Starting KDE2

2000-09-16 Thread Mike
Hi everyone,   I managed to get kde2 install but it wont start. I used apt-get to get it so it hould be fine, I'm using gdm so i added a menu to that which executed startkde but when it starts it sais that it failed interprocess networking and that dcopserver isnt running. Konqueror works fin

Re: Dual booting Win2k/deb2.2

2000-09-16 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Rob wrote: > Hello guys, this is my first time using this mail-user list. I am almost > finished building my new PC(waiting on a couple parts), and once its done I > will be dual booting win2000/deb. ick. heresy. > A) How can I install these OS's so that I can have a bootl

Re: laptop

2000-09-16 Thread Nate Amsden
Rino Mardo wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 09:38:25PM +0100 or thereabouts, Bruce Richardson > wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 09:01:30AM +0400, Rino Mardo wrote: > > > > > > debian is the most laptop-friendly distro i've encountered. > > > > I'd have to question that, even in my recent-Deb

X,Netscape,Mozilla - x locking hard

2000-09-16 Thread Kevin C. Smith
Looking for solutions to X locking hard. While using Netscape 4.75, usually when scrolling, X lock and I can only reset the computer. I occasionally happens when selecting a link. Mozilla M17 also will lock X hard while scrolling, however lately it has been more likely to just crash leaving X ru

Re: X configuration

2000-09-16 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Gregory Vence wrote: > Hello, > > I've got xdm running. > > Using XF86Setup, I thought I could change my mouse and screen setting > but this isn't working... hmmm... it should. > I've got an Intellimouse but it doesn't see the middle button or wheel > events in enlightenme

Dual booting Win2k/deb2.2

2000-09-16 Thread Rob
Hello guys, this is my first time using this mail-user list. I am almost finished building my new PC(waiting on a couple parts), and once its done I will be dual booting win2000/deb. I want to install these OS's on three partitions (win2000, / , /swap) on my RAID0 Array (Highpoint onboard control

Re: CD rom drives.

2000-09-16 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, voy1d wrote: > Hey. > > Running Potato 2.2 r0 with latest updates complete, whenever I try to mount > my cdrom drive like so. > > mount /dev/cdrom /cdrom > > I get an error message : > error mounting device: device not found. > > Anyone got any ideas? could be a few thin

Re: OFFTOPIC: Reading data from a parallel port

2000-09-16 Thread Nate Amsden
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi all, > > I posted this question to the gphoto mailing list with no response so I'm > trying > you guys...since I know there are many knowledgable people here. So without > any > delay... > > I'm going to try and write a program/library to read data from a portab

Re: rsync trouble

2000-09-16 Thread Nate Amsden
Swoop wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm using rsync to make a mirror of Debian - for a long time > it had worked very well, but suddenly this error appears: > > Resource temporarily unavailable check ulimits. run ulimit -a and adjust accordingly if anything does not say 'unlimited'(see the manpage for u

Re: corruption during power loss

2000-09-16 Thread Nate Amsden
Michael Soulier wrote: > > My biggest complaint about RedHat/Mandrake while I was using them > was the fact that if I lost power, the disk caching would cause the > filesystem to be corrupted, often seriously so. I'd cringe when I booted > up again, because inevitably, I'd be prompted to l

Re: CD rom drives.

2000-09-16 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 03:34:15PM +1200, voy1d wrote: > Hey. > > Running Potato 2.2 r0 with latest updates complete, whenever I try to mount > my cdrom drive like so. > > mount /dev/cdrom /cdrom > > I get an error message : > error mounting device: device not found. > > Anyone got any ideas?

elvis is alive, but buggy...

2000-09-16 Thread will trillich
this happened to me back on slink, and now that i've just updated to a clean potato with a new set of apt-get this and that, it's happened again. elvis (elvisnox) works reasonably well, except for `crontab -e`, which detects a nonzero status on exit, which interferes with the saving of the crontab

CD rom drives.

2000-09-16 Thread voy1d
Hey. Running Potato 2.2 r0 with latest updates complete, whenever I try to mount my cdrom drive like so. mount /dev/cdrom /cdrom I get an error message : error mounting device: device not found. Anyone got any ideas? voy1d Faith No More summed up life well, "You Can't Always Get What You Wan

Re: preparing to install debian

2000-09-16 Thread Shaul Karl
> Good morning! > > I ordered a three CD set of debian cds and am preparing to install > debian. I have some specific questions: > > (1) how do i configure debian for dsl ? > You might follow this list and read the DSL stuff on the Linux Documentation Project. I do not have DSL, which is why

Re: Apache-Perl: missing handler "server-parsed"

2000-09-16 Thread Nate Amsden
Philipp Letschert wrote: > > I tried to include a perl counter in my webpage with the line: > > > > invoking the counter with http://foo.bar/cgi-bin/counter.pl works fine. But I > didnt got it to work from within the document. After spending a lot of time > with the Apache documentation I hav

X configuration

2000-09-16 Thread Gregory Vence
Hello, I've got xdm running. Using XF86Setup, I thought I could change my mouse and screen setting but this isn't working... I've got an Intellimouse but it doesn't see the middle button or wheel events in enlightenment. The screen resolution seems to stay the same no matter what size I request

Re: graphic login failure

2000-09-16 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 09:23:42PM -0400, Bill Barnes wrote: > Hello List: > > Just did a dist-upgrade from woody, helixcode and kde2. > > login as root fails, but can 'su', 'su - root' from terminal. Check the startup procedure for startx. Look for a $HOME/.xsession file in the home directo

Re: group 'root' does not exist?!

2000-09-16 Thread Nate Amsden
Christian Pernegger wrote: > > Hi all! > > I'm playing with customizing PAM at the moment and want > to restrict the use of 'su' to members of group 'root' > by enabling the feature in /etc/pam.d/su. you dont need to play with pam to do this. if you want just chmod o-rx /bin/su nate -- ::: IC

Re: join us!

2000-09-16 Thread Peter Palfrader
[Sorry for the late jump in, I found this thread because of Seth's X-Post] Hi Oliver! On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Oliver Elphick wrote: > "Kurt Seifried" wrote: > ... > >Problem: user can enter Lilo commands at the Lilo prompt > ... > >Additional solution: remove/replace password in lilo.conf after

group 'root' does not exist?!

2000-09-16 Thread Christian Pernegger
Hi all! I'm playing with customizing PAM at the moment and want to restrict the use of 'su' to members of group 'root' by enabling the feature in /etc/pam.d/su. However, when I try to adduser myuser root it says group 'root' doesn't exist. (I checked in /etc/groups and /etc/gshadow, just to be

Re: How can I put a package on hold without using Dselect?

2000-09-16 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 11:36:30PM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: > Dselect is slow on my old machine. How can I put a package on hold without > using Dselect? > dpkg does not have such an action as far as I can see. echo hold | dpkg --set-selections -- ---===-=-==-=

help w/ ISDN external modem

2000-09-16 Thread mario
Hi, I'm trying to use a external ISDN modem to connect w/o success. As I don't have a ISDN provider yet, I'm just calling my present provider (non-ISDN). Is this possible, that is, can I connect to non-ISDN provider using a ISDN modem/line (U Line). The NT is from CS Telecom (Fran

graphic login failure

2000-09-16 Thread Bill Barnes
Hello List: Just did a dist-upgrade from woody, helixcode and kde2. login as root fails, but can 'su', 'su - root' from terminal.

Re: sunrpc

2000-09-16 Thread mike
Run < update-rc.d -f portmap remove > to remove ALL the start up links . When it runs it will show you what links its removing. This still leaves the portmap script in /etc/init.d so you can manually re-start portmap and even re-install the start up links. Or if you wan

Re: awe 64 gold sound card - help!

2000-09-16 Thread Nate Amsden
Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > first, it seems like EVERYTHING is commented out in the dump of pnpdump, so > i simply added the lines given in step 7c. unfortunately, isapnp didn't > like them. it complained: that is normal, pnpdump by default comments everything out. > Don't know what to d

Re: in xf86config

2000-09-16 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
ray, according to "man XF86Config", the answer is yes: Protocol "protocol-type" specifies the pointer device protocol type. The protocol types available are: Auto BusMouse GlidePoint

Re: in xf86config

2000-09-16 Thread Ray Percival
I will try that does anyone happen to know if the intellimouse is supported? Thanks. -- Original Message -- From: Mike Werner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 17:52:55 -0400 >Ray Percival wrote: >> What device should I make my mouse? /dev/mouse is

RE: advanced power management and linux?

2000-09-16 Thread Krzys Majewski
Got two heat sinks, black metal with fins, about 4cm x 10 cm x 3 cm. Slapped them on the original heatsinks with some white heatsink compound (aka thermal grease, I think) in between. They are hot but not too hot to touch, yet. Good news, my local computer store sez the P/S fan does nothing in the

apt-confused?

2000-09-16 Thread Dale Morris
I'm confused. apt-get is confused. I have been trying to stay with the potato install intermittently adding woody packages as necessary. But after a couple of upgrades I'm now running woody but, I think I've got some potato configurations laying around. I upgraded licq, but then it wouldn't work so

Re: in xf86config

2000-09-16 Thread Mike Werner
Ray Percival wrote: > What device should I make my mouse? /dev/mouse is not working. Depends on where your mouse is plugged in. The /dev/mouse is usually a symlink to the actual device for the mouse. For example, on my system I use a PS2 mouse. The device for a PS2 mouse is /dev/psaux And I've

RE: advanced power management and linux?

2000-09-16 Thread George Bonser
On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Dexter Graphic wrote: > There used to be computer called "the Brick" which was about > that size and filed with a gel that conducted heat to the > outside. It was black and just radiated the heat away with no > fans or noise. Also, I've seen a prototype super-fast CPU > that

in xf86config

2000-09-16 Thread Ray Percival
What device should I make my mouse? /dev/mouse is not working. Thanks much

RE: debian-user-digest Digest V100 #26 - Libranet

2000-09-16 Thread Bill Barnes
Installed Libranet 1.7 (2.2.14) some months ago. Most refreshing install experience I ever had. Their install docs a little skimpy but adequate. Their CD worth it if only to get the 1 year support. Never saw anybody work harder at answering questions - fast - and properly detailed. Cheers, B

xplaycd question

2000-09-16 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
dear all, my favorite cd player is xplaycd and the mixer it provides, xmixer is pretty excellent too. i can't find either one in dselect, but i found a URL refering to a bug report against xplaycd for debian: http://lists.openresources.com/Debian/debian-bugs-closed/msg00297.html so it must have

How can I put a package on hold without using Dselect?

2000-09-16 Thread Shaul Karl
Dselect is slow on my old machine. How can I put a package on hold without using Dselect? dpkg does not have such an action as far as I can see. -- Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Donate free food to the world's hungry: see http://www.thehungersite.com

RE: advanced power management and linux?

2000-09-16 Thread Krzys Majewski
OK Here's the latest P/S outside computer (sitting on top of case cover insulated by two wooden chopsticks). Fan disconnected (looks like cutting the wire didn't cause the P/S to panic). P/S case removed. The two aluminum (?) heat sinks that came with the P/S are too hot to touch for more than abo

RE: advanced power management and linux?

2000-09-16 Thread Dexter Graphic
There used to be computer called "the Brick" which was about that size and filed with a gel that conducted heat to the outside. It was black and just radiated the heat away with no fans or noise. Also, I've seen a prototype super-fast CPU that used a liquid cooling system like a car. Can you imagi

Help set up Linksys LNE100TX on Debian 2.2 ?

2000-09-16 Thread Mickey Feldman
I'm trying to get a Linksys LNE 100TX PCI NIC recognized on Debian 2.2.17 on a 120 mhz Triton motherboard. I see that there were a number of recent posts on debian-users about this card, but none quite address my specific problem. insmod tulip comes back with 'Device or resource busy' and a s

Re: finding a tarball on a fat-less fat partition--disk editor? (fwd)

2000-09-16 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> yikes, I can do without the gory details :) does this mean that once I > find a block of a tar, I can start extracting, even if it wasn't the > middle? > you mean "even if it wasn't the START?", right? the answer is yes. just verified this. > And now that I think of it, someone mentioned tha

sunrpc

2000-09-16 Thread Debian Ghost
Hello All, I removed *portmap from /etc/rc2.d and I am still having sunrpc start up on boot. I want to remove sunrpc from my system, but am having trouble. Can anyone explain how sunrpc starts and how to stop it from starting? Thanks! D. Ghost

Re: more than 64 megs ram?

2000-09-16 Thread Jeff Green
from /etc/lilo.conf on one of our servers image=/vmlinuz label=Linux read-only append="mem=960M" you probably have the first 3, add the third (adjusted to 128M rather than 960) and run lilo -v Jeff Debian Ghost wrote: > > Hey Guys, > I've totally forgotten what to do if y

Re: Howto make exim not listen on port inet 25

2000-09-16 Thread George Bonser
To clarify my last response. Lets say you have a windows workstation with Eudora. It keeps its own outbox, inbox and folders. ssmtp allows you do so much the same thing with a Unix workstation. You set up your mail client ... say ... xfmail ... to pull the mail from your pop3 account and to send

Re: Howto make exim not listen on port inet 25

2000-09-16 Thread George Bonser
Probably not. What you probably should do in your case is to tell exim to listen only to 127.0.0.1. ssmtp is not designed to store mail locally on the system. It moves responsiblity for storing local mail to the MUA. On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Jose Marin wrote: > On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, George Bonser w

Re: rsync trouble

2000-09-16 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 20:33:56 +0200, Swoop wrote: > I'm using rsync to make a mirror of Debian - for a long time it had worked > very well, but suddenly this error appears: > > Resource temporarily unavailable > Does anyone have a clue why this is happing ? Your system is running out of some

Re: Howto make exim not listen on port inet 25

2000-09-16 Thread Jose Marin
On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, George Bonser wrote: > Maybe the correct answer for this user is not to use exim at all but to > use ssmtp which is, I think, the tool designed for this job. Thanks, I didn't know this existed. > WARNING: the above is all it does - it does not receive mail, expand > aliases

Re: finding a tarball on a fat-less fat partition--disk editor? (fwd)

2000-09-16 Thread dochawk
to: du reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-user@lists.debian.org from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: finding a tarball on a fat-less fat partition--disk editor? In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 15 Sep 2000 19:28:34 EDT." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PR

rsync trouble

2000-09-16 Thread Swoop
Hi, I'm using rsync to make a mirror of Debian - for a long time it had worked very well, but suddenly this error appears: Resource temporarily unavailable I'm using a command similar to this: rsync -avr ftp.sunet.se::pub/os/Linux/distributions/debian/dists/potato/contrib/binary-all/ /home/ftp/

awe 64 gold sound card - help!

2000-09-16 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
i have an awe64 gold sound card, and i'm having a heck of a time configuring it. part of the problem is that the instructions given in the debian package seem to be out of date, and isapnp is a subject i know very little about. i followed the instructions to the letter, but am on shaky ground fo

Re: System sees only 65M of memory

2000-09-16 Thread Floods
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Mirek Kwasniak wrote: > On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 09:33:11PM +0200, Floods wrote: > > append="mem=192m" > > Grub has own memory detection metod Then it doesn't work...My system sees only 64M if I don't specify 'mem=192m' > but lilo doesn't has any. > Your append-mem e

How I make imp package run

2000-09-16 Thread juliano
I install the package imp with 2.2 version end not run. Why?

Re: mirror web server

2000-09-16 Thread Mike Werner
QBA wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for a program (fast and reliable with recursive grabbing) > that will mirror any URL with all files and links. Something like > teleport pro for windows. > Any suggestions? wget -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | He that is slow to believe anything and

mirror web server

2000-09-16 Thread QBA
Hi, I'm looking for a program (fast and reliable with recursive grabbing) that will mirror any URL with all files and links. Something like teleport pro for windows. Any suggestions? Thanks 4 help, QBA

Re: cron.daily and slrnpull

2000-09-16 Thread Joe Bouchard
On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 07:43:15AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I configured slrnpull to run only on demand, but cron.daily keeps trying > to run it every morning. As I am only connected to my ISP intermittently > this is wrong. > > How do I change this (apart from deleting the entry in cron.

[hugovdm@mail.com: Re: XF86Setup: how are the Modelines generated?]

2000-09-16 Thread Branden Robinson
I forwarded the initial question to debian-user, I might as well send this as well. - Forwarded message from Hugo van der Merwe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Hugo van der Merwe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: XF86Setup: how are the Modelines generated? Date: Thu, 14 S

Re: Howto make exim not listen on port inet 25

2000-09-16 Thread George Bonser
Maybe the correct answer for this user is not to use exim at all but to use ssmtp which is, I think, the tool designed for this job. >From the package description: A secure, effective and simple way of getting mail off a system to your mailhub. It contains no suid-binaries or other dangerous th

gnome-users-guide

2000-09-16 Thread Michael P. Soulier
So, I install the gnome-help package, which in turn installs the gnome-help-data package, both from helixcode. However, when I try to do anything with the help browser, it tells me that I'm missing things like the gnome-users-manual. Now, I can find that on the Debian site, but why isn't t

Re: preparing to install debian

2000-09-16 Thread David Z. Maze
Bob Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BE> (1) how do i configure debian for dsl ? It depends on the sort of DSL modem you have. I think there's a generic sort that connects with an RJ45 patch cable to a normal Ethernet card; in this case, the problem reduces to one of setting up an Ethernet car

Re: more than 64 megs ram?

2000-09-16 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
hi ghost, to tell linux you have 999MB of ram, put the following in the "append" line of your lilo.conf: mem=999M then run lilo, of course. :-) you can find this information and more in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/memory.txt. you can see how much memory linux sees by: cat /

Re: Which Netscape to use?

2000-09-16 Thread I. Tura
At 12.38 16/9/00 +0200, Kjetil Ødegaard ha escrit: >* Erik van der Meulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> Sorry Group, this must be very FAQ. >> I would like some advice to which Netscape to get for my 2.2 Helix-gnome >> laptop. If I check the stable files, I find numerous installers with >> different nu

RE: Staroffice on Debian Potato

2000-09-16 Thread I. Tura
At 09.22 15/9/00 +0800, CHEONG, Shu Yang [Patrick] ha escrit: >Yup...installed 5.2 over the weekend.so far no problemshowever, the >Starwriter files saved as Word 5, Word 9X and Word 2000 was not >compatible..i.e. when I tried opening these files in Word 97, it said >something about file pe

more than 64 megs ram?

2000-09-16 Thread Debian Ghost
Hey Guys, I've totally forgotten what to do if you have more than 64 megs ram in a machine. I have 128 megs in one of my machines, but it is not coming up for me. I was also wondering another way to identify how much ram is in a mcahine other than using 'top'. Thanks, D. Ghost 'space ghost flyin

Re: Can anyone else verify this ???

2000-09-16 Thread George Bonser
> > here. > > Yep, those work for me too. The www.3com.com site is rather amusing. > > -- > Andrew I found the source of the problem ... I had turned on the "Explicit Congestion Notification" option in the networking options of the 2.4-test8 kernel. There was no help available on this option

Re: Howto make exim not listen on port inet 25

2000-09-16 Thread Terry Boon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 04:11:52PM +0100, Jose Marin wrote: > PS: Is there any inetd replacement which can listen selectively on the > various interfaces? Maybe this could be a solution for having both exim > and leafnode not listening on the inet po

Re: advanced power management and linux?

2000-09-16 Thread Krzys Majewski
Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There is a purpose for the power supply fan you know. I > had one going on the fritz ( running slow and stopping at > times). I ran it this way for 6mo or so. Then all at once > my hd started going haywire. Short story: I had to replace > the hd and power supply.

Re: Can anyone else verify this ???

2000-09-16 Thread Pollywog
On 16-Sep-2000 Stan Kaufman wrote: > Pollywog wrote: >> >> I have Pacific Bell DSL and I am using the 2.4.0-test7 kernel. >> I can access both websites just fine. > > How about www.3com.com and www.hp.com? These won't come through for me > though the www.ibm.com and www.cdw.com sites work fine.

Re: superformat?

2000-09-16 Thread David Wright
Quoting William T Wilson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On 14 Sep 2000, John Hasler wrote: > > > > floppy. Just seems a little wierd seeing DOS as the default on a Linux > > > manpage... > > > > FAT16 is a pretty good format for floppies (that's what it was designed > > for). Ext2 isn't. > > ext2 does

Re: superformat?

2000-09-16 Thread David Wright
Quoting Immanuel Yap ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Thu Sep 14, 2000, Michael Soulier wrote: > > On 14 Sep 2000, John Hasler wrote: > > Yeah, I suppose. Out of curiousity, what format is used on zip > > drives running under Linux? I've never used one. Do they have their own > > format, ala CDROMS wi

Re: using /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb

2000-09-16 Thread David Wright
Quoting cls-colo spgs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > i need to reinstall potato (after losing my pcmcia > modem to a custom kernel). > > w/o having to "dselect" or "apt-get" over and over, is > there a way for the system, with one "apt-get" > command, to get and install the *.deb files in > /var/cach

Re: superformat?

2000-09-16 Thread David Wright
Quoting Michael Soulier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I guess floppies aren't all that important in a world of the > internet, but they're still valuable in the form of boot disks, and small > transfers to zero-connectivity machines. Floppies are the only format not > keeping pace it would seem. Th

RE: corruption during power loss

2000-09-16 Thread Saran
You can also get more information regarding JFS from the following site : http://www2.software.ibm.com/developer/tools.nsf/dw/linux-projects-byname?Op enDocument&Count=500 Go to the site and select JFS for Linux. The FAQ may be of interest to you guys. Cheers, Saranjit Singh. -Original Mess

Re: Can anyone else verify this ???

2000-09-16 Thread Stan Kaufman
Pollywog wrote: > > I have Pacific Bell DSL and I am using the 2.4.0-test7 kernel. > I can access both websites just fine. How about www.3com.com and www.hp.com? These won't come through for me though the www.ibm.com and www.cdw.com sites work fine. Something weird here. > On 16-Sep-2000 George

Re: e-conf for enlightenment

2000-09-16 Thread Tom Gilbert
* Bruce Richardson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 10:12:45AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 03:09:57PM +0200, Frederik wrote: > > > > > > AFAIK, e-conf is no longer in Enlightenment. You might check #e on EFNet > > > to be sure, but I seem to re

Re: e-conf for enlightenment

2000-09-16 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 04:18:28PM +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote: > Not all the configuration options, at least not on the version I have at > work. I kept e-conf from the older enlightenment because there seemed > to be no way to set preferences for keypresses and no equivalent to > e-conf's bac

RE: Howto make exim not listen on port inet 25

2000-09-16 Thread Pollywog
What about local_interfaces in your exim.conf? local_interfaces = "192.168.1.1:127.0.0.1" for example. Just remove the IP address of your ppp interface from the option. -- Andrew On 16-Sep-2000 Jose Marin wrote: > Hi all, > > A home user typically receives e-mail with a pop program (fetchmail),

Re: OT: signal and pipeline

2000-09-16 Thread Andreas Fuchs
Today, Andreas Huggel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why is the signal handler not invoked? What signal does myprog need to > look out for and is there a particular trick needed to catch it? Err. SIGPIPE? > Andreas regards, -- Andreas Stefan Fuchs in Real Life aka [

Re: e-conf for enlightenment

2000-09-16 Thread Bruce Richardson
On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 10:12:45AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 03:09:57PM +0200, Frederik wrote: > > > > AFAIK, e-conf is no longer in Enlightenment. You might check #e on EFNet > > to be sure, but I seem to recall having read something like this > > somewhere... >

Howto make exim not listen on port inet 25

2000-09-16 Thread Jose Marin
Hi all, A home user typically receives e-mail with a pop program (fetchmail), and therefore he has no use for his MTA _listening_ for incoming mail on inet port 25, am I right? Because I assume fetchmail passes its load on to the MTA via the local interface, 127.0.0.1, isn't it so? Therefore it

RE: Can anyone else verify this ???

2000-09-16 Thread Pollywog
I have Pacific Bell DSL and I am using the 2.4.0-test7 kernel. I can access both websites just fine. On 16-Sep-2000 George Bonser wrote: > > Using kernel 2.4-pre8 > > I can not access www.ibm.com or www.cdw.com yet can access many other > sites without problem. If I reboot into 2.2.17, I can ac

Re: Debian Gnome vs. Helix Gnome

2000-09-16 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 06:45:58PM -0400, Andy Bastien wrote: > They hope to eventually make money off of services: > > http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/236/business/A_user_friendly_face_lift_for_Linux+.shtml > > > Plus, you have to trust them in that the sources that they put up are > the one

Re: /tmp directory

2000-09-16 Thread Colin Watson
debian-user@lists.debian.org wrote: >On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 10:45:02PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> these are socket files created by programs that make use of so-called >> unix domain sockets -- nothing to worry about :) MC identifies this file >> type with a leading "=" and color black (at

Adding a Drive Icon [newbie]

2000-09-16 Thread Shel Johnson
I have an IDE internal ZipDrive.. When I boot my machine, I know Linux sees it as hdd.. My question is: how do I add an icon on the desktop like the floppy and cdrom??.. Thanks!! = Shel [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ- 23454126 AIM- CacheMonet Trying to master Storm Linux 2000 http://www.stormix.com/

Re: e-conf for enlightenment

2000-09-16 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 03:09:57PM +0200, Frederik wrote: > > AFAIK, e-conf is no longer in Enlightenment. You might check #e on EFNet > to be sure, but I seem to recall having read something like this > somewhere... Yeah, I noticed that you can access all of the configuration options with a

Re: /tmp directory

2000-09-16 Thread QBA
On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 10:45:02PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > these are socket files created by programs that make use of so-called > unix domain sockets -- nothing to worry about :) MC identifies this file > type with a leading "=" and color black (at least in its default > configuration

OT: signal and pipeline

2000-09-16 Thread Andreas Huggel
Hi, This one is for UNIX shell gurus. Pointers to a better forum for the question are most welcome. This is what is giving me a headache: I have a small program that only installs a signal handler for SIGHUP, SIGINT and SIGPIPE and then just loops over sleep(1); printf("hi\n"); fflush(stdout)

Debian on 16mb ram intels

2000-09-16 Thread Tomasz Wegrzanowski
How can I use dpkg on 16mb box with much software installed ? '(Reading database' step takes awfully lot of time. Nicing -20 doesn't help much. Is there any low-RAM-usage version of dpkg or some other technique can be used to lower its memory needs ? Please CC: me.

Re: Netscape http://wierdness on startup

2000-09-16 Thread John Foster
"Eric G . Miller" wrote: > > Not by chance launching that from a GNOME laucher? I found replacing > gnome-moz-remote with communicator (or netscape), made it go away. > > On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 04:47:07PM -0400, Kent Pirkle wrote: > > I've been having the same problem. No clue how to fix it. >

Re: e-conf for enlightenment

2000-09-16 Thread Frederik
> Can anyone tell me where I can find a debian package with e-conf > for enlightenment in it? I installed enlightenment, and I've scoured the > Debian ftp site, and I can't find it. I'm kind of curious as to why > enlightenment would be available without it. AFAIK, e-conf is no longer in

using /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb

2000-09-16 Thread Neil L. Roeth
cd /var/cache/apt/archives apt-get install `ls|cut -d_ -f1` You might want to do an apt-get autoclean first. On Sep 14, cls-colo spgs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > debs, > > i need to reinstall potato (after losing my pcmcia > modem to a custom kernel). > > w/o having to "dselect" or "apt

Re: of Xservers and XSetup, of sabotage and kinks...

2000-09-16 Thread Andy Bastien
There are those who would have you believe that S.J. Black wrote: > Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 23:23:36 -0700 > From: "S.J. Black" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16 i586) > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: of Xservers and XSetup, of sabotage and kinks...

Re: advanced power management and linux?

2000-09-16 Thread Dean
There is a purpose for the power supply fan you know. I had one going on the fritz ( running slow and stopping at times). I ran it this way for 6mo or so. Then all at once my hd started going haywire. Short story: I had to replace the hd and power supply. Dean Krzys Majewski wrote: > > > > Hm

Re: pgp vs. mutt

2000-09-16 Thread Tom Gilbert
* will trillich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > i don't give a whit about signing my messages; unless we're passing > munitions details during a war, i don't see the importance (at least > none of my ramblings are even CLOSE to needing any certification or > verification). i just wanna get rid of the

Re: OT: shell prompt tip

2000-09-16 Thread Sven Gaerner
If your shell is bash then zou can create aliases. Write in .bashrc something like alias cd='cd ../../..' This allows you to type cd on the command line to go 3 directories up. Sven At Sat, 16 Sep 2000 09:40:07 +0100 (BST), Simon Hales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 14 Sep 2000,

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2000-09-16 Thread Michael Norman
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Re: KDE 2

2000-09-16 Thread Kjetil Ødegaard
* Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Hi, > > I've been trying to install kde from tdyc.com but it never works. Can > someone give give me a line to add to my sources list the works. Woody has a lot of KDE2 packages if you are willing to upgrade. -- Kjetil

Re: Which Netscape to use?

2000-09-16 Thread Kjetil Ødegaard
* Erik van der Meulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sorry Group, this must be very FAQ. > I would like some advice to which Netscape to get for my 2.2 Helix-gnome > laptop. If I check the stable files, I find numerous installers with > different numbers. I am a bit lost. Any suggestions? My advice would

Re: Port 118

2000-09-16 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> What's port 118 for? I can't find it in /etc/services though I have it > in my logs as a denied (outgoing) packet (destination port is 118). > nmap-services says sqlserv #SQL Services regards -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- Real programmers don't comm

Re: Port 118

2000-09-16 Thread Robert Waldner
according to www.snort.org ist some kind of "SQL Services". hth, &rw On Sat, 16 Sep 2000 12:05:36 +0200, Sven Burgener writes: >What's port 118 for? I can't find it in /etc/services though I have it >in my logs as a denied (outgoing) packet (destination port is 118). -- / Robert Waldner <[EMAI

Re: can anyone explain why ??

2000-09-16 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 05:27:14PM +1100, Simeon Simes wrote: > When I'm ripping a CD with cdparanoia my dialup ppp connection doesn't work. > I don't seem to be able to transfer at all. The link stays up but no or very > little > data seems to be able to flow. But if I stop cdparanoia ever

preparing to install debian

2000-09-16 Thread Bob Edwards
Good morning! I ordered a three CD set of debian cds and am preparing to install debian. I have some specific questions: (1) how do i configure debian for dsl ? (2) What do I have to do to get debian to recognize all three of my hard drives ? (3) what do I have to do to be able to dual boot to

apt-move and helix

2000-09-16 Thread Lindsay Allen
Hello World, I like to keep a partial mirror and I use apt-move (woody) to good effect. Now I'd like to mirror helixcode as well. But I can't figure out a way to arrange things so that apt-move will handle it gracefully. Has anyone got this working? At the moment I am keeping my helixcode f

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