Re: OT: is there a decent threaded mail reader...

2000-10-12 Thread Krzys Majewski
I read the list with Gnus. The articles are saved to an IMAP folder on a remote machine, Gnus sees them via a nnimap group. -chris "Neil L. Roeth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Oct 8, Walter Tautz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > i'd really like to be able to read this marvelous list without >

RE: Suggestions for buying a modem

2000-10-12 Thread CHEONG, Shu Yang \[Patrick\]
My modem (USR x2 flashed to v.90 56k) got burnt last week.and I got a replacement for it FOC...after using it for > 3 years (it has a 5 year warranty including lightning...where I live, lightning is a norm)within 1 week. The connection is stable as hell and it connects to the ISP between 42

MS and Corel

2000-10-12 Thread Dr. Orange
This is probably more appropriate to "devel" but anyhow, any reaction on debian's part to MS buy of 25% of Corel? -S-

request advice

2000-10-12 Thread William Jensen
I'd like to stick mainly with potato, but I also am running 2.4 series kernel. The iptables deb pkg is only in woody so I dl that manually. When I try to install it it tells me that my libc is too old. I would prefer not to go into woody at this time because when I did yesterday it broke c++ or m

Re: Trouble installing Debian

2000-10-12 Thread Matthew Dalton
Glenn Murray wrote: > The ...disks-i386/current/udma66/ directory contains three files, > viz.: > > drivers.tgz > install.bat > linux [cut] > My question is: how do I use the files above with the installation CDs so > that the installation program can find the hard drive? Well, I've never ins

Re: Debian book

2000-10-12 Thread Matthew Dalton
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > There is an > O'Reilly _Learning Debian GNU/Linux_ book, but I don't particularly > recommend it. Considering that the whole thing is online for free, it's at least worth a browse! http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/debian/chapter/index.html Matthew

Upgrade- problem

2000-10-12 Thread Jan- Hendrik Palic
Hi to all... I wanted so install the mysql- server last night. My idea was, go to tuxfinder.com and get the latest mysql. So, I got the mysql-common, -client and server in version 3.23.2. . Wenn I install the mysql-client with dpkg -i, it says, that the package depends on libmysql9, the server de

Re: memory leak?

2000-10-12 Thread Matthew Dalton
"Neil L. Roeth" wrote: > There are no big processes, but something is using up 70MB of memory! > Any ideas what? The kernel is using your free memory for disk caching etc... it's normal. It'll be available to applications when required.

OT: is there a decent threaded mail reader...

2000-10-12 Thread Neil L. Roeth
On Oct 8, Walter Tautz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > i'd really like to be able to read this marvelous list without > having to scroll through the listings looking for followups...perhaps > pine can do this which is what I use now. > > -walter In VM, C-t arranges the folder by thread. You c

memory leak?

2000-10-12 Thread Neil L. Roeth
I noticed that top shows a lot of memory used even when I've got very little running. I run netscape, emacs, and other known memory hogs, and can see the memory usage go up, but I expect it to go back down when I kill them. It does a little, but not as much as I expect. For example, here is the

Writing scripts and online support

2000-10-12 Thread Neil L. Roeth
How about apt-get install bash-doc? man bash will give you a lot of info about shell scripting with bash. On Oct 10, JP Sartre ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi all.. this isn't debian specific, but I'll ask this of you because only > smart people use debian.. right? :) > > Anyhow, I want to l

Problems with gdk-imlib

2000-10-12 Thread cedwards
Greetings, Just recently, programs dependent on gdk-imlib have refused to run. I haven't installed any conflicting software, and am using the latest version of gdk-imlib. Here's the error message I get: gdk_imlib ERROR: Cannot load image: /somedir/someimage All fallbacks failed Anyone know what c

OT: Does 1024 cyl restriction applt to SCSI disks?

2000-10-12 Thread Rick Macdonald
Does the 1024 cylinder restriction for boot files apply to SCSI or is it just an IDE issue? I'm just about to use SCSI with Linux for the first time (9BG). ...RickM...

Re: debian-user: exim, unknown user.

2000-10-12 Thread fut0n
Brendan, Hi. I have my exim setup to handle email for multiple virtual domains. In the virtual_alias: directive I have lsearch* as the search_type. that seems to work pretty well.. here is a example.. virtual_alias: driver = aliasfile domains = lsearch;/etc/virtual/domains file

Re: X errors while running make xconfig (fwd)

2000-10-12 Thread Francois Gouget
On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Eric G . Miller wrote: > Try menuconfig. Never had a problem with it... This does not solve the problem. It's merely a workaround. I 'make xconfig' is the only case where I have this problem. I commonly run xemacs across the network link and never had any problem.

RE: Installing LinkSys LNE100TX on Compaq Prolinea 590

2000-10-12 Thread LTG
Thanks! The compiled driver worked as you said. My card was found and I was able to successfully continue the install. Tim -Original Message- From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 11:38 PM To: LTG Cc: Debian User Subject: RE: Installing LinkSys

Re: Mutt's Editor

2000-10-12 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Nate Bargmann, > In ~./mutt/muttrc check this line: > > set editor=/usr/bin/vim You may also want to include the contents of /usr/share/doc/vim/examples/mail in your ·/.vimrc - it does cool things like colour signatures and quoted mail (different colours for different levels of quotes), an

Re: Mutt's Editor

2000-10-12 Thread William Jensen
Joel, I use VIM for everything, not just mutt, so I added: export VISUAL=vim export EDITOR=vim to my .bash_profile...tho nate's solution works equally well. bill - Forwarded message from Nate Bargmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 20:28:33 -0500 From: Nate Bargmann <[EM

Re: port 113

2000-10-12 Thread Pollywog
On 10-Oct-2000 Christian Pernegger wrote: > Your options: > > 1) uninstall 'pidentd' (recommended) > 2) block it, but then what's the point of having it installed? > 3) restrict it to a few trusted sites using /etc/hosts.allow > 4) replace it with something that gives out bogus information Oiden

Re: Ispell and Vim

2000-10-12 Thread Juan Fuentes
* Francois Fayard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Thanks > But I want vim to reload the new file with the correction. > > Hmm yes i missed that subtle part :-), try Ispell.vim you can find it here: http://home.tu-clausthal.de/~mwra/vim/Ispell.vim HTH, Juan Fuentes

xpdf "Couldn't open temporary file"

2000-10-12 Thread J. Bruce Fields
Every time I run xpdf, I get messages of the form Error (21103): Couldn't open temporary file '' on stderr, and xpdf just shows me a blank page. It does allow me to change pages (using the right-arrow/left-arrow buttons at the bottom), but I get a new error and another blank page each time I d

Re: Menu editor crashes in Helix GNOME

2000-10-12 Thread John Travis
On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Martin Weinberg wrote: > Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 11:51:53 -0400 > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > From: Martin Weinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Menu editor crashes in Helix GNOME > > I find that the menu editor dies when one attempts to edit

Re: Mutt's Editor

2000-10-12 Thread Nate Bargmann
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 09:21:53PM -0400, Joel Dinel wrote: > I'd want to use VIM as my primary text editor in Mutt. What line do I need to > add to my ~/.vimrc ? > > Thanks ! Hi Joel. In ~./mutt/muttrc check this line: set editor=/usr/bin/vim That's all I had to do. HTH, - Nate >> -- W

Re: Ispell and Vim

2000-10-12 Thread Francois Fayard
> Hi Francois, put the following in your .vimrc: > > noremap :! ispell % > > you can change the to any other key you want. > > Hope this helps, > > Juan Fuentes Thanks But I want vim to reload the new file with the correction.

Mutt's Editor

2000-10-12 Thread Joel Dinel
I'd want to use VIM as my primary text editor in Mutt. What line do I need to add to my ~/.vimrc ? Thanks ! -- Joel Dinel [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Netscape question..

2000-10-12 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 09:04:06PM -0500, Firstsaga wrote: > Hey, I am new to the debian distro. and have just downloaded Netscape 4.73 > through apt-get. My question is why do all my icon come out just black and > gray. Thanks for any help I'm seeing an Xserver running at 24bpp? Use 16bpp

Netscape question..

2000-10-12 Thread Firstsaga
Hey, I am new to the debian distro. and have just downloaded Netscape 4.73 through apt-get. My question is why do all my icon come out just black and gray. Thanks for any help -- Shane Stover -- "Nothing good can come of this!" -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: X errors while running make xconfig (fwd)

2000-10-12 Thread Eric G . Miller
Try menuconfig. Never had a problem with it... -- /bin/sh ~/.signature: Command not found

Dual RTL Nic Issue for MASQ machine

2000-10-12 Thread Nathan Rasch
Hello All, I am attempting to build a small firewall/proxy/masq computer for my home network. I am having a problem when I attempt to ping to and from the INTERNAL NIC on my Linux machine to and from an INTERNAL masq machine. I believe this to be a software issue and not a hardware issue for

Re: BitchX auto accept DCC

2000-10-12 Thread William Jensen
Inside your ~/.BitchX directory is a file called BitchX.sav. Find the line listed below and set the value to off not on. SET DCC_AUTOGET OFF Regards, Bill On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 07:53:03PM -0400, Joel Dinel wrote: > By default, BitchX auto accepts DCC transfers. I'm reading the (long) man >

X errors while running make xconfig (fwd)

2000-10-12 Thread Francois Gouget
Ok, I'm retrying to post this message because it seems it did not make it through the first time (and I did not get any email indicating there was an error). -- Francois Gouget [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://fgouget.free.fr/ Nouvelle version : les anciens bogues ont été rempla

Re: Ispell and Vim

2000-10-12 Thread Juan Fuentes
* Juan Fuentes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: * Francois Fayard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > I want to use ispell under vim. That is map a key to run ispell with the > current file and save the result in this file. Do you know how I can do > such a thing ? > > Francois > Hi Francois, put

modprobe problem - no help?

2000-10-12 Thread Andreas Goesele
Hi, a few days ago I asked for help regarding a problem I have with modprobe. I haven't received any suggestions what I could do, neither did I find anything on the net (search machines, archived mailing lists) or in the documentation available and understandable (!) to me. So here I go again. Pe

BitchX auto accept DCC

2000-10-12 Thread Joel Dinel
By default, BitchX auto accepts DCC transfers. I'm reading the (long) man pages right now, but it doesn't mention anything about DCC settings. How do I disable that ? Thanks, -- Joel Dinel [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Compact FLASH problems

2000-10-12 Thread Brian Dockter
I'm having trouble getting my PCMCIA adapter working. Here's a brief system description: Debian v2.2 with 2.2.17-idepci kernel Dell 450MHz PIII Actiontec PCMCIA adapter (TI PCI1225 chip on a PCI card) IDE harddriver on IDE bus 0 CD-ROM & ZIP on IDE bus 1 When I plug in my

NFS; mountd refuses conection !

2000-10-12 Thread Mark Sanchez
Hi. I am trying to mount my home partition over NFS from a server (its a home LAN), When I 'mount server:/home /mnt/home I get a permision refused message... When I go to 'Server' I look in the /var/log/messages and see the following messages: mountd[900]: authenticated mount request from Deep

Ispell and Vim

2000-10-12 Thread Francois Fayard
Hi, I want to use ispell under vim. That is map a key to run ispell with the current file and save the result in this file. Do you know how I can do such a thing ? Francois

Re: Pine

2000-10-12 Thread Christian Pernegger
What's wrong with $ apt-get -b source pine That also builds pine/pico/pilot and some docs as debs... On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 07:09:59PM +0200, Robert Varga wrote: > > You need to install the pine4-diffs package as well. It contains the > patches and the dsc file, as well as the debian-package

Re: root mail - cronjob

2000-10-12 Thread Colin Watson
"Techgod" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have this cronjob running, and everytime it runs, it emails root, to say >it was successful. How do I get it to stop sending the email? Don't send anything to standard output or standard error. Anything the cron job outputs will be mailed to whatever the MA

Re: Installation problem

2000-10-12 Thread Andreas Hetzmannseder
Claude Aeschlimann wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a problem installing Debian 2.2 on my system [...] : > - The first part goes well (both my CD-ROM and CD-Recorder are > recognized) and I can install the base system. > But after the reboot, the installation procedure loops no ends on the > root passwo

Re: Wanna be a Debian user...

2000-10-12 Thread Colin Watson
Francois Fayard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >If you try to switch to Woody, it's true that you will have the last >packages (But do you really care about the last version of Exim, Gcc ?) but >the system will be really unstable. I think it's really a bad idea to >install Woody for the time being. Ge

Re: Wanna be a Debian user...

2000-10-12 Thread Colin Watson
Jeff Hornsberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >1. The first thing is that I would like to install completely via ftp. I >have a CD burner, but I'm not very interested in burning a CD for one >time use if I don't have to. With RH I just have to get the network boot >disk image and boot off that and fr

Re: Wanna be a Debian user...

2000-10-12 Thread Hubert Chan
Jeff Hornsberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, I have been using Red Hat Linux exclusively for a little over a year > now, but feel that it is time to reinstall my system sometime soon. I > was thinking I would like to switch to Debian, but have a few questions: > > 1. The first thing is that

Re: Firewall, Router, PPP

2000-10-12 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 01:24:39PM -0600, Brian Blater wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I've heard a lot about Debian and thought I would give it a try. I've been > using RedHat on and off for a little while. Before I install I wanted to ask > a few questions. > > I would like to set up my system to be

sniffit problems

2000-10-12 Thread will trillich
what does this error message mean? # sniffit -F dave -i Forcing device to dave (user requested)... Make sure you have read the docs carefully. unknown physical layer type 0x30a here, dave is a tunnel device created via # create new device $IPCMD tun

Berkeley DB 3x

2000-10-12 Thread Josh Miller
Is Berkeley DB 3x packaged anywhere (unofficially, obviously)? Or does anyone know if it is going to be added soon? - Josh

Re: URGENT! Sendmail question (Redhat conversion) HELP!

2000-10-12 Thread staf wagemakers
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 08:05:46AM -0400, Ferrell, Tim wrote: > The config file builds ok (after squawking about empty dbs - access, > relay_domains, and local_host_names) and sendmail runs. I receive mail but > cannot send/relay - I get smtp Connection Refused errors in the mail.log. > Also, under

RE: Telnet to mail host replies connection refused

2000-10-12 Thread Paul McHale
Martin, Thanks for the help! I didn't see the e-mail yet. I will eventually go to storm-hail because I want to upgrade to potato and have been impressed with storm-rain (slink) used on another system. I am grateful to have this resolved. I have uninstalled a few packages to increase the free d

Re: console MP3 player

2000-10-12 Thread Kai Weber
+ Joel Dinel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Is there such a thing as a console-only MP3 player for Debian? I spend > a lot of time in Command Line lately, and I don't want to start X just > to play a MP3. $ apt-cache search mp3 It brings you a list of various mp3 tools and players. I would recommend mpg1

Re: console MP3 player

2000-10-12 Thread Chris Gray
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 04:40:46PM -0400, Daniel P. Katz wrote: > I use mpg123 with no problems. Note, however, that it's in > stable/non-free. Anybody got a free alternative? ogg123 is the command line player for ogg/vorbis files. It is unencumbered by the mp3 patent, and has similar sound qu

[Fwd: X-window]

2000-10-12 Thread A R
--- Begin Message --- OK guys, here it goes: Attached my startx.log (from startx > & startx.log) and my XF86Config file. Problem: Screen as little box in middle of screen. I have a CTX PL7 monitor, >From documentation: 17 in, 16 in viewable. 0.27 mm dot pitch. 30 ~ 70 khz horizontal; 50 ~ 130hz ve

Re: Books suggestions / ports question

2000-10-12 Thread Sven Burgener
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 02:22:37PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > Shell and tools "cook book": > > Jerry D. Peek, Tim O'Reilly, Mike Loukides, _UNIX Power Tools, 2nd > Edition_, O'Reilly, © 1997, 1120 pages, ISBN: 1-56592-260-3, US$55 I'll probably get this one next. :) > You want

Re: openssh

2000-10-12 Thread Jeff Green
ssh-non-free is "ssh" ssh is "open ssh" both include both serer and client and both work. However only ssh is open and free, hence the name of the other. Jeff "Justin F. Hallett" wrote: > > apt-get install ssh-nonfree > > -=><=-=><=-=><=-=><=-=><=- > -=><=-

Re: console MP3 player

2000-10-12 Thread John Conover
Hubert Chan writes: > Joel Dinel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Is there such a thing as a console-only MP3 player for Debian? I spend a > > lot of > > time in Command Line lately, and I don't want to start X just to play a MP3. > > mpg123, except it does not have controls to pause, etc. > p

Re: openssh

2000-10-12 Thread Justin F. Hallett
apt-get install ssh-nonfree -=><=-=><=-=><=-=><=-=><=- -=><=- -=> Justin F. Hallett <=- -=> (780) 425-5151 <=- -=>Extention 469 <=- -=> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <=- -=><=- -=><=-=><=-=><=-

Re: openssh

2000-10-12 Thread Michael J Smith
Wure, just grab the ssh package, whis is openssh. apt-get install ssh Eileen Orbell wrote: > > Is there a package for debian for openssh server? and client? > > thanx > > Eileen Orbell > Software & Internet Applications > Capitol College > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Don't Fear the Penguin. >

openssh

2000-10-12 Thread Eileen Orbell
Is there a package for debian for openssh server? and client? thanx Eileen Orbell Software & Internet Applications Capitol College mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't Fear the Penguin.

Intel Fiber NIC

2000-10-12 Thread Justin F. Hallett
I'm doing a install and the system has an Intel Fibre NIC it's fairly new since it has a 64 bit PCI, not sure exactly what card it is I'm looking for it on intels site but does anyone know what drivers I can use or will I have to finish the install and recompile with what ever drivers I find on int

Re: Wanna be a Debian user...

2000-10-12 Thread Francois Fayard
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 01:52:20PM -0700, Jeff Hornsberger wrote: > Hi, I have been using Red Hat Linux exclusively for a little over a year > now, but feel that it is time to reinstall my system sometime soon. I > was thinking I would like to switch to Debian, but have a few questions: > > 1. The

Re: console MP3 player

2000-10-12 Thread Hubert Chan
Joel Dinel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there such a thing as a console-only MP3 player for Debian? I spend a lot > of > time in Command Line lately, and I don't want to start X just to play a MP3. mpg123, except it does not have controls to pause, etc. Hubert

More pine worries

2000-10-12 Thread Eileen Orbell
I made sure I had all of the files suggested but STILL get this error when installing Pine.. After issuing the command dpkg-source -x pine4_4.21-1.dsc debian/rules binary usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lncurses But I have checked and I do have libncurses5-dev I thought I had fixed it... Eileen O

Re: Mustek Paragon 600 II CD

2000-10-12 Thread Martin Fluch
On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Marc Maute wrote: > hi, > can zou tell me if this scanner works or > where I can find some information. > thanks According to the documentation af sane (man sane-mustek) the Paragon 600 II CD is suported (at least this model is mentioned at the beginnig of the man page). More

Wanna be a Debian user...

2000-10-12 Thread Jeff Hornsberger
Hi, I have been using Red Hat Linux exclusively for a little over a year now, but feel that it is time to reinstall my system sometime soon. I was thinking I would like to switch to Debian, but have a few questions: 1. The first thing is that I would like to install completely via ftp. I have a CD

Re: strange warning when starting netscape

2000-10-12 Thread kmself
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 10:43:27PM +0200, Matthias Müller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi specialists, > > when I start netscape. I got the warning > 'ls: /usr/lib/netscape/473/navigator/wrapper.d: No such file or directory' > > It does not cause any further problems. I just want to know what

Re: PS Best Debian 2.3 CD source

2000-10-12 Thread kmself
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 08:56:07PM +0200, Jonathan Gift ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > I've narrowed it down to CheapBytes, LCs and LinuxCentral. All offer the 3CD > set, only CheapBytes > offers another 3 source. Any help appreciated as to quality, CD-R or not, > etc. At $2/ea, why worry?

Re: Filesystem free space and reserved allocation (was Re: Telnet to mail...)

2000-10-12 Thread Martin Bialasinski
* "kmself" == kmself wrote: kmself> The ext2fs default is to reserve some number of blocks -- 10% kmself> of total, IIRC -- for root access only. This reserved value kmself> is *not* reported by df and other tools as available, it's kmself> reserved off the top. You can modify the value with,

Re: console MP3 player

2000-10-12 Thread Daniel P. Katz
I use mpg123 with no problems. Note, however, that it's in stable/non-free. Anybody got a free alternative? Dan Joel Dinel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there such a thing as a console-only MP3 player for Debian? I > spend a lot of time in Command Line lately, and I don't want to > start

Re: Debian book

2000-10-12 Thread kmself
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 08:02:54PM +0100, Ted Wager ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi. > Could anyone tell me if there is a definitive Debain book > or recommend any book specific to Debian ?? I'd generally go with a few general GNU/Linux references (e.g.: _Runnining Linux_ and _Linux in a Nut

strange warning when starting netscape

2000-10-12 Thread Matthias Müller
Hi specialists, when I start netscape. I got the warning 'ls: /usr/lib/netscape/473/navigator/wrapper.d: No such file or directory' It does not cause any further problems. I just want to know what it means. I'm using a new debian 2.2. I installed everything from CD. The Version of netscape is '

Re: X-window

2000-10-12 Thread Andy Bastien
Please type with two hands. Please used a fixed font when composing your messages. Please sit in an upright position before replying. There are those who would have you believe that kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > Please do not CC: me. > Please use postfix followup. This means your response goes *

dhclient and "domainname\000"

2000-10-12 Thread Brian
dhclient periodically appends a literal "\000" to the search domain in resolv.conf. This happens with Woody and an NT4.5 server, and Potato with a Win2K server. Have others run into this? __ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access

Re Pine

2000-10-12 Thread Eileen Orbell
Thank you to everyone who replied to my Pine problems. It works now. having always been a RH user I am slowly getting the hang of debian.. Thanks Eileen Orbell Software & Internet Applications Capitol College mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't Fear the Penguin.

Re: console MP3 player

2000-10-12 Thread James Dietrich
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 04:22:14PM -0400, Joel Dinel wrote: > Is there such a thing as a console-only MP3 player for Debian? I spend a lot > of time in Command Line lately, and I don't want to start X just to play a > MP3. mp3blaster works great. James

Re: xf86config problems

2000-10-12 Thread kmself
On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 08:29:39PM -0500, Bob Edwards ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Greetings, > > I ran xf86 config and everything seemed to go well until I tried to run > startx and got the following error messages: > > /usr/bin/x11/Xauth: creating new authority file /root/ .Xauthority > xa

Re: suggestions for buying a printer

2000-10-12 Thread kmself
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 04:19:46PM +0200, Alfredo Solano Martinez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Greetings, > > I want to buy a laser printer, and I have no idea of this field, maybe > somenone can help. Look for postscript compatibility. Note that I'd highly recommend a low-end laserprinter

Filesystem free space and reserved allocation (was Re: Telnet to mail...)

2000-10-12 Thread kmself
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 09:03:59PM +0200, Martin Bialasinski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Note that anything above 95% diskspace used is only available to root. This is not quite accurate. The ext2fs default is to reserve some number of blocks -- 10% of total, IIRC -- for root access only. Th

Postgres module for ruby?

2000-10-12 Thread Johann Spies
I am a ruby newbie. I could not find a postgresql module for ruby in potato. Is there a deb available somewhere? Johann -- J.H. Spies - Tel/Faks +27-21-876-2337 Sel/Cell +27-82 898 1528 "Blessed is the man who makes the LORD his trust, who does not look to the proud, to those who tur

Re: X-window

2000-10-12 Thread Erik Steffl
if you are using csh (or derivative) us: startx >& startx.log you can also try to set up your monitor (using the buttons on the monitor), I guess playing with mode lines would help also... is the screen 1) squeezed (i.e. you still see all the lines) or 2) do you just see part of scr

Re: Access to WWW via ISDN and Netscape Navigator (beginner)

2000-10-12 Thread Erik Steffl
first check if your networking is really working, try few basic commands like netstat -i, ping various machines etc... if netscape is complaining it is probavly becuase of non-working network. did you set the nameservers in /etc/resolv.conf? erik Matthias Mann wrote: > > Hi linuxuse

Re: Telnet to mail host replies connection refused

2000-10-12 Thread kmself
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 06:41:30AM -0400, Paul McHale ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Strongly recommend you take a look at this rant on problem reporting: > > Let's see if I can better address it using the points from a summary you > mentioned. > > Point 1: The first aim of a bug report is to let

Re: printer setup problem

2000-10-12 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: printer setup problem Date: Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 11:59:08PM + In reply to:Irger Armin Quoting Irger Armin([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Seung-woo Nam wrote: > > > Hi: > > I configured my printer setting with printtool, however, when I try to > > print only thing I get i

Re: PHP - A new approach

2000-10-12 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 07:51:04AM +, Steve Simons wrote: > /etc/apache/httpd.conf contains these: > > LoadModule php3_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/libphp3.so > AddType application/x-httpd-php3 .php3 > > I had to uncomment the first one, and my script is now called > /home/steve/hello.php3 see

Re: Telnet to mail host replies connection refused

2000-10-12 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: Telnet to mail host replies connection refused Date: Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 09:22:45AM -0400 In reply to:Alec Smith Quoting Alec Smith([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > If I recall, the correct line to be used with Sendmail is > > sendmail: all > > to allow all users. Hmm, migh

console MP3 player

2000-10-12 Thread Joel Dinel
Is there such a thing as a console-only MP3 player for Debian? I spend a lot of time in Command Line lately, and I don't want to start X just to play a MP3. Thanks ! -- Joel Dinel [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Access to WWW via ISDN and Netscape Navigator (beginner)

2000-10-12 Thread Matthias Müller
* Matthias Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001012 21:39]: > Hi linuxuser! > > I had installed Debian 2.2r0 potato. First the basesystem and all packages > of the directorys Imp and Std. Next i installed the X Window system Netscape > and isdnutils. I think the ISDN-card is working cause i had a connect

Re: Firewall (Linux new-comer) mini-HOW-DID

2000-10-12 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 09:07:04AM +0200, Matthias Mann wrote: > I´m sitting on a single computer. Yesterday i´ve read the firewall-HOWTO and > was very confused cause there are examples for a network system. Is there > any possibility to build a firewall or other usefull security systems for my >

RE: Defrag in Win2000 no good for FIPS

2000-10-12 Thread Matthew Sherborne
I found a good defragger, and did the job. At the end, and some way through the disk were directory entries and one .cpl file. But the program I used allowed me to click on the sector, see what the file or directory was, then I copied it, deleted the original and renamed the copy. And best of all

Re: new X server error

2000-10-12 Thread Max Kamenetsky
* Michiel Meeuwissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [10/12/00 12:46] wrote: > Max Kamenetsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skribis: > > After upgrading to the latest and greatest version of woody today, I > > am getting the following error whenever I try to start X: > > > > > > Fatal server error: > > could not open

Re: Menu editor crashes in Helix GNOME

2000-10-12 Thread Richard Black
Me too. I reported to gnome as a bug. Martin Weinberg wrote: > I find that the menu editor dies when one attempts to edit > any user menu with the latest Helix version. The system is > Helix + up-to-date Potato. > > Has anyone else seen this and/or know a fix? > > TIA, > > --Martin > > -- > Uns

emacs/xemacs and ispell-dictionary-alist

2000-10-12 Thread Johann Spies
In Slink I could use my custom Afrikaans dictionary with both emacs and xemacs by changing the ispell-dictionary-alist options which resulted in the following entry in my .emacs: -- (custom-set-variables '(ispell-dictionary-alist (quote (("afrikaanstex" "[A-ZÄËÏÖÜÁÉÍÓÚÂÊÎÔÛÀÈÌÒÙa

Re: cron.daily problem

2000-10-12 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 01:17:36PM +0200, Igor Mozetic wrote: > > I observed on one of our Debian 2.2 machines that daily cron still > didn't finish after 5+ hours: > > # ps aux > nobody 29273 0.0 0.4 1104 532 ?D06:25 0:01 find / ( > -fstype NFS -o -fstype nfs -o -fstype afs

Re: Port Forwarding (reverse masquerading)

2000-10-12 Thread Sean Furey
Hi Peter! > ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L extIP 80 -R 192.168.1.3 80 > > extIP is my IP if ya didnt catch on ;) but when I try to connect to > the router on port 80 it just hangs there.. saying contacting server.. > but if I go straight to 192.168.1.3 it loads very well.. Any ideas on > what is c

X errors while running make xconfig

2000-10-12 Thread Francois Gouget
Hi, When I'm running 'make xconfig' to configure a new kernel, I regularly get the following error: X Error of failed request: BadLength (poly request too large or internal Xlib length error) Major opcode of failed request: 49 (X_ListFonts) Serial number of failed request: 4170 Cu

new network card defective?

2000-10-12 Thread William Jensen
Greetings everyone, I dropped an intel etherexpress pro/100 into the system this morning, redid the kernel to support. First time I booted up I saw the following as fast as it could draw to the screen: Oct 12 09:37:21 stimpy kernel: eth0: card reports no RX buffers. Oct 12 09:37:21 stimpy kernel

INN2 and Suck, posts not propagating upstream.

2000-10-12 Thread Adam Scriven
Hey all. I thought I had this INN2/Suck thing all figured out, but apparently not. It's been working great, downloading the groups I want, archiving the way I want. Local posting is working just wonderful, but I noticed that the posts didn't seem to be getting any replies (I usually get at least

Debian book

2000-10-12 Thread Ted Wager
Hi. Could anyone tell me if there is a definitive Debain book or recommend any book specific to Debian ?? -- Regards Ted Packetmail :- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Email :- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

root mail - cronjob

2000-10-12 Thread Techgod
I have this cronjob running, and everytime it runs, it emails root, to say it was successful. How do I get it to stop sending the email? Wayne

Access to WWW via ISDN and Netscape Navigator (beginner)

2000-10-12 Thread Matthias Mann
Hi linuxuser! I had installed Debian 2.2r0 potato. First the basesystem and all packages of the directorys Imp and Std. Next i installed the X Window system Netscape and isdnutils. I think the ISDN-card is working cause i had a connection of one second by typing isdnctrl dial ippp0 on consiole. Is

q´s ad adding driver to ghostscript

2000-10-12 Thread Robert Waldner
Hi! Please forgive any (more or less) ignorance, I´m not so new to debian/gnu/linux, but it´s the first time I hit the printing and apt-get source themes. 1: If I checked the docs[0] right, I have to compile ghostscript myself to get an additional driver[1] into it? 1a: How would one go for

Re: Telnet to mail host replies connection refused

2000-10-12 Thread Martin Bialasinski
* "Paul" == Paul McHale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Paul> This is what it was set to. I changed it to try the suggestion. Paul> Unfortunately, it did not improve. I think I might just upgrade to potato. Paul> I know this is not the best cure, but I am interested in testing the new Paul> sto

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