Re: World readable log files

2000-09-25 Thread Dave Sherohman
Ethan Benson said: > it won't, apache does not use logrotate, your log permissions are > www-data.www-data mode 664 right now. (which is even worse since now > if someone cracks an apache child process they can tamper with your > logs) > > you need to edit /etc/cron.daily/apache to fix this. (t

Re: debian 2.2 on Ultra160?

2000-09-25 Thread Peter Muirhead
That setup sounds nice. You know, Nate, that if you -like- you can ship it over to the Olympic city and I can use it for a while and see if I get the same errors It is all supported so -in theory- it should work. But then again as Homer pointed out to us all "communism works in theory"

Re: unreigster a suid file?

2000-09-25 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 01:11:19PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > cron keeps telling me that some file from emacs is registered but not > installed, from the suidmanager, whats the best way to go about removing either use suidunregister (suidunregister /path/to/file) or just delete the relevant

Re: Apt and NFS?

2000-09-25 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 11:46:52AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > I don't particularly like the idea of being unable to lock files over the > network, but until I see some documentation on how to set up knfsd - or at > least how doing so differs (or doesn't) from the user-space nfsd - going to > t

Re: World readable log files

2000-09-25 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 10:13:47AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > I just did the following: > > chgrp adm /var/log/apache/* > chmod o-r /var/log/apache/* > /etc/init.d/apache restart > > and my install of apache now appears to be able to log properly without > requiring the logs to be world-read

Re: Can gpm and X live in peace?

2000-09-25 Thread George Bonser
I think it depends on the X server you are using. Some of the servers play well with GPM, some do not. On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Steve Juranich wrote: > I was able to trace down a problem with my mouse (it was dead) back to gpm. > It seems that gpm was being a bully and wouldn't let X play with the

Re: doesn't anybody use tunnelling / vpn?

2000-09-25 Thread George Bonser
Well, most will require that you build them from source with your current kernel source tree someplace ( or at least access to the kernel-headers package for the kernel you are running ). Debian has a CIPE package in non-us (or did) but I think it is a source package, you need to build it. Woody

Can gpm and X live in peace?

2000-09-25 Thread Steve Juranich
I was able to trace down a problem with my mouse (it was dead) back to gpm. It seems that gpm was being a bully and wouldn't let X play with the mouse. To solve the problem, I just killed gpm. I don't use gpm all that much, so I doubt that I'll even miss it. However, it seems that both of them sh

doesn't anybody use tunnelling / vpn?

2000-09-25 Thread will trillich
AAUGH! NOBODY seems to be tunneling anywhere. i must be alone... my inquiries about vpn and tunnelling have met with deafening silence. am i the only person trying to get these going? it seems like such a no-brainer tool that i'd expect LOTS of us to be using vpn (or trying to get it running). or

Re: quick upgrade help needed-kernel image not wanted

2000-09-25 Thread Joey Tsai
Yeah, but when you do that, you'll have to repeat the process each time you do an apt-get because your custom kernel is older than the newer. // joey tsai :: Kenward Vaughan :: > I decided I likely had answered my own question. Copied the modules directory > and modules.conf files, then

Re: quick upgrade help needed-kernel image not wanted

2000-09-25 Thread Kenward Vaughan
I decided I likely had answered my own question. Copied the modules directory and modules.conf files, then let apt install over my image (after which the upgrade finished normally). I then immediately reinstalled the custom over that. Recopied the old files back and was done. Kenward On Mon,

Re: mouse moving

2000-09-25 Thread George Bonser
It depends on your window manager. What you appear to want is "click to focus" rather than "focus follows mouse". Another option is "sloppy focus" where focus does not leave a window unless the cursor rests on a new window for some period of time. Which window manager ( e.g. WindowMaker, FVWM, et

Re: sawfish doesn't work

2000-09-25 Thread Andrew D Dixon
I upgraded again and sawfish still doesn't work. Any suggestions? thanks, Andy Mark Gordon wrote: > > Hi Everybody, > > I'm running Debian Potato and I just decided to try out Helix-Gnome. > > Everything was working great untill today when sawfish died on me. I > > did two things today that may

Subscribing troubles

2000-09-25 Thread Mike Fedyk
Hi, I have had a hell of a time subscribing to debian-user from home. I suspect there is some issue in the email database, as I have subscribed successfully to several other debian mailing lists. My home address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can someone take a look at this? -- Mike Fedyk

Re: Help!! I need my LS120

2000-09-25 Thread Brent Buchholz
On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: >I have an external, parallel port, LS120 floppy drive (128Mb). >When I tried MD 6.2, SuSE 6.2, MD 7.1, Caldera 2.4 flavors >of Linux all I had to do was: > >modprobe paride >modprobe epat >modprobe pf >mount -t vfat /dev/pf0 /mnt > >and I could use

Re: OT: reccomended IMAP4 compadible server?

2000-09-25 Thread John L . Fjellstad
On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 01:15:01PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > currently on my list to consider: > > Sendmail Pro > Lotus notes > HP Openmail Check out http://www.qmail.org/. They have a list of imap servers that works with qmail. I wouldn't go with Sendmail if my life/job dependent on

mouse moving

2000-09-25 Thread nw x
Hi, debians: I have a question about the mouse: when I start up some application windows, for example, acroread, the color in that window will change rapidly with the motion of my mouse, so is it possible to change the confugration of the mouse to make the color in the application window changi

Re: Helix gnome on debian 2.2....

2000-09-25 Thread Andrew D Dixon
  use     >apt-get install task-helix-gnome after you set up your sources.list file.  The install instructions at     http://www.helixcode.com are very good.  I installed helix-gnome from fvwm2 without a hitch (I did have to restart my potato box though) but since then I have hosed sawmill but I

Re: KDE2 for potato

2000-09-25 Thread Jesse Goerz
KDE2 is only available for woody, however, just add this to your /etc/apt/sources.list file and you should be able to get what you need. <---add this to /etc/apt/sources.list---> deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian woody main contrib non-free # You may have to add this as well for some of the de

Re: Help!! I need my LS120

2000-09-25 Thread Jack Morgan
On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 06:03:54PM -0400, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: > I have an external, parallel port, LS120 floppy drive (128Mb). > When I tried MD 6.2, SuSE 6.2, MD 7.1, Caldera 2.4 flavors > of Linux all I had to do was: > > modprobe paride > modprobe epat > modprobe pf > mount -t vfat /dev

Re: quick upgrade help needed-kernel image not wanted

2000-09-25 Thread Joey Tsai
I had the same problem. I just did a make-kpkg with "-revision 2:Custom.2" (my previous custom kernel was "Custom.1") and installed the new custom kernel. I don't know if this is the "right" or "best" way, but apt is cool now. // joey tsai :: Kenward Vaughan :: > I'm in the middle of

Re: XF86Config -- Made a mistake

2000-09-25 Thread Colin Watson
Joel Dinel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >While I was doing a dist-upgrade, Debian updated my Xfree86-3.3.6. It >asked me if I wanted to keep the SVGA server as default, or make the VGA >server the new default. By accident, I chose the VGA server. Now, my >Blackbox runs at 2567 colors or so. > >How c

Helix Icons

2000-09-25 Thread Joel Dinel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 How can you go about changing the color of the text for the icons in Helix gnome ? Right now, it's black text on a gray background. I'd like white text with no background (shaped text). I know where to set the shaped text (in the gnome file manager). b

Re: zlib1g vs zlib1g-dev (potato)

2000-09-25 Thread Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo
will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 08:24:09PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 03:26:40PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > > > > > zlib1g-dev: Depends: zlib1g (= 1:1.1.3-5) but 1:1.1.3-9 is to be > > > installed > > > > Well, that's fairly s

enlightenment epplets

2000-09-25 Thread Michael P. Soulier
I installed the epplets package, but the enlightenment menu's epplets section is still empty. I tried restarting enlightenment, but that didn't help. I can run them in a shell, but the menu doesn't list them. Help? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HAC

filtering with Mail::Audit

2000-09-25 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 02:59:46PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > cool -- that'd be great! (i finally learned the CPAN module... hopefully > it won't conflict with an apt-get install ...) this sounds wonderful! Here you go. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HA

Re: how to handle perl modules not "debianed"

2000-09-25 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 01:48:24PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > good question. i wonder about that, too. I've been wondering that too. The Debian support for the CPAN is minimal at best, so I've already built in several modules to my 5.005_03 distro. I'm curious what will happen when I upgra

Re: Hard disk perfomance problems

2000-09-25 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 04:03:28PM +0100, Jaime Silvela wrote: > I recently installed Debian 2.2 on my computer after having used Debian > 2.0 for a year and a half. My computer had been complaining often about > corrupted disk sectors under Debian 2.0, and I figured perhaps my HD was > faulty

Re: OT: full/half duplex nic?

2000-09-25 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 12:51:50PM -0400, Rob Tandy wrote: > How does one tell if a network card is running at full or half duplex? There is a program called "mii-diag" and "pci-diag" somewhere at http://www.scyld.com/diag Phil

Re: Network unreachable !

2000-09-25 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 02:40:51PM +0100, Bob wrote: > I have a problem with a debian GNU / Linux 2.2 (potato). I tells me that > network is unreachable, whatever I do. > When I installed debian, I could not load the ne module (on io=0x280 irq=5). Can you do it now? > I only have lo interface

Enlightenment Menu System and StarOffice

2000-09-25 Thread Mark W. Abbott
Hello, I have been baffled by an odd error as follows: I have Debian 2.2.17 loaded with X Windows and Enlightenment 0.16.3-8 as my primary Window Manager. I also installed StarOffice recently and even tho it will launch from the user accounts xterm prompts, when I create a link in the user_

debian 2.2 on Ultra160? (fwd)

2000-09-25 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
just in a reply to myself i tried going with mandrake7 with no luck it crashed pretty hard within 30 seconds of installation. so i went to the bios and turned the memory down from 133mhz to 100mhz, mandrake install is about 75% complete so im betting the memory is just too shitty to run at 133mhz.

Re: Sound testing

2000-09-25 Thread Chris Gray
On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 08:15:18PM +0100, Timothy Bedding wrote: > I upgraded to a 2.2 kernel and got the sound card > working to a limited extent. > > However, /dev/sndstat is not working. > > Any suggestions? > > # cat /dev/sndstat > cat: /dev/sndstat: No such device /dev/sndstat was never me

Re: A series of newbieite questions

2000-09-25 Thread Matthew Dalton
"Anderson, Tim TL33E" wrote: > I agree, unless xdm (or gdm, or other clones) has some other > purpose that I'm not aware of you would be better off removing it when you > don't want the graphical login. Does anyone know if it does anything else? AFAIK, it doesn't do anything else.

NFS problem!!

2000-09-25 Thread Luis Gustavo Madrigal Salazar
I recently moved a computer to another subnet (everything works great except NFS). When it was in the old subnet NFS (as a client) worked fine!...but in the new one it gives this error: nfs: server X not responding, still trying nfs: task 123 can't get a request slot Any ideas of what is the pr

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V100 #95

2000-09-25 Thread Kenward Vaughan
Hmm... this doesn't really fit the prescription for an unsubscription (?) as given below your (and everyone else's) letter. From your M$ environment why not try sending an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and/or [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe (instead o

debian 2.2 on Ultra160?

2000-09-25 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I just got a brand new box today and am having a hellva time installing(actually given up for now gonna try another distribution to see if its debian or not) the machine has crashed about 6-7 times so far during installation and the most recent crash caused about 50 billion screwed up files to be

Potato/Gnome/GLIB_2.1.2 dependency problems

2000-09-25 Thread marty
While not new to Linux, I have switched distributions from RedHat to a clean install of Debian 2.2 (potato). I'm having trouble getting any of the gnome packages that I've installed using dselect to work. For example, I'd like to run gnome-apt, but I get the error, gnome-apt: error in loading shar

Re: More newby Qs

2000-09-25 Thread William Jensen
Read this over and it will answer most every question you have: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linag2/book/index.html Bill On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 06:34:27PM -0700, ObeseWhale wrote: > Allright, got X up and running so now I want to get my ethernet card > working. Where do I set up ip address,

Re: PPP failure on the startup (serial line is looped back)

2000-09-25 Thread John Hasler
dochawk writes: > What does "serial line is looped back" mean? It means that pppd is seeing its own LCP packets coming back. This usually happens when the host on the other end wants to see more text before it starts pppd and is echoing everything it sees while it waits for the required string.

Re: XF86Config -- Made a mistake

2000-09-25 Thread Steve Juranich
On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Joel Dinel wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > While I was doing a dist-upgrade, Debian updated my Xfree86-3.3.6. It > asked me if I wanted to keep the SVGA server as default, or make the VGA > server the new default. By accident, I chose the VGA serv

More newby Qs

2000-09-25 Thread ObeseWhale
Allright, got X up and running so now I want to get my ethernet card working. Where do I set up ip address, both dns servers, subnet and gateway? Also, it seems as if I don't have Netscape, does anyone know how I can install it from the web without using a browser... A place I can download a tar

quick upgrade help needed-kernel image not wanted

2000-09-25 Thread Kenward Vaughan
I'm in the middle of a woody upgrade, and discovered that the latest greatest kernel image has been DL'd and is attemping to overwrite my custom 2.2.17 kernel. I stopped that process when queried about the modules directory, but apt refuses to continue with the rest of the upgrade. I used aptitud

Re: Exim smarthost problem

2000-09-25 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Sat, Sep 23, 2000 at 12:29:00PM +0200, Frodo Baggins wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi debianers, > > I'm sure the answer should be in the doc, but I couldn't find it :) > > Problem is, I use two different ISP, dependig on the time of the day > (no flat rat

Re: Help!! I need my LS120

2000-09-25 Thread Moritz Schulte
"Christopher W. Aiken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have an external, parallel port, LS120 floppy drive (128Mb). > When I tried MD 6.2, SuSE 6.2, MD 7.1, Caldera 2.4 flavors > of Linux all I had to do was: > > modprobe paride > modprobe epat BTW: since, ehm - not sure, linux 2.2.15pre or so,

Help!! I need my LS120

2000-09-25 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
I have an external, parallel port, LS120 floppy drive (128Mb). When I tried MD 6.2, SuSE 6.2, MD 7.1, Caldera 2.4 flavors of Linux all I had to do was: modprobe paride modprobe epat modprobe pf mount -t vfat /dev/pf0 /mnt and I could use my LS120 just as any other floppy. When I do this in Debia

Re: unreigster a suid fil

2000-09-25 Thread Jim McCloskey
|> cron keeps telling me that some file from emacs is registered but |> not installed, from the suidmanager, whats the best way to go about |> removing this entry(i recently removed emacs totally since i never |> use it) I know, this is really annoying. `Movemail' is it? s

RE: How easy is it to set up squid for a school?

2000-09-25 Thread Christian Pernegger
> -Original Message- > From: Phillip Deackes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 7:44 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: How easy is it to set up squid for a school? > > > I am ICT Coordinator in a Leicestershire High School (UK). Our network > compr

Re: poff seems to be not permanent

2000-09-25 Thread Marc Meier
On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, John Hasler wrote: > Marc writes: > > If I kill a running pppd/ stop a connection by running poff with or > > without the the -a option I am able to reconnect only for a few minutes. > > What dose plog say? First I connect and just disconnect: Sep 25 23:08:21 rayman pppd[1113

Re: sawfish doesn't work

2000-09-25 Thread Mark Gordon
> Hi Everybody, > I'm running Debian Potato and I just decided to try out Helix-Gnome. > Everything was working great untill today when sawfish died on me. I > did two things today that may have cause the problem. I updated and > upgraded my system: > > >apt-get update > >apt-get upgrade

wmaker+gnome (2nd.)

2000-09-25 Thread Juan C. Amengual
Sorry, the first time the message was bounced ... My apologies for any inconvenience caused. > Dear all, > > I have two problems using wmaker+gnome. I use "xdm" to log in (running > gdm is *not* desired). The users have .xsession files as this: > > #!/bin/sh > if [ -x /usr/bin/pland ] > then >

Re: Helix applet woes....

2000-09-25 Thread Tal Danzig
On Mon, 25 Sep 2000 22:15:15 +0100, Rus said: > Hi, I've pseudo-successfully managed to isntall Helix Gnome on my 2.2 > system.. BUT.. I am having a little bit of trouble with 3 things.. > > 1) I am using the Sawfish WM and IIR there should be a menu or something > available for each

wmaker+gnome

2000-09-25 Thread Juan C. Amengual
Dear all, I have two problems using wmaker+gnome. I use "xdm" to log in (running gdm is *not* desired). The users have .xsession files as this: #!/bin/sh if [ -x /usr/bin/pland ] then /usr/bin/pland -k else echo >&2 "AVISO: No se encontró el demonio pland" fi /usr/bin/gnome-session if [ -

Helix applet woes....

2000-09-25 Thread Rus
Hi, I've pseudo-successfully managed to isntall Helix Gnome on my 2.2 system.. BUT.. I am having a little bit of trouble with 3 things.. 1) I am using the Sawfish WM and IIR there should be a menu or something available for each window allowing you to save preferences such as size and location

Re: Slip

2000-09-25 Thread Shaul Karl
> Hi all, > > My lsmod show me this, > Module Size Used by > dummy932 0 (unused) > slip7388 0 (unused) > slhc4436 0 [slip] > serial 19564 1 (autoclean) > ne 6284 1 > 83

RE: problem installing postfix

2000-09-25 Thread Pollywog
Nevermind. I got it working now. -- Andrew On 25-Sep-2000 Pollywog wrote: > I installed the postfix package for Woody and this is what I get in my logs: > > Sep 25 20:15:02 lilypad sendmail[11913]: fatal: execvp > /usr/libexec/postfix/postdrop: No such file or directory > Sep 25 20:15:02 lilypa

Re: Making chrony work

2000-09-25 Thread Ian Zimmerman
> "Kendall" == Kendall Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Kendall> Hi, I've installed chrony, but it doesn't go. Can you make it Kendall> go? Kendall> More specifically, chronyd is running, and Kendall> /etc/chrony/chrony.conf points to a stratum 2 server in santa Kendall> cruz and another in q

problem installing postfix

2000-09-25 Thread Pollywog
I installed the postfix package for Woody and this is what I get in my logs: Sep 25 20:15:02 lilypad sendmail[11913]: fatal: execvp /usr/libexec/postfix/postdrop: No such file or directory Sep 25 20:15:02 lilypad send-mail[11911]: fatal: execvp /usr/libexec/postfix/postdrop: No such file or direct

Re: Obsolete packages

2000-09-25 Thread Hansmartin Dettinger
Hi, same prob as mine my solution was: change the access method of dselect. The package-file of dselect is not updated, this is done in the apt-folder. -- > Von: Harry Henry Gebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > An: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Betreff: Re: Obsolete packages > Datum: Sonntag, 2

Re: install from 3 CD's fails on floppy?

2000-09-25 Thread Robert L. Harris
Nope, I actually downloaded the images on a fast line, burned em and brought them up here. Robert Thus spake Ray Percival ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Would these disks happen to be cdrs from cheapbytes? > > -- Original Message -- > From: "Robert L. Harris" <

Re: install from 3 CD's fails on floppy?

2000-09-25 Thread Ray Percival
Would these disks happen to be cdrs from cheapbytes? -- Original Message -- From: "Robert L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 14:40:22 -0600 > > >I'm trying to install 2.2 on a new box. No network at this point. >I put in CD 1, do all my

install from 3 CD's fails on floppy?

2000-09-25 Thread Robert L. Harris
I'm trying to install 2.2 on a new box. No network at this point. I put in CD 1, do all my partitioning, etc. When I go to install the Operationg System Kernel and Modules, I tell it from the CD, but then it fails on the rescue disk. I've downloaded the rescue image and tried that. No Go.

Re: dselect query

2000-09-25 Thread Debian User
Thanks for the info, it does look like the status and available files are out of sync. Not sure why this should have occured as I used 2.2 test 1 CD set and apt-get'ed the test 3 updates (this worked fine). I got the offical 2.2 on CD, install these (agian via apt) and these get out of sync.

PPP failure on the startup (serial line is looped back)

2000-09-25 Thread dochawk
Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I've managed once more to get the base distribution onto the kdis machine, and I think that this one was the biggest fight I"ve had in five years of debian . . . Theres' a cute bug that *can* happen, but I'm not sure what cau

Re: Firewall, IPMASQ, Debian

2000-09-25 Thread Debian User
Check out rootprompt.org, there is lots of useful info on this site (good article on "hiding" a Debian system). Jon On Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 08:16:15PM -0400, Eric Rousse wrote: > > Is there a place on the internet i can get some documentation for setting up > a firewall under Debian. I've looke

woody: ssh and rxvt

2000-09-25 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Last night I did apt-get upgrade to woody. It works well so far, but I came across two small problems: 1/ Something seems to be wrong with rxvt. Full screen programs (jed, nano) suddenly don't understand keypad keys, and I can't use the Compose key (which is correctly defined in my .Xmodmap). T

XF86Config -- Made a mistake

2000-09-25 Thread Joel Dinel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 While I was doing a dist-upgrade, Debian updated my Xfree86-3.3.6. It asked me if I wanted to keep the SVGA server as default, or make the VGA server the new default. By accident, I chose the VGA server. Now, my Blackbox runs at 2567 colors or so. Ho

OT: reccomended IMAP4 compadible server?

2000-09-25 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
currently the job i work at uses the UW imap server(since its the default with redhat) i was curious if anyone had any ideas for a more robust IMAP server that co-operated well with qmail if posssible. (also looking to replace the mail servers with debian but i just started here 3 weeks ago..shoul

Re: How to get rid of unused libs?

2000-09-25 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > |> I hope it works with potato, too? > I just installed the deborphan .deb file from woody with apt-get and it > ran without any problems on my potato systems. > If a future version of deborphan does not install cleanly in potato, somebody please

unreigster a suid file?

2000-09-25 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cron keeps telling me that some file from emacs is registered but not installed, from the suidmanager, whats the best way to go about removing this entry(i recently removed emacs totally since i never use it) thanks! nate ::: http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Refusing mail if via ISP? [was Re: apology]

2000-09-25 Thread Richard Klinda
Hoi Jeremy! Jeremy> Here, I use fetchmail to pop mail from seven POP3 accounts on Jeremy> various providers. Fetchmail passes it off to my MTA (sendmail) [...] You can use popsneaker to automagically delete mail (you can specify various criterias of course) from your pop3 account before fet

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V100 #95

2000-09-25 Thread D.K. Duvall
UNSUBSCRIBE ME GODDAMNIT! - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 3:54 PM Subject: debian-user-digest Digest V100 #95

Re: Procmail filtering / UNDELIVERABLE EMAIL

2000-09-25 Thread will trillich
On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 09:08:19AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 02:57:55AM -0500, will trillich wrote: > > > hmm! > > > > what process do you use to invoke perl as a mail filter? > > > > or is it just a > > :0 > > |/usr/bin/perl someScript > > thingy? (i pre

Re: zlib1g vs zlib1g-dev (potato)

2000-09-25 Thread will trillich
On Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 08:24:09PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 03:26:40PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > > > zlib1g-dev: Depends: zlib1g (= 1:1.1.3-5) but 1:1.1.3-9 is to be > > installed > > Well, that's fairly self-explanatory. not on the level i'm looking at...

Potato/Gnome/GLIB_2.1.2 dependency problems

2000-09-25 Thread marty
While not new to Linux, I have switched distributions from RedHat to a clean install of Debian 2.2 (potato). I'm having trouble getting any of the gnome packages that I've installed using dselect to work. For example, I'd like to run gnome-apt, but I get the error, gnome-apt: error in loading shar

Re: Netscape 4.75 in Woody buttons in b/w

2000-09-25 Thread Christoph Simon
> But, I have had one problem. I am using Netscape 4.75, and am > running X in 24-bit color mode. For some reason, all of the buttons > (home, forward, back, etc) are displayed in black and white or > greyscale. If I run X in 16 color mode, they are displayed > correctly. I think ever

Re: Sound testing

2000-09-25 Thread Timothy Bedding
I upgraded to a 2.2 kernel and got the sound card working to a limited extent. However, /dev/sndstat is not working. Any suggestions? # cat /dev/sndstat cat: /dev/sndstat: No such device Tim

Netscape 4.75 in Woody buttons in b/w

2000-09-25 Thread Travis B. Hartwell
This weekend I installed Woody on a machine. First of all, I'd have to say that this further confirms to me how great Debian is! It is the most stable 'unstable' distribution I've ever used. Good work! But, I have had one problem. I am using Netscape 4.75, and am running X in 24-bit c

Re: Subject: ATA-100, UDMA100, LILO

2000-09-25 Thread Vincent_Gaines
Thank you! (R.T.F.M.) I just read my motherboard manual and found the section to disable the controller. I had thought of this also but not lokked hard enough.(Not hard enough I guess)

Re: how to handle perl modules not "debianed"

2000-09-25 Thread will trillich
On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 01:25:46PM +0200, Bernd Worsch wrote: > Hi There! > > I changed to debian (potato) recently and am trying to > get familiar with it. At the moment i wonder how to handle > perl modules i need, that are not available as debian > packages. > > Question is: Can i safely use

Re: network is unreachable!

2000-09-25 Thread will trillich
On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 03:24:39PM +0100, Bob wrote: > Hello, hope you are well! > > I have a problem with a debian GNU / Linux 2.2 (potato). I tells me that > network is unreachable, whatever I do. > When I installed debian, I could not load the ne module (on io=0x280 irq=5). > > I only have lo

Re: How to get rid of unused libs?

2000-09-25 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 25 Sep 2000, Jim McCloskey wrote: > > |> I hope it works with potato, too? > > Deborphan isn't in potato, but I downloaded the source from woody last > night and compiled and installed it with dpkg-source, debian/rules > build, debian/rules binary, and it seems to work well, > > Jim > > I

Re: Subject: ATA-100, UDMA100, LILO

2000-09-25 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Yes, the better way to do this is to go into your BIOS and disable the motherboard' s IDE controller. That's the only way the Promise IDE controller can have hda. Vincent Gaines wrote: > Subject: ATA-100, UDMA100, LILO > > I recently built a computer using the ASUS A7V motherboard, AMD 800, an

Re: isdn Problem (newbie)

2000-09-25 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
:-> "Clemens" == Clemens Hermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > I got a debian 2.2 set up but I do not get ISDN to run. > I want to use an AVM PCI Card which run under SuSE so it should be no > hardware proplem or similar. > I have read the ISDN-Howto and the chapter in t

Re: Enlightenment-cvs

2000-09-25 Thread Tal Danzig
Hello, Don't know, I've been wondering the same thing. It's easy enough to compile out of CVS though. Tal On Mon, 25 Sep 2000 17:48:54 + (GMT), Dan Poulsen said: > > Anybody know what happened to apt source > www.debian.org/~ljlane/downloads? It looks like the directory has been >

Re: How easy is it to set up squid for a school?

2000-09-25 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I am ICT Coordinator in a Leicestershire High School (UK). Our network > comprises an NT 4 server and about 40 workstations running Windows 95. I > want to add a machine to act as a proxy we

Re: Does debian install sendmail?

2000-09-25 Thread Bob Nielsen
Debian uses exim by default (previously smail was used). There is a sendmail package available, however, which includes a sendmailconfig script which will allow you to do as you describe (or you can modify sendmail.mc directly and run sendmailconfig to create sendmail.cf). On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at

Re: How easy is it to set up squid for a school?

2000-09-25 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> Everyone says how easy it is to set up squid using YAST in SuSE Linux. > Does anyone have any experience of setting up squid in Debian? Is it > harder? > iirc, it worked out of the box for me. possibly you have to adjust the acl. regards -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.sig

Enlightenment-cvs

2000-09-25 Thread Dan Poulsen
Anybody know what happened to apt source www.debian.org/~ljlane/downloads? It looks like the directory has been deleted. Dan

How easy is it to set up squid for a school?

2000-09-25 Thread Phillip Deackes
I am ICT Coordinator in a Leicestershire High School (UK). Our network comprises an NT 4 server and about 40 workstations running Windows 95. I want to add a machine to act as a proxy web cache to speed up Internet access through our meagre 128K ISDN dial-up link. I intend using Linux and squid. S

RE: A series of newbieite questions

2000-09-25 Thread Anderson, Tim TL33E
Matthew Dalton wrote: > > ObeseWhale wrote: > > > > > 1. Debian keeps starting X as soon as I boot into linux. It give me the > > > graphical login screen and everything. This is annoying because I don't > > > seem to be capable of exiting X... I

Re: xmkmf??

2000-09-25 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: xmkmf?? Date: Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 01:04:31PM +0100 In reply to:Max Lock Quoting Max Lock([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Hi Folks, > > Does anyone know the location of xmkmf? a deb source, anything?! > > -Thanks Max. dpkg -S xmkmf xlib6g-dev: /usr/X11R6/man/man1/xmkmf.1x

Re: Problem with an Awe64 sound card on potato

2000-09-25 Thread Funn Dipp
I have this line in my /etc/modutils/arch/i386 options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330 Try putting this in and running update-modules. May require a reboot for isapnp to load again :-\ NOTE: That line matches my settings in /etc/isapnp.conf so you /may/ have to change a couple of t

Loading lp

2000-09-25 Thread Norman Walsh
I recently installed Debian 2.2 (from scratch) on my desktop box. Everything is fine, except that I can't get lp to load. I don't recall having any particular difficulty in the past, but now I get: /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/lp.0: invalid parameter parm_io My modules.conf contains options lp i

Re: Apt and NFS?

2000-09-25 Thread Dave Sherohman
Noah L. Meyerhans said: > The best way to do it is to use the kernel space NFS server, as it does > support file locking and will allow programs like dpkg to work as > intended. I presume that would be the kernel NFS implementation which (as of 2.2.16, at least): - Isn't even shown unless you ena

OT: full/half duplex nic?

2000-09-25 Thread Rob Tandy
How does one tell if a network card is running at full or half duplex? I looked at the bootup messages with dmesg and the information provided by ifconfig, but no luck. eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:BA:C6:22:40 inet addr:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Bcast:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Mask:xxx.xxx

Making chrony work

2000-09-25 Thread Kendall Shaw
Hi, I've installed chrony, but it doesn't go. Can you make it go? More specifically, chronyd is running, and /etc/chrony/chrony.conf points to a stratum 2 server in santa cruz and another in quincy, CA. There's an entry in syslog which reads: chronyd[4028]: Selected source 165.227.1.1 But, stil

Subject: ATA-100, UDMA100, LILO

2000-09-25 Thread Vincent Gaines
Subject: ATA-100, UDMA100, LILO I recently built a computer using the ASUS A7V motherboard, AMD 800, and an "IBM Deskstar DTLA-307030 30GB UA100" hard drive. I wanted to install Debian GNU/Linux on my hard drive (it uses the Promise ATA-100 controller). 1) Upon reading the Debian Mail archives

Re: xfree 4.01 & i810

2000-09-25 Thread Jim Frey
Alvin, Yes, it's on the motherboard. I tried the Intel software with XFree86 3.3.6 and couldn't get it to work. I had to force the loading of agpgart, then got an error, I think it was 'AGP-ACQUIRE'. So I went to XFree 4.01. Now I'm getting output, but as I explained, too many xterms and eve

Does debian install sendmail?

2000-09-25 Thread David A. Rogers
What mail sending app does debian use by default? I've been using redhat and mandrake, but am thinking about changing over to debian. I use Linux on my home machine. I use ppp to connect to my isp, so I like to masquerade my address as my address on the isp. redhat uses sendmail by default. Th

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