need quick pointer for sound config

2000-10-13 Thread Monte Milanuk
Hello, all. I am getting to that point where I need to get the sound running on one of my boxes. It is running Debian 2.2, updated against the stable tree. The machine in question is a Dell OptiPlex GX1 w/ onboard sound (CS4236), video, and nic. I was able to get the sound originally to work in

Re: Vim vs Elvis -- was "Mutt's Editor"

2000-10-13 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 12:51:24PM -0500, Jeff Howie wrote: > I cut my teeth on vim (4.x or so). and haven't looked back. > > On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 11:59:06AM -0500, will trillich wrote: > > emacs fans, please turn the other cheek-- > > how does vim compare to elvis? which is the resource hog? >

Re: DNS problem

2000-10-13 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 09:16:43PM -0700, Bruce Perens wrote: > I'm stumped. Connects from my mail delivery system are being refused by > hotmail, oreilly.com, brics.dk, and a number of other sites. I suspect > that I've done something stupid in my DNS and am being rejected by sites > that set ALL:

DNS problem

2000-10-13 Thread Bruce Perens
I'm stumped. Connects from my mail delivery system are being refused by hotmail, oreilly.com, brics.dk, and a number of other sites. I suspect that I've done something stupid in my DNS and am being rejected by sites that set ALL: PARANOID in /etc/hosts.deny . I don't see my system in the RBL, DUL,

Re: GPM + Xfree86

2000-10-13 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 04:07:12PM -0400, Cancer Omega wrote: > I installed GPM and got it working flawlessly with my Intellimouse > PS/2. Now, I start X, and my mouse will refuse to move. I commented > out imwheel from my ~/.xinitrc, same result. The only way I can get > my mouse to work in X is t

Re: Removed services but references still in rc2.d

2000-10-13 Thread Joel Dinel
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 08:49:32PM -0700, Dwight Johnson wrote: > I did 'dpkg --remove' on some services I don't want: anacron, diald, > wwwoffle and junkbuster. But these services still show up in /etc/rc2.d and > /etc/init.d. Why didn't these references get removed as well? > > Thanks in advance

Removed services but references still in rc2.d

2000-10-13 Thread Dwight Johnson
I did 'dpkg --remove' on some services I don't want: anacron, diald, wwwoffle and junkbuster. But these services still show up in /etc/rc2.d and /etc/init.d. Why didn't these references get removed as well? Thanks in advance, Dwight -- Dwight Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What is all of this junk??

2000-10-13 Thread Tyrin Price
That's a problem on the debian-security-announce list rather than the debian-user list. I've gotten several of them, myself. * Christopher W. Aiken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [13Oct00 23:30 -0400]: > What is this junk?? I must have gotten several > dozen of these messages today. > > -=cwa=- > > > >

realplayer

2000-10-13 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Well, I started from scratch, and configured .ram files to realplayer in netscape, and it's finally working. CNN's links won't work because they're javascript-enabled, and apparently the Unix netscape doesn't work on those (works in windows). However, all the links that simply offer a .ram file

What is all of this junk??

2000-10-13 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
What is this junk?? I must have gotten several dozen of these messages today. -=cwa=- On Sat, 14 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ->Die angefügte Nachricht hatte vorübergehende unrelevante Übermittlungsfehler. -> ->DIES IST LEDIGLICH EINE INFORMATION - SIE BRAUCHEN DIE NACHRICHT NICHT ERNEUT

Re: Debian's default vim.

2000-10-13 Thread Juan Fuentes
> On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 02:23:31PM -0600, Ethan Vaughn wrote: > I've used older versions of vim that did the following: > - Tell you at the bottom of the screen whether you are in > --Insert-- or --Replace-- mode. > > - Stay in Insert mode while using cursor keys to move around. > > If

Re: Debian's default vim.

2000-10-13 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 02:23:31PM -0600, Ethan Vaughn wrote: > I've used older versions of vim that did the following: > - Tell you at the bottom of the screen whether you are in > --Insert-- or --Replace-- mode. > > - Stay in Insert mode while using cursor keys to move around. > > If a

Re: ypbind problem

2000-10-13 Thread Nate Amsden
Douglas Eck wrote: > > Anyone know if it's normal for ypbind to spawn four daemons that > eat up 16Mb of memory? It works fine... but seems like a lot > of overhead. I'm running woody... > > >From memstat: >4180k: PID 6497 (/usr/sbin/ypbind) >4180k: PID 6496 (/usr/sbin/ypbind) >4180

Re: Vim vs Elvis -- was "Mutt's Editor"

2000-10-13 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: Vim vs Elvis -- was "Mutt's Editor" Date: Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 02:50:54PM -0500 In reply to:will trillich Quoting will trillich([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Bud Rogers wrote: > > > > On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, will trillich wrote: > > Will Something wrong with your mail or i

alsa-base

2000-10-13 Thread Kevin C. Smith
I attempted an apt-get install alsa-base, however this failed. Received the message stating that alsa-base_0.5.9c-8.deb is not available, which is true. It should be getting alsa-base_0.5.9d-1.deb. How to I fix this? Do I need to report it to someone? Thanks, Kevin

RE: which software for professional Mailling?

2000-10-13 Thread Pollywog
On 13-Oct-2000 Matthias Mann wrote: > HiYou! > > I like to work with big archives of mailadresses and need a program that is > able to send SPAM and organize to let it be, that people they don´t like my > SPAMS will get never a Mail of me again. And i could need a tool that can > scan the web for

Re: which software for professional Mailling? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA

2000-10-13 Thread Joel Dinel
Well said. -- Joel Dinel [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: which software for professional Mailling? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA

2000-10-13 Thread C. Falconer
At 11:28 PM 10/13/00 +0200, you wrote: HiYou! I like to work with big archives of mailadresses and need a program that is able to send SPAM and organize to let it be, that people they don´t like my SPAMS will get never a Mail of me again. And i could need a tool that can scan the web for mail

Re: GPM + Xfree86

2000-10-13 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 04:27:02PM -0400, Joel Dinel wrote: > Ok, so I have /dev/gpmdata in my XF86Config. > > Now, the mouse moves ... But it goes haywire! It thrases around the screen, > randomly generating mouse clicks. I have commented out all the lines in the > [pointers] section of my XF86

Re: via82cxxx

2000-10-13 Thread ESTEBAN P OSSES ANGUITA
hi! On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Olivier Billet wrote: > ESTEBAN P OSSES ANGUITA wrote: > > OK, thanks, that's what I'm trying now. > It may be a stupid question, but how is it that alsa installation > scripts search for includes in /usr/src/linux/include... that are > actually in /usr/include... ?

ran out of input data (wtf?)

2000-10-13 Thread volunteer1
debs, i config'd stock 2.2.17, rebooted the new kernel, and got a 4-line boot halt: lilo loading linux... uncompressing linux... ran out of input data -- system halted am i toast? ...suggestions? plz cc me as the box at issue is my regular email box. ia, t. bentley taylor //

test - please ignore

2000-10-13 Thread Marshall, Hunter
hi

Re: ugly boot--resolved

2000-10-13 Thread cls-colo spgs
cls-colo spgs wrote: > kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 11:26:32PM -0600, cls-colo spgs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > debs, > > > > > > i have a 5 minute, ugly boot: > > > > > > # dmesg > > > > > > [snip] > > > > > > SLIP: version 0.8.4-NET3.019-NEWTTY-MODULAR (dy

Re: VIM example file for mutt

2000-10-13 Thread Colin Watson
Joel Dinel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Earlier on, somebody mentionned a file that came with Vim's doc that >could be useful for Mutt when Vim was set as the default editor. I don't >seem to have *any* 'examples' folder in /usr/doc/vim, /usr/share/vim or >/usr/share/doc/vim. > >Is it part of anothe

Re: Debian's default vim.

2000-10-13 Thread Colin Watson
Ethan Vaughn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Ethan Vaughn wrote: >> I've used older versions of vim that did the following: >> - Tell you at the bottom of the screen whether you are in >> --Insert-- or --Replace-- mode. >> >> - Stay in Insert mode while using cursor keys to move around. >> >>

VIM example file for mutt

2000-10-13 Thread Joel Dinel
Earlier on, somebody mentionned a file that came with Vim's doc that could be useful for Mutt when Vim was set as the default editor. I don't seem to have *any* 'examples' folder in /usr/doc/vim, /usr/share/vim or /usr/share/doc/vim. Is it part of another package ?! -- Joel Dinel [EMAIL PROTE

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

2000-10-13 Thread Joel Dinel
Yeah I used to think Mutt was too hard to configure (~/.muttrc). Now that I used the example .muttrc that came with the package, it's very useful. -- Joel Dinel [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT?: Mozilla doesn't find mime types?

2000-10-13 Thread Knuckles
> Second thing: When I highlight text in moz's URL field, I can't see the > highlighting when I'm in one account. In an other account it works fine > (both use gnome + sawmill with same theme) Sorry. I screwed that on up. It's the fault of the gtk+ Step theme. It does funny to some fields when th

Re: Mutt's Editor

2000-10-13 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 04:32:26PM +0900, YoonSuk Cho<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you want vim in mutt add the one line in ~$HOME/.muttrc. > > set editor="/usr/bin/vim" like this. > > good luck...!! You can also have vim use special settings while editing mail via # Use vim as my c

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

2000-10-13 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 10:49:24AM -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > Hi, > > I use mutt, very happy with it especially the threading. Yup, mutt rocks. I couldn't be happier, unless people would stop using HTML mail. Granted, I pipe it to lynx, but it still annoys me. Mike -- Michael P

Re: root mail - cronjob

2000-10-13 Thread staf wagemakers
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 02:23:01PM -0500, Techgod 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? Add "> /dev/null 2>&1" to the script's line in your crontab. Example: * * * * * /path/to/script

Re: Apache- CGI

2000-10-13 Thread staf wagemakers
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 01:44:28PM -0400, Eileen Orbell wrote: > I installed the apache module yesterday using apt-get. > I have just changed to debian as RH was getting me down. Anyway's I edited > the httpd.conf file and see no mention of "CGI" at all. In RH The lines > were already in the co

GNUS can't find netscape

2000-10-13 Thread Bob Hilliard
I have just started using gnus 5.8.7-2. (This is the gnus in its own package, not the one distributed with emacs.) If I click on a highlighted URL, it beeps and displays this message: Searching for program: no such file or directory, netscape I'm sure there is a variable that can

OT?: Mozilla doesn't find mime types?

2000-10-13 Thread Knuckles
Hi, My Mozilla (up to M18) has no mime types set in the preferences item "helper applications". I seem to remember that I had to install a package (I use potato) so that Netscape can use /etc/mime.info. Has this something to do with it? Since I didn't find anything on bugzilla, i guess I've overl

Re: problem of boot

2000-10-13 Thread Moritz Schulte
elouafi bessem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have the kernel 2.2.12 of the redhat and I installed on it a new kernel > 2.3.99. "a new kernel 2.3.99"? This Kernel is quiet old. <0>[EMAIL PROTECTED]: [~] $ finger @ftp.kernel.org [zeus.kernel.org] The latest stable version of the Linux kerne

Re: Symlinking /tmp to /var...

2000-10-13 Thread Ethan Vaughn
Andreas Hetzmannseder wrote: > > Dear debian-users, > > The disk space for my root-partition is 40 MB, while I supplied 80 MB > for my /var-partition. I would like to make a symbolic link from /tmp, > which resides in the root partition, to /var. > > This was my plan: > 1. Copying /tmp to /var/t

Re: StarOffice now GPL?!

2000-10-13 Thread Veit Waltemath
Daniel Reuter wrote: > > Hello all out there, > > Have a look at: > > http://www.sun.com/software/staroffice/openoffice/ > > Does this mean it might ship with some future release of debian? > > Regards, > Daniel > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: which software for professional Mailling?

2000-10-13 Thread kmself
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 11:28:46PM +0200, Matthias Mann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > HiYou! > > I like to work with big archives of mailadresses and need a program > that is able to send SPAM and organize to let it be, that people they > don´t like my SPAMS will get never a Mail of me again. And

Re: isdnctrl dialmode auto

2000-10-13 Thread Moritz Schulte
"Matthias Mann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Do you know what i have to do to set the time for automatic hangup? Now my > isdnutils let me wait 45 seconds after a Datatransfer. Cause my ISP count > every second i like to set this time down to 1 second. But where? Search for "huptimeout" in /etc/

Re: isdnctrl dialmode auto

2000-10-13 Thread Willi Dyck
Matthias Mann wrote: > Hi People! > > Do you know what i have to do to set the time for automatic hangup? Now my > isdnutils let me wait 45 seconds after a Datatransfer. Cause my ISP count > every second i like to set this time down to 1 second. But where? > > have a nice night! > > -- > Unsubsc

which software for professional Mailling?

2000-10-13 Thread Matthias Mann
HiYou!   I like to work with big archives of mailadresses and need a program that is able to send SPAM and organize to let it be, that people they don´t like my SPAMS will get never a Mail of me again. And i could need a tool that can scan the web for mailadresses. Is there somthing like that

isdnctrl dialmode auto

2000-10-13 Thread Matthias Mann
Hi People! Do you know what i have to do to set the time for automatic hangup? Now my isdnutils let me wait 45 seconds after a Datatransfer. Cause my ISP count every second i like to set this time down to 1 second. But where? have a nice night!

Re: MS and Corel

2000-10-13 Thread George Bonser
Well, since MS bought non-voting stock, I don't expect there to be a big problem. It isn't like MS is going to use its position to vote people onto the board of directors or anything. On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Dr. Orange wrote: > > This is probably more appropriate to "devel" but anyhow, any reacti

Re: Help Again moving /cdrom to /mnt/cdrom for apt-get

2000-10-13 Thread Brent Buchholz
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 09:41:22AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 06:57:00AM -0500, John Travis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Jonathan Gift wrote: > > > I want to move the cdrom from /cdrom to /mnt/cdrom and even though so > > > noted

no valid newsgroups again (inews)

2000-10-13 Thread dochawk
I know I"ve been through this before, but this didn't come up on my install last year (which worked fine). I can read usenet just fine, but when I try to post, I get inews: No valid newsgroups in alt.folklore.computers --which happens to be the group I"m reading. I'm not running a newserve

Symlinking /tmp to /var...

2000-10-13 Thread Andreas Hetzmannseder
Dear debian-users, The disk space for my root-partition is 40 MB, while I supplied 80 MB for my /var-partition. I would like to make a symbolic link from /tmp, which resides in the root partition, to /var. This was my plan: 1. Copying /tmp to /var/tmp.root (with /var/tmp.root being created) 2. De

Re: via82cxxx

2000-10-13 Thread Olivier Billet
ESTEBAN P OSSES ANGUITA wrote: > > What should I do to get it working ??? > after one try, another try, and another ... etc... i installed ALSA ... > and it works vry good :) OK, thanks, that's what I'm trying now. It may be a stupid question, but how is it that alsa installation scripts sea

Re: Strange screen blanking on 2.2 boot

2000-10-13 Thread Brent Buchholz
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 05:11:01AM -0700, Dwight Johnson wrote: > At the end of booting my new potato 2.2 installation (my first for debian), > the console screen goes blank and then reappears four times before finally > settling on the login prompt. > > What's going on? > At a guess, I'd say xdm

GPM + Xfree86

2000-10-13 Thread Joel Dinel
Ok, so I have /dev/gpmdata in my XF86Config. Now, the mouse moves ... But it goes haywire! It thrases around the screen, randomly generating mouse clicks. I have commented out all the lines in the [pointers] section of my XF86Config, leaving only the protocol line and the device line. Still no

Re: Debian's default vim.

2000-10-13 Thread Ethan Vaughn
Ethan Vaughn wrote: > > I've used older versions of vim that did the following: > - Tell you at the bottom of the screen whether you are in > --Insert-- or --Replace-- mode. > > - Stay in Insert mode while using cursor keys to move around. > > If anyone has any ideas how to config vim f

Re: Vim vs Elvis -- was "Mutt's Editor"

2000-10-13 Thread Erik Steffl
will trillich wrote: > > Bud Rogers wrote: > > > > On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, will trillich wrote: > > > > > how does vim compare to elvis? which is the resource hog? > > > which does better syntax highlighting? > > > > I don't know about relative resource use, but vim's syntax highlighting is > > the b

Debian's default vim.

2000-10-13 Thread Ethan Vaughn
I've used older versions of vim that did the following: - Tell you at the bottom of the screen whether you are in --Insert-- or --Replace-- mode. - Stay in Insert mode while using cursor keys to move around. If anyone has any ideas how to config vim for such I'd greatly appreciate it.

Re: apt-get and customized kernel

2000-10-13 Thread Cancer Omega
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 09:53:25PM +0200, Moritz Schulte wrote: > 1) Set your kernel-* packages on "hold", then they won't get upgraded >automatically. You can do this in dselect with '='. This is IMHO >the better solution. This is accomplished by the following : echo kernel-image-2.2.17 h

Re: ISDN + Netscape

2000-10-13 Thread Erik Steffl
Ethan Vaughn wrote: > > > Matthias Mann wrote: > > > > Hi you! > > > > I have no problem to get a connection to my ISP. Datatransfer is > > working too. But i miss the file /etc/resolv.conf that i need, how i > > think, for a working netscape. Can you send my a copy of your > > resolv.conf so i ha

Re: Help Again moving /cdrom to /mnt/cdrom for apt-get

2000-10-13 Thread Chris Gray
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 09:41:22AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > I used apt-cdrom briefly a few weeks ago and noted that it appears to be > hardcoded to use /cdrom as a mountpoint. There must be a /cdrom > directory, and an /etc/fstab entry for the CD-ROM to mount on /cdrom. I > didn't

Re: GPM + Xfree86

2000-10-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
thats normal, try changing X's config to use /dev/gpmdata instead. or just remove gpm .. nate On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Cancer Omega wrote: kint >I installed GPM and got it working flawlessly with my Intellimouse PS/2. Now, I start X, and my mouse will refuse to move. I commented out imwheel from

GPM + Xfree86

2000-10-13 Thread Cancer Omega
I installed GPM and got it working flawlessly with my Intellimouse PS/2. Now, I start X, and my mouse will refuse to move. I commented out imwheel from my ~/.xinitrc, same result. The only way I can get my mouse to work in X is to kill GPM. Anybody else experienced this ? -- Joel Dinel [EMA

Re: Vim vs Elvis -- was "Mutt's Editor"

2000-10-13 Thread will trillich
Bud Rogers wrote: > > On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, will trillich wrote: > > > how does vim compare to elvis? which is the resource hog? > > which does better syntax highlighting? > > I don't know about relative resource use, but vim's syntax highlighting is > the best I've seen. Ever. Anywhere. i'm p

Re: ISDN + Netscape

2000-10-13 Thread Ethan Vaughn
> Matthias Mann wrote: > > Hi you! > > I have no problem to get a connection to my ISP. Datatransfer is > working too. But i miss the file /etc/resolv.conf that i need, how i > think, for a working netscape. Can you send my a copy of your > resolv.conf so i have an example? Otherwise i don´t know

ftp access to apt-get

2000-10-13 Thread Ethan Vaughn
Can anyone tell me the URI lines needed in sources.list to allow ftp access to apt-get? I've got the following (modified from the default http): deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free de

ISDN + Netscape

2000-10-13 Thread Matthias Mann
Hi you!   I have no problem to get a connection to my ISP. Datatransfer is working too. But i miss the file /etc/resolv.conf that i need, how i think, for a working netscape. Can you send my a copy of your resolv.conf so i have an example? Otherwise i don´t know how i should write my resolv.

Re: kde2 problem

2000-10-13 Thread Michael Epting
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 11:26:07AM -0400, Andy Bastien wrote: > I've installed KDE2 from Debian's servers, but I haven't had much luck > getting it running. What happens, basically, is kicker dies with a > signal 11 almost as soon as it starts up (the status indicator is on > "Restoring session").

Re: kde2 problem

2000-10-13 Thread Michael Epting
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 11:26:07AM -0400, Andy Bastien wrote: > I've installed KDE2 from Debian's servers, but I haven't had much luck > getting it running. What happens, basically, is kicker dies with a > signal 11 almost as soon as it starts up (the status indicator is on > "Restoring session").

Re: http port open?? how can that be?

2000-10-13 Thread Sven Burgener
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 11:50:40AM -0500, William Jensen wrote: > I do not have apache installed, nmap localhost does not show http being open, > however, if I go to a friends machine and nmap my ip it shows http being > open. Also grc.com's port probe shows http being open. Thing is I just don't

StarOffice now GPL?!

2000-10-13 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello all out there, Have a look at: http://www.sun.com/software/staroffice/openoffice/ Does this mean it might ship with some future release of debian? Regards, Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-get and customized kernel

2000-10-13 Thread Moritz Schulte
Jack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: This is really becoming a FAQ. :) > I always compile my own customized kernel. However, it brings one > thing annoying when using apt-get dist-upgrade. As you can see as > following it tries to install debian provided kernel instead. There are to solutions:

Re: Mutt's alias file

2000-10-13 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: Mutt's alias file Date: Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 11:13:52AM -0400 In reply to:Wayne Topa Quoting Wayne Topa([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Subject: Mutt's alias file > Date: Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 06:24:55AM -0400 > > In reply to:Cancer Omega > > Quoting Cancer Ome

Re: A conio for Borland C under Linux

2000-10-13 Thread Dan Pomohaci
David Teague writes: > Dan > > I promised to try to find Linux conio for Borland. I found it in my > archives. It is a 1996 reimplementation of conio for Linux, for > Borland C of that date, but you might be able to make it work. If > you do, please send me your hacks, or let me know if it

Re: Pine

2000-10-13 Thread Bob Nielsen
Check the source file. There are pine (ver 3.96) and pine4 (ver 4.21) sources in addition to pine4-src and pine4-diffs. The pine4-src and pine4-diffs packages were created (iirc) before apt had the ability to download source and automatically create a package this way. From the description of pi

community access points

2000-10-13 Thread Matthew Emmett
Hello all, I'm using Debian to create "community access points" (caps) -- a computer open to the public with web browsers, ftp clients, pdf viewers etc etc. I'm targetting 486's because so many of these get donated to non-profits around the city. I've had fun configuring my machine to fire up a

Re: http port open?? how can that be?

2000-10-13 Thread Lee Maguire
[2000-10-13] William Jensen wrote: > I do not have apache installed, nmap localhost does not show http > being open, however, if I go to a friends machine and nmap my ip it > shows http being open. Also grc.com's port probe shows http being > open. Thing is I just don't see how this is possible c

Re: apt-get and customized kernel

2000-10-13 Thread Michael Janssen \(CS/MATH stud.\)
In Jack's email, 13-10-2000: > Hi, > > I always compile my own customized kernel. However, it brings one > thing annoying when using apt-get dist-upgrade. As you can see as > following it tries to install debian provided kernel instead. > > Can I shut it off? > > thanks, [ snip of apt/dpkg

Re: I have apt on RH, now i want dselect (or capt or sth. like that)

2000-10-13 Thread kmself
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 01:27:40PM -0400, David Z. Maze ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Karsten M Self writes: > KMS> On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 05:42:41PM +0200, Piotr Krukowiecki ([EMAIL > PROTECTED]) wrote: > PK> I have installed apt on RedHat, it works ok (e.g apt-get update > PK> && apt-get -d

Re: ugly boot

2000-10-13 Thread cls-colo spgs
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 11:26:32PM -0600, cls-colo spgs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > debs, > > > > i have a 5 minute, ugly boot: > > > > # dmesg > > > > [snip] > > > > SLIP: version 0.8.4-NET3.019-NEWTTY-MODULAR (dynamic > > channels, max=256). > > SLIP linefill

Re: Problems with a bash script and cron

2000-10-13 Thread Felix Hagemann
Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I had _not_ suggested he required the user field. Let me try this > again; > > m h dom mon dow > 0,15,30,45 * * * > > 0,15,30,45 * * * * I`m sorry: I didn`t see that in fact one field was missing. I`ve just seen it often that people g

Re: Keyboard wierdness

2000-10-13 Thread Damian Menscher
On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Steve Juranich wrote: > On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Damian Menscher wrote: > > > Ok, this is *really* strange: > > > > I have a fairly new setup: woody + 2.4.0-test9 kernel. I had everything > > working fine. I wanted to move my computer, so I shut it down, carried > > it over to

Re: Keyboard wierdness

2000-10-13 Thread Damian Menscher
On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Gary Hennigan wrote: > Damian Menscher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I have a fairly new setup: woody + 2.4.0-test9 kernel. I had everything > > working fine. I wanted to move my computer, so I shut it down, carried > > it over to new location, and turn it back on. When it

Re: Vim vs Elvis -- was "Mutt's Editor"

2000-10-13 Thread Jeff Howie
I cut my teeth on vim (4.x or so). and haven't looked back. On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 11:59:06AM -0500, will trillich wrote: > emacs fans, please turn the other cheek-- > how does vim compare to elvis? which is the resource hog? Not sure about that, but I would assume that vi(elvis) would be on the

Re: Vim vs Elvis -- was "Mutt's Editor"

2000-10-13 Thread Bud Rogers
On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, will trillich wrote: > how does vim compare to elvis? which is the resource hog? > which does better syntax highlighting? I don't know about relative resource use, but vim's syntax highlighting is the best I've seen. Ever. Anywhere. -- Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Apache- CGI

2000-10-13 Thread Gary Hennigan
Eileen Orbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I installed the apache module yesterday using apt-get. > I have just changed to debian as RH was getting me down. Anyway's I > edited the httpd.conf file and see no mention of "CGI" at all. In RH > The lines were already in the conf file I just needed t

Apache- CGI

2000-10-13 Thread Eileen Orbell
Hi, I installed the apache module yesterday using apt-get. I have just changed to debian as RH was getting me down. Anyway's I edited the httpd.conf file and see no mention of "CGI" at all. In RH The lines were already in the conf file I just needed to edit them to my needs. Also 1 more deb

Re: setserial

2000-10-13 Thread Larry Shields
- Original Message - From: "Jan Zegan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, October 13, 2000 2:01 PM Subject: setserial Not sure which kernel version, but if you have #AUTOSAVE at the top of your serial.conf script, REMOVE it...Then reboot, it, your new settings should take effect for y

Re: Supressing the "front page"

2000-10-13 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: Supressing the "front page" Date: Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 04:29:55PM +0100 In reply to:Mário Filipe Quoting Mário Filipe([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Wayne Topa wrote: > > > > > > Reading the 'Printing-Usage' howto and man printcap give 2 solutions. > > As you don't seem to

Re: I have apt on RH, now i want dselect (or capt or sth. like that)

2000-10-13 Thread David Z. Maze
Karsten M Self writes: KMS> On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 05:42:41PM +0200, Piotr Krukowiecki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: PK> I have installed apt on RedHat, it works ok (e.g apt-get update PK> && apt-get -d install sth) KMS> KMS> Using two different package management systems on a single system KMS>

Re: Vim vs Elvis -- was "Mutt's Editor"

2000-10-13 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 11:59, will trillich wrote: > emacs fans, please turn the other cheek-- > > how does vim compare to elvis? which is the resource hog? > which does better syntax highlighting? which makes your teeth > whiter? FWIW, I was an early (early 90's) user of elvis. I switched to v

A conio for Borland C under Linux

2000-10-13 Thread David Teague
Dan I promised to try to find Linux conio for Borland. I found it in my archives. It is a 1996 reimplementation of conio for Linux, for Borland C of that date, but you might be able to make it work. If you do, please send me your hacks, or let me know if it does work for you. It is redistributa

Re: Exim and multiple domains

2000-10-13 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 01:16:08PM -0400, Matt Kopishke wrote: > Hi, I have a machine that is serving multiple domains. What I need to > have is some sort of separate configuration for each domain. Or what I > am really getting at is that I need a separate aliases file > (/etc/aliases) for each d

Re: http port open?? how can that be?

2000-10-13 Thread William Jensen
Already checked that. inetd.conf shows nothing about http and I do not have a xinetd. Any other guesses? Bill - Forwarded message from will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 12:07:30 -0500 From: will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subj

Re: error message

2000-10-13 Thread brian moore
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 09:08:16AM +0200, Manuel Hendel wrote: > Manuel Hendel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Oct 12 21:45:11 cohiba postfix/master[356]: fatal: bind "(IP-Adress)" > > > port 25: This Ip-Adress is already in use. > > > > Please post the output of (in bash) > > > > cat "

Exim and multiple domains

2000-10-13 Thread Matt Kopishke
Hi, I have a machine that is serving multiple domains. What I need to have is some sort of separate configuration for each domain. Or what I am really getting at is that I need a separate aliases file (/etc/aliases) for each domain, and some sort of control over who gets mail from a given domain

setserial

2000-10-13 Thread Jan Zegan
Hello When I issue setserial /dev/ttyS0 irq 3 spd_hi it goes back to the original settings after I reboot the system. How can I make it stay? Thanks in advance

Re: ugly boot

2000-10-13 Thread kmself
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 11:26:32PM -0600, cls-colo spgs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > debs, > > i have a 5 minute, ugly boot: > > # dmesg > > [snip] > > SLIP: version 0.8.4-NET3.019-NEWTTY-MODULAR (dynamic > channels, max=256). > SLIP linefill/keepalive option. > PPP BSD Compression module reg

Strange screen blanking on 2.2 boot

2000-10-13 Thread Dwight Johnson
At the end of booting my new potato 2.2 installation (my first for debian), the console screen goes blank and then reappears four times before finally settling on the login prompt. What's going on? Thanks in advance, Dwight -- Dwight Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: I have apt on RH, now i want dselect (or capt or sth. like that)

2000-10-13 Thread kmself
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 05:42:41PM +0200, Piotr Krukowiecki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi > > > I have installed apt on RedHat, it works ok (e.g apt-get update && apt-get > -d install sth) Using two different package management systems on a single system is a ***BAD*** idea. You are violatin

Re: new kernel

2000-10-13 Thread kmself
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 08:36:54AM -0700, elouafi bessem ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Fri, 13 Oct 2000 11:26:07 -0400, Andy Bastien wrote: > > > Hi freinds > > I have the kernel 2.2.12 of the redhat and I installed on it a new kernel > 2.3.99. But after the installation the PC boot with t

disabling xdm (was Re: debian -newcomerII)

2000-10-13 Thread kmself
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 01:44:36PM +0200, guran remberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > That is just now my primary problem: How the hell do I stop it from > making a graphic install. When I bail out from Xwindow, I am thrown > right into, what I think is xdm. I have tried to elliminate that from >

Re: http port open?? how can that be?

2000-10-13 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 11:50:40AM -0500, William Jensen wrote: > Greetings, > > I do not have apache installed, nmap localhost does not show http being open, > however, if I go to a friends machine and nmap my ip it shows http being > open. Also grc.com's port probe shows http being open. Thing

Re: via82cxxx

2000-10-13 Thread ESTEBAN P OSSES ANGUITA
hi ... On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Olivier Billet wrote: > Hi all ! > > I've got a question about sound configuration. > I know I have a VIA PCI audio controller : > I/O 220-22F > IRQ 5 > and it seems to be sound blaster compatible. i have one of this on my laptop ... AFAIK it is compatible, but i

http port open?? how can that be?

2000-10-13 Thread William Jensen
Greetings, I do not have apache installed, nmap localhost does not show http being open, however, if I go to a friends machine and nmap my ip it shows http being open. Also grc.com's port probe shows http being open. Thing is I just don't see how this is possible considering I'm running iptables

g++ problem

2000-10-13 Thread Giles Constant
Hi there, Attached is a tarball with a very short program that doesn't work on recent upgrades of woody (around here - i386), but works everywhere else, including potato. It appears to occur when linking shared object files against the C++ libs. to run : tar zxvf broken.tgz export LD_LIBRARY_PA

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