Re: configuring sendmail

2000-09-07 Thread s. keeling
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 08:52:15PM -0400, Michael Soulier wrote: > > Hey guys. Under RedHat, I just added the smarthost feature, and > the masquerade envelope, and I could tell sendmail to use mail.storm.ca as > my relay. I've tried doing that with Debian, but I'm getting "user > unknown" er

afterstep

2000-09-07 Thread Dale Morris
After upgrading all my packages to woody I no longer have afterstep window manager available to me. When I select the window managers button, I only have fvvm, gnome-icewm, wmaker, fvvm2. Somehow one of the scripts changed things around. What do I do to get it back? thanks -- dale

SUPPORT drivers

2000-09-07 Thread MOISES ELLIS
do you have support for theses devices please in your kernel or isntallation ... for canon bjc-5000 and scanner usb umax astra 1220u Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1

Re: apt-get pkg held-back?

2000-09-07 Thread Bob Nielsen
Try 'apt-get dist-upgrade' instead. The "kept-back" message probably relates to a new dependency. On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 07:48:39PM -0500, William Jensen wrote: > Greetings, > > I did a apt-get update && apt-get upgrade and saw the following: > > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Depend

laptop(nt) as gateway with Linux PC System as n/w

2000-09-07 Thread Miten Mehta
Hello,   I have laptop with nt.  I use dialup connection (IBM ISP)  for internet access.   I have a pc system which I intend to install Debian Linux.   I want to make laptop as gateway and make a network with laptop and Linux PC.   can I do that?   if yes:   How do I know DNS server IP when I

Re: pg_shadow for psql

2000-09-07 Thread John Hasler
bentley taylor writes: > Connection to database 'template1' failed. FATAL 1: SetUserId: user 'bt' > is not in 'pg_shadow' su to postgres and run 'createuser bt'. man createuser. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: pg_shadow for psql

2000-09-07 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 08:14:41PM -0600, cls-colo spgs wrote: > debs, > > i can't get postgresql to fireup from an xshell: > > $ psql > > Connection to database 'template1' failed. > FATAL 1: SetUserId: user 'bt' is not in 'pg_shadow' > > ...suggestions? $ su - Password: # su postgres $ crea

pg_shadow for psql

2000-09-07 Thread cls-colo spgs
debs, i can't get postgresql to fireup from an xshell: $ psql Connection to database 'template1' failed. FATAL 1: SetUserId: user 'bt' is not in 'pg_shadow' ...suggestions? ia, t. bentley taylor. //

Re: Seyon with incoming calls

2000-09-07 Thread Dave Thayer
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 03:39:05PM +0100, Barry Samuels wrote: > I already have mgetty installed, together with Hylafax, and I understand that > mgetty will > pass on non-fax calls but how does it know where to pass those calls to ( > e.g. Seyon) ? Good. I've never used Hylafax, as I have the i

Re: kernel hangs after trying to free unused memory.

2000-09-07 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Jon> i am running a potato version of debian. I have just compiled a new 2.2.17 Jon> kernel with kernel-package and make-kpkg. i executed the following commands Jon> as per the README file. Jon> make config Jon> make-kpkg clean Jon> make-kpkg --revision=cutom.1 kernel_image Jon> then Jon>

Re: vim + printing = wretched output

2000-09-07 Thread William Jensen
> Bill > > Vim supports several options to munge tabs in various ways. One is > "expandtab", which will replace each TAB character with the number of > spaces defined by "tabstop". But this replaces the TAB, which may not > be what some people want. > > See also "softtabstop", which will "simul

Re: "Cloning" a Debian system

2000-09-07 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 03:43:08PM +0200, Juli-Manel Merino Vidal wrote: > On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 01:50:30PM +0100, Etienne Grossmann wrote: > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > is there any way to install on a Debian system the same packages > > that are found on another Debian system? The machin

Is GPROF broken on potato?

2000-09-07 Thread Eric House
It's been broken for me since I updated. But searching the mailing list archives shows no discussion of gprof. Is it working for other people, or am I the only Debian user doing profiling? Thanks, --Eric House ** * Fro

Re: please help updating calendar

2000-09-07 Thread ferret
A calendar.wicca-n and calendar.wicca-s file would also be appreciated. Note that the sabbats and esbats are reversed between northern and southern hemispheres due to being agriculturaly-based. On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Marco d'Itri wrote: > A calendar.hindu file is needed for 2000/2001 and the yearly

configuring sendmail

2000-09-07 Thread Michael Soulier
Hey guys. Under RedHat, I just added the smarthost feature, and the masquerade envelope, and I could tell sendmail to use mail.storm.ca as my relay. I've tried doing that with Debian, but I'm getting "user unknown" errors back from mail.storm.ca, which isn't true. It also looks like the ma

apt-get pkg held-back?

2000-09-07 Thread William Jensen
Greetings, I did a apt-get update && apt-get upgrade and saw the following: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages have been kept back code-crusader 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Why would a package be "

Re: Debian problem

2000-09-07 Thread John Anderson
I had a similar problem with Debian 2.1 on an IBM PC 350 /w a 166 mhz processor. It had know special cards. I found that Debian 2.2 would work on it because it uses the 2.2 kernel and that particular computer has a bug which the 2.2 kernel recognised. Try downloading on your FreeBSD machine a bo

Re: Changing named forwarders on ppp startup?

2000-09-07 Thread Thomas Hood
> If this is the best solution then > I'll submit it as a wishlist item for the bind package. I have submitted it as a wishlist item for the ppp package. Thomas

test msg please ignore

2000-09-07 Thread William Jensen
Just sending a test msg to make sure it is relaying right to me. Sorry.

Re: please help updating calendar

2000-09-07 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 12:20:53PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > Duplicated events needs to be removed from the yearly calendar.judaic > files. I don't understand what you mean by this. Please could you be a little more specific? Has the format of the files changed or something? Perhaps you can

Cyrus pop3d

2000-09-07 Thread Felipe Alvarez Harnecker
Hi, is it possible to lower the "1 minute" re-login period restriction of pop3d ?? Search the web, nothing found. Thanx. -- __ Felipe Alvarez Harnecker. QlSoftware. Tel. 09.874.60.17 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Potenciado

Re: kernel hangs after trying to free unused memory.

2000-09-07 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Pehaps you have an on board video card and put a mem=xxM more than your memory+video card memory. This is just a guess. Quoting Jon Helsten ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > hello, > i am running a potato version of debian.  I have just compiled a new 2.2.17 > kernel with kernel-pac

kernel hangs after trying to free unused memory.

2000-09-07 Thread Jon Helsten
hello, i am running a potato version of debian.  I have just compiled a new 2.2.17 kernel with kernel-package and make-kpkg. i executed the following commands as per the  README  file. make config make-kpkg clean make-kpkg --revision=cutom.1 kernel_image then dpkg -i kernel_image.deb (or someth

kernel hangs after trying to free unused memory.

2000-09-07 Thread Jon Helsten
hello, i am running a potato version of debian. I have just compiled a new 2.2.17 kernel with kernel-package and make-kpkg. i executed the following commands as per the README file. make config make-kpkg clean make-kpkg --revision=cutom.1 kernel_image then dpkg -i kernel_image.deb (or some

hibernation on a desktop? Suspend-to-RAM on a desktop?

2000-09-07 Thread Krzys Majewski
Has anyone got hibernation going on a desktop? How about suspend-to-RAM? My hardware supports APM and ACPI. I've compiled APM support into my 2.2.17 kernel and it is recognized at boot time: apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.13) The apm options I've configured are: CONFIG_APM=y

How do I adust the Gamma level?

2000-09-07 Thread Wong TM \(Huang Deming\)
How do I adust the Gamma level for X? I using xfree 4.0.0, kde and I have a Creative TNT. What are the settings I should change? Any help is appreciated. __ ..|__|.---.-..-. | __|| || _ || _ | |||__||___._||_|

pppconfig issues

2000-09-07 Thread racuti1
I know Rome wasn't built in a day and neither will my Debian machine.   Now that I've finally got my modem working, I've run pppconfig (v1.1) plugged in all the values I could (the IP numbers are server assigned so I don't know them and left them blank). When I use the 'pon' command, th

CASIO PV-450X

2000-09-07 Thread kiko
Hallo we are looking for the MAc soft for CASIO PV-450X, can you help us? -- Saluti Kiko Berta :-) K-SOUND ai Campisc 5b 6528 Camorino - Switzerland ph ++41 (0)91 857 6505 fax ++41 (0)91 857 6590 mob ++41 (0)79 686 1002 http://www.k-sound.ch

Debian problem

2000-09-07 Thread James Johnson
Greetings.    I just bought Debian 2.1, It won't load. It recognize everything up to mytwo CDrom drives then It freezes up. I currently am running FreeBSD on aseperate box. It will load on that box. The box that I'm putting it oncurrent has Win98 and Redhat. I was planning on going full blow

slrnpull failure

2000-09-07 Thread jakbyto
Hi, I have a problem with slrnpull or to be more precise with its connection to ISP. I read file /slrn/slrnpull/QUICK_INSTALL and did all as it is written there. So I run my /etc/ppp/ppp-on script to connect to ISP (everything goes well as usualy) and when it's done I run slrnpull. But all I get i

Re: dpkg binary dbase (was Re: Debian vs. Red Hat)

2000-09-07 Thread John Hasler
Bruce Sass writes: > The result is still human readable and editable with any text editor, if > you know the codes. The "special dpkg editor" would just make life > easier for those not wanting to look up or learn any codes. Ok, but I'm not sure that it would be significantly faster then a well-d

Re: Debian vs. Red Hat

2000-09-07 Thread Michael Soulier
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Juli-Manel Merino Vidal wrote: > Yes, but the binary database could be automatically compiled when > necessary, so main data is in the text one, but then it could be > compiled into the binary one. Look at sendmail configuration... this > is not done automatically, but it works

Re: Editing and storing encrypted files

2000-09-07 Thread Wouter Hanegraaff
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 07:19:11PM +0200, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote: > On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 06:11:28PM +0200, Arthur Korn wrote: > > It seems to work for me, and the .swp file is _encrypted_, no > > need to disable them. > > The .swp file is definitely not encrypted. Worse, it's not possible to >

Re: pppconfig issue

2000-09-07 Thread John Hasler
Richard P. Acuti writes: > Now that I've finally got my modem working, I've run pppconfig (v1.1) That's _ancient_. Can't you upgrade? > ...plugged in all the values I could (the IP numbers are server assigned > so I don't know them and left them blank). My memory is fuzzy that far back (even fo

Re: re-exec init??

2000-09-07 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Sep 1 23:03:26 debian init: Trying to re-exec init > >Isn't it true that init should only be started at boot time and when >changing runlevels? Or have I misunderstood? What could bring about an >attempt to restart it when the system is

Re: dpkg binary dbase

2000-09-07 Thread David Wright
Quoting Bruce Sass ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On 7 Sep 2000, John Hasler wrote: > > Bruce Sass writes: > > > I want to be able to manually add and edit entries in the DB (i.e., given > > > the freedom to royally screw things up if I feel so inclined), and it > > > doesn't matter if it is via a text edi

Re: Debian vs. Red Hat

2000-09-07 Thread David Wright
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > If you chose an ASN.1 or equivalent data format you could edit it with the > tools from openssl.. I hate windows registry because the tool they made > to edit/correct it was an afterthought. Just because Doze screwed it up > doesn't mean that th

Re: Firewall woes...

2000-09-07 Thread Kelly Corbin
> > I am setting up a packet-filter firewall and everything seems to be > > going fine except for one thing: ftp uploads are ridiculously slow (1 > > > /sbin/ipchains -A output -p tcp --dport ftp -t 0x01 0x10 -j ACCEPT > > The -t option lets you set priority of the pacakge. > > Do the same for

Re: mIRC

2000-09-07 Thread Peter Good
One of the closer ones to mIRC is KVirc, scripting in that is surprisingly similar to mIRC if that's what you're looking for. Peter. "Timothy C. Phan" wrote: > > Hi all, > > Thanks all for the replied. I mainly want to see if any > irc client has the scripting function as the mIRC. the >

xdm only shows boot prompt

2000-09-07 Thread Mark Simos
I have recently reinstalled debian 2.2.17 on my virtual machine I installed xfree86 and xdm using apt-get I get a graphical login from xdm upon boot I enter valid credentials the login goes away, i get about 2 seconds of the grey background before I get a graphical logon again. the loop never e

RE: mIRC

2000-09-07 Thread Timothy C. Phan
Hi all, Thanks all for the replied. I mainly want to see if any irc client has the scripting function as the mIRC. the mIRC that I'm using on Windows/NT can automatically transfer file and create additional GUI for a specific chat room, etc. Thanks! -Original Message- From:

Re: helix-gnome for Debian 2.2 ?

2000-09-07 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
> "Eric" == Eric G Miller writes: Eric> 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

Re: /tmp got deleted! help

2000-09-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 07-Sep-2000 Spinfire Magenta wrote: > on Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 01:57:55PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry sent 0.4K bytes > on their merry way: > >> No offense intended, but you should almost never have to reboot a >> Unix / Linux box. Simply change run levels, or stop and start the >> daemons run

Re: Firewall message in /var/log

2000-09-07 Thread Kelly Corbin
PROTO=17 means it is a UDP packet. You might check to see if you aren't allowing UDP for that segment. > > > Can anyone tell me why I should keep getting this message in my > > > /var/log/messages (I'm afraid I don't speak ipchains): > > > > > > kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth0 PROTO=17 192.1

Re: /tmp got deleted! help

2000-09-07 Thread Spinfire Magenta
on Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 01:57:55PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry sent 0.4K bytes on their merry way: > No offense intended, but you should almost never have to reboot a > Unix / Linux box. Simply change run levels, or stop and start the > daemons running. > Reasons to reboot: > new kernel > a daem

RE: two apt-get questions

2000-09-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 07-Sep-2000 Krzys Majewski wrote: > 1. Is it possible to apt-get install, specifying say "stable" or "unstable" > on the command line, rather than by editing /etc/apt/sources.list? > no, I dont believe so > 2. How do I get apt-get to tell me which version of a package it would > install, wi

SU problems

2000-09-07 Thread Rafael Ortega
Hello, everyone: Recently I installed ver 2.2 of debian on a new machine for netsaint monitoring. Previously, I had experience only with Redhat distros. Everything was going ok until i decided to give webmin (http://www.webmin.com) a try. It installed ok, but when I created the group netsaint

two apt-get questions

2000-09-07 Thread Krzys Majewski
1. Is it possible to apt-get install, specifying say "stable" or "unstable" on the command line, rather than by editing /etc/apt/sources.list? 2. How do I get apt-get to tell me which version of a package it would install, without actually installing it, regardless of the version of the existing

Re: /tmp got deleted! help

2000-09-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > In summary, if /tmp is deleted, don't sweat it, just make sure to reboot. > (Cleanly. =) > No offense intended, but you should almost never have to reboot a Unix / Linux box. Simply change run levels, or stop and start the daemons running. Reasons to reboot: new kernel a daemon went nuts

[OT] A convert

2000-09-07 Thread Jesse Noller
Wow. I daresay I may fully be a Debian Convert now. It's been awhile since I have been able to dink with debian, and so, I ended up having to do some cross distro development... Which, of course, meant installing a debian box, and doing some software porting... Install was a pie

Re: Staring Gnome ???

2000-09-07 Thread John Griffiths
At 10:52 AM 9/7/2000 +0100, Glyn Millington wrote: > >Greetings! I'm running Debian 2.2, kernel 2.2.17. And I can't >start Gnome! I'm starting X from the command line (startx) and >have tried >exec gnome-session >in my .xinitrc and even in an .Xsession file, but all I get in >reposne is an X

Re: sndconfig?

2000-09-07 Thread John Griffiths
At 07:08 PM 9/7/2000 +0200, Peter Fedichev wrote: >Hello, > >how do I configure a soundcard (is there anything like sndconfig in >RedHat)? How should I >set dma irq etc? > >thanks in advance You can get sndconfig as a woody package and it will work under potato you need to remember to add your use

Re: Firewall message in /var/log

2000-09-07 Thread Barry Samuels
"John L . Fjellstad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. I have. I tend to find

Re: Firewall message in /var/log

2000-09-07 Thread Barry Samuels
Rino Mardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 04:46:44PM +0100 or thereabouts, Barry Samuels wrote: > > Can anyone tell me why I should keep getting this message in my > > /var/log/messages (I'm afraid I don't speak ipchains): > > > > kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth0 PROTO=17

Re: Firewall woes...

2000-09-07 Thread John L . Fjellstad
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 12:05:31PM -0500, Kelly Corbin wrote: > I am setting up a packet-filter firewall and everything seems to be > going fine except for one thing: ftp uploads are ridiculously slow (1 Not sure why the -l switch will make any difference, but.. Check the IPCHAINS-HOWTO. In you

Re: /tmp got deleted! help

2000-09-07 Thread J.P. Larocque
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 03:25:32PM -0500, Bryan K. Walton wrote: >I made a horrible mistake today. I accidentally deleted the /tmp >directory and its contents. (...) That *shouldn't* be a problem, as far as I know. Make sure the directories /tmp and /var/tmp exist, regardless if

Re: /tmp got deleted! help

2000-09-07 Thread Andre Berger
"Bryan K. Walton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, >I made a horrible mistake today. I accidentally deleted the /tmp > directory and its contents. I quickly realized my mistake. I created it > again (but wasn't able to replace the contents of it). Now, I can start X as > root, b

Re: /tmp got deleted! help

2000-09-07 Thread Bryan K. Walton
Thanks to both Sean and Andre for the info about the permission on the /tmp directory. Gross oversight on my part, but my panic is gone. Thanks! Bryan

RE: /tmp got deleted! help

2000-09-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 07-Sep-2000 Bryan K. Walton wrote: > Hello, >I made a horrible mistake today. I accidentally deleted the /tmp directory > and its contents. I quickly realized my mistake. I created it again (but > wasn't able to replace the contents of it). Now, I can start X as root, but > I can't

pppconfig issue

2000-09-07 Thread racuti1
I know Rome wasn't built in a day and neither will my Debian machine.   Now that I've finally got my modem working, I've run pppconfig (v1.1) plugged in all the values I could (the IP numbers are server assigned so I don't know them and left them blank). When I use the 'pon' command, the

Re: dpkg binary dbase (was Re: Debian vs. Red Hat)

2000-09-07 Thread Bruce Sass
On 7 Sep 2000, John Hasler wrote: > Bruce Sass writes: > > I want to be able to manually add and edit entries in the DB (i.e., given > > the freedom to royally screw things up if I feel so inclined), and it > > doesn't matter if it is via a text editor or a special bin editor. > > I'm not convince

/tmp got deleted! help

2000-09-07 Thread Bryan K. Walton
Hello, I made a horrible mistake today. I accidentally deleted the /tmp directory and its contents. I quickly realized my mistake. I created it again (but wasn't able to replace the contents of it). Now, I can start X as root, but I can't start X as any other user. I can't find any

Re: indmod -> modules.conf translator

2000-09-07 Thread David Z. Maze
Brien writes: MO> I've tried several different variations on getting my sound card MO> driver to correctly initialize thru /etc/modules.conf. I still have MO> not figured out a good way to do so. MO> MO> However, I can manually install the sound driver using the following: MO> MO>modprobe s

*Thanx*

2000-09-07 Thread Willi Dyck
Thanx to everyone on the list who helped me a lot. Firewall box is now running!! Nice tool (pmfirewall) ;-) This is the real Linux community. Gary Hennigan wrote: > Nate Amsden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > not sure what kernels your using but: > > > > - i've never gotten MASQ to work with DNS

Re: Wierdness w/MidNight Commander editor: may be bug??

2000-09-07 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 09:26:30AM -0500, John Foster wrote: > be O.K. after I do Dismiss it. This does not happen if I am logged on as > a regular user. To make this even weirder this seems to be only when I > am editing the file /etc/apt/sources.list > > Error in file /root/.cedit/Syntax on lin

Re: Debian News Group Needed

2000-09-07 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Richard Klinda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: igno> Hoi Paul, ALL! p> I seriously believe that this and other debian lists are far better p> managed both by users and debian, using NewsGroups rather than mail p> lists. Paul> Just use Gnus. You can filter debian-user mail into a separa

Re: dpkg binary dbase (was Re: Debian vs. Red Hat)

2000-09-07 Thread John Hasler
Bruce Sass writes: > I want to be able to manually add and edit entries in the DB (i.e., given > the freedom to royally screw things up if I feel so inclined), and it > doesn't matter if it is via a text editor or a special bin editor. I'm not convinced that you can write a special bin editor that

RE: vim + printing = wretched output

2000-09-07 Thread Lewis, James M.
> On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 08:36:10AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 09:30:43AM -0500, William Jensen > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Hey guys, has anyone run into bad printing with vim? > > > > > > I spend a few hours editing some notes for class and when I lpt

Re: Debian News Group Needed

2000-09-07 Thread Richard Klinda
Hoi Paul, ALL! p> I seriously believe that this and other debian lists are far better p> managed both by users and debian, using NewsGroups rather than mail p> lists. Paul> Just use Gnus. You can filter debian-user mail into a separate Paul> spool file and have Gnus read it, and it'll

Re: vim + printing = wretched output

2000-09-07 Thread Bob McGowan
William Jensen wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 08:36:10AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 09:30:43AM -0500, William Jensen ([EMAIL > > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Hey guys, has anyone run into bad printing with vim? > > > > > > I spend a few hours editing some notes

Re: "Cloning" a Debian system

2000-09-07 Thread Krzys Majewski
Go to www.debian.org and click on the Search link. It does work, sometimes.. -chris On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Etienne Grossmann wrote: > Hello, > > > Something like apt-get selections... -chris > > thanks for the hint. I would have started by the mail archives, > but I didn't find out how to sear

Re: OT: can Navigator 4.74 use an external mail client?

2000-09-07 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: k> On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 10:58:52AM -0700, Krzys Majewski k> ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> Anyone know how to set up Netscape Navigator (4.74) to invoke >> an external mail client (say, pine) when I click on a mailto: link? There is an excellent package

Re: help with kde2, kdm and kwm

2000-09-07 Thread Michael Epting
Yes, that's why I didn't have them either. But Ivan (krusty - the maintainer of tdyc's Debian packages) told me to do it, so I did, and it worked. Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Michael Epting wrote: > > > make sure you have installed the -dev packages of the major kde2 fi

Re: Proftpd situations

2000-09-07 Thread Ernest Johanson
Take a look in the docs at the DefaultServer directive. I'm not quite sure how proftpd determines what the primary address is, but I had a similar problem with a server here. I defined a Virtual Host for one of the addresses and let the main configuration handle the other one. Ernest Johanson Web

Re: dpkg binary dbase (was Re: Debian vs. Red Hat)

2000-09-07 Thread Bruce Sass
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: <...> > text database is the ONLY way to go, if it were not for that i would > have been totally fscked when my /var got hosed and my backup was > inconsistent with my current package installation which confused > dpkg. (answer: emacs /var/lib/dpkg/status to

Re: vim + printing = wretched output

2000-09-07 Thread William Jensen
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 08:36:10AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 09:30:43AM -0500, William Jensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > Hey guys, has anyone run into bad printing with vim? > > > > I spend a few hours editing some notes for class and when I lpt the > > s

Re: OT: can Navigator 4.74 use an external mail client?

2000-09-07 Thread kmself
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 10:58:52AM -0700, Krzys Majewski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Anyone know how to set up Netscape Navigator (4.74) to invoke > an external mail client (say, pine) when I click on a mailto: link? > (Navigator is the stand-alone web browser, right now it does nothing when > I

Re: X don't work

2000-09-07 Thread kmself
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 01:57:32PM +0300, Adrian Nims ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I've used XF86Config to configure X but despite that from the XF86COnfig > point of view everything is fine and it made an X server runninig, I have no > mouse working (not even in XF86Setup interface) and X freeze a

Re: "Cloning" a Debian system

2000-09-07 Thread Etienne Grossmann
Hello, > Something like apt-get selections... -chris thanks for the hint. I would have started by the mail archives, but I didn't find out how to search them... Cheers, Etienne

Re: help with kde2, kdm and kwm

2000-09-07 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Michael Epting wrote: > make sure you have installed the -dev packages of the major kde2 files. aren't the -dev packages for development? I'm just trying to 'use' kwm, not to compile anything? anyway I'll give it a try. Thansk! []s, Mario O.de Menezes"Many are

OT: can Navigator 4.74 use an external mail client?

2000-09-07 Thread Krzys Majewski
Anyone know how to set up Netscape Navigator (4.74) to invoke an external mail client (say, pine) when I click on a mailto: link? (Navigator is the stand-alone web browser, right now it does nothing when I click on such a link) -chris

Re: help with kde2, kdm and kwm

2000-09-07 Thread Michael Epting
make sure you have installed the -dev packages of the major kde2 files. Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having troubles to use kwm. I've installed kde2 packages > from tdyc (Ivan's packages). All dependencies are resolved but I'm not > able to start kwm either from kdm (it's

help with kde2, kdm and kwm

2000-09-07 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, I'm having troubles to use kwm. I've installed kde2 packages from tdyc (Ivan's packages). All dependencies are resolved but I'm not able to start kwm either from kdm (it's not listed) or from .xinitrc, using startkde. The individual programs, like kword, kpresenter, killustrat

Re: Required Hardware?

2000-09-07 Thread Bruce Sass
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Jeffrey H. Young wrote: > I have an Intel 386, with 3.5"-1.44MB & 5.25"-1.2MG floppies, a Backpack > CDROM on my parallel port, and WDC AC21200H 1279MB hard drive1 and a ST3145A > 130MB hard drive2, VGA, Serial, yada yada. Your hardware requirements says > the system should

Re: "Cloning" a Debian system

2000-09-07 Thread Krzys Majewski
Yes, there is. I don't remember the incantation but if you search through the archives on www.debian.org you'll be sure to find some posts about it. Something like apt-get selections... -chris On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Etienne Grossmann wrote: > > > Hello, > > is there any way to install on a

Re: "standard" entries for apt sources.list?

2000-09-07 Thread Krzys Majewski
Not sure if this is what you want, but here's mine. -chris # Use for a local mirror - remove the ftp1 http lines for the bits # your mirror contains. # deb file:/your/mirror/here/debian stable main contrib non-free # See sources.list(5) for more information, especial # Remember that you can only u

ES1869 soundcard problem? (lengthy description)

2000-09-07 Thread Peter Fedichev
Hello, since yesterday I am trying to configure the sound card on my laptop. I would be very grateful to anyone who could hint me a solution. The hardware has been till yesterday working fine under Windows (though I don't have W to check it again but I don't expect anything happened). I will be t

How to use libhtml-embperl-perl as cgi

2000-09-07 Thread Peter S Galbraith
[also sent to prior Debian maintainer in case he can answer in 30 seconds!] I have installed the libhtml-embperl-perl package, and I'm trying to get some perl commands within [+ brackets +] in html files to be processed (first as cgi, then perhaps using mod-perl). After simply installing the pa

Re: Editing and storing encrypted files

2000-09-07 Thread Wouter Hanegraaff
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 06:11:28PM +0200, Arthur Korn wrote: > It seems to work for me, and the .swp file is _encrypted_, no > need to disable them. The .swp file is definitely not encrypted. Worse, it's not possible to disable using a swapfile when a vim session is already started: :set uc=0 as

Re: what are these?

2000-09-07 Thread Bob McGowan
For the files xaa to xam, something you downloaded was split into pieces for more reliable downloading. Common practice when the original is really big and the download is over a modem, so you can download pieces at different times, or re-download a broken part rather than the whole. They can be

Re: best way to install debian in VMware VM (found it :)

2000-09-07 Thread Mark Simos
> Mark> Then i mounted the /dev/sda4 as /zip manually ... > > I can't say I understand what you did, but I'll keep your message as > reference -- I might want to try that someday. Thanks. > vmware allows for you to directly mount an existing partition, which I did. Under SCSI in configuration

Re: Another Poll

2000-09-07 Thread Michael Smith
Here's a better url: http://www.justlinux.com/bin/poll/allpolls.pl And to think I thought nobody ever used slackware. Oh, well. "Brooks R. Robinson" wrote: > Greetings, > There is yet another Linux version poll at www.justlinux.com! Debian > is > sitting at 7%! Vote early and Vote o

sndconfig?

2000-09-07 Thread Peter Fedichev
Hello, how do I configure a soundcard (is there anything like sndconfig in RedHat)? How should I set dma irq etc? thanks in advance

sndconfig?

2000-09-07 Thread Peter Fedichev
Hello, how do I configure a soundcard (is there anything like sndconfig in RedHat)? How should I set dma irq etc? thanks in advance

Re: any luck with ES1869 sound card?

2000-09-07 Thread Peter Fedichev
Hello, how do I configure a soundcard (is there anything like sndconfig in RedHat)? How should I set dma irq etc? thanks in advance

DSL, pump, dhcp, and more questions

2000-09-07 Thread Gary Hennigan
So I just hooked up my ADSL connection this past weekend and it's up and running with no problems. I am, however, having some trouble understanding HOW it's working?! I'm running a fresh install of potato on my firewall/masq machine which is connected to my internal network, via a hub, and to the

Firewall woes...

2000-09-07 Thread Kelly Corbin
I am setting up a packet-filter firewall and everything seems to be going fine except for one thing: ftp uploads are ridiculously slow (1 or 2 packets every 10 sec.). If I turn logging on (-l), the upload speed picks up to close to normal speed. If I turn it off, it slows back down again. This

indmod -> modules.conf translator

2000-09-07 Thread Michael O'Brien
Hola~ I've tried several different variations on getting my sound card driver to correctly initialize thru /etc/modules.conf. I still have not figured out a good way to do so. However, I can manually install the sound driver using the following: modprobe sound insmod ad1848 insmod uart

Another Poll

2000-09-07 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
Greetings, There is yet another Linux version poll at www.justlinux.com! Debian is sitting at 7%! Vote early and Vote often! Brooks

Re: Editing and storing encrypted files

2000-09-07 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Thu, 07 Sep 2000, Arthur Korn wrote: > Could somebody more familiar with vim than me please tell me > (us) wheter this writes anything unencrypted onto disk? If not, > shall I file a wishlist bug against vim-rt to include this? Is your swap file (not VIM's, the OS') in an encripted partition? O

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