Re: Tex/Latex problem

2000-10-19 Thread Sergey Suleimanov
> "USM" == USM Bish writes: USM> [The above lines have been captured using script]. USM> Interesting eh ? look at line 503 of /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/latex.ltx -- Sergey Suleimanov

Re: xcdroast permissions

2000-10-19 Thread Matthew Dalton
Dave Sherohman wrote: > --- > X-CD-Roast must run with root-permissions. Therefore you have to set > the SUID bit. This can be done by > > chmod +s /usr/local/bin/xcdroast > --- > > My questions remain: Can it be fooled into running without suid and, if not, > why isn't it installed suid

Re: Gradebook in Debian Potato 2.2

2000-10-19 Thread Matt Emmett
A R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have problems installing Ggradebook (Gnu software), it complains that > some libraries for gtk+ are absent. Installing the "libgtk-dev" package should do the trick. # apt-get install libgtk-dev Matt

Re: netscape navigator-v304

2000-10-19 Thread kmself
On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 12:19:06PM +1100, Russ Pitman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > My bad!! > I really should have seen that :-( However the error persists > > --- > arjay:~# ftp > ftp://archive.netscape.com/archive/navigator/3.01/unix/netscape-v304-export.x86-unknown-linux-elf.tar.g

Test

2000-10-19 Thread Arcadio A. Sincero Jr.
test

Re: apt mini-intro

2000-10-19 Thread will trillich
Lindsay Allen wrote: > > Also try man dlocate. > > HTH i'll just go check that out-- $ man dlocate No manual entry for dlocate hmm. # apt-get install dlocate Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: Couldn't find package

Re: xcdroast permissions

2000-10-19 Thread Nate Amsden
Dave Sherohman wrote: > My questions remain: Can it be fooled into running without suid and, if not, > why isn't it installed suid? why isn't it is probably because it doesn't need to be. for me anyways. when i run xcdroast i su to root and run it. the less suid programs the better. nate --

Setting up a Soundblaster card

2000-10-19 Thread Casey Henderson
Hello fellow Debian users, I recently switched from Redhat 6.2 to Debian 2.2 (potato). I finally got all my hardware (and software) up and running nicely, with the exception of my sound card. I have a Creative Labs Soundblaster 16. The card works fine under Windows 98. I went into the Windo

Re: netscape navigator-v304

2000-10-19 Thread Nate Amsden
try going here to find it: ftp://archive:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/archive/index.html nate Russ Pitman wrote: > > > >netscape-v304-export.x86-unknown-linux-elf.tar.gz > > > --- > > > > > > Trying to download using the address gives, > > > > > > -- > > > arjay:~# ncft

Re: For those who want to switch wallpapers easily

2000-10-19 Thread John
Have you seen this one "chbg" http://www.idata.sk/~ondrej/chbg/download.html it will cycle through directories of images with varying fade in effects etc. just thought you might be interested :) cheers Jonathan Gift wrote: > Hi, > > This is trying to give something back to the Debian communit

Re: Best SCSI card for Plextor Drive

2000-10-19 Thread Brandt Dusthimer
Any good one for under $100? > I have the adaptec 29160 with the 12x4x32. I get a sustained transfer of 38-39 > meg. I've no complaints. > > On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 10:20:35PM -0500, Brandt Dusthimer wrote: > > What's the best SCSI card for a Plextor 12x4x32? I might add a hard drive later and

Re: Gradebook in Debian Potato 2.2

2000-10-19 Thread David Z Maze
A R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AR> I have problems installing Ggradebook (Gnu software), it complains that AR> some libraries for gtk+ are absent. You're trying to compile software, so you need the -dev package for whatever libraries it needs. In the case of Gtk+, it's libgtk1.2-dev; do you hav

ppp connect script failure

2000-10-19 Thread Dean
ppp seems to be giving me trouble. About two weeks ago it wouldn't give my password on connection so I reentered in pppconfig. Now I get this message in ppp.log: pppd 2.3.11 started connect script failed exit pppd 2.3.11 started can't get terminal parameters: Input/output error connect script fai

Re: Gradebook in Debian Potato 2.2

2000-10-19 Thread Matthew Dalton
You probably need to install the libgtk-dev package for your installed version of gtk. If it still doesn't work after that, try deleting the config.cache file in the directory you're running configure from. Matthew A R wrote: > > I have problems installing Ggradebook (Gnu software), it complai

Best SCSI card for Plextor Drive

2000-10-19 Thread Brandt Dusthimer
What's the best SCSI card for a Plextor 12x4x32?  I might add a hard drive later and am going to add a Plextor 40x.       Brandt

XFree 4.0.1 broke gdm

2000-10-19 Thread Mike
Hi, I recently upgraded my woody box to Xfree 4.0.1 so i could use the Nvidia 0.9.5 drivers. Everything works fine but gdm no longer works proberly. It starts but when i try to login it just restarts gdm. But if i stop gdm and startx instead everthing is fine, but i want to use gdm. Also I'm us

Gradebook in Debian Potato 2.2

2000-10-19 Thread A R
I have problems installing Ggradebook (Gnu software), it complains that some libraries for gtk+ are absent. Next my failed installation sequence: ./configure -disable-gnome creating cache ./config.cache checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environmen

Re: tuning scsi performance?

2000-10-19 Thread Jonathan Lupa
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 05:35:34PM -0700, Lazar Fleysher wrote: > > Is it possible that simply either capture or output (or both) buffers are > too small? > Well, for me, I'm using 256 buffers of 256kB (which is way more than I need for a frame, but I heard the Zoran chips like the extra space.

Re: tuning scsi performance?

2000-10-19 Thread Jonathan Lupa
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 05:41:59PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > what are you using to capture video? i had major frame droppings on > 7200RPM ultra 2 scsi with dual celeron 466 and 256MB of ram .. using BT848 > ..the drivers just aren't good enough for high fps capture(more then say > 10fps) .

RE: Installing kernel sources

2000-10-19 Thread Kenrick, Chris
Ray wrote: >Does anyone out there have a step by step to install kernel >sources on 2.2. Thanks very much The other couple of replies referred to the more 'generic' kernel compile instructions. If you want to do it the 'Debian way', I would recommend checking out the 2.2 install guide section 8

Re: Installing kernel sources

2000-10-19 Thread cls--colo spgs
cls--colo spgs wrote: > "S.Salman Ahmed" wrote: > > > > "RP" == Ray Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > RP> Does anyone out there have a step by step to install kernel > > RP> sources on 2.2. Thanks very much > > RP> > > > > Installing kernel sources is as easy as 1, 2! > > >

Re: Installing kernel sources

2000-10-19 Thread John F. Davis
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 06:15:24PM -0600, Ray Percival wrote: > Does anyone out there have a step by step to install kernel sources on 2.2. > Thanks very much > o uname -a, to determine which kernel version you are currently running. o apt-get install kernel-source-2.x.x, where x.x is determi

Re: Installing kernel sources

2000-10-19 Thread cls--colo spgs
"S.Salman Ahmed" wrote: > > "RP" == Ray Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > RP> Does anyone out there have a step by step to install kernel > RP> sources on 2.2. Thanks very much > RP> > > Installing kernel sources is as easy as 1, 2! > > 1) Download source for the current stab

Re: Java JSP Tomcat

2000-10-19 Thread John F. Davis
Hello For what its worth, I got Tomcat to run with Debian Sparc using blackdown 1.2.2. If you are interested, I can give you some more info. I did it awhile back (with lots of help from the debian-sparc mailing list), so, it can be done. John On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 11:19:41PM -0500, Gregory

RE: Installing kernel sources

2000-10-19 Thread CHEONG, Shu Yang \[Patrick\]
>$apt-get install kernel-source-2.2.17... However, I normally use dselect... Once completed cd to /usr/src...and you will find a file kernel-source-2.2.17.bz2...just >$bzunzip2 kernel-source-2.2.17.bz2 you should now have a file kernel-source-2.2.17.tar. Do >$tar xvf kernel-source-2.2.17 and

Re: X Server can't find font `fixed'

2000-10-19 Thread Lee Elliott
Michael Abraham Shulman wrote: > > Hi, > > I just upgraded a bunch of packages to unstable and now my X server > dies saying > > Fatal server error: > could not open default font 'fixed' > > I don't even know what package this problem is in. I tried downgrading > xserver-common, xfs, and xserv

Re: XFree 4.0.1 and Quake

2000-10-19 Thread Brandt Dusthimer
I originally had to comment them out because I hadn't compiled a kernel (and therefore modversions.h wasn't there). Now that I learned from that stupid mistake I deleted everything and tried again without editing anything. Do I still get the dump? Yup. I'm beginning to think it is my video card

RE: Problems setting DMA

2000-10-19 Thread CHEONG, Shu Yang \[Patrick\]
Which motherboard are you using? If you are using one with the ALi 15XX chipset, then you cannot set dma via hdparm...you'd have to fetch a patch for the kernel and enable dma via the kernelthe patch is kernel-ide-2.2.17 (for the 2.2.17 kernel) or something like that (can't rememebr the exact n

Re: X Server can't find font `fixed'

2000-10-19 Thread kmself
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 09:10:09PM -0400, Dan Christensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Michael Abraham Shulman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I just upgraded a bunch of packages to unstable and now my X server > > dies saying > > > > Fatal server error: > > could not open default font 'fixed' >

Re: netscape navigator-v304

2000-10-19 Thread Russ Pitman
> >netscape-v304-export.x86-unknown-linux-elf.tar.gz > > --- > > > > Trying to download using the address gives, > > > > -- > > arjay:~# ncftp > > ftp://archive.netscape.com.archive/navigator/3.01/unix/netscape-v304-export >

Re: X Server can't find font `fixed'

2000-10-19 Thread Dan Christensen
Michael Abraham Shulman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just upgraded a bunch of packages to unstable and now my X server > dies saying > > Fatal server error: > could not open default font 'fixed' This happened to me to. I downloaded the xfonts-base deb and did dpkg -i on it (same version I alr

Re: GnuPG: prblem installing on Woody

2000-10-19 Thread kmself
On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 12:00:40AM +, Pollywog ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On 19-Oct-2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > > Which gpg do you have installed? Post output of: > > > > $ gpg --version > > $ dpkg -s gnupg > > $ dpkg -s gpg-rsa > > I upgraded gnupg yesterday and

Re: Kernel error

2000-10-19 Thread kmself
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 04:56:56PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 07:01:24PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hey all, > > I just noticed the following message in my kernel.log as my system seamed > > to hang for about

Re: XFree 4.0.1 and Quake

2000-10-19 Thread Andy Bastien
Why did you need to edit out moduleversions.h? Did you get both the kernel and the GLX archives? There are those who would have you believe that Brandt Dusthimer wrote: > Yup. Did all of that. Do you think that editing the Makefile code so that > it would not load moduleversions.h had anything

Re: tuning scsi performance?

2000-10-19 Thread Lazar Fleysher
Is it possible that simply either capture or output (or both) buffers are too small? > what are you using to capture video? i had major frame droppings on > 7200RPM ultra 2 scsi with dual celeron 466 and 256MB of ram .. using BT848 > ..the drivers just aren't good enough for high fps capture(more

Re: new system to buy

2000-10-19 Thread Pat Mahoney
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 04:28:32PM -0500, matthschulz wrote: > Hi all, > > after many months fighting with myself and then with my better half I'm > finally ready to build a new system. > > It is intended to run Debian and KDE2, maybe also OS/2 4. > > I did some research and i have the followin

Re: Necesito ayuda

2000-10-19 Thread Pat Mahoney
Disclaimer: my spanish is not very good. This was translated by me with the help of translator.go.com (where is babelfish? also, where is that GNU online translator?) On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 03:27:45PM -0500, Ing. N?stor L?pez Monroy wrote: > Día luminosoTengo un servidor Compaq Proliant 800 (1

Re: tuning scsi performance?

2000-10-19 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
what are you using to capture video? i had major frame droppings on 7200RPM ultra 2 scsi with dual celeron 466 and 256MB of ram .. using BT848 ..the drivers just aren't good enough for high fps capture(more then say 10fps) ...ive yet to try it with my new p3-800 10k rpm drive and 512MB ram but i ex

Re: Monitor power-down/screensaver

2000-10-19 Thread Daniel Barclay
> From: Tim Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ... > There is also a measure of disagreement, in general, over whether to use > a screensaver or have the monitor power-down. The suggestion is that > cycling the monitor ht will reduce it's life. Ignore that suggestion. Leaving the monitor fully on all

Installing kernel sources

2000-10-19 Thread Ray Percival
Does anyone out there have a step by step to install kernel sources on 2.2. Thanks very much

RE: What if Debian crashes?

2000-10-19 Thread Kenrick, Chris
Ian Stuart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ** Root partition can be a bit dodgy for a File System ChecK - it can go > pearshaped if too much is screwed ** Chris writes: >Pearshaped? -chris British (slang?) for a situation going wrong/bad. I knew that watching the Bill[1] religiously would come

Re: GnuPG: prblem installing on Woody

2000-10-19 Thread Pollywog
On 19-Oct-2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > Which gpg do you have installed? Post output of: > > $ gpg --version > $ dpkg -s gnupg > $ dpkg -s gpg-rsa I upgraded gnupg yesterday and gpg-rsa was removed in the process (Woody). -- Andrew

Re: Kernel error

2000-10-19 Thread kmself
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 07:01:24PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hey all, > I just noticed the following message in my kernel.log as my system seamed > to hang for about 20-25 seconds. The system at the time was resting idle > with a load of 0.6 avg.: > > kernel: stu

Re: machine hangs: solved!

2000-10-19 Thread kmself
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 02:26:52PM -0700, Krzys Majewski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > This is an ersatz-followup to my posts from last week about my machine > hanging due to a hardware problem. I ran the memtest-86 from > hwtools0.5-0.2, with all address ranges enabled and all test enabl

Re: GnuPG: prblem installing on Woody

2000-10-19 Thread kmself
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 11:15:32PM +0200, Frederik ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > I've a strange problem with GnuPG: I can install it correctly without any > errors, but when i run gpg, i get the following error: > gpg: /usr/lib/gnupg/rsa: error loading > extension: /usr/lib/gnupg/rsa: canno

Re: netscape navigator-v304

2000-10-19 Thread Greg Gilbert
Simple typo on your part * Russ Pitman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >ftp://archive.netscape.com/archive/navigator/3.01/unix/ >netscape-v304-export.x86-unknown-linux-elf.tar.gz Note the address here... > arjay:~# ncftp > ftp://archive.netscape.com.archive/navigator/3.01/unix/n

Re: netscape navigator-v304

2000-10-19 Thread kmself
On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 10:09:52AM +1100, Russ Pitman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > In a potato install from the CD dpkg returns this; > > --- > ERROR: The Netscape archive must be in /tmp under the name: >/tmp/netscape-v304-export.x86-unknown-linux-elf.tar.[gz|Z] > >D

Re: Advice to newbie, please

2000-10-19 Thread Erik Steffl
Rudi Borth wrote: > > I am considering switching the operating system of my personal > computer to GNU/Linux, and I would appreciate some guidance regarding two > elementary questions: > > Q1: Would this make sense for a single user who is not a programmer? > > My system has been made Y2K compli

netscape navigator-v304

2000-10-19 Thread Russ Pitman
In a potato install from the CD dpkg returns this; --- ERROR: The Netscape archive must be in /tmp under the name: /tmp/netscape-v304-export.x86-unknown-linux-elf.tar.[gz|Z] Do NOT simply rename the archive of another version in order to force it to install with

Re: time

2000-10-19 Thread Colin Watson
Moritz Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >stefan goeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I want to use the time command. From the man page I see that there >> is an option +-o (or --output=FILE). However, when I try this, it >> does not work. In fact, I +have the impression that only the -p >> optio

Re: Unresolved symbols with pcmcia-source

2000-10-19 Thread Pascal Hos
On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 12:35:32AM +0200, Philipp Lehman wrote: > I just upgraded a machine from unstable potato to stable potato > and among other things, I recompiled the PCMCIA modules provided > by pcmcia-source. > > Now I get unresolved symbols in epic_cb.o when doing a 'depmod > -a'. This is

Re: new system to buy

2000-10-19 Thread Kenward Vaughan
I'd get a cheapo sound card, any type working with Linux, since AFAIK onboard sound chews up more CPU cycles... Kenward -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! --

Unresolved symbols with pcmcia-source

2000-10-19 Thread Philipp Lehman
I just upgraded a machine from unstable potato to stable potato and among other things, I recompiled the PCMCIA modules provided by pcmcia-source. Now I get unresolved symbols in epic_cb.o when doing a 'depmod -a'. This is merely a cosmetic issue since I don't use this particular module, but I was

tuning scsi performance?

2000-10-19 Thread Jonathan Lupa
I kind of have 2 questions here... the first is if anyone has any tips for tuning the performance (in my case constant throughput) of scsi drives? I'm trying to do some video capture but keep dropping frames even though I'm on a U2W (2940) system. (the target drive is an empty 9G LVD drive running

Re: exim help needed (fwd)

2000-10-19 Thread Moritz Schulte
Krzys Majewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Though if I can't figure out how to tell exim to telnet to > localhost:6025 within a week, I will do as you suggest and use my > ISP's server. Sorry, why should your exim "telnet" to localhost:6025? Exim should sent the mails there? > Except, that sti

Re: Advice to newbie, please

2000-10-19 Thread William T Wilson
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Rudi Borth wrote: > Q1: Would this make sense for a single user who is not a programmer? You do not have to be a programmer to use Linux. > My system has been made Y2K compliant with HOLMFIX, shows the date > correctly, and includes: CPU 80486, 25 MHz, RAM 8 MB, SuperVGA It

Re: new system to buy

2000-10-19 Thread Brandt Dusthimer
Spend the extra $20 and get an ABIT KT7-RAID motherboard and a Thunderbird CPU. Also, look into a better video card. ATI doesn't support the Linux cause at all. You can pick up a TNT2 for $50 and with XFree 4.0.1 you can use NVidia's open source drivers. Plus, the TNT2s are ten times better

Re: isdn: what I've to do??

2000-10-19 Thread Shaul Karl
> Hi all, > >I've installed debian package isdnutils (or such), but i've no idea > of what i've to do in order to have a running ipppd. > > What do i have to configure? How it run? what I've to launch? what > evil is that HOWTO? > > I'm reading the faq on web and I haven't still understand n

Re: CD-drive blocked after successless mounting

2000-10-19 Thread Andreas Hetzmannseder
Chris Gray wrote: > [...] > Try > > # echo 0 > /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/lock > > as root. > > Cheers, > Chris > > P.S.: This works for me, but I have a 2.4.0-testX kernel, so YMMV. > [...] Well, that's funny: CD remains in jail again :) I checked /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/lock: It did contain '0' (zero)

Re: changing file attribute colors

2000-10-19 Thread will trillich
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 09:12:26PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > > Subject: Re: changing file attribute colors > Date: Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 06:10:25PM -0500 > > The main reason I asked the question was that I thought I had done > something stupid, again, or that dircolors had undergone a

Re: new system to buy

2000-10-19 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
looks fine for linux im not so sure if os/2 v4 would install on such a drive, would be even more suprised if it detected the controller. although i havent played with os/2 since the early betas of v4..so things could of changed... nate On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, matthschulz wrote: matths >Hi all, matth

Advice to newbie, please

2000-10-19 Thread Rudi Borth
I am considering switching the operating system of my personal computer to GNU/Linux, and I would appreciate some guidance regarding two elementary questions: Q1: Would this make sense for a single user who is not a programmer? My system has been made Y2K compliant with HOLMFIX, shows the date c

Re: DIVX?

2000-10-19 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
i use avifile for divx, compiled it on a few different potato machines and 1 woody machine(hasnt been updated since july) without any trouble.. the only thing id suggest with avifile is to redirect all output to /dev/null otherwise it pukes all kinds of crap to the terminal chewing up cpu. nate O

new system to buy

2000-10-19 Thread matthschulz
Hi all, after many months fighting with myself and then with my better half I'm finally ready to build a new system. It is intended to run Debian and KDE2, maybe also OS/2 4. I did some research and i have the following in mind now: motherboard SOYO K7VTA Mem 128MB Corsair PC1

machine hangs: solved!

2000-10-19 Thread Krzys Majewski
This is an ersatz-followup to my posts from last week about my machine hanging due to a hardware problem. I ran the memtest-86 from hwtools0.5-0.2, with all address ranges enabled and all test enabled. After about five hours, the machine hung, but memtest-86 had detected no memory erro

Re: /etc/apt/sources.list -- howto...

2000-10-19 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 04:06:04PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > :-) sweet memories, I remember some time ago when suddenly the > non-free returned errors, I spent some time figuring out what line to > use - I saw that the packages are there but did not know how to > construct the proper line in so

Re: /etc/apt/sources.list -- howto...

2000-10-19 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 12:37:17AM -0700, John L. Fjellstad wrote: > On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 02:30:52AM -0500, will trillich wrote: > > > [of course, i wish i'd found it five months ago when i was originally > > looking for it... NOW, i'm looking for a list of active mirrors so i can > > get arou

Re: exim help needed (fwd)

2000-10-19 Thread Moritz Schulte
Krzys Majewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Choose one of these (probably the first) and, if your school will > > let you use them as a smarthost, you should be set. > > I did this. Mutt claims to send my mail (in other words it does not > complain), but the mail is never sent. Are you

calculating disk space

2000-10-19 Thread Sven Burgener
Hello all How can one calculate the amount of space a hard disk provides given only the disk's CHS values? Cheers Sven

GnuPG: prblem installing on Woody

2000-10-19 Thread Frederik
Hi, I've a strange problem with GnuPG: I can install it correctly without any errors, but when i run gpg, i get the following error: gpg: /usr/lib/gnupg/rsa: error loading extension: /usr/lib/gnupg/rsa: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory gpg: selected cipher algorithm is inv

Re: DIVX

2000-10-19 Thread Krzys Majewski
> First of all, i assume you're using either 0.49 or the cvs checkout.. > I've totally rewritten the autoconf script for avifile, but i'm not going to > submit it to the author until i've checking it w/ every configuration. And > i'm not going to do that until i get my avisplitter working ;) I've

Re: Anti-spam system

2000-10-19 Thread Robert Waldner
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000 11:50:48 PDT, "John L. Fjellstad" writes: >On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 07:40:37AM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote: > >> which of course means that you should upgrade to at least 8.9.3-22 or >> -23[0], the latter is already in stable. > >My main problem wiht Sendmail is, given its his

RE: What if Debian crashes?

2000-10-19 Thread Andrew Weiss
Title: RE: What if Debian crashes? Hey you can send that Pear Shaped File System Chick my direction...oh whoops file system DOH! :-) Andrew > -Original Message- > From: Krzys Majewski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 4:59 PM > To: debian-user@lists.deb

Re: XFree 4.0.1 and Quake

2000-10-19 Thread Brandt Dusthimer
Yup.  Did all of that.  Do you think that editing the Makefile code so thatit would not load moduleversions.h had anything to do with this?  The errorreported from Quake is this:XError of failed Request: GLXBadRenderRequestMajor opcode of failed request: 142 (GLX)Minor opcode of failed requ

Re: Telnet FTP

2000-10-19 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 02:28:03AM +0100, Jeff Green wrote: > Eileen Orbell wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > What is the best way to disable or better still un-install Telnet and FTP > > packages? I am using ssh now and want to close both FTP and Telnet ports > > down. > > > > Thanks > > apt-get inst

mouse and serial port problems

2000-10-19 Thread Bob Edwards
Friends, For those of you having mouse and serial port problems, here is a great HOW-TO that you will find most helpful: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Serial-HOWTO.html Regards, Bob Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fayetteville, ARkansas

Re: What if Debian crashes?

2000-10-19 Thread Krzys Majewski
Ian Stuart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ** Root partition can be a bit dodgy for a File System ChecK - it can go > pearshaped if too much is screwed ** Pearshaped? -chris

Re: Monitor power-down/screensaver - Solution

2000-10-19 Thread Krzys Majewski
I'm curious about this as well. My monitor docs say that repeated degaussing (T <= 20 min) is bad, so if your monitor does that on "reboot" maybe this is something to consider? Anyway, as I tell my students: no idea, but tell me if you find out. -chris Tim Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Re: exim help needed (fwd)

2000-10-19 Thread Krzys Majewski
Philipp Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > No I get my mail from the school's IMAP server. I want to send it via > > it's SMTP server, or SMTP relay server, or any server whatsoever at > > cs.ubc.ca. Surely it can't be that hard! -chris > > But why? If you can't reach that server why don

Re: capture ipchains -M -L

2000-10-19 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 09:38:20AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nick) wrote:- > > > can anyone suggest how to > > > > capture a terminal session (equivalent to print screen button for > windows) > > to paste to a text document > > > > or capture a screen in GNOME to send vi

Re: ipmasq packet logs

2000-10-19 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 10:22:00PM -0400, kiss the sun and walk on air wrote: > I'm getting a ton of multicast-related deny's in my syslogs from the > ipmasq rules package, here's a sample: > > Oct 18 22:19:47 meatloaf kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth0 PROTO=89 > 24.129.71.254:65535 224.0.0.5:6

Re: DIVX?

2000-10-19 Thread Krzys Majewski
Is woody stable or unstable these days? What does "pretty much as stated" mean? Good enough to invite your friends over for movies, or not good enough? -chris Damien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hmm.. I got the xmps from "unstable", compiled the avi codec from > > xmps-0.1.1beta, p

ISDN help

2000-10-19 Thread Rodolfo Sikora de Melo
I need help to config my ISDN card... I've already instaled it, but I can't connect anywhere. Could somebody send me init.d.funcions and help me how to dial up? Rodolfo Sikora - Dpto. Técnico - Analista INOVA Tecnologias Ltda, Brazil INOVA International Inc. USA http://www.inova.com.br http://em

Necesito ayuda

2000-10-19 Thread Ing. Néstor López Monroy
Title: Día luminoso Tengo un servidor Compaq Proliant 800 (128 MB, disco duro SCSI 9.1 GB, CD ROM IDE ATAPI 32x, unidad de disquete 3.5, puede bootear desde el CD, etc.), tenía Red Hat 6.0, pero al actualzar el kernel falló y lo que se me ocurrió fue borrar todo y empezar desde el principio.

RE: Syslogd

2000-10-19 Thread Jay Kelly
Yeah after a few minute(maybe five at the most) the system boots fine. I did recently change my ip on the bow so maybe I missed something for the DNS name server thats casue it to hang now. I do notice that when I send or receive mail on it its slow also. Oh yeah this box is a name server and mail

Re: exim help needed (fwd)

2000-10-19 Thread Krzys Majewski
> > Dunno, what's that? I want my mail going to/from my school server. > > exim calls this a "smarthost". Rerun eximconfig and two of your canned > configuration options will be > > (2) Internet site using smarthost: You receive Internet mail on this > machine, either directly by SMTP o

apt mini-intro

2000-10-19 Thread will trillich
a friend-o-mine just got up with debian 2.2/potato, and i crafted this little intro to apt-get... your comments are welcome. i indent using tabs (the One True Way) so feel free to set your tabstops (vi, use :set ts=4) wherever you feel comfortable -- mine are set at 4: # written by will trillich

Re: Syslogd

2000-10-19 Thread Moritz Schulte
Jay Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When I bootup my system hangs on "Starting System Log Daemon > Systlogd" how can I troubleshot this to see whats happening? Thanks Try to boot in single user mode, then the sysklogd won't start automatically. To boot in a different runlevel, just append th

Fw: PCI modems

2000-10-19 Thread Ken Januski
Thanks Leonardo I tried "cat /proc/pci" but didn't find anything labeled Communication. But I did find a serial controller with same vendor ID as my modem so I figured this was probably it. The lines in file were: "I/O at 0xcf00 [0xcf01]. Bus 1, device 13, fucntion 0: Serial controller: Unknown v

Re: PGP

2000-10-19 Thread kmself
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 01:49:55PM -0600, Ray Percival ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > When trying to create a new pgp key using pgp -kg it goes through the process > and then tries to create the key I get the error. > Can't create output file '/home/ray/.pgp/secring.pgp > Keygen error. > Any though

Re: Can anyone tell me how to config DNS when dialing with wvdial?

2000-10-19 Thread kmself
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 07:15:30PM +0800, doodler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi,all, > >I am using wvdial to dial to my isp ,after it starts pppd ,I > can not lynx www.debian.org ,lynx can not locate www.debian.org . > I think it is caused by my machine can not connect to a DNS server.

Re: Help please - gnuplot runaway processes

2000-10-19 Thread kmself
Your mailer is padding spaces to your lines for the full width of the screen. Find out how to stop this, and do so. On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 07:11:55PM +1100, Cyrus Patel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, > > I'm using gnuplot to create webplots on the fly. I call gnuplot > from a perl cgi file

PGP

2000-10-19 Thread Ray Percival
When trying to create a new pgp key using pgp -kg it goes through the process and then tries to create the key I get the error. Can't create output file '/home/ray/.pgp/secring.pgp Keygen error. Any thoughts?

Re: Syslogd

2000-10-19 Thread kmself
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 11:36:52AM -0700, Jay Kelly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello All, > When I bootup my system hangs on > "Starting System Log Daemon Systlogd" how can I troubleshot this to see > whats happening? Boot single user and attempt to start the daemon in debug mode from the comman

Re: strange error mail

2000-10-19 Thread kmself
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 08:13:50PM +0200, Stephan Kulka ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I am getting the same mail every day at the same time. > touch: var/spool/news/control/.overwiew: Permission denied > > The mail goes on for another page with similar sentences. The error itself > is no problem,

Re: PCI modems

2000-10-19 Thread kmself
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 01:23:18PM -0400, Ken Januski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > So now that I have this info should I start experimenting with IRQs with > setserial? I'm also curious as to whether I can believe what dmsg tells me. > If it finds modem at ttyS00 does that mean it's really there o

Multiple Nics/ Net Connections

2000-10-19 Thread Matt Kopishke
Hi, I seem to be having some very odd Nic/Net connection problems. What I have is a server with 2 Nics. One (eth0) is plugged into a cable modem that we are planing on using as a back up connection. The other (eth1) is plugged into our T1 and is our main connection. The problem is that when I en

Re: Conexion a internet

2000-10-19 Thread Glyn Millington
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 07:40:09PM +0100, thus spake Roberto Calvente: > Hola, me llamo Roberto y soy un nuevo usuario de Linux. He conseguido > instalar la version Linux Debian 2.2 que la conseguí en una revista. Quisiera > saber como puedo configurar una conexion a internet mediante este sist.

Re: ricochet

2000-10-19 Thread kmself
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 06:42:15PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Does anyone know if Ricochet wireless service is compatible with Debian/Linux? > http://www.ricochet.com Yes. -- Karsten M. Self http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc.

Re: Filesystem problem

2000-10-19 Thread kmself
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 02:58:36PM +0200, Frederik ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > I have a 20 GB HD, partitioned in several smaller parts, some vfat: > Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda5 1035628677468305552 69% / > /dev/hda11

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