Thread Massimo Dal Zotto
> Is there any way to SSH or telnet into an account, start a command line > program such as an ftp session, get the download going, then log out and > leave the process happeneing. I would like to be able to start downloading > then close down the workstation from which I SSHed, and come back the n

Re: install manual for x86

2000-07-11 Thread Charles Kaufman
Thank you for the directions to fips. Charles Kaufman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

dhcpcd segfault

2000-07-11 Thread Michael Soulier
Hey guys. So after getting Rogers to hook me up, I tried two modules to try to talk to my Soho PCI NIC. The ne2k module didn't work, saying, "device or resource busy". The tulip driver silently installed, and on the next reboot I was greeted with this: tulip.c:v0.89H 5/23/98 [EMAI

Re: install manual for x86

2000-07-11 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 15:24:05 -0500, Charles Kaufman wrote: > a program called fips, "available in the tools/ directory on your nearest > Debian mirror." ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/tools/fips20.zip HTH, Ray -- Cyberspace, a final frontier. These are the voyages of my messages, on a lightspe

Re: install manual for x86

2000-07-11 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Go to www.debian.org click on "Download FTP" -> http://www.debian.org/distrib/ftplist select a site near you, e.g. ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/ select the tools directory, e.g. ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/tools/ download fips20.zip, e.g. ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/tools/fips20.zip

install manual for x86

2000-07-11 Thread Charles Kaufman
I am planning to repartition a disk that came with w98 on it. The installation manual for intel x86 discusses repartioning and refers to a program called fips, "available in the tools/ directory on your nearest Debian mirror." Can anyone help me to find that directory and/or that program? Thanks

RE: ckermit

2000-07-11 Thread Walter Williams
Hey Man Try http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ Walt -Original Message- From: Magnus Sandberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 11 July, 2000 12:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: ckermit Hi, I have an older i

Re: imp

2000-07-11 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi Matthew, Is the mysql module uncommented in /etc/php3/apache/php3.ini? It should be like this: ; Dynamics Extensions extension=imap.so extension=ldap.so extension=mysql.so extension=pgsql.so Concerning your problem with mattyt.net/imp -> doma.mattyt.net check your httpd.conf

ckermit

2000-07-11 Thread Magnus Sandberg
Hi, I have an older installation of Debian Potato (like half a year old) on a machine were I also have ckermit installed. Now I would like to install kermit on another machine but I can't find kermit any more. What has happened with kermit? Thanks! _\\|//_

Re: imp

2000-07-11 Thread Matthew Thompson
Hi, Mario :) > yes! IMP is working just fine. > > I don't remember exactly what I did, so I'll try to help you listing all > .deb's I've installed. > > phplib, www-mysql, php3-mysql, php3-cgi-mysql, libmysqlclient6 I installed the above packages which were not already on my system. I'm still

Re: newusers command

2000-07-11 Thread Ron Rademaker
adduser is a perl script AFAIK, that uses useradd, so if you would edit the script, you can make it do what you want it to do. Ron On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Gary Hennigan wrote: > "Suresh Kumar. R" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I used newusers command to create large numbers of users. I find that >

[msoulier@storm.ca: logs]

2000-07-11 Thread Michael Soulier
Well, I tried the ne2k driver for that soho card, and it wouldn't install, saying "device or resource busy". So, I tried the tulip driver, which installed. On a reboot, eth0 was detected (woohoo!). Then, I installed dhcpcd, and gave it eth0 as the interface. It segfaulted. Now, w

[oclug] dhcpcd problems

2000-07-11 Thread Michael Soulier
Well, I tried the ne2k driver for that soho card, and it wouldn't install, saying "device or resource busy". So, I tried the tulip driver, which installed. On a reboot, eth0 was detected (woohoo!). Then, I installed dhcpcd, and gave it eth0 as the interface. It segfaulted.

Re: newusers command

2000-07-11 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Suresh Kumar. R" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I used newusers command to create large numbers of users. I find that > > 1. it doesnot copy files from /etc/skel to the home directory. > Should it be enabled in some way ? > > 2. Also, it creates users with ids greater that what is > existing al

RE: FTP, MASQ, certian hosts timeout

2000-07-11 Thread debian
did you compile the masq modules, or are they binaries? you must have ip_masq_ftp for the inbound traffic running already, right? I'm thinking the ip_masq modules are the problem +=> -Original Message- +=> From: Chris Wood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +=> Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 10:16

Re: Installation of .tgz files

2000-07-11 Thread Bolan Meek
"Suresh Kumar. R" wrote: > > Hi, > > When we install some package using .tgz files, the debian package > mechanism is not aware that the particular package is installed. > For ex. I installed postfix*.tgz but apt is unaware of it. > Therefore, when I use apt-get for installilng something else, >

Re: netatalk printing problem: need help!

2000-07-11 Thread andrew morgan
On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, James D. Freels wrote: > I have installed the netatalk 1.4b2+asun2.1.3-6 from Debian/Linux 2.2 > (frozen). I am almost there getting a HP LaserJet IV PS+ to print > over appletalk network on my Linux bos, but am still having some > problems. The papstatus shows that the pr

Re: What to use as an MTA

2000-07-11 Thread kmself
On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 07:52:19PM +0200, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: > The other problem I have with eximconfig is that it will only deliver 10 > mails at a time and then pause for a (unknown) delay. This occurs when > fetchmail gets mail from my ISP and passes it on to exim. Again, not a > big iss

FTP, MASQ, certian hosts timeout

2000-07-11 Thread Chris Wood
For some reason, with some ftp hosts my FTPs will timeout when I try to go to them, every single time. Other hosts work perfectly fast every single time. I've got two particular hosts that I work with all the time. A Sun OS box with one ISP that works perfect. The second is a Linux box with a

Installation of .tgz files

2000-07-11 Thread Suresh Kumar. R
Hi, When we install some package using .tgz files, the debian package mechanism is not aware that the particular package is installed. For ex. I installed postfix*.tgz but apt is unaware of it. Therefore, when I use apt-get for installilng something else, it would say, MTA not installed and it w

Re: emacs not obeying .Xdefaults, Thank you

2000-07-11 Thread Suresh Kumar. R
Hi, Thanks for the help. I put them in .Xresources and it worked fine Suresh -- Suresh Kumar.R, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept of Electronics & Communication College of Engineering, Trivandrum - 695

newusers command

2000-07-11 Thread Suresh Kumar. R
Hi, I used newusers command to create large numbers of users. I find that 1. it doesnot copy files from /etc/skel to the home directory. Should it be enabled in some way ? 2. Also, it creates users with ids greater that what is existing already. (As I understand from the source code) By defaul

Unidentified subject!

2000-07-11 Thread Uros Podkriznik
unsubscribe -- Linux doesn't define the way I work; I define the way Linux works!

RE: apt files to CD?

2000-07-11 Thread gochenourj
Is there any way to get the apt files without using apt-get? Maybe by regular ftp? I am not sure how apt works, but I have no box here to use apt-get. I do have regular ftp access though. Would that work? Thanks, Ashby > -Original Message- > From: Antonio Rodriguez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECT

netatalk printing problem: need help!

2000-07-11 Thread James D. Freels
I have installed the netatalk 1.4b2+asun2.1.3-6 from Debian/Linux 2.2 (frozen). I am almost there getting a HP LaserJet IV PS+ to print over appletalk network on my Linux bos, but am still having some problems. The papstatus shows that the printer is found and working OK. I get the following err

Re: apt files to CD?

2000-07-11 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Use apt-get with download only option, apt-move it to partial mirror, burn partial mirror, at home apt-get install from cd. I think it should work, haven't done it myself. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello Users, > Is there a way to download all the apt files, burn them to CD and install > off of

Re: named.conf

2000-07-11 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 04:15:14PM +0100, Oliver Schoenknecht wrote: Looks like a parentheses mismatch in the forwarders clause; > // generated by named-bootconf.pl > > options { > directory "/var/named"; > forward only; > forwarders { > 194.231.62.3;

twig package??

2000-07-11 Thread Charles Lewis
Does anyone know where I can find a deb package for twig? It's a nice little web based IM. The tarball can be found at http://twig.screwdriver.net/ , but I can't seem to find any .debs anywhere. Charles Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: CD-RW (scsi emulation) & Autofs

2000-07-11 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Daniel Ferrante wrote: > Actually, the probing during the bootup seems quite strange (even though > cdrecord -scanbus reports what it should...): it probes 15 devices!!! 7 of > them are my CD-RW and the other 7 are my CDROM!!! Sounds like you have `multiple LUNs' enabled in the kernel. I don't k

Re: Debian + other distribution

2000-07-11 Thread Benedikt Wildenhain
>And more, I have a /boot partition of 16MB to boot my Conectiva Linux. > (said that because it can be an important information.) You can put the file /boot/vmlinuz (kernel) in that partition. Then you can add the entry to your /etc/lilo.conf.

CD-RW (scsi emulation) & Autofs

2000-07-11 Thread Daniel Ferrante
Hi All! I have a weird problem going on: I have two kernels in my box. Both of them are exactly the same, but one of them has SCSI emulation, SCSI generic, SCSI CD, etc... compiled in so that my CD-RW (which is ATAPI) would work (CD-Writing-howto). In one kernel

named.conf

2000-07-11 Thread Oliver Schoenknecht
Hey everyone, when I restart my nameserver via the "ndc reload"-command, it tells me the following : dialin named[984]: /etc/named.conf:9: syntax error near allow- transfer Jul 11 16:06:44 dialin named[984]: /etc/named.conf:12: syntax error near '}' Alas, the first twenty-one lines of /etc/na

Re: Lilo-problem

2000-07-11 Thread Johann Spies
On Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 07:27:31PM -0400, Tom Pfeifer wrote: > This line in your /etc/lilo.conf is what clobbered your /dev/hda1 > partition: > > boot=/dev/hda1 > > What that did was install Lilo in the boot sector of your DOS/Windows > partition and wiped out the DOS boot record. > > If you wa

Errors linking knapster 0.12

2000-07-11 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
I can get it to compile fine but in the link phase I get lots of errors like extlistbox.o(.text+0x1d): undefined reference to `ExtListBox::QPaintDevice virtual table' What's up with that? I'm using the latest Qt 2.1 and KDE2 .debs. -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

apt files to CD?

2000-07-11 Thread gochenourj
Hello Users, Is there a way to download all the apt files, burn them to CD and install off of that? I have a fast connection at work to d/l the files, but only a modem at home on my debian machine. This would make it a lot easier and faster if I could apt install off a CD. Any help is much appric

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

2000-07-11 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 09:08, virtanen wrote: > > > > The wd module was there on the list, but install failed. > > > > The latest set of boot disks is missing the 8390 module which is > > loaded before the wd module. That should be fixed soon. > > I installed debian 'slink' and got it working

RE: emacs not obeying .Xdefaults in debian

2000-07-11 Thread Larry Elmore
> From: Suresh Kumar.R [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > When I start emacs in a debian machine, it is not obeying .Xdefaults file > in the home directory. It takes the .Xdefaults file, if it is named as > .Xdefaults-fully.qualified.machine.name > > Whereas, in a Redhat linux machine, emacs obeys the p

Re: Debian + other distribution

2000-07-11 Thread Ricardo Gabriel Herdt
Hi debianers, And how shold I proceed to use the same /boot partition for both distributions? Should I expand it? Debian 2.2 install it's kernel image on /boot automatically? Thanks for those who answerd me. Thanks, Ric

Re: emacs not obeying .Xdefaults in debian

2000-07-11 Thread David Wright
Quoting Suresh Kumar.R ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > When I start emacs in a debian machine, it is not obeying .Xdefaults file > in the home directory. It takes the .Xdefaults file, if it is named as > .Xdefaults-fully.qualified.machine.name > > Whereas, in a Redhat linux machine, emacs obeys the plain

Re: emacs not obeying .Xdefaults in debian

2000-07-11 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
Once upon a time, I heard Suresh Kumar.R say > Hi, > > When I start emacs in a debian machine, it is not obeying .Xdefaults file > in the home directory. It takes the .Xdefaults file, if it is named as > .Xdefaults-fully.qualified.machine.name > > Whereas, in a Redhat linux machine, emacs obeys

Logitech trackman marble mouse 3 button

2000-07-11 Thread rickloga
How do I get my Logitech Trackman Marble mouse to work with X windows? I use it serially rather than ps/2. I tried a few options when configuring X86 but they did not work. I have kernel 2.2.12. - Sent using MailStart.com ( http://MailStart.Com/welcome.html ) The FREE way to access your ma

Re: Scale

2000-07-11 Thread David Wright
Quoting Eric G . Miller (egm2@jps.net): > On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 12:33:25AM +0200, Harald Thingelstad wrote: > > Sorry to break in but.. > > Looking upon the earth as flat is a fine assumption if you're working on a > > small scale. > > You've got that backwards. Small scale is large area, large

Re: getting data into mails

2000-07-11 Thread Felix Natter
Sven Burgener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all > > If I wanted to put some lines of text from, say a manual page, into an > email that I compose (in mutt/vi), how would I best / most easily do this? > > I know about vi's ":r!" command which places the output of a program > into the current

emacs not obeying .Xdefaults in debian

2000-07-11 Thread Suresh Kumar.R
Hi, When I start emacs in a debian machine, it is not obeying .Xdefaults file in the home directory. It takes the .Xdefaults file, if it is named as .Xdefaults-fully.qualified.machine.name Whereas, in a Redhat linux machine, emacs obeys the plain .Xdefaults. Any solutions to use .Xdefaults only

Re: Using Netmeeting thought a Debian Firewall

2000-07-11 Thread Ragga Muffin
Jay Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Will NetMeeting work thought a firewall or will I need to port >the box to let it out. If I reme\mber right in the past I was able to >send video out but not receive it for the other side. Anyone haveany >ideas to fix this ? And what port will I need to open

Re: remote shell question

2000-07-11 Thread Moritz Schulte
On Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 10:14:37PM -0400, Chris Mason wrote: > Is there any way to SSH or telnet into an account, start a command line > program such as an ftp session, get the download going, then log out and > leave the process happeneing. I would like to be able to start downloading > then clos

Re: Debian + other distribution

2000-07-11 Thread Raoul van Putten
On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Ricardo Gabriel Herdt wrote: >I have a HD 10.2 with win95 at the begin (first 1500MB) and another Linux > dist. on a partition of 3000MB. (The distribution is Conectiva Linux, similar > to > RedHat). I want to install Debian 2.2 on another partition without remove > neith

Re: Which software to suck a whole website ?

2000-07-11 Thread Marc Dubrowski
On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Jaume Teixi wrote: > thanks, > > jaume. > > > -- wget and gwget with a gui -- Marc Dubrowski Kind of a Network Administrator K.B.I.N.I.R.Sc.N.B. 29 rue Vautier B-1040 Brussels, Belgium

Re: Which software to suck a whole website ?

2000-07-11 Thread Stephan Engelke
Jaume Teixi writes: > thanks, wget -r url Cheers -- Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** I am the captain of this ship and I have my wife's permission to say so! **

Which software to suck a whole website ?

2000-07-11 Thread Jaume Teixi
thanks, jaume.

Re: smbmount

2000-07-11 Thread Corey Popelier
smbfs is actually a package - apt-get install smbfs You also need SMB support compiled into the kernel for those commands to work. (I dont know if you can do it as a module, havent tried). Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 11

Debian potato on an EGA display

2000-07-11 Thread Enrico Zini
Hello! I'm running Debian on a Celeron system with an EGA video board. Everything is fine except the cursor is displayed 2 characters to the right of where it should be. For example, if I type 'foo', I get foo _ but if I press backspace I get fo _ To solve this inconvenient I found a valid work

R: MySQL and DBI

2000-07-11 Thread marco frattola
> I'm having a problem opening the data source of the MySQL > server. The set > up of my servers are as follows: > > 1. My remote server is a Unix Apache and is with an ISP. I've > installed/unzipped the Data-Dumper, DBI, MSQL-MySQL Module and the > CGI.pm into a folder just off the root. I n

Re: email to fax

2000-07-11 Thread Brian May
> "Brian" == Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brian> Sorry, it is ages since I last looked at this (it worked Brian> last time I checked!): Sorry, I somehow missed the attachment (perhaps gnus is still buggy :-( here). Sending as plain text: #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use M

Re: email to fax

2000-07-11 Thread Brian May
> "J" == J H M Dassen Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: J> On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 12:49:26 -0400, Chris Mason wrote: >> Can anyone suggest an automate way to route all the email sent >> to one email address to be faxed to one fax machine. The >> purpose is to allow orders taken

Re: Cannot echo capital M

2000-07-11 Thread Will Trillich
On Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 06:02:51PM +0100, David Wright wrote: > Quoting M.K.Pai ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > I am facing a rather strange problem. > > > > I am unable to echo the character "M" on my bash prompt. > > > > I am able to get M by > > perl -e 'print chr(77);' > > > > I am even able to

Re: rm to mp3?

2000-07-11 Thread Cyrus Patel
Kenneth Scharf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does anyone know how to convert a .rm file to an mp3 > format? I have downloaded several real audio .rm > files (I can play them on the linux realplayer) but I > would like to convert them to mp3 format. Any ideas? Hello Kenneth, I asked this question a

Re: smbmount

2000-07-11 Thread Darlock
On Tue, 11 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi i have installed samba-2.0.5a-1.deb and it does not contain either smbclient or smbmount. the debian search-contents feature on the debian home page has indicated that smbmount is in the "otherosfs/smbfs" which i

Re: remote shell question

2000-07-11 Thread kmself
On Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 10:14:37PM -0400, Chris Mason wrote: > Is there any way to SSH or telnet into an account, start a command line > program such as an ftp session, get the download going, then log out and > leave the process happeneing. I would like to be able to start downloading > then close

Re: software watchdog

2000-07-11 Thread kmself
On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 12:55:13AM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote: > > Hi! > > My home-debian-box starts to behave rather odd lately, now and then it > will freeze completely. > > The only thing working is ICMP, I can´t even get a TCP connection open, > the screen is frozen, neither mouse nor key

Re: Lilo-problem

2000-07-11 Thread virtanen
On 10 Jul 2000, John Hasler wrote: > Tom writes: > > This line in your /etc/lilo.conf is what clobbered your /dev/hda1 > > partition: > > > boot=/dev/hda1 > > > What that did was install Lilo in the boot sector of your DOS/Windows > > partition and wiped out the DOS boot record. > > Which could

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

2000-07-11 Thread virtanen
On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > The wd module was there on the list, but install failed. > > The latest set of boot disks is missing the 8390 module which is > loaded before the wd module. That should be fixed soon. I installed debian 'slink' and got it working. I did not have

Re: Looking for Compression algorithm

2000-07-11 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 01:46:07PM +0800, minfuli wrote: > Dear Sir: We are looking for the Algorithm of data compression. We > know MPEG1, MPEG2, MP3 which are compressions for Audio & Video. Its > allow the data lose when compressed . But We need the algorithm of > loseless compression. Like BIO

Looking for Compression algorithm

2000-07-11 Thread minfuli
Dear Sir: We are looking for the Algorithm of data compression. We know  MPEG1, MPEG2, MP3 which are compressions for Audio & Video. Its allow the data lose when compressed . But We need the algorithm of loseless compression. Like BIOS compression, Modem, Tape Compression  Can you provi

Re: Cannot echo capital M

2000-07-11 Thread M.K.Pai
Thanks a million. A faulty .inputrc was the problem. PAI On Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 06:02:51PM +0100, David Wright wrote: > Quoting M.K.Pai ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > I am facing a rather strange problem. > > > > I am unable to echo the character "M" on my bash prompt. > > > > I am able to get M b

Re: Potato and Helix-Gnome - Solved!

2000-07-11 Thread Joey Hess
Robert Maynord wrote: > 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. Are yo

Re: Cheers for Debian

2000-07-11 Thread GECOS
And along this line, with the great regret, I send the Debian community my goodbye. This is a great bunxh of folks and I am going to miss you all more than you will ever know. This goes for those of you that I have met as well of those of you that are simply an email address or irc nick to me. My