Re: SiS 530

2000-10-05 Thread Art Edwards
What version of XFree86 are you running? I have built systems running SiS cards successfuly by using a fairly current version (3.3.6 or higher). I include a web page from the SFree86 website for reference http://www.XFREE86.org/4.0.1/Status28.html#28 -- Arthur H. Edwards 712 Valencia Dr. NE Abq.

modem performance w/pon vs. wvdial

2000-10-05 Thread John Anderson
I have been experiencing slow and erratic connections using pon and a Best Data external modem. When I tried the modem with Wvdial and manually patched wvdial.conf so that I would have the default initialization string, it seems to be more responsive. Do I need to change the modem initialization

Apache compile error

2000-10-05 Thread ObeseWhale
While trying ./configuring apache I misspelled (whoops!) one of the modules I wanted to load on, so when I did a make it of course game me a no such file or directory error. So, thinking I could fix the problem I deleted the apache source directory and untarred the tarball again. Unfortunately, e

Sound.

2000-10-05 Thread ObeseWhale
I'm using a monster sound mx300 and was capable of doing a make install on the drivers for the au8830 located at linux.aureal.com (I'm using Potato). Unfortunately, XMMS is not playing... I have it set in the XMMS menu to use "OSS", should I be doing something different? Thank you, whalespeed. M

RE: modprobe errors I cannot fix

2000-10-05 Thread Pollywog
On 06-Oct-2000 Pollywog wrote: > I just upgraded to 2.4.0 test9 kernel and got this error: > > lilypad modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-14 > > I then made sure that /etc/modutils/aliases contained this: > > alias char-major-14 off > > I ran update-modules, but still I get

Re: modprobe errors I cannot fix

2000-10-05 Thread Pollywog
On 06-Oct-2000 Eric G . Miller wrote: >> I ran update-modules, but still I get the modprobe error. >> Have I done something incorrect? > > I dunno, but I have: > > alias char-major-14 soundcore > > You got a sound card? If you don't have sound support, maybe just > comment it out. I have a sou

Re: modprobe errors I cannot fix

2000-10-05 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 02:04:17AM +, Pollywog wrote: > I just upgraded to 2.4.0 test9 kernel and got this error: > > lilypad modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-14 > > I then made sure that /etc/modutils/aliases contained this: > > alias char-major-14 off > > I ran updat

modprobe errors I cannot fix

2000-10-05 Thread Pollywog
I just upgraded to 2.4.0 test9 kernel and got this error: lilypad modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-14 I then made sure that /etc/modutils/aliases contained this: alias char-major-14 off I ran update-modules, but still I get the modprobe error. Have I done something incorre

Port Forwarding (reverse masquerading)

2000-10-05 Thread fut0n
Hey all.. I have a question about port forwarding using ipmasqadm with the portfw module. I would like my router (masquerading only right now) which is on a dial up (soon to be DSL) to forward any connections to port 80 to a internal machine. I added ip_masq_portfw to /etc/modules and its loaded

Where has the penguin gone?

2000-10-05 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
The kernel config choices: # Code maturity level options # CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y # Console drivers # CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_FB_VESA=y are supposed to support a penguin graphic during the initial boot. This worked for me under 2.2.12 but not under 2.2.17 Can someone tell me the current conf

GeForce problems due to ldconfig

2000-10-05 Thread Francois Fayard
Hi, I own a GeForce2 GTS card and I've installed the binary drivers from the nvidia site. But each time I run ldconfig (Which happen often when I install packages), my 3d configuration is broken due to the mesa files. Does anyone knows how to fix this ? Francois PS: Please don't flame me becaus

Re: neighbour table overflow

2000-10-05 Thread Robert Lazzurs
On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Marek Habersack wrote: > ** On Oct 05, Robert Lazzurs scribbled: > > > > > I have now compiled and installed a custom 2.2.17 kernel as I thought it > > > > might have been a problem with the kernel image that debian provides, > > > > but > > > > it is not! > > > > > > > > An

Re: offtopic cron/mozilla question

2000-10-05 Thread Hubert Chan
x27;s part of my script: packagename=mozilla-M18-`date +%Y%m%d`.tar.gz wget http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest/mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz --output-document=$packagefile tar xzf $packagename It will save the file as, for example

RE: ISP nameserver error?

2000-10-05 Thread Pollywog
On 05-Oct-2000 Gary Hennigan wrote: > I'm in the process of refining my small home LAN setup, which is > connected to the outside world via a firewall connected to the > internet via ADSL. I'm using 192.168.1.x for my box addresses and was > in the process of setting up a DNS server when I noticed

Re: balsa mozilla ...

2000-10-05 Thread Francois Fayard
On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 12:55:12AM +0200, G.ROBIN wrote: > Merci à tous ceux qui m'ont > aider à installer la debian 2.2. > > Maintenant wvdial me connecte sur mon > provider mais balsa et mozilla ne veulent > rien savoir, on dirait qu'il n'ont aucun rapport > avec wvdial ? je suis obligé d'envoy

Re: nvi/ex keeps mailing me....

2000-10-05 Thread kmself
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 05:26:32PM -0500, will trillich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 09:02:31AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 12:32:44PM +0200, Engelen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > <...> > > > > > 2) Anyway, my biggest problem is tha

Re: installing network cards

2000-10-05 Thread kmself
On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 09:37:29AM -0400, Chris Mason ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Everytime I try to modprobe my linksys network cards or use modconf to > intsall the module into the kernel, it fails. I am using the tulip driver > that comes with the 2.2.17 kernel. I installed the kernel binary. >

ISP nameserver error?

2000-10-05 Thread Gary Hennigan
I'm in the process of refining my small home LAN setup, which is connected to the outside world via a firewall connected to the internet via ADSL. I'm using 192.168.1.x for my box addresses and was in the process of setting up a DNS server when I noticed something odd... % nslookup sdcrtr.nm.org

bind and address rewriting

2000-10-05 Thread Thomas Voss
Hi, JLF> Maybe I'm missing the point here, but why do you think you need JLF> to MASQ these packages? When a box from your internal network JLF> do a lookup, it checks with BIND on your boundary/firewall box. and exactly that's the point: There is no bind running on my firewall box. Bind is

Re: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation

2000-10-05 Thread James Antill
Christen Welch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 03:10:59PM -0400, > James Antill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Christen Welch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > [ snip ... ] > > 1. The partioning stuff didn't tell me how to make extended partitions > > (I realise _now_ that

Re: ODP: Debian chicken (was: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation)

2000-10-05 Thread John Travis
> > Well, the old logo did look like a chick, after all. > > > > On the other hand we could make it a cock, er, I mean rooster. > > I suppose that would go with woody. LOL ... who says Debian users aren't funny ;-). jt -- Debian GNU/Linux [Woody] 2.4.0-test8-ReiserFS Storm {Hail} You mean there

Re: nvi/ex keeps mailing me....

2000-10-05 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 09:02:31AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 12:32:44PM +0200, Engelen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > <...> > > > 2) Anyway, my biggest problem is that every once in a while I get lots > > of email messages telling me that on (date,time) root was

Re: Serial port tunnel...

2000-10-05 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 02:07:13PM +0100, Max Lock wrote: > Robert Waldner wrote: > > > > I guess you want to tunnel layer 2, not the serial port itself ;-) > > Nope, I really want to tunnel the port, I want to have > /dev/virtual-ttyS1 and be able to open that device and read/write to it. > the

Re: Debian and compaq presario

2000-10-05 Thread Heather
> On Tue, 03 Oct 2000, George Wright wrote: > > Are there any card (pcmcia) type modems out there that anyone has had luck > > w/using > > the 2.2.17 kernel? Are any made that aren't so heavily "win"-driven? > > > > [much snippage, another person] > > > > N.B : if you dig in the archives of this

Re: general linux questions

2000-10-05 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 04:40:52PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 04:22:06PM +0200, robert_wilhelm_land wrote: > >> When searching for filenames using "locate" and displaying them in > >> the order of their date something like "locate

Re: comments on dselect...not unreasonable

2000-10-05 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 12:02:39PM -0400, Walter Tautz wrote: > On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Peak Allan wrote: > > As a Debian newbie I have to say that the worst thing > > about Debian was dselect. It seemed to be a confusing > > morass. Once I got a workable system it was great, > > and I was impressed

separate alias/redirect files for different domains using sendmail

2000-10-05 Thread Taco IJsselmuiden
Hi All, I'm trying to figure out how to be able to use separate alias/redirect files for different domains (like a .redirect in their home-dir), so I (as admin) don't have to keep updating the aliases, because someone wants an extra email-alias for his/her domain, but I can't find anything ;(( Is

Re: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation

2000-10-05 Thread mike
There is another way to get Debian potato up and running quickly with a nice GUI install. Just d/l the free 'hail' distro from stormix.com or get their cd and you'll be apt-get'ting in about a half-hour. You can then remove the stormix stuff (admin pkgs) but keep the stormpkg manage

Re: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation

2000-10-05 Thread Christen Welch
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 03:10:59PM -0400, James Antill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Christen Welch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I digress. My point is, Debian isn't difficult, even relative > > to the other 'main' Linux based distros out there, to install. > > That's cute, it's loyal, but

Re: Mozilla doesn't run under Woody

2000-10-05 Thread Kevin Krafthefer
I had the same problem; for a kludgey work around that at least gets mozilla "working", try removing (or renaming) your ~/.mozilla directory and rerunning mozilla. If anyone has a better fix please let us know. Mozilla is a HUGE resource hog! Kevin "Pedro I. Sanchez" wrote: > Hello, > > I'm ru

Re: ISP mode connection (Sorry - Unidentified subject!)

2000-10-05 Thread Bruce Sass
On Thu, 5 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm reposting my problem, since I couldn't solve it. > So, I'm not receiving (CONNECT) from my modem. When am I supposed to get > it? Just after my ISP gives me a response? Or just after it accepts my > login? The CONNECT message comes from your modem

Re: Bind error in /var/log/daemon.log

2000-10-05 Thread C. Falconer
At 02:38 PM 10/5/00 -0400, you wrote: I'm noticing the following in /var/log/daemon.log for some of my zones Oct 5 14:31:08 bugs named[13618]: Zone "home.shadowstar.net" (file /etc/bind/home.shadowstar.net): No default TTL set using SOA minimum instead Oct 5 14:31:08 bugs named[13618]: master

Re: Sound Blaster

2000-10-05 Thread Jim Lisi
Tino Ionescu wrote: > > Hi > I'm trying to install the driver emu10k1 for Sound Blaster Live > Driver's Makefile is complainig that it can't find "modversion.h" > Can anybody tell me what should be done? > > Thank you in advance, > Florenin. > > __

Re: fonts scaling w/h xfstt

2000-10-05 Thread mike
I needed two utilities: 'ttmkfdir' and 'mkfontdir' to do this in Mandrake before i started using Debian. However. i have been unable to locate mkfontdir since then. If anyone can point me to 'mkfontdir' i'd appreciate it. Then its just a matter running 'ttmkfdir' to create a file c

Re: Weird spontaneous X (GNOME?) shutdowns...

2000-10-05 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 01:27:43PM +0200, "Jürgen A. Erhard" wrote: > I don't know which package to report that bug on, so I'll ask you > folks first... > > I had a couple weird spontaneous shutdowns of GNOME (it seems)... I > come back to my laptop and I see the GDM login screen, though I'm sure

Re: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation

2000-10-05 Thread Glyn Millington
I'm just over a month into Debian and have hassled the list with lots of my configuration problems. That being said, the conversion from Mandrake to Debian was relatively painless and I actually preferred the very interactive Debian approach; and am slowly discovering that almost all the informati

Mozilla doesn't run under Woody

2000-10-05 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
Hello, I'm running woody and installed the mozilla package (M17-3). However, this is what I get when running it: bash-2.04$ mozilla Starting Mozilla Could not obtain CmdLine processing service I "apt-get upgraded" today so I guess something is broken in woody? Thanks, -- Pedro

Re: Manual for apt

2000-10-05 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 09:18:54AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 07:22:45PM +0200, Peter Hugosson-Miller ([EMAIL > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Where can I download/view a manual for apt? I have 2.0 installed, so > > there's no apt on my machine. i entered, into the nets

SiS 530

2000-10-05 Thread Gustavo José Pereira
Hi! I'm trying to configure a machine with a SiS530 video adapter on-board and it's not working! Any help? -- Gustavo José Pereira Divisão de Computação e Informação Centro de Desenvolvimento da Tecnologia Nuclear Belo Horizonte - MG - Brasil

Re: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation

2000-10-05 Thread James Antill
Christen Welch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I could see a person new to computers having some problems > with installing Debian. It isn't the best install in the > world. However, anyone who has a good understanding of > computers (by this I don't mean Start->Programs->MS Word) > should be able t

Re: ODP: Debian chicken (was: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation)

2000-10-05 Thread Andy Bastien
There are those who would have you believe that Keith G. Murphy wrote: > > George Bonser wrote: > > > > > > > > I for one would buy a t-shirt with the chicken printed on it. Any > > > takers? > > > > > > > hmmm ... now that sounds really cool. Make the Debian mascot a > > chicken! I kinda like i

Re: how can I add disk space?

2000-10-05 Thread William T Wilson
On Thu, 5 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > There must be a way to use both HDs' disk space, isn't there one? There are a few options. First, you can mount one disk in the directory tree underneath the other. This will allow you to have the data written into that subdirectory stored on one d

Re: mozilla & netscape

2000-10-05 Thread John Travis
On Thu, 05 Oct 2000, Rick Macdonald wrote: > On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, John Travis wrote: > > On Wed, 04 Oct 2000, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > > > So, can these two coexist? I've done it with debian packages, but I > > > > I am running Netscape 4.75, Mozilla M17-3 and the nightly mozilla builds > > witho

Re: Bind error in /var/log/daemon.log

2000-10-05 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 02:38:18PM -0400, Alec Smith wrote: > I'm noticing the following in /var/log/daemon.log for some of my zones > > Oct 5 14:31:08 bugs named[13618]: Zone "home.shadowstar.net" (file > /etc/bind/home.shadowstar.net): No default TTL set using SOA minimum instead > Oct 5 14:31

Re: device or resource busy

2000-10-05 Thread kmself
On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 11:38:53PM -0500, Pat Mahoney ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Ok, freeamp crashed with the audio device open (/dev/dsp). Nothing can use > the device. fuser and lsof show nothing active on /dev/dsp. No lock files > in /var/lock/. > > I can't rmmod the sound modules because

Re: offtopic cron/mozilla question

2000-10-05 Thread kmself
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 11:08:37AM -0700, David Erdman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > hi. maybe a little off topic, but i would like to setup cron to go out and > get the newest mozilla tarballs and install > so here is the script i wrote. > > #!bin/bash This should be as follows, note leadi

Re: partition problem

2000-10-05 Thread kmself
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 12:53:55PM -0500, no body ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I am a new user of Debian, and I am having trouble partitioning my > drive. When I try to write a partition table the program keeps asking > me to turn on the boot option on the swap partition when I turn it on > it ask

rep/sawfish problem still exists

2000-10-05 Thread Timothy Ritchey
I am running the unstable branch, and every time I update, it insists on loading the newer version of rep, which are conflicting with my sawfish installation from HelixCode that I have installed as well. Would it be better if I just upgraded my sawfish installation to not use the Helix Code version

OT: mailing list, bounce-debian-user ?

2000-10-05 Thread kmself
I'm getting a number of messages apparently sent or resent from bounce-debian-user. I've also had some significant procmail recipie problems in recent weeks resulting in inappropriate message rejection, particularly from mailing lists. Have I done something evil to get myself on a "bad addresse

Bind error in /var/log/daemon.log

2000-10-05 Thread Alec Smith
I'm noticing the following in /var/log/daemon.log for some of my zones Oct 5 14:31:08 bugs named[13618]: Zone "home.shadowstar.net" (file /etc/bind/home.shadowstar.net): No default TTL set using SOA minimum instead Oct 5 14:31:08 bugs named[13618]: master zone "home.shadowstar.net" (IN) loaded (

Re: base list ??

2000-10-05 Thread kmself
Note: list reinstated. Reply-to set to list. Please don't post off-list followups to list mail. On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 06:34:17PM +0100, Ted Wager ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, 05 Oct 2000, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > > On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 01:52:15PM +0100, Ted Wager ([EMAIL P

offtopic cron/mozilla question

2000-10-05 Thread David Erdman
hi. maybe a little off topic, but i would like to setup cron to go out and get the newest mozilla tarballs and install so here is the script i wrote. #!bin/bash cd /usr/local rm -rf /usr/local/package wget ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest/mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz t

RE: bash shell

2000-10-05 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 05-Oct-2000 XEN O wrote: > I am currently running a red hat derivative linux and an looking to change to > debian (as reports speak highly of it). However, it seems from looking at > the list of shells packaged with debian it does not come with the bash shell > - it this right ?? > you proba

Re: bash shell

2000-10-05 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% XEN O <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: xo> I am currently running a red hat derivative linux and an looking xo> to change to debian (as reports speak highly of it). However, it xo> seems from looking at the list of shells packaged with debian it xo> does not come with the bash shell - it th

Re: bash shell

2000-10-05 Thread -dsr-
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 10:39:34AM -0700, XEN O wrote: > I am currently running a red hat derivative linux and an looking to change to > debian (as reports speak highly of it). However, it seems from looking at > the list of shells packaged with debian it does not come with the bash shell > - i

Re: bash shell

2000-10-05 Thread Aaron Brashears
Bash is the default shell. XEN O wrote: > > I am currently running a red hat derivative linux and an looking to change to > debian (as reports speak highly of it). However, it seems from looking at > the list of shells packaged with debian it does not come with the bash shell > - it this righ

partition problem

2000-10-05 Thread no body
I am a new user of Debian, and I am having trouble partitioning my drive. When I try to write a partition table the program keeps asking me to turn on the boot option on the swap partition when I turn it on it asks me to change it again. I don't know what to do any help will be greatly appreciated.

Re: URGENT Network Config Pb

2000-10-05 Thread Ray Percival
If you know what your numbers should be ifconfig will let you look at and change them. -- Original Message -- From: Olivier Billet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 18:40:12 +0200 >Hi everybody !!! > >Here's the problem : I have an Ethernet card a

bash shell

2000-10-05 Thread XEN O
I am currently running a red hat derivative linux and an looking to change to debian (as reports speak highly of it). However, it seems from looking at the list of shells packaged with debian it does not come with the bash shell - it this right ?? If this is not the correct place to ask this q

diald with isdn modem

2000-10-05 Thread Eric van Buggenhaut
Hi, Has anyone ever used diald with a ISDN phone line ? What are the gotchas ? Can you Cc me please. Thanks

[OT?]RE:Installing Debian on W2K

2000-10-05 Thread Ken Januski
Thanks to all who responded on my problems with installing Debian on W2K. I've learned a lot since then so am including that just in case it might prove useful to other newbies. First my installation on 95 was much easier because drive was already in 4 partitions. I just shrunk 95 as much as

Re: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation

2000-10-05 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Am I a newbie? I dont know. Since 1992 I have been using NEXTSTEP, then since 1998 Linux. The first install made a friend of mine. It was OpenLinux. When I wanted to upgrade I tried to install a new OpenLinux by myself. All went smooth -- but I never managed to install ISDN. So I wiped it out and

URGENT Network Config Pb

2000-10-05 Thread Olivier Billet
Hi everybody !!! Here's the problem : I have an Ethernet card and it seems like I configure it correctly -- all ping in the first network work. But the problem is when I try to do a ftp on some 'far' machines. So I guess the mask and/or the gateways are not set correctly. But where have I to do t

Re: Programms to convert Man pages-Mails in LaTeX

2000-10-05 Thread David Z. Maze
Francois Fayard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: FF> Does anybody knows if some programms that convert man pages, emails, FF> info pages, etc... in LaTeX ? Each of those is a little different; the basic answer to each is "no, not to my knowledge". But: -- Manual pages are formatted using 'roff. Runn

Re: Manual for apt

2000-10-05 Thread kmself
On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 07:22:45PM +0200, Peter Hugosson-Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Where can I download/view a manual for apt? I have 2.0 installed, so > there's no apt on my machine. apt isn't a particular command, it's a set of tools: $ apropos apt apt (8) - Adv

Re: how can I add disk space?

2000-10-05 Thread kmself
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 04:45:46PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello! > > I've got a samba-file-server whichs disk resources are getting very > low, so I have to add new disk space. > I've already tried to install a new HD and mounted it into /home > (where all my samb

binding f4 to middle mouse

2000-10-05 Thread Michael O'Brien
Hola~ On sgi, F4 performs the same action as middle mouse (namely, it pastes what's in the selection buffer). I've tried weeding thru the sgi xdefault files, but can't find how this is done. How does one bind f4 to paste the selection buffer? MO -- Michael O'Brien

Re: Programms to convert Man pages-Mails in LaTeX

2000-10-05 Thread kmself
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 02:57:54PM +0200, Francois Fayard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > Does anybody knows if some programms that convert man pages, emails, > info pages, etc... in LaTeX ? What exactly are you hoping to accomplish? - man can directly output to any listed groff device,

Re: base list ??

2000-10-05 Thread kmself
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 01:52:15PM +0100, Ted Wager ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I installed my Debian linux from a 3 cdset and all was uip and running ok.. > I started with the base system and built it up gradually using dselect.. > Today I thought I would put the Linux Gazettes on so I went to d

Re: nvi/ex keeps mailing me....

2000-10-05 Thread kmself
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 12:32:44PM +0200, Engelen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: <...> > 2) Anyway, my biggest problem is that every once in a while I get lots > of email messages telling me that on (date,time) root was editing the > Config file, Nvi saved it and I can recover it with 'ex -r'. Why?

comments on dselect...not unreasonable

2000-10-05 Thread Walter Tautz
On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Peak Allan wrote: > As a Debian newbie I have to say that the worst thing > about Debian was dselect. It seemed to be a confusing > morass. Once I got a workable system it was great, > and I was impressed by how easy it was to go from > slink to potato, but getting started

Re: Printing problems

2000-10-05 Thread Timothy Ritchey
Ho-Kuo Chan wrote: > > Hello, > I am running Debian potato and have set > up an SMB printer with Printtool > (3.53-1) and LPRng (3.2-11). The printer > is an HP LaserJet 8100 DN. It was > working fine until recently, I think a > package update may have caused the > problem. The problem is

Re: mysql location?

2000-10-05 Thread kmself
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 07:52:50AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hey list,sorry if this is a repeat. The original seems > to have bounced off of someones full mailbox. This is a misconfigured mail transfer agent. Your post made it to the list. It was refused by a broken

Re: Slashcode, Scoop

2000-10-05 Thread kmself
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 12:43:47AM -0400, Dr. Orange ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Are there any (unofficial) debs for slashcode, scoop or similar? Not that I'm aware of. I've forwarded your question to Rusty Foster of Scoop. Installation is largely trivial though -- you untar into a directory. I

[OT] Win ftp clients speed strangeness

2000-10-05 Thread Christian Pernegger
My primary potato box is running the wu-ftpd in stable. I use it to copy files (mostly backups) to/from the Win boxen on my 100mbit/s LAN. Today I needed to copy 3 ~1GB files to the Linux machine. I started out with BulletProofFTP, which gave me a shocking 400KB/s. Then WS-FTP LE: 3000KB/s Then W

Re: general linux questions

2000-10-05 Thread Colin Watson
Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 04:22:06PM +0200, robert_wilhelm_land wrote: >> When searching for filenames using "locate" and displaying them in >> the order of their date something like "locate | ", >> (does the database include other parameters than just filena

Re: Leftover .debs in /var/cache/apt/archives

2000-10-05 Thread Steve Simons
On 5 Oct 2000, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > Setting delete=yes in apt-move.conf will delete old .debs from your > mirror (doesn't make much sense on a CDROM though), not from the apt > cache. That there are still .debs in that cache is probably due to > the fact that there are newer versions on your

Re: Debian chicken (was: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation)

2000-10-05 Thread John Bagdanoff
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 01:51:48AM -0700, George Bonser wrote: > > things are more like they used to be than they are now. > > Yeah, but if it wasn't for us, we wouldn't be here. > > Not to mention why we cross the road. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/nu

Re: bind and address rewriting

2000-10-05 Thread John L . Fjellstad
On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 03:37:00PM +0200, Thomas Voss wrote: > Does anybody has an idea about that? Maybe I'm missing the point here, but why do you think you need to MASQ these packages? When a box from your internal network do a lookup, it checks with BIND on your boundary/firewall box. BIND

Re: neighbour table overflow

2000-10-05 Thread Marek Habersack
** On Oct 05, Robert Lazzurs scribbled: > > > I have now compiled and installed a custom 2.2.17 kernel as I thought it > > > might have been a problem with the kernel image that debian provides, but > > > it is not! > > > > > > Any help would be vvvnice :) > > Check whether you have the lo networ

Re: neighbour table overflow

2000-10-05 Thread Robert Lazzurs
On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Marek Habersack wrote: > ** On Oct 05, Robert Lazzurs scribbled: > > Hello, I am a potato user, and I have setup my system fairly minimal, > > nothing but c/c++ dev, x with icewm, gnome-libs, and apache and exim. > > > > I keep getting the above message, but I cannot track the

Printing problems

2000-10-05 Thread Ho-Kuo Chan
Hello, I am running Debian potato and have set up an SMB printer with Printtool (3.53-1) and LPRng (3.2-11). The printer is an HP LaserJet 8100 DN. It was working fine until recently, I think a package update may have caused the problem. The problem is that when I send a print job, nothing

RE: Serial port tunnel...

2000-10-05 Thread romeu
Cool How-to. Does anybody now how to get access to a modem in a windows box from a linux machine? So I can use a f. winmodem on a windows machine. "Ingles, Raymond"

Re: New to Debian, boot problems

2000-10-05 Thread David Wright
Quoting Willy Lee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Now that I've got some time to think about this a bit (to tell the > truth, I've been avoiding thinking about it, the whole thing scares me > a bit), let me see if I'm understanding everything: Just make sure you have a working boot floppy, or rescue disk.

Message: ++read_ahead not set++ in /proc/mdstat

2000-10-05 Thread Andre Strenger
Hi all, I am running 2.2 with kernel 2.2.17 and raidtools2 0.90. /etc/raidtab is configured as shown in HOWTO and also the devices was made. After a mkraid /dev/md0 I get the errormessage above. I didnt find any hints to this message has somebody a good Idea ??? Thanks & have a nice day,

Re: general linux questions

2000-10-05 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 04:22:06PM +0200, robert_wilhelm_land wrote: > Would someone kindly help in the following questions? > > > how can I search for filenames which only differ in upper & lowercase > letters? > Something in the kind of: > find -name "syncppp" > ...but should be able to find "

how program can use more than 256 processes

2000-10-05 Thread George Chavdarov
Hello all, i have following problem maximum limit of processes is 256 for any user kernel supports up to 1024 (kernel 2.2) how i can make user to have more than 256 processes in fact i need it for mysql ulimit in shell and set it in /etc/limits.conf dont work. any ideas Best regards, George Chavda

how can I add disk space?

2000-10-05 Thread c-3
Hello! I've got a samba-file-server whichs disk resources are getting very low, so I have to add new disk space. I've already tried to install a new HD and mounted it into /home (where all my samba datas are being saved). But the problem is now all datas are only written on the new HD instead o

general linux questions

2000-10-05 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
Would someone kindly help in the following questions? how can I search for filenames which only differ in upper & lowercase letters? Something in the kind of: find -name "syncppp" ...but should be able to find "Syncpp" (even if it doesn't exist in reality) When searching for filenames using "

ISP mode connection (Sorry - Unidentified subject!)

2000-10-05 Thread romeu
Hi, I'm reposting my problem, since I couldn't solve it. So, I'm not receiving (CONNECT) from my modem. When am I supposed to get it? Just after my ISP gives me a response? Or just after it accepts my login? Another thing that is happening: When I send the AT commands to my modem, it doesn't giv

Re: machine lockups and kernel panic

2000-10-05 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Christian Pernegger wrote: > On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 05:00:39PM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: > > > > Twice in the last week I've woken up to a locked-up dead potato machine > > and had to hit the power switch. > > I had the same symptoms, once or twice... > > > Does anybody

Re: mozilla & netscape

2000-10-05 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, John Travis wrote: > On Wed, 04 Oct 2000, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > > So, can these two coexist? I've done it with debian packages, but I > I am running Netscape 4.75, Mozilla M17-3 and the nightly mozilla builds > without incident. I didn't do anything to install the nigh

Re: ODP: Debian chicken (was: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation)

2000-10-05 Thread Keith G. Murphy
George Bonser wrote: > > > > > I for one would buy a t-shirt with the chicken printed on it. Any > > takers? > > > > hmmm ... now that sounds really cool. Make the Debian mascot a > chicken! I kinda like it. How about a logo with a penguin and a chicken, > wing/flipper over each others shoulder!

Re: can xdm aquire a TGT on login?

2000-10-05 Thread Martin Maciaszek
On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 04:03:19PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 07:40:54PM +0200, Martin Maciaszek wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 10:22:44AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 04:14:03PM +0200, Martin Maciaszek wrote: > > > > I want to make xdm get a

Re: printing to a windows printer

2000-10-05 Thread Philipp Lehman
On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, David Erdman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >sorry, i am pretty new in linuxi understand the lock part (i think), but >how would someone create a trash bin dedicated to lpd? Create a character special file with major number 1 and minor number 3, like that: mknod /dev

Message: read_ahead not set in /proc/mdstat

2000-10-05 Thread Andre Strenger
Hi all, I am running 2.2 with kernel 2.2.17 and raidtools2 0.90. /etc/raidtab is configured as shown in HOWTO and also the devices was made. After a mkraid /dev/md0 I get the errormessage above. I didnt find any hints to this message has somebody a good Idea ??? Thanks & have a nice day, Gre

Re: neighbour table overflow

2000-10-05 Thread Marek Habersack
** On Oct 05, Robert Lazzurs scribbled: > Hello, I am a potato user, and I have setup my system fairly minimal, > nothing but c/c++ dev, x with icewm, gnome-libs, and apache and exim. > > I keep getting the above message, but I cannot track the reason, it > happens when I access remote sites, for

Re: /proc/interrupts

2000-10-05 Thread David Wright
Quoting Michael P. Soulier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 05:43:29PM +0100, David Wright wrote: > > > If you need the number when it's not in use, get it from the > > intr line in /proc/stat (first number is total). > > Wow. How do I read that? Off to the proc manpage for me.

Unidentified subject!

2000-10-05 Thread romeu
Hi, I'm reposting my problem, since I couldn't solve it. So, I'm not receiving (CONNECT) from my modem. When am I supposed to get it? Just after my ISP gives me a response? Or just after it accepts my login? Another thing that is happening: When I send the AT commands to my modem, it doesn't give

Re: Cloning Debian/GNU

2000-10-05 Thread Paul Seelig
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 01:53:14PM +0300, Denis J. Cirulis wrote: > I want to make (of course if it's possible) some kinda instalation profile. > I want to add only these deb packages to be installed which i'll select, but I > want to automate this task cause too much time is wasted to choose pack

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