Re: still unable to get kernel source - solved

2000-08-13 Thread John Reinke
My problem: I could never decompress any kernel source file I downloaded without it aborting with errors. My solution: I uninstalled the bzip2 package and then reinstalled it. That fixed the problem, so I'm on to xconfig, which seems to work now... Thanks for the help. John

RE: Modeline for ADI Multiscan E75

2000-08-13 Thread Andrew McRobert
sounds like a possibility ... what are those "ferrite beads" you're talking about? cheers Andrew - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 93

Re: Modeline for ADI Multiscan E75

2000-08-13 Thread ferret
Shadowing.. Sounds like a cable problem actually. I get the efect on my system because I'm running it through a KVM switch. One of the systems I use where I work is also run through a switchbox and displays the same kind of problem. Perhaps you could try using a shorter cable (if the cable can de

Port No. 1032 - iad3

2000-08-13 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi all Does anyone know what port 1032 is used for on a Windows machine (or any machine for that matter)? Running a port scan on my computer shows this port open and labelled as supporting "iad3"?? thanks Andrew - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sc

Re: Installing Debian on 486

2000-08-13 Thread kmself
On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 07:50:33PM -0600, s. keeling wrote: > On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 03:12:13PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 12:52:27AM -0300, Rogerio Brito wrote: > Agreed wrt the amount of RAM he has installed. However, my AMD > 486DX4-100 with SCSI and 96 Mb

RE: Modeline for ADI Multiscan E75

2000-08-13 Thread Andrew McRobert
yep, it's an onboard adapter, I downloaded the X server from the mainboard manufacturer's site ... Andrew - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax:

install of slink

2000-08-13 Thread Mark Bathie
I want to install slink/stable on a new machine initially via floppies, then off a network (http). For some reason (unlike previously) when I go to install the base system, i t does not give me the "network install" option. All the others are there i.e. "cdrom, NFS, mounted partition, etc".

Re: cd burner

2000-08-13 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Aug 12 2000, Dale L . Morris wrote: > I'm thinking of getting a cd writer for my system. Any suggestions > on brand, model, etc..? My system is an athalon 600, non-scusi,. I'm > pretty new to all this so ease of install, compatibility and use are > important. Well, I used to have a SCSI

Re: Mailbox Formates (was: Expiring mail)

2000-08-13 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Aug 13 2000, Nate Duehr wrote: > Just out of curiosity, anyone ever seen any good documentation on > the advantages/disadvantages (even if it's biased, since we're *ALL* > biased...) of the different mailbox formats? You can see something in this direction in the following homep

Re: Installing Debian on 486

2000-08-13 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Aug 13 2000, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 12:52:27AM -0300, Rogerio Brito wrote: > > Wow, I use a computer not much better than that one. :-) > > Servers, workstations, or what? > > While I could see a departmental file/print/mail server, or a firewall > system wit

Older hardware running newer software (was: Re: Installing Debian on 486)

2000-08-13 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Aug 13 2000, s. keeling wrote: > RAM tends to help more than upgrading to a faster processor would. Indeed. Really. The chance to avoid swaps is incredible. The only problem is that not all older boards support that much of RAM (and not all of them support even 72-way me

Re: NETSCAPE works, while PING does not

2000-08-13 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Aug 13 2000, Alessandro Ghigi wrote: > But if I ping these addresses (e.g. www.netcom.com, > ftp.de.debian.org, xxx.sissa.it) from the account I have on the > server (the same server to which I connect via PPP) the addresses > respond. Therefore I guess it's my fault. No, it probably is

Generating Modelines that are *useful* (was: Re: Modeline for ADI Multiscan E75)

2000-08-13 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Aug 13 2000, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 02:51:41PM +0800, Andrew McRobert wrote: > > Does anyone have a good Modeline for this monitor? I can get X running @ > > 1024x768 with 16bpp, but there's a bit of shadowing around eterm windows > > etc > > Have you fiddled

Re: cd burner

2000-08-13 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Aug 13 2000, Robert Waldner wrote: > >> I'm thinking of getting a cd writer for my system. Any suggestions on > >> brand, model, etc..? My system is an athalon 600, non-scusi,. I'm pretty > >> new to all this so ease of install, compatibility and use are important. > > If you want ease of use&i

Re: NETSCAPE works, while PING does not

2000-08-13 Thread kmself
No need to cc me, I read the list. On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 09:10:02PM -0400, Alessandro Ghigi wrote: > > > On Sun, 13 Aug 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 03:41:58PM -0400, Alessandro Ghigi wrote: > > > > > > There are some addresses I cannot ping, while I can acc

RE: Modeline for ADI Multiscan E75

2000-08-13 Thread Tal Danzig
Hi, Sounds like you may be using the wrong xserver. Are you sure you are using the correct xserver for you video card? Tal -- | Tal Danzig | Join #libranet on the | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ope

Re: 128-bit netscape

2000-08-13 Thread Michael Soulier
On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Christian Pernegger wrote: > > Why isn't there a high-encryption netscape on the debian ftp > > site? Or is there? > > There is, in a way. You need to add the non-us archive section and install > fortify which enables 128bit encryption in Netscape. Just tried tha

Re: still unable to get kernel source

2000-08-13 Thread John Reinke
Well, this is what I was doing, but I still have the same problems, please see below: On Sun, 13 Aug 2000, Thomas J. Hamman wrote: > On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 09:03:21PM -0500, John Reinke wrote: > > Okay, I've tried getting the kernel sources from different places, > > decompressing the files in d

Re: beeping keypad in Eterm

2000-08-13 Thread Aaron Maxwell
> If you're using the latest woody eterm (or any 0.9.0-series eterm package), The problem was that I had eterm-0.8.7 ; installing 0.9.0 fixed the problem (my ncurses-base etc. were up to date). Thanks, Dave. I normally apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade once a week. but a dependency conflic

RE: Modeline for ADI Multiscan E75

2000-08-13 Thread Andrew McRobert
yeah, and it lets me widen the image on the screen, but not stretch it vertically, and doesn't really help with the shadowing (which isn't so bad, I'd just prefer it wasn't there). thanks Andrew - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Offi

Re: Internet only for root

2000-08-13 Thread John Hasler
Add the users who are to be able to bring up ppp to the 'dip' group. You can do this with the command adduser username dip Recent versions of pppconfig can also do this. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

Re: procmail - filtering already received mails

2000-08-13 Thread Florian Friesdorf
On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 03:28:48AM +0200, Florian Friesdorf wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm trying to filter already received mails (in a maildir) through procmail. > My latest "approach" is executing > > for i in `ls`; do > echo -n "$i: "; > procmail < $i && rm $i; > echo "done."; > done > >

Re: fetchmail configuration

2000-08-13 Thread André Dahlqvist
On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 09:31:54PM -0400, S.Salman Ahmed wrote: > "fetchmail -v -d0" produces too much output to be useful. I guess I'll > look into procmail. While I definately agree that procmail is the right tool for this job, you could actually do something like: fetchmail -vv | grep "About

Re: still unable to get kernel source

2000-08-13 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 09:03:21PM -0500, John Reinke wrote: > Okay, I've tried getting the kernel sources from different places, > decompressing the files in different ways, and finding the files so I can > even start to configure a kernel. > > I've done it before, but I guess all the files were

freopen:stderr failed

2000-08-13 Thread Fish Smith
Okay, what does gpm: freopen(stderr) failed mean? __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail – Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/

Re: 128-bit netscape

2000-08-13 Thread Christian Pernegger
On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 09:42:28PM -0400, Michael Soulier wrote: > > Hey guys. So I want a high-encryption copy of netscape for online > banking, and I grab one from the Netscape homepage. Unfortunately, I've > got the wrong version of the c++ library. > It's looking for libstdc+

still unable to get kernel source

2000-08-13 Thread John Reinke
Okay, I've tried getting the kernel sources from different places, decompressing the files in different ways, and finding the files so I can even start to configure a kernel. I've done it before, but I guess all the files were already there for me. Can someone PLEASE just give the step-by-step in

Re: Internet only for root

2000-08-13 Thread Pollywog
On 14-Aug-2000 Marko Cehaja wrote: > Hmm, Netscape should run for normal users. > > You have to put normal user into the group for pppd. > > I don't know which group it is, but I suppose it is dip. Yes, it is "dip" -- Andrew

Re: cannot get all the galeon files

2000-08-13 Thread Pollywog
On 14-Aug-2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > Where is the mozilla-dev rpm available? http://people.redhat.com/blizzard/software/RPMS/i386/

Re: Internet only for root

2000-08-13 Thread Marko Cehaja
Dear On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 09:25:51PM -, Ronald Castillo wrote: > Greetings... I would like to know how to give internet access to all normal > users, because when I connect only root has the access, and netscape doesn't > roon as root, so I'm having a pretty big problem... > > Thanks. >

Re: Installing Debian on 486

2000-08-13 Thread s. keeling
On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 03:12:13PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 12:52:27AM -0300, Rogerio Brito wrote: > > On Aug 12 2000, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > I rolled out my first Debian installation on a similar > > > configuration, though I had about half the disk.

Re: Internet only for root

2000-08-13 Thread Michael Soulier
On Sun, 13 Aug 2000, Ronald Castillo wrote: > Greetings... I would like to know how to give internet access to all normal > users, because when I connect only root has the access, and netscape doesn't > roon as root, so I'm having a pretty big problem... I assume you're using a dial-up c

128-bit netscape

2000-08-13 Thread Michael Soulier
Hey guys. So I want a high-encryption copy of netscape for online banking, and I grab one from the Netscape homepage. Unfortunately, I've got the wrong version of the c++ library. [EMAIL PROTECTED] netscape]$ ldd netscape libBrokenLocale.so.1 => /lib/libBrokenLocale.so.1 (0x40017

RE: temporary allowing telnet to use x-windows

2000-08-13 Thread Kenrick, Chris
> Well, John. Your user will have to install an X-server on his machine. > IIRC, there used to be a free beer version of M/IX for Windows, but as of > version 2.0, it isn't. So, you can go with that -- or MicroX or Exceed or > hope that the XFree on Windows project ships something soon. > I hav

Re: cannot get all the galeon files

2000-08-13 Thread kmself
On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 11:38:34PM +, Pollywog wrote: > > On 13-Aug-2000 Thomas J. Hamman wrote: > > Anyway, to answer some things you asked me, the official place to get > > Galeon (source and rpm, but the rpm doesn't seem to work in Debian) is > > http://galeon.sourceforge.net. But to comp

RE: Netscape 6 PR2 with Debian 2.2

2000-08-13 Thread Ronald Castillo
To everybody who wants to use netscape: to make instalation easy, just download it using apt-get!! I did it today, and it configured automatically!! Configure the sources.list file to get files from the Internet (netscape is's in the packages stable contrib and non-free) and "apt-get install nets

Internet only for root

2000-08-13 Thread Ronald Castillo
Greetings... I would like to know how to give internet access to all normal users, because when I connect only root has the access, and netscape doesn't roon as root, so I'm having a pretty big problem... Thanks. Ronald

procmail - filtering already received mails

2000-08-13 Thread Florian Friesdorf
Hello all, I'm trying to filter already received mails (in a maildir) through procmail. My latest "approach" is executing for i in `ls`; do echo -n "$i: "; procmail < $i && rm $i; echo "done."; done in SomeMaildir/cur advantage: it is working disadvantage: it is incredibly slow (5 seconds

Re: NETSCAPE works, while PING does not

2000-08-13 Thread Alessandro Ghigi
On Sun, 13 Aug 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 03:41:58PM -0400, Alessandro Ghigi wrote: > > > > There are some addresses I cannot ping, while I can access them with > > Netscape, ftp or finger (depending on the type). I can't figure out what > > is difference between

Re: Failed reboot after upgrade

2000-08-13 Thread Charles Kaufman
Hi Thanks for the help. On Sun, 13 Aug 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 12:37:05AM -0400, charles kaufman wrote: > > Hi > > I have just upgraded from 2.1 to frozen. I had some difficulty with > > apt but the list helped me past it and all seemed well. > > > > So I trie

Re: fetchmail configuration

2000-08-13 Thread Marko Cehaja
Dear On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 08:22:47PM -0400, S.Salman Ahmed wrote: > > Normally, fetchmail displays the following output when I invoke it from > the command line in a terminal window: > > 5 messages for user at mail.isp.com (11495 octets). > reading message 1 of 5 (3031 octets) .. flushed > >

Re: Problem with potato

2000-08-13 Thread Marko Cehaja
Dear On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 08:46:41AM +0930, John Pearson wrote: > > > > DEBUG: Pages 0: Changed 0, Reapped 0, Empty 0, > > New 0; Tup 0: Vac 0, Keep/VTL 0/0, Crash 0, UnUsed 0, MinLen 0, MaxLen 0; > > Re-using: Free/Avail. Space 0/0; EndEmpty/Avail. Pages 0/0. Elapsed

Re: cannot get all the galeon files

2000-08-13 Thread Pollywog
On 13-Aug-2000 Thomas J. Hamman wrote: > Andrew, is your E-mail address set correctly? I tried replying to you > directly but my mails were returned. I checked my logs and it appears your mail server IP does not resolve correctly, that is why your mails bounced. Sorry about that. > > Anyway,

Re: Modeline for ADI Multiscan E75

2000-08-13 Thread kmself
On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 02:51:41PM +0800, Andrew McRobert wrote: > hi > > Does anyone have a good Modeline for this monitor? I can get X running @ > 1024x768 with 16bpp, but there's a bit of shadowing around eterm windows > etc Have you fiddled with xvidtune? -- Karsten M. Self http:/

Re: non-packaged daemons

2000-08-13 Thread kmself
On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 06:16:14AM +0930, David Purton wrote: > > What is the correct way to get a non-packaged daemon (ie on I've compiled > from source) to start on startup like the packages with an entry in > /etc/init.d? > > Can I just add a file to here that does what I want? > > What about

Re: dselect shows all packages to be removed?

2000-08-13 Thread kmself
On Sat, Aug 12, 2000 at 02:53:55AM +0200, null void wrote: > Suddenly...dselect now shows all packages pending removal...this is > dangerous...Can I make dselect somehow correct itself? I've seen this before, am not quite sure how I bailed out of it. Take the following as advisory but not necessa

Re: cannot get all the galeon files

2000-08-13 Thread André Dahlqvist
On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 02:13:06PM -0400, Thomas J. Hamman wrote: > http://galeon.sourceforge.net. But to compile Galeon's source you need > either Mozilla's source compiled (unless you make symlinks to dozens of > spread out headers yourself), or the mozilla-dev rpm which provides > just Moz

Re: Failed reboot after upgrade

2000-08-13 Thread kmself
On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 12:37:05AM -0400, charles kaufman wrote: > Hi > I have just upgraded from 2.1 to frozen. I had some difficulty with > apt but the list helped me past it and all seemed well. > > So I tried to reboot but the reboot failed. > Some of the messages at reboot were about looking

Re: Installing Debian on 486

2000-08-13 Thread kmself
On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 06:22:59PM -0400, Spinfire Magenta wrote: > on Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 03:12:13PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com spewed > forth on stone tablets: > > > Servers, workstations, or what? While I could see a departmental > > file/print/mail server, or a firewall system with reasonab

Re: scrambled chars on tty

2000-08-13 Thread kmself
On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 12:08:42PM +0700, Umum Wijoyo wrote: > Hi... > > I'd just like to ask: > Why do several of my tty-s display scrambled characters? > I can't login using them; if I do, I also get a scrambled shell prompt. > What's happening? - "reset" usually does. - Running "top" (and hi

Re: Apache -- SSL and normal on same system?

2000-08-13 Thread kmself
On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 09:19:20AM -0300, John Ackermann wrote: > I've been running Apache successfully for a long time, and would like > to add a secured virtual site to my collection. I tried installing > Debian apache-ssl but ran into a brick wall figuring out how to make it > work both for

Re: Problem with potato

2000-08-13 Thread John Pearson
On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 10:23:41AM -0400, Brian Schramm wrote > I just got through installing Potato on my HP Pavilion 133 computer with > 80 meg of ram and a 8gig HD. > > When I come back to it from letting it sit idle for about 8 hours this is > on the tty1 screen: > > D

Module Autoloader not working

2000-08-13 Thread Ronald Castillo
Hi. I had kernel version 2.2.12 but I patched it up to version 2.2.16, and now my module auto-loaderisn't working. I get some error messages when I boot Debian saying that it can't fine module serial lp and some more. How can I do to solve this? Thanks..

Re: cannot get all the galeon files

2000-08-13 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 07:58:28PM +, Pollywog wrote: > > Hmm, well, if you're following the tip I posted, the only file you need > > from there is mozilla-devel-M17-2.i386.rpm. I don't know why you'd be > > having trouble downloading it... what are you trying to download it > > with? > > I t

0x10 error; the /home of a MDK to appear "magically" in the /ect/fstab of a Debian ?

2000-08-13 Thread Alain Reinhardt
Allo, CONTEXT I work with a Debian which takes half the partitions of a disk, and my daughters surf along with a Mandrake that takes the other half of the partitions on the same disk. I boot normally from hard drive with /dev/sda2 mounted as /. They were, up to a few days ago, booting from flop

Help: Driver for Network Card HP NC 16

2000-08-13 Thread joao pissarro
Hello all, I'm trying to install on potato (2.2.17) the drivers for the network card from HP type HP NC 16 (packet driver type ne2100). I can manage the kernel to recognise the card, or the appropriate module. The card is on: io=0x300, irq=5 and dma=5 Can anyone help me? Thanks Joao Pissarro -

Re: dirver for OPTI82C93 sound card

2000-08-13 Thread Robert Waldner
umm, you´ve posted your question to the "Debian GNU/Linux" list, which is quite surely *not* the right place to ask Window$ NT questions ;-) &rw On Sun, 13 Aug 2000 15:36:22 PDT, "Ali Balandy" writes: >I've got an Opti 82C93 sound card, but I can't find the driver. I am running W >indows NT 4.

dirver for OPTI82C93 sound card

2000-08-13 Thread Ali Balandy
I've got an Opti 82C93 sound card, but I can't find the driver. I am running Windows NT 4. can you tell me where I can download the right driver. thanks for your help Ali Balandy Computer Support Technician Information & Computing Services Vancouver Community College Tel: (604) 443-8516 [EMAI

Re: Problem with potato

2000-08-13 Thread alan
I have the same problem my guess is that it is generated from ... /etc/cron.d/postgresql which runs /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/do.maintenance I will check this script and add some -S 's ... if required HTH Alan > Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 17:34:41 +0200 > From: Marko Cehaja <[EMAI

Re: Installing Debian on 486

2000-08-13 Thread Spinfire Magenta
on Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 03:12:13PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com spewed forth on stone tablets: > Servers, workstations, or what? While I could see a departmental > file/print/mail server, or a firewall system with reasonable > traffic, and possible a limited task workstation or X terminal, > based

Re: Mailbox Formates (was: Expiring mail)

2000-08-13 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 01:26:49PM -0600, Nate Duehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just out of curiosity, anyone ever seen any good documentation on the > advantages/disadvantages (even if it's biased, since we're *ALL* > biased...) of the different mailbox formats? In my experience, Maildir is bes

Re: NETSCAPE works, while PING does not

2000-08-13 Thread kmself
On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 03:41:58PM -0400, Alessandro Ghigi wrote: > > There are some addresses I cannot ping, while I can access them with > Netscape, ftp or finger (depending on the type). I can't figure out what > is difference between these addresses and the ones which I can ping > succesfully.

Re: Installing Debian on 486

2000-08-13 Thread kmself
On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 12:52:27AM -0300, Rogerio Brito wrote: > On Aug 12 2000, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > I rolled out my first Debian installation on a similar > > configuration, though I had about half the disk. What are you > > planning on *doing* with the box -- it's pretty anaemic buy

Re: Problem with potato

2000-08-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 10:23:41AM -0400, Brian Schramm wrote: > --Relation pg_indexes-- > DEBUG: Pages 0: Changed 0, Reapped 0, Empty 0, New 0; > Tup 0: > Vac 0, Keep/VTL 0/0, Crash 0, UnUsed 0, MinLen 0, MaxLen 0; Re-using: > Free/Avail. Space 0/0; EndEmpty/Avail. Pages 0/0. El

Re: Potato IP Masq

2000-08-13 Thread alan
Hi John, Sorry - I must of misread your earlier post the ipmasq rules are in /etc/ipmasq/rules/. This directory the ruleset broken down into individual files (by rule type) to help with the maintenance and management of your firewalling rules (rather than one big script where evrythings chuc

Re: cd burner

2000-08-13 Thread Robert Waldner
On Sun, 13 Aug 2000 13:22:54 MDT, Nate Duehr writes: >The Yamaha at work burns at 8X while copying directly from the other 20X >CD-ROM on the same IDE chain without running the buffer empty or even >close to empty. Machine has 64MB RAM and a PIII-450. While this is ok, slower machines may run int

terminal problems

2000-08-13 Thread Michael Soulier
I'm having a really hard time with certain apps that I've never seen before. Most of my applications are fine, but specifically Vim is interpreting my backspaces as deletes and vice-versa. This is only in Debian. Any ideas? Mike "To listen to the words of the learned, an

ppa driver fails unaccountably

2000-08-13 Thread Louis F. Melahn
I have an older Zip drive, which uses the ppa driver. I got it to work using Potato on another PC, but on my machine I get the following messages at boot time (when there is a disk in the drive): parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP] ppa: Version 2.04 (for Linux 2.2.x) ppa: Found device at ID 6, Att

Re: cannot get all the galeon files

2000-08-13 Thread Pollywog
On 13-Aug-2000 Thomas J. Hamman wrote: > On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 06:22:16PM +, Pollywog wrote: >> I noticed that someone was trying to install galeon a few days ago. >> I am trying to obtain the mozilla rpm's in order to convert them to debs, >> but >> whenever I download from the site below,

NETSCAPE works, while PING does not

2000-08-13 Thread Alessandro Ghigi
There are some addresses I cannot ping, while I can access them with Netscape, ftp or finger (depending on the type). I can't figure out what is difference between these addresses and the ones which I can ping succesfully. Also, if I try traceroute on an address which ping can reach, I just get "*

Re: cannot get all the galeon files

2000-08-13 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 06:22:16PM +, Pollywog wrote: > I noticed that someone was trying to install galeon a few days ago. > I am trying to obtain the mozilla rpm's in order to convert them to debs, but > whenever I download from the site below, I get some of the file and the > download stalls

Re: Prepositions [was Re: Expiring mail]

2000-08-13 Thread Cam Ellison
"Eric G . Miller" wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 12:43:26PM -0400, Christopher Mosley wrote: > > Maildir format might be found at qmail but I really don't know. Perhaps > > there is info there on how to do this, it seems to be something people > > would be in need of - I mean - something for

RE: Mailbox Formates (was: Expiring mail)

2000-08-13 Thread Nate Duehr
On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 12:43:26PM -0400, Christopher Mosley wrote: > This would be quite easy if your mail is in Maildir format. Since you > say "mailbox" I assume this is not the case. Qmail used to create mbox by > default with the option to compile with Maildir. I imagine most mail > user agent

Re: cd burner

2000-08-13 Thread Nate Duehr
On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 10:13:49AM -0400, Michael Soulier wrote: > > > I'm thinking of getting a cd writer for my system. Any suggestions on > > brand, model, etc..? My system is an athalon 600, non-scusi,. I'm pretty > > new to all this so ease of install, compatibility and use are important. > >

Re: A possible problem with x-terminal-emulator?

2000-08-13 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 08:18:25PM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: > A few days ago I reported here that I have a problem with text apps > (top, mc, pstree and such) that are being launched in X using the menu > system (that is, with something like apps->System->Top). To be more > specific, it appeared th

startup error messages

2000-08-13 Thread Jonas Moberg
I get some ugly error-messages when I start my potato install. I get a few of these: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } and then it ends with: hda: DMA disabled ide0: reset: success but after that I

Prepositions [was Re: Expiring mail]

2000-08-13 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 12:43:26PM -0400, Christopher Mosley wrote: > Maildir format might be found at qmail but I really don't know. Perhaps > there is info there on how to do this, it seems to be something people > would be in need of - I mean - something for which there is a need. > Why on eart

cannot get all the galeon files

2000-08-13 Thread Pollywog
I noticed that someone was trying to install galeon a few days ago. I am trying to obtain the mozilla rpm's in order to convert them to debs, but whenever I download from the site below, I get some of the file and the download stalls. http://people.redhat.com/blizzard/software/RPMS/i386/ How were

Re: cd burner

2000-08-13 Thread John Bagdanoff
The HP CD-Writer Plus 9300i (ide) works here. John On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 09:23:06AM -0600, s. keeling wrote: > On Sat, Aug 12, 2000 at 11:52:53PM -0700, Dale L . Morris wrote: > > I'm thinking of getting a cd writer for my system. Any suggestions on > > I've seen recommendations for Yamaha 842

Somebody knows why .Xmodmap is not loaded?

2000-08-13 Thread Marko Cehaja
I just changed LC_CTYPE to proper locale coding, and my HOME/.Xmodmap is not being loaded any more. Maybe it is, but I don't get any more my keyboard mapping like it was. Does LC_CTYPE changes the keyboard mapping and how I can prevent that? I use keyboard which is not set up for that locale I

A possible problem with x-terminal-emulator?

2000-08-13 Thread Shaul Karl
A few days ago I reported here that I have a problem with text apps (top, mc, pstree and such) that are being launched in X using the menu system (that is, with something like apps->System->Top). To be more specific, it appeared that the X terminal that these apps are using does not read the xte

Re: Expiring mail

2000-08-13 Thread Christopher Mosley
On 13 Aug 2000, Arcady Genkin wrote: > Are there any non-interactive tools to expire mail from a mailbox? > I have procmail spliting my mail into many mailboxes, and then use my > mailreader's expiry functionality. I would like to rather run > something from crontab. > > I'm looking for someth

alien & apsfilter & lpr-ish daemons

2000-08-13 Thread s. keeling
- The man page for alien says not to use it on source packages. I understand apsfilter is mostly sh source. Can I use alien on it (a .tar.gz archive)? - Is there a better way to do this? I'm apparently fighting a known problem with lpd's; apsfilter runs under UID daemon, lpd con

Re: beeping keypad in Eterm

2000-08-13 Thread Dave Sherohman
Aaron Maxwell said: > Hi. I'm running woody, with Eterm v. 0.8.7 . Eterm doesn't seem to > recognize keypad characters correctly (xterm doesn't have this problem); > it just beeps at me, confused and frustrated. This causes me grave > anguish, exquisite agony, relentless torment, and soul-wrench

Re: Netscape 6 PR2 with Debian 2.2

2000-08-13 Thread André Dahlqvist
On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 09:41:12PM +0800, Corey Popelier wrote: > Heh, Mozilla (M16 iirc) is completely unusable for me too - doesn't > segfault, but won't download anything because it completely screws up the > reporting of the download (winds up with about a 30k rate, about 20Mb > completed of a

Re: Problem with potato

2000-08-13 Thread Marko Cehaja
Dear On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 05:34:41PM +0200, Marko Cehaja wrote: > Dear > > happening, and I have the same. > > I looked into configuration files of PostgreSQL and debug is turned off. > I can however imagine that it is some kind of message which also goes > through syslogd. I quote now myse

Re: Problem with potato

2000-08-13 Thread Marko Cehaja
Dear On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 10:23:41AM -0400, Brian Schramm wrote: > I just got through installing Potato on my HP Pavilion 133 computer with > 80 meg of ram and a 8gig HD. > > When I come back to it from letting it sit idle for about 8 hours this is > on the tty1 screen: > >

Re: cd burner

2000-08-13 Thread Robert Waldner
>> I'm thinking of getting a cd writer for my system. Any suggestions on >> brand, model, etc..? My system is an athalon 600, non-scusi,. I'm pretty >> new to all this so ease of install, compatibility and use are important. If you want ease of use&install then I´d suggest going for a SCSI-drive,

Re: dselect shows all packages to be removed?

2000-08-13 Thread Andreas Hetzmannseder
null void schrieb: > > Suddenly...dselect now shows all packages pending removal...this is > dangerous...Can I make dselect somehow correct itself? Highlight the corresponding header for your packages and press the key of your choice, e.g. '+' for installation. Regards, Andreas

Re: cd burner

2000-08-13 Thread s. keeling
On Sat, Aug 12, 2000 at 11:52:53PM -0700, Dale L . Morris wrote: > I'm thinking of getting a cd writer for my system. Any suggestions on I've seen recommendations for Yamaha 8424SX (CDRW). That should get you started. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stephen) TopQuark Software & Serv. Enquire within.

xfs+xfstt or xfs-xtt

2000-08-13 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Hi! I am currently running xfs + xfstt on Potato with xserver-i128. Would you recommend to change to xfs-xtt? Does it uses less memory? What advantages are there? Are there problems changing the Font Server? TIA juh -- Heute ist der 3. Oktober! Basta! http://www.sudelbuch.de/1999/19991109.htm

Expiring mail

2000-08-13 Thread Arcady Genkin
Are there any non-interactive tools to expire mail from a mailbox? I have procmail spliting my mail into many mailboxes, and then use my mailreader's expiry functionality. I would like to rather run something from crontab. I'm looking for something that would be able to: 1. Delete messages older

Re: Wine Windows Emulator

2000-08-13 Thread cmosley
-- X-Newsgroups: linux.debian.user In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > HardcoreLinux has a Howto on Wine: > http://www.hardcorelinux.com/wine-howto.htm Dear Mr. RinkJustice You posted to the newsgroup. The Writer of

Problem with potato

2000-08-13 Thread Brian Schramm
I just got through installing Potato on my HP Pavilion 133 computer with 80 meg of ram and a 8gig HD. When I come back to it from letting it sit idle for about 8 hours this is on the tty1 screen: DEBUG: Pages 0: Changed 0, Reapped 0, Empty 0, New 0; Tup 0: Vac 0, Keep/VTL

Re: gnome-terminal

2000-08-13 Thread Michael Soulier
On Sun, 13 Aug 2000, Ed Cogburn wrote: > I'm using woody + helixcode GNOME. Does the gnome-terminal currently > have no way to read and use X resource files? In gnome-terminal, > things like the key sequence produced by the F1 key is different from > the one in the regular xterm. gnome-te

Re: Laplink for Linux (again...)

2000-08-13 Thread Michael Soulier
On Sun, 13 Aug 2000, [iso-8859-1] Carl Winb?ck wrote: > I'm sorry if anybody will get this message twice, but I'm not > sure the other mail arrived... > > Is there any laplink app for Linux, so I can transfer files > between my 2 computers? I'm not sure there's a need in the linux world,

Re: Laplink for Linux (again...)

2000-08-13 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 01:07:54AM -0700, Carl Winbäck wrote: > I'm sorry if anybody will get this message twice, but I'm not > sure the other mail arrived... > > Is there any laplink app for Linux, so I can transfer files > between my 2 computers? > No special app is needed. You can recompile

Re: cd burner

2000-08-13 Thread Michael Soulier
On Sat, 12 Aug 2000, Dale L . Morris wrote: > I'm thinking of getting a cd writer for my system. Any suggestions on > brand, model, etc..? My system is an athalon 600, non-scusi,. I'm pretty > new to all this so ease of install, compatibility and use are important. > thanks I'm planning t

Re: gnome-terminal

2000-08-13 Thread Dale L . Morris
I've noticed the same thing. What works for me is to create a file .xsession then enter gnome-session insert any instrcutions you might have exec (window manager) I've opted to stay away from helixcode Gnome for a while, it seems to create problems for me ( probably through no fault of the progr

Re: Netscape 6 PR2 with Debian 2.2

2000-08-13 Thread Corey Popelier
Heh, Mozilla (M16 iirc) is completely unusable for me too - doesn't segfault, but won't download anything because it completely screws up the reporting of the download (winds up with about a 30k rate, about 20Mb completed of a 2Mb file and about -300 minutes to go :) Cheers, Corey J. Popelier ht

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