How to get proposed-updates.

2000-09-05 Thread Brendan J Simon
I'm running some PowerPC and Intel machines with Debian 2.2. How do I edit my /etc/apt/sources.list to access the proposed-updates or potato-proposed-updates directory on the Debian mirrors. I searched the archives but didn't come up with anything helpful. Is there a README, HOWTO, or website th

compiling a kernel

2000-09-05 Thread Mark Simos
I am a newbie, and am curious as to what exactly compiling a kernel does for me. I have some vague impression that it does something like make your OS run better on your machine or allow you to add in and remove support for stuff. Simply put, why? Any pointer to good documents or personal commen

Re: helix-gnome for Debian 2.2 ?

2000-09-05 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 11:10:15AM -0700, Dexter Graphic wrote: > >apt-get install task-helix-gnome? > > Does anyone know if the helix-gnome updater will work with > Debian 2.2? I have the helix-gnome 1.0 CD and a very slow > connection so it would be nice if I could just update the > parts of

Re: Wine 20000801

2000-09-05 Thread Frank Copeland
On 5 Sep 00 21:05:48 GMT, Richard Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have just upgrade to wine (my first upgrade of wine for some time). >I've run into a couple of problems. The first one was: [...] >LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable. However, after this, wine just hangs whenever >I try and use it (it

Re: dist-upgrade

2000-09-05 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 08:32:12PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Okay, I had potato on my computer and decided to upgrade to > unstable. I added the unstable line to sources.list and did "apt-get > dist-upgrade". I rebooted, and the whole system locks up when it > starts to load tcplogd.

Re: DHCP client setup for @Home

2000-09-05 Thread Andrei Ivanov
I'm on @home as well, and pump just failed badly for me. However, dhcpcd worked out of the box, so to say: dhcpcd -h XXX did the job right then. Andrei -- First there was Explorer... Then came Expedition. This summer C

why can gcc find -lcrypt but not -lcfont (both in /lib)?

2000-09-05 Thread Daniel Barclay
How can I find out exactly where gcc and ld look for libraries? The manual pages mention a default search mechanism, but never say exactly what that is, how it works (where it's configured on Linux or specifically Debian), or what the default search directories are. The problem I'm having is

Re: KDE debs

2000-09-05 Thread Mike Werner
Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > That URL doesn't work. There is probably some little mistake in the URL, I > used the > one you mean, and I got a bunch of broken links, etc. > You mean > http://kde.tdyc.com/ , but again, didn't work good. http://kde.tdyc.com/Debian/ should have answers for you. -- Mi

Re: KDE debs

2000-09-05 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
That URL doesn't work. There is probably some little mistake in the URL, I used the one you mean, and I got a bunch of broken links, etc. You mean http://kde.tdyc.com/ , but again, didn't work good. "John L . Fjellstad" wrote: > On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 06:57:42PM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:

Re: [SLU] Re: Netscape Bookmarks

2000-09-05 Thread ktb
On Wed, 06 Sep 2000, I. Tura wrote: > At 05.00 5/9/00 -0700, Shel Johnson ha escrit: > >Ok, here's a dumb one.. How do you find a file directory that starts with > >a dot?.. Are they hidden?.. I know the location is: /home/shel/.netscape , > >but when I look for it, all I see is: /home/shel .. Does

debian-cd problems

2000-09-05 Thread Tiago Alves Macambira
Hi. I've been experiencing some problems while trying to create an unofficial debian potato cd with debian-cd. I initially created a local mirror with apt-move and then, used debian oficial CD to populate the mirror a little more ( copied the debs to a place and asked apt-move to

Re: help with compiling qt examples?

2000-09-05 Thread Rob Tandy
Thanks nate, it worked. thanks for the prompt reply; this list is great. -rob On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 07:24:49PM -0700, Nate Amsden wrote: > Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Am I missing something? BTW, I'm running potato. > > yes, zlib1g-dev :) > > nate > > -- > ::: > ICQ: 7513233

Re: 2.2 -> Woody

2000-09-05 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% "John L . Fjellstad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: jlf> On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 06:04:02PM -0700, Kyle Lynch wrote: >> If I install Potato, how would I go upon the process of upgrading to Woody >> without a format and reinstall? jlf> apt-get dists-upgrade To be precise: 1) Add these

Re: "Joe" editor

2000-09-05 Thread staf wagemakers
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 09:28:23AM +0300, Adrian Nims wrote: > I didn't found the editor "joe" in Debian. I used "joe" in other > distribution and I like to use it in Debian also. Can someone give me an > advice ? What can I do ? apt-get install joe :) cheers, -- Staf Wagemakers email :

Re: Mail-Followup-To still broken in mutt/exim

2000-09-05 Thread Brendan Cully
On Tuesday, 05 September 2000 at 18:58, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 07:22:31PM -0400, Brendan Cully ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > > > 'karsten' is a valid email address on my host. It's not on the > > > Internet. I'm a bit stumped as to why exim rewriting isn't work

Re: help with compiling qt examples?

2000-09-05 Thread Nate Amsden
Rob Tandy wrote: > Am I missing something? BTW, I'm running potato. yes, zlib1g-dev :) nate -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Where is the grub floppy?

2000-09-05 Thread Daniel E. Baumann
Hello all. I am attempting to install the Hurd, but the link to the grub floppy on the Easy Guide is broken. So where do I get the GRUB floppy image from? Also, is there anything I should watch out for with reagrds to e2fsprogs versions? I am running woody. Thanks, Dan -

help with compiling qt examples?

2000-09-05 Thread Rob Tandy
Hello all, I recently apt-got libqt2, libqt2-dev, qt2-doc, my interest was sparked with the soon to be released GPLed free version announcement. Any way, I'm having trouble compiling the examples that come with qt2-doc. Here is the error I get g++ -L/usr/lib/qt2/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib

Thanks

2000-09-05 Thread William Jensen
To all: I'd like to put out a big thanks to everyone on the list. Over the last week or so I've asked a lot of questions and have received quick, helpful advice. Being a newbie to Debian I was intimidated by the 'mistique' of how hard Debian is to install. I personally found the install docs to

Re: Local network ip

2000-09-05 Thread kmself
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 12:43:19PM -0400, Spinfire Magenta ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > on Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 01:50:57PM +0200, Juli-Manel Merino Vidal sent 20 > bytes on their merry way: > > I just want to ask which is the better ip network to be set up for a > > home network: 192.168.0.x or

Re: helix-gnome for Debian 2.2 ?

2000-09-05 Thread John Gilger
Anselm Almeida wrote: > Hi there, > > Will the helix-gnome .deb packages at the helix site work with > Debian 2.2? The Debian site says that helix-gnome .deb packages are > available at the helix-gnome site, but the only .deb packages available > there are meant for woody. Are they com

WP5.1 under DOSEMU uses 100% CPU all the time

2000-09-05 Thread I. Tura
Hi to all, After configuring DOSEMU I've started running WP5.1 for DOS there. Everything seemed fine but it happened an event I feared. If I use WP the CPU starts going near to 100% and this bugs me a lot, specially because I can end hearing the laptop fan. I always needed tranquil

Re: stupid question

2000-09-05 Thread kmself
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 12:42:31PM +0200, Marco Pantaleoni ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 10:01:34PM -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote: > Can you enlighten us on why you have such strong feelings about display > managers? Some people really seem to dislike them and I can't see why.

Re: "Joe" editor

2000-09-05 Thread John Gilger
Adrian Nims wrote: > I didn't found the editor "joe" in Debian. I used "joe" in other > distribution and I like to use it in Debian also. Can someone give me an > advice ? What can I do ? > > Adrian Nims > It is in the standard distribution.

Re: Mail-Followup-To still broken in mutt/exim

2000-09-05 Thread kmself
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 07:22:31PM -0400, Brendan Cully ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > 'karsten' is a valid email address on my host. It's not on the > > Internet. I'm a bit stumped as to why exim rewriting isn't working. > > so use your internet address. exim probably has no interest in > non

Re: New installation (again!)

2000-09-05 Thread John Gilger
Åsmund Ødegård wrote: > > I gave it another go; installed Debian 2.2 'potato', this time only a > > minimal installation although with GNOME, which turned out to be a flop > > of course: > > If you really want to use GNOME, just skip gnome when you install debian, then > add 'deb http://spidermonk

Re: Local network ip

2000-09-05 Thread John L . Fjellstad
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 01:50:57PM +0200, Juli-Manel Merino Vidal wrote: > I just want to ask which is the better ip network to be set up for a > home network: 192.168.0.x or maybe 192.168.1.x ?? I'm currently using > the second one... Does't matter. It's your private network, so nobody will be

Re: Local network ip

2000-09-05 Thread John L . Fjellstad
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 12:43:19PM -0400, Spinfire Magenta wrote: > Basically, you can use any number... i don't think you can use 0 > however. Since they're private IPs you can use any IP addressing > scheme you want. If you are only going to have one subnet, i would > use the 192.168.1.x one.

Re: KDE debs

2000-09-05 Thread John L . Fjellstad
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 06:57:42PM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > I haven't been able to find any valuable information. Does anyone have any > idea? what about ftp://kde.kdyc.com/pub/kde? -- John__ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gphoto--/dev/ttyS?

2000-09-05 Thread cls-colo spgs
works great!(i made it work by "chmod 666...," but i wasn't sure if security would be compromised. the "adduser bt dialout" turned out to be the better/best solution (so i could keep the old permissions--660).) scott, excellent info. thx. bentley taylor. (potato on 2.2.16) // [EMAIL

dist-upgrade

2000-09-05 Thread lbredeso
Okay, I had potato on my computer and decided to upgrade to unstable. I added the unstable line to sources.list and did "apt-get dist-upgrade". I rebooted, and the whole system locks up when it starts to load tcplogd. Does anyone know what this means? luke

Re: 2.2 -> Woody

2000-09-05 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
apt-get udpate; apt-get dist-upgrade. Quoting John L . Fjellstad ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 06:04:02PM -0700, Kyle Lynch wrote: > > If I install Potato, how would I go upon the process of upgrading to Woody > > without a format and reinstall? > > apt-get dists-upgrade >

Re: /etc/reslov.conf

2000-09-05 Thread s. keeling
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 02:31:33AM -0700, Nate Amsden wrote: > > echo "nameserver IP_OF_NAMESERVER" >/etc/resolv.conf > > to create a basic resolv.conf Basic is right. I've always seen it in the form of: hostresorder local bind search your.nameserver.hostname nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -- [

Re: Firewall message in /var/log

2000-09-05 Thread John L . Fjellstad
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 04:46:44PM +0100, Barry Samuels wrote: > kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth0 PROTO=17 192.14.17.1:513 > 192.14.17.255:513 L=136 S=0x00 I=244 F=0x T=64 (#30) Check the IPCHAINS-HOWTO. In short, kernel - message from kernel Packet log - log stamp input - chain

Re: 2.2 -> Woody

2000-09-05 Thread John L . Fjellstad
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 06:04:02PM -0700, Kyle Lynch wrote: > If I install Potato, how would I go upon the process of upgrading to Woody > without a format and reinstall? apt-get dists-upgrade -- John__ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2.2 -> Woody

2000-09-05 Thread Kyle Lynch
If I install Potato, how would I go upon the process of upgrading to Woody without a format and reinstall?

LILO probs fixed - MBR faulty

2000-09-05 Thread Tim Wood
Hi, thanks to Olaf Meeuwissen and others who responded to my request for help. I was encouraged to continue adjusting lilo.conf until it recognised my three OS (RH6.2, Debian 2.2 & Win98). It is now possible to boot into RH and Debian but Win98 seems to have a problem still. I had tried using "

Re: staroffice .bin

2000-09-05 Thread Andrew Porter
You mean to tell me (and the debian-user list) that the .bin file for Star -office that I downloaded is executable? What does it _do_ when you execute it? I'm new to Star-office, don't know how to install it even. And reluctant to run an executable with no what-it-does file . . . - Andrew P

Can't use ediff from *cvs* buffer in emacs on potato

2000-09-05 Thread Eric House
I'm using emacs and cvs on a stock potato system (updated about a week ago). I'd *like* to be using ediff to compare revisions after doing a M-x cvs-update, but it doesn't work. I get this error in the minibuffer: Something went wrong retrieving revision: nil: 1 Plain old vanilla diff works jus

Re: [SLU] Re: Netscape Bookmarks

2000-09-05 Thread ktb
On Tue, 05 Sep 2000, Shel Johnson wrote: > Ok, here's a dumb one.. How do you find a file directory that starts with > a dot?.. Are they hidden?.. I know the location is: /home/shel/.netscape , > but when I look for it, all I see is: /home/shel .. Does that make any > sense??... > As far as I kno

Re: Local network ip

2000-09-05 Thread ktb
On Tue, 05 Sep 2000, Juli-Manel Merino Vidal wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I just want to ask which is the better ip network to be set up for a > home network: 192.168.0.x or maybe 192.168.1.x ?? I'm currently using > the second one... > It doesn't matter either way. Here is a link for you -- h

Re: Debian News Group Needed

2000-09-05 Thread Frank Copeland
On 29 Aug 00 12:27:19 GMT, Previ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I seriously believe that this and other debian lists are far better >managed both by users and debian, using NewsGroups >rather than mail lists. Try setting up a mail2news gateway. Install inn|inn2, create a local newsgroup, make

pam_rhosts_auth

2000-09-05 Thread Brad Roberts
I know rhosts is incredibly insecure, but I've got to fit inside a network of machines that are well firewalled off and I'm running into some issues of debian's (and redhat's for that matter, I work with both) pam_rhosts_auth module seemingly not obeying + entries for hosts. We run with our /etc/h

Re: Mail-Followup-To still broken in mutt/exim

2000-09-05 Thread Brendan Cully
On Tuesday, 05 September 2000 at 15:38, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 04:32:21PM -0400, Brendan Cully wrote: > > 1. you can disable MFT entirely in mutt by unsetting $followup_to > > 2. it should only be added when sending mail to lists mentioned in > >"subscribe" lines

Re: installing openssh

2000-09-05 Thread brian moore
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 05:23:14PM -0400, Scott wrote: > hi, was noticing that on the news update titled "Debian GNU/Linux 2.2, > the "Joel 'Espy' Klecker" release, is officially released" openssh is > listed as one of the new software packages. i can't seem to find the > openssh package under ds

Re: [ILUG] mere samba&access horror

2000-09-05 Thread Kent West
Kenn Humborg wrote: > > > Thanks the responses to everyone who helped me to solve the mapping > > problem. But this Access stuff sucks ! I'm going mad. When I want to > > access the databases stored on the server frm more then one client it > > rejects to map the drive and the access program gives

Re: KDE debs

2000-09-05 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
The fact is that most, if not all the mirrors are just EMPTY, for example ftp://download.sourceforge.net/pub/mirrors/kde/stable/latest/distribution/deb/potato/i386/ has nothing, nada, zero files. So, I suppose that unless someone indicates what to do, KDE is for the most part closed for Debian use

Solved (?) Re: Mail-Followup-To still broken in mutt/exim

2000-09-05 Thread kmself
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 03:38:55PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 04:32:21PM -0400, Brendan Cully wrote: > > On Tuesday, 05 September 2000 at 12:20, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 04:25:55PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:

Re: Mail-Followup-To still broken in mutt/exim

2000-09-05 Thread kmself
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 04:32:21PM -0400, Brendan Cully wrote: > On Tuesday, 05 September 2000 at 12:20, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 04:25:55PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > > > BTW: your Mail-Followup-To is still broken: user `karsten' does not > > > exist on my sys

Re: Please Remove use from your list

2000-09-05 Thread Nate Amsden
read the bottom of every message! it shows how to unsubscribe, or email the list master, the list users dont have power to remove them. email [EMAIL PROTECTED] for help or see http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/subscribe if you run the server that the account is on you can disable it, and after a

Re: Firewall/IP-masquerading

2000-09-05 Thread Nate Amsden
Alvin Oga wrote: > > hi ya.. > > what flags do you have set in your linux-2.2.*/.config file ??? the ones that apply to firewalls/networking: CONFIG_PACKET=y CONFIG_FIREWALL=y CONFIG_FILTER=y CONFIG_UNIX=y CONFIG_INET=y CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL=y CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE=y CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE_ICMP=y CON

Re: Firewall/IP-masquerading

2000-09-05 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya.. what flags do you have set in your linux-2.2.*/.config file ??? what is the "generic" rules you have in your /etc/rc.firewall have fun linuxing alvin On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Nate Amsden wrote: > not sure what kernels your using but: > > - i've never gotten MASQ to work with DNS on 2.2 i'

Re: Help: Screwed up LILO MBR

2000-09-05 Thread Heather
> Hi everyone, > > sorry if this is a bit of a saga but please bear with me. [trevails of repartitioning, ellided] > A boot off RH floppy and re-install of LILO gives me the ability to boot > into RH6.2. > I can boot off floppy into potato on /dev/hda2. > I can no longer boot Windoze, no great l

RE: gnupg help

2000-09-05 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 05-Sep-2000 Carlos Laviola wrote: > Hello people, > > I know this is not Debian-related in any way, so please forgive me for > posting here. My question is: is there a way to change a e-mail address in > a gnupg key? My previous ISP (sol.com.br) is gone now, so I am using a new > one, with a n

Re: KDE debs

2000-09-05 Thread kmself
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 04:10:04PM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > Does any one know if the collection of kde debs is complete? Last time I > tried to download it it gave me a bunch of broken-missing links and > files. So I just stopped trying. May be the reason is that the packager > (Ivan, I be

Re: search contents of a tar.gz

2000-09-05 Thread kmself
Please follow postfix reply once established. On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 08:06:18PM +0518, USM Bish wrote: > On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 11:18:37PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > |> Is there a way to search the contents of a tar.gz file withouth > > |> having to extract everything. Specificall

gnupg help

2000-09-05 Thread Carlos Laviola
Hello people, I know this is not Debian-related in any way, so please forgive me for posting here. My question is: is there a way to change a e-mail address in a gnupg key? My previous ISP (sol.com.br) is gone now, so I am using a new one, with a new e-mail address, and would like to display that

RE: Firewall with Kernel 2.4.0-test6

2000-09-05 Thread Pollywog
On 05-Sep-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi ! > > Does anyone know a firewall running under Debian/woody with > Kernel 2.4.0-test6 ? iptables -- Andrew

Re: [SLU] Re: Netscape Bookmarks

2000-09-05 Thread I. Tura
At 05.00 5/9/00 -0700, Shel Johnson ha escrit: >Ok, here's a dumb one.. How do you find a file directory that starts with >a dot?.. Are they hidden?.. I know the location is: /home/shel/.netscape , >but when I look for it, all I see is: /home/shel .. Does that make any >sense??... ls -a ls (or

Re: Getting in Graphical Mode after Login

2000-09-05 Thread I. Tura
At 15.19 4/9/00 -0700, Kyle Lynch ha escrit: >I may sound kinda stupid asking this question (bare with me, im only 13 yrs >old), but after I login to my root or whatever account, how do I get the X >running for the graphical interface? http://www.debian.org/fom/21.html And check for documentatio

Re: Debian vs. Red Hat

2000-09-05 Thread I. Tura
You can find more information by searching the mail archives using as search query the following: current Redhat user evaluates Debian that is the subject for the email that that man asked to Debian-User. It gave lots of interesting replies that you can add to the the pres

Re: Help with Installation...

2000-09-05 Thread I. Tura
At 16.10 3/9/00 -0700, Gutierrez Family ha escrit: >Thanks for your advice... but I'm having a problem running the setup >program. When I type "xf86setup", it doesn't recognize it as a command. >Should it be "XF86Setup", I'm not sure about the case-sensitivity. In what >directory would I find it

Re: pppd changes permission to /dev/ttyS1 (my modem)

2000-09-05 Thread Piotr Krukowiecki
On Mon, 04 Sep 2000, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Mario Olimpio de Menezes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Piotr Krukowiecki wrote: > > > > > > pppd removes g+w from /dev/ttyS1 after it is started. So next time I have > > > to be root to use my modem (and to connect to internet). Ho

Re: Helix and Galeon

2000-09-05 Thread Moritz Schulte
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 11:10:59AM -0400, Joey Tsai wrote: > I don't think there is a Galeon Debian package, in either Debian > "proper" or from Helixcode. I heard Helix was going to package it, > but I also heard it wasn't packaged in Debian because of licensing > issues (similar to KDE before Q

[OT] Public folders

2000-09-05 Thread Joost Claessen
Hello ppl, Does anyone here knows how I can access public folders on a M$ exchange server while running Debian GNU/Linux? All help is appriciated. Thanx in advance. Mzzl Joost (de enig echte) P.S. CC to me as I am not on the list

RE: installing openssh

2000-09-05 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 05-Sep-2000 Scott wrote: > hi, was noticing that on the news update titled "Debian GNU/Linux 2.2, > the "Joel 'Espy' Klecker" release, is officially released" openssh is > listed as one of the new software packages. i can't seem to find the > openssh package under dselect, can anyone help me?

Please Remove use from your list

2000-09-05 Thread Randal_Cook
To whom ever is maitaining the debian mailing list: Please remove use from it, we are getting hammered by mail we no longer wish to receive. [EMAIL PROTECTED] is the address we would like to have removed. Thanks

Firewall with Kernel 2.4.0-test6

2000-09-05 Thread webmaster
Hi ! Does anyone know a firewall running under Debian/woody with Kernel 2.4.0-test6 ? cu mik

installing openssh

2000-09-05 Thread Scott
hi, was noticing that on the news update titled "Debian GNU/Linux 2.2, the "Joel 'Espy' Klecker" release, is officially released" openssh is listed as one of the new software packages. i can't seem to find the openssh package under dselect, can anyone help me? im updating my list from woody and

Wine 20000801

2000-09-05 Thread Richard Black
Hi all I have just upgrade to wine (my first upgrade of wine for some time). I've run into a couple of problems. The first one was: shared libraries: libwine_unicode.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory which was readily fixed by adding /usr/lib/wine to my LD_LIBRARY_PA

Re: Firewall message in /var/log

2000-09-05 Thread Bob Nielsen
I rebooted today and started getting the same messages (lots of them!) All networking ceased to work. I recompiled my kernel without masquerading and I can now connect, but of course without firewalling or masquerading. I suspect there was a recent package update which caused this, but I haven't

Re: Compiling VMware 2.0.2

2000-09-05 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 01:42:22PM +0400, Rino Mardo wrote: > When compiling VMware in potato, it would complain that the include headers > (/usr/include) are for kernel 2.2.15 whereas potato comes with 2.2.17. > > How can I fix this this? Install either the 2.2.17 source or kernel-headers-2.2.17

Re: samba / smbmount problems

2000-09-05 Thread Morgan Terry
Mathew Johnston wrote: > > I have a mixed windows/linux network, and am looking to do file sharing > over my LAN. Samba seems pretty good, except that mounted smb shares > (in linux) sometimes lose connectivity. It really liked to do it when > xmms crashed as I tried to add a directory to my pla

Re: apt-get and glibc update

2000-09-05 Thread Nate Amsden
Federico Grau wrote: > > Actually ... no :-( ... I commented that line out because I did not know what > it did and could see no mention of it in the man page (sources.list 5). > > Why would security updates need a seperate sources line? Shouldn't they > simply be considered part of the distribu

RE: Why should I use Debian?

2000-09-05 Thread J.T. Wenting
> Finally, I should reiterate about the learning curve. When I > first installed > Debian I really screwed up. So, after doing some research on > past mailing lists > and other documentation, I was able to piece together how > Debian package > management works (I'm no pro though). I remember readin

Re: Where's the HTML template for XEmacs?

2000-09-05 Thread Daniel P. Katz
This looks like the standard template from html-helper mode. The template is defined in html-helper-mode.el in a variable called html-helper-new-buffer-template which (at least in the version I use) is defined as (defvar html-helper-new-buffer-template '(html-helper-htmldtd-version " \n"

Re: sound

2000-09-05 Thread jakbyto
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 03:12:57PM -0500, Wayne Sitton wrote: > > I'm now gettimg sound under my user, but I still cannot use gnome's > cdplayer, when it opens it tries to mount the cdrom drive and gets > permission denied. When I go to xterm, su, and try to mount, I get an error > that I must sp

RE: stupid question

2000-09-05 Thread J.T. Wenting
> On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 01:51:54PM +0200, J.T. Wenting wrote: > > > > > /etc/profile becomes useless with a display manager... > > > > > Found that out last week... Added 'source /etc/profile' to > .bashrc and it > > works again. > > This doesn't solve the problem from the viewpoint of a system >

Re: Mail-Followup-To still broken in mutt/exim

2000-09-05 Thread Brendan Cully
On Tuesday, 05 September 2000 at 12:20, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 04:25:55PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > BTW: your Mail-Followup-To is still broken: user `karsten' does not > > exist on my system. > > I've been trying to address this, am somewhat stymied by my own

Re: Firewall/IP-masquerading

2000-09-05 Thread Gary Hennigan
Nate Amsden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > not sure what kernels your using but: > > - i've never gotten MASQ to work with DNS on 2.2 i've always had to put > a DNS on the masq machine and point machines to it instead, this was not > the case in 2.0 where it was able to masq without any trouble. H

Re: Why should I use Debian?

2000-09-05 Thread Scott_Patterson
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 18:26:13 +0200 From: Helgi =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D6rn?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian User List Subject: Why should I use Debian? Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="63DE51734D4A211DF5BF11F2" This is a multi-part message in MI

Re: Debian News Group Needed

2000-09-05 Thread Will Trillich
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 03:01:23PM -0500, Kelly Corbin wrote: > This list is *EXTREMELY* helpful for any problem a debian user may > have. I personally have never *not* gotten a solution to my problems > posted here, and the solution is usually posted just a few minutes/hours > after I send my hel

LILO-rific

2000-09-05 Thread BALAJI MASILAMANI
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 04:08:55PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I'm a little confused about boot being set, since shouldn't that maybe be > hda1, since windows MBR, er... I really don't get that part so well. The > last question is: As of now I'm using a floppy to boot to Linux. Otherwi

Re: sound

2000-09-05 Thread Wayne Sitton
I'm now gettimg sound under my user, but I still cannot use gnome's cdplayer, when it opens it tries to mount the cdrom drive and gets permission denied. When I go to xterm, su, and try to mount, I get an error that I must specify file type, what file type is an audio CD? Wayne Alexis Roda w

Where's the HTML template for XEmacs?

2000-09-05 Thread Morten Liebach
Hi all. When I use XEmacs to start a HTML file, it automagically sets up a template like this: index index mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Morten Liebach That's very nice, but I'd like to modify the template a litt

Re: Firewall/IP-masquerading

2000-09-05 Thread Spinfire Magenta
on Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 12:59:25PM -0700, Nate Amsden sent 1.1K bytes on their merry way: > not sure what kernels your using but: I'm using 2.2.17 (woody) > - i've never gotten MASQ to work with DNS on 2.2 i've always had to put > a DNS on the masq machine and point machines to it instead, this

KDE debs

2000-09-05 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Does any one know if the collection of kde debs is complete? Last time I tried to download it it gave me a bunch of broken-missing links and files. So I just stopped trying. May be the reason is that the packager (Ivan, I believe) has decided to wait for the QT GPL-ing, to get all done in one shoot

Re: Netscape 4.75 problems

2000-09-05 Thread Nate Amsden
Anthony Campbell wrote: > > On 05 Sep 2000, Dale L . Morris wrote: > > [snip] > > > > I am currently running 4.73 Netscape from potato and it works > > fine. But when I do the apt-get upgrade it ignores the netscape > > packages for 4.75. Anyone know why? > > > > [snip] > > How do you get to 4.

Re: Firewall message in /var/log

2000-09-05 Thread Nate Amsden
possible the firewall is denying it since the destination was a broadcast address. i wouldn't be suprised if this was part of the 'ip spoofing' protection. just a guess tho. nate Barry Samuels wrote: > > Can anyone tell me why I should keep getting this message in my > /var/log/messages (I'm af

Re: gphoto--/dev/ttyS?

2000-09-05 Thread Scott_Patterson
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 08:01:38 -0600 From: cls-colo spgs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debs Subject: gphoto--/dev/ttyS? Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit debs, in trying to config gphoto, i get, " the user doesn't have re

Re: Debian News Group Needed

2000-09-05 Thread Kelly Corbin
This list is *EXTREMELY* helpful for any problem a debian user may have. I personally have never *not* gotten a solution to my problems posted here, and the solution is usually posted just a few minutes/hours after I send my help message. As an aside, I think the sheer volume of people subscribed

Re: Firewall/IP-masquerading

2000-09-05 Thread Nate Amsden
not sure what kernels your using but: - i've never gotten MASQ to work with DNS on 2.2 i've always had to put a DNS on the masq machine and point machines to it instead, this was not the case in 2.0 where it was able to masq without any trouble. try putting a DNS on yer masq box and point everyth

Re: Debian vs. Red Hat

2000-09-05 Thread Michael Bacarella
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Sven Burgener wrote: > On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 08:04:19PM +0518, USM Bish wrote: > > MCSE ? In our part of the world that stands for "Must > > Consult a Second Expert" ! Does M$ have some other > > version of this acronym ? > > Yes, sure: "Minesweeper Consultant, Solitaire

Re: downloading debian GNU/Linux 2.2

2000-09-05 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Kris Murray wrote: > To the List; > > My name is Kris Murray. I am interested in downloading this Linux OS. > However, I have some questions and concerns. > > 1. To download it, do I have to ftp the entire OS from the ftp site to my > hard drive? Or can I just download an installation program th

Re: Debian vs. Red Hat

2000-09-05 Thread Sven Burgener
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 08:04:19PM +0518, USM Bish wrote: > MCSE ? In our part of the world that stands for "Must > Consult a Second Expert" ! Does M$ have some other > version of this acronym ? Yes, sure: "Minesweeper Consultant, Solitaire Expert". :) Sven -- The UNIX Guru's view of sex: unz

RE: lesser man database..

2000-09-05 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 05-Sep-2000 Michael Bacarella wrote: > > So, I get a call from a coworker before who asks me if I can find some > userland Linux utilities to port to FreeBSD for a RAID controller. > > In the interim, I give him an account on a Linux server of mine and he > starts barking because he types 'wh

Re: Mail-Followup-To still broken in mutt/exim

2000-09-05 Thread kmself
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 12:20:42PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 04:25:55PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > BTW: your Mail-Followup-To is still broken: user `karsten' does not > > exist on my system. > > I've been trying to address this, am somewhat stymied by my o

Mail-Followup-To still broken in mutt/exim

2000-09-05 Thread kmself
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 04:25:55PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > BTW: your Mail-Followup-To is still broken: user `karsten' does not > exist on my system. I've been trying to address this, am somewhat stymied by my own inexperience in the area. First, I've got a rewrite rule in /etc/exim.conf:

lesser man database..

2000-09-05 Thread Michael Bacarella
So, I get a call from a coworker before who asks me if I can find some userland Linux utilities to port to FreeBSD for a RAID controller. In the interim, I give him an account on a Linux server of mine and he starts barking because he types 'whatis raid' and gets nothing. 'whatis ami' and nothing

Re: stupid question

2000-09-05 Thread Marco Pantaleoni
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 01:51:54PM +0200, J.T. Wenting wrote: > > > /etc/profile becomes useless with a display manager... > > > Found that out last week... Added 'source /etc/profile' to .bashrc and it > works again. This doesn't solve the problem from the viewpoint of a system administrator whi

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