Re: pptpdconfig.pl

On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 11:21:37PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > trying to get VPN going, still, this time with pptpd--and the > config script seems kaflooey-- > > # apt-get install pptpd > > # pptpdconfig.pl > /usr/sbin/pptpdconfig.pl: Permission denied. > # ls -l /

pptpdconfig.pl

trying to get VPN going, still, this time with pptpd--and the config script seems kaflooey-- # apt-get install pptpd # pptpdconfig.pl /usr/sbin/pptpdconfig.pl: Permission denied. # ls -l /usr/sbin/pptpdconfig.pl -rw-r--r--1 root root 1581 Fe

Re: Filtering with Procmail

On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 09:47:25PM -0400, Adam Scriven wrote: > On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 09:13:46PM -0400, Joel Dinel wrote: > > Can I use Procmail to also filter out SPAM I get on a regular basis from a > > bunch of spam servers (MyFamily.com, copernic.ca, V3) ? > > Yup. > You should pose this qu

How do I remove/unload isapnp?

I suspect that isapnp may be conflicting with the 5.9c ALSA drivers I'm trying to load. How do I configure the system so that I save my configuration files, but isapnp doesn't run? I'm hoping that ALSA can't configure the drivers because isapnp already activated the card. However, if I'm wron

RE: Filtering with Procmail

Have a look at "Enhancing E-mail Security using Procmail" at ftp://ftp.rubyriver.com/pub/jhardin/antispam/procmail-security.html. It deals mainly with filtering attachments and viruses at the mail gateway, but it also includes premade recipe file for blocking spam also. I haven't used the spam re

Re: X setup

Ray Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: RP> Thanks to the thread from a couple of days ago my mouse is now RP> working. Thanks all. One more question. Does anyone have an RP> example xsession file from 2.2 that launches X with Gnome and E or RP> how to build one? Thanks very much all. My .xsessio

[evand@telerama.com: Re: FA310TX (tulip) and potato]

Strange, we use them at work in about 2 dozen machines and I have some at home too. I've never had such troubles with them across many different kernels I've built as well. Hell, we've had a couple of them in our linux mail server for the last year, and it services 15,000 users. One handles NFS tra

Re: Getting an Internal Error trying to install 2.2

i had a similar problem(though i dont think it was exact) and the fix was to manually run: apt-get install libc6 (i see libc6 is on the list there) after that(for me) the upgrade continued..of course when it stopped again i would have to specify manually another package and it would go a bit mor

Re: Which IMAP and POP3 servers ?

Pollywog wrote: > > On 20-Sep-2000 Adam Shand wrote: > > > >> I do have a question. What is a good POP server to use with maildir > >> mailboxes? I have few users who want to use POP instead of imap. > >> Any suggestions? > > > > there are only a couple of options. qmail's popper (no a debian p

Re: About Nestcape 4.75

On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 08:27:03PM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: > Actually, isn't it simply because communicator-*-475 packages are actually > _different_ packages, and not new versions of the previous > communicator-*-473 (or whatever) packages? IE, you can install them at the > same time indepen

Re: About Nestcape 4.75

On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 05:05:57PM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: > > > Ah, yes, now that you mention it, I did the same thing when I changed my > > source list to point to kde2. apt-get installed some base stuff, but the > > kde apps didn't update u

Re: About Nestcape 4.75

On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 05:05:57PM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: > > > Ah, yes, now that you mention it, I did the same thing when I changed my > > source list to point to kde2. apt-get installed some base stuff, but the > > kde apps didn't update u

X setup

Thanks to the thread from a couple of days ago my mouse is now working. Thanks all. One more question. Does anyone have an example xsession file from 2.2 that launches X with Gnome and E or how to build one? Thanks very much all. Ray

Re: rockwell modem driver for redhat linux 6.2

On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 03:02:31PM -0700, liban_osman wrote: ^ Boy, something's really wrong there! You're livin' in the past man! > I run rhl 6.2.My modem is Rockwell hcf 56kw. > Is that compatible for linux? > Thanks in advance Maybe, Maybe Not... http

Re: Filtering with Procmail

On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 09:13:46PM -0400, Joel Dinel wrote: > Can I use Procmail to also filter out SPAM I get on a regular basis from a > bunch of spam servers (MyFamily.com, copernic.ca, V3) ? Yup. You should pose this question to the procmail list, but I think this recepie will do. > And how

rockwell modem driver for redhat linux 6.2

I run rhl 6.2.My modem is Rockwell hcf 56kw. Is that compatible for linux? Thanks in advance

Filtering with Procmail

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Can I use Procmail to also filter out SPAM I get on a regular basis from a bunch of spam servers (MyFamily.com, copernic.ca, V3) ? And how would I do that ? Joel Dinel [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for n

Re: FA310TX (tulip) and potato

Yes, this is the second comment I've heard to the effect of "the FA310TX is not worth the circuit board it's printed on." I've always had nothing but luck with them, and I don't particularly feel like purchasing a 3Com NIC and getting it shipped overnight, but that looks like it may be the only opt

Re: FA310TX (tulip) and potato

I had the very same problem. I eventually gave up and bought a 3c905C which works beautifully. I don't know why but I could not get the netgear to work correctly at all. I always had to do an $ ifdown -a; ifup -a to get the &[EMAIL PROTECTED] thing to work. IMHO, that card is worth nothing

KDE source

What is the correct sources list for KDE v1.X? Running Potato, I downloaded KDE2, which I have the source listing for, and screwed things up in a big way. ?? Thanks John Batistic

Re: Do you recomend to upgrade to Woody?

I have been running it on just a local network at home as a fiel server... i don't know how mission critical it is though, my housemates just all seem to store porn on it... i haven't really had any major problems with it, i had one pretty big problem but that was more *ahem* user error. that is

Re: Do you recomend to upgrade to Woody?

On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Aaron Maxwell wrote: > Has anyone used woody for mission critical stuff? I know some people run > woody-based web servers, eg, but I haven't. i've run a server for four years on unstable; the last two i've been on a different continent to the box. it's reliable enough that

Re: Getting an Internal Error trying to install 2.2

Forgot to mention I'm upgrading, in case that wasn't obvious. I upgrade my system at work just fine. It is similar to this one. Mostly 2.1, kernel 2.0.36. Thanks, Jim. -- To see my .signature file, go to http://reality.sgi.com/jwl/signature/

Re: About Nestcape 4.75

On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 05:05:57PM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: > Ah, yes, now that you mention it, I did the same thing when I changed my > source list to point to kde2. apt-get installed some base stuff, but the > kde apps didn't update until a week or two later when I happened to run > dselect

FA310TX (tulip) and potato

Hello, I have been trying (over the course of the last few days) to perform a network install of Debian "potato" release on my system which contains a Netgear FA310TX network card which uses the tulip driver. I have encountered some serious problems, and am hoping that someone out there ca

Re: vim expandtab

On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 08:36:12AM -0700, Parrish M Myers wrote: > Hi, > > I installed vim on my potato box. It seems to be a great vi > replacement. But, is there any way to make vim to insert spaces when > the tab button is presses. I think I have to set the expandtab setting > by the command

Re: Help!! with modules

On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 05:32:58AM +0800, Cam Ellison wrote: > For some reason, I cannot get the modules loaded (or so it seems) with > kernel 2.2.17. I go through all the steps: make menuconfig make dep > make bzImage make modules make modules_install make bzlilo. I have > made sure that everyth

Getting an Internal Error trying to install 2.2

Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuration No packages on hold. Nothing suspicious that I could see. I'm currently running a 2.1 debian system, or mostly 2.1. Kernel at 2.0.36. Here are the messages from the command that was executing: bash-2.01# apt-get --fix-broken --show-u

junkbuster user-agent defaults to Mozilla 3.0 for Macintosh

What's with this silly junkbuster default user-agent @ in /etc/junkbuster/config ? >From the manpage: "In Version 1.4 and later, if user-agent is set to @ (at) these headers are sent unchanged in cases where the cookiefile specifies that a cookie would be sent, otherwise only defa

Re: About Nestcape 4.75

On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Nate Bargmann wrote: > On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 01:49:52PM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: > > > > > > deb http://security.debian.org/ potato/updates main contrib non-free > > > > > > enabled me to upgrade from 4.72 to 4.75. > > > > OK, I added this, ran > >apt-get update

Re: Printing--what am I missing? -- solved!

On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 08:19:34AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Now if only I can figure out why my printer daemon is just sitting > there ignoring printjobs. ;-) I'm no expert (obviously :) ), but to try to get stuff set up as cleanly as possible and eliminate potential sources of trouble,

Re: Spammer by incompetence, RBL may be an option

On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Oliver Elphick wrote: > >Where is the right place? > > Ask our list admins to unsubscribe these incompetents. Since we are > only seeing responses to list postings, that will eliminate the > problem. done - Bruce

Help!! with modules

For some reason, I cannot get the modules loaded (or so it seems) with kernel 2.2.17. I go through all the steps: make menuconfig make dep make bzImage make modules make modules_install make bzlilo. I have made sure that everything is selected, and kernel module loading is enabled. Boot goes OK,

Re: Mangled text in X

Jimmy O'Regan wrote: > I recently installed 2.2 on a machine, and X works fine, except the text > is mangled. I installed task-gnome-desktop and gdm, switched to X, and > everything was garbled, so then I installed xfs, xfonts-100dpi to see if > that'd help. Same deal. > > Anyone got any ideas? D

Re: X launchbar?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wednesday, September 20, 2000, 12:11:27 PM, kmself wrote: > You'll need to authenticate yourself to the remote system(s) no matter > what, unless you're running some sort of insecure remote access protocol > such as rsh. Correct. However one does

Install of VMware

Hi, Found in the archives that others have loaded vmware on Debian 2.2 w/o too much difficulty. But I had one small problem trying with the install of the current release for Linux. It did not find any prebuilt vmnet modules that worked and wanted to build one. When it asked for the headers lo

Re: Debian Menu with Sawfish (Helix)

Kai Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ok. I checked now the source code of sawfish. Now, I don't know whether > it is a problem of the Helix Debian package or a problem of sawfish > itself: > > >From /usr/share/sawfish/0.30.3/lisp/menus.jl: > [...] > > This is exactly the displayed menu. Shou

Re: Printing via win 95

On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 06:55:21PM +, Thomas Halahan wrote: > what printing solutions do poeple suggest - pdq? Have a close look at cupsys (best installed with "apt-get install cupsys-bsd", woody version recommended), Debian's packaging of the "Common Unix Printing System" (see

RE: off topic - scsi partitions & swap & raid

Let me get this straight... Are you going to RAID two partitions on the same physical drive? Seems kinda absurd, RAID accomplishes one (or more) of two things: Fault-tolerance from hardware failure. Improve read/write performance, by spanning multiple physical disks. By mirroring, striping, etc. t

Re: Spammer by incompetence, RBL may be an option

Bruce Sass wrote: >On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Robert Waldner wrote: >> The RBL is for spammers, that is, UCE (Unsolicited Commercial Email), >> UBE (Unsolicited Bulk Email), also, fraud (mailbombing etc) is >> sometimes considered spam. > >They are sending unsolicited and inappropriate me

Re: About Nestcape 4.75

On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 01:49:52PM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: > > > > deb http://security.debian.org/ potato/updates main contrib non-free > > > > enabled me to upgrade from 4.72 to 4.75. > > OK, I added this, ran >apt-get update ; apt-get dist-upgrade > and it updated only netscape-base-

off topic - scsi partitions & swap & raid

Hey scsi fans, I picked up a 18 gig drive. I was planning on doing 3 6 gig partitions and raid'n two of the partitions for linux. Question is what about the swap? Would I really need to do two 6 gig, 2 128 meg, then what's left for windows? This will be my first time for raid & scsi under linu

How to get xterm cursor to blink?

Hi, For 8 months, I've been deliriously happy with Debian. Unstable has proven pretty darn stable for 2 months (knock on woody). And, I know this is probably a case of the pea under the nine mattresses, but... I can't find the option in any man page or HOW-TO that will make my xterm cursor blin

Re: Spammer by incompetence, RBL may be an option

On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Robert Waldner wrote: > The RBL is for spammers, that is, UCE (Unsolicited Commercial Email), > UBE (Unsolicited Bulk Email), also, fraud (mailbombing etc) is > sometimes considered spam. They are sending unsolicited and inappropriate messages to anyone who posts on debian

Re: Missing modules - system still silent

On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 08:47:46AM +0100, Glyn Millington wrote: > > Many thanks for the help thus far - I was clearly mixing two > methods of kernel compilation! Now, I've compiled the kernel > yet again (8th try I think) and STILL the system can't find the > modules - that is I get lots of "ca

Re: Spammer by incompetence, RBL may be an option

list reinstated. On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 03:28:50PM -0400, Andrew Sullivan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 12:19:58PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > > I'm finding myself with less sympathy for this argument. Broken mailers > > pollute the environment, and should b

Re: ESS1868

Lehel Bernadt wrote: > I have an ESS1868 too, and it's working. > I don't use isapnp, since I'm using the default card > config. > My sb options are the following: > esstype=1868 io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=-1 > To check these, just run the config program of the card from DOS. > What looks strange

Re: rsa and ssh

Phil Brutsche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > Hi all, > > I tried as man ssh saied to login with ssh without password as: > > ssh-genkey as remote host > > scp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:$HOME/.ssh/identity.pub $HOME/.ssh/autho

Re: About Nestcape 4.75

On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Johann Spies wrote: > On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 01:10:00AM -0500, Rogelio E. Castillo Haro wrote: > > To install netscape 4.75 on Potato, my sources.list must link to stable > > o unstable version? > > deb http://security.debian.org/ potato/updates main contrib non-free > > en

Re: Can't get rid of kde...

On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Bob Nielsen wrote: > You might be able to find the problem by taking a look at > /var/lib/dpkg/info/kdebase.postrm (or even running this by hand). > > I've had success in similar situations by removing > /var/lib/dpkg/info/* If it is not too late... You may want to look in /v

Re: Debian 2.2

On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 08:36:23PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Ask book store for replacement or use it as coffee coaster. I've found that CDs unfortunately don't make good coasters. Now I have a CD shaped stain on my table. It's easier just to throw them out. Though I have heard that microwaving

Re: Do you recomend to upgrade to Woody?

> What's the best way to downgrade from woody to potato? I've never done it, but I think just editing /etc/apt/sources.list to point to 'potato' instead of 'woody', then 'apt-get dist-upgrade', will do it. apt-get & friends just know that woody and potato are different distributions; they don't k

Re: mozila eats memory - additional question

In addition to the above post : I have a single Mozilla windows, started recently, but if I do a 'ps' I get 6 'processes' running ./mozilla.bin : are they threads or what ? Ciao -- FB

Re: Which bug reporting tool ?

On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 11:18:26AM +0200, Jérôme Lacoste ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello debian users, > > I am interested in Setting up a bug reporting tool for our internal projects > in my company. > > What would you use for a bug reporting system? > > I have seen several possibilities, a

Re: How to split up a multipart mail

On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 08:27:08PM +0200, Sergio Da Silva ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > When I transfer my mail onto my Palm device (using pilot-mail) I can only > transfer "single" mail messages. In fact all the debian-user-digest mails > remain on my desktop. I think that pilot-mail on

Re: Spammer by incompetence, RBL may be an option

On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 04:21:42PM +0200, Robert Waldner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > The RBL is for spammers, that is, UCE (Unsolicited Commercial Email), > UBE (Unsolicited Bulk Email), also, fraud (mailbombing etc) is > sometimes considered spam. > > It is *not* intended for misconfigured/

Re: Can't get rid of kde...

You might be able to find the problem by taking a look at /var/lib/dpkg/info/kdebase.postrm (or even running this by hand). I've had success in similar situations by removing /var/lib/dpkg/info/* and editing /var/lib/dpkg/info/status to show that package as: Status: purge ok not-installed It's m

mySQL errors

New mySQL install (3.22.32-3) on Debian 2.2 (kernel 2.2.17). I can easily issue a /etc/init.d/mysql start|reload|stop okay, but once it's running I try a simple "mysqladmin version" and the tty hangs. This is what I see in mysql.err: mysqld started on Tue Sep 19 14:02:07 PDT 2000 /usr/sbin/my

Re: X launchbar?

On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 07:11:15AM -0700, Steve Lamb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 12:46:23AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > Suggestions: X Window Resources, aliases, shell scripts, .profile or > > .login scripts. > > All of which require me to leave a login on

Can't get rid of kde...

Hi, Got a problem removing kdebase. I installed some kde 1.1.1 debs some time ago and since I don't use kde anymore, I decided to remove it. I "purged" all kde packages with dselect but I get following error-message : (here repeated with dpkg) [Mon Sep 18][20:39:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:dewaele# dpkg

Re: Which IMAP and POP3 servers ?

On 20-Sep-2000 Adam Shand wrote: > >> I do have a question. What is a good POP server to use with maildir >> mailboxes? I have few users who want to use POP instead of imap. >> Any suggestions? > > there are only a couple of options. qmail's popper (no a debian package > i believe) or solid

RE: ESS1868

On 20-Sep-2000 Tommy Wu wrote: > Hi! > >I've a ESS1868 sound card on my box. >But I can install the driver for this. It's always show something > failed. > >Here is my syslog for isapnp and sb. > > === cut start === > isapnp: Scanning for Pnp cards... > isapnp: Card 'ESS ES1868 Plug

html2ps

Hi, Debians: I have a question about html2ps that is I just install it under my usr/local directory and then I use the command html2ps filename.html > filename.ps however, it report the following warning message: can not find the file and /usr/local/lib/html2ps/html2psrc and then it just convert

Re: rsa and ssh

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Hi all, > I tried as man ssh saied to login with ssh without password as: > ssh-genkey as remote host > scp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:$HOME/.ssh/identity.pub $HOME/.ssh/autho

Re: Which IMAP and POP3 servers ?

> I do have a question. What is a good POP server to use with maildir > mailboxes? I have few users who want to use POP instead of imap. > Any suggestions? there are only a couple of options. qmail's popper (no a debian package i believe) or solid-pop3. cyrus has a pop/imap server but i don

rsa and ssh

Hi all, I tried as man ssh saied to login with ssh without password as: ssh-genkey as remote host scp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:$HOME/.ssh/identity.pub $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys and tried ssh remote and was prompted with a password What is wrong? Tha

Re: Question about updates

Harry Henry Gebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > #deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free You should uncomment this line Hubert

How to split up a mailbox

Hi, When I transfer my mail onto my Palm device (using pilot-mail) I can only transfer "single" mail messages. In fact all the debian-user-digest mails remain on my desktop. I think that pilot-mail only transfers "single" mail messages but I may be wrong ... Here are my questions: 1) Does any

How to split up a multipart mail

Hi, When I transfer my mail onto my Palm device (using pilot-mail) I can only transfer "single" mail messages. In fact all the debian-user-digest mails remain on my desktop. I think that pilot-mail only transfers "single" mail messages but I may be wrong ... Here are my questions: 1) Does any

Re: X-Window Configuration

On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 05:10:43PM +0200, Stephan Kulka wrote: > I had some difficulties starting the X-server, but now I just do not know > where to start with installing windowmanager. I am interested in using > GNOME. > Could any one of you point out where I can start reading. If you use dselec

Re: Question about updates

On Wed, 20 Sep 2000 13:03:10 EDT, Harry Henry Gebel writes: >I have sources.list set to the following: >#deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free That´s why it´s called "security".debian.org ;-) I use the following, and I´m getting all the proposed security-fixes ann

Question about updates

I have sources.list set to the following: # See sources.list(5) for more information, especialy # Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs # CDROMs are managed through the apt-cdrom tool. #deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free #deb http://non-us.debian.org/

Re: ESS1868

Try sndconfig--it's pretty easy to do any sound card. I put my boss's 1688(?) on it with little to no effort. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/sound/sndconfig.html

Re: time and timezones

Try the command which will ask you to enter your local time zone and set it accordingly. I hope this helps. John Kerr Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Andreas Palsson w

Re: vim expandtab

I like my tabs to insert 3 spaces so I use: set softtabstop=3 Luck, Bill On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 08:36:12AM -0700, Parrish M Myers wrote: > Hi, > > I installed vim on my potato box. It seems to be a great vi > replacement. But, is there any way to make vim to insert spaces when > the tab but

Broken kde?

I'm getting this with my new woody. And what a woody it is. >startx starts startkde. Kde2 dies. If I look on console 1 at the output I see: /usr/lib/libkdeui.so.3 undefined symbol: Event__9QLineEditP6QEvent I think I've got just about every kde2 package loaded. No complaints from kdebase when

Re: Printing--what am I missing? -- solved!

> No problem. It isn't for me either ... >Now if only I can figure out why my printer daemon is just > sitting there ignoring printjobs. ;-) I suppose you are aware of the thread, hence you know what has been tried and I suppose it didn't work for you ;-) If you could describe your problem mo

Problem compiling kernel

hi, i installed debian v2.2rc0. i have a problem compiling the kernel 2.2.17: the makefile in /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot wants to call as86 with options -0 -a and ld86. but as doesnt recognize the option -0 . funny thing is that bulding kernel 2.4.0test8 works. i also tried 2.2.15 but i had th

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

On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 09:33:20AM +0200, Frederik wrote: > On a related issue: > I've put kernel-image-2.2.17 on hold, because i've build my own > kernel. I'd like to know if it's possible to make sure kernel-image isn't > upgraded from the debian ftp's (my name: kernel-image-2.2.17_maui.1.2, > wh

vim expandtab

Hi, I installed vim on my potato box. It seems to be a great vi replacement. But, is there any way to make vim to insert spaces when the tab button is presses. I think I have to set the expandtab setting by the command: :set et But this doesn't seem to always work. Most notably when I use th

Re: ESS1868

i have a ess1888 and i've had nothing but bad luck with it. i can get my to install properly but it would always dma/io timeout. not even the driver authors were sure what was wrong so i eventually gave up (after about 1 yr and two kernel version, 2.0 and 2.2) and bought a cheap, but real, sb16. s

Re: Message saying this lists's mailbox is full

On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 03:05:17AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > except this broken MTA helpfully neglects to mention WHO the user is > that has a full mailbox. so there is no way to know who to > unsubscribe. The Debian mailing lists use a VERP-like (it might actually be VERP, I can't remember

Re: Spammer by incompetence, RBL may be an option

Pollywog said: > I just filter [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s messages and I never see them. > Before you complain to RBL, try a complaint to the contact for netvigator.com. > Perhaps they will do something about this. I sent a complaint to [EMAIL PROTECTED] about this and stating the name of the user with a

X-Window Configuration

I had some difficulties starting the X-server, but now I just do not know where to start with installing windowmanager. I am interested in using GNOME. Could any one of you point out where I can start reading. BTW: Where can I get information about the Linux-filesystem? Stephan

nis and netbase

I just did an apt-get dist-upgrade to woody from potato It seems that today at least, the existing version of nis (nis_3.6-2.deb) won't play nicely with the latest netbase (netbase4.0.5). netbase says it won't deal with any nis <=3.6-2. >From dselect when I try to install nis; netbase conflicts

RE: apt-get questions ?????

If give to you nothing, try dpkg --pending --configure Or try to do update by dselect dselect Update On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Saran wrote: Sorry, I don't get what you mean. I typed the command at the prompt, but it gives me nothing. Cheers, Saranjit. -Original Message- From: Alberto Per

Re: Spammer by incompetence, RBL may be an option

The RBL is for spammers, that is, UCE (Unsolicited Commercial Email), UBE (Unsolicited Bulk Email), also, fraud (mailbombing etc) is sometimes considered spam. It is *not* intended for misconfigured/-programmed mailers, nor a list of open relays (ORBS http://www.orbs.org/ is doing that). Re

Re: X launchbar?

On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 12:46:23AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > Suggestions: X Window Resources, aliases, shell scripts, .profile or > .login scripts. All of which require me to leave a login on the machine. I fail to see why it is hard to sympathize. I can launch commands on one ma

Re: Do you recomend to upgrade to Woody?

> Has anyone used woody for mission critical stuff? I know some people run > woody-based web servers, eg, but I haven't. I used to run the unstable branches. Prior to 1.1, this was kind of necessary :) However, somewhere arround 98, iirc, it became impractical. With regular updated, I coul

ESS1868

Hi! I've a ESS1868 sound card on my box. But I can install the driver for this. It's always show something failed. Here is my syslog for isapnp and sb. === cut start === isapnp: Scanning for Pnp cards... isapnp: Card 'ESS ES1868 Plug and Play AudioDrive' isapnp: 1 Plug & Play card detec

RE: apt-get questions ?????

Sorry, I don't get what you mean. I typed the command at the prompt, but it gives me nothing. Cheers, Saranjit. -Original Message- From: Alberto Pereira [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 9:54 PM To: Saran Cc: Michael P. Soulier; debian-user@lists.debian.org Su

Re: Configuring KDE- Dial Up PPP

I asked had this problem a week ago. Many people kindly replied, and I sorted it out. It is the 'auth' option in /etc/ppp/options. I have forwarded the emails to your email address so as not to clutter here. Tom On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: > On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 12:3

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RE: apt-get questions ?????

Trie a simple command dpkg --configure -a Like dselect does.. On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Saran wrote: Actually I done that... here's the output of apt-get check Tatooine:/home/saran# apt-get check Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done W: Couldn't stat source package list 'htt

Re: Printing--what am I missing?

> On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 10:23:11PM +0200, Vee-Eye wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/test$ lpr test.ps > > > lpr: connect: No such file or directory > > > jobs queued, but cannot start daemon. > >^^^ > > Oddly, according to "ps ax | grep lpd" I already had lp

RE: apt-get questions ?????

Actually I done that... here's the output of apt-get check Tatooine:/home/saran# apt-get check Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done W: Couldn't stat source package list 'http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US Packages' (/var/state/apt/lists/non-us.debian.org_debian-non-US

RE: Spammer by incompetence, RBL may be an option

I just filter [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s messages and I never see them. Before you complain to RBL, try a complaint to the contact for netvigator.com. Perhaps they will do something about this. -- Andrew On 20-Sep-2000 Osamu Aoki wrote: > I hate stupid MTA causing this problem. I like idea to kick out

Re: apt-get questions ?????

On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 08:49:25PM +0800, Saran wrote: > Hi there people, > > Okay I took the plunge to update my Debian Slink with some of the latest > updates. I installed linuxconf with apt-get and now my lynx, slrn and > debconf is dead. Dead Dead !!! I dunno what other packages are affecte

What to apt-get for KDE and GNOME

I'm interested in following the latest KDE2 and GNOME packages but I can't seem to find any easy way to select them ALL. It appears there are many packages/tasks I'd need to select to get them ALL. I'd rather not select them one by one, so, anyone know of a good way to apt-get

Re: Do you recomend to upgrade to Woody?

>Someone there would recommend to use Woody on my Linux-box in home? >I'm using Potato > >Regards > >Rogelio E. Castillo Sure. If it's just for personal use (non-critical), I don't see any problem. As a matter of fact, I just upgraded to woody last night over a 56k dialup. I choose

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