Re: Potato Freeze problem more clear...

2000-08-26 Thread Nate Amsden
havent had the best of luck with those, sometimes they work sometimes they dont(at all) for me..maybe the newer kernels is better i havent tried the 3c905c driver since 2.2.10 or so. nate Alec Smith wrote: > > Why not use the drivers in the stock Linux 2.x kernel? I've got a 3Com > adapter in th

Re: Mouse problems in X.

2000-08-26 Thread Daniel E. Baumann
On Sat, 26 Aug 2000, luke b wrote: > I am having problems with my Logitech PS2 mouse in X. GPM is set to use > /dev/psaux for the mouse and it works perfectly. In X, I set the mouse to > use /dev/psaux as well. I can move the mouse, but it moves really fast at > the very bottom of the screen

Re: Slow X on a MII 300

2000-08-26 Thread kmself
On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 06:25:02PM +, Peter Good wrote: > kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > Define "slow". What specifically is slow? Window creation? Menu > > response? Window movement? Program launch? Specific applications? > Any graphic action such as Window creation, Menu response,

Re: Potato Freeze problem more clear...

2000-08-26 Thread Alec Smith
Why not use the drivers in the stock Linux 2.x kernel? I've got a 3Com adapter in this box with no problems getting around 10-12MB/s. Could be the 3Com drivers are having a few "issues" Don Becker's versions lack. At 09:12 PM 8/26/00 -0700, Nate Amsden wrote: > Mike Hardiman wrote: > My best

Re: Potato Freeze problem more clear...

2000-08-26 Thread Nate Amsden
> Mike Hardiman wrote: > My best bet I suppose is to buy a better (expensive) eth adaptor... > but any thought would be appreciated before I part with 80 bucks for a > 3com. the 3com 3c59x series are pretty good cards, the only prob i've had is using the drivers that i have(from www.3com.com) per

Setting up additional keys in X with XKb?

2000-08-26 Thread Known Human Nick Rusnov
Greetings, I have a keyboard with many special keys on it. These keys produce scancodes, but not keycodes. I can easily assign them and bind them to keys at the console, but can find no documentation on how to do it under X with xkb. I was wondering if anyone could help me out with this. Thank

RE: Hosts.all/Hosts.deny vs. a firewall?]

2000-08-26 Thread Pollywog
On 27-Aug-2000 Phil Brutsche wrote: >> Additionally, I noticed that smtp is not called like ftp is with the >> /usr/sbin/tcpd first, it's just called /usr/sbin/eximdoes this >> mean that hosts.deny would not protect that port? > > Likely not. > >> (getting a little confused here) Exim can b

Potato Freeze problem more clear...

2000-08-26 Thread Mike Hardiman
Hello all,   Well I've noticed that noone has yet to reply to my problem, most likely because of its complexity.  I've been able to narrow down the problem however:   1.) The system freezes only when the network is up 2.) Best guess is that it occurs when so much data has passed through the

RE: Hosts.all/Hosts.deny vs. a firewall?]

2000-08-26 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Andrew, > > I also have proftpd running but it was _not_ called from inet.conf. > I added the line like you suggested. I also confirmed I have tcp > wrappers installed. After that I nmap'd myself and I see a several > listings that

Re: your mail

2000-08-26 Thread John Pearson
On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 12:02:48PM +1000, W. & J. Simson wrote > Could you please tell me when daylight saving was reintroduced in Australia > Regards > Jeanette Simson The eastern states went 1 hour ahead at 2am today (Sunday Aug 27), presumably to maximise solar energy collections and sunblock

Re: Hosts.all/Hosts.deny vs. a firewall?

2000-08-26 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > So far I have the following setup: > > hosts.deny: > > ALL:ALL > > hosts.allow: > > ALL: my_work.domain > > My intention is to prevent everyone from the 'outside' from reaching > my box. I do realize that anyone in my_work.domain w

Re: Breakin Attempt? Tracking source

2000-08-26 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 02:06:07PM +1100, Damon Muller wrote: > Aug 26 19:28:01 callisto > Aug 26 19:28:01 callisto syslogd: Cannot glue message parts together > Aug 26 19:28:01 callisto 173>Aug 26 19:28:01 /sbin/rpc.statd[282]: > gethostbyname > +error for > +^X???^X???^Y???^Y???^Z???^Z???^[???^[

Re: Breakin Attempt? Tracking source

2000-08-26 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Hi gang, > > Like all good (or at least passably competent) systems administrators, I > use logcheck to mail me anything out of the ordinary that turns up in my > logs each night. Last night, I found something that I can only guess is >

emacs cursor color

2000-08-26 Thread Dale L . Morris
What's the proper way to set the cursor color in emacs. I'm using the following in my .Xresources file emacs*background:DarkSlateGrey emacs*foreground:Wheat and the following in my .emacs file: (set-cursor-color "red"). It works but not well. thanks -- "Make voyages, attempt them, there's nothi

Re: Slow X on a MII 300

2000-08-26 Thread Peter Good
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > Define "slow". What specifically is slow? Window creation? Menu > response? Window movement? Program launch? Specific applications? Any graphic action such as Window creation, Menu response, Window movement > > What's a typical application load? What window ma

Breakin Attempt? Tracking source

2000-08-26 Thread Damon Muller
Hi gang, Like all good (or at least passably competent) systems administrators, I use logcheck to mail me anything out of the ordinary that turns up in my logs each night. Last night, I found something that I can only guess is a buffer overflow attempt. Here is the relevant part of the log (note t

Re: Slow X on a MII 300

2000-08-26 Thread kmself
On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 03:01:26PM +, Peter Good wrote: > Heya's, I've got a machine here with a Cyrix MII 300 processor, SiS > 6326 video card, 6.4GB IDE drive, 64mb of ram and Debian 2.2. The > thing runs as slow as hell on X, with any window manager. Should there > be something i have to loo

Re: Hosts.all/Hosts.deny vs. a firewall?

2000-08-26 Thread kmself
Please set your mail agent to wrap lines at 72 characters. On Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 08:47:27PM -0500, William Jensen wrote: > So far I have the following setup: > > hosts.deny: > > ALL:ALL > > hosts.allow: > > ALL: my_work.domain > > My intention is to prevent everyone from the 'outside' from

RE: Hosts.all/Hosts.deny vs. a firewall?]

2000-08-26 Thread William Jensen
Andrew, I also have proftpd running but it was _not_ called from inet.conf. I added the line like you suggested. I also confirmed I have tcp wrappers installed. After that I nmap'd myself and I see a several listings that are not in the inet.conf..where can I turn these off? 111/tcp open

Re: LWE: Debian.org booth staff?

2000-08-26 Thread kmself
On Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 07:32:49PM -0600, montefin wrote: > Or woman. > > montefin (a.k.a. Capt. P.C.) > > Shaul Karl wrote: > > > > I believe that their web master might help you to find your man. Male. Young kid, I think named Brian. -- Karsten M. Self http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Ev

Re: LWE: Debian.org booth staff?

2000-08-26 Thread kmself
On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 03:04:34AM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: > > > > --69pVuxX8awAiJ7fD > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Content-Disposition: inline > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > > > I recieved your blank message -- anything else? > > > > > Sorry for that

[no subject]

2000-08-26 Thread W. & J. Simson
Could you please tell me when daylight saving was reintroduced in Australia Regards Jeanette Simson

Hosts.all/Hosts.deny vs. a firewall?

2000-08-26 Thread William Jensen
So far I have the following setup: hosts.deny: ALL:ALL hosts.allow: ALL: my_work.domain My intention is to prevent everyone from the 'outside' from reaching my box. I do realize that anyone in my_work.domain would also be able to get at it. It is my understanding that this will prevent anyo

Re: LWE: Debian.org booth staff?

2000-08-26 Thread montefin
Or woman. montefin (a.k.a. Capt. P.C.) Shaul Karl wrote: > > I believe that their web master might help you to find your man. >

Re: junkbuster

2000-08-26 Thread Dale L . Morris
Yep, the files I want are there now. Thanks Frank Copeland ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On 26 Aug 00 21:26:30 GMT, Dale L . Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I'm afraid I may have botched this one. Trying to get junkbuster to > >work I removed it with 'apt-get remove junkbuster' then removed

Re: APC Back Pro 650 UPS anyone??

2000-08-26 Thread Nate Amsden
Is your cable grey or black ? when i got my back ups pro last year the cable was grey(forgot the cable id number), took weeks tryin to get it to work to no avail. turns out it was the wrong kind of cable for unix clients. apc sent me a new cable for free. very odd since i could get PowerChute to

Re: junkbuster

2000-08-26 Thread Frank Copeland
On 26 Aug 00 21:26:30 GMT, Dale L . Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm afraid I may have botched this one. Trying to get junkbuster to >work I removed it with 'apt-get remove junkbuster' then removed the >junkbuster directory with rm -rf. Now when I reinstall junkbuster, >there's nothing in th

Re: very simple lan question

2000-08-26 Thread Brian Stults
You can't connect two boxes directly with an RJ45 cable. You need either a hub between them or a crossover cable. That is, the "send" wires from one box have to be connected to the "receive" wires from the other box, and vice versa. If you're only going to be using two computers on this network,

DHCP boot time hanging.

2000-08-26 Thread Chris Barry
When my system boots it hangs for about a minute displaying Starting DHCP client daemon: and then finally it does Starting DHCP client daemon: dhcpcd. When I finally do log in I must do # dhcpcd -h "Cxx-A" and then my cable modem will work. This is what my /etc/dhcpc/config look

Re: LWE: Debian.org booth staff?

2000-08-26 Thread Shaul Karl
> > --69pVuxX8awAiJ7fD > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > I recieved your blank message -- anything else? > Sorry for that. In case you were the one who asked about some of the Debian representatives on

Re: Mouse problems in X.

2000-08-26 Thread luke b
This fixed it. Thank you. luke From: Moritz Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Mouse problems in X. Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 01:33:54 +0200 On Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 05:04:57PM -0500, luke b wrote: > I am having problems with my Logitech PS2 mouse in X. G

Slow X on a MII 300

2000-08-26 Thread Peter Good
Heya's, I've got a machine here with a Cyrix MII 300 processor, SiS 6326 video card, 6.4GB IDE drive, 64mb of ram and Debian 2.2. The thing runs as slow as hell on X, with any window manager. Should there be something i have to look for in XF86Config? I've attached a copy if anyone wants to have a

Re: very simple lan question

2000-08-26 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Hi, I have two boxes (one woody, one potato) with ethernet cards, > connected by a RJ45 cable. I'd like to be able to ssh/sftp betwixt them. > > [I admit I don't grok networking much yet (that's partly why I'm doing > this, to learn).

Re: APC Back Pro 650 UPS anyone??

2000-08-26 Thread oneiros
Thus spake Felipe Alvarez Harnecker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > can anyone send advice on software and configuration for this thing? > I've tried apcd without success. > I'got the shipped cable and really DON'T want to make a custom one. Use [1]network UPS tools. It works with APC UPSs as well as mos

frontpage extensions

2000-08-26 Thread ROVAH
ok,,i had a friend set up a website for me,,and it works great,,i went to set one up,,and i have to use the SLOW FTP method for saving the files to the server,,with the one he set up,,i just hit SAVE,,,and the glode turns for 5 secs,,and its done,,with ftp its a hassle and takes awhile,,what did

very simple lan question

2000-08-26 Thread Aaron Maxwell
Hi, I have two boxes (one woody, one potato) with ethernet cards, connected by a RJ45 cable. I'd like to be able to ssh/sftp betwixt them. [I admit I don't grok networking much yet (that's partly why I'm doing this, to learn). I've mainly been reading the Net-HOWTO and the man pages for ifconfi

Re: APC Back Pro 650 UPS anyone??

2000-08-26 Thread Nicole Zimmerman
I'm not sure if this is what you're looking at/for, but you might want to check out this link: http://www.apcc.com/products/management/pcp_linux.cfm -nicole At 19:05 on Aug 26, Felipe Alvarez Harnecker combined all the right letters...: > > Hi, > > can anyone send advice on software and confi

APC Back Pro 650 UPS anyone??

2000-08-26 Thread Felipe Alvarez Harnecker
Hi, can anyone send advice on software and configuration for this thing? I've tried apcd without success. I'got the shipped cable and really DON'T want to make a custom one. Thanx -- __ Felipe Alvarez Harnecker. QlSoftware.

Re: junkbuster

2000-08-26 Thread John Hasler
Dale L . Morris writes: > Trying to get junkbuster to work I removed it with 'apt-get remove > junkbuster' then removed the junkbuster directory with rm -rf. 'remove' tells dpkg to leave the config files alone so that you won't have to reconfigure if you reinstall later. > Now when I reinstall ju

Re: Mouse problems in X.

2000-08-26 Thread s. keeling
On Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 05:04:57PM -0500, luke b wrote: > I am having problems with my Logitech PS2 mouse in X. GPM is set to use > /dev/psaux for the mouse and it works perfectly. In X, I set the mouse to > use /dev/psaux as well. I can move the mouse, but it moves really fast at > the very

Re: Mouse problems in X.

2000-08-26 Thread Moritz Schulte
On Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 05:04:57PM -0500, luke b wrote: > I am having problems with my Logitech PS2 mouse in X. GPM is set to use > /dev/psaux for the mouse and it works perfectly. In X, I set the mouse to > use /dev/psaux as well. I can move the mouse, but it moves really fast at > the very

Mouse problems in X.

2000-08-26 Thread luke b
I am having problems with my Logitech PS2 mouse in X. GPM is set to use /dev/psaux for the mouse and it works perfectly. In X, I set the mouse to use /dev/psaux as well. I can move the mouse, but it moves really fast at the very bottom of the screen and I can't control it. And when I set the

Re: junkbuster

2000-08-26 Thread Dale L . Morris
I'm afraid I may have botched this one. Trying to get junkbuster to work I removed it with 'apt-get remove junkbuster' then removed the junkbuster directory with rm -rf. Now when I reinstall junkbuster, there's nothing in the junkbuster directory. No config ..nothing.. guess I'll have to live with

Re: .debs for LeoCAD

2000-08-26 Thread Pat Mahoney
On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 02:49:07PM -0700, Michael Smith wrote: > Hi all > > Pat Mahone put up some .deb's for LeoCAD at > They're compiled for the > helix version of GTK+, so they might work if you force them. Failing > that, there's always the source

Linux solutin for PNA hardware

2000-08-26 Thread Stuart Riley
I have three computers linked via PNA 10Mbps cards. I use one PC as a server (running Win98) with an ethernet card and one PNA card installed. I have a cable modem attached via the ethernet card, and connect the internet via the PNA card. This allows my other PCs to share the internet. I would

Fw: Modem Troubles

2000-08-26 Thread Matthew Sackman
Just to add to the details, I've just noticed that when dialling, the noises are louder under windows than under Linux: dunno if this will make a difference though. Matthew > Hay all. > > I'm having much trouble with connections. > Using: Potato, USR 3Com 56K FaxModem (external) > > I've got it s

Modem Troubles

2000-08-26 Thread matthew
Hay all. I'm having much trouble with connections. Using: Potato, USR 3Com 56K FaxModem (external) I've got it set up right - the port I/Os and the IRQs are right (using ttyS0), the initialisation strings are correct, I'm using hardware control, loggin on to freeserve is OK (using PAP), the sta

Re: junkbuster

2000-08-26 Thread kmself
On Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 11:38:58AM -0700, Dale L . Morris wrote: > Could someone shed a little light on configuring junkbuster? I tried > reading the man page and setting up netscape with manual proxy > configuration on local host port 5865 but then I can't connect to > anything. You want the fol

Re: Strange logon problem with CAPS. Please read you all!

2000-08-26 Thread tony mancill
On Sat, 26 Aug 2000, Taupter wrote: > Some friend told me about a problem he has with Slack7.1, and I tested > with Debian 2.2 (upgraded from net) and worked the same. Let me explain: > > Make sure CAPS-LOCK is off; > In a console logon, press CAPS-LOCK before typing your login name; > Type in yo

junkbuster

2000-08-26 Thread Dale L . Morris
Could someone shed a little light on configuring junkbuster? I tried reading the man page and setting up netscape with manual proxy configuration on local host port 5865 but then I can't connect to anything. Or does apt-get install junkbuster configure everything necessary? I'm running netscape 4.

Re: VCG Visualization of Compiler Graphs?

2000-08-26 Thread Bruce Stephens
"Gregg C" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Has anyone used this program and/or has it ever been packaged for > debian? It's in unstable. Along similar lines is graphviz. It's in non-free, but the new license may well be an open source license (i.e., it's probably in non-free more because it hasn't

APT-GET is the GREATEST !!

2000-08-26 Thread Larry Shields
Hi Jaye, I just wanted to comment on how well the Debian, APT TEAM did on there package handling utility...It is the slickest program that I have run so far, and without any glitches I might add...They did a great job I have to admit... I ran update, upgrade, which took quite a few hours to upgra

kde.tdyc.com - a problem

2000-08-26 Thread bsamuels
I have, not long ago, upgraded to Potato. However I have had to stay with the Slink version of KDE because if I update my sources.list to include the Potato version of KDE I find that because of dependancy problems with qt1g and libqt1 ( they won't co-exist ) I would have to delete a number of my

First Annual Linux User's Training Conference and Awards Presentation

2000-08-26 Thread David Dickson
>   To:      debian-user@lists.debian.org   First Annual Linux Users' Training Conference And Awards Presentation “New Enterprise Solutions Through Linux” October 30, 2000 Ronald Reagan Building and International Tra

Upgrade Slink to Potato

2000-08-26 Thread Anthony Campbell
Just completed the upgrade Slink to Potato using CDs. Everything went perfectly; a really excellent operation. Congratulations and thanks to the Debian developers! Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.2 (Windows-free zone) Book Reviews: http://www.cix.co.uk/~acampbell/bookreview

Re: Sl-stormpkg: where is libdpkg.so.0?

2000-08-26 Thread Phillip Deackes
Andras Simonyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear listmembers, > I've installed sl-stormpkg_1.0-1_i386.deb from storm's website, but > stormpkg complains about not finding libdpkg.so.0 . In which package > can I find this library? Did you try and get stormpkg using apt-get? It is wise to use apt-g

Re: Sending mail via exim: spooky....

2000-08-26 Thread Phillip Deackes
Andreas Hetzmannseder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > My problem remains. > > Two questions: > - 'my hostname': Do you mean the name of my PC or the name of my > providers smtp-server? > - 'commenting out': Do you mean a) disable by taking out of the > context >

Re: Linux Mail Client (was: Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error))

2000-08-26 Thread Cam Ellison
Steve Lamb wrote: > > > I have been specific. I have even given examples! PMMail and The Bat! > Screen shots alone for those two products speak volumes! > I don't know The Bat, but I use PMMail, and it's head and shoulders above anything else I have seen. I don think it asking too much f

Re: Strange logon problem with CAPS. Please read you all!

2000-08-26 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 26-Aug-2000 Kenward Vaughan wrote: [...] > I stumbled onto this yesterday for the first time. While the login went OK > (what happens with a mixed--UC and lc--password?) Nothing strange. Just type the password as you would at a lower case passwd prompt, and you'll be logged in.

problem with tetex in potato?

2000-08-26 Thread Nico De Ranter
Hi, I just burned some CD's with the latest Debian version (potato) and tried to update my system (running frozen potato already). Since I've already had problems with tetex for a very long time I decided to remove it from my system ad reinstall it. However it turns out that altough tetex-bin/bas

Re: printing FAQ? (simple parallel)

2000-08-26 Thread hawk
shaul said, >I said > > The printer is online, and I can cat to it and cause output (which would > > get > > me by if it was a postscript printer . . .) > > I start and stop the daemon, but nothing happens. > > I've tried playing around with lines like > > gs -sDEVICE=ljet2p -sOutputfile= |

Re: Netscape startup hangs

2000-08-26 Thread 5134170
Look at http://www.pro-linux.de/news/2000/2083.html in preferences.js change the entry user_pref("mailnews.start_page.enabled", true); to false. Johnny

Re: Sending mail via exim: spooky....

2000-08-26 Thread Andreas Hetzmannseder
Lehel Bernadt wrote: > > On 26-Aug-2000 Andreas Hetzmannseder wrote: > > Dear debian-users > > > > I tried to send a test message to my friend who has an e-mail account > > on the same PC and from the same provider as me, let's say > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > This should have gone to my provider's s

Re: Strange logon problem with CAPS. Please read you all!

2000-08-26 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 11:59:18PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 03:08:27AM -0300, Taupter wrote: ... > > Voila! The text now is all-CAPS. ls has glitches, and ls --color doesn't > > display any color. Emacs and other console programs doesn't display its > > interface

VCG Visualization of Compiler Graphs?

2000-08-26 Thread Gregg C
I came across a gpl'd program: http://www.cs.uni-sb.de/RW/users/sander/html/gsvcg1.html Quote from the site: The VCG tool reads a textual and readable specification of a graph and visualizes the graph. If not all positions of nodes are fixed, the tool layouts the graph using several heuristi

Re: Sl-stormpkg: where is libdpkg.so.0?

2000-08-26 Thread bsamuels
Jeff Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Point your browser in the general direction of www.debian.org > look down the left hand side of the page for the Debian Packages link > under distributions > in the second search box type in your desired package name > then BINGO > it will reveal all (or at

Re: mgetty with AutoPPP

2000-08-26 Thread David Wright
Quoting Alberto Pereira ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > This works, but, when i dialing from computer2 using wvdial to conect to the > computer1 (runing mgetty), the computer one shows the prompt login(see the > log above) I don't use wvdial or PAP so I may not be much help... I thought you had intended

Re: where is md5sum program?

2000-08-26 Thread Shaul Karl
> > I have not been able to locate the md5sum program. > It is in the deb of dpkg. [15:48:47 /tmp]$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/md5sum dpkg: /usr/bin/md5sum [15:49:29 /tmp]$ > What is the source for this package. Try downloading dpkg sources. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubsc

Re: Sl-stormpkg: where is libdpkg.so.0?

2000-08-26 Thread Jeff Green
Point your browser in the general direction of www.debian.org look down the left hand side of the page for the Debian Packages link under distributions in the second search box type in your desired package name then BINGO it will reveal all (or at least it will if you hit the search button) Jeff [

Re: Debian 2.2 Potato install

2000-08-26 Thread Shaul Karl
> Does the simple install as described in Debians HOWTO actually work, or > wasn't it included in this distribution? > I am not sure what exactly do you mean by "Debians HOWTO", but the installation process that is described on www.debian.org and on the documentation section of the Debian CDs

Re: Potato, iso9660 not supported by kernel

2000-08-26 Thread mike
I had the same problems until i realized that when i rebooted after the base install my old kernel was loading because my old LILO was still in the MBR. I then made a boot floppy during my re-install and rebooted from that you'll see the new 2.2.17 kernel listed. Duri

Re: LWE: Debian.org booth staff?

2000-08-26 Thread Shaul Karl
> > --r5Pyd7+fXNt84Ff3 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > I'd appreciate a roster of the booth staff at LinuxWorld Expo for > Debian.org, I'm trying to find contact information for a Debian > developer I'd t

Re: debian shipped more secure in the future?

2000-08-26 Thread Shaul Karl
> Was curious. > > bind has well documented easy to impliment ways to run as non root and > in chroot(). > sendmail has an easy way to run many tasks as non root > > however defaults in debian don't take advantage of any of this, its not > hard for people to add but it would be nice if the debs d

Re: Proposal for Hardware Autodetection

2000-08-26 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Quoting Daniel Migowski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira. > > > I have a website in Brazil (www.olinux.com.br) OLinux with news, > > programs, security, programming, interviews, games sections at one of the > > main > > brazilian's portal: UOL. > > I just looked at

Re: Proposal for Hardware Autodetection

2000-08-26 Thread Daniel Migowski
Hi, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira. > I have a website in Brazil (www.olinux.com.br) OLinux with news, > programs, security, programming, interviews, games sections at one of the main > brazilian's portal: UOL. I just looked at it. Looks nice, but I'm not able to check the contents, my span

Re: Proposal for Hardware Autodetection

2000-08-26 Thread Daniel Migowski
Hi, Hi, > I think kudzu is particularly annoying because it constantly bitches about > devices that aren't there and whether you want to keep the configuration or > not (like of you had an external modem connected to the com port and if you > removed it the next time it booted). You are supposed

Re: Brand_Spankin_Newbie

2000-08-26 Thread Paul T. McNally
> http://www.datasurge.net/Books/ I had better luck getting the site with a lower case b in books in the URL: http://www.datasurge.net/books/ For me, joining a local linux user group has helped tremendously. If you have successfully installed Potato, you have already learned a chunk, and can no

Re: Sl-stormpkg: where is libdpkg.so.0?

2000-08-26 Thread bsamuels
Andras Simonyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear listmembers, > I've installed sl-stormpkg_1.0-1_i386.deb from storm's website, but > stormpkg complains about not finding libdpkg.so.0 . In which package > can I find this library? > > TIA: > Andras Simonyi, running Debian Potato You're not

Re: Win & Potato on LAN

2000-08-26 Thread Vitux
Christoph Gaitzsch wrote: > > > "V" == Vitux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >V> Dan Hutchinson wrote: >>> >>> You know there has to be a default gateway with the NIC in Windows! >>> Also which version of Windows 95/98 or WindowsNT/2000. >>> >>> Dan >>> >V> Sorr

RE: Sending mail via exim: spooky....

2000-08-26 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 26-Aug-2000 Andreas Hetzmannseder wrote: > Dear debian-users > > I tried to send a test message to my friend who has an e-mail account > on the same PC and from the same provider as me, let's say > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > This should have gone to my provider's smtp-server named smtp.netway.at. > I

Low memory laser printers (LJ Series II)

2000-08-26 Thread Andre Berger
Is there a way to print to low memory laser printers? My LaserJet Series II has 512k (or is it only 384k?) RAM, I would like to use cups but can't print the test page at 150dpi. The 'laserjetlo' 150dpi option from the magicfilter package works better, but the character spacing on the second half of

Re: How to convert multiple pages html doc to other formats?

2000-08-26 Thread USM Bish
Since this program is version specific, it is better to download the one specific for ones kernel or compile from source. Since I am still on Slink, I have downloaded htmldoc-1.8.7-linux-2.0.36-intel.rpm and installed it with rpm. Works fine for me. Bish On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 09:31:19AM -0400,

Re: problem with debian user mailing list (Server)?

2000-08-26 Thread USM Bish
As Steve Lamb, Lehel Bernadt and others pointed out in our list earlier today,the problem was because of because of a site <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> at Hong Kong causing gateway flooding of our list. The problems seem to have resolved now, since I have downloaded mail after a gap of two hours, and

Sl-stormpkg: where is libdpkg.so.0?

2000-08-26 Thread Andras Simonyi
Dear listmembers, I've installed sl-stormpkg_1.0-1_i386.deb from storm's website, but stormpkg complains about not finding libdpkg.so.0 . In which package can I find this library? TIA: Andras Simonyi, running Debian Potato

question

2000-08-26 Thread Dan Teunissen
I heard that you are working on a better invidia riva tnt driver of debian. i f yes i would like to now when it mite be ready for distribution. ps i love debian

Re: Strange logon problem with CAPS. Please read you all!

2000-08-26 Thread kmself
On Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 03:08:27AM -0300, Taupter wrote: > Hello, folks. > > > Some friend told me about a problem he has with Slack7.1, and I tested > with Debian 2.2 (upgraded from net) and worked the same. Let me explain: > > Make sure CAPS-LOCK is off; > In a console logon, press CAPS-LOCK b

Re: windowmaker

2000-08-26 Thread Taupter
> > I am running WindowMaker under Gnome. > > I want to have the wmitime icom appear on my desktop when I log in. > > Putting a line like: > > exec wmitime in my .xsession file does not work. > > > > How should this be done? A simple way to do it is: After starting X, with GNOME/Wm running, just

Re: no ppp compression even though pppstats says VJCOMP; new in potato

2000-08-26 Thread John Pearson
On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 11:55:44PM -0400, Daniel Barclay wrote > BCC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --text follows this line-- > > I don't seem to be getting any compression in ppp. > > Is there something extra I need to do in potato's ppp to fully > enable compression? >

Re: What is up with Debian 2.2 Potato ??

2000-08-26 Thread John Pearson
On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 08:45:34PM -0700, Nate Amsden wrote > Joey Hess wrote: > > > > Nate Amsden wrote: > > > > I brought up a new virtual terminal and sure enough a > > > > uname -a shows kernel 2.2.12, but there is no /lib/modules/2.2.12 > > > > There is however a /lib/modules/2.2.17. > > > >

Strange logon problem with CAPS. Please read you all!

2000-08-26 Thread Taupter
Hello, folks. Some friend told me about a problem he has with Slack7.1, and I tested with Debian 2.2 (upgraded from net) and worked the same. Let me explain: Make sure CAPS-LOCK is off; In a console logon, press CAPS-LOCK before typing your login name; Type in your login name and press Enter. Th

Re: How to convert multiple pages html doc to other formats?

2000-08-26 Thread USM Bish
> On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 12:51:54PM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: > :What are the methods for converting multiple pages html document to other > :formats like single page html doc, ps, pdf, latex, anything else? > :That is, if I have 188 html files that are all parts of the same document, > how > :c